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That Kid Who Played Sam Weir On FREAKS AND GEEKS Is Co-Writing The New Adventures Of VACATION’s Rusty Griswold!!
I am – Hercules!!
John Francis Daley, who played Sam Weir in Judd Apatow’s TV series “Freaks and Geeks” long before he wound up as Dr. Lance Sweets on “Bones,” is one of the two writers just hired by New Line to write the latest “Vacation” movie.
The new “Vacation” is expected to see Chevy Chase reprise his role as Clark Griswold, but focus on Clark’s now-grown son Rusty and Rusty’s brood.
No word on Randy Quaid’s Cousin Eddie.
Though Chase and Beverly D’Angelo have remained constants throughout the series, Rusty has been played by a different actor in each of the four prior movies: Anthony Michael Hall (“The Dark Knight”), Jason Lively (“Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever”), Johnny Galecki (“The Big Bang Theory”) and Ethan Embry (“Eagle Eye”). Travis Greer plays Rusty in the new HomeAway.com ad above.
Daley and his writing partner, Jonathan Goldstein, have been hired to script several big-screen projects over the last few years – including “The $40,000 Man,” “Horrible Bosses,” “Burt Wonderstone” and “Cal of the Wild” – though none of these has yet found its way before cameras. Other "Freaks and Geeks" actors who have gone on to script movies include Seth Rogen ("Knocked Up"), Jason Segal ("Forgetting Sarah Marshall") and Mike White ("School of Rock").
The best news to me, perhaps, is somebody told Variety that the new “Vacation” will better resemble John Hughes' “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” than any of the prior, Hughes-scripted “Vacation” films. Whether or not that means Grandpa Clark will pee on sandwiches remains to be seen.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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Even if you didn't like it. It should have been mentioned in the article.
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Freaks and Geeks is like the Fast Times of this generation: everyone in it seems to be making good
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I'm not seeing this, so nyah! This series doesn't really work for me. Not even the original or Christmas Vacation THAT much (though I can still watch them).
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in my Top 5 Comedies of All Time. And, seriously, when he was in his prime, there was NO ONE funnier than Chevy.
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...legal shit recently? I'm pretty sure that was him. I'm guessing he's going to be a little bit busy with that for the foreseeable future.
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the third most famous actor to had played rusty? if so sucks to be that fourth guy
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as a ghost.
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Although, I really hope they are in it alot, cause nobody has ever given a shit about rusty.
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Why settle for the 30 second version when AICN gives you the full thing for half the price?
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This all sounds awful. Just stop it right now. How about Clark Griswold meets Indiana Jones and they both sit on a bench watching there grandchildren for two hours. That commercial makes Vegas Vacation look like fucking shakespeare. STOP THIS PLEASE!
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Chevy's too old for this shit.
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Take the least likeable character in an unremarkable movie series and build a sequel around him. Wasn't this character re-cast in every one of the previous films? Evidence that he wasn't even necessary to the plots of those stinkers
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Christmas Vacation was the only one good enough to have in my DVD collection.
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Made it funny.
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Feb 11, 2010 8:17:00 AM CST
Even gefor the Planes, Trains and Automobiles mention...
by jimmy rabbitte
I was thinking they really only have two options that would give this a remote chance at being any good. It either has to be another Christmas movie or they could set it at Thanksgiving.
They did the "Disney" thing, by going to Walley World in the first one; and they've done Europe and Las Vegas. The best one was Christmas, so the holiday visit is the way to go, if they feel like they absolutely have to go ahead, with this project. The only other option would be to forget about it all together. -
...would be the only way this could be more depressing.
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And Chevy and Murray and do a follow-up to their CADDYSHACK scene, only this time much less funny! NICE!
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Vacation is one of the classic comedies of the 80s. To me, growing up, Vacation was synonymous with funny.
Christmas Vacation is even MORE classic. It's truly a Christmas perennial, and I usually watch and enjoy it every year around Xmas, for twenty fucking years now!
European Vacation is sort of boring to me... the whole thing feels like a "very special episode" of the Vacation series.
Vegas Vacation was rather terrible all around. I feel like the mid-nineties was just about the worst time for Hollywood comedy. Aside from a few Jim Carrey moments, the middle of that decade is comedy hell, from a mainstream cinema POV. -
Unfortunately she's gone a little bit Kathleen Turner on us. Gained a few dress sizes and dropped her voice a couple octaves.
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The 4 VACATION movies have been wildly uneven, yet even the worst of them has some funny stuff. Daley always brings the funny to BONES so I'm hoping he can put it on paper too. If they can convince Anthony Michael Hall to reprise his Rusty I'll be officially jazzed about this. Also, Rusty's wife should be a young version of Beverly D'Angelo, just to throw in an awkward Oedipal vibe.
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I always loved the way Juliette Lewis pronounced Pajamas in Xmas Vacation.
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If it was a commercial, why did they never mention homeaway.com? And if it's a short film, it certainly needed about five minutes chopped out to make it flow smoother.
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Not classic like the original, but far from cringe-worthy as most Chase stuff tends to be these days.
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It find it odd and somewhat hilarious that before Community premiered on NBC there's no way in fucking hell that it would've been possible to have an AICN article about a potential Chevy Chase project without incessant cries of how unfunny he is. There would be remarks about his awful FOX talk show. Some talkbacker would inevitably refer to his flopsweat antics in the equally flopsweatariffic movie Dirty Work or Funny Farm or Nothing But Trouble. Now no mention besides my own. Decades of suckage forgiven thanks to one good project. John Travolta, there's hope for you yet.
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The guy who was upside down in The Dark Knight for 3 seconds!!!! NOW we know who you mean!!!
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Cause the living impaired need time off too. Prison Vacation - it can be just like Midnight Express. Reality Vacation - it's just Chevy popping into scenes of the Hills and Jersey Shores. psi
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Only thing they haven't done yet, go sci-fi on this mutho fucka's ass. (And why doe's everyone always say Xmas Vacation is the funniest? I thought it was the least funny after Vegas, the funniest being European, though they were all pretty shit lets be honest about it.)
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Especially for 60somthing, or however old she is.
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Feb 11, 2010 10:02:17 AM CST
Marisol Nichols needs to return as their Mexican daughter
by yackbacker
Or better yet, they need to cast that girl from PRECIOUS to play Audrey. The more absurd the casting, the better. But seriously, Nichols is a fucking babe.
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Oh that's right, he's dead.
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Just give us a new Vacation movie, i even enjoyed 'Vegas Vacation' to a degree, it was just good to see the Griswolds again. How about 'Family Vacation'or 'Company Vacation'? all you need is a situation and the characters and start from there...
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entertaining and had there moments. 1 and 3 are the standouts but the other two have there relatable locations (europe,vegas). alls you need is chase, d'angelo, the grandkids a good location and a great supporting cast, family vacation humor are in an bottomless bag.
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Feb 11, 2010 10:48:44 AM CST
and the holiday road theme song
by beyondthunderdome2girls1cupbillcosby
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That Thing You Do!, Can't Hardly Wait, Dutch or anything else, apart from clipping Shia's enormous toenails.
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on Community, playing the crazed, possibly steroid induced madman bully. Ditch the "Dead Zone" good guy roles Anthony, stick with crazy comedy. Its where you started.
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Way too long and slow. The jokes plummet. There's nothing less funny than Chevy trying to be goofy in a shower. A prime example of how bad a new Vacation movie could be. (Could be edited down so it moves a lot faster; that would probably make a big difference.)
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Mike White produced (17) and even wrote (3) more episodes than the one that he acted in. Foul play, listing him among Freaks and Geeks acting alumni turned feature-film writers.
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As I understand it, Randy Quaid was in a musical play in 2007 and began acting erratically, missing rehearsals, etc., and got banned from the AEA. His crazy wife flipped her shit and started saying everyone was against them. Paranoid, they skipped out on a $10,000 hotel bill. They've since skipped out on like a half a dozen court dates, turning that whole thing into a criminal matter. There are a lot of reports (including some restraining orders) of the wife wigging out, threatening people, acting paranoid, and so forth. Wild shit. Do an image search for his mugshot. Mountain man on the lam.
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Superbad and Pineapple Express, yeah, but not Knocked Up.
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Feb 11, 2010 1:19:21 PM CST
Still think it should be Grandparents and Grandkids going to Wal
by wickedjester
Clark 'Sparky' W. Griswold trying to work an iPod? Twittering? Facebook? HisSpace? Come on, as I've said before, it writes itself.Have Rusty save them at the end or something and feel free to rape this franchise later, just give us one more good Clark and Ellen adventure!And have Bev get nude again.
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...Waiting. totally underrated film! love him in bones too.
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$100,000,000 box office. Chevy is still pulling the same faces and has the same great timing. His stuff is and always has been gold.
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Rusty and Audrey were basically the same age in the first, second and fourth films (with Rusty probably a year or two older), but Rusty was probably at least six-seven years younger than his sister in Christmas Vacation (the third film)????
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Hubba, Hubba, and Hubba! I think she looks better than ever!
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poor guy
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is the out of nowhere gratuitous nudity, like the French strippers and the German girl getting her tits out, makes you miss the days when Hollywood had the balls to have nudity for no reason
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...are all sticky and ripping the pages of her magazine out...in silk pijamas...I used to dream that it was me who made her fingers so sticky...She was visibly frustrated, but a good sport overall.
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So hot.
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i wasnt talking to you!thats fukken shakespearean on a meisterpiece level!
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...La Bev, show would sigh...maybe roll her eyes...but then give that wicked grin and teach me a thing or two......or five...
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I never thought she was all that cute.
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Her and Ellen barkin...though bev is more natural..
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...version of my friend's mom...he had that smoking, drinking, dark makeup, no-bra sort of mom.
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as the waitress in FEAR AND LOATHING. I loooove waitresses, especially those weary, hardened, former party girl types.
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...no, fuck that...
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...I like the young cute ones...preferably stuck in some shitty diner.If I was rich, I'd have a hard time not traveling around and rescuing pretty waitresses from crappy restaurants...I'd send them off to college, no strings attached... just give them a certain grade point average to maintain.
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I love those kinds of moms.
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Who's hot and has that barkin quality bout her...she plays the neighbor
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...I love the Coens, but that one doesn't look like much fun.
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Chambermaids and housekeeping cleaning ladys
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I can't believe that just happened..I would call it a Jewish Fargo... if you like the coens you'll be allright
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It's fun in its own way. "Just look at that parking lot."
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...good to know. Thanks guys.
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Hahaha
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until A SERIOUS MAN.
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I could only take him in verrry small doses. But I think he made me laugh the hardest. And that suction noise...Jesus!
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2010.Directed by Joe Johnston (THE ROCKETEER)What good there is here - some gorgeous sets and scenery, oodles of fog-soaked atmosphere, Benicio Del Toro's haunted homage to Lon Chaney, Jr. - is ruined by hyper-kinetic pacing, lazy jump-scares, and inexcusably bad CGI effects - a jaunt across the rooftops of Victorian London is particularly laughable. There's a nice, suitably exciting sequence near the end, beginning when Del Toro's lycanthropic "Lawrence Talbot" returns home for the second time. Neither as ambitious as Brannagh's flawed FRANKENSTEIN remake, nor as much campy fun as Coppola's hambone DRACULA, this is a useless remake designed, maybe, by artists but executed, certainly, by a dunderhead. ★★☆☆☆ ½
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for the WOLFMAN. Great piece, as always.
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But, if you see it, I'd like to know if you think I'm wrong.
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Feb 12, 2010 12:25:10 PM CST
Doesn't bode well for CAPTAIN AMERICA AND THE FURIOUS FIVE
by subtitles_off
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Hasn't aged the way wine does.
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benny's always good..no mention of tony hopkins? how was he?
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but isn't he one of the "good ones"? The "good ones" are supposed to just stick to the standards, right? JP3, while not memorable, wasn't offensive and offered some thrills, however forgettable. OCTOBER SKY was pretty OK, too. I'm still holding out a little hope for this, though, even though your review is resonating. I guess Johnson survives by being a company man.
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see prolly looked all beat up...was she a special victim?she looks good in the ad...
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I like midnight shows or early morning screenings at my local 17-screener because they only charge $5 a ticket. I was surprised at how many other people had the same idea as I this morning.Mostly single people, older than me, too.That National Guard recruitment ad gets more bombastic every time I see it.Thanks to NCM's "First Look," I'll be skipping the CLASH OF THE TITANS remake. The only thing worse than watching Blandy McBlanderson act is listening to him talk about acting.Tracy Morgan looks like a break-out star in the trailer for his buddy-cop comedy-actioner with Bruce Willis.THE PRINCE OF PERSIA trailer looks even worse on the big screen.Popcorn and Pepsi do not a good breakfast make.
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c'mon!
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What is this "I guess" crap, Colonel?
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His character arc is all over the place and makes very little sense.
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in a recurring role on SVU.
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some doting mom brought desserts in this morn for val day...it was gone in ten minutes
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must've been an accident.
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Hey guys, this thread's not even in the top tb list. *yet*
"Inexcusably bad CGI effects"... damn you Bill Gates!!
And damn the dunderhead that chooses CGI when CGI is not necessary!
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...every time you think it's over they pause, catch their breath, add another platoon of singers...and take it up an octave.
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at mine everything before noon is $5...i cant remember the last time i saw a film at night..prolly star trek...i sure as hell was hurting the next day...
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Feb 12, 2010 12:38:37 PM CST
the man DESIGNED the iron giant and boba fuckin fett!!
by six demon bag
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Subs, so this is not a good popcorn and pepsi breakfast type movie...
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[duhn-der-hed]n: a dunce; blockhead; numbskull.
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SDB, Joe Johnson designed Boba Fett?
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It's a "regular" breakfast for me. OHHHH!!!
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I can see the experience of watching it improving but not the actual movie.
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...pleasant evening.
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Feb 12, 2010 12:43:26 PM CST
I don't care if he designed the shape of a woman's breast.
by subtitles_off
Maybe he should stick to designing. He directed THE WOLFMAN the way any serviceable clod of dirt might.
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back in the day..when he was in with the Beard™ and the Pouch™
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We're moving up the top tblist now. These bottom of the table threads are ours for the taking. Easy meat.
And yes, Flicka I have the same plan as you. I think WOLF MAN will be a mental rental rather than a theater trip pour moi. -
is when the soldiers are winning the hearts and minds of generic Middle Eastern youths with some soccer playing or some such thing.
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"I don't care if he designed the shape of a woman's breast"
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That's alright. We come from different times and have different influences. As I've always said, you must consider the source when you consider my perspective on movies.
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Subs, does Emily Blunt look hot? Any nudity, pokey nipples, glimpse of thigh, torn dress, type action?
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OCTOBER SKY is an anagram of ROCKET BOYS, the book on which it is based.
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"We come from different times and have different influences" is this a HIGHLANDER thing? You guys are all immortals right? I KNEW IT!
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Very briefly. The rest of the time she remains fully corseted. I didn't find her particularly attractive until the very final moments - her damsel in distress scene.
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I'm just admitting that I'm old and nothing of the modern style impresses me much.
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Flicka, did you ever see the final outcome of that Stallone-back flame war. DangerDickhead took quite a pwning... hehehe! Victory to the Pedalback.
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...you're like a good New Yorker review...If a movie looks like fun I add a star to your review...if a movie looks ponderous I subtract a star.
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I missed it.
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HA! Flick implied I have an affinity for the ponderous. 'Tain't true, buddy! 'Tain't true!
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...inspiring troll, and you had him on the ropes.A few of his comments made me wonder if he reads Pedalback though...
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i was just quoting sean flicks
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★★★★★ - A movie that moved me in some extraordinary way and informs my view about how movies should be made.★★★★ - An excellent movie with an obvious flaw.★★★ - Average. No worse, no better, than a thousand other perfectly entertaining films.★★ - Less awful than a kick in the junk. A film that insults my intelligence.★ - Worse than a kick in the junk.
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Subs, the root was simply that some troll noob dissed SavageDave so I jumped on him. But instead of accepting the smackdown, the troll noob decided to try and bite back. Bad idea.
Subs, I just read Harry's review of WOLF MAN, he 'kinda loved it!' suprise suprise. He does mention watching it with his nephew (who is I believe 6 or 7), isn't this movie uber gruesome??? He also mentions that Joe Johnson includes a CGI stag and a CGI bear... why?? Strikes me as daft as INDY V having that CGI gopher.. i mean why not just film a real gopher popping it's head up, no? -
So fucking silly. And the stag was unnecessary, when a farm-variety cow could've sufficed.Johnston is obviously enamored with technology at the expense of good sense.
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...you demand excellence at all times.I love excellence...but I also love a fun evening, wine, and boobies.
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A little too much viscera thrown around. I imagine Harry's nephew has been subjected to worse, considering.
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How much does a CGI stag cost to create and render?? Some software fx house is fucking laughing all the way to the bank on that one.
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Feb 12, 2010 1:11:48 PM CST
...I guess what I'm saying is that I'll watch a movie that...
by flickapoo
...ruins my night, but it better be REALLY fucking good. If you're going to ruin my evening you gotta earn it.A fun movie with a pretty girl or two is always welcome.
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You're right about my fondness for excellence as I see it. i figure if you're not going to really try, why bother? But, I insist, I can have fun with the best of yas.I just don't equate "fun" as the opposite of "smart."When you see, if you see, THE WOLFMAN, pay particular attention to the sequence that begins with Del Toro's return to the moors and ends at the edge of a waterfall. I'm not going to pretend it's an example of great movie-making, but it is my favorite part of the movie, aside from early production-design, setting stuff, and a good example of "fun," as far as I'm concerned. It's a hint of what the movie could've been.
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neither the stag, grizzly nor the rampaging werewolf are ever convincing. Say what you will about Burton. He deserves a lot of it. But you can make a direct comparison to the apes running in PotA 3.0 to a key effect in this movie. And, I dare you to tell me Johnston comes anywhere close to pulling it off.
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Jesus Christ.
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See, I don't consider myself smart or well-viewed enough to be a real film purist.
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was he the only one?
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We capped out at 12-1/2 inches of snow last night and today DFW is crippled...
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The guys/gals who get to do set visits/interviews for certain movies wouldn't be allowed to review those same movies.
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oh, we're gonna get some wolf on bear smackdown, here, I hope it's better than that crocodile-bear scene from LAKE PLACID, but we don't even get that.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/12/national/main6201776.shtml
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...I've got company, so I'll have to pick this up later.I want to talk about THIRST too...
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None of them can get away!I won't do it. I mean, Sixies, Teddy and Cheeses live in Texas.But, I'll fantasize about it.For the good of the country.
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Vancouver?
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"rescue" all the Texas children from their new textbooks that will stress that the Founders intended the U.S. to be a "Christian nation."
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Feb 12, 2010 1:31:20 PM CST
"Why DEƒUCK® is Ahnold carrying the torch in Vancouver?"
by colonelfatheart
A blatant reference to the Aryan physical ideal as depicted in Riefenstahl's OLYMPIA?
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How is it going?
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Its gotten to be crazy-town...
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How ya been?
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How do you fuck up a Werewolf movie? Seriously. It is like a fucking slamdunk genre.
Man turns into a savage beast, rips a bunch of people to shreds. How do you fuck that up? Yet, in the last 20-30 years there has only been like 2 or 3 good Werewolf movies.
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I know. The werewolf genre needs a big fucking wakeup call.
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Surviving. How about yourself Cheeses?
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Well one certain way to fuck it up is to sacrifice style and atmosphere for action and shock. The problem with Johnston is, I think, he knows the difference. There are candle-lit corridors and foggy moors in this thing that truly deserve a much better movie. Then it all dissolves into overblown nonsense.
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Feb 12, 2010 1:37:04 PM CST
Colon-El, the only Z-level Marvel character who would work
by continentalop
In a movie for me right now is Werewolf By Night. That seems like a character dying to make his movie appearance.
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I saw a werewolf drinkin' a Pina Colada at Trader Vick's...and his hair was perfect...(warning...may not be actually lyrics...)
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as obvious, unnecessary and lousy as it is, it isn't nearly as insulting as Sam Raimi's CGI demon-goat.
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Ah-oooooh. Werewolves of London. Ah-oooooh!
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But the thing about werewolves is you still can have action and shock. I haven't seen the movie, you have, but that is why I don't get how you fuck it up. You need style and atmosphere - a lone woman on the foggy moors, the clouds moving past the moon, a howl in the distance, the woman walking faster hears the howling coming closer, the growling of something approaching, and then - boom you got action. It is the best of both worlds.
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Shit, yeah, it can work. But today's studio hacks would fuck it up. I'm sure Francis Lawrence would be tapped to direct it.
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I prefer my satanic livestock to look like DEMON SHEEP.
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might be the speed you take to get to the action. I swear the action in THE WOLFMAN advances at no slower a pace than it takes to read your paragraph describing it.
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Feb 12, 2010 1:47:17 PM CST
A good Jack Russell Werewolf film would ROCK, 'Lop...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Why not throw Moon Knight in, too... First ever werewolf/superhero movie...
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"Valleys of Neptune." It's pretty terrific.
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He took a drag off his cigarette. His eyes met hers. "So was Abraham Lincoln," he said. "Look what happened to him."
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Weird analogy, but I think horror movies should be like Sergio Leone Westerns. It isn't the shoot out that gets up excited, it is the build up and suspense before it happens.
Well same thing with horror movies, especially Werewolf movies. It should be like a Leone Western - you know something violent is going to happen, and the inevitable nature should just be gut wrenching. I mean, having a scene with a guy in a room with a girl while the sunsets should just get everyone's nerves on end.
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First one is a horror movie, where the monster is by default the hero. The sequel we start adding the actual costumed heroes and villains.
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previously appeared in a box set in 1990, according to Rolling Stone. Still, I hadn't heard it before. If you have iTunes, Subs, you can download it now.
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Lincoln WAS smart...he just couldn't keep his mind intact...
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Contemporary "horror" confuses shock with suspense. And everything is reduced to jump scares and effects. There's a sequence in WOLFMAN where Del Toro is being tortured. Rather than give the audience time to squirm uncomfortably, Johnston inserts a quick-cut dream sequence. Like I said, dunderheaded.
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"Tell us we will die like dogs."
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You can't escape. Running, even breathing is hard. The threat is all-consuming. Fear and dread last a while.
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6:51:18
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I can't connect it with an actor or a film.
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If you'd like to be reminded of warm weather, pick it up.
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THE WOLFMAN. The script gives the twist away way-too early and easily.
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Thanks to my slavish obsession with 'The Stuff', I will always picture you as Paul Sorvino. And for that, I am truly sorry.
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I was looking forward to The Wolfman this weekend...guess that was a bit premature.
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I should prolly shut up about it now.I really didn't mean to piss on anybody's expectations. It wouldn't be the first time you all concluded I was full of shit.
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But someone has to call it. I can't just go giving away the quote of the day.
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Too troubled of a production history.
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I was referring to the Lincoln thing.
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That was 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid', with a little embellishment from yours truly.
'I hadn't seen a pair like that since I solved the case of the murdered girl with the big tits.' -
It's my Irritable Bowel Synedrome, isn't it?
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linked us to the subject of things in pop culture that we once loved and have since out-grown. We also added some examples of things we didn't like at first that we now favor. Any more examples?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100212/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians_avatar
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I have many rock albums that I treasure now which I disliked when I first heard them. I've mentioned "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway." Townshend's "Empty Glass" is another.BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is a movie example. Something that I was obviously too young and too impatient for when I first saw it that I now recognize as a classic masterpiece.
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You're the one that farted?Thought it was me.
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And, it's an interesting one.
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Just as you corrected me.Correct credit is noted and confirmed.At least, I didn't blame you for Teddy's fart.
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Feb 12, 2010 2:27:53 PM CST
I have faded in and out of love with country music
by cheeses_of_nazareth
that different times in my life...Yeah, I said it....happy now?
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I don't think my tastes have changed much over the last 20 years. Either that or I am just drawing a huge blank.
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For example, I was never into sports as a kid, or comic books.
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Or some of the "Americana," as they've categorized it?
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What kind of a name is that? is it supposed to appeal to gamers or some shit?http://tinyurl.com/yeqmayf
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Feb 12, 2010 2:39:18 PM CST
Cinematical wants to have it both ways, RE: THE WOLFMAN
by subtitles_off
http://tinyurl.com/ye97v8jPick a point of view, fellas. it's like the reviewer is afraid of stepping on toes or something.
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guess phil's gonna take credit for all of it..
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...To make you wanna go out and do something badass. Or beat the shit out of someone.
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Nodar Kumaritashvili, a men's Olympic luger from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, died after a crash on the world's fastest track during training on Friday.
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the twist..is someone who you dont think is a werewolf really one?
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i wanna know his fave modern WOLF flicks..or all time WOLF flicks..
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John Mayer's a fucking idiot.http://tinyurl.com/ybnxemz
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if you need anything just holla!
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http://tinyurl.com/yc93gsk
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that beating the shit out of someone is pretty badass.
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Unless they're physically debilitated or something.
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He just e-d me.None of his posts have disappeared. I wonder what is up?
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has put back on the 'seeing it' side, I think. "Hopkins appears to be one glass of bourbon away from phoning it in." That happens to be how I like my Anthony Hopkins.
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but not as my drunk Orson
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you just volunteered to be Moose's middlemantell him to type what he wants to say and you put it up...then you type to him what we write about and so on....
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I don't know anyone who has seen the trailer who's not expecting it. It's just really clumsily revealed, popping a big squat on any potential character development for Del Toro.
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does he have power?we can work thru this..we can figure this out?
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Moose can still read what we write in here. But otherwise correct.
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He didn't strike me as either drunk or lazy. It's just a really, really badly-written part. One minute he's described as "cold" when he's actually shown to be fairly considerate. Then, a minute later it all sprouts wings and flies out the window. But, even then, he's obviously trying to rescue it.
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testing
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testing
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I'm using Chrome.
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throw down the replacement for "nuking the fridge" just so I can claim to be first.
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From now on, I'm going to describe every jump-the-shark moment as the moment whatever "gasps like Hopkins' severed head."
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hopkins sprouts wings and flies?is this a vampire flick too?
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so I don't end up ambushing anybody.
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Feb 12, 2010 3:16:06 PM CST
I'll just pretend that I have no idea what you're talking about.
by tedkordlives
Should be easy.
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testing
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any clues?
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Copyright James Horner 1986
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Feb 12, 2010 3:21:29 PM CST
Perhaps Moose's computer got hit by a voo-doo spell..
by cheeses_of_nazareth
from that guy with the chicken bones on the Christback????Never underestimate the power of the Jesus Industrial Complex...
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but it could also be 1984..patent pending
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he's also tried other browsers, too.
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Feb 12, 2010 3:25:26 PM CST
'moose would have more than one computer, wouldn't you think?
by subtitles_off
Try accessing us from another one, 'moose!
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Who happens to be a meister-hacker and back traces him to his Moose lair...
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Everybody, seriously...keep an eye out for bad guys...
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Feb 12, 2010 3:29:49 PM CST
Maybe he has too many identities registered to the same IP addre
by subtitles_off
If he can access the site but can't log on, that's either a password issue or some kind of block-down, right?
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testing
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Feb 12, 2010 3:35:27 PM CST
Maybe Harry installed 'Cattle Gate Crossing" software...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Mooses get caught in them, too...
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testing
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testing
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Dammit! He should let me borrow GaryOldman's password to see if I can log on with it, since I'm experiencing no issues.
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inviso-text?
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NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!
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We seem to have lost some others all of a sudden, too.
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is still so effortlessly watchable it's ridiculous, similar to Christopher Lee and Donald Pleasence
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Even the highest ranking members of The Jesus Industrial Complex are not above routine knock-offs.
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what movie was that Ted?
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Feb 12, 2010 3:49:13 PM CST
Weirdo horror/sci-fi film SPLICE to get wide release,
by colonelfatheart
courtesy of Joel Silver! http://tinyurl.com/yagypem
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did you all see the infamous commercial outtakes of Orson welles promoting country french champagne?
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...it's by the same guy who made CUBE.
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There ya go, Scorps.
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I'll go see Splice for that alone.
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I gotta see it.
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...any good?
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http://www2.hernandotoday.com/content/2008/apr/19/not-ideal-ending/ Sorry about the choppy link. Tinyurl didn't work for some reason.
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...for the creature in SPLICE and just messed with the proportions. I don't understand why they don't do that more...I was hoping they'd try something like that for the Elves in LOTR...human, but not quite...
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This movie was excellent. Steve Martin doing birdcalls to his dumb as box Chase and Short was excellent as well.
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Feb 12, 2010 4:25:06 PM CST
What is everyone's favorite movie of their birthyear
by takingscorpioscalls
Ted, flick, subs, cheese, col, sixy, your favorite of your golden year when you popped out into this world??
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...I pretty much don't deserve to live.
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...JEREMIAH JOHNSON, THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, LAST TANGO IN PARIS, DEEP THROAT, and of course THE LEGEND OF NIG-ER CHARLEY.
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If not, then Young Frankenstein.
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Feb 12, 2010 4:53:25 PM CST
Hey, Guys...I just got a sub-space message from Subs...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Whatever is preventing Moose from posting has also claimed Subs...Let us Pray to the almighty that this is only a temporary affliction...
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NOT SUBS, TOO!
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Phantasm, prolly.
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1962...
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Scorps, that's probably the best scene in the whole movie. It never, ever fails to get me laughing for an extended period of time.
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The Warriors
Dawn of the Dead
Apocalypse Now (Just the first fifteen minutes, tho.)
The Jerk
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We need an alternate jump point OFF of AICN, in cae more of us disappear...I wonder if the Balebackers would provide us political asylem?
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...really?
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...it's shameful.
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Btw, Dawn of the Dead I believe was '78, not '79.
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Stand by for emergency alerts...
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and we all get wiped out, how shall we contact each other?
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And the Ice Age is coming quickly...
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What the fuck you mean 15 minutes of Apocalypse Now?!?!
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Alien works well as a sci-fi horror, but Aliens is a fucking runaway freight train. Saw it again in theater last summer, and was again blown away by the pacing, acting, set design, fx (visual & sound). Plus, Bill Paxton inadvertently creates one of my favorite drinking games: Drink every time Bill Paxton freaks out.
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...Subs has been the sub-space hub, I think he could round up most of us if needed...
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Feb 12, 2010 5:13:42 PM CST
Well, Sixies, I mean that I'm in love with the beginning of that
by tedkordlives
Don't get me wrong, it's a great film, but it's the equivalent of committing yourself to a old, dirty asylum for 3-4 hours. But the start, with the Doors' "The End", splosions, and Martin Sheen brooding is pure poetry. Plus, when Sheen looks out his window ("Shit. Still in Hanoi"), check out what he sees out there...
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Barely, my back is killing me. How'd you make out?
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When was the last time he wigged out and cut loose like Hudson or Chet?
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...I've never had the good fortune of seeing it in a proper theater...that's cool.
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1979 release in America. Which, obviously, is the right date since we're in America.
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I got the old old cd from the library.... Has the score and dialogue from the film...I can travel up the river any day o the week
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...but I dug a complicated maze for my daughter yesterday in addition to all the regular shoveling...so I feel your pain.
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Did not realize that Ted. I was only four then, not exactly the target audience.
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It's been a long, long time. I miss him too.
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I can watch it any time, in its entirety.
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I knew Hanoi didn't sound right. Seriously tho, in the dark days after Blue Beetle died, I would put the opening of Pocky Now on A-B repeat and just drink and drink.
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'moose created a Google Group called Pedalback for the time "bean."It would require registering, I think. When moose provides a link, I'll forward it to you.
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I had to look it up on IMDB. It didn't hit Sweden until 2005, it seems.
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a layer of ice on the bottom. It was rough. That's cool that you did that for your daughter.
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He does terrific work on BIG LOVE. No freakouts, though.
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"Tell Teddy and Flick, I notice how busted up they are over my absence...GRIN. My favorite 1961 movies are LA DOLCE VITA, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD, THE HUSTLER, but my favorite is YOJIMBO."Now you guys KNOW that I'm channelling Subby...I never heard of any of those movies...
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That's a long time to wait for the greatest zombie film ever made.
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Or YOJIMBO? That's the influence for the Bruce Willis shoot-em-up LAST MAN STANDING as well as A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS.
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I was just about to ask about Big Love.
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Redux of course
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It's a pretty good show. Lots of stuff going on, lots of conflict. A lot of it seems implausible, but then you have to consider it's gotta be something like this in polygamist families.
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Feb 12, 2010 5:27:17 PM CST
I thought Yojimbo was a funny book about the Trix rabbit's...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Japanese samuria cousin...And the Hustler...with Larry Flynt?
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...movements or loud noises everything will go back to normal. I'm a sniper by nature...sit tight and wait for a clear shot.
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Gotta head home. Hopefully we can get this shit straightened out. Please leave breadcrumbs. The Pedalback may actually be on its way to being truly "Unbound."
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Japan didn't get an unedited version until the mid-'90s, as well.
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Feb 12, 2010 5:30:04 PM CST
...Sith, I'm a little jealous. We got a perfectly respectable..
by flickapoo
...snowfall, but the Calvin in me always wants more.
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Subtitles_Off? It rings a bell, but I can't place the name...or the face.
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Shows dedication to the cause.
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Fucking Texas.
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notice those new 'Security Cameras' they put up at work last week...
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But there's no way they'd lock us out. We're generating more hits than the rest of the site combined, I'll bet.
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Didn't you guys get snow in Texas?
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and you and me can build a snow woman with big round icy tits...
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...my brother lives near Abington and got a lot more.
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...for real this time.
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and we got about 12 on Saturday and another 24 Wednesday. Speaking of Abington I'm addicted to Baja Fresh. Ever been?
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I'll just go down to the 7-11 and wait for someone to run in and leave their car running. Easiest way to steal a car, hands down.
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You know, the Taco Bell-exclusive Mountain Dew? That shit is GOOD.
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ATTN: PeebersFollow the breadcrumbs in 43897.
If it doesn't work, I'll just keep trying to find a way to log on with a new account. Eventually, we'll all reunite somewhere down the road.Email Subs and he will invite you...just use your handle in the subject line... -
but I think technically it's tex-mex. They make everything fresh and their quesadillas and fish tacos are amazing. It's in the shopping center next to the Abington Target on 611. Fast food style order and eat but much higher quality.
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http://groups.google.com/groups/adult_confirm?_done=http%3A%2F%2Fgroups.google.com%2Fgroup%2Fpedalback
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Not bad
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But if we leave AICN we won't be able to pick up new Peebers like FW and HarryCalder, wherever he went.
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DO NOT LOG OFF of AICN...YOU CANNOT LOG BACK ON....We just lost Flick and probably the Colonel and maybe even Teddy, god help us...I will stay in the matrix as long as I can, and hope I don't lose power again...
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Let us out Let us out!
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Should I save the last two bullets for us?
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...that I leave the PB open during the entirity of my work day.
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http://groups.google.com/group/pedalback
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Subs, Moose, Teddy, Flick, and the Colonel...Keep an eye out for the good guys, Teddy...You and I may be the only hope the rest have it of making it over the chasm...
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You can be the Gatekeeper.
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You should sign up and join us.Joooooiiiiiinnnnn Usssssssssss.
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May the blood of the Pedalback be on their heads forever!
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how'd you manage?
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I applied to the PB group!
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Feb 12, 2010 7:16:40 PM CST
Good, Yack...Just don't log off here until we know you can get b
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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You are approved. Come on in from the cold.
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If you're logged in already, DO NOT SIGN OUT, otherwise you're fucked. Scary... AICNageddon!!!!
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Are ya coming man?
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Feb 12, 2010 8:40:35 PM CST
I feel like Charlton Heston in the 'Omega Man'...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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go to bottom and click newer till you find us...
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If I can do it, so can you.
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On the life raft
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You'll never get back on...
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Good god, the people in this town... I swear I spent 2 hours in the car total tonight because everyone was driving so damn slow.... So, what happened round here?
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Come to the camp and we'll talk it out.
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I've been trying to post all fucking day and it won't let me. Fuck 6DB asked me about favorite werewolf films and fucking Last Year at Marienbad was mentioned and I couldn't comment. Now I'm using my iPhone.
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It is crashing...Join us...Follow the bread crumbs to Ark II...
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..repeat, DO NOT LOG OUT...AICN is crashing...
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Message: Go here:http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena
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♪ ♫ Back to Reality ♪ ♫
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♪ ♫ Is the group harder than an erection ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ That shows more affection ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ They wanna ban us on Capital Hill ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ Cause its die muthafuckas, die muthafuckas ♪ ♫
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Exile On Main Street, Or Ain'titageddon - The Geek Apocalypse: February 12th, 2010...The day begins @ Node #43912...'moose finds some funny Star Trek shoops at SomethingAwful.com (http://tinyurl.com/ylknl8r)...Scorps compares the place to a particularly nasty truck-stop bathroom...'moose wants me to believe (http://tinyurl.com/yg8snb5)...Col. - NOT Cobra, Col. - sees a piece on AVClub.com about falling in and out of love with pop culture and urges a discussion about the movies and things we grew to love and those we grew to dislike and refuse to take phone calls from. Col. gives MAGNOLIA as an example of a film he liked once but hates now. Cobra - NOT Col., Cobra - asks him never to mention that movie again. I once saw the music group Journey and Steven Spielberg through rose-colored beer goggles. Flick has outgrown authors Mark Helprin and Chaim Potok. He also reached a point of know return with the band Kansas. Col. has fallen in love with 2001 and BLADE RUNNER over time. My affections for A BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI, Pete Townshend's "Empty Glass," and Genesis' "Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" have aged like fine wine. Cheeses keeps teasing country music, flirting with it, then rejecting it, then calling it in a drunken stupor for a booty call, then giving it flowers and telling it lies, then ignoring it cruelly, then driving past its house to make sure it's not sleeping with someone else, then doing it all over again...Cobra does some anti-terror racial profiling...☆☆BEATLES OF THE DAY☆☆™ : a remix of "Glass Onion." (http://tinyurl.com/yjoz6c9)...BAMF! Node #43951..."Bitches, leave"...Remembering Bev D'Angelo, Ellen Barkin and Virginia Madsen in their sultry heydays...Sixies and Col. recommend A SERIOUS MAN...I do not recommend THE WOLFMAN, a poorly-paced, CG-ruined, wet dog of a movie - ★★☆☆☆ ½. 'Lop wonders how one can screw up a werewolf movie. Joe Johnston knows how...Word of The Day: Dunderhead [duhn-der-hed] n: a dunce; blockhead; numbskull. Used in a sentence: Joe Johnston, director of THE WOLFMAN, must be a dunderhead...Breakfasts that may be boring but are healthier than popcorn and Pepsi® include Raisin Bran®, cheesecake, and practically anything else...Sixies quotes Sean Connery in a terrible, frankly, Scottish accent...CGI grizzly and stag > CGI demon goat, barely...Cheeses and Teddy follow the breadcrumbs...Lame political protesting, or lamest political protesting? (http://tinyurl.com/yb5orps)...Cinematical.com likes THE WOLFMAN more than I did (http://tinyurl.com/ye97v8j)...Jokes about luge and Megan Fox's thumbs become insensitive...Jokes about John Mayer increase exponentially...Sometime between noon and 2:30 P.M., Eastern Standard, AICN begins to hiccup, not allowing those who have signed out return entry. 'moose is the first Peeber to notice. I'm the next, and Flick is also claimed before we realize what is happening. 'moose creates a Google Group, exclusive for Peebers who want to continue the conversation...Meanwhile, theories about what happened to 'moose, though nobody even notices I'm missing [sniff]...Sundance quirky-horror hit SPLICE gets nabbed by Joel Silver (http://tinyurl.com/yagypem)...Daily Random Landis is from THE THREE AMIGOS...Scorps asks for favorite films from each of our birth years. His may be THREE AMIGOS from 1986. Col.'s is RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK from 1981. Flick's: GODFATHER (1972). mjgtexas: CHINATOWN (1974). Cheeses: DR. NO (1962). Teddy: THE WARRIORS, DAWN OF THE DEAD, THE JERK, ALL THAT JAZZ, ALIEN (he supposes) and the first fifteen minutes of APOCALYPSE NOW (1979). SithMenace: JAWS (1975). Sixies: ANIMAL HOUSE (1978). Subtitles: YOJIMBO, LA DOLCE VITA, THE HUSTLER, LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961). Vader: RAIDERS (1981). Yackbacker: STAR WARS, and the rest - CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, THE DEEP, SPY WHO LOVED ME, THE DUELISTS (1977)... At The Tent City at Googleville, we begin to gather, eventually numbering 10-strong by midnight...We figure out how to make ourselves comfortable and talk the usual kind of smack...The Group will be an archive for the best of our weird ramblings, movie reviews, and "private" conversations as well as a place we can reconnect if we're ever Banhammered or forget our keys at AICN. You can request membership @ http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena. You will have to be registered at Google to apply for membership, but you can register anonymously. Be sure, however, to use your AICN handle as a nickname when registering, so we'll know who you are when you knock on the door. Once inside, look for the "Read Me First" thread which will shrink you to the proper size so you don't embarrass yourself at the Tea Party... Y'all can come back home... -
And we survived it, partner. Don't say nothing, but my vote was for Cheeses, when it got down to having to eat one of us.
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Quoth sixies mcfly.
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Well done, keeping us together, yesterday!Still haven't heard anything as to what actually happened, but, since my old handle works with my old password, I've got to assume yours will, too.A little bit of clean-up is necessary at Tent City. Shouldn't I be able to get rid of threads, since I have management privvies? I can't figure out how to. Can you please delete the threads "Just checking" and "February 12"? Also, I'm working on a "Read Me First" thread that will explain how the place works for anxious noobs. I'll post it there when I think it's complete, and you can add to it anything you think I've forgotten.
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Will this generation's fetish with extreme danger end in Vancouver?http://tinyurl.com/yezt9c6
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So, I didn't watch on Friday, but I was told that NBC tried to blame the Georgian luger's death on his "inexperience." Is that true? Obviously the track is unsafe. Experienced, veteran athletes are complaining about it as well.Certainly, they've canceled luge competition, no?
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with my pants around my ankles and my iPhone on my chest?
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She has banned press from upcoming speeches. Golly, gee, I wonder if it's because she doesn't want to get caught lookin' stupid, you betcha. Hopefully, some patriotic American will record her via iSpy cell phone and YouTube her fucking ass anyway.It's getting funnier and funnier watching this waste of oxygen dig her and her apologists' grave.
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http://tinyurl.com/y96ahewFACK® Korea! I saw [deleted] in 4D when I saw it in America. The guy sitting nearest me farted, and my seat shook when I fell asleep and started snoring.
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http://tinyurl.com/ycov4hw
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The pants were down for easy access, and she left the phone on your chest so you'd call her first thing in the morning.
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Levi Johnston, the father to former Gov. Sarah Palin's grandchild, is asking a judge to grant flexibility in the child support he must pay to Palin's daughter Bristol.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Johnston, 19, contends he earned more than $100,000 in 2009 because of his national celebrity. But he says in court documents that there's no guarantee that fame, or that amount of income, will continue.
Bristol Palin, 19, is seeking $22,750 -- $1,750 a month -- from her ex-fiance to cover the 13 months since the birth of their son, Tripp.
Johnston has paid $4,400 so far.
Thomas Van Flein, Bristol Palin's attorney, says she and Johnston appear to be making progress toward a fair resolution.
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it says that LEVI HAS **JUST** PAID 4400 SO FAR....
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he should've kept it in his pants. As you know, Sixies, this country knee-jerks in favor of the mother until or unless circumstances come to light to discredit her.
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theyll still give her the money..at least in texas
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like any other GOOD OL BOY from alaska..if it comes back with food, its a keeper..if not, well...the wolves just wanted the victory more.
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And, in those cases, hopefully, the lil demons have a dad that can step up. Right on!
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Boy, was that close!
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HA!Todd Palin was found today, a little bit frozen, but no worse for wear, after being stranded for 17 days in the Alaskan wilderness after losing his sense of direction on his snow machine. Asked how he managed to survive and stay safe from ravenous wolves and other Alaskan wildlife predators, Palin told Fox news, "I guess the wolves would rather starve. I had one get real close, but as he scurried away I could hear him mumble that I smelled spoiled."
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Have to go look at possible wedding site.
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I still wonder what was the what?
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Good luck. Hopefully, you'll find a really nice place.
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Nice place for less money. That's what we're hoping for. The American Dream!
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I'll check in soon.
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was based on a short story John Hughes wrote for the National Lampoon magazine called "Vacation '58" it is told from Rust's POV and at the end Clark shoots Walt Disney.
One of the funniest things Mr. Teen Comedy John Hughes ever wrote for National Lampoon ever wrote was a truly obscene and uproariously funny story called "My Penis" about a student that wakes up one day with a dick. He wrote a sequel called "My Vagina" about a guy that wakes up one day with a vagina.
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Le Passion de Jeanne d'Arc1928. Danish-French. Silent with subtitles. Restored.Directed by Carl Theodore Dreyer (VAMPYR).I understand that audiences wired for sound, color, dialogue, action and effects may lack the patience for a silent drama. Even at a short 81 minutes (20 minutes are lost), this revered masterpiece will become tiresome to those conditioned for flash and zip. Nonetheless, it is a remarkable artistic composition of black-n-white images. Largely a succession of close-ups of wart-pocked, deeply wrinkled, grotesque, barking faces, filmed at odd angles, contrasted with the softer expressions of actress Renee Maria Falconetti in her only screen role. Images of torture implements in the style of German-expressionism and French avant-garde films, of unearthed skulls with worms crawling through the eye sockets, of rioting witnesses, of a burning corpse, dramatize the historical record of a female country-soldier's trial for heresy and subsequent martyrdom in 1431.★★★★☆Available in streaming format from Netflix.
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I cleaned up "Oldman's Game," a little more, format-wise, hopefully to make it a bit easier on the eyes. Everybody can check it out there.
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Except for the hiccup at the end. Did you see the look on Gretzky's face?
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http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena
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Been cleaning da house----watched zombieland....cute lil flick...the cameo was pretty funny even though I knew about it. Don't know why it was so hush hush about it.
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thank you water for that excellent bit of beatle drunkenness. they should have covered more songs of others that way.
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We just celebrated our 50,000th post and had a scare yesterday that one or more of us might be separated at any time, so I'm more motivated than ever to document and archive some of the craziness, past present and future. I'm going to use our brand-new Google Group (http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena) as the place to collect and catalog as much as I can find, and I encourage any of you who want to join in. I will post the links to all off-shoots of The Pedalback (which Sixies tracked down the other day) there at the Group, so it should become relatively easy for us to find our way. Hope to include things like savagedave's blogs, the adventures of Batmanster and 'Lop's epic defense of Robin in The Nolanverse.If anyone would rather not have their contributions included, please let me know.
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Feb 13, 2010 5:00:14 PM CST
Why does everyone have such good movie birthyears
by takingscorpioscalls
1961, 62, 72, 74, 77, 78, 79, 81, i can name movies i REALLY like on each of those years but for 86 it's just picking the one that's better than the others. Oh well Three Amigos i will be faithful to you nonetheless, now let's go. let's go over here, ov-er here. KAAAA KAAAA look UP KAAAAA
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to choose from.In addition to ¡THREE AMIGOS!, comedies of that year included FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, PRETTY IN PINK, DOWN & OUT IN BEVERLY HILLS, and RUTHLESS PEOPLE.For Woody Allen fans there was HANNAH & HER SISTERS.For fans of coming-of-age stuff there were two greats - STAND BY ME and LUCAS.Harrison Ford fans got MOSQUITO COAST."Indie" was coined to describe DOWN BY LAW.Geeks could choose from ALIENS, HIGHLANDER, THE FLY, BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA and STAR TREK IV: THE VOYAGE HOME.Sexual titillation gave us 9½ WEEKS and BLUE VELVET.And among the acclaimed dramas there were THE NAME OF THE ROSE, PLATOON, THE COLOR OF MONEY and CHILDREN OF A LESSER GOD.Besides, how bad a year could it be if it gave us Prince's UNDER THE CHERRY MOON?OK, that last one I listed just to see if you were really still paying attention.All things considered, that's NOT a slouch year, buddy.
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...and I wanted to be the kind of guy who likes THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC.I couldn't get past the ridiculously long shots of facial expressions and the anachronistic setting. It just seemed sooo self indulgent...and I'm a guy who went to art school. And thrived there. I've participated in self indulgence, and inhaled...deeply...and often.
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...I'd be hard pressed to pick a favorite.
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...THE NAME OF THE ROSE, ALIENS, STAND BY ME, THE FLY, FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF, and PLATOON...let alone the other solid choices.
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To me self-indulgence is spending 14 years on computer programs to come up with a cartoon about giant blue cats going to war with gung-ho Marines.I'm poking ya. I completely understand your reservations with JOAN OF ARC. it's why I lead my review the way I did. "Variety" derided it at the time it was made, so it's not universally revered, and you're not alone in thinking it's tiresome and self-indulgent.I just happen to think the style of the film is unsettling and appropriately, provocatively so for the subject matter. And, I was jazzed that so much expression can be found just by focusing on particular, un-actor-like faces, when, just like you, I'm conditioned to prefer emotion be telegraphed through dialog and plot.
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if I were to pick a favorite for myself that year, it'd be between ALIENS and STAND BY ME, though I liked all the films I listed (except I never saw ¡THREE AMIGOS! or UNDER THE CHERRY MOON). So, if that list has only the films I like on it, I'm sure there are others from the year that would appeal too.
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...I just couldn't hack it. I was hoping for at least some beautiful, black and white chiaroscuro shots of castles and cool sets...
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contains more of that. I've never seen that version.When you really think about it though, you might concede that the subject is such a face-to-face thing - one person's religious fanaticism or faith, depending, versus the hypocritical authority of the time - filming it close-up and exaggerated is a valid artistic choice. The scenery is nearly irrelevant, until shit hits the fan at the end.I'm not trying to convince you. We all gotta respond to these things instinctively, I think, if at all.
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Point-Counterpoint, or Pedalback Siskel and Pedalback Ebert. That'd be hoot!
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Feb 13, 2010 6:16:06 PM CST
...I'm trying to think of a movie that nails what if felt....
by flickapoo
...like to be twelve as well or better than STAND BY ME...nothing is coming to me just now...great movie.And the way it captures a group of friends...they probably have no business being friends, but they ended up together. You know it can't last, but they don't know it yet...
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Feb 13, 2010 6:17:42 PM CST
I appreicate your enthusiasm for this kneedeep area
by takingscorpioscalls
of reaganism and high concep subs but....
Platoon, too angsty of a war movie for me , Aliens even though stunning and in the apex of physical effects i don't care for the rest of it! Cameron's weird futurist military fascination bores the piss outta me.
Oh yes Highlander was entertaining but eh too flaccid. I really want to see Trek 4, and for other comedies Ferris Bueller is ok although not too much into hughes, need to see Ruthless People, and The Hitcher to see more crazy Rutger. -
that, for me, just gains more and more resonance over time. Rob Reiner's never come close to it again, I don't think.
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...Siskel was a cool cat.I don't want to be anybody...it'll be Siskel Pedalback and Some Guy.I'll represent the art school attending, Italian movie watching, Wine drinking, breast loving man on the street.
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http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena
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...SHAWSHANK I think.
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You just named us.
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...although that hardly counts. THE SHINING departs from the book big time...and King disapproved of the changes...which are all vast improvements.I give that one all to Kubrick.
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Rank it above SHAWSHANK, that is, though I like SHAWSHANK. But, THE SHINING is something that has improved with age, for me.STAND BY ME has more personal value. I think THE SHINING is the greater work of art.Does that sound pretentious?
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...that would be cool. I usually get to things so late these days...but I'd really like to see that one in a theater.
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Feb 13, 2010 6:31:28 PM CST
...not pretentious, but I think Kubrick stole THE SHINING...
by flickapoo
...fair and square. It belongs to him now.Well, except for the fucked up father rage. That was all there.
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the chance to see it within the first week, I'll hold off reviewing it.
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I would say GODFATHER for me as favorite '72 movie. But favorite under-appreciated movie is by far FAT CITY by John Houston starring Stacey Keach, Susan Tyrell, a very young Jeff Bridges and Coach Ernie from Cheers, and with an awesome intro song by Kris Kristofferson ("Sunday Morning"). One of my all time favorite boxing movies.
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Feb 13, 2010 6:35:36 PM CST
...I'll let you know within that first week if it's going...
by flickapoo
...to happen for me.As the oldest of four, I pretty much knew what to expect with a kid...but I didn't anticipate the impossibility of going to the movies like civilized adults...it still hurts.
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I'm actually going to go with CARRIE, even ahead of SHAWSHANK, THE SHINING and STAND BY ME. From "plug her up" in the shower, to the split screen climax at the end, to the shock bumper, the film is a masterpiece for me. It works as both a scary movie and a treaty on how the odd and different are ostracized and damaged throughout their lives. Carrie could have come to the prom with a gun and the ending would have been similar.
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You can add to it there. Just sos you know.
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...of SNOW WHITE. Second movie...STAR WARS. Third movie...SUPERMAN...etc...etc...etc...
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C'mon. It is by Carl Theodor Dreyer. DREYER. Paul Schrader wrote an essay on him called "Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer" which is as fun and exciting as read as you'd expect from that title.
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CABARET (a film I've never seen nor wanted to), THE CANDIDATE, CRIES & WHISPERS, DELIVERANCE, THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE, JEREMIAH JOHNSON, SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE, SLEUTH, SOLARIS and guilty pleasures SOUNDER and THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE.
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It's lightweight except where it's overwrought. Not a fan.
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Feb 13, 2010 6:46:27 PM CST
Maybe I don't get the game, but Star Wars came out in '77.
by anonymoose
Superman in '78.
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The game is great and / or favorite movies from the year of your birth.So far, 1961 kicks merfering ass, from my perspective!
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Are from 1971-1975. I would pit those five years against any other half-decade -even the against any five years from 1939-1950 during Hollywood's Golden Age.
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We were commenting on ones we thought were best.
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DEEP THROAT!
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I don't have the mind to organize films by date. And, despite my reputation as film snob, I don't think I've even begun to scratch-n-or-sniff all the great films from before The 80s.
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I have a funny story about DEEP THROAT. I saw it for the first time in a dorm cafeteria with a group of buddies when I was a sophomore in college, and, though I was sexually experienced and not a prude, for some inexplicable reason, i was so uncomfortable, I spent the entire time staring at my shoes.
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Feb 13, 2010 6:58:15 PM CST
Well don't worry Subs because I'm going to argue with myself
by continentalop
My categorizing of films from 1971-1975 as a five year block excludes 1976 from the list, a year that saw ROCKY, TAXI DRIVER, NETWORK, ALL THE PRESIDENTS MEN and BOUND FOR GLORY nominated for best picture.
MURDER BY DEATH also came out that year.
"Who do you think is the murderer? " "Must sleep on it. Will know in morning when wake up."
"But what if you don't wake up?"
"Then YOU did it. "
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That's a long time staring at one's shoes.
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Once you got past the fact that these were funny, cute animals pretending to be acting like people in the real world, you realize that there just wasn't much going on or any thing in depth.
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Feb 13, 2010 7:02:08 PM CST
I never got the appeal of watching porn with a bunch of guys
by continentalop
"Wow. Look at all of us getting turned on together. That is just kind of freaky, don't you think guys?"
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...I was just referring to the big movie moments for someone born in 1972. A lot of thirty seven year olds hang out around here...I suspect because we caught STAR WARS at five or six, SUPERMAN at six or seven...RAIDERS at nine...we were ten for the '82 harvest...etc...etc...
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was much more interesting than the execution of an X-rated cartoon.Are you saying you ARE a fan of DEEP THROAT, though?
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...perhaps with a woman...But the stars have to line up just right. I mean JUST right.
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Seven is the year I became conscious of that stuff. From seven to twenty-five. A good eighteen years. I shouldn't bitch. But, fuck if it hasn't been mostly downhill, rapidly, the twenty-plus years since.
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Feb 13, 2010 7:07:27 PM CST
Great! So now I'm even more embarrassed about the whole
by subtitles_off
experience!
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...for that very reason. I'm not a dorm or roommate kind of guy.I'm a bit of a heterosexual Georgie Porgy...
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That's why it didn't interest me.Yeah. That's it.That's how I tell that story from now on.
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that justify your exaltation?
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Grave of the Firelies
My Neighbor Totoro
A Fish Called Wanda
Willow
Rain Man
Die Hard
Coming to America
Imagine: John Lennon
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Big
Working Girl
The Land Before Time
Midnight Run
The Great Outdoors
Scrooged
Beetlejuice
Least favorite: Mac and Me (the retarded McDonald's E.T.)
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...call me gay, but I don't want to see a hot chick getting fucked by an ugly guy. The woman is the attraction, but an ugly guy is FUCKING DISTRACTING.And I like to imagine that everyone is having a good time...even if riding crops are involved. Lots of people are into ropes and whips......nobody's into ugly guys.
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Feb 13, 2010 7:22:25 PM CST
...somebody please post something. Don't just leave that....
by flickapoo
...last post hanging there.
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A Clockwork Orange, Bananas, Carnal Knowledge, Dirty Harry, Duel, The French Connection, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (ok, that one is Italian), Harold and Maude, The Hospital, Klute, The Last Picture Show, Macbeth, McCabe & Mrs. Miller, Mon oncle Antoine, The Panic in Needle Park , Play Misty For Me, Straw Dogs, Two-Lane Blacktop, Vanishing Point, Walkabout, and of course, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.
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Not bad. Beetlejuice, Midnight Run, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, A Fish Called Wanda, Grave of the Firelies, My Neighbor TotoroTo those, I'd add AKIRA, BIG-TOP PEE WEE, DANGEROUS LIAISONS, GORILLAS IN THE MIST, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST, MISSISSIPPI BURNING, and THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING.My personal faves being ROGER RABBIT, DANGEROUS LIAISONS and MIDNIGHT RUN.
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Amarcord (ok, Italian), American Graffiti, Badlands, Charley Varrick, Day for Night (French), Dillinger, Don't Look Now, Electra Glide in Blue, Emperor of the North Pole, Enter the Dragon, The Exorcist, High Plains Drifter, The Last Detail, The Long Goodbye, Live and Let Die, Mean Streets, O' Lucky Man, The Paper Chase, Paper Moon, Papillon, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, Scarecrow, Serpico, Soylent Green, The Sting, A Touch of Class, The Wickerman, Westworld,
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http://tinyurl.com/4qrhvs
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore, Black Christmas, Blazing Saddles, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia, Caged Heat, California Split, Chinatown, The Conversation, Death Wish, The Godfather Part II, Harry and Tonto, Lenny, The Longest Yard, The Man with the Golden Gun, Murder on the Orient Express, The Parallex View, The Sugarland Express, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Thieves Like Us, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, A Woman Under the Influence, Young Frankenstien, and, unfortunately, The Towering Inferno and Zardoz.
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FACK® Jackson.
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The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (hey, I like this film), Barry Lyndon, Cooley High, The Day of the Locust, Death Race 2000, Deep Red, Dog Day Afternoon, Hard Times, Jaws, Love and Death, The Man Who Would Be King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Nashville, Night Moves, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Passenger, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Rollerball, Shampoo, The Stepford Wives, Smile, Three Days of the Condor, Tommy, White Line Fever and The Yakuza.
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if DOG DAY and JAWS came out in the same year, I'd've insisted no, and I saw both of those in theaters.
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The Longest Yard, Murder on the Orient Express, The Parallex View, The Sugarland Express, The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot, A Woman Under the Influence, and Young Frankenstien, are all pretty damn good and/or influential IMO.
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May the dude rest in peace.
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blow the entire five-year period '71 - '75 out of the water by itself.
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Another Thin Man, Babes in Arms, Dark Victory, Destry Rides Again, Drums Along the Mohawk, Each Dawn I Die, The Four Feathers, Gone With the Wind, Goodbye Mr. Chips. Gulliver's Travels, Gunga Din, The Hound of the Baskervilles, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Intermezzo, The Little Princess, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Only Angels Have Wings, Ninotchka, The Roaring Twenties, The Rules of the Game (French, but needs to be mentioned), Son of Frankenstein, Stagecoach, Tower of London, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Union Pacific, Wuthering Heights, Young Mr, Lincoln, and a bunch of good Serials.
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Across the Pacific, Arabian Nights, Bambi, Casablanca, Cat People, Gentlemen Jim, The Glass Key, Holiday Inn, Kings Row, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Mrs. Miniver, The Major and the Minor, Now Voyager, The Palm Beach Story, Pride of the Yankees, Random Harvest, Saboteur, Tales of Manhattan, The Talk of the Town, This Gun for Hire, To Be or Not to Be, Woman of the Year and Yankee Doodle Dandy.
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Ball of Fire, Blood and Sand, Buck Privates, Citizan Kane, The Devil and Daniel Webster, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dumbo, 49th Parallel, High Sierra, How Green Was My Valley, The Lady Eve, The Little Foxes, The Maltese Falcon, Man Hunt, Penny Serenade, Sergeant York, The Shanghai Gesture, Tobacco Road, They Died with Their Boots On, I Wake Up Screaming, Western Union, and The Wolf Man (not the unintentionally funny one).
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*sniff* For the record, all that needs to be said about '74: BLAZING SADDLES. Eternally in my Top 3 Favorite Movies of All Time. I have seen it... let's just say, WAY too many times, and IT'S STILL FUNNY, BITCHES.
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Especially since we were counting heads yesterday.
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We just felt it unbecoming to act like boys.
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SHIT-ASS year for wine. Just painful... with, of course, the rare exception from the winemaker who REALLY knows his shit.
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Nice girls never get noticed, here as elsewhere.
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GAWD®, it was awful.
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Feb 13, 2010 8:01:20 PM CST
Friendly, post in the shelter TB to complete your initiation.
by anonymoose
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Abe Lincoln in Illinois, All This and Heaven Too, The Bank Dick, Boom Town, Broadway Melody of 1940, Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet, Fantasia, Foreign Correspondent, Gaslight, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, The Great McGinty, His Girl Friday, The Letter, The Long Voyage Home, The Mark of Zorro, Night Train to Munich, The Philadelphia Story, Pinocchio, Rebecca, The Sea Hawk, The Shop Around the Corner, Strange Cargo, The Thief of Bagdad, The Westerner, and the great chapter serial Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe and the Mysterious Dr. Satan (by one of the great unsung directors of all time, William Witney).
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...makes me feel dizzy. Her name escapes me just now, but she's something of a Hollywood X-File too...very mysterious...
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Feb 13, 2010 8:08:06 PM CST
OK, 'Lop, this is completely scientific and indisputable.
by subtitles_off
And, it should forever quiet the argument of which five-year period was greater in film, 1939 - 1943 or 1971 - 1975.According to the patented Subtitles' Five-Star rating system, counting the five star-quality films from each period, there is a tie - 23 to 23.'39 had 8 5-star films, as did 1973. '43 was the worst year with only a single 5-star qualifier.'39 - 8. '40 - 4. '41 - 5. '42 - 5. '43 -1 '71 - 3. '72 - 4. '73 - 8. '74 - 3. '75 - 5.Can't argue with numbers.
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doing in a rustic setting like this?
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the common clay of the New West.
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It's been a looooong goddam day in the Waitress household. I'm going to watch me some boob-tube and drink me some WINE, goddam it.
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And I'd take it one further and say that the 70s were the best film decade. The only slack year is 78 (my birth year--go fig). And all the directors we got during this time.
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Any year with Heaven Can Wait, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The Ox-Bow Incident and Shadow of a Doubt can't be that bad.
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What if we go from 1938-1942 and 1972-1976? What happens then?
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http://tinyurl.com/y8kja6p
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...all this talk of good movies has made me want to go watch one...imagine that.
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Laser knocks down test missile off Calif. coast
(AP) – 1 day ago
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. — The Air Force says a high-powered laser has destroyed a missile in flight during a test of a national defense system off the California coast.
The successful test is a boost to a program that has had billions in cost overruns and saw its budget sharply cut by the Pentagon last year.
The Air Force and Boeing Co. announced Friday that an airborne laser system tracked a target missile as it accelerated over the ocean off the Point Mugu Naval Warfare Center on Thursday night. The Air Force says an energy beam heated the missile until it broke up.
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How much for the girls?
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later.
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Sell me yer children!
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anyone up?
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It remains tied, 23 all. I give '76 credit for 3 5-star films, and I give '38 credit for only 1, both equal to the tallies for the years they replace.It's science, man. Inarguable, like gravity.
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I just got in.
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I still defend 1981 as the best year for movies my pedestrian ass LOVES...Raiders, Escape from New York, Excalibur, History of the World, pt 1, and MORE!!!
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American Werewolf in London, Arthur, Clash of the Titans, Dragon Slayer, Evil Dead, Heavy Metal, NIGHTHAWKS, Outland, Quest for Fire, Scanners, STRIPES, Superman II, Time Fucking Bandits, Wolfen AND the Howling!!!!Top that geeky goodness in one 365 day time period!!!!!
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Feb 14, 2010 12:00:15 AM CST
THREE, count 'em THREE Werewolf movies in one FUCKING year!!!!
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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Chariots of Fire, On Golden Pond, Reds, French Lieutentant's Woman, Mommie Dearest,...I only saw Reds and On Golden Pond because the Girl I was living with at the time made me...I really wish I had learned to say no way back then and I wish even harder that I had back the almost 6 hours those viewings took away from my life...
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Feb 14, 2010 12:30:16 AM CST
I agreed to go see that horny hairdresser from 'Shampoo'...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
star as some founding father of Communism only because hormones are a very dangerous thing...And, in 1981, Michelle enduced a lot of hormones out of me...The best time was after I took her to see Conan in '82...She gave me INCREDIBLE sex after that movie...!!! Thanks, Governor Arnold!!!
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bright frost-green and, I swear, they glowed in the dark...She had an infectious laugh and great tits...She was cool with my comics/SciFi obsessions and had a great sense of humor and admired my artwork. My family LOVED her and she was just a whore enough to be in a live together sexual relationship with a guy who was a music director at a Southern Baptist Church and went to Church with him...The money I made from that part time gig at my Uncle's Church we blew each Sunday night eating Lobster and getting drunk at Red Lobster...True Story...Guess, I've never been a religious sort of guy...It ended over boredom, me with her limited intellect and her with my brainiac-ness, and drugs and drinking and my college party buddies and other opportunities, female-wise, I wanted to pursue...But, I think of her from time to time as an icon of a simpler, happier time in my very twisted life...
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Late 1981-early 1982...I got my first ATM card...and there were no fees to use it AT ALL because it cut down on the amount of live tellers Banks needed to employ...
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Feb 14, 2010 12:59:27 AM CST
I remember because Michelle was blowing me in the car...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
one of the first times I ever pulled up to an ATM, and God Bless Her, she made me forget my first PIN number...
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Which ones are you calling five-star movies? I've got 6 movies that "could" be labeled as five star. Curious which one you picked.
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Feb 14, 2010 1:26:11 AM CST
Cheeses, there was actually FOUR Werewolf films in 1981
by continentalop
Larry Cohen's werewolf comedy FULL MOON HIGH with Adam Arkin and Ed McMahon.
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I HAVE heard of that...didn't see it...
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Feb 14, 2010 1:58:28 AM CST
Because no one asked...Found this in the drunk/high file in my w
by cheeses_of_nazareth
It is midnight on Halloween 2007. I’m sure that more than one human sacrifice is reaching its bloody climax even as I type these words. At least I hope so... It is a night of celebration after all. Those who survive rejoice that they have escaped the grasp of eternal damnation for yet another year. Truth is, we are all undead, but far few of us are really living…I was incredibly turned on today by the young girls at my job. Which was surprising to me…They wore tight leggings and even tighter bodices. One was a combo angel /devil sexy thing, one was a blue haired pixie and the last was Gangster’s Moll from the 30’s. These girls are always respectful and conservative but today the devil/angel hybrid explained her costume as wanting people to see her darker more evil side. I got a half mast, when she told me that. Watching them unload boxes from the delivery truck, squatting and stretching in those skin tight outfits was almost too much. The Good/Bad Hybrid even took the time to tell me about the color of her bedroom sheets and comforters that she had bought for when she gets married. She is not engaged or even dating anyone, to hear her tell. I found that odd. She claims to have a mild case of scoliosis. I wonder if that’s what makes her ass shake like that. It IS eye catching when viewed from behind. The Moll is skittish and reserved and almost got offended the one time that I had asked about her boyfriend. She denied that she had one… She is book smart and likes to color with crayons. She likes off beat music, rockabilly style. She is a deep ignorant mental bliss that just cries out to be programmed. Whoever does it first will be a happy, happy manThe Pixie is a slender attractive ravenous reader with an active imagination and a well developed social fluidity. She also has some affliction that assures she can have no children and will probably die at a young age. She is actually PERFECT for me. Each week we compare notes on our favorite fantasy television program. The one with the superheroes who don’t wear capes and tights …we both have all these questions and theories, and I think she digs me because I made her cry just a week or two after I officially met her. Now we are pals. She gave me a kitten. She has an out of town boyfriend. After all my years on the battlefield, I can read them. Manipulate them. It isn’t that hard. A decade ago I would have flirted with them all to some degree or another. Most likely have pursued two of the three…naw, who am I kidding, all three….I am not too proud to say I have indeed had sexual relations with co-workers and subordinates at various points during the entirety of my professional career. When I had a libido, I was somewhat irresponsible with it. I broke promises, lied, etc, etc all in the pursuit of the almighty sexual recognition. Today, I am just not interested in molding a permeable sexual identity and I know my attention span has a short breaking point.But that seems to be what now turns me on. Young just barely legal chicks in leotards. I blame it on “Girls Gone Wild” … I try to get turned on by the MILF porn sites but, c’mon…hot young college legal flesh….accept no substitute.But, that way leads inevitably to losing self respect and losing jobs. Mine, theirs or worse…no one loses their job and both of us have to work together with that repressed resentment whenever the next hot chick is hired on at work. Halloween is usually a time to conceal our true identities…I’m just amazed at how much tight lycra covered flesh can reveal about my own..
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Really want to see this, heard it's one of those really good movies that stand up over time.
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Just watched this on tv, why did z-man go bonkers and start killing everyone at the end? Freaky!
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*Spoiler Alert*
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and, a WHOLE valley of them...???That would creep me out...
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Feb 14, 2010 3:06:36 AM CST
Two Dollar Poems…The Starman and the Lady of the Lake
by cheeses_of_nazareth
You came to me before I woke,Entering quietly, softly you spoke,“There are things you must see before you wake,"Come, follow me down to the lake,”You took my hand and I let you lead,Your face, your expression I could not read, The water so calm, the air so still,Though I knew it a dream, all seemed so real,“This is my home,” I was told by your voice,“Not my birthplace, my home by choice,”Over the horizon came a light so brightWith a sound that pierced the silence of night,A needle-thin sliver of purest sunshineTook to the sky with a deafening whine,“Your home is among the stars above, “You live in the future, I know this, my love,“How can we be happy, how can we last“With you in tomorrow, and I in the past?”I drew you close and slowly we kissed,“My darling,” said I, “There’s something you’ve missed,“Today is the bridge that forms the Way,There can be no tomorrow without yesterday,“I can reach the stars and there abound“As long as you anchor my feet to the ground,”We stood by your lake on the rich green lawnAnd watched my star bring a bright new dawn,We kissed once more and our souls did weave,“My love,” you said, “It is time I must leave,You must awake for the day is new,Remember me, Love, for I’ll be there with you,”I awoke before my alarm could sound,I reached for you, but you couldn’t be found,Still, a calm, easy feeling the dream left in it’s wake,The dream of the Starman and the Lady of the Lake.
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I love good Lincoln joke!
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Beer count....I'm on #8 since 11:00 pm...
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A magazine paid me $2.00 for exclusive worldwide rights for it in 1988...I re-post it here in the secure knowledge that whatever small time publisher who would pay even $2.00 for THAT is no doubt long since out of business...
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technically makes me a professional poet...Do you have any idea how much pussy a professional poet can get these days?
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I cracked a 12-pack at 3am. That's weird even for me.
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....like I'm a jet engineer.
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Feb 14, 2010 3:32:48 AM CST
That and being able to quote the first 16 lines...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Of Chauser's Canterbury Tales in Old English, which is very melodic and sexy, has gotten me laid by more book-worm English Lit chicks than I could have ever hoped for...And, TRUST me, those 'Lit chicks are the freakiest ones...Fantasy comes naturally to them...
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But only because I know the sound of your voice.
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in a'surra sota...The drought of March has pierced to the 'roota, And bothered every vien in swish laquer,Of which engendered, virtue is the fluer...Panties alway melt when I whip that shit out...
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Feb 14, 2010 4:15:17 AM CST
I did that Chauser above from memory...here's the source....
by cheeses_of_nazareth
1: Whan that aprill with his shoures soote
2: The droghte of march hath perced to the roote,
3: And bathed every veyne in swich licour
4: Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
5: Whan zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
6: Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
7: Tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
8: Hath in the ram his halve cours yronne,
9: And smale foweles maken melodye,
10: That slepen al the nyght with open ye
11: (so priketh hem nature in hir corages);
12: Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages,
13: And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes,
14: To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;
15: And specially from every shires ende
16: Of engelond to caunterbury they wende...Any chick with glasses fell HARD for that being whispered in her ear... -
Feb 14, 2010 4:24:03 AM CST
I'm pretty sure Cheeses has shared TOO much this evening...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Unfortunately, I slept in too late yesterday to be tired right now...
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Football is non-existant for the next 6 months...I would rather sleep 36 hours (or more...) than spend a Sunday without Football...Fortunately, the Canadian Olympics make me chuckle...But, only when people die...No, that was wrong...
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and BTW, I officially did NOT pass out downstairs at my computer desk tonight...First time this week...
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I ditched my glasses for contacts when I realized that all that malarckey about guys REALLY, DEEP DOWN LOVED a girl with brains was total shit... at least, in high school. Unfortunately, by then it was too late. You can take the glasses off your face, but you can't take the geek out of the girl.
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Fine, then. I'm going off to find a site that sells satin bedsheets.
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Then, on my way back here, I stumbled into the Riddick TB... which leads me to wonder why, WHY there is even argument- or passion- about that project. Are you kidding? I mean, really? The first two were great B-movies. B-movies are not worth extended TB's. God, it is AMATEUR HOUR.
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They're actually for my two-year-old... her hair is a permanent rat's nest in the back. She looks like Tim Burton, only smaller, cuter, and blond.
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Feb 14, 2010 9:11:41 AM CST
I wish we still talked like they do in Canterbury Tales
by friendlywaitress
Verily, it woulde be cool and wondrous fun, if we woulde all in mirth, and for our endless jesting phrase each line in rhyme, and questing always and forever more to settle each and every score In verse. Alas, 'tis much to ask Perhaps it is an on'rous task?
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Feb 14, 2010 9:14:06 AM CST
Just so you know, I whipped that shit up on the fly.
by friendlywaitress
Not even any coffee yet this morning.
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I was expecting more and i can see the lattice work of it's influences throughout the film but honestly it wasn't that good. It was
average I guess but the trailer
made it look like CHOPPER or clockwork orange. It had moments of goodness in
spurts but too far in between and
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People have been talking about BRONSON like it was the second coming around here. Huh.
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Feb 14, 2010 9:27:10 AM CST
God. I would KILL for an English muffin this morning.
by friendlywaitress
Is it the Chaucer? Or is it my hangover?
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...see how that goes. Just for the hell of it.
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I doubt it, but it's all I've got.
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Why didn't you mention that last nite?!?!
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Gonna settle for waffles....dammit
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'Lop can defend 6 5-star contenders?Really relaxing my standard criteria and considering the reputations of the films, I can't push more than four:ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD, the Errol Flynn swashbuckler, is the only movie of that year, I've seen, so it was the one I gave the vote to.JEZEBEL starred Bette Davis and James Fonda directed by the revered William Wyler, so I assume it has a chance of being good, but I know zilch about it.YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU won the Oscar that year, I think, but it's Capra. Why wouldn't I count it? Because it's Capra. Why won't I count it even if you have a concise, non-debatable reason in its regard? Because, Capra.Which leaves BRINGING UP BABY, another screwball comedy I have no vested interest in but often see on various lists of great, favorite, best, etc., movies. Isn't it the movie that popularized "gay" as a synonym for "homosexual?"I discounted THE LADY VANISHES because it's one of my least favorite Hitchcock movies.I'll assume among those there's a better movie than ROBIN HOOD, but I'd counter, you'd have to surgically remove the good parts from all of them and Frankenstein them together to get one 5-star quality movie from the bunch.
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I woulde admit,And e're henceward be shamed for itAnd though dismissed I'd be As like a buffinI woulde so like to bite 'pon a muffin.
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Sorry. Freedom Toast.
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Not a slouch entertainment year. AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON, DAS BOOT, ABSENCE OF MALICE, THE ROAD WARRIOR, MEPHISTO, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, ON GOLDEN POND (the last movie I ever saw with my Grandpa, so there), RAGTIME, SUPERMAN II, TAPS, TIME BANDITS. I saw a lot of junk in the theater that year, though. I hadn't yet grown pubes on my discerning taste. RAIDERS, ARTHUR, Bo Derek's TARZAN, THE APE MAN, THE FAN, FORT APACHE, THE BRONX, THE FUNHOUSE, GALLIPOLI, HALLOWEEN II, CLASH OF THE TITANS, HEAVY METAL, OMEN III, QUEST FOR FIRE, SOUTHERN COMFORT.
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'Scuse moi.
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Throw in an omelette and some bacon and you can join
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it's low-fat turkey bacon, so I actually have to ADD fat to get them to fry up purdy... but the flavor is damn tasty. ALMOST as good as real bacon. I need to go to the grocery store today.
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Go check out the Archives @ our Googleville group, and tell me how I'm doing. I'm halfway through the map of links, and then I'm going to start adding specifics.
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I'm going right now. Got to get a newspaper before they're sold out.
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to the turkey bacon to make it taste so good.I'm afraid of foods that taste like other foods. I don't eat enough bacon to worry about it, but I always buy the low fat sausage and turkey dogs for the kids.
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I meant to write "arguably". There are six films I thought that someone could or have argued are five star films. Besides the five you mentioned (YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU wasn't on my list btw) I had ANGELS WITH DIRTY FACES (2 in one year by Michael Curtiz, who also did THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD) and GUNGA DIN.
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For my contact lenses, saline So in the night, my contacts come clean English fucking muffins, though crumpets, those would work. I'll go to pick up some shaving cream my husband's face would make you scream. Looks like the Wolfman. He can't go out of the house. It's not a joke. To fetch some jelly, after that strawberry, perhaps? I'll look at all the flavors. I don't know what I'll be in the mood for, though. More Artax glue, to fix my thigh-high boots, so I can wear them tonight although, our plans this eve are just so boring. Work, a movie? I don't know... Not drinking. No Merlot, no Pinot. Who am I kidding? Of course I will have a glass with dinner. What oh WHAT shall I prepare? Some cod? A pork roast, maybe? Have to be what meat's on sale. I'm poor, you see. No filet-mignon for us no rack of lamb, no. No such fuss. A simple Sunday meal for me Chicken, I think. With veg, and peas. DO NOT FORGET to bring along the shopping bags, so green and strong... AND PLEASE REMEMBER SHAVING CREAM. My legs are so rough I could scream. As is my husband's face, I say... He's shaving, dammit. This very day.
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The reason Z-Man is killing everyone is because he is also Superwoman, and after being rejected by that gigolo he snaps and starts killing everyone after years of pent up anger.
Plus the movie starts with a flashback of that scene. It would be silly not to have him kill everyone after you started the movie with a flash forward hinting at that. Sheesh. -
I don't know if it's iambic, but i know what I like.
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And, I - believe it or not - have a date.What are other Peebers' plots?
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Isn't that the movie Ebert wrote? I could look it up, and I will if I have to.
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Chauser was THE rock star of his day...
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You go, boy...Sooooo...tell us all about her, Subs...
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But I think you're right it was '39.
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Feb 14, 2010 12:21:16 PM CST
I'm having a couple bowls of Weedies for breakfast, myself...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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Obviously I meant "wrote."
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I'm browsing the Conservapedia. There's a lot of articles that read like they were written by Fox News.
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Who did cause good Cheeses to leer: "Her brains will suffice, but her tits are QUITE nice and she has a spectacular rear."
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Look up "1938 in Film." GUNGA DIN is listed as one of the films.
Damn liberal bias...
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100212/od_nm/us_pants"The pants work by using a lift and hold feature at the front, like a male version of the cleavage-boosting Wonderbra."
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All the movies that each liked the most All those were called queer Who dissed film noir, here... And those who hate Brando are toast
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Live and learn. Haiku, anyone?
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waitress babe?
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Feb 14, 2010 1:06:32 PM CST
HHAA!! 'Lop...and somebody found a way to market it!!!
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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1939 in film also lists it.
The article about the movie lists 1939.
The article about the poem lists the movie version as a 1939 movie.
If it's in error, you can fix it. That's what Wikipedia is about.
Liberal bias? About movie release years now? What? How? Why? -
Has been posting here - for awhile at least - but I finally realized she is a "she".
Yeah, I'm quick. I'm also beginning to suspect that Cobra--Kai likes the KARATE KID. -
What's up?
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I got busy doing house shit... I'm going now.
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Have you guys got the falling balls app? It's driving me insane. And it has the wilhelm scream!
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Honest mistake on my part and Wikipedias.
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don't work. What do I have to do to them to make them working links?
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World's Most Romantic Word...http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100212/od_nm/us_valentines
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I never even heard of that.
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First in a couple of years. Since the end of my last long-termer, actually. Nowadays, I like to end my relationships prior to the holiday season and start them in the spring.Dinner and a movie, or dancing, depending. Depending on whether she'll go see CRAZY HEART or insist on seeing some shit with women and men comically moaning about their misunderstandings.
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you've got the falling ball app, automatically.
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...but it's difficult to read sometimes.
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Whisper some Chauser in her ear...it works for me...
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Feb 14, 2010 1:27:21 PM CST
...( ▼ ) Day is for amateurs...I batten down the hatches...
by flickapoo
...on Valentine's.
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the one with the strategically placed hole in it, and surprize sex myself for Valentines...
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( ▼ ) Day, but I haven't known my date that long, so public option is the only option.I'd rather woo with my own cooking and just relax than dress up and sit among the coiffed and feted and worry about which wine goes best with what.
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It's fun.
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It's where you try to avoid falling balls and when you get squashed you pull a wilgelm scream
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grKaSsyvxZE
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But when I get back maybe we should rate the 90s vs the 00s, or the 60s vs the 50s.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9658o4
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...saw them in Philly...by far the best live show I've ever seen.This captures some of it...at my show the girls with the big drums threw the drums out into the audience and jumped out onto them...surfing...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_X6w__6r1k&NR=1
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"one flesh union between a man and a woman" gets an instant dismiss.I don't want fifth graders talking about penises and vaginas, either, but it's best they do in a society where every song they hear and every movie they see and every magazine they read is obsessed with selling sex.
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I'd never heard of them before.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFL2SXGdrVA
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I've seen 43 of the movies Wiki lists for that year. Of those 43, I recommend for 5-starish consideration: MONSTER'S BALL, GOSFORD PARK, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, SPIRITED AWAY, and Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN. That's a 12% ratio for the year.I also really liked, from that year, MONSTERS INC., THE OTHERS, THE DEVIL'S BACKBONE, DONNIE DARKO and FRAILTY.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uj0mtxXEGE8&feature=player_embedded
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...ILLUMINATED though, right?...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM1Ahn0Osjo
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and it's always cool.I recently saw EVERYTHING IS ILLUMINATED, but I didn't make the connection.
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I saw 33 movies.Of those, the 5-starrish ones are ED WOOD, HOOP DREAMS (though I personally think it's over-rated, I'm including it as a "consensus" picture), LION KING, THE MADNESS OF KING GEORGE, PULP FICTION (another "consensus" allowance), SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION, and VIVE L'AMOUR. That earns '94 a 21% rating.I also liked, that year, CLERKS, FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL, MRS. PARKER AND THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, SPEED, and QUIZ SHOW.
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which means I had better start trying to tie a neck-tie, which usually takes me a frustrated twenty minutes, so I will take my leave now, wishing you all a good evening.
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They grow up so fast, Flick...
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Remember to bring protection Subs. I suggest a .38. Doesn't jam as often as an automatic.
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...you lost any chance you had at dating my sister...but good work.
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Had a date, so he said "Hey I'm off!"
He spiffs up real nice
A white shirt and Old Spice
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But I cannot stop, I confess The rhyming's addictive You'd think it's restrictive But I can't seem to give this a rest.
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Feb 14, 2010 3:11:59 PM CST
Can you believe that poem was my first professional sale..?
by cheeses_of_nazareth
$2.00? I wouldn't have paid more than 50 cents tops for it...
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A PBer named Subtitles_Off Had a date, so he said "Hey I'm off!" He spiffs up real nice A white shirt and Old Spice And some Dapper Dan up in his coiff...
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She types poetry all day No one makes her stop
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nightshif is a lonely job these days, but somebody's gotta do it...
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Still the Waitress rhymes her rhymes In endless whimsy
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Feb 14, 2010 3:18:31 PM CST
Everyone is allowed their own preferred method of communication,
by cheeses_of_nazareth
The important part is to just keep communicating...
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Truly infectious music And a bit scary
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Though her wit is worth money But not in haiku
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Annoying Waitress be my valentine,
It's not cheating when you're typing online,
Wank my dick, i'll please your puss,
Forget your 'dh' he's a wuss.
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...I can't believe you wrote it (actually, that's the one thing I can believe)......I can't believe you decided you should try to sell a poem......I can't believe that once a person decides to buy a poem, they sit down to establish a price...and decide that two bucks seems fair. Two dollars. Two. Not three. Not a buck fifty. Not two hundred.Two.
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Flicka, his agent took 10% domestic and 20% overseas. Cheeses only made $1.85. And as for the taxman wanting his cut...
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...your nocturnal emissions are essential to this place.
See, it's ( ▼ )-Day...I'm romantic and stuff. -
http://tinyurl.com/yjhqnvg
Looks like he couldn't Dodge that one. -
...then the tax man takes another 25% (before deductions)...AND I get no health insurance.If I ever become seriously ill I've asked Stabby to put me down suddenly and painlessly.
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I didn't declare those two bucks as income on my taxes that year...
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Flicka, I hope you're joking about the 25% - if not you need to re-negotiate!
On the other subject - do you really want the last sight you ever see to be Stabby dressed as an Indian Chief brandishing a pillow? -
It's too damn peaceful, verily I need a kind of verse, you see, That's far less contemplative. I think perhaps, a kind of verse That rhymes, although I'm not averse To poems that don't, I can't immerse Myself so well. Too meditative. And so, to rhyming I return And with aplomb, the fires burn Within my mind, as I do churn Out poems like a mo-fo. I'll have to stop, its plain to see This constant rhyming's not easy To think I do this all for free Geez, I'm such a homo.
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Cheeses, shit! It's too late. The IRS 'search engine' has spotted the words taxes and income. They're on us.
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Waitress, that was rather good. We'll make a rapper of you yet! I'm also averse to poetry that doesnt rhyme. Just seems like cheating to me.
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Who seemed like a real stand-up guy. Get wit' me, hon, he purred With a wink and sweet words No way dude, but it WAS worth a try ☺
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Waitress, hehe it's always worth a try. I'm sure you'll give your dh a good time tonight and think of the dojo while you're at it!
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can you find cyber-flirting in iambic pentameter?
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To think I could is utter crap. So silly when white girls go wigger Talking shit like "What's UP, nigger?" Makes black girls want to beat their asses even more than nerds with glasses.
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Where nerds, geeks and film dorks abound, Running free in all their glory Films are only half the story. In fellowship, we meet here daily To spar and joust, and just make merry Matching our wits... what use is brawn? So watch your step, or you'll bet pwned.
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...sometime. Oh well. That's it, friends!
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for dropping the n word? I prolly should have done a n_____... Oops...
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the word ni99er around here, thank you very much, Missy...
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I shall keep that in mind in the future. GODDAM IT, I'm still thinking of rhymes. Once you start, it's really hard to stop.
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Feb 14, 2010 4:14:23 PM CST
Let 'em flow, don't try to bottle up a good ryme...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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i've heard of these here pedalbacks but never seen one in action.How id it determined which TB will become a pedalback?Is it the most irrelavant TB?Is it random or genetic like a vestigial tail or sixth toe?
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i've heard of these here pedalbacks but never seen one in action.How id it determined which TB will become a pedalback?Is it the most irrelavant TB?Is it random or genetic like a vestigial tail or sixth toe?
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Pedalback goes 'til it's ready to move...Then we just follow it wherever it wants to go...It mostly prefers a less traveled path to make into its own temporary host thread...Mostly...
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...deciding on the next TB to jump to usually results in blood and tears...if you visit the last one, there's usually a trail of blood, bodies, and breadcrumbs leading to the next location...Good to see you.
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Who came on here, lonely and needy What's this PB, he asked Wow. That boy has got sass. Just slow down there, champ. Don't get greedy.
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Feb 14, 2010 4:32:31 PM CST
And, Mac...Your path and the Pedalback have crossed before...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Search your feelings...You know it's true...
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...trying to touch genitals......in a romantic way.
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I'm hungry, so I'm in a hurry. Got milk of coconut Got the chilies too, but No lemongrass. Guess I should worry.
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blood tears bodies and bread crumbs. very good. When I hear "..bored on the night shift..." I can relate. gotta find some way to pass the time.
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Feb 14, 2010 4:37:42 PM CST
You're quite quick with that shit, artist-formerly-known-as Scar
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Nice...
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Just because this ol' Waitress gets lippy. I just gots attitude, son But it's all in good fun. This rhyming shit has me all trippy.
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I'm there most nights till 2 or 3am...unless I got to get up early the next morning...
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I might be a "noob" to the pedalback but not to the community as yall probably know. I'm sure I've stepped in this before. Smells familiar.
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My rhyming, I fear, knows no end. They just keep on occurring In my head. It's just whirring I just type this shit in, and hit send.
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It's not like I'm making a ruckus. It's Valentine's Day Most Peebers are away Gettin' laid, while we type here like suckas.
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...was awarded Post Of The Tread in absentia.Your award is around here somewhere...I'm sure of it...have you seen it Cheeses?
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..in the new G.I. Joe movie...FriendlyWaitressexcept Roadblock had more soul....and a cock.See FW..I can get lippy too. No offense taken or given. Intentionally anyway.
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or just a drunk like me?
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Was that naming my dick "Armstrong" and yelling "Stretch!" at it? I liked that one:)
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with a healthy dose of alcohlism mixed in. I babysit the transmitter at a local TV station and it allows for extensive movie watching and bullshitting. Also a Teamsters gig soooooooo...the hours don't bother me.
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Be showin' her ableness
With the poetry slammin'
And all the Peebers is jammin'
Let the haters be dammin'
Cuz we ain't runnin'
She's just bluffin' with her English muffin
Don't be judgin'
She jus' lovin' it
Huggin' it
Funnin' it like it's C to the Tales
It never fails
Provin' culture prevails
Her lyrical prowess is wowin' us
Breakin' it down like it's humorous
Now and I see nary a Scary
But a C-bury merry
Like a happier cherry
On top of a Friendlier dairy
Served by the Waitress
That makes us
Our completeness, in evidence
And that's a fact
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...is this what happens when she's sober?...maybe she's been Pinot-leading all day in preparation for the long, dry week ahead...
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I worked night shift for a couple of years and really enjoyed it...My drinking beer on the lawn at 7 am when the school buses came to pick up the kids wasn't a big hit with the neighbors, though..
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...that sounds great. I love the muffled soundproofing and soft digital whirring sound of TV and radio studios...
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I have found that left to my own devices, unbound from the chains of a clock or having anyplace to be...I will stay up to 4 am and sleep until noon or 1 pm...Just my very own circadic rythm...
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http://www.frierworks.com/mammals/thumbs/Moose%20Mating.jpg
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...in the a.m.In school I worked at a restaurant...I'd get home and go for a run at 2 a.m (perfect, no cars)...then unwind in the pool for a while...finally falling asleep between 3 and 4.
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ever since I was a kid in 2nd grade drawing a book about dinosaurs that eventually won me an Elementary School Achievement Award and got my picture in the local paper..
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fame, fortune and the best grades a kid could study for...I was born a geek...
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...I'm creative late at night and first thing in the morning...problem is that at night I'm not productive. I do well right after waking up...before the anxieties of the day have had a chance to fuck up the nice, clean blanket of mental snow.Sometimes I can skip breakfast, dink a bunch of coffee, and get in this buzzing dream state...it's great.
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...but I didn't do much work either. It was all about cleverness...and blinding them with art, literature, and history...anything with drawing or a story.
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Feb 14, 2010 5:35:28 PM CST
ME too, Flick...only I get up and smoke a bowl...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
and get that same great buzzing dream state...costs a little more, but worth it in my opinion...
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X-Box Live helps.I play with young Asian boys at night.....wait..I mean...awe fuck it.
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...earthquakes, volcanoes, etc...
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...way too fast for me.
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Feb 14, 2010 5:38:39 PM CST
I was the smartest kid in my class until I hit puberty...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
That messed me up pretty good...so, distracting...Course being the smartest person in my 56 member class isn't saying a lot...
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And English, too...I loved to diagram sentences...But for a Science nerd, I hated math...but loved statistics...Go figure...
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I just started drawing more cause I'm up late and it is quiet. It had been years since I sat down with a pencil. Need that inspiration though. Thats where Cheese and his bowl come in.
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...when I was eight....oh, to be a young Asian boy...
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I'm a comic book artist, with sadly, only one sale...No time for it and the market is dying, in my opinion...If this were still the days of Byrne and Lee paychecks, I might re-consider a run...
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Way better than what my dh gave me for V-day. He was all like, "Oh, today is Valentine's Day? Oh. Huh. By the way, you need to do a better job cleaning the house this weekend."
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Am I married to you?
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I've been leaning towards doing a graphic novel, myself... figures the industry would up and fail, when I finally get a good idea.
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recently I did a portrait of my niece and I have also been fucking around with MS paint just doing minimalist logos and stuff cause I find the tool clumsy so I keep it simple.Pencil drawings of movie posters for script ideas I have in my head. Just fucking around mostly. I get caught up in the details get frustrated and quit. Its a tough way to make a living that is for sure.
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Feb 14, 2010 5:59:11 PM CST
How can comics compete with video games, Scary...?
by cheeses_of_nazareth
They almost died in the early eighties before comics shops saved them from extinction...that generation is tha last that cares about the comic book versions of spiderman/Superman/Batman etc...Go into any comics shop and you will see mostly middle aged geeks talking shop and maybe a few trainer geeks in their 20's, but almost no kids go to comics shops for the comics...
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I do... Flick does... who else?
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around here are still open. I only stopped collecting cause it was eating into my beer money and you couldn't get a full plot line without buying ten issues of some crossover bullshit to generate sales in some new title. Sorry I don't wanna buy Darkhawk 27 to find out what happened in the new Spidey book.With the Kindel and shit we can't be to far away from Josh Baskins "choose your own adventure" comics from Big though right?
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but I started down the Art path. Not much of a curriculum at the State school and Community College. It is a BA and the "A" is for art. *claps like a retard*
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Feb 14, 2010 6:13:43 PM CST
Exactly what killed my enthusiasm for comics, Mac...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
I love Green Lantern, always has been my favorite DC hero...but even though I know the Darkest Night saga has got to pretty good, based on how much I loved The Sinestro Wars...I just can't buy that many comics...3-4 dollars for 20 minutes of reading enjoyment that is only 50% effective is just not cost effective for me..
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Seared Alaskan cod, with Red Curry sauce. Dessert is seared bananas. Served with a STUNNING single-vineyard Spatlese Riesling from the Mosel. This is, of course, why I never get to eat in restaurants anymore... my dh eats too well at home. I really fucked myself there.
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...won't buy you a box of 2B pencils...I've been pretty lucky, considering...
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with a Masters in Cunningliguistics from FU...
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Feb 14, 2010 6:17:48 PM CST
Remember to get that house picked up before dinner, Scary...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
You don't want him to have to tell you twice, do you? Then what eye are you gonna see out of?
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Now where the FUCK are my FUCKING CHOCOLATES, MOTHERFUCKER??!?!?!
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None of my friends who were graduating with degrees in the early 80's could get a job and I had the opportunity to go into retail management...Ran my first store, a B. Dalton's Bookstore at 19 years of age...made bank for a 19 year old back then...
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...35,000 a year now (ten when I started)...can you believe that shit?That's immoral. It's not like you're going to be a doctor or a lawyer when you get done...it's a fucking ART degree for fuck's sake.They asked me to submit an application for a teaching position once. Thank Enya I didn't get the job...I'd have a hard time lying to the poor kids with a straight face...
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I just had to be real with myself. I know there are just tons of kids out there desperate to get into the idustry and they aren't hiring "good" artists.I love drawing and I do it for me. If you can make a living at it, well that is awesome. Your living the dream.Do you resent the deadlines Flick?
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Just because I keep seeing that animated ad up top... they're just computer prints, they aren't as lightfast as other forms of printing. No matter what ANYONE tries to tell you. My degree is in art, with a minor in printmaking. Just so you know.
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Under the "deadline" gun...I too draw for enjoyment and would hate to turn something I love into a job...
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...I was seriously contemplating fleeing the country or faking my own death. I even looked at a book about exploiting loopholes in the system to create a completely real second identity with social security number and everything.I once got weepy at a Shakira song... I was a broken man.
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I'm pretty sure you're serious about all that...
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I created a really shitty clip art poster for the Universal Wolfman contest they posted here.Minimal effort with a jab at Harry and the prize.A disposable cup? Really?!MAybe you s guys will get to see it if they ever post it up. It was shit but I thought it would get a laugh. i'm all about the funny...failed or successful.
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Not spending the day with my girl so it is all metal in the control room.
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Feb 14, 2010 6:50:22 PM CST
I'm sifting thru the cable lame music channels...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
70's, 80's and classic rock...I know Subs will chastise me in the morning...Listening to Andy Gibbs' Shadow Dancing at this very moment...
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Feb 14, 2010 6:51:18 PM CST
...I want to see that. If they don't pick it you'll have to...
by flickapoo
...tinypic it for us.I kicked ass in school, but my first years as a "professional" I sucked every way you can suck...couldn't handle the pressure. I felt like I couldn't take risks, because failure isn't an option when rent depends on it...
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..don't waste your time always searching for those wasted years!""Realize your living in the golden years."
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has the ability to archive photos? Hmmm...I have a scanner...We could all wallpaper that place with our drawings....
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♪♫ Remove all the wheel blocks ♪♫
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is absent remind me and I'll throw it up. If AICN is trying to cultivate any kind of legit relationship with Universal I don't see how they would use it.It wasn't totally vulgar like Harry getting rogered by the wolfman or anything but I would have a lot of respect for them if they said "fuck it" and put it out there.I lost respect for Universal when I went to the park in Florida and didn't realize that the Movie park and the Marvel park were seperate. I used my ticket at the Studio park and when I went over to the Marvel side they said, "You made your choice." No shit. That is what I was told. I was PISSED.
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...ha! Like it's fucking Pearly Gates...For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it. But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to the Marvel Park, and only a few find it.-Matthew 7:13-14
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I saw Maiden in Canada 2 years ago and (they like Canada more than the States)it was awesome. My first time seeing them and I can't imagine it was much better in the 80's. Dickenson hasn't lost a step or a note.
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And the streets of Universal are paved with gold...
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My only hope is that the look of total disappointment on a young boys face was crushing to the cooz working the glorified velvet rope between the 2 parks.I'm not that bitter. 12 years later, not still steaming from that one much.
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...when I was in high school, painting denim jacket back-patches seemed like a perfectly viable career...
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Normally I would never go there but my girlfriend got a giftcard that she gave to me. I won't pay for diarrhea but if its free...thats another story.
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The road to Universal is paved with good intentions...I mean if you want it to make sense..
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Feb 14, 2010 7:21:18 PM CST
Are you guys talking about Sam Rothstein's Las vegas talkshow?
by takingscorpioscalls
The one where he has a pass, you have a pass, his pass is as good as yours, but you have the RIGHT to point fingers!
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..make sense, that is...
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Feb 14, 2010 7:24:11 PM CST
That's exactly what we're talking about, Scorps...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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even among equal passers...?
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No joke
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..all affected counties shoul take immediate precautionary measures...
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"At least admit I was at the dinner."
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That was splendiforous there cheeses. Were you in the Cuntlaw fraternity and also have a battling feud with the square Bluebalpha house?
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12th since noon or over the last couple of hours. Just wondering if we are looking at a yellow or amber alert.
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He was late again? He was supposed to go on behind the shoul...How many times has he been late this week?Put d on notice...
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I was Pre-Cuntlaw with a minor in female anatomy/gynocology...I was very ambitious back then...
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have dinner with Johnny Olo and Frank Pantangi.
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on several hundred labias...if that's what you're asking?
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[rubbing hands together] Join us, brother. Bring your ideals. This calls for a fucking Limerick, guys.
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Competetive drinking is all about endurance...12 beers since 3 pm CST...Ahead of the 2 per hour curve that so satisfies me...Hence the 12th beer warning...I try to be curteous and warn others ahead of time...
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i don't know. :( but i wanted to try film major but i've been told it's been tough to get a job in the industry (but how tough?) i'll just do art something with drawing since that's the thing i've been doing since ever...
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your my fucking hero
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Just the only way I know how to keep from losing half of all my hard earned possessions every seven years in a divorce...
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He comes with his sketchbook and raised fist. To him, ain't no mystery He's learning art history He's an art student, folks, not a realist.
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...business stuff. And I just learned that white_vader is a storyboard/character design artist...
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collects so many people who thought they would some day make a living drawing shit...
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...it's like calculus.If a man looses half of his possessions every seven years, how many years until he has zero possessions?
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just don't expect to be the President of All Movies for the Rest of Time right out of school. Seems like most kids (not you necessarily)think a degree means all the work is over. News flash junior you still gotta earn it. As long as you have a good attitude and work ethic you'll do fins Scorps.
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i'll be happy with a key grip or the guy who brings coffee just so i can ogle the hot celebs from afar....
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Very Shakespearean there!
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If I get financially halfed again, I'll be typing at you guys from inside a cardboard refridgerater box under the bridge...
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and looses half of his posessions each time then how many beers will he have consumed by 8:09p on a Sunday? The answer.......
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they got wifi under that bridge now? At least you'll still have your computer.
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...fuck up the worst that can happen is a bad grade...I miss the rhythm of classes and semesters...the freedom and variety of projects...I even miss critique day. At this point, if someone likes my work...they hire me...and if they don't like my work...they don't. You never get to tack your stuff up on the wall along with everyone else and take the gloves off anymore...
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Yeah, I averaged 7 years between the two marriages which lends credence to the old 7 year itch phenomenon...I think all marriages should be a seven year contract with an option to renew...
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just don't be to proud out there in that bitch Hollywood. My dumb fuck cousin got an internship with The Real World and was eventually offered a job with them. Because he wanted to be a "writer" he turned it down and ended up slinging coffee to the Ed Hardy set until he ran out of dough and crawled back East with his tail between his legs.Grip and Craft service work is a tough gig but people can loose their way. Connections baby. Thats where its at. I did some production work right out of school and was essentially black listed when an A.D. asked me where his coffee was. I said "The camera dept came over and took all the coffees that were here." Next thing I know I got this little bitch telling me that the camera dept didn't take all the coffee(while she is holding one). I didn't get much work after that.It's all politics. Movie making essentially has everything to do with everything but movies.
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Feb 14, 2010 8:21:05 PM CST
...and for the record, even if you halved your possessions...
by flickapoo
...every day, you'd never have zero possessions. But your amount of possessions would quickly become so small as to be completely theoretical...visible only under an electron microscope...
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If a kid can't feed and protect itself by 6 years old...What hope does it really have in a dog eat dog world?
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...don't try to stop me.Good to see you Mac.
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If she wakes up, you're just "getting some water"or "have to pee"...Have fun...
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...streets? Shudder.
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even when I'm home I put the girl to bed and then I'm up the rest of the night free to defile myself however I see fit.
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that does sound wank. was it a big production or a b-movie thing?
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Feb 14, 2010 8:36:31 PM CST
Flick...Now you understand the current Matrix dilema...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
The current fad is to absorb human evil and channel it as a weapon toward other countries...
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Feb 14, 2010 8:39:21 PM CST
Why did Coppola dip Godfather II negatives in maple syrup?
by takingscorpioscalls
To make it more waffly delicious.
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I did a "D" movie feature right out of school and some short film and commercial work for awhile locally. Since it was local production stuff work was limited and the community is small and elitist. It is just the nature of the beast. Point being you gotta watch your ass at all times. You gotta keep your head on a swivel when your in the vicious cock fight that is film and video production.
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Shakespearean is far more tough to do
A different rhythm, from a Lim'rick, now
And altogether harder, through and through.
A Limerick is much simpler. A breeze!
And funny too... quite often, 'tis expected
to make a raunchy comment, while with ease
to skewer foe- or friend- yet stay collected.
Silly artist, thou must learn thy verse
If thou wouldst woo the nerdy girls in glasses
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Sweet...Wooing them? Piece of cake...Training them, another story...
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Whose chauvinism is quite wondrous. He trains all his women To do all his biddin' With all the romance of a fungus.
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Make every day V-day... just like it is in MY house. PEACE OUT.
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http://tinyurl.com/ykfycyj
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udGupkz DPxrfU
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TmvEqK, you talk a lot of sense.
I do agree with your first point, but on the second I would argue that FGyrvu might actually be a better summation in this particular case.
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am i the only one dumb enuf to go to work
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Feb 15, 2010 8:08:18 AM CST
Nah, Sixies. I'm going as soon as I finish my coffee.
by friendlywaitress
Got a busy morning, but might get home early today... Morning, gents!
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Feb 15, 2010 8:55:43 AM CST
...well, I can't walk or sit comfortably after last night...
by flickapoo
...no, wait...I mean SHE can't...
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try a little something diff last night, eh?
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and i want one for JERSEY GIRL...
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...by all rights it should have been two and half hours of Snooki at a 7-11.
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but id watch that...
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February 13th - 14th, 2010...Saturday morning, with AICN's sign-in crisis resolved, we begin with The News of The Day...(drunken) Beatles of The Day: a slurred, sloppy cover of "The House of The Rising Sun" (http://tinyurl.com/y8dsloq)...☆☆RIGHT-BRAIN CINEMA☆☆™: THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC - a stylized, silent classic, decidedly not for fans of modern flash. ★★★★☆...Scorps thinks '86 was a slack year for movies, and though I say "nay," he's sticking to that theory...Flick thinks STAND BY ME is the best film adaptation of Stephen King, but then he remembers THE SHINING and, considering it, determines Kubrick changed the material enough to make it his own, so, technically, STAND BY ME remains the best adaptation, strictly speaking...'Lop (and everyone else, more than likely) thinks THE GODFATHER was the film of '72, but he also gives props to FAT CITY...He also suggests the five-year period 1972 - 1976 is the best for film, comparing it favorably to 1938 - 1942. However, applying a precise, scientific method of comparison based on inarguable principles of statistics and my own opinion, I find both eras are credited with the same number of 5-star quality movies...Flick doesn't like porno with ugly dudes in it. That's right, Flick watches porno and ranks the dudes. Go ahead, say something...1988 brought us good movies and 'moose...EffDub's favorite from 1974 is BLAZING SADDLES...Sixies thinks the best decade in film is The 70s, without question...Sunday morning, thinking of 1981, Cheeses gets nostalgic, talking about movies, old girlfriends, forgetting pin numbers for ATMs, and his youthful libido...Scorps thinks the ending to BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS is whack...While Teddy drinks, Cheeses shares a poem he wrote to earn $2 and talks about seducing women by reciting 14th century English verse. From memory, he quotes Chaucer...Inspired, EffDub decides to post in rhyme, as if she does it all the time. Couplets, limmericks - it's so easy. See if you can top this, Cheesey. Baudy, tawdry, even curses, might' impressive are the verses. Haiku like voodoo. Gonna hypnotize you. Do what you want to. No one's gonna stop you...I have a really hard time coming up with a 5-star quality film from 1938...Breakfast without English muffins...GUNGA DIN's from 1939 (stupid Wikipedia!)...A $30 alternative to stuffing a sock in your pants (http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100212/od_nm/us_pants)...Flick introduces us to Gogol Bordello and gypsy-rock...Fail of The Week (http://tinyurl.com/y9658o4)...2001 vs. 1994: First round goes to '94...Douchebag in a car crash (http://tinyurl.com/yjhqnvg)...Cobra--Kai tries his hand at the poetry thing...MacReady452 joins The Pedalback...Moose lovin' (http://www.frierworks.com/mammals/thumbs/Moose%20Mating.jpg)...Art School Gradsback. Creative juices flow early in the morning or late at night. Deadlines are the bane of the artist. Missing thumbtacking one's work on a wall so jealous punters can flick poo at it. The politics of a profession...Scorps has THE GODFATHER on his mind...
Don't forget to join The Pedalback Google Group, an archive for the best of our weird ramblings and a place we can reconnect if we're ever Banhammered or forget our keys at AICN. You can request membership @ http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena. You will have to be registered at Google for membership, but you can register anonymously. Be sure, however, to use your AICN handle as a nickname when registering, so we'll know who you are when you knock on the door. Once inside, look for the "Read Me First" thread which will shrink you to the proper size so you don't embarrass yourself at the Tea Party...
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But at least I have English muffins this morning!
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They all DIE. The Griswolds DIE. They are killed.
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Aged 57.
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...the ( ▼ )-Day one.She won't mind an online play by play...right?
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Back to work after 5 days. Has anybody seen Wolfman yet? Anyone else see Bronson and find it less than stellar. The new Clockwork Orange it's not! Sadly Couples Retreat was more enjoyable. Subs, did you get the job or get laid? No really sure why you got dressed up in a suit. If it was for a chick than I hope the latter.
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At the top of my Netflix list this week. Conti, this one's for you. Ebert's raving review touting gratuitous nudity sold me.
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while working as Clerks at a Quickie Mart.
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...both received two or two and a half stars...by Subs and Sixies respectively.BANG. BANG.
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...so I just made my kid a sandwich from the evil hydrogenated stuff I save for mousetraps.Great Dad, or greatest Dad?
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Worst idea since the Jonathan Winters' Mearth spinoff from Mork and Mindy.
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Have I missed much, other than Cheeses hitting on EffDub while she types poems?
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...is the least of it. We all slept with each other while you were away...that's why it's so slow this morning...It's awkward.Everyone's avoiding eye contact.
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You missed the launch of our new Google Group. As co-founder, you have to join.
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How are we?
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Enlighten me on the Google Group. Are we posting here and there simultaneously?
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while I was away. Not that I know what that is.
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People could not sign in on AICN, so, in a bit of a panic, 'moose created a Google Group where we could join up instead. Now that the problem's been resolved here, we're all back, but we're keeping the Google shelter as a place to archive stuff and hook up if we have topics we don't want to discuss here.You have to be registered on Google, but you can do that anonymously if you want. Use your handle from here in the message requesting to join, so we know it's you. Then, "READ ME FIRST" should tell you what you need to know to get started.I've started a "History of" thread in the Archive section, where I'm going to be linking things like first posts, first Batmanster, first live-blog - stuff like that.
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Yeah I'm familiar with Google Groups from work. Some companies use it for beta testing their products.
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You gave Toddlerapoo the ASH-GRAY peanut butter? I'm calling Children's Protectives. They're sending over a heavy-set, angry agent to check it out.All I'm sayin', the jelly had better be PRIMO.
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Feb 15, 2010 10:49:06 AM CST
...I expect The Best Of Poo Flicking to be the surprise...
by flickapoo
...sleeper hit column. You gotta flick a lot at the wall to see what sticks, but the Best Of anthology is going to be impressive...
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yeah i saw BRONSON on saturday...i pulled my review yest morn and yeah i was a tad underwhelmed...i mean it was a good showcase but boring..and yeah couples retreat is by the numbers but pretty to look at...im calling it what it was--a paid excuse to go with your friends on vacation..
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Jersey Shore meets The Hangover. Except it's gotta be one of those combination Bachelor-Bachelorette parties and it takes place in Atlantic City.
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...I've always had a knack for charming older bureaucratic females...you should have seen me at the financial aid office back in school...smoooth like butta...
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"Mustang Sally's Horror House" starring the voice of Rugrats' Tommy Pickels, E.G. Daily. Holy shit was that amateur hour. Its the kind of great-terrible movie that's best watched and ridiculed with a group of friends and copious amounts of alcohol. Kinda like "Grizzly Rage" or "Grizzly Park". Just bad, bad, bad.
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Stupid date.
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Bronson was just one note for me. Favs and Vaughn were funny as always when they get together and made Retreat worthwhile. Fat black dude was funny too. Worth renting with a date or DW. Better than any Kate Hudson crap you may be forced to watch.
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Feb 15, 2010 11:03:28 AM CST
Things that are better than being forced to watch Kate Hudson
by subtitles_off
(ALMOST FAMOUS excluded) Rectal exams. Herpes. Famine. Burning the roof of your mouth on pizza.
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On Chiller. I didn't get to watch all of it (it was in the middle when I changed the channel to it), and I was doing some work while it was on, so I just hit the DVR and finished watching it this morning while I ate breakfast. Yeeeessssh. Incompetent filmmaking all around.
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like he did to Jessica Alba.
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Feb 15, 2010 11:07:37 AM CST
...speaking of date movies, we saw the first two hours of...
by flickapoo
...of that SPARTACUS show this weekend. A live action comic book...hysterical, unconcealed homo eroticism...blatant exploitation of nekkid ladies...full frontal female and male nudity, orgies, female on female action, over the top comic book gore and violence...lots of oiled bodies...Don't watch it sober. Don't watch it alone. Don't watch it with another guy.I'm looking forward to the next installment.
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Is it OK to watch it with him then?
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Feb 15, 2010 11:09:53 AM CST
...hey, I just learned that "homoeroticism" is one word...
by flickapoo
...sorry about that.
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I hope it's not another CAPE FEAR.
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...just in case.
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Or "xenophobe."
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Well, at least DeNiro's Max Cady rocked!
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But, it's a sad day when Juliette Lewis out-acts Jessica Lange, Nick Nolte and Joe Don Baker put together.
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...is the single most violent thing I've ever seen on-screen.
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Watched a bit of it last weekend, not this past weekend.
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wherever you are."
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but then I never thought she was that great. She was embarrassingly bad albeit totally hot in King Kong.
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He is as small as I. He cannot above me, nor I beneath Him be."
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...related news around here.
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The only evidence I need: King Kong.
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Who wins?
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Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" trilogy is a pillar of the science-fiction community, and director Roland Emmerich is planning to model his three-picture adaptation of the tome after the biggest movie in the history of cinema.
MTV News has exclusively learned from Emmerich himself that "Foundation" will be a 3-D epic using technology similar to the CG motion-capture techniques used in "Avatar." -
FUCK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I thought everybody knew that already.
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John Francis Daley is in it!!!! WHat's the scoop on that?!?
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"The 'Avatar' technology applies to 'Foundation,' " Emmerich said. "It has to be done all CG because I would not know how to shoot this thing in real."
When asked if that meant 'Foundation' would be in 3-D and mo-cap, Emmerich replied, "Yes."
Probed even further, Emmerich said he's looking forward to a new challenge at this point in his career. "Probably now all big movies have to be 3-D," he said. "It's not only the effect of 3-D, ['Avatar' has] just shown that if you do a movie in 3-D, you can ask for more money and that's the trick. I think now everybody who does bigger movies has to shoot them in 3-D. I think there's no way around it. I was on the set of 'Avatar' and I saw how it worked and I really thought, 'That's the ultimate way of making movies.' " -
We'll have more to come soon on Emmerich's insights into his "Foundation" adaptation, including the adjustments necessary to shape Asimov's tales into a manageable big screen storyline and his wariness about "the wrath of hardcore Asimov fans."
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It's rare when I can't get jazzed for more than one of those, but d'ADELE BLANC-SEC is the only thing doing it for me.I did get a kick out of "dead 'batman' on the highway," though from JAPANESE MEN SHOUTING.
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Feb 15, 2010 11:56:33 AM CST
...Subs, Emmerich is all the things you accuse [deleted]...
by flickapoo
...and Cameron of being...you've had the wrong target all this time.(I know what your answer will be)
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Go to the following tinyurl link and scroll down to the Comments and check out Alberto: http://tinyurl.com/y8cyhyh
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Twins, separated at birth.
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Holy shit, what an asshole.
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It's a fact, and it's what is driving the 3D fad. You really want to argue that 3D is artistically necessary?
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...most reliably interesting and professional things around here...besides the Subbary®
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Cameron wanted to tell his story in 3-D, wanted to create a real roller-coaster ride, wanted to improve the 3-D experience, and then he actually went and developed a better way of doing it. Emmerich looks at it from a parasite's point of view instead of a creator's. He looks at it and says "Holy shit! 3-D can make me a shit-ton of money! All I have to do is tell the studio 'I'm going to do it in 3-D' and they'll pay me more money AND give me a bigger budget so that I can spend that money on something else, but TELL them its for the 3-D!" That's how he comes across. Parasitic.
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Because part of the potential audience has demonstrated a willingness to pay the cost. Period. The experience isn't twice as worthy.And, the argument that you have to pay for the technology is specious as well. When Lucas and Spielberg started getting out-sized budgets, they didn't use it as an excuse to milk the customer for more. A ticket to CLOSE ENCOUNTERS cost the same as a ticket to SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER.
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...and I'm a cheap bastard. But that was for AVATAR. I haven't seen an Emmerich flick since GODZILLA. He won't get any of my money, so I don't give a fuck what he does.
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the good peanut butter with the six extra bucks you wasted, Flick.
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...pace I'm good for it.
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...I hear really good word of mouth.As you know, I thought [deleted] was a great ride...but it spoiled me...I don't want to see anything less-than. Only equal-to or more-than for me.
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Cusack and woody and chewie and platt and Amanda peet made it watchable....definitely peet....
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You'll be in the line to see Piranha 3D with the rest of us. For 3D Spring Break boobies If nothing else.
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...you've seen blank in 3D...
...you've also seen blank in 3D...
...you've even seen blank in 3D...
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Why is Posh Spice even at the Oscars? The Spice World Movie? Really?!
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Is to pay for the 3D projectors. Theatres have to remodel to make themselves 3D compatible.
HOWEVER, the process of shooting a movie DOES NOT cost that much more. It only requires you to use 2 cameras - unless you plan to use some sort of rotoscope like technology to convert 2D to 3D - and then a small addition to the budget to combine those two camera angles into 3D.
Artistically, I am actually going to differ with Subs about the artistic necessity of 3D. So far no movie has made 3D necessary for the films story, but 3D adds a complete to level to the composition of the shot - depth. Now you will no longer just have to worry about the X & Y position of an image in a frame but the Z position as well. That will undoubtedly change how people react and look at an image, and therefore will require a new aesthetic to looking, shooting and editing 3D films. By its very nature, good 3D is a change in the artistic nature and experience of a film, as much as the size of a lens (wide vs. Long) or the use of stereo sound vs. 5.1 Dolby surround.
In fact I compare the addition of 3D to what Star Wars did technologically to film when it introduced Dolby Surround to mass audiences (Logan's Run was the first surround movie however). The idea of panning audio and directing certain sounds to certain speakers was groundbreaking and obviously changed the way films are experienced, but not necessarily for the worst or better. -
I mean cost for the tickets.
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Feb 15, 2010 1:08:14 PM CST
...I think it's interesting that good 3D seems to encourage...
by flickapoo
...old fashioned composition of shots...strong foreground, middle ground, background, etc...Makes me think of the way early photography was in many ways more traditional than a lot of the painting going on at the time...
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The way I see it, is that 3D was just a marketing decision they made out of necessity to keep in business and compete with Big Screen TVs and home entertainment systems. I don't feel I should have to pay an additional fee to keep Hollywood and the movie theater industry afloat.
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...the more subtle depth based 3D in AVATAR and the more gimmicky jump out of the screen type we've mostly seen so far? Technically I mean...is the process different?And what about 3D retrofitting? Can that be as good as what we saw in AVATAR?...does it have to be shot that way in the first place?...
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With the added depth of focus you can't shoot it like they do with most modern movie - long lenses and just blur out the background. Plus the way the 3D works you need time for your eyes to acclimate to the picture, so that means you can't cut quick or use a lot of jerky hand held.
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...will settle in right away...I mean in a future where a lot of your TV and movies, and all of your video games are 3D.I'm predicting that 3D TVs + 3D games are going to be the real game changer.
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I actually just got done editing a bunch of test footage and fake trailers for a new company that has this new 3D conversion process. I have to admit I was pretty impressed, especially with what they did to a scene from an action movie like SPIDER-MAN 3 (almost made the movie watchable) and even a drama like THE FALL.
With this conversion process you can convert something to 3D and even adjust how far apart the "eyes/camera" would be if you shot it on set. It actually looks pretty damn good but the cost is rather high - about $45,000-100,000 a minute depending on where you go to get converted. So really it is only for changing old movies into 3D or changing movies that weren't shot 3D recently and trying to cash in on the current craze (I think CLASS OF THE TITANS is doing that).
As for the process, I don't think Cameron's 3D is that much different from other shot 3D. I haven't seen AVATAR yet but I don't think the big difference is as much technology as skill and attention to detail (and FX). I mean, in the 70s both b-movies and great films were shot on 16 mm, it was just the skill of the director and cinematographer which separated the picture (and camera stock, obviously). -
...when I went to see AVATAR I was impressed that in all the 3D trailers, it looked as though there were maybe three layers of depth...the screen, one out in front, and one right in your face. Frankly, I got a little worried that I wouldn't be able to sit through the movie.But once the movie started, for a minute or two I didn't even think it was in 3D...but once it opened up it looked more like a dozen layers at least...and all but two or three of them inside the screen...not coming out at you..like one of those diorama boxes at the Museum Of Natural History.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/christina-hendricks-new-y_n_462716.html
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I'll ask her how they did AVATAR and if it is the same method that they do all the other films.
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Conti, your general level of expertise on all subjects never fails to impress me. I'm not suprised you're a big Bond fan... like 007 you always seem to be able to rattle off the knowledge!
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Feb 15, 2010 1:33:04 PM CST
I'd like to see Warhol's Empire State Building converted to 3D
by stabby
That or Sleep. Either one.
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...unless the mailman steals it.
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Because Stuntcock Mike also posted the same cover story.
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But I just talk a good game. I don't really know how to do anything.
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As for the 'game changer' tech sitting in your living room - the TV...
I've currently got a 1080p set but it's only 37inch. It seemed big enough when I first bought it but now im thinking I needs bigger (this is partly due to the fact that my brothers have all recently invested in big screens, and now im the bro with the smallest set!). However I dont want to buy a spanking new set only to have it obsolete before the year's out. What should I do?
Pedalback please help me.
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...what Stuntcock's Queens For A Day are up to...we probably both saw it on Huffington Post.
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it seems that this latest flux of films being in "3D" is to raise ticket prices...they can convert a scene or two..like in HP6..and still charge a little more money..ill stick with the 2D and yeah this new fad is comparable to WIDESCREEN back in the 50s...to compete with tvs..
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...unless you want to drop thousands to impress your bros on an early prototype with all the kinks and bugs still safely inside and not worked out yet.My 37 incher gets the job done...it's how you wiggle it that counts.
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I haven't changed for a couple of years and it works great for me. Of course, I prefer to go to the theaters to watch movies and no matter what, DVD and cable quality isn't going to be that visibly diminished by most TVs, no matter what quality you have.
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That's a big girl. I don't know if I could handle that much woman. Maybe back in the day. Glad to see voluptuous women are still considered hot. I thought Anna Nicole may have put the final nail in that.
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...I'll never waste money of a silly blockbuster again. Films yes...summer popcorn flicks?...replaced.
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Yeah that was a funny gag with the 3-D boobies and all, but man that film looked terrible. So far the cast is really what's selling it for me, and those behind-the-scenes pics of the practical, chewed-up, bodies strewn about the lakeshore. The bad CGI fishes and bad 3-D aren't helping, though.
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If you are sitting far away from it. I think a 37" screen is perfect for most people. I have a long living room and I like to watch movies or something only when i have guest over, so a "47" is perfect for that. But if you are just watching it with yourself and a friend or girlfriend, then a 37" should be perfect.
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...the 3D was so bad I was worried about sitting through all of AAAVIDAH.
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...you'd have to rest up before and after...maybe carb-load a little, but you'd get it done.
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I love my 42" Plasma. Got a great deal on it and 50" was almost twice the price. But, I think that 50" is big enough.
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Yeah I'm working on creating a Google account right now.
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Stabby, 50" is what i'm thinking actually. My younger brother has one and I go over there for gaming nights sometimes. Playing Gears Of War and Call Of Duty on that bad boy is something special.
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but at the time it didn't seem worth double the price to me. But, I don't see the point of anything bigger unless you have a theater in your house like Harry, in which case I'd get an HD projector.
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Go to the right side and click "Edit my membership" and change your nickname to Stabby.
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Good to see you all. How goes everyone?
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...posts have really obvious type-Os in them...I've been double checking more rigorously recently, but they keep slipping through...
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The future Mrs. Col and I fell in love with it. But we're trying for a fall wedding, and the earliest time they allow ceremonies is 6 p.m., so we wouldn't have enough time/light to take advantage of the gorgeous scenery for our photos. Blah. Looking at another joint next week.
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http://tinyurl.com/y9v4o6q Concerning the earlier conversation, I am a fan of his CAPE FEAR. The face bite remains shocking to this day. In fact, 1991 was a big year for face-biting in Oscar films. See also: SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, THE.
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Max Cady might be the villain everyone is talking about all the time, and DeNiro might have another Oscar on his mantle.
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id say one of the ten (THATS RIGHT!!! TEN) good juliette lewis performances
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Cady is memorable in his own right, and has indeed carved his own small niche in the pop culture consciousness. However, I think Hopkins' Lecter would have had an edge on him even if his movie was released later. Lecter, for all his horror, is still a bit of a romantic character. He's almost like Dracula in this sense. Cady, on the other hand, is far too brutal to attract the female fanbase that Lecter has.
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is a deliciously over the top Daniel Day Lewis performance before their was a DDL.
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...killing is right up there with leather-bound books, period engravings, and wine and food pairing...Biting mouthfuls of flesh out of girls' cheeks lacks the same joie de vivre.
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Is to pay for the 3D projectors. Theatres have to remodel to make themselves 3D compatible."Yeah, OK. I know that's what they're saying.But when they put in cushy seats, they didn't charge me to sit in them.'Lop, I'm not going to argue with your cogent defense, except to repeat, I'm with Ebert when I think it's unnecessary. Thoughts about "Z" dimension when framing composition? Bah! Lean was thinking about that decades ago. Welles, Hitchcock, etc. You see a flat surface and flat imagery flickering across it. Your eye and your brain interact to fill in the rest.
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TAXI DRIVER needs 3D-ification.
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DeNiro's "Max." On the other hand Deniro's "Max" has it all over Robert Mitchum's "Rev. Powell" from NIGHT OF THE HUNTER.
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...funny to include a Nancy Meyers style Copper-Bottom-Pot-Porn long shot of a country kitchen...long, slow shot of olive oil glistening in the sun...two foot thick antique chopping block...herb garden in the window...a human ear near the mortar and pestle...
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i was absolutely certain that deniro could play WOLVERINE..he was fucking ripped in that film..
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...I'm no expert on the sequels.
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at the time marty was dating illeana douglas who was the actress who gets gnawed on by max...HOW the fuck do you sleep together after that??maybe thats how he gets his kicks..
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...not that there's anything wrong with that.
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A lot like Friedkin-Burstyn on THE EXORCIST. He kept having the wire guys jerk her back really hard in the scene where the possessed Regan belts her one across the mouth. It fucked up her back.
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tolland and welles didnt need shit when they did KANE..some things dont need it..lawrence of arabia dont need it, woody allen dont need it, topo gigio dont need it.
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romanticization of the Lecter character already encouraged by author Thomas Harris' novel "Hannibal." Ridley kinda toned it down in comparison to the book, actually.
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thats a friendship...
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How long before it bursts into another Pedo-back?
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which is why i liked silence and manhunter (and even red dragon) better than hannibal..though i did like julianne moore, though she was no foster.
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i'll pass..i mean really what was the point???
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oh well.
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Feb 15, 2010 3:12:52 PM CST
...that big New Yorker article on Polanski was interesting...
by flickapoo
...more for all the Hollywood gossip and trivia than for the ass-rape.I hadn't heard all the facts in a non sensational way before...
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on the pointlessness of Riddick Talkbacks. What will she think of our falling to second place behind a Talkback thread devoted to a blackout at a screening for [deleted]?It would be kind of awesome if the dudes who run TWITCH and the yahoos who run ROTTEN TOMATOES got together and bought this place.
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Not much meat to the story, but Polanski is always red meat.
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Feb 15, 2010 3:15:16 PM CST
VALENTINE'S DAY would've made $100 million this weekend,
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if only it had been in 3D!
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...this I have to see.
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When he shot REBECCA or NOTORIOUS? No, he was thinking tone and contrast in B&W, not in color. You have to wait until REAR WINDOW or VERTIGO to see Hitch work in color, and when you do you see he shot his color movies differently from how he shot his b&w.
Having your mind fill in the blanks is much different than having the things exist. A painting is different from a sculpture; a 2-D movie is different from 3-D. Of course neither is superior to the other, it just requires different ways of utilizing them. -
its probably the worst article ive ever read...ever.
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Just be careful. The Banhammer is sure to make an appearance on a Pedo-back.
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like darabont with THE MIST...he filmed it like a B&W film..but the studio wanted color...if a director is filming in 3D, i can find that acceptable...but this mad rush to convert for the sake of making more cash, AFTER the film is shot...i cannot find that good.
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Feb 15, 2010 3:22:23 PM CST
'Lop, I'm sorry, but 3D and color are not the same thing.
by subtitles_off
And serious directors are never going to apply 3D to anything but fantasy blockbusters.Yes, sculpting and painting are different. Two different MEDIUMS. Film is film.
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the Pedo-back. Get it? 'Luude? GET IT???
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fed the girl some quaaludes before raping her. I misspelled "lude" as "luude" instead. Bad on me.
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do you apologize for misspellings before jokes made in terrible taste.
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...sometimes I like a good bacchanalia.
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On Valentine's Day, Bruce Willis has been alive the whole time.On Valentine's Day, the townsfolk arrive at Frankenstein castle with pink-iced cookies and some flowers.On Valentine's Day, Fredo brings a big fish back to the house, and Michael skillets it up while cracking Luca Brasi jokes.
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1) Yes the rush to change things 3D is stupid and ridiculous. It is basically cashing in on a gimmick like they did in the 60s with 70mm (of course there was some great 70mm movies back then as well).
2) Subs your right a painting isn't a scupture. But how is B&W/color different from 3-D? Both are ways to present an image differently. In one you show it with color in the other it is preaented as 3-D. Both obviously influence the way you look at the image and react to it. You react much different to a 3-D image than a 2-D just as you react differently to a b&w image.
3) a more apt comparison probably would be 70mm vs 35mm. Obviously you frame and compose shots differently. Just compare THE SEARCHERS to ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. Both are Westerns and both have vast landscapes but look and are composed vastly different.
4) I don't think 3-D is the end all/be all. I do think it is a new format and a new tool that can be used by good filmmakers to tell a story differently. It is like 70mm - currently a gimmick but soon a number of talented filmmakers will try this format and make something interesting. Great directors will line up to use it because it is a new frontier, like sound, color and 70mm once were. Remember Hitchcock experimented with 3-D when he made DIAL M FOR MURDER so a great director has already tried it, and back in the days when shooting a 3-D movie would cause you to compromise a lot of your shots (like sound did in the early 30s).
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Flicka, we might be about to go out like Thelma & Louise because of our funnies in the Pedo-back. Let's hold hands and 'just drive'.
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Didn't you list the movies? I was just waiting to see which ones are 5-star films.
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http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena
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...don't look down...just look at me.
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I'll see y'all tomorrow. Gotta run.
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...would spread the word...so I'd get to witness my own funeral like Huck Finn.
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got 1994 coming out on top. I just wondered if you agreed or disagreed with my picks, and if you came to a similar conclusion.
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I always disappear for at least four or five weeks. For example, if you get banned during a flame war, you don't want to see the other side dancing on your grave. That would be infuriating.
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for being too fat?I didn't know COP OUT was his film.
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1.) Kevin Smith was kicked off an airplane for being too fat and posing a safety risk. (The joke would be something along the lines of the pilot still holding a grudge over JERSEY GIRL.)2.) COP OUT, starring Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan, was directed by Smith, and I did not know that.
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I'm done as well. Going to spend the rest of the day in the sun.
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...one of the ways [deleted] succeeds in my opinion is that it's all about the 3-D...from the concept on down. People say "yeah, but it's only cool because of the 3-D...take that away ant it's nothing..." I Think they're right. Everything is calculated to take advantage of the experience...the shots, the pace, the very notion of adjusting your consciousness to perceive a new world...You can call it just a ride if you want to, but the 3-D isn't just tacked on later like a gimmick. Cameron took full advantage of his medium on every front.
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...banned for. You're a peacemaker for the most part.Did someone push you too hard on AVATAR?
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...shit around here...hell, we posted over twelve hundred posts about impaling people up the ass in the Vlakback alone...banning never once crossed my mind...
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Feb 15, 2010 4:35:06 PM CST
...and the shit we posted in the autoeroticasphyxiationback...
by flickapoo
...I'm almost ashamed...
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"Adjusting your consciousness." I don't understand what you mean. 2001 forced you to adjust because it showed you brand-new imagery. BLADE RUNNER forced you to adjust to a new kind of future view. Silent movies force you to adjust because you're used to sound coming out of people's mouths.I know you disagree with me, but there's nothing in [deleted] that I had to adjust to. Alien creatures, dinosaur-size animals, nature scenes, military equipment and explosions. I'd seen it before.
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it has less to do with curse words and more to do with what you say. If you've gotten under the skin of one of the mods or their cronies, you're gonna get the boot.
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Feb 15, 2010 4:46:59 PM CST
Plus, I think some people make themselves an easier target
by subtitles_off
by taking an individualistic stance. No one's going to get booted now for deriding [deleted] because there are enough people saying the same things. But, there was a time when no criticism of BATMAN BEGINS would be tolerated and calling Bryan Singer "gay" seemed outrageous because it was radically counter to the group-think.
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He'd Banhammer somebody on a whim. I think nowadays they tolerate pretty much everything except spamming.
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"Adjusting your consciousness" I know a lot of people didn't get on with it, but that phrase puts me in mind of MOULIN ROUGE.
The visual trickery that Luhrmann conjured for that movie, married to the music... it felt like being on E. I'm just thinking how much more effecting that 'experience' might have felt had it been crafted in 3D.
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...as an avatar parallels the adjustment that the audiences' eyes and brain have to make to become immersed in the 3-D...the stages are carefully orchestrated for both. Sadly, it sounds as though you never fully adjusted...hence the ghosting, and eye strain...
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my nose in it.
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Cameron lost me with his second or third shot: The space station bay full of waking travelers. I think I would have been astonished by that, had I seen it in 2D. The 3D was just annoying as hell.
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If it's a 3D movie starring Christina Hendricks cleavage then you're all welcome to rub my nose in it too.
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I wouldn't want the experience to seem a let-down.
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i just meant compared to the other birthyears here it's kind of wank. HOWEVER i'll take it over any year post-87. cause 87 was the greatest for pure action from predator, robocop, lethal weapon, and then when a movie with a title like the princess bride also be on equal enjoyment then it's a winnah for all.
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mischaracterized what you meant.
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...out for the old smell-O-vision.Cliche', but I don't care.
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Nowhere do I see "FROM KEVIN SMITH."
Slapping his name on the trailers and posters would sell more tickets. What gives? -
I believe I'm up to date?
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She's just... so... much... woman...
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I think the studio is experimenting. All of Kevin Smith's films top out at about $30 million. I bet they wanna see if it'll make more without his name all over it. That's just my gut feeling, tho.
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You dropped it as if it were hot!
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You see what I did there with the English muffin?
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Maybe that's the key. If he's not the auteur, he's not the issue.
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For the first time, Smith is directing a movie he did not write. I still say it's an experiment. Why else would they not announce it at all during the trailer?
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Fuck. Really? What a downer...
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alternative ending for THE GODFATHER II?Sometimes, I crack myself up.
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I'm gonna put that on the dresser so it's the first thing I see every day.
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Feb 15, 2010 6:07:28 PM CST
No Subs i missed it when searching godfather here
by takingscorpioscalls
but i just saw your post about missing the Godfather marathon because of your stupid date? Let me give you Coppola and Pacino in a bubble circa 1974 for that date of yours because yestearday i was like Michael on the final shot pondering everything in decaying coldness and rotting face! it was just like the movies i tells ya!
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Other than a banner that sometimes appears at the top of this page.
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Has that ridiculous good homely beauty. Connie though looks like she'd be pure filth in the sack, Mama Corleone though looks like strictly missionary in the dark but i can dig that in its down to earth homelyness kinda way. <3 to all peanutbutterbackers here and all those lovely bitches out there whos beat skipped when talking to me.
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The best way to do this is to have Clark pretty much take the Aunt Edna role from the first film and just be a cranky old dick.
Be sure stick Cousin Eddie in there too. Bring back Anthony Michael Hall, since he's the only one people care about. The chick that played his hot-ass sister Audrey in the first flick as well. -
Fredo brings a big fish back to the house, and Michael skillets it up while cracking Luca Brasi jokes.
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...I still feel a glow of pride leftover from my Emmerich/breast implant crack.
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everyone can hear you scream.
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...the roof of your mouth on hot pizza...
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Kong climbs off The Empire State building, scratching his ass with a bi-plane. Then, he goes ice-skating some more, 'cause he really liked that.
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I've never really had to deal with famine.
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Feb 15, 2010 6:23:09 PM CST
...On Valentine's Day in Shawshank, Andy wins the good fight.
by flickapoo
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Carrie gets a bucket of pig blood dropped over her head, and she laughs and laughs and laughs. Later, she lets Tommy get to second base. Good times.
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Wile E. Coyote drops a box of ACME dynamite on The Road Runner, and he gets road-runner guts splattered all over himself.
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Westley kisses Buttercup and thinks, "Eh, it's alright but I've had better."
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Pinocchio becomes a hand puppet.
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Quint and the shark talk it out.
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...DAD (spoiler)......still fucking hangs himself.
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Ennis quits Jack.
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Never noticed just how character-driven it is.
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ANYONE can step on a church in my town!
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Baby gets put in the corner.
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...the sledgehammer.
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Sophie can't make up her mind, so The Nazis let everybody go free.
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the round pegs all fit the square holes.
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Jack Burton doesn't say 'What the hell.' That one's for Sixies.
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...Stance too.
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that IS a moon.
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it IS a tumor (pronounced tu-mah).
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making big dust clouds, but getting nowhere.
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...a rich and fulfilled in his career boy.
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...before things go south.
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ABP: Always Be Posting.
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...rips the gun out of the hunter's hands and impales him with it. Which is hard to do, when you have no opposable thumbs.
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...I never want to see it retrofitted in 3-D.
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Mola Ram converts, ending the search for the Sankara Stones.
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Yeah, I said it.
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...movie roles. For the rest of his career.
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Mr White and Mr. Orange elope in Mexico witht he diamond stash. Morning folks. Evening for you..morning for me.
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No ma'am!!! Temple of doom is awesome 365 days a year!!!
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Hardy was good...Clockwork Orange it is NOT. I kinda wanted to see it as a stage play since that was a device in the film but all in all I got bored 2/3 through. I then watched The Thing from Another World for the first time (I know, I know) and liked that.Like JC's more(obviously) but after I heard some people praise the Hawks version and shit on my hero R.J. I had to be sure.On Valentine's Day, Childs and R.J. have cocoa in the ski lodge that was just over the next ridge that they never noticed before......from a helicopter.
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...07:08:03 PM.
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I would not want it the other way. All that curry would reek havoc on my ass. No thats not a spelling error. I was talking about the smell.
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Temple of Doom is the best! It's how I learned 'Anything Goes' in Mandarin. It's MY fave, at least. And it always will be.
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...that's God offal.Get it?
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...or in his case, 08:08:03 PM...because he's in NY, the civilized world.
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is awful?
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We are like that brotha!
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...I like to think we are just getting a head start on the rest of the lazy people in the country.Yeah..I knew about Kevin Smith not being able to wedge his fat ass into a 747 at 6:00a.m. and you slow pokes on the West Coast didn't find out til 9:00a.m. east coast time.Its these kinds of details that give us the edge.
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the new Gershwin movie. Thats what I want to see Stevie doin.
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It was professor plum who killed mr. X....and mr. Green most definitely did not go home and sleep with his wife.
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...commercial runs three times in a row, and then the screen cuts to black for a minute and a half...and a say "well, someone just lost his job"...Is that person you?
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"They're remaking my movies and I'm not even dead yet!"
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The Billy crystal and his city slicker
friends eat Norman
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Marty McFly decides that the '50s are pretty hep and opens the first skate shop.
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I figured it would be you, too. Nah, not really.
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Kinda risky, innit?
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...that has to count for something.
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TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION.
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Where is THAT movie?
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Does he die UNDER the bridge?
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Charlie bucket gets sued for breach of contract...
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...to get the butter.
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My Bloody Valentine is NOT in 3-D...
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Jack was a figment of Tyler's imagination!
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On top of the empire state building and he sees her and say....uh... Nevermind.
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naked Dennis Franz.
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Companies like Clear Channel are feeling the crunch of the economy like any other company so along eith that job i'll run the audio board or you can sometimes find me on location in the Live truck beaming the signal back to the station, but yeah if commercials are running over and over your talking about a serious issue or someone is asleep at the wheel.
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You can't bust on one of the CLASSIC rom-coms, man.
It's just not done... on V-day, anyway.
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Just to clarify.
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Doomies Represent.
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It was ... okay. I liked it. Save for all the viscera, it was more an action movie than a horror flick. Its closest parallels, in terms of style aside from the terrific Victoria setting, are more Jackson's KONG and Letterier's HULK. Sure, it was a hoot, and some of the kills are terrific, if that's your thing, but it could have used more atmosphere, suspense and mythological/religious terror. And yet, in spite of all that, I still liked it.
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With a screenplay that shoulda got ripped up. A story so trippy, With a kid who gets lippy And a terrible love interest, straight up.
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Well, maybe Verhoven and Dick know, but the rest of us have to make up our own minds.
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yes..yes it is.
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I was five! Do you know how cool a thing that is?
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But that movie is pure kinetic filmmaking. Spielberg is riffing hard on that fucker, and it's dazzling to watch.
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Feb 15, 2010 8:36:03 PM CST
You know? If what's-her-face hadn'ta been so ANNOYING
by friendlywaitress
I might agree with you on ToD. But she just blew. She had all the comedic timing of your average rock wall.
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It's such a great ride, it prepares my suspension of disbelief to handle anything.
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...vampires vs. werewolves always make me think of it. It's only really suggested in the book, but still cool...one of my favorite representations.
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but I keep hearing about him. Maybe I should get acquainted.
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Feb 15, 2010 8:44:21 PM CST
...I just remembered that I spent years hunting for a book...
by flickapoo
...called DARKER THAN YOU THINK (about werewolves) in used bookstores. In the days before Amazon.I could have been reading that book for the last thirteen years.
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in every way
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But we all know how she got that role...I mean, she's married to the guy now.
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The Mrs. needs the 'puter.
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...I was probably a little too young at the time. I loved his books...and found them a chore at the same time.But they made a permanent dent in my imagination...that's always a good sign.
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But that's exactly why Capshaw's character sucked ass. She HAD to. Allen's character was so kick-ass the only thing they could do was take Willie in the exact opposite direction.
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Doesn't make it any better, really, but I respect y'all's opinions. At least he's still married to her, and it wasn't some cheap thing.
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of all time, period, end of story. AND I thought Last Crusade was a frickin blast, haters can suck it.
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It was that grad-A asshole, ZombieHeathLedger, and it happened when my other alias, DVader, got banned while I waited for my current one to be reinstated. And it was banned without reason, in my opinion. Course, I guess I had the last laugh bc he disappeared very quickly after that.
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I guess it is Indys "type", these hard ass broads. Karen Allen is great as Marion but Capshaw is just obnoxious. Why couldn't Indy get some gorgeous piece of ass? The only way The Mummy trumps the Indy series is with Rachel Wiesz. That is the kind of girl I wish Indy had.Now I wanna do a Karen Allenathon. Animal House, Raiders, Scrooged, Sandlot.
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I'm actually *amazed* they're not selling Cop Out as a film directed by Kevin Smith. Either the suits are idiots (they are, but they're not *that* dumb), or it was Kevin Smith's choice, feeling it would be disingenuous to slap his name on the film since he didn't write it. But even then, I think its a monumentally stupid movie. Because right now, the thing doesn't look any better/different than Paul Blart: Mall Cop.
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I love Indy. I won't crap all over his name. Even though Ford didn't seem to care. Or Lucas. Or Spielberg. You know, when they made The Unspeakable Sequel That Must Not Be Named.
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I was getting my girlfriend ready for Kingdom by showing her the first 3 and to go through them in order and watch Indy whine at his daddy and Connery be a feeble olf fuddy duddy was painful. I like the beginning in the sewer and the boat chase. It is only certain parts that embarrass me.
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Feb 15, 2010 9:21:30 PM CST
So, I just got this new skin for my Mozilla toolbar...
by friendlywaitress
my two-year-old is going to shit herself when she sees it tomorrow. Oh, wait, she does that anyway. It really is time to start focusing on the potty training. Diapers are FUCKING EXPEN$IVE.
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I thought they had really good chemistry! Maybe my blind (well, back then) love for Ford and my equally blind love for Connery blinded me. I thought they were funny.
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...Koopa Troopas are going to come into your bedroom at night and skullfuck you in your sleep.
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To rejoin this most right festive cast He said "Hey whassup?" But he had to catch up Before Friendly could give him some sass. . You know, 'cause I'm chivalrous like that.
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I like that they are keeping it quiet that Smith is the director. I am a fan. My family is from the section of Jersey he always highlights so when I watch the movies it is like going to visit my grandmother...only with swearing. Anyway I think when you say the name Kevin Smith people instantly think of a certain kind of style and movie. By keeping him out of it people who aren't in the know will go in cold with no preconceptions. I am also looking for this movie to quiet the haters shouting "He sucks, he can't direct!"This time he has one job, one focus. I have my fingers crossed and the fact is that the look of the movie is nothing like what we have seen from him before.I am...cautiously optimistic.
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I gots to bond with my Valentine.
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For the sex. He knew there was nothing else there other than physical attraction and he planned to dump her in Delhi the first chance he got.
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It's not the whole thing. It is Connery, in certain parts. Maybe I just don't like daddy yelling at baby.
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Once you get past the nocturnal activites scene...it's fucking bliss. Awesome score by Williams too. And ARK is in my top 5 all time too.
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I don't think he even thought that far ahead. After the Raja(or whatever) dolled her up Indy was like, "..well since we're here and she's on my jock..". I wouldn't even call the lead up sexual tension. She was a pain in the ass gold digger. Blame it on the a a a a a alco..Voodoo Blood.
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I think they could gain more money by letting pple know he directed it. They don't have to say "From the director of Clerks and Dogma..." Just mention "Directed by Kevin Smith" at the end of the credits. I think that's subtle enough that pple who aren't exactly in the know won't notice (and won't think "I HATED Clerks and Dogma!") but its enough to let all the Kevin Smith fans who were ignorant to this job of his know they might be interested in this flick.
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I missed diarrhea again!
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And good night!
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Kevin Smith is trying to branch out before his fatness kills him. He wants to work as a director. He wants to compete for comedy scripts. They're selling the movie on Willis and Morgan. It's a test.
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You have been since we first started this thing.
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I didn't mean to imply he was trying to get with her the whole time, bc that's certainly not the case. He felt saddled with her up until that moment, like you said. And then it was like a revelation for him: "Well, we're here, I'm Indiana fucking Jones. This will be easy." And it was. I mean, his dad is James fucking Bond.
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Is that what scrapple is made out of?
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Now if you could turn that statement into a limerick of some sort...
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probably kicking themselves at this point for not tacking his name on it due to all the press he is getting right now about not fitting in normal people seats.Studio Exec: Kevin..when you are talking about Southwest Air do you think you could work in Cop Out? Something like, "This is almost as outrageous as Tracey Morgan in my new film Cop Out!"
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Who something, something that rhymes with Vader.I really can't do it.So I'll just say "screw it,"And hopefully think something up later.
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Maybe that is why it rang false. She calls him an asshole the whole time and then e seduces her with a fucking apple. If only produce would turn all women into panty droppers. I guess if your Harrison Ford you can get blown by offering a girl a stick of trident.
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http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena
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on my way
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Traitor.Negotiater.Gladiator.These are the rhymes that came to mind.
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Infiltrator Instigator Player Hater
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Oh, them Koopas are gonna get lucky tonight!
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Q: What are the first two numbers of the email that just applied for membership?
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Alligator.Olympic speedskater.Passover seder.
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I am hopelessly addicted to Left for Dead 2 though so it may take some time to get to it. Please call the Koopas off my virgin skull.
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...it's too obvious.
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Feb 15, 2010 10:10:12 PM CST
Test post in the shelter to complete your initiation, Mac.
by anonymoose
Read the "READ THIS FIRST" thread.
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to type "masturbator." Of course I thought of it instantly.
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Not THIS.
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whatever i'll have to figure it out.
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Lose the GaGa!
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It doesn't refresh automatically there. So, you have to right-click and reload the page to see your post.
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I love that macro.
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It's a spoonerism.
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Started rhymin, to see what'd unfurl. From Vader, to seder And of course, masturbator. Silly boys, leave this stuff to the girls.
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Bwahshaja....peace out...
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But you catch my meaning. That WAS pretty fucking funny, though. Congrats all around. Flick, flavor saver is always particularly nasty. An extra gold star for you.
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to fit any crime. Without a doubt.
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it was a solid 7.5.
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if only I could actually use this power to MAKE FUCKING BANK. Why do all of my superpowers have to be commercially useless?
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I thought, up above somewhere, I saw that you were bummed you had missed the Godfather marathon because of it... were you just talkin' shit?
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I haven't seen either GODFATHER in a really long time.
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It's late, so I must take a deep bow, and to bed. It's been fun! A spectacular run. See y'all in the morning, boys. Ciao!
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co worker sucking my life away
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i imagine your a seasoned (or should i say pickled)vet and you were fresh as a daisy this morning. I fixin to tie one on tonight. This is my Friday.
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I've learned that I can only trust my own judgment and not everyones opinion here and my "expert assessment" is that it is gonna be sweet.
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I am a competetive but usually controlled drinker...Hi, Moose...We had three more kittens tonight...None of them so far have ghosted...
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Feb 15, 2010 11:52:20 PM CST
How does Subs expect me to read up before I post this late?.
by cheeses_of_nazareth
I tried after I first posted and only got to noon!!!!I need to contact the Evelyn Wood Speed reading School, fast...
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Karen Allen is better than Kate Capshaw cause Willie was a cunt. EffDubb spit some verse and Harry can't differentiate between a boring story that happened to him over the weekend and actual movie news. Slow day for the most part.
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Since we'll probably be on here a lot together in the forseeable future...What was your Avatar experience? Sorry, if you have revealed that earlier, as I said...I'm a slow reader...
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I left the theater saying I would see it again and after the dazzel wore off I came to my senses and realized it was all sugar and no substance. It's a candy bar.
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and you?
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I was initially in love with it, but can't quite work up an appetite to see it again although I promised myself I would see it in I-max Camtech 3-d...I still plan to, but for some reason it hasn't been a priority, and I had 4 days off work last week with nothin' to do but type on here and do laundry...I still like the candy though...A LOT!!!!
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I said it...Maybe I'll change my mind if I DO get around to seeing it in Imax...but for now, I semi-concede...There's really nothing in it I need to see again...I'm kinda afraid I might even be disappointed next time around...
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i said the same. I would see it again in Imax 3d but im not waiting in line or reserving tix. I liked the military tech but that is such a small part of the movie. and don't get me started on the ponytail rape.
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We call it surprise sex around here...just so you know...Sounds a lot better in court...
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i always lean toward the "she was asking for it" defense but the "surprise" angle could work. Its all about what you can prove.Whats on your anticipation list Cheeses? Not for nothing but "we both think Avatar is just ok." doesn't get us very far.
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and I have a pretty pedestrian taste in th the ones that I do watch...On the horizon? Iron Man 2, Thor, Avengers...Any comic book franchise...Waiting for Lucas to use Camtech 3-d to bring us the sequel trilogy to Star Wars...VII, VIII and IX...
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Seein' it's you Friday night and all, but, this is one of those nights that I gotta be up at 5:30 AM tomorrow...So , I'll leave everyone with these nifty quotes that I found...http://www.rense.com/general89/wisdom.htmSweet dreams, all...
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which is why Wolfman is of such an interest. Scott Pilgrim cause of Wright and Kick Ass.I like guy movies and i'm also working on seeing stuff that i "should" see. I just got a copy of the new Metropolis for instance and while it isn't the kind of thing i would watch normally i like to expand my mind duuude.The truth is that I usually like dumb ass shit just as much as i like an artistic vision.
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I hate human touchy feely dramas that I 'should' enjoy...I get enough of that shit from my own family...I gotta pay to see it on the big screen?I need to see something I will never get to see in real life for it to be worth my hard earned $$$...
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Ah the pent up rage, the mother of dictators and hippie fabmackin lyrical producer faux-party maestros.
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Man, did I love that movie when I was about 12. Now I see it for the glorified TV movie it is. Cruise has his moments, but mostly he's just "ACTING." Demi Moore is just AWFUL. Still, however, Nicholson rules. He makes it worth watching in the few moments he's onscreen. His last spiel is something to behold. He's so scary that you forget it's a performance for a moment and realize there are guys like this in our military. His best moment is when he's challenging the fortitude of the defense team. "You, Lieutenant Kaffe? YOU, Lieutenant Weinberg?" The sneer on his face at mentioning Weinberg's name is so full of anti-semitic hatred and disdain that Kevin Pollack, who played Weinberg, had to have felt some discomfort on the set.
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Moose, I just tried that virtual Nes site and the data-protection closed the site down before I even got to first base.
DAMN YOU WINDOWS VISTA! DAMN YOU TO HELL!! -
...on TV? I think I agree with your praise/complaints (haven't seen it recently enough to be sure). I wonder about the TV thing because I've been thinking recently about how much TV degrades a movie. I've recently re-watched several old favorites for real...on DVD, the big TV, in the dark, etc...and I've been amazed at just how good they are if watched properly.You catch bits and pieces of a movie, flip past it on your way to THE DAILY SHOW...eventually it starts to look like cheap TV crap. Loses all meaning.None of this has much to do with A FEW GOOD MEN. I just got to thinking...
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Feb 16, 2010 7:55:51 AM CST
Yeah, Flick, I caught it on Bravo or A&E or something
by colonelfatheart
like that. THE GODFATHER movies definitely suffer from this, but they still have that cinematic look. A FEW GOOD MEN isn't stagey, which is a win since it's based on a play, but the score, shot composition and lighting at times are very TV, which is surprising since Robert Richardson was the DP. I'll say this for Reiner, though, he lets actors act. I just wish he had better actors than Cruise and Moore.
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You know, it's funny... the few times I've caught A FEW GOOD MEN on TV, I thought to myself: "Hey, this was a good movie! Man, look at that cast!" but the thought to rent it again, to see it all the way through, NEVER occurred to me... as if it's rightful place was the TV, and I knew it in my heart. Weird.
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A FEW GOOD MEN... seems like there used to be a new courtroom drama movie every couple of months back then. Now, it's a virtually defunct genre.
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...of old movies on DVD and Blu-disky (back when there was a DVD column), but since getting a half decent setup, I've really been enjoying revisiting older stuff...in most cases seeing them for real for the first time (instead of 19 inch pan and scan).
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I'd like to see 'PROSECUTING POLANSKI' directed by David Fincher and starring that slimy bastard from QUANTUM OF SOLACE in the title role. William Hurt is the defense Attorney and Christian Bale plays the prosecutor obsessed with professionalism.
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Whoopi Goldberg plays herself as the star witness who claims "It wasn't rape, rape."
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...either I'm blanking (entirely possible) OR this is a statement re: all cinematic comedy since the 80's. Please name me your favorite ten comedies from the past decade. GO!
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Jack Nicholson also plays himself as the witness who refuses to talk;
"Talk to me Nicholson! You fuckin prick!! What do you know!!" snarls Bale
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I'll have to consider this.
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BURN AFTER READING, uh ... I guess A SERIOUS MAN is a comedy ... I dug ROLE MODELS, too.
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...MTV and gimmickhair aside, that English guy is really fucking funny.
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So this ISN'T just me being a roob... this IS really hard. I am so fucking sick of Apatow, I thought that my rage had rotted my brain there for a minute.
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...than most people...some unforgettable character moments.
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...I have a soft spot for that one.
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Waitress, this is a leading question right?
If you're setting out to prove that the world got less funny I think you might be right..
Off my head I'd say BORAT, LIFE AQUATIC, TEAM AMERICA, I quite like Adam Sandler comedies too, and the Simon Pegg ones.
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The question was an honest one... and the answer is proving to be a bit depressing. So far the list is: Role Models Anchorman Harold and Kumar (slips in because of NPH) THAT'S IT?!?!?! Goddam it. Whaddafuck????
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I expect a full list of ten when I get back. IT SHOULDN'T BE THIS FUCKING HARD, HOLLYWOOD. DO YOU HEAR ME?!?!?!?!?!?!??!
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...of ZOHAN? Not a great movie, but it charmed me. As someone who grew up overseas, I loved the extended exploration of the fact that "cool" doesn't always travel so well from one dojo to another.
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HOT FUZZ and SHAWN OF THE DEAD. Absolutely. Thanks, Cobes.
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See you fellas in a bit.
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oh yeah morning...
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best film of 00s...on my watch
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testing
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Flicka, I enjoy mostly all of Adam Sandlers comedies - some more than others tho. HAPPY GILMORE was a real fave of mine back in the day. I thought the scenes of Zohan, now named 'Scrappy Coco', pleasuring all the mature ladies in the salon were hilarious!
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high fidelity was my LIFE!!i mean i would watch that everytime i would get into a fight with my girl at the time and just drink away..and then you have all the secondary characters who are basically us PBers..great great film.
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...any other movie of the last ten years. I'm not claiming it's my favorite (although it's up there), but it's one of the most re-watchable movies out there.
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Damn, I'll add it to the list and watch it six times to catch up!
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...a favorite of the light, comedy/tearjerker variety.
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...HIGH FIDELITY didn't make it on any of the best of the '00s lists?...I was spamming every thread with that shit...nobody had my back...
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sorry musta missed that...i did a lot of soul searchin for my list and its just seemed right to put it at the top...no regrets either...
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On Valentine's Day, Charlton Heston finds some old science equipment in the ruins of The Forbidden City and avatars his ugly ass into the body of a talking baboon...February 15th, 2010:Kevin Smith is really fat...Stabby's back...Flick feeds Toddlerapoo ash-gray peanut butter, so I call social services...D.Vader watches the end of a terrible B movie, and Stabby agrees with Sixies that BRONSON isn't that good...There are few things worse than being forced to watch a Kate Hudson movie...Peebers love on CAPE FEAR and hate on Roland Emmerich...'Lop and Flick discuss technical aspects of 3D...Christina Hendricks in a corset (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/15/christina-hendricks-new-y_n_462716.html)...Colon-El shares rumors of a Scorsese-VonTrier collaboration on a re-envisioned TAXI DRIVER...Sixies flame-bombs a new Pedophiliaback...'Lop defends 3D as an advance in film-making along the lines of sound and color and insists a non-blockbuster director will approach it in an artful way...Kevin Smith: Too many bombs in a row to still get his name above the title? Or, even in the trailer? Or, is COP OUT a sneak attack?...Scorps bitch-slaps group-think...ZodNotGod thinks we're discussing the VACATION movies...We borrow the "On Valentine's Day" alternate endings meme and run with it...EffDub lays the smackdown on TEMPLE OF DOOM, and, if you listen really carefully, you can hear Geek Nation gasp as she types...☆☆ BEATLES OF YESTERDAY AND TODAY ☆☆™ (http://tinyurl.com/yead2hc), (http://tinyurl.com/yd597cm)...Col. liked THE WOLFMAN...Author John Crowley dented Flick's imagination...'moose pimps the "BEST WEBSITE EVAR" (http://tinyurl.com/yd597cm) and threatens us with Oompa Loompas, or something, if we don't check it out...Mac cringed when he saw LAST CRUSADE...Words that rhyme with Vader. Everybody thinks "masturbator," first, "fornicator," second, but only Flick admits it...EffDub drops poetry like trees drop leaves. It comes naturally like justice to thieves...'moose is the youngest Peeber...
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why not kevin smith?
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I just don't think of it as a comedy.BEST IN SHOW, SHAUN OF THE DEAD, O BROTHER, WHERE ART THOU?, ROLE MODELS, I LOVE YOU, MAN, DODGEBALL (real guilty pleasure), ROYAL TENENBAUMS, LIFE AQUATIC, SUPERBAD and, um, BABEL (that cracked my shit all the way up!).
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...in the re-watchability department...maybe higher.The pleasing aroma is half the point.
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maybe it has something to do with Shyamalan having a number of $100 million blockbusters to his credit while Smith has none.
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I've tried to watch that twice now, and I can't get farther than twenty minutes in.
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"I'd like to do a Western. But rather than set it in Texas, have it in slavery times. With that subject that everybody is afraid to deal with. Let's shine that light on ourselves. You could do a ponderous history lesson of slaves escaping on the Underground Railroad. Or, you could make a movie that would be exciting. Do it as an adventure. A spaghetti Western that takes place during that time. And I would call it 'A Southern.'" -Quentin Tarantino
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BORAT is "my kind of movie," too. Chaps my ass, being so misunderstood.I'd like to pop Larry Charles right in the mouth.
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...BORAT is spectacular. The key is that good as he is, the real pleasure is in watching the micro expressions flicker across people's faces as they try to dance around him.I think the driving instructor should get an award for Best American Of The '00s......"I'm not used to that, but that's OK..."
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QT gained a lot of wiggle-room from me with BASTERDS, but I think that statement is dumber than anything Emmerich said yesterday.
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...he's a smart guy, I bet he'd find a way to make it subversive.Besides, Underground Railroad is too soon, but WWII isn't?
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I have only adored three QT films and been entertained by a fourth (or fifth, if you count KILL BILL twice), but I'm always interested in his latest.I can't really think of another current director I can say that about.
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Feb 16, 2010 10:25:37 AM CST
I didn't say anything about Underground Railroad being off-limit
by subtitles_off
as a subject for a film. As an excuse for an action-adventure, yeah, I think that'd be as tasteless as a teen-sex romp set in a concentration camp.
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I'll credit a director who gives me something I don't expect over a director who panders to my senses.
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all of his mannerisms - the things that distract me in his movies - would poke you right in the eye. I think I could jump off the QT train if he made a 3D movie.
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...things happened during WWII...but we've had every genre of movie imaginable set during the conflict.I'm making this up as I go here, but I think it's dehumanizing (to the people who experienced the event in question) to say that that certain things can't be exciting or funny. I think it could be great to see a really badass runaway slave movie...cathartic even...maybe...
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but his last two films were horrible AND they cost a lot of money AND they bombed...its ok to bomb if the weinsteins are bankrolling a small budget..but when youve dropped the ball on two tentpole summer release films, your autuer status starts to wan.
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...some great injustice are then always portrayed as saints and martyrs...it's dehumanizing.An oppressed group of people has the same distribution of virtues and vices as any other group of people...
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whose families survived as a result of the event to turn it into a "cathartic" event for a generation totally removed from any sort of perspective.Same reason I'm offended by "Soup Nazi."I'm making this up, as well. I really don't think, in actual fact, Tarantino would go out of his way to make an insensitive picture based on the Underground Railroad, but, yeah, especially since Hollywood shies away from shining a serious light on the dirty secrets of the American past, I think turning the Underground Railroad into THE GREAT ESCAPE is a bad first move.
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I've only seen it once, but it was fairly recently. I laughed the whole fucking time. What a clockwork script, too!
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Nice one, Flick.Cathartic -
[kə-thäŕtĭk]
(adj.) Inducing catharsis; purgative.
(n.) An agent for purging the bowels, especially a laxative.I FACKING® hate when dictionaries define words using a form of the same word. Catharsis -
(kə-thäŕsĭs)
[New Latin, from Greek katharsis, from kathairein, to purge, from katharos, pure.]
(n.)
1. Medicine Purgation, especially for the digestive system.
2. A purifying or figurative cleansing of the emotions, especially pity and fear, described by Aristotle as an effect of tragic drama on its audience.
3. A release of emotional tension, as after an overwhelming experience, that restores or refreshes the spirit.
4. Psychology:
1. A technique used to relieve tension and anxiety by bringing repressed feelings and fears to consciousness.
2. The therapeutic result of this process; abreaction.
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would be extremely interesting. I'd like to see him work in elements of Blaxploitation, itself a genre of wish fulfillment and empowerment.
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...view of life and the universe is split between the sentimental/heroic and the absurdist/bitterly-ironic.I've obviously never experienced anything on the tragedy scale of slavery, but even in my worst moments...I've always been torn between the tragic and the bitter, bitter joke of it all.
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"Col., Subs is full of shit," Flick said. "You hold him down while I catharsize him."
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http://tinyurl.com/yf3ya52
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in your world view?
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convinced them all to be afraid of hippies.
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Feb 16, 2010 10:55:23 AM CST
...for me "reality" is (for the most part) a nonexistent...
by flickapoo
...but very real place between those two extremes.
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Kevin Smith is a dwarf in the mind of the collective pop consciousness compared to the 2 leads. A very fat dwarf.
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You got his purgation all over my new shoes!"
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...tragedy or a comedy, depending on your disposition. Unfortunately, I suffer from both worldviews...so I drink too much wine...
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Bruce Willis, okay. But, Tracy Morgan? Really? The guy who hosts "Scare Tactics?"I think Lunchbox might have a rep at least equal to "the black guy from SNL who wasn't Tim Meadows."
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because you drink too much wine?
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Feb 16, 2010 11:00:51 AM CST
...and that might be why catharsis is probably the quality...
by flickapoo
...I value most highly in any art...it relieves the tension between the two poles.I'm making this up as I go, but it sounds right as I type it...
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than Smith. Now if you said Silent Bob, I may disagree.
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As I said, Morgan looks like a break-out comedy star in the trailer for that.
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Suits pushing Morgan because they see a potential commodity.
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am i the only one who think COP OUT is gonna bomb...well at least not do well?
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is pretty funny given that the original title Smith wanted was A Couple of Dicks, which of course the Studio execs couldn't abide.
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Feb 16, 2010 11:10:41 AM CST
the last KS flick i saw in the theater was JAY AND SILENT BOB...
by six demon bag
that seems like such a long long time ago...but it had MORRIS DAY AND THE TIME!
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do the bird!!!!!
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But I don't see it doing really big numbers, either.
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I didn't even make the connection from COP OUT, which I was surprised to learn is a Kevin Smith movie, to A COUPLE OF DICKS, which I knew was a project Smith was working on.Sheesh Louisa.
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of SHOWTIME or HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE...and i think IF it does bomb, kevin smith can walk away virtually unscathed, and he can claim he didnt write the piece of shit.
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Feb 16, 2010 11:13:54 AM CST
...I'm rambling on and you guys are talking about Kevin...
by flickapoo
...Smith...See? Tragic and funny.
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I've been bursting with the desire to debate the B.O. prospects of COP OUT.
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If it were in 3D, it'd make more money than [deleted].
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The Pedalback is our support group. We collectively make each other look smarter. At least when it comes to film trivia.
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and a horror film and something else...ive seen a lot of ads for leos flick so that might pull out on top...so if COP OUT makes anything less than projected, its dun fer.
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The "comedy - tragedy" thing?
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Feb 16, 2010 11:18:51 AM CST
PAUL BLART really didnt have any competition for a few weeks
by six demon bag
i hope I HOPE thats the only reason why it didnt do well...plus the fucking olympics are on and supposedly people are watching that.i dont think COP OUT can do it...
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founder of wendysor john mayer.
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I think SHUTTER ISLAND is the movie to see this weekend; therefore, it'll rank third.
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The under-12 crowd ate that shit up.
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Better toppings. Better pizza." - Dave Thomas of Wendy's
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"Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." -Jean de La Bruyere
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Paul calls someone a fuckface.
John makes fun of "Help".
http://tinyurl.com/yd8n24z -
on Christina Hendricks' chest and go [Bronx cheer noises]." - Dave Thomas of Wendy's
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should be a genre all its own. Or is it already? Was 'In the Heat of the Night' the first one?
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...ending with a death, and all comedies ending with a wedding...or it was said about him, I can't remember.
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came to this country, he renamed himself Dave Thomas of Wendy's.
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Give in to the dark side of the force, you knob." - Dave Thomas of SCTV
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fuckface." - Dave Thomas of Wendy's.
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How's work?Answer your mail.Join the Google Group.http://tinyurl.com/yz3kenaGambit Dumby!
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Mel Gibson and Martin Lawrence play two crazy actors who are co-starring in a Buddy Cop movie, but their individual egos and insanity and controlled substance picadillos get in the way of the production.
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How's the missus?
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...meatloaf sandwich is the way to go for lunch. -FlickaPoo
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Subs you've got mail.
Its been pretty busy what with this damned job and all. In fact...I already have to leave.
Whaaats this goooogle group all about? -
The universal dream
For those who wish to seem.
Those who wish to be
Must put aside the alienation,
Get on with the fascination,
The real relation,
The underlying theme." ♪ ♫ -
Don't be late for work.
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Meatloaf sandwich = yummy.
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I was going to do a Blaxploitation film set during slavery. And now Tarantino is gonna beat me to it, that jackass.
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Its terrible. Its a terrible, terrible movie. But I find a lot to laugh at when I watch it. And that film... is "Saving Silverman".
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or is she with mr kai this week?
Oh well...as dave thomas used to say so eloquently...i've got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one. -
To that last of Good Comedies from the past ten years.
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Oprah won't let John Mayer on her show to apologize for using the n-word because she's "close friends with Jennifer Aniston."
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University of Notre Dame's anti-gay newpaper cartoon.
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List, not last. Jackass. *smacks forehead*
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Madonna will direct a movie.
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The Joker and Willy Wonka "[deleted]erized":http://tinyurl.com/y87ayaw
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Great rapper or greatEST rapper, ever?
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...my mom's meatloaf consisted of all the most cheap and least edible parts of the bovine...ground up, mixed with sawdust, and overcooked.Now I love it.
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funnier than anything?
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...my New York magazine with Christina (we're just first names now) on the cover just arrived...I'll be back.
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salmon patties.GAWD® I hate those!
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Fox employee Sarah Palin mad at Fox's Family Guy for Down Syndrome jokes.
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It looks like fucking bullshit.
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I would love to see Anthony Michael Hall return to the role, but my gut screams that this will star Will Ferrell.
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...I'm trying to think of something funny...but it's fucking tragic.
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She used diced onions and onion soup mix among other compatible seasonings. It would develop this extremely tasty crust in the oven. Pure comfort food. Then she met the guy who would become my stepfather, who has all kinds of incongruous tastes. He can't abide onions or anything remotely onion-flavored, but he loves spicy mussels and hot sauce. So, anyway, her meatloaf became beatloaf. Now, however, the future Mrs. Colon-El makes the meanest damn meatloaf ever. I love it. Can't get enough. Take that, mom!
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"Do you ever feel guilty watching some new-ish piece of crap while you know there are so many great movies of the past still left to see? Do today's factory-formulated movies have more to say to you than the old Hollywood studio-factory movies? How so?" http://tinyurl.com/yfjyflt By the way, Subs, Emerson is a man after your own heart. He hated AVATAR for reasons similar to yours.
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...once a month. Unfit, disgusting food...and thanks for announcing the arrival of menstruation mom...really helps me choke it down.
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I was forced into eating peas and beets as a kid. I can tolerate peas these days, but beets are still vegetable non grata. Fuck beets.
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But I often feel as if I'm wasting my time when I see a movie these days.
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Trying to stay on topic....
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Feb 16, 2010 12:12:23 PM CST
...I felt guilty when I was a little younger, but I don't...
by flickapoo
...anymore. There was a time when most of the things I did were because I wanted to be the kind of guy who did those things (and I genuinely enjoyed bettering myself)...but at some point I think I said fuck it.I used to be very hard on myself and everyone else...and on movies, music, and books. And I used to be depressed a lot.The pendulum might swing back at some point, but for now I say fuck it. I've got enough things to be anxious about.
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Cause he had a depth perception problem.
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...when I was a kid I was convinced I was an artistic genius...that delusion had to be pried from my cold, dead hands...and almost was. I'm exaggerating a little, but not much. It was a case of lighten up, or maybe this whole life thing isn't for you.
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...routine. I imagine most people go through something similar...
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He also hated the story, the dialogue, the characters and the plot. I think he called it the worst movie he saw in 2009.
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You've gotta rail against it. You're an artist.Devolution is the wrong direction.And, I have always loved pickled beets.RE: liver, uh, sorta...My mother once made steak and kidney pie for my grandfather. The house filled with the smell of boiled ass and sheep piss. My brothers and I locked ourselves in our rooms and stuffed towels, carpet, sweat shirts, anything we could find in the crack of the doors. My father got home from work and took one sniff. He gathered we three boys and took us for pizza. When we got home, I felt bad for my mother because she was crying, but candles were lit and the odor was gone.
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Coming to DVD!
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Back a little later.
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that film was about me...i was the bear who wandered past the teen in the wild.
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For all the future Mrs. Colonel and I have in common, I just don't think she'd let me get away with a straight Netflix diet of Herzog, Ozu and Renoir.
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was that it was ground beef, but it wasn't a hamburger, groundchuck in its ultimate form. To make matters worse it was diluted with bread to make it cheaper to serve more people. My father loved meatloaf. It was his favorite, so my mom made it once a week. Now, I can enjoy meatloaf, but I still prefer a good cheeseburger.
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me too..im embarrased of my queue..i pay for it but its basically what she wants to watch and yeah..shes never heard of those guys...actually my wife has only seen ONE scorsese flick..which i guess is ok..but will soon be remedied.her dad and bro are movie fanatics like me and i end going to films with them more often than her.
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put some spices in it and some cheese...cheese makes everything betternow THATS something im sure dave thomas said.
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on there. But for every MOON, there's a MISTS OF AVALON or SUNSHINE CLEANING. Could be worse, I know. She once had me sit through NEVER BEEN KISSED, one of the five worst movies I've seen, but, to stay on the Drew Barrymore train, she had us watch MUSIC & LYRICS, which I found to be a pleasant surprise with some small insights about creativity.
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...WILD post means...but I love it.
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I went to see THERE WILL BE BLOOD with a buddy. She had no interest at all. Then, when I bought the DVD, she begrudgingly sat and watched. She was riveted, and sometimes, when it's on cable, she'll switch it on. She also actually bought BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA for herself after I showed it to her despite her resistance. Although that's probably because of Kurt Russell's shiny muscles more than anything.
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I just like the idea that Into the Wild was really about the bear that the stupid kid ran into in the woods.
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i think i read something YOU wrote and i extrapolated it...
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...it takes two to tango...and we share most of the same favorites.Movies were probably the first thing that brought us together...(she was working as a projectionist at the time...free movies!).
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...now my wife makes it with TWO DIFFERENT KINDS OF FANCY MEAT...and some sort of homemade tangy tomato sauce instead of ketchup.It's a game changer.
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i run the queue too but do you want to spend time with the wife or do you wanna watch films by yourself...hence the compromises..
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hmmm.
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this place is starting to get looong...any thoughts?theres a new thread about middlemen that might be ripe
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Feb 16, 2010 12:51:57 PM CST
The Pillsbury Doughboy couldn't enjoy the Avatar Imax Experience
by stabby
because he couldn't stop giggling through the movie due to members of the audience poking his tummy.
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Oh, yeah...
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not much activity and given the subject..i dont think there will be...
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i grabbed him and took him to the refreshment stand and made him into a pretzel and cooked him...nobody talks during a Cam film--nobody!
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Virgin fresh
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Virgin fresh
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Onward!
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i hope youre not afraid of venturing into our newest quest...see you there...
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Thank you water for the beatlepost. bloody stars
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hate the Cusack-talking-straight-to-camera stuff. Why break the 4th when you've set up such a cool little world? Should've been V.O. or some shit.
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