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Capone's Art-House Round-Up with the TROLL 2 doc BEST WORST MOVIE and the eerie CROPSEY!!!
Hey, folks. Capone in Chicago here, with a couple of films that are making their way into art houses around America this week (maybe even taking up one whole screen at a multiplex near you). Do your part to support these films, or at least the good ones…
BEST WORST MOVIE
I've seen hundreds upon hundreds of making-of documentaries or docs about the impact a historic film has had on culture, but I have never seen a movie quite like BEST WORST MOVIE. This festival-circuit favorite for more than a year is actually two movies: one is a making-of feature concerning the 1989 cult phenomenon known as TROLL 2, a film that is neither a proper sequel to TROLL nor a film that features any trolls (but it has lots and lots of goblins). The other part of the film is more difficult to qualify, but it shows how that films' resurgence at midnight shows (at places such as the Alamo Drafthouse in Austin and the Music Box Theatre in Chicago--both of which are featured in the BEST WORST MOVIE) has changed the lives of the people who acted in and made the film originally.
I'll admit, I never held a deep fascination with TROLL 2 until shortly before this documentary surfaced, but there are those who know and recite its every line and worship the non-sensical insanity that it embodies. They also willingly cringe at some of the worst acting from a troupe of Utah actors that star in the movie, including BEST WORST MOVIE director Michael Paul Stephenson (who plays young Joshua in TROLL 2). The making-of portion of the film is pretty great, especially when the focus falls on Italian director and co-writer Claudio Fragasso, who refuses to see anything but the greatness in his work. And you know what? Good for him. The man is an artist, and he's proud of what he's accomplished even if the rest of the world thinks its godawful. But the real star of the both films is George Hardy (who played Michael in TROLL 2), a dentist with a magnetic personality and the ability to laugh at himself and the one film he ever made in a way that makes you love him even more. Hardy and Stephenson seek out all of the main cast member for a big reunion screening, and what they find is the heart and soul of the movie.
BEST WORST MOVIE is also the most honest and somewhat sobering look at what happens when such actors do the convention circuit and hit a town where they are simply not known (an appearance at a huge UK Con is downright depressing). Whenever I go to a con and see an actor or noted figure sitting alone at a booth, sometimes for hours, I try to imagine what that feels like to them. This film captures those moments of rejection like poetry. But mostly, this movie is about fun. It takes a look at the practice of falling in love with terrible, but highly watchable movies, and it profiles fans and filmmakers who breathe life back into these masterpieces of awful. And for the record, BEST WORST MOVIE is not so bad it's good; it's just plain good. In fact, it's exceptional.
If you live in Chicago, the film opens today at the Music Box Theatre. Filmmakers Michael Paul Stephenson and George Hardy will be appearing at the 9:45pm showings of BEST WORST MOVIE on Friday and Saturday, after which audience members can stay for a special midnight screening of TROLL 2.
CROPSEY
A film festival circuit favorite for most of the last year, this excellent true-crime doc actually managed to scare me one or two times while filmmakers Barbara Brancaccio and Joshua Zeman search the woods of Staten Island (the borough that time forgot) for clues to the mystery of a handful of mostly special needs children gone missing over the decades near an abandoned mental hospital. The film examines the elements that make up an urban myth about a child-kidnapping creepy old guy, and turn the myth into a reality that got him locked up for decades with absolutely nothing but circumstantial evidence and unreliable witnesses.
Believe me when I say I'm not trying to fool you into seeing yet another faux horror documentary, like THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT, THE LAST BROADCAST, PARANORMAL ACTIVITY, or the upcoming release THE LAST EXORCISM (all fine films in their own right). No, CROPSEY is a 100 percent legit documentary that is structured like a gripping exposé on fear mongering in a closed-minded community. Its scares are genuine, even if they occur almost accidentally.
The entire film is genuinely creepy and disturbing, especially the unsubstantiated belief that former mental patients still roam the woods and live in the underground catacombs beneath the hospital, or that a seemingly limitless number of Satanists live in Staten Island. (Actually, looking at all the track suits in play here, I could believe the latter.) The bottom line on CROPSEY is that it works as both a mystery that can never be solved and a profile of a community shaped by its own collective fears. And the cast of characters is so colorful and ridiculous that you couldn't cast actors to play them any better than they play themselves. This is a great little movie, which is slowly making its way across the country and is now available nationwide on Video-On-Demand until August 12 through most major operators.
-- Capone
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It continues to play here every single day on AICN talkbacks.
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Blair Witch a fine film? Seriously?I'd love to hear your take on it, but I was bored out of my mind during that one. people sticking camcorders up their noses and telling you they're scared is about as scary as celery to me.
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Blair Witch a fine film? Seriously?I'd love to hear your take on it, but I was bored out of my mind during that one. people sticking camcorders up their noses and telling you they're scared is about as scary as celery to me.
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Michael Stephenson and George Hardy signed my VHS copy of Troll 2 at the LA premiere!
I totally agree that Best Worst Movie was exceptional. I'm just hoping for a VHS release of the doc. -
August 13, I believe.
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August 13, I believe.
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They're eating her... and then they're going to eat me!? OH MY GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWD!!!
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Another great cult classic is Silent Night Deadly Night 2... that rampage scene is fucking classic bonkers bullshit. I even got my fiancée yelling, "GARBAGE DAY," all crazy when ever we get the trash together... Man we are weird.
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Deborah Reed stole TROLL 2 with a fit of overacting that managed to somehow balance out all the non-acting by the predominantly rural, Mormon cast.
She was like a one-person ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. And that's before the infamous "corn seduction" sequence... -
in that round up of fake movies trying to pretend they are real.
Did you know that some fucking numpties are STILL editing that movies wikipedia page on a regular basis, editing out all references to it being fake, deleting all references to the poorly executed viral marketing?
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It's not a "good" bad movie, it just sucks. I actually think the first Troll is more fun to goof on.
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I've been looking for a torrent of that one since last year to no avail.
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Speaking of bad movies, check out my fan site dedicated to "Poltergeist III.":
http://tiny.cc/37x7c
(it's actually a site dedicated to the whole series-click on the left hand links to get to parts I and II). From one of the blogger quotes on my site:
"Cause when you break it down, Poltergeist III (1988) is all kinds of lousy. Somehow, though, all the crappy elements come together to create a work of magically enjoyable crap. In other words, The crappy sum is not nearly as crappy as the crappy parts."
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I was around 5 or 6 when the events covered in Cropsey were happening. Until this movie came out, I had forgotten about this story, save for that when I was a little kid people used to tell us Cropsey ghost stories at summer camp that scared the shit out of me. But seriously, can we please, please, PLEASE stop calling the place "the boro that time forgot?" It's actually more like living in an episode of the Sopranos, as indicated by all the track suits. Or we can also call it "the boro with the best pizza" because that is also true.
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If you love "Troll 2", you gotta watch it with Rifftrax. There's some piss-your-pants funny stuff.
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As lynchmob17 sez, the Rifftrax commentary helps...
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OH... MY... GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!
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this new 2nd run movie theatre opened up in Duluth, MINN (twon next to me) and has been playing great flicks, showed that doc on a friday and Troll 2 on Sat
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The Munchies, Mac and Me, The Timewalker, Garbage Pail Kids the Movie, The Video Dead. There are lots of bad movies, that can go toe to toe with this movie, although... "Their eating her, and then their gonna eat me.... Ohhhhh My Gooooooooooooooooooood!!!!!" That's pure gold. Whatever happened to JCB's remake of Troll. Wonder if they can still call the kid Harry Potter Jr?
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Jul 31, 2010 8:08:29 AM CDT
Docs about movies with kids pissing on the dinner table
by tikidonkeypunch
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ive seen the first troll..but never part 2..which i hear has no relevance to the first part..
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Peace out, y'all.
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Just on a side not buddy. Its cool you kept the torch going on the referred Films especially since we didn't even get an inductee this month. Just don't make this stuff so much of a chore it becomes a nuisance to you. You got Tard'd and I'm sure tons of other stuff going on. I start to feel a certain level of responsibility when writing a story like Floaters or Daysiders so I know how it can be some times. I also worry about burn out (I suspect it is what happened with Subby).
I can sit here and thank you over and over but in the end we are all just words on a screen.
I hope you just enjoy doing it and you WANT to be the Cooler King.
Guys like you and moose and ST keep this thing that much cooler but I would never want you guys to look at it like a job. Keep up the good work fellas. Its about the Pebrews. -
no i had fun doing the cooler king duties..it was funny when my wife asked me what i was doing with construction paper and markers, logging all the votes...i was outta town and didnt have access to a computer, just my iphone with your emails...and a spreadsheet with some ballots on it..the perplexed look on my wifes face though, made it all worthwhile..shame that none got in this month..but i have optimism this month..im thinking KUBRICK is gonna have two films before james cameron has one.
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I'm stuck on Blow Up cause i have never heard of it
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I went to high school in Utah so I've had my fair share of Mormons.
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someone had a simupo in last TB I must record. Thanks!
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KING KONG (1933) and DR STRANGELOVE
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Y'all are doing 's work.
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I think it makes it a bit easier splitting up the tasks between myself, Sixes, and moose.
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Well the good Dr. has my vote no discussion necessary. What a brilliant film. Sellers and Kubrick......nuff said.
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Michelangelo Antonioni's "Blow-Up" opened in America two months before I became a film critic, and colored my first years on the job with its lingering influence. It was the opening salvo of the emerging "film generation," which quickly lined up outside "Bonnie and Clyde," "Weekend," "Battle of Algiers," "Easy Rider" and "Five Easy Pieces." It was the highest-grossing art film to date, was picked as the best film of 1967 by the National Society of Film Critics, and got Oscar nominations for screenplay and direction. Today, you rarely hear it mentioned.
Young audiences aren't interested any more in a movie about a "trendy" London photographer who may or may not have witnessed a murder, who lives a life of cynicism and ennui, and who ends up in a park at dawn, watching college kids play tennis with an imaginary ball. The twentysomethings who bought tickets for "Blow-Up" are now focused on ironic, self-referential slasher movies. Americans flew to "swinging London" in the 1960s; today's Londoners pile onto the charter jets to Orlando.
Over three days recently, I revisited "Blow-Up" in a shot-by-shot analysis. Freed from the hype and fashion, it emerges as a great film, if not the one we thought we were seeing at the time. This was at the 1998 Virginia Festival of American Film in Charlottesville, which had "Cool" as its theme. The festival began with the emergence of the Beat Generation and advanced through Cassavetes to "Blow-Up"--after which the virus of Cool leaped from its nurturing subculture into millions of willing new hosts, and has colored our society ever since, right down to and manifestly including "South Park."
Watching "Blow-Up" once again, I took a few minutes to acclimate myself to the loopy psychedelic colors and the tendency of the hero to use words like "fab" ("Austin Powers" brilliantly lampoons the era). Then I found the spell of the movie settling around me. Antonioni uses the materials of a suspense thriller without the payoff. He places them within a London of heartless fashion photography, groupies, bored rock audiences, languid pot parties, and a hero whose dead soul is roused briefly by a challenge to his craftsmanship.
The movie stars David Hemmings, who became a 1960s icon after this performance as Thomas, a hot young photographer with a Beatles haircut, a Rolls convertible and "birds" hammering on his studio door for a chance to pose and put out for him. The depths of his spiritual hunger are suggested in three brief scenes involving a neighbor (Sarah Miles), who lives with a painter across the way. He looks at her as if she alone could heal his soul (and may have once done so), but she's not available. He spends his days in tightly scheduled photo shoots (the model Verushka plays herself, and there's a group shoot involving grotesque mod fashions), and his nights visiting flophouses to take pictures that might provide a nice contrast in his book of fashion photography.
Thomas wanders into a park and sees, at a distance, a man and a woman. Are they struggling? Playing? Flirting? He snaps a lot of photos. The woman (Vanessa Redgrave) runs after him. She desperately wants the film back. He refuses her. She tracks him to his studio, takes off her shirt, wants to seduce him and steal the film. He sends her away with the wrong roll. Then he blows up his photos, and in the film's brilliantly edited centerpiece, he discovers that he may have photographed a murder.
Antonioni cuts back and forth between the photos and the photographer--using closer shots and larger blowups, until we see arrangements of light and shadow, dots and blurs, that may show--what? He is interrupted by two girls who have been pestering him all day, and engages in wild sex play as they roll around in crumpled backdrop paper. Then his eyes return to his blowups, he curtly sends them away, he makes more prints, and in the grainy, almost abstract blowups it appears that the woman is looking toward some bushes, there is a gunman there, and perhaps in one photo we see the man lying on the ground. Perhaps not.
Thomas returns to the park, and does actually see the man lying dead on the ground. Curiously, many writers say the photographer is not sure if he sees a body, but he is. What's unclear is whether he witnessed a murder. The audience understandably shares his interpretation of the photos, but another scenario is plausible: Redgrave wanted the photos because she was having an adulterous affair, her gray-haired lover dropped dead, she fled the park in a panic, and his body by the next morning had simply been discovered and removed. (The possibility of a scandalous affair plays off the Profumo scandal, in which a cabinet minister was linked to a call girl; the analysis of the photographs recalls the obsession with the Zapruder film.)
Whether there was a murder isn't the point. The film is about a character mired in ennui and distaste, who is roused by his photographs into something approaching passion. As Thomas moves between his darkroom and the blowups, we recognize the bliss of an artist lost in what behaviorists call the Process; he is not thinking now about money, ambition or his own nasty personality defects, but is lost in his craft. His mind, hands and imagination work in rhythmic sync. He is happy.
Later, all his gains are taken back. The body and the photographs disappear. So does Redgrave. (There is an uncanny scene where he sees her standing outside a club, and then she turns and takes a few steps and simply disappears into thin air. At Virginia, we ran the sequence a frame at a time and could not discover the method of her disappearance; presumably she steps into a doorway, but we watched her legs, and they seemed somehow to attach themselves to another body.)
In the famous final sequence, back in the park, Thomas encounters university students who were in the film's first scene. (These figures were described as "white-faced clowns" in Pauline Kael's pan of the film, but a British audience would have known they were participating in the ritual known as "rag," in which students dress up and roar around town raising money for charity.) They play tennis with an imaginary ball. The photographer pretends he can see the ball. We hear the sounds of tennis on the soundtrack. Then the photographer wanders away across the grass and, from one frame to the next, disappears--like the corpse.
Antonioni has described the disappearance of his hero as his "signature." It reminds us too of Shakespeare's Prospero, whose actors "were all spirits, and are melted into air." "Blow-Up" audaciously involves us in a plot that promises the solution to a mystery, and leaves us lacking even its players.
There were of course obvious reasons for the film's great initial success. It became notorious for the orgy scene involving the groupies; it was whispered that one could actually see pubic hair (this was only seven years after similar breathless rumors about Janet Leigh's breasts in "Psycho"). The decadent milieu was enormously attractive at the time. Parts of the film have flip-flopped in meaning. Much was made of the nudity in 1967, but the photographer's cruelty toward his models was not commented on; today, the sex seems tame, and what makes the audience gasp is the hero's contempt for women.
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On good days I consider "Citizen Kane" the seminal film of the sound era, but on bad days it is "King Kong." That is not to say I dislike "King Kong," which, in this age of technical perfection, uses its very naivete to generate a kind of creepy awe. It's simply to observe that this low-rent monster movie, and not the psychological puzzle of "Kane," pointed the way toward the current era of special effects, science fiction, cataclysmic destruction, and nonstop shocks. "King Kong" is the father of "Jurassic Park," the "Alien" movies and countless other stories in which heroes are terrified by skillful special effects. A movie like "Silence of the Lambs," which finds its evil in a man's personality, seems humanistic by contrast.
I've seen "King Kong" (1933) many times, most memorably in its re-release in the 1950s, when it did indeed scare me. In recent years I have focused on the remarkable special effects, based by Willis O'Brien and others on his f/x work in "The Lost World" (1925) but achieving a sophistication and beauty that eclipsed anything that went before. The movie plunders every trick in the book to create its illusions, using live action, back projection, stop-motion animation, miniatures, models, matte paintings and sleight-of-hand. And it is not stingy with the effects; after a half-hour of lumbering dialogue and hammy acting, the movie introduces Kong and rarely cuts away from sequences requiring one kind of trickery or another.
But "King Kong" is more than a technical achievement. It is also a curiously touching fable in which the beast is seen, not as a monster of destruction, but as a creature that in its own way wants to do the right thing. Unlike the extraterrestrial spiders in the "Alien" pictures, which embody single-minded aggression, Kong cares for his captive human female, protects her, attacks only when provoked, and would be perfectly happy to be left alone on his Pacific Island. It is the greed of a Hollywood showman that unleashes Kong's rage, and anyone who thinks to exhibit the beast on a New York stage in front of a live audience deserves what he gets--indeed, more than he gets.
The movie was directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest Scheodsack, and produced by them with the legendary David O. Selznick, then head of RKO Radio Pictures. Selznick took little credit for the film, saying his key contribution was to put O'Brien's f/x techniques together with Cooper and Schoedsack's story ideas.
Although it has the scope and feel of an expensive epic, "Kong" had a relatively moderate budget of about $600,000. Sequences that would take weeks these days--such as when Kong shakes a log to dislodge the men clinging to it--were done in two days, and the giant wall that separates the island villagers from the monster was a set originally built as the Temple of Jerusalem for Cecil B. DeMille's "King of Kings" (1927). Although Fay Wray had been in movies since 1923 and was a B-list star, her leading man, Bruce Cabot, was appearing in his first picture after having been spotted by Cooper as the doorman in a Hollywood club.
The story is not sophisticated. A movie director (Robert Armstrong) hires a ship, recruits his leading lady from off the streets of New York at the last moment, and sails for a mysterious Pacific island he heard about in Singapore. The island contains a legendary giant ape, which he hopes to use as the star of his movie. Fay Wray plays Ann Darrow, Kong's co-star, and Cabot is the sailor who falls in love with her and saves her from Kong.
Modern viewers will shift uneasily in their seats during the stereotyping of the islanders in a scene where a bride is to be sacrificed to Kong (it is rare to see a coconut brassiere in a non-comedy), but from the moment Kong appears on the screen the movie essentially never stops for breath. In an astonishing outpouring of creative energy, O'Brien and his collaborators (including RKO's legendary visual effects artist Linwood Dunn and sound man Murray Spivack) show Kong in battle with two dinosaurs, a giant snake, a flying reptile and a Tyrannosaurus rex. Later, in New York, he will climb to the top of the Empire State Building and bat down a biplane with his bare hand.
The visual techniques are explained by film historian Ron Haver, whose commentary track on the 1985 Criterion laser disc was one of the first ever recorded. He is amusing in describing how some live-action scenes were miniaturized to make the Kong model look larger; searching for the right screen to project them on, the filmmakers hit on a screen made of condoms, to the consternation of a nearby druggist who could not understand their orders for a gross at a time. Haver also observes how Kong's fur seems to crawl during several scenes; the model was covered with rabbit fur, and the fingers of the stop-action animators disturbed it between every stop-action shot. The effect, explained by the filmmakers as "muscles rippling," is oddly effective. (When a DVD of "King Kong" is finally issued, Turner Pictures would be wise to recycle the Haver commentary.)
From the moment of its making, "King Kong" fell under the censors' scissors. Cooper himself removed one notorious sequence after the world premiere: The men shaken from the log fell into a chasm where they were devoured by giant spiders, but the effect ''stopped the picture in its tracks,'' people walked out, and Cooper cut it. Another scene was taken out after the Motion Picture Code came into being. It shows Kong curiously removing some of Wray's clothes, tickling her, and sniffing his fingers. Closeups of humans being crunched between Kong's jaws were also cut for various versions, but now the movie is intact again--except for the spiders.
How terrifying was it, really? Variety's original 1933 review conceded that "after the audience becomes used to the machinelike movements and other mechanical flaws in the gigantic animals on view, and become accustomed to the phony atmosphere, they may commence to feel the power." The showbiz Bible Variety complained, however, "it's a film-long screaming session for [Wray], too much for any actress and any audience." Yes, but nobody has ever forgotten that performance. (At a Hollywood party in 1972, I saw Hugh Hefner introduced to Fay Wray. "I loved your movie," he told her. "Which one?" she asked.)
Variety then and now was hard to impress, but my guess, based upon my first viewing as a teenager, is that audiences found it plenty scary. In modern times the movie has aged, as critic James Berardinelli observes, and "advances in technology and acting have dated aspects of the production." Yes, but in the very artificiality of some of the special effects, there is a creepiness that isn't there in today's slick, flawless, computer-aided images.
In "Jurassic Park" you are looking, more or less, at a real dinosaur. In "King Kong," you are looking at an idea of a dinosaur, created by hand by technicians who are working with their imaginations. When Kong battles the large flesh-eating dinosaur in his first big battle scene, there is a moment when he forces its jaws apart, and the bones crack, and blood drips from the gaping throat, and something immediate happens that is hard to duplicate on any computer.
There are of course questions we cannot help asking. Haver asks one: Why did the natives build a door in their wall, so that Kong could come through? Common sense asks another: How tall is Kong, really? (The filmmakers take poetic license: He's 18 feet tall on the island, 24 feet on stage, 50 feet on the Empire State Building.) Even allowing for its slow start, wooden acting and wall-to-wall screaming, there is something ageless and primeval about "King Kong" that still somehow works.
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It makes sense.
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Every time you see a great film, you find new things in it. Viewing Stanley Kubrick's ``Dr. Strangelove'' for perhaps the 10th time, I discovered what George C. Scott does with his face. His performance is the funniest thing in the movie--better even than the inspired triple performance by Peter Sellers or the nutjob general played by Sterling Hayden--but this time I found myself paying special attention to the tics and twitches, the grimaces and eyebrow archings, the sardonic smiles and gum-chewing, and I enjoyed the way Scott approached the role as a duet for voice and facial expression.
That can be dangerous for an actor. Directors often ask actors to underplay closer shots, because too much facial movement translates into mugging or overacting. Billy Wilder once asked Jack Lemmon for ``a little less'' so many takes in a row that Lemmon finally exploded: ``Whaddya want! Nothing?'' Lemmon recalls that Wilder raised his eyes to heaven: ``Please God!'' Kubrick, whose attention to the smallest detail in every frame was obsessive, would have been aware of George C. Scott's facial gymnastics, and yet he endorsed them, and when you watch ``Strangelove'' you can see why.
Scott's work is hidden in plain view. His face here is so plastic and mobile it reminds you of Jerry Lewis or Jim Carrey (in completely different kinds of movies). Yet you don't consciously notice his expressions because Scott sells them with the energy and conviction of his performance. He means what he says so urgently that the expressions accompany his dialogue instead of distracting from it. Consider the scene where his character, Gen. Buck Turgidson, is informing the president that it is quite likely a B-52 bomber will be able to fly under Russian radar and deliver its payload even though the entire Soviet air force knows where the plane is headed. ``He can barrel in that baby so low!'' Scott says, with his arms spread wide like wings, and his head shaking in admiration at how good his pilots are--so good one of them is about to bring an end to civilization.
Another actor, waving his arms around, might look absurd. Scott embodies the body language so completely that it simply plays as drama (and comedy). In another scene, scurrying around the War Room, he slips, falls to a knee, rights himself, and carries on. Kubrick the perfectionist left the unplanned slip in the film, because Scott made it seem convincing, and not an accident.
``Dr. Strangelove'' (1964) is filled with great comic performances, and just as well, because there's so little else in the movie apart from faces, bodies and words. Kubrick shot it on four principal locations (an office, the perimeter of an Air Force base, the ``War Room,'' and the interior of a B-52 bomber). His special effects are competent but not dazzling (we are obviously looking at model planes over Russia). The War Room, one of the most memorable of movie interiors, was created by Ken Adam out of a circular desk, a ring of lights, some back-projected maps, and darkness. The headquarters of Gen. Jack D. Ripper, the haywire Air Force general, is just a room with some office furniture in it.
Yet out of these rudimentary physical props and a brilliant screenplay (which Kubrick and Terry Southern based on a novel by Peter George), Kubrick made what is arguably the best political satire of the century, a film that pulled the rug out from under the Cold War by arguing that if a ``nuclear deterrent'' destroys all life on Earth, it is hard to say exactly what it has deterred.
``Dr. Strangelove's'' humor is generated by a basic comic principle: People trying to be funny are never as funny as people trying to be serious and failing. The laughs have to seem forced on unwilling characters by the logic of events. A man wearing a funny hat is not funny. But a man who doesn't know he's wearing a funny hat ... ah, now you've got something.
The characters in ``Dr. Strangelove'' do not know their hats are funny. The film begins with Gen. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) fondling a phallic cigar while launching an unauthorized nuclear strike against Russia. He has become convinced that the commies are poisoning ``the purity and essence of our natural fluids'' by adding fluoride to the water supply. (Younger viewers may not know that in the 1950s this was a widespread belief.) Ripper's nuclear strike, his cigar technique and his concern for his ``precious bodily fluids'' are so entwined that they inspire unmistakable masturbatory associations.
The only man standing between Ripper and nuclear holocaust is a British liaison, Group Captain Mandrake (Sellers), who listens with disbelief to Rippers' rantings. Meanwhile, Ripper's coded message goes out to airborne B-52s to launch an attack against Russia. A horrified President Muffley (Sellers again) convenes his advisers in the War Room and is informed by Turgidson, bit by reluctant bit, of the enormity of the situation: The bombers are on the way, they cannot be recalled, Gen. Ripper cannot be reached, and so on. Eventually, Muffley calls the Russian premiere to confess everything (``Dimitri, we have a little problem ... '').
Other major players include the sinister strategist Dr. Strangelove (Sellers a third time), a character whose German accent now evokes Henry Kissinger, although in 1964 nuclear think-tanker Herman Kahn was the likely target. Strangelove's black-gloved right hand is an unruly weapon with a will of its own, springing into Nazi salutes and trying to throttle Strangelove to death. Action in the War Room and on the Air Force base is intercut with the B-52 cockpit, ruled by Major T.J. ``King'' Kong (Slim Pickens); when he's told by his radio man that the order to attack has come through, he tells them, ``No horsin' around on the airplane!''
Major Kong was intended to be Sellers' fourth role, but he was uncertain about the cowboy accent. Pickens, a character actor from westerns, was brought in by Kubrick, who reportedly didn't tell him the film was a comedy. Pickens' patriotic speeches to his crew (and his promises of promotion and medals) are counterpoint to the desperate American efforts to recall the flight.
I've always thought the movie ends on an unsure note. After the first nuclear blast, Kubrick cuts back to the War Room, where Strangelove muses that deep mines could be used to shelter survivors, whose descendants could return to the surface in 90 years (Turgidson is intrigued by the 10-to-1 ratio of women to men). Then the film abruptly ends in its famous montage of many mushroom clouds, while Vera Lynn sings ``We'll Meet Again.``
It seems to me there should be no more dialogue after the first blast; Strangelove's survival strategy could be moved up to just before Slim Pickens' famous bareback ride to oblivion. I realize there would be a time lapse while Russian missiles responded to the attack, but I think the film would be more effective if the original blast brought an end to all further story developments. (Kubrick originally planned to end the film with a pie fight, and a table laden with pies can be seen in the background of the War Room, but he wisely realized that his purpose was satire, not slapstick.)
``Dr. Strangelove'' and ``2001: A Space Odyssey'' (1968) are Kubrick's masterpieces. The two films share a common theme: Man designs machinery that functions with perfect logic to bring about a disastrous outcome. The U.S. nuclear deterrent and the Russian ``doomsday machine'' function exactly as they are intended, and destroy life on earth. The computer HAL 9000 serves the space mission by attacking the astronauts.
Stanley Kubrick himself was a perfectionist who went to obsessive lengths in order to get everything in his films to work just right. He owned his own cameras and sound and editing equipment. He often made dozens of takes of the same shot. He was known to telephone projectionists to complain about out-of-focus screenings. Are his two best films a nudge in his own ribs?
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its prolly the one least seen..so that might be the one in need of a boost.anyone down for a DR STRANGELOVE liveblog midmonth?
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...full of 18 wheelers...
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Wright is kind of a douche/rapscallion
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Aug 02, 2010 9:38:44 AM CDT
...I hate to be plebeian, but I think I'll wait for some...
by flickapoo
...good Pebrew reviews on BLOW UP. I pretty intensely don't want to watch it.
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watch out flick..and use your blinkers.
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I'll cop to having no idea about the in's/out's
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its a film i watched in college..one more to respect and appreciate than to like..i dont have to watch it on a regular basis if you catch my drift.
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I ducked out last night and crashed.
Yeah, I'd be up for a live blogging of Dr. Strangelove, Sixes. Appreciate the Ebert summaries. Always a good read.
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Why no watchy? I don't wanna do all the heavy lifting. I'm going in totally green.
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we meet up at a certain time and sync the start of a film and then blog our comments..we did one for ALIENS..usually its a film that weve all seen before so as not to ruin the experience..a BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA or BUCKAROO BANZAI might be in order some day..
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...with a straight face...well, I can't be responsible for my actions...
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so queue em up or reserve at the library!!as hicks says..its the only way to be sure.
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first time for everything..
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Correct me if I'm wrong......is Blow Up a film nom'd by either Subs or Conti? Not for nothin but we prolly got a number of films selected by pebrews no longer involved. Sixies little brief didn't pique my interest either.
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each day they are playing the films of a certain star...its called SUMMER UNDER THE STARS
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Aug 02, 2010 9:51:02 AM CDT
...I might, Mac. The real trouble is that it's difficult...
by flickapoo
...to get work, exercise, kid to bed, and dinner wrapped up with enough time left over to watch a movie these days...windows of opportunity are precious. And I'm not seeing one thing that appeals to me in BLOW UP.
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...BOOBIES!
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I could have sworn DS was available to stream.
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we cant start thinking that way..they may or may not come back in time..who knows?but the point is..they were nominated and at least three people got them to where they are..if they arent here to get them into the Pantheon, so be it..but we cant start taking the "arty" films off that we think conti and subs might have firsted..
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...and Blu STRANGELOVE from the library...
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I can always rest assured that I am not gonna be wasting my time. When Blade Runner doesn't make it, you question your sanity.
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regarding streaming. Once a movie/show is streaming, do they ever get rid of it? Like it's only streaming for a bit, then they bring in others to stream?
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with son of kong and mighty joe young for under ten dollars at half price books..
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...from (date) to (date), but I've never encountered it myself. I've never had something bumped off my instant queue because it stopped streaming. And I know that Netflix wants to move in the direction of total streaming...
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yeah i think there is a window..a few months..
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...my queue has been fulluppa for months and months, I've never had a problem.
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I got my sister a roku and she has Dr. Strangelove on it for instant viewing. Just checked and its not. I KNOW she has it though. KNOW IT! *SLAMS FIST*
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Starring Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis.
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...BLOW UP sight unseen. It's just that I have a distaste for certain types of movies, and I've learned over the years that forcing myself only makes it worse.
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I am giving my fellow Pebrews the benefit of the doubt. I just don't wanna start writing of choices with extreme prejudice, as much as i might want to. I had seen all of the last three, it didn't help anyz.
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...grumpy about what an effort it is to watch a movie these days. Nothing to do with BLOW UP at all...I'm just pissy that I see at most four movies a month.
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40" Samsung LCD (model: LN40C630K1F)
I've been so used to 2003 version of HD from my old DLP, that when we first turned the new one on, an HD show blew us away. Plus this new one has 4 HDMI ports, 2 component/composites, 1 RJ-45 (ethernet/LAN) port to hook up to our network and play music/picture/movie files from my computer. Plus a USB port to plug in a thumbdrive or external drive to play music/picture/movie files.
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I have no desire to see BLOW UP either.
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In bold. Hola all. Just heard the word and had to say a quick hello. Gonna be a busy week, so I prolly won't be in verra much. Sometimes I wish I could nuke the LIFE from orbit. It really is the only way to be sure.
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A lot. It's one of those "great films" that deserves the title, but I don't necessarily love it. It's a nice little snapshot (pun intended!) of the arty/mod/fashion scene in mid-Sixties London, and there may or may not be a murder mystery at the center of it all. Oh, and there's this troupe of mimes that Means Something, but I'm not quite sure what it is. Have some ideas, though, and I'm sure there is plenty of writing out there that can fully explain it, but I don't want to read it because I'm comfortable with my personal impressions. I do think I'm due to see it again. Oh, and the Yardbirds are in it, and so is a young, very tasty-looking Vanessa Redgrave.
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we expect extreme PBness when you return to full duty
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...I used to give Harry all kinds of shit for listing old movies newly released on Blu-Ray in his DVD column...but I get it now that I have a half decent system. It's a blast to revisit old favorites you've only ever seen on VHS pan & scan in all their glory.
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Since its made by such a critically acclaimed foreign filmmaker and I think is considered his "if you only see one Antonioni film, see this one" film. Also worth seeing if you're interested in wondering what the fat, long eye-lashed announcer for the Gladiator matches in "Gladiator" looked like when he was a younger, swinging sex symbol in London.
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The Pedalback will do the same, for you.
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... Means Something"...
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Aug 02, 2010 11:24:25 AM CDT
I like the movies that riff on BLOW UP better, though.
by colonelfatheart
Coppola's THE CONVERSATION and DePalma's BLOW OUT.
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then, I can get new blu-rays plus also watch old upconverted dvds. It's a win-win for me. I'm sure my wife will nix that idea.
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...PILLARS OF THE EARTH, then you probably will. It's solid. Strong cast, too.
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Sadly, we don't really watch DVDs much anymore, unless it's a Simpsons DVD or a silly comedy to fall asleep to. If we watch anything on the big TV in the living room, it's usually something HD through OnDemand.
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Is Aliena as hot as I remember her from the novel?
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...but she's growing in me (3 episodes in)...poor girl has a big bodice to fill.
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Aug 02, 2010 11:37:33 AM CDT
I saw a little bit from the quarry scene the other day.
by colonelfatheart
Prior Philip is well cast, and I actually pictured Rufus Sewell as Tom Builder, so I guess they nailed that.
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one in the bedroom.
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Gotta pretty big, HD Mac. But it would drive my DF nuts if I'd spend two or three hours a night watching movies with headphones on and thus ignoring her.
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BLOW UP and THE CONVERSATION... neither one really did much for me.
BLOW OUT on the other hand, I think is probably Travolta's best performance, and really cool direction by De Palma. Plus it has one of the all time great final lines.
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People with headphones on bellowing with laughter.
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Lithgow is so off the fucking rails in that one. But I'm going to continue pushing THE CONVERSATION, too. One of Hackman's best performances. It's really interior, understated stuff, much like the movie itself. Recommended for a double feature with NIGHT MOVES.
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...I do that on the train. The headphones aren't plugged into anything...I just don't want to talk to people.
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Aug 02, 2010 11:52:50 AM CDT
Yeah, and I don't think she'd like it if I watched SALO
by colonelfatheart
as she tried to watch Project Runway or Army Wives or whatever. Our living room is really small. Our big ass HD TV is practically right next to our big ass HD computer monitor.
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...as I slooowly dangle the connected-to-nothing headphones jack in front of them...
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...in your house?
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...are a perfect match.
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"as I slooowly dangle the connected-to-nothing headphones jack in front of them"
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A bunch of scruffy, rail-thin prima donnas bitching at each other as they claw at each other over the last swatch of lace? Now that's fucking torture, man.
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...taking mediocre projects for the money?
I may be about to do exactly that.
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That's what we say every time we work on a shitty job.
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Just whatever you do, don't have a beer and CHEET on your wife. Scary'd be collecting balls like Sayid in PLANET TERROR.
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Amen, Vades. I'm perhaps the biggest of all. And not just because I suck cock for cash.
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Aug 02, 2010 12:11:23 PM CDT
...HA! OK, but I still get to personally call you guys up...
by flickapoo
...crying, right?
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If a shitty reality show were to call me offering the same shitty rates they usually do... I'd take it this time.
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...or the devious villain?
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But I look like the cute one. And I act deviously.
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...to win the million dollars.
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...buying store brand dish-soap again. This stuff is shit.
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It was easy to find you guys. Hope everyone is doing good. I'm at work, configuring some new computers, so doing the boring stuff like updates and standard software installs, blah blah blah.What's goin on around here?
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Store brand is crap, I'd rather buy a 99 cent tiny bottle of Dawn dish soap than 2 bucks on a giant store brand that you have to use twice as much of, it's a waste.
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...but this soap is like trying to wash dishes with olive oil.
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A lot of store brand stuff, at least here by me, is really good quality stuff.....food and non foods. I buy many store brand things, just some things that I will never not buy brand name...ketchup, always Heinz, Mayo, always Hellmans or Kraft (if I must), dish soap, ummm...I know theres more but can't think of what at the moment.
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There's a store brand where my lady works (she works at Walgreens pharmacy) which is not bad...if it doesn't irritate my ass it's ok in my book.Flick...the problem I have with store brand dish soap isn't that it doesn't clean, it cleans ok, but I have to use so damn much of it, there is no point to getting a huge cheap bottle of it when a smaller bottle of Dawn will last longer.
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Aug 02, 2010 1:09:59 PM CDT
...I prefer store brand TP. The fancy stuff is too thick...
by flickapoo
...and fluffy. I like my TP the way I like my sports cars...I like to feel the road, potholes and all. It gives me a sense of control.
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welcome to aradise!
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...I should think so...they don't give the Rogue Leader job to just anyone.
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nice TP analogy
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a fellow IT brother!
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Ty Sixies, great to be here among the cream of the crop here at AICN.Flick....you got that right, took me a while to gain my title, I was getting impatient, almost had to kill that Wedge guy, damn he was a pain in the ass to accept retirement.
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I used to get strange looks from folks when a book would make me laugh out loud (as Christopher Moore does quite often). And then the corker: "That book must be pretty funny." "Actually, I was just getting to the end of it. It's called "Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl. Ever read it?"
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That was one of my favorites growing up as a kid. Loved being an 80's baby for these movies.
Great quote from Munchies "Nobody kills my tropical fish and lives!"
I can't believe that movie was rated PG back in the day.
Was this a sequel to Munchie?
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Aldi is the store just above the dollar store where you have to put a quarter in to use a cart and they dont provide bags at check out.Good TP though. Like Flick said, the brand stuff is so fluffy you get like ten sheets by the time you unroll the thing. Total rip.
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It's a good one. Heads above a couple of the others.
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Yep, a fellow IT man here....glad to be working after being unemployed for so long (almost 2 years) and even though where I am is not exactly a high salary position, it's better than the zero dollars an hour I was getting after the unemployment ran out.You know despite what the fucking RICH politicians think, being on unemployment sucks and it DOES NOT encourage people to sit home on their ass and not get a job. I could not stand being unemployed...well the first month was great but after that...boredom and low self-esteem, I don't recommend it.
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Anne Frank. A classic comedy.
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my ex-wife used to INSIST on cottenelle. That stuff used to leave more behind than it removed. HATED IT. Now I know why so many men keep a book in the bathroom. ;)
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Aug 02, 2010 1:24:02 PM CDT
Rogue, Flick, yeah, I'm usually down with store brand
by colonelfatheart
stuff. I find the store brand raisin bran at Stop N Shop especially great. The dish soap, though ... no thanks.
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That unemployment payments are incentive to stay unemployed. You want to see crime increase, take away unemployment insurance? You want to see the economy wither further, particularly from a demand standpoint, take away unemployment. You want to see families fall apart, take away unemployment.
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...yeah, I like a little abrasive edge too.
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Aug 02, 2010 1:27:28 PM CDT
ive officially stopped holding my breath for harrys review of IN
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he said he would do it after comic-con..nadabut tomorrow is the big day---harrys review of KICKASS!!! (in the DVD column..maybe)
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I'm going thru that unemployment crap currently. Difference is, since I 'opted' for a 'voluntary 2-year sabbatical' in order to keep my insurance benefits, I don't get any pennies. It's pretty suckalicious. The boredom and frustration are definately beginning to creep around the edges. I need to go see Inception again. Soon.
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We get milk, frozen pizzas, and canned goods there most of the time. Cheap (but slowly catching up to the stores. YOu used to get real good deals there a few years ago)
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That legitimately may be the funniest thing I've ever read on AICN.
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rogue. I was unemployed for just over a month. I took a shit job cause I couldn't stand the helpless feeling. Plus my theory was that an employer will hire a guy working over a guy "in between jobs". Problem is..looking for work is a full time job. Doing it while working a shit job SUCKS DICK.
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IS really no different than the name brand...I get their rice chex cereal (called toasted rice squares or something to that effect) they taste no different, if I were to put them both in front of you, no way you could tell one from the other. Their saltines, same thing. Many of Wal Mart's store brand stuff is top quality.I know people say Wal Mart is evil because of how they treat their workers, but I don't work there and if you go for a job there you know their rep going in so sorry, I am not passing up low prices because of that. My wallet is important to me, it's empty enough most of the time as it is.
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and all I see is the white box of the Walmart brand.
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She graduated college, tried for nearly 15 months to get a decent job befitting her degree. Then she lowered her standards. Still nothing. Lowered them again. Still nothing. Now she's a fucking bank teller because at least it's full time and there are benefits. Here's the kicker, though, she was a fucking bank teller when she was in college and even in high school for a bit. She took this job because she thought it'd tide her over until she got a better one, but, as you said, looking for a job is a full-time job in and of itself. Fucking life.
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other than dish soap were it not for my DF. She's brand loyal to a fault.
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between that and Showdown in Little Tokyo, The Crow can wipe with store brand TP.Brandon Lee was primed to explode.
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Colonel...It makes me sick when I see politicians play that card "we wont increase unemployment because it encourages people to not work" said the guy going home in his fucking limo. They tell the unemployed to "go out and get a job" then cut programs that creat jobs. Selfish fucking pricks.Fuzzy...sorry to hear that bro, i got to the point where I was so bored, I looked at my DVD collection (about 500) and did not want to watch any of them, and that's BAD. Problem is I couldn't, and actually still cant do much, as my salary and my lady's salary pay our rent bills and foos with very little left over. But we make the best of it. Last movie I saw in the theaters was Toy Story 3. I hate not having the means to go to the theater, HATE it.Mac....it is a full time job, the worst one you could have. Frustrating, humiliating at times, knocks down your self esteem and self confidence. There was a point where I really felt like a totally worthless person, and stopped looking for work for like two months, it got that bad. There was a point where I had 1 interview in a six month period. Didn't get much better after that, but that was a terrible low to hit.
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It is an aesthetically despairing place. Target at least pretends. Frankly, I just hate shopping at any big box store. Particularly fucking IKEA, with their goddamn rat's maze layout. I'm convinced the Swiss are just experimenting with us and IKEA is just the manifestation of it.
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hummus, no. Wal Marts fruit is actually better than the high end stores or the public market. I have tried everything. WAL MARRRRRRRRRRRT!
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I can spend all fucking day in there because of the books. Still, I'll take the independent book store in Montclair over any Barnes and Noble any day.
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Damn I love that flick. I always get sad watching Brandon Lee, had he not died, when The Crow came out, dude would have been fucking huge.I was watching Dragon The Bruce Lee Story a few weeks ago, I could watch the last 10 mins of that movie and always weep at the end, especially in the credits when you see the dedication to Brandon, always gets me. Named my youngest son after him.It was weird, when he died, it affected me in a way that was very odd, it was like someone I knew had died. When I saw his smiling face on the cover of People magazine with the headline Dying Young, I seriously started to cry. To this day, cannot figure out why it so deeply affected me.
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...semesters was fucking great.
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people shit all over Wal-Mart 'cause of all their deals with furrin' kuntries (see: China)...but you can't beat low prices in days like these. I don't like shopping there in principal, but I can't afford my principles at the moment. Stupid principles.
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We dont have Super Wal Marts in NY because of the whole union thing, Wal Mart wont do unions and in NY supermarkets must be union, so that kinda sucks because the Wal Mart supermarkets are damn awesome, been to them in other states. But the Wal Mart I go to has an extensive grocery section so I buy all I can there and get the rest at the adjoining supermarket.
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I won't go to just any Wal-Mart. The one in the stix is nearly brand new. The one near the city is known as Fallujah in my house
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My sentiments exactly, I don't have the means to afford principles, so I gotta keep on with the Wal Marting.
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Like from 'The State': "Doug, I don't wanna be your princi-PULL, I wanna be your princi-PAL."
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But I take the extra 10 minute trip to Wal Mart, their prices are just better. Target may be a bit classier, but class is another thing I cannot afford.Grrrrrrr I can't wait to actually be able to live. Right now I am just surviving, all I want is to live, comfortably.
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thats rough on you Downstate folks.
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and I'm outta heeeeeeeeere.
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and get a couple of powerball numbers. My best frieds live about 15 minutes from the state line, whereas I am just about smack-dab in the heart of Alabama; I get up there at least every other weekend as a break from life. They live in the COUNTRY. Nestled up snugly with state park land, so it's pretty sparsely populated. It's also pretty sparse as far as wireless service, etc, but you make your trade-offs for a quiet kinda life.
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teens and 'dults don't mix. And don't think I'm gonna start having sex in my own bed and not behind the quickie-mart just because you said I could. Whatever man! Foget it! I'm outta...I'm outta....I'm outta he-eee-eeere.
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seedy types, dazed, indifferent employees and filth. The Target nearest me, on the other hand, is a real clusterfuck to get to, the parking lot is always full, and there are idiots galore. I just hate shopping, particularly in North Jersey. It's impossible to have a pleasant shopping experience up here. Getting to the stores is perilous and shopping without interference by some distracted idiot or their unsupervised kid is impossible.
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but you can bargain wit' me, and I can bargain wit' God. Man, The State is a treasure. How I miss it.
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you have that problem too?i hate looking at ll my flicks and passing on most of them...
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on the State?
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I have the DVD set. THE STATE anytime I want it! Boooo-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaa!
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It and its parking lot, on an average day, are like Christmas shopping season at other malls further south in Jersey. During Christmas shopping season, though, that Paramus mall is like the black hole of Calcutta.
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worth of puddin' Awwwwww, yeah! That ain't no couch, that ain't no sofa......that's a LOOOOOOVE seat.
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What's that Levon? It says 'cook....and then chill'. And that's what I do every night baby. I cook......and then I chill. Awwwwwww yeah.
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...because after shopping there you're so depressed that you curl up and stop eating and drinking for at least 48 hours.
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Yup, happens even now sometimes, I will just go thru everything and not want to watch anything. It does not happen often, but never the less puzzles me when it does.
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office scenes in JOE VS THE VOLCANO. Still, I don't begrudge you guys shopping there. I'd do it myself if I had to.
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I'm in that zone right now. Hell, I have a couple of things I HAVEN'T EVEN WATCHED YET, and I just look at 'em and go....'Ehhhhnnn, nah.' Whaddafuck?
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That's its real name. Right at the intersection of Routes 17 and 4, two of the most clusterfucked roads in the Northeast. There are no pleasant strolls through that mall. By the time you get there, you want to chainsaw-fuck some mannequins. Oh, and there's an IKEA just hundreds of feet away.
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Yea, I'm on Long Island dude sucks here sometimes, so many rules.
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Whereabouts, if you don't mind me asking. My fiancee has family out there, so we're often driving out to visit. It's like a slightly more expensive version of North Jersey.
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...the lights give me a headache. If the lights don't give you a headache
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and it wasn't a picnic. Felt weird around people that had jobs.
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I absolutely dread, just because it looks and feels like a prison. Target at least tries for some feng shui.
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...I can't imagine, but now I know. Fear. Yellow freakin' fear. I've been too chicken shit afraid to live my life so I sold it to you for 300 freakin' dollars a week!
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MC HAMMER enters the MMA ring..
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Aug 02, 2010 2:08:43 PM CDT
...I haven't been to a mall in years, but I do kinda miss...
by flickapoo
...all those bouncy Jersey Italian/Jewish mall girls.
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Once.I have only been to Monmouth Mall in NJ. My grandmother lives in Atlantic Highlands so that was the closest I think. I found it to be a bit of a zoo.
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to make a name for herself in the business.Good luck honey. I'll be watching.
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which isn't any better than wal-mart.
You have to prep yourself for the questions.
me: "We'll take that tv."
Best Buy: "Ok, so let me ask you. How are you hooking up your devices? Like DVD players, game systems?"
Me: "I have all the necessary cables, thanks."
BB: "Oh, ok. What about your cable/satellite stuff?"
Me: "We get over the air."
BB: "Oh. Well, they say to make sure you have the proper surge protector....." I let him do his spiel.
Me: "I have the proper surge protector."
BB: "Uh, ok, I'll just take you to customer service to check you out."
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That place is Disneyland compared to Garden State Plaza.
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Levittown is where I am at, in Nassau County.
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Just got a call from my mechanic, what i thought was gonna be about $300, is going to be more like $1000....I cannot fucking win. Good thing a buddy of mine is picking up the tab and letting me pay him back. Fucking balls, can't seem to catch a break.
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Massapequa.
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I once brought my car in for a $350 service appointment. Ended up costing me $900.
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my wife's car could see a similar price tag.
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Home of the great All American Burger....was on Hamburger Paradise on the Travel Channel...awesome burgers. Also home of the Baldwin boys.Colonel....as much as it blows, I got the car for way under its value when I bought it ($600, worth probably $1400-$1600 at the time) so actually it's kind of a balancing out thing, but it comes at a time when I am financially strapped, and am in debt to yet another person, bad enough I owe my mother, sister, and.....uggghhhh the ex-wife's husband money (don't ask lol), now a friend. He is really cool about it and knows my situation, but still I feel bad that he is laying out all this money when I told him it was only gonna be a few hundred. Nice to have good friends that can help you out when you need it.Now I just wanna go home and get high, but alas another luxury I cannot afford.
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But I will be paying it off for fucking ever!!!! Ahhhhhh complaining won't do me any good, so I'll stop it.
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http://hotchickswithdouchebags.com/ why the fuck not?
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It felt like I was in a tourist trap vacation spot only,Ya knowshitty.
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I had to replace the turbo in a VW beetle a couple of years ago. Two grand...GONE! I, however, got REALLY lucky with my mechanic. He let me stroke 5 checks to cover the cost & he actually held up his end and deposited them every other week (pay week). Let's just say he took care of anything else that went wrong with that car until I traded its ass in for my Soul. 'Cause you can deal with THIS, or you can deal with THAT!' And I was wrong with my puddin' total earlier. It's two hundred..and FORTY dollars...worth of puddin'. Awwww yeah!
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trampled to death when working at Wal-Mart on Black Friday like 2 years ago in Nassau County?Pretty sure that is where it was. Savages.
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I feel for you, Rogue. Really do. I've been in situations like that from time to time, particularly when I was struggling to pay rent in college. My car during one of the years fucking died on the Turnpike as I was on the way to class just a week before finals. Another time, the car died on an actual finals day.
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I can't believe you just mentioned a VW turbo. I had a Passat turbo that tore the ass outta me. $4000 and never ran right again. I sold it for as much and I'm upside down on my current car loan. Hoping the Ford will last the 4 years I need to make good. Come On Ford!
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I've driven past it a few times and was always curious. Maybe I'll convince the fiancee to swing by next time.
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they did a good job. Anything else that happened just happened 'cause I drove the HELL out of that bug. I forgot to mention the dude went ahead and changed EVERY belt when they replaced the turbo & just charged me for cost of the belts. "Had the engine pretty much out of it anyway" he said. Now I've moved back to Birmingham, and those guys are way the hell up in Huntsville (about an hour & 1/2 away). I HATE car crap. My dad could always work on 'em, but would run out of patience whenever he was gonna 'teach me' about something; just ended up elbowing me out of the way & doing it himself.
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That was just fucked up when that shit happened. Fucking people kill a guy to save a few bucks. People here make me sick sometimes. Colonel...I knew the car needed work, just not that much. I am just lucky to have people willing to help me or else I would truly be fucked. I'm just sick of my financial woes, every time I start to get ahead, like clockwork, something comes long and fucks it up, my patience is really wearing thin, especially with the people who tell me "Just be patient, it will get better" fuck that I have been patient for four fucking years and have watched the ex live in a lap of fucking luxury while she tries to milk child support out of me. Bitch makes a six figure salary and wants to soak me for money. Hey, I have no problem paying child support, none at all, but when I can actually afford it and right now I cannot. Last week when she was bitching at me about it I told her my priority is to maintain a roof over my head so I can have my time with my children....bitch tells me that having a roof over my head is NOT a priority, the kids can come see me in a park...WTF.
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...was a recent immigrant from someplace...Africa I think. The kind of place you work your ass off to get to America from...only to get trampled to death on Black Friday at a fucking Wal-Mart...
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at least you got rid o that twat. That is some cold hearted shit. My parents sold me the "wait it out and it will get better" bit. Nuh uh. Not anymore it won't. Gotta get out there and hustle. I hear weed dealing is pretty profitable.
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Unreal. At least her husband seems like a decent guy, based on him lending you some flow.
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for now
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I'm SORRY dude. No matter what the circumstances, a little bit of human frikkin' compassion should never be too much to ask. Hope things turn around for you man; sooner rather than later.
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I remember cause I was working at a retail store that year. I was disgusted with every single person that got up at 3a.m. to save a buck. The hilarious thing is that the stores bring in these third rate products that they put on sale. Fucking farce.
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Wait long enough and you're in a fucking box.
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...watch out for stampeding consumers.
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I'll give a review when I get back. Respek.
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Old: tinyurl.com/39ws2wxNew: tinyurl.com/38wpr8h
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Most of the shit that was "on sale" were toys and video games that just languished in the bargain bins anyway because they sucked.
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You familiar with Eli "Paperboy" Reed? I got a buddy who just can't stop singing the dude's praises.
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You is all good people. Well work is over, gotta go borrow my friends car til mine is fixed, talk at ya later fellas!
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http://tinyurl.com/2doexyk
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lock s-foils in attack position!
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But will have a look for him.
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...I think DW has my car keys in her purse.
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that's one way of monitering your movements. Scary is a wise woman. ;)
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I SWEAR I can spell. I CAN! M-o-n-i-t-O-r-i-n-g. What the hell in 'monitering'?
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what the hell IS 'monitering'? I need to turn on some lights (or proofread). Hey! Look! Shark week! pitta-patta-pitta as I run away.
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...I've been using the library as a carrot all afternoon with Dear Child. Now I'm an asshole.
I didn't get angry, but I told DD that I was sad because Mommy has our car keys and we can't go to the library...
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that's just about the custest thing I've ever heard that wasn't done by one of my nephews. I'm not biased.
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one battery recharged for the Dodge pickup. Gotta put that one back in, recharge the SECOND battery. At least they were still good. Woulda been 2 bills easy. Car shit is stupid expensive.
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a month or so ago, Flick? You promised the library to Toddlerpoo, and the keys were in Scary's purse?
DEJA VU
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you get sad, she just thinks of smooches. It's all good.
We as adults could make the world a better place if we could just remember how to see things as a 3-5 year old. -
...same. Exact. Thing.
I should add that I don't have confirmation yet that she has the keys, but she was the last to use the car in question...and the keys aren't on the hook or anywhere else that I can see. -
...remember how to see things as a 3-5 year old".
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Aug 02, 2010 3:33:51 PM CDT
Come to think of it, US foreign policy wasn't too far
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off from how a 3-5 year old saw the world. At least during the Bush admin.
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...[slams fist!]
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With Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Janet Leigh, and Ernest Borgnine. Good flick. Extra bonus points for having a hawk claw one of Douglas's eyes so he spends the rest of the movie with badass scars on his face.
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Was from a trailer review by John Landis over at TrailersFromHell.com about a year ago. At the time, I thought it must have been some throwaway studio pic that had been forgotten. Then it popped up on AMC last week, I saw that it had 3 stars, so I decided it must be good for a watch.
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Love the running on the oars scene.
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http://exercisingwhileintoxicated.wordpress.com/
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I also enjoyed the Viking motif that repeated throughout the film, either in romantic fashion or deadly action theme. Kirk Douglas was hard to get a handle on, though. He was obviously the protagonist but had more screen time than the "hero", and even though he was the "villain", I guess, you didn't outright hate him or even really dislike him all that much.
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while he's working out. I don't know how that would be good for you. It seems like after strenuous activity you'd be wanting hydration, not dehydration.
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Aug 02, 2010 4:31:07 PM CDT
...I'm sitting here...despondently staring out the window...
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...at my car.
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http://www.raindance.org/site/picture/upload/image/general/movies/at_the_mountains_of_madness.pdfhttp://tinyurl.com/2fsmn5jYou had me at "tentacles".
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left work a little early today...
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...and return DVDs before racking up $8 in fines.
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...I never do. Biggest spoiler there is, and I get no pleasure from reading screenplays.
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Haven't got caught up yet...ya'll were chatty Cathys today...Hiya, Colonelman...
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I don't think I want to give it back...lol....smaller than my van, but a much better ride...I'll try not to get to used to it, the minute I get my car back I'll be disappointed. I have a Ford Windstar, not a bad car, but my friend's car is the Toyota RAV4....a pretty sweet little ride.Flick, i'm with you, I don't like to read scripts either, as it is sometimes I go into a movie knowing more than I want to, so reading a script, no point in doing that, for me anyways. Afterwards maybe but not before.
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It seems promising, too promising to spoil.
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...your greeting should have been a post all of its own.
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and, FYI, I was a manager for Walmart from 1984 to 89...before Sam Walton Died... It was a different company back then...but, yeah, all the shit you hear about them is true. re hiring, women not payed as much, etc...But, seriously... in this day and age ALL retailers are following the Wal Mart game book...
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The Paramus Mall is actually a level of hell. I worked in Paramus for a year, and the closest thing to a Mom and Pop anything was the rear section of the Barnes and Noble. At the time it was a huuge used book section and the old man who worked there, Sal, knew my tastes and carefully mislaid good cheap hardbacks for me because I visited every lunch break.
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tinyurl.com/39o5xanBecause even outer dimensional monstrosities can't remember everything.
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I'll accept it as a level.
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Wal Mart's focus was "Buy American" and they trumpeted how many factories and jobs they saved from going over seas...It was a very popular ad campaign at the time... The late 80's when Nafta was forming...
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that Cthulhu chart is the true plot to Inception...4 yes/no levels...Eternal life and Dreams...
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It's all about dollars, no matter the cost to Americans. Outsourcing to other countries is destroying so much, and bringing overall quality of things down. Very sad that America does not really seem to care about Americans anymore. Just look at Congress, they love America but hate Americans, because they do everything in their power to make the rich richer and don't give a fuck about anyone else.
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Who's dreaming now???
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Aug 02, 2010 6:08:56 PM CDT
Wal Mart is the second largest employer in the US...
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behind the Pentagon...
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...Minimum Wage War One.
TOTAL FUCKING DESTRUCTION. -
China supplying Wal-Mart with weapons (cheap!).
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and contractors ... Imagine half of that money going toward infrastructure, engineering, more energy efficient technologies, etc. My, we'd have an economy that actually made useful, practical things with actual consumer demand AND shit wouldn't be falling apart. Imagine that.
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Carell plays the idiot understated and sympathetic. Kind of like The Cable Guy only less manic or dark.Rudd is 100% straight man in this. He has been a comedic force unto himself in past comedies so it was pretty disappointing that he only comes out to play in one scene.Zach is rather tame and not that funny.It starts pretty good but the payoff doesn't pay very much.3/5.
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phony-ish moralizing. Let's all laugh at the schmucks, but, uh, you're wrong for doing it!
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to the Paramus mall, actually. It definitely has a booth there."Excuse me sir, what kind of afterlife do you use?""Well, to be honest, the whole heaven bit has seemed a little bit dull since I started experimenting with drugs and light bondage..."
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elementary in the moral. It's a movie about characters/character.
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( rest his soul), but I'd cast Paul Rudd as a Philip Marlowe for these times, much like Elliot Gould was for the 70s (THE LONG GOODBYE). He has a really skeptical, sharp wit, and I can imagine him talking tougher than people would expect of him..
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...its infantry fought for no more than 38 hours a week, thus saving itself from having to employ medics or field hospitals of any kind.Any Marty (as they came to be called) hit in action bled out where they fell.
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...proudly showing a blue field with a yellow smiley face. "My Wal-Mart 'tis of thee, sweet land of cheap and ease, of thee I siiing"
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wit yes but he is a little too babyfaced.
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sharp angles necessary for the part.
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...Cock Of Ages all day yesterday.
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Aug 02, 2010 6:50:59 PM CDT
The Wal-Mart Wars will bring about the future foretold
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in IDIOCRACY.
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...the forces of Wal-Mart had the full support of the civilian population.
Wal-Mart would frequently create chaos on the battlefield by deploying thousands of obese, gouty "non-combatants" on electric scooters and wheelchairs...milling about the combat zone aimlessly. -
"back? back where? To the pedalback, The pedalback is gone, all the ebrews gone, only a field of blood... Zooooooorn."
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...of their Black Friday device, they began announcing Black Tuesdays, Black Thursdays...and eventually, god help us, Black Three P.Ms and Black Eleven A.Ms...
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Aug 02, 2010 7:07:52 PM CDT
The battlefield will be cluttered with used plastic thingies.
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Eventually it will be too much for the military, as their massive killing machines would sputter from shards becoming stuck in their gears.
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The rest of the first verse of 'Cock of Ages" (let the water and the blood, from thy wounded side which flowed, be of sin the double cure; save from wrath and make me pure) seemed appropriate for a Brit Milah. "Hey the mohel's here everyone!"
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due to rollbacks.
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freaks me out.
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...around to the first part of the verse "Cock of Ages, cleft for me
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Like your circumcision scar?
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...until it realized that it could completely incapacitate any Wal-Mart soldier by simply walking up to them and asking...
"Excuse, me...is your weapon fully automatic, or does it only come with the semi-automatic feature? And jam-protection...is that included, or do you have to pay extra for that?".
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sorry mine was about mutilated dicks
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...mazel tov!
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Aug 02, 2010 7:44:53 PM CDT
Sam Walton: "Bill Clinton, I'll make you President...
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of the United States, IF you promise to let me buy shit from China...without high tariffs and tax consequences...
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Bitches! Show Charlie Murphy your titties.
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Aug 02, 2010 7:51:45 PM CDT
What self respecting species would cut a protective layer...
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of skin from the tip of it's sensitive to infection penis and try to replace the protection factor with cotton undershorts...BTW, I am circumcised from a Baptist Hospital in 1962...the doctor, Mom's Gynecologist, was smoking while he performed the surgery...
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[takes deep drag of a cigarette] I must retire for the evening.[exhales large smoke plume]
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...later, Mac.
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...or at least a drag.
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...the chicken, or not?
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What am I supposed to do with this chicken, again? Dress it in drag???
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Chicken ala' Klinger...
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there ARE 364 days 'after Thanksgiving'...depending on how you look at it. I really wish I wasn't so frikkin' bored. And depressed. And swimming around in a big ol' pity bowl. Look at the SAD FISH! He's so sad! It's a good thing he's underwater, so nobody can see the baby-tears! If life had a face, I would PUNCH THE SHIT OUT OF IT tonight. Sorry. Had to get that out. Now, back to chicken abuse and WMWI (wal-mart war I). 'Cause you KNOW they have their eyes on the whole WORLD, right? Get this shit....a local city government near here declared 'imminent domain' on some land, and FORCED folks to take the pittance they would pay for their HOMES to make room for a wal-mart. Sorry folks, here's a shit sandwich. No, we don't have any mayo.
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once we erect the wal-mart where your back yards used to be.
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...or just the accumulated indignities of life?
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I write really slow so, that probably had something to do with it...
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I have not given the order yet.
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Your orders always say KEEP fuckin' the chicken...At no time have you ever ordered us to START fuckin' the Chicken, so we just want to be ahead of the curve... Anticipating your next call, as it were...
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...hold the lube.' In my workplace (restaurant). Both the 'imminent domain' bullshit and the day you had (by the sound of it).
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...[zip]
SIR, YES SIR! -
In the mighty words of Neil Fallon: You can't stop! ... You can't stop progress! ... You can't stop! ... You can't stop, no, no, no!
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...WHEN WE FOUND IT, SIR!
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Why, it appears you're correct. Regardless, drop and give me 20 bong hits.
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affairs of the heart my man. Not enough talkback in the internets. The very short of it is that I've been carrying a big, fat, torch for WAY TOO LONG. I've tried various ways to put it out...no go. I mean it, I have TRIED. She knows how I feel and she USED TO feel that way, but apparently there is NOTHING that can be said or done to convince her to give it another go. It's a messy, complicated, frustrating relationship. The best thing to do would be to just cut all ties, but we. Just. Can't. I can't even get mad at her for 'leading me on', as mi amigos call it. I just can't. She was the one. I don't even have the tiniest shred of interest in finding someone else. Tried that. Didn't work out. I've pretty much made my peace with the fact that I may never feel that way about anyone else again. I just love the girl, and she can't do anything to change that. It's been THREE YEARS and I had 2 of those living on my own in a strange city AWAY FROM HER....thinking on it. Trying to make peace with it, get past it. I can't do it. And it's pissing me off. I don't know whether to feel pathetic or noble. You'd think a grown man would finally reach a point where he finally was more tired of being lonely than missing someone specific, but I haven't hit that wall yet. Damn. That was a true confession moment.
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life will go on. Maybe once I get back in school I can meet some nice, nubile young coed and 'work some shit out', as it were. Or, you know, pick up a hobby. Like alcoholism.
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...that sucks, Fuzz. Your hot geek-girl, right?
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"You'd think a grown man would finally reach a point where he finally was more tired of being lonely than missing someone specific..."I'm still in love with my second ex...It sucks that I have no desire to strike up a new relationship that will never be what that one was...I feel you...So, just play around and not take females so seriously..I guess thats an option...It used to work for me when I was your age...
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is what I'm tryin' to say...
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I was once in that position, well close to it anyway. It took time, patience and dedication to just "get over it," but I did. And I'm glad I did because I never woulda REALLY noticed that bright-eyed young woman who wanted above all to make me nice dinners and spend some true quality time with me. I'm now engaged to that young woman, and it's the best thing that's ever happened to me.
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...melancholy unavailability, and thick manly pelt...you'll be a fox in the hen-house back in school.
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and yeah, it was the ex-wife. It's a crazy situation. I'm not Mr Social Hour or anything, but I'm not a basement-dwelling douche-nozzle either. I have a really super-awesome, tight-knit group of friends....who have all moved away over the last 2 to 3 years. I just have a bit of a problem meeting new people. If I'm with a buddy or something, and we get talking to some others....3 minutes in and I'm golden. I'm laid-back, non-judgmental, and pretty damn charming. It's just that initial bit that gets me. And all my wing-men are gone. "Sometimes it a hard world on the little things." But, like I said, I have a whole new chapter starting up, and I KNOW once I get a change of surroundings, and some ladies are FORCED to spend time with me in a classroom setting....it is ON like a chicken-boning. Just feeling down this particular evening.
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it's all a crap shoot, relationships, that is...The second/third time you learn to spot imperfections early on...Thus, when you do get a steady..it's because you want to, not need to...
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enjoy the sampler plate and pick the best flavors...It's all good...
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College town, so there's ladies a plenty. Plus, I got a buddy there who's into a lot of the same shit you're into, particularly Joe R. Lansdale. You guys could shoot the shit and smoke some herb on the stoop while you regale him with tales of your pussy hounding.
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...things you wished you knew when you were 18. You know: compliments go a long way, touch a lot at first but not too intimately, beautiful blonde intimidating buxom goddesses are REALLY insecure ( And I am in a happy, wonderful relationship that I wish I could put on pause (not end, just wish I could do take full advantage of my perspective... and my powers, my legal alcohol purchasing powers).Which is to say, I'm glad for my relationship, but there is green grass on the drunk coed side of the fence also.
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...I find that movie oddly romantic. I love Dylan McDermott's speech to the coffee shop kid at the end.
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I'm staring at 38 in November. It's kind of a sucky age here in the B'ham. Most of my contemporaries are married. I guess I'm gonna be FORCED to find a young thing. I suppose I can live with that. And one last little hurdle. If a lady isn't SMART, I don't give 2 shits what she looks like. I have zero interest. I must be missing that man-gene. I've always been that way. I dated the most beautiful girl I've ever dated for the shortest amount of time 'cause she was just dumb. I mean, almost 'feel bad for her' dumb. She was lovely, she was willing...but bless her heart, she was dumb. Couldn't do it. Broke her dumb little heart man. 'Cause she was INTO ME. CURSE YOU, ME!!! Cuuuuuuurrrrrse yoooooouuuu!
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I love to dance...If I want a woman, I go to a country western bar and dance my way into a woman's pants...I'm good at it...It just gets old...and, I hate the part where I have to be mean and tell them to disappear...
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...My mental image of Cheeses is now complete.
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And I lied before. Keep fuckin' that chicken is a standing order.
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Wow, you're asking a lot, Man...There are very few Scary's in the real world...Flick cashed in all his past-life Karma Chips for her...
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I mean it. It's cool to be able to just shit all this out and get some perspective from AROUND THE WORLD, yo! Colonel, I wish I COULD move away, but my mom's health is pretty poor, both my brothers have wee little ones (3 yrs being the oldest) and I'm in a unique position as far as time goes to bear the brunt of that responsibility. It sucks, but family is VERY important to me. Gotta stick around the 'ham. At least for the time being.
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But that's gonna chafe after awhile...
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and mean as a wolverine on its menses. And reading over my shoulder. Damn.
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I know. I've tried to go with the lower standards, but it just won't work.
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...and I'm not building up much good new Karma in this life either...next time around I'mma be a cockroach married to a dung beetle.
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My ex had a bit of a vicious streak too. MEAN. It's part of the appeal. It makes the cute, sweet stuff that much better.
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I need to be getting to bed. Gotta get up early tomorrow & Wednesday; gonna be keeping 2 of my 3 'phews over the next 2 days. My brother the teacher starts back tomorrow, and the grandparents/babysitters are on vacation 'til Thursday. Good news is....no time for brooding! Thanks again for the kind words and all. I mean it. It's cool to get some of this stuff out. And there's always that chicken.
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Aug 02, 2010 9:21:54 PM CDT
Flick...I'm sure she'll be a very HOT dung beetle...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
with an infectious wing rustle...
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Aug 02, 2010 9:23:44 PM CDT
Have fun, Fuzzy...and stop thinking about pudenda...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
They always want us to think we're runnin' shit...
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Was it the Evian roller skating babies that freaked your shit out? I work for that director all the time. Supposed to start again tomorrow.
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Funny you were talking about the Cthulhu/Inception chart before, because I found this this morning and thought - Cheeses!
http://tinyurl.com/27umfs2 -
http://tinyurl.com/2ck6c2k
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Dammit, Vades, I know I'd like whatever that's linked to, but I don't got sound here at work. Oh well, leaving soon anyway.
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You give Flick back his keys and smooch both him and the daughter? Cause that story flick told was very cute and very revealing...And by revealing, I mean how great you guys are...
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Only in Inception...
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Just try a little heel-tapping DoSiDo with the big Queso and see how far the blush goes
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I felt like such a schmuck. This is the SECOND time I've done that. The real pisser is, I almost NEVER put my car keys in my purse. I almost ALWAYS put them in my back pocket, for easy access. So imagine my chagrin... To her credit, even though The Child was clingy, etc. today, she was a very nice girl to her daddy. And yes, smooches were given all around.
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The Escher stairs are the prefect finishing touch.
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*sniff!*
Hey Scary. -
From Barnes and Nobles 50% off Criterion sale that ends tonight. Did I go overboard a little bit? At least its all a tax write-off! I got... Wages of Fear by Henri-Georges Clouzot Kwaidan by Masaki Kobayashi Harikiri by Masaki Kobayashi Brazil 3-disc set by Terry Gilliam White Dog by Samuel Fuller The Thief of Baghdad by multiple directors produced by Alexander Korda In the Realm of the Senses by Nagisa Oshima In the Reaml of Passion aka Empire of Passion by Nagisa Oshima Equinox by Dennis Muren Onibaba by Kaneto Shindo No Kurosawa this go around, but tomorrow Criterion releases a box set of Kurosawa's first films that include Sanshiro Sugata I and II (finally!) and The Most Beautiful and The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail.
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Damnit, what am I doing spending 200 bucks on DVDs... Well, to be fair to myself, I haven't bought a DVD in a very long time.
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Nicely done.
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And here I go and fall off the wagon and REALLY go overboard in one fell swoop.
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You've had a rough couple of months... you needed a treat.
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I hate to drop in and run, but I'm getting all sleepy and stuff, and I have to ride around with one of my managers tomorrow. I hate these ride-arounds. One of the things I really like about my job is, between customers, I get to hide in my own little space and think my own thoughts and listen to my music and all that... having someone in there with me is tiring. I'm still amazed, with as anti-social as I am, that I'm in sales, and doing relativly well. I'm not the charismatic type who will ever be A-list, but I do just fine, considering.
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...to bed. 'but not to mine uncle's bed.'Keep fucking that Nytol, chickens.
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http://i31.tinypic.com/29dfo6t.jpg G'nite all.
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Bugs:
(Singing.) Grab a fence post, hold it tight,
Womp your partner with all your might.
Hit him in the shin, hit him in the head,
Hit him again, the critter ain't dead.
Wop him low and wop him high,
Stick your finger in his eye.
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twist and twirl Jump around like a flying squirrel Don't you cuss and don't you swear Pop on out and form a squaaaaaare!
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and goes back to bed. Drive-by posting by the fuzzy one! Leave 'em wanting more.
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I did the same thing the other day dude! Don't worry, we can write it off on tax. Doesn't cost so much when you think about it that way.
Or if you wanna justify it another way, think about how much a decent smoking habit costs ya. 200 bucks is nuthin' in that context!
My choices were Black Narcissus,
The Leopard,
Mystery Train, Red Desert,
Everlasting Moments,
Close-up,
Summer Hours,: By Brakhage, Secret Of The Grain,
Make Way for Tomorrow,
Vampyr,
The Fugitive Kind
Red Shoes was sold out, dagnabbit!
I've been trying to be good though. Been a couple of months since my last Amazon purchase. Just gotta hold out 'til the end of this one. Lost: Final season!
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compelled to watched it again. Holds up well, suprisingly, after repeated viewings.
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'night Fuzzy!
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after a good night's sleep!.
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what time is it down under? I feel like this is early for you on the Pedalback.
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I'm posting when I should be workin'. Will be scarce for a bit. Got inflatable houses and cars and living rooms to draw. Ah, the wonderful world of TV commercials...
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it's about half past four in the afternoon.
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... made strenghs of his embaracement in being in a terrible movie and becomes a really good documentary filmmaker? Who says adversity doesn't build character and is mother to invention? I never saw TROLL 2, and only a few years i was even aware it existed, but now i have to see the documentary (not the movie, though, who cares about that shit?). That and WINNEBAGO MAN.Aparently, the director of TROLL 2 gets very puzzled when american or british movie geeks ask him why there's no trolls in the movie. Aparently Caludio Fragasso, being italian, he thinks that trolls and goblins are the same thing, becaus,e in truth, there are no trolls in italian myths and mythicisms. Trolls are an exclusive norse mythology stuff, made popular (in name only) because of the Tolkien's LORT. for Fragasso, the question of why there's no trolls in TROLL 2 is absolutly nonsensical, goblins and trolls, all the same thing for him.
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You guys take a break. I'll take over on the chicken for a couple of thrusts.Hey, orders is orders. Even if it is sloppy elevenths.
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It's like talking to Bill Shatner about ST, Asi.
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Not that the rest of the world is not into that market as well, mind you.
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It's so EARLY! Where is the sun? It's gonna be a great day wrangling nephews. Blah. The chicken's ready sir. And she's a gamer.
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Hope you're ready to wrangle nephews. I caught up on last night....sounds like you are in a unique position to help your family right now. Even though you can't really put it on a resume there is something to be said for that. You're a good man and an asset to our organization. How old are the nephews?
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Good analogy. Though i doubt Shatner is as clueless about some details about the Trek univers,e considering he wrote quite some few spin-off novels. Or his ghost-writer did, anyway.
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I'm kidding(you know) but most people don't know the difference between these mythical cretures. I don't really. What, I would say trolls are more of a natural based predator where a goblin is more of demonic ghoul. I'm just guessing.
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From what i understand, in norse mythology the trolls were dwarf creatures whose speciality was to cause mischief and drive people mad. They were avowed enemies of the humankind. Goblins are more puzzling creatures, they do seem to be on order from higher powers.
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hang in there parents. Not much longer.
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are you ready for it??
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How's that chicken?
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for dvd..
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http://tinyurl.com/2n8fz5
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Someone else take over on the chicken. Four hours is about all I can handle.What gives Sixies? Kick Ass?
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and a broken jaw!i told it not to look at me during..
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Hope everyone had a good night, I sure did ;) late night nocturnal activities with my lady, great thing to wake up for.Wishing I was here for the whole relationship discussion, always like to throw in my 2 cents on that issue, being a divorced guy and all...he he.Man, I wish I didn't have to give my buddy his car back lol, sweet little ride, but alas, my car is back tomorrow, almost $1000 later....ehhhhhhh.Anyways enough of my bitching, how's everyone today?
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til these eggs hatch. We will just have to make due.
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but mainly, after hearing mods blather and drool over it, mainly harry, for close to a year..and then he rebuts a ebert review..but no review from him..not at all..he says he has one..blah blah blah..hes just really busy and hadnt had the time to post it..same thing for INCEPTION..hes really busy, he'll post it after the comic-con..yeah when it arrives in stores for christmas..well he could pull a HARRY and review 1941 in the SAVING PRIVATE RYAN BLU RAY review..that was funny.
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it's not just for older men and pre-teens anymore.Anyway what i was trying to say..rogue i thought you could have had a good insight for Fuzz. You been there.
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Aug 03, 2010 7:42:50 AM CDT
digitalbits.com has a great article on making the ALIEN dvd set.
by six demon bag
should last all week..
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Really liked that movie, more than I thought I would, I know a lot of people have a problem with the third act, but I thought it was fine in the world they created in the movie. Hope to see a sequel.Funny, I was watching Diary Of A Wimpy Kid with my kids the other night, (yea and loved it) and Chloe Moretz is in it, almost didn't recognize her, she looks a lot older in that movie, more like a teenager, and in Kick Ass she looked like a little kid, and yet she made both movies in the same year...go figure...good makeup jobs.
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Been there done that, it's a big freaking mess and four years later....at times it is not much better now than it was then. Would take too long to explain it all, but trust me, sometimes it's pleasant and other times thoughts of very wrong things come into my head because of shit the ex and her new husband pull, especially when it involves my kids.AT work, better go hack around and see what's going on...i'll be in and out.
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Aug 03, 2010 7:45:55 AM CDT
I saw Chloe Moretz in Not Forgotten last night - very bloody mo
by dirk_the_amoeba
Kick-Ass, kicked ass. I liked it more than I thought I would.
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novemeber cant get here soon enough..
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I might just have to go get that one today. can't wait for shitflix. They prolly slapped it with that delay bullshit they are pulling. WHAT DO I PAY YOU FUCKS FOR!
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Interesting little interview with Roger Corman this morning on NPR. Might be on their website.
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Sorry to ruin it for ya Mac
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Sorry again, could not help myself
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How goes it?
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I'm just chillin. Letting brain pan roam free looking for inspiration and motivation to finish script assignment.
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had a hard time getting out of bed though. Coffee is trying to fix that right now.
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rom comdram comblack comsome sort of com I'm guessing?Need to know to properly inspire you.Try looking at titties. That usually gets the juices flowing.
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The true story of forbidden love between an alien in armor and a Tin Man living in Oz.
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I guess we don't need to hit the theater then.
We bought TOY STORY 2 on dvd Saturday, and watched it (my first time). Pretty good flick. 4/5
I started BLACK DYNAMITE Friday, but my wife gave up on it and i went to bed too, so I need to finish that one up. So far, a very faithful recreation of 70s blaxploitation. It's even nice to see the film saturated look that was prevalent in 70s film. -
Aug 03, 2010 8:06:35 AM CDT
I'm partial to the badonkadonk on a fine ass dust ball
by dirk_the_amoeba
Just gets me all jiggly!
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Are all fooking TERRIBLE! Same with Scott Pilgrim. I'm inclined to think the same pple are involved with both. There's one good Pilgrim ad that features Chris Evans explaining the Evil League and asks if Scott heard of then. He hasn't, so Chris extends his hand to help him off the ground, but instead humorously hits him again. Hooray! A funny ad for once! But then they end it with this completely unfunny and very rushed (which breaks up the pacing of the ad) limp-dick moment where Scott turns to the camera and says "I want to take them apart." Just horrible.
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It's bloody afternoon in here, i'm with half a work day already on me. Bunch of slackers!
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Always nice to see a familiar handle. Have you made your first feature yet? Have you been using the casting couch to get mucho free ass? Is Megan your love slave yet -or at least waxing your helmet?
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Yeah, Harry's lack of a review for INCEPTION is just too strange. i mean, consider how he mannaged to marshall everybody at AICN and even brough back some ocasional contributors who hadn't writen nothing for AICn for mor ethen 3 years to gang on to wrote glowing reviews for Jar Jar Abrams's SHIT TREK, and when there is a genuinely very good, ney, excelent movie like INCEPTION, and all we got was 3 1/2 measely reviews and that's it.By the way, did i ever told you that it was only two weeks ago that i finally figured out where your nick came from? I hang my head in shame because not only i really like the movie, i even saw the bloody thing in it's original theatrical release back in the day in 1986! How the bloody hell that went completly unnoticed by me?
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Aug 03, 2010 8:17:57 AM CDT
Harry was distracted by the giant zit on Marions forhead
by dirk_the_amoeba
Honestly, why didn't they CGI that fucker out? Just took me completely out of the movie.
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Maybe it can't be classified as an ad, but that trailer for KICK ASS that showed Big Daddy shooting his daughter was not only grea,t it was hillarious. It was that trailer that i mannaged to convince my pals to go watch the movie (if i told them it was from the director of STARDUST they would had told me to go fuck myself, and who could blame them?).
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What's wrong with Marion Cotillard, man? Are you gay or something? Sinc ewhen any hetero male would find much to fault to the lovely french lass? Get a grip, dude!
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It's almost Wednesday here.
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...hmmm, is there a real difference? Even Tolkien uses the two somewhat interchangeably. Hell, I'm sure characters refer to orcs as goblins more than once in LOTR.
It seems to me that Tolkien used "goblin" when he was working in a lighter vein (HOBBIT), and "troll" when using the higher tone of LOTR.
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aren't goblins smaller than trolls?
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...when characters refer to orcs as goblins, Tolkien is probably intentionally making that particular character look provincial or cavalier in their monster taxonomy.
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ha..thats funny..yeah, there were a lot of reviews for the films of last year..and its not like a lot of BIG BIG films have come out so far this year..i expect multiple reviews from the major summer GEEK films, to get a broad range of interpretations..and INCEPTION should have definitely been one of them..this summer, the mods have gotten lazy..real lazy.
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if you were wallowing in limbo for god knows how long, you'd have a few blemishes.
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Aug 03, 2010 8:38:02 AM CDT
...after a week in limbo, every one of us would be willing...
by flickapoo
...to suck that giant zit dry...I know it, you know it.
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thats it goodnight..im outta here!!!
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Everyone has to take a turn on the chicken before I start listening to all this nonsense.
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Aug 03, 2010 8:40:31 AM CDT
Asi - there is a love starved goat with a zit looking for U
by dirk_the_amoeba
Says she hates JJ Trek as well. Match made in heaven - jump all over that man! Nothing wrong with M.Cotilliard that some pro-active can't cure.
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Trolls were nasty and dumb as a rock and almost dumb as in unable to speak, and Goblins were nasty and much smarter. Trolls generally rounder and Goblins pointy. If trolls are brown, goblins are green. Sorta related, but really different.
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Aug 03, 2010 8:43:43 AM CDT
Trolls were completely different from goblins in Middle-Earth
by d.vader
Its the orcs that were interchangeable with goblins, though goblins became a specific type of Orc, like the Uruk-Hai, these being the kind that lived in mountains I think (hence Legolas' reaction in Moria- "Goblins!"). Trolls were big lumbering beasts that lived in caves or mountains.
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In where? Japan? New Zeland?
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I can just hear the phrase:"Chicken orgy extends into day two."
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agreed.i feel like trolls are big dumb animals that are like oxen
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You're definatly gay. Start designing clothes already.
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I almost got Black Narcissus myself. Was also waffling around Two-Lane Blacktop, Umberto D, Roeg's Walkabout, and The Virgin Spring.
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Goblins are smaller than Trolls, cannot remember by how much but there is definitely a difference.Mac....you NEED to see Kick Ass it rocked bro, get it!!!!!!Cannot wait for Toy Story 3, damn that movie was awesome, last film I saw in the theaters too....fuck I hate being broke all the damn time lol.
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I did noticed when i read THE HOBBIT that Tolkien called goblins to what he called orcs in LOTR.By the way, the wines produced here in Portugal this year are very good. And you should know what a very good portuguese wine means.
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Dirk and Asi please 'wipe your feet' at the door and be civil within the hallowed hall of the Pedalback.
Think of this place as a library with Christina Hendricks as the librarian in horn rimmed glasses. If you're nice she might let you peep down her cardigan. If you're nasty then she'll whistle for Tiny Lister and Michael Clarke duncan to eject you forthwith into a back alley. Where they will molest your back alley.
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That I miss the Subbary too.
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Haven't made my first feature yet but my new goal is to be working on my first by this time next year. Casting couch hasn't seen much action lately, but I'm working on it =).
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...which brings me to my nerdish point. The trolls in Hobbit have a long cockney conversation about squashing the captured dwarves into jam and such forth.
However the trolls in LOTR (the movies) don't seem capable of speech.
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Best of luck to you bro, make sure we all get to go to the big premiere!!
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Your Criterion Jedi Powers are strong, young one. perchance you got any of the Cronenberg's Criterions as well? And how about KAIDAN? Anbd THRONE OF BLOOD? And ROBOCOP?
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Ther eis no dissing on Marion Cotillard on my watch, mister. Chivalry is not dead yet.
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Asi, in Dungeons & Dragons monster manual Goblins and Orcs are two seperate species of monster. But I think you're right about the Middle Earth versions both being the same.
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Ha! Topical!
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...so far and the wines will be good...or that '09 was a good year and the wine is drinking well now?
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Where it is now officially Wednesday.
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Asi, in the pedalback we try and 'agree to disagree' without name calling... doesn't always work... but mostly the Pedalback threads are respectful places (maybe the only respectful places on aicn!).
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drove to Austin to get it..from tower records..this was before ebay and amazon..at least i hope it was..
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Those trolls in The Hobbit were in a different breed of Troll, one a bit more intelligent than the others. I think those trolls were Hill-trolls, that lived in the hills above the barrow-downs to the north. They were a bit more civilized than the cave trolls and mountain trolls.
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I just bought Kwaidan last night after having rented it about a year ago. I already own Throne of Blood. Robocop was not for sale at Barnes and Nobles. And the only Cronenberg B&N had available (I think) was Naked Lunch and the old release of Videodrome.
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PREDATOR score re-released on intrada records..the choppah is ready, get to it.
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Everyone here shall get E-vitations to the big show.
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I never played D&D.
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Damn, wish i'd had that PREDATOR score when I was on jungle safari in Africa. That would have been awesome (until I got jumped by a lion cos I couldn't hear the fucker stalking me).
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Asi, u never played D & D?
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Amoebas are lovers (of fine ass females of any size shape or species), not fighters.
If the Portuguese lover of Capra aegagrus hircus, is so enamored of French women with large distracting zit/moles on their foreheads, so be it. But whenever I see it, I can only think of 'whack-a-mole'. She looks better with the lights off. Catherine Denueve did not have any zit/moles on her forehead. -
http://bit.ly/9FoLUt He's the fucking antichrist. And fucking any uncreative braindead HACK who is any way associated with this piece of shit project.
What a hard life this kid has had! Growing up in Ontario with a single mother! Uploading videos to YouTube and then getting a record deal from it! BOO FUCKING HOOOOOOO. -
http://bit.ly/9FoLUt He's the fucking antichrist. And fucking any uncreative braindead HACK who is any way associated with this piece of shit project.
What a hard life this kid has had! Growing up in Ontario with a single mother! Uploading videos to YouTube and then getting a record deal from it! BOO FUCKING HOOOOOOO. -
was solidified when I read those Gnomes books by Rien Poortvliet as a teenager with the gorgeous, lush watercolour work. He did another I just rediscovered (after I'd done a bunch of similar concept work, dammit) I have called The Book of the Sandman. Just beautiful, rich work. His trolls are revolting and stick in my mind. I'm sure Tolkien was drawing on that Scandinavian folk history too.
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But that, along with many of my things, was either kept, thrown out, or given away by the ex....god sometimes I wonder how the fuck I stayed married to her for so long, its like after we split up she either turned into a totally different person, or I was seeing her for what she really is for the first time....either way she's a fucking bitch.Anyways...Sixies, is Cinemagic a XM or Sirius station? I had Sirius for a while and I seem to remember wanting XM just for the movie music channel, which was an awesome channel.
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http://bit.ly/9FoLUt He's the fucking antichrist. And fucking any uncreative braindead HACK who is any way associated with this piece of shit project.
What a hard life this kid has had! Growing up in Ontario with a single mother! Uploading videos to YouTube and then getting a record deal from it! BOO FUCKING HOOOOOOO. -
Yea I ummm...never played it either....oh rolling my saving throw for lying.....I lose.Damn I am remembering the marathon sessions of D & D with my friends, damn those were long...lost of pizza and soda.
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cinemagic is on both..i listen to sirius for free..i do their 7 day trial and then re up with a fake email every week..its the only way to be sure..im sorry about your ex..sounds like a bitch..i had the same problem with my ex girlfriend (the mother of my older child)--shes such a bipolar person. but now i really dont deal with her, she still lives with her parents and i mainly deal with her mom at drop offs and pickups..
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damn you..i was just about to drop the BIEBER BOMB!
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You have Kaidan, alright! As for those two Cronenberg Criterion DVDs, you should had got them, they are total kick ass. Videodrome in particular have two great audio comentaries, there's the obligatory and very informative Cronenberg comentary, but the one whihc might evne be better is whenever James Woods chats his part in the second comentary which he shares with Debby Harris 8seperatly, though). and really, you will then realise that Woods is a big SF fan, and that he absolutly understood the point that Cronenberg was making with VIDEODROME. Woods' comentary is one of the most smart and intelligent comentary i ever heard, it's really very good.DEAD RINGERS's Criterion DVD is also very good. It's obvious Criterion loves Cronenberg. I'm suprised they never released CRASH.The Criterion i'd like to own next is THE HUMAN CONDITION, a japanese epic movie about a pacific japanese guy who sees himself having to go to war during WWII, it's a 3 part movie each 3 hours long, and i saw the first part many years ago and it's one of the top best movie i ever seen, can't wait to see the second and 3rd part. And speaking of japanese classics, you are not a true Criterion-head if you don't own FIRES ON THE PLAIN.
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No need for that much bad news.
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Its by Kobayashi, the same guy who directed Kwaidan and Harikiri (which I also picked up), but holy shit its over NINE hours long!!!
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I wish I had limited contact with her, unfortunately because of our kids, I have to have way more contact than I desire, and the dick she married (a friend of ours for many years before, yea, that's not too suspicious) does not treat my kids as well as he claims...he isn't abusive (as far as I know) but still does things that I don't like, and she always makes justifications for his actions, putting her kids below her new spouse...nice.
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...Tolkien had been fiddling around with the SILMARILLION stories since he was young and in WWI. He wrote HOBBIT much later, and didn't know that it would eventually tie into his epic mythological stuff.
My guess is that in HOBBIT he was going for a more fairy tale/folklore tone, and went with "goblin". Later, as the sequel (LOTR) started to snowball and drift into his larger SILMARILLION world, he switched to "orc", and the "troll" of Norse Mythology.
Interesting fact. Tolkien's publisher was hounding him for a sequel to the surprisingly successful HOBBIT. Tolkien didn't want to do it, but eventually gave it a shot. He tinkered with it for a long time, getting nowhere...it wasn't until Bree and The Prancing Pony that he finally realized that the story was taking place in his already existing world of Middle Earth. His publisher was NOT amused. -
Rogue, hehe d&d was good clean fun...
Sorry to hear that you were married to a total bitch! One of my best buddies has just gone through a divorce and at the final hearing last week his ex apparently couldn't look him in the eye, not once. She was quite happy to take *over* half of his entire financial worth though.
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Right, because XM & Sirius merged, forgot about that...damn I gotta get that back, I miss listening to Stern, and all those great stations.....yet another luxury I cannot afford, but as soon as I can I am getting it back.
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lest we forget NAKED LUNCH
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I did once owned the game thingy, and with the 20 faced dice as well, but i never played it. The who,e thing felt like a sheme to buy more and more stuff, because it never felt complete, there was always something more to buy. Beside,s i was into Ian Livingston's adventure books stuff and the universe those adventures created was far more compeling to me then D&D's, so I never took much fancy on D&D and it never caugh up with me. Believe it or not, D&D felt too nerdish and geek for this geek. I'm a geek, but i'm not that hardcore on such deep nerd territory.
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The Hobbit was a bit more youthful, more of a fairy tale (which explains why in the opening pages it was rumored that Bilbo's mother or grandmother was a fairy herself- the ONLY time a fairy is ever mentioned in Middle-Earth). Tolkien didn't know it would be part of his larger mythos and didn't even plan on The Ring or the Necromancer (Sauron) being what tied it together. He explained this as something that always was tied together, as by fate, but he only realized it later.
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Absolutly. Which i own, as i would. Damn i love that movie! It even made me read the book, which is also awesome, in a total mindfuck fashion. That movie and book also made me read other two Burrough's books, JUNKIE and BLADERUNNER: A NOVEL. Great books too.
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Too bad she still has to be in your life. Sorry mate.
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Although the existential ending is paced in such a way that for me it worked more intellectually than cinematically. The first time anyway.
That's the one with the commentary where I got the Hitchcock quote about "perfect films" that Subby used for our voting.
Ah, Criterion. I've been collecting them since the original Laserdisc days, and truthfully, I don't feel like I missed out on film school so much with all the extras and commentaries and so on. Those laser box sets were a financial killer though. Could set you back into 3 figures, and I think I recall the single discs being about 50 or 60 bucks. Yeesh. But yeah. 5 or 6 disc sets for stuff like Brazil, Seven, Robocop and so on. I still play 'em, they're still going fine. Not as good as DVD which is not as good as Blu, but streets ahead of VHS which was the competition at the time and with the s-video even the American discs got around the NTSC luma/chroma problems.
It always used to piss me off that they'd go on and on about DVD extras when most of them were ported over from the Lasers (just not acknowledged), and the only thing new that DVD offered over them was Animated/motion menus. Big deal. Even Dolby digital and DTS were on Laser first. I guess my player will conk out eventually - I better start digitising them I guess.
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A friend of mine saw HARIKIRI and he thinks it's the coolest, best Samurai movie ever made. I wouldn't be suprised if it is so. Though he never saw LONE WOLF AND CUB.
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The weird thing is, for the 15 years we were together, most of them were good, at least I thought they were, and when we divorced she just went fucking crazy, a woman scorned I guess. It's quite obvious that although she claims to have "forgiven" me for what I did (another long story maybe I'll tell it sometime) it is quite obvious she has not and probably never will. Yet she always needs to tell me how happy she is now, and I tell her she sounds like she is trying to convince herself and not me, and of course she ignores that. I never tell her how happy I am, there's no need to. She asked me once a while back if I was and I told her yes, but she seems to have some strange need to tell me how happy she is over and over. Great.Wonderful, but I don't need to be constantly told, like she wants me to be upset because she is happy without me. If her being happy with someone else upsets me, then I should have never left in the first place. Hell maybe if she was miserable she would treat me better LOL.
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Are you familiar with Coffin Joe?
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...I'd forgotten that. I wonder if that's in all the editions of HOBBIT, or just the earlier versions? After LOTR came out he went back and tweaked a few things in HOBBIT to help it tie in better with the larger world of Middle Earth.
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Could have been referring to Elves I suppose...
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fuck that..you gotta do whats best for your kids..thats basically why im in the picture..well, other than her wanting money from me..i found out my son was born the day after..i didnt even know she was pregnant, cause i had broken up with her months before..and i swear my friends and i saw her at the bars months before childbirth..bitch!yeah anyway, at her parents urging, she called me up and was trying to get back together with me..but i was already in a stable relationship (now my wife) and a flip just switched when i told her i want getting back together with her..she would deny me seeing my son..finally after a few times, i had to take her to court (twice)..we've had altercations in the past so she doesnt appear anymore..thanks christ. i deal with her mommy..the girl is 30 and living at home off me and her parents..what a hooker.
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Like I said before, it can be pleasant at times, but when it's bad, god it's fucking bad, totally disrupts and interferes with my life. But enough unpleasantness about the ex.......
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THE HOBBIT also features one quite charming line, but certainly out of keeping with the rest of the saga.
If I recall it mentions a fierce Hobbit from years gone by that chopped off a Goblins head and knocked it down a rabbit hole - thus inventing the game of golf that we all know today.
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Your ex throw away your Criterion ROBOCOP DVD? Dude, tell me where she lives, i assassinate her myself, free of charge. I'm due vacations in two week time, i'll have time to kill. Dude, man, there's things one should never do to his fellow man, and throwing away his Criterion Collection DVDs is one of them. Those are holy! I'm calling an iman to proclaim a fahta on the bitch.
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Ewan McGregor was quite good as Obi Wan. One of the few acting highlights in the prequels along with Ian McDiarmid's Palpatine.
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Yea, I tread lightly in the area when it comes to my kids, I have to be careful because I do owe her support money from when I was unemployed (heartless bitch can't let anything go, makes a six figure income and is keeping tabs on what i "owe" her) so if I piss her off too much she plays the taking me to court card....god I can't wait to get that off my shoulders.
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burroughs wrote the novelization of BLADE RUNENR??gotta check that out..
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Before he revised it to fit in better with the other books?
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Thanks bro, god I wish someone would put that bitch in her place, thinks the whole fucking universe revolves around her, and the problem is her family and friends enable her to think so. A shame too because her family is good people.
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I don't see a need to get into a more expensive habit when I am very happy with my DVDs thus far. I don't stream. Bt I don't need a new player and don't need to pay more for movies. What DOES piss me off to no end, however, is how studios are trying to dictate the move to Blu-Ray (instead of allowing the market to do so) by putting out DVDs without any features whatsoever, making the real movie fans who want the behind-the-scenes stuff pay more for the Blu, which has everything.
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i had to kill rogueleader66's ex because she threw away an OOP DVD of a fooking awesome film...
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what some of you guys are going (have gone) through. Rough stuff. You guys sound great and are handling it pretty well.
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And your paying her support? she should be supporting you! You shoulda pulled a Tom Arnold on the bitch.
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...Tolkien specifically thought of them as the local farmers and village people near where he lived as a kid. I assume he intentionally has them use cozy Englishisms when referring to the larger world around them that they knew little about.
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Thorin shoots first...
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didn't see your post about the editions.
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You can get a decent Blu player now for under $100. And it'll play all your old DVDs. No need to double dip. I recommend Panasonic or PS3 if you can afford it.
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Yes, i should had clarified that, i mean the 09 year crop produced damn good wines. But then again, i can't remember a bad wine year in my country. It's just a question of going from very good to excelent, if you know what i mean. By the way, let me tell you a comparison: you ever drank a good chianti? Well, Portuguese's alentejo wines are as good, and that's the average reasonably priced stuff, meaning, the stuff that you can buy here at 2 Euros (about 3 dollars) a bottle. Think about that. Tell me when you want to visit my country, i'll drive you around myself.
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i hate to say it but i think you should let her take you to court..that way she cant use it anymore against you..yeah it might suck at first..but it wont be as bad as you think..if you have kids with your new wife, your support for your children with her goes down..thats one of the many reasons why i took my ex to court..i didnt want to hafta depend on her mood if i was gonna see my child or not..so i stopped that shit real quick and she had to pay sanctions and for the second time, she was found in contempt and had to pay MY lawyers fees.that was a good day.
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...and changed Sting to a walkie-talkie.
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He'd dole out some good advice.
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Haven't seen him around in a while.
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Its supposed to be ancient England. And Hobbits are supposed to still be around today, only they've learned to hide away from Men's eyes much much better.
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Maybe one day I'll make the move. But I think I'll wait until Blu-Ray either drops in price or all DVDs are released bare bones.
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He's a major D-BAG!
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Am I it? What'd I do?!
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i totally credit CRITERION for the goodies we get on DVDs and BLUs now..they were rocking the commentaries and spec features way before anyone even thought of it..i remember when i was a senior in high school in the 90s i would rent laserdiscs and a player just to HEAR commentaries and watch the extras and, well, fuck--just to see it in WIDESCREEN!!criterion was ahead of the curve back then..i remember trying to tell my parents the positives of lasers back then to deaf ears and would hafta settle for expensive VHS copies of jurassic park and star wars (i still have that box set, for the main reason of owning that doc) just to see the full picture..
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Finally you are right about something. Eventually it had to happen, but at least you are right about a very right thing, and you said it as it is. Way to compensate. Good job. We never agreed on anything before (except on how awesome THE ROAD WARRIOR is) but on this we are in total agreement. You can write that in your suicide note, after you know you and me are agreeing on something. Blame me.
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Aug 03, 2010 9:51:06 AM CDT
My favorite Criterion is Fear and Loathing in LV
by trigpalinsbodydouble
I've watched the BBC doc on Dr. Thompson more times than the actual movie.
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Affraid not.
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Aug 03, 2010 9:53:24 AM CDT
THE_CHOPPAH is all over the map with his opinions
by trigpalinsbodydouble
And don't forget, Asi, he copied and pasted your posts as his and twisted your words around to make it sound like you actually liked Felicity Trek.
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trust me i have been tempted to buy the BLUs that have DVDs with them, knowing that maybe one day i will get a BLU player..mainly for the streaming..but im sorry, maybe its my TV, but i really dont like the over glossy look i see when they are playing films at FRYS on their demos..i want it to look a little grainy..im quite happy with my DVDS...and i can see why DVD boomed like it did..the leap from VHS to DVD was phenomenal..whereas DVD to BLU..its really minute in comparison..
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...on that tour one of these days. My wife has had a new job for the past year and a half...great company, but they don't carry any Portuguese wine besides Madeira.
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Trig....yea, bitch makes six figures and I have to pay her child support, my kids have better cell phones than I do for god's sake. i am in no way saying I should not give money for my kids, not at all. but what she is doing is cold and cruel. i told her she would get money when I could afford it again, but she always has to throw in my face "oh and what you owe me too" Fuck you bitch. I may not be giving her money now, but I still take care of my kids.Sixies...I have no new kids with my new lady, we are not married yet, and we wont be having kids (i got snipped...ehh LOL), just her daughter lives with us but I don't think that would count. I wish I could let her do that and get it over with, I hat her having anything to hold over me because she fucking plays that damn card and I am basically helpless, fucking pisses me off, but I try to deal.
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I was looking for the Simu-thought!
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jsut steadman doing his thing..
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By someone else, and rearranged the words to fit "Star Trek" into it but it was not about STar Trek at all.
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But Amoebas only need one username. We have nothing to hide -cause were transparent, see? I will always insult you to your face - or pseudopod with my own name.
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yeah they need to be your kids too..damn.YOU can take her to court, maybe get some laywerly advice first..if possible..but if you initiate and such, they might be easy on you..otherwise, she can claim to you are a deadbeat dad..the courts love to see the dads take moms to court..it makes things exciting..
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Is deny my visitation, she has come close a few times but has never actually done it, good thing to because I would flip if she tried that shit.My kids and I have a good relationship and no matter how much she wants to hurt me, doing it through the kids is low even for her. Hell my daughter is 10 years old and can see hoe her mother is with me, we were talking one day and she said "I don't understand why mommy is so mean to you sometimes"....pretty sad that a 10 year old can see that. The ex tells me that my kids will remember that I didn't give money for them, when in reality they don't give two shits about money, she is the only one who cares about money, they just want everyone to get along and just have their time with me, that's what they care about. What they WILL remember is how shitty their mother treated their father during a difficult time in his life, not money.
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...you did a bunch of work on one or more long gestating Rohl Dhal related projects...that are now showing some movement and signs of life?
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Is a fucking ass troll, period. Ignore the piece of shit and maybe it will blow away if were lucky. I do not normally get insulting, but that asshole is a waste of time, the less attention paid to that child the better.
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harrys gonna deny me my KICK ASS review!!!COME ON!!!
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You caught it a little quicker though. I looked like i had died on my keyboard and was poting the same shit endlessly.
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It's nice to get a new release every once in a while.
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Your marriage story reminds me of a couple i know. Give how suxh a gentleman you are, you even sound like the dude of that couple, because he is a saint. If ever soembody deserved to be called a saint by me, it's him. You remind me of him, and your ex sure does reminds me of his wife. She is artistic inclided (and quite talented) and she is very pretty, at 40 she looks barely 30, but she really must be one of those bipolar thingies, and she can be pretty unsufferable soemtimes, to the point i'm now even reluctant to visit them, because i know i'll have to endure a show of her emotions and her complete unjust accusations of sloppiness toward her and the family. I mean, she hasn't been able to find a job for 7 years now, she always saboutages her job interviews with the weird stuff she says, the guy pays all the bills from his own salary, and she even has a horse-riding hobby on his penny! Can you believe that shit? She has an equestrian hobby on somebody else's money! And her husband is not some welthy dude, he's a bank clerk, which ar enot exactly a job that can make you loaded here, if you know what i mean. You know how fucking expensive that equestrian hobby shit is? And still she complains. She should worship the ground he walks!
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Amoebas are always on the up and up - unless you are a popcorn kernel stealing, long ciliaed paramecium who thinks he is gods gift to females! I loved that kernel! She had the finest donkey I ever seen! I need a moment.
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Doesn't mean he is wrong. Also, it means that SHIT TREK suffers from the same problems that plagues all the terrible blockbusters made today. You change the name of the movie and the shit is still the same.
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You know what? Im not looking for money, a pat on the back, nothing. I want nothing from her.....well, let me clarify that, I just want her to leave me alone and let me live my fucking life without having to worry about her and her bullshit. She movied on, got remarried, had another kid, essentially nothing changed for her, I had to start over from scratch, but yet feels the need to constantly interfere in my life. I just want to be left the fuck alone, won't cost her a damn thing, yet she cannot even do that. I swear its like all she remembers is the last few years of our marriage, any of the good stuff means nothing to her. She just wants to punish me for our marriage falling apart, for which she is equally responsible, but that's something she refuses to acknowledge, in her eyes, it was all my fault.
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No, not quite. The thing is, a writer called Alan Norse wrote a Sf noval called THE BLADERUNNER. Story tells that some off-beat producers in holywood payed Burroughs to write a spec treatment for a possible script based on that novel, which he did. Burroughs liked it so much he decided to publish it anyway, since the movie was not going to be made anyway (typical development hell story). years later, when David Peoples was taking a stab at the script for a movie based on the Philip K Dick novel DO ANDROID DREAMS OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, he noticed the Alan Norse novel and loved the title, and showed it to Ridley Scott, which he also loved as well, so much so that he convinced the producers to buy the options of both norse's THE BLADERUNNER novel and Burrough's BLADE RUNNER: A NOVEL published script treatment. This is why in the end credits of BLADE RUNNER they acknowledge Alan Norse and William Burroughs for the use of the title Blade Runner for the movie.
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She sure is looking for some emotional revenge or whatever on you. Let's hope she never goes The Bride or Mrs .45 on you.
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Criterion sure loves Terry Gilliam as well. I have many of his Criterion DVds as well... hell, i think i have all of them, from Time Bandits to Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas. Fear And loathing should had been nominated for best adapted screenplay, becaus ei saw the movie after i read the book, and it's a great adaptation, totally nailed the mood and message of the book, not to mention the humour. And the movie is beyond awesome. Hillarious like hell too!
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Dude, it would be my pleasure to show the place around. and frankly, to get the good wine stuff, you don't even need to go to gourmet shops, you can find lots of the good stuff in any supermarket or mall market. And being absent of the ol' portuguese wine? That's fucking hell right there! I feel your pain, brother!
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With the whole "added value" bullshit. You get charged about 5 bucks more for a digital copy disc. When they could just include the data on the blu (they've done this on a couple for PS3 owners) or simpler still, just include a code so you can email and get a pass to a secure download site. And we all know a n SD DVD doesn't cost 5 bucks to make... they also sometimes add an SD DVD as well.
But the main point is - you generally don't get a CHOICE about it. And even the couple of times you do, the data they get from that about what the market actually prefers has been USELESS because Amazon go and discount the digital copy version so they cost the same in the end. So everyone buys the digital copy with the disingenuous marketing thinking they're getting a whole extra disc's worth of features when they're not. They've just got a lo-rez copy of the first disc. But the studios use it as proof everybody wants that extra landfill caused by the redundant discs and extra packaging, marketing materials and so on. Ironic when that disc is Wall-E. Bah.
Worse still, they're also starting to do what you say with the DVDs on Blus now. There's one thing coming out soon where if you get the single disc Blu you won't get the yadda yadda yadda on the 2-disc pack. Even though the extra feature will still go on the first (the extra disc is stupid fucking digital copy). Grrr.
But, on the good side, it's only generally 5 bucks more than the DVD, and if you look out for the sales (they're still trying to get the adoption happening so they have 40 and 50% off all the time), sometimes it's the same or even cheaper.
Sure the players are dirt cheap (which happened 3 years before I thought it would), but I made it work for me a few years back. Being a Playstation fan I knew I was always going to get the PS3 eventually. I didn't own an HDTV at the time, but I actually made myself future-proof. Basically I bought the PS3 (eBay imports worked out super well for me as I jumped just before the local release so they'd offload the foreign ones cheap) because I knew I'd eventually get an HDTV and it didn't seem to make much sense to keep buying DVDs when I could get Blus around the same price or cheaper with the early-adopter sales. At the time, they just looked like a top-of-the-line quality player/DVD on my SD set. Then when I finally bought my HD telly, voila! Now full HD glory! Future-proof, and I had a bunch of discs that weren't sitting around looking all ordinary when they didn't need to or having to uprez. Win/win.
But yeah, I hate the marketing machinations and brainwashing. Even in here I've heard people regurgitate the idiotic "have to replace your collection" line they keep hammering. Some people don't even realise they're backwards compatible!
I still watch my Lasers, I still watch my DVDs. I only 'replace' fave movies, and even there I fully intend to sell that part of my collection and make back some dough.
I don't have a problem with those that say it's not for them, or anyone who says not yet, only with those who debate how superior the quality is as a defence mechanism, as they're usually mistaking their own sub-par eyesight and hearing, television size and/or viewing distance and subjective view (pun!) for an objective one. That gets my goat.
You know another thing that makes me crazy? This sorta anal (like that rant wasn't), but I have a lot of artist friends, and none of them bother to calibrate their sets. It makes me crazy! They're ARTISTS and the black is some sorta greyish colour! And I look at their computer monitors and instead of either black of a mid grey so they can accurately judge colour for reproduction, they've got some gaudy wallpaper or particular hue that throws their colour or reproduction judgement out the window. Craziness.
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The Robin Hood segment with the Celtic goon speaking gibberish (or Celt)punching out the poor as they receive their share of Hoods largesse - the old woman who knows she is about to get fucked up for a small piece of bread and the look on the goons face about to cold cock her- kills me every time. And his explanation -as translated, when Robin asks if it is really necessary to punch out the poor 'oh I'm afraid it is' kills me.
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greastes time travelling midget movie ever made...ever.
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... if you think our wines are good, you should try our pastry. Specially the famous "Pastel de Belém".
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I showed TIME BANDITS to my 5 years old nephew, and he loved it. Proof, if need be, of the eternal appeal of that excelent movie. Might be one of my top favorite children movie ever made.
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... and he's addicted to THE DARK KNIGHT.
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Having pierogies for lunch today, probably one of my top three favorite foods.....of course home made is better, but I have not done that for a long time...it's easy but very time consuming...gonna have to do that very soon, home made ones are heavenly.
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Just too bad other studios have caught on to the market they created to the point where they can't get the licences they want because the big guys want it for themselves - or they give Criterion a licence for a while, see how it sells, and then take it back to make some bucks. Usually with a sucky release.
And there IS a giant leap in quality on Blu. Never trust a store for true display quality. And that idiotic 120 hz effect they use on movies to make them look like ESPN? They're using the WRONG mode. There's true 24frame playback for that.
As for the smooth/grain thing, that's the pan-and-scan of our time. The discs don't HAVE to look that way. And even if you like that digital video look, you DON'T need it to even be on the disc - ALL HDTVs let you turn the DNR (digital noise reduction) up or down if you want it. Though God knows why you would.
Half the reason I love it is that films FINALLY look EXACTLY like films. And Criterion are relentless about keeping all that original grain intact.
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Aint it da troot?
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http://tinyurl.com/34a5ye5watch out for the original JABBA in there, the fat guy.
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Aug 03, 2010 10:44:55 AM CDT
i think its high time for my son to witness TIME BANDITS.
by six demon bag
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remember any GDT talk from a while back?
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My Babcia used to make that for me Rogue...
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Is that if you've got more than one kid, the chances are pretty certain that your ex will be there in that kid's personality/predilections for the rest of your life. Choose wisely...
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All that added quality image stuff has not impressed me yet. I do think that blu-ray strains our capacity to perceive image. It' just throws too much detail. everytime i watch a movie in blu-ray, it's always distracting, i'm always aware of the image and not in a good way. i'm not amazed at the artistic decisions of the filmmakers but about how much skin pores i cna count on an actor's face. In fact, for me, blu-ray makes actors look uglier. The format is only good to show babies and furred animals, it's a disaster for adult humans. It's just a too busy image, and it's distracting, it always takes me away from the movie. I think DVD had the perfect resolution for the human eye. For me, blu-ray is a ploy to make us cought up more of our hard won money. I mean, all the images in the movies always look artificial and plastic, even when it's showing nature images. All the stuff in a blu-ray looks like it's CGI. Small wonder it works wonders for AVATAR.
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Your kid taking after you can be equally humbling/exasperating! God knows it makes me humble to see my own idiosyncrasies and character traits thrown back at me!
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wrong mode eh?well thats a littel more enticing for BLU
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releasing in torrents all the Criterion dvd releases.i got my criterion robocop version from there.i dont know if it still exists,since demonoid isnt what it used to be.
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Asi, all that matters is accuracy/absolute fidelity to the source. And note the amount of times you said "I" in that post. What/who is the common denominator there? With respect, all those things you site are NOT inherent to the medium. The words you use make me pretty certain your setting are way out, because you'd never say that in a million years otherwise. You did qualify it with "for me" once though, that's admirable.
If the skin pores where there on film they should be there on the disc/your telly. If it wasn't plastic-y on film it shouldn't be on Blu.
You may not have your set calibrated correctly. Or at all. And the stock settings that come with it are NEVER accurate. For blu, generally the sharpening should be completely OFF, depending on your set.
Generally whether it's TV, VHS, Laser, DVD or HD, things will look a million times better if you calibrate everything correctly. Many discs even have a calibration feature on them of you don't have a specialised disc. It's so worth it. -
They used to have to do the whole 3:2 pulldown thing to get the frames and TV fields to sync up. That's changed now. I can't really explain it well but I'm sure Vades or Mac can.
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...adjustments? I'm only aware of black adjustment, and a "sports", "film", and "something else" setting that mostly seems to make things more or less blue.
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Yes. Coraline and Nightmare. OooooOOOOoooh.
And speaking of GDT & Dahl, that was what I meant when I was talking about forgetting Rien Poortvliet's work - have you seen it? You'd love it! -
Well it's a bit boring, but you need to go through those test pattern thingies where they'll give you screens for making sure your black is set perfectly, same with white, colours don't bleed or blow out, those stripes that buzz when sharpness is too much and so on. If you've got Pixar stuff. they often have a really friendly/easy to understand little section. Some THX certified discs have it too. One other thing is that DVDs and Blus use a slightly different colour system and you need to choose the right one.
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Yes, too much detail. In the words of Christian Bale, it's fucking distracting.
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Yeah Sixies, that THX Optimiser is one of the ones I was talking about. The only thing I guess you might need is some special coloured glasses like those cheap cellophane ones for matching hue. But other than that you can get pretty damn close.
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Aug 03, 2010 11:15:51 AM CDT
Some good ol' fashioned Pedalbackin' goin' on today!
by colonelfatheart
You betcha! I don't know what I'd do if someone threw out my LAST TEMPTATION or SILENCE OF THE LAMBS Criterions. I wish I had the ROBOCOP one. That makes your loss even more painful, Sixies. I have to agree with FEAR AND LOATHING being one of the best, if not the best Criterion set. I loooooove the BBC documentary, especially the parts where Hunter and Steadman plan out the Doctor's gonzo funeral ... which actually happened according to design thanks in large part to Col. Depp!
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But did you see what I was saying about that not being what you SHOULD be seeing? And the point being fidelity/accuracy?
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You are talking about movies that were shot on HD cameras transferred to Blu-Ray. Movies that were shot on film look amazing and as close as you can get to how the original film looked, grain and all. I'm not saying that people should go out right away and get a Blu player, but when your old DVD player breaks, and it will, why wouldn't you get one when they've come down to under $100 and play all your old DVDs as well.
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If not, consider it so.
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opinions?
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Aug 03, 2010 11:20:31 AM CDT
Those damn dirty dinosaurs! Triceratops never existed!
by dirk_the_amoeba
Triceratops never existed!
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Got it on eBay 'cause the thing was out-of-print and that was my only hope, turned out to be a con. I could have just burned my mate's copy he has almost the WHOLE collection on DVD. It's a beautiful thing to see all those shelves full of Criterion goodness!
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It just happened to be a younger version of the torosaurus.
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point blank wise..it has been firsted.
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Thanks for the TB link
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... made me realise that the difference between the american NSTC (typo?) system and the PAL system. And frankly, i prefer PAL. But for the longest time, the americans produced the best DVDs, and only they released DVDs of cool cult movies, so i took it all in stride and just went with it and bought american. Only relatively recently have the region 2 DVDs matched up in terms of quality the american DVDs, specially concerning the extras. Example: americna DVD of EXCALIBUR, which had the cool audio comentary by John Boorman, which was never made for a region 2 DVD. For a long time, american region 1 DVDs were the best, and mostly because of Criterion.
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before I even bought a DVD player. I was anticipating getting one, though. Those purchases clinched it.
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And have not purchased a single Blu-Ray movie yet. That said, i love watching the Blu-Rays Netflix sends me on my HDTV. Like Nilla says, how can high resolution and detail, i.e. close to the original source be a bad thing?
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Ol El Toro is gettin the heave ho! Thet jes aint righ'
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for 16 dollars..it was on fathers day and while we were waiting for a table at outback (sorry nilla) i snuck down to blockbuster music and found a used copy..i literally almost shat myself cause at the time it was going for at least 100 on ebay..
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always stirring up trouble! The mail is a bit late with that story it seems...
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I have the POINT BLANK DVD, which is just suberb. Well, the movie is, anyway, and so is the audio comentary. John Boorman was born to make audio comentaries.
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Aug 03, 2010 11:27:11 AM CDT
As long as Lickalotapusses and Megasaurasses existed
by trigpalinsbodydouble
I'm happy!
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...but now I think it's great. I thought it was something new and different, but it's really just an upgrade. My old player broke...got a Blu-Ray...now my old disks look better, and animation looks amazing.
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I don't own as many as I should, and I regret passing up the B&N sale, particularly since I wanted THE LEOPARD, WAGES OF FEAR and NAKED LUNCH. Still, I have BRAZIL, which is a great set, FEAR AND LOATHING, another great set, SHORT CUTS, which even comes with a slim volume of Raymond Carver short stories. My SILENCE OF THE LAMPS and LAST TEMPTATION Criterions are OK, but they're not loaded up with features. Also love my THIRD MAN Criterion, but I don't have the most recent addition, alas. My favorite is the FEAR AND LOATHING one, but I'd put my VIDEODROME at No. 2, thanks in no small part to its packaging. The crown jewel of my Criterion collection, though, is SALO. I haven't watched it, but it's cool to have.
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THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST is a particular favorite of mine. And, of course, THE SEVEN SAMURAI.
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I don't even mind the price, because i know will get quality worth of the price.
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Don't reclassify it as a flounder with bad dentures!
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I'd rush out and buy it, but I'm trying to tone down my media purchases since I'm saving for a wedding. I guess it is a good thing I missed out on that B&N sale then!
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Aug 03, 2010 11:31:20 AM CDT
Dirk, Megalodon is my favorite prehistoric creature.
by colonelfatheart
I was a bit bummed to learn that it wasn't necessarily a mega great white, though.
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I loves some Wilhelm, but that snoozer even in blu-ray, is for insomniacs.
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But man, it's POINT BLANK! It's worth the sacrifice, if you know what i mean.
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Bought the new Arcade Fire album on iTunes. Listened to about half of it on the way into work this morning. Pretty fucking good so far. It must be listened to in album form, though. MUST.
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Aug 03, 2010 11:32:54 AM CDT
By which I mean it should be listened to straight through.
by colonelfatheart
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Those damn scientists, taking away all my childhood favorite predators!
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ends up looking like a home movie. It's a really strange dichotomy. 35mm to blu ray, however, looks amazing. Go figure.
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Terry-Thomas. Insanely funny. Find it. Buy it. Love it.
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and DVDs though was that even though PAL (I'm in Oz where we had it too) had much more resolution and the whole separate luma/chroma thing, the quality control on most PAL discs wasn't as good as the American ones. That's completely aside from any extras issues.
That all changed, thank goodness. Actually, even though we don't need more than one master as 1080p 24f is the same all over, sometimes it can be a good thing. The German or Italian )(can't remember which) Blu for Good the Bad & the Ugly is great. Good quality, grain, etc. The American one is a DNR, EEd piece of shit. Wax faces everywhere and no more actual picture detail than a DVD.
The French Pan's Labyrinth BD is the best version too. But mostly you can't go too wrong if you buy American though. Main disasters are Patton, The Longest Day, Initial runs of Fifth Element and Gangs of New York (subsequently fixed), Spartacus, and Sleepy Hollow isn't much chop either (but that's more general lousy quality than plastic DNRd people). The first Pirates of the Caribbean had a misframed section but I think they eventually corrected that one. -
Here is your quick in home calibratio.1. Put it on" cinema." or custom Picture setting.2. Put the color temp on the warmest setting (more red than blue).3. Color should be ok. Let's be honest...if they didn't get this right at the factory....they are fucking up.4. Hue or tint...with HD i find thigs run very red and yellow. Notch it down a few ticks into the green to take the edge off.5. Contrast can be varied brand to brand. Usually i find i put it damn all the way up somewhere between 80 to 98 on a 100 scale. 6. Nilla was right about Sharpness. Pretty much all the way down.Everything else is tweaking on a level not many people will notice. These settings are for watching in a dark room and will also save on the energy output of the set. It is also subjective. If you like it super bright...watch it that way. It's your tv.
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SEVEN SAMURAITHE KILLERHARD BOILEDTHIS IS SPINAL TAPTHE SILENCE OF THE LAMBSSID AND NANCYROBOCOPLONG GOOD FRIDAYTIME BANDITSARMAGEDDON (proud of it!)THE RED SHOESBRAZILYOJIMBOFOR ALL MANKINDCHARADELIFE OF BRIANTHE THIRD MANRUSHMORELAST TEMPTATION OF CHRISTCHASING AMYTHE HARDER THEY COMEDO THE RIGHT THINGGIMME SHELTERBEASTIE BOYS ANTHOLOGYSPARTACUSTHE ROCKREBECCASPELLBOUNDNOTORIOUSRASHOMONTRAFFICTHE ROYAL TENENBAUMSFEAR AND LOATHING IN LAS VEGASSTRAW DOGSVIDEODROMESHORT CUTSKAGEMUSHALIFE AQUATICRANTHE BAD SLEEP WELLCURIOUS CASE OF BENJAMIN BUTTONCHEyou can tell when i had kids..the spending on criterions stopped pretty drastically..but if i find one used or cheap..
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Yes pierogi....awesomely yummy food, my Dad used to say I make them better than my aunt...she was not happy when he said that and remided her of who taught him, but he still said I make them better...sweetness...miss the old man.You know Vader? One thing i love is that all 3 of my kids have my genes, they look like my side of the family and have my personality traits and don't take after their mother all that much. That's the beauty, every day her and her new spouse have a living breathing representation of me, and I am sure that kills the both of them, and although they will never admit it does, I take great pleasure in knowing they have to basically see me every fucking day. I know their step father really hates it, good, fuck that lazy good for nothing asshole, works one day a week and thinks he is some great person because he takes care of my kids....he chose to be a housewife, so it comes with the territory asshole. That's right, in the past 4 years since those two have been together, he has not had a job until recently, and only one, sometimes two days a week. What a fucking freeloading tool, then again, he was always like that, always sponged off of others, but now he bagged a huge trophy...good he can fucking have her LOL. Ok enough of my ranting about the ex and her new wife...oops I mean bitch....I mean husband LOL.
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Yes, the carpet matches the drapes!
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Just watched that last night, damn that is one fucking great film. "I don't imagine the answer is on those second rate shoes" Fucking classic
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...is followed directly by CHASING AMY in your library...
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http://tinyurl.com/22mdfos
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I pretty much change the picture setting whenever I go over someones house and watch tv. Your calibrations are pretty close to my own.
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I'd almost buy them for that alone! It's the ex-graphic designer in me I guess - I'm the same with cool novel covers. Gotta flee before I do my wallet some damage!
You see the new Criterion Mishima cover? Holy crap!
Actually the covers weren't quite as good in the LD days. But they were album-cover size.
Oh and the Blu-ray case proportions are an abomination for design. Finally getting used to it, but good God, it's a design no-man's land between film poster format and one-sheet proportions. No wonder Criterion changed tack to get rid of that header. -
Don't revoke my geek status please
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With the long cilia who stole my one true luv (well of the moment) - the popcorn kernel with the finest badonk I have ever seen!
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Seven Samurai, right at the top.
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...otherwise, I really fucking hate it.
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Sadly, that love is not as intense as it once was. Every now and then we'll meet up and have a quickie for old times' sake.
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Just wait until the find a Kraken though
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After married to the mob and something wild..
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Aug 03, 2010 11:54:53 AM CDT
Gene Hackman was originally supposed to direct LAMBS.
by colonelfatheart
And Lou Gossett Jr. was supposedly in line for Hannibal Lecter.
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I have 3 too. The boy looks a little more like my wife's side, but the twins are just ridiculously like me at that age (sorry kids). If I was a girl I guess.
My poor wife would be pushing that big-arse double pram and people would do the nosybeak thing, but do a double-take when they looked back to her. And she's like "honest! They ARE mine! I carried them inside me! I've got the scars to prove it!". -
Stop Making Sense! Obviously!
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Kraken is Kraken!
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I have twins as well, boy and girl 10 years old, and an 8 yr old son. My older son looks exactly like me, and I absolutely love that...someone once told me "it's like they put you in a dryer" lol. My daughter looks like my sister, and my younger son looks a little like my ex's brother, but has more traits of me than anything.The funny thing, is that the ex had another kid with her wife...damn sorry husband, and the kid is just not attractive. He also has kids from a previous marriage and after seeing them, and the kid he made with the ex, it is crystal clear my kids got my genes and thank fucking god they did, those two produce some very unattractive kids. So I guess in a way I kinda get back at them every single day.
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That's the mark of the beast -Kathy Bates!
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out on DVD this week. Weren't you guys joking about that one a while back?
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Anyone who disputes that better check out the hot tub scene from ABOUT SCHMIDT.
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Ha! A dryer! Yeah, mine aren't so lucky, lookin' like me. Sterling personalities though, to be sure *cough*. Boy is 10, girls are 7.
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I been flappin mah gums too much!
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and by that i mean..uh today for you..huh?
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Plays a mafia family head and was made in Italy? If its the movie I'm thinking it is, Leonard Maltin said it was one of his best performances and a percursor to the godfather.
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I wish I could have a drink, but I am at work...but I am gonna stop talking about the gruesome twosome LOL. Didn't mean to bring anyone down or disrupt the harmony in here fellas.So onto better subjects.....
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...night, Nilla.
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Metalstorm, destruction of Jared Syn... yep. That's one of the lost sci-fi B-movie treasures along with SPACEHUNTER 3D: ADVENTURES IN THE FORBIDDEN ZONE, BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS and THE HUMANOID.
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Just the old aristocratic power structure in Italy. The movie DID have a big stylistic influence on THE GODFATHER, though. Nino Rota did the score for both, of course. I have the novel The Leopard sitting on my shelf. It's up next after I'm done with Mao II.
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Rogue, it's cool, sometimes you've gotta vent!
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I did a few weeks ago, I thought it rocked. I am a fan of the show and thought everyone did a great job, especially Copely, that guy is just freaking great. I hope he keeps getting work in Hollywood, he deserves every bit of fame he can get.
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I imagine it to look like the beast in the Watchmen comic! Purple and shit!
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...IL LEOPARDO.
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It was funny, I cannot see how hat could possibly be comfortable for him, but he was out for a good two hours on it. 5 (working) computers in my 1 bedroom apartment so its no surprise he found his way to one of them. Actually have 7 total in the house but two are not working at the moment.
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...hugely popular Sergio Leone knockoff comedies when I was a kid.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87FnTqYqnO4&feature=related
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it was decent. not great. Neeson needed to inject a little more George into his performance. No wink no smile just there. Copley was better than I thought he would be. The action was pretty cartoony and Biel should have spent the movie mostly topless. 3/5
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Maltins bit on the movie only showed a photo of Burt but his character looked like a lion in winter. It was outside a mansion and Burt was dressed in a classy late 60s suit looking distantly over his land. At the time (about 10 years) this piece by Maltin took place, he bemoaned the fact that a decent release of the movie hadn't been done. Will have to see if one has since then. Thanks for the flashback memory.
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Colonel...It is actually pretty spacious for a 1 bedroom, my living room is bigger than the ex's living room and she is in a house, nice size kitchen, average size bathroom. the smallest room in the house is the bedroom, which is fine, all we do in there is sleep and fuck and you don't need a ton of space for that, besides fucking can be done in other parts of the house as well. Also, got a loft in the living room, doubles as a storage area and a sleep/getaway area for my step daughter, although she really doesn't sleep there much anymore, takes over the couch o.0Mac...did you like it?
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and started fiddling with the tv, I'd whoop you.
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There have been many cuts of the movie. The Criterion release has two cuts. http://www.criterion.com/films/790-the-leopard
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Mine is tiny.
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My desktop that I built myselfMy old Sony Vaio laptopSpare desktopFiance's laptopStep daughter's laptopMy desktop is kinda old as far as computers go (about 6 years) but because I made it myself, it was a bit ahead of state of the art at the time I built it. It has one of the first 64 bit processors when they started coming out, and all I have done since then is upgrade my video card. Although it does need a RAM upgrade now too, but it's nice having such an efficient machine, considering its age.
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...EXPENDABLESback get to #1. Getting there first is for Jake-cradling contests...we're all about endurance, stamina, and staying power around here.
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http://tinyurl.com/2wc67no
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Your bedroom is tiny, or your entire apartment? Because my bedroom has enough room for a queen size bed, a dresser and a TV stand, that's it. One closet. It's that small, but like I said, it doesn't need to be I don't spend that much time in there. The rest of the place more than makes up for it. My landlord also lets me use the driveway, the yard and his gas bbq grill. The rent is a bit steep, but with all the extras that you don't normally get, it's worth it. He also doesn't care that I have a dog and a cat, most landlords are assholes about that, that's why it took me so long to find a place when I was looking.
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Thank god, that's about all I can take of that fucking idiot.
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LOL...how about HE will never learn...that we don't give two shits about him or anything he says?
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Do most my posting at work. Guess I'm in that group of employees who spend like 30% work day on the web. Wish I worked for SEC though. Then I could look at porn all day and get paid.
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The rest of the place is small, though. The living room is pretty narrow, too.
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A few years back when the WW moive was being set up, Biel was offered role. She turned it down because she wanted to considered a "serious" actress.
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Yea I lucked out with my place. Sooner or later I do want to either rent or buy a house, just don't like my place not being truly mine. But for now, it's perfect.Trying to figure out what to watch this week, want to check out some good movies, just not sure what....any ideas fellas?
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and stirring up shit. What a diva.LOOK AT ME! LOOK AT ME! LOOK! LOOK!
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You haven't seen it yet, right? Well, no time is better than now. Or soon.
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She aint terrible, but she is serious....a serious piece of ass...LOL
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I just said how I have not seen it and here i am wondering what to watch....duh. Still that's just one I need a few to choose from, but am gonna work on Videodrome.Right now I am so poor that I just download my movies and either burn them or watch them on my PC, so If I can't d/l it, I aint watching. Well sometimes I can spring for a flick from a Redbox, but not often as I am usually late in returning them, thus defeating the purpose of a $1 rental.
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Look at me, NO over here!!!!! LOOK LOOK LOOK!!!!! LOL pathetic isn't it
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There seems to be an insignificant insect in here....where the hell is the can of Raid when you need it.
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Is your nick after the Kurt Russell character in The Thing?
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has a big article on comic con and one on the history of the piranha movie franchise. Didn't know it was one of James Camerons first gigs. Plus it says this movie is really bloody. They wanted to show it at the comic con convention but was too bloody so at last minute moved it to nearby theatre.
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Aug 03, 2010 1:05:17 PM CDT
Yea Cameron started off pretty low on the Hollywood chain
by rogueleader66
Good thing he improved himself immensely.
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Same issue of EW has a photo gallery of stars at comic con and lets just say Blake and her "boys" should have their own zip code.
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Watch the movie again for the #. It aint hard to spot
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because the producer wanted to make it a tit flick or something. Cameron got screwed out of pay, I think, too. But one good thing did come of it: When he was in Italy, poor and fighting for his money and the right to cut his own movie, he came down with a pretty serious fever, during which he dreamed of a metallic hand emerging from fire.
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almost makes me wanna watch Gossip Girl. Almost.
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And gives plot away. Way its written think the studio wrote it. Overly dramatic and almost a press release. Also the EW cover is used and it looks better there then when it was on AICN or the one I have at home.
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See her in Accepted? Legs tits and ass...oh my
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You're gonna need a bigger bra.
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not the new one with Julia "Huge Mouth" Roberts on it? is it?
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Are two smokin hotties, but STILL not enough to make me watch Gossip Girl. Hot chicks do not a good show make....perfect example:Baywatch..never watched a single episode of that turd. Lifeguards with ranks....Lt., Captain...don't know if they do that for real anywhere but it sounds so damn retarded. That just tips the iceberg of that stupid ass show.
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her in that preppy school outifts makes it almost worthwhile. Still, 5% of Blake can't overcome 95% of the rest of the show. Hope she stays clean and can move on to better stuff.
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"..and you can run."Fucking punch line amongst my friends for years. Still is.
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They may not be real but they're awesome!! With apologies to a young Teri Hatcher.
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Alicia (from Clueless movie) as the freshman high school year body of Blake. Compare the two and theres a resemblence.
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The one comic book movie I hope they don't fuck up. I have been very forgiving of the changes they have made in a lot of the comic book movies because I didn't heavily read comics when i was a kid, but GL I loved and will be very upset if they fuck it up. I actually don't mind the costume change. I just want them to get the characters and the feel right.
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At beginning, it does state it is an official synopsis from a press release. Sorry I didn't catch it earlier.
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In a universe as vast as it is mysterious, a small but powerful force has existed for centuries. Protectors of peace and justice, they are called the Green Lantern Corps. A brotherhood of warriors sworn to keep intergalactic order, each Green Lantern wears a ring that grants him superpowers. Didn't want to go any further as it reveals the big baddie and its not who you think it is.
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I want to know as little as possible going into that movie, and it's still a long way off.
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Maybe people are actually working? Say it isn't so.....I'm at work, but today all I have to do is Windows updates and babysit some servers....yawn....updates are ok, but can drag.
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September 28th! Two discs! I had no idea!!
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At least she doesn't actually have that big hair look from pretty woman. Right about that mouth colonel, everytime I think of a scene she's in, I only think of her mouth. And Gere, every scene he shares with her is probally thinking: Damn, thats a big mouth Julia's got.
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That's great news. GREAT news.
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as excited that i am that thin red line is getting a criterion release..i was a little disappointed in the fact that its not a longer cut of the film..
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And he sold me on it. Pretty gruesome and gives great info on the cthulu mythos to public in a way thats scary and infromative. Plus Cameron definitely put some time and input into the film.
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It comes out before Paths of Glory and Hausu, which is funny because those were the big films getting press recently. Thin Red Line should have been part of that celebration.
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Have not seen The Thin Red Line either...I am gonna revoke my own geek credentials.
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Good feedback on it, though. I read the first 15 pages, and I was sold.
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Which is only disappointing because you know Mallick shot a SHIT-TON of footage for that film, and LOTS of actors ended up on the cutting room floor, including Lukas Haas, Billy Bob Thornton, and Viggo Mortensen. I hope they are part of the outtakes.
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considering there was a supposedly 5 hour cut of THIN RED LINE..14 minutes reallly isnt much..malick can film tree branches blowing in the breeze and make it look poetically epic.i realized the majesty of his works again ecently with THE NEW WORLD..the ending..im just blown away and i say to myself..this man is another plane..
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Thank the gods he didn't get it. Brian Austin Green campaigned to get the part but didn't audition. Still not happy CC Pounder didn't get Amanda Waller role. Just listen to any of the JL episodes she does the voice for, her physique and you know she is Aanda Waller. Still, I have high hopes for movie.
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http://www.tmz.com/2010/08/03/eva-mendes-sex-tape-leaks-online/
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But is that Mallick's final director's cut? Probably not. Is the one released his director's cut? I guess we'll never know. But it seems like Mallick just likes to shoot a LOT of stuff and figure it out in the editing room. So I don't want a longer cut necessarily if that's not the story he wanted to tell. But I DO want to see the rest of that damn footage!!!
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Seeing those names, we should be glad that Reynolds got the part....Brain Austin Green? What the fuck does he do aside from Megan Fox? Timberlake is a funny dude, but I don't think he could have done GL justice.
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Think reason he did the oath at comic con way he did was he didn't want to make it too dramatic. Just to show the kid he knew it and that he took the request seriously. The oath when done dramatically needs background music to create a groundswell that reaches a cresendo when doing the last line so I'm glad he didn't overdue the oath.
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Sorry, no tinyurl
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Seems to get a lot of shit, but I have never really had much of a problem with him. I never thought he was super awesome, nor have I ever thought he was super terrible either. mostly good to really good in whatever he has done. he has just done a lot of goofy shit I guess and that's why he gets so much crap? Dunno, but I like the guy just fine. Glad he seems to be taking GL seriously, he might surprise us all and knock it out of the park. I hope he does.
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Why are we only just hearing of this. Men of the world..if you FILM sex with Eva Mendes you IMMEDIATELY release it for general "use". It's guy code.
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I just don't care about GREEN LANTERN either way. I do hope it's good, though, at least for your sake, guys.
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Glad we got Campbell. Campbell showed he can handle a franchise movie.
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someone tiny it for me PLEASE.Oh and this is the worst kind of joke. You don't say Eva sex and then not deliver. For shame.
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"Always have. Always will."
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His schtick is getting kinda old, worked ok in 300, was ok in Watchmen, but enough is enough.I liked Watchmen, I never read the book so I had no expectations, so maybe that was a good thing. I did want to know what the big deal with the squid was, so I had a friend explain the whole squid ending to me, and he explained in great detail, and my conclusion is this...That particular ending is unfilmable and would not have worked in a movie if they did film it. Sure it would have pleased the purists, but face it they were going for a more mainstream audience and a mainstream audience would have seen the squid ending one of two ways....as really stupid and laughable, or they just would not have gotten it. I understand both sides of the argument, but until I read the book (started but don't have a lot of reading time lately) I cannot give a 100% true opinion, but I doubt my view will change all that much.
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but fox balked at it..
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i like Snyder. The slo mo gotta go though.heehee
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Seems kinda cool, have not watched the trailer yet but the premise is interesting. Don't get me wrong I don't dislike Snyder, I have liked his films but the slow-mo thing is getting tired he just needs to worry about making a good movie and put in slow-mo if it is a good fit , not just cause it's "cool".
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He has enough personal style to put the slo mo to rest, absolutely. He actually cares about mise en scene, which is pretty insane these days. PJ overused the slo mo in KONG, too, which was actually one of the few things I disliked about the movie. Yes, that's right. I liked PJ's KONG. A fuckload.
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If PJ was trying to go for the Orson Welles vibe for Denham, he should have just cast D'Onofrio.
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Makes me want to build myself a new one.....well will just have to put that on the list of the many many many things to do when I actually have some money to spend....
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http://tinyurl.com/38mxxqf
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... yes, please.
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Like PJ's Kong....a lot, the hell with the haters.
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He wasn't spectacular, but I thought he gave it his best and was fine in the role. D'Onofrio, though would have been great in that role, but I am fine with it as is, an odd choice to be sure, but not the worst casting either....that might go to Christensen as Anakin.....don't get me started with SW talk, at work and have no time for it, as I could talk about it forever and at great length.
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He was trying too hard not to be something instead of actually trying to embrace the role. It's PJ's fault, too, for casting him and not eliciting the right kind of performance out of him.
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megalomania to him. Black is capable of playing unhinged, just the comic kind and not the just-this-left-of-sanity kind. D'Onofrio has that down pat.
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ive watched it twice already at work...and no review yet..put the god dammned cheetos down ginger and get typing..
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Time to start wrapping stuff up here, head home and relax for a bit, talk at you fellas later!
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[claps]
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Remember that contest I got second place in last year? Yeah, its up again this year. And its due in a week and a half. Crap. Better get writing!
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The best shit always happens under pressure Vades.I for one give you permission to use The Man on the Can. You will have to get everyone else's permission though.....and plenty of excrement.
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why ya gotta call all six of us douche bags.What a dick.
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Well, not *that* story directly, but I was going through all the notes on my iphone over the past year because I had jotted down ideas for scary shorts for this year's contest, in case there was one, and I definitely wrote something down about the toilet exploding on someone.
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enjoy. I gotta go. Why don't you do everyone a favor and split a cab with me. I'll fall on this grenade.
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I don't get it. Are you like a lumberjack or something?
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It was based off the comic and had Chow Yung Fat and Sean Scott (American Pief fame). Never read the read comic so opinions going in. Expected a bad movie but wanted it to be bad fun. Unh Unh, this was "I'm losing hours on my life" bad. It could have been a guilty pleasure but....
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a second time is to say you'd be willing watch Scott Pilgrim vs the World next to scottpilgrimfan.
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You know you have to fight them all before she becomes your girlfriend. Is this something she came up with? If so, I don't care how crazy she is in bed, she aint worth it. The girlfriend in Kick Ass (RRRRRRR) is. Or is this something those losers came up with? Which is stupid, turn the page and move on guys.
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And Scott has to go through the bosses before he gets the Princess. That's the kind of logic the story operates on. Its not her call, its the ex-boyfriends' call, the group they created called The League of Evil Exes who want to have a controlling stake in her future.
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...car keys in my own calloused fist.
I am the master of my fate.
I am the captain of my soul. -
O Captain, my Captain!
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♪ ♫ too long apart
She couldn't wait another day for
The captain of her heart
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John Madden's next movie. There's your chance to rip him a new one for not having a Kick Ass review.
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...play Justin Bieber music very loud late at night.
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Chippy D will be remembered longer than will this movie.
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...sell Manischewitz wine...
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From all the fight scenes it just cries out video game. Boyfriends = bosses. Never a predator around when you need one.
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we talkin' Nazi's????
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Forget about me catching up; youse guys were talky-talky today. Fo SHO! Mac...my nephews are 3 and 1. So, both are mobile, one is verbal, and both are like monkeys on crack. I love those little monsters to death. I gotta go out and get Kick Ass. Back later playahs!
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I've been reading for an hour and I'm only up to 10 am....But its so interesting...I can't wait to talk to Rougeman about the ex...We'll compare war stories...
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dog gogod what have you gotten yourself into.
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...but then I blew it by fucking up my windows again...but I think I was only amusing myself, anyway.
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That was....my god
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it amused me too.
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Just finished a great dinner and am about to chill for a bit, I'll be in and out this evening. Hope all is wellI see the troll made an appearance, the mentally disabled just don't know when to quit do they? It's just like having a pesky insect flying around the room, you know he is there but just ignore it because it's tiny, and insignificant....it tries to annoy you but you just pay it no mind, same thing here.
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Bow Wow
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...living here among us.
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You have an evil bitch of an ex too? We should start a club or something LOL.
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I can't help myself. I see a dead animal and I poke it with a stick.
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is who Scott Pilgrim fights in the second movie?Yup...pretty sure thats right.
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tag you're in.
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do me a favor and give the chicken a good once over. The last thing I need at 4 a.m. is a chicken that is horny as hell.
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coordinates please..
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and I called myself all caught up...It IS the deodorant, hunh?
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...06:31:18 PM, resulting in the most elaborate typo in Pedalback history.
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like a manifestation of ....Never mind me ...I'm in level 2 already...
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I believe 'dog gogod' is one of the 1-year-olds favorite bits of authentic frontier gibberish. Along with 'doobie-doobie-gah' and 'dat. dat. dat. dat.' 'Bout to watch ze Kick-Ass for ze zird tahm. I actually do believe it is better than the source. So there. Millar is a bit of a downer sometimes. I feel that ol' Kick-Ass earned his 'super-hero' moment. Not the crap Millar piled on 'im. And Nic Cage doing Adam West is legendary. Chicken, take 5.
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Aug 03, 2010 8:07:55 PM CDT
I agree, Fuzzy...Kick Ass is ...well, it kicks ass...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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We saw it together with my daughter and another friend of ours in Austin the week after it came out...
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Aug 03, 2010 8:25:38 PM CDT
Japan losing track of it's OVER 100 year old club...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
http://tinyurl.com/32u8tld
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...that's some crazy 30 year old Japanese beef jerky, huh?
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You poor bastard, my life is hell enough with one and you got two? Damnnnnnnn.
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I knew things were really wrong with my first wife on the afternoon that I came home for lunch, made my own sandwich, sat down at the table with her and she looked at me and said… “I want a divorce…” When I asked her why, she very coolly responded… “Because I sit here all day while you’re at work and think about ways to kill you and get away with it…”
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And drop them off at Area 51 so the government can conduct top secret experiments to see if there is a bitch gene in female DNA. Mankind would benefit and we would be rid of them! Let's get on this.....
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It's the lack of the Y chromosome...
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Wow....I don't even know what to say to that except...wow. What about the second one?
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Really? Bitch genes? Really? You're happy with that?
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revolved around her not being able to forgive me for gambling away a huge amount of money and loosing a lucrative job indirectly because of gambling...But, she was the one that insisted we move to Las Vegas over my initial objections...After moving there, we somehow wound up in a semi-swinger lifestyle with lots of drugs and alcohol...But, we made 6 figures between us and I drove a new Z (that almost killed me) and we lived large. We even built a bar in our living room and threw parties for 150 plus people 4-5 times a year and people dropped by at all hours for a drink... Later it devolved into lack of sex drive on my part and she was a nymphomanic...kind of my way to get back at her....Yet, she turned on me and got all mad when she would come home late and there would be a party going on...I told her to call me when she left work and I would clear all the losers out before she got home, but, I obviously didn't get the point... Yeah, I was just as guilty in the second one...We're still friends...but, the break up was brutal and devastating to me...I still love her...we just can't co-exist under one roof...
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You'd need a Y chromosome to understand it...[ducks and runs...]
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That sucks Cheeses. Especially since she seemed to be someone who could keep up with you. THAT would be a one-in-a-million kind of chick.
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I wish I could hate my ex, but she's really a great person. Our marriage just sort of slowly unravelled due to a nice hearty stew of circumstances. Can't really lay the blame on any one party or event or decision. What really sucks is that we were pretty much best friends for about 7 years before we got married. We would sort of 'fill the gap' for each other if both of us were single at the same time, and the last time it just stuck. For 4 years. We're still very friendly, which I KNOW is part of the trouble for me. Fortunately, she's seriously considering a move to Nashville, which can only be good for me. Out of sight and all. It wouldn't be so frikkin' HARD if she wasn't just so damn awesome. She really is a peach. Lucky me, huh? Don't get me wrong, I've dated my share of 'post-relationship psychos', so I know where ya'll are coming from. I just got lucky and didn't marry one. The bad thing is, you don't know THAT shit 'til it's over. I wonder what triggers that change from love to absolute HATE? It's an enigma.
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[cracks knuckles] Keep that chicken warm, boys. I like to uck something once I'm done kicking ass.
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Typo! Typo!
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"I wish I could hate my ex" I REALLY do mean (this is not back-pedaling, just clarifying) that part of getting over someone, I have come to realize, is 'demonizing' them for a time. You have to sort of get angry and blamey for a time to move on. IT'S A STAGE OF GRIEF! Really. I just can't do that. I think my Y chromosome actually may have a teeny-tiny stumpy 4th leg.
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...let's just say that unlike SOME of our bretheren in here, YOU do not have the emotional intelligence of your average home-grown eggplant.
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Aug 03, 2010 9:05:20 PM CDT
Yeah, Scary...the second one was golden...for a long time...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
we were best friends and had the same hobbies, (Dancing, driking and sex...she was into chicks and her fantasy was watching her man with another woman)...In Vegas we were perfect...She helped design our party house...I was floored when she decided she didn't want to party anymore and decided after watching the passion of the Christ, that she was going to convert from Judaism...I remember yelling at her thru her car window in the drive way that "...she was going to get along GREAT with Jesus, because everybody knows he LOVES Whores..."My neighbors weren't happy that Sunday Morning...
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Really. Talking shit about ladies on a public forum--especially when you KNOW a lady is lurking about--is just plain dumb. I'm gonna chalk it up to a rough week emotionally and promise not to do it again. So really...sorry.
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...I'm just sitting back, and watching the show...
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Aug 03, 2010 9:09:52 PM CDT
Heh. Fuzzy, you already have a get out of jail free card.
by scarywaitress
So does Cheeses, really... except that he should know better to incite the mob... On a sidenote, I know that was a painful time of your life, CHeeses, but that Jesus line made me spit out my wine. GOD DAMN, that shit is funny.
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And eavesdrop... so they know when you've said something really incriminating. That's when you pounce, you see... when you have the "moral high ground." Your bitch genes help you know when that is... but then, you've got that Y chromosome. You wouldn't understand. Tee hee hee...
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I love that one....It is one of my favorite phrases...You double x chromasomers rely on that kooky logic all the time...Morals are subjective...just like movies...All it takes is a single inception and all your dreams can change...
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I just found out that Cillian Murphy and David Tennant are going to be in the same movie together. It's called RETREAT. I think my head may explode if I see that. I'm already giving it ★★★★★, I'm not even bothering to wait.
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The Y Chrome allows me the pleasure of not bleeding for seven days without dying once a month...and all the hormonal shifts that HAS to cause on a human frame...
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I'm just glad I don't have to operate my physical body while going thru all that 13 times a year...
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touche.
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that bleeds fer seven days an' don't DAH." You may take your pot shots at the female gender's physical traits if you like... but let's not forget, the most misogynistic cultures on the planet are the ones causing the most death and destruction of late... and our own "noble" society fights those a-holes using the most macho organizations we have at our disposal. This is all over-simplifying, of course... but the extreme versions of EITHER gender leaves much to be desired. Give me some peaceable lesbians any day. Cute ones, though, no one wants to watch lumberjanes get all hot'n'bothered.
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there are ways around the whole PMS thing. Certain forms of child-prevention eliminate that monthly obnoxiousness.
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Daughter is ga ga over him, too...She freaked out when he was in Batman Begins, and I was all 'Who?'...She totally flipped that he was in Inception...He's metro sexually handsome, its true, but, I don't get any sex appeal from him...Must be that damned Y Chrome...
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Just venting about ex's thats all, it's called a joke :) Well don't want to offend anyone else, I'll just take my offensive material and go. Talk to you guys later.
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America LOVES lesbians, as long as they're attractive... Testosterone is indeed a poor guiding light...Expansion and replication is the first order of the day with testosterone...Cultural Testosterone leads to imperialism...
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quick poll: Who here has seen (or heard of) "The Dancing Outlaw"; the documentary about Jesco White, last of the mountain dancers from Boone County, West Virginia? Just curious. If anyone has NOT, I can only recommend that you get your hands on a copy ASAP. I have probably a 50th generation VHS tape. Your world will change forever. It is, by far, the KING of 'people really live this way' cinema. Here's a taste of actual dialogue: "I don't need you a'pickin' at mah brain....what little's left of it!" Another gem: "I held a butcher knife to her throat and tol' her 'You gonna start fryin them aigs better'n you been a'fryin 'em'....that's how the drinkin had me at the time, y'see." I belive Johnny Knoxville recently produced a new doc on 'em called The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia. Or some such.
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This is all fake indignation...Scary and I are just funnin' one another...You have to be a pretty mean, nasty person to offend the Pebrews...You aren't mean and nasty, are you?
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He's really good looking, but there's something about him that is impossible to read... and yet, when he wants to, he can turn on the charm. It's hard to explain... he's a little scary, and very intense. That's his appeal to ME, anyway. Weirdly, Christian Bale has a lot of the same qualities... but he has proven that he has ZERO sense of humor, which knocks him down quite a few pegs in my book. I don't know if Cillian Murphy has a sense of humor (I actually suspect not, judging by his choices in roles) but I don't know for sure that he doesn't... I don't really know anything. Intriguing. And, of course, he has an accent. True, is noh Scoh-ish, but och. No-one's pair-fect.
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Not the last time I checked, as far as I know I am a pretty mellow open minded person, at least according to friends and family. Ask the ex and you may get a different story though...lol.
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Wow. He's no fun. [pouting, Scary drops her handcuffs and satin-covered whip.]
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That really a turn on...?
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she ain't called Scary for nothin'. But trust me brotha, she's quality. There's a lot of that up in here. Zero perfection....but quality in spades. Take it from a newbie. These peeps give and get and it's rarely dull times. I've been having a blast the last few weeks.
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Rough day, don't mind me.
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I'm kinda like a virus that way LOL
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You can be you here...You can vent here...You can unload here...Only Trolls like CHOPPAH will make fun of you in the promised land...
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and 'the dead eyes...those doll's eyes', to quote the old salty dog. I would suppose *ahem*. I love women, yes I do....women, women, women. But I can recognize an attractive man. Da ex liked him a lot like you do as well, Scary.
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Aug 03, 2010 9:47:04 PM CDT
You're a welcome addition to Pebrewhood, Fuzzy...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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I knew it was cool in here, forgive me all, one of those days. I'm off to bed shortly, work tomorrow, and ehhhh...laundry day, my least favorite day. Gonna try and d/l Videodrome, need to see that.
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About women..definitely the lovely lass we have here. Flick will tell you she is one of a kind so it's not fair ( or smart ) to lump her with cruel hearted ladies who've done some of us wrong.
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...in a bad guy's eye sockets...and looked good doing it.
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Was kinda just generalizing about ex-wives, but understand I may have been offensive.
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Thumbs in eyeballs...always a crowd pleaser...
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Hope I am still welcome in the PB
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Again, sorry if I offended anyone, did not mean to, just a bad day today.
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I say opaque. He's pretty private irl... got a wife, kid, etc. He doesn't want to be in the tabloids... acting is a job. IMO, you can kind of tell with him... there's a wall he seems to put up. Other actors do that, and it makes them less interesting... he manages to do this, and it's compelling... well, to those of us who are hard-wired to want to do bad things to a cute boy like that. Because we know he won't tell. In the US, Luke Wilson is a nice illustration of this "Cillian Murphy Effect" (except he's DEFINITELY got a sense of humor.) Hm. Michael Keaton has elements of it except he's not hot. Well, he's KIND of hot. He was hot in Batman, especially the one with Michelle Pfeiffer. OK, this post is deteriorating.
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wouldn't be around if I didn't like it here. That's one thing I got from my daddy for sure and true: low tolerance for bullshit and those who shovel it. P-back is always minty-fresh.
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...a little would up after a lifetime of full contact Talkback.
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you ain't said shit...don't let Sixes fuck with you...He's got baby mommy issues too...he just was VERY professional about his... Appreciate your being humble, but Pedalback is about being yourself...taking the slings and arrows and laughs and hell, yeahs...
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We come here to vent and play... as long as no one gets personal and nasty, it's really all good. You're welcome any time... feel free to vent as much as you want re: females who've done you wrong. Ain't no thing... and you'll find plenty of sympathy here, as you have seen. I'm just here to remind you all that femaleness is NOT always a negative trait (I hope.)
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...from time to time to try and keep myself frosty.
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G'night all, see you in the AM
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now we've all finished suckin' each other off.....where's that damn chicken?
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I like me the DARK meat, bitches. Yeah, you heard me.
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...flucking GET it tonight.
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the petal of the pedalback. She once shot a man for snoring too loud. Is it October yet? I'm soooo ready for The Walking Dead and Let Me In. I assume that's when Let Me In is coming out. Stupid not to.
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Aug 03, 2010 10:10:19 PM CDT
How come KFC didn't have a 3 piece Dark Meat Knight combo?
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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...Jefe, you're on board with LET ME IN? The first movie version was just so good...
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Kentucky Fried C*nts-for-brains?
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had probably already trademarked that name. "The Dark Meat Knight"...and his nemesis...The Jerker.
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delicate members?
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They also missed out on promotional crossovers with Dark City, Johnny Darko, the Darkness, After Dark...etc, etc...
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Definitely a pornolicious title...
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Thanks for considering our 'delicate members'...
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I am. And I loooooove the original. Sure, it's a cash-in for the studio, but Reeves seems to genuinely WANT to make a good film. Plus, it's an adaptation of a book, so there's other things that could be mined in this version. Not saying they will be, but that is a possibility. The cast looks good, the first trailer looked good. I don't know man. I'm really not automatically AGAINST remakes or readaptations; I'll take 30 GOOD versions of a story over 1 or 2 CRAPPY ones any day. I think that comes from reading comics for so many years. I've seen characters and books I love pass through so many creators' hands. I'm sort of used to that. I don't mind seeing fresh takes. If it sucks, it sucks, but so far it looks okay to me. And I'd like to see if Chloe Moretz can pull it off. Still not completely sold on Kodi Smit-McPhee, but I hope he delivers.
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will be on my shelf anytime I wanna see 'em.
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Again, I spit out perfectly good wine. At least my keyboard is disinfected... and, wine spit out in laughter is never really a waste. Unless it's Champagne. Then I'd have to lick it off the monitor. Slowly. You know, to make sure I don't miss any.
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...it just seems like a suicide mission. The original girl in particular was so good...poor KICK ASS girl will most likely get tarred and feathered. I wish them well, but the idea of it depresses me...
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in my world, the Star Wars prequels don't exist. Nor does Blade 3, Wolverine, the Sci-Fi channel's Dune mini-series, neither Aliens vs Predators.... Hollywood has a long tradition of remakes, reimaginings, sequels, etc. Man, how many Dracula films have there been? Shakespeare adaptations? Some folks act like this is a new thing. There may be more than usual these days, but pop WILL eat itself. We'll hit a new day of original films sometime. Hell, we had Avatar, District 9, Moon; Suckerpunch looks cool....there are original works out there. Just gotta wade through a LOT of crap to get to 'em.
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We go to watch some anime. It won't be Cowboy Bebop, but well... what is? Weirdly, I was listening to one of the soundtrack discs today in the car. There is SO MUCH GOOD SHIT from that show. I need to watch it again, I think. It's been long enough. Anyway, I'm off. Love to all my Pebrews... especially the really dirty ones. ☺
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if Let Me In sucks....it'll just join those others in my limbo of films that never were.
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Champagne on a monitor screen never sounded so good...
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...ALIENS exist...no INDY 4...SUPERMAN stopped after the first movie.
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I must away! Another day with the crack-monkeys tomorrow. Keep it real in the Pebrewery! Here, chickie-chickie-chickie!
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Hate on the Dune Miniseries? I thought it was much more faithful to the novel than the Sting version. and the chick that played Paul Maub Dib's Freeman wife was schorchin' HOT!!!!
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...gimme some o' dat big 'Bama lovin'... cluck CLUCK, bitches.
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That's not a Swedish STD, is it?
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What it boils down to is this Flicka: I'm just WANT it to be good. That's all. I wanna believe that Reeves can pull off a good, solid adaptation. Little anecdote: my first MAJOR filmic heartbreak was Alien 3. This was back before the heyday of these fancy interwebs, and I got any info from mags and such. I was so PUMPED for that movie. And then....it was what it was. My cinematic worldview was shattered. If an ALIEN movie could be like THAT.....what hope was there? I think I'm just now starting to loosen up an get rid of that jaded edge I've had. There's still some heartbreak from time to time (LUCAS), but I've come to realize that there will always be a 'next awesome movie' for me. Until I'm dead. Or blind. Or vegetative. Or on the lam. You get it.
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Nevermore...(With apologies to Edgar Allen Poe...)
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is no way to go thru life, young man...(with apologies to Animal House...)
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Yeah. I like Lynch's Dune. But then, I saw the film before I ever read the novel, so no baggage. And reading the novel only enhanced my enjoyment. Filled in some blanks, etc. I just love the look of it. The stilsuits, the nastiness of the Harkonnens, the shield-fighting. I was actually a little disappointed when I found out that 'the wierding way' was a STYLE, not an actual weapon; I just thought the concept of 'killing words' was soooo neat. But I would LOVE to see a new adaptation on a FILM budget incorporate that. Just to see some Fremen tearing through Sardoukar (sorry if that's misspelled) in hand-to-hand; to see an EPIC Dune film a bit more true to the source would be cool. I know the Sci-Fi version was more 'true' to the source, but I couldn't really get past the utterly low-budget look. ESPECIALLY the costuming. I mean, the Harkonnens looked like extras from a local theatre's production of 'The King and I' or something. Just......lame. The worms were lame, the sets were lame, the same 3 shots of a stuntman shooting off a vault after an explosion were lame. And I wanted it to be good so bad. And Sting was a cool Feyd. IMO.
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...both broke my heart...same year, too.
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For he IS the Kwizats-haderach!
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Aug 03, 2010 11:13:16 PM CDT
OK, had to chime in... Lynch's DUNE had SO MUCH right...
by scarywaitress
1. ...Sting's casting was perfect... EXCEPT for the fact that he wasn't pretty enough. See, Sting's casting is actually a metaphor for all that was right AND wrong with the movie. PERFECT in feel and intent... not so much in detail. BUT, they had no Cillian Murphy back then, so they had to improvise. 2. All that weirding module shit... SO FUCKING UNNECESSARY. Especially if marketing to an audience that was MORE than a little familiar to LSD, etc, which they were back then. 3. Virginia Madsen. Eternally hot. 4. Linda Hunt. Eternally awesome.
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It's just that the movie came out literally months after I had first read Dune and Lynch ass fucked it to shorten it into 2-21/2 hours...like Zach did with WATCHMEN...Despite low budget special effects, I champion the mini, even if it is longer than it needs to be and less spectacular than the Killing Words...PLUS... Sting in a leather, feather banana hammock... with leather hip wings...
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After ShowGirls, not so much... but, well, when you're just a pretty face... with zero acting ability...
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THE VON SYDOW EFFECT. And all this has just reminded me of Harry sippin' on some people-juice! Ahhhh...classic Flicka.
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and even I get embarrassed watching Dune. It's terrible. Just... terrible. For Sting, I mean.
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MAKES ME WANT TO PUKE
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The Weirding Modules effectively militarized the Bene Geseritt..
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they keep PULLIN' me back IN!
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Aug 03, 2010 11:19:11 PM CDT
Study Finds 40% Of Store Receipts Covered In Hormone-Disrupting
by spazatronik_2000
WWW.PRISONPLANET.COM
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Aug 03, 2010 11:21:18 PM CDT
Iran Attack Would Be Airborne, Followed By “Velvet Revolution”
by spazatronik_2000
WWW.PRISONPLANET.COM
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Duncan Idaho. That is just COOLNESS. Even beats Indiana Jones in the fictional states-based name category. And Gurney Halleck. That's one of my favorite words: gurney. Go on. Say it out loud. It SOUNDS all squishy. GURNEY. GURNEY.
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Aug 03, 2010 11:22:56 PM CDT
The Dollar Continues To Fall Like A Knife, As Euro Breaks Well A
by spazatronik_2000
WWW.PRISONPLANET.COM
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they said don't recycle and don't touch...Wal Mart will love this..."Sorry, we can't give you a receipt...it might kill you...""Just trust us..."
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WWW.WEDONTGIVEASHIT.COM
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Mah chromosomes is burnin'! Someone's at boiling point tonight...
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The Gom Jabar haunts ALL my dreams...
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human.
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Well, finally found one we DON'T have down here! Thank God. K Mart is enough to be going on with, anyway.
And I think Westfield is an Oz company.
My brother calls Aldi "Oldies" 'cause all the penny-pinching old farts shop there. It's that thing of if the food's twice as cheap, somehow it's twice as delicious. In direct opposition to the conventional wisdom they used the rest of their lives of "you get what you paid for"... My Mum has it bad and she's only 61!
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Another cool DUNE name.
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"catastrophic finger malfunction" - HAW!
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*chicken feathers scattered all over the place*
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Aug 03, 2010 11:38:14 PM CDT
Orinthropters was a cool name for dragonfly style helicopters...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
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[Scary appears from the shadows, feathers still stuck to her lips...] What da fuck you THINK happened?
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I suppose, no?
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And saw things I'd never seen before. Yeah it's a bit all over the shop (how can you do all the internal monologues in a film without cheesy voiceover/narration?), but I'm afraid I'm a total cinema nerd for the production and costume design - like I said before, everyone else has followed in Bob Ringwood's footsteps ever since. Well worth the 19 bucks, even if it wasn't on sale.
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But getting rid of the Laserdisc will be tough...
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Its evil, grey, depressing stores, full of fat, poor, ignorant people who don't understand that their dollars are power. They sell their souls to the rich in this country, give jobs to people thousands of miles away, and never stop to think about the fact that all of their food is processed crap... all in the name of ironing-board covers that are a dollar cheaper than Target... but then, how is Target better? It isn't really, except their stores are 63.4% less depressing to be in.
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I'll just cop a feel of the poultry before I head out.
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in that "shower" scene right? The producers or someone (can't remember) freaked at the last second and had Ringwood whip up the Speedo.
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Alia was a creepy little kid, no doubt. They got THAT right too. And the Guild Navigators. They were well conceived.
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But we pronounce it Tar-get as if it was an expensive -sounding French word. Like Trebuchet or something. 'Cause we're funny, ironic fuckers down here.
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Sting would have done the Viggo Morginson naked knife fight in the steam room???
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Haven't exercised for days. Gotta get off my fat arse...
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I think so Cheese-man. In fact, he'd probably FIGHT Viggo nude. "Cockfight"/duelling "knives" at 12'o'cock'!
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half human/half shrimp folders of physical reality...
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ex- wives and gelatinous fish Guild Representatives... Keep it 'real'...
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Started 2 weeks ago at the beach. I'm just at the part where Duke Leto has been betrayed and Paul and Jessica are out in the desert escaping from a worm.
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Awesome fucking soundtrack. I was listening to some "Go Go Cactus Man" on the way back from the beach last week.
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Otherwise I'd have no fucking clue what you were all talking about. My only issue with it thus far is that the first page or two was very hard to get through. LOTS of strange names tossed out without any explanation or context clues to give me an idea of what they were. But, I kept going and eventually understood.
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Fuck him. Fuck that abortion of a movie. Fuck Channing Tatum. Right up the arsehole with Justin Bieber.
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I love you. Anyway, off to bed. Also, TANK! is the perfect track for when you need to move it through some lame-ass traffic. THE BEST driving music. Here endeth the lesson.
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Well, I guess if you're angry enough and try hard enough...
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You do know this is Canooey's pet project for turning into a live action thing, right?
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It's "Hasta mañana". It's spanish, you know? Yes, the "Ñ" makes all the difference, otherwise it's as if you are talking about some tropical fruit.
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You know, let him direct it. At least he's fucking up another movie which already is part of a fucked up franchise to begin with, and is not ruining some original property with potential.
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I agree, the score of COWBOY BEPOOP is beyond awesome. The score alone made half the series. The composer is a very talented lady.
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Oart of the charm of DUNE is that you are throw right in into a mysterious world where at first you know nothing about. It's as if you had been thrown into the distant past with little knowledge about the people and the costumes. Novels like DUNE are like mystery novels where the reader is the detective, and graduality one learns of what is going on and piece the plot together. That process of discovery is part of the fun and part of the reason why the novel still endures. I'm very welcoming to that type of storytelling, which doesn't handfeed me. And to tell you the truth, i never felt confused or overwhelmed by DUNE, neither movie nor novel. Awed yes, overwhelmed never.
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I wonder what Arabs think of it?
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If i was an arab, i would love DUNE.Another thing i love about DUNE is that there are no real good guys. The hero is a schemer who takes advantage of a prophecy to gain political advantage. The prophecy itself is an artificial construct, created by the Bene Gesserit just in case one of theirs would get stranded in the planet, so that the indigenous would not only do her harm but would even treat her with kindness and deference. And in the book, the thing that truly seperates the hero from the villains is that he's a bit more humane... at first. The only truly good guy of the story is Duke leto and nobody else.
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The Trollback has been taken from 25 posts to around 1025 in less than 2 days.
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Confession, never read Dune.
Reason, it's too BIG.
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for old times sake?
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Hey savage! Seen any dtv classics lately?
I had a teensy row with the Queen of the Dojo a few days ago and in revenge she pranked me bad on my rental list.
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And no, before anyone asks - I didn't watch it!
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...hmmmm...and feisty...
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...a funny talkback handle.
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Cobes....don't feel bad, I never read Dune either, saw the film in the theater, liked it, still like it although I bet if I got high and watched it it would be a different experience.Flick....Lethal Weapon 3 was definitely the weakest of the franchise, but I still liked it, Gibson and Glover saved it for me. Alien 3 kinda threw me off at first, again, a bit slow moving but I still liked it.Vader....you know after watching GI Joe I was thinking how cheesy and cartoony it was, and then I thought well, it was a cartoon at one point. That's what that movie is, a live action cartoon in every sense of the word, more so than other cartoons that have been made into live action, at least IMO.Ok that's as much catching up as I am going to do this morning.
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I think I was a bottle of red worse for wear when watching GI JOE but I didn't hate it. It had 'zip'. But my over riding memory of it is large breasts squeezed into tight costumes.
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Aug 04, 2010 7:23:14 AM CDT
...I'm trying to think of new ways to express my dislike...
by flickapoo
...for G.I.JOE, and I'm coming up blanker than Chaning Tatum's eyes.
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Re: DUNE: Holy fuck. What a colossal fucking failure of a film. I'm a David Lynch fan and a Dune fan, so it doubled my displeasure. It felt so ... small. The cast didn't really seem to "get it," Sting in particular. The Guild Navigators were more distracting than anything. And ... you can't have every line of not just dialogue but inner monologue be exposition! If you can't show it, then you shouldn't bother making the fucking movie.
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Aug 04, 2010 7:29:58 AM CDT
I hear the miniseries is more "faithful" to the book,
by colonelfatheart
but I still get that SciFi/TV vibe from it. Fuck it. I don't see how it can be done these days since it needs big Hollywood dollars, and the good directors who get the big Hollywood dollars don't seem interested. I'd like to see Nolan's take on the material the most, but I'd like to see him get a bit older and a little more patient ... and a little more trusting of the audience, meaning less exposition.
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I didn't hate GI Joe either....it was enjoyable for what I said it was, a live action cartoon, looking at it that way, it is at least kind of enjoyable. It's a CGI filled mess to be sure, but approach it the way I did and it's watchable....sort of.
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Although I did browse through 41811 last night, and saw my old live blogs. Good times, one day maybe I'll do another one.
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...SPELL IT THE FUCK CORRECTLY.
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Remember our car?Two seats?Where's he gonna sit?SLAP!Where?!
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Because you're small! Small!S - M - All
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to the interstate aren't you?We're here to win, ain't we? If you're gonna be a bear, BE A GRIZZLY!
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...clusterfuck.
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But I don't think I'll ever watch it again.
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When's the last time you saw two priests drive a Ferrari? What are they doing, taking home the bingo money?
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...from the heavens!
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How do you bold text on here? It took me an eternity to figure out how to separate paragraphs, don't want to wait that long to know how to bold stuff.
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Savage, a few weeks back Cheeses did the live blog treatment on a few more worthy movies (THERE WILL BE BLOOD, COLD MOUNTAIN) but he ripped them mercilessly 'savage style' anyway... happy days.
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we'd have a good shot at gettin' laid
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...to give.
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I will respect the code
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hahahahjust read last nights posts..good stuff night court.
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...too complicated for my disabled learning ability.
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i just dont have the keys..maybe in scarys purse..
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Nah, thats been done
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Appreciate the vote of confidence :)
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Heh. We're screwed. You're going to be waiting all damn day.
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Good story ... great, GREAT cast ... excellent production design .... good cinematography ... Academy Award winning screenwriter of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS ... But ... Brett Fucking Ratner directed it. Can a director fuck shit up that badly, even when surrounded by all those wonderful toys?
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Now I will be dragging my ass around all day....grrrrrrrrr
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But have not gotten around to watching either one....and I complain I have nothing to watch some days.
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as long as we get smooches at the end of the day..and butterfly milk to wash down the pudeda chip cookies...
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actually..its not bad..it has a great cast, and the script is okay..i think ratner got outta the way on that one and let people do their thing..
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But if a capable director, with a legitimate feel for the material was in charge, it could have been great. I don't think Ratner knows how to improve upon a script. The early scenes, with Lecter hosting dinner for the symphony officials, is played up for laughs, and clumsily. As is the confrontation between Graham and Lecter.
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Steel yourself, Rogue.
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You mean the Bugatti Veyron Super Sports of TBs, you know, the beast that achieved 431 kilometers per hour and became the fastest production car with an internal combustion engine ever made.
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should enter the shelter?
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go to harrys godzilla review for a sec...
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Good luck with the book, D.Vader.
To me, it's a good book, but not a page turner. It kinda simmers.
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To see if I am approved for entrance into this secret society...
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DUNE for me is a page turner because the universe it creates is so rich and the plot so interesting and the characters so interesting and well defined that one just can't put it down once one starts reading it.
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that i used for fuzzyjefe. I was going to give to rogue
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How the hell do I get there? I know I am new and all....
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go to the armageddon review...do a search in the top right corner..armageddon review..look for a low thread count..i think
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When the DUNE books stoped being about the Atreides introduced in the first book, the series lost it's interest for me. They still invent some interesting characters and situations, but the very thing that made DUNE memorable were the people in the first book. After the 3rd book, they are no longer there, and the series suffers.
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I had a lot of trouble putting that one down.
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try this: email me at pedalbackrecruit@gmail.com
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try this: email me at pedalback.recruit@gmail.com
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with the period in it.
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1631
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ok thats sounds good.let em have it..
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remember that part in SCANNERS when the guys head explodes...thats what happens when the untrue enter the hallowed halls of McQueen
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He actually said something funny
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See y'all later.
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...so long loser!
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they are playing the score on cinemagic!
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Ahhhhh......I have been welcomed...I have been accepted....Much thanks to all for inviting me, I am honored.
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and then make a profile my brother
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...oh, the wonder!......oh, THE HORROR!
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he knows
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I may have to do the email trick and listen for free, I miss that station way too much
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PUDENDA
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First online review of EXPENDABLES is up (link below).
I read it and nothing too spoilery or detailed about the plot. The review seems positive but (warning) is written by a WOMAN!!! (or a guy called Sheri).
http://tinyurl.com/3xgtv7k
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It's the world that creates that's so fascinating. The planet Arrakis itself is irrealistic, a whole desert planet could not hold human life no matter what, but in it's own terms, the book is extremely sucessful in presenting a portait of a culture that would be addapted to it's living cindtiions. and not just Arrakis, but the rest of the universe that concerns directly with the main players on the political scene of the story.. and the book mirrors quite well the type of byzantine politics that we could find in any persian empire. I really love the invention and complexity shown in the book.
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you could tell me everything plot wise about slys new flick..and i still wouldnt be spoiled..that film is gonna rock.
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I agree, I have said from the first trailer that The Expendables was gonna rock....I don't care what I know about it either, I gotta see it!
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double feature and then top it with INCEPTION..
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I really thought we scared him away for a while....god piss off already, fucking troll douchebag.
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Not sure what you mean by irrealistic, but I don't think realism is the point there, it's such an allegorical story, filled to the gills with metaphor, and the planet is the perfect case in point. Like so much of the best sci-fi, the genre allows the conceit to make the creative point. That's my take anyway.
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you get about updates to the shelter. I accidentally hit post instead of "skiP"
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My gf got me a hard copy collection of the first three from a used book store in the neighborhood, so I'll read those at least. As for what lies beyond, I can't say right now. Though reading this and knowing pple are dissatisfied with both Lynch's and SyFy's take on the material sure makes me want to put my imagined version on the big screen.
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be here in st. louis for a THE OTHER GUYS premiere on thursday. Should I go and be a cub reporter for AICN?
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YOU KNOW IT'S TRUE DON'T DENY IT, IT CRAPS ALL OVER INCEPTION
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By irrealism it means that a planet like Arrakis could not sustain any human lif,e it couldn't even have any oxygen to support human life. Frank Hebert tried to provide a sort of explanation for that by saying that the worms produced oxygen, but the thing is, the whole thing would need to be teeming with the giant worm. Astrophysically speaking, the planet makes no sense to be habited by humans. But in terms of human reality and human psychology, the movie is realistic to a fault.
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This is really getting annoying, post after post of nothing but shit.
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and hit another TB.
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The world would be a better place
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sweet dreams, little bumpkin.
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Will be in and out for a bit
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Heheheh. http://tinyurl.com/38htkhc I can just imagine the reactions of the people who shot this video. "Hey, is that our DJ in that Dinner for Schmucks movie?!?"
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I guess he's decided he can't beat us by racking up posts in another one, like he's tried before.
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Will you ever learn?
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...after a while...at least for my 14 year old self they did. I pushed through though.
I've been thinking of trying them again. The first one is a classic, of course, but the rest were a bit over my head at the time. -
I know about irrealism (sorry I wasn't clear), I just sorta didn't get that from your post. To be honest I think it's a bit of a redundant concept, and seems fairly preoccupied with disappearing up it's own semantic arsehole... but that's just me.
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He'll trash your fucking lights.
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How interesting. Yes its true, your honor. This man has no dick.
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Best part of the movie was the cleavage shots of Sienna Miller and her fight with Covergirl. Actually Joe was dumb fun whenver the Baroness was being uberbitch but noooo she really wasn't evil it was a nanonite (whatever it was) that made her evil. Really? Really? Why can't we have a female villain who's just evil? At least in Hellboy the nazi gal never changed sides. I loved the baroness as the crazed nymphomatic terrorist. And at the end when the two strong females (Baroness,Covergirl) need rescuing from the big, strong alpha just pissed me off.
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The choppa is like those christian fundimentalist retards who think that if they scream the loudest they are more right. I know the rule is to not feed the troll, but how are we to do that when he saboutages the conversation? Fucking ass!
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Who's really good just transformed by nanites.... Fucking stupid.
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The wonder and insanity await you within.
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Nice retcon there.
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Apprentice to Ben Franklin while in revolutionary France comes to ownership of egyptian amulet. Joins Napoleons expeditionary force to Egypt. Involves egyptian gods, mysteries of pyramids, evil practioner of dark arts, Napoleon and other historical figures. Perfect escapist reading.
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That would mean THE_CHOPPAH had gotten laid. Since he hasn't gotten his first pube yet......I know this is a lie.
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Will you just go the fuck away already.....god you are more clueless than Popeye (shameless Family Guy reference).
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I'm a fan of SF, which means, i know that there's things in a SF story whihc even impossile we must accept as a matter of course or else the story couldn't exist and be told. That's OK, and as such, this is why even knowing that planet Arrakis is an impossible planet as depicted, i took it in stride or else the story could not be told, and that would be unfortunate. The SF genre is one of the very few genre that truly demands suspension of disbelief as a matter of course, but unlike the action genre, it actually pays off in the narrative.
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yeah, I read that last year! It's a fun read. Did you read the other two? Rosetta Key and Dakota Cipher. They are pretty good too, but I think Napoleon's is the best
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...you said OWEN went directly to your top 5. Is there a real list? What are the other 4?
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on Abrams Star Trek and true sci-fi fanaticism. Heads are gonna roll.
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One of the worst? Nope, sorry, not close, there are many more worse sci-fi movies than that. I personally liked I Robot, yea it was Will being Will, but Sonny was a great character, and I just enjoyed the film overall...not a masterpiece to be sure, but still liked it.Shut the fuck up choppah you fucking turd
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My list is at home and it needs a bit o' updating.
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The fact that you eat turds for breakfast speaks volumes about you. Fucking ass.
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It was the visual FX wrap party at Digital Domain. I almost bumped into Alex Proyas near the bar and it took me a moment to realize it was him, but I couldn't think of anything to say so I just smiled and nodded. Alan Tudyk was there and made a big speech to everyone. He was cool. The bar had live-size models of the robots on them, which were pretty cool to inspect up close. I had a great time.
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...trying to apply a logical framework to subjective information gives me anxiety.
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On one level, I ROBOT is a very well made movie. For the budget it has, it sure stretches it's buck. So, tecnically speaking, it's an even admirable movie. And while the story is dumb beyond belief, you cna tell the director is a smart intelligent guy. I ROBOT is the story of a good filmmaker who tried to make a good movie out of a very stupid very dumb script (writen by Hackiva as a vehicle for Big Willy's ego)and failed. Jar Jar Abrams' SHIT TREK is a horrible movie made from a script writen by two retarded idiots and directed by an hypocritical fuck who couldn't a give shit. So, while I ROBOT is a detestable bad dumb stupid shitty movie, it still mannages to be much better then the other one i aforementioned.
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Aug 04, 2010 10:50:26 AM CDT
what do you guys think of TOM HARDY being the riddler??
by six demon bag
i just saw his name thrown into the rumor ring
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...off to the lake.
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I have better things to do than to feed a fucking troll.
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There I was with my breakfast spilled down the front of me. No promotion this year.
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I think Tom Hardy in anything is good news. Him as riddler would be great. But frankly, i'm far more interested to know if Catwoman will be in Nolan's Batman 3, and who will play her.
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Maybe even more so than JGL, and I like JGL, too.
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Er, I mean, have fun, Flick.
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I don0't know why i'm even bothering to answer to you troll, but no, SHI TREK is not evne the worst movie of 2009. That would be either TRASHFUCKMERS 2 or 2012. But Jar Jar Abrams's ABORTION TREK was by far the most insulting. Now will you please fuck off and leave us true movie geeks alone, please? Thank you.
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(shouts loudly into the virtual ether to no one in particular)
"I'm starting to feel like i've had quite enough of The Choppah!"
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Yeppers. I'd see it.
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Leave your troll droppings there. Get to it!
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$1000 dollars later.....fuck it was painful to type that, gonna be even more painful to pay it. But the vehicle will be running great so I guess it was worth it.
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Asi, did you actually see TRANSFORMERS 2?
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Goldsman ever got there. It was originally based not on I, Robot at all but one called "Hardwired" or something, can't remember the exact details now. They thought it was a good action script and grafted the Asimov stuff onto it. Then the Planet of the Apes/Superman 4 guys had a bash. Then Goldsman when Smith came on. Proyas wanted Nic Cage. Who woulda done the paranoia really well. But Fox wanted a BIG name on there if they were gonna approve the budget. Aaaanyway...
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Not getting the love for Emily Blunt, she is by no means ugly, but way too damn skinny for my tastes. Can't see her as Catwoman either, but that's just me. Not sure who I see as CW, just don't see her.
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Aug 04, 2010 11:16:01 AM CDT
I just want to see Emily Blunt in skintight leather/latex
by colonelfatheart
for two hours.
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A thousand clams? Good night, sir.
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We're putting off work on my wife's car just because we know it will be a lot. Thinking about ditching it and getting her a later model used car.
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But I don't have a choice, I need my vehicle. Besides, I paid an crazy low price when I got the car, so in reality with spending this $1000, I have now paid the full value of the car, anything after this, is extra, but it has pretty much equaled itself out now....still sucks though, had to have a friend lay out the cash for me and gotta pay him back, but like I said, had little choice. Ehhhh life......
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No one gives a damn about anything you say, so please, fuck off.
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Aug 04, 2010 11:25:19 AM CDT
Ladies and gentlemen, Brett Favre news that's actually
by colonelfatheart
somewhat interesting: http://deadspin.com/5603701/brett-favre-once-sent-me-cock-shots-not-a-love-story
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The shop called, your fucking tricycle is ready, be sure to watch for cars. Fucking ass.
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mechanics take their checks to the gas station to cash them
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Did they teach you about the alcholic, Polish, Nazi-fighting bear? No? Well let me enlighten you!http://tinyurl.com/5vobno
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But not at all surprising you would sink so low to insult someone, you are a class act dickhead.
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Talk to you guys in a bit
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I need a t-shirt for that.
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By bashing Duke's football team.
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I'm spitting up Fruit Loops over here!
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And apparently gospel truth.
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I'd believe it even if it weren't, that's how badass it is.
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and once again, welcome to the PedalBack!
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At dinner at my grandmother's house. I was washing dishes with my young cousins and for some reason kept going Herzog narrating "Grizzly Man". Made the cousins laugh bc they had no fucking clue what I was talking about. I just kept finding ways to say "bears" in a crazy German accent. "He thought that he was one of ze beauhz. " "Ze beauhz ignored him but he loved ze beauhs. He wants to make love to a beah"
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Too soon?
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the one from grizzly man..
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Someone I know disliked the movie because it showed Herzog listening to the tape.
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The new Colonel would just change the subject. An example of the new Colonel: Someone said they didn't like THE ROAD (movie) because they wanted the catastrophic event explained. New Colonel simply said that the movie was trying to put you in the shoes of people who really had no idea why what was happening was happening. Old Colonel would have scoffed and pulled an Asi.
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yeah i think herzogs reaction after listening to the tape is a master stroke though..theres general remorse and dread in his face after he stops the tape..herzog, a man who as been thru hell, becomes a changed man in those moments.
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about him as they are his subjects. They're about his obsession with the obsessed, his extreme taste for those with extreme tastes. He makes no secret of this. When we watch a Herzog documentary, we know it's how he sees the subject and interacts with it.
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Right blend of mystery,exotic look and danger. Plus it'd bring Liam Neeson back as Ra's.
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It just hits you in the gut as its just him and the utter silence. Moments like that are magic.
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Go troll somewhere else.
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as The Penguin.
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if you mean he has a toilet seat around his neck and a turd mustache.
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The Dead Zone is my favorite Cronenberg film.
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Car drives like a different vehicle now, they did a good job....well for a grand they sure as fuck better have!!!
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I feel the story's a little too rushed, though. Walken's great, but my favorite parts are with ol' Marty Sheen. "The missiles are flying. Hallelujah! Hallelujah!" Sarah Palin is Greg Stillson.
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Or at least adjust the seat to your liking.
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Cronenberg film, I'll go with THE FLY
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Yea it should but considering my limited options. i'll take it.
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Seriously this fucking troll really needs to go play in traffic...fucking ass
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When will it end
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What fun
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Can't find the driver cd, gotta download them to my flash drive.....organization is a wonderful thing LOL
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for Circuit City. Slooooooooooooow.
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I guess.....Eastern Promises. I like the Hitchcock blonde feel he gave Naomi Watts in it and Viggo was bad ass. I also recently saw eXistenZ and I really dug it. Of course A History of Violence is great.SoHis later stuff I suppose. Not really familiar with the rest. Seen most of The Fly, never seen Scanners or Videodrome. Videodrome keeps getting pushed down the que.
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Isn't there a nubile Cody Diablo TB that could use your service?
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for a detective laptop earlier.
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I'm scheduled to play the next Joker. With hair I look a lot like a tiny post-mortem Heath Ledger or that Starburst chick from BSG.
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A No Brainer!
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It's a local printer install, it was easy just boring LOL. Now I am at a public access pc that is having shut down issues (I work for an IT Tech firm that does tech support in Libraries, so at least I am in a quiet environment)...probably just something dumb some moron did.
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Shouldn't you be somewhere else? Like the bottom of a river?
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Top notch Rick Baker work on that one.
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http://tinyurl.com/ycfqvqo
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Give some purpose to your otherwise purposeless existence.
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Give some purpose to your otherwise purposeless existence.
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One of Cronenberg's flicks I did not see.
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Not the piece of crap from Paul Hackis.
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Cronenberg a hack? God you are a fucking clueless tool, I think you say shit just to piss people off.
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Amen, Trig. Amen.
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THE SMUGGLERSFIRST DOCTOR. SEASON 4. SERIAL 28. YOUTUBE RECONSTRUCTION.Thar be pirates! the doctor, with his newfound stowaways (ben and va va voom POLLY) from the previous adventure land in the 17th or 18th century and immediately come across a kindly fellow and before they depart to head to town, he speaks some klaatu barada nikto shit. not soon after, the kind fellow meets a not too kind guy and is killed when questioned about some loot.upon the corpses discovery, it is quickly surmised that maybe the new travellers in town might be the evil doers. a squire gets ben and polly arrested and are to be questioned, while the doctor is kidnapped.after escaping from the captors, ben and polly split up and she find that the squire is in cahoots with a pirate and the not too kind man from earlier...and they have the doctor, who doesnt seem too worried, more like amused.anyway, polly is cornered and taken back to town, but en route, the villainous threesomes alliance begin to unravel, in a very sierra madre way..with each not trusting the next man, they scatter to look for the treasure. the doctor, along for the ride, surmises that the gibberish the kind man spoke earlier might be a clue and decides to locate the treasure for his own damn self!each of the men find the spot where the treasure might be, and then the double and triple crossing begins, with a few unlucky foes dead. while the sole survivor, the pirate, is scrounging for his booty, the crew make a break for the TARDIS and the towns guardsmen capture the smuggler!!ARRRGH!! this was an ok serial. i mean who doesnt like pirates? and polly show some spunkiness that previous companions of the female persuasion didnt possess. ben is a likable chap and a good precursor to the second doctor's jamieNEXT: THE TENTH PLANET
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Take a picture of Sarah holding li'l Trig there and sub out Trig with a tribble. It's her new baby, Trib.
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Awhile ago, someone posted a link here to a Photoshop Friday with hundreds of hilarious photoshops of Sarah Palin and little Triggy (that's what I call him).
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but there were hundreds of them.
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storm trooper's.
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THE TENTH PLANET.FIRST DOCTOR. SEASON 4. SERIAL 29.the doc and crew land in the south pole in the 1980s (its the future man!) and are quickly taken in by a crew manning a space expedition. they are the groung crew while a tiny ship is conducting routine experiments, but not for long. apparently, a giant planet is approaching earth and scare the shit outta the spacefolk.the doctor, meanwhile pipes up and says hes knows of the titualr tenth planet and that people will soon contact them. as if on cue, some robotic men land outside, kill the guards, and enter the base.while the captives try to reason with the cybermen, they explain it is futile and that their planet will absorb earth's energy. after overpowering the three cybermen, the army commander attempts to destroy the alien planet with some doomsday device. but he also has to save his son, who was sent on a rescue mission to save the ship stuck in space.rational people try to dissuade the seemingly crazy commander from using the bomb, which while destroying the alien planet would also destroy most of earth, thru radioactive fallout.in the end, the threat is stopped, and the cybermen pushed back, but at a price. the doctor weakened by his display of kicking ass in this serial, collapses. as polly and ben (and the viewer) look on in disbelief, the doctor regenerates into...well, this is a noteworthy serial for mainly two reasons..the first appearance of the cybermen; and the first ever regeneration of one doctor to the next. this i add, is genius..obviously the show was getting popular and the doctor was getting older..and this was a perfect and creative solution that really only a show like this could pull off, without viewers feeling cheated. another thing i love about brit shows are the characterizations of american army guys..mainly the commander, who attempts a weak ass john wayne/george c. scott impression. polly is polly (thats a good thing) but ben is really the rapscallion and action star of the show. a good ending to the first chapter.NEXT: THE AMBASSADORS OF DEATH
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I'm getting sick of The_Choppah, taking it too far.
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Aug 04, 2010 3:41:25 PM CDT
Excellent, fair-minded critique of INCEPTION and Nolan's work.
by colonelfatheart
http://tinyurl.com/23jkag4 Asi, if you're out there, you should read this. Spoiler warning, of course.
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What do we usually do with trolls? Obviously, ignoring him doesn't work.
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I ask all Pebrews to read it. Just a brief response to a thread.
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Get going, Chopper. Go on, get to it!
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Aug 04, 2010 3:50:51 PM CDT
Federal judge overturns California's gay marriage ban.
by colonelfatheart
Great news.
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My "great news" might have seemed snarky. I apologize for any confusion.
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always fun times.
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A 16-year-old kid's review of SCOTT PILGRIM is up on the front page before either of Harry's reviews for INCEPTION or KICK-ASS.
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Of him on a green screen set, and TRON Guy is there. What the fuck. How did I not get on this job.
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That would have been terrific.
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D, remind me who TRON guy is? An uber fan who wears the costume?.. cos if so he must be enjoying something of a renaissance in interest in 2010.
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Aug 04, 2010 4:29:30 PM CDT
I, for one, eagerly anticipate Sixies blowing his top.
by colonelfatheart
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Google TRON guy. I dunno how it started, but there's a picture of a fat guy with glasses and a red mustache in a skintight homemade TRON outfit. I've seen it circulating around the past few years. Usually on Filmdrunk.com where he was used in some photoshop banners. I think he attended the first ever Internet MEME convention/symposium that was held within the past few years. Might have been in Weezer's "Pork and Beans" music video that was full of internet memes too, I don't remember.
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infowars.com bitches! the fly was awesome and The_Choppah jerks off onto farm animals! more news at prisonplanet.com!
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I hope you liked my Paxton impression!
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SDB, in that first ever Dr Who regeneration... when he passes on do you actually see the next actor (Patrick Troughton?) take his place in the final ep?
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Yeah they show the next actor. The last episode in the serial is missing EXCEPT that scene for sone reason.
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Has anyone actually read his books? He spent way too much time describing Middle Earth and it's various creatures and very little time developing three dimensional characters and building suspense. Writing is about emotion, not technical jargon. That fucker needed a good editor.
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Home from work, making dinner....how's it going tonight all?
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Although children are now more prolific reviewers on this site than Harry.
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Yea I see that, pretty sad. I'm not saying a kid doesn't know stuff about movies, but to make a headline out of a 16 year old's review of Scott Pilgrim front and center....ehhhhh don't like that. The other thing about that review....he says he walked out on The Phantom Menace...at 5 years old...sorry, but I don't buy that for a second...a 5 year old? Walking out on a movie aimed at him? Nope, not buying it. I have kids and they have never wanted to walk out on a movie, and never when they were 5 for fucks sake.I don't know what you guys think of Scott Pilgrim, but personally I am not going to waste my time. Looks dumb as dog shit. Same old Mike Cera routine, with some comic book shit thrown in. I know a lot of geeks are drooling all over it, but I just don't see any appeal in it.
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Was at the shelter....understood
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I am very, very down on it from what I've seen. Even the praise thrown its way has me skeptical. I don't plan on seeing it in the theaters, unless I have an afternoon to kill all by myself (my fiancee does not want to see it at all), and my curiosity gets the better of me. I like Edgar Wright, so I'm inclined to give it the benefit of the doubt, but I'm going to wait until I can see it at home.
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I checked out your blog. I disagree with your IM2 review, but I liked your writing nonetheless.
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I'm trying to catch up...back in a bit...
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Like the shelter quite a bit, am looking forward to reading stuff and contributing.Glad you checked out the blog. I'm not looking for people to agree with me, just sharing my views on stuff, and I welcome opposing points of view, makes for interesting discussions.
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Not like we're in a fucking rush or anything.
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to a desert island, what would they be?
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But, I wannna take a break and welcome Rogueleaderman to Pebrewhood...Wish I could have been there for the test drive...
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I found Dune a page turner for the political intrigue and action on a bizarre world...It was with great pleasure that I watched my daughter read it and love it...except she was expecting a bigger battle at the end...
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Aug 04, 2010 6:42:43 PM CDT
Colonel, what kind of movie player do they have on this island?
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Blu Ray, DVD, VCR, laserdisk? Does the Professor from Gilligan's island live on this island..? Cause he could make one out of coconuts and fish bones that would play anything...
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a pretty badass setup for the most top-of-the-line home entertainment system.
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Thank you much bro, glad to be a part of the group! Like I have said, it's awesome to fall in with a such a good group, not an easy thing to do, especially online.
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Welcome to the party, rogue. As far as D. Cronenberg goes, I'm gonna haveta say THE FLY. Just rewatched it a few weeks back and that is just flat-out one of the best horror films ever made. Sublime pacing, perfect effects and a terrific, if tiny, cast.
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I think the writers on AICN get paid by and/or advertisers pay by the post...
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Cronenberg adapts a supposedly unadaptable book by not really adapting it, per se. It's more like Cronenberg's reaction to Burroughs, the book and the Beats.
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Slitterbaun, bitches!!!
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Lets face it..this movie isn't for most of us...
by conspiracy Aug 4th, 2010
06:54:20 PM
Same with Twilight and Hanna Montana.
If you are over 18, have a full time job or career, have had sex with a woman who actually knows how to give proper head instead of just slobbering and sucking like a clueless 14yr old with ill fitting retainers, own a house, don't self mutilate when you don't win free tickets to a concert, remember when eyeliner was something only women wore, wear your AC/DC concert shirt because you like the band not because it is reto "cash" and on sale at Hot Topic, and have something to do with your evenings other than play video games until your parents go to bed so you can masturbate in private....then this movie probably isn't for you.
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I can take it or leave it, because it feels like nothing ever happens over there. Sure people put up some pics or something, but all the interacting with Pebrews happens right here. And that's what is important to me. That said, I'd rejoin if it made you unclench, Col.
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Sixies and ST would feel a lot better, that's for sure. Your absence has given them many a gray hair.
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Somebody link me to the shelter.
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how much more do I need to say...I thought you went from confused to intrigued that one time...
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Aug 04, 2010 7:25:05 PM CDT
Teddy, email STLost at pedalback.recruit@gmail.com
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http://tinyurl.com/yz3kena
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Man...what a day. The crack-monkey nephews were in rare form today. Not misbehaving, but just being the 3- and 1-year-old whirling dervishes they are. Though The 3er did sit still through about 4 Fleischer Superman cartoons on Boomerang. I was so proud. Of course, the rest of the day, I was a robot, and he was Superman. "I can shoot lasers out of my eyes!" Cool to see ol' rogueleader join the fray. I'm not the newest blood! Yay! I'll take a swing at the 5 films thing...TODAY I'd pack 1. Raiders of the Lost Ark 2. Inglorious Basterds 3. The Shawshank Redemption 4. The Exorcist 5. Jaws. Ask me again tomorrow, I may pack a couple of different ones. But Raiders & Shawshank would probably always be there.
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Thanks bro, glad to be a part of the gang.Good Repost Colonel, pretty much echoes my sentiments about that movie.
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Gonna require some thought....well, for 4, #1 would always be Star Wars. Just fyi for the PB'ers....I refuse to call the original SW anything other than that, same with the following 2 films. Only time I refer to them in episode numbers is when talking to my kids about them, and even they are getting to know what I mean without having to say episode this, blah blah blah.
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Mind you this is with no thought....Star WarsCool Hand LukeRaidersArthurThe Godfather Like I said, no thought put into that, so some choices might change. But if I had to live with those choices, I'm good.
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Star Wars would probably be on there every other day, but replacing WHAT I'm not sure. Prolly Exorcist, but if you're a horror junkie like me, that's the poppa. And Basterds, though relatively recent, is Tarantino at the top of his game. He delivered a movie that no-one was really expecting, and managed to EXCEED mine. Just the fact that SO MUCH TENSION is built, usually with just dialogue between two people, is a testament to his skill. And Hans Landa is an instantly classic vilain. Has he peaked? Don't know, but I can't wait to see.
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ARTHUR, huh? I haven't heard/read anybody wax geektastic on that one for a long time.
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Not just cuz of the Nazis, but cuz both filmmakers are wearing their love of cinema on their sleeves.
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Aug 04, 2010 7:47:11 PM CDT
Colonel, does this island have popcorn and a liquor licence?
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Cause my first response...in alphabetical order...Aliens...Die Hard...Inception...Matrix...Star Wars...
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But only if you implant some of your swinger days memories in my subconscious as if they were mine. You know, BLADE RUNNER/INCEPTION style.
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My favorite comedy of all time, it never fails to make me laugh hysterically. The fact that the ass clown Russell Brand is remaking it makes me sick. I won't ever watch it, unless I have no choice, just on principle. No matter what they do, how they change it, there is no possible way it can come close to being as funny and heartfelt as the original It's just is not possible."Is there anything you care for while you wait?""Do you have todays Pravda? I like to keep up with Russia""No""Then fill a glass of scotch....are you sure you want to be a nightclub comic?"Doesn't get any better than that guys.
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Aug 04, 2010 7:52:27 PM CDT
And I'll give you a bag of seeds to grow some stank ass ganj.
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Saw it in theaters when it came out...Drunk Dudley Moore...after he tried to fuck Bo Fuckin' Derrick in '10'...
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And there was much rejoicing!
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Saw it in the theaters too, at a discount theater for 79 cents! A full theater and everyone laughing their asses off, a great movie memory. "Would the one who thinks I'm attractive please step forward......quickly as possible time is money""What ya have in mind?""Ahhhh VD I'm really into penicillin"I could quote the movie all night, one of the most quotable comedies ever.
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the swingin' thing is REALLY complicated...When its just you and a chick, you are charming your way into her pants...When you add another couple it gets weird...You have to like the woman, and your partner has to like the man...but neither can like them TOO much...Then the women each have to approve of the other woman and allow their men to have sex with them...they can't be too threatening...Problem with that is when every woman you are attracted to, the partner feels threatened by...and every guy she is attracted to is partnered with an unattractive woman...Yeah, it requires total inception to enjoy that lifestyle any more than you enjoy your fantasies of it...
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is he fucking my chick with an even bigger dick than mine???But, to be fair... fresh (to you) pudenda is NICE when you don't have to lie and cover up shit about doin' it, cause she's right there watchin' you...
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experience, Cheeses.
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My favorite swinging sessions were when my wife and the other chick were hot for one another (cause, bless her big breasts, she had GREAT taste in women). In that scenario, the other guy and I would stand on the sides of the bed jerking gerkin waitin' on the two of them to reach the point that they din't give a shit who was fuckin' who...That's when Wesson Oil and plastic sheets are handy...
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I liked part one and have heard some good things about the 2nd.
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It's the Best Worst Movie.
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But, is there a post Tucker Maxx Market for that kind of filth...?And by filth, I mean some really twisted stories...Yeti Legs...Silver Bowl MeltdownStripper Birthday Party...(It was the stripper's birthday...)Carlos and Maria REALLY want to go to the Red Rooster...Will I get rich?
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As long as you're not a smarmy douche like Max.
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Don't know if you guys are gamers, but I am, and this game looks awesome, just hope my PC can handle it.
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People love smut, especially true smut.
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Looks pretty cool, I'll give it a try.
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Sounds fucking ri-DIC-ulous.
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I have appreciated every single pudenda I have ever pummeled...I'ts not that women are gullible, but, a majority of the one's I have really known are sex-a-fuckin'-holics...It's just a matter of figuring out what 'kicks' them into that dream state and capitalizing on that information...
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Aug 04, 2010 8:42:43 PM CDT
If you can't Incept a chick at a swinger's club...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
you need to work on your game...
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Just watched the trailer for Stone, with DeNiro, Norton and Joovovich....looks really good. Check it out if you have not seen it yet.
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...but you know...different.
The best part is that you have the whole spectrum...the backwoods religious childhood...the rattlesnake childhood portraits (book cover!), the orgies...
There's gold in them thar hills.
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How was the lake?
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wouldn't they? I bet he's happy about prop 8.
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Awsome...
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...bacteria levels...E. coli or some shit. I'd been using the beach as a carrot all morning. DD was heartbroken and cried into a towel (she's very private about crying).
The nice park area got things moving in a positive direction again, and my parents have a bona fide Pocono redneck hot-tub on their back deck.
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women that are that easy to read and manipulate have prob been around the block a few times eh?
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but, unfortunately, it didn't lead anywhere except for a paycheck to paycheck existence while I put in longer hours for less comparable pay than I did in 1984...But seeing my daughter turn out so great...it was worth the price of admission...Which by the way, none of us understood the cost the day we were born, did we...?
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Time for me to split. Had a great day on here. Keep fuckin' that chicken.
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...I never woulda came out in the first place.
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...that just got optioned and is in pre-production right now.
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Good TB'ing as always, see everyone later!
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...pokes it with his toe].
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Haven't seen G.I. Joe (wasn't in the least bit interested), but it has chicks' boobs squeezed into tight rubber and somehow it's not a great movie? Instant 3 stars right? Am I giving myself away here?
And when has Edgar Wright ever made a piece of crap? Why are people doing the old "I'll dismiss it because it's popular sight unseen" thing again? That's as fanboy as the opposite! And it reeks of reactionary railing against a marketing campaign rather than the film itself, just like Paranormal Activity and so on. The play's the thing, peebs!
And why is Harry's lack of Inception & Kickass reviews so aggravating? The only thing worse than when his reviews are transparently biased as when he loves something to death, and then he gets so excited his writing degenerates even more than usual, not to mention the review ends up being about his predilections more than the film itself. A similar thing happens in his unfavourable reviews, but at least then he's a bit more coherent. Look, praise be to Harry and all, I appreciate the site, I appreciate his passion (and most of all him letting us squat in here), but the definition of professional is someone who makes money from what they do. So we can arguably expect basic proficiency if he has the gall to call himself a professional writer. And he's proved that he's unable or unwilling to bother where that's concerned. You want reviews from him? Leave it to the others and let him do what he's good at: being Harry! -
Private crying. That breaks MY heart!
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Heya Nilla.
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...yet either.
All I can say is that I shouldn't have seen G.I. JOE. It obviously wasn't made for me, but the trailer made it look sort of fun. The few seconds of jiggly were by far the best part, but far too few and far between.
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Harry is little more than a blurb machine at this point. [Ducks and covers]
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And... Yay! Tron guy! I've been following him for years too - I was hoping they'd give him an extras part in the new film. But then the excitement might be life-threatening for someone with his physique! What'sisname again? Jay Maynard I think? Hafta go look it up...
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I can't even get you to read an exclusive story I sent you 6 to 8 months ago...Nobody wants to read old men's ramblings...
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There was something I was gonna ask you... now I'll have to find it again...
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Aug 04, 2010 9:28:10 PM CDT
...yeah, Nilla...it was rough. Thing is, I'm VERY careful...
by flickapoo
...to not play up things I'm not 110% sure I can deliver. I'm always saying things like "if it doesn't rain, then we'll do this"...
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Damn it. OK, in order of importance: 1. Hi, Cheeses. Your life is one long list of funhouse. I think you must be making this shit up, except you CAN'T make this shit up... anyway, I am, once again, in awe that you are still alive, walking the earth. Remarkable. 2. Welcome, rogueleader66. Nice, opaque bio... 3. Col... re: "Emily Blunt or Marion Cotillard for Catwoman"... no. Absolutely not. Under no circumstances. I want Amanda Seyfried. Period. I will settle for Keira Knightley.
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Kinda like when I see a plane flying overhead and part of me wants to see it explode in midair. Then I immediately regret the thought, knowing that if the plane exploded I'd feel awful. Yeah, that's a good comparison. And I'm fucking craaaaaaazy.
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G.I Joe - it just occurred to me that you're all probably right - I went and saw that piece of crap Underworld (I may have seen the second one but that it was even less memorable) and despite my predilections I was astounded how a film could be made with Kate Beckinsale in tight corseted rubber and NOT be sexy. That's some sort of anti-achievement!
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We don't care if you go there (to the Shelter.) Shit, I NEVER post stuf there... it's too confusing or my little female head. BUT, we like knowing you're fully committed to our community, is all. It gives us the warm fuzzies.
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...I'll vouch for anything the guy says.
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I'm officially a Pebrew again. I just hope that Subby knows that we can post around one another if he wants to come back, too. That's the beauty of the PB-we're not actually here.
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I'm just one of those people who have to push the envelope to see what I can get away with without being considered evil...Once upon a time, I could finance those dreams...Nowadays...not so much...
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...my brother is a writer too. We spend hours on the phone, having a blast kicking around cool ideas...then sometimes I have an inexplicably hard time making myself read his stuff. I think I feel anxious about liking it or not liking it...only explanation I can think of.
Then I finally read it and love it.
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Must be a chromo thing. Winks. Runs just in case.
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I've been putting off doing my book development work all week. I don't even understand why... maybe because it's turning into just another job and I won't have complete control on the look. But I took it on as a way to get into the biz. I'm not sure what's wrong with me...
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In no particular order; Aliens Cowboy Bebop (yes, the whole series. The DVD case is slim, I can make it fit.) M*A*S*H (I need some elder Sutherland) Nausicaa and the Valley of the Wind Tin Cup Yes, you read that right. Right now, if I had to pick 5 movies, I would pack Tin fucking Cup because Kevin Costner is likeable and funny, goddamn it. I personally think that was his best role... and I love Bull Durham, but he was younger, more idealistic, then. In Tin Cup, he's been around more, he's more world-weary. It's fucking endearing. WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
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Aug 04, 2010 9:40:33 PM CDT
Bull Durham is one of the sexiest movies I have ever seen...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Just sayin'...
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The Baron is Jessica's father? My mind just exploded.
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did you read my post about Canooey and Cowboy Bebop? How do you feel about that?
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A monster I tell you!
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It was there all along!
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and have you scheduled your re-circumcision yet? It's mandatory, you know... Also, I would LOVE to have been a fly on the wall when you two hung out (figuratively speaking.) I used to be 100% against Peebs meting in real life... that is going away. I think it would be cool now. I still think there's a 45% chance it would break the spell, but once we hit the anniversary mark, I came to realize that this is probably more long-lived than I would have given it credit for. Fortunately, we all live far enough apart, my fears will never be tested.
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I also imagine dinosaurs coming out of the woods and when I was at the beach reading DUNE, I imagined giant worms exploding out of the sand to eat beach houses and people flying kites.
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...every project ended up being a big nail-biter, right down to the wire...no matter how much or little time I had. Same exact thing.
Towards the end of my period of doing that kind of work, I realized that I went into every project hoping to make some sort of masterpiece. Pretty soon I'd realize (consciously or not) that it just wasn't going to happen. Then I'd beat my head against the wall, trying to make it happen (and wasting time). Finally I'd rally and pull something off just in time.
I finally figured out that at least that way I got a twisted sense of satisfaction out of the whole thing...I wasn't happy with the end result, but I beat the FedEx man agian! I'm alive! I live to fight another day! -
Hes starting to scare me.
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...you don't get to do that every day.
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Goat cheese Verdejo from Rueda, sourced from 70-120 year old vines, properly chilled, served with aforementioned goat cheese My breasts (of course. I ain't ig'nant) The feeling of talking shit about someone who really deserves it, to someone who can use said shit to karmically appropriate ends, and yet managing to NOT talk said shit in a way that is untruthful, or overly mean. In short, being the hand of karmic justice by telling the truth. Then, having an extra glass of aforementioned Verdejo to celebrate.
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[no order]
Star Wars
Seven Samurai
Raiders
Cool Hand Luke
My Neighbor Totoro
Ah come on - 5 is no good. Even 10 is too hard. 5 more:
City of Lost Children
Toy Story
Raising Arizona
Blade Runner
Fight Club
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Was referring to his desire to watch planes explode when he said he was a monster and not necessarily quoting the exact passages I was reading from DUNE at the moment after learning about Jessica's dad. Still, a freaky coincidence.
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I don't know who the fuck Canoey is, but anyone trying to make a live-action Cowboy Bebop is a moron. It can't be done. And, if they INSIST on doing it, the only appropriate casting for Spike is JGL... about 6 or 7 years from now. PERIOD. I will accept no substitutions. I WILL go all Asi on them if they fuck with CB, I shit you not. Heads. Will. ROLL.
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He loves movies the most. He broke the rules first.
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I do have that silly thing of it not being a challenge unless I need to beat the clock/odds, but this one - should be fun and easy and I should be looking forward to it! I don't get it. I'm not so stupid I'm looking to sabotage myself. On the other hand, I am fairly SToopid...
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While simultaneously being disqualified!
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Read about it in Entertainment Weekly and it sounds good.
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Aug 04, 2010 10:01:02 PM CDT
Scary, "The feeling of talking shit about someone who really des
by cheeses_of_nazareth
One of my favorite pastimes..."...to someone who can use said shit to karmically appropriate ends..."....What other reason would there be?"and yet managing to NOT talk said shit in a way that is untruthful, or overly mean. In short, being the hand of karmic justice by telling the truth."... Controlled change is POWER...
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Canooey - Keanu! It's been his baby for a while now. Maybe nothing will come of it. All I can see is that they could make him LOOK like the character, which is just your usual fanboy casting. That's just from what I can tell - Bebop is one of those ones I've inexplicably never got around to, like reading all of Love and rockets.
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Just sayin'...
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I mean, like, the kind of scenario you dream about but that never happens. It was beautiful... when someone who is just so convinced that he's entitled to so much, just pushes his luck a bit too far, and YOU get to be the person to check him.... especially when you know he would cheerfully have fucked you over to get what he wanted. And, had tried. Seriously, I have been on the shit end of so many situations like this, because I was always too dumb to pay attention to the simple fact that people talk some shit. I always said I would never talk ERRONEOUS shit about anyone... and up until now, I have never gotten a chance to be the hand of change. I have always tried to live my life as though the rules applied to everyone, and have gotten screwed... and really, as long as I'm not being dishonest, I was OK with not coming out on top when I lost political bullshit games to people who were willing to lie, cheat, and steal. It is SO GRATIFYING to have simply tole the truth, and watched someone get screwed because THEY are the asshole this time. Especially when they are a direct competitor. All the sweeter.
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How did I forget to put Mad Max 2 in my list? And what would I have to bump out? Where's Carpenter's Thing Or American Werewolf? BIlly Wilder? Scorsese? KUBRICK?
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You need to see Cowboy Bebop. Hands down, THE BEST anime series ever (not counting Conan.)
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I'm an asshat. I can't live without my schnitzengreuben.
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Cowboy Bebop, if you wanna get technical about it.
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"The best thing in life is to crush your enemies and to hear the lamentation of their wimmin'..."Evil people shouldn't win...Ever...
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INDIANA JONES AND THE TEMPLE OF DOOM BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA BACK TO THE FUTURE SUPERMAN II ESCAPE FROM L.A. Superman's only there for the music, really, so if I can take my Ipod I'd trade it out.
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I particularly love Tank!, Autumn in Ganymede, N.Y. Rush, Call Me Call Me, Blue, and Space Lion.
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Yeah, it's funny when you can pin it down to the right person, wrong timing. Ageing and wine analogies come to me now.
Only example I can think of off hand is Jennifer Connelly in Dark City would have been perfect for the role in another 5 years time. And if she did some voice training to get it to that appropriately noir tonality.
I often play that game just in a general visual sense. Like a certain actor's features will been they'll be gorgeous in their late forties when the structure is still there but has settled and softened slightly. Or for example Clooney looks RIGHT for his features about now, not when he was young. That sorta stuff.
On JGL, the first thing I really thought he was brilliant in was Brick, both as an actor and 'star' (not necessarily the same thing. There should be a venn diagram of it or something). Funny to look back at Third Rock now... I think Dakota Fanning is going to go on for ages too. -
Conan, The Boy in the Future. Miyazaki's first animated series.
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You know you just love, "Can You Read My Mind..?"It was such a short story with Margot Kidder...
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So did Flick introduce you to that, or was that the moment you two knew it was meant to be?!
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It's on a comp Starman made for me. One is the title track, but I don't know the other, except that it's definitely Bebop.
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No one's gonna rag on me for ESCAPE FROM LA? Not even a little bit? I thought I'd be going full Asi by now. Cuz I will if I haveta...
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Hating on Joe is like hating on Speed Racer: what did you expect? They're based on cartoons. Did anyone really expect Black Hawk Joe? Or Full Metal Joecket? It was just FUN. Except for a SCULPTED FUCKING MOUTH on Snake Eyes. That sucked. But to each their own I guess. Douches. ;)
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He grew up on it in Italy, so he knew the good shit. He stumbled on Bebop when I was working late nights at the restaurant... SO FUCKING GOOD, OMG. In addition, Flick is also my book pimp (found me American Gods and Winter's Tale, among others) AND if it hadn't been for him, I would not be sullying myself daily with the sweet nectar, the blessed sap that is coffee. The hilarious thing is, I can actually remember saying how I was so pleased that we were the kind of couple who didn't need alcohol to have a good time. We had been married about two years then. Now, I'm a professional wino... mostly because, we both realized how much we love wine. As in, more than we can afford (and certainly when you're talking quality. Which we do.) I read somewhere, early on in our marriage, that in the early 1900's, before Prohibition, it was considered the sign of a good wife- and a woman of breeding- to be the kind of woman who could read a wine list at a resturant and choose the best wine for her husband. For some reason that stuck with me... I wanted to be that kind of wife. So, here we are, neck-deep in the good shit FO' FREE, 'cause it's my job. What I'm saying is, Flick hooks me up with the good entertainment and culture, and I reciprocate with aged Burgundies and vintage Champagne. Someday, when we actually have money, we will be an unstoppable force.
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you two get what being a team is all about...give and take, and keeping each other stimulated...I do miss that part of being in a relationship...
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...Coz I am outta here!
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it made JGL into a freak. I would have forgiven it its stupidity, but someone convinced JGL to channel Gary Oldman, and it was HORRIFIC. I still have nightmares.
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did they animate first, or did they just tell Yoko Kanno to go nuts? Because the tracks are largely stand-alone audio, but they fit into the show SO WELL. Would love to know someday.
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the JGL conundrum. But you just KNOW he was having the time of his life doing that. But there will always be Brick, The Lookout, and now...INCEPTION. You just know he's about to break out. I have a good feeling about him in being in the next Batman. You know Nolan seems to be building a pretty good stable of go-to guys. And I don't see Dicaprio in the Bat-verse. But JGL? Hell yes.
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...still true, though.
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I mean, REALLY upset. Like, REALLY, REALLY upset. But, I guess there's always Reese Thompson.
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first food I've eaten today... and I am 11 beers in...Probably explains a lot...
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Back to the Future. Ah, this is all too hard. Mine is becoming like a parallel personal Pantheon.
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Nolan is ON FIRE. Are you prejudiced against Batman? You ARE aren't you? Anti-batmite!
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...all I wanted was the movie you described above.
It just felt so lazy. I truly believe that Tatum guy is mildly retarded...and the black sidekick was just doing 67th generation cocky black guy routine.
G.I. JOE was the only movie I've seen in years that made me angry at myself for sitting through it.
I know it sounds like I'm beating up on a defenseless simpleton, but like plenty of dumb movies. I was entertained by 300, I got a big kick out of CRANK 1 and 2, I thought the first TRANSFORMERS was fine...I love the SPARTACUS show...
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May have something to do with building up a slight resistance over time...
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And Tatum was the weakest link on chain made of paper links. Maybe the next one will be betterer! Or not worster.
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I loved Speed Racer. It's as close as anyone has ever got to a live-action cartoon, and the tone suits the original show perfectly. I wonder how many of the detractors have actually seen/remember the original. Ah, I don't care. I loved it. And am jealous of a bunch of my mates who worked on it.
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as long as they're entertaining. Not being a "so bad it's good" apologist. I would much prefer that EVERY popcorn movie was Raiders of the Lost Ark and yes every movie SHOULD aim for it. But I'm a Harryhausen fan, and while those often play fast and loose with quality (Ray didn't direct or write them though), there's still the work of master Ray to revel in.
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I frikkin' LOVE Speed Racer. It's one of maybe 3 movies I upgraded to Blu after I got my PS3. And yeah, it really is a live-action, 2 hour episode of Speed. I especially loved that they put his little jump-pose from the driver's seat after the desert race.
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ahhhh, the Ricci. So cutie-pie sexy in that movie.
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In DWI school they called it compensation...told us we couldn't actually build up a tolerance level...only compensate for it...Turns out they were correct...
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JGL was great in 500 days and Mysterious skin (I thought the movie was lousy, but he was great).
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Isn't that why you buy a cast-iron liver and an empty leg?
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Thanks, Flick...
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Fair enough. Didn't bother me in the least - I mean, who DOES look like Speed? Don't anyone say JG-L! And I thought he did an amazing job delivering the cheesiest/appropriately cartoonish lines. I mean, even the cadence was often true to the original show.
A good test is when he's talking with Kick Gurry, the (shit) Aussie actor that played the mechanic. Hirsch SELLS that stuff. Gurry always sounds like he's reading lines. And probably is.
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Do not fuck with me. I WILL smack a bitch.
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there's monkey poo! Though it was thrown, not flicked. And the races themselves were cool. And one of the barbarian racers invokes Crom! And Ricci! And non-jas! And they even wear stupid too-long pointy-type shoes! It's Speed Racer! Ah well. We can't like ALL the same things. Hell, I really dig on the director's cut of Daredevil. But Ghost Rider was shit. Except for his look. They nailed that. Oddly enough, GI Joe is the only Sommers movie I actually like. Fuck the water-monster movie, the Mummies, and fuck Van Helsing in every available orifice with a barbed-wire covered mace. Twice.
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Into the Wild, Lords of Dogtown and Milk, too.
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...just a stupid gut reaction to the trailer.
I didn't think actors go bald anymore. Guys like Jeremy Piven seem to have a little more hair every time you see them. -
That chick could be in a DUI Traffic School film and I guarantee that despite the corpses, accident scenes, blood, and mangled babies she'd make the thing a masturbatory masterpiece.Without a doubt one of the unconventionally hottest women ever to grace the business. If she spend a month in India eating nothing but Bhindi and Curried garbanzo beans I'd still happily clean her ass with my tongue.Whew..I feel better getting that out...continue on good sirs.
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I didn't get a big enough reaction before. Heh.
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...was charming...
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but I wish she wouldn't starve herself. What a waste of va-va-voom.
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I would fuck Christina Ricci too.
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Glad you got that out. I don't know what it is about the Ricci either. She is one of the fortunate few who actually benefitted from losing some of the overt curvaciousness that I usually find so appealing. I think it's the delicate, long neck. I love the fine line of a delicate, long neck....mmmmmmmm. Sweet , I love the female form!
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Who is playing Faye?
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Piven's hair is one of my favourite in-jokes! I love to see old stuff like Larry Sanders or whatever and then see him now. They should do a website like that funny one about Britney's amazing changing breast-size. I gotta watch Entourage so I can laugh non-stop.
Piven's hairline is more fun than Nic Cage shenanigans.
And it was hilarious when doing my homework for the Pantheon and watching Die Hard a while back - in the first scene when he's in the plane I think there's some unfortunate backlighting where you can see how much they've teased it up. And that was back then!
To his credit, Bruno said hell with it and went full Monty. I loved it when he wore the grass wig on Conan, too! What a kidder! -
It should read: Sweet *insert deity*, I love the female form! And yeah Flicka, even the angelic presence of the Weisz can't overcome the brute stupid force of Brendan Frazier YELLING EVERY LINE! I'M YELLING! IT'S FUNNY WHEN I YELL!
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I'd watch.
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I am a thousands-of-years-old magical mummy! Behold my gaping maw! Behold it again! Did you see how my maw GAPES?!
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maybe I should replace The Exorcist with Black Snake Moan on my list of 5 island movies...
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Male or female..doesn't matter...all answer the siren call of Ricci's unique unrelenting, undeniable sex.
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She's balancing that forehead.
Weisz makes me crazy. Yeah she's got the eighties thing going, but I heard all this stuff about how clever she was (huge plus for me) and then I saw some Parkinson interview or whatever and she was the biggest fucking bimbo I'd seen - couldn't string a sentence together. But I still hear she's like a genius or something.
Maybe she was hammered. I hope that was it. -
Actually, we could probably just skip the whole head-butt part. The Pickity Witch! The Pickity Witch! Who has a kiss for the Pickity Witch? me.
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Talk about your law of diminishing returns. Raiders (the exception here) was a remake of the old serials. Lara Croft is girlie Indy. Sommers' Mummy is another take again. The first one I didn't mind so much. Whatever. The second one made me angry.
Now what was I saying about lousy movies being O.K.? Uh... -
My initial island five is increasingly a joke.
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I'm sure she is a clever girl...but that shit gets old real fast...many an uber hot woman has been ruined by too many cute quips, heady conversation, and endless art hops; I like a smart girl too...but deep down, under the public disguise we all wear, you just wish she'd get her drunk on and invite her best girlfriend over for some shenanigans. Thats the Weisz I'd wanna tunnel.
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If Indy had been a Sommers production starring Channing Tatum and written by a committee of learning-disabled howler monkies. That's what it wanted to be, along with 'clever'. No go on either for me.
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...conflicting things. Maximum fertility, and maximum youth. It can't help itself...both assets give it the best shot at procreation.
Someone like Christina Ricci is obviously delightfully fertile, and paradoxically has the face of an eight year old.
Lily Cole has the same sort of thing going on. It doesn't mean we're pedophiles...the brain reads it like a symbol. Not our fault. -
you just gotta let jesus fuck you. Y'know?
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I'd proudly wear her forehead imprint on my stomach..."Oh..THAT bruise? sigh...Thats just a battle scar from that Ricci broad"God I love that girl...cute, innocent and yet wicked looking. I bet she smells like a combination of Hello Kitty body wash and Latex..intoxicating.
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Furry Vengeance.
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...baby.
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maybe an hint of jasmine? Or Sex Panther.
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Aug 05, 2010 12:04:57 AM CDT
FlickaPoo..Careful Bro...I've been saying that for years.
by conspiracy
People understand that logic in Europe and Asia...but here that kinda thinking gets you an FBI wire tap and your name in the newspapers.
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Was the Meg Ryan one. I've always hated her faux-perky blonde girl-next-door thing, but on Parky's show he was a bit drunk I think and she fucking called him on it. He tried to be a bit cheeky by probing her on a certain line of questioning and she did not accommodate him. Spoke intelligently and really let him have it. Parky is a worldwide institution but she wouldn't have it. And rightly so. I still can't stand her as an actress but my respect for her as a person has skyrocketed.
The show was almost as good as when that other institution Clive James had Oliver Reed on and he was completely shitfaced and I kid you not, came on with a huge jug of "orange juice". James kicked his arse off the set. Can't remember who else was on. Maybe Peter Ustinov. He can fill a gap!
And what the hell have Ryan and of all people Annette Bening done to their faces? Yikes! -
I've found that I really prefer a bit of 'seasoning' on a lady. Y'know, some laugh-lines, just the *hint* of crows-feet. Sort of subtle cues that yeah, she's lived a little. And can bring that living to bear. WIN!
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Libby Lu meets Dita Von Tease.
Flower hair clips right next to the pleather panties. -
Spiderman's girlfriend was a pre-adolescent vampire the first time I met her on the big screen...With Ricci it was the Addam's Family...Both grew up seriously servicably fuckable...Juno needs breast implants...Just sayin'...
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...the things humans interpret as beauty are mostly just indication of youth, health, fertility, and vigor.
Structurally, in a face or a body, those things are in conflict. Because of accidents of facial proportion and structure, Christina Ricci defies that conflict...maximum fertility, and the illusion of eternal youth. -
Jessica Lange.....breaks my heart. It's okay to get older ladies. It beats the hell out of looking like a caricature of yourself drawn by some meth-head with his feet.
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Although Dunst is losing her appeal to me. But in Interview, I thought to myself, "Self, I bet she grows into a beauty." She did. For a minute. Ricci was the same as Wednesday. And let us NEVER forget Portman in Leon.
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Aug 05, 2010 12:14:49 AM CDT
I've always looked at birdwatching in a simpler way, Flick
by white_vader
We ALWAYS liked perving on young chicks. We can't help it if WE get older! The dirty old men thing is so unfair. Although I am grateful that Ricci and say, Emily Browning aren't so young anymore though. That can be uncomfortable.
I getcha though on the conflict. My simian brain just thinks GIRRRLLLLLLS first, distinctions come later. In my opinion love and lust are two different, not necessarily intertwined things. You're a lucky man if you have both and they are. And, my friend, it seems you are a lucky man. -
Christ..can these babes screw themselves up anymore? The surgery is outta control in Hollywood. When sub 30yr olds are getting work done you know people have fucking issues.And I also agree about the 'seasoning' Fuzzy...As I've said elsewhere it is the difference between getting a BJ from a woman who knows what the fuck she is doing verses a slobbery 16yr old with ill fitting retainers. Sure the young wine will get you drunk...but you only get Quality with proper aging.
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...subconscious geometry cues in classic STAR WARS designs...and that story I told about the puppet with the orange stripes feeding the baby condor...
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Let me count the ways...
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Thor Whore inside of 10 years...
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who saw Anna Paquin coming? I sure didn't. Not even in the X-men films. But True Blood......the hotness. There is no pun in the above paragraph.
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Too funny!
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It's crazy though. She can be REALLY GOOD in some things; then make Jar Jar Binks look like Sir Laurence Olivier. It's baffling. But no matter what she does, I can always put on Garden State, and the bad taste is warshed away. She is just ADORABLE to me in that one.
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for Fuzzy had posted his last this night! Brought down low by his own blood....the untamed nephews. His only recourse was to retreat to at least a level 3. G'night peoples. The chicken gets a reprieve tonight. Lil clucker.
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Regular chickens.
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...too bad, too. There's more to be said on this subject...both about hot-chicks, and evolutionary psychology...
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Aug 05, 2010 12:33:49 AM CDT
Reproduction urges supersede self preservation...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Scientific fact...
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Aug 05, 2010 12:33:59 AM CDT
Reproduction urges supersede self preservation...
by cheeses_of_nazareth
Scientific fact...
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How to make even mosquito-bites appealing. What was the one where she's doing a lapdance for Clive Owen or someone? Ooh bebeh.
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I had to post it twice..
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Truer words, both Flick & Cheesy, Truer words...
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Aug 05, 2010 12:36:43 AM CDT
...one of my favorite bits of trivia is that "they" did...
by flickapoo
...a series of elaborate tests with faces, all over the world, to see what sort of faces people liked, thought were sexy, etc...
For the male faces, women universally liked faces that indicated plenty of testosterone (strong chin, heavier brow ridge, strong nose, etc...), but if EVERY feature was strong and manly, they didn't like the face anymore...it seemed villainous and untrustworthy. If I recall, the researchers called it the "Brutus (from POPEYE) Effect".
Without exception, the male faces the females found most attractive were chock full o'manliness, but had one girly feature...usually the eyes or mouth. -
...watch out for overly manly bad guys, guys.
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and I LOVE all that scientific explanations for sexual attraction science...Physical relations require physical sciences...
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Total Cecil B. DeMille epic. I almost expect Charlton Heston with a giant hair-do popping out from the corner and lead the people to the promise land.
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Physical relations require physical sciences
To probe through the depths of our hang-ups and vices...
Nytol. -
Fortunatly i didn't had to pay to watch TRASHFUCKMERS 2, if you get my meaning. And with a bad image qualit,y which actually help made the movie sluightly more watchable as a viewing experience, or rather, as a less sufferable experience. It's lack of image and sound quality was the only truly entertaining thing about that miserable viewing experience. It didn't completly shielded from the movie's awfulness but it helped.
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I'll never understand a love for vans, specially for single people. As a single myself, the car i wan is either the VW Scirocco or the Alfa Romeo Giulietta. This year i have coughed up 500 euros for repairs on my car, but it's for a 1995 Honda Civic ESi Coupé. Not a van.
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... the new VW Scirocco and the new Alfa Romeo Giulietta, which you guys in America are not getting. Though shit! You are losing out on the best looking sport hatchbacks there are in the market right now in my opinion.
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Erm, so why would you want one then?!
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"Hardwired", yeah, i remember that they even had an online teaser trailer for that back then. The inclusion of the Isaac Asimov robot stuff, specially his robotic laws, is one of the clumsiest piece of bad scriptwriting i ever seen in my whole life.
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Though shit for you americans that will not get those two great cars. really, concerning the VW Scirocco, VW said they are not going to sell it to US market because they don't want it to compete with their own VW Rabbit, which in the rest of the world is called VW Golf, which is a damn fine car too. As for the Alfa Romeo Giulietta, it's just gorgeaus, super-confy and mechanically one of the best car in existence today in the C segment.
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He's from the land of Oz and Hugh Jackman.
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When you folks work blue, you really work blue. And there is none more blue than Conspiracy.
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Another fun day of work....ehhhhhh
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Thanks or the link, friend, appreciate it. and there's no spoilers for me, because i have seen the the movie twice already. And really, "pulling an Asi"? Is that all there is to say about me? I'm not exactly like The_Choppa, am I?
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desert island movies: JAWS THE BIG LEBOWSKI SCARFACE THE THIRD MAN 2001 Figure that's a good enough cross section of my favorites, with plenty variety.
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this is like my white whale
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I know you're very, uh, protective of your opinions. I'm glad you liked the link.
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Hey, Rogue! Same here, man. Vacation starts at 7 pm Friday, though.
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Aug 05, 2010 7:57:20 AM CDT
So, the screenwriter of the truly, truly, truly, truly, truly
by colonelfatheart
terrible THE NUMBER 23 is writing the remake of AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON. Double ugh. http://tinyurl.com/3x2uwep
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You know what i think of this guy's review? To paraquote from Shgakespeare, "the lady doth protest too much". i wonder if his analitical kung-fu skills were as sharp and critical when he watched Jar Jar Abrams' SHIT TREK. This later was the movie that was fashionable to go full retard about, and INCEPTION is the movie that is fashionable to go smart-ass about. I'm beyond amused to see that people suddently remembered they had a brain when dealing with INCEPTION, but they had completly forgotten about their brains when they watched the JarJarTrek bullshit. Who can understand this shit?
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Brain Candy from The Kids in the HAll? I haven't seen it in years but I have it on my mind today."I need to see more dogs. I have this dog in my head,...and I just haven't seen it yet."
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I'll say this....I too, liked Speed Racer, it was a live action cartoon, even more so than the mess that was GI Joe. The Wachowski's made it no secret that they were going for that. I can see why it didn't appeal to some people, but it was a highly enjoyable film for me.Never saw Cowboy Bebop. Don't really watch any anime, never got into it much.Ricci....grew into a good lookin woman, of that there's no doubt.Asi...I don't have a love for vans, life necessitates it. If I have my kids and my step kids, along with me and my fiance, that's 7 people, aint gonna fit 7 people in anything else other than a van. Even though my step son just visits, that's still 6 people normally. Trust me, if I could get away with not having a van, I would.A remake of American Werewolf huh Colonel? Well Hollywood just won't be happy until they destroy everything it seems.RIP=Originality in Hollywood, thought it was comatose, but apparently it's dead.
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of STAR TREK. I think he found it very mildly entertaining but dismissed Abrams' directorial skills. Emerson usually goes deep into movies. That's not the first thing he's written about INCEPTION or NOLAN, either. His writing on THE DARK KNIGHT opened my eyes to a lot of things I was ignoring about that movie.
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I remember cracking the fuck up, too. "He's gay!"
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... is also the birthplace of Cate Blanchette and Anna Torv, so that place is already full of win for me. And, of cours,e the ford Falcon, one of the most iconic and gorgeaus looking car ever made. A bit rubbish, though, as all muscle cars are, a glorious mixture of the cool with rubbish. The Vauxhall Morado, aka Holden Monaro is brillant, though. And Australia is the country in first place on living conditions and human development. What's not to like about Oz, really? Good job for a place that started as a penal colony.
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Those are my favorites too, Tank!, NY Rush, Autumn in Gannymede, Call Me Call Me (loved listening to this my senior year of college, seemed pretty poignant back then), and Blue. But I also have to add Wo Qui Non Coin (both versions! nice somber song) and Mushroom Hunting as favorites. I also really enjoy Bad Dog No Biscuit, ELM, Too Good Too Bad, Go Go Cactus Man, Doggy Dog II, and The Real Folk Blues. And for a super sad track, I really like Waste Land. I listened to that a lot on drives around town after my dog died and gf broke up with me a few years ago.
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bless Landis!
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Lucky you...even if I took a vacation there's no point, no money, no place to go, and I refuse to sit around home for a week, I did that for almost 2 years while unemployed and had more than my fill of that, so if I cant go anywhere, I aint takin a week off. Sad huh.
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Well, just Hershey Park for a day and then down to South Jersey to visit some friends. We can't afford a real vacation, either.
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"His writing on THE DARK KNIGHT opened my eyes to a lot of things I was ignoring about that movie."As in, it's complete awesomeness?"I think he found it very mildly entertaining"Which already gives away a strong ass-for-sale vibe in favour for the pseudo-creator of LOST. But i'm going to give the dude a fair shake and track his review. As for your coment, i knew you were in jest, as was i in my coment, though also being serious. That's me half the time, being in jest and serious at the same time.
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See y'all later.
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But dude, you're at least doing something, I would not be able to do anything except sit around at home, so like I said, no point in that LOL.Hersheypark....went there when I was in my early 20's....long ago....would love to revisit it, It has changed so much from when I was there. Same with Six Flags in NJ, have not been there in I don't know how long, and now with 13 coasters? I love coasters and need to go there....ehhhhh....someday soon I hope.
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harry posted a review of MIDDLE MEN
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STAR WARS (77-83)HIGH FIDELITYGOOD FELLASINDY (81-89)JAWS
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STAR WARS (77-83)HIGH FIDELITYGOOD FELLASINDY (81-89)JAWS...FUCCK!!!!BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINAand some disney and pixar flicks..
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Haven't been in nearly 30 years. My grandfather took us there when we were like 5. We went to the park and he took us to see The Lone Ranger (the one with lloyd as cavandish).My grandfather died soon after that and it is one of my favorite memories of him. One of those things where i forgive the flaws in that movie due to fond memories.
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IT WAS JUST ONE FLIPPER BABY!!
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I read Jim emerson's review of Jar Jar Abrams's ABORTION TREK, and while he's dead right about what he criticises, he is very limited in his scope of criticism. Yes, he's very right that Jar Jar Abrams is clueless and a tool regarding camera placement, camera movement, shot composition and editing, but there's much, much more to say about where that movie fails that completly anihalates any possible enjoyment one could have from that shit. The problems and faults of SHIT TREK don't start and stop with lesn flares and over-busy camera movements. That he refrained and didn't even bother to coment on the script, plotting, dialogue, characterization and narrative problems of the movie is not only puzzling but suspect.
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46004 is always nice this time of year..i just need a SECOND.
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.... if Jim Emerson thinks TDK is a movie without a director, he needs to go into rehab ASAP.
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Where to admiral Sixies?
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WEDGE OUT!!!
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...sure those are working coordinates?
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i am a jackass!
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Is space cold? Are your nipples hard? Can you use your hardned nipples as anthenae? If you know anything about FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS you know what i'm talking about.
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I'd buy you a kabob.
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No musely or second hand underwear, though?
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The documentary about the Nightmare Onm Elm Street movies, and damn, it's nigh on 4 hours long, but it's a great documentary. Really good stuff. Excelent documentary. It's like a movie on it's own. And the final moments with Bob Shaye were really moving. I didn't knew he had nothing to do with New Line anymore. A pity, really. They say that New Line is the house that Freddy build. But franklly today, New Line is the house that the Hobbits build. The only thing i truly regreat about the Freddy saga mvies is that it gave Renny "Fucking Piece Of Shit" Harlin a career. That's the single most evil shit that Freddy Krugger ever did. Actress Lisa Wilcox is now more gorgeaus at 46 then when she was as a young woman when she made Freddy 4 and 5, how can this be? Super hot babe now! My jaw was on the floor. And am I the only one who thinks that Nightmare On Elm Street 5 is decent? And good god, was Nightmare On Elm Street 2 that gay?? Wow! Not as gay as TOP GUN and Jar Jar Abrams' GAY TREK, though!
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