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Jim Carrey Goes BALLS TO THE WALL For KICK-ASS 2!!
The Kidd here...
Universal Pictures wanted Jim Carrey to play the Colonel in the Jeff Wadlow-helmed sequel to KICK-ASS, and they've now officially gotten their man.
Jim Carrey has signed on for the supporting role in KICK-ASS 2 as confirmed by just about everyone involved with the production on Twitter in the last few days.
It started with Wadlow tweeting, "6 days till we start shooting... and we officially have our Colonel. Alrighty f'n then!"
When Christopher Mintz-Plasse asked specifically who they had, Mark Millar, writer of the KICK-ASS comics responded, "clue- he lives with 200 raccoons and parrots, owns the mask of Loki and named by spielberg as a genius."
With Carrey locked in, Millar took to the Millarworld boards to explain how some of this came together and his thoughts on Carrey's involvement:
"Matthew Vaughn, Jeff Wadlow and I did a conference call with Jim a couple of weeks back and we've been itching to talk about this ever since because the energy Jim's going to bring to Colonel Stars has me buzzing as much as Nic Cage with Big Daddy. You have to remember that Big Daddy's role before Cage came on was a much more straightforward bad-ass. It was Nic who gave him that Adam West delivery and brought this incredible warmth to the character, especially with regard to Mindy."
"Nic is really good friends with Jim Carrey and it's well known to everyone that Jim loved the first movie. In fact, I think he had lunch with Vaughn the day before that Conan O'Brien kick-Ass/ Superman duet you can see in the link. So we've been talking very informally about this for a little over two years now. We didn't quite know what Jim was going to be doing in the sequel, but the entire team loves him to bits and I've been a fan since I first saw him. I remember reading an interview with Spielberg, a great one back in Empire for a JAWS anniversary, where he was saying that Jim would be his choice for Chief Brodie [sic] were he shooting Jaws now. He said he could see the brilliant dramatic range Jim had as well as the comedy people knew him for at that time. For all these reasons, combined with the conversation we had with him on the phone, I'm so genuinely excited about this. I can't wait to see what he does once the cameras are on."
This is pretty new territory for Carrey, as it's a pretty straight-forward and incredibly violent character... so I'm curious to see how he's able to play this without dipping into his familiar bag of tricks. But I'm definitely excited for this rather interesting bit of casting.
-Billy Donnelly
"The Infamous Billy The Kidd"
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Sept. 4, 2012, 3:55 p.m. CST
Spielberg would cast Jim Carrey as Chief Brody in Jaws today?
by iamatroll
Hey, Stephen, whatever you're smoking, can i have some?
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Love jim
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you beat me to an inch! ;) Congrats pal on subject: curious to see! fan of Carrey
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Gets Jim back in some quality roles on other movies!
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Good luck with that.
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I thought there might be something still there after he backed off the walkie talkies, but no... stick a fork in him and put him out to pasture with DePalma, Lucas, and Scott.
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This has me really excited for KICK-ASS 2. I know that THE NUMBER 23 was not that good, but JC was great in his more dramatic movies like ETERNAL SUNSHINE & TRUMAN SHOW. I'll admit that I haven't read the comic so maybe I'm completely wrong on this one but Jim unleashing his darker side on an adaptation of a violent graphic novel could be really good.
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Jim Carrey is acting death...Pass
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Comedians always seem like they can pull it off. It's like the most common anti-type casting they do after innocent nice guy (see Elijah Wood's post Hobbit career).
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And is she going to show her clam ? Thats about the only thing that will save the sequel.
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His problem, of course, is how he goes insanely over the top and mugs the camera. But in the Lemony Snicket movie, there were times when his bad guy had evil, scary-looking eyes. When I saw those, that's when I thought that, if he had a director who could reign him in and he had the self-discipline to do so, he could be an effective villain in something.
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Sept. 4, 2012, 4:05 p.m. CST
Carrey as Brody, Timberlake as Hooper, Rhianna as Quinn, and Jaden Smith as the Shark
by Domi'sInnerChild
Renamed Bruce Raige.
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Sept. 4, 2012, 4:14 p.m. CST
shit. Every day that goes by, KICK-ASS looks a little worse. Nicolas Cage is the only thing not ageing badly.
by golden tribw
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This is looking better and better. I wish Vaughn was directing it, but I have faith in this new guy.
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He seems to have no self-control, to wit - his exceedingly creepy public musings on the fantasy children he'd have with Emma Stone if they pro-created yeah - i know they're both legal age, and that it's not unheard of for old men and young girls to hook up, but if not specifically invited by the girl, old man flirty shenanigans directed at much younger women always seem super creepy in a bad-way, not "funny, haha, see what I did there? just a fun innocent joke about the kids we'd have if we had lots of sex...not creepy at all people! seriously!" but "holy shit...this is just creepy. any way you slice it, creepy." bad-way, dig? But then Cage is one for not having much in the way of self-regulation when it comes to MEGA-ACTING and yet his development of BD was actually a nice split from the source material (especially given the wholesale story changes they made from cell to screen). But this casting does not smack all that great to me on paper - haven't read KA2 yet (heard it's crap) but this is very much one of those things that could be good/great or risk self-parody as Carrey excels at that - just like Robin Williams...you can almost see the audience being lost in their eyes at some point and then see them amp their schtick up to 11 in the hopes that it will save them when, in unfortunate reality, its that tired schtick that's pushing people away, not any limit of it. Carrey can be brilliant when reigned in, we've all seen it before - but it will require on-set directing work that might not be required for someone else. If directing Carrey (read: keeping his "schtick" in check) is at all half-assed, we're going to get goofy, self-aware, unconscious attempts at scene-stealing and it's gonna suck stupendously.
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Dirty old man, you!
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Sept. 4, 2012, 4:44 p.m. CST
Wasn't bowled over by the 2nd Kick-Ass series...then again, they didn't exactly stick to the first one either!
by obijuanmartinez
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Then I'm down. Adam Sandler needs to do something like this (most likely more darker), after re-watching Punch Drunk Love, I was kind of sad to think of what he's been doing lately (I had low expectations for his last one, but it was somehow even worse than I imagined).
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Sept. 4, 2012, 5:03 p.m. CST
SS will round out that Jaws remake with Shia Lebeouf as Hooper, Liam Neeson as quint
by Chuck_Chuckwalla
Actually, Neeson would probably rule.
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I remember that article in Premiere Magazine, I believe it was in 1995 for the 20th anniversary. Millar is misremembering--Spielberg was asked whom he'd cast if he were making JAWS in the present (circa '95), and he said he'd cast Anthony Edwards as Brody (this was the height of E/R, after all), Robert Duvall as Quint (pretty good choice), and Carrey as Hooper, but said that he'd have to "sit on" Carrey to restrain his outlandishness. This was obviously before films like THE TRUMAN SHOW and ETERNAL SUNSHINE showed what Carrey was capable of dramatically.
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I still have that issue of Premiere. Spielberg said if he had any balls at all he'd cast Carrey as Hooper and he'd sit on him to get a more refined performance. I seem to recall Paul Scofield was his choice for Quint however.
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I don't remember people coming out in droves to see it.
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Sept. 4, 2012, 5:46 p.m. CST
I'm sure Carrey has a few more aces up his sleeve. (and I dont' mean Ventura)
by kindofabigdeal
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That's got to be part of the deal with Vaughn. Maybe he could play Mimic.
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Sept. 4, 2012, 5:58 p.m. CST
Are they taking out the rape and dog killing scenes? If not, no sale here.
by Judge Briggs
Two things I can't stand to see in movies - rape and animal cruelty. And I am a hardcore horror dude. But even at 31 years old, I just can't stomach those two sort of violent acts.
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Kick-Ass 2 was pretty bad. Even by Millar's standards.
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Interesting if that's what Vaughn's plan is. I can see Carrey as Arcade.
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Sept. 4, 2012, 6:09 p.m. CST
Silv - it made a lil over 96 mil worldwide on a 30 mil budget
by MRJONZ72
Yeah by no means no blockbuster..but on a 30 mil budget..not to shabby at all. And that's not counting home video sales/downloads...which I have no idea how much it made there.
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That they are filming those scenes, but who knows if they'll use (I hope they do, but I also ain't a fan of rape and/or animal cruelty, but it if its fake I can stomache it). On a side note, have you ever watched Cannibal Holocaust? It may well be the worst movie going experience you could endure.
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I would own that movie just because of his over-the-top comic book villain.
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If your balls are against the wall, you wouldn't be able to do much, right?
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I've avoided that Cannibal Holocaust because I know they used real animals ... fuck that. That kind of shit makes me sick to my stomach. Killing animals on screen for 'entertainment purposes.'
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Sept. 4, 2012, 6:38 p.m. CST
Jim Carrey rules. More darabont with him would be most welcome.
by UltraTron
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Sept. 4, 2012, 6:44 p.m. CST
Jim Carrey responded to what Spielberg said about Jaws and said something to the effect of 'PLEASE! that's exactly what I want!'.
by AntonStark
He was enjoying his success in comedy, but he always had aspirations for drama.
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Bruce Campbell as Brody, (hey, Bruce vs. "Bruce", there ya go!), Gilbert Gotfried as Hooper, (Gotfried has cornered the market on annoying, yapping nebbish types), Nick Nolte as Quint, and Bill O'Reilly as The Shark (because no other creature on earth has a mouth as big as O'Reilly, dontcha know...) Make it happen!
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Sept. 4, 2012, 7:47 p.m. CST
That thirty-million dollar Kick-Ass budget is just Weinstein obfuscation to make a modest-sized movie that made a bit of profit look like a little movie that made a lot.
by Pvt. Duke
And the average movie spends $36 mil on marketing, so assuming it was in that area you're looking at a $90-million dollar gross from a $70-million dollar expenditure. Not bad at all, but a pittance compared to the profits reaped by dozens of other films released that calendar year. I thought Kick-Ass was interesting and original and fucked up in many ways, but the hero is pure vanilla and the villain is teddible... just teddible. How can you have a kick-ass comic movie with a soppy hero and a lame villain? And McLovin needs to stop hitting the weights and remember where his bread is buttered. These days it's his same old skinny goofball head atop the body of a ripped twenty-year old, and it's odd. Stop wilfully behaving against type. Be a NERD!
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Sept. 4, 2012, 8:06 p.m. CST
Very interesting to hear that from Spielberg. It's easy to forget that Carrey is a fine actor.
by Mr Nicholas
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My money's on that anyway. Happened in Series of Unfortunate Events, didn't it?
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Carrey will knock this out of the park. Can't wait.
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The Majestic. Doing Time on Maple Drive. The Truman Show. Eternal Sunshine. I Love You Philip Morris.
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Sept. 4, 2012, 10:19 p.m. CST
If they remade JAWS, I'd rather it be as a comedy than just some retread on warp-speed to appease the ADD-riddle fuckwits of today.
by Pvt. Duke
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Featuring Franky Fuckwit
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Sept. 5, 2012, 12:30 a.m. CST
UltraTron, I agree I've been waiting for Majestic to come on bluray for years
by Levi Tinker
And not just cause the opening scene takes place at the Graumans Chinese. The Majestic is one of my favorite films, Jim was great in it.
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Wouldn't mind seeing a new JAWS film with Jim involved. Darn it all this talk of JAWS is reminding me of my beloved former stomping grounds Captain Jakes amity Boat tours. Miss JAWS the ride more and more every day.
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Eastwood, gave a great speech praising Jim's talents back in 95 when he was honored with hand and footprints in the courtyard of the Graumans Chinese
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Sept. 5, 2012, 12:50 a.m. CST
the ONLY person I'd want to see remake JAWS would be Spielberg himself
by wcolbert
If only to see how differently he'd appoach it 37 years on. I suspect the access to CGI would result in over-showing of the shark, and it'd end up stinking - but in honesty, NOTHING is ever going to surpass the scene on the Orca where Robert Shaw gives his famous Indianapolis monologue. Nothing. It wasn't the shark that made that movie - it was the tension, and it was, in particular, Robert Shaw's Quint character. Without him, it would have been considerably less interesting. Shaw had a shaggy, haggred, drunken, real-world look to him in the film (because he was, in fact, shaggy, haggred, and drunken). today's actors who would be placed in the role...well..they LOOK like actors, if you get my drift. They're a little too pretty, a little too polished, a little too clean to be a real old seaman like Quint. Sorry, I'm not going to buy some GQ Cover guy as a man like that. so yeah. Some idiot will inevitably try to remake JAWS. And I guarantee some things: too much showing of a clearly CGI shark, not enough dialogue-driven scenes (everything has to be boom, boom, boom, explosion, running action action action every 2 minutes these days or the kiddies lose interest and call it boring)...and more than likely a cast that's just too clean, pretty, and who look like they just walked off of a stage show. there's a such thing as having too much of a budget, and too much freedom as a film maker. I think some of the BEST films ever made have been done on an extremely limited budget, with NO cgi, and they were great because they had to dig so much deeper to pull out an interesting film - they had to actually THINK and FEEL the film, rather than storyboard it, hand it off to the effects department, and get the shots back. There needs to be a practical effects rennaissance. Less CGI, more models, animatronics, real explosions, real locations.
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Sept. 5, 2012, 1:33 a.m. CST
Ian McShane as Quint, Jonah Hill as Hooper, Julianne Moore as Chief Brody and Mo-capped Andy Serkis as the shark.
by Happyfat73
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Before this news, I liked Kick-Ass, but I can't say I liked it enough to be super excited about the sequel. With Carrey, I've never given up on him, but I was starting to worry he was going to enter Eddie Murphy territory. I was actually beginning to be concerned about his mental well-being as it's got to be hard for a guy who achieved so much so early on in his career to deal with getting older and not being quite as relevant. Him being cast in this role is a win for everybody involved. It gives him a different kind of role that breaks him out of the trappings of trying to match his past comedy success while not being blatantly dramatic as to appear desperate for an award. Basically, it's a role that says, "Jim Carrey, you're a legend now; you can do whatever you want." As for the film, it gives it an attraction for anybody who didn't see/wasn't interested in the first movie. Having Jim Carrey on your poster doesn't hurt anything at all. It's a complete slam dunk conceptually on both sides.
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annoying as hell in, "Ace Ventura" and "Dumb And Dumber", but spellbinding in, "Man On The Moon": The only time i truly saw the actor possessed by the character he's playing. The rarely seen, "I Love You Phillip Morris" is another example of his acting chops. He'll be perfect for, "Kick-Ass 2" though...Maybe with Emma Stone thrown into the mix.
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She's so hot it makes me wanna cry.
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Story. Characterization. Drama. And then FX. Not the other way around.
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Sept. 5, 2012, 4:15 a.m. CST
Carrey will fall back on his usual OTT schtick and nobody will have the balls to reign him back in...
by Stegman84
The best films on Carrey's post stardom resume, and his best performances, are all from directors who aren't afraid of the 'star power' of their cast, and who have directorial vision and the leadership and tenacity to deliver on it. The worst films on Carrey's post stardom resume are the ones where the directors are too weak willed to challenge whatever Carrey does, and just let him slide into his usual schtick routines of gurning for the camera. I fear, with the director of Never Back Down we are very much about to get the latter.
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Jim Carrey as Brody Shit LaDouche as Hooper Ian McShane as Quint I'd pay good money to see McShane verbally harass LaDouche for two hours.
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Hear me out...Jim plays a retired seal team six or delta force or green beret or whatever special ops unit member you'd like. Daughter gets kidnapped, yada yada yada. He goes after them one by one. Same plot. Now, carrey at least has the acting chops of arnold but is it any more preposterous (is that spelt right?) that a lone lean man can wipe out 80 men single handed than a bodybuilder?
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I cant stand JC he's a boring one trick pony and to be honest after seeing ESOASM which was awful I couldnt be bothered seeing any more of his so called more serious films and he was the worst thing about Batman. No doubt I still watch KA2, as I loved the first, maybe I might be surprised by JC, but I doubt it. As for Jaws, NO remake! that film is pretty much perfect as it is, if anything I wouldnt mind a sequel done by SS.
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Starring Sly Stallone as Brody, Chuck Norris as Hooper and Terry Crews as Quint I can see it now. But no. If they must make a shark film...MEG, please. The idea of a still living 50 foot Megalodon living in the depths of the oceans has merit as a film concept. We really DONT know what's down there - it wasnt until very recently that we even saw a live giant squid - and there has been next to no study at all of the deepest trenches. Large sharks living at great depths is NOT unheard of - 6 gills can reach over 20 feet in length, and easily rival a great white in size - but they are almost NEVER seen because they live so deep. Then there were those stories from the later 19th century involving huge shark teeth, 4-5 inches in length, being pulled from the wooden hull of a ship. of course if Megalodon were still alive, and it was until relatively recently in geologic history ... we wouldnt be the ones who'd have to worry. It was a whale killer. We likely wouldn't be worth its time. Even Great Whites rarely bother with us unless they mistake us for a seal or take an investigatory bite (which for us has dire consequences, though it's a nibble for them)....so I really don't think it'd be a threat. Except perhaps to small submersibles. And there's actually a good reason why a large predator would be found that far down - there's a lot of large prey there. And it's so deep that any kills would never make it to the surface. Giant squid, diving whales, in particular sperm whales...and god knows what else lives down there. The oceans COULD still support an animal the size of megalodon without us having found a living one yet. Blue whales can reach over 100 feet and we NEVER see them from submersibles - only at the surface - and a shark...a shark doesn't have to surface. Ever. So yeah. I'd like to see the concept done well. The novel MEG is also not too terrible.
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Let's see...Richard Pryor's corpse fused with Fassbender's cock as Brody, Tim Conway as Hooper, Jim J. Bullock as Quint, and Angelina Jolie's vagina as Bruce (with Billy Bob Thornton inside controlling the thing). I LOVE fantasy casting!
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He's hilarious yet sinister looking. So much better than his Riddler character. Poor audio quality www.strangeobsession.com
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Hear me out...Jim plays a retired seal team six or delta force or green beret or whatever special ops unit member you'd like. Daughter gets kidnapped, yada yada yada. He goes after them one by one. Same plot. Now, carrey at least has the acting chops of arnold but is it any more preposterous (is that spelt right?) that a lone lean man can wipe out 80 men single handed than a bodybuilder?
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Sept. 5, 2012, 9:26 a.m. CST
kakii: so you thought ESOASM was awful. Ok. Well here is everyone's opinion of you- SMF
by UltraTron
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Sept. 5, 2012, 9:28 a.m. CST
Haven't seen fassbender's cock yet but it had better impress me or I will reek much ridicule upon you all
by UltraTron
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Sept. 5, 2012, 9:41 a.m. CST
Big bad momma is on blu but no majestic. No. Hollywood doesn't want you seeing majestic or idiocracy or anything that could possibly produce discussion
by UltraTron
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Nic Cage brought the sweet madness to KA1. if Carrey goes dark it could be explosive. he's got more range than people credit him with.
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He will fuck this up to the max.
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Sept. 5, 2012, 10:20 a.m. CST
magazoid: your opinion is noted. Possibly it is based on the one movie you saw with him called mr popper's penguins. I did not see that film.
by UltraTron
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It was faaabulous (two snaps in a circle, gurl!).
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Sept. 5, 2012, 11:55 a.m. CST
Yeah it was great. Awesome how corrupt the system convicting him was when Norweigian killers and shit get pampered
by UltraTron
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Sept. 5, 2012, 11:56 a.m. CST
Fuck the world. Fuck people. People want someone else to do everything for them. You got it.
by UltraTron
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Yawwwwn
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Sept. 5, 2012, 9:59 p.m. CST
Yeah you're right. No hey wait it wasn't terrible. There was that whole gag reflex thing and once you got over that it was ok.
by UltraTron
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Sept. 6, 2012, 6:41 a.m. CST
There was that whole gag reflex thing and once you got over that it was ok.
by Kakii
That just sounds so wrong! Made me laugh though!
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Sept. 7, 2012, 1:17 a.m. CST
@ultatron- Fassbenders cock is as aryan looking as he is, i would not know this for certain as i did not buy my premium pass on my local celebrity porno website provider.
by Balkin Flabgurter
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