Hideo, if there's anything these KOTCS talkbacks have shown it's that there's a lot more love for Temple than most people think. Just luck at how many TOD quotes fill the above posts.

The man of adventure is going to be skewered by the natives because of the arthritis is his hip. More tragic than exciting.

By the way, I heard a while back that they took out the old Indy from the Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Does anyone know if this is true?

That being said, overall it looks like it's going to be a hoot.

Now, I have no idea if this will be good or not, but I am still very hopeful that it will be. But damn people, are all of you prone to hating this? If you had a problem with the trailer, fine, but nitpicking to death a movie poster?

http://tinyurl.com/2fu6r7

Fuck each and every one of you, long and hard, and at the business end of a seven-foot lumberjack.

Oh, how I despise you.

After plowing my drive this weekend, I set up an ion cannon in my front yard. You know, so the rebel transports could get off safely

BLAM BLAM

Hilarious.

(Flings whip) Whuppassssshhhh!!

"Wait! He's MINE! He's MY little fortune cookie funtoy!"

SMACK! SLAP! "I'll crack your nail, Blondie!" SMACK! CRACK! "Do you have any MORE antidote in those bazoongas of yours, doll?"

Indy: Heh, I don't know what he's talking about. (blush)

GOLD!

I get that a lot. I've been on TV. With my rock-hard glutes.

I also felt bad for that asian waiter character, who was introduced so that he could die for Indy. But aside from the intro and that embarrassing palace feast segment (monkey brains and live snakes? C'mon, George, these are *Indians* for chrissakes. They aren't *that* freaky or exotic), the rest is great.

Of course, this would later be contradicted in later stories (Indy III and Young Indy), which showed Indy as being a pretty stand-up guy throughout his life. Unless Temple of Doom was just a glimpse of his "dark years". Man, am I reading too much into this or what?

Now, go the fuck away because nobody here is soliciting for your bullshit.

A little birdie told me there was some Indy news today, though.

I hope the movie ends on that EXACT cue. They shit teir pants, 1,2,3 - then cut to the credits and the Raiders march theme.

"Got lost in his own Talkback, you say?"

"Yep."

Following the Warciples on their adventures can prove to be...enlightening. Like a FLK.

For me, the Ark stands as one of the biggest obstacles. I mean, Indy and Abner supposedly worked very close together and Indy knew the Ark was "his obsession, really." So much so, that the Nazis sought him out above all others when they found Tanis. Are we now to believe that either Indy had no idea about his mentor's "other" passion? Or did he know all along and we never knew about it?

I guess it's possible, too, that maybe Abner "inherited" an artifact or some vital information from another person (a colleague?), but maybe didn't realize how vital the info or artifact was until he was captured. And then was never released because he "knew too much", but could still be of use when/if his captors got close to solving the riddle of the crystal skulls.

(Goes for heart)

Then they leave and it closes on Indy, alone and old in a nursing home room by himself, staring out a window as a tear rolls down his cheek

Kloipy, I like your poignant scene with grandpa Indy being abandoned by the grandkids and weeping silently. If Ford plays the role, he will win an oscar. There's no debate.

Indy's daily routine at the home should consist of finding seemingly mundane objects, like some old lady's knitting needle, and Indy will find it and think he's found "The Diving Probe of Sal-Mon-Ra" or some major artifact. And the nursing staff just goes along with it.

I'm sure the only reason we haven't seen Jarv in a couple days is because he is sequestered in some candlelit dungeon preparing the final verses in the Necronomicon / Warcipedia.

INDY (age 87): I...I...I've found the Lost Platinum Pentacube of the Ming Dynasty!

MALE NURSE: Uh, Dr. Jones, I think that's just a, um...watch. In fact, I think it's Mrs. Crabtree's from 3-C...

INDY: CLOSE YOUR EYES! DON'T LOOK DIRECTLY AT IT! This belongs in a museum!!

MALE NURSE: So does your prostate. C'mon, Dr. Jones. Time for your sponge bath.

INDY: (pees himself while standing in the middle of the hallway)

"I don't know...I'm making this up as I go." (pees self in the bed)

Burt Gummer would take his own life before succumbing to adult diapers

"If you can just roll over a little, Dr. Jones, I can give your bottom a nice wipe..."

"I've found it! I've found the lost Jade Orb of Tutankamman!!"

"Um, professor Jones, that's a pine cone. Aw, nevermind"

And Abom, that scene you painted above re: Indy on a mechanical plane eating an Auntie Anne's and yelling about snakes is hilarious. Somebody needs to film that shit and put it on YouTube. All of these, actually.

Indy yells after him, "Nice try, Lao Che!"

Glove: It puts the lotion in the basket or it gets the hose

"Dr. Jones, I'm afraid this clipboard belongs back up at the front desk."

"No! Don't look directly at it!"

Gotta check out of here in a couple minutes. May gummer bless the Warciples and bestow upon Jarv the wisdom of the ages, so that he might memorialize the word of 2true et all for all perpetuity.

My prayers are for #7 Scraps the get well puppy.

Glovedone first made his annoying appearance in the Brad Renfro Obit, where he started making fun of the guy the day he died. Everybody yelled at him, he just said 'owned' for no reason. Then he found Pillow and I and started his obsession with us, trying to, as he says, own us as well. It didn't work. Then Heath Leger died and he proceeded to make fun of him in his Obit page as well. He got banned, much to the joy of all of us

But it wouldn't be the end, oh no. He came back as ZachBraff08, got banned that same day. Came back again as Braff08 and followed me and Finky around (because he is in love with us) spouting his usual unintelligent bullshit, and once again got banned.

About a week later he came back as Braffed and followed Jarv, Pillow, Abom, Finky, and I around everywhere we went. Even when we aren't talking to us he comes in and finds us because he wants us to fuck him.

Now he is back as glovedone and braffed, and his new persona Biff the Magical Retard. Further study needs to be done to find out if he is or is not Suit and Tie. But it could very well be.

Pathetic? Yes. A Loser? Yes. One of the worst AICN trolls. Probably.

Fucking hell, man.

NoDiggity's INDY posts make my brain hurt. Bad. Methinks I need a Tylenol and maybe a cold compress.

I think that nodiggity is probably on to something when he points out (through his elaborate hat-indexed read of the movies) that there is a difference between Indy being himself and Indy being "Indy," and this bit of self-reflexivity makes the movies less enjoyable. Could be. If I take nodiggity right, he views the hat stuff as being a sort of low-caliber version of something like Harrison Ford winking at the camera and saying "I'm Dr. Jones! Time to use my whip! Because that's what I do!".

Of course, the rationale behind the hat stuff in the second and third movies could just be that the character was changed/retconned/whatever from a guy who always wears a type of hat from a guy who always wears *that* hat. Which isn't a really objectionable aspect to a character.

1) Absent other examples of reflexive, recyclic direction, I think that the hat thing is minor enough that it doesn't really muck with anything 2) My understanding is that the movies are supposed to emulate serial stories. In which case, small changes from film to film don't really matter, because the movies are not documentaries of what happened, they are instead recountings about stuff that this quasi-real figure, Indiana Jones, did. Like how if I told an Indiana Jones story, it would be different in feel and tone (and factual history) than when somebody else tells an Indy story. Sorta like folklore. That's an aspect of these movies that I think people like, and your hat thesis doesn't take that into account.

This "hat fixation" of his is actually quite hilarious. It's a bit of minutiae than only the most anal of Indy-geeks would sweat over. The fact that this goofball chooses to vomit these bizarre obsessive posts over it makes me wonder if he has paid this much attention to the kind of whips Indiana Jones uses. I BET NOT!!!

And I agree on DocPaz & Lost Jarv's past trouncing of NoDig's musings. Their ability to cut-to-the-quick is most impressive.

(I see a single-malt in my very near future...)

2) Please prove that Captain Katanga, a good friend of Indy's good friend, Sallah, wouldn't have sent Indy's personal effects (including hat and jacket) to him after the adventure was over - or indeed that Sallah himself didn't see to it that Indy got his gear back.

Your hat thesis is the weakest kind of obnoxious, anally retentive internet nerd-fu, on par with the "holes" ringwearer9 claimed to have found in PJ's King Kong and which he went to great lengths to describe in his legendary KK "review".

Please, for your own sake, give up now while you can still walk out of here.

But the significance of the hat is not just in and of itself. I think it has more to do with the idea that no matter what Indy has gone through - no matter how perilous the quest or close the call - he always dusts himself off, puts the hat back on, and gets back to work. That's his image. That's his persona. That's why we love him.

You're obviously WAY too concerned and worked up about this (especially this alleged Lucas/Spielberg/Ford/ "nudge-nudge, wink-wink" business). It's a level of obsessive compulsiveness that I just can't relate to. Or feel sympathy towards...

The fact is, the things you listed are almost exclusively from TLC, which I personally find to be the weakest film of the bunch. I hate the prologue in its entirety for its tendency to attribute virtually every aspect of Indy's character to the occurrences of one afternoon when he was a boy scout. That having been said, TLC is still vastly better than most films of its type being made today.

The "fortune and glory" bit is NOT out of character, however, as TOD takes place before ROTLA when Indy was a bit more mercenary - maybe a stage he went through after his idealistic youth. Then again, maybe Indy wanted Lao Che's diamond so he could finance an even bigger quest? See, NoDiggity's problem is not that he has a problem with excessive explanations. He simply wants explanations when it suits HIM. That's why he can't make a small leap of faith and give Indy the benefit of the doubt like I just did regarding Lao Che's diamond. Indy doesn't explicitly say that he needs the diamond for an expedition, so NoDiggity can't see past the obvious, namely that wealth was traded for something of historical and cultural value.

What's "obnoxious" about people like NoDiggity and ringwearer9 is that they pick and choose (and fabricate) subtexts when it allows them to project themselves as being haughty, cynical cineasts. By the same token, when a possible subtext or leeway for interpretation exist and it contradicts their ideas, they conveniently ignore them.

1) It's too "this or that-y". [Gained popularity during Transformers TB a while ago when describing optimus prime, but is now just way annoying.]

2) "You're a faggot, [insert TBer name here] The reasons behind this are so obvious I won't even try.

3) "You must live in your mom's basement". A tired, unsubstantiated insult.

4) "It's this year's "Little Miss Sunshine" and all its iterations.

5) "[insert name of director here] is a hack." That term has absolutely no meaning anymore. Be specific with your criticism.

6) "Owned" or "pwned". Glovedone, I'm talking to you (aka farting in the wind)

You guys can add anything else you've noticed. I gotta jet.

No, I don't think Katanga would drop everything to send his gear anywhere, but he was taking Indy and Marion somewhere to begin with, was he not? Surely once he reached his destination he would tell Sallah about the misfortune which befell his friend. Maybe Indy had already contacted Sallah by then to say he was alright. Maybe Katanga at that point said "Wow, what a relief. Say! I still have his shit here - can I send it to you?"

This thing only becomes fanboy wank when someone pushes it as hard as you do your hat obsession. I'm only stating possibilities which demonstrate how flimsy your ideas are. As far as I'm concerned, it's not important whether he only has one hat or thousands of them.

It's interesting, however, that you obsess over his hat but ignore the fact that Indy in ROTLA almost got his arm crushed in order to retrieve his bullwhip, an action which according to your theory Indy wouldn't have done until subsequent films as a "wink" to the audience.

Also, Indy doesn't just wear the fedora on adventures. Doesn't care about dry-cleaning? Did you see how smartly dressed he was (with hat) at the end of ROTLA?

As for the stills from KOCS, they are just that - stills. As far as we know, the stills of him wearing the fedora are during and/or after action scenes, so how does that blow anything I've said out of the water?

A worse offense in TOD is the pulling a gun on a swordsman gag. If you watch the films in chronological order, it makes one of the biggest laughs in ROTLA seem weirdly pointless. Using the gag in TOD is inexcusable and would have been much better in TLC. Still, I rate TOD a hell of a lot higher than TLC.

I hate hating that, too!

I hate manicart1 for making me realize Talkbacks be full of hate.

Not really. manicart1, it's been increasingly that way for years now. I think the more accessible the Internet got to be, the easier it got for Ringwearers and Diggers and Braff/Glovedones and Memories_or_Murders to sneak on the 'puter when their parents aren't home (or their bosses aren't around) to whine to what they perceive to be a captive and often responsive audience.

manic, i don't hate everything. i like kittens, chocolate with bacon, and fruity drinks. do those count?

How is it possible that after seeing these movies more times than I can count, that I never realized just how out of place the swordsman gag in ToD was since it was set BEFORE Raiders. Ah, well, you learn something new everyday. Even in a TB.

you know what the sword gag was all about? ok, so, it's an accident in raiders, right? harrison ford was sick and didn't feel like doing the combat so he just 'shot' the guy. so the audience loooorrrrrved it and it became an iconic moment. cut to a few years later and the suits are like 'hey remember how everybody loved that bit with the swordsman? we gotta remind everybody about it because god forbid we leave a happy accident alone!' and there you have it. feh.

i would be argumentative about the poster but i gotta go teach my class. time for the dog and pony show.

Damn you George Lucas you raped my posterz!

I'm thinking of designing a Warciples T-shirt that celebrates Indy 4. The back shall read, "Nice try, Lao Che!" Who wants one? Yeah!

At least they got the "INDIANA JONES" font correct on this one.

And I would like to concur with many of the talkbackers here, THE PHANTOM MENACE release poster by Drew Struzan is first class.

You don't think those were the only 2 times in Indy's many adventures that he shot (or even attempted to shoot) an assailant armed with a sword, do you? Both times the swordsman 'gag' was used, Indy behaved as if this was an old trick he'd used many times before.

Also, I'm quite certain that Indy went through many a fedora on his multitude of adventures over the years. It is foolish to think that his Hovito temple raiding hat was supposed to be the very same hat he wore when he was storming Austrian castles looking for his father. It certainly wasn't the hat he wore to work when he was teaching or when he was attending social functions like Donovan's dinner party. Stetson makes durable hats, but not ones that can sustain the abuse Indy puts them through for very long.

So in conclusion, Indy's been through a shitload of hats. Maybe that's why he tries to save it. Doesn't want to buy another one.

It's not bad if you intend for your film to be seen by a mass audience. It's bad if you think you have to dumb it down in order for them to like it. Great films eventually find an audience.

But What I think you're saying is that this is a small example of a larger problem; namely, that in the sequels, there are needless "inside jokes" that essentially break the fourth wall and tarnish the tone that you loved during Raiders. Again, I agree. There is a self-awareness in TOD and TLC that is not present in Raiders. But I think you'll find that this is endemic to movie sequels. In sequels, the filmmakers try to recreate what made the first one so successful. Most often this leads to failure. This is because usually there isn't really much of a story to be told after the character goes through the events of the first movie. In Indiana Jones, plotwise there is very little difference between the three films. [Indy goes after artifact. Meets a woman/sidekick. Nazis chase him.] But that's the intention. What will make this movie interesting is how they will tackle the character growth differently. What is the inner journey that Indy must undergo in this film? There are certainly a lot of issues to explore because of how much time has passed. How effective they are in showing this journey will determine how great the movie actually is. I have no doubt that Speilberg will create thrilling action sequences. But ultimately what will make it successful is that inner journey. So don't get so worked up over the self referencing stuff. It is bound to be in the sequel. And we have seen it already in the trailer. If you go see the movie, take it for what it is. Enjoy the ride!

I still think he's obsessed with the fedora thing, and Doc's not going to let Diggy's response go unspanked, but at least the guy knows what works about Raiders, even if he and I may disagree on interpretations of events in the latter movies. Cheers to ya, Malloy.

as for me, my ass's got to get a few winks in before I have to go to work. I hate working late.

You're accusing me of having a "theory", which I do not. I'm merely pointing out that there is enough leeway in what's NOT being shown that your Hat Theory (TM) is circumstantial at best. Again, I don't care one way or the other if he has one hat or literally owns a fedora factory.

Also, you may want to read up on methods of communication back in the 1930s. Telegrams were quite common (and cheap) before cell phones and the internet.

Here's a question for you: Do you think Indy stepped off the amphibious plane and walked ten feet to Marion's tavern? Or was it in fact so that Marion's tavern was located on a windswept, frigid, mountain slope which required a few days rugged hiking to get to? Could it possibly be that his hat got dirty on the trip up the mountain? Heavens, no! It can't be! It wasn't SHOWN!!

As for the whip, Indy had already made it out into the outer hallway of the temple and had a short walk/run to the river where Jock's plane was waiting. Therefore, by your reckoning, there was no further need for the whip on that particular outing and certainly no reason to get one's arm crushed trying to retrieve it.

By the way, where, exactly, in TOD and TLC do we see Indy risking his life to get his hat back? I've never understood this part of your cretinous theory.

When it comes to Crystal Skull, why can't you concede that maybe his gear went through massive wear and tear in the film before the stills were taken? And if not, since Indy still had his hat and jacket at the end of TLC, couldn't these be the very same jacket and hat he had when they rode off into the sunset 20 years earlier?

Love,

Doc

Yet.

But on that note, just caught Hard to Kill over the weekend. "I'll take you to the bank....the blood bank."

30DON-thought it had some cool stuff in it, started off awesome, until the middle section. They really dropped the ball in showing the time pass, because this movie could have been really good. Also too much shaky cam shit which is fucking hard enough to follow without everything being black and white and greenish. But it did have a fantastic decapitation with an axe. One of the best I've seen in a while.

The Lookout-thought it was great. Joseph Gorden Levitte was excellent in the movie and the whole picture kept me wondering what was going to happen at the end. Just lots of great character work in it

Watched Hot Fuzz again last night, I really enjoy that movie. Yarp! Oh, and caught the last 40 minutes of Untouchables. That movie never gets old.

I love Hot Fuzz, thought it was hilarious. And it's like Shaun, the more I watch it the funnier it becomes. However I must say that I was kind of let down by the final 'action' scenes. Just not as crazy as I thought they should have been

I still can't remember laughing so hard from Shuan when they first encounter the dead in their backyard. That scene just kills me, throwing records at them.

And rhinos know enough not to charge at him.

Anymore.

I DO think Indy wears a different color hat at the end of the movie (if memory serves, he WOULD because he's wearing a grey suit, right? Men wouldn't wear a brown hat with a grey suit.) I think the hat on the amphibious plane is also a different color. Darker, I want to say.

but the simply fact is that the man likely had different fedoras, as men in that time did who wore them. And there's really no reason to believe that the one he got in the prologue of LC was the exact same one he had years later. It's an allusion to how he would "suit up" as an adult, not meant to be literal (at least that's how I interpret it.)

Did Indy have a certain one he liked to take with him on his adventures? Probably, it's not odd a guy should have a "favorite" hat. And if so, that he might be a bit attached to that specific hat, but just liek hats today, it could be replaced if lost.

When I was 11 I had a Cleveland Indians cap I wore til the brim started coming off. Sure, I had other hats I occassionally wore, too, but no matter what I wouldn't buy a new hat. Then, one day it fell apart. And I bought a new one that I wore for years. All the while, I still wore my other hats, but the Tribe was my favorite one, whatever incarnation it was.

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As for the Mormon info - muchas gracias. I'm on a kick to find out more. That doc is, admittedly, merely the starting point. It's as crazy as Scientology. Yet larger than nearly all Protestant faiths? Ca-razeee.

Julio Franco, Joe Carter, Cory Snyder Tom Candiotti, Bud Black times. Oh yeah, and my man Willie Upshaw! I followed them through mid-90's pretty closely with Belle, Baerga, Lofton, Thome, etc and finally got to see them hit a winning stride (still no WS victory though!) Now, I sadly see them mostly on highlights in the gym.

But whenever there was a thunderstorm, those church spires would get hit with lightning. Now, you tell me: irony or were the Mormons trying to harness the power of lightning to fuel a flux capacitor so that they could go back in time and take over? Or perhaps just re-animate the corpse of Brigham Young?

Oh, I've said the "c" word, haven't I? Well, it's all in jest anyway. sorta. (1.21 gigawatts!!)

There's kloipy!

WHy can't i dress casual if I'm not meeting clients or investors? Are these peopel really going to SEND ME HOME for wearing jeans on a non-sanctioned "casual day"? Why do people put up with this shit? I can't picture my employer telling a client, "Well, we would have had credit approval on your loan yesterday, but our underwriter was wearing jeans and, well, we can't have that, can we? Of course not! SO, we asked him to stop working onyour loan in order to go home and change clothes."

And, sure, maybe one person can get threatened with some kind of penalization, but if my whole dept did it, what would they do? Send us all home? Put us all "on notice"? Not likely they can get rid of 9 seasoned commercial loan underwriters and cease getting business done for a few months until they ramp up with all new staff. That's assuming they'd even scrap us over a few pairs of dungarees.

Yeah, I said "dungarees."

Men in white jackets wrestle Finky to the ground and take the microphone from his hands.

Finky: No! Wait! I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!

Man in White Suit: Come on, kid. Knock it off! Let's go!

Finky: No! If I go, the rest of the underwriters will all go. It'll be anarchy!

Man In White Suit: Kid, you watch too many movies and spend too much time on AICN.

Finky drops the microphone and stops struggling: Eh, you're probably right. Eff Glovedone!

Then when the game finally started, my buddy and I "enjoyed" watching the replacement players tool around for 9 innings. Still, I was thrilled just to finally be there. I bet you got to see soem great stuff working security there, Abom.

They've been making me DO STUFF

2) Okay, so Indy can calculate the rate of descent of the wall in ROTLA so he's not risking his health by grabbing the whip, yet in TOD he's risking his life to get his hat back? Was the descent of the door in TOD much more difficult to calculate, making Indy's risk greater?

3) Again: if Indy's hat and jacket are beat up in KOCS, why couldn't they be the same hat and jacket from the end of TLC?

4) What exactly is the point of your Hat Theory (TM)?

5) You're completely mad.

He's actually modified some of his Indy 4 critique. When he first started out he hinted that using the Soviets as villains was more or less in order to condition the audiences to view the Russians as bad guys in real life once more.

NoDiggity's problem is that he would now never admit if he liked Indy 4. All his critique is based on factors which have virtually nothing to do with any qualities of the movie itself. He's painted himself into a corner with his zealous fixation on all things "retreaded" and can therefore never admit to liking it. Witness, for example, his adamant opinions regarding what's depicted in the stills. He is drawing iron-clad conclusions regardless of whether the film will bear them out or not.

It's hilarious and quite sad as well.

And as far as NoDiggity's critique being "based on factors which have virtually nothing to do with any qualities of the movie itself," that kind of goes with the territory. None of us have seen the movie yet so we analyze what has been given to us. Some do this a little more obsessively than others.

"Newt is Jones!"

When I say that I don't care whether Indy has one hat or millions of them, what is it you don't understand? I've said it enough times so it can't be that you didn't see it.

What this all boils down to is that it enrages you that the hat has become so iconic that the filmmakers don't mind a wink or two, whereas it doesn't bother me one bit.

You know, NoDiggity, if you weren't such a shrill, absolutist maniac I would actually enjoy debating hats and other gear with you. As it is, you've already made up your mind about this film based on the anally retentive analysis of minutiae and ludicrous "retreading", which simply makes you an obnoxious, humorless turd rather than someone with something interesting or worthwhile to say about the film.

You are a prime example of the cynical, empty and corrupt nerdism which the internet has made possible to flourish.

Just sayin'...

I'm sure many Bothans will die to bring us this information.

Say, we'll wear hats if we want to
Buy a new one if we must
Cuz the one I been wearin'
It ain't well farin'
It's covered with desert dust

We wear hats, We wear hats
Where they come from no one knows
We wear hats, We wear hats
We spruce our hats up and it shows
We wear hats, we wear hats
We do it cuz it's cool
we wear hats, We wear hats
If you don't then you're a fool.

We wear hats
We wear hats
Yeah!

It's the hat dance!

We gots to know!

Besides, his comment WAS ludicrous.

In fact, the vicissitudes are calling for me to wrap things up here. Later guys. Maybe occula will show up in the next Indy TB and put this to rest.

OUT

OF

CONTROL!!!

I'm talking looney tunes!

15%.

Alright gotta get home and something to eat.

Good day to all the Warciples of Chang!

That made me laugh.

Cholera's Ghost, that was THE best hat song I've heard.

Or you should scream at them that Chuck Norris just turned 68, and do you think he ever makes fucking coffee? Then kick them like Chuck would.

"Did you complete the cost by cost report?"

Yarp. I then impale them with garden shears.

"Yarp." STAB STAB THUMP

I am in negotiations with Kingsford to mass produce a brand of lighter fluid that starts your charcoal barbecue hibachi as well as one's leg for an office meeting

Firstly, Diggers I get your point that you see the hat as symptomatic of other problems with the film. However, you are so ridiculously hung up on the minutiae that you cannot see any other alternative to your richter scale nerdism. Let it go man, lat it go.

Glovedone, my god you are truly deserving of a flaming leg kick and then a cornholing from Paddington bear. That's how much of a drippy little whore you are. Cutting and Pasting someone else's abuse is really a low ebb. Even for you.

Kloipy- try the special blend made by grinding their pets into powder and then boiling it up. If they are going to put you to that much effort then they need to season their coffee with tears.

Which is really infuriating as I am abusing quota time to be here anyway.

I'm also snowed under deadline hell.

Bearing in mind we pretty much invented every major sport it seems downright unfair that we suck at all of them.

The blessed trinity came to me in a dream last night and threatened me with a world of hurt if I didn't pull my finger out. Apparantly working to be able to afford to buy more copies of the holy films isn't a viable excuse.

Burt was especially harsh, and threatened to kill me using his thumb and some beef jerky.

I had vacancy come on sunday which is suprisingly good. But what is distressing is that in the Extras you can watch all the snuff films at full length.

How unpleasant is that? and why would you want to?

Pillow, it'll teach them to make the fuckin coffee

Go eat a dick glovedone.

I fed the head of HR (when the fuck did they stop being called personnel and do they really think "Human REsources" isn't wanky?) to a bear this afternoon.

Then I fed the bear to a graboid.

It was a busy day.

George Lucas should fear our Warwick clones.

No matter where you go, there you are...

The Patterson/Gimlin film has never been debunked. Patterson has been dead for many years. However, Gimlin is still alive and adamantly defends the story behind the film. Although he has conceded the possibility that he may have been duped by Patterson (a VERY risky notion considering Gimlin was the one with the rifle when the creature was spotted), his character and eyewitness account are held in high regard by both "experts" and skeptics.

As for the zipper, I'm not sure what you're referring to...I've seen the hi-def/stabilized version of the film and I don't recall anything being flagged as a zipper.

FYI - I had a major interest in that film when I was a kid. There have been times when I've watched it and thought it was a man-in-suit and there have been other times when it has given me the creeps. There are things in the film (and details in the account of the event) that are really quite remarkable.

Xiphos - Ha! It's too bad that you never came across a sasquatch during one of your expeditions. It's kind of unfortunate to think that only a dead one will prove, once and for all, whether those sons of bitches really exist.

I can't remember the details, but I thought Landis and someone else sorta fessed up to creating the suit (was it with Rick Baker?) way back then- as a goof. I swear I remember seeing/reading an interview with him where he sorta danced around and said everything but, "Ok, I helped fake that footage!". He knew Patterson, maybe? I dunno...now, it's killing me to figure it out.

There's a "Weird California" book I've leafed through a few times while hanging out in book stores and it's given me a fair number of ideas for places to set stories or specific scenes in stories I write.

Sorry for the spaces. I'm lazy today.

Again, sorry for the spaces. This is what I was thinking about. Reading it over, it doesn't sound all that convincing, but it's interesting that some folks really believe this guy Chambers was behind it. Kind of a funny answer for Chambers to give when asked about it, though. I mean, wouldn't you deny it heavily if you had nothing to do with it? Or, if you did?

That is, unless, the guy liked the attention and didn't want people to stop pointing at him for it....

I'm half Irish Terry.

Last summer I was building a patio/walkway, so I've got all these pavers stacked up and they cost 0.89 each. Dude asks me how much they are, then says he can't find it in the book so he scans them for 0.69 each. He then goes on to say that there's no cameras here anyway and why the hell should I be paying so much money for "just some rock".

"I'm really busy can't you do it?"

"No, I'm a manager, that's not my job." she said

so I ran and grabbed the big tub to put the dishes in, I mean I stocked this tub full of them because I didn't have time. On top of the other dishes was one single cup. With water and ice. I kept staring at it thinking 'please don't fall, please don't fall"

Of course it fell. all over me down my shirt and pants. I walked calmly into the back and then dumped all the plates, cups, and bowls onto the floor, shattering them. Then I ripped off my shirt went up front in front of the customers, threw my shirt at my boss who was talking on the phone, yelled "Fuck this place, I quit" and walked right the hell out of there. I was 17

I learned to sharpen pencils in a van down by the river!

they both are great though-

CRIKEY DEREK's GONE APESHIT

And the bit of Braindead that always makes me augh is "Father McGruder kick's arse for the lord"

Just because.

although the giant poodle was fucking retarded

And this version doesn't look any better, and I definitely don't like the way the Abomination looks.

I personally think it's one of the worst characters to do a movie on. You just can't relate to him, unlike, say Spidey, whose life is always shit even with superpowers, who would never give up.

If you've got someone like the hulk or superman, you've got to have them to something super crazy. Drop the Hulk off in space battling the Kree or Skrulls, or have him battle the U-Foes. None of this military bullshit anymore.

It was a valiant attempt to try something different that became a wholly boring psuedo intellectual tripefest. And despite aiming for intelligence it still managed to include more retarded moments than both Spiderman and Spiderman2.

It was crap.

Stupid Lovefilm don't have that either.

They haven't had Army of Darkness, Bad Taste, Meet The Feebles or any amount of classic films I want to see.

I'm watching Hellraiser tonight.

Where's the fun gone?

Off now to get some passport photos done since I just realized (like an idiot) my passport expires next month and I have to renew it since I've got to go to Brazil in 2 weeks.

if I wanted to see Ordinary People or FUCKING BEACHES would I have a list stuffed full of Leprechaun, Reanimator, Pumpkinhead, Children of Men, Leviathon, Hellraiser etc.

Even the wife's Rom-com's don't meet that criteria.

I think my missus is swapping emails with yours in a transatlantic bid to get payback on us for Changian behaviour.

She will learn.....

For example, fast food in Britain is not fast, and barey qualifies as food.

Not like 2- THE DOCTOR IS IN AND HE RECOMMENDS AMPUTATIONS.

Unfortunately we're due Heroes and Bionic Woman started yesterday.

I didn't like "the real pinhead" That was shit.

They keep sending really odd combinations. For example last week was Starter for 10 and Vacancy and the Week before was Tremors and Ordinary People.

It's weird.

Nobody Spars with Tony Jaa. He doesn't do sparring. just full on violence

it's very annoying.

The BBC does not understand Sci-fi at all, and that is why they think "adult"= "wants to and frequenty does fuck everything with a pulse regardless of gender, species or sexual orientation".

It really is the worst thing on television.

It almost makes me nostalgic for memories of cock.

BTW, as anyone ever run across Seph_J before? He seems to really hate Yanks and America. I've looked back at a couple older threads (Rambo one in particular), and he was all over us "dumb" yanks.

Hey glove, is your mom gonna let you see Iron Man?