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Oh wait....

Looks like Mori has done a Faceparty on gone "Fuck Ya" to the readership. You dont pay for this site, so if you dont like it....."Fuck Ya!"

Good for him :)

Just for the record, I visit this site every day and vouche that AICN is in no way biased against Will Smith.

Demon Dave on the other hand...

The one thing I like about William is that at least he takes upcoming directors to make his movies. Though it always feels like his company, Will Smith 100 Million + A Year Movies, rapes the creative soul out of the director to ensure that their company meets their margins. I mean look at the last three directors he's worked with (for Summer block busters), Proyas, the Constitine Guy and Berg. All three very promising directors who probably sign on (or get Smith to sign on after they are attached) when they see the budget. I'm a huge fan of Burg, I was betting that within the next ten years he'll take home best director Oscar, but most directors don't come back from a William Smith feature. Sonnenfeld? Mann? Bay (thats saying Will Smith wasn't William Smith for Bad Boys 1, and that you thought Armagedon and The Rock were good and Pearl Harbor at least looked good, while the Puma and Ford commercials sucked)? Mann? Redford? These directors all seem to have died a little after they make a William Smith productions film.

its a lot easier to say "Will Smith is a talentless hack" then it is to say "i liked some of his stuff, but some of it bugged me."

Enemy of the State I thought was okay, I, Robot, okay. I liked I am Legend, the movie suffering not from Will, but from the CGI crappy infected.

Still like MIB.

There's nothing wrong with him as an actor. Is he great? No, but I think he's pretty solid and he's not the reason why a movie will not be good, at least from my perspective.

i feel the same as far as I Am Legend goes. as a comparison to the book it is abysmal, but thats not to be blamed of Smith. it was a well acted movie, especially since most of the things he was acting against were done in post. if it had another title, and the effects had been practical, i would count it a huge success.

and yeah, MIB is still a fun time.

He seemes less attention seeking now and less in your face with wisecrackery like in Ali and Pursuit of Happiness but he carried I am Legend single handedly and for that I have a new found apreciation for the big Willy!

i still use the phrase "weird shit-o-meter" from time to time.

and trade wives with him for a few hours, too.

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So this Beaks guy gets a black box but not Latauro? Go figure.

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No?

Me neither.

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toad, the CoC must continue this campaign to FREE XIPHOS' ORIGINAL HANDLE!tm

As for Node, I'm pretty sure he got banned for multi-title spamming. And unless I miss my guess, I think he's now flying under the name HoboCode.

Imagine Warner Brothers planning the release date for TDK, hmmmmm theres only one movie coming on July 4th. Oh what is it, read the description. It says here that Handcock is a delinquent super hero, who changes his ways. Well we don't want to open against another superhero movie, but that sounds more like a comedy. WAIT WAIT theres more, it says that its going to star William Smith. YEAH we are not going to release The Dark Knight against a William Smith feature..... Thats why the Dark Knight is not a July 4th movie. Plus all that was decided before anyone really gave a shit about what Heath Ledgar was doing. Yeah us geeks may act like we are above enjoying a William Smith movie, but you can't change the numbers. I don't think this is going to be a huge mega hit like I AM LEDGEND, but it'll probably be bigger then Hulk. It's going to play out a lot like Don't Mess With the Zohan. Opening with lower numbers then your typical William Smith movie, but still making money. Seeing that Zohan was Sandler in his Type-B roles (weird voice ass kicker), and Hancock doesn't have William playing the greatest guy in the world. If this flops I'll be surprised. But then again Narnia 2 hasn't done well, and we all know about the May 9th tragedy, but everyone had to have known that Speed was going to be a HUGE risk. The big thing Handcock will do is kill Wanted.

As for Bruce. Diehard is hardly unimportant.

Die hards 2 & 3, The Last Boy Scout, 6th Sense, 12 Monkeys, Pulp Fiction, Fifth Element, Hudson Hawk (I realize not everyone enjoys these movies, but there is some good stuff in all of them).

No way in hell I'm paying to see this in the theater. I'll rent it from Netflix as I suspect a lot of other people will.

Wild Wild West is one of those movies I forget how bad it was. In retrospect, it probably wasn't any better than Ghost Rider.

Salma > Eva.

I had forgotten she was in WWW. In fact, other than it being really bad and the giant spider, I can't remember one specific thing about it.

Danny seems to fired up big time lately. I guess he's having a rough month with those L.A. wankers so I'll cut him some slack and let him vent.

Bruce and Danny singing Side By Side always makes me laugh.

I think all the talk of The Dark Knight makes Danny boy a tad perturbed.

Salma, hands down! Or hands (mine) on!

3:10 to Yuma was one of my top 5 movies last year.

And yeah, my pot probably includes what we shall call more "iffy" movies than yours.

Taylor Negron going through the helicopter blades? Classic.

And Boy Scout is the reason I dance a jig when I'm drunk.

Assuming you're still even reading this, that is. Obviously the Founder may have been a bit of a douche in how he stated what he stated with a broadstroke, but it doesn't take the most discerning eye to note that there was a massive grain of truth buried deep in the convoluted point he was trying to make or rather that he probably made without knowing. AICN may not be overtly racist from its procedural or administrative point of reference;- meaning that all the reviews as written, presented and even commented on by the designated blackboxes in the talkbacks, have an unmistakably and obviously intentional unprejudiced perspective, particularly with regards to race. However, the fact that AICN as an overall host body seems to stand quietly by while the Talkbacks specifically often get over-run by outright racist, bigoted and vile comments, whenever a Black-themed movie, or a movie with a black-lead, a rapper/actor is reviewed; it all seems to reinforce the notion that you guys do indeed condone it on some level or at the very least are not bothered enough by it to do anything about it. This is a very commonly held and accepted perception of AICN or rather AICN talkbacks, on the internets. So your expression of seemingly pious indignation on this talkback comes off like a someone hurriedly and viciously defending themselves off of accusations of racism when such accusations are merely hinted at in real life. Complete with the whole "but I can't be a racist; I know black people"- defence ( i.e. the whole AICN background with ID4 as if Will Smith was a major player and the defining face of ID4). Thou doth protest too much methinks. If the Founder is speaking crap how different is that from anyone that doesn't know you int he Streets of L.A. accusing you of being a racist. I would suspect that you would probably dismiss that moron in real life as someone who really doesn't know what eh hell they're talking about and leave at that and not offer a spirited defense of yourself right there on the spot when none is warranted. That you feel the need to defend yourself so vigorously hints at more regarding the issue, than whether or not there's any truth or grain of sense in the accusation itself. I'm not saying AICN is racist neither, but the fact that you guys never ever seem bothered, nor ever come out as vigorously, whenever some talkbacks denegerate into racist filth and vile, is basically no different to how black people as a whole feel that white people in general tend to be more or less racist by nature even if not overtly so; simply because they seem to condone it by refusing to speak up against it (and presumably when they have more power, voice and institutional clout to do so) when other really racist white people overtly act that way around them - it sells the notion that you're somehow okay with it. And then to get all defensive (like you just did), just reinforces the perception, in their minds. Anyway, this isn't about you nor Will Smith specifically, but the next time a Tyler Perry movie, or a Will Smith movie, or a black-themed movie is reviewed on this site (if that ever happens)I earnestly welcome you to venture into the talkbacks that follow that review and then offer the same kind of defense that this site is not racist. It's happened far too many times in the past for it to even be debatable at this point.

You really needed to differentiate between AICN and the Talkbacks.

If this were my baby, I probably would have been offended as well.

Either this really IS a privately owned website and you guys CAN actually decide what gets posted, what remains posted and what can ultimately get through the 'Standards' filters and are likewise willing to live with whatever the consequences of those decisions are (I believe, also known as taking responsibility, for better or for worse),

OR

.....as you, sort of, seem to claim, or want to claim, on another breath, the task of 'policing' (hyperbolic Strawman defence at its very finest) the talkbacks far is beyond your technical, practical capabilities and moral ambivalence, because you're, in part, beholden to some sort of pre-stated freedom of speech 'Standards' and a public trust of sorts (which, you've just struck at with the whole "What "rights" do you think you actually have?" argument). Clearly the technical capacity to clean up the talkbacks exists - you've said as much with the whole "I've done my best to try and fix it" but 'the talkbacker backlash is too much to deal with' defence. Clearly the will to take responsibility for it, is lacking or rather, is deliberately and intentionally absent, due to said 'Standards of freedom of speech'. So why not just man up and accept it for what it is; as an unfortunate but inevitable concomitant of choosing to espouse said freedoms, especially when someone does eventually accuse you or even hints at accusations of racism when the talkbacks often times, do actually come off as exactly just that - racist? Instead of trying to act all indignant and pious like you reeeeaally want to do something about it, or you would if you could, but you reeeeaaally can't and so don't deserve to be accused of anything? Having your cake and eating it too doesn't work any better on the internets or in the cyberspaces, than it does in the real world.

.... knowing them, I doubt they'll listen.

It's funny how people who defend racist scumbags in talkback always seem to shrug it off with a "hey, free speech, dude" but at the same time whine about how the racists are being attacked by people using their own "free speech" to do so.

Furthermore, what possible obligation could AICN have to uphold the rights of racists, Nazis and other totalitarian vermin to vent their bile in talkback?

Xi was one of the best dudes around here, and as a fellow Marine, I and others have been trying to get his original handle re-instated. However, he is is still around, and not too hard to spot!

He has been deployed, so he will check in sporadically.

Free Xiphos Original handle!