It's been a big fat turdfest reminiscent of the Spiderman/Shrek 3 year.

Redbelt was pretty damn entertaining. That Mamet is one talented mofo.

By the time they hit 16 they'll prefer the originals, and by the time they're in their 20's they'll hate Jar Jar- it just won't get to the same "raped my childhood" hysteria that you get from us.

I remember me and a mate having to take his younger sister to The Phantom Menace. At the time she loved it, now she thinks it's ass. Which it is.

I still like pretty much everything I liked when I was a kid.

And Star Wars are kids movies!

In the end Lucas wins. The only ones still crying are on this site and writing for Empire.

But nothing about Shutter Island's generic story, Leo looking exactly the same yet again, and Scorsese gets me excited. It looks dull. And if you know the story....it is dull.

Mine works in both categories. Jurassic Park. All the way. For the first time I really paid attention to just how important sound design and the other aspects of filmmaking were in creating an awesome experience. At the time I still wanted to be a paleontologist or a Disney animator, but it was one of the first movies that started turning me on to filmmaking instead.

HOOK works the same way. but we've already had that conversation here.

starring reb brown and that chick from knights

With the T-Rex scene alone, Spielberg put the audience right in the middle of the action and had us thinking we could get chomped in the safety of the theater. The sound, the set design, the flawless CGI mixed with a physical model, the white knuckle tension, that scene had it all.

When I walked out of JP I hadn't felt that magically since probably Roger Rabbit.

How big a budget did say Battlefield Earth have?

I'm the first to admit the characters are flimsy and there's a lot of clunky stuff in the film.

But it's brilliant film making. And 1993 was a magical summer for me.

May be Natalie's finest acting performance.

Not so much ScarJo, though. I can leave her.

Christ I'm lazy.

Spiderman 3 gets my vote for worst big budget film ever.

Leon also takes Matilda out to a restaurant where she gets drunk on champagne and starts coming onto him in the middle of the restaurant. Very Lolita there.

ScarJo...nothing special with the face, but that's not important with that kicking body.

I'm tempted to go have a beer or six for lunch.

Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner should be fired for rejecting other offers and going with the rushed script.

Producers Brad Weston and Lorenzo should be fired for thinking it was a good idea and a good script.

Sommers should be fired for making a bad movie.

What really gets me is that ALL these people are in high positions of power and are now (according to this report) all completely terrified of the turkey they have on their hands and this are afraid of losing their jobs.

Note to all you guys: You SHOULD lose your jobs for making such terrible decisions. Numbskulls.

The Hasbro CEO is worried the movie will destroy the brand... Good lord, did he read the script? FUCKING MORONS! I tells ya!

One of the first dates I went on with my lady friend we saw Match Point, she really liked it. On the way to car (SPOILER IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN MATCH POINT, which is pretty good) I jokingly said, I'd cheat with ScarJo if I could kill her." That was like 3 years ago, still holds it against me to this day.

She's a hottie.

What? The film LOOKS TERRIBLE. It literally looks TERRIBLE. Fuck you for suggesting we can't say that.

COBRA really isn't that smart, apparently. Run by the same numbskulls that greenlit this movie.

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I agree with what others have said-- as soon as they get inside the ship the movie takes a steep nose dive. Those scenes annoyed the fuck out of me. It is repetitive whiz bang bullshit. And I dont know how anyone can hate on SW prequels while loving Wall-E. All that shit on the ship reminded me of the assembly line factory scene in Episode II. Its exactly the same pace and tone. Too much automation. The characters just randomly bouncing around with shit happening around them. It got boring fast. As I suspected the human animation was fucking horrid.

Overall its pretty disappointing. When I read the original concept years ago I was sure it would be the most brilliant animated film ever made. Sadly the animation is standard, and the story is dumbed down generic kiddie stuff. It looks no different than any Pixar animation. They bragged about their photorealism, I didn't see it. I suppose the dust particle generator and lens flare were well done, but thats about it. And this whole 'Revolution' theme. Where the fuck do you get that? Wall-E is not going against his programming and rebelling against the system. He is merely after a girl he cares about. He is tossed into the situation that follows and he reacts accordingly. I don't understand where you get that he's some big rebel. But Pixar/Disney trying to say something about mass consumerism is pretty fucking funny.

Overall. I wish more of it was set on Earth. I wish Wall-E was alone longer before she showed up. I never really got a sense he was that lonely. It seemed like he was perfectly happy alone.

The Hello Dolly shit was one of the best choices Stanton made. And it was his only truly original one.

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Vader and a few others talk about Wall-E being about revolution.

But somehow, I get the feeling the live-action footage won't look as great as all that CGI stuff.

Nazis. I hate these guys.

Wall-E didn't affect that outside of a few action scene conveniences.

In other words, he stops doing what he's been "told" to do. Compared to the humans, who have evolved into automatons who are only able to function when the AI in charge tells them how to act, what to like, etc, etc, Wall-E is a revolutionary. You're right, in that sense, the Captain is too, because he stands up against the "evil" government.

And yes, I said up above Wall-E's acts were self-serving to impress the girl (sorry if I wasn't clear in the past and you thought Wall-E was a Jesus-like leader), but that doesn't take anything away from the fact that the film essentially tells kids "those in charge aren't always right".

I was thinking of Wall-E's design, why wouldn't they make him a little bit bigger? At least the size of a washing machine. Seems like it would make the work a hell of a lot faster.

Sure, he's not intending to lead, but still that's what he's doing inadvertently or not. He's become a symbol to them, and he's become a symbol to the humans (specifically the couple he's brought together) as well when they see him fighting.

Even though its unintentional, his mere presence starts disrupting the status quo on the ship. It starts simply enough; teaching that one scary button-pushing robot to wave. And then you have MOE, the droid that leaves his intended path to follow Wall-E, still doing his job, cleaning, but not in the way he's been ordered and programmed to do. And sure enough, the police show up to arrest him and thus begins the chase and the newly freed prisoners start fighting back, and yadda yadda yadda.

The only way you can argue against that is to simplify it by describing it as how they're literally presented onscreen: malfunctioning robots. I'm saying, just look a little closer, and you'll see how it makes sense.

On the other hand, she is talking about a really nice ass. And yes, I can last...

Was it ever clear that Wall-E is the last unit still running? I don't remember if we're just supposed to assume that or not. I'm reading about it.

That is WALL-E did. And while I am not as huge as fan of the second part, I thought it worked for what they were trying to do - have WALL-E's presence change the status quo and actually change the people he meets (the floor cleaning robot being one of the best example).

And D. Vader (I think he said it) nailed it when he said that they got the idea to do the remake by reading this forum. From now on I am going to talk about shitty movies that I could care less get remade.

HAL represented the idea of following a philosophy or doing you job without thought, and how it robs you of your humanity (the same with most other robots). The fat humans represented how living your life only for pleasure and comfort also robs you of your humanity. WALL-E was the happy in-between

WALL-E is Bale: He is in EQUILIBRIUM.

I agree, there aren't enough Trannys in movies nowadays. Isn't one of the Arquettes a shim? Why doesn't he/she get more work?

Thank you, I'll be here all week.

I doubt they used any of the photos that night for publicity.

But I wouldn't say I didn't like it. The main character is great. The humans and everything around them is what sucks. I would give it 4/10.

Squirming in my seat thinking about it.

Also what about directors of flops like Speed Racer and Crank 2, if they came here they'd know that what they did worked something in the marketing didn't.

So its not like I dislike more than I like. Its just that I would rather talk about things I dislike. Its more fun.

= Lifelong respect.

I would also like to add that Twitch is my favorite column, because they cover the movies that should be the main focus of 90% of aicn... the sole exception being the Movie A Week column.

If so...FUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

Or are you the other kind? The kind that wakes up with a cunt.

I guess the Norwegian FHM doesn't share the American fixation on anorexic tomboys. Good for them.

2) She slipped her finger into my ass.

3) Having never had anything in my ass, I started and jumped. 4) She broke her nail in my ass. 5) She asked what is wrong, and I said that her nails where to sharp.

6) She then realized she had broken a nail. 7) I then realized I could still feel something in my ass. 8) I surreptiously reached around and pulled it out like you would a sharp dingleberry.

9) For some reason I said "I found it" and handed it to her. For the record, it was a fake nail. But it still broke off in my ass.

I am just watching it now so I don't know if it is good or not.

But you know what does? This Norwegian chick Aylar Lie....she's also a beauty pageant, Big Brother contestant, singer...

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GOD DAMN I LOVE NORWAY!

ZIIIIIING!!

I'm trying to think up one to match you (share and share alike, ya know?)...but as I do, I realize that my stories are simply grotesque. Not hilariously AWESOME like yours.

Love the gals bringing the signs with the dead snow pics back and forth.

And Danny, Wall-E was mediocre...Your review after you watched it sounded almost identical to your review before you saw it..Still, for someone whose opinion I vehemently disagree with, as usual you articulate very well why you feel that way.

Doesn't make you less wrong though, hoser. Go get some sunshine and stop moaning.

So, you and I are still on for G.I. Joe next month, right?

Damn, some pizza sounds good actually.

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no photos but some funny/pathetic drawings.

To keep with randomness, Vader, you saw Trick or Treat right? I think that was your initiation in the group right?

Any word on when or if any of the rest of us will get to see that?

Think I will go for another walk.

Still, all things considered, Baltimore still rocks. At least we have a film festival. Thats pretty cool. And the Harbor.

God, I used to comprehend complicated science, now I'm to tired to spell check, and getting hungry for pizza. 12:40 and I've nearly been awake 24 hours.

I haven't seen Hurt Locker but I did read HODs review(good review BTW) and I was a little let down by it(the movie not HOD). It sounded like they crawl up to explosives with pliers and feverishly try to figure out which wire to cut.

In reality they use robots to countercharge and destroy an explosive device, or a water canon, or a cool shotgun on a robot thing so they can recover the timing device and figure out the bomb maker.

On the other hand I like that Renner guy he's got that something something going on.

Nice review, by the way. In depth, without being spoiler-y. Not the easiest thing to do.

I'd like to think they'd release it this year. There's no godly reason why they shouldn't. I mean, freaking Halloween 2, sorry, "H2" is coming out in August, just like its predecessor.

The character in the film is a guy who gets off on the thrill, so he goes in that way most of the time. The particular bombs they come across are most of the time trickier bits and he opts for manual defusing over using the proper measures.

Yea, it's really starting to irk me that the movie has been sitting around so long. I love Halloween and anthologies and it seems ludicrous that it was never released. Everytime I think that I could go to the blockbuster and rent Mega-Shark Vs. Giant Octopus but not this makes me irritable.

When I was watching QOS I was thinking "M should just off him - he is such a liability and completely undependable."

Anyone else feel that way about that movie?

Maybe not accurate, but I believe the film was based off the accounts of a journalist who went with the team, so who knows.

I don't think there is a single thing in here that would really bother you all that much. It felt real to me in the human details, and since Im not nor ever have been the member of a bomb retrieval squad, I havent the foggiest about all the details.

See it, and let me know how right they got it. It felt like alot of research went into it.

And besides, Jarv called it delightful, so thats the last word on that.

I think it's probably my favorite Pixar movie to date. And try as I might, I don't understand the Pixar hate but I will smile and nod and acknowledge people have it.

I'm not doing that shit. That's just wrong. All kinds of fucked up.

Let the Force be with you Lindsey. As well as an 8-ball and my penis.

"You can't fight in here, this is the WAR ROOM !!!

Humans were in it far too much. Wall-E is a great character. Show me more of him. Can you make a short film for me?

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A Canadian filmaker has made a movie for Gay Pride Week featuring football players getting waterboarded with rainbow-colored underwear covering their noses and mouths, Towleroad reports.

The movie is called "No Safe Words," a reference to S & M culture, and director Noam Gonick said he intended to make a political point by using the waterboarding imagery. Canadian gay lesbian news source xtra.ca spoke to Gonick about the film:

The military, says Gonick, "uses homoerotic, aggressive acts to harm victims and act as a contagion to society in general."

And, he says, it turns us on. "Conquest is not only about territory, or oil, or puppet dictatorships," he says. "It's sexual, too."

You know you're gonna have to stop pretty soon, so before she asks you, you really lash the granny out of her, just to show you're the big man. Conquest.

How come gays & lesbians get their own news source? Discrimination!

Is because of my taste in movies, my political opinions, my former Army background, or the fact I had fingernail in my asshole?

My only complaint was they didn't do the 1st Cav song: "Thousand Chinks comin' down the pass/playing the burb gun boogie on the 1st Cav's ass/I'm moving on/and I'll soon be gone/With my M-1 broke/it ain't no joke/I'll soon be gone."

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Its interesting, but it is causing my Spidey Sense to tingle. Something about it doesn't seem kosher to me. Of course, I could be wrong, I have no idea what it is like to be a sniper or be in combat, so I would love to see what your opinion is.

Your best bet is probably silence, but your emotional problems obviously render that option unfeasible.

I really hope I'm right! Especially after reading this: "Did you going to Iraq have anything to do with patriotism?"

"I’d like to say patriotism, but no…I just wanted to fucking kill people."

"You just wanted to kill people?"

"Yeah."

What a dumb cunt.

But what got me to think this might not be true is every article or interview or story about a sniper I have ever read always brings up how they don't go there to kill the enemy as much as save other soldiers lives. For every enemy combatant they kill, they see themselves saving another American soldier's life. This guy didn't bring it up once, and I thought that strange. And in defense of snipers in general, they have probably the least chance of killing civilians or non-combatants. I know snipers sound brutal, but through their scopes they get a better look at the enemy than the regular infantryman does. You go house to house, busting down doors, you have a good chance of making a bad call and shooting a kid or a woman. A sniper can look through his scope and see if the guy is armed and can usually see what type of weapons he is carrying. They are actually much more "civilian" friendly than the regular grunt.

I'm so sick of people starting fights when there's absolutely no reason to do so. Everybody's having a good time, talking movies, talking bullshit (but funny bullshit), and then some numbnuts gets a wedgie and decides that Danny is to blame(or Jarv, or whoever's day it is to be called out).

This is why I'm not around much anymore anywhere. I think the Twitch TB is hands-down one of the greatest places on these Internets and that 99% of the TBers on it are smarter, funnier, friendlier, and more interesting people than 99% of the people I know offline.

The 1% group is getting me very discouraged, however. I'm going through a personal deep blue funk lately and I can't seem to tolerate the idiocy of the cyberfighting.

Sorry for ranting as this is not directed at the majority of those here.

And now back to your daily dose of Twitch wholesomeness.

But seriously, who the heck is Toonol? Did someone (probably someone we know, though really there are so many options) actually make a screename solely to attack Danny? Obsessed much?

By the way...hi Mavra! How's it going?

And Danny boy was behind Eddie's new movie. That's Jarv...he thinks it's "delightful".

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We will worry about the details and resulting fall-out later.

Ain't it Awful News.

That's got to go on your grave stone.

The BNP got a Euro seat for Manchester. I blame Danny Dickblood.

I'm going for a lie down.

Pixar's humans really haven't improved since Toy Story.

The end was a bit messy, but it was a fucking top drawer film.

In the making of, they were going on about how they wanted Mahogany to be a "new" horror icon- and if it had been properly supported (fuck you hollywood) he could well have been. Dude's frightening.

I've just finished writing a glowing review of The Funhouse complete with "Eli Roth is a cunt" paragraph.

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I'd give it a good 7 out of 10 maybe an 8 if I'm in the right mood.

And Finding Nemo is fucking horrid. Why people like this shit is a mystery to me.

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) 339,714,978

Finding Nemo (2003) 305,388,685

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) 281,492,479

The Matrix Reloaded (2003) 242,589,580

Bruce Almighty (2003) 214,948,780

X2 (2003) 173,381,405

Elf (2003) 150,350,192

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003) 139,259,759

The Matrix Revolutions (2003) 138,614,544

I guess no one noticed at first until the little girl screamed or told someone, so he was pulled out, but his wife was out on the beach and had no idea what was going on.

They took him to the hospital but he was showing no brain activity. I drove down my grandmother at a last second request that night. We hoped for the best but there wasn't much we could do.

That night I had a dream I visited the hospital and found Uncle Joe all young and healthy and energetic. He was smiling and laughing and had a young girl on his lap, though I couldn't see her face. I later interpreted this girl to be my Aunt Alison, who died when she was 12 or 13 to a sudden bout of meningitis. I don't remember if I told my grandmother or not, not wanting to worry her.

But in the morning, there was no change in my Uncle's brain activity, so they pulled the plug. I was there with his son and daughter and my grandmother as he passed. It was a strangely beautiful moment. Heartbreaking, though, to see his son calling out to his "papa" and hugging him as he took his last breathes, but I felt very privileged to be there in place of the rest of the family.

So I took my grandmother to see Finding Nemo, even though I had already seen it. I can't remember if we saw it the night before while he was still in the hospital, or if we saw it that night after he passed. Either way, it took our minds off things and made us happy for a brief time. Regardless of what you guys think of the movie, I have always and will always think of it as a delightful movie.

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Willard.

BAM

Rest of the film= wank.

On the Region 2 DVD one of the extras was "Jump to a Kill"- if I'd known that before I watched it, then I'd have not bothered with anything apart from her getting hit in the head with a machete.

It was every bad high school horror cliche in one film- everything that Scream took the piss out of 7 years previously.

Rubbish.

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It still makes me laugh when Phoebe Cates starts to come out with her sob story like in the first film and they all ignore her and hurry her on.

Superb.

My brand...American Spirits needs to come out with a new ad. "Doctors agree, all natural American Spirits are the cigarettes to smoke."

Also, The Burbs is great.

"There was this old man dressed like Abe Lincoln, and he said 'Come here little girl,'"

4 A DAY!

No, what I said was that any new Gremlins movie would naturally be CGI, which would make it a far different animal than the originals. Those movies were defined by the limitations of what was possible to do with the puppets. CGI Gremlins would have no limitations, which is why I think they've never been able to get a handle on a story for another one.

Can someone have a look and tell me if the pictures of the freak and the shower scene came out- my shitty computer won't read them.

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For fun with beer and mates- Harlin's Nightmare film is fucking gold.

I remember enjoying this movie, but as a craptastic b-flick, not something top drawer and not something from the "director" of Poltergeist.

I did enjoy the fact the film wasn't overly gruesome and creepier than most things.

Fun fact, our favorite douche of the horror literary world, Dean Kuuntz, wrote the film adaptation novel of this one and added in alot of devil worship stuff. Odd.

Wall-E's humans work because they are part of the setting and set-up for Wall-E and Eva, and I think they work perfectly for that. The movie needed a second act momentum, and there is no little irony to this robot trying to get the girl while inadvertently triggering the salvation of humanity, who haven sank into the lazy marsh they mired themselves in.

I don't think it is a great movie, it works really effectively at what it is trying to do. And the sad fact is that type of completely entertaining and competent American horror movie is now dead and gone, replaced by the Rob Zombie/Eli Roth-style of gonzo horror.

Stupid Google images.

The picture I really wanted was the freak getting crushed in the cogs.

It is a fun B-movie, but the 2 scenes I separated out where of actual talent. Not B-movie. It's a good film.

I'm talking with Lionsgate about that one. Hostel is a movie where the first third is interesting. They set up these great characters and possible scenario and then they pay off none of them. You have these Americans blithely in Europe, without a care in the word, not giving a shit except getting laid. And then it's all about this weird torture porn club thing. It should be a metaphor for how America treats foreign prisoners and our disregard for civil and human rights, and have these kids abducted for appearantly no reason (or no legitimate reason) and tortured for what George Orwell said, the point of torture is torture. A smart remake could be really provocative. Have Americans see what it is like to renditioned, kept somewhere without any charges or for who knows what reasons, and then be continuously tortured and abused, even killed, because I think it will make a very dumb film at least try to be smart. That's the stuff I want to do in a remake of Hostel." Continentalop, 12th June 2009.

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it seems people think the way he got into Iraq sounds fake. But I dunno-- just assuming its not real based on the "Kill people" thing?

I don't know about snipers but I knew two guys that signed up specifically to go to Iraq and "Kill people" and they proudly stated so. I ran into one a few years back at a reunion party of sorts and he was standing there telling explicit details of various killing as if it were a fucking video game. "So this guy is bleeding all over the fucking place....."

The guy was algeding that he was in in operation around the tigris, he said the Infantry was on the radio screaming for the snipers on the radio, shooters are seperated from the comnet. The spotter handles commo.

Also Marine Corps teams are almost always 2 man operations very rarely 3 man jobs. Never 4 or 5 man affairs. That's Army doctrin.

I'm saying it doesn't read fake. You know how some fake interviews or news reports are obviously bullshit and you instantly pick up on that. To me-- this sounded like a real person speaking.

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I am conflicted. I guess I will just have to give him the benefit of the doubt.

Talk about cashing in on a name.

And if they are not born into the bizz, they are child actors: Natalie Portman, Leo, Winona Ryder, Christian Bale...

Of course, it can also hurt you (look at Travolta and Stallone's brothers).

But J-Lo, she might make shitty music and shitty movies, but that is what she wants to make. What do you expect, she has the taste of a poor Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx (Jenny from the Bronx). But at least she bust her ass and takes even her shitty music and movies seriously.

And I actually like Gremlins 2 better than the first one. It's got some whacky subversive shit about the media in there and the whole thing is bursting at the seams with ideas and jokes and pretty much all of them work. I actually can't think of one that doesn't. I love that Clamp line at the end, "It's... it's Clamp corners... where life slows down to a crawl." and then, "We'll build the biggest, most sensational! - quietest little town anyone's ever seen."

My favorite part was when the film broke and you can see their silhouettes fucking around in the projection booth. Then they're making puppets on the screen and Hulk Hogan tells them to run the rest of the movie! How RANDOM is that? And BRILLIANT.

Also, speaking of Joe Dante, doesn't he program some kind of film series here in Los Angeles? I remember reading about it on here but then forgot about it. Anyone go to the Aero or the New Beverly and can tell me what the parking/ticket situation is like for more popular movies? They've got E.T. and Close Encounters next Friday at the Aero.

"Did somebody order an asshole from room service." And "You're a pimp. You look like Gandhi!"

Pretty good resume.

As for Funny People, am I the only one that's sick of this shit? I've been in a few conversations recently where everyone was acting like I'm crazy, and 'Oh no, this one is supposed to be dramatic.' I call bullshit. The only difference between this, Knocked Up, and 40 Year Old Virgin is the way they present the trailer. You could have made a dramatic section of the trailer for any one of those movies, even Virgin. It feels like this fucking kind of comedy is the only thing anyone is capable of nowadays. I was watching Eddie Murphy on biography the other night and he was talking about how nobody ever thinks of Coming To America as a black comedy the way people might think of Waiting to Exhale as a 'black film'. John Landis then came on and said, "I think this is a good thing." Then he was talking about Trading Places and how he liked that it was really about class in society. This is the kind of shit I don't think Apatow and friends could ever handle. It's always whiney, relationshippey bullshit, and the smart, funny, Jew saving the hot women from their alpha male husbands... I get it, it doesn't mean I have to like it, or that I don't feel like the characters are speaking in Apatow's voice rather than their own. What the hell happened to good comedy on a variety of subjects/premises?

Also Tom a double fuck you for never speaking about Bosom Buddies. You were better in that Spaslh, Volunteers and the 'Burbs then any of serious crap you did.

Just compare todays comedy to all the great ones mentioned above. The are pale and weak at best compared to Ghostbusters, Caddyshack, Batchelor Party, Porkey's etc.

Okay no, not really, I don't think Tommy is gay. I just like to work the word "manginia" into conversation whenever possible.

Oh right, Harry is a stupid fat fuck. Never mind.

And while the trailers and fake commercial in the beginning was just pure brilliance, the movie wasn't that good of send up on the arrogance and hubris of actors and Hollywood. Only Tom Hanks delivered in that part.

Plus Pheobe Cates, need I say more?

I reckon I could last longer than that surfer dude. And more than once.

Twitch is movie valhalla.

Now I understand that those movies are considered classic. But then, earlier in the conversation she was saying she enjoyed the recent Dragonball movie, and a month ago she and another girl were just totally raving over Zac Efron in 17 Again and how cool that movie is, and how they cant wait for the Twilight sequel.

These younger women at work may be hot, but damn if I'd ever want to get involved with any of them.

Pittsburgh!!!!

Megan Fox: "I think all women in Hollywood are known as sex symbols. That's what our purpose is in this business. You're merchandised, you're a product. You're sold and it's based on sex. But that's okay. I think women should be empowered by that, not degraded."

We'll see how she feels about that in five years when she's been replaced by the next crop of college-aged gals.

I mean, it's one thing to be realistic about hollywood, but empowered? Next they'll be telling us that getting raped is empowering, because it reminds you of how much you're wanted. FUCK'S SAKE.

Ok. Rant (and accompanying, inflammatory rhetoric) over.

"You were raping her!"

"No officer, I was empowering her."

Whoops!

I would rather watch Kathy Bates or Dame Dench in a movie, anyways. I prefer to watch people with talent instead of just a pretty face.

Of course there are good-looking woman who can act - Jane Fonda and Helen Mirren in their day, and Kate Winslet, Hilary Swank and Anne Hathaway nowadays - and I do feel sorry for them when they have to face the double standard of getting older in Hollywood. But for tarts like Megan Fox, I can only say don't cry sexism when you get dumped for the younger model, because you've been living off it your entire career.

On the other hand I disagree with you about The Godfather but to each thier own.

There are few people who's career I'd want to have and I think I would love to have done what Lloyd's done in movies, he does what ever the fuck he wants and has a blast. Plus he's not a huge dick. The movie was fucking nuts. There were musical numbers and they weren't total crap. Between that and Crank 2 I don't know which one is crazier.

ALSO ALSO I think it caped of a great week discussing Continentalop finger in ass situation just to see it HAPPEN IN THE FIRST SCENE OF THE MOVIE! And about 5 more time throughout it, only with bigger objects going in. I was howling about seeing that.

Plus, what is your favorite Lee role/move?

Droid/Giant Pig is on Holiday.

Franklin T. Marmoset and ThereWolf seem to be posting less.

Chipps, who's an Aussie, is an infrequent, but when loaded, a much welcome addition. Even when he's not lit up he's cool, but damn, when he is drunk it's some fun ass posts. He's the only person I've ever seen that can write words in a slurring manner like drunk talk.

I like him as Dracula in most of the Hammer Films he did. Wickerman, 1941 and as Sherlock Holmes brother Mycroft I think. I'm too lazy to look it up.

Likewise Devil Rides Out. Very atmospheric and superbly edited.

Need to see them both again soon, pretty sure I've got them on ye olde VHS tape.

But the reason I brought them up is that Lee is so awesome in both. For a guy famous for playing villains, he was just awesome as the heroic Duc de Richleau. The guy was like the Edwardian predecessor to Fox Mulder - but even tougher. He's fighting a Satanic cult that can actually summon demons and use magic, and doesn't seem scared at all. Wish they did more (and better) movies with that character.

And DEATHLINE I hated, but that movie is worth seeing just for the one scene that Lee is in. He plays an aristocratic official who represents Britain's intelligence community, who confronts Donald Pleasances working class London detective. Fucking awesome scene, especially how both characters keep fake smiles on their faces and obviously fake politeness to each other (only to have Pleasance mouth "Fuck You" to Lee who keeps a straight face). I love that scene and could watch it over and over again.

Eva Green is very, very tidy.

I got in an argument once with a guy who said he thought Lee was horrible because Mycroft in the books was fat. I said, who was supposed to have written those stories? Watson. Do you think maybe he described him that way because he was such an arrogant prick to Watson and Holmes, and that was the point of having him be thin and debonair?

Plus, like I said, I am not going to criticize someone else's opinion of them. I like RACE WITH THE DEVIL for Pete's sake.

Needed a GIANT PIG though.

Everything needs a GIANT PIG.

Ah, young Emilio, in his punk phase. What was the movie where he battles a video game? FEAR was on the soundtrack.....

I'm hoping for some diogenes club action.

For some reason.

It's on youtube. Very much pre-Lost Girls. Which I haven't read.

Strangely, all I remember is Emilio...

Anybody here ever see it? I have heard good things about it, but is it true? Is it worthwhile?

I remember hearing that he got kicked off of Fear and Loathing because he wanted to do that silly "high water mark of the 60's" bit as a cartoon and Hunter didn't think he was taking it seriously enough.

Cox also brought Mars Attacks to the studios which eventually got pick up by Burton though he said both version were not true enough to the bubble gum they came from.

Funny thing about Mars Attacks there is a new and used book store/comic shoppe I attend and my first time there they had this like box of mini Mars Attacks comics, like #'s 1 and 2 of like 50! I was like sweet a new mini serial Mars Attacks comic. When I got home found out that they were actually from like the 80s and I guess they just got the box, sucks because now I want the rest.

In 1988, a company called Pocket Comics started to produce a series of tiny (3" x 4.5") comic books based on the 1962 Mars Attacks set. The mini-books elaborated on the original cards, and had a 6" x 4.5" reprint of the card in the middle pages. There was going to be 54 mini-comics in all, one book for each of the original cards. The first books sold well. However, low orders for subsequent books forced the company to decide to curtail production after the first 4 comics.

SOOOOOO looks like I only got 2 more to Dog the Bounty Hunter down.

Synopsis from the movie's website: Mel and Fred are two actors who spent their careers in American westerns. When they discover that legendary screenwriter Fritz Frobisher is appearing at a special screening in Monument Valley, they decide to take a road trip from Los Angeles to this legendary site of John Ford's westerns. Their purpose is to seek revenge on the eighty-six year old Frobisher for mistreating them on the filmset of the immortal oater, BUFFALO BILL VS. DOC HOLLIDAY. But before they can hit the road, they must convince Mel's beautiful daughter, Delilah, to come with them and provide her car. Ultimately, the fate of everyone depends on their knowledge of the maestro, Sergio Leone.

I didn't think that Cox had anything to do with it in the end. I'd be interested to see the script he came up with.

Have you read any Scourge of the Gods? Another 3-parter. Really good though. Romans vs. Huns, but with space battles.

Written by a French lady that studied history.

By the way, did you know Teddy Roosevelt once fought the Kaiser on top of a zepplin for the right to deflower Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the future Queen Mother?

Did you know that on the drive towards Stalingrad General Von Paulus had to fight laser armed pygmys?

The problem i have with the more modern fights (Spetsnaz vs. US Special Forces, IRA vs. Taliban) is it only takes the weapon into consideration, never the actually training or skill level of the soldier's. That is the thing about guns - anyone can fire them, but the skill level varies so much it can vastly change the outcome of a fire fight, especially if both sides are similarly armed. The show really isn't about the deadliest warrior as much as who is the best equipped.

Still, it is cool to see a Scottish claymore cleave through three prosthetic heads.

Plus some of the experts were cocksuckers the way they acted. I know they had a script to adhere to but it was annoying.

Also, I thought pitting fighters armed with steel weapons against guys without the benifit of steel wasn't all that fair of a test.

Lastly, you can't quantify the heart of a warrior. So much can happen in a fight, it's silly to think 1000 computer simulations can tell you anything. It Ain't the size of the dog in the fight but size of the fight in the dog, and iron and steel weapons. Those things carry the day.

Firearms, I agree, the operator is paramountt but I will take a 1911 pattern pistol chamberd, in .45 ACP, over something like the MR-445 Varjag Heavy Pistol chamberd in .40 S&W. The .45 1911 is a better and more proven weapon design and cartridge. Plus I believe that American Armed Forces CQB training is superior other countries armed forces.

No I'm not just rah rahing America. I actually look at training methods from around the world subjectively. It's been a job I've had before.

SF functions are little more diverse (combat and unconventional warfare, CSAR, peacekeeping, intelligence and training and working with foreign troops as a force multiplier). Of course, I am not telling you anything you don't know, just giving my reasons why I would go with Spetsnaz. I thought it was a unfair and uneven match up.

I think the Rangers (even though the are more like an elite infantry than a real special forces), FORECON or SEALS would be a much better match for the Spetsnaz, What I really would love to see is how Spetsnaz, the cream of the Russian crop, would match up against our best: Delta Force, DEVGRU and especially against the SAD of the CIA (I actually here they are the toughest, but who knows that could just be bs). As good as they are, I don't think they would match the US here (although I might be willing to say that the British SAS and SBS and Canadian JTF2 is comparable to generally anything we have in SOF, just in a more limited number).

Of course I am completely talking out of my ass. WTF do I know about special forces? Zip (reminds me of a joke I will have to tell you later).

But I will say that Russia's H2H program is generally better than the US up until recently. SAMBO is a really good system. Although MCMAPS and MAC are pretty good from what I've seen. Pretty versatile and MAC has a good motivating system to get people to practice on their own (I was going to ask you before what you think of MCMAPS?).

Best H2H system is krav maga IMO. And not because of all the hype - I actually studied a watered-down version for almost three years (look out, I'm a Blue belt! Ooooh). But even I could see that even the watered down, civilian version is damn effective and easy to learn. You can see how it would be useful to the IDF.

Of course, I could also see why it is not very effective for our boys. The Israelis don't have the same ROE as we do or concern of civilian casualties and excessive force.

And who wants to be mentioning General Ackbar every day-?

See this is a celebrity that I can stand behind, a real role model for men.

but real russian special forces and spetsnaz are pretty crap at ending a situation without civillian casualties.

or maybe its just that eastern counties can't afford good spin, remember that private jessica chick that the u.s. army 'rescued'? years later and there isn't any real admitting that she was treated after an IED 86ed her jeep, compare that to, say Belsan and the Dubrovka theatre. that said: http://tinyurl.com/5hhg2q

I commend you on your ability remember acronyms. I can barely remember any when well rested and sober let alone drunk or tired.

I like MCMAP its flexible, effecient and an improvement over LINE the system it replaced. LINE was excellent but it was developed in a different era for the Marine Corps when it had far different objectives it wanted to accomplish. I think of MCMAP as the start of the Gun Kata because that makes me smile.

boooooooooooooooooooooooooo ring.

Plus i have seen a lot of Iranian films so I know you can find a real hot Persian actress as the next Bond girl.

You worked on BD right? MJW was also in that silly Batman Movie, too bad no one saw it.

And I think MJW should have been cast as Rhodes in Iron Man.

No FFC in the house, but the audience was half senior citizen. Ha.

It's Coppola though, he deserves the benefit of the doubt.

And the Tetro story is not annoying at all. I know what you mean-- it looks like it could easily turn into pretentious experimental dogshit, but it doesn't. Most of it is very tightly written family drama stuff.

The acting, photography and score are all fantastic. My only issues were with the end. Interested to see how people feel about it.

Definitely interested in seeing it though. I'm a big fan of loneliness and alienation.

I could see Cheadle being into Whitney.

All they gotta do is hire some big titted female in the lead and blast Linkin Fuckin' Park in the trailer and the masses shall come.

THIS CITIES GONNA BURN!

Not one siren. Sad.

However, at the end of the day- too much Australia not enough GIANT PIG.

Last great comedy was probably Team America.

On TV, however, Comedy is in great shape.

Same goes for Diane Lane denying Streets of Fire or Jennifer Aniston denying Leprechaun.

Humourless bitches.

Plus, England can beat whoever the fuck they want. They still got beaten by the Netherlands!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

Morning. I'm so fucking happy to be back at work I could kill myself.

The movie itself was ok. Standard slasher fare. It's not particularly a genre I love. But it was ok. It was gory, but not torture porn gory. And the payoff is pretty obvious. Not enough red herrings. Characters weren't established clearly enough, especially the initial killings, before the standard "10 years later".

Overall, not terrible, but nowhere near a classic.

But come on... THE NETHERLANDS!?!?! That sucks.

I just love it when we see Gould for the first time and it cuts in front when they are running to the bridge, only to see the Germans blow it up. Great, great movie, one that never loses its luster.

Next was A Thin Red Line. I'll be in the minority of one here, but it's not a great movie for me. I really think it has to do with the parts where they delve into each soldier's thoughts, and sort of quasi flashbacks.

For me, it didn't make each one of the soldiers more personable, or what me to like them. I just didn't care for these guys as much as I should. I do, however, like Nick Nolte's performance in this because I think it works quite well.