Any news on Twilight Watch ever getting made?

Day watch had the some nutty TV spots, American film TV spots just don't try, though I will say the drum beat Ice Age 3 TV spot was pretty awesome.

Not sure what that tear was all about...there's no crying in asskicking!

go watch the proposition and get back to me.

I should have written INCLUDING instead of EVEN.

True story.

And the thing is that not every Western featuring Native Americans has to be Dances With Wolves. While Chato's Land and Ulzana's Raid were flawed, they also fascinating metaphors for Vietnam. I want movies like those again. I want an American remake of the New Zealand film UTU.

If so they just put out a The Good The Bad and The Ugly comic yesterday.

Funny thing is I am not a big Western Comic fan but I love Western movies; just like I don't really like super-hero movies but loved Super-hero comics.

Have you ever seen "Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song" Series?

And I agree, the Proposition was a bit longish. I expected more.

I've also been wasting lots of time recently looking up movies I like (or hate) in the "At the movies" video archive, and then watching Siskel and Ebert argue about them.

I had no idea they could both be such assholes.

I especially liked when Siskel started railing against the Protestants.

Fuckin' Robert Ebert. Shit!

Good idea for Cokey I think.

It's essentially Apocalypto meets Crouching tiger hidden dragon, with none of the elements that made those good movies.

The martial arts stuff is great (it's Tony Jaa), but it's nowhere near as good as the original. & the ending is basically asking the audience to give them a reason to make a sequel.

The problem nowadays is actually endemic across the globe: Money chasing. Almost every board is short of cash, Test match= bumper pay day. Although a result may be better for the spectator, it's a fucking disaster for the ACB, ECB, WICB whatever, as they lose at least 1 if not (in England) 2 days of revenue. The ECB especially are livid about it, because there's a good chance of losing at least a day's receipts due to rain. That's how much of a result country we are- you get more results than draws despite the weather.

Glamorgan, and this is no attempt to defend them, were fined earlier in the season for producing a lethal pitch in a county game. All the word in advance was that they would produce a fucking monster of a spinning pitch.

This is in no way an attempt to excuse the, frankly, pitiful bowling from both sides or diminsh ponting and katich's excellence.

Should be a good days cricket methinks. Weather looks good. Aussies in a strong position and England will hopefully step up to the challenge. And I've wrangled myself a half day so I'm off to the pub to watch the afternoon sesh. Genius.

But yes, it's so bleak, brutal and nihilistic that I don't think it could really be filmed properly.

Everyday.

Good, so what's the problem?

Fact.

My money is still on a draw, though, both these sets of bowlers are too shit.

It turns out it wasn't the pitch, just shit bowling. Which is not good news for the rest of the series aside from headingly. Where it will swing, and swing dangerously.

Not overly happy as it's due to piss it down tomorrow, so I think this will be drawn, but we've got your biggest scorers out.

249 isn't anwhere near the biggest 2nd wicket partnership in history. You're bowling is shit, and if we keep our shit together should get a good second innings total. No more of that stupidity from the first innings. The pitch is deteriorating, so will be hard to bat last on. Australia are winning, but there's a long way left, and England can only blame themselves for bowling like complete cunts. Honorouble exception to Flintoff.

Overconfident Aussie gimp.

The pitch is spinning, but all 3 spinners have bowled like cunts on it. It isn't swinging (which is atmospheric and not the pitch), so Anderson and Siddle may as well not turn up, Broad has no excuse, neither does Johnson.

Flintoff and Hilfenwhasit were alright.

This is not good bowling, by any description- Swann gets a half century, Anderson hits 25 odd should give away what quality of bowling it has been.

That said, if anyone deserves to win, Australia do, because Ponting and Katich aside from boring the life out of me, showed those profligate twats in our top order what you do when the other side is bowling puddings at you.

But you can only play what is bowled at you and both sides are bowling like complete cunts.

I wonder what England will do for Lords. They may recall Harmison (christ I hope not).

McGrath and Warne get results. Entirely different.

I agree, you can love a good draw, but this isn't going to be one. A good heroic draw with the tail clinging on is one thing, a draw where the bowling has been so shite that wickets aren't likely to fall is another.

Top marks to Ponting and Katich, but don't pretend this innings is anywhere near some of Australia's best ones.

What the fuck is wrong with Hussey at the moment?

How do you like them apples? hehe

It's rain that causes draws in this country. Deary me.....

Second string? leave it out.

You're talking bullish aussie crap.

Broad is probably the biggest poseur ever after Dhoni. True. And if he keeps bowling like this, then he's going to get deservedly dropped. He's bowling like a complete cunt.

1. Hughes = Doesn't give a fuck. Will play his shots.

2. Katich = Slow, deliberate. An anchor for others to play around.

3. Ponting = Not much needs to be said.

4. Hussey = An accumulator of runs. Forms a bit off lately against quality opposition. My biggest concern of the top order, but proven.

5. Clarke = Has developed into a quality, dependable batsmen. I used to have zero confidence in him. Now I expect him to make some runs.

6. North = Haven't seen much of him, but he seems willing to play the Gilchrist role of throwing the bat at it.

I'm happy with this line up.

2. Hilfenhaus and Siddle = Too much like Gillespie and Kasprowicz. Decent enough, but not dangerous.

3. Hauritz = Who?

PS- cracks only= result if the bowling isconsistently good enough to exploit them. Yours isn't and ours, judging by this garbage, ours certainly isn't.

Whether he's the answer is another thing entirely.

Of you're top order my only concern (if I was an Aussie) would be that they're getting on and if Hussey keeps up like this then there's a good chance that England will retire him. Like Martyn.

Next you'll be telling us Mal Meninga eating a hot dog helps you get it up!

You don't see too many sportsmen like that any more.

And I say that with affection. I think he's fucking hilarious and indeed a legend and a hero.

Go aussies.

Surely you've come to terms with that by now? If you haven't then why do so many smug "My country is better than yours" type Aussies work in English pubs:-)?

The vast majority of convicts were British anyway, not Irish. It's just easy to make stereotypes where Irish people are identifiable, because of American movies. Whereas British people are portrayed as being Royal/Posh/Aristocrats etc, when actually we're all kinda the same for the most part.

It's like "Shit, we need a working class, flat cap wearing, salt of the earth stereotype for a Hollywoood movie & he can't be a Sicilian who becomes a gangster."

"Ok, make him Irish, 'cause we've already made British people look posh to an irredeemable level." It's bullshit.

On a side note, England are shit at cricket because we're a footie country. Not out of choice. Out of the fact that unlike you guys, our sporting infrastructure is rubbish. I only played cricket once at school, because it was an especially sunny day. They used the car park of an old part of the school that was gonne be knocked down, because we didn't have a pitch. You can play footie in a back alley. Anywhere. I'm sure there will be Brits who disagree with me, that wew aren't taught cricket & don't have pitches etc, but they would be the priveleged few & therefore they wouldn't know that most of us aren't taught it & can't get a chance to play it. That's all. I'm drunk & my arms hurt:-).

OK, so on to business.

I finally finished watching Street Fighter last night and the sad thing is, there was a decent movie in there somewhere. And by decent I mean a decent b-movie along the lines of Big Trouble in Little China. As has been mentioned, Chris Klein is genius as Nash and combined with Neil McDonough's horrific Irish accent and some truly ridiculous scenes (ripping a live baby out of your wife?), it had all the markings of b-movie immortality. For whatever reason, it was just never able to achieve the peaks of cheese heaven though. Still, a decent effort at schlock. "Nash out!"

The Proposition is ace. It took a while to pull me in but that ending was a blinder.

Pillow, I feel your pain. The Jays have gone into a tailspin. It really pisses me off because they have one of the best hitting lineups in the league and a bunch of no names at that, but their pitching is in the toilet. With a proper bullpen they could be the best team in the American League.

I haven't had a beer all week. I need to dunk some back tonight.

And if AssimovLives actually thinks that BLOOD MERIDIAN is about Native Americans, then he is absolutely full of shit. With the exception of two frightening scenes, their involvement in the story is borderline nil.

But now is the Ashes (it's a cricket thing). I'm not a cricket fan, for reasons I already said, so I'm kinda out of the loop with that. But we're fine mate.

Trust me, if an Aussie was in a fight I'd back him up & vice versa. Just silly teasing. Some people take it seriously, but most don't.

as a country we don't know what we are. my grand parents generation see themselves as english. truely, we are only just coming to terms with the fact that we are different. like northern ireland, in many ways my grandparents are more british than the british. as i said above, that is what the proposition is about. it is a clear attempt to argue the point.

I suppose that happens to any young nation though. Eventually you work it out. The way I see it, as an ex-pat in Japan, the closest I have to proper mates are all Aussies & New Zealanders, 'cause we can actually talk & have a conversation without having to explain stuff.

Is that a good thing or an example of too much hanging on to roots? I duuno. But I tend to think it's positive.

But fuck it mate, I'm drunk & having a nice night & as far as I'm concerned, you guys are cool by me. Just don't win at the cricket that I don't care about:-).

i still remember a joke: a queenslander and a new south welshmen are making fun of each other. in walks a kiwi and they make fun of him. in walks a pom and the three make fun. in walks a kraut and three are best mates. in walkes a frenchmen and they kick the shit out of him.

i remember talking to a pom when you went to the common market and he was talking about the bond between our countries. i said, but you have turned your back on us. you give trade concessions to the french that you don't give to us. he was furious he said 'that is the government, the english are still with you'

don't get me wrong. i think we are kindred sprits. a good mate of mine is a pom whose family were 'over the top types' we hate the people who made us do that (who were english, but of a certain class) not the english. lower class english and aussies have a great deal in common. for one we both hate the cowardly incompentant finger pointers who fucked up and later called us cowards.

You see, the power base is still in London & the south & the class system still plays its part (as ridiculous as it is). I'm as stumped as you are. But it isn't so much "The English", as the pwers that be. That's why the world sucks.

you guys copped it as much as us.

I watched Duplicity this week. Who here said it was garbage? I quite liked it. It wasn't the blow-your-ass-out caper I thought it would be but the cast was excellent and it moved along at a very brisk pace. I recommend it.

Dark shite is right, although we're mostly classless now, there's still a breed of upper class toff that we hate.

Aussies to declare at 600. Game still to be drawn. England's spinners have been diabolical and I doubt we'll see 2 in the same side again. Pitiful.

I guess I'll just take latte girl out to lunch.

I'm toying with going to frightfest as well.

I'm going to take no end of shit this summer because of those cunts. Half of my mates are fucking convicts.

I'm pissed & I still love it.

Swapp Panesar for Such and Broad for Tudor and it could be 1996. KP= thorpe, Strauss= Atherton. Prior 100%= Stewart

Fuck me. This is horrid- I'd hoped to never see those days again.

Not good,but with moments that make it interesting. B-movie cheap shit. You either like it or ya don't. It's ok. In two sittings I watched that & Ong Bak 2. Both the same. If it's a DVD, you can't complain, otherwise, you can get at least 2 & a half pints for the price of a ticket.

(hold passport in air and sing)

ball and chain, ball and chain,

we came here with a passport, you with a ball and chain.

gold. keep it up.

I need to read up on how stuff is scored in cricket. These 299-2 to 435 scores seem outrageous to me.

I'm going to spain for 3 weeks soon and am going to get drunk, avoid the cricket and taunt Droid on here at precisely 11.03am and 4.07pm every day.

That'll make me feel better.

Tomorrow will be wet and Sunday too, to enable England to scrape a draw.

I'm wondering what to watch tonight. I've got one of the female vigilante films we were talking about that only came yesterday because of the postal strike.

No matter how much of a good idea you think it is, she isn't going to want to have sex. And no, she is not being unreasonable in telling you to fuck off- you'll be asleep in a few seconds anyway.

If you press the issue, she may give in, but it won't be worth it.

And don't puke on her.

To continue to do this in the face of England's eternal suckitude is really quite stubborn.

The women in the office are ordering up Thickburgers for lunch again today. No wonder the South is so friggin fat. You eat that stuff once in a blue moon, not every single day.

Next morning, I was berated for smoking AND drinking from a can on the job. Some men may think they're low & beneath contempt. Me? I only feel like that when someone tells me that's what I did.

You should have finished the job with a nice donner kebab.

But people there just want to throw in their 2 cents about how they are worried about their feelings for Reynolds/Coopers/JT and not sure if they are secure enough in their manhood to embrace their homosexual feelings.

Discuss.

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Charlie Burns is coerced by Captain Stanley to go kill his own brother, Arthur. Because of the way he is coerced, holding his younger brother hostage, Burns is being forced to try and carry it out and has no heart in doing it. However, only when he realizes what a horrible murderous bastard his brother is and how they both are indirectly responsible for the death of the youngest, does he finally stop Arthur and his comrade from raping and killing Captain Stanley and his wife (crying out "No more!".

The lines that sum up theme theme the most to me are when Arthur Burns says "Why can't you ever just stop me?" Despite being brothers, Charlie has an obligation to stop someone like Arthur, and even Arthur knows this deep down. To me the movie felt like how supposed loyalties (family, religion, race, ethnicity, country) are secondary to our moral obligations. For example, if the US does something horrible, it would be our job to stand up and speak out or stop it, even if we are American citizens.

Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye and 13 Rue Madeline are awesome Cagney movies.

I would've settled for a few Rolling Rocks over lunch.

My lunch ended up sucking.

Definitely more entertaining than the majority of the shit that comes out now.

to the three cheersers we are a noble democracy who have never had an internal war - they say 'we were found with a vote not a war'. we came to an unoccupied land and promptly set about cultivating it, building a nation for queen and god. When the wars came we signed up and distinguished our self, always working together as mates. our last prime minister strongly supported this view, to the point of cutting funding to schools that did not follow this curriculum. In this version we pretty much don't have a history before 1914

the thing about this view is that 1)it was rammed down our throats during the referendum on whether we should be a republic as it is very pro monarchy 2)it asumes that the land was pretty much unoccupied when we got here, and therefore what are the aboriginals complaining about? their quest for land rights is a just a selfish grab for money. 2)we never had any problems here before those bloody immigrants showed up.

the truth is that there were pitched battles between various groups and the government, most famously at eurkea. until very recently there was huge animosity between Catholics and Anglicans. and obviously the aboriginals were poorly treated

the black armbanders see the opposite. we are terrible people. i did a subject at uni that i came to call 'how evil your grandfather was' each week there was a different lecture - your granddad was bad to the environment, he was bad to the aboriginals, he wasn't really a hero in the war after all ect.

the truth is of course somewhere between these two.

the proposition is definatly a shot across the bow on this. even before the movie starts (you may not have got this overseas) it says 'people of aboriginal or torris strait islander origin note that this film may contain images of deceased persons' it then goes into a haunting song 'come to this happy land' intercut with images of horror in the out back. the burnses are irish: stanly is english and plans to civilise them. they attack the aboriginals - one of my favourite lines is about the aborigianls hiding in the mountain 'theyre not hiding they live there' 'how long have they lived there' 'they always lived there'

in fact i think i'm going to watch it today.

As for the Irish being oppressed argument. Actually, yes they were oppressed - not as bad as the Aborigines in Australia or the Blacks and Indians here in the good ol' US. But yes, the Irish were oppressed - it is the old pecking order theory. The guys on top of the pecking treat the guys below them like shit - English where higher on the pecking order than the Irish so they treated them horribly. Shit, I am sure the Anglos and the Saxons treated the Bretons and the Cornish like utter crap when they first showed up.

But I do think the Irish (and I am Scotch-Irish) love to point out how badly they were treated, especially Irish immigrants. Yeah, 100+ years ago we couldn't be served in certain bars but we've had it pretty good since.

But you are right about Irish taking over and becoming the establishment. Besides Police and Priest, for a lot of cities the Fire Department was predominately Irish, as was a lot of construction jobs. And lets not forget that the Irish were pretty powerful political force (Tammany Hall for example).

I looked up some of the reviews from when it was released. That movie apparently drove the critics insane. Some hated it, some loved it, and I pretty much disagree with the reasoning on both sides. Maybe it just didn't come across as well in 1986?

Anyhow, I was reading an article about David Bowie's kid (Zowie) who has now changed himself to "Duncan" and directed a film for £5m called moon. It doesn't sound too bad- even if it is a bit twilight zone-y.

I may watch it.

I wonder if I can persuade it to open the bowling for England. It can't be any worse than LIMP WRISTED USELESS TOSSER that's doing it at the moment.

Films with "American" in the title are normally schlocky gold. But this one wasn't. It was a total meh-fest and he wasn't a yakuza he was an FBI agent. I feel lied to about this.

I wonder how many times Viggo has been an undercover cop in films.

I think that could be hilarious. Set it in the 70's and have him talk jive at a ninja training castle.

Awesome.

He's just too much of a cunt for it to be enjoyable

The only consolation I have is that they can't be this bad 2 tests running and Panesar will get dropped.

Fell out with Jeunet over Alien Resurrection. Bastardo.

I hardly see any of these buggering Twitch films! I think AntiChrist is playing in a week or so. I'd better make the effort...

Moon starts next week.

Every time I see Russians I think of Arnie in Red Heat saying - "I do not want to touch his ass. I want to make him talk!"

October? What's up with that?

The American critics have little love for Lars.

on a positive note that trumpeter is a bloody legend.

It was a result pitch, clearly, but the Aussie attack is so shit that you couldn't get Panesar and Anderson out and you had over 11 overs at them. Panesar, for fuck's sake.

All in all, I think this series is in deep shit and I've revisd my opinion. Convicts to win 1-0.

Someone needs to sit Broad down and show him videos of Ambrose and say "you're 6ft 4 and getting big. You bowl at 90mph. This is what you should be doing."

Rather than that insipid shite he was throwing down.

PS- what the fuck is wrong with Johnson? Was he overrated to begin with? I thought he looked lethal, but in this game he bowled utter shite. Siddle (who I really don't rate) looked more dangerous.

Dirty, depressing, grimy fucking film. Great performance from Turner and Perkins, though.

And some thing called heatwave. Which was arse.

Well done to the poms for hanging on, but fuck me it was pathetic the way the crowd cheered wildly when any blocked a fucking delivery. The poms settle for mediocrity so quickly that a fucking draw is deemed a victory. Pathetic.

Johnson bowled like shit.

Pietersen is a arrogant cunt that honestly couldn't be fucked playing cricket for england. He just doesn't give a shit.

And the fucking timewasting tactics were completely unnecessary and put a dampner on the good, resilient efforts for Anderson and Monty.

England a fucking toothless in both departments. The aussies are toothless in the bowling department.

The aussies will win at Lords, and maybe one more test after that.

It will end 2-0.

I said before the series Australia to win 2-1 because I thought both sets of bowlers were mince but your batsmen would carry you through- we'd win the tradional dead rubber at the end.

Now I think we'll lose lords, draw the others and only stand a hope in hell at Headingly where it swings.

Australia to retain ashes.

On another note, Collingwood looks vastly improved since he got dropped. To be fair. He's the only England player (well, maybe Fred and Prior as well) to come out of this test in credit.

Katich- stand corrected. He may be dull, but he's a fucking limpet and vastly improved from being England's bitch.

Ponting- World class, shit captain.

Hussey- where to begin? Should be dropped. Immediatly.

North- Meh, solid pro that England made look like Bradman.

Clarke- Good player.

Haddin- meh, could be worse.

Hauritz- crap.

Siddle- meh to crap

Hilfenhaus- looked good in parts otherwise meh.

Johnson- what the fuck was wrong with him?

Cook- needs dropping badly. Something's not fucking right with him

Bopara- classy player, giant balls, young, will come good

KP- dickhead, but world class. Needs to apply himself. He isn't god, despite what he thinks.

Colly- improved dramatically.

Prior- OK batsman, improved to meh from crap as a keeper.

Fred- fat degenerate, batted better than he has for years, and bowled OK. The problem is that he can't do more than 5 over spells.

Broad- Good lord. Where the fuck to begin- bowled like a cunt, batted ok for a number 8, at this moment in time is only in the side because of undoubted potential. My patience is beginning to snap. Needs a hat-full of wickets at Lords, and I couldn't give a toss about runs.

Swann- batted well. Bowled like a complete cunt. Should be dropped, but won't be.

Anderson, batted well, bowled like a complete cunt. Another that needs a shit load at Lords. Still looks toothless if it doesn't swing.

Panesar- bowled like a cunt, batted like a hero by his dismally low standards. Will be dropped.

Awful. Especially considering that it was totally unnecessary and Australia had already bowled more than enough overs.

That was Mrs. Jarv's sole contribution when I was watching it.

Harsh, but fair.

This is every bit as bad as the mid 90's.

I see the papers are wanting to recall Harmy and Ian fucking Bell. Dropping Bopara. Why? He's failed to score big in one test, but has just hit 3 centuries in a row. Bullshit.

North is much better than meh. So is Haddin. Hauritz was surprisingly ok. Just unthreatening. Much better than I feared. But the biggest bowler to get found out is Swann. Hilariously overrated coming into the test. If it wasn't for his batting he'd be dropped. And his batting is now suspect because the aussies will not bowl anything full to him anymore because he is quite good on the drive. It'll all be chest high straight at him, where he started shitting himself.

Fat alkie bowled one good spell at Hughes. He was shit for the rest.

Hughes is young. He's got a lot of work to do, and I'm glad he copped a few from fat alkie. It'll have brought him down to earth a bit.

Siddle was ok. Hilfy was the best aussie bowler. Johnson... I don't know whats going on there.

Cook and Hussey should be dropped. Cook for who though? Hussey we can bring in Watson if fit, or Lee and promote Clarke to 4 (where he should be anyway) and North to 5.

North is Meh, Haddin is better than I was expecting, but is basically the same as Prior, and Hauritz is garbage. England made North and Hauritz look much better than they actually are.

England on the other hand are meh to shite.

Pietersen IS a great player. He's got a plus 50 average and hits a century every 6 innings. You're sounding like an English journalist. He's an attacking player and, to be honest, number 2000000000 of England's problems

Rashid is the long term answer anyway.

Perkins on the piano was worth the price of admission by itself, and I wanted to throttle Bobby's wife. What a cow.

Hughes scored two centuries on debut against South Africa. Either the best or the second best (depending on who you talk to) team in the world. Bopara scored centuries against one of the worst teams in the world, who were also playing like cunts because they didn't want to be there.

Slight difference.

SA were done by that series- they were knackered, and clearly didn't want to be playing it.

Pietersen: An average over 50+ Hundred every 6 innings+ conversion rate of nearly 50%= great player.

He's also a cunt, but that's neither here nor there. I'm not denying his cuntishness, but stop behaving like an England journo. Ponting is a great player, the rest of your lineup is very, very good. Ponting is also a cunt.

This double standard applied to England and English players regardless of the sport fucks me off no end. It's done in every one- and it's almost as if we've got to achieve twice as much and be twice as good as anyone else to even get grudging respect.

It's bullshit.

if there were naked women playing, I could watch a 3 day match.

I'm not going to try to defend it, because it was fucking embarrasing. At least Jimmy and Monty wanted nothing to do with it.

This is going to be a frustrating summer- the reason I've been talking about how bad Australia are is that I knew England were mostly shite with a few points of hope, and I was optimistically holding onto the belief that the Aussie debutants would struggle and we'd sneak one.

I didn't take into account that we're worse than I thought initially and I reckon now there's only 1 or 2 at most English players that would get into a combined side.

The one dead cert is a complete cunt as well, to make matters worse. How annoying.

Series, you're just getting around to Jurassic Park now? Good lord man!

hehehehehe

Lucky this is only every few years. Sadly for me it will be a few decades before we don't suck again.

Since there is no TV right now been able to see tons of movies. Up to 120 for the year.

Not forgetting reduced hours when the pupils aren't in.

And hardly anyone has seen Turdmen. The lack of interest in that is amazing.

Could have done with some gratuitous titties and a few less obvious Hitchcock rip-offs.

Which is hilarious. And minging. But mostly hilarious

He just makes shit.

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The book this one is based on may as well be called Harry Potter and the Sordid Wank Fantasy.

On that note, I'm outta here.

The only HP movie I actually enjoyed was the last one. So I'm trying to have high hopes for this one.

Also strange, a non-reading friend liked the 5th one least bc he felt it was obvious they left a lot out; he felt there was a lot of stuff in it that made sense if you read the book but didn't if you hadn't.

Vader, I'm off to the post office. Finally.

Highlander is a series I think could actually use a reboot.

How goes things with LatteGirl?

But here I am watching the beginning of "For Your Eyes Only", and Blofeld has Roger Moore trapped in a remote control helicopter. But Bond, being ever resourceful, regains control of the helicopter and captures Blofeld, who is now in a remote controlled wheelchair, on the landing gear.

Blofeld pleads (in a very comedic voice) for "Mr.Bond" to put him down, saying he'll strike a deal with him and buy him a delicatessen made of stainless steel (What the fuck?). After Blofeld again begs to be put down, Bond tilts the copter forward, forcing the wheelchair off the landing gear, plummeting the paralyzed Blofeld into an empty smokestack.

Now that's comedy. RIP Donald Pleasance.

Moore was a light comedian in leading mans clothing. Not an action star.

Pus Clancy Brown's VO work on Superman: The Animated series is based on Savalas' Blofeld, so it has good offspring.

Gatti wasn't strangled by his wife. It was probably her lover built like a brick hithouse that did Arturo in. And Arturo was completely sloshed.

Yeah, I totally believe her lover did him in or the bitch was an Amazonian who should be cast as Wonder Woman

Guys who have class and act all sophisticated, but they can't completely hide their street origins and when angered they will fall back into gangster mode and just stump you out.

It took me a full season to suspect that Clancy Brown was Mr. Krabbs and the guy sings the theme song. I wonder what kind of a living these guys make doing voice work.

Bruce Timm on Lex Luthor (circa 2005): “[Clancy Brown] was like the perfect Luthor to me. Clancy just had this thing—in my mind, I always saw […] Luthor as being like Telly Savalas [as villain Ernst Stavro Blofeld] in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, one of my favorite James Bond movies, […where he, in essence, portrayed Blofeld as] a cultured thug. He was basically like this bruiser who wanted to be taken seriously and wanted to be […] treated like a baron and I thought that was like a good way to treat Luthor. [Luthor] is rich and powerful and kind of elegant, but at the same time—just barely beneath the surface—he’s a brute. There was something in Clancy’s delivery during his audition that reminded me of Telly, so it was just serendipity; Clancy just nailed it—the voice that I had in my head. It was no contest at that point (courtesy of the Superman: the Animated Series Volume One DVD).”

"Cultured thug." IF they do another Superman movie, that is how they should portray Luthor.

Plus they make about S10-15 million on residuals each year.

Damn. I wish I had a funny voice.

He did only the first four seasons and makes about over $10 n a year on residuals on those episodes alone and hasn't done anything with the show since 1993.

Jennifer Tilly and Sam SImon divorced in 1991, and she gets a hefty sum of that money from his first two seasons. Doesn't seem fair.

but you got your assess handed to you

Manages WBO world heavyweight boxing champion Lamon Brewster.

So I guess he likes boxing in the bed and in the ring.

when i went to the guniuss factory some idiot left the mic for pa system out in the public area. so i grabbed it and did the 'welcome to jurasic park thing' then hummed the music until my missus freaked and made me stop

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The story is truly epic, and the romance with Mrs Peel was outstanding. They kept the gadgets to a minimum and really let the story unfold.

Oh, I think she was involved, but, and their is no delicate way to put this, strangling a human being is one of the most brutal ways of killing. It is also not a quick thing. He may have been drunk - but not that drunk. Drugged perhaps? But the strength and will to hold onto a ripe or strap as a person is thrashing -literally for their life, the ability to bear down and keep the pressure on while a man is dying, is not for someone who has never strangled anyone before. It is not quick. It is very messy. She had help. She will be pressured to give up the true killer.

With a wide strap you can really ramp up the amount force your applying to the neck so even if Gatti's old lady is fidget like she could take his ass out fairly easy. especially if was loaded.

Just a reminder guys DON'T pul a Phil Hartman with your old ladies, drop the bad news and L-E-A-V-E. Hanging around could get your ass fucking killed.

Now about his old lady. Since she's Brazillian, I think, who's to say she didn't have a violent past? In many central and south american cities kids come up hard, very hard. She could have possibly witnessed more then one strangulation killing or she could have got the info from somebody, like a drug enforcer, or hell she might have just reserached it on line. I'm just saying it's possible she did the deed herself but I'm not ruling out that she had help.

Yes, Rear Naked Choke holds work differently than a garrote, but it doesn't mean that it didn't inspire her.

Personally I think she was dumb, strangled him because she thought no one would notice the ligature marks on his neck and didn't realize that she would get blood on her strap. She thought it would be like a bad, old movie and they wouldn't know how he died.

Now, Xi did point out that strangulation is common in central America, but other methods were available.

I'm not seeing Harry Potter for a few weeks bc I don't want it to have a big weekend. I'm protesting the director and producer.

Why you hating on David Yates? What he do to you?

But once I saw the dirty old Tree Farm owner preparing to have sex with one of the trees, it cemented my fear that someone had totally ripped off my idea. What I first thought was just a very strange coincidence, I now actually suspect might be a product of theft.

What the hell is Treevenge?

We did get our asses handed to us by this shitey Australian side. This obviously was a result pitch- South Africa would have cleaned up Monty (for fuck's sake).

I'm not defending the physio because I'm disgusted by it. All I'm going to say is that Jimmy and Monty were also less than chuffed about it.

The fact that England (especially this England) couldn't take wickets is neither here nor there. They couldn't clean up South Africa at fucking lords (the mother of all results pitches) last year. Because they're shit. Frankly. If I was Australian, I'd be seriously concerned at the state of your current attack.

Anyway, there's no point arguing with you about pitches because you think the worst pitch outside of the west indies (Adelaide) is a result pitch.

On one hand, what with England not having beaten Australia there for over 100 years, I think that should be an Aussie win. On the other hand, I hold on to a bit of optimism that as they're novices they'll struggle with the slope.

That doesn't change the problem we've got with the lacking a strike bowler and a decent batting lineup.

Fat alky is injured so they're going to call up grevious and lengthen the tail.

We're in deep shit.

I can't believe they're going to bring back Harmy. That's terrible.

Hilariously awful.

And they couldn't cgi running so they sort of glided across the screen. It was hilarious.

4 and 5 were okay, i thought. But I wouldn't call them good. They're easy, unchallenging entertainments that are instantly forgettable.

But the end of Azkaban when Harry does the spell (expeliamus or some shit... I watched a bit on tv the other day, thats the only reason i know i swear!) is genuinely exciting. Not one single part of any of the other films ever reaches that level.

I will see the rest of the series, because why the fuck not? It's just that I'm not 'excited' to see them.

But 'Big' it ain't.

4 was meh, haven't seen 5 because I loathed the book so much.

Loadashite

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Still haven't seen the Last House on the Left remake. Might have to check it out.

Torture Porn garbage, not frightening, not involving, not interesting, predictable, dull poorly acted shit.

17again was a Mrs. Jarv special. this is why I have taken control of the Lovefilm List.

Seriously, you guys complain about watching chick flicks to keep the better half happy? Call me gay but I like chick flicks. I'm not talking that Sex and the City garbage, but stuff like Definitely Maybe always melts my heart.

I thought it would be a bit of a funny stoner show. instead it's got some vampire taking over the world thing happening.

I had a friend that was a nasty good guitar player, but he was retardly religious and in his mind the shittyest christian rock band meant more to him then the music of BB King or Clapton or anyone like that. He would admit that while they are better their music was not as important, I guess he really was not a friend so much a neighbor I had to deal with every morning at the bus stop.

"know how I know you don't make sense? sunlight comes from the sun, the sun is a ball of fire, which is reflected by the moon back to earth, so you should die whenever you go out"

"know how I know you don't make sense? you drive a blue prius"

Christian Music is bad, but the absolute worst is Christian gangsta rap. You'll have to take my word for this.

And Anna Paquin is not sexy. At all.

I kinda like the title song though.

Also, Jarv is going for 500 I believe.

I can actually deal with Christian bands so long as every verse isn't about God and Jebus. And I'm an atheist so that's pretty goddamn forgiving.

Or learn about cricket and join in!

I was thinking that now I know about Sacha's schtick that the Ali G movie may be funny.

Damn 3 movies from one TV show. SNL actors should be ashamed. Why the fuck hasn't he hosted it yet? Probably because he knows it wouldn't be funny.

And spend 3 weeks sitting in spain while droid is sweating at his desk.

It's going to be great.

That's why you mooks need to go foreign. The foreign market is just exploding with awesomeness right now. So while 2009 may be the worst ever for North America, it looks to be one of the best ever for abroad.

No desire at all to see him do more of the same in Bruno

Sound like you'll get back right about the same time I piss off to the Greek Islands for two weeks! So while I'm lazing about on the beach drinking beers and ogling women, you'll be back at your desk bitching about IT monkeys and the state of english cricket!

hehehehe

I shall be either in the pub or the park.

I've seen about 150 of the 268. I think.

Their counterparts this year Up was better then Rat, Sunshine was Better then Moon, Star Trek was better then Die Hard 4.0: Live Free Or Die Hard.

Third act = Fucking awful.

England haven't beaten Australia in over 100 years at Lords.

I'd bet on an Aussie win, but check the weather.

I was gutted.

And giving an Australian money is a waste of time. You may as well just give it straight to the bookie. or the offie.

I think now we've established precisely what went wrong.

That's twice in a day. Someone ring Rolf and get him a medal.

A tenner down to win 25. Quite simple really for anyone who's father isn't his brother.

For example, there's no such thing as a virgin wedding in Australia, because if she's not good enough for their family....

Hollywood director Quentin Tarantino has vowed to leave the movie business by the time he turns 60. The 46-year-old Oscar winner has been put off by colleagues he's convinced only turn toward filmmaking to pay for their lavish lifestyles. Tarantino has given himself only another 14 years before he retires to avoid churning out bad movies just to support his expensive tastes. The Kill Bill director tells America's GQ magazine, "Directors don't get better, they get worse! ...When you gotta go out and make a movie to pay for the kids' private school and for the three ex-wives, don't talk to me about your artistry. It's their job. I don't want to have to watch the movie I made to pay for my pool."

Dear Mr. Tarantino,

Is there any way you could be persuaded to move the time table up to say this week?

Sincerly,

Xiphos

P S: Cokey you're a lying equvication motherfucker. Your shitty fucking ass will hang on making more and more god awful shitfest until you die from a caffine and drug induced penis explosion.

Every other movie since then has dug up the rotting coprse of a once promising director and did unspeakable acts to it.

Showtime is doing the Walking Dead?

I think he's 12.

Actually, the way Fantastic Fest goes about their acceptance process is very annoying. They don't tell you when you'll be notified if you got in or not, and that makes planning a trip very difficult.

I may just go ahead and buy the tickets now, and if I don't get in... well maybe I'll come anyway. But then I'd need to purchase some tickets for the fest too. Ugh. Too much planning for right now.

And the y is situated next to the t.

Moron.

Also, I watched the new episode to Entourage and I can almost officially say that I'm over the show. I used to really like it in the first two or three seasons. But they're gradually getting worse. They need to end it. And what the fuck is up with referencing My Name is Earl and appearing on Leno? When the fuck was that episode shot?

Enjoy your sniff bum and run, mate. Look out for the fingers up the bum. And when checking into your hotel room, be sure to watch your step!

Jarv you will love this

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Don't think AFL has one of those...

I still say the worst pitches I've ever seen are those in the Caribbean. They're disgraceful. I know the WICB needs the cash, but that shit will kill the game.

Quite fucking simple really. So simple even one of those neanderthal rubgay players could work it out in between taking shits on the floor of his hotel room.

"That makes my countries bookies even dumber."

Jesus tittyfucking christ you really are thick as two planks, aren't you?

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Feel better now primitive screwhead?

I'm amazed you can walk and chew gum at the same time.

Think up your own stuff, you homunculus.

I want the nightmare on elm street box set.

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Even though I know jack-shit about cricket.

Ginger Snaps, old bbc documentaries, and video art is about it.

rewatched the proposition the other day. it really stands up.

watched 'W.' it was a bit lack luster. it sorta seemed like a 'greatest hits' anthology. there was an attempt to examine the man, but in many ways it was just joining the dots. and we all already knew those dots. and the lines in between were a bit fuzzy and 1984ish. did bush senior really cry? seems suspicious. i can belive that he was living in his fathers shadow and was motivated by this. his epiphany - a heart attack? dick cheney openly saying that they planned to stay in iraq forever BEFORE the invasion? One of the most frustrating things was how he often said his more famous quotes 'he misunderestimated me' at times when we know he didn't say it. that happened a few times. if their aim was to show how he jumbles the english languge they should have made up their own gaffs for him to say in private, it is unlikey that he would repeat the same gaff over and over.

as a movie it was mostly just a 'i remember when that happened thing' that was the main point of interest. the actors were fantastic though. it is worth watching for them, but for little else

I've got terrible luck with this sorta thing.

I grow weary of seeing Stone's reductive Freudian stance over and over again.

The results are very cool. My favorites include the new trailer for "The Magnificent Seven" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner".

But by far, the best has to the redesigned trailer for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". That one is just allll sorts of cool.

Check it out here:

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Where is everyone? Mavra? Fred? Danny?

And oh yeah, the 2nd DVD cover is a complete spoiler about what the creepy sack-head kid's face looks like. I swear, Beaks is such a d-bag. Sorry, I meant tongue-cleaner.

Tongue Cleaner is the next insult du jour

One I really like but I think is a case of false advertisement is The Letter. I makes it look like a J-horror film, not the psychological drama/thriller that it is.

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Every 2 years England gets ritually hammered, and sll I've got to rely on are the old Aussie jokes.

Droid is clearly a bit nervous about this one, because he's being more vehement than Aussies usually are.

All they used to have to do was point out their team and then laugh as words failed us, but nowadays it's different.

It's a crying fucking shame that England are so piss poor because this Aussie side is very beatable.

Damn it. England need to bat in this, and then it needs to turn overcast when England are bowling. Else we'll get annihalated.

100 years of defeats at HQ, a shit bowling lineup and a fragile batting one. We need all the help we can get from the man upstairs.

Bopara's got some credit in the bank. KP, Colly and Prior are fine, Swann in last chance saloon, Anderson will be fine but Good Jimmy had better turn up. Strauss is captain and due a score.

The batsman I'm really worried about is cook.

I'm filled with dread.

This is a good toss to lose.

Dolph is Dolph, obviously, and therefore better than anything but the TJ Punisher isn't bad.

Other reasons for cringe: secretly wanting to be English and being too ashamed to own up to it.

Harmless isn't playing.

Anyway, I'm scottish today.

[actually I shouldn't be participating in the sledging, because I'm not really interested in cricket. carry on.]

"We may be fat, lazy and stupid, but we have culture!"

Bull-fucking-shit. You are so moronic that you mistake 'history' for 'culture'. Your 'history' is interesting. But so is every other countries. Your culture is exactly as I described.

Wake the fuck up.

Droid's the expert in those matters though.

And that's current. I can't even be bothered to get into our long and distinguished history in culture.

As opposed to Australia. Which is a prison and, as I said earlier but it bears repeating, has less culture than the contents of a toilet bowl

I posted on Quint's TB excerpts from the producer of the remake. They are going to fuck that movie up so much it isn't even funny.

Stop living in your little fantasy world where anyone outside of england gives two shits about the english!

Because Hot Dogs are German.

My fucking god.

And the new name doesn't really make any sense as well in the context of the film. 'Let me in'. Completely fucked.

Don't worry though. You're like our mongoloid cousin that we secretly quite like but give loads of shit to.

Fat Alky's injured. Why the fuck is he playing. At least he's retiring after this series.

And the world has yet to thank us.

One of my best mates swears that Cloverfield is the worst film ever made.

Bastards.

While you sweat and fondle yourself at work.

I'm not sure though.

And to quote the producer of the new movie: "I think the original is fascinating in its exposition, but at the same time there is a doggerel element to it in terms of the mood and setting. So I think it takes it out into a more accessible setting. I think perhaps there is a little more characterization in terms of the two central characters. To be perfectly frank with you, this is making an astonishing story – which however hard you might try or I might try to get people to go see the original, they're never going to do it – more accessible to a much larger audience."

Fuck. Thank god this douche wasn't back in the new Hollywood days, telling them to take out the "doggerel elements" of 2001, The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby, and making it more "accessible to a larger audience." Guys should just admit they are dumbing it down to make a fucking buck.

Droid, ironic and Chipps are going to have a field day over this fiasco in progress.

This isn't fair. They're letting me down badly. It had better rain for the next 4 days. Solidly. Without a break.

I'm also sure Flintoff, just like England, will promptly ignore the fact that he's a fat, alky loser, but never fail to remind us at every opportunity that he was once dominant.

Tool.

Overrated, never achieves what he promises to, and as shallow as a puddle.

Get it right.

Although why I'm helping you is beyond me. I suppose it's like missionary work helping Australians that struggle.

Strauss nearly went in the first over. WHY AREN'T YOU BOWLING YOU STUPID CUNT?

"You know what the fellow said—in Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."

Oscar Wilde would be proud.

You've done much better in the past.

But it's only for a month. Then it's business as usual.

Not even England cricket can ruin my mood.

2 maidens in a row from hilfy. I wonder if the plan is to see of the new ball and then treat Hauritz with the contempt he deserves. That's a bad plan because I'd bet on siddle being able to swing it in this weather at Lords.

There should be tests at Trent Bridge and Old Trafford. We always win those and it would give us a fighting chance. This line up is a guaranteed lose.

Cook will probably be gone by the time I return.

Cook will be out soon though.

I'm starting to think he's seriously overrated.

Now that prime specimen of ugliness, the man with a face that not even a mother could love, Siddle is bowling.

Bowling like a complete tool here.

Perhaps he's been overbowled this year? This is weird, he's bowling like an England player. I had him down as the best in both sides before the match started, but at the moment I reckon Hilfenhaus is that.

What are you talking about with Siddle. He's stereotypically Australian looking (bowlers) and fits into a long line of ugly bastards like Merv Hughes.

What the fuck. Did Punter have a shroom omlette for breakfast?

Apart from Broad, but he's shit so he doesn't count.

Flintoff = Got a head that makes potatoes look attractive.

Harmison = Got that slightly retarded look, not to mention his heads too small for his body.

Broad = Looks like a broad. Name suits.

Sidebottom = Looks like Weird Al Yankovic

Is it my imagination or is world bowling worse now than it's been for decades?

Seriously if you had to pick a "world" 11 and only had 1 spinner (obviously murali) who the fuck would the seamers be? Steyn, I suppose for one of them and Zaheer Khan for another but the rest are all just much of a muchness.

In 2005 every country had fucking good fast bowlers. Where have they all gone?

Should I ask if Charlie Zink is gonna become Tim Wakefield Jr. and do you think a knuckleball will work in Cricket? that'd be a riot. Why yes this here TB looks pretty dead compared to most Twitches.

Needs some giant Robots beating hell outta Mammaries of Mom I think. Oh well. There's always the sequel--Red Tape for Julia. Kathleen Turner never had it so bad.

I didn't know that Warne took diuretics to make his face look less fat. That's funny.

The 80's had all those wonderful all-rounders as well.

Fucking fair weather fans. We've had decades of the shit you lot are putting down, so know to persevere when times are rough.

People like Martin Crowe. Richard Hadlee. Imran Kahn. Viv Fucking Richards. Allan Border. Ian Botham.

Freakishly good.

Johnsons still fucking bowling and still getting tonked. Wake the fuck up Ricky!

I have no problem with watching us get hammered. It's more the fact that both teams don't really inspire me with much excitement or enthusiasm.

Fuck the 80's were good. Every team was competitive and all of them had good players. Apart from SA because they weren't allowed.

Yup, neither team are inspiring. The thought of Katich grinding out another 280 ball century makes me want to sleep

I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I bet you can't wait for Hauritz to come on.

PS- Watson isn't the answer. Cunt's always injured.

I'm off- enjoy yourself.

*pillow pokes head out window to see if apocalypse is upon us*

Jarv: The ratio of people to cake is too big.

Overweight HR lady named Carley: Now Jarv, don't be greedy, let's pass it along and make sure everyone gets a piece.

Jarv: Yeah, but last time I didn't receive a piece. And I was told...

Carley: Just pass.

Jarv: I go talk about cricket now.

I liked him in Mona Lisa and Long good Friday but the biggest thing I got from those two were the soundtracks. Long Good had a bad ass score and Mona Lisa had In Too Deep. As for Get Carter I didn't realize Stallone was making British Gangster movies back then.

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Well played, sir.

Oddly, I kind of like American Dad. But I haven't watched that for ages. Only the first season.

Also, I dig that country funeral song that Man in Black sings for The Punisher at the cafe.

However, I'm always interested in what bullshit producers of remakes spew at us to try and placate us and make us feel like they're going to do a great job. Its why I don't trust anyone from Platinum Dunes- their excuses are always terrible.

Maybe these studio heads will pick some better fucking scripts from now on, or give a series time to grow before they cancel it outright.

Remember how everybody would talk about how DV was going to "democratize" filmmaking? They forgot about the distribution end, I guess. Crappy youtube video diaries.

And has anyone actually seen a "mumblecore" movie? You know, the great hip hope of modern filmmaking? This is a serious question, actually. Has anyone seen a movie that is classed as 'mumblecore'? I keep reading about it and that phrase is really fucking annoying!

Like, when I watched Nightmare Alley, and the guy is fucking up his life and being really arrogant and unpleasant. He's headed in a really bad direction, but the movie doesn't invite you to point your finger and laugh, like "look at this stupid asshole and feel superior to him!" the way a lot of new movies do.

Beaks had an interview or story about one of these pretentious Mumblecore directors and his new movie, and he provided no explanation for what it was at all. And the research I did on it sounded terrible. Like some new version of Dogme 95, which is great and all if you're trying to do something "unique" and something a little more "real" and "genuine".

But films like that will hardly ever find an audience. And from what I heard about that mumblecore director's films, they were all long and boring.

Sorry, but I want to entertain people with my films, not pretend I'm on a higher state because I have long-drawn out conversations that go nowhere, just like in real life.

I've got enough real-life as it is.

I don't need a movie like that. I can see that everyday on the sidewalk outside my house.

I mean, maybe if it were really clever and VISUALLY INTERESTING, but that's never really brought up as the focus of those movies.

Which left everyone scratching our heads, as there was no backstory or explanation at all. Bleh.

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I think the difference between older films (pre visual effects blockbusters i guess) is that they were more often about people in which things happen to, as opposed to now, which is about things that happen to people.

In other, less confusing terms, they were more about the characters than the situation or event. Now its the opposite.

It's kind of funny in a way. Since documentaries these days seem to be suffering from the Discovery Channel syndrome. And that's the area where I'd like to see things be more "real".

Watching two 20-somethings talk about their relationships and then cheat on each other is not interesting to me. Especially when the two characters are unlikeable to begin with.

Be Kind, Rewind. Good call! My theater will now also include a prop and camera room to facilitate the making of the movies to be shown.

Iron Man is pretty funny.

http://unrealitymag.com/ind ex.php/2009/07/15/15-examples- of-replacing-actors-in-movies- withthemselves/

I don't get all the hate heaped on time travel either. I like time travel!

The movie's about two straight male friends (one settled down, one becoming anxious about his "bohemian" lifestyle) that decide to film themselves fucking in attempt to stay hip with the art/swinger crowd.

Its categorized by actor, not character.

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Speaking of old Actors, Harrison Ford (SPOILER) in Bruno. I say it was set up, other people think that is real...thoughts?