DLD 2-4: 10-and-5
by YonYonson on Feb 4, 2010 9:59 AM PST
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Nomar Garciaparra is expected to retire
Slusser notes that while Garciaparra has not made any such announcement, the 36-year-old free agent has not been linked to any teams this season. He didn't garner tremendous interest last offseason, during which he eventually signed a one-year, $1 million deal with Oakland in early March.
(link to Slusser Drumbeat post)
Nomar Garciaparra is the other remaining free agent; it's widely expected that he will retire, and while he has not announced that, he has not been linked to any teams this offseason.
Also, Brett Tomko has started throwing again and the 36-year-old is looking for a place to pitch.
Evelyn Haas, philanthropist & wife of former A's owner Walter Haas, died at 92
Mrs. Haas, widow of Walter A. Haas Jr., led the family foundation, the Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr. Fund, which has contributed more than $364 million to hundreds of community and cultural organizations that make the Bay Area what it is. They include the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the restoration of Crissy Field and The Chronicle's Season of Sharing Fund. The Haas family also owned the Oakland Athletics from 1980 to 1995, a period cherished, and missed, by many Bay Area baseball fans.
Which college football team had the best signing day? Rivals says USC, as the Trojans netted five 5-star prospects. (Cal #11, Stanford #27). ESPN went with Florida, who had four 5-star commitments. (USC #7, Cal #15, Stanford #18). Whereas my alma mater was stoked to sign its first four-star prospect. Yay for progress!
Now for the fun part.
Pick 10 favorite movies, in no particular order, and 5 you hated.
Favorites:
- Major League
- The Paper
- Saw
- Ferris Bueller's Day Off
- Airplane!
- Caddyshack
- Bull Durham
- Days of Thunder
- Up
- Fight Club
Not-so-favorite:
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movies...
best
1. The Outlaw Josey Wales
2. Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas
3. Down By Law
4-10. blank
worst
1-infinity. the rest of them
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
You forgot Shawshank.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Me too... damnit
Too many good movies out there
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
Ten favorites is too many
But I did watch Cobb last weekend and thought it was great. I also like any of the Star Trek movies.
Worst movies: most romantic comedies.
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
....
Generations? Insurrection? Nemesis?
by eastbayexpat on Feb 4, 2010 10:57 AM PST up reply actions
I am partial to
First Contact when it comes to the TNG-based movies. The original movies I like are Wrath of Khan (of course), and VI
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 11:17 AM PST up reply actions
Oh, those were phenomenal
First contact was a bit dumbed down for me, but it was enjoyable enough.
Generations was painful. Nemesis made me feel dead inside….
I just got First Contact
on Blu Ray and reaffirmed my love for James Cromwell.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
That'll do, Klingon. That'll do.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 11:07 PM PST up reply actions
Speaking of which
I saw Babe: Pig in the City on TV the other day. It was darker than the first one and sadly had very little James Cromwell, but it was entertaining.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
I've heard it was really, really good.
And dark, just like you said.
Which makes this comment completely superfluous, which means it matches 99.5% of all my comments.
I am complete.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:13 AM PST up reply actions
if you're gonna be a foam peanut,
at least you’re THE foam peanut!
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 4:51 PM PST up reply actions
Tomko can come back on a minor league deal
but I can’t see him being a realistic option for the rotation until and unless someone ends up seriously injured.
He’s probably a better fit for the Giants, who have very little in their rotation after the front four guys (they do have Madison Bumgarner, but he clearly does not yet have the arsenal to succeed in MLB as a starting pitcher).
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
But, Bumgarner does have a good baseball name
Clearly, that counts for something
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 11:21 AM PST up reply actions
10-5
In no particular order
1. Terminator
2. The Edukators
3. Kes
4. Russian Dolls
5. Whip It
6. Bring It On
7. The Princess and the Warrior
8. Hero
9. Star Wars, the empire strikes back
10. American Hardcore
And five misses
1. Eternal Sunshine of the blah blah blah
2. Inglorious Tedium
3. Any of the Lord of the Rings films
4. Sisterhood of the travelling pants
5. Whichever of the Transformers films I saw on an airplane that time.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Take a number and join the line
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Oh, man
Full Metal Jacket should be on that list, without a doubt.
Sorry, Bring It On, you’ve been bumped
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
This improves your list exponentially
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
Oh, and Wayne's World, too
that’s definitely oneof the greatest films ever made. But I’m not sure which one it’d replace.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I managed to avoid the traveling pants movies
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;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Yeah, I wish
I saw it on an airplane with the old drop down screens, and my attention was inexorably drawn towards it.
it is awful.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Blake Lively is hot
but I haven’t seen Traveling Pants. Possibly she is way too young in that movie, making me seem really skeezy.
I don't remember much about it
aside from three hours of ‘DEAR GOD NO MAKE IT STOP’
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
They show movies without Hugh Grant in them on airplanes?
I don’t believe you. Hugh Grant is as much a part of flying as the seatbelt sign.
Did you see her on SNL a weeks ago?
She is smokin’
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
More of an America Ferrara fan myself
I figure, any time someone gets a show where she’s intentionally made as ugly as possible and she still looks decent, she’s clearly pretty ^&%&*% good looking.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
She's not *really* made as ugly as possible.
She’s made Hollywood faux-ugly. Big difference.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Same reason I saw Big Momma's House 2 on an airplane.
I wanted to slit my wrists after the first ten minutes.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I can imagine.
It’s worth the extra thirty dollars to fly on an airplane that has TV on the back of the chairs, I reckon.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
It was on Air China, I believe.
Either I have horrible luck or they have horrible taste in movies, but the other time I flew Air China, they showed Black Knight. You know, the other unbelievably terrible Martin Lawrence movie.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
One time, I flew to New York,
and on the way there, they showed Wild Hogs. It was terrible. On the way back, they showed Wild Hogs, and it was still terrible.
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 4, 2010 1:28 PM PST up reply actions
Actually, you know what the worst film I ever saw was?
I Heart Huckabees.
Without a shadow of a doubt
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Anything by Ang Lee
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Bring It On? Really?
What about the 4829 sequels?
I like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The LOTR movies, they’re okay and I liked them a lot in high school, but I don’t think I’ve watched them since then. So, yeah.
Nah, all the BIO sequels are balls
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Movies
I’m a bit of a movie buff so here you go:
Best
1 Snatch
2 Fight Club
3 The Usual Suspects
4 Holy Grail
5 Rat Race
6 Lucky Number Slevin
7 Rounders
8 Ocean’s 11
9 The Italian Job
10 The Prestige
HM: Two more of Chris Nolan*’s in Memento and Dark Knight, V for Vendetta, Thank You For Smoking, Saw, S7ven.
Worst
1. John Tucker Must Die
2. High School Musical Series
3. The Collector
*Has anyone seen previews for Inception? What the hell is it about?
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
Ha, I like two of three of your worst
and I’ve not see The Collector
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Don't
The other two are chick flicks. The Collector is not. The Collector is a gore for the sake of gore flick. And, well, it’s gory.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
Actually, it's on TV right now
and you are right. It’s terrible
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I like this list
Ed Norton = good times.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
I agree, generally
Except for that heist flick— The Score? Was that the one where he posed as an mentally challenged janitor? Thought that kinda sucked.
Otherwise, he’s golden, Pony Boy.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Memento
Just finished watching it about 5 minutes ago. Interesting movie to say the least…
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
Really makes you think.
Without removing any of the hard action.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I've been meaning to watch that movie
I even had it mailed to me once by blockbuster but I ended up trading it in to rent something else and haven’t put it back in my queue.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I'd venture to say there is not another movie like it.
That makes it memorable. Because of the premise of the movie I think it was well crafted. Might have been easier to shoot than we might think since movies are often shot out of sequence anyway. I tend to like ones that leave you guessing til the end and take you places you never imagined you would go.
We need a tribute to Evelyn and Walter Haas at the Coliseum this season
Don’t you think? I know the fact that the team is still in Oakland is a tribute to them…..but something more would be appropriate.
It's the fans that make the game fun. -- Rickey Henderson, July 26, 2009.
Huh. Well, we can go ahead and turn off the internet now.
It’s over. The greatest internet picture ever created has been found.
(warning, this picture is enormous)
http://www.imagehut.net/images/b5kc424hszeujviesoq.jpg
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
The Enterprise would totally whoop the Millenium Falcon
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Enterprise picks you up.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 4:28 PM PST up reply actions
which means all you gotta do is kill the driver and ditch the body, then BOOM!
FREE CAR!
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 6:35 AM PST up reply actions
(blinks)
we’d be dangerous together, you know.
Kinda like Thelma and Louise, but with more makeup and less leg hair.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:14 AM PST up reply actions
(blushes)
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 4:52 PM PST up reply actions
My 10-5
1. Gigi
2. Out of Africa
3. Sense and Sensibility
4. Four Weddings and a Funeral
5. Ferris Buehler’s Day Off
6. Alien
7. Holy Grail
8. Star Trek (the new one)
9. Star Wars, Ep. 4
10. The Big Chill
And
1. The Hangover
2. Factory Girl
3. The Phantom Menace
4. Dumb and Dumber
5. Hitch
Star Wars Ep. 4 over Ep. 5?!?!?!
Madness!
I kid. Both are the goods.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Growing up, I always liked 6 better than 4 or 5.
Jabba’s Palace and the Emperor’s Throne Room are my favorite places. Now that I’m older… I feel the same.
I can't really explain it
but I think I will always like Return of the Jedi best. I developed the idea as a young child, but I still firmly believe that a speeder bike is the coolest thing in existence.
Empire.
Five’s the best. No contest.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
It had EWOKS, LS!
They were muppets! Walking effing teddy bears!
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:01 PM PST up reply actions
Just because you couldn't score with one
doesn’t make them bad. You like the ladies don’t you? See? See???!!!
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I never had a problem with Ewoks.
And the gangsterness of Jabba’s Palace and the darkness in the final scenes with the Emperor totally wipe out anything you might feel from the Ewoks.
by LoneStranger on Feb 4, 2010 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
Jaba's palace was teh awesome
and the first thirty minutes of that, how Luke comes and they thaw out Han and escape is sooooo bad ass. Or it was at the time.
And flying through the redwoods still makes me sea sick on the right television.
But I can’t get over the ewoks, man. They’re the beginning of the end. They’re Lucas saying/thinking, “I know what I’ll do—I’ll throw some really cute, fuzzy shit in there so the little kids will eat it up and I can make even more bank on the marketing and get my hooks in em young…”
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:28 PM PST up reply actions
I still haven't seen a Star Wars movie from beginning to end...
but I’ve seen lots of chunky bits on TV.
I’m not really into good vs. evil…. I like evil vs kinda evil…
(I shoulda put “No Country For Old Men” on that list… I actually didn’t hate that one)
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 6:38 AM PST up reply actions
Your hero must be Al Swearengen.
Mine is.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:15 AM PST up reply actions
I guess they doesn't bother me because I knew that they originally
were supposed to be Wookiees, but Lucas couldn’t do it the way he wanted to with the special effects, so he changed it.
But I also don’t have a problem with Jar Jar either. Yea, he’s a goof, yea he talks all stupid, and yea the kids love him. I just saw him as a stupid alien and that’s that. The world’s full of stupid idiots, why can’t galaxies far, far away be full too?
And the yea, the kid was whiny in Ep I, but then again, so was Luke in Ep IV. It’s like you know they’re related based on that and the hair.
Dumb and Dumber is my guilty pleasure movie
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
Movies
Good:
1) The Big Lebowski
2) The Usual Suspects
3) Shawshank Redemption
4) Star Wars
5) Iron Man
6) The Dark Knight
7) The Lord of the Rings (any)
8) Edward Scissorhands
9) Hot Rod
10) Braveheart
Bad:
1) Anything with Robin Williams
I’m pretty good at avoiding bad movies…
I agree, for the most part, on the Robin Williams thing
but Good Morning Vietnam is not totally unwatchable
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
It might raise me even higher on the douche-o-meter
But Good Will Hunting and What Dreams May Come are high on my list too.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Agreed
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
That prove the rule
Awakenings and GMV are classics, but aside from that his films are shite.
I'll have a sandwich and a draft(sic). - Bill King (RIP)
Good Will Hunting is excellent
Robin Williams is best when playing understated or serial killer. Or both.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
This is a Hah-vahd bahr
I thought there’d be equations and shit on the wall.
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
Well, I got her number
How do ya like THEM APPLES!?
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
My buddy
spat out some bastardized version of that line after way too many beers at some Marina bar not long after that movie came out, and he got punched in the face.
Good times.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:42 AM PST up reply actions
For those fans of Good Will Hunting
Check out this scene from Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. It’s Good Will Hunting 2! Freaking hilarious.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Movies
Good
1-10
Dirty Harry series and 1960s/1970s James Bond movies
Bad
Most movies made in the last 10 years.
Anything that is more special effects then story
Anything that is a “vehicle” for some douche actor
Anything that stars actors that ARE NOT FUNNY e.g Jim Carrey, Will Ferrell, Robin Williams
Is this the real life-
Is this just fantasy-
Caught in a landslide-
No escape from reality-
Yeah
If you can’t laugh at Anchorman… I weep for you.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Step Brothers
Silly concept but that flick is a F’n riot!!!
I'll have a sandwich and a draft(sic). - Bill King (RIP)
except adam sandler was in punch drunk love.... of course jim carrey was in the cable guy, and that's also a great movie.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
Hooray for lists!
Off the top of my head…
Favorites:
1. Gattaca
2. Fight Club
3. Stardust
4. The Fifth Element
5. The Prestige
6. Everything is Illuminated
7. 12 Monkeys
8. Big Fish
9. Dark City
10. Old School
Some I really didn’t like:
1. Running Scared
2. Paul Blart Mall Cop
3. Next
4. Hostel
5. Hancock
oh yeah
I liked Stardust that was a good movie. I almost didn’t see it but my sister recommended it. Underated fantasy movie.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I liked Stardust
but I was also a little bit disappointed by it. I enjoyed Neil Gaiman’s story, and the cast was pretty good, but some of the dialogue was pretty clunky, and a few of the adaptation choices seemed odd to me.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
I've not seen any off of your disliked list
largely through choice – I suspect I’d hate them.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Yea, the dislike list was a lot harder to make
2 & 4 I knew I wasn’t going to like but somehow convinced myself to netflix them so those are basically my fault. The other 3 were movies that I thought had a good idea but managed to fumble the presentation.
12 Monkeys was dope
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Thinking about my list got me to remember how much I liked that movie
I used to own it but it was stolen a few years back, I might just have to head out to Rasputin this weekend and see if I can pick up a copy on the cheap.
It's kind of hard to explain...
… but the low-tech— almost cheap— look to the movie (especially for a sci-fi flick) totally lowered my expectations. So I was blindsided when the plot turned out to be so mind-F-ingly good.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Paul Blart was indeed terrible
Observe and Report, which came out shortly after and was also about a Mall Cop, was fantastic though. People that were soured by Blart shouldn’t be discouraged to check out that one.
See, as a dude who formerly worked in armed security
I can say without hesitation that Super Troopers is the best non-Police Academy cop comedy
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
+1
One of my favorite completely silly, stupid movies.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
I still don't know how Paul Blart was so popular
I should have known I wasn’t going to like it but after seeing how well it did in theaters I decided to Netflix it when I was running out of stuff to put on my queue. I really found it to be a boring waste of time.
I did see Observe and Report which I was kind of neutral about, I liked a lot of things about the movie but I didn’t think it came together entirely right. I will completely agree that it was way better than Blart.
Ah Gattaca....
Every science class I ever took somehow felt obligated to show that movie.
"We were shit, pathetic," Guillen growled early in spring training. "We hit too many home runs."
How did I never have a science class that cool?
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
I'm partial to that movie for all the shots
of the Marin Civic Center. It really would make an excellent space agency headquarters.
I've always thought it was pretty ugly.
And very dated. I’d hope that a space agency would have better aesthetic sensibilities.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
That's bureaucrats for ya
Also, the Gattaca soundtrack is possibly the most awesome writing music ever.
by mk on Feb 6, 2010 10:06 AM PST up reply actions
Running Scared
shirely you aren’t talking about the Billy Crystal/Gregory Hines buddy cop vehicle from the 80’s?
I'll have a sandwich and a draft(sic). - Bill King (RIP)
No
The ridiculous Paul Walker movie of a few years ago. I should’ve known better than to see a movie starring Paul Walker but I will admit it started out pretty well and was interesting but the bad acting combined with the terrible ending confirmed its horribleness.
Movies
The Good ones:
- Pulp Fiction
- Star Wars
- Godfather 2
- The Hangover
- Superbad
- Reservoir Dogs
- The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
- Big Lebowski
- Old School
- Meet the Parents
The Bad ones:
- Transformers 2
- The Island
- Titanic
- The last Indiana Jones movie
- Most Tom Cruise movies
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. - Yogi Berra
You like some funny movies
But you also like Meet the Parents. This is fascinating as I can’t stand that movie. I like Ben Stiller but his character just kept making the worst possible decisions and he wasn’t a very sympathetic hero. Still, the rest is a good list.
agreed about Stiller's character
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
You mean, the same character he plays in every movie?
(wry facial expression)
“Witty self-deprecating comment.”
(HIJINKS!)
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
he was different in Zoolander.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 4:31 PM PST up reply actions
Duly noted
For the record, I’m just making trouble. I like a lot of his movies.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
basically yeah
but for some reason I found those two movies unbearbale to watch.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Yea,
i dont know why, but that movie crack me up so damn much!!! I think the wrong decisions he makes is what makes it so funny… for me at least.
Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel. - Yogi Berra
Fav Movies (in no order, as requested) remind me not to watch movies with Bobnothing ;-)
1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Iron Man
3. Spider Man
3. LOTR trilogy (it is basically one really long movie)
4. Armagedon
5. The Matrix
6. American Beauty
7. Indiana Jones (1 or 3)
8. Interstellar 5555 : The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (anime set to Daft Punk music)
9. Austin Powers trilogy (basically the same movie 3 times but all make me laugh)
10. Zombieland (rent it, just came out to DVD)
Movies I did not enjoy;
1. Revolutionary Road (the performances were good but the movie was depressing. It has been compared to American Beauty which is on my favorites list but at least in AB there was some joy to be seen)
2. Twilight (I only watched it because my wife really wanted to)
3. Spider Man 3 (horrible, the scenes where Peter Parker is supposed to be “cool” and “dangerous” seem more like “weird” and “emo”)
4. Meet the Parents and Meet the Fockers (for some reason I hate seeing Ben Stiller fail in these movies, usually I don’t mind it but these two rub me the wrong way)
5. The Brigit Jones movies
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Hey, I quite like Indiana Jones
And the first Austin Powers moie.
Plus, I agree with all your 5, aside from Twilight – I don’t think it’s a good film, by any means, but it did make me laugh almost all the way through. Which perhaps wasn’t the point of it, but still, you get your kicks where you can
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
it was 1 and 3 of your bottom 5 that made me say that
to be honest I haven’t seen 7 of your top 10 so maybe I would like a few of them.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Yeah, you're not going to sway me from either of them
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I agree completely on Revolutionary Road
I think the best review I saw described it as a “miserable movie about miserable people acting miserably to each other”. I was looking forward to it as I generally like Mendes and Winslett, and I thought DiCaprio was tremendous in the movie, but man was it a downer. After seeing it I movie-hopped over to see the Spirit which, while I’ll admit was pretty bad, will always have a place in my heart for helping to wash away the depressing funk Revolutionary Road left me with.
(this also applies to the matrix trilogy, but not the godfather trilogy)
Fav Movies
3. Spider Man
Movies I did not enjoy;
3. Spider Man 3
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
That is fantastic.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
the gif was cool
but I disagree. That is like saying one bad comic book of Spider-Man makes the entire series bad.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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And yet all three movies weren't that good.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
but he's right
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
yes he is! ;)
The first wasn’t bad. Second was meh. Third was wtf. None good.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I thought the 2nd one was pretty damn good
The 1st suffers from the usual exposition drag. The 3rd was at least commendable for Sam Raimi screwing with mainstream audiences (i.e., the much-loathed dancing sequence), though the whole Sandman/Venom stuff did fall flat.
As far as post-Blade superhero flicks go, not a bad series.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
The third was a train wreck any way you look at it
They tried to do too much and in doing so accomplished nothing. Neither of the other two were “bad”, but the second one just didn’t work for me. Too often in sequels they try to ramp it up and too often in these super hero movies that seems to mean adding two bad guys as a method of raising the stakes. That doesn’t raise stakes though, it only weighs the story down and requires too much effort to move the story forward and winds up lowering the quality.
The biggest problem I had with the Spiderman series is the BS about Peter not wanting to date MJ under the guise that his enemies would target her. Reality check, people know Peter has a connection with Spiderman, so any friend of his becomes a target, including MJ. So dating or not, she is and was the target.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Spiderman: Sony Takes a Mulligan
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Coroner's report on Brittany Murphy
Pneumonia and prescription drugs likely cause of death
The primary cause of death was community-acquired pneumonia, with contributing factors of iron deficiency anemia and “multiple drug intoxication,” according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.
The death was ruled accidental.
Coroner’s spokesman Craig Harvey declined to specify what types of drugs were involved but said they were all prescription medications.
That reminds me, I liked the movie Sin City.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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and two of my faves would be Clueless and Freeway
I think those are the first two movies I ever saw her in. Poor thing.
You're thinking of Reese Witherspoon
another cute blonde
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 5, 2010 8:40 AM PST up reply actions
reese witherspoon was in freeway
or is that what we’re all saying?
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:16 AM PST up reply actions
but Brittany Murphy was not
right?
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Brittany Murphy is in the girls' prison with Reese
The girl who Reese says she’ll make out with, but no fucking. She had dark hair then. I guess no one here has ever been to imdb?
I've never seen it
I was trying to clarify, thank you for doing so :-0
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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That's right
I totally forgot about that whole scene.
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Feb 5, 2010 12:35 PM PST up reply actions
I was in a hurry to get out the door to work.
Where I have plenty of internet browsing time, but totally forgot.
What?? All the time!
Definitive site to answer all those questions about movies that you forget the answers tot!!
lookin’ good in tan dickies.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 6:44 PM PST up reply actions
Aw, snap, I forgot Sin City in my list
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Carla Gugino
she was so freakin hot in that movie.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
You mean Jessica Alba right? ;)
But honestly, Sin City was like peak Jessica Alba. And at her peak, well daaaaammmmn, just damn was she hot.
I'd say Dark Angel was peak Jessica Alba, myself
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Dark Angel was certainly what got me hooked
I was quite disappointed when Fox canned that show. I mean, it was terrible, but man was she smoking hot.
I didn't even think the show was that bad
I mean, granted, I didn’t watch that many episodes, and the ones I did watch were clearly hormone-addled to some significant extent, but was it really that much worse than (say) Alias?
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
I never thought much of Alias myself
So probably hard for me to say. I think most tv programs are fairly bad. I distinctly remember Dark Angel being sort of over-the-top bad acting and kinda ridiculous, but it’s been a while since I’ve seen any episodes.
That said, I clearly enjoyed the show regardless.
I'd agree that Dark Angel was Jessica Alba's peak.
But I’d also say she’s still at her peak today. She has remained at zenith for many years and Jessica Ocaso is nowhere in sight.
Incidentally, I would nominate Jessica Alba as the consensus celebrity hottie of AN. She seems to be where otherwise disparate tastes converge. Any dissent?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
She jumped the shark at the point when someone introduced her to blond hair from a bottle
I mean, don’t get me wrong, she’s still pretty damn skippy, but she’s no longer at the top of my A list.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Yeah.
Jessica Alba with natural hair color, still hot. Jessica Alba the blonde, not.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Anyway, she's Mexican enough...
unlike our third baseman utility infielder…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 10:11 AM PST up reply actions
I thought she was only like 1/4 Mexican
I could be misremembering… this information was contained within a set of (pre-blondification) photographs of her…
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
That's enough for me.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
she was hot too
but Carla Gugino was the lady walking around in just a thong. Later on in the movie she gets her hands cut off by Elijah Woods’ character. trying to find a SFW pic of her in that mvie is difficult.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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You are ridiculously right
So hot.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
I don't know whether it would make my top 10 list
but I was The White Ribbon last friday at Embarcadero and it was really good.
I've heard this is *very* good. I didn't realise it was on here, I should check it out
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I'm in San Francisco, I can check it out here
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
cool, i'm hoping to see that this weekend
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
ok, I'll try for a list
10 movies I really like (no order)
*Brazil
*Repo Man
*Blade Runner
*La Cité des Enfants Perdus
*Real Genius
*The Usual Suspects
*Everything Is Illuminated (great book, and surprisingly good movie)
hmm… after that, I get down to a bunch of movies that I like, but can’t really sort by preference — Infernal Affairs, Brick, original Star Wars trilogy, pretty much anything by Terry Gilliam, pretty much anything by Miyazaki, Primer, Spider Baby!
Big assist from my Netflix account for reminders.
Omg, Real Genius
I love that movie!
So many great lines. That’s what really drives a lot of my choices, the memorable quotes.
ICE IS NICE!
and of course…“A girl’s gotta have her standards”
"Camelot sure fell apart, didn't it?"-Steve McCatty
I'm still trying to wrap my head around Cache.
I’ll probably wait for The White Ribbon to come out on Netflix. Haneke’s films demand to be paused and rewound.
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 4, 2010 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
If I had to make a list, in no order:
1. The Big Lebowski
2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. The Godfather (1 and 2)
4. Memento
5. Vertigo
6. Requiem for a Dream
7. WALL-E
8. No Country for Old Men
9. Donnie Darko
10. Lord of the Rings (all three, but if I had to pick, Fellowship)
I tend to stay far, far away from bad movies, but Avatar and Slumdog Millionaire were extremely overhyped and overpraised.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Nice
Surprised you’d take the Lord of the Rings movie most dedicated to exposition, but I wouldn’t quibble.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
I just thought the storytelling was sharpened to a finer point in Fellowship than the other two.
Return of the King definitely crushes the other two in scale, that’s for sure.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
HATED the last one
Too many liberties on the story, took a monumental step back on character development and removed a really important part of the finale all while being way too long.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
good list
shawshank, wall-e and lotr seem a bit out of place, though.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
Shawshank is one of those ones I can throw on and watch at anytime.
And WALL-E just blew me away. Particularly the first act, on Earth. I really don’t know how Pixar does it. If any other studio announced a movie starring an old retired man who floats to South America with balloons, I’d stay away from it like the plague.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
it is fairly amazing that a movie with hardly any dialouge can be so entertaining
WALL-E had a lot of character. I also like the BURN-E short. In fact, Pixar has a ton of great short films. I saw a 2 hour special on ABC family a few weeks ago that had all the shorts on it.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Quick ten in no particular order,
or how to feel like a total stranger around here…
1. Le Grand Bleu (Big Blue)
2. Night on Earth
3. Il Postino (The Postman – I had a crush on Maria Grazia for quite some time)
4. Smoke
5. Delicatessen
6. Volver
7. Crna macka, beli macor (Black Cat, White Cat)
8. Todo sobre mi madre
9. 101 Reykjavík
10. Bis ans Ende der Welt (Until the End of the World)
I either have not watched many bad ones or have a way to erase bad memories, as I can not think of anything particularly bad now
Have a glove you could spare for a good cause? If so please let me know
No. 8 = super awesome
I like this list
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
now you've redeemed yourself a little
I know some people like Talk to Her more, but I think this is the one. Of course I love earlier Almodovar too.
The older ones are definitely great
Seen any Bigas Luna ones?
Have a glove you could spare for a good cause? If so please let me know
I put City of Lost Children on my list
instead of Delicatessen. But I could easily go the other way. Maybe it just comes down to whether you like your deranged psychopaths to be of the cannibal or circus freak variety.
i prefer delicatessen, but as a vegan i may be biased. i also probably like ravenous more than most.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
Here are mine
Best in no particular order
1. Saving Private Ryan
2. Full Metal Jacket
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Lonesome Dove
5. Gran Torino
6. Godfather 1 & 2
7. The Hangover
8. LOTR – All of them
9. GoodFellas
10. Million Dollar Baby
Worst
1. Anything with Hugh Grant
2. Everything netflix recommends to my wife which then gets put into the que
3. Terminator 3
4. Beverly Hills Chiwawa
5. Just about all movies with Catherine Heigl
Every day is just a little worse than the previous, that means every day is the worst day of my life.
Gran Torino was wonderfully bizarre.
I saw it with a friend, expecting to see Clint kick ass and take names. Instead, the movie was almost a comedy, and a good one at that (followed by Clint kicking ass and taking names).
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
The end of Gran Torino really ruined the film for me
Overall, seemed like a half arsed version of Vanishing Point
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I thought the end was very fitting.
Unless you’re talking about Clint signing.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Is it safe to talk about what actually happens at the end? I can't really say why I don't like it without giving everything away
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Not sure
In vagueness. The final confrontation. The lawyer. The drive off into the sunset with Clint singing. Which of the three bugged you or was it before?
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
wait, are we talking about Gran Torino or Honkeytonk Man?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:10 PM PST up reply actions
Just because you call yourself Honkeytonk Man
doesn’t mean you can put your tent up in the back of her Gran Torino. Have you ever considered asking her out to dinner and, assuming she says yes, getting to know her a bit before, you know, doing that thing you do?
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
dinner?
she eats?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:32 PM PST up reply actions
Believe it or not she does
Often. You to have a lot more in common that you think. If you were willing to get to know her more before trying to pitch your tent you’d know this. And if you’re really lucky she’ll invite you back to her place for dessert. And if she does, play it cool, cause you may very well get to set up camp.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
The final confrontation bugged me the most
don’t get me wrong, I was fairly bored before that; that bit actively annoyed me
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Odd
That’s the part that I felt really fit the build up. But if you were bored by that point I can probably see why you would be disappointed and annoyed by it.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Yeah... I guess, it's the final shot that's the worst, for me - not just in the context of the film
but in the context of ‘this is the last scene I’m ever going to appear in on film’
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
In that context
Yeah, I can see why that would be very disappointing. I’m a fan of juxtaposition and it’s an interesting comparison in how he came into the film world and still fitting in the sense of what the gunslinger learned of the world before leaving it. But as a bookend to his career, it’s probably like a nuclear bomb exploding and then going out with a whimper.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
As long as the ass kicking actually takes place
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
#1, good choice
I liked the video game Medal of Honor: Frontlines because a lot of them game felt inspired by the movie.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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A different kind of list:
Tortured fan bases, like those “poor” saps across the Bay:
My dad (54 years old — no titles his whole life) took me to my first game when I was 6 months old in 1980 so that I could “see” Willie McCovey, his favorite player, before he retired. I’ve been a Giants fan my whole life, Will Clark is still my hero, which is why I have a 22 in my e-mail address. The earthquake in ‘89 and getting swept by a roided-up cross-bay rival was pretty tough, but 2002 was just insane. I was in college and on the phone with my dad from the sixth inning on of Game 6. We freakin’ had it in the bag. Dusty came out to pull Ortiz, then he gave Russ the game ball. Bad karma. You know the rest. ThunderSticks and rally monkeys still make me want to vomit.
And another:
Game 6 is all any Giants fan needs to hear to be reminded of the single worst championship loss in baseball history. No team had ever lost a five-run lead with nine outs to go in a World Series game of any kind, let alone a World Series-clinching game, and the Giants did it in the span of 18 pitches!
Another key component to Level 1: you remember where you were when you saw the game. With 160-plus games in baseball, we’ll all suffer our share of heartbreakers that don’t matter. But the Giants losing Game 6 of the ‘02 Series? That’s my “when JFK was shot” moment. I know exactly where I was, who I was with, and could recreate everything that was said and done from the sixth inning forward. The worst part wasn’t the ThunderSticks. The worst part was [the] next year when they started selling rally monkeys at AT&T Park because the wine-and-cheese crowd thought they were cute, and had no idea they were reminders of the Angels. I still can’t cheer 100 percent for Bengie Molina.
Haha.
I'm here to talk about the past.
Another tidbit from a Cleveland fan
My lifetime: Three major sports, zero titles, one river on fire.
Hey Al, just go away, baby.
i like.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 4:37 PM PST up reply actions
out of my head, dude.
Seriously, I was typing those two simple words when you barged in. Just call me tortured.
I'm here to talk about the past.
you make signs?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 4:44 PM PST up reply actions
great pate, but I gotta motor if I don't wanna be late for the funeral.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:00 PM PST up reply actions
I love movie lists
10 I like:
1. The Producers (1967 version)
2. Monty Python and The Holy Grail
3. Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure
4. Dirty Harry (also, Magnum Force)
5. Blazing Saddles
6. Airplane
7. The Empire Strikes Back
8. Young Frankenstein
9. Kelly’s Heroes
10. Lord of the Rings trilogy (despite the fact they farked up the last one by having the hobbits return to a nice, peaceful, status quo ante Shire)
5 movies I absolutely despise
1. The Horse Whisperer
2. Dances With Wolves
3. Anything starring Adam Sandler (one exception – Anger Management was OK, but mainly because Jack Nicholson was in it)
4. Star Wars – The Phantom Menace (Jar Jar Binks MUST FARKING DIE)
5. Most Hugh Grant movies
Hey Al, just go away, baby.
I think the whole Shire taken over ending works better as a book than a movie.
After building it up for, like, 10 hours of film, it’s hard to have more plot after the huge, epic, main climax. (TWSS, etc) They’d have to somehow make the ending Shire bit more grand than destroying the ring, and that just wasn’t going to happen.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Oh, God, yeah, I'd forgotten about that
they do the ring bit, and you’re like, thank fuck, I can leave and maybe go make out with this girl, and no, there’s a whole other half hour of dicking around, and by that stage you’re annoyed and sober and your friend just wants to get the bus home.
I resent it.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I liked that part
because after 3 years of those movies it kind of felt like a nice way to say goodbye.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I think that's why I never got into movies...
I can hardly fathom feeling enough emotion about movie characters that I would even want to say goodbye to them…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:22 AM PST up reply actions
well
my sister and I probably watched just about every special feature on the extended verisons of the films plus we have seen each movie a couple times. Each one is 3+ hours long I think so that is a lot of time to get attached.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
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Worked for the movie, no question.
But, it was still wrong. The taming of the Shire is crucial for the conflict between the pastoral and the industrial, which they did so nicely with Saruman’s crazed rants and the amazing “workshop” he set up to create the Urukai. To impose that “workshop” figure within the heart of the Shire – and then having Sam do battle to purge it – is one of the best things we could have been left with.
More than that
It was a pivot character arc for the hobbits in a coming-of-age/growing up sense. Something that was more or less destroyed by ROTK. Merry & Pippin were reverted back to little children instead which annoyed the crap out of me.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I'm really interested to see how they deal with splitting The Hobbit into two movies
and what they add, change or take away.
Yup to DMOAS, Yup to LS
The Merry/Pippin problem is deeply irksome (and the Gimli problem, too, which is very similar).
But, I know that I’ll love The Hobbit, anyway.
Missing from my list
Top ten would have to include most Pixar flicks, especially Cars and Up.
Hey Al, just go away, baby.
Agreed.
I mean nobody has listed their favorite porn yet.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
I didn't see one with that title.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
It's humiliation porn
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I feel ashamed.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
and yet aroused?
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
always
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
my favorite porn is a documentary
“Bloodsisters” is a documentary about the Bay Area BDSM Dyke scene in the 80’s and early 90’s. It’s informative and enriching, and has a lot of intense “play” scenes in it.
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:24 AM PST up reply actions
that does sound fun.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:16 AM PST up reply actions
I tried to think of a favorite porn movie
but couldn’t come up with anything. There’s definitely a difference between good porn and bad, but not in a way that makes you pick out any one total work as special. Kind of like 18th century opera.
I do want to see Caligula, though. I love Malcolm McDowell, and I like weird freaky transgressive shit.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Omigosh, if we could include TV shows in these lists, Rome is awesome.
I call it historico-porn, but I am probably ill-suited to know what “counts” as porn or not. Lessons from ANers not necessary, though. There’s probably more knowledge out there than I could shake a stick at.
I think Caligula is not technically porn,
but the orgy scene in the middle is so blatantly porny that it was never quite accepted as a mainstream movie.
If we count TV then I’m definitely adding the I, Claudius mini-series. That show was teh teh awesome. Such an amazing cast, most of them before they became famous. Jean-Luc Picard, Gimli, Prince Vultan, Magenta, and Joshamee Gibbs all together!
(Shit, John-Rhys Davies makes me think of Victor/Victoria. How could I forget? Omigosh I love that movie so much. Slot that in near the top and bump Body Heat, which was marginal anyway, off the bottom.)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
up above, when someone was talking about how they don’t or do get attached to characters to the point of emotion, i remembered how when i was about 18 or 19 i watched all of i claudius on PBS and during the last episode i kind of wept.
um, i mean… behind the green door! or anything with annette haven!!!
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 6:49 PM PST up reply actions
for a decidedly
unsentimental and unsappy show, the Wire has too many tear inducing moments.
I'll have a sandwich and a draft(sic). - Bill King (RIP)
lol, really?
i mean, i liked the first 3.75 seasons of the wire, but really? crying?
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
what happened in episode 8 or 9 of season four?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 7:56 PM PST up reply actions
bad things happen to all the young kids, bubbles' friend dies, bubbles attempts suicide, the show gets melodramatic, and i groan a lot
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
so you feel like the show gets
emotionally manipulative at that point.
Huh.
Yeah, the whole thing with Bubbles’ boy dying does seem contrived upon reflection. Let me pay attention to that the next time through.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 8:18 PM PST up reply actions
Bubbles?
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 11:40 PM PST up reply actions
no, but that would be an interesting change to the show.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 7, 2010 1:32 AM PST up reply actions
Uh, how about Bubbles's protege getting hooked on smack?
That probably was the darkest moment for me.
What a great F-ing series.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
I Claudius is amazing.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I have a copy of Caligula, and I'd be willing to swap it for something, if you have interest
it’s very, very odd.
It’s also in the non American regions for DVDs, too, should that matter to you
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I don't even know what that means.
At the moment I don’t even own a DVD player.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
do all the major electronics in your house use vacuum tube technology?
are you some sort of luddite? it almost seems like you take great pride in being a technological laggard.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
maybe, to iglew,
the internet truly is a series of tubes.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 7:57 PM PST up reply actions
Not so much Luddite as anti-materialist.
Also, I like things that have years of history behind them and I delight in that which develops slowly. It’s a very Tolkienian attitude toward life. Was Tolkien a Luddite? I suppose some might say yes.
I love technology when it makes life better. But if it only makes life busier or newer, and takes away money I could better spend in leisure, then not so much.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Please tell me you still have and use a rotary phone
Please Please Please :)
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Ha ha. No.
By the way, I see now that Tolkien actually was a Luddite.
With regard to his writings, I think that’s very debatable, though I know some have made the claim — ents vs Saruman, etc — which is what I had in mind.
But J.R.R. himself in real life actually did hate technology. I hadn’t realized that.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
So do you watch all your movies on VHS?
And do you have a Betamax player in your closet?
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 7, 2010 9:19 AM PST up reply actions
I haven't watched many movies this year.
When I do it’s either on TV or at someone else’s house.
I did have a DVD player when I was married, but it was my wife’s so when we split up she kept it. I’ve been meaning to get one of my own, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet.
I do have a VCR still, but I hardly ever use it, since the set up my neighbor created for me doesn’t let me record on it.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Most old VCRs no longer work for recording anyway
because of the digital switchover.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
your neighbor had to set up your VCR?
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
No, he set up the cable (which really isn't cable).
I live in one of two side-by-side rental houses on the same lot which share some utilities and wiring. The guy in the other house is a techno-geek who has his house all tricked out with gadgets.
The utilities treat us as a single address, so he gets satellite, internet, etc into his house and feeds it into mine. I was actually thinking I’d skip cable after I moved, since I think it’s overpriced and I don’t watch TV much (also, after the split I didn’t have a TV either), but my neighbor basically offered to set up everything as one big package deal (and he also had an old, non-flat TV he was happy to unload on me) so I said, “um, OK”. So I have digital satellite TV now.
I asked about recording on the VCR and he said it wouldn’t work. Maybe that’s because of the digital switchover that Paul mentioned. I can still play tapes to the TV though.
(I’m not retarded about this stuff, by the way. I’ve set up my own cable, stereo system, wireless Internet, etc, systems plenty of times before. I just find it tedious and boring and if someone else is willing to do it for me I’m happy to let them.)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Movies, eh?
The 10:
1) Ghostbusters
2) Shaun of the Dead
3) Monty Python and the Holy Grail
4) Big Lebowski
5) Serenity
6) Saving Private Ryan
7) Half Baked
8) Inglourious Basterds
9) Fight Club (gawd I hate being a cliché)
10) The Departed
The 5:
1) Revolver (movie… was… god… awful)
2) The first Hulk flick
3) Tomb Raider
4) The Collector
5) The latest Indiana Jones
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Top Ten Movies
Too many great movies have been made, but some stand above others, like these seven:
Chinatown
Casablanca
Slum Dog Millionaire
The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Rashomon
To Kill a Mockingbird
And then there are three of my personal favorites:
Bull Durham
Honeymoon in Vegas
Down and Out in Beverly Hills (This one might belong in my first list.)
As for bad films, I usually block them from my mind, but any film that “kills” a series would generally do, like the last Indiana Jones movie and the Clooney/Schwarzenegger “Batman” movie.
I watched Slumdog Millionaire last night.
I was surprised at how good it was. I totally wasn’t expecting that.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Really?
I thought it was really…regular. It may have been a case of high expectations, as I saw it after it got the Best Picture nomination, but I walked out of it thinking it was pretty damn trite and nothing special.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I expected it to be fucking AWFUL
as I do with most of the crap that gets nominated for awards.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
10 from before I was born
Cause I can barely limit it to ten here, and we need more old on this thread:
The Red Shoes
Singin’ in the Rain
Scarlet Pimpernel
Rebecca
Earrings of Madame De
North By Northwest
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Top Hat
La belle et la bête
Brief Encounter
Love
Singin’ in the Rain and North by Northwest. I absolutely adore Donald O’Connor in Singin’ in the Rain and most Hitchcocks are a lot of fun to watch.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
I like Malcolm McDowell singing it.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:31 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah
the song’s never been quite the same for me after that movie.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
hasn't really bean the same for any of us.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:55 PM PST up reply actions
Also, Life is Beautiful:
Greatest Holocaust comedy ever.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I'll just list the best ten I can think of from the last decade.
It would take me forever otherwise.
No Country for Old Men
Brokeback Mountain
Wet Hot American Summer
The Lives of Others
In Bruges
In America
Grizzly Man
There Will Be Blood
American Psycho
City of God
(Hmmm… interesting. I’m surprised how few foreign films made it into that list. I bet if I did an all-time list it would be all Hitchcock and foreign films).
Worst Five:
Avatar
Benjamin Button
Crash
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
(I’ve seen worse movies but these ones are especially egregious due to their influence/popularity despite their terribleness).
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 4, 2010 1:52 PM PST reply actions
In Bruges has been on my list for a while.
I keep hearing good things, and it sounds like it’d be right up my alley.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Weren't No Country and There Will Be Blood like the same movie?
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
not even close.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 4:39 PM PST up reply actions
Bears re-watching:
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
One was a western.
One was a drama about an oil tycoon.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I prefer top 5
10 includes too many waverings – things I wouldn’t argue for hours on end over including
( Note: Some include a nostalgia factor. I.e. this list wouldn’t be the same for someone just watching these films for the very first time today )
- The Matrix
- Godfather 2
- Terminator 2
- The Big Lebowski
- Wayne’s World
College Football National Signing Day
The Pac-10 schools in California all did a great job. I’m happy with the job that Cal did and not surprised at how well USC did, but UCLA fans have to be encouraged by having one of the top recruiting classes. Stanford wasn’t bad at all and they’ll probably improve their standing yearly with Jim Harbaugh at the helm.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 4, 2010 3:12 PM PST reply actions
Favorite Movies
I’m not a movie guy at all, but here’s my list:
- Grease
- Friday
- Tupac: Resurrection
- Space Jam
- Rush Hour
- Remember the Titans
- Coach Carter
- Next Friday
- Rush Hour 2
- The Departed
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 4, 2010 3:31 PM PST reply actions
Really?
Space Jam and Rush Hours 2?
Every day is just a little worse than the previous, that means every day is the worst day of my life.
by shooting4life on Feb 4, 2010 3:44 PM PST up reply actions
dude he's like 14 years old.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
You are right about Grease
it probably should have made mine.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Sorry
I forgot about Juice in there, the movie starring Tupac Shakur and Omar Epps.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 5, 2010 4:12 PM PST up reply actions
Wow, I actually managed a Top 10 & Worst 5 list! Usually I get frustrated trying to decide and just chuck the whole idea!
1. Lord of the Rings
2. Memento
3. Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
4. Pi
5. Pulp Fiction
And because I saw them recently (i.e. non-permanent top ten):
6. The Wrestler
7. The Fantastic Mr. Fox
8. Tarkovsky’s Solaris
9. Lord of the Rings (yes, I know it’s up above, but I did see it recently – I watch it every six months)
10. Max’s Big Adventure (actually, they named it Where the Wild Things Are, but that title didn’t quite work for me.)
I am very lucky to have such a short memory – and willingness to walk out of a theater or stop watching a DVD if necessary – that I don’t remember movies I hate. But they must at least include:
1. The George Clooney version of Solaris.
2. Atomised (a German adaptation of the book by Michel Houellebecq published in the U.S. as The Elementary Particles – but lucky for you the film isn’t available and you can go read the book. Especially you literary types and anyone who likes sex mixed with nihilism.
3. A Serious Man (because everyone told me it was awesome, but it was really just a weakly-pursued, attempted Oscar winner by otherwise really awesome filmmakers).
4. Avatar (And I was sooo-ooo excited about it! What a sucker I am.)
5. Avatar (yes, it was sooo-ooo long it gets two “I hate this” entries.)
love memento, pi and the wrestler
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
I didn't even know they made a movie of Pi.
The tiger and the boat?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:29 PM PST up reply actions
unfortunately, they are
(i don’t know how that gets turned into a decent movie, also i don’t like ang lee)
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
I can't see it translating real well...
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:41 PM PST up reply actions
Been meaning to see some more Aronofsky.
Requiem for a Dream was one of the most powerful movie experiences I’ve ever had, and The Wrestler was quite good as well. Any recommendations among his other works?
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
After those, all that's left is "The Fountain," which I haven't seen and hope to, soon.
And I can watch π every year. I’m more mixed on Requiem than many other folks, there was something I didn’t like on first viewing that I’ve never quite shaken.
the fountain
I liked it, but I think that a lot of people probably didn’t. If you like Aronofsky’s other work, then give it a try.
Also, I couldn’t tell if danmerqury had seen Pi. If not, then definitely see that one first.
I loooooooved The Fountain
Although, yes, usually when I say that I get blank stares.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
i like everything aronofsky has done, but the fountain is probably my favorite
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
Tarkovsky was a god
I remember feeling stunned after watching The Sacrifice. FWIW his book, Sculpting in Time, is a brilliant (though at times almost mystical) explication of his theories concerning the purpose, role, etc. of cinema.
everyone says avatar ripped off dances with wolves and pocahontas...
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
by xbhaskarx on Feb 5, 2010 9:42 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I had it described to me as "Dances With Smurfs"
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
That's from a South Park episode.
Good episode, too.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I am thoroughly enjoying all of the Avatar digs
I saw it in 3D, and I thought the visuals were mind-blowing, but holy hell that movie just needed to END.
by mk on Feb 6, 2010 10:09 AM PST up reply actions
Looking for something for your River Cat-loving sweetheart?
There’s the Dinger Gram for $89.95
This package includes : – 2 ticket vouchers good for any regular 2010 season River Cats home game – A River Cats Home Replica Cap – A Box of See’s Candy – AND Dinger will come to the gift recipient and will have his/her picture taken with Dinger and put in our River Cats picture frame. (Shipped after picture is developed.)
But the recipient must live within 25 miles of Raley Field. Damn. There goes that idea.
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
for the last time,
Evil Don ate him at the end of last season.
Stomper is dead. Long live Stomper!
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:29 PM PST up reply actions
Well, if he did, you could be our fourth for strip board games.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:54 PM PST up reply actions
I don't think so
If the Ports had Splash doing this, I’d be tempted to do it for my girlfriend. But she’s not really into baseball, so I think she might be a bit frightened at first by a large, red muppet knocking on her door.
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
In the order I remember them.
Pulp Fiction, Unforgiven, Goodfellas, The Godfather, Boogie Nights, Magnolia, Miller’s Crossing, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Shootist, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Coal Miner’s Daughter, Fargo, La Femme Nikita, Dr. Strangelove, first half of Full Metal Jacket, The Grifters, Heathers, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Warriors, Vertigo, Schindler’s List, Easy Rider, LA Confidential, first ten minutes of Moulin Rouge (for mb).
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Some great movies on your list Bloom
I remember already doing my top movies in another DLD but ranking the worst movies is a little tougher as I tend to forget bad movies pretty quickly.
Off the top of my head the 5 worst movies would be….
5. Battlefield Earth
4. Natural Born Killers
3. Hocus Pocus
2. Crash
1. Ballistic: Ecks vs Sever
I liked Hocus Pocus
of course, I was 10 when it came out so it’s not that strange.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Wow, you actually saw Battlefield Earth?
First person I’ve ever known that has.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I saw it
and promptly forgot anything about it except for Travolta since he is the cover boy for how terrible it was.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
I actually saw it in theaters
I can’t even remember why but there is no reasonable excuse. I just remember thinking what a shame it was that Barry Pepper was involved in that fiasco because I thought he had a good chance as an actor.
when I think of Barry Pepper
I think of him as the sniper Saving Private Ryan, he was awesome in that movie.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
When I see that name, I think of Barry Zuckercorn
and it’ll be a long time before Barry Zuckercorn calls anyone a “Homo” again.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
well,
that probably just means you’ve not wasted your life before the box.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:39 PM PST up reply actions
ah
yeah, i never really watched that show. I saw a few minutes once.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Battlefield Earth was a great book.
But they ruined it with that movie.
The Mission: Earth dekology is good too.
Oh, and I read these way before I knew what Scientology was,
other than just a book with a volcano on it.
Natural Born Killers; Crash
That was totally dismal, but the scene with Rodney Dangerfield, where Juliette Lewis’s brutal home life was presented as a grotesque parody of a sitcom, was harrowing and prescient, not too far off from current reality TV.
Also, I don’t know if you mean Crash the Oscar-winning examination of fraught race-relations in these multicultural times blah blah blah, but the movie Crash adapted from the J.G. Ballard novel (directed by David Cronenberg) was brilliant.
And speaking of David Cronenberg, Dead Ringers should be on my list
Jeremy Irons is incredible in a dual performance, playing twin brothers, both urbane and successful gynecologists, who descend into near-incestuous, shared madness. Loosely based on a true story!
dead ringers
that’s definitely one of my favorites
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
I love Strangelove like a fat kid loves cake
Peter Sellers and George C. Scott FTW.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
That reminds me
The original Pink Panther movies were great (except the first one was a little boring and the last one b/c Sellers was dead). The remakes should be banned from viewing.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Pink Panther + campy queens + great song and dance numbers =
Victor/Victoria!
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Agree on all accounts though I liked the first one too.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
the first one was OK
but I like the focus being on Peter Sellers and leaning towards more slapstick. Plus there was no Kato in the 1st one (I think). The fight scenes between the two are my favorite parts.
My Dad loves the one with the inspector pretending to be a dentist and pulling the wrong tooth. I remember him dying of laughter during that part.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Oh no doubt on that
Peter Sellers is and always will be reason those movies were funny. And I agree that first wasn’t the best, just that it was good. He & Kato were awesome.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Listen up, y'all, cause this is it.
The beat that I’m banging is delicious.
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I hate you so much right now, LB
With all due respect.
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
it's okay.
Fergie permeates my soul and apparently my seeming heterosexuality.
I wanna go dance. In foam.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:03 PM PST up reply actions
Did the movie version of Nine come out yet?
I don’t remember hearing about it, but I thought it was due in late 2009. Is Fergie worthy of the Saraghina role?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I think it has and I don't know who that is.
T, to the A, to the S-T-E-Y, girl, you tastey.
Wait…Tastey?
This bothers me. Poor spelling for rhythm and cadence sake is unacceptable.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:13 PM PST up reply actions
Yeah, it came out.
And flopped. I was semi-interested, solely because of Daniel Day-Lewis, but never got around to it.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
that's kinda gross.
but also kinda hot.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:42 PM PST up reply actions
okay. now I get it...
you need adult-baby on furry action to do anything for you, don’t you…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:30 AM PST up reply actions
there's not a whole lot that doesn't get me off.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:16 AM PST up reply actions
what about nailing your **** to a board?
Take the Bob Flanagan challenge!
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:17 PM PST up reply actions
FWIW, here's my top 10
In no particular order:
It Happened Here, Eraserhead, Blue (the Derek Jarman one), Blue Velvet, Picnic at Hanging Rock, I Am Cuba, Night of the Hunter, Stranger Than Paradise, Ran, Stan Brakhage: Anthology.
My list (take 2)
It Happened Here imagined life in Britain as it might have been if the Nazis had won the war and occupied that country. What most impressed me was its subtle and (to me) psychologically realistic depiction of how even apolitical, decent people can become complicit to something horrifying (as opposed to bulls—- Bruce Willis heroics), especially given that directers Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo were all of 18 and 16, respectively, when they began the project.
If I recall correctly, Blue was Derek Jarman’s last film, made while he was dying of AIDS. For the entire film, there’s a monologue by Jarman — by turns poetic, angry, nostalgic, and afraid, all the emotions you’d imagine in someone facing impending death. As he speaks, the static blue screen seems to change, to suggest oblivion, or pure peace, or grotesque hospital settings, etc. It’s really wrenching.
I Am Cuba, by Mikhail Kalatozov, was ostensibly a propaganda film celebrating the then-recent Cuban revolution. But the film itself was so beautiful that any political agenda falls to the wayside, at least to my mind. It’s absolutely stunning — for instance: a long tracking shot that swoops across a roof, drops several stories, then continues along a busy street (later borrowed by P.T. Anderson in Boogie Nights, as I learned from The Onion); shots of mundane activities (say, the hands of a peasant as he chops sugar cane) dissolve into beautiful abstractions.
There are DVD anthologies of the work of experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who pioneered and/or mastered techniques such as painting directly on the film, using damaged film stock, and (I think) exposing materials such as leaves directly onto the film, to create kaleidoscopic, haunting short films.
It’s pretty much trite to say at this point, but David Lynch is a master at creating nightmarish, bizarre images that have the emotional resonance and logic of dreams. Eraserhead and Blue Velvet capture this better than any of his other films, except perhaps The Elephant Man, which also could be on my list.
I could go on, but I’ll stop here.
It Happened Here
sounds interesting
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just added it happened here and picnic at hanging rock. thanks. i remember really not liking 1 of the 3 parts of i am cuba, and that had ruined it for me, but yeah, the look of the whole movie is amazing and the camera work is beyond. night of the hunter, also tops.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 7:01 PM PST up reply actions
if you like the camera work in i am cuba, check out the cranes are flying, also by kalatazov
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
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I just have never heard of any of those movies.
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well, watch some of them, darnit...
at least Blue Velvet…
Even a movie hater like me knows not to serve Heineken when Dennis Hopper comes over…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:21 PM PST up reply actions
Baby wants to fuck!
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 7:15 PM PST up reply actions
Picnic at Hanging Roc
+1
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
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A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
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yes?
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:31 AM PST up reply actions
Rock
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
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I salute you.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 9:17 AM PST up reply actions
The C is silent.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
That's too bad
Clearly she’s not enjoying herself if the C is silent.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
It's cause she's speechless.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Only in your dream world
Sadly she’s simply disappointed in you.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
as lnog as I get mine.
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
This is awkward.
About that “lnog” thing… it isn’t. Sorry. Had to be said. But you still got yours.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I thought you were supposed to salute those about to rock,
not those in the process of actually rocking…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:23 PM PST up reply actions
meh.
I’m not all that into it, y’know?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 7:16 PM PST up reply actions
You didn't mean a luncheon taken beneath the vacant, glassy-eyed stare of a gargantuan stuffed bird?
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
i have absolutely no idea what you're talking about
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
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Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:26 PM PST up reply actions
You sir, are awesome
For that and your choice in sig lines.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Actually saw an A's fan at the gym here in PHX the other day.
I was so surprised, I had to say hi. Plus she was a girl, so that always helps…
Oakland A's, Oakland Haze, Nothin' Beats Livin' By Your Oakland Bays
did she think you were a stalker?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:04 PM PST up reply actions
would that be a problem?
Oakland A's, Oakland Haze, Nothin' Beats Livin' By Your Oakland Bays
by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:17 PM PST up reply actions
not at all.
preferable, really.
Can only go up from there.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:19 PM PST up reply actions
Plus, if you are,
then she’s not disappointed.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:19 PM PST up reply actions
you make me laugh too much
to come up with any intelligent semblance of an answer. So let me ask a question instead. Wouldn’t you stalk any girl who puts on an Oakland Athletics t-shirt?
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by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:25 PM PST up reply actions
Well, hopefully my internet
notoriety would precede me and I wouldn’t have to introduce myself.
I don’t know if you know this or not, but I’m kind of a big deal. I was mentioned in the first line of a front page post today.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:27 PM PST up reply actions
so then if you stalk a stalker
what does that make you?
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by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
Well, we have common interests.
It’s what keeps us going.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:29 PM PST up reply actions
Is this real life?
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by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:32 PM PST up reply actions
Is this just fantasy?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:42 PM PST up reply actions
Caught in a pork rind?
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by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:44 PM PST up reply actions
no Escape from New York Tee.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:47 PM PST up reply actions
Hey YOU GUYSSSSSS!!!
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by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:48 PM PST up reply actions
I've mentally degraded
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by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:49 PM PST up reply actions
was that Electric Company?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:50 PM PST up reply actions
no
but unlike the A’s, I don’t have a power outage.
"It took eight hours, seven and a half to find the heart"- Earl McCatty
by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:54 PM PST up reply actions
because of SI she probably won't win
SI Cover of the best women skier ever
Vonn’s semi-provocative pose has drawn the predictable ire from those who claim that it objectifies her. She’s an athlete, not a sex symbol, the chorus inevitably reminds us.
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skier or sex symbol.
She has a very nice ass. To ski with.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:05 PM PST up reply actions
forget the ass. It's those "moguls" I'm interested in.
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 9:02 PM PST up reply actions
The way you punctuate that reminds me of
my favorite passage in Portnoy’s Complaint, which I’m afraid is too dirty for AN.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
that might not be possible.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:33 PM PST up reply actions
AN search function reveals that
the C word has been breached five times in AN history. One in reference to George Carlin. Another Vicente Padilla.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I beg to differ.
It’s actually been breached six times. You just haven’t posted it yet otherwise you would have seen it in your search.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
that's worth a search.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:02 PM PST up reply actions
that is a rather eclectic
list and cast of characters.
I guess I advise again’t.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:05 PM PST up reply actions
I shall instead quote Erica Jong:
Isadora notices that it isn’t fashionable to write too much about sex anymore. In the seventies, post-Portnoy, you couldn’t pick up a novel, it seemed, without getting sperm on your hands. Not only the hacksters and fucksters, but literary writers, good writers, had to chart the interiors of vaginas as if they were the caves of Lascaux (and all primordial truth were writ therein). Women were discovering the poetry of penises; men were unmasking before the Great Goddess Cunt.
Have I mentioned how much I love Erica Jong?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
so what's a fuckster?
and a hackster, for that matter?
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 10:22 PM PST up reply actions
I dunno, but I like me.
Portnoy’s thick, though…like murder-weapon thick.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 10:30 PM PST up reply actions
It makes sense in context.
That’s from Parachutes & Kisses.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Portnoy's Complaint, for me, is Roth's least interesting book
I’ll grant that maybe the whole point of it is that it’s supposed to be self involved and boring, but that just left me cold, tbh.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
It's the only one I've read.
I would agree it’s amusing fluff, but I liked it anyway because, well, the fluff amused me.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I'm sure others who have read more of his stuff than I might suggest otherwise
but my favorite of his is ‘American Pastoral’, which I love to a great extent.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Rotate her 90% to the right. About 25 - 45% down and she could be both.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
And professional athletics DON'T objectify a person?
Of course they do.
If you’re going to be on a magazine cover, it’s better to be objectified anyway.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I was expecting to see her in a swimsuit or a dress or something...
but she’s in uniform, posing in a proper form for her sport…
I don’t see what the big deal is, other than typical male dirty minds at play…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:35 AM PST up reply actions
Well, yes and no.
She is a proper form for her sport, but no helmet, complete makeup and hair, which is in no way mimicking going down a mountain/hill. It is kind of sexist.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:18 AM PST up reply actions
It's a magazine cover.
If I wanted to see her with a helmet on, without makeup or her hair did, going downhill….I’d watch the sports news.
but they did a similar cover of a guy skier in a similar pose in 1992
and he had his helmet on and I think he was actually skiing. So it is kind of a double standard.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 7:17 PM PST up reply actions
I think it's an issue that's worth being aware of
But I think it is being a little over blown in this case. SI has posed cover shots all the time, just because the last time a skier was on the cover it was an action shot doesn’t mean all skiing related covers need to be so. I mean, they want to sell the person on the cover, many covers with football players have the guy without a helmet on.
I guess in this instance the choice just seems natural to me, if your trying to “introduce” your readers to a new sensation you probably want them to be able to see their face.
In 2009,
women were featured on the magazine cover twice (three times if you count the one of Brian Gay’s wife standing behind him): the April 16th issue of the UConn Huskies basketball team and the Feb. 13th swimsuit issue. This is a weekly publication that publishes several different covers several times a year, so we’re talking a total of like 60 or 70 covers a year, not 52.
I’m not one to argue. Despise it, really. But this is a legitimate complaint. This is not the way to change the culture.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
Janica and I object
and so does SI, for that matter. That would be America’s best woman skier ever…
Have a glove you could spare for a good cause? If so please let me know
I'm curious
Have you met her? Is she like a super-duper-mega-celebrity over there? How does she compare in publicity to, say, the national soccer team?
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Yes I did
Our families, being the two most ski traditional ones, are well connected.
She has almost a cult status in Croatia and is for many the very favorite sports person of all times. Even her brother, who was never just as successful is widely popular and was voted the sportsman of the year 2009.
However, the flag on the Opening Ceremony will be carried, to iglew’s delight, by Jakov Fak.
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Let's Go Fak! Let's Go Fak!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:27 PM PST up reply actions
<is delighted> !
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Please tell me his middle name starts with an 'N'
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
"S" would not be a bad one either
Actually, my friends in Germany had a neighbor called Popović and it always cracked ’em up. In Germany it is pronounced “Popo-Fick”, or equivalent of Jakov ’s name would sound if he was Jakov S. Fak
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"Y" would work too
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I so do not get this joke
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Yes, I suppose "Croatian skiing" is a pretty small universe...
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
"Croatian anything"
is a pretty small universe…
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My feet smell.
Is it a bad thing that I kinda like it?
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my uncle likes smelling the inside of his shoes after a long day at work
yeah, it’s kind of weird.
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Armpits > Feet
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
10-and-1
I’ve managed to come up with ten movies I love. In approximate order.
Election
The Maltese Falcon
The Apartment
The Big Sleep
Say Anything
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
All That Jazz
Flash Gordon
The Empire Strikes Back
Body Heat
There are some genres I like almost in their entirety, like anything with Fred Astaire, or most romantic comedies, but few or none of them stand out as individually special. (I want to mention When Harry Met Sally because it really does have a fantastically good script — one of the best movie scripts ever written, in my opinion — but Billy Crystal, although he’s quite good in the movie, irritates me in general, and Meg Ryan, though I don’t really dislike her, is a terrible actress.)
I tried to limit myself to movies I’ve seen at least twice, loved each time, and am confident I would enjoy watching again, but that was a stretch and the confidence level drops a bit toward the end of the list.
Body Heat reminds me of Wild Things, which I’ve only seen once and found surprisingly good. I expected it to be a run-of-the-mill 90s movie enhanced by the presence of lots of wet and half-naked young women. About halfway through I started to realize that it’s actually really well-written, well-conceived, well-acted, and well-produced. I need to see it a second time to confirm if that’s really so or if I was just in the right mood that day.
But I need to see The Apartment even more. I think it’s been more than 20 years since the last time. Probably 20 years for IaMMMMW, too
I can’t think of five movies I know well enough to hate. My negative opinion toward movies typically runs more toward indifference than hatred, and if I do dislike a movie I usually just don’t continue watching it, so I never see the whole thing.
So there’s only one on my hate list:
Dune
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I hated Dune - boring and lame
some would say it was dry . . . wait, didn’t someone use that joke on AN before?
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Never has the gap between book and movie been greater.
Dune is a very very un-cinematic book by nature, so the movie would inevitably have to deviate considerably from it. But you could say the same of Doctor Zhivago and they managed to make a great movie out of that. The Dune movie, on the other hand, was just awful awful awful. They even had a great cast. How could they ruin it so bad?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
The voiceover
was so ridiculous.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
I like your list.
Flash Gordon’s a little weird, but I liked it, too.
Of course, I was eight.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:31 PM PST up reply actions
good theme song.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:36 PM PST up reply actions
I was scarred for life at the age of six
when I popped in the VHS tape of what I thought was “Flash Gordon,” but it was actually my mom’s special tape, and the movie was actually “Flesh Gordon”
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:40 AM PST up reply actions
strange.
Found my dad’s collection of Penthouses around that age…
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:18 AM PST up reply actions
kingoftheimpossible!
I’m sure it’s not fine cinema art, but is any movie more fun? So many things to love about Flash Gordon. Queen, Ornella Muti. Those two alone would be sufficient.
The funniest thing is Dino De Laurentiis produced both Flash Gordon and Dune!
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
and Conan, right?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:47 PM PST up reply actions
Dino was the man.
I loved Conan. I own Conan.
…..
Shit. I AM gay, aren’t I?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:48 PM PST up reply actions
and I'm the stalker...tsk tsk.
"It took eight hours, seven and a half to find the heart"- Earl McCatty
by DyeLongJustice on Feb 4, 2010 7:55 PM PST up reply actions
gp
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:57 PM PST up reply actions
go have sex with a guy, then report back
straight guys who like to talk about how gay they are without being willing to do anything about it? What’s the French bobnothing taught us for having your butter and your money for butter?
I like the IDEA of being gay.
but I like soft girl flesh.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
and trust me, there's nothing gayer than butter money.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:59 PM PST up reply actions
you just don't want to end up like those sad white hipsters who wanted to be black
all the coolness of being in a minority without that annoying oppression!
so did you stay gay?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 8:01 PM PST up reply actions
yeah. soft is nice.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 8:11 PM PST up reply actions
are you saying there are no soft gay guys?
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
There are in the gray areas, but not in Stereotype City...
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:42 AM PST up reply actions
soft and hairy and kinda smelly.
yeah, they’re around. I see one in the mirror from time to time.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:19 AM PST up reply actions
I think you're thinking of the plot for Last Tango in Paris
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
It's ok, son.
We hope you grow up and find a nice man to settle down with with whom to settle down downly to settle.
Dude, you are so not gay.
You’re just out of sync with our cultural norms, that’s all. You’re an aesthete. Our culture supports masculine aestheticism in gay men but not in straight men so you think, “huh? am I gay?” where you certainly are not. You’re no more gay than Pablo Picasso.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
didn't he sleep with some guys?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:33 PM PST up reply actions
and does this mean I can start paying for shit with napkins?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:34 PM PST up reply actions
I almost left it off, too,
but I realized it was only out of embarrassment. Not for any lack of love.
(Also, I was having trouble coming up with ten.)
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
the scene where he grabs the golden egg,
and starts showing off his quarterback skills by nailing bad guys with it, was awesome. I was dying of laughter.
Yes! That's the best scene in the movie.
Or rather, it’s the best scene in the movie that doesn’t feature Princess Aura in spandex tights lying prone and facing away from the camera.
Um, not that I memorized that shot or anything.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I'm guessing that's the 1984 David Lynch version of Dune.
Turns out the Sci Fi Channel did a much longer version a few years back (2000/2003), mini-series style, and it is really fantastic. Even if you read the books! (Though maybe not if you read them, say, last week.)
I read a book on poker last week.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 7:58 PM PST up reply actions
I threw a temper tantrum about poker last night...
I had opponents dominated and all-in pre flop three times last night, and lost all three… the worst being my A 10 losing to an 8 10 on a flop of 7 9 J… what a bunch of horseshit!!!
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:44 AM PST up reply actions
G_S, I love you.
but why in the hell would go all in pre-flop with A 10?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:20 AM PST up reply actions
because my M was low...
I was the shortest stack at the table, and would have been blinded out in about 15 hands. I had to pick a halfway decent hand (if possible), and get my first-in vigorish, giving myself a chance to steal the blinds, or at least narrow the field and try to double up against one player.
If I ran into a trainwreck, I wouldn’t be pissy, but A 10 dominates 8 10. He’s either got to hit an 8 without my hitting an ace, or a straight, to beat me, which is what happened. This shit happens every once in a while… it just happened too many times to me last night within about a one hour period, is all…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:34 PM PST up reply actions
okay, that makes sense.
where you play?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 7:18 PM PST up reply actions
it was a single table tourney at my own house with my usual crew
$20 buyin…
I usually play 1/3 no-limit at the cardroom. Then again, I would never go all-in preflop with A 10 in a cash game… that would be dumb!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 10:17 AM PST up reply actions
....
when I move back, can I come play?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 10:32 AM PST up reply actions
sure, we'll take your money...
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 11:43 PM PST up reply actions
will you steal my shows?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 7, 2010 1:32 AM PST up reply actions
I've heard that the Sci Fi version is decent.
I still don’t see how a movie could capture the essence of Dune, which is all about the internal dialogue. The best you could hope for is something like Blade Runner, which is interesting and effective but somewhat baffling.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
That's a good thing.
The more movies they make out of the same story, the better. One of the things that annoys me most about a big-budget film made from a familiar story is when it dominates the culture so that it becomes the one and only interpretation. In theater, you don’t have people saying “he doesn’t look like a Hamlet” or whatever. Each production can create it anew. But when there’s one definitive blockbuster, like Wizard of Oz or the Tolkien movies everyone decides that yes, that’s exactly what Gandalf/Dorothy/whoever must look like, and there’s never any room for any other vision. Ditto for all those Disney cartoons like WInnie the Pooh or Jungle Book.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Wow I've only seen one of the movies on your list.
I need to culture myself more
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 9:04 PM PST up reply actions
Must be Empire Strikes Back
Not surprising, really. The median year of my movies is 1979-1980, and the two most recent are chick flicks.
You shouldn’t confuse my 10 favorite movies with “culture”, by the way. The only one that even approaches arty is ATJ. Two of them are downright trash, and even the two Bogarts are really just high-quality pulp.
If you want culture, try GuapoBob’s list.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
winner winner chicken dinner
Yeah, I haven’t many of those either. Although To Kill a Mockingbird is pretty good.
"Do I talk to myself? No, I just remind myself of what I'm trying to do. You know, I never answer myself so how can I be talking to myself?" - Rickey
by cuppingmaster on Feb 4, 2010 9:27 PM PST up reply actions
I once knew a drag queen named "Tequila Mockingbird"
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:46 AM PST up reply actions
I've known a few with interesting name, too.
None of which are coming to me right now…
God, I suck.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:21 AM PST up reply actions
One of the many, many, many terrible bands I was in at University was called Tequila Mockingbird
We were terrible.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
I was in a band called "Animal Fudge"
We had one song, called “Fuc**ng Metermaids Eat Their Young”
We would play it about ten times in a row, then get really drunk and go scream at random people out the window…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 5:35 PM PST up reply actions
I would see that band
I was in another band called Neurotic Fruit Abuse.
that band was also terrible.
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Hmmm...you've inspired me to rewatch The Apartment tonight.
I was feeling a bit depressed last week so I logged on to Amazon and went on a DVD splurge. I bought Network, Zodiac, La Dolce Vita, Dave Chappelle’s For What It’s Worth, E.T., Into the Wild, and The Apartment.
I had stopped buying DVDs a long time ago, but now that you can get them so cheap online, I think I’m gonna restart the collection. Anyway, The Apartment sounds like a pretty good watch tonight.
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 4, 2010 9:34 PM PST up reply actions
My favorite movie boast involves E.T.
I saw E.T. in the theaters on the day it opened, at a matinee. I have never seen it since. That means the amount of time that has passed since the last time I saw E.T. is almost the maximum possible, and anyone else who say it on opening day has probably watched it again since. That’s even cooler than being able to say I’ve never seen a movie at all (which I could for zillions of them).
E.T., by the way, was the last blockbuster that did not have pre-release publicity. You kids may have trouble believing this, but in the old days they actually didn’t have shit-tons of advertising for a movie before it opens. That started to change in the early 1980s, first with the big films and eventually for almost everything. I had never even heard of E.T. My buddy from down the street said, “hey, we’re going to this new movie that’s supposed to be good, wanna come?” so I said, “um, OK.”
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
You mean you haven't heard someone call someone else "penis breath" since 1982?
Now, that’s a shame.
Anyway, what kind of pre-release publicity are you talking about? They’ve done trailers since forever and I’m fairly sure there was huge TV marketing campaign for Jaws (1975).
by LongLiveLangerhans on Feb 4, 2010 10:08 PM PST up reply actions
I mean that E.T. was the last big movie that DIDN'T
Many movies before that did. The changeover was gradual over many years, during which some did and some didn’t. E.T. was the last didn’t of that era.
I don’t mean trailers. Trailers were around since before I was. But pre-release TV advertising was done only for selected movies.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
That Zodiac dvd is really good
and I like how in the commentary Fincher acknowledges that he’s made everyone terrified of the Hurdy Gurdy Man song.
Wow, Prince is really going off on this version of Purple Rain.
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Cuckoo's Nest, original Planet of the Apes, Y Tu Mamá También,
Pulp, Rounders, Good Will, Saving Private Ryan, Dark Knight, Antwone Fisher, Searching for Bobby Fischer, Superbad, Training Day.
And anything with Salma or Penelope in it.
Sports movies are their own list.
I'm here to talk about the past.
Dark Knight was good.
That one scene in Superbad where they’re in the sleeping bags and the fat kid boops Michael Cera on the nose always reminds me of me and you.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:35 PM PST up reply actions
Holy shit, that's funny.
How about the part where I watch you go down the escalator at the end?
I claim the Michael Cera role on account that I have had a teenage girl throw up in my bed.
Not recently, jeez.
I'm here to talk about the past.
Yeah, that's probably right.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:21 AM PST up reply actions
I guess I'll play too, no particular order.
SW: Return of the Jedi
SW: Revenge of the Sith
The Story of Us
Conan the Barbarian
Labyrinth
The Princess Bride
Pirates of the Caribbean
Star Trek: First Contact
Muppets Take Manhattan
Super Troopers
I dunno about worst movies. I try to forget them.
CONAN!
WHAT IS BEST IN LIFE?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 9:35 PM PST up reply actions
The Princess Bride
Classic!
“No more rhyming, and I mean it!”
“Anybody want a peanut!”
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Yay movies
Love:
Chinatown
Dr. Strangelove
The Godfather Part II
Grosse Point Blank
Goodfellas
Miller’s Crossing
[space reserved for upcoming Arrested Development movie]
The Conformist
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
The Usual Suspects
The only ones I can remember hating would be Napoleon Dynamite and The Matrix 2. And Pay it Forward.
Ha, Matrix 2 is highlariously bad. I'd forgotten about that
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
Yeah, especially because
The first one was so great. I expected to hate the first one and loved it sooooo much, but the second one was so bad I’ve still never seen the third.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
2 and 3 are basically the same movie
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by Helloooo 1st on Feb 5, 2010 12:39 PM PST up reply actions
you and me are i to i hear. Here?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:14 PM PST up reply actions
How the fuck can you hate Napoleon Dynamite
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
I couldn't get through the first ten minutes.
The character was unbelievably irritating. I know that’s kind of the point, but eh.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
I think I just got there too late
I was already inundated with people saying “Gosh!” every four seconds and all that. And yeah, mostly I found him irritating, which in itself isn’t a bad thing (Miles from Sideways = horribly irritating, but that movie still rocks), but in this case, me no likey.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:27 AM PST up reply actions
That movie annoyed the shit out of me.
There was just nothing funny about it.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
I actually saw that one...
It makes total sense that it was set in Idaho…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 10:21 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, in Rupert, I think
Last I heard, they still have a yearly festival.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
The Who are playing the Super Bowl.
Here’s a little taste.
Jesus, Daltry can’t sing at all any more and half the band’s dead. They are all going to keep playing until they come out in wheelchairs, aren’t they? The time to quit, fellas, if you were interested at all in not becoming the joke/farce/sick sick self-parody was the late seventies.
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i'm looking forward to it, it will probably be the best super bowl halftime show in years
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
from a pure trainwreck pov, probably.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 11:35 PM PST up reply actions
I am too.
They’ve actually been fairly decent recently. Springsteen was a good choice, as was Tom Petty.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Ever since Nipplegate
the trend has been to go with artists who are less of a risk to bare their wrinkly skin.
I'm here to talk about the past.
well, and they've been conservative, like most everything the NFL does,
but most of them have been awesome.
I was blown away by how good Paul McCartney was the first year. He just belted it out like there wasn’t half the world watching him. It was impressive.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:22 AM PST up reply actions
Thankfully
The Superbowl is starting to annoy me. It’s been trending away from the demographic that made it popular: the 18-40 year old male market. I’m glad the music got wrenched back into that category, now I just wish the marketing would get back to it and we’ll be good.
The problem with the marketing
is that it’s the one show that certain people actually watch for the marketing. Which allows marketers to target the people who watch the marketing and not the people who watch the actual game.
And the people who watch the marketing are mostly bored wives/girlfriends/significant others.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Ya I get that
But the reason the commercials became so popular in the first place was because they unapologeticly targeted the football demographic – dimwitted 18-40 year old males. And the commercials were awesome. Nowdays, they’re slowly whittling away the funny commercials and I think people are genuinely less excited for them. Now that might just be selection bias on the people I interact with – but I don’t think I’m terribly off in saying that the last couple of years have had generally blah commercials.
Sure
It’s been going downhill for some time.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
The problem with the Super Bowl halftime show
is that it’s in the middle of a football game.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:30 AM PST up reply actions
I don't mind watching the Rolling Stones
Or The Who, or Tom Petty play. Those sorta fit the feel of a football game, and aren’t tooo distracting. I don’t think halftime shows are necessarily evil – I enjoyed watching the marching bands for the few college football games I actually went to. I don’t like halftime shows that actively alienate the core audience like an aging Janet Jackson combined with Justin Timberlake, Nelly and Kid Rock.
I started shaving my head a little over a year ago, and watched the SB last year for the razor commercials.
But, lo and behold, there weren’t any! I thought the SB was a platform for announcing the newest innovations in shaving, and all I saw were cars, cars, cars. I was very disappointed, went out and bought a Trac III on impulse, and vowed not to watch the SB again.
I'll ruin it for you
2010: Six blades
2011: Seven Blades
2012: ???
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 1:15 PM PST up reply actions
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
I love that it's done in classic Economist style.
They even copied the typestyle.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
they? it's actually from the economist
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
Oh, even cooler.
I just assumed it was faked.
The Economist is goofy sometimes. My favorite from back in my subscriber days is when they had an editorial arguing in favor of converting to a ten-hour clock. I think they were serious.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Isn't that what the Benedictines used?
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
i once sent a belgian friend an economist article
arguing that belgium had outlived its usefulness and should be disbanded as a nation state. he couldn’t really argue.
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
I remember that one!
The Economist is awesome.
I couldn’t keep up with a weekly, though, and it’s pricey, so when it came time to trim the budget, it was an easy call to let it go.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Did you know that the GOP are not actually elephants?
It’s just a symbol for a party, not an actual group of elephants.
What a fraud. Americans want a REAL elephant in office, not just a bunch of fakers…
(My name is Stomper, and I endorse this message.)
paid for by the Stomper 2010 commitee…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 10:23 AM PST up reply actions
The Super Bowl halftime show must suck
It’s a law, just like gravity, taxes, and furry porn on my roommate’s computer.
"Smokey, this be not the foul jungles of the darkest East Orient. This be ninepins. We are bound by laws."
Lots of movies I would have put on my list are mentioned already. A few more worth mentioning:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Untraceable
The Secret Life of Bees
What Lies Beneath
Shakespeare in Love
Cleaner
Ghost World
The Princess Bride
Little Miss Sunshine
Iceman
Wow that wasn’t so difficult.
Now for the five…..Hated Them!!
Terminator 1, 2, 3,
Friday the 13th Franchise
The Neverending Story
Lost in Translation
The Nutty Professor
Would you believe me when I tell you
You’re the queen of my heart?
Please don’t deceive me when I hurt you—
Just ain’t the way it seems.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 4, 2010 11:10 PM PST up reply actions
Shocking Blue!
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:49 AM PST up reply actions
but you were probably listening to Nirvana...
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 5, 2010 7:49 AM PST up reply actions
um, can I be cool and CLAIM Shocking Blue?
Even though I have no idea who they are?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:23 AM PST up reply actions
I just found out I might have been a Nirvana fan had I been listening ito them in their time....
instead I was listening to fusion and jazz…..trying to portray an establishment vibe as I was beginning my career. For some strange reason, I thought I couldn’t be listening and grooving to the same music my students were listening too. Silly me…..
Jazz is more fun to play than to listen to...
as long as you’re good enough to play it…
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by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 10:25 AM PST up reply actions
Agreed.
There’s just something about the on-the-fly communication that goes on in jazz that you don’t get with any other form of music. If you really boil down almost every other kind of music, performing is essentially nothing more than muscle memory. Jazz is turns into an unrehearsed non-verbal conversation between bandmates on stage.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
you hate the neverending stoooorrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyy!
that is sad ;-)
“Such strong hands . . . but they could not stop, The Nothing”
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
No...just the movie.
I LOVED the book. The movie was a big disappointment – not nearly as magical as the book was.
I could see that
I actually never read the book. Perhaps I will go back and read it.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Oh God, I forgot I'd once seen Never Ending Story 2
I remember nothing about it, save that it was the first film I ever left thinking ‘boy, that was bad’
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
THE KID FROM FREE WILLY'S IN THAT?!
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 9:52 PM PST up reply actions
My list, no particular order
Good:
1. LOTR trilogy (Fellowship if I had to choose)
2. Saving Private Ryan
3. Cashback
4. The Wrestler
5. King of California
6. Forrest Gump
7. Shaun of the Dead (I think Hot Fuzz was hilarious too)
8. Dark Knight
9. Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
10. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Bad:
1. Swimfan
2. Land of the Lost
3. Spiderman 3
4. Either Batman movie after Keaton and before Bale
5. Any Steven Seagal/JCVD movie
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
Lock, Stock was pretty damned good.
Just saw it a couple months ago.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Have you seen Snatch?
Apparently whichever one of Lock, Stock and Snatch you see first you love and the other is a disappointment. I saw Snatch first and thought LSATSB was not that great.
"Loyal? I'm the most loyal player money can buy." - Don Sutton
Snatch and LSatSB are essentially the same movie.
I think Snatch is better done, but was disappointed in both when I saw the other.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 2:40 PM PST up reply actions
I haven't
although it’s one I’ve been meaning to see. But yeah, that’s pretty much what I’ve heard—Snatch is a better Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Personally I like Lock, Stock better
And I’m pretty sure I saw Snatch first. I’m not currently able to give any useful reasons as to why, as they are very similar movies and I often get parts mixed up. I should go back and watch them again.
Hot Fuzz
was incredible. So, so incredible.
Have you ever seen Spaced, Simon Pegg’s TV show from back in the day? Seems like you might like it if you dig both those movies.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:35 AM PST up reply actions
I haven't even heard of it
But if I get the chance I’ll definitely check it out. Does Nick Frost come out in it as well?
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Feb 5, 2010 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
Have you seen Pirate Radio
or The Boat That Rocked if you’re from across the pond?
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
Extremely
I mentioned it because Nick Frost is in it. First bit of “serious” acting I’ve seen him do and he was great.
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Feb 7, 2010 11:32 AM PST up reply actions
Spaced season 2 is currently on Hulu
I suspect that you think tilting at windmills means something other than what it does.
good lists
Forrest Gump was a good movie.
“Something bit me!”
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
The entire Vietnam scene
Has an incredible amount of good lines in it.
"Their batters are patient to the point that it's annoying." -Ryan Franklin
by Helloooo 1st on Feb 5, 2010 12:41 PM PST up reply actions
Just a few
Star Wars: IV-VI, III even
LOTR
Donnie Brasco
Erin Bronkovich
Jerry McGuire
Schindler’s list
Cinema Paradiso
Die Hard (1)
Beverly Hills Cop (1)
March of the Penguins
really want to see Up in the Sky
Oh, but if I catch a line drive by a girl, that’s girl-on-girl action, the twiceness is eliminated, and it just counts once - gigglingone
Not only is Schindler's List good from the
heartbreaking standpoint of a poignant act by a man who comes to make several changes in his life, it’s awesome in the beginning when we get to see how OS manipulates the situation to his benefit (setting up the party in the bar/restaurant, basically setting a cultural capital trap for the general). Plus it’s got Liam Neeson in it. He’s AWESOME. I could watch him read soup cans.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:27 AM PST up reply actions
It's quite good.
It’s a little more low-key than Thank You For Smoking, but otherwise pretty similar.
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
Some of my favorites
LA Confidential
To Be or Not To Be (the 1942 version, not the Mel Brooks remake, although that one’s pretty good too)
Laura
A Room with a View
The Iron Giant
Amelie
Dear Frankie
Finding Nemo
His Girl Friday
Rear Window
A few recent movies I hated:
GI Joe: Rise of the Cobra
Made of Honor
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
apparently, there's two of you.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 9:18 AM PST up reply actions
Ha
I think there were like ten people in the theater when I saw it, and it was the first week of its release. I’ve always really liked Emily Mortimer.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
Yes
Gerard was very yummy in that movie. I can’t say that I’ve liked anything he’s been in since then.
Did you see that Emily Mortimer is in Shutter Island? I caught the last few minutes of an interview with her on Reelz channel the other day that I’m hoping they repeat.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
LA Confidential was fantastic
I saw that like four times in the theaters. I wish I had room on my list. We’ll call it #11.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
The Iron Giant was good
“Hey Sport where ya going?”
“I’m going OUT!”
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
Speaking of the Shining
You’ll LOVE this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmkVWuP_sO0
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
almost as old as "twss"
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
and yet, still topical
They call their best player "Kung Fu Panda" and they complain that people aren’t taking them or the game seriously enough? -Nick
Now evertime I hear Solisbury Hill
I am going to think of this
I'll have a sandwich and a draft(sic). - Bill King (RIP)
I just saw that for the first time a couple months ago
I wasn’t really impressed, it was kind of boring in some parts and they never really explain anything or what is happening/happened. The only scary part IMO was the old lady in the bathroom.
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
let it steep. you’ll see… your mind will make it scarier as time goes by and one day you’ll watch it again and just freak out.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 7:09 PM PST up reply actions
at the risk
of exposing my Mike Patton fetishism, I think that you could make a pretty good best movies list from the second Fantômas album. The name of the album is “The Director’s Cut” and it’s all covers of film themes, with a strong tendency towards old thrillers:
- The Godfather
- Der Golem
- Experiment In Terror
- One Step Beyond
- Night of the Hunter
- Cape Fear
- Rosemary’s Baby
- The Devil Rides Out
- Spider Baby
- The Omen
- Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
- Vendetta
- Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
- Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
- Charade
I put Spider Baby on my list, but this reminds me that I definitely should have also included Night of the Hunter and Rosemary’s Baby (times like a million).
I think MP sets it up so that
you either aren’t a fan, or fetishize his work.
I feel like Angel Dust has aged well somehow. Or maybe I’ve just aged poorly.
by mk on Feb 5, 2010 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
Angel Dust is still awesome
I would say the same about King for a Day, Fool for a Lifetime, but that’s probably because I could listen to the closing track, “Just A Man”, over and over without getting bored.
What maybe hasn’t aged so well is some of the Mr. Bungle stuff. But a lot of that was so good to start with, that it’s still highly worthwhile.
crazy, someone mentioned that album a few weeks ago and i, uh... acquired it recently
i haven’t listened to it yet, though
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
what are you waiting for?
Another good version of the theme from The Night of the Hunter is by Young People.
Keeping with the movie theme
The 9 funniest TV Movie censor moments (according to ifilm.com)
“I’m sick and tired of these monkeyfrying snakes on this Monday to Friday plane!”
You have to include smiley faces - Poppy
;- ) :- ) :-O : -> : -] : -}
What? No Big Lebowski?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCcKBcZzGdA
Always the summers are slipping away.
Find me a way for making it stay.
i dislike all superhero movies and all movies based on comic books / graphic novels (at least until they make an animated "maus" trilogy)
but i would watch wes anderson’s spider-man
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
For those of you that don't know......
BSPN is hugely bias. In Baseball, as all A’s fans should know, the East Coast ShmoSox/Shmankee Bias is palpable and so obvious its ridiculous.
In college football, the BSPN bias extends to the south east and the SEC. For those that don’t know, the SEC has a huge TV contract with ESPN, and that is why BSPN ranks those programs so high, on a consistent basis, when it comes to recruiting. BSPN also does everything it can to hype the top SEC teams so the fans wont question their unfair positions in the B(S)CS on a yearly basis.
As a huge USC guy (attended LMU for Grad and Undergrad, and we had no football), its important that all west coast teams (Pac 10, Mountain West, WAC, etc..) understand this bias, fight back against it, and refer to TRULY INDEPENDENT ranking sources like rivals.com. Also, if your a Pac 10 fan, its important that you root for ALL Pac 10 teams when playing non-conference opponents, and that includes hated rivals. (for me UCLA, or for you Cal fans, Stanford)
Top SEC teams don’t play tough out of conference games, cause they know an undefeated season will be rewarded, even if they play 3 powder puff games like Florida and Alabama last season. USC, and the rest of the Pac 10 for that matter, play REAL NON CONFERENCE games EVERY YEAR. USC play ND every year, will play Virginia, next year, and constantly plays the likes of OSU or Arkansas in years past. Heck, even UCLA went to Tenn last year, with a FRESHMAN QB and won. So much for the SEC!
Why am I going off on this rant? Because Florida signed a ton of prospects this offseason, but no class can compare with the offensive skill players that USC signed this year. Some, outside of bias BSPN are calling it the best skill position class of all time. The #2 QB, #1 #3 & #6 TEs, 2 top 5 RBs, and the #1 #3 and #7 WRs. ITS RIDICULOUS!! The fact that BSPN would put them at #7 is almost criminal, and just goes to show how little respect the Pac 10, let alone USC, gets.
GO TROJANS!!
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
USC gets no media respect?
Huh?
"Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige
Its about the Pac 10 and west coast in general......
Sure USC gets media hype, and talked about on BSPN, but its the rankings I take issue with.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 10:19 PM PST up reply actions
ESPN
They love USC football and the Lakers, though.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 5, 2010 9:30 PM PST up reply actions
Not over the SEC......
to much money involved to put them ahead of the top SEC teams.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 10:17 PM PST up reply actions
And its more than USC......
They cant ignore USC, true, but they do everyone else in the Pac 10, and thats wrong. The Pac 10 has been deeper than the SEC for several years now.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 10:18 PM PST up reply actions
um, what?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 10:20 PM PST up reply actions
Pac-10
Last year, it was better than the SEC. I’m not sure so about previous years.
I think the Pac-10 got its due, for the most part, last year from ESPN. We heard a lot about Oregon and a few whispers about Oregon State. Arizona could have been mentioned a few more times, I guess.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 5, 2010 10:24 PM PST up reply actions
I'm sorry, but you're both smoknig crack.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 10:28 PM PST up reply actions
Charleston Southern, Troy, and FIU.....
those are the three powder puffs that Florida played in NON conference last season. Add that to Vandy, and its clear they are respected way too much. USC only played SJ State, to start the season, then played OSU and ND in NON conference games.
A CLEAR AND WIDE DIFFERENCE IN STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE, and it happens every year.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 11:09 PM PST up reply actions
FIU, North Tex, and Chattanooga
are the three powder puff non conference teams Bama played. ITS CRAP!! And they get respect for it, which is even worse.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 11:11 PM PST up reply actions
Alabama
They played those teams, yeah, but they played LSU, Mississippi, Florida, Virginia Tech and South Carolina. I didn’t even mention Texas. All of those teams were ranked at the time.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 5, 2010 11:16 PM PST up reply actions
Again with the rankings......
They mean nothing in the SEC, Eastern biased world we live in. Other than Texas, in the nation title game, they played NO ONE outside the SEC. Also, while Pac 10 teams have to play EVERY OTHER Pac 10 team, Alabama does not have to play all the SEC teams. In fact, their biggest traditional rival is Ole Miss, and they did not even play them this season.
So again, to recap. Play all the SEC teams, and at least two good non conference teams like the Pac 10 does, and then they can have all the respect they can handle from me. Until then, its all BSPN, East Coast bias BS.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 11:36 PM PST up reply actions
The SEC's not really the east coast.
Not in the East Coast bias sense, anyhow.
I mean, if it were the ACC or the Big East….but it’s not. It’s the south. And the south is quite different, quite divorced from the East Coast.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 11:55 PM PST up reply actions
Well.....
when I say East Coast Bias, I mainly mean ESPN bias. In baseball its the northeast, specifically the Yankees and BoSox, cause there always played on their networks. In college Football its the South East, specifically the SEC, again cause they have a contract with ESPN, and the games are always played on their networks.
Its really a financial and ratings based bias. They pump the SEC up to boost ratings, and thus fatten their wallets. If ESPN had deals with the ACC or Big East, I guarantee these conferences would all of a sudden be hyped beyond belief, to improve/support ESPNs bottom line.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 6, 2010 3:21 AM PST up reply actions
you're puttting the cart before the horse.
they signed that contract in 2008. CBS had the contract before them.
Are you saying that ESPN has only been pumping up the SEC since 2008?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 8:35 AM PST up reply actions
CBS still has a contract with the SEC
They do a game a week, usually Florida beating up some punching bag.
Shawn Spencer: "I’m receiving a transmission from your husband. Really more of a voicemail, if I'm being honest. A status update. Perhaps a twitter."
Burton Guster: "I believe it’s called a tweet."
Shawn Spencer: "There’s no way I’m saying that."
Well, there you go.
Issue solved.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 9:57 AM PST up reply actions
nice passionate intensity.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 11:22 PM PST up reply actions
Year before last......
Pac 10 went 5-0 in bowls.
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by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 11:05 PM PST up reply actions
Cool
This past year, the record sucked. Bowl records aren’t a good way of looking at how good a conference was.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 5, 2010 11:14 PM PST up reply actions
True.....
But there were 7 bowl teams. The depth of the Pac 10 this past season has not been seen in decades. They beat the crap out of each other all season.
"I mean, come on, man. I'm a vet. Don't talk to me like that. If they do, I'll just smile." Nnamdi Asomugha
by s0sNe@kYbUtY? on Feb 5, 2010 11:38 PM PST up reply actions
Agreed
The Pac-10 was better than the SEC. I agree with you, but it doesn’t diminish the success of Alabama as being the best team in the country.
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by Rated-R Superstar on Feb 6, 2010 8:48 AM PST up reply actions
to avoid listing repo man again (not just in this thread… didn’t we do the top 10 movies only a few months ago?) here’s my 10 favorite movies almost nobody’s ever heard of and which my enthusiasm for makes me look really stupid when i start spouting out lines and nobody knows what i’m talking about. but that’s my life…
1. sans soleil (sort of like a mood documentary about trying to know japanese culture, but not. somebody listed la jetee up there. now come see chris marker in feature length and personal.)
2. medium cool (indy filmmaking gets caught up in the chicago riots totally by accident)
3. memorias del subdesarrollo / memories of underdevelopment (cuban filmmaking gets caught up in the revolution not totally by accident)
4. liquid sky (what repo man did to LA and space aliens and punk and plates of shrimp, this does to NY and space aliens and synth music and cocaine)
5. beer (80s sendup of TV advertising with rip torn, loreta switt, david alan grier, and the nazi from the producers)
6. myra breckinridge (amazing homage/accusation of hollywood’s golden age through the eyes of an empowered, and newly transgendred, hottie. with raquel welch, an ancient mae west, farrah fawcet, and a bonus mustacheless tom selleck cameo)
7. sisters (sane/crazy hot siamese twins have your twist ending in depalma their hands)
8. wise blood (as sampled by ministry in jesus built my hotrod, “nobody with a good car needs to be justified.” but why isn’t this available in DVD?!?!)
9. prince of the city (early 80s undercover narc flic that just kicks your ass like a corrupt cop would)
10. three women (the retelling of a dream: yellow and purple, wading retirees, paintings of lizards, palm springs, a car with a skirt hanging out of the door. i think it’s obvious by now i don’t really need a sane plot to enjoy looking at moody pictures.)
and bonus! my 5 favorite movies people did probably hear about but totally forget to mention when making top lists
1. be kind rewind (this movie is a devastating argument against CGI. with cardboard cutouts they do so much more than if they’d tried to make it “realistic.” filmmakers, please, don’t let effects get in the way of a perfectly fine trope!)
2. easy money (the forgotten rodney dangerfield master work)
3. the decline of western civilization (genius doco about punk in LA. i want to shove it down the throat of PBS’s history of rock and roll when they skip from 70s NY punk to mid-80s grunge with a “oh, and not much else happened in between.”)
4. grey gardens (edie and edie in despair and disrepair, and showing a bit of skin too! eww…)
5. pepe le moko (okay, nobody’s heard of this one either, but i didn’t want to go with a top-11 list up there.)
don't care if i ever get back.
1,2 and 3 make me happy in pants.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 7:20 PM PST up reply actions
put it on a plate, colin, you'll enjoy it more.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 8:15 PM PST up reply actions
you know what i didn't enjoy?
the repo man savenger hunt. once in a lifetime event and i completely missed it.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 8:26 PM PST up reply actions
you guys have heard about this,
right?
Repo Chick — Alex Cox’ sequel to Repo Man. It’s probably going to be horrible.
Speaking of horrible, did anyone see Straight To Hell, which was basically Alex Cox and his buddies (including Joe Strummer, young Courtney Love, Elvis Costello, Shane McGowen, and fucking Jim Jarmusch) screwing around in the desert, making a movie about outlaws, but clearly high out of their minds and definitely without any shred of a script. I didn’t post a five worst list above, but this movie would definitely be on it.
This would actually be a pretty good category for people to brainstorm on: try to come up with the director / producer / actor / whatever who has the most extreme combination of great movie and stab-my-eyes-out horrible movie.
In other stab-my-eyes-out news, it’s 9pm on a Friday and I’m working on my thesis.
alternately,
it’s 12:14 am and I’m still in a fucking sign shop.
Write that thesis. Write it.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 9:14 PM PST up reply actions
I'll take "Signs your life has taken a wrong turn" for a 1000 Alex.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
Yeh. Big hat. It's funny, because it's big.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 9:55 PM PST up reply actions
Dude, you were free, too.
Why didn’t you run like hell when the path was clear?
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
(sigh)
it’s a long and sad story.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 11:56 PM PST up reply actions
We've got Community Guidelines here...
Bloomie should have a mailing list for his NSFW/CGV material…
"Sniff some krazy glue, and start a religion!"- The Reverend Billy Lard
by Gaijin_Suketto on Feb 6, 2010 10:29 AM PST up reply actions
well, it doesn't really get dirty until midway through the second act.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 10:33 AM PST up reply actions
And by that point we've been hooked.
You could put it in the ‘LB Insider’ section on your website.
by LoneStranger on Feb 6, 2010 12:06 PM PST up reply actions
true...
and I could become rich!
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 12:09 PM PST up reply actions
maybe my current perception is still shaped by seeing it on acid the first time. it’s a compilation recorded at a party, strung together by silly plot lines, with all these rocks on the ground that keep moving like snakes but i like it.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 9:55 PM PST up reply actions
and the trailer of repo chick looks good to me. it’s got those anti CGI special effects i like. all it needs is dialog to keep up with the original and i’m in.
don't care if i ever get back.
by AV on Feb 5, 2010 10:02 PM PST up reply actions
Jesus, that looks awful.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 10:23 PM PST up reply actions
I'm with you on Straight to Hell
I worshiped Repo Man, and I’ll defend Sid and Nancy forever, but Walker and Straight to Hell were just self-indulgent jack-offery. I still wonder what the hell happened to Alex Cox, why he just pissed away his talent like that. Off hand, I can’t think of any other filmmaker who traveled to such extreme poles of brilliance and pure crap.
Except Jim Varney. (Just kidding.)
Funny movie
Have you seen this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLP2II1ElOU? I think I liked it better than the original Lord of the Rings.
don't grow up too fast / and don't embrace the past / this life's too good to last
Sisters messed me up
I saw it when I was around 12, maybe. Oh man, that traumatized me. And the weird thing is, during the intermission they played a bunch of disco songs, one of which was “Fly Robin Fly” or whatever that was called. And to this day, whenever I hear that song (which I guess is pretty much never these days) it freaks me out.
do you black out and wake up hours later,
in a random family’s backyard, naked, save a pair of rubber gloves, covered in fire ants and Gerber’s Strained Peaches?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 10:49 PM PST up reply actions
Just for laughs, I went through this entire thread
and counted the movies mentioned that I’ve actually seen (excluding ones in my own post unless someone else brought them up independently).
The answer was 36, including eight that I think I’ve seen but I’m not 100% sure.
I counted another six where I’ve seen part of the movie (ie, more than five minutes but less than an hour).
I did count movies that were never specifically named but were clearly indicated (eg, Clockwork Orange). I did not count movies described only by category (eg, “anything with Robin Williams”).
There were only three lists including more than two that I’ve seen.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
whose lists?
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 5, 2010 9:15 PM PST up reply actions
Lynnzgal was the most.
Assuming “Holy Grail” means the Monty Python movie, I’ve seen five of her ten: a full 50%! With Guapo Bob I had 4 hits (though I’m not 100% sure of Mockingbird) plus about 20 minutes of a fifth. Closet A’s Fan was 5 plus a partial, but only because he listed all the Star Wars as one movie and I’m counting it as three. Since he did the same with LotR, that’s like listing 15 movies.
Several had 2 hits, but I didn’t write down who they were. One was you, though you also listed way more than 10.
One of Lynn’s that I’ve seen is probably the last one you’d guess. (Or at least it was before I said that.) I remember disliking it. That was a long time ago, but I’m pretty sure I’d still dislike it. I think it was the first R-rated movie I ever saw … which I guess gives it away since I think it’s the only R-rated movie on her list.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Yea, I could have easily posted the entire six movies of SW and the three of LotR, but
it’s too easy. The constraint on 10 movies makes it harder and requires more thought.
by LoneStranger on Feb 6, 2010 12:20 AM PST up reply actions
I forgot Rear Window, though.
Which is a terrible oversight on my part. Must pay homage to Hitchcock.
I had it on mine.
though as iglew pointed out, I had 22 and 7/12th on my list, which clearly breaks the rules of a top ten.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 10:38 AM PST up reply actions
It was hard to think about only 10.....I have a lot more movies years on many here - so a lot more choices to make!
Assuming I dig waaaay back in the memory banks!
I like Hitchcock OK, but I don't think I'm really a fan.
My favorite Hitchcock movie is North by Northwest.
I’m pretty sure this falls in the category of “Anyone who says that [A] is their favorite work by [B], isn’t really a [B] fan.”
I also liked Dial M for Murder. A lot of the others I find pretty meh, if I’ve even seen the whole thing at all. I can think of at least four famous Hitchcock movies that I’ve seen parts of but never sat through the whole thing.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
hitchcock
my “i don’t get the hype” seven
1. marnie
2. north by northwest
3. rope
4. spellbound
5. the 39 steps
6. shadow of a doubt (the first 1/3 is good)
7. rebecca
my top seven
1. vertigo
2. dial m for murder
3. rear window
4. psycho
5. the lady vanishes
6. strangers on a train
7. notorious
i don’t really remember frenzy, torn curtain, lifeboat, to catch a thief, the birds…
A's v Giants "is kind of like the difference between going to see the Ramones and going to see the Bee Gees. A's fans will go see the Ramones."
-BB 07/27/05
That would make it 22 and 2/3rds.
REDUCE YOUR FRACTIONS, MK!
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 10:52 AM PST up reply actions
This is AN.
LCD.
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by Leopold Bloom on Feb 6, 2010 10:55 AM PST up reply actions
Hard for me to narrow down to even 10
INPO (Subject to change at any given moment)
Big Lebowski
The Bedford Incident
Goodfellas
Shawshank Redemption
Bull Durham
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Fletch
Airplane
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
For a Few Dollars More
Even harder to list movies I hate, and I choose not to be negative but you could never pay me enough to sit thru any of the Lord of the Rings movies. Its just not my thing.
I'll have a sandwich and a draft(sic). - Bill King (RIP)
The Gods Must Be Crazy
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
That's on my list to try again.
I saw it once, ages ago, and loved it. My (ex-)wife had never even heard of it, so I was hoping to get her to Netflix it, but it never happened.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
I even liked the sequel
Nothing scarier and funnier than those poor kids in the water tank and the rifle.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
IS FF out there?
FF, Bioshock 2 comes out Tuesday.
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Also just released
Mass Effect 2
Ex-TV President Martin Sheen and Matrix hottie Carrie-Ann Moss with the vocals!
Already sold over 2 million copies.
"No matter what I talk about, I always get back to baseball." - Connie Mack
Not that good
Certainly not compared to the first one.
CuttheMullet, from "The Thread":
"Whenever I’m about to do something, I think "would an idiot do that?" and if they would, I do not do that thing."
How is it that the DLDs before and after this one
are both on the recommended list, but this one isn’t? That’s just wacko.
If a third person were to recommend it now, would it go between them on the list, or would it go to the top? I think it goes on top.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Nope
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