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2 days ago @ Big Hollywood - Big Movie Flashback: '... · 0 replies · +3 points
I have to admit the film was uneven. There is a real lull in the middle of the film. On top of that, the Shaw character's final moments are preposterous, and almost ruined the movie. I am surprised they didn't have smoke coming out of his ears.
I also found it funny when Matthau finally shook down his loudmouthed co-worker "I got trains off schedule!!!!". I was imagining today how he would have been fired and facing a lawsuit!
I also found it funny when Matthau finally shook down his loudmouthed co-worker "I got trains off schedule!!!!". I was imagining today how he would have been fired and facing a lawsuit!
3 days ago @ Frontpage Magazine - The High Price of Tell... · 0 replies · +1 points
What struck me was how Eric's backers and people like them blather on about "taking things out of context" in the Koran.
But believe me. These same people have no problem evoking the Old Testament and would never challenge statements about it as out of context.
But believe me. These same people have no problem evoking the Old Testament and would never challenge statements about it as out of context.
6 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Series Finales Show Ho... · 0 replies · +3 points
You bring up good observations that I have never really thought too much on. Interestingly, every single person I know who watches "Dexter", a pretty evil concept no matter how you package it, is a woman.
6 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - Series Finales Show Ho... · 1 reply · -3 points
Wow, what a ramble. Where does one start with this?
While some excellent points are made about the lack of any spirituality...and the cliches associated with any religious person, as well as the terrorist rant...Mr. Schlichter goes off the rails elsewhere in his screed.
Hunting for a little girl, who ends up being a zombie, and then gets shot in the head---THAT'S quality story telling? That's something great to see? I am waiting for the aborted fetus to become animated and get blown to pieces. Wouldn't that be something? How about cute little twins who make it through this holocaust, but one becomes a zombie, eating the other alive. Mom walks in and can't decide which one to shoot first. No matter, the half eaten one becomes a zombie and kills her. Exciting stuff huh Kurt? I could be a screenwriter.
Yes, none of this time wasting relationship stuff, or any narrative about these people when they aren't killing, or getting shot at in shows. Just keep up the action right?
Kurt's absolutely right. He's just pointed in the wrong direction. Tell you what Kurt, I'll give you a game system and a copy of "Halo" or "Left 4 Dead" or some other such tripe, and you can have your non-stop, kinetic action. In return, you promise to stop writing about movies. Deal?
While some excellent points are made about the lack of any spirituality...and the cliches associated with any religious person, as well as the terrorist rant...Mr. Schlichter goes off the rails elsewhere in his screed.
Hunting for a little girl, who ends up being a zombie, and then gets shot in the head---THAT'S quality story telling? That's something great to see? I am waiting for the aborted fetus to become animated and get blown to pieces. Wouldn't that be something? How about cute little twins who make it through this holocaust, but one becomes a zombie, eating the other alive. Mom walks in and can't decide which one to shoot first. No matter, the half eaten one becomes a zombie and kills her. Exciting stuff huh Kurt? I could be a screenwriter.
Yes, none of this time wasting relationship stuff, or any narrative about these people when they aren't killing, or getting shot at in shows. Just keep up the action right?
Kurt's absolutely right. He's just pointed in the wrong direction. Tell you what Kurt, I'll give you a game system and a copy of "Halo" or "Left 4 Dead" or some other such tripe, and you can have your non-stop, kinetic action. In return, you promise to stop writing about movies. Deal?
7 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - New York Times · 1 reply · +6 points
Seriously Mike, have you been asleep the last 10 years?
7 weeks ago @ Big Hollywood - New York Times · 0 replies · +16 points
Movies today are awful. Why do I want to see young people murdered gruesomely? We used to have critics like Roger Ebert, before he went insane, standing up to sadism in movies, now he enjoys it...anything to be relevant, right? I bet he's drooling at the thought of "Sin CIty 2".
Torture films, gross out "comedies", and bad remakes. I remember the remake of "3:10 to Yuma" was cynically changed to have the good guy die and lose everything, as opposed to the original. Did we need a remake of True Grit? With Jeff Bridges mumbling the dialog--and that's considered great acting? The Coen Brothers can do no wrong, despite what garbage, like "No Country for Old Men" spews forth. Seriously, why do I want to see a movie about a vicious murderer who gets away with it?
Or "comedies" with young women farting, or a script that is focused on bodily emissions? "The Hangover" had a few light laughs, but that's a major hit? Have we really sunk that low?
Hollywood doesn't get it. I don't want to see women farting, getting a drill through their head, people ripped apart, comedies that look like 2 hour improv sessions. I have had enough of that fathead Jonah Hill. Adam Sandler was NEVER funny, and he's not funny dressed as a woman. If you make a "Green Hornet" movie, you don't make it a comedy "thriller" and you don't have Seth Rogen in it. As a matter of fact, we don't need Seth Rogen anymore period. Justin Timberlake needs to go away, as does Cameron Diaz, Mark Wahlberg, Jack Black, Will Smith, Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise. I have had enough rampaging murderer movies where the sadistic killer gets away at the end, because, well, there might be a sequel in it! I don't need women empowerment movies. I don't need anti-military, anti-Conservative, let's laugh at the Christians messages.
There, I feel better.
Torture films, gross out "comedies", and bad remakes. I remember the remake of "3:10 to Yuma" was cynically changed to have the good guy die and lose everything, as opposed to the original. Did we need a remake of True Grit? With Jeff Bridges mumbling the dialog--and that's considered great acting? The Coen Brothers can do no wrong, despite what garbage, like "No Country for Old Men" spews forth. Seriously, why do I want to see a movie about a vicious murderer who gets away with it?
Or "comedies" with young women farting, or a script that is focused on bodily emissions? "The Hangover" had a few light laughs, but that's a major hit? Have we really sunk that low?
Hollywood doesn't get it. I don't want to see women farting, getting a drill through their head, people ripped apart, comedies that look like 2 hour improv sessions. I have had enough of that fathead Jonah Hill. Adam Sandler was NEVER funny, and he's not funny dressed as a woman. If you make a "Green Hornet" movie, you don't make it a comedy "thriller" and you don't have Seth Rogen in it. As a matter of fact, we don't need Seth Rogen anymore period. Justin Timberlake needs to go away, as does Cameron Diaz, Mark Wahlberg, Jack Black, Will Smith, Ben Stiller and Tom Cruise. I have had enough rampaging murderer movies where the sadistic killer gets away at the end, because, well, there might be a sequel in it! I don't need women empowerment movies. I don't need anti-military, anti-Conservative, let's laugh at the Christians messages.
There, I feel better.
7 weeks ago @ Big Government - Communism Is Not a Goo... · 1 reply · +1 points
The core ideas....shared work and shared wealth DOES look good on paper, that is, if you are a small group of people trying to survive on an island after a shipwreck, for example. Everyone works, everyone pulls their weight, everyone gets an equal share of food and shelter. It works because in a small group, everyone knows who is working and who might try to slack off. You can be a small, tightly knit group.
Once the group becomes large and specialization comes in, and then you no longer have the ability to monitor folks, your personal productive capabilities come into play, and the value they bring to others as individuals. THAT is when the system of capitalism works. And it's the only system that IS fair.
Simple as that.
Once the group becomes large and specialization comes in, and then you no longer have the ability to monitor folks, your personal productive capabilities come into play, and the value they bring to others as individuals. THAT is when the system of capitalism works. And it's the only system that IS fair.
Simple as that.
10 weeks ago @ Big Government - Adam Carolla Explains ... · 0 replies · +1 points
I remember going to high school in white bread, shi$-hole Schaumburg Il. We lived in the best neighborhood around, called "The Woods". It was surrounded by lower middle class older homes. People used to wind down through our neighborhood from the surrounding neighborhoods so they could be seen leaving and coming through our gates, no kidding. I remember that as soon as a guy--a guy I would have no beef with--found out that I lived in "The Woods", he would hate me. "You think you're so great living in the Woods, don't you"....I must have heard that 1000 times. Finally, I replied to a guy "No, it just is that my dad is a heck of a lot smarter and better than YOUR dad"....and of course, the big oaf took a swing at me because the truth hurts.
I agree with Adam here...conflicts from the school bully to world wars are never because of religion, or cultures, or beliefs. It's sheer jealousy that you have what I want and I don't think you deserve it.
And the sad thing is people never reverse that attitude until your physically beat on them.
I agree with Adam here...conflicts from the school bully to world wars are never because of religion, or cultures, or beliefs. It's sheer jealousy that you have what I want and I don't think you deserve it.
And the sad thing is people never reverse that attitude until your physically beat on them.
11 weeks ago @ Big Government - Buh-Bye-Barney: A Vide... · 0 replies · +2 points
Go fist f$#% yourself, Mr. -121.
11 weeks ago @ Big Government - Newt Gingrich Is Right... · 1 reply · +1 points
Another ancient argument that I am sick of. Make it impossible for them to work, and THEY LEAVE. We have already seen that it works in states that start enforcement. Why is this simple fact so hard to comprehend?
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