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Frontpage Magazine : The Return of the Right

Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:18:03 +0000

Hopefully like Rand Paul and Marco Rubio you believe that social issues should be left up to the states.

Big Hollywood : Today's Open Thread

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:21:00 +0000

1 - http://www.markshep.com/nonviolence/Myths.html 2 - http://www.sanghparivar.org/blog/rkm/gandhis-musl... While Gandhi did a few goods things he did some really bad things too

Big Hollywood : Blu-ray Review: 25 Years Later, 'The Breakfast Club' Matters

Sun, 8 Aug 2010 16:06:37 +0000

Agreed.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:45:45 +0000

Good post.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:44:53 +0000

'' I wonder about the converse? Hollywood has assaulted masculinity, and at the same time tried to inject testosterone into femininity. Your post, and a few others by women are my case in point. Not long ago women would never write such crude and vulgar things - that was the domain of the barbaric male. Not any more... '' Good post.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:44:24 +0000

'' Hollywood itself is so shallow that it fails to recognize that both of these traits exist within both sexes: they're simply expressed in different ways. '' Agreed.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Wed, 4 Aug 2010 18:40:18 +0000

Loved Casino Royale with Daniel Craig but hated Quantum of Solace.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:58:38 +0000

'' ....Hollywood is trying to pander to an audience which has no taste to begin with and is becoming increasingly more and more jaded. Audiences today have no taste whatsoever and wouldn't know a good dramatic production or a true star if they both jumped up and bit them in their collective as(gluteus maximus)ses! I feel sorry for Hollywood. The old studio system was the best. Now its all drugs and hype and total nonsense. The films today are throway just like the rest of our society. There are no feelings, or emotions or loyalties today, just disposable films with little or no plots to speak of, with abysmally poor acting. Hollywood should do what GM and Toyota did; get back to basics. Film real stories with dramtic value and interest and use real actors and actresses who know their craft. Avoid sensationalism and gimmicks like the plague and just tell a good story. Even a move like Smokey and the Bandit or the Coneheads are light years ahead of the stuff we have now! ''

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:58:27 +0000

'' ...I hate to say this, but the older movies really were the best. They had a plot, they had a theme, there was a real conflict and there was not a lot of token violence and the stars were that, truely magnificent acting legends. Gone with the Wind for example is a 1000 page novel with no sex scenes. The only reference to sex in the entire novel is something to the effect that "they closed their bedroom door." Now, it's gynecological sex scenes and graphic violence so strong that even a mortician or a Medical Examiner would look away in horror....''

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:57:59 +0000

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703... '' The problem with the movies today is that they are much like the popular music, they have no theme to speak of and no dramatic or literary value. Even the action sequences today are so high paced it's one hi intensity thrill after another, but that's all she wrote. Further, the thematic material of the movies keeps getting more and more out there. I oftern wonder if some of this stuff is either produced or written by people coming down off a cocaine high or whatever their drug of choice is at that given moment.... ''

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:34:16 +0000

'' People used to go to movies to be entertained and from time to time were rewarded with very good acting. I suspect that is because back in the old days, many actors and actresses came from Broadway and summer stock and were not only more experienced but many were also quite a bit older. Irene Dunne, for example, spent ten years on the road and so did Fred and Adele Astaire and Ginger Rogers. If my memory serves me correctly, Irene Dunne didn't begin her movie career until she was 31 years old, an age at which many modern actors and actresses are long gone and forgotten. '' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703...

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:33:00 +0000

One of the main things that is bringing Hollywood down is acting. The actors/actresses can't act. And don't get me started on ''Bollywood''. Once the thrill of novelity is gone they are even worse (similiar songs, similiar clothes, similiar scenarios, same, same, same, etc). And they have plagiarized Hollywood a lot. http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_a...

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:15:53 +0000

It's not that they don't do productive work. It's that their recognition is misplaced to be in a film. It shouldn't be there. Instead it should be in the biography of the actor where he thanks his caterer, driver, personal assistant alongside his boss, his friends, his family and others.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:14:26 +0000

'' caterers, drivers and personal assistants '' Makeup artists, music technicians, etc should be credited in the film because they are directly involved in the film but caterers, drivers and personal assistants are more towards the movie star than the film. Close but they are not for the film in itself. They are almost like the third link and more towards the actor. Don't confuse them.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:03:39 +0000

To be honest MovieBob I think athletic is the best form for an action hero. Not skinny/anorexic/boyish, not fat, not too muscular and definitely not obese. Jet Li is okay but I really like Bruce Lee. It's because the muscles are actually real and needed/necessary. Not just for 'image' or so forth. Why don't you see his movies. I think you'll like him. He trained for martial arts. He's a martial arts legend for some. Not to mention he has a normal build. He doesn't look like he is on steroids. Athletic = Health.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 02:01:09 +0000

Father_moray I think you are being a tad dramatic. Sorry there is decay and Western civilization is declining but what's the hysteria about ''communism''?

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 01:59:34 +0000

Good post.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 01:57:02 +0000

Agreed. What's sadder than 'I'm always worried about how I look, I do more manicures and pedicures than a woman, I'm always crying and I'm useless' action hero is an action hero that has a ripped body but has a baby face. So out of place.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 01:41:16 +0000

The heart of the hero isn't his sex appeal but it does go into it. And if he is anywhere near ''modern 'progressive' metrosexuality'' than I am out of here.

Big Hollywood : Film Review: Everything Wrong with Hollywood Can Be Summed Up with the Word 'Predators'

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 01:39:20 +0000

I agree. If the action hero is going to have looks make him masculine and rugged. Not a ''pretty boy''. Yuck.