I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Forrest Gump is a shitty movie and i hate it.
Bo-ZANG!
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Zappa rules!
Bush sucks!!
Thers -- You have to admit, though... without Forrest Gump, one of the funniest lines in Fight Club would have been AWOL.
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Sweet.
And yes, Forrest Gump was total saccharine shite.
hmmm. what have i missed today?
Life is like a cockpunch.
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And I thought, "what the hell is camelblogging???". Then came the light and the wisdom. Yet, here I am...
Not sure C. Thomas Howell's relationship with Evil Martian Babe is entirely healthy...
Ripley: And I thought, "what the hell is camelblogging???". Then came the light and the wisdom. Yet, here I am...
"One hump, or two?"
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btw: to an earlier thread --
There's a legal pro bono initiative to help soldiers returning from Iraq fight for the benefits that the filth staining the White House wants to deny them. I can post a link if anyone is interested, but it might have to wait till Monday....
zappa does rule. seems like weird timing since I just got done watching does humor belong in music.
Not THE Warriors?
The same. What a great movie to waste a weekend afternoon with, though.
Jeepers H. That last thread was a DOG. Than goddess for a fresh start.
The one standout shitty movie I saw in recent years was "Envy", a Barry Levinson film (I think it was ostensibly a comedy).
Not even entertainingly bad. Bad like slow death. The kind of movie that just watching it puts you in a foul mood.
No redeeming qualities. Painful.
14th!
16. Army of Darkness
17. Moulin Rouge
18. Forrest Gump
19. The Matrix
20. The Matrix 2
21. The Matrix: Revolutions
22. The Matrix: Revolutions (sic)
23. Rambo: First Blood
24. Pretty in Pink (mostly for the ending)
25. Schindler's List
gump was a well made movie with a horrible script. the techniques used were good.
-J.T.
No redeeming qualities. Painful.
I disagree.
Christopher Walken.
Flan.
fornicate Bush
Hi y'all moonbats!
There's a legal pro bono initiative to help soldiers returning from Iraq fight for the benefits that the filth staining the White House wants to deny them. I can post a link if anyone is interested, but it might have to wait till Monday....
jezebel - 10:43 pm
yes, please...email it to me, if it's not too much trouble?
tanks, dahlin
Heya, beautifulcaucasianchickidee!
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Question: Why did John Hughes get it right in Some Kind of Wonderful and so despearately wrong in Pretty in Pink?
Hiya, OWL - how's things your way?
16. Army of Darkness
Hail to the king, baby.
25. Schindler's List
What, because the little girl was in a red coat? Fuck you.
one of the worst movies I saw recently was that awful dreck, "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks. Spielberg at full-on schmaltz. Oy. I think it gave half the audience diabetes, and decreased the IQ of the rest of us by 25 points.
The Warriors is a GREAT dumb movie. It had a cult status when I was an NYC 5th grader that means its glamour can never be entirely diminished, for me, anyway....
WGG:
Will do. I wasn't able to make the last training session but am on board for the next. A nice way to say "fuck Bush": help his toy soldiers get the health care they so desperately need after being sent off to his crappy little war.
Fuck Bush.
Monday, WGG.
Who took my peanut butter? I was all set to make cookies!
Mary, evidently I live right around the corner from the building used as the school in Breakfast Club. If it's nice, maybe I'll take my bike over there tomorrow. I'm told it's a police building now.
26. Barry Lyndon
27. Forrest Gump
28. Batman Returns
29. Star Wars 5 or whatever (race car one)
30. Top Gun
I have to snag a copy of Tank Girl, really, I do.
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I can't remember the last time one of these Sci-Fi movies actually bored me to tears...
Forest Gump is a terrific movie and I like it. I don't like it as much as The Burbs, but it's close.
What is it with Republicans and golden showers? Are they all copraphiliacs, too?
GWPDA,
I suspect Arthur.
TANK GIRL!
I knew I liked you, JP.
I disagree.
Christopher Walken.
Flan.
Eli
Rachel Weisz could have walked off the screen and FED me flan during that shite-fest, and I would still completely resent the fact that I spent 10 bucks and 2 hours on it.
25. Schindler's List
What, because the little girl was in a red coat? Fuck you.
No, because of the desperation to draw any sort of happy ending however qualified from the Holocaust. Personal bugbear; never mind. have similar qualms about Saving Private Ryan, FWIW.
24. Pretty in Pink (mostly for the ending)
I slammed that movie when I was a reviewer for my college paper.
I actually received a death threat as a result.
Beware Molly Ringwald fans.
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Yay! Sumiron!
*doze off*
I suspect Arthur.
bigvic - Nah, he's out with the convertible, supposed to be picking up watertiger for drinks and dancing. Would I be making cookies if I had company?
I'm hoping that no one will put one of my all time favorites on their list.
A Night at the Roxbury
Emilioooooo! Mighty Duckman, swear to God...
one of the worst movies I saw recently was that awful dreck, "The Terminal" with Tom Hanks.
renato
Its biggest crime was the fact that it was terminally boring.
No, because of the desperation to draw any sort of happy ending however qualified from the Holocaust. Personal bugbear; never mind. have similar qualms about Saving Private Ryan, FWIW.
See Good Evening, Mr. Wallenberg, with Stellan Skarsgaard, before anyone knew who he was.
Geez, it's getting hard to read the comments through the insects, now. My evil plan to convert my landlord's place into a WiFi haven is going terribly awry...
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Thank you Dr. Atta J. Turk!
31. Runaway Train
32. Forrest Gump
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GWPDA...
You, too?
I wanted some peanut butter toast the other day and the damn jar was practically scraped clean!
16. Army of Darkness
Wasn't that the sequel to "Evil Dead Pt. 2"? (which I thought was worthy of notice)
Oh.my.goddess. - Ripley, believe it or not, but when I read the title, I, too, read camelblogging, first. I had to look closer...
Evening Moonbats, If you are talking the worst movie with the best reviews: I submit for your consideration, MY DINNER WITH ANDRE'. Honestly, I left after thirty minutes and puked.
33. Flashdance
34. Independence Day
35. Forrest Gump
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And yes, Forrest Gump was total saccharine shite.
Eli
Forrest Gump is the All-Time boomer piece of trash. It still astonishes that people spent money on that garbage.
26. Barry Lyndon
27. Forrest Gump
28. Batman Returns
29. Star Wars 5 or whatever (race car one)
30. Top Gun
Top Gun is another repeat, but acceptable, as is peice of crap. Batman Returns... shudder.
Really "bad" movies for me are the ones I have ethical problems with. Movies which are just stupid I can handle, or even enjoy.
I wanted some peanut butter toast the other day and the damn jar was practically scraped clean!
I know damned well I had an unopened jar of extra crunchy Trader Joe variety in the pantry. Couldn't find it then and had to settle for cheese toast and it's not the same.
because of the desperation to draw any sort of happy ending however qualified from the Holocaust.
Dude, the fact that one individual saved 1k people whose progeny outnumber the Jews living in Poland today isn't an amazing thing and something to celebrate?
My probs with the movie: Stevie's highlighting the little girl in the red coat and Oskar's speechifying at the end (he never woulda done that, given that his only uttered justification for his actions was "it was the right thing to do.")
But how can we not consider the aftermath of something so horrific? And how can we not applaud the act of one decent man in the midst of the storm?
Little Big Man is still one of my favorite films. Thomas Berger novel, John Milius script. Berger also wrote Neighbors. Some one did a screen treatment of that. Belushi and Akroyd.
GODDAMN IT!!!! As soon as I post in one thread there's a new one all up and shiny in your face without so much as a howdy do!
We need the little buzzer thingy to alert us to new threads - seriously!
Otherwise - Evening, Moonbats - how's it hanging?
Taking blogging to a whole new level.
Hey everybody! Are you listing crappy movies? Cause I know some of those.
16. Army of Darkness
Wasn't that the sequel to "Evil Dead Pt. 2"? (which I thought was worthy of notice)
Yes. Dead by dawn! Dead by dawn!
Kitty cat blogging
Now that Attaturk is only cameoblogging, I need to get my blogwhoring before he fills up the thread
Nah, he's out with the convertible, supposed to be picking up watertiger for drinks and dancing. Would I be making cookies if I had company?
GWPDA,
Ahhhhh. That explains it. Arthur does love his dancing. I hope he doesn't get carried away with *snapping at the breeze* and what-not. Wanna make cookies, cousin? Be right over. Will we be using the fork to make those odd peanutbutter creations?
Hiya myrna!
Favorite movies: SLC Punk!.
NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
it was the right thing to do.
'scuse me, "it was the decent thing to do." Oatmeal is the right thing to do, and the tasty way to do it.
Why didn't you like Barry Lyndon, Thersites?
Poor Williams...
Really "bad" movies for me are the ones I have ethical problems with
Because of all that nasty, sticky Hollywood sex they're always puttin in them? And George Bush not-lovin?
I'd add almost anything with Ben Affleck. Matt Damon must shake his head some days.
Be right over. Will we be using the fork to make those odd peanutbutter creations?
You betcha. Little grid marks, like the peanut butter was screetching out of town. Bring me a jar of the real stuff, eh?
I don't know how anyone can dis Schindler's List, and I am not saying that out of political correctness.
Highlander 2 was really, really, really awful. As were the 2 Star Wars films prior to the current one.
33. Flashdance
34. Independence Day
35. Forrest Gump
36. Showgirls
37. Sliver
38. Basic Instinct
39. Eternal Sunshine of the Mindless Spot
40. Slackers
41. Forrest Gump
I am a sucker for historical stuff on a grand scale.
Little Big Man is still one of my favorite films. - Nick Dixon
Definitely in my Top 100... bears repeated watching.
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16. Army of Darkness
Wasn't that the sequel to "Evil Dead Pt. 2"? (which I thought was worthy of notice)
I love Army of Darkness.
It's wickedly funny. "Come to poppa!"
This martian movie is probably the worst thing I've ever seen. I couldn't even watch it.
NTodd: But how can we not consider the aftermath of something so horrific? And how can we not applaud the act of one decent man in the midst of the storm?
Did you catch the PBS program a few weeks ago about the gent who worked in the Japanese Consulate's office during WWII, who passed hundreds of Jews through Japanese ports, bound (ostensibly) for some country in the Caribbean? Man, it was touching... dude died peniless, and estranged (due to financial hardship) from his family...
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Hey everybody! Are you listing crappy movies? Cause I know some of those.
mena
Not I. Had enough of that at the last thread. Oy. How you doing?
This martian movie is probably the worst thing I've ever seen. I couldn't even watch it.
Even for Sci-Fi...
Hey - just watched Big Lebowski again last night - genius!
Napoleon Dynamite is a fave right now - but I'm a terrible romantic and old school so my favorite movies tend to be classics - GWTW, Streetcar, (OK - so I'm a Vivien Leigh freak - what of it!)
Tom Hanks...why is he remembered and honored as the Private Ryan/Apollo 13 guy? He should be constantly referred to as the star of The Man With One Red Shoe.
Same thing with Spielberg. Everyone forgets 1941 and AI. Oh, man. AI. What shit.
Celebrities, in a just world, should ALWAYS be remembered by the shit they've produced.
I'd add almost anything with Ben Affleck. Matt Damon must shake his head some days.
Ripley
I *might* be convinced to see another Ben Affleck movie, but only if it's a documentary of him and Ashton Kutcher fighting to the death with power tools, Thunderdome-style.
Hot science babe = major bitch.
This martian movie is probably the worst thing I've ever seen. I couldn't even watch it.
that reminds me, "Mission to Mars" sucked the big wazoo, and 'round that time came out another going-to-Mars flick which was, roughly, just as dreadful...
PBS? I thought BushCo tanked that years ago... ???
Think of the poor televangelists that could be using those airwaves to... sell stuff... and save people, of course. Yeah, saving... that's a big part of it... lotsa saving there...
cheese toast and it's not the same.
GWPDA, Irate Scholar
Cheese toast cookies? MMMmmmm Cheesy!
Two old B&Ws you should rent, FailSafe and Seven Days In May. Make that three, Get Dr. Strangelove. It's a prophetic trilogy.
I don't know how anyone can dis Schindler's List, and I am not saying that out of political correctness.
Well, first of all, I had a full exemption from seeing Hollywood pictures 'interpreting' the Holocaust, on the grounds of actually knowing about the Holocaust. Then, believe it or not, it was used as a 'date movie' in the complex issue of mon affaire de Leavenworth, where the Chief Historian was a Nazi-era specialist and thought it would be swell to have me, his best boy and his wife all over to watch it, after a day spent at a brewery in Kansas City.....
Otherwise, listen, it was a hell of a movie, but I kinda prefer Judgement at Nuremberg and Spencer Tracy.
Brent Bozell once described women as the 'fair and civilizing sex.' He should watch this flick.
You betcha. Little grid marks, like the peanut butter was screetching out of town. Bring me a jar of the real stuff, eh?
Why is it that when you make peanut butter cookies one is overwhelmed with the compulsion to squash them with forks?
I don't know how anyone can dis Schindler's List, and I am not saying that out of political correctness.
Oh, renato, let me tell you a story.
In 1994,I was in a marriage that was, let us say, strained. We needed to do something to bring us together, we both knew it. Our anniversary was in February, and we planned a date: we'll ge see The Piano, get lunch, and go home nad have sex while the kid is at day care. A solid plan.
We get to the theater. Now-ex-spouse says, "Oh, let's see Schindler's List instead!"
I left not long thereafter. And I'll betcha no one can blame me.
You betcha. Little grid marks, like the peanut butter was screetching out of town. Bring me a jar of the real stuff, eh?
GWPDA
On the way with the *shit,* Sistah. You may not show bad movies, however. Deal breaker.
Oh, man. AI. What shit.
Drunkee
Actually, I liked that one.
I submit to your more learned judgement, GWPDA...
Highlander 2 was really, really, really awful.
But 3 and 4 were awesome! Hot chicks (and Adrian Paul) always redeem shitty Christopher Lambert films.
Hot science babe = major bitch.
I think that's why I love Hot Science Babes.
I love Army of Darkness.
It's wickedly funny. "Come to poppa!"
A lot of these fall into the catagory "They're so bad they're good" But it's hard to walk that line between great camp and crap.
Red Planet? Ghosts of Mars?
Natasha Henstridge.... yumbo....
Really "bad" movies for me are the ones I have ethical problems with. Movies which are just stupid I can handle, or even enjoy.
Thersites - 10:55 pm
an academic colleague used to argue endlessly that films didn't have ethical problems, because they were made-up entertainments, and nothing more...
got his ph.d. at K State, iirc, or some such squalid place...was from Parma OH...
Hey bigvic, thanks for responding, I was starting to feel invisible again. It;s bad when eschaton won't greet back. I saw that monster down there and thought mmmm, no. So it is crappy movies, it looks like. Just to be completely late and out of it, I'll throw in that I hated Gump too.
Why is it that when you make peanut butter cookies one is overwhelmed with the compulsion to squash them with forks?
four legs good
Otherwise, they look weird.
Cheese toast cookies? MMMmmmm Cheesy!
oldwhitelady
Well, actually, I think those would be a cheese straw variant I know about - kind of a lace cheese biscuit. Joy of Cooking, very nice.
out for the eve all ciao for now
Actually, I liked [AI].
Were you really high?
Even for Sci-Fi...
It was just dreadful.
I mean, WTF? ancient aliens on Mars who are in a boring civil war and used to come to earth to impregnate neanderthals and blah blah blah....
Boring AND stupid.
Sorry mena! Hiya, chica!
Someone mentioned "John Hughes." Don't for the upcoming MTV tribute to the memorably forgettable "The Breakfast Club", featuring the original cast, sans Emilio Estevez, who, sadly, is still holding out. *ugh*
http://asilentcacophony.blogspot.com/
Our anniversary was in February, and we planned a date: we'll ge see The Piano, get lunch, and go home nad have sex while the kid is at day care. A solid plan.
Oh yeah, The Piano, a great date flick. Nothing like a sexless marriage marred by icky compelled sex with Harvey Keitel to spice things up.
Oh my goodness - Showgirls should not even be mentioned in the same breath as any celluloid creation. I don't believe I've seen anything worse - accept maybe Wild Orchid which is sooo terrible. . . it defies description.
NTodd - don't you be dissing Christopher Lambert, now. I saw Highlander 2 and I thought it was really cute.. what with Sean Connery in that cute greenish outfit.
Off to watch "True Stories" or "Network" or Phantasm" or "Ghost World" or ...
Later 'gators!
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But how can we not consider the aftermath of something so horrific? And how can we not applaud the act of one decent man in the midst of the storm?
We can so applaud. However, the actual historical events were not the "story" of that film. The call is very powerful to identify with the "one decent man." That's why the film was a success. It's the narrative of all popular films, stripped down.
We're never really allowed to become uncomfortable; that I dislike. Never fully allowed to speculate that we might slip into a more complex role than hero or victim. Pretty insidious, in the end, to my mind.
Pax, though. I can see your objections to my assertions.
mena: I was starting to feel invisible again. It;s bad when eschaton won't greet back.
I love you, mena (and I'll pet Curly for you, too, when I get back to condospace).
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Ghosts of Mars?
Natasha Henstridge.... yumbo....
I wish we lived in a "matriarchal society"...
Oh yeah, The Piano, a great date flick. Nothing like a sexless marriage marred by icky compelled sex with Harvey Keitel to spice things up.
Well, I said things were hairy, NTodd. It passed for romance. Certainly more romantic than Schindler's List.
Otherwise, they look weird.
Well okay.
My mom used to make them with hersheys kisses in them, and she'd STILL fork them before she stuck the kisses on them.
Weird but true.
I left not long thereafter. And I'll betcha no one can blame me.
NYMary
Please see comparable episode. Using Schindlers List as a date movie is, um, very, very, very um, strange.
And you have to use a fork on peanut butter cookies cause otherwise they'll make for the door.
Fourleggers,
Hahahaha.
Why is it that when you make peanut butter cookies one is overwhelmed with the compulsion to squash them with forks?
I just don't know. I asked my elders and they all pretty much said, "that's just the way we make them."
I'm sure cousin GWPDA will have the *history* of the grid cookies.
WTF? ancient aliens on Mars who are in a boring civil war and used to come to earth to impregnate neanderthals and blah blah blah....
Boring AND stupid.
On the other hand, it WOULD explain LGF...
Just saying.
So Thers, what's your take on Life Is Beautiful?
Were you really high?
Drunkee
No, but I've always had a soft spot for big-budget sci-fi Pinocchio movies.
And I just realized no one has put "Boxing Helena" on the bad movies list yet.
Seven Days in May was a Rod Serling script. It wasn't science fiction really, since it's happening now...
http://history.sandiego.edu/gen/.../
sevendays.html
It really is worth a look. If only Serling and Zappa were still around...
Why is it that when you make peanut butter cookies one is overwhelmed with the compulsion to squash them with forks?
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Because that's what makes them peanut butter cookies. Duh.
Ha! 4 legs! I made peanut blossoms this morning!
Boring AND stupid.
On the other hand, it WOULD explain LGF...
Just saying.
Thersites
In a farking nutshell.
We're never really allowed to become uncomfortable; that I dislike.
I was feeling pretty fucking uncomfortable during that piece of crap Crimson Hellhole on Sci-Fi tonight.
Does that count?
You may not show bad movies, however. Deal breaker.
I've got Fail Safe and the original Manchurian Candidate on tape.
I wish we lived in a "matriarchal society"...
Hmm...looking for a little domination? 
Schindler's List might be a LGF date movie...
The ONE 'actor' in the most bad films
Name one actor whose ouvre approaches Stallone's for sheer, rancid, impacted feculence
ok. Schwarzenegger...
one OTHER...
I think the fork in the peanut butter cookies is reminiscent of branding and probably originated as a Druid custom, shortly after their paradigm shifting invention of forks.
A lot of people don't know the Druids invented forks. Did you?
Supernova on now.Anyone hate it as well?
don't you be dissing Christopher Lambert, now.
I love him with all my heart, and will always dis him.
We're never really allowed to become uncomfortable; that I dislike. Never fully allowed to speculate that we might slip into a more complex role than hero or victim. Pretty insidious, in the end, to my mind.
Are we talking about the same movie? Oskar's crass business concerns about Jews costing less than Poles didn't make you uncomfortable? Amon's love for a Jewish girl juxtaposed with his pleasure at shooting Jews from his balcony didn't make you uncomfortable? Mengele having naked Jews run around the yard during selection didn't make you uncomfortable?
There were lots of grey areas in that movie, and any incidental slipping into absolutes is only understandable when confronted with such horror.
US probes Isle of Man scheme used by billionaire Bush donors
By Jason Nisse
05 June 2005
The Manhattan District Attorney, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) are jointly probing a tax-shelter plan run out of the Isle of Man.
The scheme, devised by one of America's biggest banks and used by two billionaire donors to George Bush's election campaign among others, is being probed for possible breaches of securities and anti-money-laundering rules.
snip
They have contacted the regulators on the Isle of Man asking for information on one particular scheme used by two Texan billionaire brothers, Charles and Sam Wyly.
The duo, who made their money in computing and retailing, not only gave over $200,000 to President Bush's re-election campaigns, but also bankrolled TV adverts attacking his rivals, John Kerry and Senator John McCain.
etc
http://news.independent.co.uk/bu...sp?
story=644159
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Bwaahahahahahaha!
(no surprise)
Little tip:
If you want to get an air traffic controller really worked up, ask if their job is anything like "Pushing Tin."
I wish we lived in a "matriarchal society"...
Hmm...looking for a little domination?
As has been noted --
they hate us for our femdom.
Seven Days in May is scarier because it's happened, or happening, GWPDA.
Name one actor whose ouvre approaches Stallone's for sheer, rancid, impacted feculence
ok. Schwarzenegger...
one OTHER...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:11 pm | #
Steven Seagal?
And you have to use a fork on peanut butter cookies cause otherwise they'll make for the door.
Okay.
I asked my mom why she didn't squash them with a spoon and she looked at me like I had 2 heads.
Of course she looked at me that way a lot. I was always asking goofy questions that had no answer.
Like why didn't the cat have to wear a kotex.
Are we talking about the same movie?
For the record, I found myself laughing alone in the theater at the funny parts. Crying and/or stunned the rest of the time.
To this day my parents have been unable to watch the whole thing. I loaned them my VHS several years ago, and they saw parts of the first tape in multiple sittings, then gave up. Too much family history wrapped up in it.
one OTHER...
Jean Claude Van Damn.
Death Warrant was on yesterday.
WGG, I'd submit Denise Richards and Vin Diesel.... I love to look at Denise but....
I left not long thereafter. And I'll betcha no one can blame me.
NYMary
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Certainly not me, sista.
Of course she looked at me that way a lot. I was always asking goofy questions that had no answer.
Troublemaker.
Prssing down the center of the peanut butter cookies keeps them chewy, I think, because it squeezes out the air.
Ripley: I love to look at Denise but....
Aren't you glad we live in the age of the MUTE button?
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GWPDA,
Clear out the guest room. It's going to be a long night. I adore both of those movies. I might dig around for my copy of "Inherit The Wind" for another timely reminder of the ways of mankind.
Arnold got money from Noe, the penny merchant in Ohio. He has refused to give it back.
Steven Seagal?
I believe you may be right.
Oy.
Getting ready for the yearly viewing of 1776. Love that they included some of the deleted snarky bits.
they hate us for our femdom.
Prssing down the center of the peanut butter cookies keeps them chewy, I think, because it squeezes out the air.
NYMary | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:15 pm
Well of course! 
What is it with Republicans and golden showers? Are they all copraphiliacs, too?
Nick Dixon
Nick: They're sick fucks - that's WHY they're Repugnicans!
One scene doesn't ruin a whole movie! C'mon, The sappy speech at the end of Schindler's List was the only weak spot. The rest of it was brilliant. Ralph Fiennes alone made the movie. A lazy minded bigot that was confused by his attraction to a Jew. He reminds me of these militaristic Republican self loathing gays. Does Gannon hate his lovers for being gay too?
What are peanut blossoms?
Hmm...looking for a little domination?
From Natasha? Damn straight.
So Thers, what's your take on Life Is Beautiful?
My name isn't Thers, but I adored that movie. I laughed, I cried, I stuffed my face.
'course, I love Benigni because he makes me look calm, and his wife Nicoletta ranks up there with Monica Bellucci as babelicious (in a different way, tho).
Was there any discussion of Ahhhnold's product placement commercial here? Seems he shot a commercial -- something to do with the state budget -- and had nothing but PepsiCo (a major caqmpaign contributor) products lined up, labels-facing-cam, etc.
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There were lots of grey areas in that movie, and any incidental slipping into absolutes is only understandable when confronted with such horror.
Well, I disagree. Especially in terms of how the film was and continues to be marketed, which is something I don't think can be removed from the area of interpretation.
But as I said, I can accept your argument.
Steven Seagal?
I believe you may be right.
Steven Seagal is Cary Grant compared to Jean Claude Van Damn. Ever see Bloodsport, which is almost as racist as Birth of a Nation?
Sorry for not bothering to italicize quotes...
This zuckerman article is mind blowing. Rethugs are destroying the country mort says:
"The average two-income family earns far more than did most single-income families a generation ago, yet they have less discretionary income and savings than the latter because virtually all of their higher earnings go to keeping their families in the middle class, especially in homes near good and safe schools.
The "have nots " The ease of entry to the middle class that once buoyed the working lives of Americans and lies at the heart of the American dream has eroded. Higher education is now the ladder for moving up. But for many children the rungs are beyond reach, intensifying the growing gap between those with college and graduate degrees and those with only a high school diploma or who are high school dropouts, not to mention the bottom end where self-defined "have nots" have increased sharply, going since 1988 from 17 to 28 percent among whites and from 24 to 48 percent among blacks."
Why can't the lefty leftist elitist liberals capitalize on this:
"They saw the efforts of the New Left to weaken oppressive authority as corroding all authority. Woodstock and Hollywood came to epitomize what was seen as a narcissistic assault on conventional values played out daily in the coarsening of our culture in gangsta rap, cable ranters, and pornographic websites, accompanied by the delegitimization of the sanctity of marriage, drug abuse, and recasting wrongdoers as victims of society instead of the reverse. There was a sense that the Democrats had become dominated by elitist, highly educated, progressive classes who believed they knew better than average folks."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnews/
2...HNlYwMlJVRPUCUl
911 didn't change everything, according to mort. He goes back to Woodstock! ....Woodstock! What the hell is mort smoking? I want some.
Oh, and liberals caused everything everybody hates about America. Take porno sites as an example, a liberal invention. Who doesn't hate those? Thanks Al Gore. Ya know, mort is on to something. Remember back in the sex crazed 90's when Clinton invented blow jobs? Who doesn't hate blow jobs?
At the very end mort sites some polls and worries about rethug overreach. Good gravy. How can rethugs overreach? Start a blood for oil war?
Troublemaker.
Well, yeah.
Is there something wrong with that?
4 legs,
My family calls peanut butter cookies with kisses on top Peanut Blossoms.
My name isn't Thers, but I adored that movie. I laughed, I cried, I stuffed my face.
Yep, me too. Really... unique take on the Holocaust, and the pre-Holocaust portion was hilarious.
Hola, mena!!!
hey, as fast as things move, you gotta walk in and wave your hands furiously, shout fire in a crowded theater, and remove all but your most intimate garments even to raise a small stir, sometimes...
and this is just bad films...
wait til eli starts punning (shudder)...
after that nothing else for it but to send up a flair...
Jeffrahm - ((mwah))
Schindler's List might be a LGF date movie...
Nick Dixon
Someone said on another thread that Pat Buchanan, Mel Gibson's dad and other anti-Semities gather to watch it and when they get to the concentration camp scene, they do the wave.
As for bad movies - or rather movies that "I" did not enjoy:
Breaking the Waves (I was pregnant at the time - though I don't know why that would matter)
American Beauty - so predictable it's embarrassing!
Drunkee, you're absolutely right.
I was trying to think of him but he's so forgettable I didn't.
I hate movies where the special effects are the star.
Story, please? Acting, please?
Thers, for what it's worth, worships Nicoletta Braschi with a white-hot passion. Mystery Train, Johnny Stecchino, we've seen them all. And I have to mop up the drool after.
after that nothing else for it but to send up a flair...
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:19 pm | #
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But I'm already wearing 15 pieces!
My family calls peanut butter cookies with kisses on top Peanut Blossoms.
Aha!!
I don't remember what we called them.
Shitty movies:
ANYTHING Madonna is in!
mena,
Hahahaha. Yep you are correct, and so is Mary. You gotta let the air out of those bastards, but it is hilarious that the elders tell you to do it just 'cause that's the way it's always been done.
So Thers, what's your take on Life Is Beautiful?
My name isn't Thers, but I adored that movie. I laughed, I cried, I stuffed my face.
I liked it too. Didn't eat anything, though. Using comedy was a gutsy move that I think paid off. The final scene of that with the American soldiers in the tank is memorable.
Forget Bush - we have a new missing blond!
Anyway, hi mena!!
meant to say hello earlier.
Well, back to putting my house back together.
Thers, for what it's worth, worships Nicoletta Braschi with a white-hot passion. Mystery Train, Johnny Stecchino, we've seen them all. And I have to mop up the drool after.
Il Mostro/The Monster? That one is bloody brilliant, and she's in her underwear a lot.
I don't like to talk about my flair.
You gotta wonder what some of these guys have - I love Begnini - but I mean LOOK at his wife! And Kevin Bacon with Kyra Sedgwick? And the ultimate of Ackroyd and that unbelievably beautiful woman he is/was married to????
If anybody's interested, I've got Brief Encounter and Rashomon for later tonight.
Bolton news http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/
20050...olton_un_firing
Of course she looked at me that way a lot. I was always asking goofy questions that had no answer.
Like why didn't the cat have to wear a kotex.
four legs good
Did she have an answer for the question? If so, what was it? Just wondering...
The fork squashing is important. It makes for a chewier cookie and it creates interesting ridges on top which will burn a little and taste better that way. Spoon squashing wouldn't create the ridges.
I have a recipe for fork cookies which are full of spices. They are to die for. Not that I can make them, but I have the recipe.
Jean Claude Van Damn.
Timecop. 'nuff said.
One scene doesn't ruin a whole movie! C'mon, The sappy speech at the end of Schindler's List was the only weak spot.
I agree. That was but one of my beefs, but overall I rank the movie high in my pantheon of movies. If I could program my DVD player to run the whole movie and delete that scene (and the two with the Girl in the Red Coat), I'd think it was perfect. Well, there could be more sex with that one particular secretary of his...
Ralph Fiennes alone made the movie. A lazy minded bigot that was confused by his attraction to a Jew.
Concur 100%.
Speaking of horrific cinematic plonk about to be thrust onto an unsuspecting public, did you know that our girl, Paris, is in a movie?
Don't ask me for details. I stay as far away from that kind of information as I can.
You gotta let the air out of those bastards, but it is hilarious that the elders tell you to do it just 'cause that's the way it's always been done.
How does air get in there? Peanut butter cookie batter is dense as hell.
On flair:
Gotta love Office Space!!
Crappy actor:
Ashton Kutcher!
Jeffraham Prestonian - I just watched your latest Curly video - from yesterday? Curly is so cute. He doesn't seem to realize that kitty on the screen is him.
4 legs,
Baking soda, baby!
You gotta wonder what some of these guys have - I love Begnini - but I mean LOOK at his wife! And Kevin Bacon with Kyra Sedgwick? And the ultimate of Ackroyd and that unbelievably beautiful woman he is/was married to????
myrna minkoff
These ladies like smart men!
What are peanut blossoms?
Don't eat them if they are served at the White House
"Office Space" - I need my stapler. . . .
Loved that one!
Donna Dixon?
oldwhitelady: Did she have an answer for the question? If so, what was it? Just wondering...
I have an answer that goes beyond the obvious "same reason they don't use toilet paper" answer, but it's boring.
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How does air get in there? Peanut butter cookie batter is dense as hell.
four legs good - I told you already - it has nothing to do with air - they aint merengues - it's that otherwise while you're opening the oven, they'll make a dash for the kitchen door and freedom.
Bolton news
Nick Dixon
Kee-rist.
RE: Begnini
What does Jessica Rabbit say? "He makes me laugh."
I got no bad movies to report on, and the only peanut butter on hand is smooth, since it's for soup. Did make the salsa-avocado tabouli, and it's good.
One package tabouli mix (used Fantastic Foods brand)
One 1-lb tub hot pico de gallo
about a cup of water
2 tbsp olive oil
2 avocados, ripe
The tabouli package calls for adding 1 1/4 cups water, the olve oil, and some fresh lemon juice, and chopped veggies a/o herbs along tomato/cucumber/green onion/mint/parsley lnes. I didn't have any lemon juice, figured with the salsa it didn't much matter. Plenty of liquid in the salsa to make up for shorting it a bit on water.
Parish picnic tomorrow, so I was after something easy where I'd also be happy to eat up leftovers if any.
"Office Space" - I need my stapler. . . .
Swingline actually started making a red stapler, and the packaging calls it "The Star of any Office Space."
Fourleggers,
The baking powder gets the air in them. Must crush the rising hegemon!
Thers, if you're still here, one of the funniest things I ever read on this blog was something you typed about sobbing and stuffing your face full of Dove Bars. Hahahahaha.
These ladies like smart men!
Terry C | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:26 pm | #
Oh - I concur!!! I have a (fairly) smart man myself - but I think he's pretty cute as well!
There was a sense that the Democrats had become dominated by elitist, highly educated, progressive classes who believed they knew better than average folks."
Being educated and progressive is bad?????
26. Barry Lyndon
what the hell is wrong with this movie? is it too slow for your tastes? not enough sex? or is it the unhappy nonhollywood ending that turns you off?
personally, i think kubrik proved his genius by making ryan into a real actor. an unsympathetic, pathetic character that one was somehow forced to sympathize with...
it doesn't deserve to be on a list of 'bad' movies. by a long shot.
Bolton orchestrated an unlawful firing.
Will it matter?
Did she have an answer for the question? If so, what was it? Just wondering...
She didn't, she just turned bright red.
At which point my father stepped in and hollered, "four-legs!! quit asking your mother stupid questions."
Here's a list of 40 Stallone films.
Two (Lords of Flatbush, and Rocky) are NOT the absolutely rankest trash
1 Shade 2004 $22,183
2 Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over 2003 $111,760,631
3 Eye See You 2002 $79,161
4 Driven 2001 $32,616,869
5 Get Carter 2000 $14,967,000
6 Cop Land 1997 $44,886,000
7 Antz 1998 $90,646,000
8 Daylight 1996 $32,885,000
9 Judge Dredd 1995 $34,694,000
10 Assassins 1995 $30,306,000
11 Specialist, The 1994 $57,362,000
12 Cliffhanger 1993 $84,049,000
13 Demolition Man 1993 $58,055,000
14 Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot 1992 $28,411,000
15 Oscar 1991 $23,562,000
16 Rocky V 1990 $40,950,000
17 Tango & Cash 1989 $63,408,000
18 Lock Up 1989 $22,099,000
19 Rambo III 1988 $53,700,000
20 Over the Top 1987 $16,057,000
21 Cobra 1986 $49,042,000
22 Rambo: First Blood Part II 1985 $150,400,000
23 Rocky IV 1985 $127,900,000
24 Rhinestone 1984 $21,400,000
25 First Blood 1982 $46,000,000
26 Rocky III 1982 $122,823,000
27 Victory 1981 $10,853,000
28 Nighthawks 1981 $14,600,000
29 Rocky II 1979 $71,200,000
30 Paradise Alley 1978 $8,000,000
31 F.I.S.T. 1978 N/A
32 Rocky 1976 $117,235,000
33 Cannonball 1976 N/A
34 Capone 1975 N/A
35 Farewell, My Lovely 1975 $2,000,000
36 Lords of Flatbush, The 1974 N/A
37 Prisoner of Second Avenue, The 1974 N/A
38 Rebel 1973 N/A
39 The Italian Stallion 1970 N/A
40 No Place to Hide
There were lots of grey areas in that movie...Well, I disagree.
You might consider watching it again. Jewish collaborators, amoral Germans, cowardly resisters...if that doesn't provide you with enough grey, then perhaps you're looking for absolutes.
Especially in terms of how the film was and continues to be marketed, which is something I don't think can be removed from the area of interpretation.
Marketing is marketing. My knowledge of what Wells went through to get Kane to the screen doesn't change my view of the movie any more than my awareness of the special effects in Raiders destroy my ability to suspend disbelief. All of that informs my overall discussion of the movies in question, but the films stand on their own.
For the record, even if I am outnumbered on Schindler's List I promise to stick bloody-minded to my obscure principles with the tenacity of a rabid wolverine eating a sneaker dipped in beef boullion. Which is pretty damned tenacious. It's almost ELEVENacious.
Mine is a proud and lonely destiny. And itchy.
oldwhitelady: Jeffraham Prestonian - I just watched your latest Curly video - from yesterday? Curly is so cute. He doesn't seem to realize that kitty on the screen is him.
See, now you've gone and done it -- stirred my inner science geek (which lurks not far from the surface, I realize).
I will endeavour to DV a bonch of neighborhood felines, do a looping DVD, and repeat this experiment. Seriously!
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it doesn't deserve to be on a list of 'bad' movies. by a long shot.
chicago dyke -11:29 pm
whole-hearted concurrence, dahlin. I love kubrick, and i do like Barry Lyndon...
btw, where were you earlier, when that talk was of Sumerian cunieform on Mars???
slacker 
Stallone had a bit part as the mugger in the original out of towners.
Greatest American film ever:
Sullivan's Travels
No Trevor Howard fans in the house, eh? Nevermind, I'll be using up the kleenex.
Echidne, you must get that spice cookie recipe to Sallyh, toot sweet!
I will endeavour to DV a bonch of neighborhood felines
When you say it like that, it has a creepy Fristian quality to it....
Forget Bush - we have a new missing blond!
WalterNeff | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:22 pm | #
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Now, not to be critical here - and I know they are praying for her with much gusto - but whatinthehell was a young girl, ON A SCHOOL TRIP, doing at a bar after midnight and then getting in the car with three men?
If you can answer why she was there and what she was doing at the bar: then the question of where she is loses a whole lot of importance. It is not that it is not important, it is that she was acting in an unresponsible manner for a young girl on a school trip. I hope she is fine. If she is, I hope she develops just a little common sense. (And I hope the school chaperones get in deep deep trouble)
I've not only missed the great Mars movie--surely an, um, addition to that storied genre, but I'm currently posting while house-sitting.
The residents' computer uses this loathesome device called "windows," suresly a bit of sabotage from the soon-to-invade Martians.
If you've never heard of Windows, it takes forever in 3 steps to rev the hard drive and then connect to the internets. The Martians will already have seized Minnesota and Diebold by then.
I'm used to turning the 'puter on and it turns on, then clicking Safari twice and there are the internets!
Gotta go. I hear the siren call of late night soft-core porn on one of the Quebec channels.
Greatest American film ever:
Sullivan's Travels
earl in toronto - Pretty damned close.
she was trying to convert them to the missionary position?
I haven't seen "Barry Lyndon" in forever - but remember thinking that it looked beautiful when seeing the trailers- good enough to rent? (By the way - I love Netflix!)
Has anyone else seen the travesty that was "Wild Orchids"?
I will endeavour to DV a bonch of neighborhood felines, do a looping DVD, and repeat this experiment. Seriously!
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Jeffraham Prestonian
That will be fun!
it's that otherwise while you're opening the oven, they'll make a dash for the kitchen door and freedom.
GWPDA,
And eventually catch up with Arthur and watertiger *dirty dancing.* Oh, the crazy kids these daze.
how many people here have made a film?
Greatest American film ever:
I still maintain it was Howard the Duck.
I liked Barry Lyndon.
Gotta love Office Space!!
If they take my stapler, I will, I will set this building on fire.
earl in toronto: I wrote two screen plays - but my agent is an ass . . . .
Nite, Steve, Happy....
how many people here have made a film?
earl in toronto
Meaning?
Mena, I will let Sallyh have the recipe. It's in metric, though.
If she is, I hope she develops just a little common sense. (And I hope the school chaperones get in deep deep trouble)
DWD -- 11:33 pm
i suspect it was a 'girls gone wild' episode gone terribly wrong...
just sayin what my cynical old bones are tellin me...
Aruba's party central, innit? kids can drink at any age, i believe...
and don't forget, there are black men around who want nothing else but to deflower our decent girls...
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At which point my father stepped in and hollered, "four-legs!! quit asking your mother stupid questions."
four legs good
Hahahahahahah - oh, that is funny!
I disagree, Ek. Grease 2 or possibly Dirty Dancing 2, the Cuban edition. Dirty Commie dancers and their Commie dancing and their makeout parties....
Marketing is marketing. My knowledge of what Wells went through to get Kane to the screen doesn't change my view of the movie any more than my awareness of the special effects in Raiders destroy my ability to suspend disbelief. All of that informs my overall discussion of the movies in question, but the films stand on their own.
Um, can of worms. You want me to get into these many other issues you've raised, or can we have a blog debate later?
I'm interested in the discussion but not sure it can be carried on productively here. Let me cogitate and respond. And you are aware of the love I bear for you?
bigvic, there's more life in the Outback than most people realise.
STOP THOSE COOKIES!
DWD as in.............not helpful in promoting or as in too critical?
Worst movies of all time (hyperbolically off the top of my head)
Mulholland Drive
Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut made me go in the kitchen and scream!
Had to watch it again, just to enjoy the stupitity of the joke of a movie.
What was strange was I saw exacting where the movie was coming from, but what was it was frustrated because, ... well it sucked to the piont of being comical when it was supposed all dramatic.
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even if I am outnumbered on Schindler's List I promise to stick bloody-minded to my obscure principles with the tenacity of a rabid wolverine eating a sneaker dipped in beef boullion.
If you do, I will set you on fire.
how many people here have made a film?
I haven't directly, but I've had small roles in shorts by my friend Bill of Candleboy Films, and I've financed a number of his endeavors.
If you've never heard of Windows,
I've not only missed the great Mars movie--surely an, um, addition to that storied genre, but I'm currently posting while house-sitting.
Buddy, you didn't miss a thing.
It was so bad that it wasn't even fun to laugh at. It made "Snakehead Terror" look like a masterpiece.
Stupid AND boring.
have a recipe for fork cookies which are full of spices. They are to die for. Not that I can make them, but I have the recipe.
Echidne - Please Post!
Stallone had a bit part as a street thug in Woody Allen's "Bananas", which is funny as hell!
Sullivan's Travels
Yeah, I love that part where he wakes up, surprised to find all the li'l people have tied him to the beach!
Jeffraham
um...
Barry Lyndon was the first major motion picture filnmed in natural light. The scenes in candle light were illuminated by... candle light.
The film is funny as hell - whereas Stallone.......
I made a film for class in 1983 - does that count? Plus, endless video of my adorable children that I've yet to cut and paste together in a cogent storyline for family viewing.
how many people here have made a film?
earl in toronto
i've been in a bunch of 'em, since the late 60s...(first one was Catch 22)
had a treatment/screenplay, till my last machine crashed and ate it...
usta be film critic for the santa fe reporter in a by-gone life, too...
Felines... Kotex... filmmaking... see?
I'm really onto something, here.
The real reason cats don't use sanitary napkins and whatnot?
Marketing. Lack thereof, more accurately.
Now that we've determinedthat cats can see TV, my next experiment will help resolve that annoying "cat marketing" puzzle, I am sure.
Who wants to buy some stock?
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cool ntodd
Eyes Wide Shut
Which succeeded in making an ORGY looking boring as hell.
Almost as boring as the sex scene between Stallone and Sharon Stone in "The Specialist" (best part of that movie was James Woods).
Fuck!
If you've never heard of Windows,
Macintosh is moving to Intel chipsets.story here.
Sullivan's Travels
Yeah, I love that part where he wakes up, surprised to find all the li'l people have tied him to the beach!
Jeffraham
LOL
how many people here have made a film?
Well, it was really more of a video. And times are tough when you're in college in a strange, new town. Looking for friends and some beer money. Sometimes an idea sounds good at first but then...
I've said too much...
hey, cdyke:
I was in hyde park today. Reunion weekend, don'tcher know.
I went with a bunch of comic book people to go see Barry Lyndon. Every single one of them hated it with a passion.
Except for me and P. Craig Russell. I looked at gim and said quietly, "Was that the greatest movie ever made, or what?" And he nodded.
Figgers. The only two opera fans in the industry. (At the time, at least.)
Um, can of worms. You want me to get into these many other issues you've raised, or can we have a blog debate later?
However you'd like, big boy. Right now I'm prolly too sleepy to continue, so mebbe a cross-blog smackdown would be good. The winner gets to add the loser's wife to his ever-growing harem.
you are aware of the love I bear for you?
And I, you? Totally heterosexually, of course.
Stallone had a bit part as a street thug in Woody Allen's "Bananas", which is funny as hell!
Terry C |
One of the thugs on the subway. His career should have begun and ended there.
Just sayin'.
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"It is unfortunate that some have chosen to take out of context a few isolated incidents by a few individuals," presidential spokesman Scott McClellan said in a statement.
White House Plays Down New Quran Reports
That damn Newsweek... Too bad they backed down.
FeralLiberal, I have to look the recipe up first. It's somewhere in the house. If I send it to Sallyh she can put it on the food blog for Eschatonians and you can get it there. Or I can look tomorrow and see if I can find it.
earl--I'm a big Preston Sturges fan, but I maintain that Sullivan's Travels, for all its many merits, has some serious "tone" problems; specifically, once the pointed meta-movie comedy turns into a hellish prison drama, there's no going back to comedy, no matter how funny the final 3 scenes would be out-of-context.
Sturges didn't achieve his impulse to blend the serious with the farcical--though he later did in movies like Hail the Conquering Hero or Miracle at Morgan's Creek.
The real reason cats don't use sanitary napkins and whatnot?
Marketing. Lack thereof, more accurately.
Nah. Cats don't wear underwear and the elasticated belts with clips aren't made any more.
gim = him.
earl, no, he praised me endlessly but never bothered to sell anything. Then, because I already had an agent, I could not find another agent and and and
At any rate, I still have screenplays - they are based on novels I have written (I think they are good too, but then again, I would)
I have another book coming out in the next few months and my current book is doing okay. (For those of you longing for a different perspective on the Holocaust, please remember my co-writer who really needs the dough: http://wwww.silentscreamsofasurvivor.com - end of shameless book whoring)
Grease 2....geez, Michelle Pfeiffer must want to burn that one!
The winner gets to add the loser's wife to his ever-growing harem.
Hot dog.
Hey y'all, does anyone here know a spooge-gargling, trout-fondling, bottle squater named Ron Brynaert? I've had to report the jerk to my isp, and may drop out of the Big Brass Alliance due to his harassment. 
Todd sez:
The winner gets to add the loser's wife to his ever-growing harem.
Ummmm.....
Sullivan: What do they know in Pittsburgh?
Man: They know what they like.
Sullivan: If they knew what they liked, they wouldn't live in Pittsburgh.
Stallone had a bit part as a street thug in Woody Allen's "Bananas", which is funny as hell!
Terry C |
One of the thugs on the subway. His career should have begun and ended there.
Just sayin'.
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Agent Orange
I agree - but I'd take HIM over AH-nuld ANY day!
Ripley - what was the name of that movie?
I have a recipe for fork cookies which are full of spices. They are to die for. Not that I can make them, but I have the recipe.
Echidne of the snakes
Well, goddess, that is why I exist. To serve you. Heh. Give me that recipe so I may serve you better.
"It is unfortunate that some have chosen to take out of context a few isolated wars by a few individuals in the administration,"
What he really meant to say.
damn tags.
myrna 83 would be film not video then right?
woody acting too? catch22,thats somethin' all right and sorry about the machine eating it.
Hahahahahahah - oh, that is funny!
I was a great trial to them. Constantly asking ridiculous questions about how things worked.
For instance, once when I was about 5 my mother couldn't get a sitter so she took me with her to the beauty parlor.
I horribly embarrassed her by asking an old lady who had a long crooked nose if she were "a real witch."
To be fair her nose had a big mole with a hair coming out of it on the end.
I've said too much...
Ripley | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:41 pm |
earl in toronto: how many people here have made a film?
Me!
Although it was more the infant of necessity, I suppose.
Incidentally, the cam I used has been used to make many a Cannes and/or Sundance winner, for those interested in such trivia...
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how many people here have made a film?
earl in toronto
If I call it The Ring, does the film in the bathtub count?
Stallone had a bit part as a street thug in Woody Allen's "Bananas", which is funny as hell!
Wasn't that the scene in the subway?
Who wants to buy some stock?
Since I didn't learn anything in the dot-com debacle, I'd be more than happy to invest. Please send me your brochure.
Eyes Wide Shut
Which succeeded in making an ORGY looking boring as hell.
Well, the US version put the digital shit in front of all the rumpy pumpy. And I found the mask thing very erotic.
But to your point, who woulda thunk sex with Nicole Kidman could be dull? Kubrick and his anal retentiveness ruined a lot of my potential long-term fantasies.
desi,
Braenert comes on here sometimes to harrass Arios for not flogging his pet issues. It's hardly worth it, honey. Take a deep breath and keep your cool.
To be fair her nose had a big mole with a hair coming out of it on the end.
I did something similar when I was a toddler goddess in a bus. I told the whole bus that this one man was Rumpelstiltskin and that we should throw him out. My mother wasn't happy.
The winner gets to add the loser's wife to his ever-growing harem.
Hot dog
No, the dog isn't part of the bargain.
The winner gets to add the loser's wife to his ever-growing harem.
Ummmm.....
Sorry, but you have nothing to say in regard to a gentleman's bet.
And what are ya doin' aftah, anyway?
My name is mentioned in a prominent Hollywood film of the early 90's, because I knew the screenwriter. Does that help?
Mary, is he the jerk that sent atrios that email about blogrolling him? Anyone know the name of his blog perchance? The sunnovabitch won't stop with the email.
WGG - your list of Stallone's films inexplicably omits Death Race 2000. That came out the summer of '75, when I worked as the ticket seller at a drive-in. I therefore saw it several times. SS getting run over was the high point.
earl - yes it was an actual 8mm using a Bell&Howell reel camera. Really pretty cool = I have a great appreciation for the film making process and for the beauty of movies themselves - even the sucky ones!!!!
dwd congrats.
i once met a guy with large paintings on walls. tattered. soiled. worn. brilliant.
i asked who did them. answer-his dad.
he told me to visit his mom. i could have a painting.
she had a number tattooed to wrist. Holland. they buried everything on their farm. his art too.
I dont know the details of son's birth where when?
and of course Inever asked the mother for a painting.
Mary, is he the jerk that sent atrios that email about blogrolling him? Anyone know the name of his blog perchance? The sunnovabitch won't stop with the email.
You betcha.
Isn't it something like "whyarewestillhere"?
I horribly embarrassed her by asking an old lady who had a long crooked nose if she were "a real witch."
Uh, oh. Don't tell Hecate! I was always a pain in the ass to my parents by asking embarrassing questions, innocently, of Priests, Nuns and the like.
Re: Ron Brynaert
From this, one could probably gain enough info to find him and, then, do his kneecaps...
i'll hold the mutherfocker down while you kick his ass, des...
just sayin...
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Ahianne--wasn't it just? I loved that movie. It was that bad.
And what are ya doin' aftah, anyway?
Well, um, I want to go to this party, but my friends don't really want to go... do you think I could get a ride?
I told the whole bus that this one man was Rumpelstiltskin and that we should throw him out. My mother wasn't happy.
That's hilarious.
See? I told ya we were related.
My old lady laughed and laughed. She thought it was very funny. My mom, not so much.
Nicole Kidman's got something about her that just won't let me go into 100% howling-wolf mode for her. I love redheads, love her accent, she's got a nice figure, seems intelligent... but something gets in the way. Maybe it's just the Tom Cruise connection. So, now that That's out of the way, hellllooooo, Nicole.... heh!
Des,
Ron has a notion that he doesn't get enough attention. I, on the other hand, like to remain a mystery.
Geez, bookwhoring without a working link: must be time for bed
http://www.silentscreamsofasurvivor.com/
Uh, oh. Don't tell Hecate! I was always a pain in the ass to my parents by asking embarrassing questions, innocently, of Priests, Nuns and the like.
I think I'd probably just recently seen Wizard of Oz.
I was pretty much a pain in the ass.
Barry Lyndon was the first major motion picture filnmed in natural light. The scenes in candle light were illuminated by... candle light.
Nick Dixon |
Exactly right. The candlelight scenes have to be seen at the theater to be appreciated. One of the greatest lighting achievements ever in film. Simply amazing.
A great period film costumes, make-up, scenic panoramas, indoors at night...
Ripley--you love redheads?
congrats jeff.
haha nick dixon
mary that counts for something. i once saw an old b&w detective film. they knocked on a door asking for 'bert and ernie.'
Hmmm. All I know on the flip side is that NTodd is married to a deadly shot who juggles mountain lions for giggles.
Rrrrrowr. I am the Ocelot of Love!
(have funny feeling this line of humor will result in matching male woe across a swath of forest stretching from upstate NY to Vermont forests. Bot sure why. Is Matrix premonition. There may be no spoon and may know Kung Fu. Hmmmm...)
Okay, I really do need to do some work around here.
Well, um, I want to go to this party, but my friends don't really want to go... do you think I could get a ride?
Oh yes.
To be fair her nose had a big mole with a hair coming out of it on the end.
That was Roseanne in what's that movie's name. Streep, Ed Begley, jr.
i once saw an old b&w detective film. they knocked on a door asking for 'bert and ernie.'
"Bert! Ernie! Don'tcha know me?"
- It's A Wonderful Life
Nicole Kidman in "Too Die For" absolutely adorable - I'd sleep with her!
Hey ya'll Moonbats!
how many people here have made a film?
I've worked in two films. The first was an Army training film concerning base robberies. I was the unnamed, unhappy victim.
The other was as a production assistant in The Great Chipmunk Adventure. I ran the lyon lamb, made about a million trips to Marvel to pick up crap and did assistant director work on song 'the girls of rock and roll'.
Neither of them paid worth shit.
That was Roseanne in what's that movie's name. Streep, Ed Begley, jr.
She-Devil.
i once saw an old b&w detective film. they knocked on a door asking for 'bert and ernie.'
"Bert! Ernie! Don'tcha know me?"
- It's A Wonderful Life
eli I thought it was an old detective film too. maybe Iconfused the two.
All I know on the flip side is that NTodd is married to a deadly shot who juggles mountain lions for giggles.
Rrrrrowr. I am the Ocelot of Love!
I think you understand.
And now I feel all warm and tingly...
Exactly right. The candlelight scenes have to be seen at the theater to be appreciated. One of the greatest lighting achievements ever in film. Simply amazing.
A great period film costumes, make-up, scenic panoramas, indoors at night...
Exactly, Agent O.
Rrrrrowr. I am the Ocelot of Love!
Oh. MY. GOD.
Ocelots have possessed Thersites.
Des-
You talking about this Ron Brynaert?
He lives in Queens.
des: Mary, is he the jerk that sent atrios that email about blogrolling him? Anyone know the name of his blog perchance? The sunnovabitch won't stop with the email.
If I may, I'd be happy to persuade him to do otherwise.
.
So, Ron is really a wingnut pretending to be a liberal. How diabolical.
eli I thought it was an old detective film too. maybe Iconfused the two.
Might've been in a detective movie too. That's just the one that I remember.
NYMary and Thersites-
your pic on Atriots page - where do I know it from?
(perhaps I know you!!)
Has bush been impeached yet?
I've been out of the loop today.
pixie talk about two different experiences
They're my favorites, Sally. My first lover was a redhead (lucky me!) and a stunning example of a woman. I wish I still had the pictures... man, she was beautiful.
And she was an art major, so you know the sex was really, really good. Not that other fields of study don't have their Sirens....
I was in Monsieur's best friend's film project when he was a grad student at USC. Most boring Sunday I ever spent in my life.
Mademoiselle has been in two music videos. I can't remember the names of them. Seriously. We never got copies.
Neither of them paid worth shit.
pixie -- 11:54 pm
lunch is usually pretty good, though...
earl,
It was The Grifters, if that helps.
Nicole Kidman in "Too Die For" absolutely adorable - I'd sleep with her!
I'd fuck her against the trunk of a tree. But she's got to drop the Meg Ryan impersonation first.
3M Ampex had video tape long before they gave it away to Japan. Remember, that's what got Bob Crane killed.
btw, where were you earlier, when that talk was of Sumerian cunieform on Mars???
slacker
WoodyGuthriesGuitar (aka...) | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:32 pm | #
bitch, it's called 'a life' and i have one. as if any of you really intelligent people need my pendantic insertions of unwelcome philology into a germane discussion of why sci-fi channel movies suck, and real science fiction still awaits another lucas to take it to the next level.
but i love you for loving BL with me, baby.
So, Ron is really a wingnut pretending to be a liberal. How diabolical.
He kinda reminds me of that Black Box Voting lady, the one who started out pretty good, but then completely wigged out and made a fool of herself and got banned from DU, IIRC...
Nah. Cats don't wear underwear and the elasticated belts with clips aren't made any more.
GWPDA
Hoo, boy. I'm gonna need an adult diaper to read any more. Does this date me? Belts, clips? Hahahahaha.
If I may, I'd be happy to persuade him to do otherwise.
Will it involve pain, deep humiliation, and at least a brief stint in a hospital?
Nicole Kidman in "Too Die For" absolutely adorable - I'd sleep with her!
myrna minkoff
hmmmmmnn.....
Jeffraham--what's my boy Curly up to?
Christ, if it doesn't already exist would someone please create a missing person channel on cable TV. Do we have to get rolled with the blond teenager in Aruba for God knows how long.
BTW Did anyone see the chest on the runaway bride...easy double D cups.
Just wonderin'.
.
Or I can look tomorrow and see if I can find it.
Echidne
I'll keep a lookout for it wherever it might appear, or if bigvic gets the receipe and makes a batch I might have to show up on her doorstep
New sheets kids.
On movies. Bad movies.
I'd fuck her against the trunk of a tree.
Well, THAT'S graphic! I couldn't do that anyway - but get what your sayin'.
Well, not all righties are pro war, Des. justin raimondo for instance.
and real science fiction still awaits another lucas to take it to the next level.
Another Lucas seems like the last thing science fiction needs...
myrna,
That pic was taken in Miami, if that helps....
bad movie / bad actor --adam sandler in the waterboy. great obscure flicks, rancho deluxe; a boy and his dog. bizarro flick: chuck connors in a flick called branded, not really connected to the tv series he did later or earlier (not sure which) and which had a lot of sadomasochism.
Well, now, for BadFilm that 's so bad, you can't stop watching, The Creeping Terror MUST be #1!
Any film where a baby gets its temperature taken via a rectal thermometer, before the motehr gets eaten by the aforementioned Creeping Terror, is, perforce the Acme of BadFilm.
des: Will it involve pain, deep humiliation, and at least a brief stint in a hospital?
Possibly, but I doubt it would need to escalate to that. I can be very persuasive.
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"Another Lucas seems like the last thing science fiction needs...
Eli"
No kidding
Central--we're working on that whole Impeachment Summer Social thing.
I think Brainiac *is* a lefty, and I gather that he does some good work. He just happens to be a complete unhinged nutball.
Sallyh: Jeffraham--what's my boy Curly up to?
My new telepresence unit says he's on the balcony, crying, non-stop, to be let back into the condo. Dumbass would NOT come back in as I was gathering the gear to leave the house, so...
.
Hey des, Ron's upstairs if you wanna go say hi...
I dont know anything about Bev Harris personally, if thats the same Black box voting lady, but it seems like shes onto something with the voting scams. I did read something somewhere about a DU flap, have no idea what it was about.
Yes, Bev Harris, that's her. She started out heroic, but then just kinda went batshit insane.
and real science fiction still awaits another lucas to take it to the next level.
Another Lucas seems like the last thing science fiction needs...
Eli | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:59 pm | #
i knew i couldn't get away with that here...
all i meant was: a man with the $ and freedom to do any one of a large number of GREAT sci fi stories without hollow-wood interference. i can think of about a dozen great sci fi stories that we only now have the CGI tech to do right, what we're waiting on is a geek with cash to make it happen.
but yes, i agree: lucas is the mcdonalds of sci fi, and has done as much harm as good.
Well, THAT'S graphic!
I try to be as descriptive as possible. And that scene is one of my all-time movie faves, for some reason. I think it's her dress.
I couldn't do that anyway - but get what your sayin'.
Don't sell yourself short. I'm sure LJ/Aquaria could help you pick out just the right toy...
Great movie you never saw: Bubba Ho-Tep (Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis).
Sallyh - I've forgotten most of the movies that came through that summer, but that one was soooo bad... The other outstanding memory was the evening the manager and I stood for about 10 minutes watching the ugly storm clouds with the bulges and bits of swirly motion, and decided not to open. No tornados locally but nasty thunderstorms later, and a funnel cloud or so a couple counties away.
jeeze, I go away for an hour to water the plants and there's a new open thread 300 posts long...
hope everyone had a good Memorial Day weekend, I spent mine at a convention with 2 of my favorite SF writers, Joe Haldeman and George Martin. Joe drank a lot and flirted with many pretty women. Martin annouced that he has finally finished his new book, A FEAST FOR CROWS. there was much rejoicing amongst his readers. His 'fan club' threw a party, and there were some very fine and interesting men and women at the party. Especially the women making margaritas. Took me three days just to get over the exhaustion brought on by not sleeping more than 5 hours a night for four nights. Good times, Good times.
My worst movie ever -
Zardoz
I wanted my 2 hours back after that dog.
Saw Barry Lyndon again a couple of years ago, and found my interest was much more engaged. Beautiful, of course, but I was able to appreciate the manner and style of the script this time around.
Gods, it's a beautful night in Santa Fe, hope it's the same where ever you are.
Two films I want on DVD, and that I recommend to all who enjoy quirky little British comedies.
Passport to Pimlico. Shortly after the end of WWII, the Pimlico section of London turns out to be a possession of Britanny, and as such, not part of the U.K.Much hilarity ensues.
The Titfield Thunderbolt. British Rail decides to cancel the twice daily train to Titfield. The locals start their own train service. Again, much british hilarity ensues.
Two delightful little British comedies, with much to recommend them.
CD, if we could combine the fresh vision and enthusiasm of the 1977 Lucas with the clout of the modern Lucas, then yeah, we might have something.
gitmo has only had about 750 total detainees, yet Hood says "1,600 copies of the holy book had been distributed." What, are they giving them one for each eye? Something sounds fishy. Anyway, Hood says 5 outa 1,600 ain't bad.
"Hood said the five confirmed incidents represented a very small number when measured against the fact that more than 1,600 copies of the holy book had been distributed to prisoners since the facility in Cuba was opened in January 2002."
http://www.latimes.com/news/nati...-home-
headlines
To be fair her nose had a big mole with a hair coming out of it on the end.
That was Roseanne in what's that movie's name. Streep, Ed Begley, jr.
Nick Dixon | Email | Homepage | 06.04.05 - 11:53 pm | #
DAMN YOU ELI! I finally could answer one little thing and what do you do????
Hey des, Ron's upstairs if you wanna go say hi...
Eli | Email | Homepage | 06.05.05 - 12:02 am | #
That's Ron, not fucking Roy... remember that?? Hehe!
Just finished watching The Mummy on TBS.
I gotta say, Rachel Weisz in that black nightgown she wears during the last third of the film is SO hot, not even Bob Dole would need Viagra.
Blog fight. Everybody go here. hurry...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/th...s-
for_2023.html
Overrated Films, and Greats
First, I think S's List was a great flick, and so was "life is beautiful". It ISN't Necessary to have an awful ending in a good WWII film.
overrated: eyes wide shut
risky business
guess who's coming to
dinner
jerry mcguire
on golden pond
crimes and misdemeanors
bullets over broadway
and many many more
underrated and/or must see
radio days
sleeper
the front
film noir greats
(touch of evil, laura,
mildred pierce, gaslight,
the third man and many more)
how green was my valley
bamboozled
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Out of Africa, with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. Bleech.
" Sideways " sucks the air right out of the room, where are the IMPEACH BUSH bumper stickers?
Love "Crimes and Misdemeanors" - Jerry Orhbach (God rest his soul) isn't even in the film that long but is terrific!
I personally prefer the term "blogwhoring."
I love camel blogging!
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