UPDATED: Professionalism - One Year Later.....A Reflection PDF Print E-mail
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Saturday, 30 January 2010 15:03

 

It was thirty-six years ago upon this day that David and Jenny James Bale welcomed their fourth child—The Savior of the Universe—into their lives.  Into a world that would never be the same.

Christian Charles Philip Bale was born in Wales to a father who was a pilot and entrepreneur.  His mother had been a circus performer prior to rearing three daughters—Erin, Louise and Sharon.    

Now they had a son.  The Chosen One. 

Pay attention kids.  Those genetics—those skills honed by mom and dad—would pass on to the New Christ of Cinema.

And although his classmates at Bournemouth and Dolphin School at Berkshire couldn’t have guessed by his outward appearance at the time, Bale would re-gift those talents to us.

It seems fitting then, on the occasion The Immaculate Delivery, that we also commemorate our first anniversary—for it was one year ago this week the primordial cybernetic soup called Node 39976 spawned the seeds of our Professionalism.

Ain’t It Bale News was conceived not in a vacuum, and not by chance.  The words you read here and the integrity behind them were willed into existence by a collective conscience—the Volition of the Few.  “We’re doing this,” pronounced Dickblood.

And it was made so.  The Talkback to end all Talkbacks became the first Fistback, and AIBN thrust its mighty crown from the yawning vagina of the Internet.  And He was pleased.

Professionalism: is it begotten by nature or nurture?

“I didn’t choose this,” the revealed teenage homosexual tells his distraught father.  “I can’t turn it off.”

Allow me to suggest, gentle reader, that no small quantity of Professionalism is genetic.  It is not by coincidence that Our Lord—the offspring of an acrobat—wields a gun so proficiently. 

Parents tell their children they want the best for them, that their hope is for their sons and daughters to fare as well.  To exceed them, even—where possible—attaining the lofty goals to which they could not ascend.

Professionalism.

It is a way of life—a religion.  At its core incubates the collected knowledge, skills and abilities.  From its core—and as the product of those combined talents—emanates a host of the noblest attributes, the most desired and celebrated of personal traits.  Integrity, honesty, trustworthiness, accountability, ambition, and scholarship are the marks of the Professional.  Responsibility, morality, initiative, and self-improvement are the designs of the Modern Day Warrior, a disciple who extends compassion and respect to those who reciprocate it or who can be converted to the Path of Perpetual Light—but offers a cornucopia of anguish, pain and death to those amateurs who do not believe, choosing instead to trash the world with their ignorance.

We are keepers of the His flame, and here the torch will burn for all—so that those who have tread in the darkness will know the light, and those who have shivered in cold might know its warmth for the rest of their days.

Our numbers are few but our spirits are strong.  We come from all walks of life to celebrate a common calling—Professionalism.  While our vocations may differ, the methods by which we operate are alike.  For we are Professionals, and any man who observes us as we toil in our day might gaze upon our labor and say, “Yes—I can see that this man is a Professional.”

The ditch-digger, the electrician, the photographer, the data analyst, the baker—any man can make his influence known upon the world as a Professional, by conducting himself in a Professional manner and governing himself accordingly.

Those among us have a mutual interest in music, film, and letters—the Art of Man.  We gather here to speak of culture, of humanity as a whole as well as Man Himself.  This place is a safe haven for Truth, a refuge for Justice, a repository for the sum of our acquired Knowledge.  Cinema shall be dissected and songs will be dismembered.  Books and paintings will find judgment passed upon them, and their makers shall know our Mind.

Professionalism.  It can be instructed as it is ingrained.  This is how in Truth I can rightly call Sylvester Stallone my Master, or Michael Gross my Friend, or Clint Eastwood my Holy Sage.  Or Christian Bale my King.  For mine eyes have seen the wonder of their ways; in movie-houses I have come to know how a righteous man should carry himself among others.  Indeed, it was Patrick Swayze who admonished me to “Be nice—until it’s time to not be nice,” and this is why I call him my Mentor.

Spill my blood and you let flow Professionalism, for I know no other way to live.  Solicit my advice and you awaken Professionalism, for I speak no other tongue.  Call upon me to help build your patio, move your sofa, right your gutter—the muscles in my arm, once enlisted, have no memories but of Professionalism.  My deepest slumber finds me with an aching back and thoughts whirling like a maelstrom, for such is how sleep takes the Professional.

We were not always of such conviction.  Only in the past twelve months have we spoken of our Virtue that it might be identified, and perhaps imbued on others.  Only this last year have we given Professionalism a pedestal, that it might have a home. 

For we were not always men; a warrior takes his first step an infant.  Although our hearts have always known the Truth of Ages and while our minds have always suspected the Way of Gun-Kata and been fertile for His teaching we were once unblemished tablets, only waiting for the Ink of Wisdom’s Well to mark our souls.

There was a time when the men of Ain’t It Bale News were boys—strapping young lads like any you might encounter.  But while our bodies were not yet developed, still wallowing in puberty’s purgatory, we’d already struck down destiny’s trail—the Path of the Professional—the end of which sets us free.

And so on the occasion of Jenny James Bale issuing the fruit of her womb and granting us Terminator: Salvation, we pause to reflect, to remember from whence we came and ponder our arrival at this Happy Locus.  We celebrate our Professionalism by acknowledging The Early Years, that Bale might be praised.

Join us in jubilation and be assured our commitment to the cause, for our dedication is Professional and shan’t waver.  When they strap us down and test us, breaking a second and third finger in an attempt to snap our spirit, we shall offer no information except to say, “Have a go, you fucking Amateur!  For I have seven fingers left—and this middle one I proffer unto you!”

 

 


 

AIBN: THE EARLY YEARS

 


                                                                                             

There was always a component missing in young Stuntcock Mike’s life. From his early days in the 70’s as a Kiss/Starsky and Hutch fan to the 80’s headbanger/slut to the 90’s grunge/alternative phony, there was always an elusory element. An attempt, if you will, to find a Purpose.

A Deeper Meaning.

An Obsession.

Bale.

Those elements were at long last found in the early months of 2009 with the random outburst of our current Lord and Savior Christian Bale, followed by the legendary and unforgettable Node Of The 39976 and the subsequent forging with his three Brothers In Arms of the AIBN legacy of which YOU, dear reader, are an integral part.

And for that, my friends, I am eternally grateful.

Join hands with us and celebrate not only the Birth of Bale, but the birth of our blessed Ain’t It Bale News.

Fuck It, Let’s Rumble,

 

--Stuntcock Mike

 




 
                                                   

I suppose the first time I realized I was Professional was back in 1980. 

I’d just gotten my first paper route.  I was ten years old. 

I’m certain it must have occurred to me—often, perhaps—that most boys my age didn’t wake up at 5:00am to listen for the telltale rumble of a Plain Dealer delivery truck at the end of the street.  In pitch blackness.  In frigid temperatures.  

I’m sure I must have considered that all the other kids in my fourth-grade class were still sleeping warmly in their beds, and would enjoy another ninety minutes of luxurious rest. 

It didn’t bother me.  I chose to have a paper route.  I wanted to earn my own spending money.  I didn’t want to have hit mom and dad up every time I wanted to buy the latest Billy Joel cassette or go to the movies with a friend.  It was my first bid at independence, and when you assert yourself that young, I reckon it smells of Professionalism. 

I recall feeling a distinct pride from doing the work.  No rosy-colored glasses here; I try to be as objective as possible when I examine my own past.   The job itself sucked.  Mostly because the weather in Cleveland usually sucks, but also because people weren’t so eager to pay when I’d come collecting.  I’d have to make second and third stops to some homes before successfully extracting payment.  It was a labor-intensive, time-consuming job for a child and I certainly wouldn’t wish the gig on one of my own. 

Of course, these days you don’t see ten year old delivering papers before the first rays of the sun breech the horizon.  It’s just not safe anymore. 

But I did it—and I know of others like me who did it.   

And I carried that work ethic with me, applying Professionalism to every job I’ve held since, regardless how menial the labor.  I made pizzas at Little Caesars. I spent time flipping burgers at McDonald’s.  I made sandwiches at Subway.  I bagged groceries and kept the produce and frozen foods sections stocked at Rini-Rego.   

It didn’t matter whether I made $4.50 an hour or $7.25.  If you walked into Subway and found me behind the counter, you could bet you were going to get the best fucking sandwich possible with the ingredients and tools at my disposal. 

Later, in college, I’d take a job as night watchman on campus at one of the dormitories.  I’d check students in at the front desk between midnight and 8:00am, making rounds throughout the building every hour.  I kept the peace and—perhaps because of my affinity for darkness—became something of a nocturne.  My schedule flip-flopped and but for my early morning classes I kept vampire hours, sleeping during the afternoon.  I wasn’t the best student during my freshman and sophomore years, unless beer consumption counted for something—which it didn’t at Bowling Green State University.  But I was able to pull my head out of my ass halfway through college and graduate with a respectable three-point something. 

Because Professionalism doesn’t permit failure.  Not lasting failure.  No defeat is permanent.

 

--Abominable Snowcone

 


 

 

One year. How a life changes.

2009 was supposed to be the year my life forever changed. I had completed my second screenplay, had received very positive PROFESSIONAL feedback on it and was tweaking it  ever so slightly for re-submission. After a lifetime of failure, the forecast was finally calling for success.

Then she came into my life. Obviously there's no need for me to extrapolate on that as I gave a complete rundown of that story last week, but at a time when both of my parents were suffering from terminal diseases, a psychotic woman from Mississippi was terrorizing the family and I was starting to succumb to the type of depression that makes you go looking for people on the Internet willing to ice your ass for a few bucks so that your loved ones can collect the life insurance, she was my savior.

My brothers-in-arms here will credit Node 39976 for breaking the shackles of the mundane and dejected lives they were mired in and freeing their souls in a manner that usually only the sweet embrace of death is capable of. Much to my shame, I did not participate in the Baleback. Not once. I would occasionally drop in to see what all the hubbub was about, but those loading times were prohibitive and I have the patience of a priest in a boys locker room so my only contribution was to observe.

That's why it came as a shock when Senior Dickblood asked me if I wanted to join his motley band of Baleites in building a website devoted to professionalism and our new Lord and Savior. Other than unfocused tirades, I wasn't sure I had anything to offer. For the longest time I didn't.

Abominable Snowcone possessed sublime writing skills, Stuntcock Mike had an uncanny eye for spotting wood inducing queens and DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD was the brilliant engineer that ensured the entire machine ran smoothly and was able to review the hell out of a movie.

It wasn't until I began work on the new website that I finally began to feel like I was making a worthwhile contribution.  I poured close to a hundred hours of my sweat and tears into designing and developing our current home and there were times I was certain the stress would give me ulcers, but when I stand back and look at the House That Bale Built, I wouldn't hesitate to do it all over again. In a life rife with crushing disappointments, AIBN is one of my greatest accomplishments.

For me, 2009 ended on a far worse note than it began. It will forever be the most bittersweet year of my life. It is a year that sent me down a road where nothing is certain and my future looks as bleak as a library that only stocks Orwell, McCarthy and Steinbeck novels. Still, it is a road I will travel with my three Bale brothers and the company of such consummate PROFESSIONALS will ensure I weather any storm.

--Hawaiian Organ Donor

 






 

To Whom It May Concern:

Many of you have been around long enough to recall my early days. I first crashed onto the scene about two years back, fueled by some kind of animalistic rage and unquenchable thirst to crush all that stood in my path. I collected scalps, prolapsed cunts and quickly shot to internet superstardom. I originally created this moniker with no agenda, simply to fuck around with some dorks and stir up some shit. Maybe it was personal shit going on at the time (the early stages of what would eventually lead to my divorce) that fueled the rage, maybe it was something else. Unclear of my ultimate purpose, I proceeded with disregard and gained some recognition in the process. After mentions on late night shows, and commentary tracks, it could have easily gone straight to my head. I could have seized the brief moment of notoriety and milked it for personal gain. But thats not what I had in mind. I was never interested in going it alone with the self-promotion or my own website expecting people to tune in as I figuratively jerk myself off. That was never my goal.  I never had a goal.  I was ready to hang it all up and leave for good, disappear on a high note if you will.  But that is not what Lord Bale had in store for me, when I was shown a brief glimmer of the future on that fateful day of February 2nd, 2009.

If my allies in The ‘Church of Chang’ taught me one thing, its that a group of decent people with common interests, engaged in fun/foul/yet respectful conversation is a powerful thing, and damn rare to come across on this colostomy bag called the internet.  What I saw in the ‘Baleback’ was extraordinary. I saw the future. I saw good, funny people come together, toss aside their differences and collaborate on what would become the most epic of talkbacks.  A path had been laid it front of me, a divine plan if you will.  Reflecting back on this past year I realize this is where I always wanted it to end up. I wanted to take part in creating a place where all would be welcome.  Old and new Baleievers could commune in this virtual Utopia, with the simple intent to entertain one another.  In the scheme of things, what we do here doesn’t seem to matter much. We sling cunt-jokes and ‘fingernail up ass’ stories day and night, and it seems pretty trivial. But if our work here can bring a smile to someone’s face when down, or comfort an unlucky son of a bitch going through rough times, we’ve done our job. 

This was to be a place that felt like a neighborhood pub; where you pull up a stool, order a drink and have some laughs. So far, in that regard—thanks to all of you, I think we’ve succeeded.

I'm here with you, as long as you're here with me. Thanks for being part of the adventure.

 

--DANNYGLOVERS_DICKBLOOD

 


 

 

 

 

 


 


  
  
  
Last Updated on Friday, 19 February 2010 09:30
 

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  1. The dictionary needs a major overhaul. This post, gentlemen, is the most Professional thing I've ever read.
  2. ha ha-The parasite blah blah *bioshock game reference*
  3. Never let the unprofessionals get you down. You are greater than that.
  4. HOD is alive...not sure what his story has been this weekend...however, I suspect he was not inebriated. You've raised the professionalism bar fellas. Keep it up.
  5. Most professional indeed!
  6. Truly professional on your part.
  7. this went up. Absolutely amazing. Cheers fellas.
  8. Other professions should be so forturnate
  9. but now since I've seen your baby pictures, I'm wondering what you all look like now.
  10. http://tinyurl.com/ycn8cyo
  11. Here I am...cheers!

    http://www.directyourownlife.com/authors.html

  12. http://tinyurl.com/yhmlqvr
  13. I just can't get into the Grammys. Stopped watching years ago. After seeing a news article about it, featuring images of Gaga, Beyonce, Black Eye Peas, etc. I remembered why.
  14. you clean up better then I thought.
  15. Bunch a losers.
  16. This photo was taken during our first meeting about starting AIBN

    http://tinyurl.com/y957gbw

  17. let's face it, you guys @ AIBN are just professional man-o-warriors...who knew you guys still toured! Most excellent! Rock hard, rock fast, but most of all, rock professionally! http://www.manowar.com/
  18. man-o-war
  19. I'll try at least. Don't really have much of that stuff laying around.
  20. But I do...I'll send some to HOD tonight...booooya! Even then the little guy was the consummate professional.
  21. from Warlock
  22. And congratulations.
  23. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5X_nnGuOdKA
  24. I wish I was hanging with you last night.
  25. is snorting it off a prostitutes ass
  26. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppvCpao0vg
  27. And these are the names of the holy angels who watch. Uriel, one of the holy angels, who is over the world and over Tartarus. Raphael, one of the holy angels, who is over the spirits of men. Raguel, one of the holy angels who takes vengeance on the world of the luminaries. Michael, one of the holy angels, to wit, he that is set over the best part of mankind and over chaos. Saraqâêl, one of the holy angels, who is set over the spirits, who sin in the spirit. Gabriel, one of the holy angels, who is over Paradise and the serpents and the Cherubim. Remiel, one of the holy angels, whom God set over those who rise. And then Michael, Uriel, Raphael, and Gabriel looked down from heaven and saw much blood being shed upon the earth, and all lawlessness being wrought upon the earth. And Michael spake, "Fuck it. This is beyond our jurisdiction. Time to call in THE PROFESSIONALS."
  28. always with the multitasking.
  29. http://tinyurl.com/m6gf3f
  30. B.M.F.O.T.D.? And why don't we get more QOTD...like every day...at least 5 days a week...I mean it's not like it's queen of the week or queen whenever I have time for it...it's QOTD...which really should be every day. Since we're talking about PROFESSIONALISM I think you guys need to take it to the next level. Sure, you brought your A-game this last year...you, praise Lord Bale, have brought the pain...but you can do better. Look at Lord Bale...he didn't just bring his pansy ass Grade A Ph*ckin' game when he did The Machinist...NOOOOOO! Lord Bale brought his Triple A game. I'm counting on you gentlemen, you courageous noble men of the Church of Bale, to make this a better year than the last. Game on boys.
  31. "Do you know what gets me hot? Porsches." I'm fucking pissing myself here.
  32. http://tinyurl.com/yapwb4u
  33. that RuPaul hadn't choked on a shotgun yet. I thought the guy died...
  34. Whatever don't act like Drag Race isn't your favorite reality show since queer eye.
  35. Though I heard RuPaul was set on fi-yah when he took his show to Uganda.
  36. Was the greatest show ever conceived. The guys came over to my house...it was awesome: http://tinyurl.com/KukulcansEpisode WTF: http://tinyurl.com/WTFIsWrongWithPeople
  37. I've actually never seen an episode. Don't need to be told what I already know.
  38. http://tinyurl.com/yewo6me
  39. http://tinyurl.com/ybpoc62
  40. Really worst supporting actor:

    Marlon Wayans

    G.I. JOE

    Man they really don't try do they? Thats easily the best acting he's done since Requieme.

  41. I applaud your natural flair for interior decorating.
  42. http://tinyurl.com/ydvunb4 http://tinyurl.com/yf5xum8 http://tinyurl.com/oohpsd http://tinyurl.com/ygaebp4
  43. Marlon was annoying in that movie though.
  44. I thought his relationship with Scarlett was handled well......one of his less annoying roles. People suck his dick in Requiem, why? Cause he's fucked up all the time? Yeah...thats hard to play.
  45. I guess I was just annoyed with that whole movie.
  46. Except Dennis Quaid...because thats just....impossible.
  47. Save for like one or two lines.

    I mean him in Requieme was just good for the role, he wasn't zany over the top. I don't think he's exceptionally great in that film. But outside of Joe and Requieme he's just annoying as shit. So its always a surprise to see him play a character that's calm and not just giggling the whole fucking time.

  48. I give you the male Snooki: http://tinyurl.com/yj88r4e
  49. Mel can't open a movie bigger then three schlocky films.
  50. balls.
  51. actually came in second according to BoxOfficeMojo: http://tinyurl.com/ycl7cyr
  52. skinny guy.
  53. When Sir Clef went on and on about Haiti last night?
  54. I just watched that old Mel interview with Diane Sawyer after the "incident". Fun! I think it was maybe more because the movie looks downbeat and depressing and may not have that wide appeal?
  55. Yeah but it had a smaller opening then Legion/Daybreakers/Book of Eli.
  56. That fucking things gonna cap off no higher than 35.

    I'm sorry Mel. I was there Saturday night and I had a hard-on every minute of it. Fuck.

  57. but maybe because Pink was shaking her head because of the senseless tragedy/ a camera was on her? Like when Travolta tried to start crying when Christopher Reeve was wheeled out at the Oscars and the camera cut to John.
  58. Whats wrong with Pink?
  59. besides perfect gentleman was producing a TJ album.
  60. ....but God Damn did she used to annoy the fuck out of me. She has a blaringly harsh voice that peaks at an unpleasant tone and she looks like fucking Rhys Ifans.
  61. I was just talking shit about celebrities.
  62. good damnit I'm off today.

    With Pink, I'm just glad that a tranny has found this much wide spread appeal, paving the way for the likes of Lady Gaga and the all girl band Kings of Leon.

  63. ....
  64. http://tinyurl.com/yg6z9hb

    http://tinyurl.com/yejwr8c

  65. Care one way or the other about Pink. I'm more curious about Why Cleff? and his charity? I mean did that shit ever get cleared up, or did someone still make a shit ton of money over the telethon and shit.
  66. It could be worse...Creed might rise from the dead...oh...what...they have...f*kc me! http://tinyurl.com/lxhad6
  67. http://tinyurl.com/ych7a8q
  68. He may have been there but I don't think that went to his shit. Motherfucker was on Oprah last week and she's just slinging half ass softballs at him about that 'So tell me about the controversy over your charity' he fucking rambles for 10 minutes saying 'First and foremost, Haiti is a part of who I am....bla bla bla bla bla' FUCK YOU.

    Absolute fucking scumbag.

  69. The telethon didn't go to his shit. Good.
  70. A medically torn cunt....is still a cunt.

    http://tinyurl.com/ycuersy

  71. A POS if ever there was one. This guy needs to be fed into an industrial wood chipper: http://tinyurl.com/yfx7nnp
  72. Professional to the bone.
  73. this one's for you. Cheers.

    http://tinyurl.com/5hv892

  74. ...
  75. It burns...it burns...mine eyes need to be plucked out and fed to rabid squirrels...thx for nothing DGDB. http://tinyurl.com/y4a3fn
  76. Fuck, I love movies.
  77. http://tinyurl.com/yjupuhn
  78. http://tinyurl.com/yey38f7
  79. .
  80. http://tinyurl.com/l2hxrq
  81. http://tinyurl.com/yc9d5y8
  82. http://tinyurl.com/yf6vyfc
  83. http://tinyurl.com/ybd8637
  84. http://tinyurl.com/ybdldd9
  85. needs to learn how to do that...
  86. Brilliant piece...; my hats off to you fine sirs...you're site and Lord Bale have made be a better man. I now strive to bring and find the professioanlism to all facets of life...from the boardroom to the bedroom. And may he strike down like DOGS all those who seek to bring mediocrity and amatuerism to our midst.

    I salute all of you...my brothers.

  87. I too committed sin with my hand to thoughts of Capshaw around the time of "Doom." Those are some nice pajamas she had at Pankot Palace. I would pluck those buttons off with my teeth and make her shout Kali-Mah! Shuck-de-tay!
  88. Noms across the board for Up In The Air lol ;)
  89. Actor in a Leading Role

    * Jeff Bridges in “Crazy Heart”

    * George Clooney in “Up in the Air”

    * Colin Firth in “A Single Man”

    * Morgan Freeman in “Invictus”

    * Jeremy Renner in “The Hurt Locker”

    Actor in a Supporting Role

    * Matt Damon in “Invictus”

    * Woody Harrelson in “The Messenger”

    * Christopher Plummer in “The Last Station”

    * Stanley Tucci in “The Lovely Bones”

    * Christoph Waltz in “Inglourious Basterds”

    Actress in a Leading Role

    * Sandra Bullock in “The Blind Side”

    * Helen Mirren in “The Last Station”

    * Carey Mulligan in “An Education”

    * Gabourey Sidibe in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

    * Meryl Streep in “Julie & Julia”

    Actress in a Supporting Role

    * Penélope Cruz in “Nine”

    * Vera Farmiga in “Up in the Air”

    * Maggie Gyllenhaal in “Crazy Heart”

    * Anna Kendrick in “Up in the Air”

    * Mo’Nique in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire”

    Animated Feature Film

    * “Coraline” Henry Selick

    * “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Wes Anderson

    * “The Princess and the Frog” John Musker and Ron Clements

    * “The Secret of Kells” Tomm Moore

    * “Up” Pete Docter

    Art Direction

    * “Avatar” Art Direction: Rick Carter and Robert Stromberg; Set Decoration: Kim Sinclair

    * “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Art Direction: Dave Warren and Anastasia Masaro; Set Decoration: Caroline Smith

    * “Nine” Art Direction: John Myhre; Set Decoration: Gordon Sim

    * “Sherlock Holmes” Art Direction: Sarah Greenwood; Set Decoration: Katie Spencer

    * “The Young Victoria” Art Direction: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Maggie Gray

    Cinematography

    * “Avatar” Mauro Fiore

    * “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince” Bruno Delbonnel

    * “The Hurt Locker” Barry Ackroyd

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Robert Richardson

    * “The White Ribbon” Christian Berger

    Costume Design

    * “Bright Star” Janet Patterson

    * “Coco before Chanel” Catherine Leterrier

    * “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus” Monique Prudhomme

    * “Nine” Colleen Atwood

    * “The Young Victoria” Sandy Powell

    Directing

    * “Avatar” James Cameron

    * “The Hurt Locker” Kathryn Bigelow

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Quentin Tarantino

    * “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels

    * “Up in the Air” Jason Reitman

    Documentary (Feature)

    * “Burma VJ” Anders Østergaard and Lise Lense-Møller

    * “The Cove” Nominees to be determined

    * “Food, Inc.” Robert Kenner and Elise Pearlstein

    * “The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers” Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith

    * “Which Way Home” Rebecca Cammisa

    Documentary (Short Subject)

    * “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province” Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill

    * “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner” Daniel Junge and Henry Ansbacher

    * “The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant” Steven Bognar and Julia Reichert

    * “Music by Prudence” Roger Ross Williams and Elinor Burkett

    * “Rabbit à la Berlin” Bartek Konopka and Anna Wydra

    Film Editing

    * “Avatar” Stephen Rivkin, John Refoua and James Cameron

    * “District 9” Julian Clarke

    * “The Hurt Locker” Bob Murawski and Chris Innis

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Sally Menke

    * “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Joe Klotz

    Foreign Language Film

    * “Ajami” Israel

    * “El Secreto de Sus Ojos” Argentina

    * “The Milk of Sorrow” Peru

    * “Un Prophète” France

    * “The White Ribbon” Germany

    Makeup

    * “Il Divo” Aldo Signoretti and Vittorio Sodano

    * “Star Trek” Barney Burman, Mindy Hall and Joel Harlow

    * “The Young Victoria” Jon Henry Gordon and Jenny Shircore

    Music (Original Score)

    * “Avatar” James Horner

    * “Fantastic Mr. Fox” Alexandre Desplat

    * “The Hurt Locker” Marco Beltrami and Buck Sanders

    * “Sherlock Holmes” Hans Zimmer

    * “Up” Michael Giacchino

    Music (Original Song)

    * “Almost There” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

    * “Down in New Orleans” from “The Princess and the Frog” Music and Lyric by Randy Newman

    * “Loin de Paname” from “Paris 36” Music by Reinhardt Wagner Lyric by Frank Thomas

    * “Take It All” from “Nine” Music and Lyric by Maury Yeston

    * “The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)” from “Crazy Heart” Music and Lyric by Ryan Bingham and T Bone Burnett

    Best Picture

    * “Avatar” James Cameron and Jon Landau, Producers

    * “The Blind Side” Nominees to be determined

    * “District 9” Peter Jackson and Carolynne Cunningham, Producers

    * “An Education” Finola Dwyer and Amanda Posey, Producers

    * “The Hurt Locker” Nominees to be determined

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Lawrence Bender, Producer

    * “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Lee Daniels, Sarah Siegel-Magness and Gary Magness, Producers

    * “A Serious Man” Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, Producers

    * “Up” Jonas Rivera, Producer

    * “Up in the Air” Daniel Dubiecki, Ivan Reitman and Jason Reitman, Producers

    Short Film (Animated)

    * “French Roast” Fabrice O. Joubert

    * “Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty” Nicky Phelan and Darragh O’Connell

    * “The Lady and the Reaper (La Dama y la Muerte)” Javier Recio Gracia

    * “Logorama” Nicolas Schmerkin

    * “A Matter of Loaf and Death” Nick Park

    Short Film (Live Action)

    * “The Door” Juanita Wilson and James Flynn

    * “Instead of Abracadabra” Patrik Eklund and Mathias Fjellström

    * “Kavi” Gregg Helvey

    * “Miracle Fish” Luke Doolan and Drew Bailey

    * “The New Tenants” Joachim Back and Tivi Magnusson

    Sound Editing

    * “Avatar” Christopher Boyes and Gwendolyn Yates Whittle

    * “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Wylie Stateman

    * “Star Trek” Mark Stoeckinger and Alan Rankin

    * “Up” Michael Silvers and Tom Myers

    Sound Mixing

    * “Avatar” Christopher Boyes, Gary Summers, Andy Nelson and Tony Johnson

    * “The Hurt Locker” Paul N.J. Ottosson and Ray Beckett

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Michael Minkler, Tony Lamberti and Mark Ulano

    * “Star Trek” Anna Behlmer, Andy Nelson and Peter J. Devlin

    * “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” Greg P. Russell, Gary Summers and Geoffrey Patterson

    Visual Effects

    * “Avatar” Joe Letteri, Stephen Rosenbaum, Richard Baneham and Andrew R. Jones

    * “District 9” Dan Kaufman, Peter Muyzers, Robert Habros and Matt Aitken

    * “Star Trek” Roger Guyett, Russell Earl, Paul Kavanagh and Burt Dalton

    Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

    * “District 9” Written by Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell

    * “An Education” Screenplay by Nick Hornby

    * “In the Loop” Screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, Tony Roche

    * “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire” Screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher

    * “Up in the Air” Screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

    Writing (Original Screenplay)

    * “The Hurt Locker” Written by Mark Boal

    * “Inglourious Basterds” Written by Quentin Tarantino

    * “The Messenger” Written by Alessandro Camon & Oren Moverman

    * “A Serious Man” Written by Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

    * “Up” Screenplay by Bob Peterson, Pete Docter, Story by Pete Docter, Bob Peterson, Tom McCarthy

  90. Cut to Baby Rietman's face every time please.
  91. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/31/sergio-the-sax-man-video_n_443516.html
  92. The star of Blown Away will show goblin faced Jeremy Renner how its done.
  93. D9 and Imaginarium got a couple of awards. I'm sure D9 is a shoe in for best movie.
  94. Haven't seen "Crazy Hearts" yet, but I'm not surprised Bridges is getting good press. He's a Professional. I enjoyed "Up in the Air" and tought Clooney and the girls were good. "Avatar" was just not that good, story or acting-wise. "Hurt Locker" kicked ass, but I'm not sure if Renner's performance--though good--was Oscar worthy.
  95. I haven't see Crazy Heart yet but Bridges has always been a favorite of mine and he got screwed by not winning for Starman so I hope he gets it. I didn't think Freeman was anything special in Invictus and as much as I love Clooney, Air was not one of his finer performances.

    I'd love to see Woody get it, but I must admit Waltz was superb so it's real a toss up.

    I really didn't like the movie, but Mulligan deserves to win. I just didn't see anything exceptional about Bullock in Blind Side.

    I don't really care about supporting actress. I'd like to be the meat in a Farmiga/Kendrick sandwich, but give the award to whoever.

    Up will win for animated film but it should go to Fantastic Mr. Fox.

    The Cove will win best documentary.

    Up in the Air will win best adapted but it should be In The Loop.

    Inglorious will win best original and I'm ok with that although The Messenger winning would be cool.

    Avatar will win best picture. I'd like to see it go to either Hurt Locker or District 9.

    And Avatar will sweep all the technical stuff.

  96. It was a good film, perhaps due to the fact the excellent Colin Farrell is also great in it. And despite the fact that horsemush Maggie"My cock is bigger than Lady GaGa's"Glynenthalborg.
  97. It'll be a great night just to watch that puke lose consistently.
  98. Apart from Avatar getting the technical stuff, I hope it gets nothing else. Can anyone truly say they were moved by that story, or that it was original in some way? I thought it had more in common with Bayformers than, say, D9.

    The Cove was a good, solid doc. If it wins shit I'll be happy for them. This year I also like Story of Anvil, but it wasn't given a nod. Was King of Kong 2008 or 2009? I also liked that one. I have yet to see Food Inc and King Corn.

    So there are TEN noms for Best Picture? At the risk of sounding naive, are there always THAT many?

  99. But I find it odd that the voters are really a cross section of Hollywood and they would blow this film. I found it entertaining but Best Picture? WTF?
  100. That Best Actress category is particularly shitty this year.
  101. Stunt, agreed. It's eye candy. Very good eye candy. And sometimes you want a Snickers bar instead of steak. It delivered in that regard. If I were Cameron I wouldn't be going around saying he was putting that together for 12 years. People take much less time to come up with way more original material. Maybe he just means the technology of it. I dunno. I'm rather surprised Avatar broke all those records at the box office. I suspect a couple years down the road we'll all be embarrassed about it, like Titanic.
  102. Avatar and Up in the Air will mostly clean up. I'm glad Hurt Locker got so many noms but you know how every year there's that movie that gets lots of nominations and then gets completely shut out? That'll be Locker this year.
  103. What the fuck is that all about?
  104. It delivers visual eye-candy like you said and a story that requires approximately 0% brain function to comprehend. It is just like Star Wars was. Pure populist filmmaking. Fucking Titanic was always embarrassing. Most people aren't real film lovers. They just want to be blown away for two hours. I'd rather be blown.
  105. Stuff that should be Oscar Categories:

    Best Martial Arts Scene

    Best Lesbian Sequence

    Best Shooting Death

    Best "didn't see THAT coming" Twist Ending

    Best Explosion

    Zombie Film of the Year

    Best Suicide

    Best Depicting of Substance Abuse

  106. I agree Star Wars was populist art, but I gotta think there was something about Lucas' mish-mash of cultures and lore that was, in itself, kind of original. Although yes, it still was the old prince-rescues-princess in a not very subtle disguise. I have to disagree with those who liken Avatar with Star Wars in its (oh god I'm going to say it) game-changing-ness.
  107. What about a Best Vampire of the Year category?
  108. Best tapdancing.
  109. Stunt, yeah I thought it was five also--I must be looking at the list you pasted wrong; it looks like a list of ten noms for BP.
  110. ....they didn't even fucking campaign for Best Pic, on the 'For Your Consideration' ads, it was never even mentioned. Remember 6 months back when they screened it for the Academy and they said it got one of the longest standing ovations of all time? They said back then, they were all real jazzed about it and it could lead to surprises come Oscars.

    And yeah, UP?!! What the fuck? Why the fuck create an Animated Feature category if the shit is still fucking eligible for Best Pic? Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Pic because it truly was one of the best films of the year. It was good enough to get in on its own without having its own fucking category, now UP gets to fucking double-dip? Seriously...who the fuck does Pixar own in the Academy? Its fucking ridiculous. You make the point of having 10 nominees so more films are represented, then you give it to something that has its own fucking category? Astronomically fucking stupid.

  111. the critics saying it was all a rehash of the old serials and whatnot. Just like now with Avatar. I'll say it again though, if I was ten, this would probably be my favorite movie. It's a film that the kids of today can call there own. Just like SW was for me.
  112. Could take best picture. An Education and Precious will divide the Oscar Bait voters. Up, A Serious Man and Blind Side won't get it. The Hurt Locker and IB will divide the hooah war movie people. D9 could divide up the Avatar voters. Up in the Air could swoop in and FIRE THEM ALL!
  113. Helean Mirrian I think may be an eggers, did that movie even get released anywhere? She could have a five second cameo in a shitty animated cartoon as a voice as the only thing she did that year and she'd still get a nominatioin for it.
  114. I went against the grain and didn't like Up or Star Trek or The Dark Knight or Wall*E because after picking the films apart, there was just nothing of substance there for me personally. So as much as I like eye candy and pure entertainment, I can be a critical prick of stuff the masses are eating up.

    That said, I loved Avatar and probably always will. And while I think LA Confidential should have won best picture, I still enjoy Titanic on a technical level. As bad as the dialogue and characterizations are, I still think it has more to offer than say The Dark Knight which had equally bad dialogue, terrible characterizations and nonsensical plot points. At least with Titanic you get a nonsensical fictional story wrapped up in a historical setting so for a dude who loves history, I was able to appreciate that.

  115. Maybe if Eastwood doesn't get shit this year he'll change his ways a bit. Enough already with the Oscar bait Clint.
  116. Thats like saying you don't believe water is actually wet.
  117. When will you come to your senses?
  118. What make-up was there? Thick concealer on Quinto to cover-up the Jew O'Clock shadow?
  119. I'm not saying Titanic sucked; it's good and it's still good. But in 97-98 it was ALL you heard about, the music, Leo and Kate, Cameron, ad naseum. That's what I meant above when I suggested some people might feel ashamed for fellating Avatar as much as they have. Not that they love it, but that they FELLATED it and took the whole thing and swallowed.

    More Categories:

    Actress Who Most Inspires Masturbation in Age 12-16 Male Demographic

    Actress from Whose Stool You Would Eat the Corn

    Actress Most Deserving of Golden Shower

  120. to make him look sober
  121. I still think Copley was amazing and deserved something. Otherwise, best pic, screenplay, effects and editing is pretty damn good.
  122. What the fuck make-up is in that movie?
  123. Other than Christoph, who actually deserves the fucking thing.

    My dream would be Up in the Air wins best pic, Jason is about to get up and Ivan pushes him aside and says "C'mon really, I got this."

    I'm talking to a guy at work right now who likes Up, but even he is like "Best Picture? Why?"

  124. I think her makeup looks worse than the stuff they put on the Orion girls back in the 60s. Seriously, how does it look worse?
  125. HOD I agree, Copley was good. The accent, the goofy bureaucrat nerd husband needing to impress the father-in-law, thrust suddenly into a nightmare.
  126. It used to be that way but changed years ago. They thought 5 was too art-housey so doubled it to 10 to give some press to bigger pics too

    I recently watched District 9 again and thought it didnt hold up that well. When you get over how clever the FX are, you realise that there are huge plot holes all over the place in it. Shame, because I had it as one of my top 10 of last year.

    And am I the only person who loved Up? Im happy to see it up for best picture. :) Also, I wouldnt be upset if Avatar takes the award either. As for Mirren getting the nod, Judi Dench won it for SHhakespear in Love and was only in 3 scenes. If Mirren hadnt won it for The Queen, then I would say they think it must be her year. Thats what theyre saying for Bridges

  127. Shameful. Even if you liked the movie, just think of the future you are setting into motion. In 20 years every film will be mocap, and they'll speak of the films with actual people in them as dated and call them 'fleshies' or some shit. FUCK YOU ALL.
  128. I was like??? Are you fucking kidding me? The make up in Galaxy Quest kicked its ass? Watch it fucking win.
  129. http://tinyurl.com/yb2gtca
  130. Up in the Air didn't get nominated for customes. Wow neither did A Single Man?
  131. Which isn't often, bless her heart.
  132. Balls
  133. Really. Fucking disgrace.
  134. That's cool. She's like a less old Halle Berry
  135. I'm saying I enjoyed it more. But c'mon, you guys know how I feel about TDK. I'd rather watch a flea circus in a leper colony than be subjected to that movie again.
  136. I loved Up. Pixar hasn't disappointed me yet--I love all their shit but for Cars, Bugs Life, and Act II of WallE, which were just OK in my book. Loved the concept, loved the idea of a FEMALE BIRD named Kevin, etc. Loved the heartwarming old people montage where we see Carl age with his wife, then lose her. Well-handled. Professional. Kids need a dose of that with the usual eye-fodder to keep them grounded in reality. I guess what I'm saying is if UP were to take best pic, I would not climb a belltower with a rifle.
  137. I think the two female leads from Up in the Air should make out onstage. Just because.
  138. It was a big budget video game cut scene with marginally better acting (but not from the lead). I'd advise all the voters to watch in on their TV...I did...unwatchable. Without a big screen and without 3D it looses almost all its entertainment value...and other than the incredible work of the computer animators, it had no artistic value to begin with.

    Really how does this guy get an Oscar nom? Does Cameron suck cock as well as he backhands his women?

  139. The one with the foreign sounding name.
  140. DGDB I see what you're getting at. There's a logical end to all that mo-cap technology, a day when we'll have to take directors like Cameron aside and say, "Look-what you're really making here is a CARTOON. Let's be frank about that. You can stick these mo-cap dots on people in front of green screens, but in the end it's a cartoon. Either you make real movies with real people, using practical effects when necessary--or you make a cartoon. And when you make a cartoon, just admit that THAT's what THAT is."
  141. Best Christina Hendricks red carpet chest
  142. Those cans are so big it's stupid
  143. ....at the prospect of a pure CG/mocap industry. It means no actors (simply unknown voice actors and a few mo-cap stand-ins) no costumes, no sets, a tiny crew, they could crush the Unions, absolute fucking control over the director and the final product, etc.
  144. The fact Pixar showed just how fleeting, often unfair, and painful life is; and they did it wrapped in a family movie.

    Can you imagine parents having to explain to their 8yr old why they were bawling like babies? Having to tell some kid the reason the old man is mean is because life fucked him and his wife in the ass? Heavy shit...the talking dogs are just there to keep you from slitting your wrists.

  145. I love Avatar almost as much as those losers who are suicidal that Pandora doesn't actually exist. But even I wouldn't award it best picture.

    And mocap can't take over the whole industry. At the end of the day I still want to see flesh and blood actors in CGI heavy stuff like Gladiator or Sherlock Holmes.

  146. FluffDuff, yeah, I think it was Viagra Lesbo or something. She has a certain allure. I'll bet she looks fetching on all fours.
  147. I guess that movie just didn't have enough $$$ behind it? Its better then half the shit on there.
  148. That's it--Vera Farmiga.
  149. but it's not gonna happen. Not completely. Cameron and Zemeckis will continue to make anime, but it's not gonna take over the industry.
  150. I thought she was quite plow-able in The Departed. She looks good in business attire.
  151. Good enough.
  152. From a business standpoint it potentially provides a path away from 20 Mil Salaries for your lead, and points sharing with half the cast and crew. In 10 more years it will be phot-realistic...you really won't be able to tell.Personally I hate it...but I see the appeal of it.

    Hey...if the Japanese can make a life like sex doll....Hollywood can make a CGI actor...in the end most people don't care how they get off so long as they get off.

  153. I think Conspiracy is right. I can't imagine Avatar is watchable unless it's in the theater and 3D.
  154. Conspi--PRECISELY!! I distinctly recall a conversation I had with my five-year old son after the movie, wherein I had to explain Carl's motivation for hitting that guy with his cane; that it didn't necessarily make him a BAD guy. I had to couch my explanation in terms he'd understand that Carl's age, his loneliness, his being forced from his home have all impacted him.

    Pixar has a great way of "personifying" animals, like Doug the Dog with his speech--"He is my MASTER and I LOVE him!" Talk. it's exactly the way I'd imagine a Golden Retreiver might string together a sentence if it could. They did the same kind of shit with those seagulls in Nemo--the "MINE!" sequence.

  155. I had forgotten about 500 Days. Wow. Completely shut out. Not even a screenplay nod.
  156. are good stepping stones in that direction. And I don't think 20 years...thats exaggerating. But maybe 40. I think films with real people will always exist, but in the amped up ADD era, they will be the old people movies, the boring dramas no one pays attention to anymore that probably won't get theatrical releases. Real films will probably be confined to something like Lifetime. People will see the theatrical experience as an effects event. It will get to the point where costs continue to rise and it is seen more as an attraction with little regard to story, ala Avatar. In that world, real people on screen aren't necessary my friends.

    And don't even get me started on this...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fppvCpao0vg

  157. on my almost perfect Russian rip. It was just....boring.
  158. Oh damn, that was HER in Departed? I'm surprised I didn't put those together. Veal Parmagiana. An actress to watch out for in the future.
  159. Lucky washing machine.
  160. It's just not going to be the same. That's why mo-crap won't take over. And are those assholes really still getting $20M?
  161. ....with these high-end 'attraction' kinda theaters. With that kinda money for a family, they expect a ride.
  162. Perhaps an actress to rub one out to in the future?
  163. Vera Farmiga's next role MUST be an installment of "A Night With Dannyglovers Dickblood" or I just won't respect her
  164. Is what I imagine guys who think Maggie Jillenhall isn't not a man looks like to them.
  165. ...
  166. There is one GOOD thing about Mo-Cap....the possibility of Gary Oldman starring in every movie ever made even after his death.
  167. I think you're saying something cool, but I'm not sure what it is...
  168. Vera was also Elsa (the mother) in Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. Again, I saw that movie but didn't make the connection when I saw "Up in the Air." I didn't go "Oh, it's her again." That minx is a chameleon, Praise Bale.
  169. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeQ2OfgWRLw&feature=PlayList&p=8BBD9F3C266D4EEF&index=8
  170. I fuck a lot of things I'm not proud of. I'm just saying it's not going to replace the real thing.
  171. I enjoyed it a LOT more than Up in the Air.
  172. Koutch, that's true--they should lock Gary up for a year and do all kinds of mocap work on him. Gary's one guy you can read about on imdb and go "Oh yeah--he was in THAT! And he was fucking GREAT in it, too!" because he really does kind of disappear into his character. The bad guy in Leon the Professional, Lt. Gordon in Batman, Sid Vicious, Mason Verger, Air Force One. That guy is the man.
  173. Maggie Jillenhall is not a man and is good looking. Vera Farminga is how I imagine Maggie looks to them.
  174. Maybe they'll stick mocap dots on Vera's hips, thighs, calves and buttocks some time when she goes to the toilet. I'll buy that for a dollar.
  175. Can it replicate that sex smell? That mix of fluids and shame is an intricate part of the experience.
  176. Movies like Avatar aren't really my bag though. I got the gist. I prefer a table leg through the head ala Punisher War Zone. That's how I roll.
  177. And I agree 100 percent
  178. There will always be the "Art" film...just like they still show Silent Movies, and have Mozart festivals...because there will always be those few who know and will pay to see quality and things that make/made a difference.

    But the truth is the VAST majority of the population, after watching Avatar, wouldn't give a fuck if Depp were CGI'd in the next Pirates movie, or if the next Star Trek was entirely CGI...they just wouldn't care so long as shit blows up and looks good doing it.

    Look...we live in a world where real musicians have been replaced by a producer spinning knobs so his latest lay can sound just good enough to sell on iTunes, where people pay $100 a ticket to watch a singer lip sync and dance, and where a $350 million cartoon just made $2 billion at the box office.

    Now tell me...do you think people still give a fuck about "quality" or "talent"?

  179. It lost to one of the worst films I've ever seen.
  180. You can't compare that to people. I'm telling you, it's not gonna end up like that. People like this shit for some things. That doesn't mean they will like them for all things.
  181. that can move into positions, feel completely real, self lubricate, and make sex sounds. Seriously.

    And if you know the Japanese as I do...I can guarantee it will act appropriately shamed when you piss on it as well.

  182. ***Currently saving money***
  183. They act shamed when pissed on, but it's just an act. Reality is, they like it. They really like it.
  184. The best-looking aliens I've seen in movies are still HR Giger / Stan Winston's "Alien" and a handful of characters from the Mos Eisley cantina. And Tauntauns. I guess what I'm saying is I'm a sucker for rubber costumes and stop-motion armatures. Harryhausen movies make me drop trou and choke it, metaphorically speaking.
  185. http://tinyurl.com/yl7vxot
  186. I like rubber alien costumes way more than CG shit. And the best part is, its actually photo-realistic.
  187. Well I won't be reaming one any time soon.
  188. Predator.
  189. Look at the highest grossing films of the 2000s

    Avatar, Lord of the Rings, Pirates movies, Harry Potters, Spider Mans, Star Wars, Transformers....

    Do you really think it would have impacted the audience numbers much if all of these films were 100% mocap/CG better than Avatar realism? Fuck no. They would have done just as good if not better.....and once the tech improves and becomes more streamlined, they can get those budgets down to 1/3 of what they are now, all shot in a 20X20 room right next door to the studio exec's office. Audiences will not give a fuck as long as they are in for a loud, fun ride....

  190. Utter bullshit.
  191. I don't see how 100% CG would increase the audience. It would be the opposite. They'd drive away the older audience and the people who aren't into cartoons.
  192. Nobody cares about quality these days. Look, I'm not talking as a vegetarian, I'm talking as a guy who loves to cook and makes stuff from scratch but some of you dudes will head down to McDonalds or Sonic for a hamburger and let's face it, the quality of products in that burger is shit. Always was, always will be. But you eat it because it's tasty, it's cheap and you're probably drunk.

    How is out fast food mentality any different from the way we're starting to see movies where just about every year the top ten movies are the ones with the most spectacle?

    I looked at the artists that won those Grammys on Sunday and I either don't know who they are or can't stand to listen to the garbage they call music.

    Why is Walmart the top dog even though all their made in China shit will break down and need replacing in a couple years? Because it's cheap.

    Movies, music, food, household items......nobody cares about quality anymore. I'd like to think movies stand a better chance than the rest to maintain a certain level of quality because it's a visual medium, we're visual beings and nothing beats watching Denzel calmly take out a room of thugs or Phillip Seymour Hoffman go off the rails and toss furniture around the office.

    But if you're looking for quality in anything in this life, that boat has left. The people at the top in politics and industry are greedy soulless purveyors of trash so why should any of us expect a life of quality?

  193. Now that's a laugh.
  194. Certainly.
  195. One Avatar pays for most of the films for the rest of the year under that studio. They put out a bunch of shit knowing damn well most of it will fail and only a few will cover the cost of the rest.
  196. The same reason Avatar did better having mocap creatures than it would have were it people in suits. I fucking guarantee it would have done significantly smaller business if the effects had been more practical. Its the hype of new visual stimulation. Even old people are latching onto this now.
  197. Eating a tub of nachos with the absolute worst cardiac arrest inducing "cheese" slathered over them saying the movie sucks because it has zero substance. So what you stuff in your pie hole is less important than what you subject your eyes to? Douche.
  198. because there's no way of knowing that. I don't see how making LOTR or Pirates into a cartoon would increase the audience. That doesn't make any sense.
  199. ....I tell a chick blowing me she has zero substance as I watch fucking 'Bachelor Party', so?
  200. Speaking of rubber suits, I forced my daughter to watch the 1976 King Kong a couple weeks back when I reviewed it. I wanted her to have something to compare Jackson's with. Rick Baker was great in the monkey suit, except for the wide shots where they showed him against a woefully fake (soundstage or rear-projection) background. My daughter's biggest complaint: He walked upright on two legs. Which I thought was a great observation, given that Baker WANTED his Kong to be a knuckle-walker (like the 2005 version), but he lost that argument with Guillerman / Delaurentis.
  201. If LOTR had looked like Beowulf, I might have still enjoyed it, but I would never have watched it again outside of the theater.

    If it wouldn't have mattered to the mass movie going audience, then I can't distance myself from those people fast enough.

  202. don't even factor in that it could possible increase sales. But I seriously doubt it would hurt these big films of the last 10 years. So if it cut costs, and increases studio control, why would they not do it? And I'm not even talking tech of this second.....I'm saying considering the progression of tech in the last 20 years.....go forward another 20 and bye bye to real people in movies.
  203. You can't fucking negotiate with that movie.
  204. Stunt, agreed on that (Carpenter's Thing).
  205. if you were applying it only to action movies. Even then I wouldn't agree with it. But to say that CG actors is the future for all films? Absurd...
  206. ...I'm just illustrating why I will never give a fucking cent to one of these films. If I'm the last person on the fucking planet to not have seen it, in 40 years when I see the shit being put out, I'll be glad to know I didn't help.
  207. Has Bale allowed himself to be CG'ed? That means it will never catch on.
  208. Her bad blow job isn't going to affect your quality of life. Besides, it's a blow job. You'll ALWAYS be able to find a chick who can do it right. But the food/movie comparison is legit. People complain that movies ain't what they used to be. Yeah, neither is the shit food you shoveled down your gullet for breakfast, lunch and dinner. How is a movie that's pure eye candy like Avatar any different than a Big Mac? One tastes great on the tongue, the other tastes great on the eyeballs but both are empty calories.

    Christ, I'm rambling. I need a beer to think straight.

  209. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Q02weIJD3I
  210. .
  211. They get all messed up
  212. Professionalism can't be digitized.
  213. Much like Qui Gon sadly sighed: 'I wish that were so....' when young Anakin suggested Jedi's cannnot die, I feel the same way about your Bale comment. I wish Bale were the future. But look at his numbers. Look at Terminator and Public Enemies. The world doesn't need a true movie star any longer. Someone like Sam Worthington can headline just fine, because he is surrounded by all sorts of bright colorful shit wooing the viewer. Thats the point....sensation will surpass star quality, and a Mel Gibson comeback will open with a meager 17 million dollars.

    Sad days lie ahead. I sense much fear in you.

  214. To put all this on Cameron and Zemeckis is wrong. We all know you're the one guy who defends the prequels and what Lucas attempted there was nothing different from what Cameron has done with Avatar. I mean, you watch the prequels and there are so many CGI characters walking around you wonder why he didn't replace Portman with CGI after Menace the same way he did with Yoda because she was just phoning her performance in anyway.

    And the backgrounds became progressively green screened as the series continued. To me, the only real difference between a movie like Avatar and Sith is that one was shot in 3D.

  215. Can you make that into one of those Hitler style videos? You can use the fight climax from Empire Strikes Back. Darth can tell Luke that "CG is the future" and Luke can respond with "NO, THAT'S NOT TRUE! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!" Or whatever it is he says.
  216. Lucas has been pushing for this more than anyone. And I do agree with the theory that Avatar is probably getting his dick wet at the prospect of a full mocap life-like CG 'Episode VII.'

    Yeah, I was all gungho and supportive of the prequels and still am. But that was before it was clear what was happening. Thats when CG was still a tool as opposed to a WEAPON.

  217. CG and mo-cap won't go away. But it's not taking over. No fucking way.
  218. Toy Story to blame for all this madness?
  219. ....I couldn't take much more heart-break. If I hear one more fucking mocap movie being greenlit, I'm in HOD territory.
  220. But its cool looking.

    http://www.ilove.thuxtable.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/oinker-248x300.jpg

  221. I've been trying to talk to you, you were barely here yesterday, you never called me back the other day. What the fuck is happening?
  222. I think I have a way we can settle this debate like men.

    IN THE FUCKING OCTAGON!!!!!!

  223. I'll bet if they re-released Equilibrium people would think it's a new movie and it would perform fairly well, taking in at least as much as the first time around. I can't wait until my children are old enough to witness the GunKata Apocalypse.
  224. And I made this review. It's good.

    http://moonwolves.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/2551/#more-2551

  225. I was just watching that guy in Goonies.
  226. Scares me. Always reminds me of that fucking 'Manhunt' game, which I'm still developing into a feature. Brian Cox will reprise the role of Starkweather.
  227. The hanger with the ships was an actual set and I think all the spaceships were still physical models. CG was still overused, but the man showed "some" restraint.

    But by Clones he had gone into full CG weapon mode. Fewer actual sets and I think every ship was CG. Lucas should know better than anyone that there's a real warmth to seeing an actual model blast through space, but he just couldn't resist.

    So if the blame lies with any one person, it lies with Lucas.

    And freaking Indy IV. That whole jungle chase sequence just looked cheap as fuck.

  228. Yesterday, no one cared about them...like always.
  229. into your Manhunt adaptation? Someone needs to reanimate his sweaty corpse
  230. It breaks my fucking heart.
  231. ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS!

    FUCK what the hell are animal trainers suppose to do now? Remember the awesomeness of Howard Bound? Milo and Otis? Andre?

  232. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0731575/
  233. of the Manhunt storyline and write a script. Its not that original a concept anyway......I need people with baseball bats and chainsaws chasing a dude through a junkyard and we see the whole thing from surveillance footage. I fucking NEED this.
  234. or Jason Statham?
  235. Dennehey isn't dead. Is he? No way.
  236. ...it shouldn't be an actiony kinda guy....I would even have this kid drop some muscle and become a little scrawnier. Its all in the face. The guy looks like a man on a fucking mission, and thats what we need.

    Hick Leader would have been Brion fucking James, if he hadn't dropped fucking dead.

    http://tinyurl.com/y9mykbh

  237. He's just as useless as a corpse right now.
  238. Not even in the lead role necessarily, but in a dream/flashback/comedic bit on a show? Something? I so fucking feel like I've seen him in a Devil costume but I couldn't remember if I was just thinking of Keitel in Little Nicky.
  239. I think this may be a good thing. I think it may cause grumbles or splits or whatever and it ends up going to Fox for Animated Feature and no way in hell would Up win Best Pic, so its shut out.
  240. Has an Oscar nom?
  241. No one fucking knows for Animated Win.
  242. How did 2012 not get an effects or sound nom? WTF?
  243. the technical awards are fucked. I need to check to see if Up In the Air is nominated for something like editing.
  244. Don't they usual love the period costume stuff?
  245. make-up, effects, sound?! What the fuck....
  246. Up in Air got no technical awards. God I hope that movie gets shut out.

    I don't even fucking care if Precious has a sweep, as long as that movie gets fucked.

  247. ...
  248. Hmmmm, the more I look at the noms, the more I see omissions I thought were certain.
  249. Brings up Jeff Bridges being in Blown Away to Renner.

    So how does it feel to lose the Oscar to a guy who's already played the same character you were nominated for today?

  250. He'll be on his best behavior after the Globes though.

    Speaking of globes:

    http://tinyurl.com/59rguj

  251. Yeah Imaginairum took all its noms.

    Rightfully so me thinks.

  252. As well as being pants-shredding good.
  253. On SNL this weekend? Started off REAL FUCKING slow but got really good after the Digital Short.

    Best one in a while. I'm pretty sure its like an NBC thing with comedies now, the second time/season is always the best.

  254. That was the one shot to give some love to practical costumes.....fuck Gilliam's acid trip buttfuck. 8 people on the planet saw the fucking thing. Only 6 of them remembered they saw it. Ridiculous.
  255. Mel needs our dough.
  256. I've never watched Mad Men, but I like the guy. SERGIO!

    The Human Closet Organizer and Hamm and Bubly were also great bits.

  257. Jon Hamm is about as in shape as I am. Made me feel good about myself. He's just a good looking man.
  258. And I find his daughter uniquely jerk-worthy.
  259. Today I cleaned out the garage, the car, fixed a cabinet, Put the dishes away. Then, I asked her ot help me keep the place clean by putting away a box she kicked out of one of the rooms. She freaked. Her "friend" isn't visitting, but I'd almost rather welcome that than this psycho.
  260. Gilliams thing made its money overseas. He didn't need filthy American money.

    Plus he's won it for customes before.

  261. Get a review up.
  262. Maybe sometime this week. Was at a nerd convention all weekend. Saw Adam West, Chewbacca and POWDER!!!!!!!!
  263. No 12 monkers was only nominated for custome, didn't win. Lost to Restoration (RDJ meth days).
  264. I'm off on Saturday. Maybe I'll go give Mel my $10 then.

    Naturally, I'll litter the theater lobby with AIBN propoganda and repeatedly shout "Praise Him!" on my way out.

  265. Who knows how long it will be before I see Big Mel on the Big Screen again
  266. and then some. I chose Mel over Avatar. I made the right decision.
  267. You look like this:

    http://img526.imageshack.us/i/fabiotd1.jpg/

  268. "Lethal Weapon" writer Shane Black will direct Gibson in "Cold Warrior," Variety reports. This will be Black's sophomore effort as a director, following up 2005's "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang." The story, from a script by newcomer Chuck Mondry, follows a retired Cold War-era spy who answers the call once again, in the name of disrupting Russian plans to commit terrorist acts on American soil.
  269. Mel's gonna be shoved down our thoats almost as much as Jay Baruchel is going to be this year!!!
  270. Kiss Kiss was fantastic. Val and Downey were sublime. If Black is directing Mel, he's got one hand in my wallet already (and his other cradling my scrotal sack).
  271. jay baruchel early contender for Best Eggers 2010 award.
  272. Used to. I've since put on some weight and cut my hair.
  273. Win.
  274. ....could I fuck in your shower? Not you....someone else, but in your shower.
  275. I NEED ME SOME GIBSON

    Wait, who is Jay Baruchel?

  276. The dude trying to get the chick to pimp his Jew Hip-Hop stuff? FUCK THAT GUY!!! Hate that little douche.
  277. I liked him as the sleazy lead singer of ISRAEL in Nick and Norah
  278. Actually I meant to put a pitcure more like this:

    http://yuppiedanceparty.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/evolution_y06_v3_single_72dpi.jpg

    but in googling hipster douchebag that picture came up and I had to use it. If more hipster douchebags really looked like that, I wouldn't fucking punch them so much.

  279. you didn't think he played that character perfectly?
  280. Has three starring roles this year. Granted he's up against the Cage in one, but he's still the title character.
  281. thanks.
  282. balls
  283. Does he at least have Jonah Hill as a sidekick?
  284. I SAID:

    danny your love for Wild Things make me fear you look like this:

    http://tinyurl.com/yf7wzfp

  285. Not even worth discussion.
  286. Johan Hill is another voice in the Train Your Dragon movie his the lead voice on.
  287. It WAS gonna be one of the few animated films I see in the theater. But not anymore.
  288. David Brown, one half the producer team (Zanuck) that gave us JAWS, is fucking dead:

    http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=456001>1=28101

  289. Fucking legend.
  290. Bale at Brown eulogy: "He was a fuckin' professional, man. What donshoo fuckin' understand?"
  291. That just ruined my Tuesday
  292. He had a long, productive life.
  293. Halfway through the blow scene, he's squirming in his seat looking up at the projectionist booth. 'Fer' fuck's sake man....what is this? Gimmee a fuckin' answer! This movie...fuckin' ass'
  294. That stache almost ALMOST rivals Selleck's.

    They're gonna need a bigger coffin.

  295. Got a score nom. Weren't all you really pleased with that? Haven't seen it yet.
  296. .
  297. The coffin (hopefully not for another 50 years) is gonna have to be bigger not for the 'stache, but for the giant fucking boner.
  298. Who did that score? Zimmer? I can't remember. The movie got screwed up during my showing (see review here).
  299. START FUCKING LISTENING TO ME.
  300. Zimmer actually put some thought and effort into the project.
  301. A all MoCap Tom Selleck/Gary Oldman buddy cop comedy!

    Useing one of Shane Black's 1,000 of scripts he'll give away upon his death bed.

    CAN'T WAIT!

  302. Except for Battle For Terra, it was good but kind of generic.

    Seriously anyone else seen that fucker yet? Its about alien sperm!

  303. Is that I thought it WORKED really well. The first time I've ever heard EWB and though OK this shit fucking works here. But its been used to death in other fucking movies where it made no fucking sense.

    Then again I still think Blue Man Group should've done Avatar. At least Daft Punk is doing Tron 2....seriously how is that movie being handled SOOOO fucking well?

  304. Star Trek is pretty good too.
  305. Its fucking true.
  306. It was pathetic. Boring stock music you've heard a thousand times. Those moments that should have had balls but just fell flat, like sitting in the captain's chair, can be entirely blamed on the lame ass fucking made for tv score.
  307. It looks like it just fucking has to. Its a rule if its set in the Mid East it seems.
  308. Fuck I've been running that thing into the ground for so long feels like it was last year.

    It'll be on trailers for sure this summer.

  309. Scheider is dead, Benchley is dead, Brown is dead...can Zanuck and Spielberg be far behind? Sigh. We're all gonna end up like Quint in death's gaping maw.

    Bale, comfort us.

  310. I played it twice while I drove to work and it sounded good. I actually didn't pay attention to it in the theater because I was so distracted by the bad movie I was watching.
  311. Yeah I'm pretty sure it has EWB. But since everyone thinks I just hate this movie ask someone else.
  312. He looks like the fucking Kane in Poltergeist 2. Before he goes, I just pray he has the chance to play Skeletor in the new Masters of the Universe.

    http://tinyurl.com/ygkycvw

    http://tinyurl.com/yzgmfw9

    http://tinyurl.com/yrmpk3

  313. Gawd is in his ho-ly tem-PULL!
  314. Has anyone fucking gone back and watched Blown Away again yet?

    If so can you still tell me that that movie isn't a hundred times more re watchable then The Hurt Locker. THL was really fucking boring a second time through.

  315. And I will revisit Blown Away so we can discuss. But I don't want to do it here....I want it someplace more private. Perhaps...on your bed.
  316. Koutch, I'll put Blown Away on the list. I've been meaning to revisit it. I only saw THL once.
  317. 1) I LOVE the Exotic Wailing Bitch

    2) I fucking HATE Slumdog Millionare

  318. Danny needs to be the one to do THL/Blown Away. Since he's an unbiased commentator.
  319. I sat there wondering, how the fuck did I ever come out of this debating whether or not it was better than 'Millions'?!! What....THE FUCK?!!!
  320. Yes I trust your opinion as well. Can't wait.
  321. Bridges' Boston accent sounds like he's had a stroke or something.

    I'd say it's more rewatchable than Locker though. Poor Forest Whittiker

  322. balls
  323. .
  324. Remember that old game, Mousetrap? Blown Away is like that, only with bombs.
  325. Slumdog wasn't the best movie of 2008 but I enjoyed it.
  326. For the first time like a week or four ago. Fucking loved it.

    Seriously Boyle for director of the decade.

  327. Hahahah poor Blown Away, unfairly shit on for that last scene. Thats seriously just something the critics ran with at the time.

    Its funny yesterday I was arguing that Spawn isn't that bad. So much in the sense that Spawn is sort of a harmless movie not really worth your time hating (unless your a huge metal fan mad at the soundtrack whatever). But man everyone jumped all over me. But I had Ebert in my corner on that, he gave that fucking thing 3 stars. But he shat all over Blown Away.

  328. Highly recommended.
  329. I have it on video as not available on DVD yet over here. I always thought the actual crash was one of the best put on film.......at least for a few years. :)

    I always liked Spawn, apart from John Legiuzmo's fucking character, all farting and shitty duds and stuff. Fucking school yards wank! Also love Mousetrap, for what its worth too.

    Buuuuuuuut, Hurt Locker is a very good film, regardless of how much you dont want it to be lol.

  330. The animated series was really good.
  331. I don't mind THL. I think its a really good film as well, just really thought it didn't hold up on second viewing, save for Mackie's character he became a lot more interesting. Renner just came off as a douchebag.
  332. ....so many moments in that film that kick me in the fucking stomach. When Damian sees his mom by the train tracks...FUCK!!!!
  333. I think she got an Oscar nom for it, and damn right too!

    Did the comparison come from the awesome use of Streets Have No Name in Fearless? That scene is probably one of my alltime favourite scenes in anything! Fucking heartbreaking!!

  334. Is just some hipster douchebag, kind of chaps the ass a bit.
  335. ...
  336. What the fuck is Fearless a sequel to Blown Away or vice versa? U2 is all over that movie as well.
  337. http://tinyurl.com/y9g34tj
  338. To help him get to grips with his character, Max, Jeff Bridges spent some time with his good friend Gary Busey who, years before, had been in a severe motorbike accident which had put him into a coma.
  339. I am sorry to report that I dont think it lives upto the hype anymore

    It is a fantastic use of FX, and a really clever direction, and yes Copley is amazing in it.......but the fucking script is all over the place. There are huge plot holes all over it. I didnt really get that first time of watching, but it really stood out 2nd time

  340. Did Fearless. I'm watching it this week. That dude does no wrong. How is he not the most loved director in hollywood.
  341. And its got the Always Great Benicio Del Toro and pre fat Hulce in it!
  342. hahahahahaha
  343. ...
  344. I liked D9, watched it twice. I didn't notice any glaring plot holes, apart from maybe why the prawn waited so long to gather the fluid (was only Christopher smart enough?)

    Could someone briefly outline those holes for discussion?

  345. ...really. It doesn't.
  346. Maybe you didn't hear me the first time...

    After District 9, nothing else fucking matters.

  347. Actually I've been fucking nervous to rewatch D9. I'd rather it stay fucking perfect then taint it with a second view. I've owned it since right after Christmas and have yet to put it in the VHS.
  348. I wonder if I could watch it at work....
  349. I just want to go on record as saying that if the Prawn ever do arrive on earth, Christopher Johnson will be my mostest bestest friend. Him and his "Little One."
  350. VHS? WTF?
  351. 'HOW DO YOU PUT FEAR INTO THE FEARLESS?'

    Starring: Jeff Bridges and Mark Wahlberg

    Directed By: Mark Romanek

    Original Score By: Wang Chung

  352. ......NO FUCKING HOLES TO BE FOUND.
  353. .
  354. Ever.
  355. Looks like District 9 and Knowing are up for AIBN movie of the year huh?
  356. Better.
  357. Seriously, not ONE FUCKING YEAR ONE nomination NOT FUCKING ONE.
  358. ...what would be the third?
  359. I nominate Taylor Swift: A Night with DGDB.
  360. I think the end of Batman Begins is ruined by a huge fuck-off plot hole, in which the microwave machine is turning the toxin laced water into steam in the underground and probably metal water pipes, while ignoring those large water-filled bags called humans!!!??? WTF!!!

    Anyway, I just cant buy that 20 years into an alien visitation that that South African beaurocracy is whats supposed to be running it now? That they were that poor? That the USA werent running the whole thing due tote bilions they would have put into it becasue there is no way SA could afford to run something like that. Ive been there.

    dont beleive that Copley could have escaped into D9 without being spotted (again as if en alien camp would be that un-watched or unguarded)

    I dont get that the command module could have dropped off and not have been spotted for 20 years.

    I dont believe the Nigerians would have been allowed to act with such impunatity in a world sensative site like the first alien camp

    And how did alien Copley get to have delivered his metal flower to the door step of his wifes house when the new camp in 200 miles away and the aliens are now confinded to it. As if an alien wandering around the streets wouldnt have been spotted.

    In the end it all comes back to me not buying that that is how the first ever camp of aliens in the world would be run. It is very much a South African film. And its a great first time feature, and im ladve seen it. But the story just doesnt hold water for me .

  361. .
  362. Thats your personal opinion of what you do or don't believe. Its like saying you don't believe Bruce Wayne could go out every single fucking night and fight that many guys and still be able to walk the next morning. Yeah, there's illogical far-fetched shit that make films possible. Its such a simple story D9, so its surprising people pick this kinda stuff apart. I guess they need to grasp at something. I remember one review awhile back was bitching about the fact that Wikus' security passwords still worked at MNU. He was acting like this ruined the fucking movie for him.....okay. Whatever.
  363. Oh yeah...guess you're right about the flower. The other stuff I was able to get past, so easily I didn't think much about it.

    YOu're right about the module. If an alien vessel came to earth and just hovered in one place for months, you bet they'd have all kinds of science gear pointed at it, ready to detect and analyze every speck that falls off.

  364. AIBN Movie of the Year Nominees:

    Knowing

    District 9

    Public Enemies

    Pure...fucking...MAN.

  365. I think your plot holes all stem from your intial problem. Are you trying to say that its poorly funded or something? Or it isn't?

    See I think D9 is a terribly funded operation and you can sneek in and out no problem. I mean look at the drug dealers and mobs, they have no problem getting access to D9.

  366. Does anyone here actually think Up In The Air is deserving of a best picture nod, much less best picture...what about the movie itself (not the acting which was great) was all that? It's not even what I'd call an art house film...Hurt Locker is more of an art house film. My feeling is that the world in general has gone to shit...how else to explain the average grocery store tomato? And given that the world is going to hell in a hand basket, is it any surprise that the Oscars are following. Christina Hendricks...needs to start doing porn...STAT.
  367. Nit picks seemed to be ok, but other movies its not.

    Something like The Hurt Locker wasn't allowed to be nit picked apart, when it probably should've been more so then D9.

  368. ....but no issue with why the Marines in Avatar didn't just pull all their people off the ground and obliterate the fuck out of the surface of the planet once the Smurfs got hostile? Aren't they trying to mine something? Why not scorch the entire surface of the planet with napalm like shit?
  369. Did i read that right...the VHS? Seriously dude...that's so 1980's. I don't even bother with DVDs anymore...I just DL and enjoy.
  370. I'm an avid supporter of Fuck Up in the Air, including the acting. That movie blows in all areas.
  371. ...to rescue the kid or whatever the fuck it is....and they still call it such a gritty realistic film?
  372. I still use VHS.
  373. ...that are actually fucking realistic. 'You've Got Mail' is one of them.
  374. ....
  375. Grade A f*kcing professional. Deserved an Oscar for Fear & Loathing... But then again, Oscars are really f*kcing worthless...Julia Roberts won the big O for Erin Brockovich...you might as well nominate Jenna Jameson for an Oscar...now that was acting...master thespian style!
  376. People TOTALLY fucking took that movie at face fucking value, then went on to call it a fucking movie of our times.

    First off the miles club isn't real, secondly there isn't a job where you actually go and FIRE people, thirdly the book was made in a pre 9-11 world air traveling sucks balls now and air lines are all going down the tubes I doubt being in their mile high club is worth shit these days. And finally that main girl was suppose to be a Ivy League School top of her class with Honors grad....yet she's never fucking traveled in her life? Bull shit, that girl would be more ruthless then Cloontang could ever be. There should've been a scene with him telling her to let up and be nicer.

  377. But as I said, plotholes are probably subjective. Its just something that got to me. The whole film runs on his ability to slip into and out of D9 undetected. And that the command module was undetected for 20 years. I mean they have sceismagraph(sp) machine that can find graves and stuff now, so I just cant buy that every square inch of D9 had not already been mapped, graphed, and would not have had CCTV cameras everywhere.
  378. Blompkamp gives hope to indie film makers everywhere. He;s a fucking legend.

    But peerless masterpeiece rather than clever and original first feature? Not for me, Im afraid.

  379. Koutch, hey, if you still got one and it works. I'm still avoiding getting a Bluray. I agre with Kukulcan that, like music, physical media is becoming obselete and electronic data will be the future, since it requires no shelf space.

    Still, I happen to LIKE looking at DVD spines together on the shelf. It's comforting. Last year I even started going to second-hand music shops to buy old LPs of albums that I have and love on CD. I just LIKE the haptic aspect of touching an album sleeve, looking at the art, fetishing....oohhmmwauhhhhh

  380. Doesn't really bother me. Maybe i need to see it again. I thought she was good and that the movie was good.

    Also I thought Micheal Douglas was better in Traffic then BDT and same with his daughter. But it was a similar role for Douglas.

    I'm not a huge DBT fan. He's fine, just solid all the time guy.

  381. Yes, I see the value in the Col.'s complaints, some of them were even my complaints. The command module breaking off and not being found for 20 years especially. But unlike other GAPING PLOT HOLE movies of the past several years, I give D9 a pass because it's just so beautifully executed.
  382. Loved the babe: http://tinyurl.com/yzuwern http://tinyurl.com/ykh5la7 Screw Miller - It's chubby time
  383. Something like Jurassic Park would have been fucked for me. Like no way could one fucking programmer shut down the entire system that sophisticated. No way would they have the manual override in a building outside of the main control room, and no fucking way would they send the first test group alone without Gennero riding with them, packing major firepower. Its just not likely. Jurassic Park sucks now.
  384. Bob Peck's character.
  385. But I thought there was a mention about that the shareholders would think genocide was bad for share price. Ribisi has to think for a while before sanctioning shit kicking just the area that the tree was in. A full nuclear holocaust of the whole of the first planet with life that we've found might be over the paygrade of the miners. Also who knows what irradiating the Unobtainium would do to it.........

    But im just defending JC here lol. Im sure not that much thought was put into it :D

  386. I'd like to fill this one: http://tinyurl.com/yhgzasq
  387. Would be perfect as Bilbo in the new movie? I mean I know Middle Earth is a White Supremecy fantasy land, but BDT is a latino whity can get behind.
  388. Koutch, regarding Up in the Air, I sort of disagree--not to be confrontational, but just because I intepreted it differently...

    I don't travel a lot. I didn't care if the Miles program was real or not, because I know a couple airlines do or did have frequent flier programs. So I was able to buy it.

    Yeah, it's post 911, but Clooney went over how he LIKES the security, he LIKES the routine. He packs his carry-on specifically for the checkpoints and he wears slip-on shoes when boarding. He likes that crap. I don't know when the book came out, but the story on film appeared recent enough to be post 911. So I bought that as well.

    I agree that any self-respecting Ivy girl would have been well travelled and a little less naive. Her character came off all tough at first, suggesting that the firm ditch plane travel for video conferencing. But later, Clooney DOES give her a scolding because she has no experience dealing face-to-face with these people. He says something like, "Dont ever say you know how they feel. You DON'T know how they feel. This is the worst day of their life."

    Etc blah blah. I only regret that Ivy girl and Vera Lasagna didn't get naked in a shower together.

  389. There are movies with gaping plot holes we give a pass to, others we don't. It just depends on whether the movie as a whole gels for you.
  390. ....she looks like she should be hand-washing my laundry on a fucking farm.
  391. Reminds me of what The Joker SHOULD have looked like.
  392. So Knowing, District 9 and Public Enemies are our only options? Jesus. We don't have to go all Academy with ten choices but for the love of all that's good and holy, we need two more.
  393. HOD, exactly. If you can buy the main premise, sometimes you'll give a pass to something you DO notice as being a plot hole--but you'll let it slide, as if Obi-Wan is in the room waving his fingers saying, "You don't NEED to know why they didn't detect the command module."

    It's like a Jedi mindtrick on yourself. "I don't NEED to know how Copley got that flower on his wife's doorstep without being noticed. Why, of COURSE he was able to do it."

  394. That never bothered me about the first trip. The arrogance and hubris of Attenborough explains that for me. And, (especially back in the 90's) me being not very techy had no problem that a computer hacker could do what he did.
  395. You got it all wrong bud about The Hurt Locker fight scene. I'm totally fine with its homoeroticness. I'm mad that it didn't go further with it. Maybe fucking SAY that Renner was gay, have the movie stand for something. FUCK he probably IS gay and no one wanted to say it or point it out because they were all ok floating by as a Military movie that didn't stand for anything.

    I prefer my gay sex scenes done by Peter Saarsgaard, he's got the experience to make it more realistic.

    Just look at him banging away in the Dying Gaul. Its breath taking.

  396. You know damn well you'd tongue Vera Farmiga's asshole while calling your mother collect.
  397. .....maybe more aid workers are allowed inside the camp, the situation prompted worldwide attention and other countries finally intervene realizing South Africa is gonna fuck this up. So it doesn't seem odd to me that Wikus could eventually have someone else give it to someone to give it to someone to take to her door.
  398. Well the thing with the Miles club is that it was his BIG purpose in life. And I don't fucking care if its real or not, just the fact how everyone BOUGHT IT and never fucking questioned it.

    As for the post 9/11 I'm more talking about declining services in Air Lines (also going along with the fact that they are tanking). I haven't been in a air line club in a while. But ALSO fucking they showed him in the NWA terminal....yet he only flies USAIR???? What the fuck is the deal with that?

  399. Clooney liked the smell of the unwashed, the day old fart, the stale food. Because THATS what flying is. It was a complete fucking rip off of Fight Club for the over 40 crowd.
  400. So I'm unable to explain why I give a pass to the former and not the latter.
  401. Just a bad knock off of Fight Club.

    Like he lives like they want you to live in fight club with no things. God I hate that fucking movie.

  402. I've ever seen. I might actually bust in my pants if she just looked at me. The only one who's even sort of close to her...eye-wise...is Bryce.
  403. Again, when I say 'fuck her' or 'what's the big deal' or 'I don't get the love,' rarely does that mean I wouldn't knock the spit off that grill. Of course I would.....of fucking course.
  404. I suggest you not watch the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus your head will explode.
  405. your other head would explode.
  406. Yeah, I get what you mean. He says he stays "loyal" to the one airline, but apart from their Miles program there's no real incentive for the devotion. I think we're just supposed to accept the Miles promotion as a device--it's a goal he has, and once he gets there (for those of us who've seen it) it's not the sky-opening moment he thought it would be. Even with Sam Fucking Elliott on hand to share it with him. There were extra touches like that in the movie, like when he's able to bypass lines at hotel check in because he's a member of whatever programs they might have. I just accepted it as part of his character's way of having "automated" himself into that lifestyle, so that everything is easy, routine, structured, predictable.
  407. so much so I had to leave for a few days in disgust. I still fucking refuse to watch Parnassus.
  408. I felt they could have done more (in Up in the Air) with that phone sex-text scene where Clooney and Vera text each other. He says he's lonely, she says then go play with yourself. he says you first, she says I'm way ahead of you...

    They should have had her text something like OH JZUS IM GONG 2 CUM O GOD O NOW MY BLKBRY SMELLS LKE FISH YOU ASHLE

  409. I think you missed the part where I said that Up in the Air got a pass on the REALNESS factor of it. Thats all I'm trying to say. Yes in the movie ITS ALL FUCKING believable, but why are people nit picking fucking Avatar/D9, but saying Up In the Air is as real as it fucking gets.

    I totally agree. I mean it wasn't till SOMEONE actually told me that the Billion Miles Award is bullshit did I go???? Really? Well thats fucking stupid.

  410. So he's done it another time as well? Hot Damn! lol *starts downloading *

    Speaking on giving and receiving....... anyone see our Lord get a length from Obi Wan in Velvet Goldmine? ;) What is is Star Wars actors, eh? What next Ahmed Best crossing swords with a mo-cap'ed Alec Guiness in the remake of Kind Hearts and Coronets? "Adi, Adi, look! It grown biiiiiig now! Wanna see Adi?"

  411. Maybe I should check it out again ;)

    I usually like Gilliam's stuff. I guess it was all explained by MAGIC. That Dues Ex Machina is usually sufficient to appease me.

  412. Damn, you're like a rabid dog when it comes to Up in the Air. The miles club thing made perfect sense to me. I don't care if such a thing exists in real life, this is an alternate reality after all. It doesn't have to mirror our world 100% and it's not like they were asking us to buy a wacky concept like Clooney being allowed to get a phaser gun past airport security. It's just an air travelers club dude. And it makes perfect sense that hitting that magic mark was his goal. There was what, only 5 other people to do it? And he was going to be the youngest. For a guy with no wife, kids, academic/athletic/professional accomplishments to his name, it was the one thing that would set him apart from the crowd.

    I mean sure, right now you could walk into the middle of the street, take a dump while spinning plates, whistling the Jeopardy theme and making a prank call to Ashton Kutcher and not only would you most likely be the only human being in the history of time to do all four activities at the same time but all four at the exact location. Is that an accomplishment you would be proud of? Maybe. But what Clooney was aiming for had a hint more prestige attached to it. So yes, that plot point of the movie makes 100% sense to me.

  413. Fucks dudes NIGHTLY! I don't buy that guy unless he's playing gay.

    http://tinyurl.com/ygnku6h

  414. By getting a blowy from The Mamma Mia girl while his wife was dying.
  415. The thing I remember about VG was Lord Bale getting caught jerking off to a Bowie record or something like that.
  416. I finally finished watching Outland just now. So fucking overrated. Hyams best work is still Sudden Death. I got so bored during the last act I started checking the elasticity of my foreskin. It's more than I thought.
  417. All I was saying about Up in the Air, is THAT MOVIE got a pass on critics for being realistic, while other sat around trying to poke holes in D9.

    All the while you'd think Up In the Air would've been held to a higher standard of realism.

  418. I keep starting movies and finishing them months later lately.
  419. It put you to sleep? Jesus. That's like a judge at an Hawaiian Tropic blow job competition falling asleep by the fifth contestant.
  420. I know the fucking idea work...I FUCKING BOUGHT IT! I'm just saying you think people would call Up In the Air out before they started going on and on about how his pass code wouldn't have worked in D9. Or that a dragon with that sort of shape and wing span wouldn't be able to fly in Avatar. Or a girl that fat wouldn't be able to have babies in Precious. Or that Peter Saarsgaurd likes girls in An Education.
  421. Odo, I liked Outland. Is it great, timeless? Maybe not. After all, it's just High Noon in space. Obligatory bad guys play cat-n-mouse with Sean Connery at the end. And no, by today's standards it's not exactly shoot-em-up.

    But I did like how Connery wasn't super macho about it. He was just a normal dude. He swallows his pride and asks the mine workers for help, but they ditch him. So he sets up a couple traps, plants some weapons. Even then he's still scared, unsure of himself, and is glad when that doctor chick shows up.

    I reviewed it here a couple months back. Gotta admit it got at least .5 Fist if not a whole Fist just because hey, it's Sean Connery.

  422. I'm with you on Outland. Found it boring as hell when I place it before my eyeballs.
  423. are arguing about Up in the fucking Air. Is it really worth that much aggravation?
  424. I don't fucking have VHS player. I've got a fucking Blu Ray....its a coy joke.
  425. But as far as everyday life goes, it was almost as much of a fairy tale as a Disney cartoon.
  426. Jim Jarmusch must be one of the most overrated directors out there. I keep watchin them and keep wising I hadnt bothered by the end. But I hear good things about cigarettes and coffee...
  427. Koutch, I get where you're coming from. I suspect you're right that because Up In the Air is earth-based and "reality" based, and stars CLOONEY, they feel safer with it. So they're more comfortable accepting Reitman's engorged member betwixt their lips and orally work it like a newborn suckling at its mother's lactating teat. I think the concepts of D9 and Avatar put off non-geeks. Not enough to diminish their enjoyment, but enough that they don't feel "safe" giving those flicks high props.
  428. I haven't seen Precious yet. There's no karate in that, is there?
  429. well you did come on Oscar nom day. What'd you expect? Shakespeare?
  430. It's the same game with the Grammys. The latest albums from Tom Russell and Colin Hay and Marshall Crenshaw are overlooked, but everyone jerks off at the altar of Lady Gaga and Beyonce. They just feel safer doing it. It's "what everyone else is doing," so to speak.
  431. :p
  432. I don't think you get it.

    People saw District 9, and instead of going! YES THAT WAS BAD ASS! They went..."Well in that one scene how did he get into the room with an old password? It makes NO SENSE totally unrealistic."

    THESE ARE THE SAME PEOPLE WHO SAW Up In the Air and The Hurt Locker and went...YES THAT IS EXACTLY HOW IT IS IN REAL LIFE NOTHING IN THOSE MOVIES NEEDS TO BE QUESTIONED OR THOUGHT ABOUT.

    Thats what I'm saying. I'm not talking plotholes.

  433. it seemed like it had all the ingredients of a film I would fucking love. Hyams, Connery, simple premise, Goldsmith score, Peter boyle as villain. Also the last time they out Connery and sci fi they came out with Zardoz which I'm a big fan of. How could it go wrong? It's hard to put my finger on why it didn't gel for me. My atention just started drifting before the half hour mark and it never recovered. Good Goldmsith score though. That did deliver.
  434. His only two films I like
  435. Fuck that movie.
  436. I can't even remember the movie before Air that Koutch went after daily. It seems like he's been after Air since before it was even an idea on paper.

    I'll be glad when the Awards are over and done with and we'll never speak of it again.

    Cigarettes and Coffee put me to sleep. I don't mind a "talkie" but I found the conversations worthless.

  437. Thats a bullshit defense. So the same can be said of every film ever made right? Every single film takes place in some sort of alternate reality because these are obviously people pretending to be someone they are not in places dressed to look like someplace they really arent. So it pretty much throws any 'realism' discussion out the window, because no matter what kinda 'social commentary' shit they shove down someone's throat, they can have a character walk by with an tentacle head in the background and say 'Keep in mind, this is just an alternate reality folks...'
  438. Who gives a shit about them any more.

    Sort of makes sense the album that sold the most won album of the year. There are like 1 billion new cds out every year to every 1 movie.

    Also I'd be more concered with fucking Green Day beating AC/DC for rock album. Thats more of a FUCK YOU to music then anything else they did. I didn't EVEN fucking know Green Day had a new album, thats how bad it was! Not even fucking radios wanted to play their shit. And I listen to a lot of radio. I though surely Foo Fighters would've won, weren't even fucking nominated and their cd sucked massive cock but it was like every third song on any rock channel.

  439. Odo. I see whatcha mean. It's no "Taken" or "Dog Soldiers," but I got my Sean fix. I like older sci-fi flicks like that, old relatively speaking of course. I like wondering what the hell filmmakers were thinking X number of years ago when they dreamed how the future might look. Blade Runner is a great example.
  440. People will swallow. Lots of people.
  441. There's your goddamn problem right there. You're hanging out in the wrong threads and reading useless reviews. Until today, I have not read one single complaint about the plot holes in D9. I knew they existed as I noticed some myself but I hadn't heard anyone openly point them out. Just stay here. It's safe, it's cozy and most plot holes get a pass.
  442. Say your music if political and people will GLADLY gag it down to the balls.
  443. and I really dug it so that's why I'm interested in Jim Jarmusch all of the sudden. I liked it so much I even rewatched Ghost Dog which I thought I'd never do. But yeah flowers wasn't doing anything for me and I put it on hold about a week ago. Might as well finish it now though while I have time.

    *crosses fingers*

  444. I like to get out and talk to the people. I'm more talking about them then critics.

    I truely am a man of the people.

  445. Have you read my Alvin and the Chipmunks review over at Wolves yet?
  446. That's why I dig movies--it's escapism. I can get lost in the lives of other people in other worlds that may or may not resemble my own. As the movie plays in front of me I can take or leave little flaws and plotholes, depending on how glaring they are.
  447. My brother (HOD) and I violently disagreed over that turd blossom for years...as comic book guy would say, WORST F*KCING MOVIE EVER. That movie made me want to buy a chainsaw and use it to cut my own head off...talk about plot holes...that movie had plot holes the sun would fit through. Compared to it Titanic is a masterpiece...and I think Titanic as entertainment sucked (again, I differ with HOD on this one). As for Up In the Air, I thought the story was rather lame and vanilla...I'm not sure even Lord Bale could have saved that one for me.
  448. Might be the most weird movie I've ever seen. I still don't really get it but my respect for it really grew after my last viewing. I remember Danny saying a long time ago that Legend felt like it was made on another planet well that's how I feel about this.
  449. I've got nothing against "popular" music, bubblegum, dance, etc. Sometimes you just wanna groove, not think so much. But there's instrumental music that doesn't warrant conscious thought about lyrics, messages, etc. Most of the stuff I enjoy isn't overtly political in any manner. It just happens that commercially, a lot of them are a little more obscure. They don't sell well, but their material does warrant more attention.

    Oh well. Gotta leave here and get to the next job. This has been an enjoyable discourse, Professionals. Carry on!

  450. but I'd fuck that tight little Ryder Voojohoo while Gena Rowlands juggled my balls.
  451. It really does. I've yet to find another film that feels quite like it. Its as weird and alien and surreal as fucking can be. Really feels like Ridley was on some serious shit, or group sex high or maybe both.
  452. Keep trying to live in a pre 2005 world. Music outside of pop shit doesn't matter and isn't even good any more.
  453. They aren't asking people to accept fantastical elements like tentacle heads, they're just asking us to accept that American Airlines has a sort of platinum members club. That's no different than movies that take liberties with geography (how often don't places in NYC or LA get displaced for convenience?) or that a fictional bookstore like Fox Books exists in You've Got Mail?

    Nakatomi Tower actually has 50 stories instead of the 52 portrayed in Die Hard? Ohhhhh, fuck that movie!!! Fuck McTiernan up his lying deceiving ass!!!

  454. It's been mentioned before, but how the f*kc did it not make the cut for documentary? Pure f*kcing brilliance. I do believe that Lord Bale gave it 6 MF fists out of five. Full disclosure: my wife walked out of the room while I was watching it...twice...and asked me why I was watching a movie about losers... Women...can't live with them, can't live with them...
  455. I think thats the key, and is also the subjective part.
  456. Going along with Koutch's argument its bullshit to write off something in a film that claims to absolutely represent the real world as "alternate reality," yet some shit like Joker physically getting bomb on a ferry can ruin a comic film for you? Its absolute double standards. But you recognize that...so its over.
  457. http://tinyurl.com/yl3rx5o
  458. HOD liked (although I think now he realizes that Lucas f*kced everyone who watched SW on the big screen when they were 10 or 7 or 5) The Phantom Menace wherein Lucas proceeded to rape some of my fondest childhood memories...so depending on the film he can look the other way pretty well.
  459. the first time I watch them then they don't count. At least that's my rule about them.
  460. I want to smash her face in...and everyone who listens to her "music"
  461. ...because any work can be broken down. If its not enough to distract during the first view....its obviously not very big.
  462. She writes about getting blow jobs and dancing when your drunk. Its easily the most masculine cd in years.
  463. Whats not to like about Gaga's stuff?
  464. ....as I've said before to much controversy, I rank TPM above ANH. Its all a generational thing.
  465. Only watch movies once. I get everything i need first time usually.
  466. What some kid who was 10 when TPM came out thinks of that compared to A New Hope.
  467. The most masculine song from the most masculine band evah: http://tinyurl.com/dbwkqc
  468. Another one up for AIBN movie of the Year: Black Dynamite.
  469. I'm not out there washing it's balls. Like I said above, in many respects it plays out like a fairy tale. For me the only thing realistic about the film was JK Simmons. That mother made me believe his reaction to getting fired. Look, I liked the movie. What did I give it, 3.5 fists? But even Clooney came off as generic in it. And I don't think it deserved a single nomination in any category.
  470. the unmasculine: http://tinyurl.com/y92uc4n
  471. God, I loved that film! And yeah, the soundtrack rocks!
  472. You know, I though the first half was awesome. But it really ran out of steam midway through and never really recovered. Still, I have to give it props through. The look Jai White gives the boom when it comes into frame is almost worthy of it's own Oscar.
  473. = professional
  474. Since Moon got completed shafted by the Academy, I think it deserves a best pic nod from AIBN.

    So I go with D9 and Moon. You guys can fill the other slots with whatever you want.

  475. My brothers would put on all 3 films at home and while I loved the world and the characters, ANH never really did it for me. My earliest memories of Star Wars feel like I instantly felt Empire was the strongest and couldn't be fucked with. Obviously I don't disrespect ANH, because it was fairly cheap and groundbreaking and paved the way for the rest, and I'm sure it was brilliant to see during its original release, but looking back on all 6....its one of the weaker ones.

    I rank em...

    ESB

    TPM

    ROTJ

    ROS

    ANH

    AOTC

  476. ....it has to have gotten more universal AIBN praise, not just 1 or 2 people.
  477. DGDB, I agree with ESB for sure...for my money easily the best of the bunch. What about the Indy movies?
  478. Trying to hang up the phone and random yelling at women was good.

    "Euphoria, shut the fuck up! I know that was you, I ain't even gotta look! I should send you back to Crenshaw Pete with his hot coat hangers, bitch, would you like that? "

  479. And why?
  480. So pretty much you see the movie totally different then the rest of us. Got it.
  481. Moments of brilliance like the Darth Maul fight, combined with utter wank like Jar Jar and his people.

    The utter wank vote gets it, im afraid ;)

  482. Only felt long because it was TOO fucking good.

    I bet if I watched it in just 30 minutes intervals each one would be fucking perfect.

  483. I enjoy all of the trilogy, Temple of Doom being the total fucking destruction of that series. Nothing else fucking matters.

    But again being too young to remember the Raiders original opening, I rank it Temple, Crusade, Raiders. They are all good/fun films, but to me everything I feel about the character of Indy is defined in Temple. It has the best action scenes and the most iconic moments, the best of which is that fucking push in on Indy backlit by the steam in the mine after he lays the Slaver the fuck out....

  484. Can't we all agree that the Razzies are fucking useless?
  485. Moon, I mean-- just a few have seen it.
  486. I don't mind it. It just doesn't warrent a second glance.
  487. Well, that sort of screws me then. Currently my top ten of the year are District 9, In The Loop, The Messenger, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Hurt Locker, The Damned United, Zombieland, Moon, I Love You Man and The Men Who Stare At Goats and District 9 is the only movie that everyone here has seen and seems to like.

    So D9 is my input then.

  488. In all the indy's is the opening of Raiders. Thats pretty much the ONLY iconic scene this side of rocket fridge.
  489. with Moon and Sunshine actually. Moon is okay. I really really REALLY wanted to love it. I thought it would be a slam dunk after seeing the trailer but yeah....I thought it could have been better. A movie about a lonely guy on the Moon directed by David Bowies son should easily be on my top ten of all time list but plot holes and an uninspired story are keeping it off. Kind of bummed out about it.
  490. ...I think Boss Nass is more annoying than he is. There are a few moments where Jar Jar is saying shit when he shouldn't, or we cut back to him at odd times, but for me-- it wasn't enough to hamper the absolute fucking ass kicking my eyes were witnessing. The Maul fight is one of the most epic moments in film history for me. The pod race, one of the best action scenes of the series, and its probably the best original score of all 6 films. Yeah Jake sucked...but he didn't suck enough to ruin it for me. There is too much cool shit happening. I will admit it didn't really feel like the same world, that wasn't pulled off well until Episode III, it definitely feels more like a fantasy film and the tone and pace is bizarre. Its just a very unique epic film to me, that stands on its own outside of the series.
  491. How'd you compare it to Sunshine? Which one did you like better?
  492. Never got the hate.
  493. maybe it's because I didn't see the movie when it came out in theatres. I saw it like 4 years afterwards and by that time I was ready for it after years of endless Jar Jar bitching. Also the characters acknowledge that he's annoying and treat him as such so....yeah I never had a problem with it. There's nothing annoying in Phantom menace that's not already in the first trilogy imo.
  494. Was dumber then Jar Jar. I mean why did that fucking guy not talk?
  495. Just Retweeted Jason Reitman with this:

    @DANNY_DICKBLOOD

    While you're there call Daddy and thank him, you talentless nepotistic CUNT. RT @JasonReitman I'm going to Disneyland! Literally.

  496. I don't mind Darth Maul either. I just think it makes less sense that he doesn't talk then Jar jar being a dofus. Plus Darth Maul is just a rehash of Boba Fett pretty much. Where as Jar Jar was a new character, yeah a little C-3PO, but my man C-3 held it down with R2 backing him up. Plus C-3 is just sort of a pussy at time, Jar Jar doesn't give a fuck. He's gonna have BOMBAD TIME!
  497. I think he is more distractingly bad than Jake.
  498. better acting, (slightly) better score, and in my opinion better direction and story. There's nothing as visually beautiful in Moon as the part where the whole crew sees Mercury silhoutted(sp?) against the Sun in Sunshine. But again.....Moon is fine.
  499. Maul is stupid?!! FUCKING DIE!!!! DIE RIGHT FUCKING NOW!!
  500. when you first saw him with the Emperor.
  501. Well, me and the Col.

    Oh well, I have a feeling when I finally release my best of 2009 list in a couple weeks it'll get torn to shreds. I usually go for stuff that's bright and shiny or kicks tremendous loads of ass but this time I'm going with less spectacle and I swear I'm alone.

  502. Peter Mayhew has this bad ass fucking cane. Its a light sabar pretty much. I wonder if Lucas gave it too him? Probably not, maybe ILM though.
  503. Man...a little dribble of precum is oozing out of my piss-hole. I think I need to watch TPM tonight.
  504. Hmmm need to watch it again. The Moon score was the best part about that movie.
  505. What like one line or something?
  506. ...it was okay, there are a few good cues...but to listen to it on its own is boring as fuck.
  507. ...to the Emperor on that balcony on Corscant when he says "At last we will have our revenge, at least we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi."
  508. TOTALLY fucking different then Boba Fett.
  509. They're different types of scores though. Sunshine is really big and bombastic. Moons score is all quiet and eerie. I like them both just to be clear. Sunshine just edges it out by a bit.
  510. But all that falls on Lucas because he's not an actors director. I doubt he's ever asked for more than two takes in his life. Menace could have been salvaged with a better director getting improved performances out of the actors, the Gungans being a little more kick ass, less antics from Jar Jar (or remove him completely) and someone else writing the dialogue.
  511. If your top ten is anything like what you put earlier. I don't think I'd care that much really.

    I mean In The Loop is the only questionable one to me.

    Moon is fine, I'd put it in top 20 this year. No real problems with it.

  512. From Sunshine.
  513. he says like one thing to Han and one to DV. One more line than Maul if I have my math right.
  514. Budding into the Ryan Philipee lookalike and Natalie love thing I just didn't buy. I would've if it turned out it was all a Jedi mind trick he pulled on her. I think I would have really liked that, just to show HOW fucked up he was.
  515. I might have heard it in something else to. I don't remember.
  516. I just don't know how anyone can't watch In The Loop and NOT think it's some of the best dialogue ever. In fact, with the prolific use of the word CUNT, it should be the tentpole AIBN movie.
  517. I don't really give a fuck about anyone's agenda. Even if they are liberal leaning or share my views on something-- they still annoy the fuck out of me and I want them to shut the fuck up.
  518. And it holds up very well. Brilliant first 2 acts before it descends into a typical haunted house film. But visually stimulating.

    But Moon left teethmarks on my ass. So damn good! And I love the main theme. I dont often listen to film scores, but I d/l this one

  519. As you wish.

    He's no good to me dead.

    What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to me.

  520. If you didn't already know, Clint Mansell did the score in Moon. He is king of the trailer song with Requieme and The Fountain and I expect to see Moon used here shortly.
  521. All I need is the 10 minute weekend update. Pretty much covers it.

    Also the movie sounds like people forcing cuss words out, and nothing it worse then hearing someone who can't cuss, cuss a lot.

  522. King of the fucking trailer song? Because Requiem has been in what....like 5 trailers? So he's the King? Okay. The guy puts out 90% formulaic shit. Once in a while he stumbles upon a catchy tune.
  523. .....was that end build-up cue in Smokin' Aces when Ryan unplugs the old man.
  524. Out of all those bounty hunters in the background how come everyone thought he was so special? I don't think I've ever seen any fanbase latch onto some random background character like that.....and that was pre-internet.
  525. Like in 11:14. He's ok, like I said the new Elfman just not as catchy. Like Micheal Ginachanio is the new Williams just not as epic.

    the king of the trailer really is Celldweller, there song is in at least 30 trailers.

  526. I never really liked him and I didn't give a fuck when he went down like a bitch.
  527. ..
  528. Like one looks all fucked up, the other it a stick robot, Boba just looks bad ass.
  529. ...one of my favorite helmets in those films.
  530. http://tinyurl.com/ybp7tfo

    And I always thought if he spoke his voice should be Keith David.

  531. There's no reason U and I should be so close together. Fucking QWERTY system.
  532. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZePEYMkL70
  533. ...with Seth Green's filthy rodent-like fingers all over it. Shame.
  534. Fuck him.
  535. gah Robot Chicken PFFT. The Onion of the TV universe.
  536. Can SHIT all over Family Guy, then turn around and call Robot Chicken amazing.
  537. I said:

    @DANNY_DICKBLOOD @petertravers I was wrong about you. You are a crusader. I take back all the horrible things I've said over the years.

    and he just responds.

    @petertravers @DANNY_DICKBLOOD Danny, we've bonded at last!

  538. Are you kidding wasn't he just balls deep in that movie a week ago? Did Bullock sub him for a upskirt shot or something during an interview?
  539. http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/traverstake/2010/02/oscar-nominations-yield-few-sh.php
  540. ....god I fuck with that kid like every day.
  541. He was sucking her dick about how awesome she was in it.
  542. I like it. Love the Star Wars ones he does. I dont mind him really. Funny in Austin Powers, and he's v good in the Italian Job remake, which is a guilty pleasure of mine.

    I know he does a lot of crap, but i never watch that shit much. Also enjoyed him in Sex Drive, which was ok but not as good as American Pie.

    Currently half cut on red wine so dont hold my opinions against me too much lol

  543. You know who you are! FUCKKKK!!
  544. ....but as a whole-- no SW parody is funny...ever. Not like I fucking care, its just so easy and played out. Its like a Rodney King 'Can't we all just get along?' joke.
  545. by a *large margin*. D9 had some good scenes-and I love low-budget indie flicks, but I thought it highly overrated.

    The entire second act was--oh shit-they are setting it up for a sequel with budget--the guy was a fucking idiot once he got the powersuit...

    Still-much better sci-fi than we've seen in a long while-but sunshine and moon--and Moon has no lacking third act...it's moon

  546. wow-in a way that's like Malcolm McDowal and Liam Neesom in Fallout 3...I don't care much for for the Robot Chicken Star Wars-but ehh whatever
  547. The reason Boba became a hit is because he had one of those dolls we all (me, HOD, our friends at the time) collected. Why Kenner or Lucas decided on some of those figures was always a mystery to me...some of the robot ones especially...but that's why...because millions of little boys like me and HOD were playing with Boba in 1980.
  548. ..who wasn't an obvious weird alien type. Therefore, every tow-headed kid could transplant themselves into being him, and messin with Han Solo-because princess Leia is a hot fantasy archetype.

    It's Oedipal-I must carbon-freeze Han solo so i can fuck Princess Leia!!!

  549. Good to see you chaps kept at it. I'll just dive right in.

    Boba Fett had five lines in Empire, but that's more than Maul had in TPM. Fett's lines were:

    As you wish.

    What if he doesn't survive? He's worth a lot to ME.

    Put Captain Solo in the cargo hold.

    He's no good to me dead.

    Darth Maul's quote: At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge.

    My Star Wars movie rankings:

    ESB

    ANH

    ROS

    TPM

    ROJ

    AOC

    The bottom three could alternate a little, but Empire's definite the fave. Menace could rival Sith for me were it not for Jar-Jar. I had a HUGE boner in '99 before Menace came out. I waited in line for tix weeks in advance,saw it like four times in the first month. The final saber battle was everything we'd waited for, so at least he got THAT much right. Jar-Jar sucked, the kid sucked, midichlorians suck, Anakin building C3PO sucked. Padme looked good, even if I hated her character. QuiGon and Obi Wan were good.

  550. Boss Nass kinda sucked, too. I think Menace (and the prequels as a whole) could have benefitted from more practical magic, old-school FX and costumes and less CGI. Just because you CAN do it doesn't mean you should.
  551. Rubber Jabba is better than CGI BossNass any day.
  552. I'm going to be in and out, and down for the next few days.
  553. Before computers there were typewriters. The keys are not alphabetical because it prevented jamming of the mechanical keystrokes. By doing the layout out of order it allowed the mechanical key time to fall back into place before the next one came up. Note how R,S,T,E are all on the same side. You have to release one, before hitting the next if you type traditionally. Thus, reduced jamming. Thus endeth the lesson
  554. Gramm, theoretically speaking, since there are no mechanical keys (typewriters) anymore, QWERTY isn't a necessity but rather just the accepted way of doing it?

    Don't get me wrong--I'm pretty good at it as I'm sure most of us are and wouldn't want to learn a new way.

  555. Those were pretty much my issues with Menace too. I walked out of the theater loving it. Saw it 3 more times that summer in the theater and by that fourth and last time, I was already tired of the bad dialogue and even worse acting.

    The prequels could have benefited from two things: Lucas writing the story but handing over script duties to someone like Kasdan and letting other people direct them. Imagine a Spielberg directed SW movie. Hell, I bet even someone like Kevin Smith or M. Night could have done a great job.

  556. Or Werner Herzog, with Klaus Kinski as Emperor. he wouldn't say anything; he'd just glare at people.
  557. http://www.aintitcool.com/images2009/keyboard.JPG
  558. The star wars 1 time each. Wait NO saw the second one twice in theaters.

    First time I saw it, fucking LOVED it. LOVED IT! I saw it in an italian theater, so I had no idea what was going on (i don't speak Italian and Moosalean-e made it illeagl to NOT DUB movies) plus Italian movie theaters serve beer. By the time Yoda came around me and my buddies were fucking loving it.

    SAW IT a couple weeks later a theater on base and wish I had just gone and seen it in the italian theater again.

  559. balls.
  560. Unless the scripts were drastically different. Maybe he would have gotten slightly better performances out of the actors, but they would have been basically the same films. Remember to this day The Berg raves about how much he adores the prequels. He seems to show more genuine enthusiasm for them than the originals.
  561. Now we're cooking with gas. Let me get my coffee cup refilled with venom and hate and I'll be right back.
  562. No matter who directed them, Lucas still would've been there on set everyday munching on a summer sausage, and everytime the director did something he didn't like would go "well CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP I think if would be better CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP if we had another robot CHOMP in this CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP scene CHOMP".
  563. Give your ideas to people who know what the fuck they are doing and just show up at the premier.
  564. IN THE THEATER...and even now it is a fun watch as bad as Han, Luke and Leia's dialog is.

    However, I walked out of TPM thinking..."this isn't a Star Wars movie"; never saw it again...watched it twice since it was released just to rethink it. It still sucks ass...and taints everything that follows.

  565. because we didn't know anything about him. He was a kids High Plains Drifter...a man with no name, no past, yet you knew not to fuck with him just by looking at him. Lucas even fucked THAT up. Making him nothing but a cheap copy of a decidedly less than fearsome Jango Fett...a half assed fucker who can't even get the job done and who obviously has a genetic defect that won't allow him to shoot straight.
  566. Is that The Clone Wars series, including that film, kick ass.
  567. he just doesn't do anything for me. And like was said yesterday he goes out like a total fucking bitch.
  568. yeah but he didn't really die in there.
  569. ...where Boba is crawling through its asshole into its stomach and encounters a young Jedi that was thrown in there weeks back.

    They hunted each other as enemies...they tormented each other as savages...inside the Sarlac's ass, they will face each other as men!

  570. Since SW was the first big movie HOD and I ever saw in the movie theater (and by ourselves...neither one of my parents wanted to watch it...they just dropped us of at a theater on the outskirts of town in a really bad neighborhood...imagine parents doing that today with a 7 and 10 year old) it's impact on me was huge. It was cutting edge, and I think the story was actually written for kids...with dialogue that wouldn't offend most kid's sensibilities. In short, for us it was a revelation. And because of the massive marketing with toys, posters, sheets (we had them), etc, we lived in a 24/7 SW universe. 22 years later, give or take, Lucas gives us TPM...the problem here is that he wrote and directed the movie for 10 year old kids (again) and not for the original 7 & 10 year olds who saw SW in the theater...so I guess I should take that into consideration...but I still think TPM (and ep 2-3) sucked because where his original audience grew, Lucas and the SW universe did not.
  571. Are you HOD's brother?
  572. that they might have in the future.
  573. Yes...HOD is my "little" brother
  574. He's actually HOD's lower intestine.
  575. It burns Danny, it burns...thx for the mental image
  576. SW had some bad dialog yes...but it never pandered to the retarded 10 yr old. It was gritty...Han offed a bitch without a thought and flipped a coinf at the bartender for his troubles. Old Obi-wan straight up fucked up two dudes...and looked like nobody better say fuck or you're getting some too. Vader crushed a guys through just cuz he dissed a hokey religion (And that is a whole other boat load of issues as the "Force" went from a religion with light and dark sides to a biological disorder). It had Peter Fucking Cushing, Sir Alec Guiness, an Empire that incinerated two old folks and tortured a 19yr old coke whore princess with big jiggling tits. SW was NOT for Kids...it appealed to them....but it was a movie made for everyone.

    TPM we get "Yippee", midichlorians, "that little human being is out of his mind" doing the "woof" sports announcers, and Step and fetch it slapstick humor. Fuck that movie!

  577. And Empire to all others.
  578. the most criminally underused "potential" heavy in any SW movie. I say potential because Maul was robbed. he should have been GREAT...fucking up Portmans character, wacking out fuckers like Vader did...but No...Geoorge gave more screen time and thought to a intergalactic Jamaican characterization who steps in shit.
  579. I like the first SW as well.
  580. Best actor...Frank Fucking Oz. The rubber Yoda was a far better actor than any of the "stars" and far better than CGI Yoda as well. That Fucker made the lines work.
  581. I need more coffee...my love/hate is too close to the surface this morning.
  582. I left the theater a shattered child.

    Kasdan was right though, Solo should have died.

  583. ....
  584. Not any more though. They are what they are. The original trilogy has kind of worn off it's sheen with me, the older I get. I could watch any of them now with no complaints. Except for Jedi maybe, that's the one out of all six I never had any use for. The only part of it I liked was the Luke/Vader face-off.
  585. "Somebody had to go"

    I loved the outtakes of Yoda with Oz blowing the lines.

    "Youuuuuu will be.....arghh"

  586. We would have gotten better performances and that would have gone a long way to improving the films. Also, a respected screenwriter would have excised stuff like "Let's trying spinning." There are good movies buried in all three prequels, they just needed less interference from George. And introducing a new villain each film and killing them off in the same film was a mistake. Maul and Jango should have stuck around for Sith in an all out balls to the walls war with Jedi.
  587. Holy shit. My problem with PM is it's just to jam-packed with stuff. That's not really a problem though, it just means I wasn't paying attention the first time I saw it.
  588. ESB was the best of the original 3 (and in my humble lower intestinal opinion, the best of the 6). And if Darth Vader could come back from the dark side after destroying whole planets, then yes, Solo should have died...because watching him on the big screen in RoTJ was worse than if he had died...he looked constipated every time he was with those dumb fucking teddy bear Ewoks.
  589. = total phucking professional. If Lord Bale played with puppets, he'd be Frank Oz.
  590. ....certain elements of it are very kids movie, but then there is also so much overly complex shit with the politics, so they clash and the rapid fire information makes the pacing feel odd.

    But yeah-- I've watched all 6 in one sitting in order. And it is pretty amazing how they all gel pretty damn well. As a whole-- it does feel complete. And by the time I get to ANH, I'm fucking in and out of consciousness the whole time, but Hoth wakes me right the fuck up and I'm solid until the very end of Jedi.

  591. The new ones, is that it was like Lucas had given up watching films.

    I love the fact that Star Wars original lifts shit right from German Propaganda films. The new ones just don't have any iconic imagery.

  592. ....Maul should have been the assassin they keep sending out to fuck with them the entire trilogy....and he should have been the big fight with Anakin in the opening of Episode III, not fucking Dooku.
  593. Maybe this weekend, before the SB, I'll have HOD over, we'll drink enough beer for a small Canadian mining town, and we'll watch the prequels...I'll give them one more shot...if only all cineplexes has "adult" theaters where beer could be consumed...I might have enjoyed them and Crystal Skull more...
  594. all six back to back...there's only one word for that -> professional
  595. The best part about it-- I'm a genius....so for some reason we leisurely started it up at around 9pm. We were done right in time for lunch.
  596. Good call Koutch.
  597. There is no rebounding from that failure. My wife is the biggest Indy fan I've ever known, and she hated that film.
  598. I've got it on DVD if anyone wants to borrow it. Back then TPM was coming out I got Star Wars fever and bought a bunch of random Star Wars shit (including Thumb Wars).

    Lucas in Love is a short film by the director of such great films like The Sleepover, Sydney White and American Pie Presents The Naked Mile. Its pretty funny.

  599. When me and my buddies (incl HOD) left the theater after Crystal Skull, I think all but one of us was in shock...and two of us had to go to the ED after going into convulsions...we were lucky to wake up the next morning without suffering too much neurological damage... Having a fucking stroke is less painful
  600. My VHS eats the tapes.
  601. ....and it is literally on VHS. Someone gave it to me years ago and said I 'have to fucking see it!'
  602. 16mm only!
  603. All 6 SW movies, all 3 Indy movies and maybe a comic book trilogy.
  604. ...just added it to my torrent queue
  605. Let's do it. I'll buy the beer.
  606. I can watch it on my nifty vhs/dvd recorder combo. I have a ton of weird/cool shit on vhs in a box. Most of it involves piss.
  607. A foot and a half difference between them. That must be.......interesting.
  608. one of you fine professionals could rip GLiL and spread the love...the available torrents don't look good.
  609. Blade

    Underworld

  610. I just hate that fat smelly fuck Gizmo Del Pendejo.
  611. Email me.
  612. ...HOD fucking loves the Blade trilogy. In a what the world really needs dept: a Klitschko/Panettiere sex tape. That would be professional
  613. ...site policy, we don't post links to any torrents here. Because its faaaawking dis-tract-iiiiiing.
  614. Not here brother. While I think Trinity dropped the ball, I love the first two movies. In fact, I rewatched that trilogy and the BTTF trilogy in the same weekend last November. Made for a spectacular time.
  615. Underwold just blows.
  616. Stunt, agreed on ROTJ. Liked the Luke-Vader duel, although it was still a little wooden, no acrobatics we'd expect of a Jedi, like TPM. I also liked some parts of Jabba's palace, and the look of the biker scouts. HATED what they did to Fett.
  617. Note to studios: start sending me screeners and advance copies.
  618. He'll split that cunt from stem to stern.
  619. stretched into a feature film with a far shittier soundtrack.
  620. The first half was awesome...the second half not so much...the Ewoks and the touchy feely end (really, WTF was that about...the transformation of Vader...it would be like old Adolf realizing he's been all wrong)...but the first half was definitely as good as ESB.
  621. HOD, no shit. If you're truly a Professional filmmaker or distributor who believes your work is of Quality, you should want Professionals to assess it and bring the word to the people.
  622. ain't half bad. I think I'm going to get one for lunch everyday from now on.
  623. .
  624. I'm sure she still looks and feels great from behind
  625. i couldn't resist
  626. something about her face. Replacing Beckinsale with her was a fucking travesty.
  627. Except for the fact that too much of it takes place on Endor. I think it needed one more planet in there- maybe some small subplot with Han having to do something on his own somewhere else....

    And I think the Leia/Han reunion was handled very callously....it could have been a truly epic moment on the barge with them running toward eachother as all this crazy shit is going down and it feels very dangerous like either of them could get popped at any time. I never really felt the emotion between them in Jedi. But in Empire there is definitely sizzling pubic hair goin on downstairs.

  628. Just the first one.
  629. Kulkulcan, yeah although I was sort of moved as a kid when Vader took off the helmet for Luke, I was like "Dude, you were responsible for the deaths of ENTIRE PLANETS. There's no redemption for you. Tossing the emperor down a shaft changes nothing, and if there's a hell, Satan has a special place reserved for you."
  630. 'bated
  631. I would eat peanuts from Beckinsdale's stool like Raisinettes.
  632. Speak to me in that lovely accent, my dear Kate, as you flush you fluids into my mouth.
  633. Stunt, that should be the new buzzword when we're discussing the physical attributes of a starlet. Just cut all the debate about nice face, legs, tight ass--just cut to "bated" or not.
  634. Resident Evil.
  635. has always been the incredibly lame-ass fight between Luke and Vader at the end. I waded through the whole movie waiting for a rematch and then they get together...do a few moves....the vader throws his saber...then Luke gets mad and it just ends? That's the epic showdown I've been waiting for? *sigh* Also the first time I saw it I was really disappointed their was no Vader vs Yoda fight. It would have been fucking awful if they did it back then but my 10 year old mind couldn't comprehend that at the time.
  636. Kate could hook up one of those electronic dog collars to me and shock me for no reason, whilst simultaneously slapping me around and berating me.
  637. Later, I guzzled her acidic piss.
  638. That's just an image i didn't need...but she's a super babe for sure...if I was gonna leave my wife she'd be the one to do it with...although technically I have a freebie with any chick who's graced a magazine cover. And you're right on about Vader in RotJ...totally. Even as a kid (I was 15 I think) that just really pissed me off...
  639. Kate in "Laurel Canyon" starring with His Majesty? Priceless.

    Yeah, the ROTJ duel was a let-down. All this talk about not letting your hate and anger lead you to the dark side. So how does Luke beat Vader? His anger takes over. Sure, he yields, but it was anger that gave him strength and perseverance after Vader teased he would turn Leia instead. Muahahahhaha

  640. I never thought it necessary. I always knew it wouldn't look like it should.......and I'm not even really convinced he would physically fight. He seems above that.

    I disagree-- the Luke/Vader fight at the end was fucking epic. When Luke is hacking the shit out of his Father violently....FUCK!!! As an audience we're like, slow down motherfucker! Don't become him. You're already wearing black! Be careful!

  641. when she falls in the pool and her shirt gets wet......I must have lost three times my weight in semen..that is all....
  642. Kulk, sorry--but I'm all about creating images people don't need. I've been doing it since grade school. I'm something of an entertainer in that regard. Still a class clown at heart--and on the hurtful but sweet end of Beckinsdale's lash.
  643. just had an "accident"
    http://tinyurl.com/yc7j6aq
    http://tinyurl.com/9qo7eo
    http://tinyurl.com/yhv82pt
  644. now that Obi Wan was dead. I also realized The Emperor was the most powerful of the Sith so it was natural that I would wonder what would happen if they fought. Not going to go through my juvenile fantasies but I can say that it didn't involve endlessly throwing fucking pods back and forth.
  645. Just because she doesn't seem as big of a bitch.
  646. After downing 4 whiskey and cokes at a friend's, on my way home I was fucking pulled over, taken out and given a full sobriety test; 15 paces heel to toe, count backwards from 30 with head back and eyes closed, follow the flashlight back and forth with eyes only for what seemed like 10 minutes, etc. I'm pleased to announce I passed with flying colors and I was sent on my way with nothing more than a dirty ass look shot my way. As I got in the car and cautiously pulled back onto the road, I couldn't help but lightly mutter 'PROFESSIONAL' to myself.
  647. Or at least any hot ones?
  648. Danny, yeah--first Luke gets a robot hand, then a non-blue light saber, then an all-black wardrobe. The "lean" to the dark side is implied over the story arc. At least Luke should have asked for some AT-STs and speeder bikes, maybe a customized TIE fighter he could pimp out.

    Yeah Odo in Laurel Canyon I was SO waiting for her to get nekkid. I was all ready to spit on my hand, but no. Big tease. At least Bale stormed in to yell at all of them. Great scene there, scolding Frances and Kate.

  649. I wish I had two cocks so I could jerk them both off at once.
  650. Ah yes, Professional drinker. Rick Wakeman of YES once joked that years after going sober he'd still test like .250 any given day.

    We should all print out AIBN courtesy cards to hand officers at such times.

  651. Well Kate seems stuck up. While Rhona seems like she's been round the block once or twice. I like a nice worn in seat on my bike.
  652. Professional indeed.
  653. ...but I'd wager she still likes the eye-liner smeared with a piss-coated thumb now and then.
  654. you professional SOB. Once at HODs I got so loaded I drove right off the road and into a tree... I was not nearly as lucky as you...it was so fucking unprofessional. I live in shame forever...
    and i'd choose kate...in a new york minute...
  655. ...and since I've stopped smoking, perhaps he is also telling me to stop drinking so much. Hhhhmmm...
  656. http://www.wgntv.com/entertainment/viral/wgntv-mel-gibson-anchor-lash-out-video,0,5791834.story
  657. Thats fucking great!
  658. Short Cuts. Never saw it before but I was surprised at how much I liked it. Hmm, maybe I spoke to soon when I wrote Altman off as an overrated cunt.
  659. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id4m2cv_7_8
  660. Once there was an asshole, and he quickly became and overrated cunt that enjoyed cocaine, and now...he's fucking dead.
  661. me thinks.
  662. A poor man's Mel Gibson.
  663. That's terrific!

    Gotta love Mel. I know how a lot of outlets are going to spin this--"Oh maybe the reporter should have laid off, but Mel shouldn't have said THAT!"

    I think the reporter should have laid off PERIOD. Mel dropped a hint. Don't go there. He did. It doesn't make the reporter look tough or "probing." Makes him look like a douche. Even if it mattered, does even the casual Mel fan care so much about his substance abuse?

  664. Clooneytang's most oft-spoken phrase to friends in high school:

    Smell my fingers!

  665. Best scene in the movie.

    "YOUR NOT WEARING ANY FUCKING PANTS!"

  666. About any celeberties personal life in terms of their movies. It will never effect me from seeing a movie they are in.

    Unless they pull a Edward Furlong and Powder like the Boondock Saints guys and look like they've aged 20 years between the first and second one.

  667. YEAH!
  668. just so you know.
  669. When it's Mad Max you're talking to, one must realize he's a legend, has nothing to prove, and doesn't have to be polite with you about his present or past personal demons. Sure, he did some dumb shit in the past. Haven't we all? I think the reporter--like many--is seriously overestimating how much people care about that crap anymore about Mel. It's one thing to toss a couple rough questions, another thing to repeat stupid ones, insulting ones, or pursue a line of interrogation that your subject has already fuckin' said "move on" to.

    I'll get Alan Nierob on the phone, see what Bale thinks.

  670. Pre-death Chris Penn chokes a bitch.
  671. it still doesn't seem real. It'd be like if Randy Quade died or something. It would never really register.
  672. The reporter tried to play it off, like he was correct in what he was doing. Fucking pussy can't own up to shit.
  673. ....Chris Penn or Ted Demme
  674. Announce a shitty rap song at the grammys the other night?

    Didn't it make you wish you could punch through the TV?

  675. John Lurie?? Fuck sake the guy looks like the human equivalent of two day old piss caught under the toilet seat. Worst indie movie star ever.
  676. That made me laugh on and off for like a month.
  677. ...
  678. "Shitty rap song?" Isn't that like an oxymoron or something?
  679. QT was on and my jaw dropped when I saw him. He's fucking enormous. He has the same body type as Uncle Fester and his face is horrible stretched out to repulsive levels. Seeing him talk about strangling Diane Kruger almost made me puke.
  680. My interview with Mel would consist pretty much just me going, "I love you. You're MAD MAX! Amazing. I love you. And Martin Riggs--shit! I LOVE you, Mr. Gibson."
  681. That reporter probably never even saw Apocalypto. That's how much he cares about Mel, and movies. You die, sir! You go to HELL and you DIE
  682. Has growing head syndrome.
  683. ....
  684. I think I might have seen half of The Road Warrior on TV once though. I should play catch up one of these days if I ever get the chance.
  685. Easily uglier then John Lurie.
  686. The Road Warrior this weekend. God I love them assless chaps! Also that tall mother fucker has the most bad ass resume in all of hollywoodland.

    I wonder if he sees Peter Meyhew and just laughs.

  687. http://www.darkhorizons.com/news/16235/-macguyver-throws-cog-into-macgruber-works-
  688. Guy can't catch a break.
  689. Is From Paris With Love a chick flick? Because they usually only have chick flicks come out Superbowl weekend?

    Are did Hollywood pull a me and totally not give a shit/notice that the superbowl was about to happen.

  690. Macguyver was on Macgruber?
  691. Only those with major facial deformities come close, but thats not really a fair comparison.
  692. From Pais and Dear John getting shitty reviews. I was thinking of checking them both out. But paying for Edge of Darkness both times.
  693. Shannon is pretty bad but Lurie is at least 5 times worse. If we had any chicks here she would chose Shannon over Lure easily. Check out this video 40 seconds in to see his horrible snaggletoothed smile.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP577KlRRjI&feature=PlayList&p=86896A868AA787E3&index=0&playnext=1

  694. .......oh yeah-- and check this out, superheroes do exist!

    http://tinyurl.com/ybndr6w

  695. I just went to movietickets.com and ordered like 400 tickets for showings of Edge of Darkness in my town, just because of that interview.
  696. When I go see Edge, I'm going to approach the ticket window and say "One for Edge of Darkness, please."

    And the kid / retard behind the window will print it up and hand it through the little hole, and I'll take it and mutter "Asshole," and walk away.

  697. with Lurie and Shannon
  698. hands down.. sorry :/
  699. ...
  700. //
  701. http://www.artnet.com/magazine/people/barone/Images/barone3-10-49.jpg

    http://www.christiancoigny.com/pages/menoutside/Photos/JohnLurie_01.jpg

    http://multimedia.heraldinteractive.com/images/23a7601af6_shannon02092009.jpg

    http://images.askmen.com/celebs/men/entertainment/michael-shannon/large_image-1.jpg

  702. http://tinyurl.com/y8ct3za
  703. Purty pics of Shannon. Jesus talk about photoshop.
  704. ....someone asked him about charities and he got all pissed off and says he does a fuckload for causes he cares for, he just doesn't feel the need to advertise it like Oprah.
  705. My hero: Bruce Spence.
  706. Hopefully she doesn't read here often.....you might lose custody or something if you guys have kids.
  707. ...in a gangly sloth kinda way.
  708. ...such a bad ass design.
  709. http://www.dieter-assenmacher.de/Star%20Wars/Bilder%20Star%20Wars/Autogramme/Bruce%20Spence.JPG
  710. I remember spotting those urinal teeth.
  711. http://tinyurl.com/n9yrhd
  712. if I remember correcty. Also it was revenge of the Sith Spence was in not Clones.
  713. http://tinyurl.com/yb6qxqb
  714. ....yeah thats why shit like 'Poughkeepsie Tapes' can't land a release and ends up distributed online for free, after AICN sucks it dick for a year straight?
  715. No war here, unless you brought it with you to this Land of the Urinal-Teeth People.
  716. Has the greatest resume of any unknown actor ever.

    Fucking Mad Max/Matrix/Star Wars/Dark Man/Finding Nemo/LOTR/Ace Ventura.

    Sure he may have been in some of the shitty ones of the series, but how is that not a geeks fucking dream to be part of those movies in some form?

  717. A good idea with shit execution.
  718. and you can even get a William H. Macy desktop wallpaper.
  719. K.I.L.M.E.R.
  720. It's one of those Mamet movies that has conversations that feel more like statements than back and forth responses.
  721. just give me a fucking list god damnit. NO fucking slide shows.
  722. Just because DGDB mentioned her...Has there ever been a more noxious cunt? For my money she's ten times worse than Bono. She is the opposite of professional...the only people who can even begin to compete with the way she whores herself are fucking politicians. Is it really fucking news that Oprah gave anyone money? At least do what Gates and Buffett have done and set up your estate so that all of your money goes to charity when you leave this mortal coil. I wouldn't fucking piss on Oprah if she were on fire. That's my rant of the day.
  723. I hope she dies in one.
  724. that or drown in a vat of shit
  725. Really-after a month and a half-the main computer rig is reborn 92 percent operational...but it was such a dick Pain staring at the motherfucker/ rebuilding it..that I just blew it all off and played video games instead...

    I watched 2 scenes of the new Lost-and just said to myself-there's a fucking reason i stopped giving a shit a third of the way through season 2...

    So the quick review is-Jack is still a pussy-Sawyer is a fucking pretty boy dipshit-and Kate is is still a two-timing whore-There's my capsule review of those two scenes of the final season of Lost...

    Here's a link to a good Lost bashing site-i invited them to come join us, but then decided testing out my new Pulse Rifle in dead Space was more interesting...

    http://www.whylostsucks.com/

  726. ....and because of that, I've decided I'm not gonna wish death on others for maybe....a week or two.
  727. .
  728. I know a few of my friends like Lost...and HOD likes it...but the couple of episodes I watched with my girlfriend at the time made me want to buy a gun and shoot myself or the television...
  729. ...and that is why you are a professional.
  730. did she even get the cast and director of The Road on her show?
  731. thinking yeah, wont be much when WHAMMO! A Peter North eruption. Surprise. But then you hear footsteps meanwhile you've got a quart of liquid soap to get out of the rug in 7 seconds.
  732. Gain more respect for Chris Brown and less for Riannah after the beat down?
  733. Thats not funny.
  734. Sure it is. Whats not funny about it?
  735. Not fucking funny. I'm serious.

    http://tinyurl.com/yhdw387

  736. I'm just saying its funny because she acts like such a hard ass you'd think she would've popped him back one.
  737. Potrays him self as a huge pussy. I mean its like when Mr. Straight and Narrow gets a DUI and knocks up another chick. I love it when its something different. I mean who gives a fuck if someone famous has a drug problem, or over doses anymore? That shits lame and boring.
  738. If he was some hard ass rapper or some bad ass quarterback.

    TONS of people would still have his back. But he just went out and said fuck raionality and common sense and totally fucked his career.

    I mean its like if the unweb Jona/Johnas/Joanass (how do you spell it?) directed a porno starring himself and sold it on their website.

  739. "She got off light"

    If that's music of today I'll pass.

  740. http://tinyurl.com/y93j22d
  741. She'd say, "Oh we have to watch this show-who's Kate gonna pick after all these years!"

    I'd have to sit there and take in the viewing experience-all the while biting my tongue, and thinking of this...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN0N0tKAPLM

  742. Since when?
  743. .....you just have no fucking idea how long all that processed food has been in there.
  744. ...until I found out she obsessively watched Lost.
  745. ...when your girl says 'I wish I was as thin as Hurley' while watching Lost.
  746. My wife used to watch it...but somehow by the grace of Lord Bale she regained her senses (and then she married me)...and that girlfriend that I tried watching it with...she loved it...then again, as HOD will tell you, when she came over to my place to watch boxing with the guys, she was just one of the guys...but with a pussy and tits...
  747. Sorry...had to disappear because they're trying to make me do work here...

    I saw the first episode of Lost. That's it. I'm just too busy to watch any one show ALL the time. The only show lately I've been watching is Modern Family, cuz The Wife TIVOs it, meaning I can watch it in 20 minutes. Funny show, and that Gloria chick is bateworthy.

  748. Alan Moore discusses "Lost Girls"-which is freaking professional comic book porn.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS5Svr3iQn8&feature=PlayList&p=462DD1FE6C4E3587&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=5

  749. Cause then I get that joke.
  750. I can't stand guys who beat up their woman (or any woman)...that's fucked up and the guys who do it need to be fed right into an industrial wood chipper. So I'm with DGDB here...even if her music does suck ass.
  751. Thats the Robert Blake mantra.
  752. she was about halfway through an episode and all I heard was "This is fucking bullshit" and it's not been seen in our house since.

    24 is dangerously close to receiving the same treatment. My love affair with that show is rapidly evaporating.

  753. makes fun of me for watching Lost.
  754. If I watch episodic TV, it's because I've downloaded it. No commercials. That's where it's at... God I fucking love the tubes.
    just fucking brilliant: http://tinyurl.com/k54hy
  755. Whats he up to other than writing fairy tale porn and jerking off on the tomb of Jehoshua Ben-Pandira?
  756. I'm gonna make fun of you for watching Lost too. Your wife however...fucking grade A professional...same for Mrs Stuntcock... she's a fucking professional just for being Mrs Stuntcock!
  757. When they nuked LA I was fucking done with that show. Done. I said done!
  758. Someone who's watched LOST more then once, like on their own? On purpose?

    Like as a basic SHOW its just not that good in terms of acting and action. There isn't a lot of rewatchablility to anything past season 1. Its a very flat show for the most part.

    All most episodes are (save for flash back heavy ones) are someone coming to the group going "WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING" then the next 45 minutes of everyone questioning everyone else, then finally whatever needed to get done happens.

  759. Alice, Dorthy and Wendy fucking? That sounds like a short story a 10th grader writes in a high school english class
  760. I've got to work...I can't keep refreshing this fucking page/site just so I can keep up with this stuff while I program...I'm trying to be a fucking professional here...so long story short...insert a javascript that does it for me...you listening HOD? And someone get me a fucking beer!
  761. True murder shows. I'm like....ummm you know if you kill me you'll probably end up OWEING money.
  762. ...
  763. http://tinyurl.com/ybqlsvr
  764. I too frequent Hot Topic to look especially bad ass at book signings.

    http://tinyurl.com/ycaxm7t

  765. Whatever happened to Isabella Rossellini?
  766. I'm not really talking about so much the fact that he beat her up. Its HOW INSAINLY STUPID he is. The dudes gotta be a fucking TOTAL nut job.

    He has enough money he could've just gone off and beat up a hooker or something, instead he beat up like the biggest newcomer of that year.

    Also Imagine if Taylor Lauter when fucking apeshit over Taylor Swift holding out on him. You know that dude scores the second most amount of pussy out of the twilight cast (Stewart being the obvious front runner) so its not like he wasn't banging chicks on the side. Just like if he went all roid rage on her. His ass would be in jail, or someone would have murdered him.

  767. Wearing all those rings.
  768. "THAT, I'm saving for Herr Dickblood"
  769. She was on 30 Rock a while back.
  770. What the hell are you talking about?
  771. One of everyhand. How is that comfertable/bearable even?
  772. That ex of mine who LOVED Lost also read a batshit crazy amount of books on serial killers.
  773. ....poor old man, he's gettin frail on those old knees.
  774. Fuck. I thought I'd never hear from her again.
  775. .
  776. I once lit into John Houge at a book signing it was a good day.
  777. ..
  778. does he make them kiss his snake rings?
  779. http://tinyurl.com/ozb4js
  780. No shit-this is as hot off the presses as it gets...It's by no means official, but that's why you get the extreme scoops off of AIBN...will let you guys know when it's official...

    Holy Shit is an understatement!!!

  781. Even if he's a fucking nutter, I love his stuff. He may look like a freak, but the man IS a professional.
  782. Danny, you really want my wife don't you?
  783. I watch Lost, 24 and watched BSG when it was on. It's been scientifically proven by this group that my taste in movies sucks so my taste in TV shouldn't be any different.
  784. He sits there with his hands all prayer like babbling bullshit. Fuck off.
  785. http://tinyurl.com/yd35tyt
  786. The other night in bed, I almost cried that I sold ALL of my scifi/fantasy books (well over 1000)when I moved from Canada to the States. I'll check Martins stuff out.
  787. Dude, I've wanted your wife since 96.
  788. http://www.strangeattractor.co.uk/further/archives/AlanMelinda.jpg
  789. Did he convert to something fun?
  790. http://tinyurl.com/yjmzrj7
  791. I've watched/watched those shows also so your taste doesn't suck.
  792. he probably uses his beard to sop his piss off the lucky lady's tits.
  793. I hit with how he said 3 different people were the anti-christ according to Nostrodomus in 3 different books he stammered out some sort of BS double speak reply. Then I started in on his appearance which made the Houghe balll ickers in line howl. It was a good day.
  794. It's my primary form of communication.
  795. I've got no problem with your shows.

    I gave Battle Star a shot. I couldn't get past the whole use of FRAK! is pissed me off and was SOO fucking lame I couldn't get beyond it. Other then that it seemed like a decent show. 24 is 24, I'm sure I'll enjoy it when I'm 40 and an officer in the military.

  796. I liked seasons 2 and 3 of 24. After that it got too predictable.
  797. Right Now would be a good time to Start the series, for many reasons ...Book 4 is the biggest brainteaser/cliffhanging book ever written--Book 5 has been 3 years in the making and the word on the street is the fucker clocks in at 1600 pages...yes, and the mayhem in this particular series cannot be accurately described by words typed on a mere keyboard!
  798. Hahahah I wish my wife was that old.
  799. is it an extended frame release widget? No...That's gotta be one of those freakin fake ass- equlibrium guns-serously-WTF?!?
  800. Rocked! Hard! I didn't give a fuck if they substituted frak for fuck...at least it was realistic in that they acknowledged that people fucking swear...I sometimes think my wife's favorite word is fuck. HOD and I loved it (he actually got me to watch it by giving me season 1 and 2). Long live BSG
  801. and it's not with shitty Berettas it's with this: tinyurl.com/ykr8ezp
  802. http://tinyurl.com/y8bghhb

    http://tinyurl.com/ydde96p

  803. http://tinyurl.com/yafqlgo
  804. I used to have a Browning Hi-Power during my gun-nut days. Always wanted a 1911 or a 4" Colt Python .357 but my fucking hands are too small.
  805. That youtube link looks like it was filmed in Arizona.
  806. Have you ever gone camping with a bunch of crazy as balls southerners with liquor & cases of beers flowing, when one (or ten) of the crazy fuckers pulls out an uzi, another one a glock and then start shooting indiscriminately...fucking WHACK! And then one of them gets the bright idea to throw a can of gas onto the pyre of a campfire you have and commences a target practice lesson?
  807. ...God rest is soul.
  808. Jesus-I swear to god that 93R kind of gives me the heebie jeebies-I'd pack one in a minute-but the whole time I'd be worried about blowing my left hand clean off. Anyway it's a 9mm-you better have fullauto in case, you know, you might actually have to kill a fool...
  809. I fucking love the Python and the 1911 Hi Powers are nice weapons also. Your hands are to small for a 1911? then aviod this at all costs tinyurl.com/g3u5v
  810. Ask HOD to show you my facebook pictures.
  811. Possesion of that gun in Canada = Jail.
  812. SHWING! CHUBBY achieved.
  813. As long as your hands are big enough to rub wood you're OK in my book...oh...that sounded gay...not that there's anything wrong with that...
  814. .
  815. You would want this: tinyurl.com/ykvv7bc
  816. It's made of flesh. My aim is strong, I usually hit the crusty choad-cloth point blank.
  817. Will do...I'll get him to show me your fucked up shit :-)
    Speaking of Facebook...my wife is fucking addicted to it...WTF?
  818. its just annoying now.
  819. I'll order the books from amazon tonight. Will keep you posted.
  820. who is this chick?

    http://tinyurl.com/y9x3zuc

    She's cute and waaaaaaaay less desperate attention whore than Munn.

  821. http://www.peoplestylewatch.com/people/stylewatch/package/article/0,,20332759_20341274,00.html
  822. http://tinyurl.com/ykol3dv
  823. I saw an interview with her the other day talking about the nomination and she was talking all fast and excited and she does this weird squeaky gasp thing to catch her breath, like right in the middle of a sentence. Poor girl. I could help her get some of the weight off....but I'm gonna need a circular saw.
  824. Your Daughter is totally fuckable.
  825. Or a shotgun.
  826. allegedly
  827. She was on Letterman the same night as Murray, and she was a lot funnier then him. Like her personality, she was funny. Murray was just trying way too fucking hard to be wacky.
  828. ...hell ya!
  829. Why the fuck was he there? And he hasn't been funny since 2004.
  830. Bill Murray was great in Zombieland!
  831. What the fuck ever happened to that "professional"?
  832. My current weapons of choice...

    1911 Clone in .45; Winchester Defender 12 gauge 18 3/4" barrel; Tarus .357 with 6" barrel and combat grip (great target revolver); Ruger Mini-14 Ranch with several 30rd mags of .223 home protection firepower.

  833. for many reasons among the most important is that he was smart to get mags of 30 rounds or less. The potential for failure of the mag spring at a bad time is significantly less.
  834. Remington model 870 myself-we also half-assedly packed Mini-14s on the Armored Car-damn those guns were old-never got around to firing one-which is kind of sad....

    I certed better with a .357 revolver-revolver's are just so goddamn dependable-and i feel safer with them in some ways when I'm doing quick draw shit,

    Which i haven't done in years, but goddamn that .45 subcompact machine gun-that's freaking awesome...

    Danny-Haslip is fucking tasty-and If Munn shows up for work one more time as out of her mind like she did yesterday, she better watch it! (I like 'em both, but that haslip-quite the the athletic pixie type))

  835. Fuck Canada's firearms laws.

    Shoot a home intruder here and you are going to prison.

    It doesn't get any more fucking unprofessional than that.

  836. A belated Happy Anniversary to you all! Danny, meet me at our secret place and I'll help you celebrate by blowing out your candle. Congrats, gents!
  837. I promised myself I would never hyper extend my leg like that again.
  838. People are debating the Dollhouse ending.
  839. the first is a bad ass prototype: tinyurl.com/ybjqcu6 This is a very interesting weapon: tinyurl.com/yg6hskh
  840. here's a link to a band with a picture of a kitty holding a stuffed toy piece of poop! Yep, that's about as professional as we get around here! :D

    Thanks for your professional input peeper!

  841. http://www.myspace.com/celebrityasschildren
  842. If I won the lottery tomorrow, I'm make a $50M movie with all these throwaway stars from the 70s and 80s. The suckitude of their performances wouldn't matter because of the constant explosions, car chases, midget tossing, bone shattering, boobies, yodeling and record breaking usage of the word thundercunt.
  843. Stuntcock told me to get a Mac. Level 26 coming?
  844. Under a grand. You don't use your computer for video or graphic design? That's all you need man.
  845. Lesbo scene with Tatum O'Niel preferrabl;y.
  846. wait a couple of months and get a cheap copy of Windows 7...I've been screwed over by Vista so many times..blah blah-The only mac i own is an ipod touch, but whatever
  847. They can all be washing cars Cool Hand Luke style as the cast of Head of the Class kills each other in a Battle Royale.
  848. My fucking internet goes to shit every night and is usually shot during the weekends. All because some shitty ass radio station boast its signal during those times fucking everything up.

    Reminds me of the King Book I'm finishing today fucking finally.

  849. Bale should star as headmaster at a boarding school in a new show called "Facts of Death."
  850. If anyone is going to get me to revive my interest in bating, it's Ninel Conde. What a perfect rack.
  851. on the counter this morning. Gonna be a shitty day.
  852. I second HOD's nomination.
  853. I'll add her to the qoo(que)
  854. Umm--blah blah I voted Obama blah blah--don't want to get into politics-but this one is a humdinger!

    courtesy of the kooky kids on G4 AOTS-which I normally don't like reposting their stuff, but oh well.

    http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=16654&count=0

    hee hee-this is our guy who's negotiating arms stuff in the Middle east! This is the guy who's one heartbeat away from having his finger on the nuclear force of the western world-so I had to post-it's a tactical issue.

  855. And really, would that breaking news really shock anyone?
  856. But Tosh.0 was funny as balls last night. That shit with the wikepedia was great.

    He's easliy putting Joel McHale to shame.

  857. Today, 20:00 hours, there's some facebook event for the soon to be released Christopher lee project "Charlemagne". At noon Pacific time, apparently evrybody is going to friend list Mr. Lee as a show of support. Kooky social network stuff aside--I thought I should let you all know...

    here:

    http://event.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=events.detail&eventID=521972.37972

    here maybe as well:

    http://www.facebook.com/pages/Charlemagne-Christopher-Lee/245867789743?v=app_2405167945

    word to the wise-I believe Mr. Lee actually reads some of the posts, so be professional!

  858. washing a car. The last reunion movie had her trying to choose between marriage proposals from two guys and I'm thinking Yeah, right.
  859. ...until this is the #1 FB of all time. The Progressive Insurance girl can go fuck herself.
  860. DGDB, she doesn't have to fuck herself. I'll be glad to do it.

    That said, I agree that this FB is the place to be, and should be the reigning FB.

  861. Quint just did an obit on (producer) David Brown. Cool, but wasn't that like two days ago? We were discussing that moustache here RIGHT after the guy crossed over.
  862. I'll keep the return fire HOT.
  863. before I go back to bed-I had to post this one for Xiphos and the rest of you gents-duh duh duh-the laser pistol bayonet!

    http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/templates/links/link.jsp?id=0072553519296a&type=product&cmCat=SEARCH_all&returnPage=search-results1.jsp&Ntk=Products&QueryText=laser%2C+bayonet&sort=all&Go.y=0&N=0&Nty=1&hasJS=true&_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&_DARGS=%2Fcabelas%2Fen%2Fcommon%2Fsearch%2Fsearch-box.jsp.form23&Go.x=0

  864. ...
  865. and a grappling hook...
  866. ....you're out of rounds, in close so you grip the thing by the barrel and slam it into someone's face? Whats not-cool about that?
  867. I must continue to train myself in the Gun-Kata, while simultaneously honing my other martial arts skills so that, like Jet Li, I can grab and disassemble an opponent's gun single-handedly.
  868. So the wife and I were watching Modern Family last night, and some charity commercial comes on starring Taye Diggs. I was like, oh shit it's Cleric Brandt from Equilibrium!

    Mrs. Abom said he's on some legal show now. I said it doesn't matter--he's Brandt, Preston's nemesis. That's what matters. That's what THAT is.

  869. Love that shit. I'd fuck Taye Diggs if I were.....into black guys.
  870. you would probably ruin your careful range sighting on your *Laser* if you were to do that...

    I'm just saying...

  871. ...but it would probably be worth it to disengage head from cunt with a knife attached to a fucking gun!! Hello?! Awesome!
  872. Which we will in fact be seeing in a few months in Machete, by the way.
  873. Danny, yeah--it had Ms. Piggy and shit. They were doing some kinda construction work for some charity, and all I could think of was SPOILER His Majesty slicing Diggs' face off.
  874. Hence the face-removal.
  875. ...you volunteer for a full day of manual work for one of the Disney sanctioned charities and you get a free day at the park.
  876. Machete could be the best and most important film EVER. It doesn't have Bale, but then again neither did Citizen Kane. For those who haven't seen El Mariachi or Desperado, check those out for a taste of what Machete could be. Then sprinkle some Prozium on top of THAT.
  877. Danny--yeah I'm not pooing on the program; I didn't know what the commercial was about. I laud Diggs for his work in that regard. But when I saw the commercial all I could think of was, "Hey Miss Pig---HOLY SHIT it's Cleric Brandt!"
  878. .
  879. Rodriguez shot "Mariachi" on like a 20 grand budget--and THAT money he got by selling his own blood plasma. Truly Professional.

    I wish Ricardo Montalban could have lived to see Machete.

  880. ..don't let me down. Seriously...DON'T FUCK IT UP THIS TIME.
  881. I'd like to unload my Fozzie all over those tits.
  882. That bitch does nothing for me. Disgustingly thing, plastic and stretched out looking, and she acts all fucked up like she's on pills. I'd like to see her roll down some stairs and crack in a million pieces like fucking Death Becomes Her.
  883. My Animal would spackle her buttocks with Electric Mayhem.
  884. ....like a plate of leftover crab cakes smashed on the sidewalk.
  885. Scottish monks unleash alcoholic mayhem in an Alcoholocaust. (Props to Aggoraphobic Nosebleed for coing that awesome word)

    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/world/europe/04scotland.html

    What would Lord bale drink if he were to go off of that Prozium stuff? I believe it would be BuckFast!!!

  886. And get all of these boogerish kids outta here, as well! I, Brad Pitt, am going to go and bang all the chicks on The Jersey Shore cast in one sitting!

    Why Angelina-Why?!? Because I can-That's Why!

    I'm Achilles without the Heel!!! Because that's you baby-that's you-Heel Lady!

  887. to the party today...meetings all morning and now it looks like I have some program code that may not be working as it's supposed to...that or the users are putting in fucked up data...i'm hoping for the later cause the former is unfuckingprofessional...
    That Mexican chick, Ninel Conde, might appear in Playboy...and that's one issue I'd buy. The babe has mellons big enough to feed a small army...god I hope they aren't fake...http://tinyurl.com/4tcdra
    Joe Biden...idiot.
    Teri Hatcher: meh
  888. What's wrong with wanting to go all Nixon on them?
  889. I needed me some Buckfast this morning.
  890. Nose fucking her?
  891. Warm?
  892. You stick your face in a chicks ass or tits and shake your head making that weird sound Nixon did.
  893. Thats the filthiest fucking thing I've ever heard.
  894. http://jriddell.org/photos/tom-andrew-jonathan-buckfast-hogmanay-02-03.jpg

    http://www.laddieblog.com/laddieblog/Blog/Entries/2009/4/1_Rab_Rides_Again_files/buckfast-finish4.jpg

  895. http://bit.ly/9rcHeP
  896. http://chavspeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/true-mans-drink.jpg

    I think I know that guy. Wait wait wait, its just because I've met a British person before.

  897. Hmm-this from a random Gingertown poster who is now doing the cite's job for them...this is quite evil, and it just so happens I was ruminating about Alan moore the other day...

    http://splashpage.mtv.com/2010/02/04/watchmen-2-in-the-works/

  898. AIBN EXCLUSIVE!

    http://tinyurl.com/yh4tbuo

  899. Of course, I'll be paying for Edge of Darkness.
  900. If anyone...yeah thats what I figured no one gave a shit.
  901. Then he became a household name, turned into a douche and probably shills 3AM infomercials now.
  902. The Killer Inside Me.

    http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/promo-trailer-for-winterbottoms-the-killer-inside-me

  903. Yet something else for Koutch to go ballistic over.
  904. Hilarious movie.
  905. Since when have I gone Ballistic over wolfman?

    I think you've crossed streams one too many times. I actually want to see that film. Its got Anthony Hopkins, he makes anything watchable.

  906. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDPoPSVMmO0
  907. Terrence Malick/Javier bardeem!!!! Fuuuuucccccckkkkk!!!!!

    Yes! you read it here second!!!!

    http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=16660&count=0

  908. ...and wasn't that excited, but he never said anything negative.
  909. Guess malick got burned by Legolas in The Lost Byzantine Empire Movie, and decided to Hire A motherfucking Professional to get this shit Real!

    Who's going to be the romantic hero? I hope it's Javier Bardeem-and Our Good-looking and Well-dressed Acting Saviour gets to be the Heel! Now, if only it had Rowdy Roddy Piper in it...

  910. Other then the fact that I find it funny that it has the same poster as Spawn. Looks alright probably end up renting it though unless I hear good things. Just not a big BDT fan thats all. I don't hate the guy, he's good just don't get excited for him.
  911. Jesus Christ-They might have to create a new kind of film stock that can handle extra doasges of suave motherfucking Charm!
  912. I don't even thing BDT is even Eggers anymore. Sure back when traffic came out he was. But now he's done enough to actually be someones favorite actor. Especially fans of Exccess Baggage!
  913. That Killer Inside Me clip is the whole fucking movie.
  914. I thought Koutch went off on the casting of Del Toro a few times.

    I haven't seen Ford Fairlane in years. I liked it 20 years ago when it came out but have no idea how it's aged.

    Mike, I'm glad you like Laughter. And you'll understand the Nixon reference then from the ass eating track.

  915. I was probably joking HOD. I mean he just wouldn't be my first choice. But as Danny said he's an interesting choice.

    And like I said yesterday I think he'd be a good choice to play Bilbo in the The Hobbit, except that would break the WHITES ONLY rule of middle earth.

  916. That sounds epic. If only the sound of the Diceman's voice wasn't kryptonite for me
  917. That could work. The only problem would be trying to understand what he's mumbling.
  918. How is your wife?
  919. reeks of blood.

    After seeing the Killer Inside me clip, I've got some new ideas for tonight!

  920. Getting The Hobbit made because people in charge found out that GDT wasn't of the aryan kind....well that and New Line is fucked right now.
  921. Fairlane still holds up. Harlin!
  922. ...
  923. It looks pretty accurate. I can't believe they put that shit in there.

    WHIP THAT ASS!!!!

  924. http://tinyurl.com/yzet4qd
  925. Have you ever heard how skinheads are into the LOTR books? I wonder if that's why.
  926. balls.
  927. They claim it stands for Peckerwoods, but I suspect they're really named after Elijah.
  928. ...
  929. Never! Praise His Holy Name. He's a Professional, Friendo.
  930. I'm not making that up...
  931. Now please....just but the boner away...nice and slow-like.
  932. ...I have 2,546 tweets up as of right now. Thats sorta sad.
  933. You usually log in just as I'm done for the day.
  934. Bunch a cunts running that show.
  935. ...you remember MR. ZEDDEMORE, right? He's up on twitter.
  936. Jesus.
  937. Interviewer ask's them what they all think about Motion Capture and Woody says that HE LOVED Fantastic Mr. Fox.

    http://www.ropeofsilicon.com/article/morgan-freeman-avatar-is-really-cartoons

  938. I wanna see what they say. Hopefully we can make it clear we're not trouble and they'll put us on some 'do not fuck with' list. If we just started a new one they would keep hassling.
  939. He's my facebook pal. Don't know what's he's been up to. Don't know why he doesn't show up anywhere anymore.
  940. Is the book any good Mike? Looks like those pussies at Sundance didn't like the film: http://tinyurl.com/yjz9orf
  941. Danny--this Boner...it's a mean motherfucker-It's like a sword with a grappling hook on the pommel.

    A very deadly device-once unsheathed, it's like a deadly venus Space Probe built by Russians whose orbit deteriorates placing it somewhere in the Northern California woods...

    Kind of like this:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TUTuEaorHw

  942. ....doesn't wanna get caught up in conversations so he just randomly tweets between shit. That fucker is always working on so much fucking shit. Fucking research papers, multiple comics, a few novels, some fan scripts, Gremlin erotica, it blows my mind.

    Here's his twitter....cool guy.

    @Ian_Austin

  943. Ass + Ass + in. SPLASHDOWN!
  944. Fucking weird ass looking dirty webcam of some Harry Potter looking motherfucker staring into the camera with these worn down eyebags rambling about shit I cannot comprehend. Shit went on forever.
  945. I actually wanted to do a screenplay and direct it myself years ago when I had delusions about one day being a Hollywood Director of Cinemafilms.

    As if.

  946. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3far9oHZOsI
  947. Avatar girl?
  948. ...that Chris Cunningham short 'Rubber Johnny'. You ever see it?
  949. http://tinyurl.com/ygkguuo
  950. shit been meaning too ever since they were doing those Music Director DVDs.
  951. That's he's not really Jeffery Dean Morgan or flip the script and have Jeffry Dean Morgan prove he isn't Bardem.

    tinyurl.com/9sj5y2

  952. Ford Fairlane holds up really well
  953. I like it...even though God tells me I shouldn't.
  954. Those fuckers could have the same dad.
  955. ...
  956. http://tinyurl.com/ylxtpp4
  957. It's literally that exact same story. Bullshit. Mutha fuckas tryna take Carnahan's thunder....messed up.
  958. ....but what the fuck? The A-Team is an American fucking institution. And Losers looks like its gonna be one of those films that tries way too hard to be stylish and hip. And I'm sick of Zoe Snatch-Rot. She needs to take 5 years off or end up on the bottom of fucking Chappaquiddick after an evening of heavy drinking with Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
  959. Isn't the comic strip Morgan's flick is based on just a "serious", for a funny book, version of the A Team?
  960. when they were releasing photos a few months back but that trailer killed my boner for it about 15 seconds in. It looks and feels like one of those shit Oceans 11 films. I'm suprised Soderbergh isn't on oard for this one.
  961. //
  962. I have no idea why I watched them but I did. He and I chat through FB from time to time. He's a cool cat.

    So we do or we don't have our own page up on Twitter? Because nonsensical ramblings from Bale would be hilarious. Or would we get sued for slander?

  963. She's like the new Angelina. She gets all the sexy ass kicking female roles.
  964. Who you callin' "Jeffrey Dean," Friendo?
  965. Jesus fuck. Why do I always get in trouble? I feel like I'm 12.

    We added too many people in a few day period so they suspended it thinking we were a spambot, me and Mike are talking to them about it. It will be a few weeks before its back. And the Bale thing would be funny...but there are a ton of those, Kirk Cameron, Gary Busey, Nick Nolte, etc. They all start to melt into one after awhile.....too many 'cunt' jokes on twitter as it is. Thats why I just try to be clever and a little tender and bit more likable, while refraining from too much use of the word CUNT, but the price I pay is a barrage of harassment from women wanting to meet me in person. Its difficult.

  966. Maybe that's what I've been doing wrong all these years.
  967. There's too much of it. Its too easy. When I first started looking around there were hundreds of other guys I swear were me. So I try different kinda shit on there with a bit more of a innocent approach. I mean I'll still crack the occasional 'forceps splits gape' bit once in awhile, but its not my all. I'm saying the Christian Bale saying fist-fucktacular shit seems like a good idea, but then you see there are already a thousand other guys with the same routine.
  968. Just explain to me how you get game time off the 'net
  969. http://tinyurl.com/ylafycd
  970. HONESTY, CONFIDENCE, WIT.
  971. I NEED TECHNIQUES
  972. His posts can be enlightening: a look into a master thespians daily life. I mean really, the stuff that Abom writes, imagine just one line updates of those.
  973. ...and I will bring the cunt to your doorstep.
  974. The Star Trek one I'd bone until my nutsack ran out of semen and started using blood.
  975. It may work for a few weeks or a month, but it dries out. Its difficult to keep a regular routine. Thats why any of the character kinda accounts fade away fairly quickly.
  976. She's exceptional looking, but she's playing out fast.
  977. Aww who the fuck am I kidding...I missing all three.
  978. I know nothing about Twitter so I'm not sure what we would do with it then.
  979. Because Abom would school his ass.
  980. she's okay I guess. Nothing about her gets me into an absurd sexual frenzy where I just have to put my dick into something quick just by looking at her though. I'd rather have the other Zoe to be honest.
  981. Wait, are we discussing the Star Trek / Avatar girl?
  982. http://tinyurl.com/ygayvzs
  983. Damn, that fine chocolate ass can be in every other movie as far as I'm concerned.
  984. Yes, Praise Bale, I would hit that. But being a guy of Caucasion persuasion and of Irish descent, I doubt I could satisfy her hunger. I'd have to use the Fist.
  985. The new Halle Berry
  986. It feels somehow blasphemous to crack a joke like that during the Month of Kunta Kinte
  987. Tequila, one set of nice threads and a zucchini stuffed down your pants, guaranteed pantie dropper every time.
  988. The "500 Days" Zoe is actually Zooey, who apparently polarizes guys very badly. I for one dug her in Elf, cute little pixie that she was, but haven't seen her in much else. She sings on the Elf sdtk with Leon Redbone, and I must say her voice makes me elicit pre-lube in my pants.
  989. I can't tell you how many times I wacked it to her in The Flinstones or Swordfish.
  990. In the real world, and with a gallon of JB in me, I can't turn it off. It's online where I'm seriously lacking.
  991. That shit my dad says twitter is funny as hell! And keeps getting better!
  992. Fluff, I know what you mean, but it's true. A man's gotta know his limitations, as Dirty Harry once said. With Zoe, I'd feel inferior to begin with.

    I would like Berry and Zoe in a shower together, lathering up, with me squooshed in the middle, and them disparaging me the whole time.

  993. Just finished the DOME! Fucking FINALLY. Good book. Though it pretty much has the same conclusion as The Sphere in terms of getting rid of the object.
  994. That's a GREAT Black History Month image. Halle and Zoe all wet and soapy, gently belittling a white guy.
  995. A little white meat on whole-wheat bread. Professional and healthy, it's all good, fo' schnizzle.
  996. ...but something about her really annoys me. She has a cute playful personality in interviews, though I can't help but think its all an absolute put-on. I bet in reality she's miserable. She seems like a fake happy person which for me = limp dick.

    Now Zooey (pale) I would wreck it for days. And I can almost guarantee she has bush, and she's really into slowly squeezing out my wad and smearing it into her short-hairs with the palm of her hand.

  997. Why?
  998. you started it about 5 years ago as I recall. Also how the fuck is the conclusion like Sphere? Is their some epilogue I don't remember where everyone in Chesters Mill forgets the Dome ever existed?
  999. Danny, that's disgusting.

    And probably true. I love it.

  1000. ...Zooey (pale) hates life, she always has, she always will...she knows exactly what she is and tries her best to bring you down with her. All that equals = EPIC FUCK.
  1001. It has a velvety vageeena.
  1002. I better get working on an article for Black History Monfph
  1003. http://blogs.citypages.com/gimmenoise/Ben%20Gibbard.jpg

    Which tells me, I could easily have it...

  1004. I'm calling it right now...everything about her is so clean and cute its gotta be bare down there.......her sister on the other hand....
  1005. I'd put Zooey and Katy in ANOTHER shower stall for a Soap-a-Thon in the name of Love. They would scold me like a child and rape me with a shampoo bottle.
  1006. You read it too.

    I'm just saying that the DOME GOES AWAY just like the Sphere GOES AWAY, you get a little better reasoning as to why the dome was there in the first place.

    I'm just saying, similar.

    And yeah I've been reading that thing since like a week after it came out.

  1007. If you want to keep it real with that article, make it all about the only true Black Activist left: Kanye West.
  1008. "In Search Of" Zooey's bush, with your host Leonard Nimoy.
  1009. Married the lead singer of the KING of Hipster Douchebag Bands, Death Cab for Cutie.

    Seriously just that name alones warrents multiple fist to the face.

  1010. ...she seems to be a naturally hairy person. But I don't think she would think it important to wax or shave or anything like that...I think naturally she has a small near tuft.
  1011. HOT DAMN! AVATAR LOOKS FUCKING AWESOME!
  1012. Koutch, I'm inclined to agree. I'm going to sick Kayne on her.
  1013. http://tinyurl.com/btqw4s
  1014. That pic tells me she's a lesbiana
  1015. ******balls
  1016. Is someone going to put Keith David at the spiritual guru/wise old man/yoda type role!?
  1017. She totally seems like she would be. Maybe its a Will Smith/Jada arrangement....best friends get married but aren't together and have their same-sex fun on the side.
  1018. Mr. Bubble, yes, I've GOT TO HAVE IT! I've been bad and Zooey / Katy must punish me. They will violate me whilest singing "You're HOT and you're COLD, you're IN and you're OUT"
  1019. Everything after that awesome Old Testament style apocalypse kind of blew didn't it? Anyway Spielberg has the TV rights and is going to make it for HBO I hear. Randy Quade as Rennie anyone?
  1020. Come to think of it, I'm scared to do a Black History month article. It might be funny, but some people would surely misinterpet it. Walking a tightrope.
  1021. ...to totally wreck the fucking server.
  1022. Though that could work. If its not John Goodman I probably won't be able to watch it. Also the Terminator Guy from the show as Barbara. I don't know who for Shumway. Also the fuck up kid from Breaking Bad as Junior.

    The dad from Modern Family would be a decent Rusty.

  1023. I'm checking out here, be back tomorrow--possibly tonight.

    Fist on, Professionals

  1024. ...
  1025. The Shumway part would be perfect for Meryl Streep. But she may be too old.

    I think Patricia Clarkson actually would be perfect.

  1026. And by displace I mean rip off that apron with our teeth and give her the full magnitude of our price gun.

    Clean up in aisle three. Bring a mop. Actually, bring two.

  1027. Instead of a Black History Munf article, just do the Kanye write up. I'm telling you....
  1028. Yeah I love how the Berg is doing it, and how there is that whole The Wiz Kid would always figure out the end like a Berg film speech in it.

    Seriously though, I'll be a pig in shit if King didn't have John Goodman in mind the WHOLE fucking time he wrote it.

  1029. he's fucking perfect. Christ I would be a really bad casting director. Also lets get Mathew Modine as Rusty and Bryan Cranston as Andy. I could totally see him crying and smoking crack all at once.
  1030. My Winnipeg, The Chaser, Pontypool, Brothers Bloom, Gomorrah, Che, and more have been at Blockbuster for months now! What the fuck!
  1031. I thought that was a fucking joke. And it's coming out this year. Wow.
  1032. The thirst to quit my job in a Bale-inspired heavily armed meltdown is powerful in the Stuntcock today.
  1033. .
  1034. Mathew Modine and Bryan are good choices.

    I actually hope they get people who worked on Breaking Bad to work on this, because they are very similar in the way they unfold. Also the whole meth connection.

  1035. Anyone set foot in a blockbuster?
  1036. Having finished Under The Dome. I want their to be more.

    Ohhh man this is going to be worse then my post-Avatar depression. I want Pandora Under The Dome.

  1037. I got Netflix and said goodbye to that bitch for good.
  1038. ...
  1039. But I REALLY wanna see fucking Ponytolpol ever since I first saw Twilight 2! Also I wanna see Ninja, and REALLY REALLY wanna fucking see The Chaser! DAMN YOU NET FLIX! YOU WERE SUPPOSE TO RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!
  1040. Studios will continue cracking down with so many fucking embargoes and raising their licensing fees, Netflix won't have anything more recent than a month-- and their subscription fees will double. Remember I said this-- kids.
  1041. Then why didn't you fucking tell me those movies were there? You know I've been asking.
  1042. ...and fucking sink the company. Please write all this down.
  1043. is dead to me...dead! if i can't pull it down off the tubes then i'm probably not going to see it...but i'm just cheap that way.
  1044. ...there's fucking nothing like going to a rental place with your female and going down the aisles and fucking around for an hour trying to decide what to get. Where the fuck is the charm in being a worthless fat-ass strapped to a fucking recliner and having a dvd hand-fed to your hanging gullet?
  1045. Pontypool (I never heard of it till I saw it on AIBN) is up on the tubes brother...a good version too! You don't need no stinkin' Blockbuster...
  1046. and sometimes the key is gone or under the couch....there's more work involved trust me.
  1047. Yeah fuck downloading though. I've GOT WAY too much shit to watch on better forms then waste my time with that anymore.
  1048. http://vimeo.com/8003153
  1049. Until the studio cunts start feeding us screeners.
  1050. I've got enough DVR/netflix shit that I don't need to waste my time trashing my new computer up with viruses and crap from trying to get shit online.
  1051. The tubes ARE where it's at. Look, I'm willing to hit up a Redbox while I'm grocery shopping, but Amazon has become the new Blockbuster. Browse what's coming out in the new releases, fire up Bit Torrent and have at it. Your movie will be ready in an hour.
  1052. Spent 3 years of my life watching movies on my computer. I'm done with that now. I don't have a nice ass tv and sound system for no reason.
  1053. ....why the fuck would you even bother having a fucking listing of the available films on a website, if every single location has different shit and 90% of the time the shit I want isn't there? FUCK YOU.
  1054. ....don't even remember what it was? I Love You Man probably. Shitty movie for a shitty idea.
  1055. ...watching a movie on a computer is fucking depressing as shit.
  1056. things now coming up on college campuses where you can rent a movie by the hour.
  1057. I downloaded a couple months back. Can't fucking muster up the want to watch it on the computer.
  1058. ....and thats why I think they're going to bury Netflix and shit like it soon. If their ridiculously low prices are cutting into studio profit and if it seems instant streaming shit is the future, why the fuck wouldn't every studio have their own channel through satellite tv or digital cable or whatever...you go on the Universal Pictures channel and there is a menu of every single one of their films, you click on it and its a fucking dollar to watch right there in HD. Why would studios fuck around with an outside 3rd party like Netflix? Why not just have a deal with the satellite/cable providers, who take a small percent of each sale? It makes no fucking sense. They have to realize it.
  1059. This man will be considered a national hero:

    http://tinyurl.com/yc4c6pa

    AANNNNDDD if you don't like that...there's always this?

    http://tinyurl.com/yf22fdp

  1060. Burn all avi's to a blank dvd as data. Throw it into my dvd player and enjoy.
  1061. ...I watched 'Up In The Air' last night. But I'm not gonna tell you what I thought...I'm cookin' up a special articles with many films.
  1062. I think I'm done with Up In the Air now. That 'I'm the world pussiest bitch' Baby Reitman gave to us at the globes says it all, better then I could ever say it. It was very rewarding.
  1063. ...I'm really starting to dig those fake ass orange tans. I wonder if a pressure wash could hose that shit off.
  1064. That they will stain my sheets!
  1065. Maybe thats my last great conquest in life....fuck an orange spray-on tan chick. Its just-- every girl I'm ever attracted to is either already dark as hell or pale as well. No middle ground with me.
  1066. http://www.jennsterger.net/pictures/albums/jenn-sterger/jenn_sterger_17.jpg