Open Thread
By John Amato Sunday May 25, 2008 10:30pmI saw Iron Man today. It was definitely a lot fun. It's nice to see a great actor like Robert Downey doing an action role like this. The dialogue is better then the plot---fine cast---with some of the usual structure you would expect in this genre, but Favreau keeps it moving at a fast pace. IM also has a great anti-war message. And then there's the song itself by Black Sabbath.
(Here's a good website to search reviews of movies.)
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Well, here's something about Iron Woman Hillary: Showing Party Unity, Finally Aims Morbid Message Toward McCain
http://satiricalpolitical.com/?p=1862
Some people went wacky for it. I liked it a lot, and am excited for Avengers.
It actually makes me want to see RDJ's cameo in Hulk.
Very cool movie!
thirst
fist, then
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 4:
Somebody beer that man. Quench him now.
Avengers will be interesting, although I could not be more sick of SL Jackson, can't stand the guy. I really hate the Hulk animation, it looks like claymation this time around, and last time it looked like a cartoon. Iron Man was cool, I wish they would turn the Fantastic Four franchise over to Jon Favreau, he knows the correct dynamic to make it fun and hip, not corny and forced.
ironman is the shit.
I cannot wait for the Incredible Hulk.
BB @ 7:
did you ever collect the comics.
(i know I'm dating myself.)
Peter G @ 6:
I see you came in cyst ;-}
excellent cast, the chemistry was solid
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 4:
yo, homeslice!
como esta?!
When oh when will Hollywood get around to a Captain Canuck opus. His super suit might not have been quite up to Captain America's but he was always civil.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 9:
Don't most comic collectors? (end up dating themselves, haha)
;-}
Peter G @ 13:
lol
The worst thing he ever called the bad guys was 'hoser', eh?
;-}
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 14:
No one else is going to date them.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 12:
Now I feel guilty for @14...Hi CIP!
;-}
I was astounded to read this about the Rockefellers and their battle with Exxon/Mobil:
www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/business/27exxon.html
The Incredible HUlk looks like a green version of the Pillsbury Doughboy. Bring back "Bat Bat" or "The Cow".
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 15:
Yes. As in: Sir I must insist that you desist your hosistic tendencies.
Sydney Pollack dies of cancer at 73
The Associated Press
May 26, 2008 at 10:54 PM EDT
LOS ANGELES — Academy Award-winning director Sydney Pollack, who achieved commercial and critical success with the gender-bending comedy Tootsie and the period drama Out of Africa, has died. He was 73.
Mr. Pollack died of cancer Monday afternoon at his home in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles, surrounded by family, said agent Leslee Dart. He had been diagnosed with cancer about nine months ago, Ms. Dart said.
Mr. Pollack, who occasionally appeared on the screen himself, worked with and gained the respect of Hollywood's best actors in a long career that reached prominence in the 1970s and 1980s.
“Sydney made the world a little better, movies a little better and even dinner a little better. A tip of the hat to a class act,” actor George Clooney said in a statement issued by his publicist.
Academy Award winning director Sydney Pollack waves at the 32nd American film festival of Deauville in France in this September 8, 2006 file photo. Pollack died of cancer on May 26, 2008 in his Pacific Palisades, California home at age 73, local media reported. REUTERS/Jean-Paul Pelissier/Files (FRANCE)
Academy Award winning director Sydney Pollack waves at the 32nd American film festival of Deauville in France in this September 8, 2006 file photo. Pollack died of cancer on May 26, 2008 in his Pacific Palisades, California home at age 73, local media reported. (Jean-Paul Pelissier/Reuters)
The Globe and Mail
“He'll be missed terribly,” Mr. Clooney said.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 14:
just cause I'm alone at the keyboard doesn't mean I'm dating myself. I'll have you know that I have friends.
hey! where's the rest of the song?
Can't say anything for the movie but the world would be a better place if more people listened to Black Sabbath.
Don from Canada @ 19:
Bat Thumb
Apathy Doesn't Live in the Bronx
Posted May 23, 2008 | 10:22 PM (EST)
Last Wednesday more than 160 students in six different classes at Intermediate School 318 in the South Bronx refused to take another standardized test. The students boycotted the test not out of laziness or fears of failing, but because they are sick of being dragged out of their classrooms to be treated as lab rats in the No Child Left Behind rotten matrix.
These tests don't affect their grades, nor are they always actual tests. You see, sometimes the students are issued "practice tests" that have no real meaning. The companies are merely experimenting on the children with their shiny, new tests and if they fill in the right bubbles, the test companies ship off their crates to white schools in the suburbs.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 22:
...who tease you about comic book collecting...if I'm not being too subtle ;-}
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 17:
you are way beyond guilty. but I'm always willing to forgive.
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WAIT! exactly WHAT were you implying? ;<[)
Israel has hundreds of nukes. I wonder where they are pointed?
High gas prices force cops to chase perps on bikes. McCain tries to have it both ways by criticizing the way the war was handled, but claiming it's run more efficiently now.
Happy, birthday! The cause of all our problems is now 100 years old!
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 28:
P2b is always guilty, if charged.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 28:
Now now boys. How about a friendly game of Risk? No? Dungeons and Dragons it is then.
Tequila @ 30:
people's heads are spinning. they eventually are going to ask for someone to make it stop.
I notice an adv. for ABC's theMOLE on the *right* hand side of the page here @ C&L. Do you think the show is simply the FBI advertising for their free-speech infiltration of valid protests?
Ron @ 32:
I am not guilty of dis charge you have aimed in my direction, lol ;-}
Iron Man is my favorite of all of the Marvel-to-movie projects because- to me, anyway- it's the most like a comic book. Again, though, I wish they'd have set the story in the '60's. The early/mid '60's Marvel stuff, mostly set in Manhattan, mostly dealing with people afflicted/empowered by radiation-caused mutations, the Jack Kirby amd Steve Ditko art....Spiderman would have been great set in 1964...Old cars, old music...Yeah, I'm a sentimentalist...
Don- Bat Bat! Sweeeet! John K. & Bakshi did great work on Mighty Mouse! Was it Don Wildmon who killed that show ("He's not really sniffing a flower, Mighty Mouse is snorting cocaine!!!!")?
BTW, Sydney Pollack did the old Mortal Coil Shuffle. Bummer. Made some great films: Three Days of the Condor, Absence of Malice, Tootsie, Out of Africa. Pollack didn't have a signature style as so many younger directors seem to today, but he made good, solid films. Not a half-bad actor, either.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 36:
What kind of discharge you talking about boy?
Without salsa you are NOTHING.
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 35:
I think we should all apply to the program, then expose it...we could be blemishes on the moles program...
;-}
McCain refuses to support the troops and equates giving them an education with withdrawing. Our troops are given crappy bullets.
Ron @ 38:
Ronerable, of course.
;-}
Iron Man meets Henry Rollins.
Iron Man meets Super Mario Paint.
I find it amazing how the repugnantcants have today expressed great concern for our fallen, but refuse to bring our troops home. Then, they want Obama to go to Iraq to see for himself how well things are going. The only way he should go there is if he can hire a private army to keep him protected.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 21:
pollack was a genius at both directing and acting
they shoot horses dont they, is one of the most brilliant sendups of the state of the american dream ever made
May 26, 1908: Mideast Oil Discovered — There Will Be Blood
By Randy Alfred Email 05.26.08 | 12:00 AM
An oil well hits a gusher in an early oil field.
Courtesy BP
1908: A British company strikes oil in Persia (now Iran). It's the first big petroleum find in the Middle East, and it sets off a wave of exploration, extraction and exploitation that will change the region's -- and the world's -- history.
Englishman William D'Arcy had obtained a license to explore for oil in Persia in 1901. He sent explorer George Reynolds, who searched fruitlessly for seven years.
Fresh investment from the Burmah Oil Co. had rescued the expedition financially in 1904, but with no results and D'Arcy's personal fortune completely run out, he risked losing his two country houses and his London mansion. In Persia, staff was already being dismissed. Reynolds received orders from London for his last-chance well: Drill to 1,600 feet and then stop.
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 46:
amazingly brilliant, and matter-of-fact. was he not in "eyes wide shut"?
BTW! I must state categorically for the record that the term "douchebaggery' is the invention of Jon Stewart on TDS. so for all intents and purposes, in the future, I must appear to be as brilliant and insightful as he.
Amen.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 48:
yep
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 49:
Give up the comic books.
for those who loved iron man, please note this
the jack kirby estate got absolutely nothing for this film
iron man was a kirby creation based on an idea by stan lee, with basically the entire origin (which is the majority of the film) being created by kirby
this still eats me up inside....there would be no marvel without kirby...
and so goes the continuing story of the corporatists mistreating the true creators
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 42:
see! you're doing it again. and you didn't invite me. it's my fonts, isn't it?
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 48:
ya he was....and it was the only god thing about that awful movie
> ... stan lee ...
I always loved his name.
Ron @ 51:
now you know that no self-respectful marvel fan will ever, ever, ever, ever, ever give up the comics. not even for naked women who play risk.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 56:
Wow, that's an addiction.
The F/X are awesome in that clip. I can't even tell its CGI.
Getting back to Iron Man... I loved it. Great cast, nice pacing, crisp dialog, and such a cool story. And the message of corporate responsibility was most welcome in a big-budget comic-book movie. Great stuff all around.
I can't stop thinking how cool it would be to have that suit.
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 52:
Stan Lee got bought out for $200M. it wasn't enough for me. My son and I look for all his cameos. and you're correct. the corporatists keep screwing thing up trying to rebrand marvel. F4 is the worst. It's a fucking two-hour running joke with special effects.
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 53:
Eyyyyyyy! You're the Fonts...you're always included for your cool free jukebox play abilities and general style, sheet ;-}
David is the man
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6344607790782604943&q=kollaborat...
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 55:
It Stans on its own ;-}
Ron @ 57:
It's nice to have a girl who'll go to any movie with me. and for her, I'll always watch 'message in a bottle' one more time.
life is good, sometimes.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 61:
wait 'til I snap my fingers.
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 54:
Plenty of goddesses, tho ;-}
bmw 528 @ 18:
Some history of plutocracy in America and Britain...the real 'dogs of war'.
It's a long, dry read. Save it and read it between puns.
Dr. Strangelove @ 59:
Then i must check it. The last movie I saw at the theater was Street Kings...I should have stayed home and watched the Policy Academy marathon on the superstation.
Hillary Rejects, Denounces Self
Posted May 24, 2008 | 03:43 PM (EST)
Responding to a chorus of outrage touched off by her comments about the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) made a bold attempt at damage control today by distancing herself from herself.
Many political observers had assumed Sen. Clinton would respond in some manner to the controversy she had created with her comments, but few expected her to throw herself under the bus.
At a rally today in South Dakota, the New York senator said that the comments she made were "totally unacceptable," adding, "I hereby reject and denounce myself."
Attempting to reassure her dwindling base of support, she said that her comments "have no place in a political campaign, and the person who made them will have no role in my administration."
Sen. Clinton also offered an explanation for her comments about the late Sen. Kennedy, telling the crowd, "I am still suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of my service in the Bosnian army."
While early reaction to her latest comments was mixed, Clinton aide Terry McAuliffe called the speech "a home run."
"She came out today and said she was disgusted and appalled by Hillary Clinton," Mr. McAuliffe said. "That puts her in the mainstream of American opinion."
Sen. Clinton's decision to throw herself under the bus also drew praise from her husband, former president Bill Clinton, who joined in rejecting and denouncing her.
"When I heard her comments about Bobby Kennedy, I thought, wow, somebody in her campaign said something idiotic and this time it wasn't me," he said.
Elsewhere, American Airlines announced that it would charge customers $15 for the first lost bag.
Andy Borowitz is a comedian and writer whose work appears in The New Yorker and The New York Times.
StirFry @ 68:
see it. you'll have a blast.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 66:
It WAS a bit tasty, wierd, but who wanted to watch it for the story. To me it was a curiosity and not so bad.
High food prices force Cambodian children to miss breakfast.
GaMeOfLiFe --A Hussein Saved My Life @ 29:
Up?
The last movie I saw in a theater was about sick and dying people. The name of the movie was "SICKO." The producer is still alive.
So how bad is The Watchmen gonna be? My expectations were high when Terry Gilliam was working on it in the late '80's or early '90's, but now...Unless (and I'm basing this on how this guy took what Ellroy meant to be un-filmable, and made the great L.A. Confidential) Curtis Hanson is directing it, I think it's too sprawling to make.
And whoever directs, I can't see how the hat-tip-to-EC-comics-pirate-scenes could be written into the screenplay, let alone survive editing.
I just watched "Recount" on HBO. If you get the chance to watch this, do watch it --- it was a great reminder of how very important it is that everyone's vote gets counted. It kinda made me feel all of the anguish that I felt during those long days in 2000.... and watch for the clip of LIEberman on Meet the Press... it seems like even back then, he was working for the other side.
I wonder if James Baker regrets helping out the Bush team these days?
I dunno.
I think the movie spent way too much time on the suit and not enough on action or plot. The first 30 minutes or so were cool, but to spend another 30 minutes or so on the suit was too much. And the Stane did not make a credible villain. He goes from mildly sleazy to ultimate threat much too quickly for my tastes. If It takes Stark most of the movie to figure out how to work his armor right, how does Stane figure it out in five minutes or so? It felt tacked on on hurried. Im holding out for the Watchmen.
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 55:
lol
Tequila @ 31:
Or, if you're a nondualist evolutionist, as old as our evolutionary tree*.
For a Geologist, as old as Dino.
For a Creationist, just 6k...
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*self centered greedy lizard-brain survivalism
I wish I could have seen “Recount” on HBO but since I don’t have HBO or cable for that mater, I was hoping some of you would chime in and let me know what you think!
lafin gas @ 80:
Can someone recorf it and put it on google video?
Tequila @ 30:
The hardest part is learning to make the 'WOOOO WOOOO' siren sound loud enough and still keep it real.
McGoesgbothways
;-}
Jake 1-
I think the movie spent way too much time on the suit and not enough on action or plot.
I thought the suit was cool as fuck! And since Tony Stark doesn't have mutant super powers, the suit is the story.
I'll admit to never having been much of a fan as a kid- I started buying Thor and Spidey titles for $0.20 in the early '70's- as I've grown up it's become more about the suit, the different un-mutated guys who have worn the suit. It allows more....
storylinessequels, huh?lafin gas @ 80:
Somebody recount 'Recount' for him.
lafin gas @ 80:
You can go to HBO.com and check out some interesting interviews...
I just went to netflix and "saved" Recount but they don't say when it will be released!
Somebody recount ‘Recount’ for him.
How about a count or the count? Count Five?
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 82:
don't forget to add - rubberbanded icecreamstick for motor sound.
Andy K Jong Il @ 87:
Are you down for the count?
Maybe I'll save "War.INC" too!
lafin gas @ 90:
Oooh, good idea! Since it don't be playing here for awhile.
Won't*
Andy K Jong Il @ 83:
you were, unfortunately, a latecomer. but those were still very good years. the avengers had already disappeared. ironman added the red to his now-streamlined suit. giantman/antman and the wasp were gone.
Andy K Jong Il @ 87:
I'm losing count, so count me out, you count.
;-}
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 94:
How can I count on you guys?
Hardening the line on illegal workers
Largest immigration raid in U.S. history highlights enduring tensions over who deserves a place in American society
g'night
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 97:
Good night my friend. No, I'm not John McCain.
> How can I count on you guys?
"Only to 10, Mutthead."
For Andy K Jong Il
Count Floyd's Scary Little Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li4akyjhUf4
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 99:
Mutthead? You want to arm wrestle?
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 53:
Damnnnn what the hell is the matter with you guys?
Get a room!
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 99:
Sorry to hear that 'Stan'. I can count to 11.
GaMeOfLiFe --A Hussein Saved My Life @ 102:
Or you could get in the GaMe, haha
;-}
> ... I can count to 11.
Crank it!
I can only count to 10. Or 2 (when I'm thinking binary.) Or 16 (when I'm thinking hexidecimal.)
But I can count to 10 over and over again!
103 Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine Says: Stan “Bitter Hussein” Rosenthal @ 99:
> How can I count on you guys?
“Only to 10, Mutthead.”
Sorry to hear that ‘Stan’. I can count to 11.
And if you had another finger, you could count to 12!
It has a great anti-war message? Really? I agreed with this article: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080524_torturing_iron_man/ it was an advertisement for the US Air Force where contrary to reality the Muslims tortured the Americans.
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 105:
I, 2, have binary tendencies...sometimes I feel like a zero, sometimes I feel like Aum...I think some 1's put a hexidecimal on me, but it could just be something I 8 a couple times with some octal soup...
;-}
lafin gas @ 106:
I can loan you a finger.
Speaking of the fickle finger of fate, lg ...
109 Liberty(appeaser)Lover Says: lafin gas @ 106:
103 Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine Says: Stan “Bitter Hussein” Rosenthal @ 99:
> How can I count on you guys?
“Only to 10, Mutthead.”
Sorry to hear that ‘Stan’. I can count to 11.
And if you had another finger, you could count to 12!
I can loan you a finger.
Give HIM the finger, he needs it!
lafin gas @ 106:
That dozen add up unless you're offering to give me the finger sum...
;-}
And 1 AND 1 don't make Proud2 ...
Liberty(appeaser)Lover @ 109:
Don't give him the finger. Save that for the repugnantcants.
Liberty(appeaser)Lover @ 109:
Sounds like a prime sub loan...
;-}
Stan "Bitter Hussein" Rosenthal @ 113:
Only in the act of shooting, unless you're in the penalty, Spuring me on to the Finals...I hope that's not too flagrant.
;-}
OK, for all you knowledge starved kids out there, this site has some great movies and it’s free!
http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=87
GNA
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3410784
<blockquote cite="During a lengthy deposition on April 16, one of the Seattle SuperSonics co-owners said that contrary to the e-mails and statements that have emerged in a lawsuit against the team, he and other team owners had "poured our heart and soul" into trying to keep the team in the Seattle area.
One e-mail, from early 2007, regarded McClendon and Sonics co-owner Tom Ward's financial political contributions to an anti gay-marriage group in 2004. The Democrat-controlled state legislature, which was considering whether to finance a Sonics arena proposal, was infuriated.
An openly gay Oklahoma politician, Jim Roth, contacted McClendon and offered to defend him against accusations of being anti-gay to the Seattle media.
According to the Seattle Times, McClendon believed the situation would actually improve the likelihood of moving the Sonics to Oklahoma City, telling Roth in an e-mail: "The reality is it just improves OKC's chances of getting them [the Sonics] here year after next."">
I thought you guys would be amused
nitey, Ron (as in you're wearing one, lol)
;-}
I guess I need more practice with the tags
LibertyLover-
Are you down for the count?
Played that on Saturday's LNMC thread. LH&R.
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CoIntelPro-
you were, unfortunately, a latecomer. but those were still very good years. the avengers had already disappeared. ironman added the red to his now-streamlined suit. giantman/antman and the wasp were gone.
I caught up quick. My neighbor had an awesome collection dating back to the $0.12 books, with a few $0.10ers in there. And I read the Avengers- just the 2nd (or was it 3rd, with Vision and Thor and...Hmm, Cappy and...I'm probably screwin' it up, there, but circa '72 anyway) generation. In the reading teepee with Muffy Stocksdale.....
This is an open thread so I hope you all don't mind.
I just found out I didn't get a job I had interviewed for.
As a USCS, there are certain HR rules that must be adhered to regarding hiring, one being that you must hire the most qualified candidate.
So...instead of hiring me over the manager's friend, they hired no one.
Like many of us here, I'm a wage slave living hand to mouth, trying to figure out a way to afford next Christmas. This job would have made that a little easier.
I'm just fucking devastated. I truly don't know what to do to get ahead. I want to finish college but at 40 years old and working 2 jobs, while taking care of two kids, I just don't have the energy.
Is there no hope? Is the American Dream really dead? It seems to me that it is. I'm known throughout the area I work in as being the best around. I meet or beat every deadline given while doing more work than my co-workers and do so with a smile, but I just cannot fucking get ahead. Damn, I just feel like jumping off cliff and being done with it.
Working hard to get ahead just proves you are a sucker.
Sorry to be a bummer everyone.
I love this
Gamelink but not this much[FIFY]
Tim - It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it.
I love this Game but not this much @ 121:
Deaf-inately sounds like the Super Sonic hearing situation is not OK...
Tag, you're it.
;-}
CoIntelPro against Repug DoucheBaggery @ 60:
please dont get me started on lee...took him years to admit the amount of real input guys like kirby and ditko had in the creation of both characters and the comics themselves...this despite the well publicized "doing comics the marvel way"
lee got plenty...kirby wouldve loved even half of that
up to his death he was putting in 10-12 hour days, partially from his love of drawing and writing, but mostly cuz he couldnt afford to retire
mark evanier tells a story of going shopping with kirby and his wife roz. while roz was in some store, evanier wanted to know if kirby wanted to go into a nearby toy store. kirby turned white as a ghost and quietly turned down the offer.
when they returned to the kirby home, evanier asked roz what was up with that...did jack have some strange aversion to toys? roz explained that kirby couldnt go into a toy store, because he would see row after row of characters he created and how he wasnt getting dime one in any sort of marketing fee, and he would get so upset, he wouldnt be able to work for days.
this is not to take away from lee what he was....a brilliant showman and marketer, who made comics palpable to older teens and 20 somethings (of course, by stealing ideas from the far superior ec comics and william gaines, but that is another story) lee did insist that eveyone who worked on a comic got a byline, and he was great at hyping his artists and writers in his monthly stans soapbox.
but i wish jack had lived to see his creations embraced on such a wide scale...i wish it was his face that was recognizable to millions....i wish it was he too who was getting the cameos...because it was kirby that allowed so many kids and adults like me to take trips to places we will never be, and to imagine ourselves as people we can never hope to become
as an aside....i do have to give huge kudos to favreau, who showed that you can respect the source material and put out a superior product....and you are right about the ff movies....they were craptacular....fox destroyed doom....the penultimate villian...before there was ever a glimmer of people like sadaam hussein and khadafi, kirby and lee created an international terrorist who was monarch of his own country....true genius
Mister Anderson @ 125:
Listen to Neo, Tim. It's not a neo-con, it's the same old plutocrap.
Tim in Japan @ 123:
start HERE
I don't know what resources you do have, but my buddy put this together. I hope sincerely that it helps.
uncle joe hussein mccarthy @ 127:
I have two words: Irv Forbush! The whole shebang came from a seed he nurtured. they even spoofed him in a special satire comic.
Hollywood making a film with a subtle anti war message, what are the odds!
Tequila @ 41:
Official soldiers in a war zone are supposed to be in combat doing aimed firing, keeping bullets to a simple design keeps non combatant injuries down.
Also its akin to chess, plain bullets wound and remove a soldier from the battle front along with 2 or 4 stretcher bearers.
The contractors out there are using all the nasty bullets they wish, frangible rounds (rolled foil bullets) and every type of exploding and expanding type going. Frangible rounds produce untreatable wounds (massive inoperable trauma) this is why they are banned by the Geneva Convention.
As silly as it sounds, Geneva rules aim to limit combat hits to two outcomes; kill outright or wounded / removed from the combat zone.
Its not designed to produce permanent wounds or chronic crippling conditions like the frangible stuff or chemical weapons produce.
This was a lesson learned from the trenches of WW1 and the aftermath of 10,000s of crippled soldiers going home to a lifetime of needless suffering.
Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine @ 128:
Take the red pill.
The game is rigged - play it like that.
;-}
Andy K Jong Il @ 37:
Sorry, they are basing IM and the Avengers on the new Ultimate Avengers series, and there are 2 animated movies also. Samuel L looks just like Fury in those 2 movies, and RD jr looks just like Tony Stark. Bruce Banner is able to take control of the Hulk, after he almost kills Thor, Cap, Giant Man and Iron Man in number 1.
Tim in Japan @ 123:
remember 'we work to live, not live to work'
find some time for relaxing, structure some YOU time into your busy schedule,
hobbies, music, kids outings or anything that isnt work related.
go feed some ducks with the kids twice a week, thats always fun and stress releasing.
calgarylady has been very busy reading all of the comments tonight, but lafin gas (& AKJ II) @ 100 is the winner this evening ...
SCTV and Kids in the Hall ... True Canadians, all !
calgarylady @ 135:
Sounds like a 'homer' to me. What's the prize?
;-}
I find www.rottentomatoes.com much more user friendly summary of reviews and links to full text than the one referenced in this post. Might be becuse I am one of those undereducated christian mountain folks.
137 Mart
I like this site!
http://www.imdb.com/
Mart @ 137:
There's a christian mountain? Do go
tell iton....?spam filter got me again!
Ooh, might have to stay up a while to figure that one out ...
calgarylady @ 140:
So the prize is your figure outing? Out with it then...
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lafin gas @ 139:
That's grounds for percolation...haha
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I can't post a link to IMDB!
Show me yours first.
lafin gas @ 143:
I'll post it for you, what is it?
142 Proud2bHumble Hus(in)sein Whitenbitter Lee Assassinine
I'm trying to make COPY not Coffee!
calgarylady
John Candy (R.I.P.) was one of my favorites that came out of SCTV!
McBulletproof Vest wants to give Iraq another shot with Obama.
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