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interesting parody of starwars

Saw the made for tv special of Desperation and liked the beginning but ended up truly being in the Beast's ass. D

This is my 12 list which changes everytime somebody ask me and in no certain order

Strange days

Brotherhood of the Wolf

Phantasm

the Descent

Bird with the Crystal Plumage

Once Upon a Time in America

Fight Club

Glory

Miller's Crossing

Interview w/ a Vampire

The Mission

Days of Heaven

The private sector doesn't work like that anymore.

Salk also refused to patent the vaccine.

There's been a lot of discussion in recent literature about science becoming so corporatist and holding back progress.

 

What we're discussing with health insurance is that in the United States, health insurance is part of the private sector which is why it is so costly and wasteful and why there are so many people without it. In other "first world" nations, health insurance isn't private sector, and that's why they have a better health care system than in America.

The private sector is based around the concept of pure profit. That doesn't always give the best results.

And, once a corporation grows so large that for all intents and purposes it has a monopoly, it works akin to a State.

Try to do business with At&T once they have you in a contract. It's all beauracracy and red-tape.

Not to mention that a lot of scientific research is public funding of the private sector, paid for by tax dollars.

Because government dips its hands into it all the time. Also as much as I don't care for Ron Paul he is right about insurance if we got rid of it we wouldn't have these staggering cost. But yes prices for insurance have sky rocketed due to companies being forced to take insurance for their employees and providing the crappiest insurance package ever.

I'm on a rant, I'm so sick of seeing people with Obama shirts and stuff. So are a few of my chums who voted for him. The guy is politician and I do agree the republicans need to work on their issues. I also would love to see liberals and conversatives come together and find what works the best. Were never going to see our Social Security, the baby boomers will eat that up. I would love to see a program instated for medical care for people who don't have any without all the red tape. Were one can use their social security as safety net to get the medical care they need at anytime. Government can't fix things it only makes it worse, thats why the private sector is so much better. Look at Jonas Salk and how he was able to create the polio vaccine. It was private sectored.

It's only chinatown jake..." One of the best lines ever and I'm glad to see Grinning Fellow is watching the classics.

The dissent on Blindness is somewhat justified a lot people don't like movies like that. But I thought it was very well done and I still have no desire to see slumdog millionaire. Danny Boyle is at his greatest when making films that make you think unlike the Beach which ripped the beauty of the novel apart. 28 days later, sunshine, shallow grave and trainspotting is some of his best work ever, of course he did direct the dog pile that is a life less ordinary.

Just started in on Wise Woman's Telling by Fay Sampson. The narrator's a bit too eloquent given who she's meant to be, but that aside it's very good so far.

I actually had that book in hand but picked up Blindfall by Christopher Rice instead.

People at work blaming their inability to take silverware off the table on me. When it's not my job.

I thought I just stubbed my toe but no. I ripped flesh off and it bled all over my sandal till my foot was swimming in my own blood.

I have no faith in Hollywood. Fuck it.

Hollywood blows ass. Do you know how many great movie scripts that never get made because of studios? It's ridiculous.

Had a Life on Mars marathon. Was not happy with the ending (by that I mean last 10 minutes of entire 16 episodes) but over all loved the series. Good fun, but I'm sure everybody has seen it already.

I've been watching the American version and am quite fond of it. Although, the British version, I hear is much better.

I started watching dollhouse but wouldn't skip work to bother watching it. It is a fun show though.

Everytime Obama opens his mouth the Dow drops it won't take long before the Republicans undue him. His just an empty suit from machine politics of Chicago. Many of the sam people who voted for him are already sick and tired of him.

Next was funny and absurd but not Michael's best stuff.

I just picked up Let the Right One In by John Lindqvist and I'm halfway through it already and it deals with so much more than being a simple vampire novel. With issues ranging from pedophile to bullying it is definitaly a must read for everyone on this forum who loves horror.

Man on Wire was fatastic documentary on the Frenchmen who walked between the Twin Towers. Told in a classic crime story caper it really is breathtaking to see. A

Blindness. Loved the fact it didn't give into Hollywood hoopla over end of the world type shit and told a personal story that was very blunt. A

Well Obama got the shock of his life when all the House Republicans and 11 Democrats voted against his stimulus bill. Yet, articles on both sides of the aisle say its nothing but more pork and will not stimulate the economy. It's being bickered over in the Senate as I write this and I don't think Obama will get the support he wanted and needed on this bill. Yes it will probably pass but this is the mark of how Republicans have finally pulled together when the needed to do it against Bush and his Fedzilla programs.

I noticed something peculiar on my way home today.

I'm in a relationship.

 

When a stray dog follows you home, that's not really "a relationship".

It is if you try to lure Fido in with a jar of peanut butter.

Lets see...

I'm about half through Quicksilver but have been read other novels in the mean time as the book is thick and not for light reading.

Blaze by Richard Bachman. This is actually one of my new favorite Stephen King novels. Although he say's in the introduction it's a trunk novel it's not bad trunk novel nor is it a bad read when your sitting in the doctors office for 5 hours. it does have a small supernatural aspect to it but not overwhelming. The main character is amazing complex even for having a low i.q and you really feel sad for his life.

Next by Michael Crichton. Just started it and found it to be extremely funny but I will get back to you on that...

I finally got around to watch The Assassination of Jesse James by that Coward Robert Ford and by fuck, it is long. It could have used with being 20-40 minutes shorter, but it isn't out of what I can only assume to be hubris. Length aside, it realy is amazing. The assassination and the scene preceding it, and the subsequent epilogue I foudn to be so intense that I watched it tree times in a row. I was particularly blown away by the soundtrack (

Cave had a cameo, eeee!

).

A--

That is truly one of my favorite movies I ever seen. And yes I agree with your point that in needed to be cut down by 30 minutes or so. The soundtrack sends chill down my spine if you haven't seen go rent the Proposition. It has Nick and Warren Ellis doing the score.

But I did get to see Battle in Seattle which was like a documentary mixed with a drama of fictious people surrounding the famous protest in Seattle in 99 over the WTO. Stuart Townsend (sic?) really did a great job directing this movie and showing the different perspectives of what happened and why people where there that week. B+

Vicky Christina Barcelona... Not a bad Woody Allen film but it ran a little slow and wouldn't suggest it to just anybody on the street. B

Zach and Miri make a porno. Fucking hilarious and Jason Mewes has no shame at all. I have not laughed that hard at a movie in a long time A

Pride and Glory. Great acting but the story is the same retread over past movie scripts with nothing that hasn't been done before. C

Heathen--

 

for the vertigo stories i have read (not all but most) i'd say you were spot on with your assessments, i feel the same way especially about fables, dreaming, & y.

I actually started to get back into comics again because of Y but the end of the series was rather blah. Same thing with Fables it just needs a sort of I don't know but a big explosion to make it interesting again.

Nightbreed was on tv yesterday. It was fun to see it again, though the make up effects weren't half as good as I remembered.

 

 

that's still a classic movie and David Cronenborg rocks. One of my favorite villains

 

Did I tell anyone I got to see Midnight Meat Train. It was really good

I watched The Midnight Meat Train and it was a piece of shit!

 

(Sorry, Matt. It's the thought that counts.)

To each their own. Ho hum. It was definitaly better than Mirrors though.

I freakin' loved Grindhouse. One of the most fun I had at the movie theaters and I still have tons of fun watching on DVD when I can. But replay value-wise, I watch Deathproof. I felt it was the better film of the two. Planet Terror I enjoyed, but don't see it no way near better than Deathproof. But PT does have it's moments, very fun over the top moments.

I loved in Planet Terror where the totally ripped out the second act and have it move on to the third. And the beauty of it was that you didn't miss a thing.

Am I the only one who didn't enjoy Planet Terror very much?

 

I just felt it was the sort of thing done much better by the trailers but stretched out for an hour and a half and costing $60 million with its best joke (Rose MaGowan's leg-cannon) spoiled well in advance of the film even starting filming.

I think they tried to hard to sell and a lot of people don't understand that era in film. All they know is multiplexes.

And I think I said a long time ago the Lookout was an amazing film. lol

Apocalypto was truly an awesome film.

Anybody watching Fringe? I love the show and new episodes are on next week with the continuation from the cliffhanger ending of last november.

Nightbreed was on tv yesterday. It was fun to see it again, though the make up effects weren't half as good as I remembered.

 

That mask Cronenberg wears is still awesome though. Equal parts hilarious and creepy.

The mask was so awesome. I was watching with a girl who was just a 'friend' and the part when he goes into the house and kills the family, freaked her out. She had nightmares about it and had to sleep next to me which led to a very nice night for me.

Im sure my face will be used as dartboard by a few...