St. Finn Parish

I haven't been posting recently because of madness going on in my life right now, but I had to make a post about this. Okay everything that Grinning and Abby have said I agree with and thensome. Heath was so amazing that I found myself wondering if I would ever see another on-screen villian performance to best it. I want this film to be nominated for an oscar for best picture and screenplay. I expect Heath Ledger to be nominated and win the best supporting actor oscar. Now let me just tell you about my night last night. I went to the 12:00 showing with a friend of mine who I met when I was fourteen by way of an X-Men t-shirt. So needless to say we share a love for comics and it has been the foundation of our friendship. Also, my favorite and his favorite comic book character of all time is Batman. We are also big fans of some of the films and yet had never seen one of them together. So having seen this with him and knowing how much of a fan he is of Batsy when he siad Finally a movie that got the Joker right, it meant a shitload to me and my opinion was the same. And now time to qoute Ed "Alright Gayee"

Do you have Ribena in America?

I have no idea what it is so I am going to say no. Survey says...

From the Complaints to the Management thread.

According to the name "wank", I guess this is what I thought it was.

I'll have to see if I can find a good use for it.

Ah masturbation humour, it kills me!!!

I am listening to The Handsome Family. I head Arlene on Pandora and I instantly fell in love with it. I downloaded that and So Much Wine recently from their Live at Schuba's Tavern album, and I want to download the entirity of Odessa. If you like creepy American Gothic lyrics over haunting honky tonk then they're for you.

My apologies for my response, it's just that I have heard this complaint for years. Do you really think that a real Batman, that is a ludicrous statement in and of itself, would really wear tights? It seems to me that the body armor style suit makes a hell of a lot more sense.

Are we really going to go with the Robocop commentary about the suit again? I mean normally Apathy I get a good lil chuckle outta your comments, but seriously man come up with a more original critigue, I heard that for the first time when I was 11 and Batman 89 came out.

Twenty years? The film came out in 1995.

That's very incorrect. I hate to be Pop-Culture bully on this one but this is from the wikipedia article on Akira,

Akira (アキラ, Akira?) (pronounced [ɑkiɺɑ] ah-kee-rah) is a 1988 Japanese animated film co-written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo based on his manga of the same name.

It's also in the lead off post of this thread.

NEW MANHATTAN????

Pass the absinth.

http://hellforleathermagazine.com/2008/02/...-star-in-l.html

 

Iconic anime film Akira is being remade as a two-part, live-action, Hollywood blockbuster starring Leonardo DiCaprio. The first part, set in New Manhattan — supposedly rebuilt with Japanese money — will premiere next summer.

 

The original is credited with helping anime find a market outside Japan. Released in 1988, it tells the story of a teenage biker gang member subjected to government experimentation in a post-apocalyptic New Tokyo. It featured some of the most imaginative motorcycles ever conceived. Let’s hope the new version does too.

 

The films will mark the directorial debut of Ruairí Robinson, who was able to sell Warner Bros. on his vision of a re-imagined Akira. In addition to starring in them, DiCaprio will also produce the films.

 

Reuters

 

EDIT: I can see you, James... pimping threads, eh? :D

I'm not too hyped by the sound of this. However can you really be too surprised by it, I mean I'm more surprised that it took this long to make. I mean this film has been around for twenty years. The fact of the matter is that Hollywood actually underestimates the intelligence of their audience and then insults them by putting out schlock that they feel the audience can easily understand, Ie. the WB, UPN, BET... and on and on ad infinitum.

Hey everybody, look it's me trying real hard to look like Con-Job. This was taken at my friends wedding.

I think you look most like Rick the Vic.

Yeah I get that a lot.

Hey everybody, look it's me trying real hard to look like Con-Job. This was taken at my friends wedding.

Let me ask this: did you know that you were supposed to be the designated driver, or did he just spring that on you in the pissed off response?

He sprung that on me in the response.

So I have a difficult situation on my hands and would like some advice. I was asked to be a groom's man in some freinds' wedding. Now the guy I have known for 8 years and his wife to be I have known for ten. So their wedding is coming up in about three weeks and they initially asked me to be in the wedding about six months or so ago. So they never told me anything more than I had to be fitted for the tux before the wedding. So I went and was fitted on Friday, and I was infromed by the clerk that I would be renting this tux for $117.44 and asked if I would I like to put down $40. I wasn't made aware that I was going to have to rent the tux. Now I guess this is the standard, but having only been in one other wedding and not having had to rent my outfit for that one I wasn't aware of that, so that came as a bit of a surprise. I was certainly willing to use some of my tax return money to pay for it, and then my car had to have almost $300 worth of work done to it. So on top of all of that I was told that the bachelor party would be on the Friday before the wedding. Then on Monday I was told it was being moved to the Thursday before instead. So I sent my friend a message letting him know that I might need help paying for the tux and that I wouldn't be able to make the entire bachelor party because of work but I would still make the first couple of hours. So he responded back in a very pissed off manner and basically bitched me out for asking him to help me with the tux rental, and that it was a real inconveince for me to not be there for the entire bachelor party because they expected me to be the designated driver. So I am pretty pissed and not sure what my next move should be.

They Might Be Giants Apollo 18. Ah the days of my high school freshman year. When we all learned about Justice Thomas' perversions, a governor from a small southern state was fixing to take world by storm and I was 14 and not getting laid. Good Times.

Okay so on Superbowl Sunday my car broke down on the way to a viewing party. So we had it towed to the shop and yesterday they fixed it. So while my fiancee' and I were stuck at home a crazy thing happened. So we had gone to get some lunch at a local Italian place and as we were walking back outside of the apartment complex beside us, which is a twin set of rundown three story buildings, there are four cop cars parked in the parking lot. When we got home I decided to take a nap and she woke me about thirty minutes later and told me there were a shitload of cops all over the place and she just saw the SWAT van show up, and the sniper. So I immediately got up and checked this out, and lo and behold there was half the Denton Police force swarming this building. To make an already long story short, some nut job had locked himself in his apartment with a shotgun and was threatening to kill himself and anyone who tried to come in. So they finally got him out after about six cans of tear gas and a blasted door lock.

Man that's what I love to see, people helping people. Maybe we should rename this the Hey you got any questions thread.

My Madden Team is 5 and 1, GO COWBOYS!

Who's that then?

Dwight Schultz I think.

Now here's something I know a lil about. My faves include, the original Romero Trilogy (Haven't seen Land of the Dead still), Halloween and 2, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Original), Last House on the Left, The Hills have Eyes (both the original and remake), Psycho, the original Nightmare on Elm St. (the natural progression for the ideas explored in Last House), Hellraiser I and II, Kubricks The Shining (while not a very good film adaptation it's a tits horror movie super creepy), Misery, and there's a shitload more but my lady wants the comp so I must cut this short for now.

PS- Long live The Shape.

Ade, you look really relaxed in that opening post man.

 

Me, walking home late at night, last Thursday....

 

Come one who doesn't see it. Probably everybody but that was my first thought.

Thanks Christian. You would probably like my family. Though they do lean to the right in their politics they are actually reall quite populist.

Here's one of me, my dad, and my grandfather. It was taken one weekend in October.

I'm not sure if I passed or failed.

I'm sorry was that English?

Mark as always you have put a button on the argument. I give the win and the points to Mark. This debate is over.

I probably place too much realism on the story. I used to work in the field.

In reality, yes, definitely, I could see a psychotic break or some sort of breakdown occuring because of those events, very easily.

Going from well-adjusted family man trying to make a life to anti-social serial killer clown because of one bad day? Not believable.

What ya'll are missing on the comic book side of this is that the whole one bad day storyline for the Joker's origin is essentially the one plot poin that remains the same no matter which writer is writing the origin. Moore's is just a reinterpritation of the original origin that was written in the fifties. The main things he changed was the Joker's previous career from manual labourer in a playing card factory to failed comedian and former engineer in a chemical plant. Beyond the two questions of wether he was a sociopath before the accident or not and what his exact occupation was, which I never quite understood why we would be so fascinated by a comic book villian's occupation prior to turning to villany. Anyway I digress my point is that the universally agreed opinion of the Joker origin is that he somehow was involved in some sort of industrial chemical accident that disfigured him and and turned his hair green, and that Batman was involved and possibly partially responsible, thus turning him insane. To me that's a universally agreed "one bad day" storyline.