It looks unnecessarily fakey and green screened. Especially the background. Almost as if they did it on purpose.

Well I guess there's one candiate if they want to recast The Joker after Heath...

And I'm all natural, with no surgical scars or makeup needed.

I've also got a purdier mouth.

Look up The Minibosses. They've been doing this for years.

minibosses.com/

finally watched it last night. I really enjoyed it. Great movie. Not as awesome as Iron Man, but still mighty awesome.

Awesome.



I've never seen that SNL, so it will be interesting. And I taped some of his standups I missed on HBO. Maybe I missed some good stuff.

Snoop + Everlast + Willie Nelson = awesome

That red dress still fits him, by the way.

I don't go over there all that often, but I was really bored this afternoon, and OO has a really funny thread about this very subject going. Link.

The highlight being this explanation of why aliens allergic to water came to earth without any parkas even:

I don't like it. They should spend some more time in the studio perfecting it.

I saw it a few months back and I'm having a hard time remembering how I felt about it. I liked it but I guess it didn't leave much impression on me. It was a fine acting job by Gosling and a cute story. I enjoyed the brother's struggle with his responsibility for Lars' state (you know, as much as one can enjoy a man being emotionally torn apart with guilt for abandoning his brother to a bad family life that would eventually drive him insane). But beyond that? Eh.

While I think can accept that a small town would bend over backwards to feed his delusion I'm not sure I buy that they'd all be weird enough to be sucked into the delusion like they were. And ultimately the whole movie is just watching this go through therapy after a mental breakdown. But while Gosling does a good job I don't really remember caring about Lars or finding his growth all that entertaining. Which is why the brother probably struck me more because his issues, change, motivation, and redemption are all pretty clear. He was young and scared and couldn't deal with his family. When he came back he couldn't deal with his damaged brother and his brother didn't ask him to so they found a comfortable distance. He is freaked out by how bad his brother has gotten and doesn't think its a good idea to feed it. But he comes to realize that their family and his abandonment led to this and is overwhelmed with guilt. He manages to play along even though he disagrees with it because he thinks its what will make it easiest for his brother. And they have that nice talk where Lars asks him when he knew he was a man and he says when he realized he needed to do things for the people he loved no matter what he thought (or something like that).

So I liked the brother stuff and it was a cute story. But otherwise, eh.


EDIT: Oh, I liked the shrink too. Which I think is why I feel weird about the film. All the supporting characters strike me more interesting than Lars. The sister-in-law who so clearly wants to bridge the gap between the brothers and have a family. The girl who likes Lars because he's a nice guy but is willing to step back so as not to hurt him. And the general theme of everyone just kind of reaching out and making their lives a bit harder just to be kind to someone who is having a hard time. Lars is just kind of the crazy fucker making their lives a bit more difficult.

The pics I saw of him as "The Prototype" when he has a blond buzzcut, me thinks a yes at least back then.

Fucker looked like Popeye.

I'm sure most of you think I'm a goofball with my weird attempts at "humor".

I've been watching 30 Days since it's inception, and it's a rare show that most would say is "reality" tv, but to me is far from it.

I find the show very informative and actually something I look forward to watching to broaden myself, like Penn & Teller's Bullshit.

They've had some really good shows on Peta, the Jail system, and organized religion. I may not agree or like what I'm hearing, but it's makes me think, which, fuck, makes it better in my opinion then 90% of the rest of T - all without being preachy.

I just figured I'd mention it and share as others may enjoy it.

I'll go back to my jackassery now...

Here we go, four minutes, one single shot with a stedicam.

RIP, a legend who made legends.

Cargo shorts, Solly. Look into 'em.

I still need to see that myself. Read the graphic novel and like Lucky said, unless the movie is radically different from Moore's vision, then the best it gets is "good job not pissing on your source material."

Very cool, make us appreciate the dialogues even more.

We went to the midnight show last Thursday... great crowd. I didn't want to spoil anything but it's been almost a week so I can at least comment on it.

PROS: Loved the Elvis beginning, loved the greasers vs. jocks fight, loved the nods to the previous movies (especially seeing the Ark) but my favorite parts might have been during the Mutt/Indy motorcycle chase where Indy gives Mutt a look a la Henry Sr. gave him in Crusade. Also the "I got a bad feeling about this" line was a nice wink to the SW trilogy.

CONS: Tarzan LeBouf... seriously, what the fuck. Also I can get behind the Ark, the Grail, even the Shankra Stones, but I really didn't care about the skull. I just couldn't get into it.

I'm going to rank them:
Raiders (BY FAR)
Crusade
Doom
Skull

Mmmmmmmmmm pandering

If being a worse drummer than Neil Peart is a fate deserving death there's gonna be PILES of bodies on this planet.

But whatever the reason for the WW and JL delays, Tard's point is that its just more of what we've become used to. DC/WB products seem to just hang in developmental hell forever. That's the impression they've left on us. So hearing that Green Lantern is "in development" falls flat when I go looking and see no script written, no director connected, and no actors contracted. And I remember a year or two ago when GL was so totally gonna come out as a comedy starring Jack Black. And GL is supposed to be in a JL film. So it just feels like another in a long line of DC/WB developmental ideas that never seem to go anywhere.

When some of those movies in development start getting filmed or start contracting major players... THEN I'll really start to believe in them and get interested. Until then its just 8 years of rumors about a Wonder Woman film and 20 actresses being randomly mentioned but there never appearing to actually be anything.

And while Whedon did basically pull out because of disagreements with WB he also said that he would have stuck with it and tried to work out a film if he had gotten the impression that WB cared. But they seemed amazingly unmotivated and uninterested in the project so it wasn't worth wasting his time with. Which is the impression we all have about WB/DC. They have all of these characters, stories, and projects waiting to be used. They don't have to worry about any of the hassles of working with licensing that Marvel did for so long. And yet they're not bothering to capitalize on a genre of film that is REALLY popular and that Marvel is having a ton of success with. Just seems weird and is frustrating from comic fans who want to see their favorites brought to the screen.

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OK I was only 5 when it came out in '82 and even though I've seen it literally hundreds of times, I am so dragging Mrs. Solly to this Thursday night.