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this one got me all watery-eyed. also, last week the NYT had a piece with Wu-Tang's RZA about the launch of his hip-hop chess social network site, Wu-Chess. |
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Wu-Chess looks ill conceived and poorly planned even from a spliff smokin' hood named RZA. That being said, he was brilliant in "Coffee and Cigarettes" and the New York Times cuts tha brother some slack (for the kids) in this article and then sucker punches him when Dylan Loeb McClain plays him in game you can view online here.
 _________________________________________________________________________________________ elecktrik dragon say: when you take hydra too seriously, the fire that burns you forms from your own mind. שויתי יהוה לנגדי תמיד |
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boots, YEAH! Depth is good.
I said this at colin's Pinnacle thread -- Real Genius immediately evokes an entire subgenre of mid 80's movies. Kid geniuses, with enough electronic junk, can do anything. The closest we come today are independent emaciated z-budget self-serious Primers and etc. Answering Split's Criterion (inventor of the Special Edition!),  If you've ever even briefly thought, "Hey, crime might actually pay",  A tried and tested cure for Writer's Block:  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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Huzzah for A Simple Plan! A reminder, if you ever needed one, that involving dead people and large sums of money in one's life is not a way to keep it simple. - - - - - That's a lie, but I said it with a smile. |
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(nod) We didn't know what to watch, so the nice girl at the video store recommend "Death to Smoochy". What a delightful cynical overdose. ___________________________________________________________ "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay, 1971. |
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Sage Splitcoil life strategy, thanks.
By the way, overlooked or looked over? --  To your objection ("but those are hardly overlooked"), I retort: check the box office numbers. Inspired the best new Lost character in a long while (Lapidus):  Try not to feel something when the real home movie footage plays, over Isham's transcendent strings,  This message has been edited. Last edited by: Metro Dynamics, ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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It was huge in Australia but I don't think it really had an impact overseas, a bit too aussie for foreigners I guess.
And if the guy looks familiar, that's because it's Eric Bana. Legendary guy.  He lived in my town for a while. Saw him walking towards me one day with his mates. I ducked into the nearest shop till they passed. Yes, I am a coward and I want to keep my toes too. -------------------------- I don't know and neither do you.  chopper.jpg (25 KB, 159 downloads) Chopper |
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I wouldn't call it half the comedy masterpiece that is, say, Orgazmo, but nonetheless it was entertaining.
I just happened to (FINALLY) watch this last week after being a huge fan of the book for years. I think it was a fairly good adaptation. Highly recommended. |
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Real Genius is a great film. Indeed, the pinnacle of a certain kind of 80's paranoia/comedy.
That both Edwards (from Gotcha) and Kilmer wound up in Top Gun only serves to prove that film was made directly at the behest of the zeitgeist. |
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I have been waiting 11 years for him to make another film. |
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heavyboots, I second your nomination of both Freeway and The Limey. I'm currently watching the very overlooked 2000 movie, The Way of the Gun.
I don't know Trogdor, but the character Abner Mercer in this film is what I picture him like after reading his QST thread.  ................................................... And God told Moses, in time, all things become Fuzzy, therefore to multiple "the fuzz" is Man's greatest Mitzvah. |
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Thanks, PradaWillie. Disappearance, unfortunately, is a syndrome of Phillippe's work.
Profundity disguised as humor,  The American Omon Ra,  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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 Great little science-fiction number. Like The Matrix, but bleaker, and sans Keanu. Got Dash from Blue Heelers in it. The Lithos School of Curiousity is now enrolling |
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I've already fallen for the lead actress.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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 ------------------------------------------ Looking to escape reality at every turn. |
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Made unsettlingly soon after Mark's accident, thus unable to conceal the dog's breakfast said accident made of his face. Mitigated by the sensuously lucent Annie Potts.
(Forget the inexcusably emetic mod rod).  ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// I declare war on all icons and finalities, on all histories that would chain me with my own falseness, my own pitiful fears. I know only moments, and lifetimes that are as moments, and forms that appear with infinite strength, then "melt into air." I am an architect, a constructor of worlds, a sensualist who worships the flesh, the melody, a silhouette against the darkening sky. --Lebbeus Woods |
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Watched Solaris again last night, the Clooney version. Superb film.
Might watch Cypher tonight. |
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The Big Caper (1957)
Delightful noir with an undertone of sleaze. Based on veteran noir novelist Lionel White's book. White also wrote "The Killing," basis of Kubrick's debut film. The relationship between the gang kingpin (James Gregory) and his bodyguard (Corey Allen) is amazingly kinky for the period. |
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Excellent addition to the list. I've got the DVD but my list for this thread is NetFlix-only. I haven't even perused the DVDs that I haven't rated on 'Flix yet, lol... Man, I'm queuing a bunch more stuff from this thread at any rate!  |
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