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    I just don't get it. If the general consensus amongst most rational, thinking adults who've seen Devlin/Emmerich's productions is that: they're mediocre at BEST-to-just-plain-SUCK; how the he*l to they keep getting money to make more mediocre-to-downright-sh*tty movies?!? -Stargate was "meh" at best for me. -ID4: I still can't make myself sit through Will Smith's screaming-machismo-clown act--or the rest of it for that matter--without feeling like my eyes will start to bleed. never mind the fact that some visual elements/themes were ripped off from Macross/Robotech/DYRL [oh wait, there is that one part, w/Vivaca Fox in the thong ] -Godzilla: well, let's just say; my favorite thing about that was when Toho gave the American Godzilla a proper a$$ stomping in Final Wars -10,000 B.C.: I couldn't sit through 5 minutes of that without feeling a compulsive urge to commit seppuku with the remote.
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    Now SHE could make a live-action Yamato movie work for me... Can't understand a da*n word they're saying...but she's purdy--duh huh!
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    That was actually pretty cool.
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    yup, pretty much can't go wrong with Motown...
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    That's a sequel I definitely DON'T want to see. Really, where else can they go with the story? Max finally finds his way to Sydney, thanks to the beckoning lights left by the lost children? Then what? He becomes a "cop" again, patrolling the desolate streets of the city?
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    Just watched; pretty good, pretty good. Yup, with the "gallery of heroes" of former O.S.I. agents winding up with Sphinx (I imagine there'll be more than just the few cameos we saw in ep. 1?), I'd wager something big is brewing for mid or end-of-season. Oh no--this is not the end for Brock and the Ventures.
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    Wow, that is a good one. Those shows--the originals and the newer versions--are pretty good examples of sci-fi's loftiest ideals, i.e. providing a vehicle for social commentary that may be considered off limits or politically incorrect in more contemporary TV/movie genres.
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    Yes, IIRC DMC's failure was due to more than just J. DeLorean's risky--er--investment practices; namely, quality issues, higher than estimated purchase cost, and the lackluster performance of the Renault powerplant. Didn't some guy buy up the remaining inventory/NOS parts stock from DMC? AFAIK, he's using it to restore DeLoreans, and even build "new" ones? The Saturn Sky might even end up [more] "collectible" some day, as they certainly seem rarer than the Pontiac ver? *but yes, that concept sketch is kinda fugly...DMC would be better served to try to design as much "from scratch" as possible, as opposed to just modifying an existing car.
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    Oh, they've long since scraped the bottom of the barrel. Now, they've just turned the barrel up, to get to the mildewy detritus and filth caked on the bottom, and the ground underneath...
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    LOL The "Voltron finish" at 1:00 was especially neat...
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    Hmm. Front end's a bit funky looking, but at least it's somewhat different. The air dam + hood ducts--until the return of Ford's GT--has been pretty much out of favor with designers for quite some time, hasn't it? Unless you count Picchio's sports racers. And boy, were they homely...
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    Wasn't sure if this should go here, or in the Remake Madness thread; but I hope and pray that a remake of Bullitt never makes it to the silver screen. I just youtube'd the big chase scene from that the other night and--flawed as it may be--I really don't think it could be improved upon, save for one wish: that it were somehow possible to go back and re-master all the sound effects with more accuracy and higher quality. Honestly, I am a bit surprised that no one's tried it already, what with new versions of the Mustang and now Charger/Challenger to pimp across movie screens across America. AFAIK, the rest of the movie itself is pretty much a snooze-fest. And really--who could conceivably take on McQueen's role and pull it off? George Clooney? maybe? Interestingly: when they filmed that chase, one of the reasons the Charger is riding on the pizza-cutter tires with spontaneously-regenerating-hubcaps is because they had to "handicap" it somehow--it was equipped with a big-block [440? 426? anyone know which?], and it was leaving the Mustang and its boat-anchor 390 in its dust.
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    Alan Moore had an interesting take on Batman in an interview on "Watchmen," i.e. that by standards of normal, lawbiding behavior, one could say that Bruce Wayne/Batman is a bit of a nut himself. I recently read the online Watchmen comic, and actually really enjoyed it. Liked how Night Owl II and Rorschach were like opposite sides of the same coin as representations of a Bruce Wayne/Batman like character with a more "realistic" development. Night Owl, the rich do-gooder with near limitless finacial and technological resorces at his disposal; Rorschach with the "emotional baggage" of a childhood trauma, making him feel a compulsion to completely dedicate himself to punishing crime and avenging the innocent. Ozymandius and Dr. Manhattan were definitely the "bad guys" of that story to me. "The path to hell is paved with good intentions," eh? In a way, they were both real a**holes. *ed: and now, I actually kinda don't want to see the movie--no matter how faithful they say it is to the comic.....where the hell's the giant octopus, man?!
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    The accompanying quote for this pic read: "Ouch! The front didn`t look any better. Tom Papadopoulos has a great way of reasoning. He told me once:`No vintage race car cost you more that $100,000 to repair. Not if the car is worth 100,000 or 500,000 or 2 Million. So you might as well drive full on.` Right!" I'd argue that in contrast, the other rear in the photo still looks to be in pretty darn good shape to me!
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    Hmm, that's a tough one. But in the end, for me Nicholson's Joker still gets the win by a slight margin. His version had more class. While Ledger's Joker was indeed entertainingly insane, he still comes across as more thuggish, not "supervillian"; like an exceptional street punk, but still just a punk, with makeup and grimy hair. I prefer Nicholson's Joker, but Bale's Batman.
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    Meh, 'til they totally emasculated him in the prequels. I just prefer to ignore those films alltogether. He does still deserve high standing amongst movie bad guys; maybe because he does renounce the Dark Side? He serves as an example in that even if one does lose their way, there is hope for redemption.
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    Oh, he's a bad guy alright. Let's not forget: in spite of his straightforward, no-nonsense personality--he still robs banks and kills people. It's just that he's such a cool, bad motherfu**er; he's the bad guy that most guys would want to be like, if they were to lead a life of crime. He's a wonderful contradiction--like other characters in the movie--in that: he's at once likable because of his personality, but despicable because of his profession. For me, some of the best scenes in the movie don't even have dialogue. The part where he's in the car with Eady, about to make his getaway; McCauley says more with his facial expressions than any 10 spoken lines could have in that same scene. Love that scene, along with the one where Chris has to leave his wife in order to get away, and when Breeden decides he wants in as driver on the big robbery.
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    How could I forget: Nick McCauley, from Heat, a personal fav.... "Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner." chock full of some of the best movie quotes ever. "Cause she's got a great ass... and you got your head all the way up it! Ferocious, aren't I? When I think of asses, a woman's ass, something comes out of me."
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    I would hardly call that "Destroying" the F1. It's simply a question of horsepower, really. When you've got a 270+ odd HP advantage, that's doggone hard to overcome--particularly at higher speeds, where aerodynamic drag increases exponentially as a function of speed, and the need for HP to overcome it increases in kind. Meh, give me the F1 8 days of the week. The Veyron is an aesthetic vulgarity---looks like a dung beetle, with wheels. Quite a testament to the F1, really. Unless you take them to a place with vast expanses of straight, perfectly smooth highway--like Abu Dhabi? the high deserts of CA? etc--that 17+ year old McLaren will hand the Bugatti it's a$$. *edit* that video is actually an excellent real-world demonstration of the principles of aerodynamic drag as related to speed, and power to weight ratios' affect on acceleration. Now you know! And knowing's half the battle! Yo, Joe!!
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    Just saw that movie recently. OMG, what a riot! I say that's about as close to a live action Hokuto No Ken as we'll ever see--only if there were no nuclear war, and Kenshiro got sent to prison on a frame-up. "You got a lot of guts, Oscar!" Incidentally, the actor who played the Assistant Warden is the real-life father of the guy who played Riki-Oh. Kinda wierd. If you go back and re-watch it, you can't help but see the resemblance. Good choice, but nah. Raoh wouldn't even have to bother getting down off of Kokuoh-Go to kill that poor fellow.
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    Do animated movies count? If so, I'd nominate: Raoh [original, don't like the "re-imagined" HNK series as much] Capable of killing merely with the force of his spirit/aura; willing to destroy any and all who stand in the way of his "hegemony," whether friend, foe or blood relation...the epitome of bad a$$.
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    But. GM still just doesn't get it. Now maybe, if they could build the '59--or better yet, the 'shoebox' '55-'57 ver--Bel Air body, but with the safety features/structural integrity of a modern car, then maybe more people would want to buy their cars. [i know, that's blissfully naive. the generation that appreciated/demanded those cars is aging, no longer as viable a market to justify actually mass producing retro-inspired cars, based on 50+ yr old designs--just being facetious] As long as they continue to build cars with *bleh* exterior styling, shi**y ergonomics, and cheap feeling/looking interior materials; then they'll likely continue needing Uncle Sam to hold their hand and keep them from sinking further into financial ruin... But hey. At this point, they could almost say: "fu*k it, let's try it." Couldn't do much worse than they already have. They'll likely get bailed out whether we want it to happen or not, anyway.
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    Oh. I forgot about Johnny Cash's A Boy Named Sue. Well. I guess that makes me something of a perfect hypocrite, doesn't it? 's okay. I can admit it...
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    Hmm, I guess I'm all over the map. Listening choices include [various selections from] but not limited to: AC/DC B.B. King Blue Oyster Cult - Godzilla Booker T and the MG's Cab Calloway Ray Charles Chevelle Chuck Berry Phil Collins Creedence Clearwater Revival Eric Clapton Fleetwood Mac Foo Fighters Benny Goodman [love Swing, Swing, Swing] Al Green Marvin Gaye Gustav Holtz - The Planets [love that one] Jerry Lee Lewis Jeru The Damaga KRS One Led Zeppelin Linkin Park Little Richard Muddy Waters Prince Queen Radiohead Rolling Stones Tchaikovsky [okay, the obvious: 1812 Overture] Barry White ZZ Top and more recently, Muse. Take a Bow kinda reminds me of Queen's score for the campy Flash Gordon flick from the 80's [childhood fav]. Can hear a bit of Queen's influence in their sound, as well as a bit of Radiohead, I think. I can listen to just about anything, A to Z. Except country music. I f'ing hate country music... *edit* I suppose that isn't completely true; maybe a few by Jerry Reed, or Charlie Daniels' The Devil Went Down To Georgia. Otherwise... *haaaaggggkk* *ptooh*
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