lumpenprol
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thanks, yeah haven't seen it yet. I want to, I just haven't seen a rip in China yet.
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um...lol?
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*strokes bonaer*
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haha, nice
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Yes! No!
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I like David O. Russell. Or rather, I like his films, and that leads me to somewhat overlook his undeniably prick-ish behavior. I have a huge hardon for Flirting with Disaster, in particular. Haven't seen his most recent one. And I liked his last comment about Woody Allen, and turning making films into a lifestyle. I'm inclined to give him a pass, I think like all the other guys up there (with the exceptions possibly of Affleck and the English bloke) he's got filmmaking deep in his blood.
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lol, Tarantino is such a spaz. "Tenter tantrum!"
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As I said, the likelihood that they are truly watermarked is much smaller than the likelihood that they are lying in order to intimidate would-be leakers. Whatevs.
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Yeah like most artists the tracks that they love are probably totally different from the listeners, because they remember more about HOW they were made than the pure aural experience of encountering them for the first time. And fuck the "corny" hate. "Doctrine" is corny as all hell, but it's made like a frigging lego goliath, where everything fits together just perfectly - the slightly annoying and certainly corny "BWEEEERK" sound giving way to the epic lush synth melody - if it didn't start corny, it wouldn't be nearly as good. It's very S&M, salty and sweet, sweet and sour, etc.
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i remember that. Didn't save it though, sadly
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but Kill Bill was terrible
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the watermark is actually audible, it's a sample of Sean going "grrrrrrrrr" periodically
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wait, Oversteps was going backwards? Really? I dunno, I thought it was a bigger leap "forwards" (and I mean forwards as in "trying something completely different" rather than the rather bizarre idea that there is "progress" in music) than any album from Draft on. I felt Untilted and Quaristice were close to treading water, musically. In any case, I don't really care about progress when it comes to the bands I like, I enjoy music that gives me pleasure to listen to, that feels deep and rich, that feels like the creators enjoyed making it. If it was a labor of love for Sean and Rob, I'll probably enjoy it.
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if she is either unwilling, or even worse incapable of docking with you, then something's wrong
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to be honest, most of the time when something says invisible watermark like that, it is lying. At my previous company we always added something like that to our DVDs, but it was complete bull.
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lovely!
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Agreed, Rutterford ftw
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good advice and lols in here. just take step-by-step, don't leap from "been together for 3 months" to "living together overseas" (wtf?). Unless you are a viking/pirate and not a sissy IDM boy. Date fer awhile. Then move in together. Then get a pet. Then get married. Then babby. It sounds promising though! My bro got married to his first gf and they've been happily married for years (seemingly). So it's not required to go through multiple painful breakups, get a tougher hide, etc. It is possible for certain types to be ready for love, and find love, quickly.
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reading Cloud Atlas (have not seen the movie). Bit of a weird book but very fluidly written and readable. It's sort of like any popular page-turner by Grisham or King, except it has pretensions of signifying something greater. However the pretensions don't seem to weigh it down, they're just sort of...there. It's certainly very enjoyable. Sometimes the cracks show through a bit, such as when American characters speak using English idioms (writer is English, apparently), or with ham-fisted exposition ("the will to power is _________"). Felt the first two sections were nearly flawless, then it stumbles with the American 1960's section a bit, sags further with present-day retirement-home segment, then rises a bit with the near future clone story (though I think this could have been even better in the right hands), then sags again a bit in the post-apocalyptic section. Not sure what to make of it yet, really. Funny thing about it is despite the weighty subject matter it's very tongue in cheek, often pulpy, and arguably derivative, but in a harmless sort of way (and occasionally calls out its own references, such as when it references "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" in the old-folks-home segment. Is a writer still derivative when he calls out the sources he seems to be borrowing from?). Irrespective of any other layers of meaning, it's at least a big pleasure to read. Almost feels written by a talented and very effusive 16 yr old prodigy (though I guess it's too angst-free for that).
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I dunno, I was pretty let down, I heard CITW was "clever" and "fresh" and the like, so I figured it actually was. But it ended up being a big fat B movie with unbefittingly-high production values. I dunno it made me angry. I wouldn't have been angry if it had been a lot funnier, but I didn't find it that funny. Let's talk about some other shit movies while we're at it. Total Recall remake: Fucking christ. Watch closely and you can hear the muffled screams of skilled concept artists and 3D artists watching as their brilliant work is put in the service of something utterly redundant and trite. I also hate how we all have to be fucking feminists now - killing his wife and saying "considah dat a divorahs" just doesn't fly in oh-so-progressive 2-0-1-2. So instead Kate Beckinsale overstays her welcome by about, oh, 2 hrs. Plus we have Jessica Biel trying to act instead of, you know, getting naked. I usually like Colin Farrel as a comedic actor, unfortunately the script gives him nothing to work with. Bourne Legacy: The first hour or so of this film has to be seen to be believed. It's actually completely incomprehensible, which is something of a feat. In an attempt to slavish tie in the film with its predecessors, it creates a bunch of cross-connections with the earlier films at the start - problem being I had forgotten all of these incidents, so it ended up practically being gibberish. Eventually ended up having a few decent action sequences and an "oh let's just end here" wtf ending. But the intro bit is a textbook example of "how not to start a film". It's drier than a history channel documentary, and makes less sense. It assumes the viewer is in love with Tony Gilroy's previous films as much as he himself apparently is. Plus its padded (a long dialogue sequence with a completely unnecessary character just to see him get blown up a few moments later). Edit: Oh ALSO: biggest WTF goes to Albert Finney for getting a facelift that makes him nearly unrecognizable! Which is a shame because I used to love his face and acting. I can just imagine Tony Gilroy cursing him under his breath "thanks for fucking up all the flashbacks, Albert, with your new bizarro severed-nerve looking monstrosity". I kept doing a mental "is that really Albert Finney??" every time I saw him onscreen...
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Noooooo....lol. Can't believe you liked that utter pos. "Layers of complexity"? What are you on about, the plot isn't complex at all, it's the sort of idea I'm sure Whedon and Goddard thought of while stoned, then patted each other on the back for their own "cleverness." The premise didn't even have any logical consistency. I'm almost embarrassed to write that spoiler, as it's already more thought than the movie deserves. Last time I saw a movie so obviously pandering to the dumb dudebro/dudette demographic was the equally retarded Zombieland...
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that's one handsome fishing cat, xxx
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*faps* bet you wish you could touch it
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agreed, that seems to match with mine, though I'd put Inglorious a step down from amazing...would put it alongside reservoir dogs and jackie brown. For me his only truly great work was Pulp Fiction. I'm curious now to re-watch Jackie Brown again, given all the fellating it gets on watmm. I have a hunch I'll find it boring again tho.
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whut...don't even know how this is possible...
