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Post by loverofbeers on Dec 31, 2011 8:57:15 GMT -5
Watched The Expendaples..... finally.
Liked it much, but not perfect. Sly chopped off an enemy soldier's head with a knife. The dad from "Everybody Hates Chris" had the best ammo ever. I want his gun for Boxer Day, Boxing Day, whatever.
My favorite scene had SPOILERSPOILERSPOILER Bruce Willis, Sylvester Stallone, and The Governator all interact. Bruce Willis stole that scene, barely. SPOIULERSPOILERSPOILER ends.
Fun movie, Sly's diction ain't an issue, he doesn't play THE badass, that would be Stonecold Steve Austin. SPOILEWRSPOILERSPOILEWR They set Old Stonecold on fire at the end, CGI of course, to kill him off. I would have liked a sequel featuring only Steve. Too bad they saved the broad and the junkie lived.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 2, 2012 2:31:14 GMT -5
Watched Harley Davidson and the Malboro Man which was a hokey ,but funny action movie.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 9, 2012 19:17:49 GMT -5
Watched Brothers which was a pretty good movie about a veteran from Afghanistan who comes back and thinks his wife and brother are cheating.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 12, 2012 21:54:33 GMT -5
Watched To Live and Die in LA which is a good movie the main character is just a total asshole ,but he's still better then the bad guys. The soundtrack is very 80s.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 16, 2012 11:14:17 GMT -5
Watched The Sevenups a good realistic cop movie from the seventies . The chase scene is really good too.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Jan 18, 2012 12:04:43 GMT -5
Watched Dale and Tucker vs evil which was a really funny movie making fun of horror movies set in the woods. It also showed what a lack of communication can cause.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 21, 2012 1:16:15 GMT -5
I'm gonna buy that movie. I really am looking forward to watching it.
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Post by loverofbeers on Jan 21, 2012 1:24:17 GMT -5
Watched a great PBS documentary. American Experience Series, Custer's Last Stand. A topic I love.
Book recommendation time, a humorous little tome, but too bad it ain't funny.
Vine Deloria's Custer Died for Your Sins, a must-read along with Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, and a fat-ass book about A.I.M. (the American Indian Movement) in the seventies and eighties and Leonard Peltier's innocence and frame-up by the feds, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, the book that caused me to probably get..... Well let's just say, I have a file now in D.C.
Fuck it, stand up for what you believe! Cheers.
Long Edit:
....and a letter written by Chief Sealth, aka Chief Seatle of the Duwamish.
Letter written in 1855 by Chief Sealth of the Duwamish Tribe of the State of Washington. Sent to President Franklin Pierce concerning the proposed purchase of the tribe's land.
The Great Chief in Washington sends word that he wishes to buy out our land. The Great chief also sends us words of friendship and good will. This is kind of him since we know he has little need of our friendship in return. But we will consider your offer, for we know if we do not so, the white man may come with guns and take our land. What Chief Sealth says, the Great Chief in Washington can count on as truly as our white brothers can count on the return of the seasons. My words are like the stars-they do not set.
How can you buy or sell the sky - the warmth of the land? The idea is strange to us. Yet we do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? We will decide in our time. Every part of this earth is sacred to my people. Every shining pine needle, every sandy shore, every mist in the dark woods, every clearing and humming insect is holy in the memory and experience of my people.
We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of the land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on. He leaves, his father's graves and his children's birthright is forgotten. The sight of your cities pains the eyes of the redman. But perhaps it is because the redman is a savage and does not understand......
There is no quiet place in the white man's cries. No place to hear the leaves of spring or the rustle of insect's wings. But perhaps because I am a savage and do not understand--the clatter only seems to insult the ears. And what is there to life if a man cannot hear the lovely cry of a whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around a pond at night? The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, and the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a mid-day rain, or scented with a pinon pine. The air is precious to the Redman. For all things share the same breath---the beasts, the trees, the man. The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes. Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench.
If I decide to accept, I will make one condition. The white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brothers. I am a savage and I do not understand any other way. I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairies left by the white man who shot them from a passing train. I am a savage and I do not understand how the smoking iron horse can be more important than the buffalo that we kill only to stay alive. What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast also happens to man. All are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
Our children have seen their fathers humbled in defeat. Our warriors have felt shame. And after defeat, they turn their days in idleness and contaminate their bodies with sweet food and strong drink. It matters little where we pass the rest of our days--they are not many. A few more hours, a few more winters, and none of the children of the great tribes that once lived on this earth, or that roamed in small bands in the woods, will be left to mourn the graves of a people once as powerful and hopeful as yours.
One thing we know which the white man may one day discover. Our God is the same God. You may think now that you own him as you wish to own our land. But you cannot. He is the Body of man. And his compassion is equal for the redman and the white. This earth is precious to him. And to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. The whites, too, shall pass--perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your bed, and you will one night suffocate in your own waste. When the buffalo are all slaughtered, the wild horses all tamed, the secret corners of the forest heavy with the scent of many men, and the view of the ripe hills blotted by talking wires, where is the thicket? Gone. Where is the eagle? Gone. And what is it to say goodby to the swift and the hunt, the end of the living and beginning of survival.
We might understand if we knew what it was that the white man dreams, what hopes he describes to his children on long winter nights, what visions he burns into their minds, so they will wish for tomorrow. But we are savages. The white man's dreams are hidden from us. And because they are hidden, we will go our own way. If we agree; it will be to secure your reservation you have promised. There perhaps we may live out our brief days as we wish. When the last redman has vanished from the earth, and the memory is only the shadow of a cloud moving across the prairie, these shores and forest will still hold the spirits of my people, for they love this earth as the newborn loves it's mother's heartbeat. If we sell you our land, love it as we've loved it. Care for it, as we've cared for it. Hold in your mind the memory of the land, as it is when you take it. And with all your strength, with all your might, and with all your heart--preserve it for your children, and love it as God loves us all. One thing we know--our God is the same. This earth is precious to him. Even the white man cannot be exempt from the common destiny.
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Post by loverofbeers on Feb 5, 2012 1:05:05 GMT -5
So on the same week that I watched Seven Samurai, I watched The Muppets on the silver screen. You tell me, which one dragged for me and nearly put me to sleep five times?
Critics who loved The Muppets are the same who hate so many movies I enjoy. And I am a huge Muppets fan and proudly own their first two seasons on dvd. What a bucket o' crap. It is insulting to the intelligence of children.
A few days ago I watched Tobe Hooper's early eighties movie Funhouse. Ya'll watch this one. It is so good and fun and genuinely creepy.
Funhouse is a love letter by my fellow Central Texan (whose movies should all be banned) to the Universal monsters especially to Frankenstein/Bride Of Frankenstein and Cooper's King Kong. Also it combines Hitchcock's shower scene and the opening of Carpenter's Halloween with The Bride of Frankenstein playing in the background, and the gal in the shower scene? You see her ever-so-cute boobies, not once, but twice in the movie.
And the guy under the rubber Frankenstein mask paying for Milf-sex? Damn, he looked badass when he tore his mask off while having a temper tantrum/spazz out in front of his dad, a head carny. Rob Zombie paid tribute to Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre in The Devil's Rejects. In House of 1000 Corpses, he was thinking of this film.
Add this to your horror watch list. I mean, ban Tobe Hooper. Hissssss. Boooooo.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 10, 2012 17:40:33 GMT -5
Watched Alice, Sweet Alice which I thought was a pretty good horror film. It's more psychological ,but the physical is quite good as well. Less scary ,but more creepy.
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Post by loverofbeers on Mar 22, 2012 22:51:48 GMT -5
I saw The Artist on the silver screen a few weeks back. I loved it. During the Halloween Movie Competition, I finally really became a fan of silent films. To me black and white and subtitles is fine.
I want to watch Vampyr (kinda a soundie), Hands of Orlock (sp?), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Faust, The Phantom of the Opera, and The Golem in the next few months.
Catch The Artist if you still can. Cheers, quietly!
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 23, 2012 0:37:40 GMT -5
Be warned I found Vampyr to be really boring. I guess it's because the director was transitioning from silent to talkies.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 23, 2012 12:27:39 GMT -5
And Soon the Darkness a 70's movie about two young British women deciding to bicycle through Europe that end up in France. The movie does a pretty good job of making you wonder who the bad guys is they'll make someone look evil, then good, and then evil again. The main theme is also this uplifting song which I think works well sort of like the last house on the left.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 23, 2012 23:29:34 GMT -5
Just watche Outrage an extremely good yakuza film by Beat Tikano. I won't spoil anything ,but right now it's streaming on netflix. Check it out.
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Post by jakeawesomesnake on Mar 25, 2012 18:59:45 GMT -5
Watche the Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane which I thought was a very good film. Jody Foster and Martin Sheen do great jobs playing their character. That being said I don't know if maybe times are different or what ,but if the people came into my house and did the things they do in this movie they'd be on the opposite end of ball bat.
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