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#1 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 9 days ago

It's almost an achievement for Axl to not do anything productive in all his time off. Does he not get sick of sitting in his house ordering take out? Slash goes on tour because he's got nothing better to do, Duff got his family, so what is Axl doing? He's got a housekeeper, pool guys and whatever to do all that shit the rest of us have to do. There's no wife to order him around, and I can't imagine him on a business schedule so I suppose he mostly lounges around the home all day?

#2 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 4 weeks ago

They're in on it, but this is Axl's party. Has been since 1992. As much as I love the guy for his talent, he's the worst band leader ever. The emperor without any clothes. At least Slash & Duff have been out there doing stuff, making music. Axl is just sitting on his pile of gold like Smaug. 

I'll say it, we were better off in the darkest days of the CD era. Reunion has ruined the band and it has ruined them. Looking back at the total debacle that was 2002 and it's like a golden age compared to what they're serving up now. That's why Axl shows up on time, he's just phoning it in. No need to get in the moment anymore. And the production on the CD leftovers is laughable. He doesn't care about anything. Slash & Duff too, keeping their mouths shut, tiptoeing around as if they are working for Caligula. Pathetic.

Izzy called it back in 2001 when he said the only thing that could motivate Axl to do a reunion was money.

#3 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 4 weeks ago

The reunion gave Axl the excuse to stop pretending. He's not interested in his career or making music anymore. Hasn't been for a long time. Best he can do is sign off on some microwaved chinese leftovers from Slash & Duff. Other than that he's got nothing going. Just turn up for the gig, do some Vince Neil and cash the check.

I've decided that GN'R fans aren't expecting new music as much as they are expecting them just to act like a real band again. What's up, what's going on, we're going to be doing this etc. It's like going to wall mart and just sitting outside hoping they'll open up. No lights in the building, no sign on the door, just some old twinkies mashed out in the parking lot.

When they stop touring we'll never hear from him again.

#4 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 5 weeks ago

Axl has himself to blame though. To enforce his legal rights and end the old band in 1995 was a really stupid move. It was supposed to be an insurance for him, in case they broke up, instead he used it to usurp the whole band. Of course Slash was pissed off at that and used every opportunity to stick it to Axl afterwards.

#5 Re: The Sunset Strip » Best Films of the 2000s » 5 weeks ago

Around the time of Iron Man, The Dark Knight and the Avengers I would say. I remember thinking the Avengers would bomb because there had been some similar movies in the past that did not do so well. That whole "crossover superhero" type movie. When that was a smash hit I think they realized there was an untapped market for generic super hero movies. Before that you needed something special. A great actor and a great director. After Avengers suddenly every other movie was making a billion. So late 00s, early 10s.

#6 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 5 weeks ago

elevendayempire wrote:

Hot take: I liked the "duelling solos" bit in Sympathy for the Devil.

Me too. Always felt Slash let his ego get in the way on that thing. Obviously Tobias was a decent player who could contribute both guitars and write songs for the band, and low key enough to not take any spotlight from Slash.

Apparently Slash had no issue trying out with Zack Wylde. That would definitely never have worked!

#7 Re: The Sunset Strip » Best Films of the 2000s » 5 weeks ago

I remember seeing American Gangster and being incredibly disappointed. Now it's probably a slam dunk for a top 10 in that weak decade. I would have to go and take a look at my collection because I got few titles popping up in my head. Most of them underwhelming.

On the other hand, 2002 saw Attack of the Clones which might be my favorite movie of all time, so it was not all bad. A lot of titles are going to be early in the decade.

Hannibal
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith
Gladiator
Femme Fatale
Black Dahlia
Mulholland Drive
Rambo 4
No Country for Old Men
Melancholia

Not bad actually. A hell of a lot better than a 2010 list would have been (or this decade *shudder*).

#8 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 6 weeks ago

Yeah great movie. Swan song of the Cohen brothers I think. Haven't made anything nearly as good since then.

#9 Re: The Sunset Strip » What Are You Listening To? » 6 weeks ago

The best songs on this album imo

Axl used to have good taste in music. Massively underrated album. Can you imagine Rolling Stone gave it 2 stars.

#10 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 7 weeks ago

Been watching some "24". First couple of seasons.

Was good then, not great. What I like are the obvious political angles that played into the show. Obama is basically David Palmer. That's the role he's playing. You could have taken Haysbert's scenes from the first season and told people it was a dramatization of the Obama presidency and people would believe it.

Jack Bauer is basically a personification of Uncle Sam in the early 2000s, going around kicking everbody's ass. And he should do that because he's the good guy and there's a bomb, the prez is going to die and we have to invade a bunch of countries! I don't know what went on behind the scenes on the production, but obviously someone was in the know.

Amazing how much reach these terrorist groups have. You have a couple of "patriots" and they're able to gain access to an FBI style facility and bomb it like it was just another days work.

Apparently you can just hire some guys abroad to kill the President. Send them a couple of million and they'll take care of that, no problem. You want fries with that? Or at least that's what the Secret Service believes and they're pretty certain of it.

It's funny how they have to give Cuthbert something to do in the second season and they just have her running into one improbable incident after the other. First she happens to be the babysitter of a control freak who kills his wife and they have this huge back and forth throughout the city. Of course Jack Bauer is involved and big time government agents, police, you name it, trying to locate her, but they all fail. When the kid goes missing she immediately falls into the prey of some pedophile killers that happen to stand right there on the street. Next she is arrested for murder that the other guy committed, but she gets out of that, and then she arrives at a store where the sleazy owner of course contemplates raping her right then and there, and while that is going on there is an illegal immigrant hammering on the doors and he ends up killing the guy and taking Cuthbert hostage. She escapes, runs into the woods and the first guy she meets, Matt Dillon's brother, is some crazy loner who concocts a tale about nuclear armageddon in the hope that she will become his girlfriend. And there's stil a handful of episodes left!

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