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#91 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 126 weeks ago
I saw these somewhere else. And since Lofton posted a couple of these pages ago, I found these cool since you don't see them anymore
#92 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 127 weeks ago
Does anyone here still listen to either of these songs?
It's funny how we FINALLY have The General and I don't even listen to it.
No, I don't . I've listened to Paradise City more the past few months than either of those two new tunes.
The problem is that they are just not very good/or catchy songs and once the novel and historical value of the songs (being part of the CD sessions) passes. You don't really go back to them for whatever reasons (that the song doesn't appeal to you).
I mean I'm glad they finally got released. Oh you can also use the same rationale for any of the leftovers that have been released in the past few years. Once you get past the curiosity level, there is just something missing with all those tunes.
#93 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 129 weeks ago
lol, I swear they pump out one of those type of articles once a year just to show the fanbase that they are doing something.
Ultimately as we have learned over the years it’s basically nothing but lip service.
#94 Re: Guns N' Roses » Axl Rose Official Website » 133 weeks ago
Gotta love Team Brazil for providing unintentional humor all the time.
Why on earth has he chosen this point in time to finally establish his own personal website when there is nothing going on to promote?
Visiting the site itself, there’s nothing there and it’s a really dull site. I mean they can’t even give an effort on the “about “ section . I think there’s like 2 sentences on that section.
#95 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 135 weeks ago
That level of impact can never happen again. We live in an era of internet, smartphones, a thousand cable channels, and short attention spans
Those days are lost now where a show can cross race, age, socioeconomic status and just kind of be something people can rally around and talk about. Ditto with album releases as events.
I think we should all be happy to have experienced it (face it we are all the same age here) before it got lost and extinct to the ravages of time and progression.
#96 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 140 weeks ago
When was the last time Axl Rose talked about writing and recording and releasing new music? That is all you need to now.
The other guys (and this goes for the last 30 years) can say whatever they want . They are not the ones holding it up.
#97 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 140 weeks ago
The whole thing (the CD saga) was just one massive swindle since day one. I no longer believe there was ever a genuine attempt at "moving forward". It helps explain the Helter skelter nature of the project.
It started on day one....
OMG and Live Era in 99
Look which one got the big push.
I didn't realize it at the time but that helped set the tone.
The reunion era was just a continuation...it was not a legitimate reunion/reboot of the "band".
Having said that, I thank them for releasing the few songs we have.
This is just guessing but I still think at some part/point in his mind that he expected Slash and Duff to come back and help him finish the record. That's why you had all the stuff about the reunion that almost happened in 2005. In retrospect, I have to wonder what the hell Slash was hoping to accomplish by showing up in Las Vegas at the House of Blues in 2001.
As far as the current band goes, it's basically a continuation of 1993 EXCEPT that the parts are a little different and that they haven't solved whatever issues led to them breaking up in the first place. This reunion is just all for touring revenue and nothing else. There is /will be no attempt to write and record new music as a band anyway, even with the spectre of AFD turning 40 in a few years.
#98 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 140 weeks ago
It's that awkward unique period between 70s and 80s where it wants to be the gritty 70s but the 80s is seeping into it.
I need to watch even more movies from this period.
Most of these are found within 1980-85. After that I'd say the 80s seeps in and it can be gritty but that 80s cheesiness is a damn drawback, Black Rain which was released in 89 is a good example.
Anyway, stuff like Ms. 45, and Cutter's Way are classified as 80s films but they belong in the 70s. 52 pick up (released in 1986) is really sleazy and I don't suffers as much as other film released in the second half of the 80s.
#99 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2024 “Taking Off” » 140 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.
Dude lost his muse a long time ago (somewhere in the 2000s I'd say). And he isn't even interested in doing a simple singing on a song if the other guys did all the other stuff and all he had to do was show up and sing.
#100 Re: The Sunset Strip » Best Films of the 2000s » 142 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.
Yeah, directing lately is just not good. I can't even name a modern director that I like that started from the 2010s and onward. Once the old guys die off it's going to be dire and just not creative or fun.
Now they just hire the guy "that knows" how to director superhero films. I guarantee a bunch of these directors don't have any successes outside of the superhero stuff.
On top of the superhero shit still going,..and remakes too, we have the woke nonsense drowning the industry, ruining IPs, and so many streaming services creating an ocean of shit just so they can have content for their apps.
It's madness.
Another thing... comedies aren't funny anymore.
Yeah, the remakes. They don't exist as totally diferent stories from the originals they ape from. Take for example the 1997 remake the Jackal. It takes the framework of the 1973 original but makes it it's own diferent and distinct story (complete w/suspect Richard Gere accent btw). I think I may have enjoyed the remake more than the orignal which is kinda dry and boring.
Now? I don't really see different stories . I see them substituting minorities into the lead roles but the story remains the same and is a copy.
Funny you should mention streaming. The industry is trying to kill off physical media. But you want to know where you can find interesting stuff (from the past and present)? Yep, those "niche labels" that distribute and sell discs. Want 70-80s horror? Multiple labels provide that. Indie stuff? Classic erotica? Foreign films? Mainstream stuff that was underseen? You can even find Looney Tunes all on disc now.
It's just as the years go by, I just can't "identify" with some of this modern stuff. And it's not because I'm reaching old fart level. Some of this stuff just isn't good to watch or they just get some of the basic stuff (like the cityscape part we've talked about ) totally wrong.
