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#451 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 222 weeks ago
Purely anecdotal, but some ultra progressive friends are so happy that they're moving from Oregon to Tennessee because of the low taxes and no homeless. This is hilarious. I mean, dude, you're literally running away from your political beliefs!
LOL money trumps everything. Also read something from Carville a few weeks ago where he stated that there are only like 7% of Democrats that identify themselves as ultra progressive. That part of the block has always been overstated. And honestly they are mostly all talk and no bite types.
#452 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 222 weeks ago
There are rumors that Shane McMahon might join AEW. This would be hilarious. I don't know how serious this is, but if you don't know Vince fired Shane a few days ago FOR REAL. There were already tensions as he suggested ideas that were shot down by Vince and the horrible, terrible, abysmal WWE creative team. When the Royal Rumble got bad reviews they blamed it all on Shane.
And if you were aware of Shane disappearing from WWE years ago, it was because he was made aware that he was no longer going to be head of WWE once Vince is gone, but Stephanie and HHH. So there's a big backstory to this and real animosity. I don't know if it would happen, but it would be pretty big.
I think they are scapgoting him to a certain extent. I only watched the Men's Rumble match on Sunday. And holy shit that thing was horrible. There were stretches where you just had a string of jobbers/who? wrestlers come out. Maybe they shouldn't have fired all those wrestlers in the fall/winter. And the ending was obviously predicatable.
On the second part, I think HHH knows what he is doing in terms of running a promotion (NXT has sucked after he left supposedly) more than Shane or Stephanie (maybe). I think he does know how to write storylines and book people. His issue has always been that he thinks he is better (this is only referring to him a wrestler) than he actually is. Also, even in the few matches he wrestles per year now, they are always these long ass boring affairs.
Oh, Shane should not be "wrestling" anymore. He gets winded 2-3 mins into the Rumble.
#453 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash AMA Reddit » 222 weeks ago
Congrats! That was a really well written question too.
#454 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 223 weeks ago
Don't want to see Geriatric Joe vs Trump round 2. Get a younger candidate in there, both parties.
#455 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 224 weeks ago
Once the project clearly wasn't getting a release in 2000-01, it was time to stop focusing on the first batch and zero in on the next.
Oklahoma
Soul Monster
Quick Song
ZodiacAnd Perhaps and Atlas Shrugged should have stayed in the mix.
That's potentially half your album right there...and none of it had been heard yet when all of this was relevant.
It's no wonder the key players started bailing out. The project started going backwards.
And this is where having actual fucking management instead of a yes man like Goldstein (I thnk) makes a world of a difference.
#456 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 224 weeks ago
Sorority Row - Only made it about 20 minutes in. Awful. This might be the most unlikeable cast of characters in a horror film.
Edit
I forgot...I watched Moving right before going to sleep...the Richard Pryor movie.
This is easily his second worst film....right behind Another You.
Only thing I liked about it is King Kong Bundy in a minor role.
Is the 80s original any good? The House on Sorority Row, I believe it's called.
On the Pryor front, have you seen Blue Collar which is a really good late 70s drama, starring Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto?
#457 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba: Buckethead Took the Coolness Out of the Band » 224 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:If we were to rank replacement members in the band surely DJ would come last? Maybe Frank is in the mix but that's not his fault.
I’m no fan of DJ, but how is he anymore out there than Melissa?
Honestly, they are all the same level to me. This band never ever needed a keyboardist anyway. It's just extra uneccessary padding.
A bunch of great posts here. The CD thing dragged on and wasn't a one off well in part because he (Axl) owned the name now. I guess there are certain expectations with that as opposed to a one off like Snakepit.
And I've been just randomly listening to some Buckethead solo stuff and came away with the same conclusion as most: How the fuck did Axl Rose not get at least 2 albums worth of tracks with this guy as his lead guitarist? You can also ask how the hell he wasted all the time he has had in the band with Slash. It always comes back to the same with Axl; lack of productivity.
#458 Re: The Garden » PaSnow died (HE'S ALIVE!!) » 224 weeks ago
Well this thread took an unpredictable turn. We are all glad that PASNOW is still amongst us. I've always found him to be fair and just kind of really cool about all topics.
#459 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 224 weeks ago
The Pledge - This movie had potential to be amazing. A killer slow burner. I'm not a big Jack Nicholson fan but this is a good performance.
It hits a brick wall when he meets Robin Wright and has her and her daughter move in with him. I almost turned it off because I knew the direction it was going to go...the killer meets her and plans on her being the next victim.
It's a mess from that point forward. I read about it after watching and the studio wouldn't let Penn finish shooting a handful of scenes that would've gave some clarity on the suspect.
The ending sucked.
I've seen this one too. My thoughts echo yours. It's pretty good 2/3 of the way through. It's got a nice storyline with Nicholoson being the retired cop thing hunting a killer. Then it just veers into predictableness or just loses all energy and momentum. The "thud" for me was when near the end the FBI had the task force in and were waiting for the killer and of course he never showed up.
The ending (last scenes really) was just really sad to me.
#460 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 224 weeks ago
I watched it and yeah...it has many flaws. He's unlikeable...but so are most of the other characters.
Hoffman was right. This isn't really a comedy. It's a drama with a few mildly funny scenes. I didn't realize that until watching it now as an adult.
The last 10-15 minutes suck. It deserved better. I don't buy all these people forgiving him... especially Lange's character and her father.
It was a huge betrayal...can't just wipe that away to give it a feel good ending. It's unrealistic.
Who did Lange sleep with to get an Oscar for this?
This was the last time I'll watch this.
Oh geez. I totally forgot about that part. I totally felt sorry for the father. And that one scene at the end doesn't even come close to making it right. Another shitty character moment was the way he treated the Teri Garr character. He slept with her and basically ghosted her afterwards.
The Fugitive - Obviously this is considered one of the best of the 90s but I almost turned it off halfway through and watch Basic Instinct instead.
Maybe I'll watch that tonight.
Basic Instinct is really underrated to me. I mean people focus on the Stone stuff. But the story and the character (mainly the Catherine Trammel) one are interesting from a sociologcal point of view/ and maybe how it deviates from traditionally storytelling. I feel sorry because sometimes people just focus on those Stone scenes.
Oh some film that I saw was really excellent: Carlito's Way (1993). Don't think this one gets mentioned enough. Great work by Pacino. The story works for me and DePalma does enough of his camera tricks to make it a satisfying film. Probably will hold more replay value for me than say Dressed to Kill.
