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#471 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 166 weeks ago
No more than usual actually. Right now I'm watching the french Count of Monte Cristo with Depardieu.
I think it's Depardieu's best role. His physical presence is critical to the appearance of the count. No, he shouldn't look like that being in prison for so long, but it helps the image of him as this imposing, god like figure. It's a tv production so the sets aren't all that, but the casting is great with a lot of good actors. French is a very beautiful sounding language.
You wouldn't want to watch an old movie with me. When I see a good scene I often rewind to watch it again or pause it to just take in the imagery. If the movie is mediocre but with some good scenes I will just fast forward over all the bad parts.
The opening scene of the first Mission Impossible. The very first image when Estevez is watching the surveillance footage. Why I love this shot I don't know. Maybe just the composition, or that the camera zooms in on a mini movie while Estevez sits still as if inanimated. Later, at the start of the train scene, the establishing shot of the train with the speed and the music, it's such an awesome shot to create a feeling of suspense and anticipation. And then right before Tom Cruise goes to the roof of the train, that small shot looking at the entrance hatch with the light coming through. It's those type of shots you don't see in a lesser movie. Camera work is an underdeveloped skill among most directors.
#472 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 166 weeks ago
The band has said they want to release music. If they don't want people to demand, they can just admit they are a nostalgia act from now on.
#473 Re: Guns N' Roses » 2023 Tour Dates » 167 weeks ago
Once there was this rock n roll band rolling...
#474 Re: Guns N' Roses » If GNR releases nothing in 2023, is this the end for you? » 167 weeks ago
Haven't heard that word since the movie Sleuth. No idea what it meant!
Yes I agree. They are in a position to do whatever they want. None of this can be blamed on the record company.
#475 Re: The Sunset Strip » Pink Floyd feud goes nuclear » 167 weeks ago
I don't think so, if only because of the Wall. Waters has the rights and he would be the only one able to offer a show based on it. For Pink Floyd fans that might not be their best album, but the tour was the most legendary of all time. Waters has capitalized on that and I think he would have been able to do so even if Gilmour was actively touring the "real Floyd". It has certainly helped, but we should not underestimate Roger Waters as a musician and self promoter.
Waters didn't get lucky. He managed to become a world famous rock star, twice! Once with the band and in the last 30 years he has built himself up from clubs to stadiums as a solo artist. That is insanely impressive, very few artists can claim this feat. Axl didn't even get close.
Gilmour I think retired Floyd because he knew it was fraudulent without Waters. Just look at some of the Division Bell behind the scenes stuff, an album where he had to hire professional writers and get his wife to write some half assed lyrics for him, there are moments where he is clearly embarassed and uncomfortable in those clips. Casual fans and the press won't notice of course, but Gilmour and I'm sure the rest of the band must have realized they were serving up absolute shite and calling it Pink Floyd. Live shows were good, but the albums, dear lord.
#476 Re: Guns N' Roses » If GNR releases nothing in 2023, is this the end for you? » 167 weeks ago
The plan was like they said to release a few songs here and there, but since last summer came and went, after Slash said there would be music, they must have decided their plan wasn't any good.
#477 Re: Guns N' Roses » If GNR releases nothing in 2023, is this the end for you? » 167 weeks ago
How ARE tickets selling?
Maybe slow sales will prompt the band to take some action?
If facebook activity is any measure they are selling very well.
#478 Re: Guns N' Roses » Moscow Russia 2010 Private Gig Pro Shot Footage » 168 weeks ago
polluxlm wrote:The guy who made One in A Million and Look At Your Game Girl no longer exists.
Of course he no longer exists, are you the same person you were 20, 30 years ago?
If some people age like fine wine, Axl has turned into soda pop.
#479 Re: Guns N' Roses » Moscow Russia 2010 Private Gig Pro Shot Footage » 168 weeks ago
Axl just follows the current thing now. Whatever is the hip cool thing to say, he's parroting.
I wonder, is it just age? I have many friends like that too. It's as if time just wears them down until they have no sense of personality left. Empty hulks walking around with nothing to say.
The guy who made One in A Million and Look At Your Game Girl no longer exists. Axl would call for such a guy to be arrested or something these days.
#480 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 168 weeks ago
I've come to the point where I think this whole conflict is just for show. Ostensibly Putin is at war with the "establishment", but this war is exactly what they need at this point in time. With Covid winding down there had to be a new excuse to fuck over the people. All part of the Global 2030 Agenda to make everybody poor and dependent. And what do you know? On the day they shut down Covid in the news, Putin obliges them with a perfectly timed war. And instead of cleaning up the mess quickly, like a real rebel would do, he drags it out to suit his "enemies" agenda.
Right now he's telling his people to suck it up because "war with the west". And here in the West they are doing the same thing. Every price hike, every new tax is blamed on this charade. The White Russian President wanted to go hard from the start, but Putin refused. I guess he didn't get the memo this is not to be a real war where you fight for victory. The real war is plundering the people of Russia, Europe and America. Can you imagine Adolf Hitler retaining his WTO and WHO membership when he went to war? Of course not, he was for real.
