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#481 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 249 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.
#482 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 249 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?
#483 Re: Guns N' Roses » DJ Ashba: Buckethead Took the Coolness Out of the Band » 249 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.
#484 Re: The Garden » PaSnow died (HE'S ALIVE!!) » 250 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.
#485 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 250 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.
#486 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 250 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.
#487 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 250 weeks ago
I started to watch Tootsie but fell asleep about 20-30 minutes in. I'll watch it tonight.
I watched this a while back and I had one big issue. I found the main character totally unlikable. In fact, I think the Bill Murray character almost steals the film from Tootsie.
Re-watched Trespass. It's basically The Treasure of Sierra Madre transported into the 90s and in an abandoned church. But it's fun as hell on multiple levels. You have the good guys and bad guys fighting amongst themselves. And there's the other plot elements that I enjoyed. I'd say it's probably an underrated Walter Hill film. It doesn't beat The Driver for my fave Hill film but this one is pretty good.
#488 Re: The Garden » NFL 2021-22 Season » 251 weeks ago
The new playoff schedule sucks. Too many mediocre teams are allowed to get in. During the last couple weeks of the season, we get to see a couple teams accidentally stumble backwards into the playoffs...then it's one and done as if they had never been there in the first place.
The 21st century saw parity take over the league. The way it's set up now appears it may try to have the worst of both worlds...
In the midst of parity, a couple teams will dominate in the playoffs.
It's going to be interesting to see how the #1 seed in each conference does next week.
It's also greed by the NFL. Adding in the extra team in the playoffs and the extra game/week this year. Waters down the product. And watch in a few years they will add in an 8th team in the playoffs.
Honestly, 6 teams in the playoffs was fine. I was fine with the top 2 seeds getting a bye as well. This new format sucks ass.
#489 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 251 weeks ago
LOL WTF? They're M&M's. Freaking colored chocolate pieces to eat. The last thing I'm thinking of when I'm eating those things is gender empowerment or whatever bullshit that clown wrote.
#490 Re: The Garden » NFL 2021-22 Season » 251 weeks ago
There were some really uncompetitive games this weekend.
Mike McCarthy is a really shitty head coach who rode Aaron Rodgers coatails to that one SB in GB. Oh also, this explains WHY Rodgers only has one Lombardi.
Arizona clearly peaked early and is now getting wiped out by the Rams.
It's obvious that both conferences were top heavy as most of these games aren't even competitive. PHI, PIT, maybe NE had zero chance of winning their games. I dozed off during PHI vs TB yesterday. Only the Niners-Dallas and the LV-CIN games were competitive.
Speaking of the Raiders , they gotta get try to upgrade from Carr. He's very average and you can't really win a championship with him. That last throw short of the end zone was a joke (so was the uneccessary spike on 1st down).
