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#941 Re: The Sunset Strip » The JAMES BOND 007 Thread » 919 weeks ago
I agree with both of you guys on this. Bronson was pretty good, but his two middle movies were bad.
I really liked Dalton's take on Bond as well. If I had to rank them, he would fall behind Craig and in front of Moore.
#942 Re: GNRevolution Madness » Music Madness - max 2 per artist? or max 5? » 919 weeks ago
I voted 2. I think anything more than that isn't good with only 64 slots. This way the most one artist can hold on the board is 1/32 of it.
#943 Re: GNRevolution Madness » Music Madness - max 2 per artist? or max 5? » 919 weeks ago
I agree with CC. There's way too many songs from the same bands. Hell, 1/8 of the list is AIC and Metallica.
Like he said though, we nominated these songs so we must proceed. If we do something like this again, we need more rules in place.
I think if we do this again it should be a max of 2 songs per artist. That way at the minimum we would have 32 different bands represented, most likely more.
And if we limit nominations to 2 songs per artist, chances are there will be more of a diversity as well since people will have different top 2 songs from artists.
Not a bad list though. I'm surprised to see No Doubt up there. That band kinda looks weird standing next to all the other ones. 
Same can be said for MIA as well.
#944 Re: The Sunset Strip » The Hobbit Movie » 919 weeks ago
The Hobbit, based on the novel of the same name by J. R. R. Tolkien, is a two-film series in development for release in December 2011 and December 2012. The films will be directed by Guillermo del Toro, with The Lord of the Rings film trilogy director Peter Jackson serving as executive producer and co-writer. Originally, the first film would have adapted The Hobbit and the second would have bridged the gap between this and The Lord of the Rings, but it is now the director's intention to split and extend The Hobbit over the two films to bring the story right up to the beginning of The Lord of the Rings.
Sounds good to me.:beer:
Guillermo also talks about how the first film will be an entire departure from Jackson's trilogy in terms of visuals and feel and he will create his own, but the second film will slowly progress to the world that Jackson set up for The Lord of the Rings.
#945 Re: The Sunset Strip » METALLICA Discussion » 919 weeks ago
Metallica would have to do a 2 disk GH to really encompass the band's past. And the second disk would have to start with Enter Sandman. That song was a huge turning point for the band.
Nice list James.
#946 Re: GNRevolution Madness » Music Madness - max 2 per artist? or max 5? » 919 weeks ago
I'm a little put off by how few artists are represented in the 64 songs, but it is how we voted. Let's do it.
I thought there would have been more representation as well. Then again, I know I missed some songs and artists in my own nominations list.
#947 Re: The Sunset Strip » Neemo's Battle of the Tunes » 919 weeks ago
Would?
I missed the last round, but I want to say, Nirvana's Unplugged performance is way over-rated. It's not really that good. AIC on Unplugged totally blows them out of the water.
Agreed. The main thing that separated the two performances was the emotion being put behind the music. Layne really delivered everything brilliantly. There's a lot of emotion behind what he sang, especially Nutshell. You could really believe that he felt everything he was singing.
#948 Re: The Sunset Strip » The JAMES BOND 007 Thread » 919 weeks ago
After watching Quantum of Solace for the second time, I've decided that I like it a lot more than I did the first time around in the theater. Sure it's a letdown compared to Casino Royale, sure the theme song sucks, and sure the villain sucks...BUT it's still a pretty good movie overall. The key is NOT comparing it to Casino Royale.
The theme song certainly doesn't match the one Cornell wrote for Casino Royale. And no Bond movie should be under two hours. The villain was also a slight letdown like you said.
I felt the story in general was a little lacking and slightly sporadic at times. But to me, it seemed like they were trying more for an action based James Bond movie than a story driven one. Any great Bond film needs to have a good balance between the two. I do really enjoy this movie, especially the opening scene. It had a lot of potential to be a really great movie, but it was lacking in certain areas. The overall feel of the movie was good I thought, and a step in the right direction.
Daniel Craig also makes an amazing Bond. One of my favorites after seeing this movie.
#949 Re: The Sunset Strip » Marilyn Manson's The High End of Low » 919 weeks ago
Am i the only one who think's MM is just a more modern version of Alice Cooper's act? I enjoy the occasional song for what it is. But it's always sounded like NIN mixed with Alice's old shock tactics to me.
I always felt Zombie was way closer to a modern Alice than MM ever was. Zombie's got the songs, and has the live show to match the intensity of the music. He may not be over the top on the theatrics like Manson is at times, but there's no way Manson tops Zombie live.
#950 Re: Guns N' Roses » Richard Fortus in Guitar Hero: World Tour » 919 weeks ago
Richard Fortus doing amazing work with other people's work.
I wouldn't go as far as to say amazing, but good point. Same thing I was thinking.
