Two Days In Paris VS The Last Four Months Of My Life

See, now this thread is starting to feel like Thanksgiving dinner.:stups:

Alright.

Everybody needs to fucking cool it.

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1042472]I don't like pretentious dicks, Mr. Brown.[/QUOTE]

You sure like to circle jerk though.

[QUOTE=Thag;1042474]why not? be sure to do it in the same breath where you explain why you LIKE film.[/QUOTE]

I don't like film. I LOVE it. You can't be serious though. Using smileys is just a lazy form of communicating.

what happened here, is it interesting, should i scroll back, or is it just more mydickissmallerthanyours shit.

I still can't believe I thought that Paris film was something completely different.

[QUOTE=morey;1042492]what happened here, is it interesting, should i scroll back, or is it just more mydickissmallerthanyours shit.[/QUOTE]

The latter.

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1042435]I have no problem with people laughing at me, especially you people. You people, laughing at me, is like a retard laughing at a normal person. i can agree with mediocrity anywhere...[/QUOTE]ahahahahahahaha ha, thats the best thing I've read in awhile.

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown;1042446]

Dude.[/QUOTE]^5

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown;1042491]You sure like to circle jerk though.[/QUOTE]

Mr. Brown, I hope you didn't misunderstand. I was not insulting [I]you[/I].

On the other hand, if you [I]did [/I]understand, and are interested in me and my circle-jerking activities, you shouldn't be ashamed to just ask. We'll let you in.

[QUOTE=bigshrimpn;1042499]^5[/QUOTE]

Man, there's gonna come a day, where at the push of a button someone is gonna be able to do serious fucking damage to someone elses computer and then people's gonna be a lot more mellow.

Or like online policemen coming into a thread. "What's the e-hold up here? Disperse people, do NOT post... I repeat.. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REPLY. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED."

American police man, everytime I see some of that on tv or in films, they, what's the word, enunciate? Where you very clearly and slowly talk so no beat of implication of a word is missed? Man, that's some scary shit.

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1042503]Mr. Brown, I hope you didn't misunderstand. I was not insulting [I]you[/I].

On the other hand, if you [I]did [/I]understand, and are interested in me and my circle-jerking activities, you shouldn't be ashamed to just ask. We'll let you in.[/QUOTE]

I am not good at online arguments man, I always have this thing that everything is about me.

But god, is it good to see typed words instead of smileys. I wanna make a anti-smiley thread, but you know it's just gonna be people posting smiley in it. You just know.

It's been forgotten.

About the smilies: You could try asking a moderator if they can somehow - somehow - disable the smiley function for you... or give you some advice on how to do it. You can start a thread about [I]that[/I].

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1042517]It's been forgotten.

About the smilies: You could try asking a moderator if they can somehow - somehow - disable the smiley function for you... or give you some advice on how to do it. You can start a thread about [I]that[/I].[/QUOTE]

Brown IS a moderator.

I think there is a way to disable them so they don't show in posts all animated, but I don't remember how now.

EDIT: I am interested in seein this film, but that actor just BUGS me. So whiny. Still it looks like a fun film. And it made Brock bust out the exclamation points and paragraphs.

Imagine that.

Um, I know that you can disable smilies from your OWN text, but not from everyone else's.

And you have to do it manually, every single time. There's no "setting." Which kinda sucks. But I'm not really complaining.

You can have my smileys when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
:hestonsmiley::2gunsfiri [img]http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2079/03933916charltonhestonpug3.jpg[/img]

Seriously though, if someone's post makes you smile enough that you'd like them to know about it, or you're simply acknowledging them and don't feel like typing "I appreciate your input, thank you!" or "You made me smile" etc, what's wrong with smileys?

ON topic, Julie Delpy really hammered something great out with this film when the system wouldn't cooperate. Shit, directing, writing, producing, starring, editing, music by, etc. YEESH!

Nice work. This film rivals [I]Once[/I] as one of my favorites this year.

Nah I don't see the sense of disabling smileys on my end, that would make stuff even more illegible (that the word? Man the later it gets, the harder it gets). Anyway, I AM VOICING MY OPINION.

I don't like smileys, TALK TO ME PEOPLE - ACKNOWLEDGE ME! CARE FOR ME.

[QUOTE=mirka;1042525]EDIT: I am interested in seein this film, but that actor just BUGS me. So whiny. Still it looks like a fun film. And it made Brock bust out the exclamation points and paragraphs.[/QUOTE]

I dare say this is the best film I have seen all year out of all of the movies I have watched, new and old, and just the other day I watched THE GRADUATE & RUSHMORE again. Yeah, Adam Goldberg is a little whiny usually, but in this film, his whiney-ness has been toned down a bit and comes off kinda like Sarah Silverman if she had a beard. I mean, it's just fucking hilarious and hits all the right notes. If his sarcasm was any more or less the way it comes off, it wouldn't work, but they captured pure magic. Those two got some serious chemistry, like Chloe Sevigny and Vincent Gallo at the high point of Brown Bunny...

I wish people would stop calling each other by their real names here

[QUOTE=Fiberoptic Jesus;1042600]I wish people would stop calling each other by their real names here[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I still don't know who this Phil dude is...

[QUOTE=Fiberoptic Jesus;1042600]I wish people would stop calling each other by their real names here[/QUOTE]

Shut up, Phil.

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042531]You can have my smileys when you pry them from my cold dead hands!
:hestonsmiley::2gunsfiri [img]http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/2079/03933916charltonhestonpug3.jpg[/img]

Seriously though, if someone's post makes you smile enough that you'd like them to know about it, or you're simply acknowledging them and don't feel like typing "I appreciate your input, thank you!" or "You made me smile" etc, what's wrong with smileys?

ON topic, Julie Delpy really hammered something great out with this film when the system wouldn't cooperate. Shit, directing, writing, producing, starring, editing, music by, etc. YEESH!

Nice work. This film rivals [I]Once[/I] as one of my favorites this year.[/QUOTE]

Talking about making a film outside of the system, I was watching trailers before I saw 2 DAYS IN PARIS last night, and there was this one called INTO THE WILD directed by Sean Penn and it looked pretty good and everything, but then the voice-over was like WHEN FILMS THIS GOOD COME ALONG, SOMETIMES DIRECTORS HAVE TO GO OUTSIDE OF THE NORM AND STAY TRUE TO THEIR ARTISTIC VISION AND THIS FILM IS THE BEST MOVIE EVER TO BE TRUE AND ARTISTIC AND BLAH, BLAH, BLAH... it was like the trailer was trying to convince me that it was this great piece of art, and maybe it is, and I love Sean Penn as a director... one of my favorite films being THE INDIAN RUNNER by Sean Penn about two brothers, one good, one bad... and he is a great actor and all and he would punch paparazzi for Madonna and stuff, and he looks good with a goatee like Johnny Depp and was awesome in BAD BOYS, the one in juvenile hall prison movie, not the one with Will Smith and Martin from the black tv show, but I don't like to be told what is good by the trailer and what is artistic by the trailer and it's like if you have to say the film is a masterpiece and you aren't even a critic, just another studio trying to get people to watch their film, then I don't buy it, I mean, if it had a quote from a critic and the critic said "two thumbs up! a masterpiece of artistic vision!" then I might buy it, but when it's just the movie-phone voice guy going THIS FILM IS THE BEST EVER! THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MOVIE EVER IN THE UNIVERSE IN THE HISTORY OF TIME! I just sit there and go, I bet it's not even all that good or something...

[img]http://www.beniciodeltoro.ca/IndianRunner.jpg[/img] < THIS FILM IS THE BEST EVER! THE MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MOVIE EVER IN THE UNIVERSE IN THE HISTORY OF TIME! i mean it! go see this film in your own living room!

My review is below...

"The Indian Runner" A Brock Landers Review @copyright 1974because that's when I was born

Frank: "I tried to tell myself I did my job. That it was in self-defense. I didn't believe me."

"The Indian Runner" is the only reason I dragged my ass to go see "The Crossing Guard" or "The Pledge". It is definitely Penn's best film, and one of the greatest films ever made about family loyalty, and growing up. I often wonder if it is somewhat of an autobiographical tale for Penn, because I identify with much in it as a brother to one, and a Cultist to many. Charles Bronson in this film is EXACTLY like my friend's father who killed himself and this is his best acting I have ever seen since "Mr. Majestyk" & "The Mechanic", and Viggo Mortenson... way before the lord of the dance ring crap... is like the cool black-sheep brother you never had, always kickin' it in jail, or gettin' some new tattoo while sucking on a Marlboro. Something else that really strikes true to me is the whole era the film takes place in, the Vietnam era that is. The "hero" returning to America to be "the villain", in Mortenson's case, and the upstanding well-adjusted lawman in Morse's ("The Green Mile") case, even though he lets his wife smoke pot. Dennis Hopper ("Jesus' Son"... as if you don't already know who he is) even has some great lines as the local barmaid, and Patricia Arquette ("True Romance", "Lost Highway") is simply divine as the local white trash. Valeria Golina ("Immortal Beloved", "Leaving Las Vegas") also gives a stunning performance as the beautiful young wife of Morse...

The home movie montage is something of legends, as many filmmakers try to copy it, and the whole "Cain & Abel" relationship between David Morse and Viggo Mortensen is so convincing that I feel like it is real, that one is evil and one is good, and never the twain shall meet...

The film was based on the Bruce Springsteen song "Highway Patrolman" by Bruce Springsteen, according to Penn, and if I remember correctly, Steve Earle (a younger country alt-rock Johnny Cash "bad boy") originated that tune, so in Earle, Penn & Springsteen we trust. Three real men, three artistic sons-of-bitches I grew up on, and toast to every other weekend...

"The Indian Runner" vividly expresses the duality of male human nature, especially between brothers, one "good", one "bad", and how they love each other through it all, for whatever reason. Don't get me wrong, the stories of the two brother's are not glamorized or made up to be cool, even though they are, they are realistic and show the downfall's and problems they both suffer from, the thing that really rings true is the way the background characters are so well-written that they are as impossible to forget as Morse and Mortensen...

The movie starts with a shot where an indian brave chases a deer until it dies, believing that by inhaling the deer's last breath he will absorb his spirit, his strength, giving us a truthful look at human hope. More of a character study than anything else, "The Indian Runner" is brilliant when it focuses on the two brothers, and wanes only when the focus changes, although it all remains great viewing nonetheless. Perhaps a little pretentious, but then again what first-time director isn't? I will always think of Sean Penn as one of the greatest actors of my generation, and as one of the most promising young directors to ever grace the silver screen...

[img]http://www.dvdpure.net/arviot/kuvat2/arvio_indianrunner-indianrunner2.jpg[/img][img]http://www.dvdpure.net/arviot/kuvat2/arvio_indianrunner-indianrunner3.jpg[/img]

I think Viggo will be spectacular in Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES.

[QUOTE=Nightrious;1042602]Shut up, Phil.[/QUOTE]

Oh snap!

One Night in Barris

[QUOTE=Mr. Brown;1042606]I think Viggo will be spectacular in Cronenberg's EASTERN PROMISES.[/QUOTE]

The theatre I went to was packed of people that were there to see that film. There was only four films showing since it is an arty theatre. I got a free poster they had in the lobby for Eastern Promises since they had a big stack of them. I know nothing about the film except the trailer I watched where Viggo is driving a taxi and talking with a russian accent. I haven't seen it, but Cronenberg has not been himself for years. Best ever Cronenberg was, of course, DEAD RINGERS...

my review below...

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Elliot Mantle (speaking to his brother Beverly): "You haven't had any experience till I have it, too."

The 1988 film "Dead Ringers" is a dark and disturbing contemporary adaptation of one of the horror genre's most often used set of characters, the deranged scientist and his female victims, and in director David Cronenberg's hands, it becomes something altogether moody, visceral and gut-wrenching. Based on the 1977 novel entitled "Twins" (which was the original title before the Arnold Schwarznegger / Danny De Vito film came along) by Bari Wood and Jack Geasland, which was about the real life twins Steven and Cyril Marcus who were found dead in July of 1975 from barbituate drug overdoses (naked and surrounded by junk food wrappers) in their Upper East Side of Manhattan apartment, "Dead Ringers" becomes a brilliantly conceived yet unfortunately flawed naturalistic masterpiece, certainly the creepiest film of Cronenberg's career. What makes this film rise above typical horror flicks is the intelligence it injects into the seemingly "normal" existences of the sexually and anatomically obsessed twins that it revolves around. The story is not about fantasy but instead it is about reality, and the way that the real world can be just as fascinating as fiction. In my opinion, horror and sex are usually tied together by obsession in one form or fashion, be it fear of the unknown or fear of losing control, and this film is a compelling testament to the devastating effects that fear can have on us as human beings...

Beverly Mantle: "There's nothing the matter with the instrument, it's the body. The woman's body is all wrong!"

In a powerfully schizophrenic performance, Jeremy Irons plays both Beverly and Elliot Mantle, twin gynecologists who have shared a special bond since childhood. They are both brilliant physicians and researchers who garnered interest for the female body at a very young age. In the course of growing up, they learn to share everything, as well as how to impersonate each other without being detected, in and out of the bedroom. The two brothers soon run across the aging actress Claire Niveau (Genevieve Bujold) who has a unique problem when it comes to conceiving children, and soon both brothers are sharing her much like they share most of their female patients, that is to say both in and out of the office environment. The only thing is, this time Beverly gets emotionally involved, which is the beginning of the destructive events that lead the brothers into drug-induced madness, their worlds crashing down around and on them, and crashing hard. What makes this film come across as being disturbing and grotesque is not so much in the visuals, but in the subject matter, gynecology, or rather the formality and trust involved in the patient-doctor relationship. Most gynecologists are men, and all gynecological patients are women who pay these men to acquire intimate knowledge of their sexual organs. This knowledge is usually reserved for lovers or husbands, and in normal situations the doctor and patient have an unspoken agreement that nothing erotic or emotional takes place as a result of the intimacy involved. "Dead Ringers" on the other hand is not a normal scenario, which makes it become more of a sensationalistic film by nature...

"Separation can be a terrifying thing."

I believe that the true meaning of Cronenberg's "Dead Ringers" is more substantial than just exploitation, which many people mistake it for. This film uses gynecology as a metaphor for the mind-body split which is such an important part of the perception of the Mantle twins' psychological connection. In other words, our bodies, inparticular the female form, are our basis for whatever sense of reality we have. Our mental state of mind and our experiences are all dependent on our bodies and how they function. Reality is such a fragile concept, that like the movie portrays, can be altered by drug use, emotional cycles and our perception of ourselves as related to others. In our own lives, reality is altered by things like film, television, sex, drugs, jobs, etc... suggesting that reality is an ever-changing perception of the world around us. I hope I haven't confused anyone too much, least of all myself...

Eliott Mantle: "I've often thought that there should be beauty contests for the insides of bodies."

Cronenberg is a top director who certainly has a way of catching people's attention and keeping it, and this is not any less true in the case of "Dead Ringers", which delivers brilliant performances, some trademark offbeat Cronenberg touches (think "Surgical Instruments for Mutant Women", which are actually the same instruments used by the sadistic dentist Orin Scrivello in the 1986 film "Little Shop of Horrors"), Lee Wilson's technically innovative optical updates of the split-screen effect (allowing Irons to appear onscreen, talking to himself, in a virtually undetectable manner) and one of the strangest "true" stories to date. In the end, "Dead Ringers" is a superbly crafted movie that becomes obsessive in the details, but deservedly so. At once sparse and beautiful, but best at crawling beneath your skin, it's one film that's at the very least, unforgettable...

Beverly Mantle: "Pain creates character distortion, it's simply not necessary."
Claire Niveau: "I'm often in a lot of pain."
Beverly Mantle: "What kind of pain?"
Claire Niveau: "I think... psychosexual."

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPUIulSlC70[/url] < trailer DEAD RINGERS

[QUOTE=Fiberoptic Jesus;1042609]One Night in Barris[/QUOTE]

scariest porn ever made.
[img]http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9352/storygp2.jpg[/img]

But while we're on the subject of underpraised movies, confessions of a dangerous mind with Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest and soon of Choke fame) was a great film, I thought, and should have been rewarded come award season. Alas...

Into the Wild is getting mixed early reviews from what I've seen. Everyone's hopping on it because Eddie Vedder did the score, and it's Sean Penn, etc etc. The story (the book anyway) is incredible. The movie...we'll see.

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042611]scariest porn ever made.
[img]http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9352/storygp2.jpg[/img]

But while we're on the subject of underpraised movies, confessions of a dangerous mind with Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest and soon of Choke fame) was a great film, I thought, and should have been rewarded come award season. Alas...

Into the Wild is getting mixed early reviews from what I've seen. Everyone's hopping on it because Eddie Vedder did the score, and it's Sean Penn, etc etc. The story (the book anyway) is incredible. The movie...we'll see.[/QUOTE]

CONFESSIONS WAS A GREAT FILM, YES, but it had some boring moments too, and the whole Julia Roberts thing bugged me. They put her in there for no reason. I hate when movies put Julia Roberts in them for no reason. Same with Mary Reilly. Malkovich is brilliant as Jekyll and Hyde, but then there is Julia Roberts again trying to sound like Mary Poppins except she comes off like Brad Pitt is Snatch...

i hate Eddie Vedder... I have to admit I liked the first Pearl Jam album when it came out very much. I was also on a lot of drugs at the time...

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOmRhOKhkOI&mode=related&search=[/url] < good song about eddie vedder

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042611]scariest porn ever made.
[img]http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/9352/storygp2.jpg[/img]

But while we're on the subject of underpraised movies, confessions of a dangerous mind with Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest and soon of Choke fame) was a great film, I thought, and should have been rewarded come award season. Alas...

Into the Wild is getting mixed early reviews from what I've seen. Everyone's hopping on it because Eddie Vedder did the score, and it's Sean Penn, etc etc. The story (the book anyway) is incredible. The movie...we'll see.[/QUOTE]

Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind was a great read too. The book is way better than the film in my opinion, although that is generally the case with any adaptation. I sort of group Confessions Of A Dangerous Mind with that movie about Hogan's Hero Dude AUTO FOCUS and the poor man's Boogie Nights/Scarface BLOW... as much as I love Paul Reubens and Johnny Depp in any film. That chick totally annoys me... penelope Cruz or whatever, I hate especially watching an older Pedro Aldomovar movie and coming across her before she was famous, although I didn't mind her too much in Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! because it was such an awesome movie...

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOOWhvoGHcU[/url] < trailer Tie Me Up! Tie ME Down!

[QUOTE=Nightrious;1042602]Shut up, Phil.[/QUOTE]

You rock, Bart.

Mirka, is 'Mirka' your real name?

(Sorry, FJ)

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1042593]I dare say this is the best film I have seen all year out of all of the movies I have watched, new and old, and just the other day I watched THE GRADUATE & RUSHMORE again. Yeah, Adam Goldberg is a little whiny usually, but in this film, his whiney-ness has been toned down a bit and comes off kinda like Sarah Silverman if she had a beard. I mean, it's just fucking hilarious and hits all the right notes. If his sarcasm was any more or less the way it comes off, it wouldn't work, but they captured pure magic. Those two got some serious chemistry, like Chloe Sevigny and Vincent Gallo at the high point of Brown Bunny...[/QUOTE]

I'm going to see it because Delphy wrote it and you busted out the paragraphs.
I hate Woody Allen films. (Because you said it was better than Annie Hall which to me is no recommendation).

Its okay, Jill

[QUOTE=Jill's Tit;1042619]Mirka, is 'Mirka' your real name?

(Sorry, FJ)[/QUOTE]

Yes, it's pronounced "Meerka". Like meerkat. NOT MURKA.

[QUOTE=mirka;1042621]I'm going to see it because Delphy wrote it and you busted out the paragraphs.
I hate Woody Allen films. (Because you said it was better than Annie Hall which to me is no recommendation).[/QUOTE]

Why do you hate Woody Allen films? I thinhk he is an extremely intelligent man with lots of sardonic wit and self-deprecating humor that rivals some of the greatest writers/social satirists of our time, not to mention filmmakers. I also love that his films always are about sex, for the most part. Do you not like him because he is a jew? or because he fucked his stepdaughter? As an intelligent human being with a sense of humor I can't think of any other reasons you don't like him unless it's something irrational like you don't like his glasses or the way he talks, which again would go back to the hating jews thing...

[img]http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/beta221.gif[/img]: I WANT TO DANCE TO THE SOUND OF THAT FUCKING WOODY ALLEN'S JEWISH BONES BEING CRUSHED BY KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND! DO A LITTLE DANCE! CRUSH A FEW MILLION JEWS! GET DOWN TONITE! GET DOWN TONITE! GENOCIDE THE HEEBS! MAKE A LITTLE LOVE! GET DOWN TONITE! GET DOWN TONITE!

[QUOTE=mirka;1042623]Yes, it's pronounced "Meerka". Like meerkat. NOT MURKA.[/QUOTE]

That's awesome. I think it's really beautiful (and did so before asking whether it was your real name or not). In fact, I'm gonna use it in a story one day!

[QUOTE=mirka;1042623]Yes, it's pronounced "Meerka". Like meerkat. NOT MURKA.[/QUOTE]

I could've sworn your name once had an H on it like Mirkah! Did you change your name to sound more white, Mrs. Dingfelder Lutz Horshackenstein?

[img]http://lamiavitanellafamigliabrady.kaywa.com/files/images/2007/5/480/mob446_1178566958.jpg[/img]: MOM?!

[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FucOoOwLzY[/url] < for all the youngsters who don't follow the pop culture reference...

by the way, I really like the name MEERKAT...

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1042626]Why do you hate Woody Allen films? I thinhk he is an extremely intelligent man with lots of sardonic wit and self-deprecating humor that rivals some of the greatest writers/social satirists of our time, not to mention filmmakers. I also love that his films always are about sex, for the most part. Do you not like him because he is a jew? or because he fucked his stepdaughter? As an intelligent human being with a sense of humor I can't think of any other reasons you don't like him unless it's something irrational like you don't like his glasses or the way he talks, which again would go back to the hating jews thing...

[img]http://b3ta.hnldesign.nl/beta221.gif[/img]: I WANT TO DANCE TO THE SOUND OF THAT FUCKING WOODY ALLEN'S JEWISH BONES BEING CRUSHED BY KC AND THE SUNSHINE BAND! DO A LITTLE DANCE! CRUSH A FEW MILLION JEWS! GET DOWN TONITE! GET DOWN TONITE! GENOCIDE THE HEEBS! MAKE A LITTLE LOVE! GET DOWN TONITE! GET DOWN TONITE![/QUOTE]

The only films of his I liked are ZELIG and MATCH POINT. The rest no. He shouldn't act in his movies because it's hard to believe this dude could get laid. Most of his female characters simply exist to stoke his ego or as you put it " sardonic wit and self-deprecating humor". I just think he's over rated and I hate how mousy and small he is.

[QUOTE=mirka;1042634]The only films of his I liked are ZELIG and MATCH POINT. The rest no. He shouldn't act in his movies because it's hard to believe this dude could get laid. Most of his female characters simply exist to stoke his ego or as you put it " sardonic wit and self-deprecating humor". I just think he's over rated and I hate how mousy and small he is.[/QUOTE]

Interesting. My opinion, on the other hand, is that it is very easy to see why he could get laid. I mean, now he is all old and gross and wrinkly and pale and stuff, but people love humorous guys with lots of money and fame. He is a jewish "somebody" in the entertainment business and therefore I totally see him getting a lot of action from all kinds of women. Look at Rodney Dangerfield or the Jackie comedian dude in Caddyshack 2. Look at John Candy and Chris Farley. Fat people, ugly people, Look at the radio dudes Imus or that radio DJ in California who tells guys how to get laid for fuck sake... the one with the rules of getting laid speech thing where you are not supposed to spend more than 20 dollars on a date and stuff like flash friday. He gets tons of action and fat and ugly...

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1042637]DJ in California who tells guys how to get laid for fuck sake... the one with the rules of getting laid speech thing where you are not supposed to spend more than 20 dollars on a date and stuff like flash friday. He gets tons of action and fat and ugly...[/QUOTE]

Tom Leykis.

But if you look at what Woody's characters do for a living, it becomes more implausible. Money? usually No. Power? usually, No. Crippling self doubt, etc? Plenty of that, but that doesn't get you Mira Sorvino or anyone else for that matter.

I tend to like his films however.I haven't seen match point, but he's been on a major downslide since Deconstructing Harry.

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042638]Tom Leykis.

But if you look at what Woody's characters do for a living, it becomes more implausible. Money? usually No. Power? usually, No. Crippling self doubt, etc? Plenty of that, but that doesn't get you Mira Sorvino or anyone else for that matter.

I tend to like his films however.I haven't seen match point, but he's been on a major downslide since Deconstructing Harry.[/QUOTE]

Deconstructing Harry was the last great one he made, for sure... but Sweet & Lowdown was by no means a bad film... comedically-speaking, Sean Penn's best... not counting the one where he plays a retard... or perhaps, on a more subtle comedic note, Hurly Burly...

Now, go back to your high school clique thread with the seafood guy and talk some more shit about me... I can't get enough of that reacharound circlejerk... it feels good to be hated in my world!

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1042640]Now, go back to your high school clique thread with the seafood guy and talk some more shit about me... I can't get enough of that reacharound circlejerk... it feels good to be hated in my world![/QUOTE]

Oh, I'm not stepping into the shitpile of your meaningless circular logic again. You wanna talk movies or other interesting things, fine. Otherwise you're off the radar.

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042638]Tom Leykis.

But if you look at what Woody's characters do for a living, it becomes more implausible. Money? usually No. Power? usually, No. Crippling self doubt, etc? Plenty of that, but that doesn't get you Mira Sorvino or anyone else for that matter.

I tend to like his films however.I haven't seen match point, but he's been on a major downslide since Deconstructing Harry.[/QUOTE]

I agree with the part about his character's jobs. I just think he has a romantic notion that the underdog/nerd will get the hot chick, and it is his movie, and I applaud the fact that he is sending a message that no matter how ugly or short or whatever you are, that you can still get lots of hot women too, even if it isn't necessarily true. Nerd chic is such a fallacy. Women say they want the nerd, but they really don't. My opinion is that they say it like those Playboy playmates say they eat nothing but pizza and beer because they think that's what guys want to hear or something, or at least some guys. At this point, if any female Cult member comes in here to disagree, however, it is not that they don't agree with what I am saying, it is that this thread has just become a clusterfuck of Brock bashing and therefore no matter what I say, I am going to inevitably be told I am wrong and stupid and full of myself and mysogynistic and stupid and gay and writes too many words and doesn't get along well with others and chews gum in class...

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042638]Tom Leykis.

But if you look at what Woody's characters do for a living, it becomes more implausible. Money? usually No. Power? usually, No. Crippling self doubt, etc? Plenty of that, but that doesn't get you Mira Sorvino or anyone else for that matter.

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Exactly.

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042641]Oh, I'm not stepping into the shitpile of your meaningless circular logic again. You wanna talk movies or other interesting things, fine. Otherwise you're off the radar.[/QUOTE]

I'm obviously NOT off the radar if you feel it necessary to tell me I am off the radar. Talk about circular logic. You have mastered the art of self-disillusionment at this point. You think this and you think that, but you know nothing. And that is what is really saddest of all. That it makes you happy to try and hurt somebody else in some regard. I certainly don't feel hurt. In fact, I feel more loved by it all. This whole place is so circular that next week or the week after everything will turn back around and things will be different again. I was popular before you people even existed, and the people who thought I was popular still exist, they just apparently have better things to do with their time than talk about me at this point. Anyhow, I could post to myself for the rest of my life. Coming to the Cult isn't about talking to a bunch of idiots for me. It's about feedback. You guys give me endless material. I could write forever and never have writer's block because of the way you guys are and the things you post. I am grateful that I am not popular, just as I am grateful when I am popular... because either way, I never get writer's block. Besides, so far, the only ones who say they hate me at this point, are the ones who want to treat the Cult like a chat room and i wouldn't want to be a part of that club or any other lame club that wouldn't have me. That's why I never go into THE HOUSE OF CHAT thread. Me posting in there would just postpone the inevitable collapse of its popularity. In fact, me even mentioning it in this post is endorsing it so it will most assuredly be the last time I ever say the THOC word...

[QUOTE=Brock Landers;1042642]I agree with the part about his character's jobs. I just think he has a romantic notion that the underdog/nerd will get the hot chick, and it is his movie, and I applaud the fact that he is sending a message that no matter how ugly or short or whatever you are, that you can still get lots of hot women too, even if it isn't necessarily true. .[/QUOTE]

Why should nerdy, needy, annoying guys get hot chicks? Sure it's his movie, but why not pair himself up with nerdy, mousy annoying women? . Because he considers "hot" women some kind of prize that he's entitled to for some reason. That kind of shit is so old. It's not romantic, it's pathetic.

[QUOTE=mirka;1042646]Why should nerdy, needy, annoying guys get hot chicks? Sure it's his movie, but why not pair himself up with nerdy, mousy annoying women? . Because he considers "hot" women some kind of prize that he's entitled to for some reason. That kind of shit is so old. It's not romantic, it's pathetic.[/QUOTE]

It's really overt, too. It's to the point now where he's getting nerdy surrogates (Will Ferrell in Melinda and Melinda) and it STILL comes off all wrong. Like we're getting a double shot of his neuroses.

[QUOTE=mirka;1042646]Why should nerdy, needy, annoying guys get hot chicks? Sure it's his movie, but why not pair himself up with nerdy, mousy annoying women? . Because he considers "hot" women some kind of prize that he's entitled to for some reason. That kind of shit is so old. It's not romantic, it's pathetic.[/QUOTE]

Don't tell me you are not like every other girl on The Cult who says that nerds are hot? Look in any popular magazine... and generally-speaking... in a mainstream sort-of-way... it is "more popular" than ever to be skinny and pasty-white and wear horn-rimmed glasses and member's only jackets. It's like the whole heroin chic thing except with nerds, computer nerds especially, people that understand code and know how to speak "chat language" like "lol" and the like. But I don't buy it either. I think it's nonsense and people are just being contrary for the sake of being contrarian...

Those very same people who say they love nerds, again, generally-speaking, are not with nerds in relationships, and if they are with a nerd, it is only because they themselves are "nerdy". There are no "hot nerds" just like there are no "bisexuals". There are only people who want to be unique in some way and get attention by being something that doesn't even exist. Last time I was at the porn shop and there was these two college girls holding hands and talking real loud like "I want to eat you out, lover!" and just like the people who are hot who say they wish they were a nerd, they just wanted attention, they were not lesbians, only girls who were drunk trying to get noticed in a misguided manner. You are either hot or you are not, gay or straight. That's it. There is no in-between. No gray area. Just my thoughts...

[QUOTE=monkeywright;1042647]It's really overt, too. It's to the point now where he's getting nerdy surrogates (Will Ferrell in Melinda and Melinda) and it STILL comes off all wrong. Like we're getting a double shot of his neuroses.[/QUOTE]

That is a good point about Will Ferrell in that film. Maybe he has written his protaganist that way for so long, he doesn't know how to write a protaganist any other way now?

[QUOTE=Brock Landers]Don't tell me you are not like every other girl on The Cult who says that nerds are hot? Look in any popular magazine... and generally-speaking... in a mainstream sort-of-way... it is "more popular" than ever to be skinny and pasty-white and wear horn-rimmed glasses and member's only jackets. It's like the whole heroin chic thing except with nerds, computer nerds especially, people that understand code and know how to speak "chat language" like "lol" and the like. But I don't buy it either. I think it's nonsense and people are just being contrary for the sake of being contrarian... [/Quote]

You're such an ass. What the hell is this "every other [I]girl [/I]on the cult?" That's pretty damn rude and dismissive to say all the females that post here are exactly the same.

Also, If you did [I]your research[/I] you'd know my true love is: [center][img]http://www.kunstvereinkaernten.at/_img/Semotan/BENICIO_DEL_TORO.jpg[/img][/center]

[QUOTE=mirka;1042650]You're such an ass. What the hell is this "every other [I]girl [/I]on the cult?" That's pretty damn rude and dismissive to say all the females that post here are exactly the same.

Also, If you did [I]your research[/I] you'd know my true love is:

Uh, I think Woody Allen's films are narcissistic, unrealistic and don't speak to me as a movie goer..[/QUOTE]

Tell me one female cultist who doesn't praise nerdhood? I never said all the female cultists were "exactly the same". You created me saying that in your head. It's no wonder you think I'm a jerk. You have made me into one inyour mind, like some sort of ex-boyfriend that you hate no matter how much youonce loved him. Usually I would have said "generally", but I can name NAME AFTER NAME of female cultists who on a daily basis praise nerdhood through their posts and the things they say. "Nerdhood" being a more subjective thing, of course. Even if you won't ever admit it because you like to call me an "ass", you know I am not talking out of said afore-mentioned orifice. Besides, I said "don't tell me" in respect to you. Therefore I never said you were like every other cultist. I also knew you love Benecio Del Toro from many past conversations we had about films and guys in general over the years. I may be rude and dismissive, but I never claimed to be miss manners, either. Demonize me if you wish, but I am a sinner just the same as the rest of you. Go ahead and throw stones. It's gang mentality like that that killed Christ too...