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Quote from: TigerLily on April 09, 2016, 07:03:57 AM
Better order a brain scan, stat!

So what do you think about the rest of that post?

LOL. 

Well, Establishment Democrats and Establishment Republicans both do not want to any significant reform to campaign financing.  Most of the Republican base understand that the current system is corrupt and that corporations should be highly regulated in regards to how much they can contribute to a campaign.  Frankly, I'd outlaw corporate donations to campaigns.  As for Citizens United, I'll defer to you on that.  I'd have to read about it some more before I offered an opinion.   It is unfortunate that only Bernie has made campaign finance reform a campaign issue though I think Trump may be in the same camp as  Bernie when it comes to that.  My candidate has been relatively silent on the issue.  I would hope that he would feel the same as I do but he might not.  No voter is going to agree with where his/her candidate's stand on every single issue.

Quote from: the_Stranger on April 01, 2016, 11:41:16 PM
The older I get the more I appreciate this song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh44QPT1mPE

Yeah. It used to be overplayed but it has been a couple years now since I've heard it on the radio.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 09, 2016, 03:05:48 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE2iaNBqytY&nohtml5=False

ROTFLMAO!!!!

Quote from: TigerLily on April 09, 2016, 12:54:28 AM
Can't help you out. Only Spanish i use is Donde esta el bano, deme una cerveza andy boracho cochino

Fixed

Quote from: Mind Flayer Monk on April 09, 2016, 12:41:59 AM
This is pretty good so far. I wouldn't be surprised if Church replaced GN in the future.

The guest just socked the alien right in the eye.

Better than that wannabe on MITD.

Quote from: TigerLily on April 08, 2016, 12:22:23 PM
Campaign finance reform is essential. Politicians spend an  inordinate amount of time raising money while they are in office. And of course then the congress and senators are working for the donors, not their constituents. We need to get monied interests, influence peddlers and lobbyists out of Washington.

Well said!  I'm shocked that I actually agree with you.

She would be a decent replacement for Art.

Quote from: akwilly on April 08, 2016, 07:07:00 AM
Kurt Russell is a fave of mine. Check out The Battered Bastards of Baseball. Its a doc about his time in the minor leagues playing on the team his dad owned

Kurt Russell was great in the pic but unfortunately he exited stage left during the middle of the film.

Quote from: K_Dubb on April 06, 2016, 06:25:04 PM
That is a good point.  My mom didn't leave Norway until 1953, but her father and grandfather had already been to Seattle several times as sailors and knew all about Ballard, which was almost a Norwegian ghetto even when I grew up there.  Grandma could, and did, have several friends over for coffee she'd known from their town in Norway.

As a kid I remember running around outside with the cousins even when it was cold because Grandma's house was stiflingly hot.  It smelled of coffee, cardamom, fish, and mothballs, and the kitchen table was crowded by gruff old Norskies all talking ingeningeningeningening in that sing-song way.



This was above the kitchen table, and The Angelus was in the living room.  I don't think Grandma realized it was Catholic.

We had that first picture too.  I think it is still in my possession.

The Hateful Eight by Quentin Tarantino.  To start off, I've never been a huge Tarantino fan.  I think he has been way over-rated.  I do enjoy some of his work like Pulp Fiction and Inglorious Bastards but Django was a bit much.  To be frank, I think he is a glorified B-Movie director and if B movies were his trade, I'd probably praise his movies more.

  Anyway enough of that. The Hateful Eight has a pretty good plot that reminds me of the old Hollywood days in the early 30's when many stage plays were filmed.  Those movies were usually well-paced and wrapped up in 90 minutes or less.  The same can't be said for the Hateful Eight.  It is way too long and should have been cut by at least 45 minutes.  It really became quite tedious to sit through and I was hoping for more of a spaghetti western type score from the great Ennio Morricone.  There is a nice example of that kind of music during the credits at the end of the film after the Roy Orbison tune.  I wish the film had used more music like that during the actual movie.  The cinematography is excellent. No problem there.

  The acting was generally good except for Jennifer Jason Leigh and Michael Madsen.  He was like half-asleep during the whole film and I almost joined him.  I like Leigh's work in general but here she was just overbearing and screechy.   Oh and then there was Channing Tatum.  What the fuck was he doing in this movie?  Thank God his screen time was rather limited. It was nice to see Bruce Dern in a mainstream film again.  Sam Jackson did his thing and  Tim Roth played an English hangman named Mobray which reminded me of Alan Mowbray, an English character actor who had significant character roles in several John Ford westerns.  Speaking of that, Kurt Russell acts like a cruder John Wayne character even to the point of quoting Wayne's line from the Searchers, "That'll Be The Day!"  I really enjoyed his role in the film. It is odd that there are these Ford references in this film as Tarantino has said he really didn't care for Ford.  Maybe he's changed.  Another classic film reference is the name of Sam Jackson's  character, Marquis Warren.  He is named after Western screenwriter and director, Charles Marquis Warren, whose most notable contribution was during the first two years of Gunsmoke.  Walter Goggins as Sheriff Chris Mannix also deserves credit for his excellent acting.  The only really likable character in the film.

  For a man who has a severe case of white guilt, Tarantino can't help using the word nigger when he get's the chance.  That and the overuse of other four-letter words.  Sure, in the real West of the 1800's, there were a few people who used salty language but that was the exception and not the norm.  Back then, most people were brought up with good manners unlike today.   This aspect of the film makes it as unrealistic as the singing cowboy westerns.  I'm not saying there isn't a place for crude language in a Western film but it should be used sparingly and limited to one or two characters.  Another huge problem I had with the film was when Tarantino inserted himself as narrator in the middle of the film.  This destroyed the atmosphere and mood of the film.  He should know this as a student of film.  That's like me telling the plot of the film at this point in my review.  Which I will do right now.

Bounty hunter, Russell is bringing killer played by Leigh back to Red Rock so she can be tried and hanged.  He comes across fellow bounty hunter, Jackson, and then a blizzard starts and they must seek shelter to ride out the storm.  Along the way and at the cabin, they encounter other odd fellows. Tensions between Northerners and Southerners mount and death ensues.  I'll leave the rest to you. 

See, wasn't that an odd place to tell the plot? I hear that the plot was taken from an episode of an old TV show called the Rebel and they were able to resolve the story in 25 minutes.  Too bad the same can't be said here.  It is sssooooooooo ffuuuuuuuuucccccckkkkkkkiiiiiiiinnnng slllllllllooooooowwww.  And really did we need that bit about Jackson and the blowjob? Jackson's schtick is also getting rather old. If this was a shorter B grade film, I would feel kinder to it and give it 3 stars maybe  3.5, but is this really what passes for Oscar material in the 21st century?  2.25 stars out of 5 and that is due to the professionalism by the cinematographer, Morricone,  and some of the actors.  To be honest, the Roy Orbison tune at the end, "There Won't Be Many Coming Home", was the best thing about it.  Tarantino needs to spend less time on Black Lives Matter and more time back at film school.  Focus on editing, Quent.

Quote from: VoteQuimby on April 07, 2016, 04:03:10 PM

Will the insanity never end?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMR5zf1J1Hs

So Hoagie got his pink slip and his last broadcast is next week.  Let me see, in 2 years, he will be back on Coast that is if he is still around.

The last one for tonight.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuRvumUxMMI&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXCUldUFyEk&nohtml5=False

Quote from: pate on April 07, 2016, 12:27:34 AM
Apologies, 21.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAs4lZkK8mY

I blame the obvious.

LOL.  OK, if you are gonna dance then we have to do the

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs6-A1jEmjE&nohtml5=False

Quote from: pate on April 07, 2016, 12:16:26 AM
Yep.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3wKCNYJAMs

Dig!

Great one.  I also love this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAwuK61QzHs&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iymtpePP8I8&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl96kw5XS0Y&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOjCjXfG9yg&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jRejBVcB_g&nohtml5=False

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7piV28fT-0

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 03, 2016, 11:49:41 PM
I was listening to Perkins on Wilie's Roadhouse the other day and I honed in on his singing style and thought, "This is the Elvis that Elvis was based on." 

My Mom grew up in the same town as Carl at about the same time.  His brother, Clayton, was in my Mom's class at the same school.  She would see Carl and his brothers hanging out at the local diner usually after one of his gigs.  Clayton eventually dropped out of school to join Carl and brother, Jay, in their band.

Carl has a special place in my heart and always will.  He was the real deal.  A genuinely nice man.

Alright guys,  I'm gonna check out for the time being.  Hopefully Hoagie will announce his big news tonight.

Carry on.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on April 06, 2016, 11:30:43 PM
Snob. Next you'll be eating arugula and caviar. Give me a good old fashioned hot dog.

Costco's Kirkland hot dogs are yummy.  I buy them all of the time.  They are bigger than the average hot dog.

Quote from: Dr. MD MD on April 06, 2016, 11:26:27 PM
That is a truly disturbing scene. I saw it once. I don't need to go back 

Actually, I've only caught parts of the film and have yet to watch the film in totality though I admire John Boorman and some of his work.  I've always heard about the scene though since I was a kid.  It is a pretty depressing film from what I can remember.

Quote from: Juan Cena on April 06, 2016, 11:19:11 PM
Old people freak out when they see horse porn.

LOL.  He also seemed to be fascinated by pigs. Maybe some rednecks caught up with him and made him squeal.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRxUbv90lLI

Quote from: norland2424 on April 06, 2016, 11:14:34 PM
im sure he broke parole, so hopefully we wont see him for a while.

Nah, he probably had the computer taken away from him by his 80 year old mommy after she caught him watching questionable porn.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on April 06, 2016, 11:13:16 PM
Donald is busy failing in the real world and lashing out at anyone successful lol.

LOL.

Quote from: SciFiAuthor on April 06, 2016, 11:02:10 PM
I see it's pick a fight night. The trolls mostly leave bellgab, but now we eat our own.

Yeah, y'all need to calm down a bit.  I'm just lurking tonight while working but the infighting between members that I like has to stop.  Whatever happened to Donald Noory anyway?  He hasn't been around much lately.

Quote from: paladin1991 on April 06, 2016, 11:00:42 PM
And then there's this fucking guy.

LOL.