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    Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget

    Need a Book Recommendation? Turn to the Comics

    What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie

    Get Your First Peek At Legion's Heavenly Warfare

    Geeking Out About Genres With Michael Chabon

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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/20/09

    In reply to What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie
    i wish i could find 4 lines to write that would completely change the tone of everything.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/20/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    All kidding about the movie's "plot" aside, all you need to do to stop a super-fault from cracking the world in two is utilize a really big stapler. Construction of the Omega Stapler (or Stapler Prime, if you like) can be the focus of much of the film's more heady technobabble scenes.
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    Image of FrankenPC FrankenPC
    11/20/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    LOL! EARTHQUAKE!!!

    That's the way I walk when I exit the bar.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/20/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    i was on the set of the Van Sant film, Elephant some years back, and we had to evacuate the set/ middle school when the FX guys lit a bunch of rubber cement in the background of a long tracking shot. the fumes were toxic. the lesson: only do it outside or in a well ventilated area, have your cast and crew sign a liability waiver, and most important, make sure mom's not looking!
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    Image of Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    Brittany Murphy must have some gambling debts.
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    Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of WinthropButterfly WinthropButterfly
    11/20/09

    @Garrison Dean: R.O.A.C.H.:

    FYI: The word "dealer" doesn't necessarily mean a person who shuffles cards.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/20/09

    @WinthropButterfly: ZING!
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    The Asylum made this god awful movie called The Day the Earth Stopped. I watch B movies like its my job, but I couldn't finish it. They almost got sued for it, too.
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    Image of Bootknife-Jackson Bootknife-Jackson
    11/20/09

    @Post-Nuked: The Day Time Stopped? that's a pretty unwatchable one too...
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    Image of Cash907Censored Cash907Censored
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    You mentioned Eric "Soul Glow" LaSalle, but make no mention of Brittany Murphy? Criminal.
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    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    11/20/09

    @Cash907Censored: But is it really?
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    Image of Golem100 Golem100
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    You know, I always thought that The Asylum was just a bunch of guys with a single camcorder making up their scripts as they went along. Who knew that they actually had a film crew? Somehow that lowers my already bottom-of-the-barrel opinion of their films.
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    Image of Smeagol92055 Smeagol92055
    11/19/09

    In reply to Watch The Asylum Destroy The World On A Zero Budget
    That synopsis makes my science-bone hurt.
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    Image of Post-Nuked Post-Nuked
    11/19/09

    @Smeagol92055:
    You should watch their movie The Day the Earth Stopped. It might break you science-bone.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/19/09

    In reply to What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie
    Wanna bet the kiddy sex slaves are gone?
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    Image of topdolla825 topdolla825
    11/19/09

    @Dirk Anger: read the book a year ago, where did U read anything about kiddy sex slaves?? Maybe only in your wishlist
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11/19/09

    @Dirk Anger: Um, yeah, wrong post-apocalypse novel.
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/20/09

    @Starwatcher: The Road by Cormac McCarthy. Maybe it was a translation error because I got a translation, but they saw somebody who had several kids chained, and they were referred to as a weird word I had to look in a dictionary which said it which meant that.

    #calendar
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/20/09

    @Starwatcher: @topdolla825:
    no translation error:
    "slaves in harness and piled with goods of war and after that the women, perhaps a dozen in number, some of them pregnant, and lastly a supplementary consort of catamites illclothed against the cold and fitted in dogcollars and yoked each to each. All passed on. They lay listening."

    "A catamite is the younger, passive (anal recipient) partner in a pederastic relationship between a man and a boy, which was a popular arrangement in many areas of the ancient world."

    #calendar
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    Image of Dirk Anger Dirk Anger
    11/20/09

    @topdolla825: A catamite is the younger, passive (anal recipient) partner in a pederastic relationship between a man and a boy, which was a popular arrangement in many areas of the ancient world.

    I read it in a dictionary
    #calendar
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    Image of Starwatcher Starwatcher
    11/20/09

    @Dirk Anger: Ah, okay. Yeah, I know what a catamite is but somehow that escaped me. Well, I stand corrected. But I don't think it'll be a problem on screen--even if they depict the kids in chains the idea that they might be sex slaves will probably escape most people.
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    Image of tammygarrison tammygarrison
    11/18/09

    In reply to Need a Book Recommendation? Turn to the Comics
    I love Unshelved :)
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/18/09

    In reply to What Cormac McCarthy Insisted On Keeping In The Road Movie
    I'm surprised they considered cutting something like that out in the first place...
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    Image of John Harmsworth Nelson John Harmsworth Nelson
    11/18/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye: Get out. Surprised?
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    Image of tetracycloide tetracycloide
    11/18/09

    @John Harmsworth Nelson: he can't help it, the permanent state of shock comes with the name.
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/18/09

    @omgwtflolbbqbye:
    of course they considered it, but the Cormac slapped him up side the head.
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/18/09

    @phoghat: Yea, but that dialog was one of those 'nutshell' moments of the book.

    So I would of thought someone like Hillcoat would have recognized it as an untouchable moment that shouldn't be left out.
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    Edited by omgwtflolbbqbye at 11/18/09 5:22 PM omgwtflolbbqbye was starred omgwtflolbbqbye was unstarred
    Image of RandomDigression RandomDigression
    11/18/09

    @phoghat: Well, I'm glad he was there to do the slapping, then. That one line is the the heart of the book. I'm with omgwtflolbbqbye at being somewhat flabbergasted that they would attempt to remove it.
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    Image of InfiniteMonkey InfiniteMonkey
    11/18/09

    @John Harmsworth Nelson: Seriously huh. LOL! Where has he been the past centuries of movie making? LOL!
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    Image of omgwtflolbbqbye omgwtflolbbqbye
    11/18/09

    @InfiniteMonkey: Lol! Lol! Lol! yea I musta been living under a rock! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol! Lol!
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/17/09

    In reply to Get Your First Peek At Legion's Heavenly Warfare
    I'm sorry, but this movie just looks dreadful. #legion
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    Image of Hotscot Hotscot
    11/17/09

    @Perhaps Not: Why do you say that? I wasn't aware that enough material or clips had been released to enable a considered opinion. #legion
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    Perhaps Not promoted this comment Hotscot was starred Hotscot was unstarred
    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/17/09

    @Hotscot: Given that its director is primarily a visual effects supervisor, and that its co-screenwriter (with said FX expert) is primarily an editor, and that its release date is set for late January alongside the Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson masterpiece "The Tooth Fairy," and that the trailer gives no evidence of interesting characters or a plot that was not cobbled together from lesser Garth Ennis comic books and Clive Barker novels and video games, I feel that I have exactly as much information as I need.
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    Image of Hotscot Hotscot
    11/17/09

    @Perhaps Not: I wasn't aware that a trailer had been released yet. I'll have a look. Not interesting then? #legion
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    Image of phoghat phoghat
    11/17/09

    @Hotscot:
    A nice and juicy Red Band Trailer is available at [www.legionmovie.com] #legion
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    Image of Hotscot Hotscot
    11/17/09

    @phoghat: Thanks. What did you think of the trailer? #legion
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    Hotscot was starred Hotscot was unstarred
    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/17/09

    @Hotscot: Pardon my sarcasm, in that case. I didn't much like the trailer, though I thought some of the demons looked cool. I'll just go back and reread "Preacher," of which this looks pretty derivative (to me, at least). What did you think? #legion
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    Perhaps Not was starred Perhaps Not was unstarred
    Image of Hotscot Hotscot
    11/17/09

    @Perhaps Not: No problem. I agree with you on the Preacher look and it makes me wish they had made that instead. However I'm a sucker for biblical, hell on earth type stories. eg The Prophecy, Supernatural etc..

    Incidentally when I moved from Scotland to the US I brought very few possessions with me. My "Planetary" and "Preacher" collection. #legion
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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    11/18/09

    @Hotscot: Well, you'll get your wish soon - Sam Mendes is definitely signed on to make a "Preacher" movie, though I'm not sure how it will work or if it will get finished. Lotta people after that property, though I think they probably should have made it an HBO maxiseries, as was originally planned.
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    Image of geesejuggler geesejuggler
    11/16/09

    In reply to Geeking Out About Genres With Michael Chabon
    I love the principle of "I am my own sequel." I'm borrowing that from him. Honestly speaking, no one is the same person they were 5 or 10 years ago and if they are, they're idiots. #michaelchabon
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    Image of Chip Overclock Chip Overclock
    11/16/09

    @geesejuggler: It's not even physically true, given the rate of cell replacement. #michaelchabon
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    Image of lightninglouie lightninglouie
    11/13/09

    In reply to Jim Caviezel: We Turned The Prisoner Into A Friendly Gitmo
    Jim "Jeebus McTorture" Caveziel as Number Six? Next you're gonna tell me they cast Brandon Routh as Dylan Dog...

    ...waitaminute...

    Aw crap. #theprisoner
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    lightninglouie was starred lightninglouie was unstarred
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