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11/24/09
11/24/09
Smokin weed smokin weed drinkin beers. Pack of wraps brother man.
11/24/09
11/24/09
I've seen it again since.
It's not good.
It's got Shannon Whirry in it.
It's got Anna Katerina in it .....
..... who next year, credited as Anna Katarina, played the ex-wife of Michael Douglas's character, in David Fincher's gorgeous movie 'The Game'.
Omega Doom was based, like Akira Kurosawa's 'Yoyimbo', Sergio Leone's 'A Fistful of Dollars' and the Coen brother's wonderful, wonderful 'Miller's Crossing', on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 detective novel 'Red Harvest', which featured his eternal protagonist, the nameless 'The Continental Op', who was, in turn, based on Hammett's own work, as a (disillusioned) Pinkerton, strikebreaking for brutal mine bosses in 1916 Butte, Montana.
The story of a 1916 labourer, fleeing the consequences of killing his brutal boss, is the basis for Terrence Malick's, photogenic elegy to 'The Golden Hour', 1978's 'Days of Heaven', which was narrated by its ethereal ingenue star Linda Manz .....
..... who returned, once, after a twelve year absence from the screen and history, to play the unrecognizable, butch, tattooed roommate of Michael Douglas's co-star in 'The Game', only to then disappear once more, this time apparently forever.
For some reason I know all this.
Somebody take my head.
Please.
11/24/09
11/15/09
11/15/09
11/15/09
11/15/09
11/15/09
But Emmerich does Disaster porn great. So when the world comes to an end..he's the guy I want directing it!! Literally! Visually it looks stunning. Its one of my guilty pleasures, and I dont mind admitting it.
I wonder what our heroes will outrun this time. Independance Day = Fireball. The Day After Tomorrow = The cold (Scoff). Stargate = Pissed off Egyptians. So 2012 should have them outrunning the END!!!!
Bring on the cinema visit. I want my world rocked for 2 hours!! #2012
11/15/09
1 California sinking (in a limo)
2 Yellowstone erupting (in a winebago)
3 Las Vegas sinking (in an Antonov airplane)
4 Almost colliding with Mount Everest (in an ark)
So, disaster porn, yes it is. Good storytelling and science, meh
11/15/09
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11/15/09
11/16/09
well maybe just a little obvious. #2012
11/16/09
11/15/09
11/15/09
If you don't know the name, it's because you aren't a girl between the ages of 20-40.
If you are, Cusack can do no wrong.
If you aren't, Cusack is a pedantic douche.
You can sell a film by saying "Lloyd Dobler (insert action verb) a (insert anything), and you've got a bunch of women who are willing to see it. #2012
11/15/09
11/16/09
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11/05/09
Nah, just whiny melodrama.
-Kle. #rolandemmerich
11/04/09
11/04/09
11/04/09
11/04/09
No repercussions whatsoever. #rolandemmerich
11/05/09
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were no worse than any of the other things people did to each other in WW2. They just sound more dramatic, so they're easier to whine about.
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I somehow doubt that all the people we burned to death in Tokyo, or all the people Unit 731 tortured to death went to their graves thinking "gee, at least we weren't atomic bombed".
-Kle. #rolandemmerich
11/05/09
Yeah, you're right. Hiroshima and Nagasaki. No big deal... #rolandemmerich
11/05/09
11/05/09
My problem with the atomic bomb is not the death or destruction it wrought, the bombing of Dresden killed more people. My problem with it is the world that it ushered in. It let out a genie that can't be put back into the bottle with both positive and negative results.
"Whine to your own government, they got you into this war."
Uh...I didn't realize that the states of New Mexico, Missouri, Hawaii (where various family members were born), and Colorado (where I was born), Oakland, California (where I now live) were part of Japan. Shucks, I've been paying taxes to the wrong government.
"And I don't see how using Atomic bombs ushered in the cold war."
Then you have no grasp of history. My Filipino stepmother who just got her US citizenship probably has a firmer grasp of history. Do words like "detente", Mutually Assured Destruction, and SALT mean nothing to you? #rolandemmerich
11/06/09
Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying.
Most of those things are water under the bridge, there's absolutely no point in bitching about them any more.
The "rogue states" thing isn't worth worrying about, since nobody in the world is willing to do anything about it, except pontificate and wring their hands.
Nuclear weapons have also given us an unprecedented era w/o general major power conflicts, and I'll take that trade-off any day of the week.
-Kle. #rolandemmerich
11/04/09
It's the only structure to still be recognizable after the blast. It's remains are still there today. It's humbling to realize everything around it dates from an instant in August 6, 1945.
However, I found a little bothersome the (IMO) revisionist history one encounters at the Peace Memorial today. #rolandemmerich
11/04/09
@Chip Overclock: #rolandemmerich
11/04/09
Indeed. Japanese history books are pretty interesting. Summary: there was a war (not our fault) and we got nuked. Did we forget to tell you we got nuked? #rolandemmerich
11/04/09
I've always expected, once it became cheap enough, 3D architectural reconstruction would become folk art, much as folk paintings of early 20th century storefronts and gas stations are now. #rolandemmerich
11/04/09
and this stuff is really very easy these days...
check out some of the vids for this product - [www.procedural.com] #rolandemmerich
10/25/09
more honest i think. #avatar
10/25/09
10/25/09
Bring on December. #avatar
10/25/09
10/25/09
10/25/09
What we fail to see 10 minutes later, is Bill Paxtons character fire a harpoon right through the silly old bints head!! Screaming WHHHHHHY!!! Do you have any idea how much this fuckin research vessel and all this equipment is costing me on a daily basis!!!
Well...thats what I hope would happen! #avatar
10/25/09
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10/25/09
"I know Giger was very impressed on the set of Aliens with the level of visionary genius that Cameron had"
Do you have a reference for this statement , I was under the impression that Giger was not involved in "Aliens"
10/25/09
10/09/09
10/08/09
10/08/09
10/08/09
and then remake that to a new TV Series
and then remake that to a brand new movie
FRAK THIS !!! I have had enough of this BSG
10/08/09