Okay Bond! You win.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:17 pm

Blixa wrote:also that sad Brit married to that old woman who can't act and can't act her age (which is probably 120 in minus-talent years). Well ok, Guy Ritchie did direct a good Nike commercial once, but every f*****g time they show it they've edited out more violence.

Jeez I hate Madonna [for her music and for her abandonment of her country to move to England and act like she's a Brit despite living here for 40+ years]. Can you believe she made it into the top 100 Artists of Rock put up by VH1 a few years ago? Seriously...*vomit*

Post by **_Blixa** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 5:57 pm

Bond...James Bond wrote:
Blixa wrote:also that sad Brit married to that old woman who can't act and can't act her age (which is probably 120 in minus-talent years). Well ok, Guy Ritchie did direct a good Nike commercial once, but every f*****g time they show it they've edited out more violence.

Jeez I hate Madonna [for her music and for her abandonment of her country to move to England and act like she's a Brit despite living here for 40+ years]. Can you believe she made it into the top 100 Artists of Rock put up by VH1 a few years ago? Seriously...*vomit*

Have you seen recent photos? I may start pitying her, instead. Her face has had some major bad work (cheek implants?) see here, "Madamism" http://cityrag.blogs.com/main/2008/07/m ... lasti.html Phase two is a recent shot outside of the Manhattan Kabbalah Center during the A-Rod controversy.

I'm not going to even comment on the nightmare-causing horror of her arms. Hello? Body dismorphism? Man hands?

If you can see a full cut of the Nike soccer commercial Ritchie made to The Eagles of Death Metal's "Don't Speak (I Came to Make a Bang)" you'll enjoy it. Its a fun first-person camera bit, but sadly it seems each time its aired here more violent bits (tooth, vomit) are cut out. Sad, sad.

One thing I forgot to mention about In Bruges is the wonderfully soulful dog in the scene preceeding the "little dead boy" flashback. What kind of breed of dog is that? I want one. That is one rueful stare at humanity (no less than we deserve).

Yes, ok. I damned watching In Bruges again...but look, I've got, um, professional reasons, right? So I'm teaching this class on Psychoanalysis and Literature this fall and in the spring I'm scheduled to teach the film course, which I'm thinkin' if I can get enough student carryover I can turn into a Psychoanalysis and Film course, lovely, eh? So I'm looking at In Bruges with an eye to that possibility, you know, emphasis on the religious angle (thanks christian websites!!!): the talking cure + confession. Oh yeah, Bond, I got yer Foucault right here, baby!!!

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 5:06 am

Blixa wrote:Oh yeah, Bond, I got yer Foucault right here, baby!!!

Tee Hee! Guilt trip the kids, tell them you would like to teach the course but need a few student commitments to get it approved. Pedagogal power! Activate!

I just wondered about obligation some of us feel to keep responding on message boards until the debate is over. Talk about granting power...is emotional/time investment in a debate granting power to the debater/person we're talking to? But that in your Foucault pot and let it perculate.

Post by **_JonasS** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 10:39 am

You have 33 posts I coulf do that in half an our dude. I have done over a hundred posts in half an hour on another forum.

Post by **_gramps** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 1:02 pm

JonasS wrote:You have 33 posts I coulf do that in half an our dude. I have done over a hundred posts in half an hour on another forum.

What are you taking, some of that Mormon Tea, or something...?

Post by **_JonasS** » Sun Aug 03, 2008 9:28 pm

gramps wrote:
JonasS wrote:You have 33 posts I coulf do that in half an our dude. I have done over a hundred posts in half an hour on another forum.

What are you taking, some of that Mormon Tea, or something...?

You what? I can honestly. I would prove it but I can't be ass'd.

Post by **_silentkid** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:01 pm

Blixa wrote:Yes, ok. I f*****g watching In Bruges again...but look, I've got, um, professional reasons, right? So I'm teaching this class on Psychoanalysis and Literature this fall and in the spring I'm scheduled to teach the film course, which I'm thinkin' if I can get enough student carryover I can turn into a Psychoanalysis and Film course, lovely, eh? So I'm looking at In Bruges with an eye to that possibility, you know, emphasis on the religious angle (thanks christian websites!!!): the talking cure + confession.

I'd love to sit in on that class...if only I didn't live so damn far away. In Bruges is my favorite movie of the year and I don't envision anything taking its place.

On a totally unrelated note: Have any of you seen King of Kong? I just watched it and it's one of the coolest documentaries I've seen in a while.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:08 pm

silentkid wrote:On a totally unrelated note: Have any of you seen King of Kong? I just watched it and it's one of the coolest documentaries I've seen in a while.

LOL. Yeah I've seen it. I thought it rather overdone and tedious, even the fight scenes on the Island [the only action until the last scenes] were drawn out. I did like the homage to former Jackson movie Braindead with the "beware the Rat Monkey" crate on the boat. Mostly I came away shocked that Jack Black could turn in a serious performance. I spent most of the movie waiting for someone to snap their fingers and make him come out of the hypnotic trance he so obviously was placed in [probably by Peter Jackson]. It just didn't seen natural watching serious Jack Black for 3 hours.

Post by **_silentkid** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 9:46 pm

Bond...James Bond wrote:
silentkid wrote:On a totally unrelated note: Have any of you seen King of Kong? I just watched it and it's one of the coolest documentaries I've seen in a while.

LOL. Yeah I've seen it. I thought it rather overdone and tedious, even the fight scenes on the Island [the only action until the last scenes] were drawn out. I did like the homage to former Jackson movie Braindead with the "beware the Rat Monkey" crate on the boat. Mostly I came away shocked that Jack Black could turn in a serious performance. I spent most of the movie waiting for someone to snap their fingers and make him come out of the hypnotic trance he so obviously was placed in [probably by Peter Jackson]. It just didn't seen natural watching serious Jack Black for 3 hours.

I'm talking about this movie. Jackson's King Kong was pretty much crap. King of Kong is a documentary about a bunch of retro-gaming nerds that compete for the high scores on old arcade games like Pacman, Asteroids, and Donkey Kong. There's this guy named Billy Mitchell who is the uber nerd. He has the sweetest hair ever. You've got to watch it, it's hilarious.

Post by **_Bond...James Bond** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:31 pm

silentkid wrote:I'm talking about this movie. Jackson's King Kong was pretty much crap. King of Kong is a documentary about a bunch of retro-gaming nerds that compete for the high scores on old arcade games like Pacman, Asteroids, and Donkey Kong. There's this guy named Billy Mitchell who is the uber nerd. He has the sweetest hair ever. You've got to watch it, it's hilarious.

Sorry. I think I'll wait for someone to hijack it and put it online.

[I doubt he has sweeter hair than that mop of silentkids'.]