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Post by skovrecky on Sept 3, 2008 14:43:51 GMT -5
I can't do the kindle thing. It just isn't the same as a good ole book for me. I don't quite like them. I'll have to give it another shot.
I still don't do the iPod thing and I threw away my cell phone. All of this shit is just too much.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 3, 2008 15:29:54 GMT -5
I kinda wanna throw away my cellphone, yarp.
No iPod for me and I'm not sure I'll ever get excited about them enuff to get one.
It's the whole laborious process of dl'ing all that shit and click / dragging it around.
But the Kindle - ? I'm hooked barb line and sinker. And I'm the greatest book lover I know.
I just got waaaay too many of em, and the more Stephen Kings that loom on the horizon,
the less I want to deal with all that hefty paper and needless logging. Did you know that it takes a forest the size of Latvia just to produce one Stephen King Bestseller ?
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Post by skovrecky on Sept 3, 2008 16:20:53 GMT -5
Yeah, it makes sense believe me. I'll have to check it out. It's mostly due to the fact that I work in IT so it I stare at a computer screen all day. I don't know if I want to do it at night when I get home either.
I think the best portable music device is the portable record players that you can get from Numark. If only you could put it in your car without your vinyl melting would everything be BOSS.
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 3, 2008 16:22:41 GMT -5
WALL-E was fucking great!
that is all.
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Post by skovrecky on Sept 3, 2008 16:23:55 GMT -5
Wall-E was great. Tis true.
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 3, 2008 17:45:53 GMT -5
shit! why did i say 'that is all'??
aw fuck it...yay, skv!
i'm glad you liked it let alone saw it!
a wonderful 'message movie' on a lot of different levels.
i'll bet dwazee's seen it too...la-la-la-laaaa.
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Post by Dwazee on Sept 3, 2008 19:01:16 GMT -5
i liked wall-e because he was disgustingly cute. and really, that's all you need to win me over  i google cute animal pictures so i can coo and aww over them. eheheeh |
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 9, 2008 10:33:29 GMT -5
Caught HANCOCK at the dollar theater and I just want to say - -I will never see that dollar seventy-five again. You might think "what's a dollar seventy five, c'mon" but I assure you. I could've tipped a barista, bought a 100% pure apple drink, anything instead of wasting two hours of my life in a shoddy bucket seat.
I've never hated on Will Smith, myself. Until now. I always kinda thought he was just "Ok" in a few movies I'd seen. I, Robot was "Ok". Men In Black was perhaps a bit better than Ok, and Will Smith fit that role in a pretty Ok manner, I'd say. All this glossification over the facts of the matter have come to an abrupt end. You might say my laisezz-faire bubble has been popped. You might even say my hatred for Will Smith has been freshly awakened at last.
Where to begin. What astonishes me is that there exists the committee out there to pump out this sort of dreck to us baby bird masses. And we gurgle it down like so many blind, featherless fetuses. I'm just going to say that for me to even swallow the premise of this movie - -that Will Smith is a bum with superpowers-- required most all of my own superpower, the suspension of disbelief. At a certain point of the movie, something so inherently unbelievable that its outright laughable occured, and the whole thing came collapsing down around me as I was unable to withhold such preposterous tonnage aloft. From that point on - (which was probably the halfway point in the movie although it seemed interminably far into it) - the "plot" (if you can call it that) just went off on a wildly incongruous series of increasingly idiotic spinoffs to the point that my jaw dropped in numbed disbelief, I looked over at my girlfriend, and began paying more attention to her.
Of course, being the well-programmed Celluloid Dream Receptors that we are, our attentions would once again return to the big dumb screen ahead of us and to the unfathomable goings-on of the insipid characters hacked out by what has to be the most retarded committee of factory churned pulp parody bullcrap the world has ever seen.
Allow me this moment to take this review to the next level, whilst I look up the credits for these particular offendors so that I might proclaim here loud and clearly on this public internet forum for you to Beware! Beware! of these notorious and criminically misguided excuses for patently unpalatable movie pap:
Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan, step right up! You're on the Christ, That Ain't Right show! As the writers of this train wreck of a movie, you deserve the main booby prize. Unless I soften up a bit from our post -dollar -date -rape affair, I am going to go out of my way to avoid any movie with your names on it, m'k.
Peter Berg, come on down! As the Director of this almost unprintably offensive exercise in humorless malice, I award you Worse Than Uwe Boll Status [WTUBS] and that means that every movie you ever made before this will go down permanently in our archives as "Insufferably Pretentious" and will retroactively be deemed "Inherently Unwatchable" regardless of how well its brainwashed target-audience was tricked into receiving it back then.
Hmm, Chicago Hope... there's a show I'll never watch. "Very Bad Things", that was with Christian Slater, wasn't it? Piece o'shit. You did the pilot and first episode of Wonderland, I'll cross that right off my list. Oh and you did Friday Night Lights . . . I see.
A glorified TV director that made it on to movies by some terrible mistake.
So there you have it. Take my advice and save your dollar and avoid seeing HANCOCK at all costs. Did I mention Charlize Theron was in it ? Forget about it kid, she was the absolute worst part of the whole sordid affair. Like I said, take my advice and save your dollar and tip your barista instead. It'll build up a helluva stronger charge in your karma than seeing this stillbirth of an abortion onscreen.
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Post by rocknroller on Sept 9, 2008 18:03:22 GMT -5
I've loved Will Smith since "The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air" and was thrilled that he successfully leaped from the small screen to the big screen. "Independence Day" was just awesome. "Men In Black" (o.k. the FIRST one) was awesome as well. Memorable mentions include "I Robot" (I positively drooled over his naked rear end shower scene) and "I Am Legend." He's a good (not great but good) actor. His rap is good as well. One of the few rap artists I actually really enjoy.
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Post by rocknroller on Sept 9, 2008 18:03:40 GMT -5
Rented today:  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 10, 2008 9:19:23 GMT -5
^ That's Val Kilmer ? Looks more like Jeff Bridges don't it kinda though ....?
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Post by samplestiltskin on Sept 10, 2008 11:28:12 GMT -5
Will Smith is an abysmal actor, regardless of how much I enjoy Fresh Prince re-runs. Don't even lie to yourself.
And the last thing I want to do is sit and read a book on my computer screen. Fuck Latvia.
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Post by Thorngrub on Sept 10, 2008 12:33:35 GMT -5
It ain't a computer screen.
It's a glare-free simulation of actual real white paper with black inked words on it. It isn't glossy at all, but flat white and black. That shit is the bomb ass diggedy yo
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Post by samplestiltskin on Sept 10, 2008 13:43:27 GMT -5
What the pho? I have to look this up.
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Post by samplestiltskin on Sept 10, 2008 13:57:39 GMT -5
wow, that does look pretty awesome. my gut doesn't like the turn toward technology over good old-fashioned tree murdering, and likes the sentimental old book smell. i can think of plenty of things to care about that aren't getting new-fangled devices to replace horrible things happening. but hey. who am i stand in the way of commerce.
JAC - that moment in Magnolia that pans to the sign that says "but it did happen." just pushed me over the edge. I was already very affected by the movie, about three quarters of the way through it, and then... POW.
Most people I've talked to don't like Magnolia. I actually stopped asking people if they've seen it, because all they ever say is "Oh, that movie with the raining frogs?" Bleh. Way to latch obtusely onto an actually small moment in the movie and dismiss it for the absurdity. So in a sense, Magnolia actually made me hate people!
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i google cute animal pictures so i can coo and aww over them. eheheeh