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Post by luke on Dec 6, 2005 9:40:30 GMT -5
To counter all of the inane and stupid polls growing by the numbers here, I decided to create something meaningful.
I'm not sure who I vote for. Ness is more meaningful in his tributes and covers, but something about the bowed up midget Elvis is just so fitting to The King's legacy.
Bonus Points- Who would you/your wife/your girlfriend/your mom rather bang, young Elvis or Mike Ness?
(C'mon, guys, I just woke up, cut me some slack.)
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Post by luke on Dec 6, 2005 9:41:51 GMT -5
And yeah, I said "better" twice. Bitches.
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Post by tuneschick on Dec 6, 2005 11:47:31 GMT -5
Bonus Points- Who would you/your wife/your girlfriend/your mom rather bang, young Elvis or Mike Ness? I think my vote is probably pretty clear. |
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Post by luke on Dec 6, 2005 12:40:55 GMT -5
I knew I could count on you to keep me from just talking to myself on this thread, tunes.
I think I'm gonna vote for Ness, too. After seeing Walk the Line, too, it really sinks in just how Johnny Cash his whole stint is.
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Post by tuneschick on Dec 6, 2005 13:25:11 GMT -5
Yeah, he's got a pretty serious Johnny thing happening... but done well, I think (OK, I'm really trying to be unbiased, but it's hard for me.)
Haven't seen Walk the Line yet, but the hubby and are going next week I think. Didja like it? Reviews here have been sort of mixed - nothing scathing, but some pretty middle-of-the-road reviews.
Someone at work told me the other day that they want to get the soundtrack... because once they saw the movie, they wanted to to own some Johnny Cash. It took me awhile to make them realize how retarded it was to buy a CD of actors singing his songs as opposed to actually going out and buying the real thing. How is that hard to understand?
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Post by Rit on Dec 6, 2005 13:55:10 GMT -5
Someone at work told me the other day that they want to get the soundtrack... because once they saw the movie, they wanted to to own some Johnny Cash. It took me awhile to make them realize how retarded it was to buy a CD of actors singing his songs as opposed to actually going out and buying the real thing. How is that hard to understand? damn straight. |
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Post by luke on Dec 6, 2005 14:00:52 GMT -5
When the movie's good, it's great. But when it's bad, it hits made-for-TV lows. It's mostly great, though. Pheonix sounds just like Cash, but Witherspoon sounds more like Witherspoon trying to sound like June Carter. I really enjoyed the film, though.
And yeah, your co-worker sounds, well...kinda thick.
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Post by Rit on Dec 6, 2005 14:34:37 GMT -5
i thought Witherspoon did a better job than Pheonix, who was sometimes off the mark.
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Post by tuneschick on Dec 6, 2005 14:37:48 GMT -5
When the movie's good, it's great. But when it's bad, it hits made-for-TV lows. It's mostly great, though. Pheonix sounds just like Cash, but Witherspoon sounds more like Witherspoon trying to sound like June Carter. I really enjoyed the film, though. And yeah, your co-worker sounds, well...kinda thick. That's awesome, because I actually called that same co-worker "thick" today on a totally unrelated matter. "Thick" is highly underrated, I believe. Yeah, I think Phoenix was born for this role, from what I've seen and heard... but I dunno, I just can't really wrap my head around Witherspoon in this role yet. I'm not totally sure I buy it, but I'll have to wait and see. Not to mention that ever since I read Kevin Smith's diatribe about her and how much of a royal bitch she is, I can't see her without thinking of what he calls her... "Greasy Reese" (pronounced gree-zee ree-zee.) It's just stuck in my brain. |
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Post by luke on Dec 6, 2005 14:38:51 GMT -5
I've seen a lot more Witherspoon than Pheonix, I'll be honest, so maybe it was more obvious to me when she sounded like Reese Witherspoon. I'm not sure how she really fooled anybody.
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Post by luke on Dec 6, 2005 14:47:43 GMT -5
Kevin Smith talks about her being a "royal bitch?" I wanna read that.
I've always found her a bit annoying, but you don't always remember that in this movie. She looks so different and stuff, so it kinda works.
You really need to see the movie if for no other reason that to experience Jerry Lee Lewis, and someone telling Johnny "Elvis takes'em."
As for thick, somebody said it the other day, and I've been using it quite a bit since then.
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Post by Rit on Dec 6, 2005 14:56:35 GMT -5
seeing the 50s rockers in the movie was great. and yeah, i remember that line from the movie about Elvis shacking up with every girl that came round. it was so well-placed. dropped like a bomb.
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Post by tuneschick on Dec 6, 2005 15:11:51 GMT -5
Yeah, it was in a book called "Silent Bob Speaks: the Collected Writings of Kevin Smith"... basically a collection of articles he wrote for some British magazine. Some fairly interesting stuff if you're a Smith fan (some of it's a little tedious, I'll admit.)
Anyway, he's got an article about this encounter he had with her back in the day when he was dating Joey Lauren Adams and she and Witherspoon were up for the same role in something or other. Can't remember the exact story - but found this article on it on the ContactMusic site:
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Movie director Kevin Smith is still smarting from a chance meeting he had with Reese Witherspoon a decade ago - because the actress struck him as a diva.
The Clerks filmmaker was at a party with his future Chasing Amy star Joey Lauren Adams when he was left less than impressed by Witherspoon's attitude.
He tells British magazine MAXIM, "Reese Witherspoon. She's a dick.
"I was at some party with Joey Lauren Adams and Reese had just got a part Joey was hoping to get.
"So Joey said, 'Hey Reese, I just wanted to say congratulations. I think you'll do really great with the part.' And Reese just gave this dead-eyed look and was like, 'Whatever...'
"What a fucking douchebag. At this point she wasn't even the Reese Witherspoon that everybody mistakenly knows and loves. She was Reese Witherspoon circa (1994 movie SFW).
"To have that kind of attitude back then; I guess she was meant for stardom."
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Anyway... all that said, she's always sort of bugged me, but I'm glad you said that you sort of forget who she is in this movie... that'll work just fine for me.
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Post by Rit on Dec 6, 2005 15:18:15 GMT -5
that seems like a very slight kind of grudge to hold. as in, Kevin's being anal.
and why should it have affected you?!
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Post by tuneschick on Dec 6, 2005 15:25:03 GMT -5
Huh?!?
Uh, it DIDN'T affect me - when did I say that? All I said was that every time I see her now, I get "Greasy Reese" stuck in my head. That was all.
I found her annoying way before I ever read that article (which was just about a year ago), so nothing changed.
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