The first couple of 3 Hellraiser films are worth watching but after that you have to ask how many times can you fuck a cadaver before it starts to smell bad and decompose!
Mind you I'm sure Doug Bradley stars as a gym teacher in a UK TV ad for Norwich Union?

Shaun of the Dead was a most enjoyable romp for me but I can see why some didn't find it that hot, British humour and 'in' jokes sometimes don't travel too well.

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This is quite possibly the greatest film ever made by humans:

The Shitwatcher

More at ShitMovies.net

Yea, I've had better laughs watching Blue Collar Comedy then that movie.

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Watched Southern Comfort last night. Not influenced by Deliverance then? Mind you I didn't care much for any of the characters after about 10 minutes as they were all annoying, dumb bickering fucks and I couldn't wait for them to get killed! Though I did laugh as one of the Cajun baddies looked like Dimebag!!

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Anyone mention George Orwell's (aka Eric Blair) Nineteen Eighty-Four, with John Hurt and Richard Burton? That's a fairly intense movie, helps if you read the book before hand though, definetly. I don't know if it's been brought up here yet.

Big Brother is watching.

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I would recommend "Brave New World" if it wasn't for the fact that the film version sucked ass.

I see you're a fan of big daddy Alex Jones TerrorStorm was splendid.

I forgot that there was a movie for Brave New World, though I've never seen it. If someone took the time to make a really good one with a decent budget (as in a budget as high as the ones in all of the crappy movies in theaters today with rap stars and shit) then I think that it would have the potential to be an absolutely incredible movie.

Has any one mentioned Gattaca yet? Killer film.

I haven't mentioned it in here but in the lyrics section. Thats by far my favorite movie ever. Theres alot in that movie that i really enjoy and can find a reality in.

I wrote lyrics that were somewhat inspired off that movie called "The Computer age selection."

Basically about being able to decide your youth from the start, and end up producing the ultimate human race. Eventually that human race being the most "evolutionized" race and taking over the globe and killing off the rest of the people who are not, because they dont' want there to be an uprising.

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as far as im concerned, those who dont properly interperet the wisecracks throughout that movie are dim-witted, regardless of their whereabouts. trust me, you dont have to be British to appreciate or understand that material, you just need a brain. that movie was hilarious.

Point. in. case.

I agree with tim3z, I really enjoyed Shaun of the Dead.

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It would be nice if someone was to remake it (probably the only time a remake would be tolerable). I hear that Tim Robbins has adapted a stage version of 1984, and plans to direct a remake of the feature length film at some point. Not sure what I feel about that...I guess I'll know when I see it

Just remembered there, I saw a 1954 black & white version of "1984" that was shown on British television a few years back, starring Peter Cushing as Winston Smith. To be honest, as cheap as it looked, I friggin' loved it. It stayed true to the book 99.9%, which can't in all fairness be said about the Michael Radford version (I'm not knocking it, just saying ). I think the 1954 version shows that a film can adhere to a book's content as closely as the director/screenwriter wants it to. No excuse for condensing a masterpiece!!

1984 and Brave New World are just high-budget propaganda films. There was a time, thankfully long gone, when people had to watch 1984 in school as a way of learning something. The funny thing about that film is that its best elements are a rip-off of an Apple Super Bowl commercial, directed by Ridley Scott (i.e. somebody with real vision). I'm not so sure the book has much more to offer. Brave New World would be similarly difficult to manage without being cloyingly preachy, but at least it has some transportation of worlds.

A lot of these books and films have ideas we like so much that we forgive everything else; that seems to be the case with tmfreak and Gattaca. Usually I just hope that somebody else tries something with the same idea while also understanding how to make it work.

Try Code 46, La Jetee, eXistenZ, Solyaris, Stalker, etc, plus all the really obvious ones (Bladerunner, A Clockwork Orange, 2001, and so on) for some good scifi and/or dystopias.

i have the 1984 movie...its alright..but i've never seen bnw in film format. i've read both of the books though and i loved them. i also read bnw revisited which isn't a story, just huxley getting into details about many of the issues raised in bnw. i'll have to see if they have it on netflix.

thx 1138 is another good one as far as fucked up societies go.

I read Brave New World: Revisited without putting it down once, and that's pretty impressive coming from someone who reads once a year, if even that much (well, I've read quite a lot over the past year, but in general...). Totally enthralling, for me anyway Frightening stuff, considering the fact that he wrote to book as a comment on how his visions in Brave New World were coming true sooner than he thought.

Yeah I havent seen Brave New World yet, but I do own Alex Jones TerrorStorm, as well as his Martial Law 9/11, both excellent in my opinion.

As for the 1954 black and white version of "1984" I've only heard about it, never actually seen it but I have heard good things and would definetly check it out; ofcourse the book does it for me, better than the film obviously. The movie adaptation I found intriguing just because you get to see how obrian tortures winston, and the severity of it. That was probably one of the more uncomfortabe moments I've ever experienced during a movie. Its the concept of "1984", Eric Blair's ideas, that I find interesting/relevant; especially since it was written in the '40's.

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Any fans of Scar Face?

bladerunner??

is the book even worth reading?

the theme is taken from philip k dicks "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" which would of been a better movie. maybe not as popular a movie, and would be viewed as a flop<a worthwhile one at that>,BUT the movie bladerunner itself.........does not inspire me to read whatever novel or script-novel thing that it came from. the plot was the weakest element. what made it good was how they portrayed the world philip k. envisioned. excellent sets,cinematography and effects, otherwise a b movie.

granted everyone rips off Mr. Dick anyway, then inserts a john rambo type, purge the actual story and throw in some supermodel cleavage shots and whammo!

based on the blah blah blah.....

adapted from the blah......


and that is if he's lucky, he goes uncredited for ALOT of shit ive seen.

i love the 1984 movie and thats a film that had too much on the plate for what can be told and done for an hour and a half........but it makes me reread the book or at least want to when i watch it. i think thats the ultimate compliment of book adaptation movies. its that inspiration to revisit the book, even if you have read it many times.

i wanna see moby dick made into a movie, it'll suck but it HAS to be done.

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OMG V for vendetta was my favorite!!! it wa so intelligent and so unique, well its not my favorite, to be honest my favorite is still crossroads (not the brittnay spears one)

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There are Moby Dick movies. We'll probably be getting another one soon, now that movies with ships in them seem like a good prospect again. Hopefully one by a director who knows how to exploit the space in a boat and use water well.

The director's cut of Blade Runner does as well at handling a Dick story as virtually any film has (probably can, since he's not a particularly cinematic writer), and since doing Dick has as much to do with the evocation of an alternate world as anything else, you can't separate that from the rest. It's got all the important bits about the tangled knots of truth and the confusion of identity that make up what Dick's all about, and if you can't see that you're a slave to the plot (which is the least important thing in both story and film). If you're going by the version the studio chopped, though, you're right. Not good, not Dick (and before anybody else can say it: 'not good dick' tee hee hee).

eXistenZ, though not actually an adaption of a Dick story, also gets you very, very close to his bones. Still less than the director's cut of Blade Runner, though.

Probably the best 1984 is Brazil. Though, as I said, if you can find Ridley Scott's commercial for the introduction of the Macintosh (it's on youtube and looks cheesy today, but keep in mind when it's from), you'll find the template for the 1984 1984. If you really understand why it's better, you'll get that a one minute film is probably all that 1984 can sustain without becoming simple. Largely because it's too simple, anyway, as simple as (and essentially based upon) old morality plays. Better books and films out there with the same ideas; this one caught on because the education machine knew it needed a book to get into the minds of children and implant a certain message (because of the Cold War), and the idea is to have that message as clearly stated and obvious as possible, without any intelligent layering or ambiguity. So we have a book that's mass-produced state propaganda, or if you prefer a long political slogan, about how terrible the same is. Would be great irony if it were intended, or if anybody got it.

Oh, saw The Godfather Part II on a big screen last night. Beautiful.

im hoping borat comes out near me

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He had some pretty funny moments last night on Conan..even getting Conan to admit he has red pubic hair. lol.

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Saw Five Fingers yesterday,very good movie

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fuck yea! we're hoping to get out of work early tomorrow since its friday and our boss is going out of town. if we do..we're going straight to the theater for that one before it gets crowded as hell with all the school kids running around everywhere.

haha, when kid's don't grow up. The only difference is replace boss with parents.

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Great movie indeed, adored the ending.

As for favorites, I'll have to go with Braindead

Moby Dick was based out of the city I live in. It's one of our few claims to fame, the others being former richest city in the world, former whaling capital of the world, and current heroin capital of New England according to that undouched twat Bill O'Reilly.

I just watched the Big Lebowski for the first time, and it was pretty fun.

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thats one of cool things about reading it, new bedford is close. i gotta go see those whale museams just for the fucking hell of it.

anyone see 300 spartans???

is hollywood fucking up my ancestors history?

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I had fun the first couple of times I went to the Whaling Museum. Then the New Bedford School system and the daycare I went to decided I needed to see it 100 more times, and I did not agree. I haven't been there in a while, though. I'd bet it's a little better now.

I'd really like to see the railroad museum in Fall River. It's part of the Battleship Cove, which was another field trip destination I hated as a kid. Of course, we never got to see the railroad museum, just a lameass carousel and some boring slide show on the history of mills in the region. Yeah, put a bunch of kids in a room and educate them about one of the more depressing aspects of human history, replete with still black and white photos of mills that are depressing enough to see in color... that's a good idea!

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300 (I'm assuming you don't mean the 1962 film The 300 Spartans) isn't so much Hollywood fucking up your ancestors' history as them banking on the success of Sin City to make them money by adapting another stylized Frank Miller project, the comic 300. Which, of course, isn't historically accurate. Then again, neither are any of the other accounts we have about Thermopylae.

Here's a little story synopsis of the comic, so you can decide for yourself whether or not to be offended: http://www.night-flight.com/fmiller/fmiller300.html

didnt know it was based on a comic.

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just watched american werewolf in london..the one from 1981. i thought it was pretty good. probably my favorite werewolf movie i've seen so far. only seen a few though...the howling, silver bullet..and i think thats it..or at least all i can think of right now.

HARSH TIMES: I cannot correctly put it in words, or even recommend it. It is VERY intense, and VERY realistic to the point of fright. It's depressing and scary, but SO SO SO well done.
Me and my friend actually felt that confused feeling after going through "shock" afterwards. It really is that intense.
It's not a gore fest at all either.

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very suprised at this movie and was dissapointed that the dvd didnt include any commentary. this movie doesnt escape the hollywoodness formula completely but was FAR better than the previous movies. OMG character development, grey areas between good and evil, batman crying like a bitch after an asswhoopin......good stuff

alien vs predator

straight up just watched the movie with commentary, the characters are so hollow yoiu dont miss them when they die and the plot simply.........stinks. its hard to completely hate this movie because there was alot of care going into the costumes,aliens and effects.

the sequal should naturally take place in mexico, a story about the aztecs, pre colonial times and how the alien vs predator story is placed in. basically, those clips of the backstory totally outshined the actual movie itself. too bad it would never be made that way.

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Not until you make it, LT.

I'm about to go see Satantango. It's 7.5 hours long, split into 2.5 hour blocks. If it isn't as good as expected, I will be very frustrated and confused in a few hours.

haha, I would be too.

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i saw the princess bride on bravo last night around 2 o'clock in the morning. what a fantastic movie.......

this was the first time i actually paid attention to the dialog because all the other times, i just watched the movie for the action. billy crystal makes an awesome appearance. who else loves this movie?

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That is one of my favorite movies. I watched it almost daily on tape when I was a kid. Andre The Giant wasn't much of an actor, but he fit his charecter well. Inigo Montoya is my favorite charecter. The movie has so many memorable lines, but his is the best.

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I love that movie as well. Very funny. I love when you first meet Andre, that fight scene is great.

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hmmm maybe i'll have to check this movie out. i've never watched it..mainly because i don't know what its about. after hearing the title princess bride i always assumed it was a movie for little girls.

its cool, it got andre the giant who...motherfucking...steals the show in my book.


its like....a family movie or something, but amusing.

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am i the only one who loves Timeline? that movie is just amazing, IMO. i even had a dream that concerned it the other night. here is the story, in a nutshell: my friend goes back in time, his current self is captured by criminals, and his past self must return to explain what has happened. then, me and his past self go back to kill the criminals before they are able to confront his present self. ahhh, i just loved it. its like a story i couldnt have thought of, although i did, because it was my dream!!!

EDIT: on second thought, my dream has nothing to do with the movie's story, but im too lazy to fuck up the original post in trying to correct it, and im drunk.... bad.

Just watched Once Upon a Time in America. Damn fantastic.

lol..I've never seen Timeline...and I really don't know how to respond to your post either.

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For the record, Satantango ruled. Spending around ten hours to watch a movie is a pretty strange experience.

Once Upon a Time in America is fantastic.

Finally got round to watching Lik Wong (The Story of Ricky) and I loved every cheese filled, slapstick gory minute of it. No CGI, just rubber and fake blood (lots of it). Completely over the top martial arts, silly and well worth watching and I'm not normally one for liking comic book adaptations.

Also watched 'The Business' which came with the rather grandiose braggart of a tag line 'The film touted as the British Goodfellas'. We'll see if in 10 years time people revere this in the same light as Scorsese's flick? It wasn't a bad Brit flick when all said and done. A few nice set pieces, the usual story of rags to riches and back to rags etc set in the Costa Del. Interesting scene with a sewage waste pipe so don't be eating anything towards the end of the movie!

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yeah machinest was good i saw it a couple days ago

thx 1138

this movie is really cool, not a huge fan of lucas but i really like this movie.

BUT,its unoriginal, the plot is pretty much a mismatch of 1984 and brave new world with a touch of indiana jones or something, its way to derivitive without adding anything to those dystopian/negative utopian worlds/concepts.....it borrows those themes,,,not much else. the cinematography, the sets,the sound is all really cool.

my opinion on george lucas is he is great at special effects, sounds, cinematography.......but he has no business writing a script and directing......and his skills were good for star wars<despite the limited effects of that time> and now have descended into the cgi abyss where his effects team is so good at it that its like an obsession that totally ruined those star wars prequels.

the dvd i watched had the new cgi parts.....most of which were completely dumb/pointless and better off left out. he even inserted a wookie reference into this film......which goes to show the....thoughtlessness, the shallow vision he has for his films in general.

why make a star wars reference???

if george lucas played blackmetal hed name his band "blackthrone" and it would sound like darkthrone but with the highest end recording technology on the planet. it would be the most formulaic,safest thing possible. his band would be excellent at sounding like darkthrone, let me tell you

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I just saw Accepted, it was an okay movie.

The word 'wookie' in Star Wars comes from its random use by some extra in THX 1138. The original cut has the 'I think I ran over a wookie back there' line. It's a THX reference in Star Wars, not an inserted Star Wars reference in THX.

Oh my god, YES.

watched an inconvenient truth

a big meh

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To be fair, they wouldn't actually be any good at sounding like Darkthrone. They'd sound like a clumsy, half-assed, overproduced Darkthrone with as many synthetic performances as possible replacing the actual.

How exciting were you expecting a slide show to be?

didnt know that about the wookie, my mistake.

thx is a good movie tho.

just watched the predator, 2 governors vs ET on steriods. the movie rules, they even killed a russian commie somewhere in there.............ahhhh...the 80's.

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Damn. Robert Altman died. We're all a little poorer.

sucks about altman. never got too into his works..but i have watched a handful of episodes of mash.

any of you canadians see trailer park boys yet? or at least know when the dvd is scheduled for release?? i think we're gonna end up having to order the dvd..or wait for someone else to order it and put it online.

American History X was a good movie if you haven't seen it go rent/buy it! It's a movie worth keeping in the collection.

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i didnt know what i was getting myself into hahaha, i thought itd be a movie movie not al gore talking with pieces of almost completely irrelvant personal data mixed in

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In that movie gummo
there is this sick sabbath-esque song in the beginning
they are riding down the hill on their bikes.
If any of you have seen the movie could you tell me what song that is?
I checked the credits and didn't see black sabbath in there. but there was two really sick black metal songs in that movie.
So if you know what that one song is, could you give me the name of it? or the name of the band?

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i know one of the songs was by burzum...i can't honestly remember the other band.

Has anyone seen Casino Royale?

Yeah. It's good. The opening chase scene, despite being almost entirely vehicle-free, is one of the best in any Bond movie, if not ever.

I think the song in Gummo is by Sleep. Don't know the specific song, but www.imdb.com usually has soundtrack listings, and even if it doesn't, www.amazon.com will.

Just watched Arlington Road. Fantastic film. Also saw American Graffiti a couple of nights ago, and it was pretty good - the cars were lovely.

Agreed with the opening scene, but i thought the film itself was fairly weak for all the hype that there's been.

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I could have sworn I had anwsered this. Did you ask this somewhere else?

The song is Dragonaut by Sleep off of "Sleep's Holy Mountain"

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^ Someone did not sure if it was him but i have seen that before.

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pirates of the carribean, dead mans chest.

sat down for this, saw the disney logo and thought "this shit is gonna suck" and was suprised to see peoples throats slit,eyes ripped out by crows, murdered, smashed, falling off cliffs, blood and gore.

i have to admit it was a fun movie, it wasnt a "good" movie, but im partial to the whole sea monster thing from reading moby dick.

roomate just got kirosawas "Ran" on dvd with tons of extra stuff and commentary<some film academic doing the commentary>......hell yeah.

apparently mel gibson made a mayan powerviolence b-movie, this sounds good, in a bad way.

im starting to dig gibson, hes getting good and spending alot of dough on alot of bad, bad ideas. from the sound of this movie, its like cannibal holocaust but with a 500 miliion dollar budget. let me show you what that sum of money looks like:

500,000,000.00. pretty fucking penny there

cgi gore, cinematographic mastery all in the name of violence with no real substance or interuption, i........am........psyched.

im sure anyone whos central american or had done research in that region in the whatever scientific/historical academia will be deeply....deeeply motherfucking offended.

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Just saw The Pick of Destiny. Pretty fun movie.

Un chien andalou.

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Yeahyeahyeah!!!! My brother saw a clip of the movie on david letterman and he said even THAT was pretty violent. some guy was getting impaled with a spear and the main charecter was deciding whether to throw him in a pit with his family or not. I'm not too familiar with the actual story though. Is it loosely based on the Mayans, or hardly based at all?

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Name of the movie?

Apocolyptica.

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Whats up with Gibson and gore? Its kinda funny.

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hes a fucking nut! thats what.. hah who knows, after his one outburst..who knows what else lurks in that skull.

Gibson is in/ makes some of the best movies ever, id on't care if he hates jews, i like his movies
Bravheart
Road Warrior
We were soldiers
soon to beAPOCALYPTICA

its going to be sick, in two meanings

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just watched Gradmas Boy

It was the funniest movie i've seen since...shit nothing

you and me are having a post-off right now, and im winning

BTW: "seth just sucked his first tit, he's been going at it for over 8 hours!"

hahahahaha that is funny

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Correction he sucked the tit for 13 hours

touche

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Watched Dumplings, which wasn't too bad but not as great as I'd thought it would be seeing as it was touted as being up there with the works of Miike or Chan wook Park. Nether the less I can see why people preferred the shortened version that appeared on the 3 Extremes.

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He was drunk!!! Depending on the success of his movie, he will probably drink some more and have whatever he says next blamed on him being a heartless bastard, rather than a drunken depresserd.

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ahh just like people using being drunk as an excuse for banging a fat chick...i don't buy it! being drunk just loosens up their inhibitions and (in their mind) offers a slight shield to block responsibility for their actions.

i've been drunk many times, and i've done things i normally wouldn't do (getting freaky with a big lady was not one of them )...but i think i really wanted to do them. whenever i was sober, my soberiety told me not to do it for whatever reason...add booze and suddenly, the reasons i wouldn't normally do said action don't seem to matter as much.

having said that..i'll probably get really wasted and do something really stupid this weekend..

I agree with your point.

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i've got this on disc..pretty interesting/weird. my favorite part is where the guy cuts the girls eyeball with the razor and it shows a cloud "slicing" across the moon. oh and where hes staring/grabbing her boobs and her shirt disappears.




there is no evidence to support this claim!


edit...oh yea and grandma's boy was hilarious! i had never even heard of it before and my friends were saying it was great, so i got it through netflix. watched it a couple times before sending it back. i think i had some of the brown bomber last night!

you know, a movie about pre-colonial native culture is actually a great idea, but from what i can glean from reviews of this its nothing more than a premise to make a very intense action movie with cinematic gore.


i still wanna see it tho.

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Ahh yes...this may work FOR YOU but how you act when drunk is not the archetype for everyone else. For example, we all know the guy who gets really pissed off and overtly brave when drunk and fights people. Then there are the guys who get all sexually worked up. Then there are the guys like PST 88 who still act normal (from what he said anyway.) From your posts, you sound like the guy who would just sorta mellow out and laugh at everything (don't mean to be insulting or anything, that is just the impression I got. ). Plus there is the whole tolerance level issue. But anyway, just cause in your experience being drunk does not really alter how you think, it does not apply to every single person's intoxicated mindset.

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You have a really good point.

I'm the kind of guy that laughs and mellows out. I drink to have a good time, not to be angry and fight people, or cause a ruckus. Ok, maybe a ruckus sometimes.

Grandma's Boy was really funny..I thought it was going to be terrible but that was not the case.

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yea, i guess you are right. different people react in as many ways as their are personalities. i still think there are underlying psychological factors that dictate who you "become" when you are drunk though. people that get all crazy and tough, probably think (while sober) that they are tough..yet they don't go out picking fights like they do when they are drunk. people that get all depressed when drunk, likely have some issue(s) in their sober life that are carrying over, etc. i have heard of alcohol being referred to as a "truth serum"..it was pretty tongue in cheek though.

i think the simpsons explanation of barney's level of drunkness was pretty good! i can't remember all the stages..but one was "professor barney" where he thought he was smart, and the last one was him shitfaced coming down the stairs in marge's clothes and a wig!

i used to get pretty rowdy and worked up, but would just fuck around with my friends and roommates and get into fake fights. granted there were some painful results haha, but never a serious fight. you hit the nail on the head though..most of the time i just get pretty mellowed out and laugh at shit or play guitar..at least until i decide i'm not capable of playing anymore.

Alcohol is a depressant and it's affects can largely depend on the mood of an individual at the time. Alcohol firstly elevates the mood but after a short period it drops and cause maudlin thoughts or depression etc It also loosens inhibitions, people feel indestructible and do things they wouldn't normally do(like shag a fat bird) Alcohol deadens the senses and impairs judgement it also overrides the brains natural 'hand brakes' such as serotonin. This is often why people 'lose control', go crazy and become violent and destructive after a drink.

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There is actually a very good reason for this. Most men would like to fuck fat chicks, but don't because the very thought is too embarassing to bear. The thought of other people, especially their friends and male peers, finding out is a devastating thought that serves as the ultimate deterrent. Men are naturally geared toward women that aren't necessarily fat, but are certainly larger than the supermodel type of women that most men would like to have others perceive as their type.

Thusly, men are most strongly attracted to women both somewhat smaller than and somewhat larger than normal sized women, and most men are not instinctively turned off by heavy women. Most men are cognitively turned off by heavy women.

Now, we all know that alcohol breaks down your wall of inhibition. Thusly, the fears that one would normally associate with (and thusly avoid) fucking a fat girl disappear completely, only to return in the morning and leave you feeling like absolute shit.

This also occurs for women, but for women the fear isn't necessarily the thought of other women perceiving them as sleeping with unattractive men as it is with the thought of other women perceiving them as a 'slut'. They are naturally geared toward sexual activity almost as much as men, but because of those socially imposed constraints, they keep things in check to a strong degree. Again, alcohol destroys those inhibitions and that is why it's illegal to get a woman drunk and fuck her.

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Seriously?


I dunno...peer pressure can help in times of need.

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Chris...

Fuck you. Ok.

I can have sex with as many milfs who are drunk and desperate/horny as i like... legally.. cause i'm over 18. ok.?

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I act normal online while drunk. In person is another story, depending on how drunk.

It's not legal to get a woman drunk expressly so her judgment will be impaired enough for her to fuck you. However, it's (obviously) legal to fuck a drunk woman. That said, I'm not sure how easy it is either to prove or disprove that somebody got somebody else fucked up for no reason other than to take advantage of that state.

Saw Apocalypto. If you're expecting good gore, don't. If you're expecting the large budget to show cinematically, don't. If you're expecting to have fun, wait until the human sacrifice, because you probably won't until then. When it goes from having a real story to just being an extended chase sequence, it's actually pretty good, especially as it toys with the notion of the jungle as a character. Of course, it's all a setup to imply that Christianity saved the indigenous people of South America from their barbaric and terrible selves, which is pretty insulting, but if you like to be entertained while insulted it's not a bad way to spend your $7.50.

Also saw Marie Antoinette. Don't bother. Un Chien Andalou and L'Age D'Or are both great.

Saw "Amelie" yesterday, throughly enjoyed it, filmed with that quirky French style, get's a recommendation from me!

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I just watched a Japanese film called Audition. Starts off slow, then starts to get genuinely creepy, then it gets really wierd, disturbing and gruesome towards the end. I'd recommend giving it a look. It has a really good torture scene.

Everybody watch The Running Man.

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ooo i saw that about a year ago.

i love how by the end all i could think was "i feel sick. why am i watching this. I cant turn away though. ohmygod. awwwwwwwwwsoooooooome"

one of my favorite movies ever. the 45 minutes of boringness makes the end even better, because of the contrast to the horror of the end.

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Miike's awesome. The Running Man isn't.

What 45 minutes of boringness???? The whole build up was excellent the whole film awesome!!!

Miike is a god, you should watch Visitor Q, Gozu, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Ichi the Killer, Imprint, MPD Psycho, Graveyard of Honor to name but a few!!!

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The Running Man book is absolutely fantastic.

The Warriors
The Longest Day
Saving Private Ryan
Identity
Dead Alive
Cannibal Holocaust
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Last Man Standing
Legend of Hell House
Exorcist III
Omen and Omen II
Dagon
The Thing

and any Star Wars