SUPER COEN BROS trafficking in stereotypes and caricatures yes no maybe good bad who cares thread

*crickets*

yes! good!

ty tombot

I think it comes down to their best films being about MORE than just the caricatures (which, its true, are in every movie) - you know, Lebowski is a goof on the Big Sleep, Miller's Crossing is Hammett, Hudsucker is Hepburn-style screwball comedy, etc. But the reason I singled out Raising Arizona is because it doesn't have any subtext or even any real external reference points - its just wall-to-wall "laugh at the yokels" gags.

x-post

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:04 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

I vote ME
Well I vote ME
"I'm with you fellers!"

ban adam beales

-- and what (ooo), Wednesday, January 31, 2007 3:17 PM (9 months ago) Bookmark Link

the cast of leibowski... hmm, let's see... includes a burnout, a vietnam vet, a slut, a yes-man, a wealthy self-important gas-bag, a pretentious feminist, bumblimg nihilists... etc ad nauseam. YES THOSE ARE ALL INTELLIGENT, SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE, NOT STUPID AT ALL, NOPE.

xpost

-- elmo argonaut, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 5:06 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

but elmo its a riff on some old movie, therefore its ok

no that makes it less ok deeznuts

my favorite is on the other thread when cosmo says The Jesus is cool because he is an icon beloved by geeks

oh HEY WAIT, I forgot to mention the BENEVOLENT omniscient COWBOY narrator

hey check it out the hispanic sexual predator from southern california is totally hilarious

not to mention the viking opera bowling stereotype

but he is

xpost

http://www.bay-area-bands.com/pictures/bab0379.jpg xp

they do have a pretty miserable view of human connectivity -- in all their movies communication is as hopeless and self serving as in mamet. how that relates to 'stereotype' i dunno, haven't thought that through.

all the not listening in big lebowski drives me crazy - i dont understand how people can watch it over and over

i have a number of acquaintances who go to "lebowski fest" every year. i don't really like those people at all.

b/c it (TBL) is full of funny xpost

love big lebowski but its hard to have anything to say about it any more

all their movies are like that! nobody ever gets through to anybody else... that's the big tragedy of 'miller's crossing' frex.

the mishearing and repetition are funny in lebowski, my favorite screenwriterly trick is how often he picks up other people's phrases w/o any real content or intent coming along w/ it

http://lebowskifest.com/images/2003/jesus_three.jpg

I would not go to the festival (wtf lebowski/anchorman nu trekkie rocky-horror fandom ugh) but I like the movie quite a bit for being ridiculous. I love when dude goes and gets the imprint off the porn king's notepad and it turns out he was just doodling an erection

dear christ omar

I remember when we used to have one thread for cosplay photos

yah not saying its uh bad or anything - just that particular tic drives me crazy - obv thats one of the edges to the thing - too edgy for me

ITS THE I WANNA DRESS UP LIKE A FICTIONAL PEDOPHILE BOWLER THREAD

WTF u talking about, gff? the 'tragedy' of millers crossing has to do w/ tom's moment of weakness / mercy and how that eventually requires him to become a murderer. did you even watch that movie?

i don't hate TBL but jeez

i dont even like to think abt that sort of thing

Can someone take a shit on The Ladykillers so I can agree with someone on this thread?

the Coens mostly suck.

As much as I love Hudsucker Proxy, Moses the Clock Man is a textbook Magic Negro.

Ladykillers trafficked in bad everything.

god I didn't even realize people went to see Ladykillers

yes in fact i did watch that movie. being a murderer doesn't seem that tragic, in context. what i mean is: the elaborate flip floppy plot is all about a dude tied up in the masculine gangster codes so that at every turn it's impossible for him to end up with the woman he really loves (and who in fact loves him)

xps

they did not write that tho right xp ladykillers

wow the wiki page for ladykillers is like 3x as long as the one for miller's crossing. fuck u wikipedia contributorz

for being dumb and awful

biz-r wtf who cares abt ladykillers?!?!

you know which coen film I hated that I was really stoked for? TMWWT. So BORING.

gff, I still don't understand how that relates to blah blah blah human connectivity blah blah communication blah

yeah The Movie That Wasn't There is terrible

TMWWT W REALLY T

XXXXXXPPPPPPPPPP

the man who wasn't there is horrible but at least it looks good

bla blah bla

srsly guys, let's talk about "Smell Yo Dick" instead.

TMWWT is a really good boring movie

smell yo dik

well he coulda just told marcia gay he was in love w/ her but oh no, can't do that. the language in that is so baroque but it's all about preventing things from being said. the most emotionally effusive characters (the two bosses) are the most clueless

omar you can say that about any movie with scarlett J in it

Except "The Island"; that wasn't actually horrible because it didn't take itself seriously and embraced its utter ridiculousness.

Also I still like "Lost In Translation".

the island is better than 80% of the coen brothers oeuvre

backlash!

what abt jennifer conelley in the hot spot?

MOD EDIT: GUESS WHAT USED TO BE HERE

gff, you're still holding that the tom / verna relationship is the central focus of the movie, but i don't buy it.

jhøshea just saved this thread

fuck you jhoshea

lol sry

One of my best friends in town went to college with those breasts.

tombot turns tomcat and out come the claws of censorship

well i may need to ahem rescreen MC but i remember every decision tom makes being about getting closer to verna w/o telling anyone including her that's what he's really up to

that movie and the terrible bertolucci w/tonz naked liv tyler and also henry and june

good thread

Intolerable Cruelty is their most underrated (uh, maybe their only underrated).

It was a good thread before TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY

(^^^^^ song lyric y/n?)

HAWT PIX OF BEAUTIFUL NAKED ACTRESSES FROM AWEFUL MOVIES

where there's a will there's a way!

Okay now cricket is more interesting.

TMWWT on Ts

I'm not even going to NSFW that because I look forward to the mod req thread where you all complain that every picture on it has turned into lemon party/goatse/tubgirl because lol hotlinking to porn sites

2 Oscars 1 cup

TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY

Intolerable Cruelty is their most underrated (uh, maybe their only underrated).

Didn't The Hudsucker Proxy stink it up with critics + box office when it came out?

btw for future reference flezaffe earned himself a 4-day ban for posting gay fisting porn on the other thread

how many days for straight fisting porn?

no dont worry my thread is pure class

Why am I so sad today?
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
Happiness has gone away
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
Had no chance to make them stay
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY
There is nothing left to say
TOMBOT TOOK THE TITTIES AWAY

(xp: that wasn't so much "fisting" as it was "past the elbowing" tho)

thats gotte be life threatening

the island is better than 80% of the coen brothers oeuvre

^^^^^^

(from top of thread) Tom read more carefully. I never said the Jesus was "cool", just not powerless.

guys, The Big Lebowski is very very very funny, and that is surely that.

no it's not

Brick > Big Lebowski

i would never have thought to compare those two movies

coen movies i like: blood simple, miller's crossing, fargo, big lebowski, intolerable cruelty. i hear the new one is good too. everything else is sub-"island"

I like "Fargo" and "TBL" but tbh honest I'd rather talk about almost anything else, like the decline of Dilbert.

dilbert is not as good as the island

Dilbert isn't even as good as Pearl Harbor

i remember liking "o brother" but it's been awhile

Can we adopt "'The Island' scale" when critiquing things going forward?

pearl harbor is hilarious

hilariously BAD

I should start another thread where we just compare logan's run and the island on their relative merits. I predict that like absolutely 0 chicks will post to it.

i don't even want to think about michael bay, i just saw transformers

logan's run: shows tit.
the island: did not cast boring mcboring-britishes as the male lead.

alec baldwin is super hilarious in pearl harbor

I made a sweet mix CD cover from a still of logan's run once, I think it is still on my flickr

i wasn't going to discuss TBL. i don't want to discuss TBL. the truth is that it is very very very funny, and THAT is THAT.

i have not seen the island. clearly there is a clone-shaped hole in my life.

t/s "tombot took the titties away" vs. "there is a clone-shaped hole in my life"

the island is pretty good but the end sux - see pearl harbor instead - its only 3 hours long

my wife loves Logan's Run but she doesn't post here

perhaps these can be the sung refrains in between repetitions I'M DOCTOR JARVIK JARVIK, INVENTOR OF THE JARVIK JARVIK JARVIK

Ewan McGregor Wants Off ... THE ISLAND!

pearl harbor had no hot girls in it
it was actually a really, really campy movie

+ explosions

the more I think about it the more I can't believe I didn't realize PH was totally camp right after watching it (in the theater, while in the military, wtf lame)

+ kate beckinsale (hot)

(-)

yeah i dunno it did come off totally camp but were they maybe just trying for box office bonanza and somehow got lost along the way

There is a clone-shaped hole in my life
It was cut away clean by a knife
There is a clone-shaped hole in my heart
Begging to be filled in by your parts

(xp: TOM, KATE BECKENSALE IS IN PEARL HARBOR YOU MENTALIST altho it is from before she became WOWEE smokin hot so you have a point)

the island is pretty good but the end sux

^^^^
way rong.

surely "part" in the singular

kate beckinsale is really not that attractive.
even in fucking BROKEDOWN PALACE she's less hot than fucking claire danes and I mean seriously

the end of the island looks like a toothpaste commerical with a $600 million dollar budget and it rules

We are not trying to stick a dick in the heart, Loius!

kate beckinsale is kind of an even worse thing about Van Helsing than the guy they cast as Dracula

The Big Van Helsing

The Big Van Helsing That Wasn't There

Pirates Of The Island: Curse Of The Big Van Helsing That Wasn't There

Why TOMBOT is RONG about Kate Beckensale, pt 1:

http://www.fangoria.hu/foto/Kate%20Beckinsale_Underworld.jpg

Pirates Of The Island: Curse Of The Big Van Helsing That Wasn't There While Drinking Your Juice In The Hood

Part 2:

http://f.screensavers.com/OMS/img/407/kate_evolution_blueeyes_wallpaper_215.jpg

well kate beckinsale is hawt to me so there

anyway the end of the island: in these high concept sci-fi things they do this elaborate set up and they know they have to untangle it but cant figure how so its just blow everything up - this is no way to solve problems contrived future people!

I didn't try to stick my dick in your heart
But I guess that's how it all fell apart
Now I cry as I remember the day
That Tombot took them titties away

yeah, uh, would not smash.
maybe not in boston, but I think a little further south and you can just go to some shit dj night in any major city and find like five girls that look beckinsalish

Part 3:

http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/060120/060120_underworld_hmed_1p.hmedium.jpg

five girls out of the eight that showed up for shit dj night

omg tom is trying to start the alltime worst argument

I mean, she's not like ScarJo "OMG WTF YOU AREN'T EVEN HUMAN, YOU ARE SO HAWTT" attractive but COME THE FUCK ON, DUDE.

dan she seriously looks like some random chick I might see on the subway any given morning. you live in a college town too, wtf.

kate beckinsale is hot but she is not as good as the island

you cant just trick us on the assumption that weve never been there

Intolerable Cruelty is their most underrated (uh, maybe their only underrated).

I almost walked out of this movie and I'm a pretty big super coen bros fanboy

you've never been to the island?

I LIVE IN A COLLEGE TOWN AND FUCK IF ONE IN TWO HUNDRED LOOKS LIKE BECKINSALLYBUMCHEEKS

yr college town is perhaps a bit different

skinny goth girls, eh

uk lol

Consider this list:

Halle Berry
Scarlett Johanssen
Salma Hayek
Angelina Jolie
Kate Beckensale

She is rather clearly the least hot woman on this list, but THAT DOES NOT MEAN SHE IS NOT HOT.

Also, living in a college town will quickly disabuse you of the stereotype that college girls are hot. College girls haven't showered for three days and are rolling into lecture in their pajamas.

anyway I am willing to make the concession that I am not the final arbiter of cute if dan will do the same

i like her better than angelina jolie who is just strange

College girls haven't showered for three days and are rolling into lecture in their pajamas.

^^^^^^^ smash smash smash

lecture pajamas are cuet

XXPOST RE-WATCH HACKERS YOU SCROTUMLESS NERK

Oh I see, YOU ARE "RIDIN' DIRTY", SO TO SPEAK

Tombot OTM, actually.

I just insulted jho with the name of the previous ILC moderator, this will cut deep.

chillax lewy i seen that - shes weird lookin and strangely manley ok

wait fred nerk was ilc mod lol

lol old dudes love dirty college chicks

i like babes who shower and dress themselves but thats just cause the GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER

old dudes!!!

the grass is always greener if it's given a nice scrubbing

"dudes not in college anymore"

http://i9.tinypic.com/4vr9z4k.gif

"You know what gets me hot? The crusty cooter of a 20-year-old coed that smells a little like an old diaper; PHWOAR!!!!!!!!!!!!" - pervs on ILE

I am going nowhere near jgo's scrub-fu, yikes.

http://www.tccandler.com/IMAGES/actresses/KateBeckinsale/kate%20beckinsale%20HQ%20cute%20hair_small.jpg

ok i said nothing about 'crusty cooters' or riding dirty, i just thought pajama pants were cute. leave me out of this

i don't think scarlet johannson is really super hot or anything.

i used to but now im bored - whoooooos hot now?!? omg

u guyz got some HIGH standards

yeah man he doesn't even think mid-90's angelina jolie was hot, what hope is there for the dude

i've always had a weird problem with how halle berry isn't hot with long hair

coen movies i like: blood simple, miller's crossing, fargo, big lebowski, intolerable cruelty. i hear the new one is good too. everything else is sub-"island" man on fire.

-- max, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:58 PM

i've always had a weird problem with how halle berry isn't hot with long hair

YES

(still: would smash)

jolie is mostly luvd by ladies n gays

uh waht

i am gay for angelina jolie then

halle would never work in twelfth night because after the reveal the dude would be mad disappointed and questioning his own sexuality

fact

You are talking about post-Brad-induced eating disorder AJ, yes? Because otherwise, waht?

IVE HEARD FROM INSDIE SOURCS THAT SHES A TRANNY OK GUYS DONT TELL ANYONE SRSLY

and her face looks like made from futuristic plastics

srsly if i would shag one man, that man is angelina jolie.

Okay you are now safe from punching.

big hoos how can you see blood simple and say its sub man on fire

+ were talking about hot chicks now stop being a nerd!!!

that is the safest answer to the question "if you had to sleep with one man...?" ever

ffs i've already pulled a dude off, it's not like i'm avoiding the question is it

1 point for louis jagger!

dan you can say all you want about my taste in women since I think we've already covered our difference re: smashability of maud lebowski

BRINGIN IT BACK OT

wait who doesnt like julianne moore

also btw bros I was thinking this morning about a possible train ride up to boston for no reason, when is a good weekend to have interweb-comrade beverages

wtf this thread

UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH
(I do not like Julianne "Ginger Ferret" Moore)
UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH UGH
(Good weekend: early December maybe? Thanksgiving will be madness and later in December will be more madness.)

lol dan u rong, julianna moore is totally doable

I wonder when the Coens will use the internet nerd sausage party stereotype?

as a ginger hair i will call you out on your slur

wtf this thread

-- Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 13 November 2007 23:47 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

It's not a slur unless you also look like a ferret!

I mean, Alicia Witt is like DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYUM SON

that is a fact

big hoos how can you see blood simple and say its sub man on fire

-- deej, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:38 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

+ were talking about hot chicks now stop being a nerd!!!

-- deej, Tuesday, November 13, 2007 11:38 PM

cuz it is + would smash beckinsale like the hulk

i saw her at brunch last week xp

i do love alicia witt

i saw her at brunch last weekend

we were arguing weather it was the girl from law and order or all those horrible movies then after consulting the internet realized that was the same person

BIG HULK aka the beckinsmasher

and blood simple is classic

you spelled it wrong

big HOOLK

"you can probably guess what happens next"
"he fixes the cable?"

etc

I wish the coen brothers would do more pop soundtracks instead of just calling up carter burwell all the time. I can't really remember anything in particular from any of his scores for them

meanwhile TBL and BWAT have some absolutely amazing music video moments

gutterballs! soggy bottom boys!

though I have yet to see IC so will have to netflix to confirm if that is in fact horrible terrible despite said lack of burwell

louis, there's no need for insults

haha

and blood simple is classic

-- deej, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:16 AM

I was just bored out of my mind by it. I really wanted to like it! I love noir and crazy West Texas mercenary Sheriff outlaw guys and greasy crime stories. To be fair, I was right in the middle of South of Heaven when I saw it, maybe that affected what I wanted out of it or something.

the island = shit
beckinsale = hot
coens = good up till lebowski
lebowski conventioneers = weird

johannson > beckinsale

johannson in the island < beckinsale in underworld

man on fire = fascist bullshit + lame "interesting taste" ref since 2004

ILE, home of the Alicia Witt fan club

not in dune though. she's the one thing about dune I find annoying

CGI-goth Beckinsale is not half as hot as Thai-prison/fake-Coldplay-screwing Beckinsale

julianne moore has a low smashability quotient

I really didn't want to have to bring this up but sienna guillory as jill valentine is 4000% hotter than beckinsale has ever been. also thanks to wiki I found out they have a beef. Nice.

so im apparently the only person here who thought o brother was great, liked the man who wasnt there, & found intolerable cruelty to be hilarious

to those who havent seen IC yet, yr opinion of it probably lives or dies with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdKtga3HSS8

im not getting into the whole horndog thing, i just dont do that shit

"deeznuts"

what do you do deeznuts

sarcasm

man on fire = fascist bullshit + lame "interesting taste" ref since 2004

-- That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:59 AM

definitely fascist bullshit, never an "interesting taste" ref. still better than the island.

i really like o brother where art thou

yah mee too

probably the best Coen film

I forgot about "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" but it's great.

omg Tom I love you for not being that into Kate Beckinsale she seems gross.

on the Coen brothers, I don't know Tracer Hand said something smart on some old thread about how their movies aren't about anything that had the ring of truth, but I love a lot of them. Stereotypes, eh.

horseshoe I find it admirable that you just fearlessly dip your toe into the sweatiest towel-snap hairy man-man threads (such as they are on ile)

it's a little weird I guess, huh? I have too many fascistic opinions on who's hot to keep silent!

aw, we have no dedicated "Man on Fire" thread

alas, no place to celebrate the bombs-in-ass

man on fire is so stupid and bad

yes

philistines

-scarjo is hot, but probably vapid (bummer!)
-pearl harbor is the worst movie i've ever seen, but then again so was battlefield earth, and it was improved by w33d (college!!!!!), so maybe i should give PH another chance. i remember the whole movie looking like a propaganda poster.
-someone OTM re: halle berry w/long hair
-also, TOMBOT otm re: seeing chicks as hot as beckinsdale at DJ night/country and western bar. ffs go hang out in a small town in the midwest sometime. "that waitress" actually does exist.
-i liked TBL, but dislike TBL fanboys. generally a pretty funny movie, tho!
-saw intolerable cruelty, don't remember much, thought it was ok funny
-never saw TMWWT
-will go on record as enjoying Oh Brother
-really, really like Fargo, if only for lol home joeks
-the fifteen or so minutes i saw of the island were o_O in their badness, wtf are you guys on about

i've actually seen Man on Fire like 5 times (visiting parents + unemployed + HBO + mild insomnia), and felt compelled to watch simply because it's such a grotesquely over the top revenge fantasy. and the words on the screen??? all the fucking time???? tony scott, ugh

johannson > beckinsale

johannson in the island < beckinsale in underworld

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:56 AM

underworld > the island

xp gbx on that realness

guys i think i am home alone with beers and other stuff and nothing to do for the night.

WHAT OF THIS MOVIES DO I WATCH

man one night w/my bros hi & durnk we watched "underworld."

hoos was not amused.

tony scott is so horrible now. there was like a good five-year period where ridley was the hack and he was doing the good shit (and a brief period where they were about even), but now they seem to have returned to their proper levels.

ts: man on fire vs man one night

excitement of the island > brooding of underworld

man on fire > black hawk down yeah i said it what

oh yeah, and van helsing was nigh-unwatchable, and i normally gobble that shit up for breakfast lunch and dinner

i knew that was gonna be a turkey when i saw stephen sommers' name on it, the guy is barely better than uwe boll.

BHD I have watched about 15 times and will probably watch a few more, even though I have lots better war movies. it's just so visually amazing and fun to sit there and monday morning quarterback the whole operation and how fucked it was from before they even started up the humvees (albeit with several adult beverages down the hatch)

Man on Fire, frankly, seems like the much less honest red state sociopath fantasy, and for that reason alone I'm not a fan of it. also, not enough walken.

Man on Fire, frankly, seems like the much less honest red state sociopath fantasy, and for that reason alone I'm not a fan of it. also, not enough walken.

-- El Tomboto, Wednesday, November 14, 2007 3:23 AM

It's absolutely a 10,000 jiggawat over-the-top sociopathic mercenary revenge fantasy. It's Death Wish with color-saturation. I don't cheer when Denzel kills the bad guys, but it's an interesting insight into the "red state sociopath" mindset.

also I've repped for it on about a dozen threads but I really think Kingdom Of Heaven is probably the best thing Ridley Scott has done since Blade Runner and that seems highly unlikely to change

Tony needs an editor even worse than his brother

Tony Scott is the man who gets Keira Knightley to be naked in his movie yet makes her share the frame with a really seriously nasty ugly hairy dude

BHD I have watched about 15 times and will probably watch a few more, even though I have lots better war movies. it's just so visually amazing and fun to sit there and monday morning quarterback the whole operation and how fucked it was from before they even started up the humvees (albeit with several adult beverages down the hatch)

yeah, i like BHD, too.

you guys never answered my question.

maybe i'll just watch Three Kings since it's the only movie in the house i haven't seen 10 times already

OTHER MOVIES:

- The DC Video (LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL)
- Style Wars
- The Warriors

which movies are you talking about? dude if you have beers watch the island. seriously. dark obsessions.

ace xxp

but three kings rules, wtf wouldn't you watch that? esp if you haven't seen it ten times already

i was asking for suggestions for a trip to the video store/drug front down the block from my house

you know what movie we need a fuckin' thread for is BEHIND ENEMY LINES

i have seen it twice! most recently about a month ago.

i has a sixpack

have you seen that? rent that

kingdom of heaven is virtually the only post-braveheart flick that actually is really good and often awesome.

by 'post-braveheart' i mean one that apes braveheart

I has a about a half liter of root beer
my corner beer store closed before I even left work tonight

i have seen Three Kings twice, i mean.

xp no! maybe they have it. i DO <3 Owen Wilson (RIP). and i guess if they don't have it, i can just rent Miami Vice or Sniper. i mean why the fuck not.

Miami Vice=teh win

sniper is the shit.

sniper fucked me up when i was 9

for real, i lived in a house with a stairwell, thought dudes were gunning for me from the landing and shit

house with a stairwellway

wait i think i meant Shooter

though i too remember seeing Sniper (w/Tom Berenger, right?) as a kid

aight headed to the store/front.

maybe i'll live blog something! won't THAT be fun!

shooter is retarded but kinda worth seeing. sniper is ridiculous and amazing.

i worked with a guy who claimed ex-special forces, insisted he was a sniper. says that he learned from "sniper" about spotters being ordered to kill their sniper counterparts if they didn't carry out the mission. says he called his old spotter buddy "YOU WERE READY TO KILL ME, YOU MOTHERFUCKER?!"

i got master and commander f u if u disagree nabisco otm

behind enemy lines, three kings: yes
shooter: maybe
man on fire: no oooh nooooo fuk

fuck a russell crowe with a lute

paul bettany da god

xp

lol at everybody in the army ever insisting that they were SF snipers

met a dude in montana who tried for sniper school ("the red cloud dude WAU") but failed to pass the psyche exam. i assured him this was a good thing.

im a sniper of the mindo

I'M LIKE A SNIPER HYPER OFF THE GINSENG ROOT

sniping is a pretty primo activity

except when it is done by douches on the internets

virtual douche sniping?

http://www.colossusblog.com/mt/archives/images/virtual_morelli.jpg

first gis for virtual douche sniping

If only Blount were here to back me up on Man on Fire. It is insane and horrible, but it's like listening to GG Allin or particularly egregious rap. You don't have to agree with it to have your mind blown.

Black Hawk Down is almost unwatchable. Cloud of war, battle confusion, etc. yeah yeah yeah but Christ it's just not very interesting to watch whip-pans back and forth between characters you don't really know or have a reason to care about (except for Tom Sizemore, of course). Edited a little more rationally, it might have been good.

Shooter is very fun. Sniper seemed stupid (that's the movie where one guy's warned not to let any pee escape into the river or evil amoeba will swim up his urethra, right), but I might give it a chance on cable.

Master & Commander is tite.

i can't believe you're complaining about irrational editing in black hawk down in the same post as you're sort of praising man on fire

u mad!

M&C's dialogue was waaaaaaaaaaaaaay more embarassing and children's theatrickal than i remembered it. i mostly just like it for sweeping shots of big ships and the ocean and stuff.

+ the doctor and the captain jamming in the stateroom

MEN MUST BE GOVERNED

"children's theatrickal" no wai!! more movies should have cliff's notes burke vs rousseau scenes.

yeah, i liked the jams, too. but the MEN MUST BE GOVERNED thing was more overbearing than I remembered. then again, i was *_* at the time, and tend to get a little over-analytical

xp not the CONTENT of the dialogue, but the hamminess! especially merry/pippen dude. there was lots of exaggerated mugging and oh my how british sorts of stuff going on. also, HOLD FAST dude was a cartoon and having him actually say "hold fast" all the time was a little smarmy

then again, i was *_* at the time

I would have been SO lost.

Up next (actually next-next): Coens traffic in Yiddish stereotypes, Policemen caricatures

This has been at the top of my list to read for awhile, bring it on.
http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2007/05/01/chabon-yiddish.jpg

also have been waiting for the Coens to bring their regional schtick to my native northwest since Raising Arizona.

Netflix has confirmed the Coen Brothers' Western anthology series The Ballad of Buster Scruggs for 2018, starring Tim Blake Nelson as Buster pic.twitter.com/0Aj4S3WubA

— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff) August 9, 2017

so more rural yuks (i don't always mind)

lol @ "we are streaming motherfuckers"

glad to hear this is a film now

although if anyone is going to completely miss the mark going for a coen-esque performance it's james franco

this might be a controversial take but I think he's actually a pretty good actor