I caught the beginning of Tropic Thunder yesterday. There's a fake trailer for a POS called Scorcher 6 with the tag line, "Not this again... again." I thought immediately of Transformers and Spiderman. Two more from each franchise are in the works. Hilarious. What the hell else can you possibly do that we haven't already seen? Hardcore robot porn? Rule 34 with a web shooter? Paramount released their lineup for the next couple years. They are all sequels and remakes. Including a remake of Ben Hur. THAT, my friends, takes balls. Not just balls, but fucking delusion. Remake one of the most beloved films, a piece of art that won 11 Academy Awards and sold $700 million worth of tickets in today's money. That might be the one that kills the remake trend. Imagine The Rock or Vin Diesel in a computer rendered chariot (decorated like an atavistic Ricer Honda) riding around a CGI hippodrome in slow-mo. It will be a $300 million disaster. I'm salivating, it keeps getting better; the jerk-ass that directed Wanted and Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter is directing. Someone is going to get their balls cut off for this fuck-up. *I* cannot wait for opening day.
who wears short shorts? Reason no. 937 why dudes don't understand women. Here on TiB, I have been told that women dress for other women and that women never dress for other women. Awhile back, we (us dudes) made several comments about how awful high waisted shorts and dresses are, specifically saying that no dude ever in the history of ever finds those attractive. Several responses were that women dressed for other women, not dudes. I seem to remember that one of those TiBettes was TX, but she (sadly) doesn't post anymore. Oh well.
This is a theory, but I would say there are three reasons to wear a certain outfit: you like the way it makes you feel, you like the way it makes you look, you want to impress someone. The first two are about you and the last one is about someone else. The whole "women dress to impress other women" thing is a subset of that last one. The only people that are going to be impressed by fashion are other women. And Kanye West. So I guess what I'm saying is that you can't make a blanket statement that women dress for other women because like with most stereotypes it can't be universally applied. Is it true for some women? Sure. Others prefer to dress for themselves, in whatever way makes them want to leave the house.
Heston's Ben-Hur was ALSO a remake. This will be the third version of it. I wonder if they'll make it actually gay this time. Gore Vidal wrote it that Judah and Messalla were lovers, he just wasnt allowed to say it on film. Heston hated Vidal for it, and Vidal, being awesome, constantly laughed it off with "Too bad, he was gay and that's that."
Im guessing the studios have absolute control and just hire directors that will film what is given to them. Marketing is the name of the game and remakes and sequels beat out original stuff on name recognition alone. So they churn out another shitty Die Hard or 15th Transformers movie, not because anyone making it cares about entertaining people, but because they know a certain number will turn out to the familiar than the the unfamiliar. All your favorite 80's and 90's movies will be remade to little fanfare. At least there is some ire directed at movie studios for this. A bunch of fans remade their own version of Robocop prior to this years predictable pg-13 remake mediocrity with a scene by scene fan remake. Most of the "sweded" scenes suck but resulted in this genius clip I thought was actually a real deleted scene from the first movie: http://efukt.com/21126_I_don't_remember_this_in_Robocop.html
Re: who wears short shorts? Maybe some do. I guess I don't. Or else I'd be walking around wearing high waisted shorts and bikinis. Or those dumbass rompers. In my mother-in law's bathroom she had a window right across from the toilet. One time I was wearing a one piece and I didn't realize the blinds were up until I sat down. Yep, don't mind me, just sitting topless on the toilet. That's why rompers are stupid. You'd be like that in public bathrooms. Trying to not let it touch the floor. Gross. And some of them have long pants as well for the one piece. I don't get it. I agree with you here. I dress for what makes me feel good. Unfortunately it's getting harder and harder to find low-waisted stuff. Or at least not high-waisted. What doesn't make sense to me in regards to Taylor Swift is that she has a nice long torso. And she basically cuts herself in half wearing that stuff. Doesn't look complimentary at all. It's just not a good look.
Blue Dog just sent me a pic of his newly rebuilt camp. FUCK ME is it sweet.... kudos dude... it's all kinds of awesome.
My neighbours are having a "party" which sounds more like a contest of who can shout "fuck" the loudest until they wake up my kid again. I may have to blast a handful of nickels over the hedge at these pricks again, they really don't get it. I told my wife I'm going to, hoping she'll be a typically sensible female and stop me and all she said was "Won't quarters hurt more?"
I really hate the fact that I wake up so early. I'm in London, the place that invented early rising, and motherfucker, I had to go to McD's to get coffee because nothing else is open. What the fuck? No wonder they lost their empire, they probably fucking overslept.
Get more drunk and stay up late. When I stayed in London I was 22, and yea, that had an effect, but we never rolled out until after 10:00 am, that probably had more to do with the daily hangover I had than anything else though.
I don't care at all if people throw parties, hell I encourage it. But when there's forty plus people screaming obscenities at the top of their lungs (like, really screaming) and blasting bass-heavy music it's aggrevating. These kids in particular have parents go away during the summer and they throw bashes twice a week, sometimes having ragers on dumb nights like a Tuesday at 1 am. We're in a residential neighbourhood, not a college. I was nice in the past and they weren't (there ARE reasons not to like them) and I'm not a call-the -cops type so the best solution is to aggravate them back. I just wish my family wasnt here so I could show them what real loud music is. However that would be hypocritical.
I'm sure back in your day you guys had real parties! If you were younger you'd show them whats up for sure.
Aggregate: I don't think that word means what you think it does. But really... dude... the way you're "handling" the situation makes you sound less mature than them. But whatever... if you're flush enough to throw rolls of nickels or quarters at them, go nuts... take video... and let us know how it goes. I'm sure it'll end well.
I'm not talking about selection. I'm talking about volume. "In my day", spring chicken? I'm still in my day. Please.
Well I'd use pennies, but those aren't around anymore. And I'm not doing it again. I did it once a couple years ago and it didn't have that much of an effect besides the impulsive satisfaction, which wore off. But loonies? In these hard times? I need those to play After Burner.