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[!--quoteo(post=133165:date=Mar 28 2006, 01:11 PM:name=national acrobat)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(national acrobat @ Mar 28 2006, 01:11 PM) [snapback]133165[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
She did kinda pull the look off, more than most women would anyway.
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That's because she pulls any look off more than most women would in the first place. I still prefer her with long hair though. [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/sleep.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"-_-\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sleep.gif\" /]
 
I prefer girls with hair too. [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/cool.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"B)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cool.gif\" /]
 
Good to see we've come to an agreement [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/wink.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\";)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"wink.gif\" /]
 
I said she pulled it off, not that she looked better, it was different. Good different for me, not for you, and I think I'll stop right here before this gets moved to the madness forum for discussing women's hair. Back to movies, I re-watched Minority report last night based on a short story by Philip... dick? Don't remember, anywho, while Philip's story is a science fiction story the premise: Free Will vs. Predestination goes farther back to a story I read in Middle School. In Spanish Lit. class we read La Vida es Sueño (Life is a Dream) by Calderon de la Barca, which flirts with the idea of "well? what is real/reality" our personal perspective and the idea of free will vs. predestination. Calderon's work is from the 1500's while Philip Dick's is from the 50's I believe. Really good movie though, this time around, when the pre-cog Agatha tells Jon Anderton (Tom Cruise) what his dead son's future would've been like I cried.
 
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Philip... dick? [/quote]

Yes, that's right. His full name is Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982)

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

Does that help? ::
 
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I think I'll stop right here before this gets moved to the madness forum for discussing women's hair.
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Mate, women's hair is a dead serious topic. Nothing remotely to Madness-forum stuff. [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/sleep.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"-_-\" border=\"0\" alt=\"sleep.gif\" /]
 
[!--quoteo(post=133251:date=Mar 28 2006, 06:28 PM:name=Black Dragon)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(Black Dragon @ Mar 28 2006, 06:28 PM) [snapback]133251[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
Yes, that's right. His full name is Philip Kindred Dick (1928-1982)

Philip K. Dick was born in Chicago in 1928 and lived most of his life in California. He briefly attended the University of California, but dropped out before completing any classes. In 1952, he began writing professionally and proceeded to write numerous novels and short-story collections. He won the Hugo Award for the best novel in 1962 for The Man in the High Castle and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for best novel of the year in 1974 for Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick died on March 2, 1982, in Santa Ana, California, of heart failure following a stroke.

Does that help? ::
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Um... sure, why not? I was a little uncertain about his last name, because let's face it, I bet he was the butt of many jokes. [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/biggrin.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":D\" border=\"0\" alt=\"biggrin.gif\" /] But a little bio is always welcomed.

@Perun: Sure it is a serious topic... to women. Is there something you are keeping from us?
 
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@Perun: Sure it is a serious topic... to women. Is there something you are keeping from us?
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Merely that I've seen a few beautiful girls cut their hair off a bit too often, so I've come to appreciate the beauty of long hair on girls. That's all [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/happy.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"^_^\" border=\"0\" alt=\"happy.gif\" /]
 
Just finished watching Pink Floyd: The Wall. Not as good I thought it would be. My problem is that I don't like Pink Floyd that much. There was only one good song in the whole thing, and it wasn't all that good. The actual movie itself was good, but it was so completely random and at some points I had absolutely no idea what was going on. The best thing about the movie were the parts that make it a "stoner movie," which was the completely crazy shit, like the guy shaving his whole body, him turning into... worms,? or something like that, and the completely crazy animated scenes.

Overall, a 2 out of 5
 
Man you have no idea what you are missing, but oh well, not everybody can appreciate The Wall... I watched the Blues Brotthers! (AGAIN!) BRILLIANT movie, it is funny, great music, good story (for a comedy anyway) and... THEY DRESS IN BLACK! The cameos are increadible (James Brown as a preacher, Ray Charlse and Aretha Franklin) and well, let's face it, if it weren't for the music that movie would be nothing. And for some odd reason Dan Akroyd's delivery of "We're on a mission from God," would always crack me up.
 
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Man you have no idea what you are missing, but oh well, not everybody can appreciate The Wall... I watched the Blues Brotthers! (AGAIN!) BRILLIANT movie, it is funny, great music, good story (for a comedy anyway) and... THEY DRESS IN BLACK! The cameos are increadible (James Brown as a preacher, Ray Charlse and Aretha Franklin) and well, let's face it, if it weren't for the music that movie would be nothing. And for some odd reason Dan Akroyd's delivery of "We're on a mission from God," would always crack me up.
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Ahhh, what a great film! Awesome songs, great plot, and a huge car-chase and crash. What more could one ask for?!
 
"Those bums won their court case so they're marching today."
"Who's that?"
"The Nazi Party."
"Illinois Nazis."
"Great. I hate Illinois Nazis."
 
I watched "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" on DVD today. Edit with analysis will follow. At present I'm too busy cowering behind the sofa [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/tongue.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\":P\" border=\"0\" alt=\"tongue.gif\" /]

EDIT: I know it wasn't that scary but being a Catholic and all, I am quite afraid of demons etc. Listening to "The Number of the Beast" does not scare me but watching creepy movies like that puts things into perspective. I know that the story is only "based upon" true life but you must admit, if something like that did happen in reality, you would be scared shitless.

I thought the acting by Emily Rose was superb but I must say that the over enthusiastic approach by the Priest and the lawyer sucked the emphasis from the movie. for a reasonably low budget movie, it is haunting and memorable.

Official Conor rating: 9/10 [img src=\"style_emoticons/[#EMO_DIR#]/cool.gif\" style=\"vertical-align:middle\" emoid=\"B)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cool.gif\" /]
 
I watched 'The Sting' again today, because it was on TV. Definitely one of my favourite films, and very enjoyable even when you know what's coming. If you don't know, basically it's a film with Paul Newman and Robert Redford (awesome!) about con-men, and well worth checking out.
 
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Next time aim a little higher, people actually have brains here.
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I know, I was just trying to add a little... spice to my review. I was trying to disturb people.

Now back on topic. I just watched another music film, Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same. First off, in my opinion, this is much better than The Wall. The music was great through most of the movie, although I didn't like the random scenes of stuff, like John Bonham driving a racecar. I have one large problem though, the song Dazed and Confused. This is one of my favorite Zeppelin songs, and Robert Plant sang it in a wierd way, making the lyrics completely unitelligable.

Overall 4 out of 5.
 
I recently watched Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer (prepares for a barrage of tomatoes and the odd knife). Here we have the story of a young tortured artist (played by Abel Ferrara himself, under the name of Jimmy Laine) who finds his creativity somewhat stifled by his room mates and his new neighbors, a punk rock band called The Roosters, who practice day and night (but never get any better). Does he take his frustrations out on these folks? Well...um...no. Instead he gets himself a lovely ol' power tool and takes to the streets in a bloody rampage. This is probably best looked at in the context of Ferrara's other work, rather than in the context of the rest of the British video nasties list, because it is actually a surprisingly good film. Rather than a mere body count movie, Ferrara's first movie is a Repulsion-style portrait of a man's descent into psychosis; a bleak yet darkly comic urban paranoia movie with actually far less graphic bloodletting than its detractors would have us believe (I do get tired of people bashing this movie with no real claims to back up their point) It does have a lot in common with Taxi Driver, which is also worth checking out. Either way, give it a try, don't be expecting gore galore and, like it says at the start of this movie, play this movie loud. ;)
 
Black Dragon said:
I recently watched Abel Ferrara's The Driller Killer
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Is this the (what was classed as) snuff movie from around 20 odd years ago. I seem to remember watching Driller Killer around that sort of time, it sounds familiar to the "plot" you described, but I only have a vague recollection of it.
 
Onhell said:
I saw Heathers this last week end. It is a 1989 comedy about the usual highschool clicks starry Christian Slater and Wynnona Ryder. The 'cool' group of girls are called Heathers because they all have that first name. Wynnona Ryder and the new kid (Slater) kill the head heather and accidently kill (they wanted to stun them) two jocks from the football team. They make all deaths appear like suicides and well... they create a monster of a situation! Really funny.
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Yeah really funny film!  I just loved the "whoever doesn't drink beer is a fag in Ohio" anthem!  I also watched MI:3.  Cute film,  better than the second one but not nearly as excelent as the first one.  Too many effects.  I'm also looking forward to watching The Da Vinci Code.  The book was great and Audrey Tautoo(I know I screwed up that name) speaks English in a very sexy accent.  ;)
 
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