chaz
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
June 28, 2009 at 09:04 PM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
off topic (but there is a lot of death in it) and i didn't want to start a new thread just based on this. i just watched what had to be the most disturbing, yet probably prophetic, and brilliant films i have seen in a long long time. children of men.
You know, everyone seems to love that film but thought it was just ok. Maybe I'll have to revisit.
If you want to see a great movie, check out "Let the Right One In". It's a Swedish vampire flick, but unlike any vampire/horror movie I have ever seen. Actually unlike any move I have ever seen period. You yourself a favor and check it ouy.
PS - Be sure to turn on subtitles. The english dub (as any dub usually is) is horrible and I'm pretty sure the DVD defaults to the dubbed soundtrack.
kosmo
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
June 28, 2009 at 09:41 PM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
off topic (but there is a lot of death in it) and i didn't want to start a new thread just based on this. i just watched what had to be the most disturbing, yet probably prophetic, and brilliant films i have seen in a long long time. children of men.
What's interesting about this movie is Michael Caine plays his character as futuristic elderly John Lennon
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
June 29, 2009 at 11:38 AM UTC
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RatBastard
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
June 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM UTC
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beetsnotbeats wrote:
distance wrote:
apparently billy mays?
it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.
BILLY MAYS!!!
His death removes on name from my list of folks to take out when I go nuts, climb a bell tower in Texas, and start shooting people. This guy had to be the most annoying human on the planet.
eros
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
June 30, 2009 at 12:07 AM UTC
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beetsnotbeats wrote:
distance wrote:
apparently billy mays?
it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.
BILLY MAYS!!!
Not mine, but I LOLed…
"They say celebs die in threes. Leave it to Billy Mays to throw in an extra COMPLETELY FREE!"
RatBastard
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
June 30, 2009 at 03:19 PM UTC
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eros wrote:
beetsnotbeats wrote:
distance wrote:
apparently billy mays?
it seems like a really bad time to be a 50 year old these days.
BILLY MAYS!!!
Not mine, but I LOLed…
"They say celebs die in threes. Leave it to Billy Mays to throw in an extra COMPLETELY FREE!"
BIlly was number 5 if not higher.
beetsnotbeats
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 01, 2009 at 07:59 PM UTC
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jeffml
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 04, 2009 at 09:35 PM UTC
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Steve McNair - Rest In Peace
distance
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 04, 2009 at 10:34 PM UTC
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glad i'm not famous. if i keep a low profile, does that mean i'll be immortal?
elj
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 04, 2009 at 10:37 PM UTC
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jeffml wrote:
Steve McNair - Rest In Peace
One of the most underrated QBs in NFL history.
jaguar
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 05, 2009 at 05:56 AM UTC
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Bet a lot of champagne bottles will be cracked open over this one.
Music mogul Allen Klein dies at 77
jaguar
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 06, 2009 at 05:17 PM UTC
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No, those aren't left over fireworks. They're more champagne corks popping.
Robert McNamara, ex-defense secretary, diesWe need one more for the triumvirant of evil.
distance
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 18, 2009 at 12:36 AM UTC
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RatBastard
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 18, 2009 at 04:45 AM UTC
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Cronkite was one of the last reporters ever on TV. These douche bags like Geraldo, Oberman, Nancy Grace, and the others do nothing close to reporting news. They opine, hype, sensationalize, spin, and conjecture to no end. The whole "fair and balanced" thing that Fox uses is absurd. Fairness and balance are not properties of news reporting, they are properties of subjective opinions being expressed. RIP Walter. You fucking kicked ass at your job like no one else in the profession.
Unsanity
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 18, 2009 at 09:50 PM UTC
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Gordon of Peter & Gordon:
GORDON WALLER
July 17th 2009
We are deeply saddened to report that some time after 8:00 p.m. last night east coast time, Gordon Waller went into cardiac arrest and was taken to the emergency room. Despite intensive efforts on his behalf by hospital personnel, Gordon passed away early this morning. Please keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
His partner of nearly five decades, Peter Asher, will be issuing a statement shortly. We hope you will join us sending love and condolences to his family.
El Tee
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 21, 2009 at 03:01 PM UTC
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elj
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 21, 2009 at 03:04 PM UTC
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Sugartastic wrote:
Frank McCourt, Sunday morning: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/19/AR2009071901588.html
Always sad when someone dies, but Angela's Ashes wasn't anything special. I still don't know how he won a Pulitzer for that. Most questionable selection in my lifetime.
El Tee
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Re: Dropping Like Flies
July 21, 2009 at 03:20 PM UTC
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I like the way he was able to tell a story from a boy's point of view of growing up Irish Catholic, dirt poor, and in Ireland. The stories are similar or spot on from what I have heard from my own family. It was good in my opinion.