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| 04-14-11 03:21am - 5001 days | #455 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I didn't intend to spoil the movie Sucker Punch for anyone by revealing the ending. But I thought that anyone who was going to see this movie in a theater had probably already done so. And for people waiting to see it on DVD, a few months will go by before it's released, so what I posted will fade from memory by then. My apologies if I did lessen anyone's anticipation of a movie they were looking forward to seeing. | |
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| 04-12-11 08:32pm - 5003 days | #450 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Experience of a movie can be a very personal experience. I thoroughly enjoyed 300, which is what made Zack Snyder a star director. I thought the visuals of Sucker Punch were well done, but did not enjoy the plot very much. I mean, a bunch of girls in an insane asylum suddenly becoming superhero warriors every time Baby Doll dances? And I did not find the ending to be upbeat at all. I mean, an innocent girl, the heroine, gets a lobotomy, and that's her escape from feeling miserable and abused in an insane asylum? That's supposed to be a positive ending? | |
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| 04-12-11 07:03pm - 5003 days | #16 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Normally I dislike watermarks. But if they put a Suzie Carina watermark on US bills, maybe I would try to hold onto them longer. Or at least look at them more closely.  | |
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| 04-12-11 06:56pm - 5003 days | #21 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
jberryl69, as devil's advocate, do you live in the real world? Do we have a right to privacy? If you take a shit, and someone catches you with a hidden camera, do they now have the right to post that video on the Internet, for all to see? Or only for paying customers to see? Medical records and a bunch of other information are supposed to be private. Supposedly, you have some control over who has legal access to that information. To put it simply, what is confidential and/or private can be exposed. But governments and everyone else tries to keep at least some matters private. Maybe you think that if you play in the mud people have a right to see that. Or if you shit or piss, since that is part of life, we all have the right to see that as well. I don't agree. In theory, at least, we have a right to privacy. | |
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| 04-11-11 04:54pm - 5004 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
From another non-techie, be thankful you don't live in Canada. The Canadian PU members have mentioned that their ISPs (Internet Service Providers) limit their monthly downloads to X GB per month. Any downloads above that limit are charged at a very high rate. I'm guessing you could reach that limit in 1 or 2 days, with your 40 Mbit speed. So you would either have to severely limit your Internet cruising, or face a horrendously expensive ISP bill. I live in the US, have never had a problem with any monthly download limits. So it seems each geographic region has its own foibles, including the behavior of the local ISPs. | |
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| 04-11-11 08:31am - 5004 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I increased my download limits from 150-160 KB/s to about 620-630 KB/s a few months back. That was a very nice upgrade for me. But if you're complaining that you don't get the full benefit of your 40/4 Mbit download service because the paysites don't support the ultra-fast download speeds that your ISP allows, it sounds like you are a little cranky to me. Surely we have better things to complain about? You can always send your excess download speed capability to my account, if we get one of the tech-savy PU members to let me tap into your ISP account. But I don't even know what the 40/4 Mbit means. I'm guessing 6/1 MBit means 6 Mbit/second, which would be about 732 KB/s. But what does 40/4 Mbit refer to? Surely not 40 Mbit per 4 seconds. | |
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| 04-10-11 07:45pm - 5005 days | #446 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
pat362, thanks for the useful links. Those are great summaries of the movies. | |
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| 04-10-11 11:37am - 5005 days | #444 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
pat362 (or anyone else who knows how to find complete plot summaries for movies on the Internet), you mentioned in an earlier post that before you see a movie in a theater or on DVD, you sometimes read a fairly complete plot summary, with spoilers. You mentioned that one site you used for this was moviespoiler.com. I tried using that site to find plot summaries for movies like Sucker Punch or Hanna (both current in theaters), but could not find any reviews at that site for those movies. Could you post a couple of links to a complete plot summary of those two movies (with spoilers), that I could use, to understand how to find complete plot summaries more easily on the Internet? Most Internet plot summaries are very brief, and do not have the spoilers included, so you don't really know much about what specifically happens in the movie. I would often like to know as many details of the plot as possible, either before or after watching the movie. | |
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| 04-09-11 07:53am - 5006 days | #441 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Charlie Sheen is a loose cannon. No surprise there. But it's just as dangerous to be his friend as his enemy. Telling a story about Nic Cage carrying cocaine on an airplane isn't doing Nic Cage any favors. And why slam Oliver Stone, who put Sheen in two of Sheen's most important movies? ======================================================= Charlie Sheen Insults Oliver Stone at NYC Show Source: The Hollywood Reporter Fri Apr 08, 2011, 9:45 pm EDT During his NYC show Friday, Charlie Sheen took a shot at Oliver Stone, who directed the actor in two of his most well-known films, Wall Street and Platoon. "I'll buy an Academy Award from Oliver Stone 'cause he's now broke," Sheen told the audience at Radio City Music Hall, according to People.com. "His movies now suck! Anyone seen Wall Street 2?" Photos: Charlie Sheen's wild time on the road He had nicer things to say about actor Nic Cage, whom he has talked about before on stage. He recalled how once he and Cage were boarding a flight to San Francisco with cocaine. Discovering that there were FBI agents on board, he allegedly was faced with the decision of flushing the ounce of coke he was carrying or stuffing it down his sweaty underwear. Luckily, the Feds were fans of both Platoon and Raising Arizona, so Sheen and Cage walked away unquestioned. It was during that unforgettable flight that Cage came up with goddess, the term Sheen now uses for his girlfriends (Cage, Sheen said, referred to a blonde airline stewardess as "a [expletive] goddess.) | |
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| 04-06-11 01:44am - 5009 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Drooler, great to see you actively posting. But have you been taking your medications lately? Lol. | |
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| 04-04-11 09:44am - 5011 days | #440 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Arnie is BACK!!!! The world's greatest superhero crimefighter is back. No longer tied to the desk as California's governor, he is now free to make big bucks and provide his loyal fans with great action in new movies. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Arnie is back, now as animated crime-fighter (AP) Source: AP 49 minutes ago CANNES, France - Well, Arnold Schwarzenegger IS back. The one-time muscleman who morphed into Hollywood icon and then California governor returns to his on-screen core sort of with a cheekily titled animated TV show, "The Governator." In an interview, the 63-year-old said he wants to surprise fans who expected him to go back to the big screen, shifting to the virtual world with a superhero who gets things done without the constraints of laws or an often-intractable political system. "I think that a lot of times you can actually do more and accomplish more being outside of the system," he said. Schwarzenegger spoke to The Associated Press before unveiling details of what he calls a funny, action-packed, crime-fighting fantasy at the MipTV television business conference in the Riviera resort of Cannes. Action Comics giant Stan Lee will be at the show's creative helm. Schwarzenegger, who will voice the superhero, was the talk of the town Monday: France's culture minister inducted him into the Legion of Honor and he had his handprints cast in cement for Cannes' star walk. Three months out of office, current events are still on his mind, from Japan's earthquake disaster to the Arab world turmoil and to environmental and economic troubles in the West. Still, showbiz is eclipsing politics for now. "I am not as eager to run for office," he said, lounging in an opulent hotel suite overlooking the Mediterranean. "Entertainment is the important thing right now. "I am fortunate that I can have a foot in entertainment and a foot in the political arena," he added. That's where the show comes in: Bridging Schwarzenegger's many personas over the years in a TV project that riffs off his public service, his athletic and acting prowess, and his business savvy. Think Bruce Wayne the civilian tycoon behind the Batman mask but involving a former California governor who assembles a team of whiz kids to fight both crime and natural disasters out of a high-tech lair under his mansion in Brentwood, and unbeknownst to his own family upstairs. Producers of the show, which is to debut next year at locations still being determined, have cobbled together a comic-strip action extravaganza with laser-beam eyes, remote-controlled motorcycles and magic chewing-gum bubbles that change faces for incognito sleuthing. It also has what Schwarzenegger called "speaker spray," which temporarily allows its recipient to converse in foreign languages among much more gee-whiz gadgetry and imagination. In short: "It's a superheroic guy" with powers that a real-world governor could only dream of. "It's kind of like, when you see that you could have fought certain crimes but the system didn't allow you, or there were too many people that had to be asked for permission, by that time, the criminals were gone or the disaster that could have been prevented from happening," Schwarzenegger said. "With this, it's a fantasy world where the governor has extra powers." In a sneak-peak teaser aired for the TV-world honchos at Cannes, the animated governor declares "I won't be back" on the capital steps. Newsman Larry King show producers say it's really his voice presses for answers. Then, it was off to battling robots who try to rob an armored car, in a splashy, high-color sequence. The Governator "will be basically fighting the most evil, and worst, of the villains," Schwarzenegger said. The simplicity of save-the-day superheroism is a far cry from the messy world of political wrangling on issues like redistricting, budget balancing and state fiscal woes that hurt his popularity at the end of his seven-year term. "When you are a governor, you deal with keeping the beaches clean, making sure there's enough funding for the after-school programs and the lunch programs for the kids, and all of those kinds of things," he said at the presentation. "As an action hero, you just have to save the world that's it." Schwarzenegger was quick to insist that the show won't be violent, a conscious break from his cinematic career: "If you look at my movies, a lot of heads come off ... this is not what this is." That, he told the AP, was what drew him to the project: a chance to change his image and surprise his fans. "So we happened to start working on this, and I said, 'This is a perfect thing to introduce first.'" First? Did he mean before a possible return to acting? Schwarzenegger played coy, or perhaps he simply hasn't made up his mind. "There's a lot of scripts that I have been reading," and he has been speaking to producers, directors and "the agencies," he said. "We are getting closer to flushing out in which direction I am going to go." "I have not committed to anything. ... So now we are concentrating on launching this series and this character, and then when that is done, then I will make the next decision," he said. | |
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| 04-02-11 01:01pm - 5013 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
One unfortunate byproduct of the Internet is to empower the creeps. But that's part of the price of freedom. At the same time, I would assume that the man, or site he owns/runs, could be sued for different reasons, and probably be shut down. | |
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| 04-02-11 12:04am - 5014 days | #437 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Sometimes reading a book before seeing a movie based on it can affect your enjoyment of the movie. I haven't read any of the dragon girl novels, so any changes from the novel to the movie didn't bother me. So that might be why I enjoyed the movies more, because I didn't have a movie in my mind to compare the film against. I read The Godfather, Dune, Logan's Run and other novels before seeing those movies, and sometimes the changes from novel to screenplay distracted or took away from the movie experience, because you can't help comparing what you imagined from the novel, to what you are seeing on-screen. So for me, anyway, if the book is really good, it's usually better to see the movie first, and then read the book, because then I am able to enjoy both more fully. That's me. I don't know why it works that way, but changes between the movie and the book don't matter as much when I see the movie first. I liked all three dragon girl movies. And felt like cheering when she was finally vindicated in court. The movies are dark in subject matter (abuse, perversion, violence), not lightened by a comic book approach. I really enjoyed them, because the actors pulled me into the story and I cared about the characters. Salt, with Angelina Jolie, on the other hand, was boring for me, because I didn't care what happened to the Angelina Jolie character, or care which side she was on. | |
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| 04-01-11 08:14pm - 5014 days | #434 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The last film in the Swedish trilogy about the hacker girl with the dragon tattoo is now out on DVD. The films were made in Sweden. An American version will be coming out, but I don't know how it could get any better than the Swedish version. The films were highly enjoyable. The 3 films are: The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo The Girl Who Played With Fire The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | |
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| 04-01-11 11:16am - 5014 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
My impression is there are plenty of hardcore networks. Very few softcore networks. I don't know of any great softcore video sites. There are plenty of excellent softcore photo sites: Met-art, MPL Studios, Femjoy, etc. | |
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| 03-31-11 04:13pm - 5015 days | #5 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Even as a teenager I often had trouble understanding all the lyrics of many songs. So when I listened to the videos Pat linked, I was listening to the sounds, and not even trying to understand what the words meant. I understood that Pat was focusing on the morality of a pre-teen singing something, but unless there are close-captions available for the words, whatever the girls were singing about passed me by completely. But I am impressed by the number of hits these videos are getting. | |
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| 03-30-11 08:58pm - 5016 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I can't listen to a song and tell what the commercial possibilities are. I don't know how "good" this girl's singing is. What impresses me are the numbers the videos of this girl are generating on YouTube: MY JEANS: 2,652,773 O.M.G: 299,237 Those are huge numbers. I would assume/guess this young girl could have a strong career. I don't know how long it would last, but she appears to be a pre-teen sensation/star/whatever. | |
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| 03-28-11 03:52am - 5018 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Maybe I'm getting flighty in my old age, but there are so many gorgeous models out there, with new ones coming out all the time, that I keep falling in love again and again. So I don't have any one favorite. I used to think there was something wrong with Hugh Hefner, because he couldn't seem to stick with any one woman, no matter how gorgeous they were. Barbi Benton was one of my favorites, and she was just adorable: great face, fantastic body, sweet, bubbly personality. But Hefner had her, and apparently a ton of other top flight women. I don't envy Hefner, not even in my fantasies, but I'm beginning to understand better that for some people, variety is the spice of life. Lol. But if I happened to find Eufrat or Piper Fawn in my bed somehow, I'd have a hard time kicking either one out. I'd probably think I had died and gone to heaven. | |
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| 03-25-11 01:42pm - 5021 days | #26 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not rambling, but creating a lovely, poetic description of what collecting should be. I'm going to have to re-read your reviews, to see if they have the same kind of imagery. Lol. | |
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| 03-23-11 10:54am - 5023 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Liz Taylor was absolutely special. A child star, an adult star, superstar, incredibly sweet and loyal in her private life. A lot of turmoil in her life, both ups and downs. | |
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| 03-18-11 12:55am - 5028 days | #285 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Site not listed on PU: vika nymph This is part of the Diesel network. Almost all the sites in the Diesel network are listed at PU. Except this one. | |
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| 03-17-11 11:04am - 5029 days | #20 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I have some old Playboy playmate photosets. Individual photos are around 30-90 KB, which is far smaller than the 1+ MB high res photos now posted at the glamour teen photo sites. But I think the old Playboy photos are still worth looking at. They had some great looking models over the years. So I don't disagree with what you are saying, but I'm not willing to pay for a new membership to Playboy to see if the old photos have been enhanced/upgraded. There are very few Playmates from the last 15+ years that I find appealing. Too much plastic boobies and whatnot. | |
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| 03-15-11 12:00pm - 5031 days | #10 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Messmer, demonstrating the power of the humble request. Wow! I didn't catch the tongue-in-cheek intention of your post, but a lot of people don't catch my attempts at humor either. I didn't mind the now banished caption, but that was partly because PU members are basically anonymous. I certainly wouldn't appreciate friends and neighbors calling me a pervert in public as a joke. | |
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| 03-15-11 07:42am - 5031 days | #13 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
A great post, funnier than many comedy routines I've heard.  | |
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| 03-14-11 04:43pm - 5032 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Why not get a laptop instead of a netbook? What is the reason for getting a netbook instead of a laptop? The laptop would be bigger and heavier than a netbook, but probably no more expensive. And the laptop would have a CD/DVD drive, plenty of expansion ports, pre-installed software, the power to run whatever other software you want to install, etc. Like you, I don't know a lot about computers. I've never had any experience with a netbook. But apparently they are much more limited than a laptop. A laptop is portable, and does almost everything a desktop can do. Except the keyboard of the laptop is not as nice, the mouse of the laptop takes getting used to, the laptop monitor is not as nice as a desktop monitor, but probably better than the monitor of a netbook. The desktop is easiest to use physically (keyboard, mouse, monitor, and best hardware for least money). The laptop has dropped way down in price the last few years, and gives you portability, so if you want a portable computer, get a laptop. So what advantage is there for a netbook? Smaller size and lesser weight. But decreased functionality, as I understand it. So why choose a netbook instead of a laptop? Is there a special reason for doing that? But then again, the Apple offerings are supposed to be very popular. Maybe you should take a look at Apple offerings, before you choose what to buy. They make laptops and ipads or something. But if you go for Apple, I don't think you can use your Windows software, unless you buy a special software program. Or maybe not. I know almost nothing about Apple except Apple has its fans who would buy nothing else. Edit01: I got a laptop for the first time a few months back, and I'm still trying to get used to the keyboard. I make a lot more typos than on a desktop keyboard. A netbook keyboard would be even worse. Make sure you physically try out whatever you buy before you buy it, to try to get a feel of how it works in practice. And there can be a huge difference in pecking away for 5 minutes in a trial, and then using the machine for hours at a time after you buy it. How easy is it to use the machine? Desktop is easiest, laptop is not as easy (keyboard, monitor, mouse), and netbook would be a pain. But some people adjust to a laptop very easily. I still feel like throwing my laptop against a wall at times because of the keyboard and mouse problems. And my fingers feel cramped from typing on the keyboard. Edited on Mar 14, 2011, 04:56pm | |
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| 03-13-11 01:27pm - 5033 days | #2 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Starting around the 1970s attractive girls started appearing in porn. Today, there are a large number of very attractive girls in porn. I think there is a larger number from Europe and Asia than from the United States. That's my opinion or taste. I think there are a large number of girls in porn who are very attractive physically. Partially that's because porn is more accepted today. And you have the Internet. I think your ideas of "born for porn" and "too pretty for porn" are from earlier times, which have come and gone. And a girl who does porn is not necessarily "wrong" or "evil". Porn could fuck them up, but I hope that girls who are in porn can leave it when they want to and find other ways to make money or have a career. | |
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| 03-13-11 01:10pm - 5033 days | #5 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think most PU members want to trim their porn collection to the point where it might be manageable (to at least be able to hunt and peck for the files they are looking for). But some PU members are much better able to trim and organize their collections than other members. A lot of us have downloaded photos and videos we never even watched, or watched once. It's just really hard to delete stuff, unless it's complete crap. But over time, especially over years, our tastes often do change. Photos and videos that we once found exciting often lose their impact if we view them years later. So unless you want to build a very complete collection, which really takes a lot of time to organize and keep organized (and trimmed), I don't see the need to keep old photos and videos that are no longer interesting. The truth is, almost none of us are going to be selling our collections over the Internet. And we don't really own any copyright on these photos and videos, so we can't start our own Internet porn sites. But if in doubt over any photos or videos, I'd suggest keeping those, because the cost of storage is so cheap, and keeps dropping. | |
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| 03-10-11 11:25am - 5036 days | #11 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I think you just insulted Met-art, which is probably my favorite porn site. How dare you!!!! You can insult Hegre all you want, but please respect Met-art, which is the gold standard for softcore teen photography. | |
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| 03-09-11 08:52pm - 5037 days | #7 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I used to read erotic fiction back in the 1970s. That was before the Internet. I think the poll results are questionable. On the Internet, which I assume is the main source of porn, most porn is visual: photos or videos. How many sites sell erotic fiction? Or carry erotic fiction? I read little to none erotic fiction nowadays. My porn is visual: photos and videos. And I would guess that is true for most people, unless you define erotic writing in a very broad sense that makes the definition basically meaningless. Some people could get off reading the daily newspaper, or reading a women's fashion magazine. | |
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| 03-06-11 12:23am - 5040 days | #26 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I also got a No trust vote, which still bothers me. We need to grow a thicker skin, because it's ridiculous to let idiotic things annoy us. | |
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As I said, I'm still embarrassed but I'm also grateful because I discovered a place (TBP/PU) that's become very dear to me in the meantime.| 03-05-11 07:37am - 5041 days | #6 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Makes me wonder if lezzies have taken over Hollywood. | |
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| 02-26-11 05:42pm - 5048 days | #8 | |
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Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Maybe I'm just getting old, but I don't remember which was my first porn site. But among the first ones that I did join were 8Teenies, TeenStarsOnly, Met-art, JustTeenSite, TeenStarsMagazine. I should check the spelling/exact name for some of those sites, because I listed them from memory. | |
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| 02-16-11 02:20pm - 5058 days | #3 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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"Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel" was a documentary film released in movie theaters last year. This was a full-length documentary that was shown in movie theaters as a separate feature, just like a regular movie. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Updated 7/28/2010 10:19 PM Hugh Hefner documentary reveals more than pretty faces By Maria Puente, USA TODAY Hugh Hefner's life, as we all know, has been a sybaritic male fantasy, living like a pasha in his pajamas, surrounded by barely clad bosomy bombshells, sometimes cohabiting with up to seven (really) at a time. So it's no wonder we hardly know anything else about him. Who can see beyond all that to the real Hef: rights activist, literary and journalistic tastemaker, humanitarian? Yes, humanitarian. Did you know Hefner, 84, once sent his black jet, Big Bunny, with the Playboy logo on the tail, to airlift a gaggle of orphaned babies and toddlers from Vietnam, with some of his Playboy bunnies assigned to watch over the kids? Now comes Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel, a revealing documentary by Canadian filmmaker and Oscar winner Brigitte Berman (opening Friday), who takes a closer look at the man she says has helped liberate American culture racially, sexually, politically, psychologically since Playboy began publishing in December 1953. "I wanted to set the record straight, not whitewash Hefner or his reputation," says the German-born Berman, who met Hefner at the 1987 Oscars when her film on bandleader Artie Shaw won best documentary. "Yes, he's a hedonistic playboy and lover of many women, but he's also the activist who fights for civil rights, freedom of speech, abortion rights, women's rights, gay rights." The film is the latest in a spate of documentaries that take a seemingly well-known person (Joan Rivers, Daniel Ellsberg) and tell us something we didn't know. Hefner is delighted with the film. He has never much cared what anybody thinks of his lifestyle, but he knows the price he paid was in his credibility as a serious campaigner for human rights. "There's a whole other side (to me) that most people didn't really know about, and she's filling out the picture," he says in a phone interview from the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles. "(Science fiction writer Ray) Bradbury said a long time ago about Playboy that people can't see the forest because of the tease. People don't see Hefner clearly because of the high-profile nature of my lifestyle you know, the pretty ladies." The pretty ladies do show up in the film, but it's really not about them, nor Hefner's wives and children and live-in lovers. It's about all this other stuff Hefner has been doing for a half-century. His TV shows, Playboy's Penthouse (1959) and Playboy After Dark (1969), were groundbreaking as entertainment and as harbingers of social change. Because of Hefner, Americans for the first time saw black artists and integrated acts perform live on TV before integrated audiences. "He gave a platform to people with something to say when no one else would," Berman says. A supporter of Martin Luther King Jr., he advanced civil rights by, among other things, closing down Playboy clubs in the South that refused entrance to African Americans. He gave money to the Equal Rights Amendment campaign, condemned the Vietnam War, campaigned against censorship, promoted American jazz, and published cutting-edge literature and journalism (yes, people really do read Playboy for the articles). But if you can know a man by his enemies, then it's telling that Hefner's opponents have included such feminists as Susan Brownmiller and Gloria Steinem and the Catholic Church and Pat Boone, all of whom considered Hefner a pornographer. "The Playboy philosophy is seditionary to the American way of life," Boone declares in the film. Brownmiller, author of a 1975 groundbreaking book on rape, also appears, denouncing Hefner as she has done since the early 1970s. Steinem, who made her bones with a 1963 article about working undercover as a Playboy bunny, refused to be in the film, Berman says. But plenty of others show up to give Hef his due or a piece of their mind: comedian Bill Maher, sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, singer/activist Joan Baez, comedian/activist Dick Gregory, filmmaker George Lucas. Meanwhile, Hefner continues to work ("Retirement is the first step toward the grave," he says) and fully expects to be editing Playboy when he goes ("My mother lived to 101," he says). His life has been pretty good, he says; this film polishes his legacy. "My position is relatively secure, but I do think without question this movie is going to help." | |
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| 02-16-11 09:33am - 5058 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Seven kids from seven different women. Probably all gorgeous. Still dating women in their twenties. Still friendly with many of his past loves. And a self-made millionaire from his nightclubs. You have to respect his drive. And his sense of humor. Offering "250,000 euros ($340,000) of his fortune to the last woman he has sex with, provided he dies in her arms after a 'final, glorious orgasm.'" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< Film untangles life of celebrity German playboy (Reuters) Source: Reuters Wed Feb 16, 2011, 6:58 am EST BERLIN (Reuters) - The life of Germany's most celebrated playboy has made a big screen splash at the Berlin film festival, offering a riveting portrayal of the Jewish night club mogul who helped post-war Berlin learn to laugh again. "The Big Eden," an entertaining documentary about Shimon "Rolf" Eden, is more than just a story about an 80-year-old who has seduced a long line of young women over the last 60 years with his unique charm. The warmly applauded film shows unexpected facets of Eden -- an Israeli soldier who returned to Berlin after World War Two with no bitterness about the Holocaust -- and how he made his fortune in Berlin running the city's most popular night clubs. "I've had a lot of luck in life," Eden said on Tuesday after watching the world premiere with former girlfriends, his seven children and most of their seven mothers. "I'm still not sure why I've had so much luck. I hope it continues for a while." Eden, who boasts that he has had thousands of girlfriends, may be seen in Berlin now as a bit of an oddity. With bleached blond hair and a permanent tan, he is often seen strolling along Berlin's avenues with one of his many young women on his arm. But the film by Peter Doerfler shows new insights into the ever-smiling man whose family escaped the Holocaust by leaving Berlin in 1933 and who in the 1950s went to Paris with just a few dollars in his pocket. "A lot of people groaned when I first said I wanted to do a film on Eden," Doerfler told Reuters, admitting he had once thought that he was an embarrassing figure. "But there's so much more to him that you discover when you look a bit deeper." NIGHT CLUBBING Eden opened the first of five West Berlin nightclubs in 1957 with the help of a 5,000 mark grant from the West German government. His boundless optimism helped make it the hottest spot in town. Everyone from the Rolling Stones to Liza Minelli, Louis Armstrong and Jack Lemmon found their way there. "I didn't care about what had happened 10 years before," Eden tells some friends in Israel of his return to Berlin. "I was lucky. All my relatives survived. I'm not a victim. I was a winner. I made people happy. I helped people forget misery and think about beautiful things." Several former girlfriends appear in the film to explain how his sunny optimism, perseverance and seemingly unlimited resources won them over. "He's never grown beyond puberty," says his current 20-something girlfriend Brigitte of Eden, who admits to having had three face lifts. "Even when we broke up he gave me a gold ring worth 10,000 marks," said Uschi Buchfellner, a former German model and actress. "The next boyfriend I had wanted all the presents back that he gave me." Eden briefly gained international fame eight years ago when he offered 250,000 euros ($340,000) of his fortune to the last woman he has sex with, provided he dies in her arms after a "final, glorious orgasm." He said the offer still stands. "It's been great," Eden said. "Women come up to me and say they want to sleep with me. And they work really hard to try to finish me off. But the sex is great. For a man there's no better way of staying fit." (Editing by Elizabeth Piper) | |
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| 02-15-11 04:29pm - 5059 days | #2 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Puzzle question: Is this a boy, a girl, a tribble (from Star Trek), or an overgrown vagina (innie or outie version from the recent poll question)? http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Westminste...s_sp/r3985624488.jpg | |
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| 02-15-11 04:19pm - 5059 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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I read that Capone was supposed to have died after he got out of prison. But a photograph dated today, February 15, 2011, shows that Capone is alive and well and still slobbering over the ladies. Do the Feds still keep track of Capone, or has he paid for past crimes with good behavior? http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Westminste...4f66aa8a4eeaece8b809 http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Westminste...493b945f29344db478b0 | |
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| 02-15-11 03:44pm - 5059 days | #12 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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messmer: On Windows versions starting with Windows 2000, the software creates a memory dump whenever the system crashes. The dump files are supposed to contain information that might help identify why the computer crashed. An average of 2 crashes a week sounds extremely high. I've had some crashes (blue screen, or the PC just stopped responding to the keyboard, or whatever), but only once in a while. Certainly less than once a month. I have Win7. My guess for your crashes would be a software conflict, which you might have fixed with your driver updates. But a memory dump is not a problem; instead, it's a regular feature of Windows that is supposed to help solve/identify the problem of why a PC crashed. Edited on Feb 15, 2011, 03:47pm | |
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| 02-15-11 01:05pm - 5059 days | #9 | |
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win7 is supposed to be a big improvement over Vista. I never had Vista, but do have Win7. It doesn't crash very often. I liked WinXP better, but when I got a new laptop, I had no choice, but had to go with Win7, because that's all that was being offered. But computers get cheaper every year. It's one of the few things that do get cheaper. You get more features, more hardware (memory, hard drive space, etc.), and a cheaper price, so that's a great deal. | |
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| 02-15-11 11:36am - 5059 days | #7 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I don't think it's too much of a repetition.  I think almost everyone who uses a PC worries at least some of the time about PC problems: security, hard drive failure, etc. etc. You would think that PCs would become more reliable as the years go by, because they've been building them since the 1970s or so. But it's big business to fix all the PC problems that people have, so maybe that helps explain why the problems won't be going away any time soon.  | |
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| 02-15-11 10:56am - 5059 days | #4 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Edit 01: Didn't you talk about this same problem several months ago? You said your security program (anti-virus, etc.) was trying to charge you a very high price for renewal, and you were looking for a different program. I think you said you didn't renew the old program, because of the high price. | |
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| 02-15-11 10:51am - 5059 days | #3 | |
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I'm no computer expert. A "real" expert's opinions would have much more validity than any opinions about computers than what I think. Most registry cleaners give a lot of "error" reports to encourage you to buy their program. You already know that. I don't know how much any of those programs really help in making a PC faster to run. On my other PCs I used to run one or more registry cleaner programs on a daily basis, but I think it was really mainly wasted time. That's my guess. I would get a daily report that I had a bunch of registry errors that had been cleaned, and every day I would get a similar report that a bunch of registry errors had been cleaned. Maybe that's the way it has to work. But I came to the conclusion: How many times, actually every day, does the registry have to be cleaned or fixed? So when I got a new laptop several months ago, I have not run any registry cleaner, and the laptop is still running fine. My protection is Norton Internet Security. That is a low-cost solution to security. It provides anti-virus, firewall, and identity protection. Some people I've talked to said Norton is crap, and I should delete it from my PC and get a different security program. But I've had my laptop for several months now, and have had no serious security problems. So I am sticking with Norton Internet security for now. | |
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| 02-10-11 11:42am - 5064 days | #72 | |
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Nuttn wrong with likn rap. But this is more like spam, when yu post to 5 different treads wit da same link. Edited by Staff on Feb 10, 2011, 12:55pm | |
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| 02-09-11 11:30am - 5065 days | #16 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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That's exactly what I was thinking. | |
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| 02-09-11 10:26am - 5065 days | #14 | |
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Maybe not so strange after all. I normally check my zipper before going outside. I often find that I am not zipped up, and therefore zip my zipper before going outside. It must be an age thing, because it's only been the last few years that I started checking my zipper, and noticing that it was often unzipped (before going outside). (If my head was not strongly attached to the rest of my body, I would have misplaced it many years ago.)  I was writing about the zipper/fly on my pants. Which is not strictly related to zip programs to download photos. But if I found a zip program to automatically zip my pants, I would probably use it. And save myself some time and embarrassment. I once had a photo of myself and a neighbor's child at a park. And my pants zipper was unzipped. I felt like an idiot when I noticed that detail. | |
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| 02-09-11 06:17am - 5065 days | #421 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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Why can't we be this passionate about our porn? But if I went to a Justin Bieber movie to see how the pre-teen and teen female audience reacts to his film, I'd feel like a peeping tom or a pervert. Still, it would be interesting, at least for a few minutes, to see girls screaming and crying and waving glow sticks at the screen. Then it would be time to scram, or stick in the ear plugs. >>>>>>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<<<<<< 'Beliebers' fill downtown LA for Bieber premiere (AP) LOS ANGELES - The city got a bad case of Bieber fever on Tuesday, when hundreds of Justin Bieber fans along with his famous friends Miley Cyrus, Will Smith, Usher and Selena Gomez filled the L.A. Live complex for the premiere of the teen pop star's first movie, "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never." The mostly 'tween and teen crowd, many in homemade T-shirts proclaiming themselves to be Bieber's No. 1 fan, packed the LA Live plaza hours ahead of the screening, hoping for a star sighting. "We just wanted to see if we could get a glimpse of Justin," said 15-year-old Hanna Hamersley, who wore a purple hand-painted T-shirt, a homemade Justin Bieber headband and purple "Never Say Never" 3-D glasses. Part concert film and part biopic, "Never Say Never" tells the story of Bieber's rise from a small-town street performer to a bona fide pop sensation with hit songs, a best-selling book and more than seven million followers on Twitter. It shows a young Bieber pounding away on the drums and busking on the streets of Ontario, Canada, before rising to fame through YouTube and Twitter, and eventually performing at Madison Square Garden. "It was the greatest movie ever," said 13-year-old Hanna Zeile. "I would watch it over and over." Indeed, Hanna and her two friends said they planned to see the movie again on Wednesday and on Friday, when it opens nationwide. Twelve-year-old Bella Garcia said she planned to see the movie at least twice more. "I loved all the baby videos and footage of him as a kid," Bella said. "He had no music lessons as a kid. That really inspired me." Sisters Megan and Emily Bratta also appreciated seeing Bieber's childhood home videos and deep musical roots. Their mom, Gayla, said she was unexpectedly taken with the young musician. "I was very impressed," she said. "I didn't know he had such raw, true talent." Bieber's fans who call themselves "Beliebers" play a big role in "Never Say Never." They're shown throughout the film in their T-shirts, singing along with his songs and crying from sheer joy at seeing him in person. Fans in the theater screamed and waved glow sticks during the 3-D concert footage, just like fans at his actual concerts. (Movie-bound parents: Bring earplugs.) "I'm so happy I have such amazing fans," Bieber said as he introduced the film. "Tonight isn't even about me. It's about spreading the message that anything is possible." | |
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| 02-09-11 02:15am - 5065 days | #420 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I think that most people in the movie business regard it as a business. A way to make money. And money is very important to these people. In spite of the fact that they can make 10-100 times or more than what an average person can make in a year, their paycheck, although variable from one project to the next, is part of who they are. Transformers is a huge franchise. I don't see Frances McDormand, John Malkovich or John Turturro, who are probably considered some of the finest actors alive, turning down their noses at a paycheck from working on a Transformers movie. And it's not just the money. I don't understand Hollywood business very well, but I don't see how being in a Transformers movie could hurt their career. It might even help them become more bankable. At the least, they take the money from Transformers and wait for more solid "artistic" films. Steven Spielberg has money up the gazoo. But I don't see him turning down fresh wads of cash from Transformers or any other money-making film that isn't obviously toxic. He is considered one of the finest living directors. I am not saying that money is the complete explanation of who these people are. But I don't see any of them as the type of person who would use a thousand-dollar bill to light a fancy cigar (if you could picture them as cigar smokers, which they probably aren't). | |
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| 02-08-11 12:46am - 5066 days | #417 | |
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Some of the Coen brother movies are goofy, but some are not. If you saw Millers Crossing or No Country for Old Men, they were not goofy. You could argue that there was a touch of existential or outre flavor with the character of the weird killer in No Country for Old Men, but they were basically serious movies. I thought both of those movies were extremely enjoyable and well made and interesting throughout. True Grit failed to hold my interest. I did not find the characters played by Matt Damon, Jeff Bridges, or the newcomer girl, that interesting. I don't think True Grit was a goofy movie. The audience was supposed to be drawn in by the old-time flavor of the language the characters used. I didn't think the language, although flavored by a by-gone era, was that poetic or interesting. I thought the language was more artificial/phony than natural. Rating True Grit, I would not rate it highly. But that's my personal opinion. As I said, critics and general audiences rate it extremely high. I don't think there was a Clint Eastwood western that I did not enjoy. I think I saw all his westerns. And he made a lot of them. Unforgiven was a great movie. It held my interest completely. The same with Pale Rider. Those movies had action, drama, interesting characters, and a whole bunch of other factors that made for an exciting experience. I thought True Grit was very slow-moving. Sort of like Doctor Zhivago. Which I didn't enjoy either. | |
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| 02-07-11 09:02pm - 5067 days | #415 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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The truth is, it's hard to know what to believe in any more. Our government has lied to us time and again. And those lies keep getting exposed. How many people realize that 42 years ago, when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, he discovered evidence that we are not alone? There was a black-out on the discovery, but Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the historic first moon-walk, discovered the remains of a giant Transformer on the dark side of the moon. Transformers: Dark of the Moon is coming this summer to a theater near you. I saw Transformers Part 1 on DVD. But somehow I still haven't seen Transformers Part 2. I will try to see it before I see Transformers Part 3, because I want to see if they explain why our government lied to us about the historic moon-walk. I know our government lied to us about the Transformers before, because in Part 1, it was explained that Hoover Dam was built to hide the discovery of the Transformers from the world, and for America (the United States) to explore the strange science of the Transformers, which would make us strong and world leaders with our new-found scientific knowledge and discoveries based on the Transformer sciences. I also want to see Transformers Part 2 because I think Megan Fox is a hottie. It was really stupid of her to criticize Michael Bay, because she was dropped from Transformers Part 3. That series was the biggest money-maker she will ever be in, and it made her famous and a rising starlet. Now the chances are Megan Fox will just fade away among the thousands of fresh Hollywood faces and bodies. A massive career blunder on her part, for opening her mouth time and again to criticize the man who made her the It Girl of the moment. | |
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| 02-07-11 08:33pm - 5067 days | #414 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
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I've found comedy to be a very personal experience. I did not enjoy Tropic Thunder or The Other Guys. But I did find Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby to be very funny. Did you know that Robert Downey Jr. was nomimated for an academy award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Tropic Thunder? I thought that was amazing, and more unbelievable than watching Robert Downey as a black man. If Downey had died making the movie, then maybe he could be honored with an Oscar nomination for his past roles for this role in Tropic Thunder. But the guy was still alive, so why honor him for a role that was supposed to be a joke? That was "great" acting? I mean, Downey's entire role was a joke, a take-off on the vanity and foibles of Hollywood actors. And he was nomimated for an Oscar for that role? I always thought Oscars were supposed to be a sign of technical excellence and greatness. | |
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| 02-07-11 11:59am - 5067 days | #6 | |
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I'm really surprised they allow this video on YouTube, or that it doesn't come with a parental warning or blocking mechanism requiring some kind of age verification: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxb7b0jGZvc Regarding irritating stunt cocks: This guy has ruined a lot of otherwise good videos for me. Too many times I've seen this guy handle women like a piece of meat. And yet, at least one webmaster says this guy is very popular with the models. Go figure. http://l.image.21sextury.com/picture/promophoto/72130/2/ | |
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