posts very much in character

Die Hard vs. Hard Boiled:

easily Hard Boiled

(I've only seen a few minutes of Die Hard on TV)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 7:41 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that is the single most infuriating morbs post i have ever read

I've never seen the entirety of Die Hard either so what

― larry craig memorial gloryhole (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

SBs v.much in character

http://imgur.com/hmDbV.jpg

You guys, help me out here! I just saw "Hurt Locker" and kind of feel like I watched a different movie from everybody else. I mean, this totally works as an action movie, the sequences are well-paced and suspenseful, was not sorry to spend 2:10 watching it, etc. But: this totally read to me as a bog-standard mismatched-pardner movie: by-the-book Sanborn paired uncomfortably with his-methods-are-unorthodox-yet-he-gets-the-job-done James. OK, one has seen this before. But the seemingly fearless unorthodox dude actually suffers deeply and feels tenderly towards scaredy-cat kid soldier and plucky Iraqi kid! Wait, I've seen that before too. And then the two guys learn from each other's differences and have a heart-to-heart! "How do you ... TAKE THE RISK?" asks wide-eyed by-the-book Sanborn. Is he referring to defusing bombs or...... committing to his girlfriend and having a son? It's intentionally ambiguous because we are learning a LIFE LESSON! Oh btw in case you didn't catch the point that unorthodox dude with a deep soul possesses hi-test psychological insight they help you out by NAMING HIM WILLIAM JAMES. Having succeeded at all this movie then goes for broke by portraying the relative emptiness of civilian life in possibly the laziest way imaginable --- the good old LOL WALL OF CEREAL shot.

90 minutes in I was like, "I will give KB credit for this, though, they didn't go for the corny "bomb with a visible digital clock on it so they know exactly how many seconds they have until it goes off" scene." Oops!

I guess you can imagine a much better version of this movie, modeled after the night-time Haji hunt and its aftermath, one which doesn't let itself get distracted from the fact that its protagonist is a dangerous fuckup who on the one hand possesses desperately needed technical skill, but on the other hand whose lack of self-knowledge and self-control is so severe that HE is the device that might get anyone near him killed. The movie hints at this but could have looked straight at it, by, e.g., letting James kill Sanborn. (I will concede that KB makes a good move by leaving open the possibility that James actually does kill Sanborn before the end of the tour.)

Again, not a bad movie! But a well-placed corny action movie built out of spare parts that more or less makes sense. It is similar in many ways to, and about as good as, "Enemy at the Gates." (Though its corniness does refrain from psuedopodding off a corny love story as in EatG.)

Anyway, I'm obviously wrong about all this, since everyone else on earth found much to praise about this movie and the ideas and performances contained in it. But I am sincerely confused about what I missed.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Wednesday, December 23, 2009 1:55 AM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I opened this thread hoping it would be about a female gigalo

― shouldn't I be in on the inside jokes about (CaptainLorax), Wednesday, December 23, 2009 2:25 AM (17 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Chris Matthews' favorite movie of the year.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, December 25, 2004 8:58 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol hardballneb

lolz

― a triumph in high-tech nipple obfuscation (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, December 10, 2009 10:36 AM (3 weeks ago)

easily Hard Boiled

(I've only seen a few minutes of Die Hard on TV)

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius)

that is the single most infuriating morbs post i have ever read

― deej--nuts, butthurt, and yelly (gbx)

obv not an Obama stan

(also, no apparent sense of humor)

maybe the problem is you're not as funny as you think you are?

xp i think you should watch die hard

it's an even lower priority than Miami Vice.

stevie, a fault i share with many ppl here

myself included of course

excuse me morbs for not realizing that you were making a joke instead of just being you

1. Call me an adolescent. I don't really care.

2. To Eric: Beavis said it better than I could: first, those were examples of people challenging the notion of inherent radicality. second, the notion comes from dominant culture positioning homosexuality as a "threat" to dominant mores. "radicality" becomes a way of attempting to wield that possible power granted by dominant cultural fears.

As stated above (in my last post), I don't really think that anyone has to embrace ^^this 'possible power'^^ of radicality as a prerequisite for being a homosexual. PERSONALLY, I embrace it because I believe it does have some power in threatening and challenging dominant cultural mores.

3. Tim F., I've been reading agit-prop queer zines since I was that teenager you're describing, and at this point (ten years later), I'm relatively well-versed in a lot of queer/feminist theory. However, I do find that the energy and passion of queer teenagers (especially punk rockers) remains energising and invigorating to me, though I am sometimes disappointed in the myopic nature of their anger.

3. To Alfred and Eric: I'm no less smug than either of you, so shut the fuck up.

― And now my dick is where? Oh, this is too rich (the table is the table), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 11:11 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

lol

You know what pisses me off? A lack of the first million selling 12" disco single (and an amaaaaaazing sonic landscape to boot[y]) on this thread, kay?:

― Kevin John Bozelka, Wednesday, January 6, 2010

duuude no way is that touching "Rock Day"! i caught myself genuinely daydreaming about/considering dealing drugs this morning after listening to that like five times in a row

― i want more SBs, lots of SBs (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, January 6, 2010 2:27 PM Bookmark

thats a good username i must say

ha, I didn't even notice it

idgi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Agro8r4nyGQ

haven't even opened this thread but

Sexual Ethical Advice: Virgin Involved. [Started by Steve/Paul Table in March 2006, last updated 5 minutes ago by Electric Universe (wherever that is) (acoleuthic) on I Love Everything] 5 new answers

hahahahaha

lol

haaa

i'm gonna put up my whole shoe collection for people's perusal

― moonship journey to baja, Friday, January 8, 2010 5:04 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Marg is more like 5'8", trust me on this one.

― keyser (suzy), Thursday, January 7, 2010 4:25 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

sad thing is she's talking about marge simpson

suzy must not count the hair

every time i hear someone mention this movie it sounds like they're saying "daterapers"

― steady mmmobyn (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, January 8, 2010 10:42 PM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i had no idea bob dylan released anything in 2009. i only realised a few weeks ago he was still alive.

― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend)

LOL

damn son, i met the writer who wrote that one about 'hidden', she done a conference wot i spoke at.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, February 6, 2008 8:27 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

The CD's are at Sonic Boom for 10 bucks but if you order them from the website, they ship from 420 High Street!

― brotherlovesdub, Monday, January 25, 2010 4:09 PM Bookmark

Max, one of my friends is on the Shelby block list (he is one of the National Council on Disability appts) and what should be a slam-dunk confirmation is now at the mercy of old-school DC feudalism because they're relying on a single GOP senator to shift this. The GOPer in question is, of course, an old family friend of the appointee (and no, I haven't found out which senator).

― spay or neuter your blue dog (suzy), Saturday, 6 February 2010 11:35 (10 hours ago)

i can't say i know much of this 'brotherlovesdub' character, but i dare say he & i have a lot in common.

TS: Die Antwoord - Enter The Ninja VS. Vanilla Ice Ninja Rap - Go Ninja, Go Ninja GO!

Also 'Scopie'.

Shakey Mo needs some of Seth Rogen's weed

― Fusty Moralizer (Dr Morbius), Monday, February 8, 2010 6:11 PM

hahaha whiney

It's also possible to spend hours reading and posting on threads when you don't have an opinion on its subject.

― sarahel, Monday, February 8, 2010 8:16 PM (36 minutes ago)

It's also possible to spend hours reading and posting on threads when you don't have an opinion on its subject.

― sarahel, Monday, February 8, 2010 8:16 PM (36 minutes ago)

― SMALL BONES, SMALL BODIES (jjjusten), Monday, February 8, 2010 1:15 PM (1 minute ago)

it's important to *reach* an opinion, of course...

didn't see Diving Bell, but I like it

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Thursday, February 4, 2010 2:20 PM

very glad he was willing to *reach* an opinion

Purrinormal Cativity

― manichean ramen (latebloomer), Friday, January 22, 2010 11:09 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

very glad he was willing to *reach* an opinion

― new worlds order comeing soons (jeff), Monday, February 8, 2010 6:27 PM

didn't read your post, but i agree

lol @ lb