Oh, this is a combination of all the things my dad loves: Sherlock Holmes ephemera and new material, plus rubbing shoulders with celebrities. Kareem has written a couple of his own Holmes novels, so he's in deep!
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:11 (five years ago) link
oh ulysses that reminds me i agree 100% about SKIN what a piece of shit. people laughed when i saw it too, just at such a ridiculous topper on an already unbelievably grim procession of shorts. So many walkouts during Detainment and Skin. i think the conceit of Skin would actually make a decent pulp horror movie in the same vein as Don't Breathe, but it was horrifying presented out of context and with no warning. and obviously as a comment on racism it is completely dysfunctional and stupid.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:39 (five years ago) link
Holy shit, Vallelonga co-wrote Deadfall? That movie is unhinged. Arguably Nic Cage's weirdest performance.
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 19:46 (five years ago) link
In 1977 or 1978 my dad led me from the back of an airplane up to the front to meet Kareem. My dad likes to recall that the chapter in the book he had open in his lap was "Kareem Abdul-Jabbar"
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:10 (five years ago) link
flappy otmdetainment MIGHT have been worse but only because it was longer.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:13 (five years ago) link
Kareem was reading a book while piloting the plane? Yikes.
http://larrybrownsports.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/kareem-abdul-jabbar-airplane.jpg
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:37 (five years ago) link
(I need for someone to come on now and say "Surely that's from some movie.")
― clemenza, Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:51 (five years ago) link
yes that was always my part growing up!
― Rhine Jive Click Bait (Hadrian VIII), Tuesday, 26 February 2019 20:55 (five years ago) link
^favorite
so is the problem what green book reveals about certain americans or what it does to them? if the former, well it's not like we didn't know any of this. if the latter, my sense is that films play a teeny tiny if any causal role in actually perpetuating any of this stuff.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy)
the latter, and my sense is different! i think we are affected by the perspectives we are exposed to, more than we like to acknowledge.
― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
Remember next year is going to be all about CATS, which will win 15 Oscars at the minimum.— Peter Labuza (@labuzamovies) February 25, 2019
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link
Oh, Jesus, haul this guy out of there.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 15:24 (five years ago) link
Uh, wrong thread!
― clemenza, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 15:25 (five years ago) link
no, i think that's a good all-purpose post.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 27 February 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link