thats right
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 17:51 (two years ago) link
words david ferrie did not say in the early to mid-1960s: "wannabe"
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 18:09 (two years ago) link
"i could give you a false name, but i won't, just call me X" lol im sorry that is also a false name in my opinion
― mark s, Tuesday, 3 May 2022 18:30 (two years ago) link
if you wannabe my loveru gotta shoot up my friends
― Deez NFTs (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 3 May 2022 18:32 (two years ago) link
garrison (squeaky with horror at the chaotic info-dump that agent "X" just unloaded on him): "i can't believe they killed him bcz he wanted to *change* things!" me (squeaky with exhaustion even tho im watching this dumb movie in half-hour stretches): "yeah they didn't u colossal nincompoop"agent "X" (not real name apparently): long section late in (longer) info-dump explaining how robert macnamara of all ppl lol was undermining the drive to war
sutherland is fun to watch of course but his character -- this unflappably amused and cynical aristocratic deep throat -- makes no sense (yes i know he's based on fletcher prouty, and yeah, 30 years later prouty does come across more like this in affect on youtube and wherever)
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:48 (two years ago) link
agent "X" (not real name apparently): "you've become a significant threat to the national security structure! they'd have killed you already bit you've gotta lotta light on you!" me (eyes rolling down the back mf my head and along the floor): "unlike president john f kennedy in dallas who no one was paying to attention or had even heard of really" narrator: "he had not become a significant threat to the national security structure"
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 17:54 (two years ago) link
― mark s, Tuesday, May 3, 2022 6:09 PM (yesterday)
online etymology dictionary traces this one to 1981. clearly david ferrie was sent back in time by the true murderers to throw us off the trail.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link
lol ffs the weepy strings on this scene
https://i.imgur.com/56zQw6U.jpghttps://i.imgur.com/95I0y3u.jpg https://i.imgur.com/aIlN9jm.jpg
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:06 (two years ago) link
not gnna lie i wanna see the plays clay shaw wrote
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:14 (two years ago) link
was really not prepared to find out why people were talking about Jar Jar Binks and JFK— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) May 4, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:20 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/odvOVBB.png
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
divorce him liz he isn't worth it, get out and save yrself
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:26 (two years ago) link
lol this domestic squabble is Q-pilling me to see this movie as verhoeven-level irony
need someone to shop showgirls and jfk into the same poster tbrr
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 18:37 (two years ago) link
Don't ever let me watch a movie sitting next to mark s.
― Max Hamburgers (Eric H.), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:38 (two years ago) link
its true i talk non-stop and take pix wth my phone and post them on the internet
― mark s, Wednesday, 4 May 2022 20:44 (two years ago) link
but dont worry i will never let you do that
do not forget your dying king, mark!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 4 May 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link
nothing u say can ruin my enjoyment of this movie
― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 5 May 2022 04:15 (two years ago) link
What if no one shot JFK and his head just did that?— Tom Broome-Jones | Black Lives Matter (@TBroomey) August 3, 2017
― mark s, Thursday, 5 May 2022 09:36 (two years ago) link
more champagne!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 5 May 2022 10:02 (two years ago) link
"sutherland is fun to watch" is part of the key here. Facts and logic will ofc destroy a lot of what he is saying (though not all - war driving growth is a powerful aspect, what with the industry and networks built around defence -- all the way up to billions in contracting in Afghanistan). but it's all delivery, coupled with the hard to believe fact that a lone person could've killed the most powerful person in the world. Sutherland's monologue is a sorta cry for their lot not being as good as they think they are, and the damage of that knowledge.
Around the fourth or fifth time of watching I get round to thinking people can win. Maybe in the end we could get out of this prison.
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 5 May 2022 10:20 (two years ago) link
back on my bullshit = being correct abt how dumb and bad this movie is
now watching the last hour (i had to take a big time out from the nonsense one week ago): back in to discover johnny carson was also in on the fix, literally the only person not in the conspiracy was garrison bcz he's so milkily annoying
― mark s, Saturday, 14 May 2022 13:38 (one year ago) link
i do remember exactly where i was when i heard the news of rfk's assassination: i was at the kitchen table in a little welsh farmhouse where we went every year for our summer holiday, listening to dad's little portable radio… tho all i remember is sounds of muffled shouting and chaos, like the bbc radio new was broadcasting live from the scene
i also remember that this occurred during the broadcast on the same radio -- which i listened to at the same kitchen table -- of the moon landing: as my memory has it, it went "giant step for mankind", muffled shouting, shots, chaos…
stone shd make a movie abt THAT when sirhan sirhan gets out, sirhan can play buzz aldrin
― mark s, Saturday, 14 May 2022 13:54 (one year ago) link
tommy lee jones shd wear this wig in all his movies tbf
― mark s, Saturday, 14 May 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
^ that's right (for a change)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 14 May 2022 14:31 (one year ago) link
feel like this summing up (which doesn't once mention clay shaw) is not going to do the work of convicting clay shaw
― mark s, Saturday, 14 May 2022 15:03 (one year ago) link
not guilty (good verdict)
― mark s, Saturday, 14 May 2022 15:11 (one year ago) link
Can we please go back to posting random bits of dialogue now that Mark S is done watching?
Best movie ever.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:49 (one year ago) link
Can we do them from memory, though?Kevin Costner: what I’m saying is that in order for the government’s theory about the assassination of JFK, née John Fitzgerald Kennedy, our nation’s favorite son, to make sense, we must prescribe to what i am calling Magic Bullet Time theory, which is actually quite interesting if true. Roll the footage
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
The government's gonna jump all over your head, mark, and go "cock-a-doodle-doo!" Good day, sir!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:53 (one year ago) link
Costner: I don’t like the looks of this one bit. Let’s put some grits on the iron and keep the coffee coming honey, there’s gonna be some paperwork filed tonight
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:55 (one year ago) link
xp That's what I mean.
― ArchCarrier, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:56 (one year ago) link
That is precisely the point of a loooong JFK thread.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 13:58 (one year ago) link
this Oswald character, I agree that he must have been involved. But here's the thing -- I don't think he acted alone.
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 18:32 (one year ago) link
It's JFK's fault.
i wrote about a specific style of fandom-led conspiracy thinking that has become quietly quite popular over the last 10 years and is now making its highly public debut! https://t.co/hpZpqmGR6J— Kaitlyn Tiffany (@kait_tiffany) May 17, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
xyzzzz ain't got no reason to lie, he already in ILX!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 May 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
When you’re taking about the greatness of John Candy, never sleep on his role in JFK: “The government’s gonna jump all over your head, Jimbo, and go cock-a-doodle-doo.” pic.twitter.com/3XgLh6Mrzr— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 18, 2022
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 19 May 2022 06:40 (one year ago) link
"Ya got the right ta-ta but the wrong ho-ho" may be the greatest line in movie history.
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Thursday, 19 May 2022 10:06 (one year ago) link
stop eatin' that crab meat and listen!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 19 May 2022 10:08 (one year ago) link
like i told the fbi: that call was a figment of my imagination!
― difficult listening hour, Thursday, 19 May 2022 15:43 (one year ago) link
All I wanted to be was a Catholic priest
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 21 May 2022 09:39 (one year ago) link
If it's a suicide, I seen weirder, Jim.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 May 2022 09:41 (one year ago) link
The president has been shot! He has been taken to a hospital but he is going to make it. Johnson will carry out the responsibilities of president until Jack is able to recover. We really dodged a bullet there, boys
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:54 (one year ago) link
Why don't we drop this subject. It's one thing to engage in badinage with all these youngsters, but this sort of thing could be So. Easily. Misunderstood.
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:41 (one year ago) link
More champagne!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 May 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Here's to the New Frontier. Camelot in smithereens. I'll drink to that.
― ArchCarrier, Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:01 (one year ago) link
I've seen enough in this place to write a book.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:07 (one year ago) link
A week after the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy in November 1963, Kennedy's widow, Jackie Kennedy, was interviewed by Theodore H. White, an interview that ran in the December 1963 issue of Life magazine. In the interview, Jackie stated that the show's original cast recording had been a favorite bedtime listening for her husband (who had been Lerner's classmate at Harvard University),[16] and that his favorite lines were in the final number: "Don't let it be forgot/ That once there was a spot/ For one brief, shining moment/ That was known as Camelot".[17] She also made a direct comparison to the Camelot storyline, saying, "There'll be great presidents again... but there'll never be another Camelot." The veracity of her claim about her husband's love of Camelot has been disputed.[18]
>:(
― mark s, Saturday, 21 May 2022 17:09 (one year ago) link
I always lock my files!
― Eggs Benedick (Eric H.), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
Don't fuck this one up!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 May 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link