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| 07-13-11 09:02pm - 4721 days | #507 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I didn't realize it at the time, back when I was reading comics in my pre-teen and teen years, but Captain America became a super-hero because he was injected with drugs (steroids, I assume, which have since been outlawed by all the major sports associations). Why is he still a hero, when people who take illegal drugs are supposed to be bad? But I think I will see this in the movies, when it comes out July 22. I hope it will be one of the better super-hero movies, because I haven't seen any good super-hero movies in over a year. I enjoyed Kick Ass, but that was not really a super-hero movie. I'm not sure if Captain America is a super-hero, because he doesn't have any super powers. Except he is a hero sort of like Batman, who doesn't have any super powers either. But I think Captain America and Batman are super heroes, even if they don't have any super powers. | |
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| 07-14-11 12:35pm - 4720 days | #508 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Actually Captain America does have powers. They just aren't necesarily as impressive as other heroes which is probably why some people can more relate to him. He's stronger, faster, has more endurance and is able to survice where other normal men wouldn't be able to. This version and the one from the 1990 movie have a similar story arc. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-14-11 09:35pm - 4720 days | #509 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
According to the Marvel Comics wiki he was injected with something called "Super Soldier Serum," which I can only imagine to be a comic universe euphemism for 'roids. And if they really are steroids then the side effect of shrunken testicles at least helps him to fit into his skintight costume.  He seems to be in the category of superheroes who were created in lab experiment that would normally be quite painful and probably deadly in the real world. Sort of like how a lot superheroes are born from massive amounts of radiation, but instead of getting cancer they gain super powers.  Edit: Just found this lists of comic book characters with radiation origins--it lists 271 characters! "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Jul 14, 2011, 09:42pm | |
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| 07-14-11 11:04pm - 4719 days | #510 | |
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PinkPanther (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,136 Registered: Jan 08, '07 Location: Oakland, CA |
I saw where Zoey Deschanel was criticized for remarking about how the city of LA should have cleaned up the damned neighborhood if they were going to fete the Royals in the downtown area. She's right. There are huge areas of the US that are allowed to be shit-holes - and ugly ones for no reason. When I visited Austria, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, we were using public restrooms all over that area. They were all well kept up - everything worked, nothing was a mess. In the city of Berkeley, CA right near the UC campus, there's a city-owned mall/parking garage that has the only public restroom in the area. You could vomit - or have bad dreams for months - from the sights and smells in those restrooms and there's no shame about it on the part of the city. It's just taken for granted that's the way it is. And that's not unique at all in major cities in the US. | |
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| 07-15-11 06:30am - 4719 days | #511 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I think most North American cities whether in Canada or the US suffer from the same problems. The first one is the syndrome: Oh my God that garbage can is so far and no one is looking at me so I'll just throw this here. The second syndrome is simalr to the first: It's the I threw this in the garbage cans direction. it's not my fault my aim was off. It must have been the wind's fault. The third syndrome: I don't give a shit because I didn't do it syndrome. That's when you see some trash on the ground and instead of picking it up and throwing it in a garbage can. You walk by and tell yourself that you didn't throw it on the ground so why should you pick it up. The last syndrome is one that seems to afflict most city workers. It's the syndrome: It's not my job/Why do more if you can do less and still get paid. The fact is that most citizens in large cities don't have any pride in their city and therefore don't care if the city looks like a garbage dump. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-15-11 01:04pm - 4719 days | #512 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Things have improved tremendously in Nova Scotia since I first got here in 1958 so there's always hope that things will keep getting better. Canada (NS) at first was a tremendous shock to my system. No one seemed to care where they threw or placed their garbage! You turned off the highway for a walk in the woods and bumped into discarded cars, worn tires, refrigerators, bath tubs, anything that people no longer wanted. The sides of the highways themselves were littered with soda bottles and empty cigarette packs and dirty diapers etc. An absolute disgrace!! In the cities themselves, unexpected pockets of extreme neglect and poverty, they were shabby looking in general, not being helped by all those wire carrying wooden telephone poles that marred the beauty of the city streets that could have been interesting. Quite a shock for a new immigrant. And there people kept asking me: How do you like God's country? And boy, did I have to lie because there was not a country in Western and Central Europe (even 11 years after WWII) where the cities were so neglected and dirty. I think in general cities in Canada like Montreal, Toronto, Halifax, Vancouver (even if it has an unsavory underbelly) have become far cleaner and livable over the past fifty years. Now to make my joy complete I wish they would remove those telephone poles and bury the wires underground. They are not exactly an ornament to any city. | |
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| 07-15-11 09:49pm - 4719 days | #513 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I know I've spewed my  of anti-royal venom many times on PU, but I still have a bigger problem with all the fawning over some "fairy tale" couple that we're supposed to respect and care about because we don't see anything wrong with titles, thrones, etc. Give me America with some litter over a rich, inbred family any day!...That being said there are a lot of Western European countries with reigning monarchies and clean public highways. Sadly, big cities will always have some shithole areas, no matter how clean the rest of the country is. The one exception is probably Singapore, where if you have the balls to litter openly in public you can get arrested and have the shit beaten out of you with a cane  (it's not exactly the freest country on earth). Again, I'll take some litter over a caning. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Jul 27, 2011, 12:14am | |
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| 07-22-11 06:56am - 4712 days | #514 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Interesting quote by Bill Condon, the director of the final 2 Twilight series movies. Fans cannot get enough of Twilight, but Bill Condon (the director of the final 2 Twilight series movies) does not blame critics for being out of step with popular taste by trashing the movies. "I would say absolutely not," Condon said. "That's their job, to hold to their standards and their sense of movie history, and no, I have never thought there should be a correlation between success and how it does critically." .................. .................. So if there is no correlation between commerical success and critical scores, what is the value or meaning of a review? At one time I read movie reviews to try to see if I might enjoy a movie or not before spending my money to see it at a theater. But I have learned, after many disappointments, that most movie reviews are a poor guide to whether I will enjoy a movie. In a similar vein, I read PU site reviews to see whether a site might be worth my subscription dollars. But what good are movie or book reviews if they don't give you a good idea of whether you will enjoy a movie or book? As a non-professional movie watcher and non-professional book reader, I don't usually read a review to try to understand the meaning of a movie. I just want to know if I will enjoy the movie or book, if it's worth spending my time and money on the movie or book. Bill Condon is not a hack. He won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for Gods and Monsters, a movie about James Whale, the director of Frankenstein. He was also nomimated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Chicago (the musical). He is a movie professional, but if his thought is that there is no correlation between reviews and commercial success, what correlation is there supposed to be between reviews and whether a reader of those reviews will enjoy a movie or book? Am I wrong in thinking that a large part of the value of a review was whether the reader would enjoy the movie or book being discussed? | |
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| 07-22-11 07:55am - 4712 days | #515 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^In his defense he's talking about the Twilight movies which have been ll received. No one will ever consider these movies as cinematic masterpieces. At least no one who is't a pre-teen/teen girl. Rotten Tomatoes isn't necessarily the best way to measure a movies critical acclaim but only one of the 3 Twilight movies got a 50% score. The first movie got a 49% and the second a poor 27% approval. Those scores didn't stop the movies from making a killing at the box office and that's not even using dvd sales. Twlight cost 37 millions and made 392 millions worldwide. New Moon cost 50 millions and made 709 millions worldwide. Eclipse cost 68 millions and made 698 millions worldwide. If I were him and someone asked me about the 2 movies that I directed then I'd put the best face on it. The fact is that whether the movies are good or awful won't change the money they are likely to make because they already have an audience for these movies. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-22-11 10:36am - 4712 days | #516 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Trailer for the new Conan. Not sure if I want to see the full movie, because Conan's different from the old style Conan: this Conan is more educated although still blood-thirsty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t6VDpTIvuk0&NR=1 | |
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| 07-22-11 10:58am - 4712 days | #517 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^You are a funny man. Here is the latest Conan trailer. This new Conan is significantly more blood thirsty but that as a lot to do with technology. Using CGI to make blood is a lot les messy and easier to clen up. I still prefer the old tech myself. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50456 Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-22-11 01:50pm - 4712 days | #518 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
They turned Conan into a ninja-style super fighter. I guess it comes from watching all those Asian Kung fooey chop sockey movies. I've been watching them since the 1960s myself, but it still seems a little strange watching Conan turn into a ninja-style fighter. But the upcoming The Three Musketeers, that I saw a preview for, by Paul W.S. Anderson (director/producer of the Resident Evil films), is also a ninja-style action movie with outlandish weaponry and gimmicks. Anderson stuck his wife Milla Jovovich in The Three Musketeers. Milla plays the baddie M'lady De Winter. I'm kind of in love with her, good or bad. So I'll probably see it in the theater. Ron Perlman seems to be a major goto guy for horror/violent action/period movies. Hellboy, Beauty and the Beast, etc. http://www.aintitcool.com/node/50456 | |
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| 07-22-11 06:40pm - 4712 days | #519 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
They couldn't have had Jason Momoa play a standard Conan because he simply doesn't have the proper body type. A big reason why Arnold was so great in Conan is because that is what we think Conan should physically look like. No one expects Conan too look like a muscular, dreadlock wearing surfer dude and that's why Jason has to play a more ninka like style. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-23-11 03:51am - 4711 days | #520 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
In the upcoming remake of Total Recall, the director, Len Wiseman, put his wife, Kate Beckinsale, in the role of the evil fake wife played by Sharon Stone in the earlier version with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Paul W.S. Anderson just put his wife, Milla Jovovich, in the role of the evil M'lady De Winter in the upcoming remake of The Three Musketeers. I know that directors sometime marry these gorgeous women: Len Wiseman and Kate Beckinsale Paul W.S. Anderson and Milla Jovovich My question is why the directors put their lovely wives into the roles of villains? Who often get killed off? Is this some secret wish on their part, a prelude to dumping the wife for someone else? It's cheaper to kill them off, instead of paying alimony. | |
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| 07-23-11 04:26am - 4711 days | #522 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Not strictly Hollywood, but maybe they could make a movie about Sarah Palin speaking for sex abstinence, against sex education for teenagers, and against the distribution of contraceptives in schools paid for by tax dollars. At the same time her daughter got pregnant without being married, and her son knocked up a girl he was not married to. They could call the movie, "The Human Comedy". Or perhaps, "Do Politicians Need To Be Taught Hypocrisy, Or Are They Just Born That Way Naturally?" ---------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------- Sarah Palin's Views on Abstinence Lead to Second Grandchild Yahoo! Contributor Network By K.C. Dermody | Yahoo! Contributor Network – Thu, Jul 21, 2011 COMMENTARY | Sarah Palin is known for her strong beliefs against sex before marriage. She is staunchly opposed to sex education for teenagers as well the distribution of contraceptives in schools paid for by tax dollars. In September 2008, Sarah's 17-year-old daughter Bristol announced that she was five months pregnant while her mother continued to support beliefs that obviously do not work within her own family. That year she also voted to cut funding to a program that helped support teen mothers, according to the Washington Post. In the ultimate hypocrisy, Bristol went on to earn more than $260,000 in 2009 as an advocate against teen pregnancy while at the same time admitting that abstinence was not realistic. In a not so surprising turn-of-events, the news that Sarah's son Track is expecting a baby with his wife Britta was just released Thursday. Pictures of the new bride posted on Facebook show that she is rather obviously expecting, while her marriage took place just two months ago. The quick ceremony prompted many to ask whether Britta was pregnant, but supporters of conservative Sarah became extremely upset, continuing to argue that the new couple was not expecting. It certainly seemed like a shot-gun wedding, and today it was finally confirmed that the pregnancy came before the marriage. Track apparently did not listen to his mother's or sister's advice, and I wonder how long it will be before the rest of the Palins are multiplying faster than a calculator. People said the family has not responded to a request for a comment in regard to the pregnancy. Rosie Pope, star of the Bravo show "Pregnant in Heels," said of Britta's posted pictures, "In my opinion it looks like she is more than four months along, as it is not customary to have a baby shower so early in a pregnancy and first-time moms usually take longer to pop," according to the New York Daily News. The Palins make an excellent example for the latest research on abstinence education. The National Sexuality Resource Center's Sexuality Research and Social Policy completed a recent study that showed abstinence-only education does not delay or prevent teens from having sex. These same programs that Palin and many other conservatives support have received $1.5 billion in federal funding. The editor of the academic journal of SRSP, Brian Devries, stated, "Sex educators know. Teens know. Parents know. And the research shows it. When will our policies and interventions reflect what science, research and best practices demonstrate? We need comprehensive sexuality education that is truly comprehensive." With a second premarital pregnancy in the Palin family, how much more proof do our hypocritical politicians and ultra conservative right-wing Christians need? | |
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| 07-23-11 04:38am - 4711 days | #523 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Her own family firmly disproves her standpoint.  Not just the one time either!  Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 07-23-11 07:11am - 4711 days | #524 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
This may or may not be the correct answer but most actors dream of playing the bad guy. They find that playing the good guy is too limiting but you can do some serious crazy shit palying a bad guy. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-23-11 07:29am - 4711 days | #525 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
They don't have to be 'nice' sooooo..... Bad guys have more fun!  Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 07-23-11 10:52am - 4711 days | #526 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Amy Winehouse dead at 27. Not a shock, given her history, but what a waste. ------------------------------------- ------------------------------------- Report: Singer Amy Winehouse found dead By the CNN Wire Staff July 23, 2011 1:30 p.m. EDT London (CNN) -- Singer Amy Winehouse was found dead at her apartment in London Saturday, the UK Press Association reported. She was 27. London police said they were called to a home, which matches Winehouse's address, Saturday afternoon in response to "a woman found deceased." "On arrival officers found the body of a 27-year-old female who was pronounced dead at the scene," a police statement said. "At this early stage it is being treated as unexplained," police said. The "Rehab" singer had a history of battling drugs and alcohol and recently left a British rehabilitation program that a representative said was intended to prepare her for scheduled European concerts. But she cut short the European concert tour in Belgrade, Serbia, last month after she staggered around the stage and stumbled through several songs. Audience members booed Winehouse off the stage that night just a few songs into the first concert of the tour. Winehouse rep Tracey Miller told CNN at the time that the singer "agreed with management that she cannot perform to the best of her ability and will return home." "Everyone involved wishes to do everything they can to help her return to her best and she will be given as long as it takes for this to happen," representative Chris Goodman said in a statement in May. Winehouse's throaty vocals brought the British musician stardom in 2007, but her off-stage life gained her notoriety. The lyrics of her songs, especially the hit "Rehab," chronicled her troubled life. The song, in which she sang "They tried to make me go to rehab, I said no, no, no," helped form the public's view of Winehouse. "I don't care enough about what people think of me to conform to anything," she said in a CNN interview. Winehouse, born in London in 1983, became a picture of a tattooed teenage rebel after she was expelled from a prestigious performing arts school. Her first album, "Frank," debuted in 2003, when the singer-songwriter was 19. International success came with her 2007 album "Back To Black," which in included the single "Rehab." | |
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| 07-23-11 11:05am - 4711 days | #527 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
Not sure you posted that in the right place, LK2, but saddening news, even if not totally unexpected. Such a waste of life & talent.  Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 07-23-11 11:15am - 4711 days | #528 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I was going to start a thread but since it's already here then yes it is very sad but not a surprise. It's too bad that she wasn't able to help herself and worse that no one around her helped either. That last tour should never have been organized because she certainly not in a good mental state but she was a cash cow and that's what you do when you have a cash cow. I didn't find this but it is quite interesting never the less. Brian Jones Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix Jim Morrison Kurt Cobain and now, Amy Winehouse. All dead at 27. Here is the wiki page with more musicians who died at 27. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/27_Club Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-24-11 12:49pm - 4710 days | #529 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I saw Captain America and this is by far the best comic book character to movie I have seen since Superman. They hit all the important points from his simple beginnings to when he becamre a hero. The effects were amazing and I got a feeling that there was more stunt work than actual CGI. Since I have never been a fan of the comic book then I can say that the movie stands on it's own and you don't need to know anything prior to enjoy the movie. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-24-11 03:02pm - 4710 days | #530 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I was thinking of seeing this movie anyway, but your recommendation was the tipping point. And if Captain America is not as good as I am hoping for, expect a bill collector to be knocking on your door (or Internet account, maybe) sometime this week. Forewarned is forearmed! Have the cash ready, or be ready for a bruising! | |
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| 07-24-11 07:43pm - 4710 days | #531 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^A huge reason why the movie worked for me was the great performance by Chris Evans. It must be hard for an actor to bring depth to a 2 dimensional comic book character but Chris managed it. I'd love to say more but I don't want to spoil the movie. I'll eagerly await your opinion of the movie. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-27-11 03:52pm - 4707 days | #532 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I am glad Nicolas Cage will be playing a state trooper in an upcoming movie. It would make me a little nervous if he was playing the serial killer. I like Cage as an actor, but I sometimes wonder if the weird roles he sometimes plays are making him a little weird himself. .................................. .................................. Cage to star in film about Alaska serial killer ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The story of the police investigation of infamous Alaska serial killer Robert Hansen is headed to the big screen. Variety reports Nicolas Cage will star in "Frozen Ground." Filming is scheduled to start Oct. 10 in Anchorage. Cage will portray the Alaska State Trooper who investigated the murders that gripped Anchorage in the 1970s and 1980s. Hansen was an Anchorage baker at a time when vice ruled the streets in the heady days during construction of the trans-Alaska pipeline. In 1984, Hansen confessed to killing 17 women and raping another 30 over the previous 12 years. He received a 461-year sentence. The Alaska Film Office confirmed to the Anchorage Daily News on Wednesday the film is about to receive pre-approval for state tax credits for filming in Alaska. | |
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| 07-27-11 03:53pm - 4707 days | #533 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
For me, Captain America was a great movie. Even though I basically knew what was happening (from a dim recollection of reading the comics many years ago), I liked the plot, the background story, the actors, Chris Evans, Stanley Tucci, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones, etc. There were some nitpicks: I didn't find the girl friend played by Hayley Atwell that attractive. Jessica Biel or Jessica Alba or a bunch of other actresses would have been more appealing. However, near the end of the movie, when Hayley Atwell was leaking tears because she thought her boyfriend wouldn't show up for their date, I almost felt tears starting to leak from my own eyes. It made me wonder if I needed some psychological counseling, because I'm too old to be crying over some cartoon character who's tough as nails. I'd be scared to get into a fight with this broad, she'd rip me apart. And I'm leaking tears for her? I felt bad for the Hugo Weaving character, Red Skull. He has all these great inventions: underwater submarine, ray guns, super airplane, super car, and he barely gets to use them. Hugo Weaving is super bad and super evil, but he really should get the chance to knock Captain America around a lot more. I hope (but doubt) Red Skull will be coming back in future pictures. I mean, this is a guy with intelligence, and drive, and anger, and hate, and ambition, and he deserves the chance to shine and show us all what he can really do. Edited on Jul 27, 2011, 04:47pm | |
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| 07-27-11 10:41pm - 4706 days | #534 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I guess this is where taste vary because I thought Hayley was really good looking. She reminded me a lot of Kate Beckinsdale. My only complain is that she used too much red lipstick for my taste. At least the relationship between her and Captain America felt real. In any case you know the relationship is doomed from the first few minutes of the film. I like the Biel suggestion but I don't think she would have taken the part. Hayley isn't on the screen all that often. Having a name like Biel attached to the movie might have put pressure on the studio to write a bigger part for her and that would have been detrimental to the movie since her extra screen time would have taken too much from the rest of the movie and added very little in exchange. I like Alba but she is not a very good actress or at least she hasn't proven it except for her stint on TV. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-28-11 06:14am - 4706 days | #535 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I thought Kate Beckinsale was absolutely stunning when she first started out. She is still gorgeous, but I started watching her back in the 1990s, when I noticed her in Cold Comfort Farm and Shooting Fish. I also saw her in The Last Days of Disco, Brokedown Palace, The Golden Bowl, Pearl Harbor, the Underworld series(vampire/werewolf movies) and other things. But when she first started out, perhaps it was partly the roles she played, she was adorable, lovely, luscious, someone you just wanted to sink your teeth into. I can see that Hayley Atwell could be considered attractive. But especially in this role for Captain America, I think you would break some teeth if you tried sinking your teeth into her. Kate Beckinsale was just absolutely yummy, especially when she was just starting. Even more so than Jessica Alba or Jessica Biel, the latter two of which are lovely women, but they don't have the special appeal that Kate Beckinsale had at the start. Like I said, it's probably partly because of the roles each woman played. That can be a part of their appeal, at least to me. | |
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| 07-28-11 06:39am - 4706 days | #536 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
This sounds somewhat weird. There was a small riot because there are too many people watching the premiere of a documentary in Los Angeles. This happened at the Grauman Chinese Theater in Hollywood, a world famous movie theater. "Police estimated about 2,000 people were inside the theater to catch the premiere of a documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival rave." It's been many years since I've been inside Grauman's Chinese Theater, but I find it amazing that 2,000 people could fit inside that theater. I mean, this is a movie theater, not a concert hall or coliseum. "There were people trampling all over the police cars, smashing the windows," said Greg Magda, who works at a coffee shop on Hollywood Boulevard. What happened sounds more like the scene from a movie than real life. Weird. ------------------------- ------------------------- Crowd clashes with LA police outside film premiere By JACOB ADELMAN - Associated Press Writer | AP – 5 hrs ago LOS ANGELES (AP) — Police in riot gear clashed with a crowd that became unruly outside a Hollywood film premiere Wednesday evening, throwing bottles and vandalizing cars and refusing orders to disperse after they were forced to leave an overcrowded theater, authorities said. "''There were people trampling all over the police cars, smashing the windows," said Greg Magda, who works at a coffee shop on Hollywood Boulevard. The chaos erupted around 5:40 p.m. after a Los Angeles Fire Department inspector determined Grauman's Chinese Theatre, where the film was screening, was overcrowded, department spokesman Brian Humphrey said. Police estimated about 2,000 people were inside the theater to catch the premiere of a documentary about the Electric Daisy Carnival rave. An unknown number of people were pushed out into the streets, joining a growing crowd that may have been drawn to the event from a Twitter message by a popular DJ known as Kaskade who said there'd be a block party. Officers ordered hundreds of people to disperse, but the crowd refused and began throwing objects, Officer Karen Rayner. Additional officers were called to the scene and were able to control the crowd several hours later. Two people were arrested for investigation of felony vandalism; three police cars were damaged, Rayner said. No injuries were reported. A section of Hollywood Boulevard was shut down and a subway station under the famous theater and the next-door Hollywood & Highland entertainment complex was closed during the disturbance. Kaskade, who is featured in "Electric Daisy Carnival Experience" and has more than 90,000 followers on Twitter, later sent tweets urging for peace. "Everybody CHILL OUT!!! The cops are freaking out. BE SAFE AND LET'S HAVE SOME FUN!" he wrote. The DJ was scheduled to appear at a party after the screening. Pasquale Rotella, whose Insomniac Events promotion company puts on the annual electronic music festival, said the block party had nothing to do with the film premiere. "The crowd issues that arose were a result of individuals responding to social media information, which mistakenly led them to believe they could see artists perform," Rotella said in a statement. He said the street closure caused him to miss the premiere of a film that he produced. Elvin Romero said he came to listen to Kaskade after he saw the event listed on Facebook. "There were just people chilling in the street," Romero said. "It all just got out of hand. Police tried to clear them out and that's when the trouble happened." Ryan Hoepfner, 14, of Gainesville, Texas and his stepfather Mike Cooper watched the disturbance unfold across the street, from the eighth floor of the Roosevelt Hotel. Hoepfner said there were several hundred people in the street, some wearing lingerie and elaborate chandelier hats when it appeared that a fight broke out. "There was a fight in the middle. Then ... people started throwing stuff," Hoepfner said. The rave was the focus of controversy in Los Angeles after a 15-year-old girl died of a drug overdose at the two-day event held in June 2010 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The death prompted officials to issue a brief moratorium on raves. Insomniac moved the event to Las Vegas this year. | |
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| 07-29-11 07:04pm - 4705 days | #537 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I saw Cowboys and Aliens this afternoon and I liked it. The question I'm asking myself is whether it was worth seeing on the big screen. The answer I keep coming up is that it would have been just fine to see on Blue-ray. The problem for me is that although the movie is an original idea and that's pretty rare these days. I can't help but feel that it wasn't as well developed as it could have been. The acting is quite good from most players but then again you have some very talented actors in this movie. I don't want to spoil the movie but there is a particular plot development toward the end of the movie that made very little sense and required some unusual writting to make happen. Not too mention that it was mostly unecessary to the overall movie and could easily have been written differently. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-29-11 09:07pm - 4705 days | #538 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I don't have blu-ray, but your lack of enthusiasm for Cowboys and Aliens, along with some other negative reviews I've read, mean I will be waiting to rent the DVD. Watching a (probably) disappointing movie in a theater is just too expensive to make sense. | |
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| 07-29-11 09:22pm - 4705 days | #539 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I tend to buy more Blue-ray movies now that the price has dropped but I still buy quite a few dvd's. I know my review made the movie look less than stellar but it's not that bad. I do agree with you that it's probably not worth the 12$ it normally cost for a movie. You could go on the half price night. Take a look at the one word review on the below link. I found it to be very accurate and quite funny. http://egotastic.com/ Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-30-11 03:50am - 4704 days | #540 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Yeah, I just heard about this--sometimes you miss big news, even when it's local...  What's odd is that this happened in Hollywood, and the LAPD is usually getting in trouble busting heads in other neighborhoods. A few years ago there was controversy when the police forcefully broke up a protest in MacArthur Park by marching in line across the park in riot gear, shooting tear gas and beating people with batons. But I'm betting a movie premiere about a rave and the kind of crowd it would attract was on their radar pretty early on, though a riot was obviously not the end goal. Not to generalize, or side with the police (who will always gain the upper hand in these situations), but certain crowds and events can turn violent very quickly if they don't get "their way"--sporting events, rock concerts, and even a bunch of tripping ravers apparently. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 07-30-11 06:57am - 4704 days | #541 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
There aren't any local theaters that offer half price, day or night, in my area. There are matinee prices, or senior citizen discount, but that is still $9.00, for a regular movie (3D is an extra $3.00). There are theaters that maybe offer lower special rates, but since the nearest ones are over 20 miles away, the price of gas negates that option. But redbox, which offers $1 movie rentals, is great. That's my usual source of DVDs, except for those I buy off of ebay. If movie theaters dropped their prices way down, which ain't gonna happen, maybe I would watch less porn. Lol. | |
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| 07-30-11 09:50am - 4704 days | #542 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I think that 9$ is not a real discount. I know that most movie chains in Canada offer cheapy tuesdays and those are usally about 6$. That's about the price for a rental ina dvd store so that's decent. Of course it can't compare to a 1$ rental. As much as I'd like to send some business for Cowboys and Aliens. The movie isn't worth more than a cheapy night price. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-30-11 11:15am - 4704 days | #543 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
One of the Harry Potter movies finally made the $1 billion mark. Good thing, too, because this was the last chance, since this is supposed to be the last movie in the series. Unless they decide to do some prequels, sequels, add-ons, or whatever. Because how can you end a series that is making money? I never got into Harry Potter, though I did see one of the movies. Never read any of the books, though I heard they are pretty good, some say even better than the movies. ................. ................. 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2' Hits $1 Billion in Global Box Office It's the first in the franchise to pass the milestone, doing so only two weeks after its release. By Pamela McClintock | The Hollywood Reporter – 1 hour 34 minutes ago In a fitting farewell to one of the most magical film series in Hollywood history, Warner Bros.’ Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 is the first film in the franchise to reach the $1 billion mark worldwide. Deathly Hallows 2 will cross the milestone on Saturday, having grossed $296 million domestically and $630 million overseas through Thursday for a global total of $926 million. Another blockbuster weekend at the multiplex is forecast, allowing the film to easily pass the vaunted $1 billion mark. The movie, benefiting from being released in 3D, is racing past the milestone in about two weeks, a remarkable achievement. Until now, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone overseas) was the top grossing pic in the franchise, having grossed $974.8 million globally in 2001-02. The Harry Potter franchise has always been immensely successful internationally, with every title in the series earning substantially more offshore. So far, 68 percent of Deathly Hallows Part 2’s gross has been earned at the international box office, fueled by standout performances in the U.K., Japan, Australia and Germany. By the end of this weekend, Deathly Hallows Part 2 should surpass Sorcerer’s Stone's domestic gross of $317 million, the best in the series. It also will have surpassed the $659 million earned last year internationally by Deathly Hallows Part 1. Deathly Hallows Part 2 becomes the 9th movie in history to gross north of $1 billion worldwide, a club that includes Warners’ The Dark Knight ($1 billion), Disney’s Alice in Wonderland ($1.02 billion) and Disney’s 2011 summer tentpole Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides ($1.03 billion). Only one film has ever grossed north of $2 billion, and that’s James Cameron’s Avatar ($2.8 billion). | |
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| 07-30-11 11:20am - 4704 days | #544 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
The new direction of porn: hot, hot, hot! http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1b3d74f...&playlist=310726 | |
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| 07-30-11 11:54am - 4704 days | #545 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
My favorite part: It's pronouced Douché. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-30-11 11:59pm - 4703 days | #546 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
I just saw a couple photos of Hayley Atwell, the lead girl in Captain America. This girl's bust is large. I doubt it's implants, but she is seriously busty. Which you don't realize how large she is in the Captain America movie, or in most of her photos. She doesn't make a point of emphasizing how large her breasts are, like many actresses would. | |
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| 07-31-11 10:27am - 4703 days | #547 | |
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lk2fireone (0)
Active User Posts: 3,618 Registered: Nov 14, '08 Location: CA |
Is it safe to go out of your house? The world is getting more dangerous by the minute. If you do leave the safety of your home, try to avoid all contact with any people who might be carrying a gun, knife, or other weapon. ................. ................. 4 shot after George Clinton show in Ohio; 1 dies APAP – 2 hours 27 minutes ago CLEVELAND (AP) — A man fired several shots from a handgun during a large fight near an outdoor concert venue featuring funk musician George Clinton, killing one person and wounding three others, police said Sunday. The fight erupted before 10 p.m. Saturday at an intersection near Luke East Park, the venue for the eighth annual Unity in the Park festival. Police didn't have a description of the shooter, and no arrests had been made by midmorning Sunday, Sgt. Sammy Morris told The Associated Press. It wasn't immediately clear how long after Clinton or the other musicians performed that the shooting erupted or what prompted it. Police didn't know if those involved in the fight were among concertgoers leaving the area. "These were younger people, so we're not sure," Morris said. "George Clinton is an older (artist). We're not going to speculate." A 16-year-old boy with a gunshot wound to the head died of his injuries early Sunday, Morris said. He didn't know the conditions of the other three who were wounded: a 20-year-old woman shot in the neck, and a 14-year-old boy and a 23-year-old man each hospitalized with leg wounds. The Cleveland Plain Dealer reported earlier that the two most seriously wounded were in critical condition, and the other two were stable. The newspaper said thousands of people had gathered for the festival, which featured George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic as the headline act. | |
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| 07-31-11 12:12pm - 4703 days | #548 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
The NRA will say that it's people that kill and not guns. They are completely right because a gun can't fire itself. Of course if you have access to a gun or sadly the case these days, many guns than it's also much easier for you to shoot someone. If you are the type of person who has a short fuse and access to firearms then the likelihood that you will use that firearm is much greater. The Founding Father meant well when they put the right to bear arms in the Constitution. I just don't think they be very happy with where America is today because of it. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-31-11 04:28pm - 4703 days | #549 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Maybe it's from that Super Soldier Serum they gave Captain America...  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 07-31-11 04:34pm - 4703 days | #550 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I agree that it's people who kill people, not guns, but a gun culture certainly doesn't help. In my view, if you think more locks on your doors, more guns in your home--or on your hip out in public if you're really crazy--and a constant suspicion of everything and everyone, then you'll never truly be "safe." If you see the entire world as a dangerous place and you're just waiting for the moment to blow its fucking head off then more guns will always be the answer.  I just wish more Americans would be happy with the notion that we don't need to live like it's the Wild West. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 07-31-11 06:38pm - 4703 days | #551 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I wish you could explain something to me, turboshaft. As you know by now, I'm Canadian therefore am not very clued in on your constitution but the little bit I've read about "the right to bear arms" was always in connection with the militia. Here is my question, what was/is the militia. Would that term include every American household? Sorry, I feel really dumb about this but take into consideration that not only am I not an American but I wasn't born a Canadian either! . | |
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| 07-31-11 09:03pm - 4703 days | #552 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
Which is what I was trying to imply in my less than competent way. It's not just a gun mentality. I don't want to lump all Americans together because it's not fair or accurate but there seems to be a kind of love for criminals in America. Just look at the glorification of Al capone, Bonnie & Clyde, Jesse james and I could keep on naming people. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 07-31-11 11:58pm - 4702 days | #553 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
If you're not from America, and not from Canada, where are you from?! (Judging by your avatar, I guess you could be a wolf/dog, or possibly a mooninite.) I can give you rough and dirty version that's in no way scholarly or legally sound, but I hope it might help steer you in the right direction--or failing that, at least cause other members to correct me. (Wikipedia also has a fairly lengthy entry on the 2nd Amendment, as well as one on the militia in the U.S., if you're interested.) Militias were present in the American colonies as a way to have a volunteer force that could be called up to keep order and peace, and then later during the drafting of the Constitution to try and avoid a large standing army during peacetime (which sounds crazy today considering the size of the military budget). The militias really didn't do the bulk of fighting during the American Revolution as they weren't as well organized or armed as the Continental Army, though they did play a part. After the Revolution they weren't particularly effective for putting down rebellions either and eventually a more regular force was formed. Today "militia" in a legal sense includes the National Guard, though this has been used numerous times as pretty much a regular federal military force overseas throughout the 20th century, and, more controversially, a lot after 9/11. This was one of the criticisms of the response to Hurricane Katrina back in 2005, because much of affected states' National Guard equipment and personnel were in Iraq, thus some argued our regular military was overextended and we didn't have an adequate national defense at home. And if you ask Americans what is meant by "militia," many would probably think of the numerous private groups of pseudo-military gun lovers who go play war during the weekends, though these aren't what the 2nd Amd. refers to. These groups are more like anti-government paintball groups, but with older members and real guns!  I guess at one time there was serious debate over whether the 2nd Amendment even applied to individuals as opposed to militias, but today the debate is almost totally about individual rights, not militias. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Aug 01, 2011, 12:07am | |
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| 08-01-11 12:31am - 4702 days | #554 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
I don't think it's really a love for criminals, but more a case of a vengeful, violent society, that glorifies maximum punishment and reaction over more rational and peaceful solutions to problems. Those people you named were either killed or imprisoned, and I bet the same would be true of most other people you could name. For a recent example of this bizarre worldview, I would point to the Casey Anthony media orgy surrounding her case and trial. The media octopus hardly glorified her (though technically she wasn't much of a criminal, as she was acquitted of the most serious charges), and instead played up the supposed opinion--one that we apparently all shared--of bloodthirsty outrage at the total failure of the jury system. Talk about reactionary. And now we have the various "expert" talking heads in America telling us how Norway's ultra lenient prison system is inadequate to deal with the suspect in the recent terror attacks there. Again, I point to our almost instinctive vengeance we expect in such circumstances for such a crazy outlook on life. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 08-01-11 10:01am - 4702 days | #555 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
Thanks for the detailed explanation, Turboshaft. It is your last sentence I had the problem with. How could the 2nd Amendment even be applied to individuals when, on casual reading, it seemed to apply to militias only? And to respond to your first sentence: I was born and raised in Germany.  | |
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| 08-01-11 11:34pm - 4701 days | #556 | |
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jasminbetts007 (0)
Suspended  Posts: 3 Registered: Jul 25, '11 Location: United Kingdom |
Thanks for Sharing Dude..... | |
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| 08-01-11 11:53pm - 4701 days | #557 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
It's because of the placement of a comma, for one thing, plus the various laws and Supreme Court decisions over the centuries have made it open to a lot of debate--just like the rest of the Constitution. And this is the amendment in its entirety: "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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