Had a bunch of meh about various crazies wandering around cobagging it up, but pretty boring. Some dirtballs letting their dog toast up in their car while at Costco (dog was OK, but the entire conceit of timing it before Fido broasts is sickening). Also saw this movie Shooter, an OK actioner as they say in the biz, but Ned Beatty was in it hamming up a thinly veiled Cheney impression. You might say he gets his in the end, but it still wasn’t Deliverance. I challenge the Rude Pundit for a version of that movie starring Dick Cheney. Criss cross!
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What a coincidence! I just watched Deliverance last night. I had to keep watching that scene with the hillbillies. “Squeal like a pig!”
That’s some fine acting.
I also re-re-re-watched The Rapture. It was as powerful as the last time I saw it. Except for the fact that Mimi Rogers is a scientologist loon. That spoils the movie for me a tad. Thetans? Ha! As if.
Religion based on hokey science fiction novels by a crap artist, well, it’s just dumb. And who in the world names their son L? What a bunch of freaks.
I got a rock.
Doesn’t everyone pretty much know it’s not okay to leave a dog/child/cat/elderly/infirmed person in a hot car now???
As for Ned Beatty and Deliverance… I think Ned took his inspiration from Hermie of Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer fame. Was Hermie not crawling around saying “oink, oink” because Bumbles like pork?? I don’t recall Hermie doing it in his tighty-whities, but I believe he was the ground-breaker on the whole squeal like a pig thing…
It’s not a Pork Snorkel, it’s Deliverance!
(I feel I may be made to pay for that)
Was Hermie not crawling around saying “oink, oink” because Bumbles like pork??
Between this comment and “integritty” Jennifer is risking a laugh rip in the humor-time continuum. Please be careful Jennifer. These are dark (humor) forces you are toying with…
I had a whole blog post about “The Shooter” that I never finished. That is exactly my favorite type of movie, yet they almost always disappoint. *sigh*
I seriously love the hyper-trained super spy shit. where he tears open the back seat to get into the trunk where FBI agents store emergency medical shit? Awesome. And he makes a WWI era IV drip out of stuff from the corner market? Double Awesome.
But why is it so hard to make into a decent movie? I need to keep reading John Rogers so I stop thinking I need to write my own screen play, because how hard can it be since they hire people who seem to be unable to do it.
Write the damn screenplay Kathleen!!!
Fish- I’m toying and nothing can stop me!
K- the part that bugged me the most was the scene with Nick as decoy at the end- why did they go for a chest shot? He should have been splattermeloned. I still loved it when he pulled the metal chunk out. So I hear the new Bourne movie is dedicated to an audience of Kathleen!
It occurred to me that someone else recently said “I got a rock” on this blog, which made me wonder whether that means I do, in fact, have a rock, or whether, in the end, I too have nothing.
However, I discovered that the earlier incarnation of “I got a rock” was in response to a more conventional situation of someone else saying “I got X” where X was implied to be a better thing to have than a rock. In the case at hand, it is left open whether having “a rock” is now the preferable state to having “nothing”. This raises concerns over whether the object in question is indeed “a rock” or whether it is some kind of ironic “post-rock”.
And now we have a comment by Trile O. Bite, who can presumably a priori be taken as “having” a rock in the sense that “having” is included in “being” and/or “being embedded in a”. This opens the question of whether the fossilized regard statements like “I got a rock” by the non-fossilized as being either 1) presumptuous or 2) insensitive.
I prefer “post-organic” to “fossilized”.
Oh! Nice ploverat! Bring up a sad time… a painful time… Not all of us can be shining brains in a jar…
I like “minerally enhanced.”
I am embarrassed to admit how many times I have seen the Bourne movies. Seriously. Even the crappy second one. When he rips the emergency exit map off the wall at the embassy to escape? GENIUS.
I liked the second one, but not as much as the first. and I am tired of the girlfriend must be killed/tortured/raped trope. Also, I get pissed when they kill the super-trained commando-type’s dog. You can see it coming a mile away and it still gets ya!
August 3rd, K! No spoilers- GC and I are gonna have date night for it maybe the 4th.
ploverat?
Is that “plover + rat”, a Dune reference, or the singular of “ploverati”?
(And if the last, shouldn’t it be “ploveratus”?)
It was plover-RAT. Singular, no Dune reference, no rati/ratus.
That’s kind of reassuring actually.
Ploverat- the leaders of the communist invertebrate eating birds.
And I am somewhat disappointed by the anti-rock vibe I am getting on this thread. Being a founding member of the Society for Transcendence Over Negative Epitaxy Reactions (S.T.O.N.E.R.).
I’m jealous of plover’s rock.
The point is, I’m addicted to gambling.
Are you implying I’m a ploveratchick?
Weren’t the activities of the S.T.O.N.E.R. cabal exposed by a film deposited at an FBI office?
This thread’s rockin’.
I am all over the third Bourne movie. I liked the second but the camera work made me a little sick. The first one rocks my socks off. The best spy movie since Ronin.
i read the bourne novels. where’s the cold war when you need it? and why the hell did they catch carlos the jackal when they already had a movie deal going?
you call this a conspiracy? WTF>>>>>>!!!
I am tired of the girlfriend must be killed/tortured/raped trope. Also, I get pissed when they kill the super-trained commando-type’s dog.
AMEN.
That would be plover@chick
My site just had a google search for “art in plover”. Plover, do you have art in you?
I’m assuming the person was looking for art in Plover, WI, but one never knows… I’m not a brain in a jar… just a mere mortal.
Not art, at.
Nice website. Great online affiliate program. Thank you.
[We have an affiliate program? Again, no one tells me anything... -- plover]
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET.
Thanks home mortgage loans a-hole
I’m still waiting for Cheney to get it in teh end.
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