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  1. I don't know who you are to tell me what my main argument was sunshine.

    Well you have yet to tell me why the fuck you would even want to bring 'Schizo' into it in the first place, so I will assume for now its some sort of attempt to get a rise out of ex-TWCF'ers. Something im not getting wound up in. If you want to lure somebody in for a little get together flame war, as opposed to a decent wrestling discussion, for your new home - then knock on Mab's door, not mine.Now for the actual topic...Attention, yeah, you are absoloutely right. The film would have recieved less attention. I was not reffering to attention though, was I? Again, you are right that casual movie watchers would not have cared so much about Heath had he not died, but the performance would still have been fantastic.But their are of course people out their who will strip that away anyway. The anti "fuk u, he dyed makin dis all u eva did waz suk ur mutha's dik" crowd. The controversial ''lads'' of the internet who will delight in saying the only reason the performance ever got praise is because he is dead. Which, like I was trying to say in my first post, is utter bollocks. Sure their are people that are going to over hype things a little, but his portrayal is undeniably mesmorising. Dead or alive.
  2. I'm really looking forward to the Dark Knight but I'm pissed off with the Heath Ledger hype, it really seems that just because he died after "becomming the character" that people feel afraid to give it a bad review as it may be disrespectful to the dead. Also Batman Begins was shitty, so part of me is thinking I'll not enjoy this as much as everyone else seems to be.

    To be honest im more pissed off at the people who assume the only reason his performance is being spoken of so highly is because he is dead, which is complete bollocks.This film, and Heath, were always going to kick serious ass. The only thing different is that the film now has gotten much larger attention.
    There is a lot wrong with this post, I'll just leave it here for people to work it out. Something you'd expect from Schizo...
    Nice move. You ignore any constructive criticism and instead go for the ''hey, he posted on our forum a while back!'' card. Still, if turning a perfectly fine topic into a stupid fucking inter-forum flame war is your game, then the floor is yours. I have better things to do than think about what happened in internet land anytime past yesterday.
    The Schizo thing wasn't the main stem of my insult you bint, I was more refering to the contradictive and opinionated view you expressed which must "obviously" apply to everyone despite the fact that the name Heath Ledger didn't really get further than "the gay cowboy knight guy?" with the casual movie goer until he popped his clogs.
    Dont sidestep now. Not when things are looking so optimistic for you. The Schizo thing was the main jab of your argument. And if it was not, their was no need to even bring it up. Thats your problem, not mine. It just seems amazingly petty.As for your argument that my opinion is opinionated? I will leave you to figure out how fucking desperate that one sounds. Fuck, maybe you took it the wrong way, but my opinion was not ''obviously'' meant to apply to everybody else. And I never once harked back to Heath's ''gay cowboy knight guy'' past either. My point was his performance in this movie was going to be great and was subsequently going to be recieved great either way. Dead or not.
  3. I'm really looking forward to the Dark Knight but I'm pissed off with the Heath Ledger hype, it really seems that just because he died after "becomming the character" that people feel afraid to give it a bad review as it may be disrespectful to the dead. Also Batman Begins was shitty, so part of me is thinking I'll not enjoy this as much as everyone else seems to be.

    To be honest im more pissed off at the people who assume the only reason his performance is being spoken of so highly is because he is dead, which is complete bollocks.This film, and Heath, were always going to kick serious ass. The only thing different is that the film now has gotten much larger attention.
    There is a lot wrong with this post, I'll just leave it here for people to work it out. Something you'd expect from Schizo...
    Nice move. You ignore any constructive criticism and instead go for the ''hey, he posted on our forum a while back!'' card. Still, if turning a perfectly fine topic into a stupid fucking inter-forum flame war is your game, then the floor is yours. I have better things to do than think about what happened in internet land anytime past yesterday.
  4. I'm really looking forward to the Dark Knight but I'm pissed off with the Heath Ledger hype, it really seems that just because he died after "becomming the character" that people feel afraid to give it a bad review as it may be disrespectful to the dead. Also Batman Begins was shitty, so part of me is thinking I'll not enjoy this as much as everyone else seems to be.

    To be honest im more pissed off at the people who assume the only reason his performance is being spoken of so highly is because he is dead, which is complete bollocks.This film, and Heath, were always going to kick serious ass. The only thing different is that the film now has gotten much larger attention.
  5. Pink Floyd The Wall

     

    I think my brain is still pouring out my fucking nose, so I will be brief. Fuck Roger Waters. Fuck him for being a facist prick who destroyed Pink Floyd. Fuck him for making two whole albums, a feature film, and a stage show about his dead father. And fuck this film along with it.

     

    Dark Side Of The Moon, Animals, Wish You Were Here. All those albums were fantastic because you could create your own story and draw your own conclusions. The lyrics applied to the masses. Then we hit The Wall, and its feature film.

     

    And whats it like? Its like being tied to a chair. Its like having bassist extrodanaire Roger Waters shout his biography word for word at you for over an hour. Its like being told ''Im Roger, and this is no longer Pink Floyd, now shut the fuck up and listen to me while I talk about my dad. He died in World War II, you know''.

     

    Seriously, what did I just watch? Thank god for Gerald Scarfe. His animation sequences saved the film [almost]. And fair play to Bob Geldof. He played his part well, which was the biggest surprise of the film. And fair play to David Gilmour. Comftorably Numb, his composition, still kicks ass, despite it being in the context of this overbloated nostalgia fuckfest.

  6. oh man, im getting ganged up on here. Seven's nerd posse are gonna take me down.

    You have thousands of posts on an internet wrestling discussion forum. I know its an old argument, but calling other posters nerds is either a poor joke or a thick arguement.Which was it?
    a bit of both.im probably the biggest nerd on here :duh:
    Points for honesty :thumbsup: ...
  7. oh man, im getting ganged up on here. Seven's nerd posse are gonna take me down.

    You have thousands of posts on an internet wrestling discussion forum. I know its an old argument, but calling other posters nerds is either a poor joke or a thick arguement.Which was it?
  8. Southland Tales is a total narrative nightmare by design, as Richard Kelly seems to fancy himself the Jackson Pollock of script-writing, throwing thousands of ideas against the wall just to see what sticks. I turned off the TV feeling like I'd just watched a sci-fi thriller where the scenes were written in the same random style as the gags on Family Guy. I'm certain I saw a movie where a lot of things happened, but I have no idea what those things were.Utter fucking shit, from start to finish. It even makes Donnie Darko seem worse, which is a fun film if you suspend your sense of ...umn... everything, for awhile.

  9. Started playing Elder Scrolls:Oblivion with both expansions a week ago. I better go eat, not done it for a while.My god what a game. Not even bothering with the main story since there so much to do. Just fun riding about on a horse kiiling randoms.

    Awesome, awesome game. My best mate has it and got me to create a character on it while I was at his house for a few days. I literally spent TWELVE hours playing the thing right off the bat, I initially tried doing the main story through, then tried stealing randomly (From in taverns/shops etc. but my arrest rate got pretty high, and at one point I was wanted, due to resisting arrest and flattening the guards, to the sum of over 20,000 gold... whoops!).Tried the thieves guild, and found that it's annoying waiting for them constantly, and then found the Assassins guild and started doing tons of missions for them (it's great fun to be able to just jump someone from behind).Wound up in the south east of the map, and had to head to the north east, and actually began a full trek all the way up by foot as I decided to see what I could find as I went... I found tons due to the game being too sodding big.I too would have forgotten totally about eating until I was ready for bed due to being too tired (and even then, I doubt I'd have moved much had I had the game myself), but thankfully my mates girlfriend was doing the dinner for us all that day, and so I had a quick 15 minute break to eat before resuming playing...I now have made it a mission to make sure that the first two things I get when I start getting a real income is a decent TV (Not a 12 year old small square in the corner...), and then a 360 with Oblivion as it will easily eat away a good few months of my life.
    If you can handle the now extremely outdated graphics and a piss poor hit detection system, get Morrowind too, because its better in almost every way.
  10. I have been having a whale of a time for the past 42 hours with my Steam account back up for the first time since like 2005. Bearing in mind back then I went on a joyride buying all these PC games, its great to not have the games anymore in physical form but I was able to reactivate the Steam account and get them all back so it genuinly feels like I have in the region of 27 FPS games to play for free.I plan on buying more too. Steam even has those Quake 1 & 2 expansion packs which would have been huge pawnshop finds before the age of digital distribution.

  11. The Crow : Wicked PrayerOh boy. Where to start. Why I was watching it might be a good idea. I still love the first Crow movie. Even with the goth romanticism novelty wearing thin these days, its still a fun, straightfoward action movie with a bit of style. What a lot of people dont know is that three sequels followed. One of them , a 2005 The Crow meets Spaghetti Western meets Aleister Crowley straight to DVD film, was released in 2005. That being, The Crow : Wicked Prayer.The setup is bad enough, but its the casting that kills this one. Edward Furlong is your trailer park, dog owning, scorpion eating, emo crow [emoer]. He has, in typical crow fashion, been ressurected from a fridge to do battle with a Satanic, ritualistic, Mescaline taking, hick David Boreanaz because him and his soon to be evil bride Tara Reid [Any moment with Reid on screen is only slightly less-painful than having bamboo shoots shoved under your fingernails.] murdered Edward and his soon to be non-evil bride. Why? Because, dummy, the only way for the satantic couple to get married and transform David into Lucifer himself is to pluck out the eyes of Edward's girlfriend. Oh yeah : Dennis Hopper plays a satanic hippie pimp (yes, really) named El Nino (yes, really).Theirs no way I could make this up.I would suggested doing what most of the main characters seem to do before watching the innevitable Film Four repeat of this - take lots of Mescaline.

    You forgot to mention Tito Ortiz and the heel from Karate Kid II - who is actually the best thing about the movie by far. Edward Furlong's performance is astonishingly bad, almost unbelievably so.
    The acting is not the problem. The problem is that for all intents and purposes , Edward Furlong is a midget who is about as physicaly imposing as Funkai. And this is the man who plays a living dead, shit kicking, goth avenger with a penchant for martial arts and leather.How did they expect anybody to buy it? It is tantamount to putting Barney in a Twiggy Ramirez costume.
  12. The Crow : Wicked Prayer

     

    Oh boy. Where to start. Why I was watching it might be a good idea.

     

    I still love the first Crow movie. Even with the goth romanticism novelty wearing thin these days, its still a fun, straightfoward action movie with a bit of style. What a lot of people dont know is that three sequels followed. One of them , a 2005 The Crow meets Spaghetti Western meets Aleister Crowley straight to DVD film, was released in 2005. That being, The Crow : Wicked Prayer.

     

    The setup is bad enough, but its the casting that kills this one. Edward Furlong is your trailer park, dog owning, scorpion eating, emo crow [emoer]. He has, in typical crow fashion, been ressurected from a fridge to do battle with a Satanic, ritualistic, Mescaline taking, hick David Boreanaz because him and his soon to be evil bride Tara Reid [Any moment with Reid on screen is only slightly less-painful than having bamboo shoots shoved under your fingernails.] murdered Edward and his soon to be non-evil bride. Why? Because, dummy, the only way for the satantic couple to get married and transform David into Lucifer himself is to pluck out the eyes of Edward's girlfriend. Oh yeah : Dennis Hopper plays a satanic hippie pimp (yes, really) named El Nino (yes, really).

     

    Theirs no way I could make this up.

     

    I would suggested doing what most of the main characters seem to do before watching the innevitable Film Four repeat of this - take lots of Mescaline.

  13. Okay guys I need some recomendations. Being at the very cutting edge of the gaming industry I've just discovered Deus Ex and absolutely love it. I've completed it now and was totally addicted to the open ended game play and futuristic / post apocalyptic setting. I'm now rocking an X-box 360 and was wondering if any of you out there could recomend a similar FPS / RPG typle title.

    Mass Effect is the first game that comes to mind. Not a first person shooter though. Check out some of the video reviews online.
  14. Recently got into the X - Files out of pure boredom , and a yearning for something new. So opportunity struck a few nights ago when this popped up in the TV Guide...The X - Files MovieVery , very entertaining stuff. Pure cheese , in parts , but thats what the X - Files is for right?

    Sequel coming out in a few months!!
    For real? Last I read that thing was in limbo for most of this decade.
  15. Managed to dig up The Ultimate Matrix Collection. Must say , now that everybody surpringly enough has forgotten about the trilogy and the fad of hating the sequels has died down , I have realised two things.1. The sequels are nowhere near as good as the original , but are still good.2. The original still kicks ass. And still has about 15 genuine moments that make you go 'Thats pretty fucking cool'.

    I've got that and I never really had too much of a problem with the sequels although that might have more to do with the fact that I never really considered the first film to be that much of a life changing experience. The extras can be a bit of a slog though - they really do seem to be under the impression that they are re-inventing the wheel.I also find it amusing that they talk so much about the technology and efects when you consider that the Matrix has some of the worst motion capture in the history of film making. Stare intently at 'Neo' during the playground fight, Roland on the Ropes has more consistant animation.
    I second the extras. The hoards of Australians who play the various other ship captains and crews are amongst the worst thing about the sequels. The other being anything and everything to do with zion.The matrix is at its best when it is just that - in the matrix. I take leather and uzi's over rice bowels , rags , and multicultural wachowski brothers rave scenes any day.Also , no cypher in the sequels. And only about 30 minuets of total screen time for the merovingian - when he clearly deserves about 2 hours.
  16. Managed to dig up The Ultimate Matrix Collection. Must say , now that everybody surpringly enough has forgotten about the trilogy and the fad of hating the sequels has died down , I have realised two things.1. The sequels are nowhere near as good as the original , but are still good.2. The original still kicks ass. And still has about 15 genuine moments that make you go 'Thats pretty fucking cool'.

  17. I might be one of five people on this planet to think Half Life 2 and all its associated expansions are nothing more than generic shooters with generic locations , generic weapons , generic enemies , rubbish stories and a gravity gun/physics engine gimmick to keep the generic PC shooter fan happy. I honestly did not enjoy most of the orange box. A cookie cutter shooter that is neither memorale nor fun.*raises flame shield*

  18. Im currently playing The Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion on the 360. Fantastic stuff. A nice breath of fresh air after playing in Cyrodiil for lord knows how many hours. The split Mania/Dementia idea works really well.

  19. The reading of the rules. Always an excellent tactic in an argument against a young'un. But ask yourself this - ''Did I read the rules when I signed up?''.

     

    To be fair , most of us probably did not. Most of it is common sense. Still , just a nice little ironic thing to point out.

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