Lefty

That was neither a comment on Billy Bob Thornton's acting ability or the brilliance of Sling Blade. It was just a lame attempt at a joke in reference to the film Tropic Thunder where Robert Downey Jr's character talks about going retard to win an oscar.

 

Regarding my comment about the last ten years maybe I should have said quiet rather then bad. As you and others have mentioned be had such a run of good movies through the late 90's and early 2000's  - Sling Blade, U Turn, The Man Who Wasn't There, Monsters Ball etc that my expectations are high.

Also, check him out in Intolerable Cruelty. Hilarious. 

Myself, I loved Natural Born Killers.

 

But then again, I smoke weed 

 

Especially loved the prison warden role played by Tommy Lee Jones.

 

I think the worst, most disgusting piece of trash ever made by Ollie Stone was "JFK", a piece of pure fiction which was presented as fact and which millions of people believed. He will never live that one down and I am sure he is now embarrassed by it.

Since you adamantly support the govt line that LHO acted alone, I am not surprised you think this too. 

Everybody knows you don't go full retard.

 

I like Billy Bob as well although I feel he has had a bad run for the last ten years or so. Two of my favourites are the Coen brothers The Man Who Wasn't There and Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man. I love the scene in Dead Man where Iggy Pop and Billy Bob and are arguing about who is going to eat Johnny Depp "You had the last Philistine. This one's mine.". Dead Man is a great western with lots of interesting characters and with a soundtrack by Neil Young you can't go wrong. "Stupid fucking white man"

That seems like simplistic logic to me. The main thing should be how well the actor effectively handled the role. BBT was so convincing he was unrecognizable. Friend of mine was visiting me once, and we watched BBT in Monsters Ball. Pretty good movie, but kind of depressing. BBT did his role effectively, but you knew it was him. After that one finished I popped in Sling Blade. We had watched like about 30-45 minutes and my friend asked who the actor was playing Karl. I said don't you recognize who it is? He said no. We watched like another 15 minutes and he said, is that Billy Bob? I laughed and said yes. He said he just guessed because of his being in the previous movie.  He was amazed that it was Billy Bob. 

Hard to place as all the buildings from that period look the same but my guess would be Lower Broadway looking up to Trinity Church.

IMO Billy Bob was the best thing about NBK. Great role. 

I don't even recall his being in it. 

Check out U-Turn. Billy Bob was great in his role in that movie. As were Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, Powers Booth, Nick Nolte, et al. 

Billy Bob is so diverse. He does heavy drama well, comedy, and anything in between. 

When you watch him as Lorne Malvo in Fargo, it is hard to believe this is the same guy who so perfectly played Karl Childers in Sling Blade. The most glaring Oscar snub ever IMO was BBT not winning Best Actor for Sling Blade. 

I think the first 10 minutes of NBK was great.

 

Beyond that unwatchable by me.

I do not recall the point that it became garbage to me. I watched it once in it's entirety so I could be somewhat objective about it. No hankering to ever see it again.  Since, QT was somehow connected to it, the soundtrack included some great LC songs, That was the limit of it's appeal to me. 

Ah man, i watched that when it premiered. Oliver Stone was present promoting it at the party after , I had a brief chat with him, he was cool. This was when the critics still loved him and before Natural born killers which changed the game completely for him, critics hated NBK.

 

Its his last in the trilogy about Vietnam war, you mentioned.  I'm glad you liked it. Many of my friends didn't, but i thought it was great. It also stars one of the most beautiful women ever, Joan Chen.

 

Thanks for reminding me about this one, well worth watching again after 20 years.

This is one time I'd agree with critics. NBK was senseless, useless garbage. 

My favorite Stone movie was a fairly unsung one. U-Turn.  Great cast, and a really bizarre twisted plot. 

One of the characters in this gem of a movie from Down Under was a real Agnetha fan.

I bet all the over 50's here have dropped some jizz over the ABBA girls at some stage in their lives.     

 

I know I have 

 

.. and Bucks Fizz too 

I was totally in love with Agnetha Faltskog. She has the voice of an angel. When she sings Thank You for the Music, I'm in heaven.

I am too in awe to be thinking dropping jizz. The same feeling of awe that I have when watching Serena Williams destroy mere mortals on the tennis court. 

Over the weekend AMC aired an old WW2 movie, I'd never seen before. Bataan, filmed in 1943. The actual battle took place in 1942, so this was made the following year. 

la Paz

That would mean Bolivia, so incorrect. 

City? :)  

Stephen Colbert is going to make a very good replacement. 

Geeze, if we could only give them jobs then they wouldnt do stuff like this......

How do you do many of them do or not have jobs?  One of those arrested, is a retired San Antonio police detective of 34 yrs.   

No need worrying about facts when you have the chance to make a snarky smart ass comment. 

Scroll through the gallery to see the first faces that have surfaced in connection to the shooting.  These mug shots make for an excellent anti-meth ad if nothing else. Most of the 170 look 10-15 years older than their actual age IMO. 

http://www.sfgate.com/news/houston-texas/article/Total-arrests-announced-in-Waco-Twin-Peaks-6270189.php

DOLPH Lundgren was probably named Adolph. He (or his management undoubtedly) knew early on it was good to drop the "A". Like PUTIN from RAZputin. Same same but different for the same reasons. All of these original fine fellows reproduced unfortunally. 

He was born Hans Lundgren. The name Dolph, as it stands, wasn't derived from Adolph.;

The socialist hell that is Sweden? Looks like our archipelago. Could be Norway as well

Sweden. West coast to be exact. That one was kind of too easy. Socialist hell looks like heaven to me. 

Thanks, Mr SS. Pom rak koon. 

Well, I'll say this, in my modest travels, I have never met a nicer more likable bunch than the Irish. Of the group I've known through this forum and the old ATS one, they are all kind, wonderful, good hearted people. Every single one of them. Big cyber hugs to all of them.

I did see an interesting chart a year or two ago comparing average penis sizes, and Romania and Ireland tied for the smallest avg sizes of all European countries. I often wonder how they arrive at those conclusions though. Who do they actually measure? :)

Funny quote I read a few years ago. Freud apparently said "The Irish are the one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever."   

"The Irish have an abiding sense of tragedy which sustain them through temporary periods of joy." ~ W. B. Yeats

Welcome to America.......yes, those are bullets

Actually, those are cartridges. The bullets are just the projectile. Those also include cases, primers and powder. :)

The Doors where way overrated , Light My Fire was their only decent tune ...all that other drugged up shit was depressing .

 

Same with Nirvana ..... one of the most overrated bands of the 90's they stole The Pixies sound .

 

And Morrissey  ? Another miserable sort totally irrelevant now , Johnny Marr was the man he made The Smiths .

Light My Fire is down the list of best Doors songs. I liked them a lot. Would never say they were overrated. They deserved whatever notoriety they received. 

One of the articles I read about this later was a bunch of music biz guys sitting around & discussing who should be in as well as who shouldn't have gotten in. ( Hello ABBA!)  Obviously this depends on your particular era & how sacrosanct you consider the HOF honor.

 

Madonna & Joan Jett got a lot of discussion, as did, surprisingly to me, solo Lou Reed.... because he's in already with the VU & most thought he really only had 2 decent solo albums... is that enough?  Same with Joan Jett, 2-3 singles really, & she didn't write them all, perhaps just the "idea"  of a Joan Jett is enough? Her influence on r&r girls...   But is that bigger overall than Joe Cocker or Leon Russell?

 

They did bring up something I agreed with: YES & Dire Straits should be in already, it seems to be not a transparent process, a lot seems to have to pass muster with Yann Wenner (rolling Stone) as the vetting mandarin. 

Well, I love ABBA, and I do not care what anyone else thinks about it or them. Agnetha Faltskog has one of the all time great female singing voices, and that is just plain fact. 

As a Yank I'm used to canned beer.  There are some advantages. You don't have to worry about broken glass and you don't need a bottle opener. 

Beer tastes better in glass though.