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I like indoor plumbing. Don't you? Indoor plumbing is responsible for much of Western, industrial civilization. But that's not new. The Romans had indoor plumbing. Then the Visigoths and Vandals arrived and destroyed it. No one had indoor plumbing again for about 1300 years. Once we got it back, civilization began to spread all over again. Interesting, isn't it?
Why do you people bother???
Seriously, the man is a fraud. Both "Reservoir Dogs" and "Pulp Fiction" were based on earlier, better movies. Now this. I honestly thought that with a title like "Inglorious Bastards" we were finally going to see a genuine Tarantion movie. But apparently it has taken a long time for Quentin to rip off another story/director.
They all feel great until the stroke happens.
--Your Lady of Hypertension You Fucking Moron You!
Men like beautiful young women, whether the men in question are in their teens, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s...you get the picture.
I hope.
By "fraud" I wasn't merely referring to the plots of the two films, though I know it came across that way. Someday Roger Avery will be given the credit he deserves for both "Reservoir Dogs" AND "Pulp Fiction" - the shared Oscar and "Story By" were both outrages. Don't believe me? Watch Avery's film "Killing Zoe" and compare. Especially the dialogue rhythms and wording. If anything it was Tarantino who most likely was the tail gunner.
Gee, thanks Camille. I never would have guessed.
*rolls eyes*
The only thing Barack Obama has to do is say the following words:
"I believe in Jesus, and I believe in what he said. When his followers came to him to complain of Roman taxes, he said 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, render unto me what is mine.'"
The end. If so-called "Christian" Evangelicals and other theocrats had any sense of what the man said, they'd know this already and would shut the hell up.
...Rohmer is an old man, an artist, who is dreaming of his youth. The fact that he has a camera and access to other artists of his own trade are a happy accident of his own fate...and our's.
Pam Brady is a hack. Team America was a thoroughly UNfunny movie. But hey, she's all tied up with the guys who make South Park so she MUST be funny, right?
Wrong.
And this movie is proof. If your script can't help Steve Coogan be funny, then your script is shit. Period.
But he also doesn't condone the ridiculous stud/slut double-standard. How generations have to die away in this country before people realize that a robust, healthy libido is part of being HUMAN. It's not a gender issue.
Just kidding.
In all seriousness, I thought he was quite good in Guy Ritchie's movies. He was witty as hell, funny and a bit nervous. None of it prepared me for his...OTHER dimension, which he pulls off with equal aplomb. Face it, the man can act.
Those who are comparing this speech - or, for that matter, Barack's keynote speech in 2004 - to Cuomo's in 1984 need to grab hold in earnest to the CD I own, entitled "Great Speeches of the 20th Century."
And once you have hold of it in earnest, listen hard to Cuomo's dazzling, amazing keynote speech from 1984. It attacked Reagan - and Reaganomics - full on, with tooth and claw. It was brilliant, and miles away better than Obama's speech last night. The speech Obama delivered was what you would expect, once you had come to expect it. And I have.
Obama is better than McCain, but only marginally so. Please don't coat him in plaudettes and smiles just because he knows how to speak in public better than you do. Please.
The last time I checked - and that would be my childhood and adolescence in the 70s and early 80s - never being able go anywhere meant POVERTY. Jeez...
Excuse me, officer, but do you have a grandfather? Did you have a grandfather? Did he fight in World War II? I only ask because if he did see combat in World War II he was shooting, strafing or bombing men just like you. Kind of ironic, don't you think??
The last time I checked, 18 and 19-year-old boys have gone to prison for making their "underage", 17-year-old girlfriends pregnant.
Having once been a boy that age, I have never and will never like those laws...but they exist, and where are the police in all this?
Oh, right...never mind.
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