Mr. Hakujin

New York, I Love You A This film is a pastiche of several short films about love in its various incarnations in NYC. If this premise sounds familiar that’s because it’s produced by the same people as Paris, Je T’Aime. New York, I Love You has more A-List clout (James Caan, Orlando Bloom, Shia LeBouf, Christina Ricci, Ethan Hawk, Natalie Portman, Andy Garcia, Bradley Cooper, and many more) and the short films interweave much more fluidly than its Parisian predecessor. It’s a magical movie experience with a lot of humor, a lot of heart, and a slight wisp of sadness thrown in for good measure (no such thing as love without sorrow to some degree). Bottom line is you don’t have to love New York in order to love this film—but it doesn’t hurt. City of God A I’m late to the party on this 2002 South American version of Goodfellas in Rio. Like Scorsese’s film, this is also based on real life gangsters, but City of God has a desperation and gritty rawness to it that Goodfellas’ did not. Don’t misunderstand me, this is not a cheap knockoff of Scorsese. The characters are engaging and the narrative is enthralling. A truly great gangster film worthy of a place alongside the other genre greats on your shelf. Big thanks to DOJ for the recommendation on this one! Payback [Director’s Cut] A- I vaguely remember anything more than Lucy Liu as a dominatrix in the theatrical version, but the director’s cut is a different beast altogether. I looked up this Director’s Cut of the 1999 film based on Baytor’s recommendation and am I ever glad I did. This is a modern day crime noir revenge flick where Mel Gibson plays a hard as nails crook who has little more to live for than his principles and his mission to get the money he’s owed. My only complaint is the James Brown song of the same name was nowhere to be found. The Reader B The film got attention for Kate Winslet’s Oscar winning performance as a former Nazi concentration camp guard trying to live with the shame of her past. The film’s climactic courtroom scene is a big “Really? Are you serious?” kind of melodramatic moment that feels like it’s just there to serve the purpose of setting up the circumstances for the third act to unfold. It has an interesting premise and at its heart it’s a slow-paced May-December tale of romance and reconciliation with surprisingly less substance than one would expect from an Oscar winning film based on an international best-seller novel.

Darlton said the mystery of Sayid's sudden return in the season opener will be explained fairly soon--like in the next few episodes. Some think he

I'm listening now as I DL from piratebay. Yes, magical.

I wouldn't call 12million people sad. I think the avg. number of viewers per episode last season was 7.5 million. So they picked up 4million people for the premiere. No small feat in a world of bitorrernt, DVRs, and TiVO. All I know is they're still raising more questions than giving answers. There're 16 episodes left, so, ya know. Get crackin' Darlton!

Gawdamnit I wish I was in MIA this weekend. . .

NZA really needs to do a post for her in the hot chicks thread. She's totally replaced Thandie Newton in my spankbank. TMI?

Amended for accuracy.

This thread is so fucking money.

then the sexual harassment (calling a femal cop "sugar tits") and the drunk driving, and the divorce . . . not very Christian behavior for mr. jesus-movie-maker who builds a frickin' church on his property. good actor/director, but an utter twathat.

i think the interviewer asked a fair question. it's been 8 years since gibson acted and his public perception has changed drastically. mel pretended to not understand the question and the guy elaborated. gibson=twathat.

S6E1: confused? Click here for some explanations from Darlton. I loved this episode. So everyone was proven right about And fuck you Darlton for making me watch

Ah, you only DL the pr0n I guess...

wow. mel gibson is a giant fucking twat.

yeah, running into burning buildings is much safer. and that clip is one of the greatest things ever. who fucking has a conversation at work w/ someone while they look at porn--other than this guy & NZA/JZA?? his look of realization into the camera at the very end of the report is fucking priceless!

Yep. I understand as you can lose track when you only DL your TV shows.

Christalmighty, w/ playlist suggestions like these I'll never get motivated to hit the gym. SRSLY ppl, it's almost as bad as Custer's Preacher playlist up in here.

The Office Parks & Recreation Community And the occasional episode of The Biggest Loser. I'm pretty meh on all the Law&Order shows. But yeah, that's about all they got going in Prime Time. Southland was an excellent cop drama, but they fucked that one up by canceling it for Leno's prime-time fail.

i think there's like 12 or so different workouts w/ P90X. most of it seemed to be equipment free. it was last summer when he actually lent me the DVDs and i was all elwood blues--fuck this noise--wheni perused 'em. so my recall isn't 100%. it's mainly timed exercises w/ increased repetitions and some alternate exercises or positioning as your level increases. some did use free weights and i do want to say one used a pull-up bar, but i could be wrong...

nick is waaaaaaay too stoked about blargh! 1k.

sorry arnah, but i agree w/ nick costanza on that playlist. yeesh my brother-in-law is into P90X. that shit is hardcore. but he's an iraq war vet and way into fitness, so it's likely right up your ally. it's pretty cool and you can choose different options w/ how you interface and is fairly customizable for a DVD workout. and in requests for self-motivation. i've had a gym literally four blocks down the street from my house for about a year and have yet to join. i'm one hard dude to get motivated. so feel free to txt msg me randomly and call me fatty until i join and get my arse in gear. i'm only about 10-15lbs overweight, but i've lost almost any muscle tone as i've been one couch potato/Internet surfing mo'fo for all of 2009 and most of 2008.

never heard of the first distirct 13, but the trailer for the sequel looks pretty kickass. also, parkour is not for amateurs:

Hillbilly, you don't even watch this show. Sod off.

Jaysus, Eamonn. There's 5 seasons and over 100 episodes of mythology to discuss, which basically means anything about the show itself would need to be spoiler taggeded. If they haven't watched it then fuck off from the thread until such a time as said viewing has been completed. Otherwise only non-aired shyte needs to get spoiler tagged. It's a standard rule in TV discussion threads. I'll do my best though to tag it for the nins, but no promises that I'll get 'em all and ninnying about it will get tired after a while. In fact, kinda already has...

Enter Ninnny #2.

Hotdamn, I love that song! The video is great, too. Chokes me up a lil' when Roy's part comes on and the guitar is in the empty rocking chair.