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    Oh, you THINK that's what happened? But they never flat-out told us why they were there. It's not obvious as to why they were there, Cole and Tazz never said "oh, the FBI must be there to admire the beatdown" or any such thing. How do you know they're not in on it?

     

    ...see how being a nitpicking bastard is uber-annoying?

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    No, you want a REAL thing to nitpick about, AS?

     

    Why were the FBI there? The FBI, heels, obviously are supposed to be against the faces. Brock is a face. The FBI have beaten down faces several times in the past 6 months. Why would they care if another good guy was down and not just look at him like "oh, haha"?

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    1. Slayer

    2. Metallica

    3. Megadeth

    4. Exodus

    5. Anthrax (never really got into Anthrax too much)

     

    Slayer is the best pure thrash band out of all of them, because they were also the ONLY pure thrash band out of all of them. Metallica and Megadeth recorded ballad-like slower songs based on technical precision, and Anthrax goofed around with rap.

     

    Slayer, in the overall scheme of things, stayed better over time. God Hates Us All is better than any new material any of the other member of the "Big 4" have released recently, and even though Diabolous In Musica is NOT a Slayer album, it's still somewhat enjoyable. Risk...Re-Load...St. Anger...no.

     

    Dave Mustaine got off the heroin and alcohol and became bored with his music, almost (and thus we got Risk). Metallica has been gone into plenty of times, so I won't even start there.

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    Not sure if I plan on majoring in filmography, but I definitely want to focus on some sort of film course. My goal is to one day either work for Troma with Lloyd and Trent, or just form my own independent company and make nothing but b-movies.

     

    As for another extremely overrated movie, I have to say Tromeo & Juliet. Everybody that knows Troma says that it is THE Troma movie to watch. While I think it's a good movie, and probably the best TRUE film Troma has ever made, it just ISN'T a Troma film to the degree that others are. The lack of budget shows, but it's just too "good" for Troma. I still love it, but not nearly as much as Terror Firmer (which many people say is awful, but that's probably because they don't actually GET Troma*) and especially Citizen Toxie: The Toxic Avenger IV.

     

    * = I forget who it was, but a critic for a very big newspaper (I believe it was the New York Times, actually) said that "only intelligent people 'get' Troma films." That makes me kinda proud, in a way.

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    Personally, I think Night Of The Living Dead and Dawn Of The Dead are BOTH overrated to the points of lunacy. Great movies? Yes. Pivotal horror movies? Yes. Excellent social satires disguised as gorefests? Yes. Overrated? Yes.

     

    Night Of The Living Dead's acting is wooden, the characters cliché, and the story pretty predictable. Of course, I say this 35 years after its release, so I've seen other zombie flicks (Return Of The Living Dead, Zombie, Dead Alive, etc.) that have studied the original Romero masterpiece, so hey. All in all, I do think the original NOTLD is a classic, and should be seen at least once by EVERYBODY (whether you like zombie films or not), but it's not too life altering.

     

    Dawn Of The Dead is guilty of this too. For a movie that is heralded as "THE zombie picture," it sure is really boring at times. Worse yet, the non-action parts, which is where characters are supposed to be explored and developed more so than prior, aren't used all too well. Sure, the relationships are touched upon, but when the zombies aren't around, it's almost hard to watch unless you have your thumb hovering over the fast-forward button. And I say this as a LOVER of Romero's trilogy.

     

    To touch upon Citizen Kane...I couldn't get into the story too well. Whether it be because of writing that isn't incredibly strong (as previous posters have already said) or because I've seen all of the camera angles done since (and done better, perhaps), but I just couldn't get too into it. Tastes and generation, perhaps. I still respect it as a landmark film in the sense of both unique direction and a great fight against the Hollywood Elite (™Lloyd Kaufman).

     

    And I just know somebody is going to say Evil Dead and/or Evil Dead II, and I'm prepared to discuss those. Just nobody better say Ghostbusters (Ghostbusters II is acceptable, just not the original), because then I'll go apeshit.

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    Shadows Fall. No one particular song, because I think any of 'em would work perfectly for a flick.

     

    I also think that "The Unforgiven" (Metallica) would make a really good opening/closing tune for an action movie that has a sad ending.

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    Well, Agent, they don't just growl and play so fast with so much distortion you can't hear the "amazingly technical and complex" guitar parts they're playing. :D

     

    They're alright. Gothenburg has definitely run its course, but it produced some really good bands (Dark Tranquility being my favorite). They also directly influenced the melodic death/thrash/hardcore of Massachusetts, flagshipped by my beloved Shadows Fall, with Beyond The Embrace and Killswitch Engage bringing up the rear.

     

    Heh...up the rear...you just KNOW Agent will make a bad joke about it.

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    As me and Choken have said: Disturbed is, EASILY, the best nu-metal act, and will always be. They hopefully have enough staying power to last another few years. The second album sounds different than the first, but has enough of the same qualities to to be called a Disturbed album.

     

    For once, I'd like to see a band saying they're going "back to their roots," and actually DO IT. And I don't mean completely musically. I mean do the "Tom Hanks method of acting," but apply it to making music. Much how Hanks would literally LIVE his role leading to filming the movie, the band should go back and live how they used to when they were still "edgy," "aggressive," and "heavy." I'd like to see James, Lars, Kirk, and Rob all go share a 1-bedroom apartment in a bad section of a city, cut themselves off from their lives for a few months, and then record an album. Guaranteed it'd sound more like Kill 'Em All than it would Load.

     

    I believe Agent will agree with me when I say that Slayer has evolved PERFECTLY. They can no longer play the fast, balls-out music they could 20 years ago. And? They've adapted to play a little slower, but keep a similar amount of heaviness. Tom and Kerry are still pissed off, Jeff still loves drinking, and whatever drummer they have this month still knows how to blast that double-bass when it's needed.

     

    Megadeth, I think, came the closest to "going back to their roots" with The World Needs A Hero. The album was faster and heavier than the 3 preceding albums, and sounded as if it were a bridge between Rust In Peace and Countdown To Extinction...minus "MotoPsycho," which is a good riff, but awful lyrics. But hey, nobody's perfect, especially ex-heroin addicts that used to have a drinking problem.

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    ECW reforming on "RAW is ECW" back in '01, and then promptly ending what could have been a purely awesome three-way feud by joining WCW.

     

    Seriously, one of the BIG peeves I had with The Alliance was that it made no sense for ECW and WCW to team up. NONE. ECW always had a decent working relationship with the WWF, and hated WCW. Paul and Vince both hated Bischoff. So it made NO FUCKING SENSE to team two companies that ABSOLUTELY DESPISED EACH OTHER together against the WWF. But, alas, a dead topic...

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    Sorry, but not even paying him money for some gas is WRONG. He drove out of his way to come try out, made his own mask and costume, and they have the gaul to say "sorry, fucky, you ain't getting a dime," and then be ANGRY that he wanted to be paid for his work?

     

    ...I predict TNA dead in 2 years, tops.

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