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I'd put a jyhad on her. For America. I'm doing it for our boys overseas.

City of God is an excellent film. Probably one of the best films of the last 10 years.

Personally, I'm enjoying Crisis, but I have to say, with each episode I become a little more disappointed, because there was two years (or more) of AWESOME buildup where it was the villains of the D.C. universe ready to kill the heroes for what was done to them (mind-wiping), but we see now that it was all a swerve, and the real focus is on the original Crisis. That's disappointing to me. I haven't been waiting in anticipation for two years for them to tell me one story, and then when the Infinite Crisis mini finally appears, come to discover that they've changed the direction & plot of the storyline COMPLETELY.

This guy's an asshole, but I don't think he should be serving 'hard time'. It's a fucking penguin.

Now that I think about it, that looks kinda like Leena Regardless, her hair's a nice shade of violet. Or is that fuchsia? I'm bad with colors.

Call me crazy, but even supposing you're right, I'm really kind of doubting that the Iraqi people are going to uprise in anger over the Americans allegedly roughing up their former tyrannical dictator.

Corey says "Everything White Stripes", I personally say, everything Green Day. Green Day is, currently, at this moment, the most overrated band on the planet, because they're just godawful, even by faux-punk rock standards (which is a genre that is most definitely not afraid to suck), and yet somehow they've won dozens of awards within the last year or so. AWFUL. Jesus, give me My Chemical Romance over them any day of the week.

Based upon the musical tastes of the rest of you people on this board, I suppose I should be saying any song off Gwen Stefani's solo album. But fuck that. That's a good album, and it brings me no shame to say that.

You don't know me. I assure you, I shall nestle this song to my bosom and nurture it forever.

She's fine. I'd murder that every night and be satisfied.

I'd like to go to one of these things dressed up as Takada in HUSTLE. Leading my own Takada Monster Army. Well, I actually wouldn't like to go to one of these things, but I still want to dress like Takada.

I would argue that 'Hollaback Girl' is a 'radical' song and doesn't deserve to be on the worst of 2005 list. It's just quirky, it's not bad. I dislike "My Humps", though. Hawthorne Heights is terrible, it's like they scraped the absolute dregs of the emo barrel and decided to inflict them upon the rest of us. I find a couple of Nickelback's songs to be acceptable mainstream pop / rock. This song is just ridiculously bad, though. However bad you may think their previous songs are, this is several degrees worse. I'm confused as to whatever possessed them to think it was worthy of being recorded, let alone put on an album, and I'm even more perplexed as to why the song is actually a hit for them.

Monkey Island.

Not a terrific joke, but the smiley does put it over the top. Bravo.

While it may be true that in our daily lives we all encounter at least a few women who are hotter than Dixie, I firmly believe that 1) Twizted's chick is NOT hotter than Dixie (sorry), and furthermore, 2) Twizted's girl doesn't even really look that goth. Dixie's hot in a MILF sort of way. I'd tax it.

Holy shit. What the FUCK. This show is insane. Hope no one placed their bets on Quentin....

This isn't bad, although it makes Val to be either a) a little gay (for standing there watching Shelton do his business AND be *impressed* by it, or b ) a total perv, for standing there and watching a stranger lay the pipe to his 'sister'. We also need someone to play the bad guy / old boyfriend. I suppose you could just get some stock Italians to play the mobsters, but Carlito might work well as the crooked ex-boyfriend. Since they've been doing all of these risque angles lately, I think they should just drop that "we don't do ______ angles (fill in the blank: rape, incest, murder, etc.)" lip service, because it's obviously bullshit. At the same time, debut a new wrestler, someone from OVW, and his gimmick is that he's a murderer. And every week he kills someone on TV, in a new and exciting way. Make it interesting, nothing mundane like just shooting a guy or something, work out amusing or innovative death scenarios, and have the wrestler execute them (literally and figuratively). To avoid excess heat on them, make the deaths occasionally cartoonish or even outlandish, as in, say, having the wrestler kill one guy one week, and the next week kill someone else, only that guy is actually the same guy as last week, which would lead the wrestler to say something wacky like, "Hey, didn't I kill you last week? Guess I didn't finish the job!" And then he murders them. It'd be great. You could book everyone else on the roster as terrified of the guy, because hey, this motherfucker KILLS people before he goes to the ring. This of course leads to the inevitable Undertaker feud, and the wrestler can in fact kill Taker every week, but because we all know Taker is an immortal zombie, he keeps coming back, which vexes our murderer to no end. I tell you, this would work like gangbusters. I don't even need to be a former "Ellen" writer to come up with this shit.

"The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch, & The Wardrobe" - 9/10 Great adaptation of Lewis's classic. They did pretty much everything right with this one, and the movie's absolutely delightful, although I don't know if it's really appropriate for younger children to see, because the scene where Aslan is sacrificed is pretty dark and the battle scenes towards the end of the film are quite intense. Two other things: 1) Anyone bitching about the movie being too Christian or full of too much Christian symbolism is full of shit. Unless you personally had read the books AND been aware of the specific Christian symbolism Lewis used in the book, you wouldn't even notice any of it in the movie. Outside of Aslan's resurrection, there wasn't anything in this even rthat was overtly Christian. 2) Tilda Swinton is inexplicably attractive. She kind of, ahem, did it for me in this film.

Oh, well then it's a good thing he has a possibly malignant brain tumor, RIGHT?

At least the show went on last night. It's what Tim would have wanted.

Munich looks really interesting. But since it's a Spielberg film, the Mossad agents have to feel really bad about themselves for killing the murderous terrorist scum.

There are a lot of meanings and interpretations for Fight Club. I don't know if Palahniuk has stated the exact meaning. He could have, maybe he has, I haven't followed that closely. The most generally accepted interpretations are that it's a social commentary on our materialistic culture, as well as a commentary on how men (and I suppose to a lesser extent wome as well, you could read that into it) have been affected by that culture. It can mean a lot of different things to different people, though. I tend to agree with Milky, that the book (and maybe also Chuck) has been "Korned" by the fanbase. It really is kind of disappointing if you're a Palahniuk fan. I read the book years ago, and thought it was incredible, then watched the movie in theaters, and thought it was brilliant too. Then it was like every idiot fratboy in the world decided that Fight Club was the best thing ever and hey, awesome, let's start our own fight club and do stupid pranks and shit because that's what they did in the movie and DUDE IT'S FUCKIN' AWESOME. Goddamn marks. They always ruin things. EDIT: I would agree that Ellis is a better writer than Chuck, though.

Haven't we all done the Chuck discussion before? Maybe it was at another board. Anyway, Chuck is a good writer / author. The majority of his books are good, some of them even great. Chuck's problem, if you consider it a problem, is that each book is similar in style and tone, although each book has a totally different theme and message. This is why people think he "sucks", because there isn't much difference, superficially, between his books. Here's the thing, though: you either accept that all of his books are going to be the same in style and then move on to appreciate them for what they are, or you just stop and say that they're garbage. There doesn't seem to be much middle ground with him. It's a pet peeve of mine, though, whenever I see someone read a new Palahniuk novel and then bitch about how it was just like the other novels. Well, yeah - that's his thing. You either flow with it or not, but at this point he's put out a half-dozen novels so by now I'd think people take the hint. Anyway, Fight Club is really strong, although I might like Invisible Monsters even more, though it's probably less socially acceptable. All of those insecure macho boys who loved the visceral nature of Fight Club probably wouldn't want to read a book that has such a good deal of homosexuality and transsexualism.

No. A few of Duke's posts were actually clever.