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The what scientologist actually believe part couldn't have pissed him off too much. I would think the "Its a big scam" thing at the end is what would have done it.

Everytime a remake starring black people get made, the same stupid ass thread comes up. We get it. Them hollywood blacks need to stay in their place and leave the white folks movies alone.

For the record, I am the SHIT using after effects. Avid is suprisingly less complicated though.

Said it before and will say it again. Show me ONE Marbury team that SHOULD have been even slightly good when he was there and I will agree with you. The Timberwolves made the playoffs when he was there...then he left. He went to the Nets in a dumb "i am young" move and they, with no other way of saying it, sucked. The team was always injured, they reallly weren't a good team. After the kidd trade, Kenyon Martin was off his broke legged ass, Kerry Kittles knee didn't fall off, Lusious Harris remembered his jump shot, they drafted Richard Jefferson and change the style of play. The Suns made the Playoffs with Marbury and went toe to toe with the Spurs with Marbury heading the way. A Marbury injury in game 5 is probably what sealed the deal on the suns taking the Spurs in that series honestly. The next year, Amare missed most of the year, the team traded away everybody and they were still in the hunt for the 8th spot when they traded him to New York, where the Knicks promptly became better, only to get embarassed by the Nets in the first round. Fact is, for Mr. "iso selfish player" he has averaged 8.3 assist for his career. In comparison, Steve Nash is averaging less than that for his career ONLY counting the years he was a starter. Not saying that he is a better distributor than Steve Nash, or a better player...at all, but a guy doesn't put up those kind of numbers isn't playing the me first and nothing else game that he gets attributed. I am saying he doesn't get the credit for what he does on the floor. Larry Brown on the other hand gets too much credit due to people convienantly forgeting stuff. Larry Brown didn't make Chauncy Billups better. Flip Saunders made Chauncy Billups better. People forget that Chauncy was a journeyman until he got to Minnesota and Flip got him playing the point. His assist numbers doubled, his PPG jumped 5 points and he was a coveted free agent after that and signed with Detroit. Notice that now he is paired up with Flip again, he is a MVP candidate. Yet people will say Larry Brown turned him into a point guard. Larry Brown made Eric Snow a good point? Yeeaaahhh. I am sure that playing and learning from Gary Payton for years had nothing to do with Erics tough defense playing style that Eric played. Larry gave him playing time. Eric Snow said that Gary Payton made him the player he is, so throw that out the window. Hell, take a all-time great point guard like Mark Jackson and Larry Brown didn't like him because he didn't look to the sideline for a play every time down court. Like Marbury, don't like him, but truth is, they are a team of undersized over atheletic guys and Larry Brown has them running half court sets. He complains that they don't play defense but sends in Jerome James instead of David Lee. They should be running. They should be using the fact that most times, every guy on the court can hit the perimeter jumper and just spread the floor and let the point guards work inside and hit the cutter or open man (Like they did last night). Don't let clips fool you about enthusiasm and all that crap, the starters were regulated to slow it down basketball and Nate Robinson came out, never EVER looked over to Larry Brown and played "Starbury" basketball of making the defense commit and giving the open shooter the ball.

If you know what you are doing, the Adobe video editing programs are great. Trust me, with a 900 dollar budget, I know he doesn't have the system to run Avid well enough to see promising results. The Adobe programs are easier on the system, cheaper and can produce quality results.

The whole William Hurt part seemed like a cartoon How? Had Hurt's character not tried to be all symbolic and choke Joey like he did in the story he was telling, they could have killed him. And "Jesus, Joey" was a great line. You know you loved it barron.

For 900 hundred bucks? Go to best buy and get a Mini DV camcorder (canon or Sony) for around 3-5 hundred, and get Adobe Premiere(or Aftereffects if you want to do more...um effects) and call it a day. You aren't going to produce any great video, but thats the best you are going to get for 900 bucks. I did actually see a 3CCD video camera for 900 one time, but honestly, that thing must shoot like shit.

The Knicks Hawks game was one fun ass game. I feel that the hawks got jobbed on those foul calls, which was the real reason the Knicks won. And not to take stephon Marbury's side or anything, but the young guys tonight for the Knicks, they didn't run any half court offense. it was all dribble and kick with Crawford and Robinson. The starters were calling plays from Brown all night. When the rooks got in, they ran Iso after iso after Iso. If you did that with Marbury or Francis, allowing them to use their ballhandling skills and ability to finish at the basket and find the open man, they would get the same thing from the starters. One great thing about tonight for the Knicks too was that the starters didn't sulk about not playing for the rest of the game. They were the first ones off the bench to congradulate the guys coming back. Thats a good sign, unlike the Larry Brown/Stephon Marbury saga this morning. Second thought...I am taking stephons side....fuck Larry Brown.

I think it was. It was a way of preventing the violence from being cartoonish and having no impact at all. When you watch alot of movies, when evil henchman number 32 dies, he goes "AH!!" and falls and dies. Thats it. If there was time taken to see pieces of the guys face on the ground for every death in your average action movie, trust me, it would be a lot less of a enjoyable experience. One thing I laughed at in the original Austin Powers movies were the deleted scenes where after Austin would kill a henchman, they would cut to parts of their life (one they cut to his wife getting a call about her husband getting killed at work and having to tell her son and the other, there was a party for his birthday I think where all his friends and family was waiting to suprise him, and one of his friends(Rob Lowe I think) got the call about him dying). The joke was about how people don't usually think of these guys as actual people in movies, but more of just another guy that went down. I think the explicit violence that was shown with each of their deaths brought a certain human aspect to them which didn't allow the viewers mind to drift into that familiar territory. Or it was really cool to see a guys face blown open. One of the two.

I think it was one of the most beautiful goddamned films I have seen in a while. A lot of people complained about the slow pace. Fuck them; they obviously know nothing about having a story in a film. In the short time that it was there, it did a remarkable job of setting up the quiet Indiana small town and family life. A lot of people said the sex was gratuitous and pointless. Fuck them; they don't know what they are talking about. The first sex scene was showing a real couple having real couple sex and showing the intimacy that they had between them. They knew what the other liked and it was closeness to it. It was there to show in comparison to the animalistic, angry sex that occurred later in the film. It was the type of raw sex that a couple of people who don't really know each other have and in truth, Maria's character didn't know who the fuck Tom/Joey was. The realism of the violence...great...just fucking great. It didn't need a lot of it, just needed to show the truth of violence. None of that guy gets shot and falls and that’s it for him...the camera moves on. The result of every action was shown in the movie. It made the violence actually mean something and not trivialize it. That is what stopped it from being that cartoonish violence that occurs in most action movies. The only weak performance in the Movie was the little girl. Besides her, everyone did a GREAT job in their parts, small or large. A lot of people were torn on William Hurts performance. I personally loved it. The Philadelphia part of the film looked like a different film because it was supposed to. It was in every way the polar opposite of the small town Indiana. From the natural lighting of the Indiana scenes to hard lighting in Philly. From quaint homes that served as background to the characters, to huge homes which were so grandiose they swallowed the characters whole. It was showing the polar opposite of Tom and Joey. One life and the other. I LOVED the open ending because honestly, that’s the only way it could end. Realistically, she has loved him for damn near 20 years. That is the only father the kids know. No matter what he was, they can't just cut and dry deny that the only man they have ever known is/was Tom Stall. Who knows what happens, but I do know what ever happened...it would have realistically started there. I also think that not enough love is shown to that open sequence. Everything that the film was going to be about was shown in the scene. The small town scenery, the big city car, and the transition from everyday life (the two characters conversation) and the realism of violence. The only thing I didn't like about the film was the subplot with the son. I don't like the idea of his son having this violent streak because his daddy is Joey. Still, the scenes were done very well, the acting was pretty damn good, and once again, the realistic results of violence was on display so I can't say I hated it.

Well I am guessing Curtis couldnt' get in after the gas attack. And just to solidify what I said earlier. I wasn't saying that I believe Tony isn't dead, I am saying I KNOW Tony isn't dead. nothing about that said Tony just died to me...it would be the shock of all shocks if he is actually dead.

Tony isn't dead.

He played great the 2nd half of last year, but his lack of defense is cutting his minutes under Nate McMillin. When you watch him play, you can see that he is a VERY special player at the point guard position. he will be big in the league eventually. And like it was said, he did it to get his family money, so he is a sucess in that aspect.

I honestly think he is the 2nd half MVP. He has been a beast for a while now.

The heat have pink in their uniforms.... The world is just plain fucked up.

Well, the Clippers have a inside defensive pressence while the Grizz have none. Gasol and Wright. 2nd, they don't have a playmaker on the team. For all of Damon Stoudimire's faults, the guy could play point when needed and he was very important in that role in the early season and its no coincidence that they have struggled since he went down. Chucky Atkins is a point guard in the sense that Tim Legler was a basketball player. He can hit the three but he can't make the offense go. Same for Bobby Jackson, except Jackson is more of a all around offensive threat. And because of Gasol's style of play, you can't really double him so people don't. Thus the Lakers get to stay home defensively. They would have to send a double at Brand and Radmanovic, Maggette, Mobley, Cassell...they would make them pay from the outside. Plus Chris Kamen is actually very capable offensively and would present another low post threat to the Lakers. Defensively, with the exception of Sam Cassell and Radmanovic, EVERYONE on the Clippers team are damn good defenders. They have shot blockers inside to make Odem and Bryants shots tougher, and they have pesky defenders on the perimeter. The Grizz have Jones and Battier on the perimeter but that is the extent of their defensive strength. Maggette, Quintin Ross, even Livingston are all decent to supurb defenders( expecially Livingston on the ball).

I laughed hardest at the Romany Malco/Kevin Hart argument in 40 year old virgin. The line "Okay, first of all, you throwin to many big words at me. And since I don't know what they mean, I'm gonna take'm as a sign of disrespect. Watch your mouth and help me with the sale" had me laughing for days along with the "You just got fucked up with him". Honestly, Romany Malco and Seth Rogan has me laughing at almost anything they said.

The pacing reminded me of Haute Tension, which I guess is how the director likes to pace the story. I like pacing like that. I don't need to walk into a movie and heads come flying off. The stark contrast from everyday, normal setting to terror is better than lets just jump into the terror.

And I think the Lakers could take the Nuggets in a playoff series...thats about it. The Clippers have a mismatch at every position in the court offensively. EVERY POSITION. Kobe can't cover shooters(mobley) they can't stop PF's, or scoring point guards(Cassell, Brand) they WISH Brown or Mihm could hit the boards like Kaman, and none of this even counts Cory Maggette. They MIGHT be able to take the Griz, but no way the take anyone else.

Necro is a little better than a good producer which is why I like him. I don't consider him a rapper. Much like when I say I like Kanye West's music, it should be known that I think he is a garbage artist but a great producer. Thats why he made the list.

I think this one is better than the original. I am sorry, but the first one had a great premise, but this one hammered it home.

San Antonio got a flight to go to LA at 3 AM. They were burnt out. Not saying that is a huge excuse because that is a huge part of being in the NBA, but the Lakers had WAY more energy...as shown by the rebounding beatdown they gave the spurs. Don't get it twisted. The Spurs are still the team to beat.

20 minutes a game and hit a jump shot....thats all we need. I don't need Dunky Dunkerson or 37 point a game Amare. 20 minutes, hit the open jumper. If nothing else, when all else fails he can go stand on the block and force a double, giving Nash a much needed rest.

You mean the fiasco that got Ice all those millions? The only talented white rapper to not get shown love is Bubba Sparxx. Atmosphere don't get respect, and they are good white rappers. YAY for Evander. Even though Slug is the only rapper, at the least the man knows it's technically a group. I'm the master of White rappers, others to add to the list : Cage, Sage Francis, Violent J, Monoxide, Copywrite, Yak Ballz, Aesop Rock, Necro, Ill Bill, Prozak, Apathy, Necro, Q Strange and Jamie Madrox. I have only heard Seven's Travels, but since I thought it sucked really really hard, I pretty much assumed that Atmosphere sucked. Honestly, I don't like any of those Minnesota guys from Eyedea to whats his face(not that anyone would know who whats his face is, but that dude that used to constantly do songs with Eyedea all the time and now is a bigger than him...that dude). Cage sucks to me, Necro and Aesop Rock are cool, I haven't heard of Prozak, Apathy, Q Strange or Monoxide. Copywrite...I don't know. I like him, but it sounds like he is rapping one VERY LONG song. They are all pretty much the same. Yes you are better than him, yes that was a clever line, but I need to see some versatility.

Well...he is a singer.