You are not logged in. Please register or login.
- Topics: Active | Unanswered
#141 Re: The Garden » NFL 2023/24 season » 82 weeks ago
Not much football discussion this season.
On Monday I watched the first Bears game in about 4-6 weeks. They won...but that was an ugly game. I didn't realize the Bears get the #1 and #4 picks in the draft. They better not waste those.
Like all seasons in the parity era, it's topsy turvy in comparison to the previous season. Some teams that were good now suck...and vice versa.
There's a Barry Sanders documentary on Amazon that looks really good. Gonna have to watch it soon. Always felt sorry for him. One of the greatest players in history yet had to waste his career in Detroit.
#142 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 82 weeks ago
Tubi and Amazon have a bunch of movies leaving at the end of the month so figured I'd watch a few.
That Thing You Do - They do a great job on the 60s setting. About a one hit wonder with Hanks as their manager...and you start getting sick of that song.
Capricorn One - I iked it but it does have faults. It feels like a TV movie. They don't do a good job piecing the conspiracy together. Gould should've been digging for the truth from the get go. Instead we get a handful of scenes for him to put it all together. Also not enough scenes of them on the Mars stage or in the ship. The climax is lackluster.
When all those Mars movies were coming out in the 2000s, one of them should've been a remake of this.
It's weird seeing Sam Waterston in anything but Law and Order.
The Little Things - This is even worse on a rewatch. There's a good story here but the incompetent detective almost kills it.
James wrote:12 Angry Men (1997) - Great film. An all star cast .. including Gandolfini right before The Sopranos. Great chemistry. Should've swept the Golden Globes and other awards shows. This might be the best made for TV movie ever.
While it's a drama...it's really a comedy drama. I laughed every few minutes at their bitching/yelling.
Love how the story plays out...it's all about the jury...the criminal and anything else irrelevant.
I need to watch the original from the 1950s.
I’ve yet to see the 1997 remake, but the 1950’s version had me gripped all the way through. An absolute classic.
Maybe I should watch this tonight.
#143 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 82 weeks ago
Wouldn't say garbage, but it gets old pretty fast. Monsters is best of the bunch, still can't stop listening to it
This is the problem with the drip feed strategy...and dripping it on a starved hardcore base.
Casuals and non-fans don't give the tiniest of shits while hardcores listen to it on a loop for a week or two until they get sick of it.
Now we're waiting for the next song that may never come before these songs have been officially released.
polluxlm wrote:Incredible how many different opinions there are about GN'R songs!
I more or less like the post CD stuff a lot more than CD (demos excluded). As a fan I guess it is harder to judge. Most casual fans would probably say the songs are poor, compared to Jungle, NR etc.
I think the material is just all out of context and in the wrong time.
Yep...all the material is clearly meant for the 2000-3 timeframe. It would be like the Beatles releasing songs from Sgt. Peppers in 1989...or Pink Floyd releasing Animals in 2002.
The lack of context for a potential casual audience is wacky in itself. These practically random songs just drop without knowing or caring about their history. It's unprecedented. No mention of an album or movie/video game soundtrack. There's no sign that the band cares about any of these songs. They're just there... waiting for you to listen...or not.
For me The General is the best song we've heard of the CD material. It's mature and brave, but 20 years too late and not really a GNR song.
While I don't think it's the best, I agree in spirit. The album needed more of this and less Steph/Slash.
I also agree with Jimmy. None of this stuff is really mind blowing and it's now much easier to see why CD II never materialized. Other than incompetent management incapable of getting it released in the 2010s, there's no cohesive album. The leftovers are just a random hodgepodge of songs in varying states of completion. Whether they're good or bad doesn't change this fact.
#144 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 82 weeks ago
I don’t know why people would be expecting changes to the version we’ve already heard. They played it live twice. Cats out of the bag we know what it sounds like.
People were expecting a HQ version of the song...like all other bands release.
We passed off the shit quality due to the leaker fucking with it. Now we know that's not the case.
They must have, what else would they be playing when it's not been released anywhere yet?
It was getting a CD exclusive release in Japan. Not surprising radio stations got an early copy.
#145 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 82 weeks ago
Tammy Sytch sentenced to 17 years in prison for that DWI crash.
She has a sad story... although much of it brought on by herself.
#146 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 82 weeks ago
The Leak sounds better than the rip of the radio.. hope the rip is bad quality.. it sounds too low
I noticed this too while blaring it on my home stereo. The leak is much louder.
#147 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 82 weeks ago
dave-gnfnr wrote:The funny thing is the part that needed to be fixed was the horrible mix of the chorus and they didnt touch that part, they just moved up the strings and duffs bass in the mix.
If this is Caram, he is such a hack.Dude, it’s Axl. He likes this stuff
Does he have hearing loss so all these mixes sound acceptable to him?
Or was it more about preferring a yes man over someone who knows what they are doing?
Even when a song is good...it has to suffer.
#148 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 82 weeks ago
The funny thing is the part that needed to be fixed was the horrible mix of the chorus and they didnt touch that part, they just moved up the strings and duffs bass in the mix.
If this is Caram, he is such a hack.
Yep. Listening to it for the second time now. It's exactly the same..not as loud as the leak and as you pointed out, the bass sounds a tad higher in the mix.
I'd like to hear an early version of this song. The vocals are probably exactly the same though.
#149 Re: Guns N' Roses » The General and Monsters » 82 weeks ago
The General was played on radio in Japan sounds much the same as the leak, maybe strings are a bit higher but haven't had chance to listen with earphones yet so hard to tell. Not the best rip tbf
Sounds the same? This is insane although honestly not surprising. The production/mixing on all these 'new' songs is mediocre at best.
I wasn't expecting a different version obviously but was hoping the leak was intentionally degraded like they usually are and the released version would be much higher quality.
#150 Re: The Sunset Strip » Best films of the 1970s » 82 weeks ago
On the other hand - they start to depict a world that doesn't exist anymore
I say it every time I watch an old movie.. especially if there's someone watching with me...
This isn't even the same world anymore!
It kinda creeps me out sometimes....it's like the world stepped into an alternate timeline/universe and we just get old documents/archives of what the world is really supposed to be.
I first started noticing it 10-15 years ago. I can watch a movie filmed in Frisco like Foul Play, Dirty Harry, or Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and the Frisco of the 20th century does not feel like the Frisco of today.
Also for cultural significance almost went with All the President's Men but the fact that they don't mention at the end that Nixon re-signed /impeached etc. bugs me a lot.
It's almost a perfect film...until it's time to wrap it up. They condense a bunch of stuff into the final two minutes... ridiculous. Like you point out, they left crucial things out.
Marathon Man
Such an amazing film. It's probably Hoffman's best.
I really wish they could find all the lost footage and release a directors cut. Roy Scheider's character has a more prominent role, his assassination more graphic, and of course the uncut version of the torture scene.
I hate how filmmakers/studios back then didn't realize how valuable extra/cut footage would be further down the line.
This even impacted the Friday the 13th series. Part 7 was initially really graphic...they cut a bunch for the censors, and now we'll never get to see the original vision. A few shit quality scenes survive from a degraded work print but it's not good enough to include in the film.
Also almost put Black Christmas on there because it works as both a slasher and sort of a psycho character examintion.
THE perfect slasher...only slasher truly deserving of being on a greatest films ever made list. Should've made it to the Oscars...
Best Picture nom...knock out Lenny or Towering Inferno.
Best Director nom...knock out Fosse or maybe Cassavetes.
Best Supporting actress nom...knock out Talia Shire. Margot Kidder as the drunk sorority girl blows her away.
Deserved not just a nom but the Oscar for best cinematography.
Unfortunately horror...more specifically slashers...have never been respected by the industry.
Everyone including slasher fanatics like to credit Halloween with starting the slasher craze and that it's the creme de la creme of slashers. Bullshit...it's Black Christmas. Halloween is just Carpenter taking Clark's idea for a sequel he had no plans of doing (Halloween setting) and actually showing the killer.
Obligatory they don't make movies like that anymore and never will.
Yeah...it's sad when you realize all the best films that will ever be made reside in the past.
We all took it for granted back in the day. If I could go back, I would've went to the theaters and drive ins a hell of a lot more than I did. I went quite a bit... especially during certain years...but not enough.
