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#701 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 192 weeks ago
So if it's not that Axl requires a culture of silence and secrecy around the band, then who does it come from?
I don't think it's a matter of him requiring it, rather they know and fear him. I have a friend who is kind of cautious around me because I got really mad at him once. I imagine with Axl this feeling is a lot stronger.
But like I say to my friend, it's all completely unnecessary. Unless they talk straight shit about him I doubt he would care if they talked more.
#702 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 192 weeks ago
How nice of the Russian government to help the incompetents in Kazakhstan continue to squeeze their population. Imagine just doubling the energy prices for an already impoverished populace living in a arctic climate. In Turkey the inflation was 50% in December. Population there is dirt poor to start with and living off tourists who are no longer coming. Another bomb waiting to go off.
In the West the only thing keeping the economic charade together is the corona hoax. They're pumping more fiat money into the economy than you can believe. 40% of US gdp in just a few months last year. And they're still doing it.
You don't believe naked tyranny is coming? It'll be the only alternative from keeping complete anarchy from breaking out when the chickens inevitably come home to roost.
#703 Re: Guns N' Roses » Slash: GNR has not written any new music, everything completed is CD 2 » 192 weeks ago
Seems they are copying television. To watch a TV show you have to tune in every week and only after the run is over they release the box set. They will milk this album song by song to support the real cash cow. They won't talk about it because that would kill the excitement.
Clever, weird and sad. But I'll take it. At this rate however we won't see a full album for years to come.
#704 Re: The Garden » Happy New Year 2022 GNRevolution » 192 weeks ago
What happened to Efish?
#705 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 192 weeks ago
70s to 90s. Those guys kept making good movies for a while. Golden Age for directors though, check out this list:
1920s, five names.
Alfred Hitchcok
John Ford
William Wyler
Ozu
Renoir
1930s, two names.
Luis Bunuel
Roberto Rosselini
1940s, seven names.
Akiro Kurosawa
Orson Welles
Ingmar Bergman
Billy Wilder
David Lean
Elia Kazan
John Huston
1950s, four names.
Stanley Kubrick
Federico Fellini
Sidney Lumet
Michaelangelo Antonioni
1960s, twelve names.
Sergio Leone
Tarkovsky
Milos Forman
Jean Luc Godard
Robert Altman
Roman Polanski (molesting bastard)
William Friedkin
Sam Peckinpah
Cassavetes
Sidney Pollack
Mike Nichols
John Frankenheimer
1970s, eighteen names.
Martin Scorsese
Steven Spielberg
Francis Ford Coppola
David Lynch
Clint Eastwood
John Carpenter
Ridley Scott
Brian De Palma
Werner Herzog
George Lucas
Terry Gilliam
Jonathan Demme
Terrence Malick
David Cronenberg
Woody Allen (suspected molesting bastard)
Peter Weir
Paul Verhoeven
Wolfgang Petersen
1980s, eleven names.
Coen Brothers
Robert Zemeckis
James Cameron
Peter Jackson
Tim Burton
Oliver Stone
Michael Mann
Luc Besson
Lars Von Trier
Jim Jarmusch
John McTiernan
1990s, thirteen names.
Quentin Tarantino
David Fincher
PT Anderson
Guillermo Del Toro
Darren Aronofsky
Mel Gibson
Danny Boyle
Sam Mendes
Frank Darabont
Cameron Crowe
M Night Shyamalan
Jean Pierre Jeunet
Alexander Payne
2000s, four names.
Christopher Nolan
Dennis Villenneuve
Wes Anderson
Inarritu
2010s, I think there were a few names but none worth mentioning.
#706 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 193 weeks ago
Been watching lots of crap. So called classic movies.
Maltese Falcon. Saw this years ago and thought it was pretty good for a stone age movie. Now I realize it is actually crap. Some good performances from Bogie and the fat man but the plot is ridiculous and the ending just bad. Golden age of Hollywood my ass.
Dial M For Murder. This one's still pretty good.
Frenzy. Good contrast. Nothing really wrong with the movie, plot is good quality Hitchcock. It just looks bad in that 70s style. Realism doesn't work for Hitchcock.
MASH. Does have some moments, a great cast, but Palme d'Or?
Nashville. Another one. Some people call this movie the greatest of all time and quite frankly I find such a notion absurd. It does have one very good scene with "the song" but other than that it is crap.
Fanny & Alexander. Saw it maybe ten years ago and got nothing out of it. Now with more age I have started to appreciate it a little bit. Mostly the talent of the director which is far superior to anything ever made in my country. Cultural primitives. It's still crap though. Bergman should have written books instead.
#707 Re: The Garden » Happy New Year 2022 GNRevolution » 193 weeks ago
Happy New year! It still feels like 2020.
Well said. When I think about things that happened in 2020 and 2021 I sometimes get confused because the years feel uniquely similar.
#708 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 193 weeks ago
The madness ends when people say NO. It will not end before that happens. Unfortunately we are about to enter the flu season, and given the mildness of last season that could mean a spike this year and then they will have all the justification they need to keep it going another year. And another and another. In any case they will not stop until the people forces them to stop.
They need vaccine passports for their economic shift. That's the end goal of everything. That's what all the people tired of lockdowns are being primed for. If they can get a critical mass of people on that it will be the end of freedom. You can not work, shop, trade or even have access to money without your government passport. Don't take your shot or otherwise being a naughty boy and your pass goes red. Your residential license will be revoked, transportation will be denied, marriage, school, health care, the dentist. Anything they want.
#709 Re: The Sunset Strip » Most Recent Movie You've Seen » 193 weeks ago
I compiled a list of actors appearing in top ten box office movies for the year since 1930. Costner's run in the late 80s and early 90s was high on the list. Definitely in the top 3 for hottest run of all time. Dude was on fire appearing in one or more top movies every year. Then after Waterworld he just vanished, never to appear in a top movie as a leading man ever again.
In a sense Dances With Wolves is what set him up for the kill. He had the benefit of working with a great script at the right time and it made him think he was also a great director. Waterworld and the Postman sunk him. Huge budgets squandered on risky ideas. He was done in the business, working at that level, after that. Then he got old and there was no coming back.
A shame really. He was perhaps the last great, classical style movie star. Today the only movie star is Dwayne Johnson. Imagine him leading a JFK or A Perfect World.
#710 Re: The Garden » Current Events Thread » 193 weeks ago
None of that matters. All that matters is HAVE YOU GOT YOUR BOOSTER YET?
Brain waves have shut down in the vast majority of the population. They are only able to do routine tasks and follow simple orders.