Yeah, me too. I seem to be more of an "Iron Monkey" kind of guy myself.

*Downloads MP3* Thanks for the tip. The only Sinatra version of the song I know is on the Sinatra/Jobim album he did with Antonio Carlos Jobim, which I quite like.

Bays' "13 Hours". As good, in most respects, as "Black Hawk Down" in my opinion.

Ah Madonna. Vastly overrated IMO, except as a kind of social phenomenon I guess. Still "Crazy for You" has always been one of my favorites. It's almost like she's a real singer.

Never, except maybe in the broadest philosophical sense. It's either Marine or soldier and it's no use saying it's "the future", because military traditions are forever. Marines will always be Marines, never soldiers.
Also, she's way too young to be a Gunnery Sergeant.

Good article, made me think of a favorite poem for some reason.

Prosky’s crime boss Leo is an easy top five most vicious movie bad guys ever. That scene where Frank's on his back and all you see is Leo's upside down face coldly telling Frank how many different ways Leo owns him and his family.
At my age, movie villains aren't even remotely scary, too unbelievable mostly; but that…

"…I'm gonna stab you through the heart with a fuckin' pencil.”

I dunno. This is just like the vast majority of videos featuring kids doing something cute on the internet. They’re being cute, not because they would normally be cute in the situation, but because daddy's pointing a camera at them and the kid wants to please daddy so they do whatever it was that got daddy to point…

Huh. I liked "Olympus Has Fallen", in a kind of simple-action-movie way.
Oh and, is there really such a thing as an "ancient Egyptian accent"? Why English-speaking actors playing foreigners in English-speaking movies should have a "foreign accent" has never made any sense to me.

They want my name and email address?
I dunno, I keep seeing this tall, thin, guy in a basement computer room somewhere wearing a black suit and holding his cigarette between his thumb and forefinger, its smoke curling lazily up while he looks over my survey through his monocle.
"So many disapprovals! Ze Fuhrer… er…

This is a really stupid idea but then there are apparently people who buy jeans that are "pre-ripped" all the time. I don't get that one either. Is it sheer impatience at not wanting to wait until the jeans wear out by themselves or is it just the idle rich wanting to brag to their friends that they actually do…

WRX. Cool.

Uh, I'd say "13 Hours" is Bays' best movie. I thought it was every bit as involving, exciting and exhausting as "Black Hawk Down" if not quite as harrowing.

See below "…created by and sustained by localized physics distortions, possibly a leakage from an adjacent universe…"

Not to mention skin made out of Kevlar to deflect the 50 caliber machine gun bullets that, in reality, would blow big chunks out of the opposite side of whatever part of him they hit. And let's not forget hydrostatic shock.
Monster movies are so dumb. I look forward to seeing this one.

Remember the scene, Clive Owens' character is talking to some guy who's bragging about all the famous art he's rescued from around the world? Owens says something like "why did you bother, in a hundred years there won't be anyone left alive to see it."
No children equals no future, ho hope, no ambition, no striving, no…

"I'm the enemy. Cause I like to think, I like to read. I'm into freedom
of speech and freedom of choice. I'm the kind if guy who wants to sit in
a greasy spoon and think, "Gee, should I have the T-bone steak or the
jumbo rack of barbecued ribs with the side order of gravy fries?" I want
high cholesterol. I want to eat…

Not to mention she hugged him as she handed him the statue. Maybe Larson didn't like the idea but this "story" seems like the worst kind of wishful thinking.

I dunno. In my case no talent was involved, it was mostly just a matter of getting older. You may find you hit your fifties, right around there, you end up knowing and accepting so much about yourself you just get really confident and comfortable. You stop judging yourself and so you stop judging others and their…