1

A friend of mine sent me this link to the movie Harry Brown being available online for free. Worth a few tries....

http://tinyurl.com/22nf5x9

 

 

 

2 Why is he the greatest actor ever??? BLAME. IT. ON. RIO. Michelle Johnson's breasts were fabulous. I'll be in my bunk.

3 In the film industry, not being a foaming Communist pretty much makes you a conservative by default.  So yeah, I'll go with it.

Can't wait for Harry Brown.

4
Worst movie I ever saw in the theater -- don't see Robin Hood. I could not wait for it to be over, and I had that feeling within 50 minutes.


Hollywood: out of ideas. All they can churn out are re-makes.  Re-makes of Robin Hood and Peter Pan are the lefty-Hollywood favorite.

Tax people and never grow up - what could be better?

5 All American war films are about privates. From Here To Eternity, The Naked And The Dead—it’s all about privates. Every British war film was about officers.

Guilty of using the "all" generalization a little there. My favorite British actor has always been Sean Connery. (Yes, a lefty he is).

6

See Iron Man 2 (more of the same, almost as good; not great, but neither was the first one, actually) and, yes, MacGruber, which is very funny and well done, but is not for everyone -- it earns every inch of its R rating with filthy jokes and scatological humor.

I likes me some scatological humor.

7 "The Man Who Would Be King" and "Zulu" are two of the best films ever made.

8 All American war films are about privates.

Or at least, the porn remakes are.

9

All American war films are about privates.

Or at least, the porn remakes are.

Here we go again, didn't you guys get enough of that last night? Though to be honest, I was wondering how long it would take someone to go there.

10

I likes me some scatological humor.

You think that's funny, check this out.

11 Think he could do that Mr Desiny bit again?

Obama makes that free throw, goes onto a basketball scholarship at UCLA and never enters politics

12 I like scatological humor so much, I sing about it.

13 Americans have a similar tradition.

Almost no detective show ever has a lower-class murderer or victim.  Law & Order is a good example, but so is Columbo.  Lots of dramas and sitcoms have wealthy and upper-middle-class people. 

14 The thing about Michael Caine is that you never know if he's playing the good guy or the bad guy - or both - until the end of the movie.

15 Oh, love the posting-flood on a Saturday, Ace.

16

Top o' da afternoon to ya' ace ! Begorrah, doon't see my movie ace ?Why the fook not ?

17

Nice.

Saturday Bloggage of the Intelligent Military Variety.

Let me be the first to say Fuck the Flyers.

Go Blackhawks!!!!!

18

oh, yeah. 

Michael Caine.  He's no Dennehey, but he's good.

19 One of the funniest (not really in the 'haha' way) things is how the Left claims Robin Hood to be one of their own since he "takes from the rich and gives to the poor."
Well, the thing is that King John was bleeding his subjects dry with steep taxes that funded his extravagances, so the money that Robin Hood took from King John was really the subject's rightful money in the first place--they were the ones who earned it with their hard work, and King John unjustly took the fruits of their labor way from them so he could live, well, like a king, off of them. Robin Hood wasn't "redistributing the wealth," that's what King John was doing by redistributing practically all of the subject's earnings to himself. Robin Hood was just giving the people back what they rightfully earned and owned (and not in a "social justice" way, they really did deserve that money since they actually worked hard to get it). So, essentially, lefties are much more like King John than Robin Hood because they love to tax hard-working people up the wazoo so they can keep their cushy lifestyles with little-to-no work on their part (Michelle Obama, anybody? And her husband for the matter. Hell, pretty much all lefties, with the many living on fat government paychecks, are like this).

Ah, the irony. Well, they wouldn't be lefties if they weren't clueless.

20 Saw Harry Brown a few weeks ago. Great movie. Caine revealed some good stuff in an interview about the movie. (background. The movie is set in an estate or housing project. There's a gang of youths who more-or-less have their way). While the movie was being filmed (on location at an estate) , Caine was talking with the local gang. They said, "Where the hell are you from". Caine said, "About 200 yards that way". He had grown up in the next estate over and was in that estate's gang. After that, he was like a God to the local gang and they caused no trouble with the movie production.

21 Michael Caine, Conservative (Sorta Not at All)

FTFY.

I don't see how voting for a party just because they've been in opposition for a while is remotely "conservative".

22 Michael Caine in "A Shock To the System" was one of my favorite sleeper roles. Screenplay was by noted conservative screenwriter Andrew Klavan. Well written but I thought it wasn't well-directed. Caine really pulls the weight here and that's what he does in almost every film he's in. The exception is Jaws 3, where even he admitted he did it for the money.

23

Battle of Britain on TCM. Our lads did a number on Jerry, eh what?

_{Before Labour ruined the country}.

24 "The Italian Job" was a bit lame, but worth the rental fee just to watch the car chase. My wife disagreed.

25 3 In the film industry, not being a foaming Communist pretty much makes you a conservative by default. So yeah, I'll go with it. Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at May 29, 2010 05:00 PM (AFMat) While we're on the subjects, Robert Downey Jr, post clean-up, has been hinting very strongly that he doesn't pull the donkey lever, at least not straight across the board.

26 I shall be forever ashamed of him. Miguel Cainito turned his back on his Armada heritage. I spit on his shoes.

27 Guilty of using the "all" generalization a little there. My favorite British actor has always been Sean Connery.

Posted by: Vic at May 29, 2010 05:03 PM (6taRI)

No, Maurice Micklewhite / Michael Caine was talking about 1940s & 50s films

28 While we're on the subjects, Robert Downey Jr, post clean-up, has been hinting very strongly that he doesn't pull the donkey lever, at least not straight across the board.

Posted by: BuddyPC at May 29, 2010 05:51 PM (nSkOL)

Yeah, he's a republican. He said that after his experience in jail he couldn't be a liberal anymore. It's caused some of his fans to hate him.

29 Britain really does have that tradition of only writing books and making movies about the upper class (or at least "respectable" middle class). That's why Robin Hood -- as obvious and iconic a member of the yeomanry, or proto-middle class, as there ever was in all of history (or historic fiction)-- was of course transformed into Lord of Loxley in plays, and then movies, a very dumb conceit that continues to the present day. Good point. I guess it's no coincidence that the definitive version of the Robin Hood legend was put together by American novelist Howard Pyle. In that version, Robin was originally Robert Fitzooth, son of Hugh Fitzooth. He does eventually become the Earl of Locksley, but not until the end of the book, as a reward for his deeds and compensation for his life on the run. For some reason the movies front-load that to make him some sort of nobility from the get-go.

30 Aaand of course my formatting doesn't take in that last post. Sorry, I was trying to quote Ace.

31 Sorry, I was trying to quote Ace. Quoting ace isn't for the faint of heart.

32 "Britain really does have that tradition of only writing books and making movies about the upper class (or at least "respectable" middle class)."

America does that too.  I remember feeling like all the "typical" families depicted lived in luxury compared the squalor I grew up in.

33 "dennis hopper: actor, icon, unexepected conservative" should read: "dennis hopper: actor, icon, fine person" the rest follows.

34 ... and i assure you, the last matters most.

35 I really like that last bit-- Britain really does have that tradition of only writing books and making movies about the upper class (or at least "respectable" middle class).

Depends. I think the upper class/lower class gap is much easier to write about over there, especially when you stereotype the lady/lord & butler relationship. But there are some British books about lower class people, such as books by Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell's North & South, & Jane Austen's Sense & Sensibility. The last two especially establish lower middle to lower-class people as being hard-working & likable, while Dickens often referenced the mistreatment of the poor. Even Lord of the Rings is a celebration of the average man (the hobbits).

36 robin hood... i preferred the character Sheriff of nottingham,  i'm so conflicted.

37 i love tolkein, (rings series) movie was abysmal, books were wonderous. my children adored them

38 Second Hand Lions.

Great movie. Caine+Duvall. What a combo.

39

Grace @ #21.

Brilliant point. That would make a great anti-thesis (not antithesis) for some senior dissertation at Berkeley. Well done.

 

40 Robin Hood? The Adventures of Robin Hood or the animated Disney version are the best, IMO. You'll also see a bit of FDR-era propaganda in the former. But it's a great movie, with many wonderful performances. 

41 You'll also see a bit of FDR-era propaganda in the former.

Oh, now that's just silly.  What gave you an idea like that?

42 Robin Hood? The Adventures of Robin Hood or the animated Disney version are the best, IMO. You'll also see a bit of FDR-era propaganda in the former. But it's a great movie, with many wonderful performances. Pfft. Over played and over rated.

43 Michael Cane, fag.

Surely, a revision of your taste is needed, eh, ace?

Among the most entertaining reasons to read this shit blog, is to witness the incremental narrowing of ace's Little List of Acceptable Culture. The ideological filter applied by ace is a cultural cuisinart--if you say something bad about knuckleheads, like George Lucas's admonitions about the idiocies of George Bush, you're rubbed out. That's really sad, considering that Mr. Lucas contributed so much to lil' ace's socialization. When you're a knucklehead, you have to ready yourself for the constant unpleasant duty of hero-erasure.

In the end, all that's left of art is MacGrubert or other puerile yuk-yuks. Actually, I was going to say that porn is finally the only art imaginable revolving towards the black-hole of the knucklehead worldview (Darth Vader in ineluctably evil, and I'm not Darth Vader!). But shit like "First Time with Mother" would be unbearably cathartic for ace.

44 MacGruber did have some funny lines.
"Just tell me what you want me to fuck."

45 Also, some more modern British TV shows spoof the upper class. What about Up Stairs, Down Stairs? Two's Company? Jeeves & Wooster? I would also argue that the companions of the 10th Doctor are a celebration of the middle & lower classes. Billie Piper & Catherine Tate demonstrated that you can be anybody & still be respectable, if you are a good person who fights for justice & the good of mankind, etc.

46 Second Hand Lions.

Great movie. Caine+Duvall. What a combo.

Yes, that is one of my favorite movies. But you really have to be ready for some hard core schmaltz.

I really like that last bit-- Britain really does have that tradition of only writing books and making movies about the upper class (or at least "respectable" middle class).

I never realized how totally class conscience the Brits were until I started reading Mercedes Lackey's books. Particularly those in the Elemental Masters series. 

47 In all fairness, it's hard to make a sitcom or dramedy work when the main characters are all living in terror from gang violence or giving HJs behind Burger King to feed the kids.

48 Posted by: Possibly, you're the stupidest asshole on the internets at May 29, 2010 06:17 PM (6UdAc)

George, shut your fucking face and kindly start handing Star Wars and Indiana Jones over to people who might know what to do with them.

49 10 All American war films are about privates.

Reminds me of one of my favorite "Who's Line is it Anyway?" quip:

Game:  "Pick up lines of a Drill Sargent"

Sargent:  Everyone line up!   I just want to stand here and look at my privates.

50 i gotsta tell youse guys, scrolling up from the bottom of the post is pure comedic gold. laughing out loud. really good stuff. some really brillianto people out there

51 But I get the sense that Sir Michael doesn't watch as many modern British period dramas as he could. So many 19th Century novels deal with the gap between the classes & how people had to work to overcome those stereotypes. Gaskell's North & South, for example, is about a meeting/union of two cultures, the more prosperous middle class lifestyles in the South [of Britain] with the manufacturers & industrialists of the North. The BBC handled it admirably.

52 Caine just last month, on The Charlie Rose Show, said that if he were an American, he would be a conservative-ish Democrat.

53 & let's not forget "The Fourth Protocol" with pierce brosnan, one of the only 80's movies that told it like it was and didnn't make reagan/hatcher the bad guys. and one of the only straight old-fashioned political thrillers of the past 50 years or so.

54 Worst movie I ever saw in the theater -- don't see Robin Hood. I could not wait for it to be over, and I had that feeling within 50 minutes.

I dunno if it can be any worse than seeing Resident Evil: Extinction in the theaters.

55

For some reason the movies front-load that to make him some sort of nobility from the get-go.

Could this be subconscious result of the need to place him in the crusades?  Fighting in them required a lot of money and was undertaken by the nobility.  Even the History Channel's thing they did on Robin Hood for the movie points out that fighting in the Crusades was very much a rich man's game.  For him to be in them he'd have to be a noble and perhaps that front-loading originates from someone in the past recognizing this fact.

56 56 Caine just last month, on The Charlie Rose Show, said that if he were an American, he would be a conservative-ish Democrat.

Obviously Caine hasn't gotten the memo.

57

60 56 Caine just last month, on The Charlie Rose Show, said that if he were an American, he would be a conservative-ish Democrat.

Obviously Caine hasn't gotten the memo.

Nah,  I'm willing to believe there are conservative-ish Democrats.  Now conservative-ish Democrat politicians is a complete load of shit.

58 My only complaint about Iron Man 2 was not enough Mickey Rourke. And they changed Rhodey, i hate when another actor plays a character you're familiar with like that. Cheadle was fine, but still, keep the original, geez.

59 buzzion: no, me thinks it's because of the ameriçan idea of individual self worth underpins most of the movies of the 30's. and operates today. s'wonderful. and let's not forget "the man who would be king" (with sean 'i'll bugger ya' connery). one of the only movie's of the 70's that wasn't a realism psychological character film. and one of the only pure adventure films of the past 50 years. ...and a fine

60 I dunno if it can be any worse than seeing Resident Evil: Extinction in the theaters.

The hell it can't.

61 ... and a fine, wonderful, wonderful bunch o'guys they were... did i tells ya you're really funny? that i love ya? that i'm a bit kippered?

62 I think I watch too much British TV.

63 66 I think I watch too much British TV.

I'm bookmarking this post.

64 66 I think I watch too much British TV.

Admitting you have a problem is the first step towards recovery, .

65 that i'm a bit kippered?

Lucky bastard.  I'm plain old drunk.

66 And they changed Rhodey, i hate when another actor plays a character you're familiar with like that.

Which i'm sure stems from the trauma i experienced watching reruns of Bewitched when i was a kid and having to put up with seeing a different Darin every damn day.

67 and now! at last! see "Gunfight at the OK Corral", the best of the wyatt earp movies. bar none.

68
Ridley's Scott's "Robin Hood" and "Kingdom of Heaven" are two of the worst movies in the past several years. They've forced me to reassess my view of Scott, not favorably.

In legend, of course, Robin was a Saxon earl (Earl of Locksley), which I guess could be considered nobility. But Saxon earls were far less exalted, far less elevated, because Saxon society and culture was less aristocratic-minded than the continental variants. Hell, before 1066, the King of England was elected by the earls (which is one reason why William's claim to throne after Edward the Confessor died is bogus). A Saxon yeoman or freeman did not bow down to an earl. Saxon society was still influenced by ancient Germanic-Indo-European tribal traditions of group rule, where every warrior/freeman was equal and had a "say" in tribal deliberations, including the election of their chieftains. It really was an attractive society. Then the Normans came and ruined it with their highfalutin' notions. And to think they had once been Vikings ... who became French-ified. Sad. Very sad.

69 Michael Caine could play Dr. Who, and in doing so make it watchable.

70 see "Gunfight at the OK Corral", the best of the wyatt earp movies. bar none.

Shit that's right, he IS in that. (Along with Dr. McCoy.)  Great movie.

71

no, me thinks it's because of the ameriçan idea of individual self worth underpins most of the movies of the 30's. and operates today. s'wonderful.

I would be interested in knowing when the nobility and crusading first came into the story though.

72
Fredo and his keeper just pulled away from the dock?

73 Caine's best movie line: "Der Lamborghini, den?"

74 67 66 I'm bookmarking this post.

...or is there such a thing as watching too much British TV?

75 ...or is there such a thing as watching too much British TV?

Ohhhh no, UH-UH, it's too late now...

76

Posted by: Steve (aka Ed Snate) at May 29, 2010 06:50 PM (28MmA)

If you're interested here's a crusade historian's review of Kingdom of Heaven

77
Thanks, buzzion. I mistankenly posted comments about "Robin Hood" in the Dennis Hopper thread. I get confused so easily.

78 Time To Go Off On Obama

79 79 Ohhhh no, UH-UH, it's too late now...

...& it was all going so well, too. I thought about it, for 2min. But I couldn't commit. Oh, dear.

80 77 Caine's best movie line: "Der Lamborghini, den?" Posted by: Crusty at May 29, 2010 06:53 PM (qzgbP) You clearly haven't seen Harry Brown. His best line is "You failed to maintain your weapon"

81
"mistakenly"

Cripes, I'm done.

82 michael caine is awesome.

didnt think robin hood was that bad, though the whole middle of the movie was one gaping plot hole.  as for him being "kinda-nobility"....  ennhhk.  wrong, trebek.  he was the son of a blacksmith who was a revolutionary in the movie.  his dad was something of a proto-thomas paine, which is kinda pseudo-historically cool because it sets up the whole back story to king john signing the magna carta.

83

@64: "I dunno if it can be any worse than seeing Resident Evil: Extinction in the theaters.
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The hell it can't."

--------------------

Pshaw! Pshaw, I say!

84 wondering when nobility and crusading first came into the story? when we came along, the u.s.a. & the individual first, fruit of the enlightenment, graft of the renaissance, glory of the west & continuing inspiration of mankind. from this perspective, one can see why o'bama is apprealing to the rest of the world. he is america's "see, you're worthy too" gift to a swooning post industrial, me-too, 'i want to be an american' world. he's very reaganesgue, eh wot?

85

Michael Caine...an East Ender, despite his wealth.

Read his remarks about his mom, and his upbringing.

His marriage is a long term one and he is a man's man. That's why I love him.

86 ...and no, obama's appeal is not that he wants to redistribute wealth (outside of the academic euro-left). not even the euro's want that!

87 wanta know how caine met his wife? she was a model and he saw her in an advert. he knew, saw something, knew, she was the one. rang her up. she dissuaded. he persisted. he won her heart. they lived happily ever after. baby, sometimes, ya's know.

88 love triumphant!

89 "Britain really does have that tradition of only writing books and making movies about the upper class (or at least "respectable" middle class)." In light of that, it's ironic that the Cockney Caine's first starring role was as a snooty upper-class British Army officer in Zulu.

90

 "Britain really does have that tradition of only writing books and making movies about the upper class (or at least "respectable" middle class)."


In light of that, it's ironic that the Cockney Caine's first starring role was as a snooty upper-class British Army officer in Zulu.

good film.

i've been watching old war movies on TMC or AMC, i can never tell the difference. anywho, people have always been telling me "The Battle of Britain" is a great film and I have to say i didn't like it at all. The acting was ok, the air battles were god awful, and it ended so abruptly.

 

91

wanta know how caine met his wife?

she was a model and he saw her in an advert. he knew, saw something, knew, she was the one. rang her up. she dissuaded. he persisted. he won her heart. they lived happily ever after. baby, sometimes, ya's know.

that's funny. oddly enough I'm legally prohibited from calling any Victoria's Secrets models any more.

92

that's funny. oddly enough I'm legally prohibited from calling any Victoria's Secrets models any more.

Posted by: Ben at May 29, 2010 07:27 PM (DKV43)

You got that too huh, I hate it when they come to your door and serve you in broad daylight.

93 ben: well, it helps if you had starred in "the ipcress files"

94 "We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party."

If we had more people like that here, the Republican party might not have gone off the rails into Christian Socialism.

95
oddly enough I'm legally prohibited from calling any Victoria's Secrets models any more.

Their lawyers are mean.

96 Sleepy Saturday. I take it everyone's gone to BBQ?

97 Another good Michael Caine war film is Play Dirty. Love the notorious ending.....

98 Sleepy Saturday. I take it everyone's gone to BBQ?

Still here but there is only so much you can say about Michael Caine.

99 Caine's 1966 movie Alfie, which got him his first Oscar nomination, has some interesting "pro-life" moments in it. One of his lady friends becomes pregnant, and he arranges for an abortionist to come to his apartment to perform the procedure (this was before abortion was legal in Britain). When he returns, he goes into the room where the abortion took place. There is a reaction shot as he sees the baby's dead body. We in the audience of course never see the body, but his expression is something to behold. Later on he is talking about the situation to a friend, and he actually utters the words "and I killed my baby".

100

 Sleepy Saturday. I take it everyone's gone to BBQ?

I just came in from doing a ton of yard work.

not much on the HQ, or any website for that matter.  i wish the leak in the gulf would take the weekend off.

101 Sleepy Saturday. I take it everyone's gone to BBQ?

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at May 29, 2010 07:32 PM (Yq+qN)

It would have to be an underwater BBQ here.

102

Another good Michael Caine war film is Play Dirty. Love the notorious ending.....

he was good in The Longest Day, which was altogether one of the better WW2 movies. 

I would have to say I think Tora Tora Tora is probably the best.

103

It spends the first half hour establishing him as a yeoman commoner, and then the next hour fighting itself to back-door him into the nobility.

Groan.

104

" he's my favorite all-time actor."

 

I don't know, kind of a thin resume; a few mediocre flicks in the seventies, and lights out.

Sorta lik, I don't know, Todd Rundgren maybe?

105 102 Still here but there is only so much you can say about Michael Caine.

...& his seeming neglect of period dramas produced by both the BBC & ITV.

106

"Zulu" is one of my top ten favorite movies and it wouldn't have been the same film without Caine.

I just saw "Alfie" a few years ago and I was actually blown away at its strong anti-abortion message; the main character was horrified at the "remains" and made a speech about how he killed that child.  Everyone talks about how the movie was an indictment of the "swinger's lifestyle" but it was really much more than that and was certainly a much better film than I expected.

"Sleuth."  Him and Olivier.  Oh yeah.

And Caine is just sexy, he always has been even with that terrible hair.

 

107

He says he's supporting conservatives just because he supported Labor previously, but Hopper said something like that too, and I'm not sure if this isn't just to cushion the blow to his lefty fans.

I knew a woman in my last neigbourhood who said she voted Liberal because,  "It was time to give the other guys a chance."(I Live in Alberta Canada where most people haven't voted Liberal since the 1920s.)

I said to her,  "How big would you like the provincial sale tax to be?"(Alberta doesn't have a provincial sales tax because, culturally and traditionally, Albertans are against taxes and we're the only Canadian province that doesn't have one)

She said,  "I never thought of that!"

(the Liberal Party of Alberta is on record as saying that Albertan resistence against a sales tax is "juvenile" and that if they formed a government in Alberta, they would institute one) 

108

It spends the first half hour establishing him as a yeoman commoner, and then the next hour fighting itself to back-door him into the nobility.

Groan

this is why the last film I saw in the theater was The Dark Knight. I never go to the movies anymore.

There is a small artsy theater near me that plays cuts classics late night sometimes, so I will catch Donnie Darko at midnight, but i never see new movies anymore. They just aren't very good.

I find that foreign films tend to be better.

109 he was good in The Longest Day,

Caine wasn't in The Longest Day.

110

He says he's supporting conservatives just because he supported Labor previously, but Hopper said something like that too, and I'm not sure if this isn't just to cushion the blow to his lefty fans.

I knew a woman in my last neigbourhood who said she voted Liberal because,  "It was time to give the other guys a chance."(I Live in Alberta Canada where most people haven't voted Liberal since the 1920s.)

I said to her,  "How big would you like the provincial sale tax to be?"(Alberta doesn't have a provincial sales tax because, culturally and traditionally, Albertans are against taxes and we're the only Canadian province that doesn't have one)

She said,  "I never thought of that!"

(the Liberal Party of Alberta is on record as saying that Albertan resistence against a sales tax is "juvenile" and that if they formed a government in Alberta, they would institute one) 

if america splits , alberta can come with us. same with some of the other right leaning canuck provinces.

111 106 he was good in The Longest Day, which was altogether one of the better WW2 movies...

Love that movie! It's no Great Escape or Bridge Over the River Kwai, but it really gives you a sense of what it was like on D-Day. All-star cast as well. Trivia:

Richard Todd (playing Major John Howard, Officer Commanding D Company of The 2nd Battalion The Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, Air Landing Brigade, 6th Airborne Division) was himself in Normandy on D-Day, and participated as Capt. Todd of the 7th Parachute Battalion, 5th Parachute Brigade, British 6th Airborne Division. His battalion actually went into action as reinforcements, via a parachute jump (after the gliders had landed and completed the initial coup de main assault).  

112 But Caine is protected 'cause of his relationship to Sir Barrymore and Co. Because no one fucks with "The S'mores."

113 List of Michael Caine movies

114 Perhaps he was thinking of A Bridge Too Far?

114

he was good in The Longest Day,

Caine wasn't in The Longest Day.

you're right. I was thinking of a film he was in about Burma or India, part of the southeast asian theater of the second world war. i can't think of the name

115
He was great in The Longest Yard.

116 Caine has said he'd move out of Britain if they raise income taxes over 50 percent.  Sounds pretty conservative to me.  Liberals would do the same but they wouldn't admit it.

117

Perhaps he was thinking of A Bridge Too Far?

yeah. that was it. i am forgetful since a  VC grenade went off near my head back when i was invading Wei with Blumenthal

118

Miss80s.

I did not care for the Bridge Over the River Kwai at all.

119

Ben,,

It's kinda like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor....

120

Ben,,

It's kinda like when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor....

or like how internet rumors caused the First World War.

121

invading Wei with Blumenthal

I heard you guys were in Hue too. You were everywhere.

122 "Robin Hood" looked too much like "Gladiator With a Bow."  After the disappointment that was "Kingdom of Heaven," a movie that didn't make a lick of sense, I'm pretty much through with Ridley Scott's forays into historical fiction.

123 I seem to recall having read (probably in an obituary from a conservative source, like NRO) that Charles Bronson went conservative after the vicious attacks launched against him for the original Death Wish in 1974 (when there was no alternative to the MFM but the film was still a smash hit because everyone in the U.S. was pissed at the runaway crime rate of the era. Maybe the same thing's happened with Caine?

124 Well, A Bridge Too Far is about Operation Market-Garden (bridges to Germany), but it's been compared to The Longest Day. It's because everyone & their dog was in that movie.

125

invading Wei with Blumenthal

I heard you guys were in Hue too. You were everywhere.

but we were saved by Greg Kinnear who flew his chopper into heavy action to get us out.

126

I did not care for the Bridge Over the River Kwai at all.

Come on, it had Obi-Wan.

127 O/T: Maher: Obama Not Acting Like A "Real Black" President

Read it and bask in the humming hypocrisy, radiating racism, and sheer stupidity.

128

but we were saved by Greg Kinnear who flew his chopper into heavy action to get us out.

Posted by: Ben at May 29, 2010 07:50 PM (DKV43)

Yeah that's right and Tom Harkin was flying close air support. I remember now.

129

I did not care for the Bridge Over the River Kwai at all.

Come on, it had Obi-Wan.

the end was too over the top for me.

130

So which did everyone like better?  Band of Brothers VS The Pacific.  I gotta go with Band of Brothers.

i stopped watching the pacific after the third episode. I thought it was so bad I would wait a while and go back and watch it.

there was too much to not like.

131 123 Miss80s.

I did not care for the Bridge Over the River Kwai at all.

Lean had a tendency to be long-winded, & there were parts he could have skipped. Sturges' Great Escape is honestly the better film, IMO. But I still enjoy Kwai, mainly due to Sir Alec, Jack Hawkins, & James Donald. William Holden was good, but he wasn't great.

132

"Come on, it had Obi-Wan."

Was Alec Guiness the voice of Obi-Wan?

133 Caine wasn't in The Longest Day.
His first feature role was in Zulu that I've just Googled to see was 1964 contrasted with 1962 for The Longest Day.

134 Read it and bask in the humming hypocrisy, radiating racism, and sheer stupidity.

Good thing he has that liberal free pass card.

135 140 He played Obi-Wan, yes.

136 "Come on, it had Obi-Wan."

Was Alec Guiness the voice of Obi-Wan?

Posted by: Brad

No, Alec Guiness played Hattie McDaniel in Gone With the Wind.

137 i stopped watching the pacific after the third episode.
A militarily-knowledgeable friend said the same thing, but he stuck with it and said it started getting great after the fifth show (IIRC).

138 145 Anyone see Kratos around today?

lol, I'm lurking.  Just don't have anything interesting to say about this.

139 He played Obi-Wan? I thought that was a muppet.

140

Was Alec Guiness the voice of Obi-Wan?

Boy, someone just blew their Geek Cred.

141 I like Sir Alec best in Lawrence of Arabia, because he plays a smarmy irresponsible hypocrite so well.

142

He played Obi-Wan? I thought that was a muppet.

First Rules of Holes, dear...

143

 i stopped watching the pacific after the third episode.
A militarily-knowledgeable friend said the same thing, but he stuck with it and said it started getting great after the fifth show (IIRC).

yeah i will come around and finish it eventually. its just not on the top of my list.

There was so much that pissed me off about it I had to walk away. I am not talking about historical stuff, just production quality, story telling, etc.

 

144

I like Sir Alec best in Lawrence of Arabia, because he plays a smarmy irresponsible hypocrite so well.

He knew he "must be a king" so some leeway should be given.  Loved the makeup, too.

145

Michael Caine is as awesome as Robin Hood was not awesome. They are complete polar opposites in quality.

Thought the movie had been 2 hrs - and we were only 40 mins in. Only good thing: making the French villains.

Harry Palmer FTW . . . but Jaws 4 into the pit with Robin Hood.

146 does anyone know if Tali Ihantala has been made with english sub titles yet? Those Finns make great war films.

147 155 Footloose update for ya Kratos.  The guy that played young John Connor in the Sarah Connor Chronicles is set to play the Kevin Bacon role in the remake!

Damn it! 

148

154

I like Sir Alec best in Lawrence of Arabia, because he plays a smarmy irresponsible hypocrite so well.

Looks like I've got a role in the remake!

149

Ben at May 29, 2010 07:41 PM (DKV43)

"As announced in Budget 2009, the government plans to directly borrow $3.3 billion over three years commencing in 2009-10 to support almost $21 billion capital spending over that period. " (This by the Alberta Progressive Conservative Party that made Alberta the only DEBT FREE jurisdiction in the world.  They even passed a law making it Illegal to have Deficit Budgets, but since we got a new Premier,  "Steady Eddie" Stelmach, who broke that law and brought back deficits.

Alberta Heritage Fund:  $14.4 Billion Surplus in the bank from Oil Royalties. (the surplus would be $80-100 Billion if it wasn't for Government  Sector Union pandering) 

http://tinyurl.com/27djjm6

Why the Alberta Progressive Conservatives are paying debt service costs and making Alberta into a province saddled with debt  when the PCs have  the option to cut costs and shrink government like every other jurisdiction, plus the Heritage Fund, can only be answered by the desire to throw Alberta's economy onto the fast sinking ship that the rest of the world economy is tied to and be traitors to the people of Alberta.

 

150

"Lawrence of Arabia" = super awesome movie...and not just because Peter O'Toole was all kinds of hot.  It's another one of my Top Ten Favorites of all time.

151

"does anyone know if Tali Ihantala has been made with english sub titles yet? Those Finns make great war films."

Yeah, like Leningrad Cowboys and The Year of the Hare....

152 I'm sure this has already been said, but Harry Browne is a good flick, especially if you like revenge movies.  Caine was terrific.

153

I think it's a freakin' SIN to even mention a movie like "Footloose" in a thread like this.

I don't care how bad "Jaws IV" was, that's just disrespectful.

154

I always liked Dirty Rotten Scoundrel's.

 CDR M

My favorite Caine film too, although I love Second hand Lions with  Robeta Duval, it's a HOOT.

155 166 Sorry Kratos, could not resist giving you an update!

Thanks for the update, CDR M.

_/not!

156 163 I agree. (Though his wonderfully blue eyes don't hurt.) It demonstrates what happens when a person doesn't know who they are & attempts to discover their identity through their own exploits. I know that isn't a key theme, but I thought it was quite intriguing. 

157 i know most people here have a similar sense of humor, may i please suggest you watch Daniel Tosh's comedy special at 9pm on comedy central. it is hilarious.

158 170 163 That should be I know it isn't the key theme...

159 9 est?

160

I always liked Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, too. He played well off of Martin and Glenne Headley. Headley has always been seriously underrated. It's not his best work, by far, but a fun light romp of a movie.

 

BTW, where'd all the trolls come from?

161

Actually, I've seen Tosh.O.  He is pretty funny.

the stand up routine was better than the clip show in my mind.

It's like the Jim Gaffegan special. I can watch it over and over.

162 you're right. I was thinking of a film he was in about Burma or India, part of the southeast asian theater of the second world war. i can't think of the name Too Late The Hero is probably the one you're thinking of, with Cliff Robertson.

163

Too Late The Hero is probably the one you're thinking of, with Cliff Robertson.

it was black and white if my memory serves me correctly?

164 176: what trolls?

165

 Second Hand Lions starts out with Caine and Duval as a couple of rich old coots who get their entertainment by sitting on the porch of their reclusive country house waiting for traveling salesmen.  They sit there with loaded shotguns beside them and shoot at the salesmen(copious warning signs all along their private road leading to the house)

Funny and poignant character growth.  The ending has the rich old adventurerers going out with, boots on and fighting finish with a suitably American BANG!

Loved it.

166 in Soundrels, without SteveMartin, that fucking flick woulda sunk like kingbarrys agendas

167 #182- just seemed like there were new trolls on every thread lately that I don't recognize.

168 I always loved Caine.  He was awesome in even awful movies.  I'd watch him in anything.

169 182 176: what trolls?

Posted by: Brad at May 29, 2010 08:28 PM (GkYyh)

Comment 47 I would think.  They also left one on the previous thread.

170 ...Let's Go Hawks!

171 Comment 47 I would think.

That's erg, he leaves the same basic comment every time Ace talks about conservatives in the entertainment industry.

172 179

Actually, I've seen Tosh.O.  He is pretty funny.

the stand up routine was better than the clip show in my mind.

It's like the Jim Gaffegan special. I can watch it over and over.

Posted by: Ben at May 29, 2010 08:23 PM (DKV43)

Tosh.0 has new episodes starting wednesday.  A lot of the jokes and comments he makes on that are based around his standup bits.  Basically shows his sense of humor.

173 This just in. Michael Jackson still dead and top kill fails. But mostly top kill fails.

174 190: with you all the way on the Hawks. Glen Ellyn native here. And you?

175

Oddly enough, from NY!?!?

But I was born a Hawks fan, apparently.  Haven't been this excited since the days of Roenick and Keenan!!!!

176 Second Hand Lions starts out with Caine and Duval as a couple of rich old coots who get their entertainment by sitting on the porch of their reclusive country house waiting for traveling salesmen.  They sit there with loaded shotguns beside them and shoot at the salesmen(copious warning signs all along their private road leading to the house)

Funny and poignant character growth.  The ending has the rich old adventurerers going out with, boots on and fighting finish with a suitably American BANG!

Loved it.

That was a good film. However the Osment kid almost tanked the film with his terrible acting,

177

Oddly enough, from NY!?!?

But I was born a Hawks fan, apparently.  Haven't been this excited since the days of Roenick and Keenan!!!!

i remember when we crushed you in 1992.

178 > 184 ... OTOH, The Pacific basically sucked. ... The Pacific is loosely based on the novel "Helmet for my Pillow," by Robert Leckie (which I read as a kid). It was a good book, but the series hasn't translated well. What with the Japanese being the good guys and all. Posted by: Wodeshed NOVEL? The pacific is based upon Leckie's BIOGRAPHICAL book, "Helmet for my pillow". Sledge's BIOGRAPHICAL book, "With the old breed..." and accounts of Basilone's life. so far as the Japanese being the good guys... What series did you watch? I saw a Okinawan woman forced* to wear dynamite and get blown up to act as a diversion for a Japanese counter-attack in episode 9. *you know it was forced because she was trying to give her baby away before the Japanese detonated her.

179 >>>And they changed Rhodey, i hate when another actor plays a character you're familiar with like that. Cheadle was fine, but still, keep the original, geez. That was annoying, and the other actor better (and a fresher face), but he simply refused to do the sequel, so they had no choice. I don't even think it was a negotiating ploy. I think he just didn't feel like it.

180 I will NOT BE IGNORED!!! Pay attention to me. Michael did.

181 O/T but if there are any techno geeks who can help me out. The boy just chomped down on my laptop's AC adapter cord and now it's not working. There's no obvious break in the cord. Anyone know of a trick to get it working again. Magic maybe?

Thanks!

182 C'mon, Niemi! Do what I couldn't do. Win.

183

i remember when we crushed you in 1992.

Whole year down the drain with one bad call!  I thoiught Keenan was going through that little plexi hole into the scorekeepers booth...funny shit, that.

184 If BP doesn't stop fucking around, I am gonna swim down there myself and take care of business. Shit. This is a big fucking deal.

185 201 O/T but if there are any techno geeks who can help me out. The boy just chomped down on my laptop's AC adapter cord and now it's not working. There's no obvious break in the cord. Anyone know of a trick to get it working again. Magic maybe?

If you take a butter knife, hold it above your head, yell out "By the power of Greyskull!", and then touch the cord with the knife, it should work again.

/Seriously, maybe it's broken but the sheath is still intact.  Try cutting open the sheath around where the chomping down occurred and see if the wires are broken.

186 Hey, bitches.

If any of you are of the praying variety, the word you're looking for is "Jeff".

Thanks.

187 This thread is deader than Erick Erickson's relevancy. 

188 155 Footloose update for ya Kratos.  The guy that played young John Connor in the Sarah Connor Chronicles is set to play the Kevin Bacon role in the remake!

If Summer Glau shows up as the girlfriend, I'm there.

_{But only if she gets naked and lets John "check her internal power cell" like in the last episode.}

189 Snarf-Snarf

190 Geezus, you bastards...don't let us a die a painful and awkward death on this thread. Snap out of it! Put us some pron or sumpin'

191 207 This thread is deader than Erick Erickson's relevancy.

Fuck you.  I'll be soaring back to relevancy with the startling expose on who's funding Barney Frank's back waxes, that I'll be posting sometime later when I feel like it.

192 We need some Cup Bloggage!

193 Seriously, maybe it's broken but the sheath is still intact.  Try cutting open the sheath around where the chomping down occurred and see if the wires are broken.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 29, 2010 09:07 PM (c0A3e)

Uhmm you may want to unplug it first but that is optional

194 #213  Uhmm you may want to unplug it first but that is optional

Thanks for the safety tip, robtr.

/Thought that was obvious, but I'll be more clear in the future.

195 /Thought that was obvious, but I'll be more clear in the future.

Posted by: Kratos (missing from the side of Mt Olympus) at May 29, 2010 09:13 PM (c0A3e)

We're talking morons here Kratos

196 /Seriously, maybe it's broken but the sheath is still intact.  Try cutting open the sheath around where the chomping down occurred and see if the wires are broken.

Kratos, do we really have to bring up the circumcision topic again?

197 My sheath is intact. Feed me. I like seafood.

198 Ok, the butter knife thing worked. Thanks, Kratos.


(actually worked the kinks out of the cord, unplugged it and plugged it back in and it started working)

199 #216  Kratos, do we really have to bring up the circumcision topic again?

Lord, no!

/Forget I said anything.  Go magick!

200 (actually worked the kinks out of the cord, unplugged it and plugged it back in and it started working)

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 29, 2010 09:17 PM (iBTj9)

So the electrons were blocked by a kink, interesting. Keep a fire extinguisher handy.

201
"Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light."

"Total protonic reversal!"

"Right, that's bad. Okay, important safety tip, thanks Egon."

202 #218  (actually worked the kinks out of the cord, unplugged it and plugged it back in and it started working)

Good. 

203 Sorry Ace, but Caine has repeatedly put me to sleep in the theater.

The Ipcress file was the first of his films I saw, and it I was fine.

He became somnolent to me when he returned as Harry Palmer in Funeral in Berlin. I not only slept through 2/3 of it, I went back to the theater to give it a second try, and I slept through all but 10 minutes of it.

After that I kept trying, and finally gave up some time in the 90s. I see him now on DVD in short sittings. He's a fine actor in many of his stints, but there must be something about this guy's voice.

I'd be surprised if I'm the only one this happens to, but I may be the only one who admits it.

In the meantime:  Insomniacs -- eat your heart out!

204 "We should vote for the welfare of the country, not for the welfare of the party."

What an interesting concept.  Too bad it will never catch on.

205 You know, I have a 5 month old puppy in the house and I always correct her for chewing on the cord. Never occurred to me to tell the 5 year old not to.

Sigh.

206 Seriously mpur in texas, unless it just wasn't plugged in right it would seem you have a broken wire and when you jiggled it around the two ends are touching again. I would check it out.

207 We need some Cup Bloggage!

Posted by: Lord Stanley at May 29, 2010 09:10 PM (tG1Je)

Damn skippy we do.

208

Sharp-ie!!!!!

209 You wing-nuts need to lay off poor ol' Bambi.  Presidentin' is hard.  And it's been hard since 1/20/09.

210 Seriously mpur in texas, unless it just wasn't plugged in right it would seem you have a broken wire and when you jiggled it around the two ends are touching again. I would check it out.

I know. I'll go buy a new one when I get a chance. I'm just glad the boy didn't eletrocute himself.

211 Hey, FUBAR. Got any reading done lately? 

212 Posted by: Michelle Johnson's breasts (when she was 1 at May 29, 2010 08:57 PM (GnoLL)

She was 17, and they were spectacular.

213

That was annoying, and the other actor better (and a fresher face), but he simply refused to do the sequel, so they had no choice.

I don't even think it was a negotiating ploy. I think he just didn't feel like it.

Um I thought that it was Marvels decision.  Because based on his contract the actor that played Rhodey stood to be the highest paid one in the sequel.

225 You know, I have a 5 month old puppy in the house and I always correct her for chewing on the cord. Never occurred to me to tell the 5 year old not to.

Sigh.

Posted by: mpur in Texas (kicking Mexico's ass since 1836) at May 29, 2010 09:22 PM (iBTj9)

Cured my Beagle of chewing on cords with a paintbruch and tobasco sauce.

214 Does anyone know what in hell that is a picture of on the Drudgereport?

215 Good movie: "Prince of Persia". Okay, not good, but fun. Better than the first Scorpion King movie.

216 216 Kratos, do we really have to bring up the circumcision topic again?

Seriously, Kratos. This is the ONT. Show some decorum.

(Everyone knows this is the buttsex thread)

217 Oh yeah, it's not the ONT. my mistake.

218 Hate to break Ace's heart, but Caine supported Obama. Recently, I looked it up.

219 I blame Bush for Robin Hood sucking so bad.
Maybe Obama can save us all. There's hope that he can change this movie into a real block buster!
*sigh
He's so dreamy!

220 Actors are crazy people. This one murdered an Iraq veteran and his girlfriend.