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Iron Spike
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Another trailer for another film I'd love to see: Maxed Out, about America's debt culture, the credit card business, and the pitfalls therein.
Speaking on a personal level, all I know about credit cards is that the number of offers I get for Visas and Mastercards in the mail every week is just ridiculous. I spend too much time shredding them, even though it's clear my paranoia won't stop these people from actually issuing the freaking card. All I currently have in my name is a plain green American Express (charge card, not credit card: the entire balance must be paid at the end of the month, every month) and a Mastercard-emblazoned debit card. Any place that won't take my AMEX will take my debit card, so as far as I'm concerned, I'm all set... and I never spend money I don't have.
Of course, it helps a lot that I didn't need a loan to print Templar, or buy/maintain/feed/house a car. But keeping out of debt as long as humanly possible (Until it's home-buying time) has always been a goal. And even AMEX is getting peeved at me, now; the bill never comes without a note telling me how many more VALUABLE POINTS I could be earning, if only I would switch over to their American Express Blue program. (Their credit card, as opposed to their charge card.)
Christ, what vultures. |
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DirkTiede
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michaelpatrick
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Matt
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Oh, crap, don't tell me we've neglected to link the hell out of Brad Neely's stuff until now, have we? You have got to check out his other stuff. The Professor Brothers and Babycakes are beyond awesome. It's even worth suffering through annoying beef jerky commercials to watch all this stuff.
| michaelpatrick wrote: | Persepolis - the Movie
I didn't even know this was in the works. We already mentioned the books in the book thread, but this movie looks magnificent. |
Oh, yes. I am so into this. I knew it was in production, but I had no idea there were clips available. Looks like they're really doing this thing right.
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Hypnos
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 1:00 am Post subject: |
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I didn't see if anyone else posted this or not, but I figure why not...
New Transformers Trailer
I have to admit, it does look like it will be an amusement, at the very least. One thing you can count on Michael Bay for: explosions. I counted no less than 4 in this minute or so long clip. |
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Frank V
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 9:46 am Post subject: |
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| Hypnos wrote: | I didn't see if anyone else posted this or not, but I figure why not...
New Transformers Trailer
I have to admit, it does look like it will be an amusement, at the very least. One thing you can count on Michael Bay for: explosions. I counted no less than 4 in this minute or so long clip. |
I don't care how bad this movie is, I'm going to enjoy every minute of this movie. It's got Bumble Bee. . . . . BUMBLEBEE . . . . and STARSCREAM!!!!1111111!!!11 |
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Matt
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| Posted: Sat May 19, 2007 11:31 am Post subject: |
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| I'll probably watch it. But I probably won't pay for it. It's basically all up to Rotten Tomatoes. |
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Iron Spike
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| Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| The American Civil War in four minutes. An animation of the changing shape of the front, and the effects of various notable battles. Keep an eye out for For the earth-scorching bad-assery that was Sherman's March to the Sea, the IRONCLADS OUT OF FUCKING NOWHERE taking of New Orleans, and the North securing the Mississippi, which the South never quite recovered from. |
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Kwesi K.
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Taking another go at the Gonzales case, John Stewart makes it look oh so easy, yet again...
I dare you not to laugh by the end of this clip. |
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michaelpatrick
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Tom and Jerry are a Jewish conspiracy.
So not only did Disney create Tom and Jerry, but he was also Jewish. And all this time I believed he was an anti Semite.
In Iranian eyes everything that isn't made in Iran is a conspiracy against Iran (or at least in favor of Western and or Jewish culture). Yeah, but you already knew that...
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Matt
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Oh, wow.
Also, it's worth checking out the response video, in which an Iranian scholar finds anti-Islamic messages in sci-fi/horror/action flicks from the 1980s and 90s. Seriously, I can't help but wonder if he's not really a paranoid nut, but just some clever asshole who found a way to get his government to pay him for watching American movies.
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Fishy
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At my university, the head of the music department wrote a paper on Music Education in American Culture- they basically paid him to take his family to Mr. Holland's Opus and thanked him for it.
I can totally see someone coming to from a weekend of watching cartoons in their underwear and going "What did I do today, how can I justify it as research, and how can I spin the resulting paper so that the government will continue to pay me?" Can't say it warms my heart, but it's a much more palatable explanation. |
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DirkTiede
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Fishy
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| DirkTiede wrote: | | Chicken, chicken chicken. |
John Cleese, at his desk. Babel, when the tower fell.
Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.
(Geordie, his mouth moving? The bear, in the woods.) |
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DirkTiede
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