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Post by anarkissed on Mar 8, 2011 21:20:03 GMT -5
I always have a hard time deciding who was the coolest film antihero of all time: Cool Hand Luke or Randle P. McMurphy...
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Post by brianlux on Mar 9, 2011 0:51:00 GMT -5
When it comes to Newman he was pretty flawless. Everything he done was good, even his line of food products which benefit charity. His Vodka Sauce is killer by the way! Maybe he wasn't the best racecar driver, but he was still good, winning races in his 70's. I wasn't devaluing any of his past work, just pointing out that he continued to hone his craft till the day he died. And in the case of Newman, he even aged well, always looking good! P.S. I could listen to him sing Plastic Jesus all day long! Yes, let's hear it for Newman's line of foods! I'm a total "Newman-O's Hint-O-Mint Cream Filled Mint Chocolate Cookies" junkie and with dinner tonight..."Newman's Own Cabernet Sauvignon, 2009". A little young, but quite tasty! I don't know what this has to do with bands reaching their peak, let alone a Paul Westerberg related thread, but... mmmmmmm good! |
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Post by TomT on Mar 9, 2011 7:17:05 GMT -5
As for REM, I was starting to lose interest after New Adventures in HiFi (a really great record IMO) but loved Accelerate and also picked up Live in Olympia. That record surprised me. A lot of the songs are better than the originals. And Stipe keeps the crazy talk to a minimum.  Looking forward to the new release however I just read a review that said it sounded like an REM cover band.  |
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Post by Squaw on Mar 9, 2011 8:44:21 GMT -5
Looking forward to the new release however I just read a review that said it sounded like an REM cover band. If you like REM you will like Collapse Into Now. Of the 12 songs, I like 11 of them. Maybe the other song will grow on me. Overall, their best rocker in years. "Oh My Heart" and "Walk It Back" are excellent. This album is closer to The Mats than anything else they've done. A nice mix of ballads, punk and rock. |
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Post by 4x8 on Mar 9, 2011 11:14:42 GMT -5
Looking forward to the new release however I just read a review that said it sounded like an REM cover band. Don't you just love critics? REM sounding like REM? The nerve of them. That reminds me of John Fogerty getting sued years ago for Old Man Down the Road sounding like CCR. If a band changes their style, critics will say they should stick to what they do best. If they don't change/evolve the critics will rip on them for being in a rut. I've downloaded Collapse Into Now and I think it's pretty good. I still prefer their earlier releases, but so far based on a couple of listens, this one has potential. |
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 9, 2011 12:30:08 GMT -5
I always have a hard time deciding who was the coolest film antihero of all time: Cool Hand Luke or Randle P. McMurphy... I'd say neither! It's the alienated Bobby Dupea from the depressing "Five Easy Pieces" with Jack Nicholson. |
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Post by anarkissed on Mar 9, 2011 20:24:16 GMT -5
I always have a hard time deciding who was the coolest film antihero of all time: Cool Hand Luke or Randle P. McMurphy... I'd say neither! It's the alienated Bobby Dupea from the depressing "Five Easy Pieces" with Jack Nicholson. Boy, that's a good one, too...Kinda unfair of Jack to be nominated twice...Might have to throw Hud in there just for fairness sake... |
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Post by anarkissed on Mar 9, 2011 20:31:52 GMT -5
Looking forward to the new release however I just read a review that said it sounded like an REM cover band. If you like REM you will like Collapse Into Now. Of the 12 songs, I like 11 of them. Maybe the other song will grow on me. Overall, their best rocker in years. "Oh My Heart" and "Walk It Back" are excellent. This album is closer to The Mats than anything else they've done. A nice mix of ballads, punk and rock. I've listened to it twice now...Not as good as the last Berry album, NAIHF, way better than the first three post-Berry albums, and maybe almost as good as Accelerate...Overall, I'm very pleased...I like "Discoverer", "All the Best" and "Mine Smell Like Honey"...I'm glad they're going through a period where they seem to reflect most of the best sounds they've achieved through the years: that sort of uptempo "Monster" rock, those moody, mandolin-laced midtempo "Fables/Green" ballads, and that classic mid-period "LRP/Document" jangle...They already did the thing where they tried to sound unlike themselves... |
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Post by FreeRider on Mar 9, 2011 23:16:21 GMT -5
Boy, that's a good one, too...Kinda unfair of Jack to be nominated twice...Might have to throw Hud in there just for fairness sake... hahahaha! yeah, you know the funny thing was that i was so bored and depressed during high school that this damn movie actually became a fave of mine. i mean, the teen age years are kinda rough on people as is and for whatever reason, this movie just seemed to express the things i felt---boredom, anger, feeling lost, no direction, feeling disconnected from everyone. i watched this movie not too long ago on TMC or AMC, I can't remember which....and it is just so horribly bleak and depressing to watch that I can't believe that this was a favorite movie of mine. i still like it now, but for very much different reasons. i can look see deeper meanings in it rather than the superficial things i got out of it when i was a kid. |
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Post by anarkissed on Jun 30, 2011 23:37:23 GMT -5
I always have a hard time deciding who was the coolest film antihero of all time: Cool Hand Luke or Randle P. McMurphy... I'd say neither! It's the alienated Bobby Dupea from the depressing "Five Easy Pieces" with Jack Nicholson. O.K., just finished watching this...Maybe I'd seen it a long time ago, but all I ever remembered was the "chicken salad" scene...These points: 1)Have to say, a guy could do worse than Karen Black's character...She's hot, she's sweet, she's probably not nearly as dumb as you might think, does a passable approximation of Tammy Wynette, and has great legs...I kept thinking, yeah, at some point, I'd get tired of her, and wonder if I could really spend the rest of my life with that, but, it would probably take me twenty years to get to that point, and that would've happened with anybody else anyway, right? Besides, she'd probably get to that point with me in about two...2)What I love about Jack Nicholson in this period of his acting is that I never really know what he's going to do...Is he going to smile enigmatically, get pissed and break stuff, or just sit there and say nothing? 3)It is depressing, because the theme I seem to get is that: We're all basically unfulfilled, we spend a lot of time thrashing around trying to become fulfilled, and, we never do... |
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Post by FreeRider on Jul 1, 2011 10:00:25 GMT -5
True---he could've done much worse than Rayette. But what a horribly depressing film (talk about everyone being 'unsatisfied'!).
And yet, I liked the movie for its moodiness. Nicholson's character is caught between two worlds. The big theme of alienation, the characters being up on the island (I assume it's the San Juan islands off Washington where Nicholson's family resides). Isolated. Alone. And the big scene where he tries to reconcile with his father---and yet, his father who is ravaged by a stroke, can't answer him. Nicholson's character gets nothing in return.
Gaahhhhh!!! What a depressing flick. And Nicholson's character was such a selfish, alienated, cad. I'm surprised this movie ever got made.
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Post by dee on Jul 1, 2011 14:53:50 GMT -5
Anyone see Dennis Hoppers Out Of The Blue? That flick is a strange slice of life.
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