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« on: December 08, 2010, 09:53:24 AM » |
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HJ
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« Reply #1 on: December 08, 2010, 12:48:26 PM » |
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I go only to religious films, like 2001...
Just sayin'
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Jaybro
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« Reply #2 on: December 08, 2010, 02:29:20 PM » |
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What was the name of the LSD church, in Dragnet?
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RussWalling
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« Reply #3 on: December 08, 2010, 03:16:00 PM » |
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Church of the Expanded Mind
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Jaybro
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« Reply #4 on: December 08, 2010, 05:25:37 PM » |
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Hey speakin' of that, I just came from the library where two cops where busting this guy. On the way out i heard one of the cops say"you're tripping, how long has it been seince..."
Now part of me wanted to stay, listen and offer helpful hints from Blueboy. I had all the lines.
Well. I though better of it and walked back to my car in the rain...
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RussWalling
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« Reply #5 on: December 08, 2010, 06:33:27 PM » |
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I now find out it was the "temple" of the expanded mind....
Dragnet: The Big Prophet
Sgt. Joe Friday (Jack Webb) and Officer Bill Gannon (Harry Morgan) discover a religious sect known as the Temple of the Expanded Mind, who claim to promote alternative lifestyles but seem mainly concerned with legalizing marijuana and LSD. Discussing the beliefs of the cult with "Brother" William Bently (Liam Sullivan evoking Timothy Leary), Friday and Gannon conclude that the organization is little more than a means of distributing drugs to nearby elementary school students and Bently is arrested. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Ed Hartouni
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« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2010, 12:15:38 AM » |
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Ed Hartouni
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« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2010, 12:18:36 AM » |
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Jaybro
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« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2010, 09:10:01 AM » |
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is it on netflix?
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RussWalling
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« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2010, 10:00:45 AM » |
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my house copy is over at Bluto's. He watches it almost daily. No idea on the Netflix.
Good reviews there Ed....
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HJ
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« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2010, 03:55:50 PM » |
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Looks like it is a religious film, looks like I'll have to see it. Thanks for the reviews.
Shooting stigmata...just for a start.
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RussWalling
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« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2010, 04:20:55 PM » |
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"it's an allegory"
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« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2010, 05:56:07 PM » |
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Meh.  Don't mind me. I'm a flaccid & weak dog, over here. Workin' on it, eh? |
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HJ
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« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2010, 11:16:56 AM » |
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but is it ALL (e) GORY
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Ed Hartouni
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« Reply #14 on: December 26, 2010, 12:49:27 PM » |
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got this film from Netflix, Debbie bailed about at about 00:28:41.0789 into the rig... "too much gratuitous violence and human cruelty"
I stuck it out to the end, I'm still not sure what I saw, but I don't think I'm going back there again...
my synopsis, perhaps a bit of a spoiler...
a gunfighter, and his son, apparently motherless, come across a massacred town, the righteous gunfighter hunts down and eventually emasculates the "Colonel" who subsequently blows his brains out [Debbie had left by that scene]. The son is abandoned to the Franciscan monks, and the girl, an object of abuse by the Colonel and his men, rides off with the gunfighter, to the desert. She is taken forcefully by the gunfighter, but refuses her love to him unless he kills off the 4 other master gunfighters of the desert.... this happens, each of those "masters" are some sort of oriental kung-fu masters... however, the gunfighter goes a bit mad having done accomplished the challenge. along the way the pair pick up a mysterious second woman, who is attracted in some S&M bond with the girl, the gunfighter is eventually shot in the hands and feet, think stigmata, by the woman, who then gives the gun to the girl and asks her to choose, she shoots the gunfighter, the girl and woman ride off, the gunfighter collapses and is dragged off by the town geeks
he eventually comes to in a cave, he is sitting in the lotus position, a dwarf woman is attending him when he reveals his conscious state. he learns that he has been there a long time, and vows to help the other rejected humans in the cave... by digging a tunnel in...
he and the woman dwarf climb out of the cave and make it to the nearby town, which is in some bizarre 70s version of a Hieronymus Bosch painting... only not as artfully executed, the now bald gunfighter cum monk make a living "begging" and doing odd jobs, and spend their other time digging the tunnel to the geeks
at some point, a new priest shows up, you guessed correctly, the gunfighter's abandoned son, and in a scene of Russian roulette... well, that part you have to see yourselves...
anyway, the gunfighter/monk and the dwarf woman are forced to have sex, she conceives a child, they decide to get married, they go to the church, father and son recognize each other and the priest/son goes crazy and beats his father up... turning up in the next scene as a gunfighter like dear old dad used to be and will kill his dad off once the tunnel is complete
eventually he helps out, is turned to this spiritual way, but gives up hope just as they break through to the cave, releasing a wave of geeks onto the town which the townspeople end up massacring [a common theme throughout the movie], the gunfighter/monk goes bananas, ends up killing off the offending townspeople, and then burns himself up [think buddhist monk protests of the Vietnam war; I guess because of his violent act]. while this is happening the dwarf woman gives birth to a child.
the son, now a gunfighter and the dwarf woman with child ride off in the final scene
this is a whole lot more coherent than the actual movie, and should not be construed as a recommendation... characterized as an "acid western," I've got to say that it would be a very bad trip...
the climbing equivalent of a rotten decomposed choss pile offwidth where chunks keep pulling off and all the pro is on broken soft incompetent rock far below, you'll make it through, but you'll never get those 2 hours of you life back....
...not suggested for Christmas eve viewing.
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Jaybro
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« Reply #15 on: December 26, 2010, 01:03:23 PM » |
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Oh that kind of movie...
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« Reply #17 on: December 26, 2010, 11:35:24 PM » |
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one has to wonder about a the reverse image of a woman's face with a background of radiating phalluses as a lead into the trailer...
probably won't suggest Taint for home viewing...
as for Gummo, I don't think so...
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RussWalling
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« Reply #19 on: December 27, 2010, 09:31:42 PM » |
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I'm totally ordering that thing! Crispin Glover is totally wacked! |
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« Reply #20 on: December 31, 2010, 12:28:35 AM » |
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Just watched Freaks for the first time about a month ago. Pretty good actually. But I'm sitting here thinking about how it didn't really disturb me at all, despite all the real-life deformity, but Gummo...Gummo was messed up. Pretty genius too, 'cause that was probably all hair and makeup and lenses and sets/locations and whatnot. I can't even remember the story. Inbred kids killing cats, or something along those lines. No Taint on Netfilx. "What is it?" at least has a placeholder, but who knows if it'll ever be distributed. Where can I watch these masterpieces, without having to buy a copy? For some reason this El Topo business got me thinking about the Seņor Wences bit, who I was confusing for Topo Gigio. Glover on Letterman in '87. I was lucky enough to be watching this night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dYjdKbMT_c |
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« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2011, 08:20:43 PM » |
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Taint gets a thumbs up.... directors cut is the bomb.
Not family viewing.
714 penis sightings in the entire film, though only 3 or 4 remain attached to the host human by the end of the movie.
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« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2011, 10:23:47 PM » |
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Speaking of detachment, Machete is the Bomb!
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« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2011, 10:16:23 PM » |
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714 penis sightings in the entire film...
But who's counting. Wife is out of town for a few weeks, so it's time to shuffle the Netflix queue. Machete to the front. What else you got? |
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« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2011, 08:28:26 PM » |
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I just watch Apocalypse Now over and over and over. I have it memorized.
The coolest thing is that it is loosely based on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. At the end of the book, a guy says, "Mistah Kurtz, he dead."
Then in the early thirties, T.S. Eliot wrote "The Hollow Men." Another must read for the twisted and sad.
Well, T. S. Eliot always had a title page to his poems, and on The Hollow Men it just says, "Mistah Kurtz, he dead."
Then near the end of the movie, Marlon Brando is playing Col Kurtz and he actually is reading The Hollow Men. So book written in late 1800's, poem about it in 1930 something, and film having Kurtz read his own poem in 1979 or something. When I worked 6 weeks on a movie, I told the camera operator that story and then he though I wasn't a hick. I really scored when we all went on a massive bender and I was the only one of 4 who didn't spew. But man, I wanted to.
Everything you need to know about life is in either that movie or Lawrence of Arabia.
Carry on. Anyone still listen to Fear? I tried to get my son into it. No joy.
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« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2011, 09:45:24 PM » |
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"New York's alright if you're a homosexual"
"Clean....?" "I'm good"
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« Reply #27 on: February 14, 2011, 08:29:47 PM » |
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Mr. Clean was played by a very young Laurence Fishburne.
"Never get off the boat. Absolutely goddamn right."
Russ got off the boat.....
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« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2011, 08:38:39 PM » |
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You mean cowboy Curtis?
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RussWalling
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« Reply #29 on: February 15, 2011, 09:13:40 AM » |
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My boat done did sail long ago......
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