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BlueAngel

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  1. 1. Clampdown - The Clash 2. Do You Realize?? - Flaming Lips 3. Hate To Say I Told You So - The Hives 4. Revolution - Spacemen 3 5. Hoppipolla - Sigur Rós 6. Revolution - Chumbawamba 7. Riding With The King - BB King/Eric Clapton 8. Swimming Field - Memory Tapes 9. Sorrow - David Bowie 10. Thursday - Asobi Seksu
  2. I don't care for him much either, as an actor or a celebrity, but I did like him in Se7en and Fight Club.
  3. I agree that I generally only find violence in films necessary if it supports the story, not as an end in itself and I figured by the movies you mentioned you like that that is what you meant. I think there's a little more to the film (though its probably not among his best work), but I respect your opinion that there isn't. I'll agree to disagree.
  4. No I agree he wasn't, you said his movie was saying we had something in common with the Nazis. I do agree people are attracted to violence (hence they would like this movie)and that was one point he was trying to illustrate using a parallel in one sequence but I don't think it was the whole point nor does it mean you can't enjoy the other parts of the film (plot, dialogue, acting, characters, build-up) which are equally as important in a Tarantino movie as the action. If you think people should not be entertained by violence then you can't possible like movies like the Godfather (in which the violence is perpetrated by criminals to no good end), Silence of the Lambs, Saving Private Ryan, most horror/slasher films, (or the evening news for that matter) etc etc. That said I do not enjoy most action films nor over-the-top violence and gore, but I found other elements of this movie I did like that, for me, outweighed the parts I didn't. Well, it is a war movie.
  5. I didn't think it was funny watching them suffer and its appalling that they thought watching people suffer was. But I think that people generally like to see justice (or their version of it) being done, though perhaps not in such an extreme manner. (And I wouldn't go so far as to compare Nazi ideology with that of the average person and I don't think that was Tarantino's point.) Don't most action/violent films include the idea that its audience likes to see the good guys win and the bad ones punished either imprisoned or killed (usually shown through a violent showdown of some kind)? I don't think this movie is all that different, just better written and better acted.
  6. "Stutter" - Elastica And they said that when we grew up, we'd get married, and never split up. We never did it, although often I thought of it.
  7. Perhaps he was making a statement about how humans enjoy watching their enemies suffer in which case if you agree then you'll probably like the movie (unless you like Nazis).
  8. "Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell" - The Flaming Lips
  9. The Sonics "High Time" +5 He's So Fine - Chiffons +4 Take Five - Dave Brubeck Quartet +3 Blowin in the Wind - Peter Paul & Mary +2 You Can't Catch Me - Chuck Berry +1 All the Way - Frank Sinatra "Shot Down" -5 Cry Baby - Garnet Mimms & Enchanters -4 Wanderer - Dion -3 Blue on Blue - Bobby Vinton -2 Twist and Shout - Isley Brothers -1 Green Onions - Booker T & the MG's "Keep a Knockin" 5 Cry Me A River - Julie London 4 When Will I Be Loved - Everly Brothers 3 To Know Him Is To Love Him - Teddy Bears 2 Lollipops - The Chordettes 1 It's Only Make Believe - Conway Twitty
  10. "Fit But You Know It" - The Streets Every time we grind we know we severed lines Where have all those flowers gone Long time passing Why you keep me testing, keep me tasking You keep on asking
  11. Unless of course you support one of the usually dominating teams. I personally enjoy watching the EPL for its high calibre football and am more interested in the matches themselves rather than the overall rankings. The predominance of the 'Big Four' is somewhat regrettable, but it doesn't take away from individual games. Some of the best matches have been between bottom table teams fighting to avoid relegation. However having a salary cap or letting the worst teams choose the "best" new players isn't necessarily a guarantee they will be a whole lot better next season. Each sport still has its consistently great teams, maybe not always champions but certainly most teams don't go from top to bottom or vice versa all that quickly.
  12. Don't remember 1990 so I'll go with 2000. Something new or something familiar?
  13. Jaws Name the best movie you've seen this year.
  14. "Clampdown" - The Clash (1979) "Do You Realize?" - The Flaming Lips (2002) How is the Offical Rock Song of Oklahoma not in already?
  15. A very nice, diverse ten. I honestly didn't expect that many (and those particular) modern songs to make it, but I'm glad they did.
  16. Songs for the Deaf - Queens of the Stone Age (2002) 1. "You Think I Ain't Worth a Dollar, But I Feel Like a Millionaire" 2. "No One Knows" 3. "First It Giveth" 4. "Song for the Dead" 5. "The Sky Is Fallin'" 6. "Six Shooter" 7. "Hangin' Tree" 8. "Go With The Flow" 9. "Gonna Leave You" 10. "Do It Again" 11. "God Is in the Radio" 12. "Another Love Song" 13. "Song for the Deaf" 14. "Mosquito Song"
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