As a kid I actually remember thinking On Beyond Zebra! was kinda baloney because it's like, the guy says 'here are things you CAN'T spell with the normal letters of the alphabet', but then the book goes ahead and spells them with the normal letters of the alphabet!
I'm onto you, Dr. Seuss. If that even is your real name
Edit: also c'mon Dr. Seuss Columbus was a murderer, slaver, and rapist he is not a good role model for children!
A male server of the same quality isn't getting tipped the same, because the man at the table he just waited on can't ogle cleavage or a nice ass in tight black slacks.
I have definitely given a large tip because the male server had an amazing ass
The biggest thing I can't get over with World War Z is why would you even bother with a PG-13 zombie movie that has no quirk to it to justify that rating
The biggest thing I can't get over with World War Z is why would you even bother with a PG-13 zombie movie that has no quirk to it to justify that rating
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A male server of the same quality isn't getting tipped the same, because the man at the table he just waited on can't ogle cleavage or a nice ass in tight black slacks.
I have definitely given a large tip because the male server had an amazing ass
A male server of the same quality isn't getting tipped the same, because the man at the table he just waited on can't ogle cleavage or a nice ass in tight black slacks.
I have definitely given a large tip because the male server had an amazing ass
I think that is the worst possible way you could make a real Jotaro hair-hat, taping half a wig to the back
I would have cut the hat in half and hide a hairpin in there to attach it or something
also yeah I was totally thinking you'd need someone The Rock-shaped
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A male server of the same quality isn't getting tipped the same, because the man at the table he just waited on can't ogle cleavage or a nice ass in tight black slacks.
I have definitely given a large tip because the male server had an amazing ass
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My only problem with World War Z was that it was screaming for an R rating. So many scenes left out the real climax to keep things PG13 and you could tell.
Still, one of the most improbable Nick Cave stories of all lies within his part-time scriptwriting career. At one stage Russell Crowe was keen to star in The Proposition, and so he and Cave got to know each other a little. One day Crowe called Cave up out of the blue.
“He said, ‘It's Russell here, how's the scriptwriting going?’ ” says Cave. Cave says that he replied, “I never want to write another fucking script in my life” because at that time The Proposition was going through lots of problems.
And that was when Crowe asked Cave to write Gladiator 2.
Cave was blindsided, but not so much that he failed to ask the most obvious question. “I was, ‘Didn't you die in Gladiator 1?’ ” he remembers. “And he was just like, ‘Sort it out.’ He wanted something with mythological creatures, I think set in another world—in heaven or hell, purgatory, something like that. He hadn't quite worked that part out.”
First, Cave wrote a treatment that tried to follow Crowe's instructions—“Russell confronting ogres and all this sort of shit, right?”—but that came back from Ridley Scott with big red crosses all over it, and notes that said “I do not want to make a movie like this.” Scott asked Cave to watch a lot of Bergman movies, which Cave took as a nudge toward something “kind of deep and thoughtful, and kind of existential.” Suitably re-inspired, Cave sat down to write the full script (which really was called Gladiator 2). He says now that even as he was writing it, he knew it would never get made, so he resolved to enjoy the process.
Eventually he came up with a theological story in which the gods blackmail the gladiator Maximus, who begins the movie in purgatory, to kill the followers of a new religion whose rise is making them die off—the religion turns out, of course, to be Christianity. At the same time the gladiator searches for his son. “Gets a bit fucking complicated, actually,” Cave remembers.
Along the way, he honored a very specific request from Crowe, who had told him about an unused scene written for the first movie in which the gladiator was charged by a rhinoceros. “Russell's like, ‘Just fucking imagine fucking two tons of rhino charging at me! What do I do? What do I do?’ And I'm, ‘I don't know, what do you do?’ ” But Crowe wanted his rhino. “He's like, ‘We still have the software for the rhino—put a fucking rhino in there.’ ” So Cave did.
As the film moved toward its close, he says, Maximus finds himself caught in an endless battle, turning up at the Crusades, the World Wars, Vietnam. “I thought that Ridley'd like the end, because it was like a 20-minute sequence of all-the-wars-of-history type of thing, of this unstoppable war machine,” says Cave. But the script went nowhere. “Russell didn't like it. He wanted a full-on mythological action movie, slaying dragons and sea monsters and all that sort of stuff, kind of Jason and the Argonauts and stuff like that. Ridley said that he liked it but that it would never get made.”
In the intervening years, a draft of Cave's script has leaked out, and it's a weird and remarkable feat of the imagination. At its very end, Maximus, now dressed in a black suit and wearing a tie, is seen washing his hands in a bathroom, then walking down a hallway to join a Pentagon meeting with ten other men in suits at a round table. He looks at his laptop and then says to the others: “Now, where were we?”
“It was just a completely ridiculous wigged-out thing,” says Cave, “that I had kind of fun doing.”
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I wish they'd made a movie of that script, because it sounds amazing. Also I love Crowe's insistence that he include Maximus fighting a rhino in there, it seems like a thing a little kid would be super excited about.
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How are the movies he wrote that actually came out?
Which I guess are just The Proposition and Lawless, I was under the impression that he also wrote The Assassination of Jesse James
no he just did the music for that, with warren ellis (no, not that warren ellis)
it's really good, unsurprisingly
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I just saw Guardians 2. It was a lot of fun. I don't think I found the movie as funny as it maybe wanted me to, but that's no big deal. Keep feeding me cool space stuff with neat aliens and I'm a happy camper
I loved Gladiator when I saw it opening night. I went back to see it again a week later. I dunno what happened between those two viewings, but I couldn't stand it the second time. My wife has never seen it, so I should watch it again with her to see if I have any fucks to give all these years later.
But that sequel up there? Holy shit, that sounds amazing!
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Gladiator is a really good movie.
Gladiator 2 would have been legendary.
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I'm onto you, Dr. Seuss. If that even is your real name
Edit: also c'mon Dr. Seuss Columbus was a murderer, slaver, and rapist he is not a good role model for children!
Okay, okay, admittedly, I'm a Herzog neophyte, but I checked and there are some Herzog films without subtitles. Is this really a Thing?
proud of you
oh my god Jotaro's hair-hat
hmm but his actor's not big enough
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You mean besides money?
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$540 million worldwide.
So by Hollywood accounting standards, a $370 million loss.
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They don't make people Jotaro sized.
If you wanted the right proportions you'd need like, The Rock.
Imagine trying to find a giant boulder of muscle to cast for Jonathon Joestar.
I would have cut the hat in half and hide a hairpin in there to attach it or something
also yeah I was totally thinking you'd need someone The Rock-shaped
Sadly, Andre the Giant is dead.
I thought it was a fine film with some pretty neat set pieces and a nice central performance!
And rewriting and reshooting the entire third act made that movie better!
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The third act was tense as hell though.
Like, other than suddenly, zombies, I struggle to remember what happened.
Satans..... hints.....
The most relevant thing to this thread in there, though, is this insane story from his screenwriting days
by which I mean, fuckin' dope
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Roo-fio
There's a gender-reversed chain with scantily clad men that opened in the DFW area. It's called Tallywackers.
Which I guess are just The Proposition and Lawless, I was under the impression that he also wrote The Assassination of Jesse James
no he just did the music for that, with warren ellis (no, not that warren ellis)
it's really good, unsurprisingly
i liked lawless a good bit, actually, more than I expected to
but I'd hold the proposition above it for sure
I think it was pretty solid with some great work by the cast. But I couldn't help feeling I'd seen everything in that movie before.
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But that sequel up there? Holy shit, that sounds amazing!
Gladiator 2 would have been legendary.