the summer implosion begins(well,actually it started with shadows and battlship)

[pootboy]

looking at the upcoming "tentpoles"...

MIB3-- nobody fucking cares anymore, fresh prince.
Piranha 3DD -- you've got to be fucking kidding me.

JUNE 8, 2012
Prometheus  --  gonna be good, but not a breakout.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted   --  fucking week old bread

JUNE 22, 2012
Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter -- who fucking green lit THAT?  dear fucking god.
Brave --  pretty serious meh.

JUNE 29, 2012
G.I. Joe: Retaliation-- the sequel nobody's been clamoring for

JULY 3, 2012
The Amazing Spider-Man


JULY 13, 2012
Ted  --  looks funny, but it ain't no bridesmaids/hangover
Ice Age: Continental Drift 3D --  more dead franchise horse beating

JULY 20, 2012
The Dark Knight Rises

AUGUST 3, 2012
The Bourne Legacy --  oh great, 2 more hours of fucking car-chases thru belgium.
Total Recall --   colin ferrel has become box-office poison.  may as well reboot running man while you're at it.  this is just a head-scratcher.


and of course the rest of august is reserved for the real dogs.  "expendables 2"?  christ.

[Gadabout]

I can't wait for Ted.

[Kimmel Prime]

Heh, I was wondering if anybody would take me seriously, if I didn't use a smiley..sorry.

Seriously..NASCAR?

I'm a Brit, I'd rather watch a film about paint drying or the mating habits of the lesser spotted fuckwit beetle than a movie about cars that go around and around and around in a fucking circle.

Seriously, what's the appeal?

Plus, I despise Tom Cruise.

I don't think there is really anyway to explain it, and honestly the slicked back NASCAR of today is hard to watch, but stock car racing, where it came from, what it was, and the thrill of working on a car or driving a car and racing against someone else is impossible to match. My view is colored because racing made my family what it is, and if not for racing  there is no telling what would have become of us, my grandfather may have remained a fruit and vegetable peddler in Chicago his whole life.  I can't watch a race on TV, I can't sit in the grandstands and watch it, but to be in the pits, with a wrench in hand working on a car, hell even racing someone on some closed off back road, the thrill is amazing.

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[JSayonara]

Stock car racing is something else though isn't it?

I can understand a more grass roots scene, where people who compete are involved in the buying and fixing of cars, shooting the shit with other competitors, making friends and all that.

But watching corporate cars drive around and around an oval all day..
Makes no sense to me (much like Formula One which is I guess is kind of the European equivalent).

Having said which, I was of course just taking the piss a little, I'm not knocking it, I just don't get the appeal.

[Benjamin Grimm]

The Bourne Legacy --  oh great, 2 more hours of fucking car-chases thru belgium.

I have had one of my worst days of the year today in the middle of the worst week I've had since I've been here in Myrtle Beach, and this line made me laugh.

Thank you so much for the laugh.

Peace,

Chip

[pootboy]

my plezsh, chip.  hope things start lookin up.  is there an arcade nearby, at least?  fried dough?  white trash t-shirt shop???

[Coffee Joe]

Do you guys even have gyppo's?

Gypsies are quite rare.

[JSayonara]

We've got tons over here (of course) and I hate 'em.

Probably not allowed to say that, but fuck it, I am anyway.
They were the bane of my existence in the job I used to do, and I've known too many friends get hurt by 'em to care if it's wrong to dislike 'em.

Surprised you haven't got more over there, but I guess Irish American's are a very different group of people.

Out of interest, how do you guys deal with squatters?

Over here, they take way too many liberties, are you harsh on them, or are they protected?

[Coffee Joe]

Not sure the protocol on saying you hate gypsies.  I'm pretty sure you shouldn't say gyppies, though.  Sounds like a racial slur, you limey cunt.  (Are Welshman limeys?)

Squatters?  We usually shoot them.

No, really, if someone is squatting, it takes something like 30 to 90 days to get them out.  And I think if they've been squatting for something ridiculous like seven years, they have legal rights to the property or some shit.

[powersthatbe]

just read at aintitcool there's an ALF movie in the works

[JSayonara]

Actually, Pikey is far more offensive than gyppo.

Because we use it occasionally to take the piss, I guess you guys think it's okay, but to Gypsies it's the equivilant of "nigger" (seriously, I'm not overstating), you'd have your teeth knocked in if you used it over here in the wrong company.

Having said which, it hasn't hit that level to everyone else, so whereas, if you said "nigger" anywhere, in any company, you'd be called out, if you're talking to a regular Brit, we wouldn't bat an eye if you said Pikey.

Does that make sense?

Gyppo is kind of a shortening of Gypsies, it's not pleasant, but it's not nearly as bad as Pikey, it's more of a slang word.

Having said which, I cannot state how much trouble these guys cause us.
There's a reason that they're hugely disliked over here, far beyond simple intolerance.

I know there's never really an excuse, but when you've been confronted by ten of  them, who've broken into your site and they're threatening you (as has happened a few times to me), you'll kind of understand.

For all that, It's not something I'm likely to bring up again.

As for Welsh/Limey's, I guess we can be, being that we're from Great Britain, but we're actually Taff's.

[pootboy]

MIB3 is gonna make 10 mil less on it's opening weekend than the last one, from a decade ago, when ticket prices were literally half what they are now. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/26/men-in-black-3-box-office_n_1547790.html

only so many bags of day old bagels people gonna buy at 3D ticket prices.  alot of studio suits getting shown the door this summer.

[pootboy]

the GI Joe push-back is actually a pretty canny move.  i'm sure they did a furious round of focus groups and people were like "there's 'i don't give a shit', and then there's 'i really, really, REALLY do NOT give a FUCKING SHIT'.  it would've sunk like a fucking stone.  3d ticket prices and absolutely no competition in the spring is the only chance it has to recoup it's cost.

[Big Raj]

Batman?  In the merchandising world, Batman is a cash cow.  It's been that way since 1989.  Even Schumacher couldn't change that.  The toys, the tee shirts, the toothpaste, the under-roos, you name it.  Batman sells and sells.  The studios will keep making Batman movies and cartoons until kids get sick of Batman.

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[Coffee Joe]

Taffs?  What the hell is the etymology of THAT?

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