Comments | sixgunsaint: This movie has warped my fragile little mind

sixgunsaint

This movie has warped my fragile little mind

Jul 24, 2005 00:41

Today the mall had an amazing deal on DVD's. HMV was promoting a 2 for 1 sale, where as long as you brought in a coupon from the paper, you could get a free DVD, as long as both had a white sticker on it. Obviously new releases were off-limits, but there were many holes in my collection that could be plugged up with some well-placed oldies. The ( Read more... )

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scapegoat_mo July 24 2005, 20:49:29 UTC

I don't think I ever saw NBK, but I remember a similar metamorphosis in my views about "acceptable" stories about the same time that it came out.

sixgunsaint July 25 2005, 00:42:30 UTC

Yeah, it was one of the first times where I sat with the characters for almost all of the film and thought, "Wow, I really hate these people....and I sure hope they make it out okay."

darkdevotchka July 25 2005, 06:14:47 UTC

I LOVE Natural Born Killers. Great choice! Pity about the stuuupid Aussie accent Robert Downey does in it though :) I even went out and got the soundtrack. CRAZY film that screws with your mind, but I just love it.

sixgunsaint July 25 2005, 14:47:23 UTC

I just rewatched it last night. I take his accent as another element of 'hyper-reality' in the film, as though Stone wanted him to ham it up with it. I have to admit though, when I tried to do an aussie accent in the past, it was him I'd always impersonate, lol! "It's Elton John con-fissing his boi-sexualitay, to rowling stown!!!!" Heh heh!

chaosandoldnite July 25 2005, 13:27:06 UTC

Okay, you do realize that if this were a year ago, and we were sitting in a pub with a few pints in us, you'd be swearing at anyone who listed Natural Born Killers and South Park as favourites. Good grief man! What's happened???

How was Year of the Horse? I hear his new album is out Sept. 20, with a DVD of the making of the album accompanying. With that, and the Johnny Cash movie Walk The Line coming out, this is going to be a rad autumn.

chaosandoldnite July 25 2005, 13:28:32 UTC

PS. the new LJ pic is awesome. Much better than that skull thing.

sixgunsaint July 25 2005, 14:43:30 UTC

Actually I've always loved 'Natural Born Killers', way back when I saw it first time in high-school. It was just so crazy and hyper and weird. 'South Park' came as a surprise to me though, it happened after watching and actually really loving 'Team America'. I'm telling you, if I had seen that in the theatre (and you know how I am with watching comedies with other people) I would have actually laughed aloud ( ... )

I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible... delvis_crasho July 26 2005, 03:59:34 UTC

Greatest line from Natural Born Killers...

"He's already dead, dick-weed. You've got shit."
- Warden Dwight McClusky (Tommy Lee Jones)

-b.a.evans-

Re: I'm the little Jew who wrote the Bible... sixgunsaint July 26 2005, 04:06:38 UTC

Heh heh, anything Tommy Lee said in that film is gold. I love the entire conversation him and Scagnetti have as their walking through the prison. One of my personal faves is...

"I never wounded anything in my life."
- Scagnetti (damn badass line)

libragirly1313 August 6 2005, 01:07:25 UTC

Nice choices, Ben. Neil Young is pretty cool. I'm not a huge fan of his, but I saw part of one of his concerts once. I was, like, 13 or 14, & I went because Sonic Youth/Social Distortion opened. I only knew one Neil Young song at the time--"Out of the Blue/Into the Black" (I think that's the title?)--& he opened with it, so I was happy. I now wish I'd stayed for the whole thing!

And I used to HATE Brad Pitt, but I've gotten to respect him as an actor. I like that someone so pretty is willing to play such messed-up people. "Fight Club" is one of my all-time favorites. Have you seen "Johnny Suede"? That was one of his early ones--I think Nick Cave had a role in it, but I don't remember too much about it.

sixgunsaint August 6 2005, 02:15:27 UTC

Heh heh, I own 'Johnny Suede' on DVD, picked it up at a WalMart for 6 bucks. I think it was right in the first stages of me becoming a Nick Cave fan, but his scenes are pretty much the worth of the DVD. I don't know if I'd ever watch the whole thing again, but Nick's scenes are hilarious. I've never looked at fried chicken the same since.