big_dave wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:He reminds me of The Great Prosciutto: now there was a ham.

I caught him cold in the Black Forest, tanned like a Hawaian. He had a glazed look in his eyes.

pardon? confused. is this a reference to something i don't know?

Skronk wrote:

big_dave wrote:

Skronk wrote:

big_dave wrote:

some guy with anarchy in his name wrote:I happen to share his views on gun control and political correctness.

Pleased to meet you, shitting cunt.

Class act, Dave.

It is 2008. Anyone who is even barely serious about "political correctness" deserves, at very least, internet scorn.

2008! And you guys are on about political correctness. Do you still put cloves in oranges to ward off the black death?

That's not why I called you class act. I couldn't give a rat's ass about political correctness, real or imagined, but the way you responded. Grow up.

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SecondEdition wrote:

big_dave wrote:

SecondEdition wrote:He reminds me of The Great Prosciutto: now there was a ham.

I caught him cold in the Black Forest, tanned like a Hawaian. He had a glazed look in his eyes.

pardon? confused. is this a reference to something i don't know?

I'm sure I'll hock something up later.

anarchyinthebronx wrote:No offense, but fuck the knee jerk reactions of all of you people on this board. Just because you don't share the same political views as another person doesn't give you the right to label the man a "douchebag". No one here knew him personally so you can't full ascertain who he was.

When Michael Moore interviewed Heston for Bowling For Columbine, Moore asked him why America has so much gun violence. Heston, after hailing "the rights passed on down to me from those wise old dead white guys that invented this country," replied we have more gun violence because "we have more mixed ethnicity than other countries." Really, how much respect can you have for a man who says something like that, especially considering the fact he was once a supporter of Martin Luther King? That's a complete betrayal of everything he once stood for.

I'm sure Heston's close friends and family are saddened by his death, and I fully appreciate that. My sympathies go out to them in their time of mourning. I know I was deeply saddened by the death of my father. I'm also fully aware of the fact my dad was a reactionary right-wing loony who didn't like black people, hispanic people or gay people and felt Nixon never did anything wrong in his life. I honor the fact my dad tried to do right by my mother and my siblings and put a roof over our head and food on our table. But that doesn't change the fact he was full of foolish prejudices and hatred that will never allow me to fully respect him as a person or a thinker. And if I can't cut that kind of a break for my own father, why should I be expected to do that for some second-rate movie star? I don't know if Heston was fully a douchebag, but he had ideas that were both foolish and dangerous, and I'm not about to ignore that out of respect for the dead.

big_dave wrote:Far play to the man, he is right about the movie tally.

Good Movies Per Head

Heston: at least three possibly more
Clooney: exactly one
Moore: exactly none, but was really funny on TV back in the day.

For Clooney are you counting just the films he has directed or films he has acted in?

tommydski wrote:

big_dave wrote:Far play to the man, he is right about the movie tally.

Good Movies Per Head

Heston: at least three possibly more
Clooney: exactly one
Moore: exactly none, but was really funny on TV back in the day.

For Clooney are you counting just the films he has directed or films he has acted in?

I'm counting O Brother Where Art Thou because it makes me laugh.

Good Night & Good Luck is a great film.

Syriana and Michael Clayton are also good.

Intolerable Cruelty was okay.

tommydski wrote:Good Night & Good Luck is a great film.

Syriana and Michael Clayton are also good.

Intolerable Cruelty was okay.

Don't forget Out of Sight.

tommydski wrote:Good Night & Good Luck is a great film.

Syriana and Michael Clayton are also good.

Intolerable Cruelty was okay.

thin red line, ftw.

re: heston...i always wonder about actors and their ability to relate to the messages in the films they star in. for fuck's sake he was in planet of the apes, a heavy handed morality tale if there ever was one...how could he live the rest of his life and not think to himself "what would cornelius do?"

He tried to stop the production of A Woman Under the Influence because Peter Falk was a SAG actor and Cassavetes' low-budget film was non-Union.

Then again, I suppose he was just "doing his job" back then.