I know it's an adaptation, sir.

They still wrote the script.

That write up completely lost me when it dissed Bully.

Bully is nothing like what I saw in that clip, at all, and is far from "terrible."

Kanye didn't even feel this was good enough to be a Black Friday track, but this is really dope nonetheless. Kanye West - "Eyes Closed" <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://cdn.hulkshare.com/p/player.swf" height=24 width=290><param name="movie" value="http://cdn.hulkshare.com/p/...

I like it too, but Top 10 of all time?

Definitely Top 10 sci fi movie of all time though...

For some reason I thought the bear dude was a symbol for God. The way he traded for the body was like collecting a soul. And it seemed he knew the girl would need some medication soon. And everything he did was hilarious and weird. Bear dude was awesome and (think someone said this before) seemed l...

Awesome thread. Sup Trademark?

Andvil wrote:Dark City is top 20, maybe top 10 of all-time imo

This is getting quoted if you ever accuse me of overhyping a movie, lol.

Even though lyrical lyricism isn't Kanye's strong suit, I challenge you to find 10 verses that were better, lyrically, than this one this year: Question: What color was the skin of the man who beared the cross? No matter how many lashes they couldn't beat it off How many Cassius' will we see in one ...

I hope that you guardians of teh temple of hip-hop exhibit this much disdain when you hear someone call Paul's Boutique one of the best hip-hop albums of all time...

What'd you say?

I wasn't just talking about year-end lists though. Gloss and Thun have been pretty big advocates of this album and neither of them are trend-hoppers or give a fuck about co-signing him as a way to generate web traffic. ICE EDIT: I don't think it's the Sgt. Pepper of Hip Hop Albums either, but it's K...

I'm going to hold off on talking more about about any of the subtext I brought up before until I see it again, but I don't think it's a leap to assume that this Western, like a lot of great Westerns (eg, The Searchers), has a lot of subtext going on beneath an ostensibly conventional story. Thinking...

I love that anyone who reads anything further into Inception other than it's face value on first viewing is a moron, yet Ice rails off stuff like this everytime the Coen's take a shit and film it. :lol: SMH. Maybe because the Coens are the best filmmakers to come out since the start of the Reagan a...

Jay's performances, including his lyrics, on "Shiny Suit Theory," "Light Up," and "Free Mason" are all great. Dude didn't exactly hold court on "So Appalled" and was the weakest link on that song, but his verse wasn't so abhorrent that it warrants people calling for his retirement.

2. ice and escobar will hail kanye as top five dead or alive on the mic. Don't know why you're bringing me into this. Thinking that Kanye is a great MC isn't some revolutionary act, brah. The popular consensus on erf is that the creator of an album that topped most year-end lists is :ohsh: one of t...

***SPOILERS*** Can we get all film nerdy about this for a second and talk about subtext? There's this running thread about bartering and verbal jousting in the film, which the main character is extremely good at. Mattie Ross is so good at arguing for her case that she outduels the guy for a horse he...

Using the fight choreography and historical quibbles as a reason for saying why the movie's wack is like complaining about Travis Bickle's driving habits or that the pick-up fare rates weren't congruent with taxi fares in NYC in the 70s. Like Raging Bull, this movie focuses on a guy who is a boxer, ...

Did you seriously like this movie or are you playing devils advocate with me? cause, come on...this shit was pretty weak. Word. It's not like it's one of the best reviewed films of the year and it's going to be nominated for several Oscars. I'm way out in left field co-signing this piece of univers...

Did you seriously like this movie or are you playing devils advocate with me? cause, come on...this shit was pretty weak. Word. It's not like it's one of the best reviewed films of the year and it's going to be nominated for several Oscars. I'm way out in left field co-signing this piece of univers...

as for the movie, It was pretty poorly made and overall very typical of every movie about boxing ever :naswtf: It being "poorly made" would be the last criticism I'd think that people would come up with for this movie. The direction was superb and it was anything but typical for a sports movie. Pri...

classicesickle thread if you really gonna get into this you gotta mention that the sean price rmx of snow was generally pointless, and that this album has actually been pushed back (indefinitely?) I'm was actually gonna say that he's one of the few MCs out today whose songs actually lose some of th...

Figure this song, and his new album, need to be unearthed from that 9 page thread and given some new light. Everyone else doing grimey, understated NYC street rap should save their energy for other pursuits (sup Raekwon). This dude has perfected the style, from the beats he makes to his voice, flow,...

So no "Black Steel"?

Eminem - "Stan"

Anyone know what album "Make a Song for That" is off of? I've only gotten the chance to listen to it on youtube.

i'm sorry i don't wanna sidetrack the thread and i realize this is counterproductive but... you've never actually seen night of the hunter have you? because i honestly can't imagine anybody who has seen it putting the word 'docu' anything within a reference context of anything having to do with the...

Nah, man. If you've seen any of David O. Russell's flicks, you'd have more confidence that he would make this fresh and not be dissuaded by a review on "Twitch," whatever that is.

drizzle wrote:not sure how night of the hunter came into this but it doesn't belong within 40 miles of this conversation

It's a gothic tale in the Souf. This is a gothic tale in the Ozarks. Both are more than docudramas. That's where the comparison ends.

I'm also pretty sure there are rural folk who don't darn appreciamate dem codes and cultures depicted in this film worth a squirrel's nutsack ya hear? Yes, but they're not in the film because the film is about an insulated group of meth dealers who are related in one form or the other. This tightly...

Why JR Jones is one of my favorite critics: Can any do-gooder documentary released this year claim to have done more good than The Social Network, David Fincher's high-powered drama about the founding of Facebook? Its portrait of CEO Mark Zuckerberg as a conniving little shit who elbowed his best fr...

drizzle wrote:it doesn't really matter how many other movies attempt this setting, what matters is that this one nails it without feeling like a cliche or an attempt to exploit it.

I'm glad you changed your mind and checked it out.

What'd you think?