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« Reply #45 on: February 21, 2012, 12:26:15 PM » |
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It's awkward rapping with vague politics from a guy that magically becomes black. Literally the whole thing is this. Are white people afraid to say this is terrible or something?
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Donnacha
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« Reply #46 on: February 21, 2012, 12:31:45 PM » |
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I think stuffy "think-of-the-children" white people would be the first to say such a thing is terrible, and loudly. Bulworth works, though. It's very well-written.
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Luke Erik
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« Reply #47 on: February 21, 2012, 01:12:24 PM » |
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Bulworth works, though.
Never watched Bulworth, and only because of that damned Ghetto Superstar song. Dumb reason to not watch a movie, but man that song still grates on my nerves. Bulworth, added to my queue. |
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Dalton
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« Reply #48 on: February 21, 2012, 01:14:54 PM » |
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It's awkward rapping with vague politics from a guy that magically becomes black. Literally the whole thing is this. Are white people afraid to say this is terrible or something?
That's so silly. It's been a while but I remember the politics of the movie being fairly pointed. I would say in some ways it started my transformation from being pretty conservative to whatever it is I am now. I think Ari Huffington says the same thing about it. |
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« Reply #49 on: February 21, 2012, 01:25:46 PM » |
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Bulworth should have rapped about how the Ghostbusters were throwing a party for a bunch of children while all the while the slime was under the building, so Derick could get on board.
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Donnacha
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« Reply #50 on: February 21, 2012, 02:01:09 PM » |
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Never watched Bulworth, and only because of that damned Ghetto Superstar song. Dumb reason to not watch a movie, but man that song still grates on my nerves.
Bulworth, added to my queue.
I'm pleased. "Ghetto Supastar" has a bit of sentimental value for me because it was #2 in Ireland when I visited home in 1998. Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" was #1. Both songs are time machines for me. |
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« Reply #51 on: February 21, 2012, 02:26:56 PM » |
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It's awkward rapping with vague politics from a guy that magically becomes black. Literally the whole thing is this. Are white people afraid to say this is terrible or something?
Terrified. What we aren't afraid to do is not see it. And if the not-really-that-vague politics are the problem for you, you are not going to like most of the movies that come out in the next two years. Are you guys counting BLOOD SIMPLE? Doesn't count. |
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« Reply #52 on: February 21, 2012, 02:57:29 PM » |
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Yeah... I've seen at least 160 of these ( I was running a Blockbuster and going out to the movies a few times a week at that time), no way I'm organizing that.
Love: Zero Effect, Dark City, The Big Lebowski, The Big Hit, Bullworth, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, The Truman Show, Dirty Work, Small Soldiers, PI, There's Something About Mary, BASEketball, Dead Man On Campus, Pecker, What Dreams May Come, Night at the Roxbury, Bride of Chucky, Orgazmo, Very Bad Things, A Simple Plan
Hate: Sphere, Krippendorf's Tribe, Chairman of the Board, The Man in the Iron Mask,, Woo, Avengers, Wrongfully Accused, Urban Legend, Strangeland, Holy Man, Belly
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« Reply #53 on: February 21, 2012, 03:00:33 PM » |
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That's so silly. It's been a while but I remember the politics of the movie being fairly pointed. I would say in some ways it started my transformation from being pretty conservative to whatever it is I am now. I think Ari Huffington says the same thing about it.
I felt the same way about MALIBU'S MOST WANTED. |
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Luke Erik
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« Reply #54 on: February 21, 2012, 03:08:49 PM » |
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I'm pleased.
"Ghetto Supastar" has a bit of sentimental value for me because it was #2 in Ireland when I visited home in 1998. Brandy & Monica's "The Boy Is Mine" was #1. Both songs are time machines for me.
If it wasn't for a cute girl asking me to take her to see Godzilla (1998), I would have never watched it in protest of Puffy sampling Zeppelin (and Zeppelin letting Puffy sample their music) . I was a complete music snob back in college. Unfortunately, I am probably still a music snob. |
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« Reply #55 on: February 21, 2012, 03:11:41 PM » |
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I wish I could find the column Huffington wrote about the movie when it came out. She sums up what was great about it better than I ever could. I think Dobbin could too, if he were so inclined.
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« Reply #56 on: February 21, 2012, 03:15:44 PM » |
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The BULWORTH soundtrack is pretty great. Heh, Dalton's political views were changed by lines like "Taxpayers taxpayers take it in the REAR!"
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Luke Erik
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« Reply #58 on: February 21, 2012, 03:44:01 PM » |
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The BULWORTH soundtrack is pretty great.
It's the jam, it's the jam, it's the jam, it's got groove, it's got feeling. Used to love me some black eyed peas. |
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« Reply #59 on: February 21, 2012, 03:50:48 PM » |
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Actually, if I recall, Diddy (nee Puff Daddy) didn't technically sample Zeppelin. Jimmy Page played him a newly recorded part for the song. No?
Also, it's pretty ironic to complain about Zeppelin getting sampled -- half of their catalogue belongs to Willie Dixon.
Now let's all sit back and bemoan the heroes we idolized in our youth as, alternatively, RIPPED OFF and/or SELL-OUTS!!!
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