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PsychoPhreaker G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Imperial Academy Trainee	posted on 02-18-2002 @ 10:29 PM
Psychopath Registered: Oct. 01	Mel Gibson always seem to come out with a different war movie. First, there was Braveheart, which was a great movie. A few years ago, there was The Patriot, which was an ok movie, but nothing great. Now, there is this We Were Soldiers movie coming out. Does he decide that he is going to take war movies in chronological order like this? Should we look for a Vietnam or Desert Storm Movie (there wouldn't be a Korean War Movie, WWII and Korea were too close together)? "This is my BOOM stick..." "It's not rape, it's suprise sex!"

OAAWITE	posted on 02-18-2002 @ 10:41 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	Well he did already do Air America which was about Vietnam, and the Mad Max movies were all in the future which was all war all the time. Confirmed kills: FoundryMusicJeff

PsychoPhreaker G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Imperial Academy Trainee	posted on 02-18-2002 @ 10:51 PM
Psychopath Registered: Oct. 01	ahh, Air America, but can we count the Mad Max movies? They weren't focused around a war, just chaos in the future... "This is my BOOM stick..." "It's not rape, it's suprise sex!"

Joey BigArms I Need An Old Priest And A Young Priest	posted on 02-18-2002 @ 11:02 PM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	All I know, is that I will be watching this movie on March 1st, opening night. opieanthony.com; Like a retarded yoyo, you will keep coming back. *"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" Charles Dickens* Over The Limit

Froy King Shit board owner	posted on 02-18-2002 @ 11:04 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01	I'm not sure I see your point. This is a movie about Vietnam, if he were doing them chronologically, you wouldn't be asking if we will see a Korea film or Second World War film afterwards. And don't forget one of the first war movies he did, Gallipoli. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit

PsychoPhreaker G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Imperial Academy Trainee	posted on 02-18-2002 @ 11:21 PM
Psychopath Registered: Oct. 01	wait, i thought this movie was about WWII!? ahh, fuck it, I give up... "This is my BOOM stick..." "It's not rape, it's suprise sex!"

TeenWeek what's a status?	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 7:45 AM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00	I can't wait to see this movie. It looks really good. Braveheart was an alltime great movie. And I liked the patriot.

Norton's Victim	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 8:34 AM
Psychopath Registered: Jan. 02	I always liked his war movies. What would you rather see him in, more chick flicks like 'What Woman Want'? (Even though he was cool at the beginning of that movie. My chick made me see it). If it makes you feel better, he is also going to be in a movie by the guy that did 'The Sixth Sense' and 'Unbreakable'. "Choices always were a problem for you. What you need is someone strong to guide you. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow, what you need is someone strong to use you.. like me, like me. If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me .Don't judge or question.You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do. Deaf and blind and dumb and born to follow. Let me lay my holy hand upon you. My Gods will becomes me. When he speaks out, he speaks through me. He has needs like I do. We both want to rape you. Jesus Christ, why don't you come save my life. Open my eyes and blind me with your light and your lies." - Tool The Rules of Being Steve: 1) Be Desireless 2) Be Excellent 3) Be Gone - The Tao of Steve

Rookie Have you ever seen a grown man naked? Stature of an Oompa Loompa! JBA's Stalker. Post Whore One Week, Fart In The Wind The Next	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 8:52 AM
O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01	Braveheart and The Patriot were both great movies, and by the way they are incredible DVDs. I hope We Were Soldiers lives up to the same standards... I used to post on OpieAnthony.com but I lost my bookmark and now I can't find the site.

Froy King Shit board owner	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 8:58 AM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01	quote: Braveheart and The Patriot were both great movies That's because they were the same movie. A sort of updated Rio Bravo/El Dorado tandem. quote: wait, i thought this movie was about WWII!? Somebody needs to pick up a history book. You won't find many M16's & Helicopters on the battlefields of Northern France in 1944. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit

Buttmunch USA Autoban Head Slap... Swim Move...	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 9:24 AM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00	Forever Young was a movie loosely based on WWII. He was a bomber pilot in that movie as I recall. quote: A sort of updated Rio Bravo/El Dorado tandem. Ah, the ubiquitous Froy/John Wayne reference. TMS

GonzoStyle	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 10:42 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	quote: That's because they were the same movie. That sounds like when people called casino and goodfellas the same movie. Cause they both had soooo much in common, smell the sarcasm please. How is the Patriot & Braveheart the same movie? I will agree when you do similar movies within a short span the second movie will lose its luster. Casino was actually an amazing movie but because the DeNiro/Pesci combo was assumed to be the same as goodfellas which it was not. De Niro played a character the complete opposite of the one he played in Goodfellas. Patriot & Braveheart are similar in the fact they are movies of rebellion, I agree. But to just slap a label on a movie like Patriot which was actually a very good movie. On that basis every western John Wayne did was the same. Every gangster movie from the 30's - 50's is the same. In all actuality then all movies can be linked to another movie. Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a genuinely revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay, more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If, by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class", the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

Buttmunch USA Autoban Head Slap... Swim Move...	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 11:05 AM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00	quote: On that basis every western John Wayne did was the same. Every gangster movie from the 30's - 50's is the same. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and pretty soon you're going to say all porno is the same. Pfft! TMS

GonzoStyle	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 11:16 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	quote: Yeah, yeah, yeah, and pretty soon you're going to say all porno is the same. Pfft! To call it porno is disrespectful to the majestic history of the industry of adult cinema. Adult Films are not just snippets of greatness caught on film or cheap TDK videotapes. It's a study of the basic human need and desire of pleasure and the necessity of survival and creating life. At the same time the film noir of adult film will show how easily life can be wasted by ejaculating on a woman or man or even animals face, back, chest or ass. Adult films are more like instructional documentations on life and love. No so called "classic" film can compare to the great Buttman series or the teen sluts who drink cum saga. How much countless pleasure and entertainment these films bring to not only americans but the world can never be equaled. Adult films speak volumes with no dialouge. Put that in your hand and stroke it!!! Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a genuinely revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay, more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If, by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class", the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

Buttmunch USA Autoban Head Slap... Swim Move...	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 11:22 AM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Oct. 00	You are welcome for the set-up! TMS

IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 11:26 AM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	So are you saying that people who make war movies should only make war movies chronologically? Thus then Kubrick made a mistake by going WW1, Rev War, Vietnam? I don't get your point. and yes WWS is VIETNAM. While I agree with Gonzo that saying that Patriot and Braveheart & Casino/Goodfellas are the same movie is both incredibly wrong, I have to disagree saying that The Patriot was a God awful movie. "It appears my wee wee has been strucken with rigor mortis." Tuesday 2/19: CBS: Jag (R), Guardian (R), Amy (R)...NBC: Olympics...FOX: 70s Show, Undeclared, 24...ABC: Kids (R), Jim (R), Carey (R), Line (R)...UPN: 2 Hours of buffy repeats...WB: Witchblade origin TNT movie...SCIFI: 9- Mad Max..... I've purchased illegal substances once- i guess i caused the death of a baby- i wish i could have killed that fucker with my own hands. "Dude, Terrorism is so not cool. "- an RF.neter

GonzoStyle	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 11:28 AM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	quote: You are welcome for the set-up! God Bless your heart, I been waiting a week to do that post. No one ever had a better straight man. How did we get from Mel Gibson's film history and war discussion to this? See it proves my point, it's a circle... always goes back to the start and repeats, it all comes back to the greatness of Adult Cinema. Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a genuinely revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay, more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If, by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class", the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

disgustip8ed	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 12:07 PM
Psychopath Registered: Mar. 01	Hopefully the action, acting and storyline will be better then Mel Gibson's attempt at a Texas/Arkansas-ish accent. 'Wear your crutch like a crown of negativity. Calculate what we will not tolerate. Desperate to control, all and everything. Unable to forgive, Scarlet letterman.' MJK

Froy King Shit board owner	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 12:29 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Feb. 01	I thought the Patriot was no where near as good a movie as Braveheart, but it was entertaining. Come on, both were about insurrections, centered upon essentially the same character, a farmer who just wanted to live in peace, but is forced into politics and battle when the evil enemy kills his family. He leads a ragtag bunch of ordinary militiamen against a supposedly more disciplined and superior force, is betrayed by the people he trusts at some point, etc. etc. I liked the movie, don't get me wrong, but I found it to be a watered down Braveheart set in the American revolution. I believe in the Faith... that can save me. I believe in the hope and I pray... That someday it may raise me... above these badlands Over The Limit

OAAWITE	posted on 02-19-2002 @ 12:59 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	Braveheart is alone at the apex of my pantheon of great movies. No movie comes close. Becuase of this I was excited to see Patriot in the theatre as soon as it came out a few summers ago. The movie sucked ass by the way. However, there was one scene in particular that will always stay with me. Mel Gibson and his two smallest sons including one complete faggott-ass, are about to ambush the British soldiers holding his oldest son. It was a pretty intense scene, and the standing-room-only crowd at the movie theatre watching this movie on The 4th of July was glued to the screen with stonefaced silence. The raw emotion of this bloodied, fearless, and engraged man as he threw his axe at the last fleeing British Soldier and mercilessly hacked and hacked and hacked him to death for what seemed as a full 30 seconds as his shocked children and hundreds of jaw-dropped movie patrons was only broken when a lone person (me) erupted into uncontrollable sidesplitting laughter as the scene just kept going for what seemed like an eternity. I have NEVER laughed as hard in any movie in my life. I don't go out with that girl anymore. Confirmed kills: FoundryMusicJeff This message was edited by OAAWITE on 2-21-02 @ 9:56 PM

CJMello	posted on 02-20-2002 @ 2:09 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 02	Movie is based on the book:We Were Soldiers Once... and Young. Major engagement in the Ia Drang Valley in November 1965. First use of the helicopter to land troops if I remember correctly. Greatly outnumbered by the NVA. Who does Mel play? "Spitters are Quitters."

**~BeckyDC~** Teh TWATWAFFLE Y's teh EGGROLL!!!	posted on 02-20-2002 @ 2:19 PM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01	Maybe it's his fettish??? The whole role playing war-god stud thing? "I can't feel the way you want me to, I'll use you, abuse you, I'll use you, confuse you. I can't feel the way you want me to, It's just my POWER TOOL"

IkeaBoy P.L.F. Portugese Liberation Front- Liberating Status' everywhere from the Tyranny of Portugal I will die a traitor's death	posted on 02-20-2002 @ 2:36 PM
O&A Board Veteran Registered: Sep. 00	gibson plays Hal Moore "It appears my wee wee has been strucken with rigor mortis." Wednesday 2/20: CBS: 60 Minutes 2, Breakdown...NBC: Olympics...FOX: 80s Show, Grounded,Bernie, Titus....ABC: Kids(R), Jim(R), Carey(R), Line (R)(NO JOB!!!)....UPN: Enterprise repeat * 2 ... WB: Creek, Days...TBS: 9- Wild Wild West..... I've purchased illegal substances once- i guess i caused the death of a baby- i wish i could have killed that fucker with my own hands. "Dude, Terrorism is so not cool. "- an RF.neter

GonzoStyle	posted on 02-20-2002 @ 3:22 PM
Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 70	quote: The whole role playing war-god stud thing? Mel Gibson is playing Upuauat? Of all the classes that stand face to face with the bourgeoisie today, the proletariat alone is a genuinely revolutionary class. The other classes decay and finally disappear in the face of Modern Industry; the proletariat is its special and essential product. The lower middle class, the small manufacturer, the shopkeeper, the artisan, the peasant, all these fight against the bourgeoisie, to save from extinction their existence as fractions of the middle class. They are therefore not revolutionary, but conservative. Nay, more, they are reactionary, for they try to roll back the wheel of history. If, by chance, they are revolutionary, they are only so in view of their impending transfer into the proletariat; they thus defend not their present, but their future interests; they desert their own standpoint to place themselves at that of the proletariat. The "dangerous class", the social scum, that passively rotting mass thrown off by the lowest layers of the old society, may, here and there, be swept into the movement by a proletarian revolution; its conditions of life, however, prepare it far more for the part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue.

Kramden's Delicious Marshall I think Yoda is sexy.	posted on 02-21-2002 @ 9:02 PM
Psychopath Registered: Sep. 01	I like Mel.

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