Popular Culture

[ummProfessional]

i just want to discuss about your fav. movies, music, games, and other modes of arts..for the restricted members and the commies as well, since me as a restricted member can't talk about this on where it's supposed to be done i guess....just to get off the political issues a bit, although you can defenitaly tie in political issues that might be presented in these modes of art....

anyways, have you guys seen the movie Tsotsi? the South African Academy Award winner this year....it's a fucking awsome movie, i think everyone should see it....it's a great story of redemption in the South African "ghettos", this country is ravaged by the AIDS epidemic, and also by these thugs, it's really sad the situation...but regardless awsome movie highly recomend to everyone here

so long

[ummProfessional]

Roger Ebert is in serious but stable condition in the hospital! boy i hope he recovers he is my favorite movie critic!

get well EBERT!

[More Fire for the People]

My favourite movies list goes on forever but off the top of my head my favourite movies plotwise are Hotel Rwanda and The Matrix; funwise I quite enjoy 50 First Dates, The Brothers Grimm, and the Austin Powers trilogy.

TV shows: Stargate-SG1, The 4400, Lost, and Windfall. In other words: aliens, abductees, confusion, and money. I don’t play video games that much but my favourite two games are Final Fantasy 7 and Kingdom Hearts.

[Jazzratt]

My favourite movie is Withnail and I: About two actors who do a lot of drunken stupid things. A lot like me (although I'm a musician not an actor, it still has the same amount of unemployment). I recommend it heartily to anyone who as ever been too drunk to remember to put trousers on to go outside.


Don't watch a lot of TV, but do recently printed books count as pop culutre? Because in that case i'm into Terry Pratchett, Ian Banks, Ian M Banks and Tom Holt. I especially recommend you some Ian Banks, the waspfactory or crow road being favourite there.

Can I extend this to music too? Becuase I listen to a fuckload of Corrosion Of Conformity (Heavy Metal) and Kieth Jarrett (Jazz).

[ummProfessional]

yeah sure Jazzrat, anything with art, that is interesting that you would want to talk about or whatever...

hey Hopscotch Anthill i loved Hotel Rwanda, that was a really really good movie, very powerfull, if you liked that one i highly recommend Tsotsi..

Jazzrat, have you read Papillon? it was also made into an excellent film with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in the 1970's...

and you like music, great man everyone does! lol i think one of the best singers , actualy truest musicians in the world right now is Seal, he is great....

TV shows i don't watch much, except Comedy Central and History Channel...hahaha i love John Stewart and Stephen Colbert in Comedy Central!! lol they are awsome....

anyways, i barely watch Hollywood films by the way, im into foreign cinema the most... specially since i watched Nacho Libre last weekend with my girl! hahaha that was so fucking retarded! lol

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by [email protected] 3 2006, 11:55 PM
Jazzrat, have you read Papillon? it was also made into an excellent film with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in the 1970's...

and you like music, great man everyone does! lol i think one of the best singers , actualy truest musicians in the world right now is Seal, he is great....

TV shows i don't watch much, except Comedy Central and History Channel...hahaha i love John Stewart and Stephen Colbert in Comedy Central!! lol they are awsome....

anyways, i barely watch Hollywood films by the way, im into foreign cinema the most... specially since i watched Nacho Libre last weekend with my girl! hahaha that was so fucking retarded! lol
Haven't read Papillion, who's it by?

Who is Seal, he got a genre of any kind attached to his name or is he too 'avante-garde' (I'm sure that means 'pretentious wank') for that.

If I lived over in America I'm fairly sure I'd watch comedy central, because a good laugh is a good laugh.

Don't watch too much foriegn cinema (or any again for that matter), that said 'Delecatessan' is a film I recommend, its a comedy based on cannibalism (those wacky french hey?). What the hell is Nacho Libre?

[ummProfessional]

Haven't read Papillion, who's it by?

Who is Seal, he got a genre of any kind attached to his name or is he too 'avante-garde' (I'm sure that means 'pretentious wank') for that.

If I lived over in America I'm fairly sure I'd watch comedy central, because a good laugh is a good laugh.

Don't watch too much foriegn cinema (or any again for that matter), that said 'Delecatessan' is a film I recommend, its a comedy based on cannibalism (those wacky french hey?). What the hell is Nacho Libre?

Papillon is a supposed autobiography of Henri Charriere, a french convict who spent 14 years on Devil's Island the french penal colony in French Guiana, it's interesting but whatever it's like the only book iv ever read lol hahahaha so i can't really recommend too many books, maybe Dune and thats it...

Seal, i think you should look him up, he is a real great musician, although it depends what kind of music you like

anyways here is a video of Seal, he is regarded as having one of the best male voices as we speak...

this is one of his oldest videos back when he came out but it's one of his best songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgivQD8TDh4&search=crazy-seal
don't really know what genre he is, i guess you will decide lol

and you can't watch Comedy Central, hahaha that sucks here take a loot at this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOM2a5bQgdM&search=stephen%20colbert hahaha Stephen Colbert making fun of the Fox News Reporters, Stephen is so great with satire.... everyone should watch this!! lol

you don't watch foreign movies? where are you living? well i recommend Asian films they are really good specially Korean and some Japanese....

i will see this canibal movie hahaha see what it is about lol

[VonClausewitz]

My favourite sorts of films at the moment are period films, specifically 19th century and further back periods. It's good fun to watch some of the old 'Empire' films made back in the late 1930's, films like 'The Four Feathers' and 'The Charge of the Light Brigade'. They really show how mass media has really shifted it's political bias. Plus they're entertaining and educational for their non-PC value.

(from The Charge of the Light Brigade (1970's), to illustrate how things have changed)
(Enter Lord Cardigan into the cavalry stables)
"Does that black savage belong to him ?"
"Captain Nolan served in India milord, and has an Indian servant"
"That's no excuse"

(It shows how at some point film-makers went from showing the past how it was, to showing the past how they're PC masters would like it to have been. Watch the remake of the Four Feathers, it's awfull).

A good Korean film (on the subject of foreign films) is 'Brotherhood', set in the Korean war, so it's good for rarity value, and because it's not about America winning a war, it's about the human element of it all, and there's a hearty ammount of commie-bashing, though it's pretty anti-violence full stop.

I don't watch much TV really, appart from old re-runs of BBC comedies like 'allo 'allo and Goodnight Sweetheart.

Music I listen to personally is tending towards 80's hair-metal and British heavy metal at the moment, and some Power-Metal. Songs with melody and decent lyrics, that rarely feel the need to swear and moan about the same tired topics, just pure entertainment.


Jazzrat, have you read Papillon? it was also made into an excellent film with Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman in the 1970's...

I've seen the film, but not read the book, I'll seek it out also.

[Raisa]

My favorite movie is Girls Gone Wild ......Three.

[Zapata]

tsotsi was a great movie, but the ending was too cliche

[Zero]

Gattica, October Sky, Hotel Rwanda, and School of Rock are my fav movies =).

And without a doubt, the best show to ever hit the T.V. has to be...

Blackadder! :D

[Jazzratt]

Originally posted by [email protected] 6 2006, 08:31 PM
And without a doubt, the best show to ever hit the T.V. has to be...

Blackadder! :D
Blackadder rocks my crotch.

[Zapata]

you gotta spread the word. rage against the machine was good at that; you cant just play in places that arent bourgoisie. thats preachin to the choir.