Did they bring all 700 little Smiths with them to terrorize the place?

Did they enjoy some Mr. & Mrs. T bloody mary mix?

Did they get any more pretentious and annoying as a result of the visit?

by the way, Fark, am i the only one who actually liked Mr and Mrs Smith? i thought it was pretty darn funny.

they need to stfu.

all three of them. about everything.

BRAD: yeah we gotta uh..do some uh..talk to her..
VAGELINAZ: we need to stop the violence. i read that on a bumper sticker.
OBAMA: let me ask my handlers at Haliburton what i should say. i'll get back to you.

/Obama is useless
//Bradgina is more useless

Apos: skyotter: by the way, Fark, am i the only one who actually liked Mr and Mrs Smith? i thought it was pretty darn funny.

Agreed. Most onscreen/offscreen couplings are horrendous(Gigli,Eyes Wide Shut ,I'm looking at you two) but this was a rare and pleasant exception.

Eyes Wide Shut was not a bad movie. Long and boring, yes, but that's the director's style and if you didn't know that going in, that's surprising. I think the same point could have been made in a PG-rated 40 minute movie-of-the-week, and maybe been less stylized but more watchable.

Any director who can make an orgy *boring* needs to be keel-hauled.

Apos: Unsung_Hero: Apos: skyotter: by the way, Fark, am i the only one who actually liked Mr and Mrs Smith? i thought it was pretty darn funny.

Agreed. Most onscreen/offscreen couplings are horrendous(Gigli,Eyes Wide Shut ,I'm looking at you two) but this was a rare and pleasant exception.

Eyes Wide Shut was not a bad movie. Long and boring, yes, but that's the director's style and if you didn't know that going in, that's surprising. I think the same point could have been made in a PG-rated 40 minute movie-of-the-week, and maybe been less stylized but more watchable.

Any director who can make an orgy *boring* needs to be keel-hauled.

As an ardent Kubrick fan,I strongly disagree: It *was* a bad flick,not merely because it was languidly paced-which I might have forgiven-but also due to the fact that it seemed...like a joyless undertaking for everyone involved. Even the late great Sydney Pollack seemed morose at being a part of it. Cruise and Kidman displayed all the chemistry of a blackboard being erased. It just plain sucked.

And this was Kubrick's very last film. Poor chap probably died of shame.


I disagree - somewhat. It was not a great film, certainly, but it was only really "bad" when judged by the standards of what one expected of Stanley Kubrick. It rates damn poorly against Paths of Glory, The Shining, Full Metal Jacket, 2001, or The Killing (without the last of which Quentin Tarentino's films would have been completely different), but it's on a par with Killer's Kiss, and rates at least "meh" when competing against motion pictures by other directors. Eyes Wide Shut was such a disappointment because we anticipated so much more.

I find it interesting that people whose job is to play 'make believe' get a personal visit with the President.

It is par for the course for every President and it never ceases to disgust me.

Mugato: James Scameron: all three of them. about everything.

Yeah, adopting kids who would otherwise be dead, going to third world hell holes and giving shiatloads of money to help them, their enormous efforts in rebuilding NOLA. What a couple of coont rags.

ok..you just lost what little funny you had...so lets take you to task here ..

"Yeah, adopting kids who would otherwise be dead"
-you don't know that. that's simply an opinion. if you can prove that empirically or in anecdotal form, then please show your work. this is piffle so shush with that. if you quote a people magazine press release then..uh yeah...sure..

"going to third world hell holes and giving shiatloads of money to help them"
- like every other showbiz turd throwing money down a well and not even coming close to the real problem. a decent effort sure, but useless in the long term. systemic problems in the "world" are not solved by celebrity Santa visits. sadly these types of problems take years to fix. IF they get fixed.
celebrity Santa money has a great way of messing things up even more.
(since we are painting with a wide brush here...)

those "hell holes" are such so that people like Brad and Crazy Vagina can have cheap toothbrushes and a fleet of giant cars, diamond rings...a cheap cleaning lady...
so that's nice..they are leaving a tip.

nothing forgives a sense of celebrity entitlement and conspicuous consumption like a little charity coin toss...to those that have...nothing... YAAAAYYY!!!


" their enormous efforts in rebuilding NOLA"
- yeah. things they sure are a lot better because of those two.
maybe Sean Penn can throw a press posse back together and go back and do some more free legal work for his adoring fans too. another drop in the bucket in "real terms".
businesses and business people have left, the poor are still poor, the environmental damage is still as bad as ever..and it isn't their problem to "fix".
again, e for effort but ...zzzzzzz "Yay Vagelina and B-Rad..."

when i think about "charitable stars" i think of people like the Newmans..who kept a little and shared a lot. and they stfu about it most of the time.

not those who keep lots and do very little with a lot. and then plaster themselves all over the news everything they throw alms to the lepers.

it's the thought that counts, but it would count a lot more if they could think...

you also need to stop referring to economically depressed countries as "third world" as it is an obsolete term and in context it borders on bigotry.

but yeah...movie stars as patron saints of the poor...

good thing i didn't mention what a turd Bono is...

Apos: skyotter: by the way, Fark, am i the only one who actually liked Mr and Mrs Smith? i thought it was pretty darn funny.

Agreed. Most onscreen/offscreen couplings are horrendous(Gigli,Eyes Wide Shut ,I'm looking at you two) but this was a rare and pleasant exception.

That movie was made before they were a couple, while Pitt was still with Aniston. But if you saw any of the interviews they did prior to the movies release, it was painfully obvious they were totally into each other (possibly literally).

Mugato: James Scameron: all three of them. about everything.

Yeah, adopting kids who would otherwise be dead, going to third world hell holes and giving shiatloads of money to help them, their enormous efforts in rebuilding NOLA. What a couple of coont rags.

Actually, shutting the hell up and doing those this are not mutually exclusive. It could be the best of both worlds.

James Scameron

"Yeah, adopting kids who would otherwise be dead"
-you don't know that. that's simply an opinion. if you can prove that empirically or in anecdotal form, then please show your work. this is piffle so shush with that. if you quote a people magazine press release then..uh yeah...sure..

Okay, would have been substantially worse off, how's that? Can you prove that empirically, no of course not, we have no insight into alternate time lines, but it is reasonably safe to assume. Maybe we would be living in a much better world if the Germans had won world war 2, but I kind of doubt it. I can't prove it empirically, but it seems like a safe assumption.

"going to third world hell holes and giving shiatloads of money to help them"
- like every other showbiz turd throwing money down a well and not even coming close to the real problem. a decent effort sure, but useless in the long term.

But not useless in the short term. This is like saying we shouldn't feed or shelter homeless people because we haven't solved the national homelessness problem.

"their enormous efforts in rebuilding NOLA"
- yeah. things they sure are a lot better because of those two.
maybe Sean Penn can throw a press posse back together and go back and do some more free legal work for his adoring fans too. another drop in the bucket in "real terms".

This is similar to the people who say the economic stimulus was a total failure. Just because we continued an inevitable economic downturn does not mean it wouldn't have been far worse without it.

Regardless, I'm sure your humanitarian efforts have been far more impactful. Please cite them.

WayToBlue: James Scameron


Okay, would have been substantially worse off, how's that? Can you prove that empirically, no of course not, we have no insight into alternate time lines, but it is reasonably safe to assume. Maybe we would be living in a much better world if the Germans had won world war 2, but I kind of doubt it. I can't prove it empirically, but it seems like a safe assumption.

all piffle. answer a point that asks for proof or at least a decent rationale with more speculation and then Godwin it? WW2? Germans? WOW..great example.
Maybe a better way to describe your pointless analogy here would be to wonder what Eastern Europe might be like covered in mayonnaise...and then blame Eva Braun....
grade?
EPIC FAIL

But not useless in the short term. This is like saying we shouldn't feed or shelter homeless people because we haven't solved the national homelessness problem.

i didn't say that, you did.... and there is a big difference between the domestic homeless and the forced poor of other countries first,
second, putting a band aid (pun very much intended) on a complex problem in countries that are being slowly and intentionally bled to death and saying its better than naught? oh please...
complex problems require complex solutions not band aids and naive, stock, wishful thinking answers like yours.
"it's better to give them a pop machine and charge them to have no water to drink because ..um..its better than nothing..uh.."
oh the shortsighted charity...
so...you fail, then throw the domestic homeless in to prove your point.
which are we discussing here? foreign or domestic poor?

fix the bigger problem, the little ones usually go away...
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This is similar to the people who say the economic stimulus was a total failure. Just because we continued an inevitable economic downturn does not mean it wouldn't have been far worse without it.
Regardless, I'm sure your humanitarian efforts have been far more impactful. Please cite them.

similar? no. allowing dictators to run countries and their respective peoples into the ground for profit so that fat Westerners can have cheap ipods is a very different thing from bailing out wall street bankers with golden parachutes so that...nothing changes again.
except your delusion of course.
another wishful thinking scheme that echos your earlier inanity.
the glass is still at 50% volume. better than nothing? uh..no.

and that economic stimulus stimulated nothing. it was a ripoff. nothing changed. it slowed the bleeding instead of stopping it and creating a solution.

annnnnd again you are completely confused as to the huge difference between domestic and foreign problems and their relative and realistic solutions.

my "humanitarian efforts"?.
i'm not a conspicuously rich movie star douchetard pretending to be a humanitarian. thats as far as i'll go addressing the stupidity of that comment. it has little to do with the "discussion" here , and i am using that term charitably on your behalf...

again, don't look at the points, look at the "bright side" and then ask another daft and uninsightful question and point to completely unrelated issues.
bravo.

you lose.
again, EPIC FAIL

Opeth1429: I find it interesting that people whose job is to play 'make believe' get a personal visit with the President.

It is par for the course for every President and it never ceases to disgust me.

If I were President I'd let Angelina Jolie come visit me too. So I could sneak her into the Lincoln room and have my way with her. Brad could wait in the Oval Office.

James Scameron

I've removed the various illustrative examples for brevity, as well as for your benefit as you're clearly have difficulty grasping parallels in logic in dissimilar circumstances.

WayToBlue: James Scameron

Okay, would have been substantially worse off, how's that? Can you prove that empirically, no of course not, we have no insight into alternate time lines, but it is reasonably safe to assume...

all piffle. answer a point that asks for proof or at least a decent rationale

Since intuition isn't your strong point... The US rates 4th on the HDI as compared to 139th in Cambodia, 174th in Ethiopia, and 128th in Vietnam where their adopted children are from. Moving 120-170 notches up the HDI (only 187 spots altogether) and going from being an orphan to having two rich parents means that you are much better positioned for a longer, healthier, better educated, etc... life. You shouldn't need this explained to you.

But not useless in the short term...

i didn't say that, you did.... putting a band aid (pun very much intended) on a complex problem in countries that are being slowly and intentionally bled to death and saying its better than naught? oh please...
complex problems require complex solutions not band aids and naive, stock, wishful thinking answers like yours.

Actually you did say that in so many words, and you just did again. Doing something actually is "better than naught" even if it doesn't solve the long term problem.

You're right, fixing things like this requires complex solutions which they're not the people to provide, but maybe there's value in keeping a few people from starving in the meantime?

my "humanitarian efforts"?.
i'm not a conspicuously rich movie star douchetard pretending to be a humanitarian.

No, you're the guy criticizing the "rich movie star douchetard" while doing nothing yourself. But somehow that gives you moral superiority. I'm sure it makes sense to you. I personally wouldn't want my legacy to be "he helped no one, but at least he criticized those that tried!" but that's just me.

Finally,

grade?
EPIC FAIL

grade?
MOAR FAIL

you lose.
again, EPIC FAIL

The funny thing is some of your comments actually imply that you're old enough to rent a car at the cheap rates, and yet it's also chocked full of this tween-grade nonsense. I realize this is only the internet but if you tried talking like a grown up sometime maybe people would take you seriously.

WayToBlue: James Scameron

blah blah.

the implication of my "moral superiority" is yours.
by pointing something out doesn't imply that i am morally superior, just that i have some roots in a reality that isn't based in entertainment tonight/people magazine land..

so...what are YOU doing about it then? what wells have you been digging? what charitable website do you work for? what kinda shoes are you wearing and what are you driving to work?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT THEN? lolllzoorz

and Mugato..your ability to look funny or smart aside from a glib one sentence comment here and there is wearing thin..your attention to long concepts and decent answers is showing it's real depth here.

America IS a reality show ...you are all participants in a big joke where you are the punchline.

go get another coke from the fridge while you think of your next truly deep and ironic one liner.

i love this place...

the cog/dis is ripe... a link for the wiki generation Link (new window)

this is getting better than a Batman thread for its idiocy..

but please..go on...

James Scameron

WayToBlue: James Scameron

blah blah.

the implication of my "moral superiority" is yours.
by pointing something out doesn't imply that i am morally superior, just that i have some roots in a reality that isn't based in entertainment tonight/people magazine land..

so...what are YOU doing about it then? what wells have you been digging? what charitable website do you work for? what kinda shoes are you wearing and what are you driving to work?
WHAT ARE YOU DOING ABOUT IT THEN? lolllzoorz

I give money to a few organizations, it isn't much and I don't know how much it really helps, but that's why I'm not on here talking shiat about people who are doing and giving more.

JFK would have nailed Angelina silly within the first hour.

Also in Mr. & Mrs. Smif, those two were like locomotives heading toward each other on the same track...