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Movie Review: "Beyond the Reach"

I just watched this because Literally Nothing Is Ever On TV. It's a low-budget movie from 2014 by an Italian, or French, director.

It stars Michael Douglas playing an arrogant, rich corporate douchebag. Real stretch for him. He's a big game hunter, or maybe just a big game shooter, as he has lots of expensive equipment -- a $500,000 six-wheel Humvee complete with espresso maker (!), a futuristic looking Steyr rifle -- but does not have a great deal of wilderness skills. He mostly just pays guides to get him close to big trophy animal so he can shoot it.

He pays a guide, played by a guy named Jeremy Irving, I think, to get him close to bighorn sheep in the Mojave Desert. He bribes the guy to overlook the fact that he doesn't have a permit to hunt the protected animals.

The problem comes when Douglas sees a shadow on a ridgeline and fires at it... without confirming the shadow was a bighorn sheep.

In fact, it was a human being, and he nailed him in the heart. He's dead as the desert.

At this point, Douglas attempts to further bribe the guide, but the guide isn't helping covering up a killing, even if it was an accident.

So Michael Douglas begins Plan B: He forces the guide to strip to his underwear, at gun point, and marches him through the merciless sun and 120 degree heat of the Mojave. His plan is that the guide will die a natural-appearing death, and he'll claim that the guide shot the man, then ran out into the desert in despair and eventually died of exposure, sunstroke, and thirst. With no witness to contradict him, he'll get away with it.

It's a lower-budget movie, as there are just two actors, pretty much (some brief appearances by others), and much of the time, the camera is only on one of them.

The other actor is the Mojave Desert, which puts in a damn fine performance.

After all the noise of the Marvel films, I enjoyed this quiet, taut, simple drama of one man trying to kill another man, and another man trying to survive. There's little dialogue between them, even, as there really isn't much to say past the opening: Michael Douglas just wants this guy dead. Not really a lot to discuss.

It's on demand on Starz.

Here are my ratings:

Minus 1/2 Star for No Rattlesnake Fu. Come on, a desert survival movie, and no rattlesnake? Have the guy wake up from sleeping and discover a rattlesnake has snuggled up next to him for warmth.

No wildlife at all, really -- not even the bighorn sheep. Not even the sounds of their horns clashing against each other in the distance.

Lots of sand, stone, and sun, though.

Plus/Minus 0 Stars for No Real Survivalcraft. I have to tell you upfront that while you might think the premise means you'll be getting survival tactics in this movie, you don't. You don't get any of it.

There are a couple of reasons, I think. First, it's hard to stage. To introduce some cool surivalcraft fun-facts, you'd have to have the guide explaining why he was going to his shadowed catch-basin hoping for some water, and that means he'd have to have someone to talk to, like a friend he's explaining things to.

Well, he doesn't. The whole point of this movie is a mano-a-mano duel in perfect isolation from mankind.

Alternately, you could have a voice-over, but that wouldn't work at all: The whole tone of this movie is supposed to be taught, panicky survival, and if you have the guy narrating coolly -- assumedly later, after he's already survived and extracted himself from the situation -- would demolish the tension.

I thought maybe he could steal a pocket recorder, in order to get the facts of the killing on tape in case of his death, and then he could say into that recorder "I'm going to this ridge of rocks, because the base of the rocks are in shadow so there might be unevapoarted water there," or whatever.

But even that really wouldn't work, because what they're going for is the idea that this guy is just in a terrible situation, and is just scrambling for his life, and if he is sitting there reading out these clever, highly-skilled strategems, it makes him seem more competent and on top of things than the movie wants him to be

So I give this neither a deduction nor a plus -- It's a choice the movie made, and a defensible one. But I feel like I have to point it out, because the first thing anyone would think (as I thought) was "Wow, cool, now we're going to see some neat survivalcraft."

Plus 1/2 Star for No Schlongs. Even though Douglas strips the guy, he lets him keep his jockey shorts, so we don't see any schlong bouncing around. And if that sounds bad to you womenfolk -- we also don't see sun-blistered schlong, which wouldn't be too cool.

Minus 1/2 Star for Suboptimal Climax. I think this sort of movie has to end in the classic way. I think at some point, the victim has to gain the upper hand, then turn the tables -- if only partially -- so that now the hunter becomes the hunted.

You want the villain not just to be defeated, but to know he's been defeated, and to understand the moral reasons for his defeat -- his hubris, his belief that he was a master of the situation, his arrogance that he was so much more capable than his would-be victim he could afford to get cute.

You want the villain, in other words, to know what a Total Asshole he was before he gets his.

So what I was expecting was a turning of the tables, and, say, 10-15 minutes of the guide now hunting Douglas.

I didn't get that. The climax is decent -- it's not bad -- but it happens pretty abruptly. It didn't really feel to me as if it built to that climax, that the movie was signaling "This is it, this is the end." The end just came.

Also, not to give away spoilers, but the Mojave Desert is a co-star in the movie. The climax should happen there -- all of it. I don't think this movie ever should have left the desert. The desert was just to intrinsic to the whole set up.

It would be like ending Die Hard in someplace other than the Nakatomi Tower.

Overall, I liked this movie, so I'll add up those pluses and minuses and still give it three stars. It's a very simple, very straightforward thriller with good scenery.

I like when filmmakers have the confidence that they don't have to make everything loud and fast moving and filled with CGI.

And I always say this: If, being a dramatist, you don't think that the situation of one man trying to kill another is inherently full of dramatic potential, and that you need to lard that scenario up with special effects and Funny Wisecracks and constant thumping Action Music, you need to get out of the business.

One man trying to murder another is not the highest form of drama, but it is certainly sufficient for a good drama. These filmmakers know that, and they don't try to gild the lily.

If you liked Tuco tortuing Blondie in the desert in The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and thought, 'Wow! They should make a whole movie just out of that!," well, this is for you.

Just an unexpectedly competent movie I'd never before heard of and had no expectations of. Three stars might be generous, but I guess I kind of like that they just didn't have a whole lot of mistakes and misfires in the movie.

PS: Yes, it's based on the Young Adult novel "Deathwatch."

I would have mentioned that originally, but I had no idea anyone else had ever heard of the novel, so I didn't see the point of noting it. But commetners immediately said "Sounds like Deathwatch," so yeah, it is that.

Oh, and it's apparently a remake of the 1974 film "Savages," where Andy Griffith played the hunter. I had no idea this book was so well known (or dated back so far).

Posted by: Ace at 05:25 PM




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1 foist

Posted by: Mallflower at January 29, 2016 05:26 PM (qSIlh)

2 Hello?

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:26 PM (hk3Fb)

3 what with the italians?

Posted by: Mallflower at January 29, 2016 05:26 PM (qSIlh)

4 Sounds like a film version of Robb White's "Deatchwatch." Sweet.

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at January 29, 2016 05:28 PM (uEtcQ)

5 This review is slanted.

Posted by: johnd01 at January 29, 2016 05:28 PM (ukNFU)

6 yeah, that'd be "Deathwatch."

Posted by: Impudent Warwick at January 29, 2016 05:28 PM (uEtcQ)

7 Italics need closure.....

Posted by: Curmudgeon at January 29, 2016 05:28 PM (GsebS)

8 trump next reagan crud and rubamnesty=beevus&butthead!

Posted by: triumph at January 29, 2016 05:29 PM (omSq+)

9 obviously an allegory about Hillery's struggle to overcome sexist oppression on her way to becoming the Champion of the American People.

Posted by: Mallflower at January 29, 2016 05:29 PM (qSIlh)

10 How does this concept work once the guide figures out that he intends for him to die? Can't he just say FU, shoot me?

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 29, 2016 05:29 PM (evdj2)

11 Italics invented the reach-a-round!

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:29 PM (b99VK)

12 No thumbs up!

Posted by: A Sloth at January 29, 2016 05:29 PM (8ZskC)

13 This is very much the story of... me.

**cackles crazily**

Posted by: Cankles! Clinton at January 29, 2016 05:30 PM (H9MG5)

14 A sun burned schlonged would be cringe worthy

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:30 PM (hk3Fb)

15 >>>Sounds like a film version of Robb White's "Deatchwatch." Sweet.

hah, it is in fact just that. Which I bought after the movie.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:30 PM (dciA+)

16 Enough with all the blather. Just tell me, does anyone get dorked by a bear in this one?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 29, 2016 05:30 PM (8ZskC)

17 you know this is the kind of movie that Siskel would give a thumbs down and Ebert would stuff his face with donuts.

Posted by: Mallflower at January 29, 2016 05:30 PM (qSIlh)

18 >>>yeah, that'd be "Deathwatch."

yup. I would have said so but I had no idea any of you had heard of it. I never heard of it.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:31 PM (dciA+)

19
Ace, the plot description sounds a hell of a lot like the last sequence of "Greed" (aka "McTeague").

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:32 PM (zLP1L)

20 So...nearly "naked and afraid", but with a gun.

Posted by: Lizzy at January 29, 2016 05:32 PM (NOIQH)

21 "... and Ebert would stuff his face with donuts."

That was harsh. Jaw-droppingly harsh.

Posted by: Qoheleth at January 29, 2016 05:32 PM (iIzG7)

22 No wildlife at all, really -- not even the bighorn sheep. Not even the sounds of their horns clashing against each other in the distance.

Never seen it, but its probably the director making a statement about lifelessness and emptiness.

Consider the final gun battle scene in one of my all time favorite westerns Silverado.

One shot is Brian Denney at his most wicked, and behind him is... emptiness, flat wasteland. His opponent is Kevin (that bastard for marrying Phoebe Cates) Kline and behind him is... the town church.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:32 PM (39g3+)

23 If you have to shoot, shoot. Don't talk.

Posted by: GnuBreed, Tuco fanboi at times at January 29, 2016 05:32 PM (gyKtp)

24 >>Plus 1/2 Star for No Schlongs.


I'm sick and tired of these motherfuckin' floppy schlongs on this motherfuckin' plane!





Posted by: Samuel L. Jackson at January 29, 2016 05:32 PM (b99VK)

25 Ace was hoping for a schlong shot.. God, Ace.. you need to get out more..

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at January 29, 2016 05:33 PM (UpGcq)

26 I'll bet there are no hamsters.


Or pie.


Or ponies.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:33 PM (NeFrd)

27 >>>Ace, the plot description sounds a hell of a lot like the last sequence of "Greed" (aka "McTeague").

so weird, I just mentioned this movie to someone else, and that's what he said too.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:33 PM (dciA+)

28 Apropos of nothing, I like Dead Calm, starring Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman and Billy Zane.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 29, 2016 05:33 PM (evdj2)

29 The other actor is the Mojave Desert, which puts in a damn fine performance.


Meh. It's a paycheck.

Posted by: Brian Dennehy at January 29, 2016 05:33 PM (8ZskC)

30 It takes a long time to die of exposure. Three days or more. How does the Michael Douglas character stay awake and alert that long?

Posted by: Willburn Sooner at January 29, 2016 05:34 PM (EgFeC)

31 >>>Never seen it, but its probably the director making a statement about lifelessness and emptiness.

i think you're right.

but I was going for a Joe Bob Briggs sort of "No Rattlesnake Fu" joke i guess.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:34 PM (dciA+)

32 I saw this movie. I liked the part where the turtle ran into the cactus and blew up.

Posted by: Hopped Up On Something at January 29, 2016 05:34 PM (NHtMs)

33
Not a lover of westerns in general, but "Once Upon a Time in the West" is brilliant, especially the final showdown between Charles Bronson and Henry Fonda.

That harmonica!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:34 PM (zLP1L)

34 Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (0C2f1)

35 >>>It takes a long time to die of exposure. Three days or more. How does the Michael Douglas character stay awake and alert that long?

two days. Plus, he's got the guy running around pouring out what little sweat he has, plus, he's got the guy wearing no clothes for maximum sun damage.

he does sleep. he relies on stirring the guy if he approaches.

yeah it's not a great plan. just go with it.


Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (dciA+)

36 Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?

Only if you claim 8.

Posted by: Grump928(c) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commentor with equal or greater value at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (evdj2)

37 So how was the volcano scene anyway?

Posted by: johnd01 at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (ukNFU)

38 "Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?"

You can always blame your deductions for your deducting.

Posted by: Qoheleth at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (iIzG7)

39 Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (0C2f1)


And whose kids are they, "Lauren"?

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (8ZskC)

40 caught him monologuing?

Posted by: Feh at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (Uk9e2)

41 Yeah, Deathwatch,

I remember reading this in 6th grade. It was the first time I read an 'adult' novel.

Pretty cool. At least filtered through the lens of youth.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (W0RfD)

42 Douglas would have gotten away with it, too, but the guide drew a tunnel in the rock wall and ran away but Douglas just bounced off.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (39g3+)

43 Most excellen review.

I was going to rent it unti you told me no rattlesnakes & no burnt schlong

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (voOPb)

44 I didn't know "Baywatch" was a young adult novel. The stuff you learn around here.

Posted by: Furious George at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (3GAnN)

45 27 >>>Ace, the plot description sounds a hell of a lot like the last sequence of "Greed" (aka "McTeague").

so weird, I just mentioned this movie to someone else, and that's what he said too.
Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:33 PM (dciA+)


When Thalberg and Mayer acquired it, the forced Von Stroheim to cut it down to 4 hours - it was originally 8 hours long. He literally shot every page of the novel.

Supposedly the lost reels exist somewhere but at this stage, almost 100 years later, I doubt it.

At the time it was considered the greatest film that would ever be made.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (zLP1L)

46 So do those kids have SSNs?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 05:37 PM (voOPb)

47 And in last thread we were speaking about the dearth of good science fiction.

Why don't someone make a movie based on Dean Ing's Systemic Shock?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:37 PM (osI0T)

48 Ram fu.

Posted by: JoeBoy Briggs at January 29, 2016 05:37 PM (LUgeY)

49 Aw shit I thought it was "Beyond the Reacharound"

flip flip

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 05:37 PM (Uk9e2)

50 Boy, politics is getting weird.


So, Michael Douglas joined the Republican primary-

and then marched Marco Rubio around in his underwear?


I kinda speed-read that but I'm pretty sure I got it right.


Now, I'm sorry i missed the debates last night.

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2016 05:37 PM (0cMkb)

51 34 Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?
Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (0C2f1)


I read the word audit as "adult."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:37 PM (zLP1L)

52 Sounds like I need peyote to watch.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (89T5c)

53 Morricone soundtrack?

If no, minus 1/2 star.

*picks bits of spaghetti from teeth*

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (gyKtp)

54 Dude probably should have packed a schlong sombrero for just such an eventuality.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (NeFrd)

55 "And whose kids are they, "Lauren"?"

Ha. All mine, as far as I know. They're just so loud. So. Loud.

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (0C2f1)

56 I finally saw Fury Road. It was... okay. Whoever the guy was playing Mad Max lacks Mel Gibson's natural charisma, so he just came across as sullen and terse. It was too long and ultimately nothing happened except blaming every bad thing on old people who were then killed in horrible ways.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (39g3+)

57 >>The other actor is the Mojave Desert, which puts in a damn fine performance.


So good, in fact that it's bound to be typecast from here on out.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (b99VK)

58 Desert fu.

Posted by: JoeBoy Briggs at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (LUgeY)

59 53 Morricone soundtrack?

If no, minus 1/2 star.

*picks bits of spaghetti from teeth*
Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (gyKtp)


Morricone is sadly deader than Jeff Goldblum.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:39 PM (zLP1L)

60 But did it have any sequences where the camera circles around the character with dramatic music playing?

Posted by: Michael Bay at January 29, 2016 05:39 PM (zt+N6)

61 No zika bearing mosquito in the desert?

Posted by: zika bearing mosquito at January 29, 2016 05:39 PM (fbovC)

62 Joshua Tree is a forest. There's only enough water for 1 tree/acre.
The Mojave is remote and weird enough to give you that saucer vibe - might have been the tobaky..

Posted by: DaveA at January 29, 2016 05:39 PM (DL2i+)

63 Looks to me like it took longer to write the review than the screenplay.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (xWW96)

64 At the time it was considered the greatest film that would ever be made.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (zLP1L)
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The scene with the wife running her clawlike fingers through the gold is fantastically creepy.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (jR7Wy)

65 57 So good, in fact that it's bound to be typecast from here on out.
Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (b99VK)


"Lawrence of . . . Alomogordo!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (zLP1L)

66 Audit or adult same thing

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (hk3Fb)

67 So much wrong with that movie.

don't find too many bighorn sheep in the Mojave.

Don't find much wildlife bigger than a bread box in the mojave.

No water, no food. Lotsa of heat.

The mojave has killed more people than Obama's Drones.

You can't carry enough water to survive on foot.

You must have some type of transport at a minimum.

The settlers didn't even try they went north to get to the coast.

I like the Naked Prey. That's a pretty good movie that's similar.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (Xo1Rt)

68 If you like this sort of movie try "The Naked Prey". A colonial Brit getting chased around the African wasteland by natives. Almost no dialog.

Idea for film: remake "The Naked Prey" in Detroit.

Posted by: DamnCat at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (VWgLJ)

69 64 At the time it was considered the greatest film that would ever be made.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (zLP1L)
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The scene with the wife running her clawlike fingers through the gold is fantastically creepy.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (jR7Wy)


The great ZaSu Pitts.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (zLP1L)

70 Was there at least lens flare?!?!

Posted by: JJ Abrams at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (H9MG5)

71 So it's like two thirds of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly?

The Good and the Ugly?

Lacks that certain triangular tension I would say.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (NeFrd)

72 Is this a remake? I have a childhood memory from the late 70's early 80's of seeing a moving like this on late night television -- even down to the hunting of big horn sheep.

Posted by: tommylotto at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (4Kwb9)

73 In before the "it's more Liberal dreck from Hollywood!" crowd.

Posted by: Chi at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (fSuK4)

74 watched fury road on the plane on someone else's screen so never heard a word

not much acting going on, and it looked pretty funny

was it?

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (Uk9e2)

75 68 Idea for film: remake "The Naked Prey" in Detroit.
Posted by: DamnCat at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (VWgLJ)


**channeling Amy Schumer**

Thanks.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (zLP1L)

76 >>>don't find too many bighorn sheep in the Mojave.

i wondered about that.

in the book, they never specify where they are, exactly, though based on mentions of the type of flora I thought maybe either california or arizona desert or on the border.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (dciA+)

77 Did he drink his own piss?

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (HgMAr)

78 Also: "And if that sounds bad to you womenfolk "

No, no, trust me ace we don't want to see all that either.

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (0C2f1)

79 What's interesting to me about Morricone is that he's still doing soundtrack stuff and all I ever associate him with is those Italian westerns. But he's done work for Inglorious Basterds, The Life Aquatic, Mission to Mars, Bulworth, and a lot more.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (39g3+)

80 >The other actor is the Mojave Desert, which puts in a damn fine performance.

So good, in fact that it's bound to be typecast from here on out.
Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM (b99VK)


Seriously, it can play Mojave, it can play Sahara, it can play Gobi. Hell, you should see it do Wadi Rum. It's nothing if not versatile.

Posted by: The Mojave Desert's Agent at January 29, 2016 05:41 PM (8ZskC)

81 "The ugly" could be the desert. or the old prospector that gets shot early.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:42 PM (dciA+)

82 70 Was there at least lens flare?!?!
Posted by: JJ Abrams at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (H9MG5)


It needs lights shining through slow moving fan blades. And water.

- - Ridley Scott

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:42 PM (zLP1L)

83 Whoever the guy was playing Mad Max lacks Mel Gibson's natural charisma, so he just came across as sullen and terse.


You think the storm gives you the advantage. But I was born in the sand.

Posted by: Bane at January 29, 2016 05:42 PM (evdj2)

84 Two Schlongs Up.

Posted by: Men on Film at January 29, 2016 05:42 PM (oVJmc)

85 >>>Did he drink his own piss?

no piss drinking. could have given it another half star fro that.

like i said, no real survival tricks.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:42 PM (dciA+)

86 Heh, nothing in the desert, no animals, no sheep, no rattlers, no nothing, but Douglas just happens to find some asshole wandering around and can't tell its a man through a telescopic scope. Seems a tad weak.

Posted by: maddogg, now certified infrequently vile at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (xWW96)

87 Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?

Posted by: Lauren

Perhaps... Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Tea Party.

Posted by: Lois Lerner -- Sooper Agent at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (OrI3J)

88 Did Vasquez Rocks make and appearance?

Was there a Gorn?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (jR7Wy)

89 Fury Road was pretty devoid of humor but without sound it would be kinda slapstick. I did get a kick out of the bad guy having his own soundtrack wherever he went though. That was fun.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (39g3+)

90 Is this the one where Ricky Nelson absent-mindedly picks up a guitar and strums "Mr. Sandman?"

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (T/5A0)

91 This movie sounds like it needs the guy they thought was dead and started this whole deal to show up in the last 5 mins.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (iHjB5)

92 There was a movie, "All Is Lost" with Robert Redford (I know). He is marooned on a dead boat and has to make do. No dialogue to explain the whys as he improvised away trying to survive. No need for talk as the viewer got the picture.

Posted by: washrivergal at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (CFc5L)

93 yep. its a remake.

http://tinyurl.com/gt5ce36

Posted by: tommylotto at January 29, 2016 05:43 PM (4Kwb9)

94 That guide was two days from retirement.

He's gettin' too old for this shit.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (oVJmc)

95 No plot to get in the way of the story.

Posted by: JoeBoy Briggs at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (LUgeY)

96 how about lean and hungry looks? did it have lots of staring? and a circling vulture?

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (Uk9e2)

97 ...we also don't see sun-blistered schlong, which wouldn't be too cool.


****

Not in the Let It Burn camp I see.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (NeFrd)

98 Sefton, the effect of the light sweeping through Deckard's apartment was the idea of the cinematographer. But the ceiling fans - Ridley Scott. And the crazy angular wall designs when Leon is interviewed - Mexican Deco.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (osI0T)

99
Desert flicks:

"Flight of the Phoenix"
"Death Race" (TV movie with Lloyd Bridges and Doug McClure)
"Sahara" all star cast with Bogey

Drawing a blank now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (zLP1L)

100 Babe Ruth -- Fistful Of Dollars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DnBgoaVEE8

Posted by: GnuBreed at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (gyKtp)

101 82 70 Was there at least lens flare?!?!
Posted by: JJ Abrams at January 29, 2016 05:40 PM (H9MG5)


It needs lights shining through slow moving fan blades. And water.

- - Ridley Scott
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:42 PM (zLP1L)
----
It needs my specialty, extreme closeups of leering Teutons with piano key teeth!

Posted by: Erich von Stroheim at January 29, 2016 05:45 PM (jR7Wy)

102 It sounds like a good film, just not one I'm really in the mood to watch. I respect Michael Douglas for just taking films he likes or finds interesting rather than big budget stuff. Granted he's old enough not to get plum roles but he has enough money he doesn't need to do Fatal Attraction II: Electric Boogaloo.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:45 PM (39g3+)

103 Screw that movie.

Pick up the game "Rise of the Tomb Raider", now out for PC.

Making Lara Croft's ass jump around while capping bad guys with a Desert Eagle just never gets old. Also goes well with a bottle of Valu-Rite.

Posted by: The Chewbacca Defense at January 29, 2016 05:45 PM (gy/yC)

104 Just an unexpectedly competent movie I'd never before heard of and had no expectations of. Three stars might be generous, but I guess I kind of like that they just didn't have a whole lot of mistakes and misfires in the movie.


If you want another movie like that, I highly, highly, highly recommend A Lonely Place To Die. The plot is that a group of hikers go up into the Scottish highlands, come upon a young girl who has been buried alive and then have to get her down.

I ran across it and watched it for the super deep reason of hey Melissa George in form fitting hiking gear and found it most excellent indeed. It also suffers from coming off the ridge but, well, I won't spoil it and I'll just say the choice to do so is interesting.

Speaking of Melissa George, this is where I once again say everyone should see Triangle. It's a haunted ship movie and once you figure out what story it's really telling and then when you find out why this is happening, it packs more of an emotional punch than it has any right. She's pretty much in every scene and she is fantastic in it.

It also has one of the more interesting deaths I've seen.

Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (mf5HN)

105 Rattlesnakes are everywhere in the Mojave. You really do have to watch where you step when navigating rocky outcrops and rock-strewn plains. The hotter it is outside, the angrier those snakes get.

I watched a buddy get chased (6"3" and sprinting) by a Panamint rattlesnake across sand dunes at the base of the Panamint mountains.

Posted by: 13times at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (WHVu+)

106 I saw a TV movie with this plot (based in fact on the novel Deathwatch I see, upon searching) a really long time ago. back in the seventies. Andy Griffith played the villain. "Savages" (1974). Not bad.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (/f6Nd)

107 Mad Max : Furry Road

Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:38 PM

Tried to watch. Gave up half way through.
No redeeming social value.

Posted by: Willburn Sooner at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (EgFeC)

108 98 Sefton, the effect of the light sweeping through Deckard's apartment was the idea of the cinematographer. But the ceiling fans - Ridley Scott. And the crazy angular wall designs when Leon is interviewed - Mexican Deco.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (osI0T)


I'm talking about on the roof with the ventilators at the end. Scott always pulls shit like that.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (zLP1L)

109 Poaching sheep and eatin' tainted pussy is no way to go through life, son.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (b99VK)

110 Fury Road was pretty devoid of humor but without sound it would be kinda
slapstick. I did get a kick out of the bad guy having his own
soundtrack wherever he went though.


The neatest part?

The big bad guy was played by the same actor who played the big bad guy in the first Mad Max movie.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (oVJmc)

111 You know, and then kill them both, like that cinematic masterpiece "I know what you did last Summer."

As it is, it sounds a bit too much like The Clearing for my tastes. Had to watch it on an airplane one time. Gah.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (iHjB5)

112 Drawing a blank now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton


****

Treasure of the Sierra Madre?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (NeFrd)

113 The original Sahara with Bogie is a great film. Very powerful and memorable. Another great old flick people should watch is Out of the Past with Robert Mitchum. Terrific feel, and he does a great job.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (39g3+)

114 I should've taken this movie...

... no bears!!!

Posted by: Leo DiCaprio at January 29, 2016 05:47 PM (H9MG5)

115 101 It needs my specialty, extreme closeups of leering Teutons with piano key teeth!
Posted by: Erich von Stroheim at January 29, 2016 05:45 PM (jR7Wy)


Slow motion, whip pans, and rock music that has zero connection to the story.

- - Martin Scorsese

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:47 PM (zLP1L)

116 Didn't Eegah! take place on the edge of the Mojave?

That sandbuggy scene is epic.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:47 PM (b99VK)

117 I can guess the ending. Michael Douglas plugs some Obama speeches into his cd player, but falls asleep.Guide snatches the canteen and drinks all of the water. Which unfortunately was secured from Flint, Michigan.

Guide, now suffering from lead damaged brain, seeks to convert Michael Douglas to Tea Party. Michael Douglas, in heart rendering scene reminiscent of 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' administers humane suffocation to Guide as crowd wildly cheers as lights come up and credits roll.

Close?

Posted by: low information voter at January 29, 2016 05:47 PM (fbovC)

118 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:36 PM (39g3+)

Beep! Beep! *zoom*

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 05:47 PM (Xo1Rt)

119 No Sharia law in SC.

Damn shame it has to even be voted on.

Still, a good start.

http://tinyurl.com/gwdj98k

Posted by: SMFH at January 29, 2016 05:47 PM (jDmcg)

120 "I respect Michael Douglas for just taking films he likes or finds interesting rather than big budget stuff."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:45 PM (39g3+)


*Ahem*

Posted by: Ant-Man at January 29, 2016 05:48 PM (iHjB5)

121
One of my favorite Trudging Through The Desert movies was "The Shooting" (1967)with Warren Oates and Jack Nicholson.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2016 05:48 PM (HgMAr)

122 re 80: do it before the renewable energy crowd covers it with solar panels
http://tinyurl.com/jqxgh25

Posted by: Mallflower at January 29, 2016 05:48 PM (qSIlh)

123 112 Treasure of the Sierra Madre?
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (NeFrd)

Ba fa Napoli!

"High Plains Drifter" or as the NY Times old TV guide described it "low tide leftover."

But Verna Bloom. I had an adolescent schlong for her.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:48 PM (zLP1L)

124 Two actors. Neither of them black?

No Oscar, that's for sure.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 05:49 PM (b99VK)

125 Ridley Scott is really hit and miss. For every Blade Runner, you get a Legend. For every Gladiator, you get a Robin Hood.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:49 PM (39g3+)

126 I hope you mean the original Flight of the Phoenix with Jimmy Stewart right? Ventilators on the roof? Brazil desensitized me to that.

Sounds like it might be an interesting movie Bermuda Triangle type movie Empress.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:49 PM (osI0T)

127 >>>Sefton, the effect of the light sweeping through
Deckard's apartment was the idea of the cinematographer. But the ceiling
fans - Ridley Scott. And the crazy angular wall designs when Leon is
interviewed - Mexican Deco.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:44 PM (osI0T)





I'm talking about on the roof with the ventilators at the end. Scott always pulls shit like that.



Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (zLP1L)<<<

The deuce you say!

Posted by: Black Hawk Down at January 29, 2016 05:49 PM (H9MG5)

128 I'm still alive.

Posted by: Kirk Douglas at January 29, 2016 05:50 PM (HgMAr)

129 Seems to an absence of volcanoes and volcano related activities.

No Stars.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 29, 2016 05:50 PM (kqD9B)

130 The best desert movie would be Lawrence of Arabia.

Posted by: 13times at January 29, 2016 05:50 PM (WHVu+)

131 My Dinner With Andre



Oh, wait, my bad. I thought we were doing dessert movies.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:51 PM (NeFrd)

132 120 "I respect Michael Douglas for just taking films he likes or finds interesting rather than big budget stuff."

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:45 PM (39g3+)


*Ahem*

Posted by: Ant-Man at January 29, 2016 05:48 PM (iHjB5)


First, I think Michael Douglas is now getting older and parts are scarcer.

And as the great Peter Ustinov once said, "I agreed to do an American Express commercial so I could pay my American Express bill."

Same with Michael Caine. He did "Jaws 3" because he needed to pay the mortgage on a Malibu beach house.

As my rabbi and old boss Al Ruddy used to say, "this ain't show art - it's show BUSINESS."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:51 PM (zLP1L)

133 Dennis Weaver in Duel

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:51 PM (hk3Fb)

134 I think Ant Man was just his Comic Book film. Its one of those things everyone does now, its why Connery's last film was League of Extraordinary Gentleman: he didn't understand a thing of what was going on but wanted to do one of those "comic book movies" before he retired.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 05:51 PM (39g3+)

135 i hope all you wiseasses are writing scripts instead of the bilge pumpers in hollywood

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 05:51 PM (Uk9e2)

136 Wasn't there a Laurel and Hardy in the Foreign Legion movie?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:52 PM (NeFrd)

137 For every Sahara there is Five Graves to Cairo.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:52 PM (osI0T)

138 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert

BAM!

Posted by: David Serota at January 29, 2016 05:52 PM (b99VK)

139 I got a free week of Starz, and watched Ash vs Evil Dead.

It was funny and creepy and a great vehicle for Bruce Campbell. The ending was anti-climactic.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at January 29, 2016 05:53 PM (VdICR)

140 137 For every Sahara there is Five Graves to Cairo.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:52 PM (osI0T)


Speaking of Erich von Stroheim!

And I liked that movie, actually.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:53 PM (zLP1L)

141 There COULD be some in the surrounding mountains but the distance will fool you. And any mountain ruminant has very good eyes and ears.

They look close but they ain't.

And most of the population of humans is near the mountains. (more food, water, shelter)

So they had to walk through HIGH desert to get to LOW desert which is the Mojave.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 05:54 PM (Xo1Rt)

142 136
Wasn't there a Laurel and Hardy in the Foreign Legion movie?

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:52 PM (NeFrd)

sons of the desert, it was a great movie

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 29, 2016 05:54 PM (0O7c5)

143 104
Speaking of Melissa George, this is where I once again say everyone should see Triangle. It's a haunted ship movie and once you figure out what story it's really telling and then when you find out why this is happening, it packs more of an emotional punch than it has any right. She's pretty much in every scene and she is fantastic in it.

It also has one of the more interesting deaths I've seen.
Posted by: alexthechick - Here SMOD SMOD SMOD at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM (mf5HN)

Thanks for recommending this. I will rent it off amazon. I love haunted house/ship movies.

Posted by: Ant-Man at January 29, 2016 05:54 PM (iHjB5)

144 Ah, Beau Hunks 1931- Laurel & Hardy

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:54 PM (NeFrd)

145 Not a desert survival film but Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) kinda qualifies since the exterior shots were somewhere west of Hwy 395 at a place called the Alabama badlands in Calif.

Posted by: 13times at January 29, 2016 05:54 PM (WHVu+)

146 Best desert movie original Flight of the Phoenix
He designs toy planes

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:55 PM (hk3Fb)

147 Off Ant-sock!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 05:55 PM (iHjB5)

148 i'll look for Triangle. I like melissa george. Also that Lonely place movie someone mentioned.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 05:55 PM (dciA+)

149 146 Best desert movie original Flight of the Phoenix
He designs toy planes
Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:55 PM (hk3Fb)


Hardly a Krueger.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 05:55 PM (zLP1L)

150 ACE, that link to sign up for newsletter http://ace.mu.nu/decisiondeskhq.com gives error 404.

Posted by: rebel flounder at January 29, 2016 05:55 PM (3dOE/)

151
Raquel Welch, one Million Years B.C.
(I just like the poster)

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2016 05:56 PM (HgMAr)

152 2nd best idea Lawrence of Arabia, he gets schlonged by a Turk.

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 05:56 PM (hk3Fb)

153 the desert in cool hand luke had a fine role

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 05:56 PM (Uk9e2)

154 Off, drive-in sock.

I once worked at a drive-in as a wee Moron. The owner's favorite thing to do was sneak around and look for people doing the secks in their cars. He'd bang on the side of their car and scare them shitless, then make them leave.

Ahh, the old 72 Drive-In. What a strange place Alabama was.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 29, 2016 05:56 PM (LUgeY)

155 I'm not knocking Five Graves to Cairo since it is a good little suspense movie about war, spies, and secrets. Just compared to Sahara it seems lacking.

Amazing how many Germans fled to Hollywood because of the vicious corporal.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 05:56 PM (osI0T)

156 Flight of the Phoenix still looks really good and ...

Ernest borgnine and J Steward. !

Posted by: 13times at January 29, 2016 05:57 PM (WHVu+)

157 Circa 1970s - L A Slimes prints article "Hunters threaten bighorn sheep". Called the city editor to inform him the is no season or tag for bighorn sheep, and poachers, not hunters, threaten them. He said "Poachers, hunters... same thing" and hung up. BECAUSE ACCURACY, BITCHES!

Posted by: OK, Thanks, sock now off! at January 29, 2016 05:57 PM (ucB75)

158 Does an uncharted desert isle count?


Asking for a little buddy

Posted by: The Skipper at January 29, 2016 05:57 PM (NeFrd)

159 this thread is making me thirsty

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 05:58 PM (Uk9e2)

160 We very rarely see bighorns, and we're at 6,000 feet. Hippies, though, we have a ton of them. They could use some culling.

Posted by: Bob's House of Flannel Shirts and Wallet Chains at January 29, 2016 05:58 PM (vgIRn)

161 The Mummy.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 29, 2016 05:59 PM (kqD9B)

162 Actually, there WAS a Gilligan's Island episode with a big game hunter who gave Gilligan 24 hours to avoid being shot.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 05:59 PM (NeFrd)

163 Triangle was a cool flick, very unexpected

Posted by: brak at January 29, 2016 05:59 PM (xwPSp)

164 Best desert movie:

The Thing.

thinkabboudit

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2016 05:59 PM (qUNWi)

165 "And if that sounds bad to you womenfolk -- we also don't see sun-blistered schlong,"

Look, given Hollywood has long had the magazine-that-never-runs-out-of-ammo, it's not that they couldn't develop S-SPF-200 sun-screen protection, it's that they choose not to.

Yet another example of the rampant sexism within the entertainment industry.

Posted by: Duncanthrax the Bellicose at January 29, 2016 05:59 PM (ml1PM)

166 Re: Triangle
Just watched the trailer. Kind of shows why one of the reasons if I won the lottery, I might consider a private luxury submarine. Of course, then you have to worry about sinking into the depths due to some catastrophic failure.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 06:00 PM (iHjB5)

167 '...and eventually died of exposure, sunstroke,..."
----------------

Thereby prompting Hammer to coin a new term - 'gunstroke', as in 'He died of gunstroke'.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:00 PM (n22zQ)

168 I thought Brian Dennehy was great as the Planet Earth in this movie.

You know, at the end, when they panned up from the final scene in the desert and just kept panning until they were out in the orbit of Jupiter, looking back at the Earth as a dot.

Posted by: Sharkman at January 29, 2016 06:00 PM (t8P62)

169 Aetius451AD, you could watch Deep Rising instead.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:00 PM (osI0T)

170 Trying to do taxes with 5 kids at home is basically asking for an audit, right?

Posted by: Lauren at January 29, 2016 05:35 PM (0C2f1)

been there, done that. audits don't hurt.

much

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2016 06:00 PM (L7t0A)

171 It's a haunted ship movie and once you figure out what story it's really telling and then when you find out why this is happening, it packs more of an emotional punch than it has any right. She's pretty much in every scene and she is fantastic in it.

Triangle is like a long form Twilight Zone.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 29, 2016 06:01 PM (rwI+c)

172 Gilligan cannot be killed or reasoned with.

He is remorseless.

Black eyes...like a dolls eyes....

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2016 06:01 PM (qUNWi)

173 like it hammer

need a beer

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 06:01 PM (Uk9e2)

174 Ishtar. Great actors, interesting locations, movie was a turd. Warren Beatty is so vain!!!

Posted by: DONALD TRUMP. at January 29, 2016 06:01 PM (kqD9B)

175
"Dune."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (zLP1L)

176 Coincidentally I was just watching the low budget movie "The Reach Around". It tells the story of a Pizza boy and his love affair with an older man.

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (HUeC4)

177 Best desert movie -- Pitch Black

Posted by: may be exaggerating a little at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (H9MG5)

178 i have decided i really don't like the desert, hotter than all get out in summer, cold nights, cold winters with no beautiful trees to compensate

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (L7t0A)

179 I'll bet Brian Dennehy put in one hell of a performance as the Mojave Desert.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (FsuaD)

180 169 Aetius451AD, you could watch Deep Rising instead.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:00 PM (osI0T)

Ah, Deep Rising. Treat, we barely knew ya.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (iHjB5)

181 who gave Gilligan 24 hours to avoid being shot.
Posted by: Seamus Muldoon
--------------

Hold it. Does that mean that at 24 hours+ it was unavoidable? Most of us could have lived with that plot.

At any rate, I would have to cheer for the gunner.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (n22zQ)

182 Jodorowsky's Dune is worth watching.

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (HUeC4)

183 Personally, I don't like scary movies. I'm too gullible, and take them too seriously. They're just too real for me to watch.

Posted by: Willburn Sooner at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (EgFeC)

184 After numerous trips to Ft Irwin, fuck the Mojave desert.

Posted by: SMFH at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (jDmcg)

185 Tremors best desert movie.

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (HUeC4)

186 Not a desert survival film but Bad Day at Black Rock (1955)



Rock Ridge.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (SAhpk)

187 Well, I had it backwards, the mojave is considered high desert.

So maybe in certain parts the mountains are near enough.

But I always thought the mountain goats were a lot higher up and stayed away from the desert.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (Xo1Rt)

188 182 Jodorowsky's Dune is worth watching.
Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (HUeC4)
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Fantastic documentary. My favorite line, on J.'s taking liberties with the novel: "I rape his book! But with love!"

Posted by: Erich von Stroheim at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (jR7Wy)

189 There are a whole bunch of WWII war movies in the north Africa campaign

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (hk3Fb)

190 Hurrah! Hurrah for the Confederacy! HURRAH! Down with General Grant! Hurrah for General... what's his name?

Posted by: Fritz at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (BngQR)

191 So was Douglas thirsty the whole movie, needing to wet his cancerous whistle because of all the pussy he ate?

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (HgMAr)

192 182 Jodorowsky's Dune is worth watching.
Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (HUeC4)


Was that ever made/completed?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (zLP1L)

193 Of course, if we are talking about Bermuda Triangle movies there is Satan's Triangle starring Kim Novak and Doug McClure.

This movie with Doug McClure creeped me really out. The House Where Evil Dwells.
https://youtu.be/toIkqEpixv4

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (osI0T)

194 Ha...cheesehead...yes.

Tremors.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (qUNWi)

195 Oops, pseudo-Prussian aristokraut sock off.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (jR7Wy)

196 After numerous trips to Ft Irwin, fuck the Mojave desert.

Posted by: SMFH at January 29, 2016 06:03 PM (jDmcg)

im with you

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (L7t0A)

197 And yes, Antarctica IS a desert.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (Xo1Rt)

198 I don't like occult movies. Fallen, with Denzel, gave me chills.

Aliens and monsters are no problem, it's like my dreams, but demons scare the shit out of me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of equal or greater value at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (rwI+c)

199 Has anyone seen this movie besides Ace?
Why hasn't seen the new Star Wars?
He's not here is he? Did not read comments

Posted by: L, Elle at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (2x3L+)

200
"Robinson Crusoe On Mars."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (zLP1L)

201
The movie Solace with Anthony Hopkins is pretty good.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (pbBzW)

202 Hurrah for General... what's his name?
Posted by: Fritz
--------------

Sorry, Citizen, those people have been wiped from history. You're welcome.

Posted by: #BlackLivesMatter at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (n22zQ)

203 Dune would make a good HBO series, although there's not remotely enough sex in the books to satisfy their apparent need to have continual copulation. The books are too long and complex for a single sitting.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (39g3+)

204 Nope it was never made but it lead to almost everything good in scifi for the next 20 years.

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (HUeC4)

205 the desert, where even shlongs don't fair well

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (L7t0A)

206 Knew a Ukrainian engineer years ago whose favorite composer (after a bunch of Eastern Bloc metal bands I'd never heard of) was Ennio Morricone.
I like his stuff myself, got quite a bit of it on CD.
Also try "Yo-Yo Ma plays Ennio Morricone" for some impressive cello playing.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (Z8DIA)

207 197 And yes, Antarctica IS a desert.


Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (Xo1Rt)



Dryest in the world actually isn't it?

Posted by: buzzion at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (zt+N6)

208 197 And yes, Antarctica IS a desert.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (Xo1Rt)
---
In that case, I nominate "The Endurance".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:06 PM (jR7Wy)

209 the gauntlet

Posted by: phoenixgirl, i was born a rebel at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (0O7c5)

210 Posted by: Jane D'oh at January 29, 2016 06:02 PM (FsuaD)

The Mojave played itself.

Brian turned in a stellar performance as the mountain ridge the Goat was shot on. Er Human was shot on.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (Xo1Rt)

211
"The Hill" with Sean Connery. WW2 British military brig.

Tough stuff.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (zLP1L)

212 Lee! LEE! Ha ha! God is with us because he hates the Yanks too. HURRAH!

Posted by: Fritz at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (BngQR)

213 Speaking of the Mojave, if you go far enough in to the boonies,
you'll run into the "Mud People" living off the grid.

Posted by: Mister Ghost at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (ychpN)

214 199 no but Ace is using it for a reason of the embassy attack

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (hk3Fb)

215 I think John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness was the most frightening demon movie I've ever seen.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (39g3+)

216 I could make Dune sexy. The Bene Gesserit fucked everyone for power. These was a lot of sex implied. It just wasn't spelled out in juvenile terms like "Song of Ice and Fire".

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (HUeC4)

217 Do they SAY it was the Mojave or something? Or is this an assumption due to the excessive sand and rocks and sun?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (Xo1Rt)

218 Beware the Lava Men.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (rwI+c)

219 Personally, I don't like scary movies. I'm too gullible, and take them too seriously. They're just too real for me to watch.


I'm on the opposite end of the spectrum. Being the geek that I am, I'm aware of most of the cinematic tricks they use, enough so that they look like comedies to me these days. The plots are all the same, too. There's a commercial that mentions just about all of them in less than a minute.

I'm like, "Squib." "Ketchup mixed with Karo syrup." "Rubber knife." "Good makeup job."

One of the pitfalls of old age: I've seen it all before. And considering the dreck from Hollyweird these days, usually better done.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (LUgeY)

220 Aliens and monsters are no problem, it's like my dreams, but demons scare the shit out of me.
Posted by: Grump
--------------

Here, have a nice frosty can of '666'.

Posted by: Rosemary's Baby at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (n22zQ)

221
"The Beast" about a Russian tank crew lost in the Afgahan. Shot in Israel.

George Dzundza and not sure who else. Adrian Pasdar?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:08 PM (zLP1L)

222
128
I'm still alive.
Posted by: Kirk Douglas
.....................

Still here.

Posted by: Kirk Douglas at January 29, 2016 06:09 PM (HgMAr)

223 Grump demons and zombies, i can't do either , for the fear factor.

Posted by: willow at January 29, 2016 06:09 PM (L7t0A)

224 >>>I don't like occult movies. Fallen, with Denzel, gave me chills.



Aliens and monsters are no problem, it's like my dreams, but demons scare the shit out of me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie!, with purchase of commenter of
equal or greater value at January 29, 2016 06:05 PM (rwI+c)<<<

Ti-ime is on my side... yes it is.
Hiya, pal!

Posted by: totally not Azazel at January 29, 2016 06:09 PM (H9MG5)

225 I could totally see Alia being a cum dumpster. I'd make her look like Leeloo from the 5th element.

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:09 PM (HUeC4)

226 193 Of course, if we are talking about Bermuda Triangle movies there is Satan's Triangle starring Kim Novak and Doug McClure.

This movie with Doug McClure creeped me really out. The House Where Evil Dwells.
https://youtu.be/toIkqEpixv4
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (osI0T)

Lol, like the recommendations but I kept reading Doug McClure as Troy McClure. "You may remember me from the Cabin where mild fear hangs out."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 06:09 PM (iHjB5)

227 >>>Literally Nothing Is Ever On TV


Ah, you must have cable too. I pay $200 a month for the privilege of having 150 crap choices. It's like an expensive version of Netflix.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 29, 2016 06:10 PM (ppaKI)

228 Out of commission, become a pillbox. Out of ammo, become a bunker. Out of time, become heroes.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:10 PM (rwI+c)

229
Klaus Kinski

Some of you might recognize the name. For those who do not, he's the creepy fair-haired kraut in such films as Time Stalkers, Crawlspace, and Creature.

Father of Natassjajajaja Kinski.

He is dead now.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:10 PM (pbBzW)

230 Oh yeah The Beast which shows why Kipling suggested to all good young English soldiers to blow their brains out least the women of Afghanistan get a hold of them

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:10 PM (osI0T)

231 The Gauntlet was a helluva movie indeed.

Another underappreciated classic. And what an ending .... not something you'd see today ....

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:10 PM (Z8DIA)

232 I'm like, "Squib." "Ketchup mixed with Karo syrup." "Rubber knife." "Good makeup job."

I think all the CGI is making everyone that way. When Superman flew around in the 70s film it was amazing and wonderful to watch. Now he takes off flying around and you shrug. CGI, no big deal.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:10 PM (39g3+)

233 You would probably get a longer sentence for hunting Big Horn Sheep without a permit then killing a man. The permits are by lottery last I heard.

The people attracted to the desert are euroweenies. They think their car gps system will keep them from getting lost. It wont.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:11 PM (iQIUe)

234 Sounds pretty good, and it's a good review, but what I actually need to know is if this Jeremy Irving person is hawt or not when he's mostly nekkid.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:11 PM (CoX6k)

235 Ti-ime is on my side... yes it is.
Hiya, pal!



Exactly. If a demon decides to fuck with you, you personally, you are just shit outa luck.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:11 PM (rwI+c)

236 Oh man, I'm making a chicken with a wet jerk rub (the chicken, not me). It is to die!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:12 PM (jR7Wy)

237 Speaking of the Mojave, if you go far enough in to the boonies,
you'll run into the "Mud People" living off the grid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost
---------------

Heck, I can find that right here, in a park, downtown.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:12 PM (n22zQ)

238 I'm actually shocked that people other than me had read Deathwatch. I read that book in 1990 in 7th grade.

Posted by: Brisco_County at January 29, 2016 06:12 PM (5Rikf)

239 Yeah, cause big game hunters are always looking to shoot protected animals cause no one's watching them like freaking hawks.

Don't they understand that half the semi extinct species currently protected are protected using money that's paid for by big game hunters and other hunters?

More wildlife is protected due to the money spent by hunters than any 10,000 hippies.

Cause let me tell you, Hippies don't pay to support the wild areas. Hippies are liberals and liberals don't donate shit unless they're really rich and even then it's small percent.

Why does the left always have to make the villain someone who they can frame as being on the right?

It's like they're pathological about it.

yet we know there's more leftists who are mass killers than there are on the right.

It gets old, ya know?

They're sooooo predictable.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:12 PM (Xo1Rt)

240 I saw No Schlongs open for Suboptimal Climax at Club Firestone back in '94.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 06:12 PM (jV8Mq)

241 There is a subspecies of Bighorn sheep known as the Desert Bighorn sheep. Lives mostly in the desert mountains of the American Southwest and northern Mexico.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 06:12 PM (NeFrd)

242 If the hunter was Eye-Rainian , would they stick a few Krispy Kremes on the dude's johnson? That is also so Eye-Talian, covering up johnsons for Eye-Rainians.

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (msVAP)

243
These billionaires always want to go off on adventures and end up getting killed. There was the Tech guy who was climbing Everest when the EQ hit Then there was the Patagonia guy who was kayaking in a lake, got wet and died of hypothermia.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (iQIUe)

244 Oh man, I'm making a chicken with a wet jerk rub (the chicken, not me). It is to die!
-------

Great heavens!
What the ONT could with that...

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (n22zQ)

245 OH wait, an Italian or French director?

then this was done in Algeria or Tunisia or someplace like that.

Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (Xo1Rt)

246
Here's some trivia:

What tune was used in Shawshank Redemption?

Was it:

Flower Duet by Lakme?

or...

Marriage of Figaro by Mozart?

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (pbBzW)

247 >>> Aliens and monsters are no problem, it's like my dreams, but demons scare the shit out of me.
Posted by: Grump
----
Same here. I couldn't get through The Exorcist and the The Exorcism of Emily Rose. That is for real and gives me nightmares for months.

Posted by: L, Elle at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (2x3L+)

248 They're apparently doing a Maltese Falcon in theaters this summer.

Posted by: DaveA at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (DL2i+)

249 "Hi, I'm Troy McClure. You may remember me from such horror films 'Thursday the 12th' and 'Leatherface vs. Teenagers: The Road to Victory'."

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (ppaKI)

250 A movie probably most of you have never seen. Dario Argento's The Church

https://youtu.be/UMzq42rrr_E

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:14 PM (osI0T)

251 I think John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness was the most frightening demon movie I've ever seen.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor


If you like Omen type flicks you should watch The Prophecy with Chris Walken. Low budget thriller very well done.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2016 06:14 PM (W0RfD)

252 I watched Turbo Kid after I saw someone here mention it, can't remember who, really liked it, it's also low budget but well done with a great 80s vibe, just a fun flick.

Posted by: All Teh Meh at January 29, 2016 06:14 PM (yq2eR)

253 >You would probably get a longer sentence for hunting Big Horn Sheep without a permit then killing a man.


Desert Sheep tags are tough as fuck to draw.

No way you poach a Ram and get under a $50,000 fine and 5-10 Years. They are serious as hell about those things.

You should see the Warden Circle Jerk that pops up around one going through a Hunter's Check Station, up here.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:14 PM (b99VK)

254 I'm kind of stoked knowing that they made a film out of Deathwatch. I'm excited to watch this now.

Posted by: Brisco_County at January 29, 2016 06:15 PM (qdYXY)

255 "sun-blistered schlong"

Sounds like a good name for a new metal or punk rock band.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:15 PM (KS+qL)

256
They say they might be re-making Motel Hell.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:15 PM (pbBzW)

257 All Hail Eris, that still didn't stop the Morons...

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:15 PM (osI0T)

258 The Exorcism of Emily Rose. was really creepy but very disappointing in the end. I liked The Keep too, but I guess the book is better.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (39g3+)

259 244 Oh man, I'm making a chicken with a wet jerk rub (the chicken, not me). It is to die!
-------

Great heavens!
What the ONT could with that...
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:13 PM (n22zQ)


Keep jerking dat chicken, mon!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (zLP1L)

260 Speaking of the Mojave, if you go far enough in to the boonies,
you'll run into the "Mud People" living off the grid.
Posted by: Mister Ghost



If you go far enough in, you'll come out the other side.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (SAhpk)

261 A flaw in the plot, from Ace's description, is that the Michael Douglas hunter doesn't have a permit.

I mean, he has a $500,000 Humvee with an espresso machine and a ridonkulos rifle and goes to extreme financial and operational lengths to go hunting -- and he's too's chintzy or forgetful to get a hunting license?

How unlikely is that?

Interesting sidenote:

Far-left anti-hunting enviro-extremists have as of last week completely taken over the California Fish and Game Wildlife Commission, and will like completely ban all hunting in California this year, forever. It's big news that has flown under the radar. The last pro-hunting old-timer on the commission quit in disgust last week, completing the total transition from a hunter's committee to an anti-hunting politburo.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (jBuUi)

262 >>>
Desert Sheep tags are tough as fuck to draw.

the movie makes that point. Michael Douglas says he's been trying to get one through the permit lottery (I think he said it was a lottery) for ten years. Now he's just bribing people.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (dciA+)

263 wet jerk rub

*******
Be sure to wash hands thoroughly between both meanings of that.


Sincerely,

A jalapeno fan who learned the hard way.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (vgIRn)

264 "They think their car gps system will keep them from getting lost. It wont. "

Oh my, the number of people I know who have that delusion.

I am continually thankful for all the soon-to-be-lost knowledge I have as a Sputnik-era kid, but the ability to do navigation without a GPS is well up on the list.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (Z8DIA)

265 Sounds like Ace wants to be the hunter or the hunted. I can see Ace naked out in the wilderness being chased by a man with a gun.

Actually, remember ManHunter? The guy is hunting in Bavaria and gets too close to Hitler's fck pad and is arrested by the gestapo? He escapes and they hunt him back to England.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (iQIUe)

266 >>>If you like Omen type flicks you should watch The Prophecy with Chris Walken. Low budget thriller very well done.


Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2016 06:14 PM (W0RfD)<<<

**puts finger to lip**
Ssshhh!

((also Viggo Mortensen as the Devil))

Posted by: Christopher Walken as Gabriel at January 29, 2016 06:17 PM (H9MG5)

267 My ex wife saw bun blistered schlong open for indigo girls alpine valley

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 06:17 PM (voOPb)

268 >>>I mean, he has a $500,000 Humvee with an espresso machine and a ridonkulos rifle and goes to extreme financial and operational lengths to go hunting -- and he's too's chintzy or forgetful to get a hunting license?

see above comments. apparently this is a real thing.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 06:17 PM (dciA+)

269 Then there was Walkabout where the father takes the kids out to the desert and hunts them.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:17 PM (iQIUe)

270 "The Hill" with Sean Connery. WW2 British military brig.
Tough stuff.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (zLP1L)

I like the part where Ossie Davis quits the Army and strips down to his skivvies and tells the Brit NCO's to fuck off.

Great stuff.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 29, 2016 06:17 PM (ej1L0)

271 259 244 Oh man, I'm making a chicken with a wet jerk rub (the chicken, not me). It is to die!
-------

Great heavens!
What the ONT could with that...
Posted by: Mike Hammer,



Daywalkers are no slouches.....

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:17 PM (SAhpk)

272 In F. Paul Wilson's novel The Keep you get far more information on the background on the battle between the 'vampire' and Scott Glenn's character. But the movie version with its aesthetics and atmosphere is truly spooky.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (osI0T)

273 I'll go with "Marriage of Figaro".

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (Z8DIA)

274 Yeah, the only way to draw is through a Lottery, or Donation Tag / Governor's License.

They regularly go for hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Sheep Foundation Auctions.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (b99VK)

275 They say they might be re-making Motel Hell.


Takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent's fritters.

Posted by: no good deed at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (GgxVX)

276 211
"The Hill" with Sean Connery. WW2 British military brig.

Tough stuff.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:07 PM (zLP1L)
---
Great flick!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (jR7Wy)

277 258 The Exorcism of Emily Rose. was really creepy but very disappointing in the end. I liked The Keep too, but I guess the book is better.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (39g3+)


Was that with Burt Lancaster (The Keep)? Oh, wait, I'm thinking Castle Keep?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (zLP1L)

278 Also, the coveted Tags are Lifetime Tags.
Once you draw it, you can't put in again.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:19 PM (b99VK)

279 A guy I use to work with about 20 years ago told me he had applied for a permit and his name got drawn. He was very happy. Only a few were granted each year.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:19 PM (iQIUe)

280 >>>Yeah, the only way to draw is through a Lottery, or Donation Tag / Governor's License.

They regularly go for hundreds of thousands of dollars at the Sheep Foundation Auctions.

...

damn now I want to shoot one of these damn sheep

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (dciA+)

281 Frogs 1972 http://imdb.to/1VwbiGY

I actually paid to see this at the theater. The frogs do nothing. Nothing.

Oh, another movie that I watched that gives me the heebies just to remember it was Skeleton Key.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (rwI+c)

282 A couple of days in the Mohave without seeing a wild animal; so realistic.

Posted by: Jean at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (cXiMR)

283 276 Great flick!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:18 PM (jR7Wy)


Connery really was/is quite a fine actor. Way beyond Bond.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (zLP1L)

284 >>>You would probably get a longer sentence for hunting Big Horn Sheep without a permit then killing a man.


And if you kill babies, the government will fund you and persecute anyone trying to stop you. Pretty sweet.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (ppaKI)

285 If you go far enough in, you'll come out the other side.
Posted by: rickb
----------

That's not 100% true.

It is possible to take a wrong turn and end up in a Mobius String Hole. Ask Bill Nye, he will explain it to you.

Posted by: Kneel Grassy Tieson at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (n22zQ)

286 "sun-blistered schlong"
---
This sounds like an artisanal sammich at Zingerman's delicatessen.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (jR7Wy)

287 Dude I saw Ass the other day, it was so sweet. He farted once, that just killed me

Posted by: Frito at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (39g3+)

288 But I always thought the mountain goats were a lot higher up and stayed away from the desert.
Posted by: Bitter Clinger 1.0 and All That at January 29, 2016 06:04 PM (Xo1Rt)

Mountain goats do, but these are desert bighorn sheep. They live in mountains in the desert. They're a subspecies of the regular bighorn sheep that live in the Rockies etc. .

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (CoX6k)

289 see above comments. apparently this is a real thing.

Posted by: ace


Read the comments? You demand of me too much!

When you say that "this" is a "real thing," does "this" mean

-- Rich hunters often forget to buy hunting licenses in general? ...or...

-- The animal is protect so it's not possible to get a hunting license? ...or...

-- Something else?

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (jBuUi)

290 265 Sounds like Ace wants to be the hunter or the hunted. I can see Ace naked out in the wilderness being chased by a man with a gun.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (iQIUe)

And who would the man doing the chasing? Well, it would be one Jim J. Bullock. If Bullock's involved, you can bet that the long, hard, erect item being used to threaten Ace would NOT be a gun.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (KS+qL)

291 Oh, I liked Skeleton Key and The Others. Fallen was good too.

Posted by: no good deed at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (GgxVX)

292
Marriage of Figaro is correct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8OZCyp-LcGw

But "The Flower Duet" is perfect for slow-motion epic scenes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYgzaNmI9vE




Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (pbBzW)

293 >>.-- The animal is protect so it's not possible to get a hunting license? ...or...

-- Something else?

...

see garrett's comments.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (dciA+)

294 Nothing says, "I love you honey," like chicken with a happy ending.

Posted by: Fritz at January 29, 2016 06:22 PM (BngQR)

295 Tl;dr. Did see Ace give a rating of minus 1/2 star. Felt justified.

Posted by: tbodie at January 29, 2016 06:22 PM (3CXto)

296 @278 what state Garrett? CA, NV? Or your M T?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 06:22 PM (voOPb)

297 286 "sun-blistered schlong"
---
This sounds like an artisanal sammich at Zingerman's delicatessen.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (jR7Wy)


Deep fried German bratwurst, with tomato relish and french fried onions, on toasted pumpernickel

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:22 PM (zLP1L)

298 290 265 Sounds like Ace wants to be the hunter or the hunted. I can see Ace naked out in the wilderness being chased by a man with a gun.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (iQIUe)

And who would the man doing the chasing? Well, it would be one Jim J. Bullock. If Bullock's involved, you can bet that the long, hard, erect item being used to threaten Ace would NOT be a gun.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (KS+qL)



Duh. Bradley Cooper.

Posted by: buzzion at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (zt+N6)

299 damn now I want to shoot one of these damn sheep
Posted by: ace
-----------------

SHOOT THE SHEET?

Posted by: Al Sharpton at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (n22zQ)

300 Cornel Wilde...Naked Prey? Naked in Africa and some tribe was hunting him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Prey

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (iQIUe)

301 Woohoo !

* drinks a shot of Jagermeister*

Woohoo !

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (Z8DIA)

302 >>damn now I want to shoot one of these damn sheep


You don't want to eat it, though. Fucking nasty ass meat.

Tags are easier to obtain in the Rockies...even some unlimited districts in Montana, but they close the minute a tiny quota is filled. It's a tough hunt. Real tough. But the country they live in is incredible.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (b99VK)

303 Far-left anti-hunting enviro-extremists have as of last week completely taken over the California Fish and Game Wildlife Commission, and will like completely ban all hunting in California this year, forever. It's big news that has flown under the radar. The last pro-hunting old-timer on the commission quit in disgust last week, completing the total transition from a hunter's committee to an anti-hunting politburo.




Would be great to document all the animals that starve to death due to overpopulation after no hunting.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (SAhpk)

304
For instance, if they ever do a movie on obama, a slow motion scene of obama literally shredding the US Constitution accompanied by Lanke's The Flower Duet is sure to be in it.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (pbBzW)

305 Nothing says, "I love you honey," like chicken with a happy ending.


Posted by: Fritz at January 29, 2016 06:22 PM (BngQR)

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (zt+N6)

306 300 Cornel Wilde...Naked Prey? Naked in Africa and some tribe was hunting him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Prey
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (iQIUe)'


Discussed earlier, as a possible remake in Detroit.

I call dibs on that one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (zLP1L)

307 305 Nothing says, "I love you honey," like chicken with a happy ending.

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (zt+N6)

You can do good deeds your whole life but get caught fucking one chicken and you are a chicken fucker forever.

Posted by: bestie21 at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (HUeC4)

308 Connery really was/is quite a fine actor. Way beyond Bond.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (zLP1L)
---
"Robin and Marian", "The Wind and the Lion"...I love Connery as Bond but the best thing he ever did was leave the franchise.

Oh, and of course "Zardoz".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (jR7Wy)

309 298 290 265 Sounds like Ace wants to be the hunter or the hunted. I can see Ace naked out in the wilderness being chased by a man with a gun.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:16 PM (iQIUe)

And who would the man doing the chasing? Well, it would be one Jim J. Bullock. If Bullock's involved, you can bet that the long, hard, erect item being used to threaten Ace would NOT be a gun.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:21 PM (KS+qL)



Duh. Bradley Cooper.
Posted by: buzzion at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (zt+N6)

Except in that case, the Hunter would not be the one with the long, hard item. The Hunter becomes the Hunted. That could go on the poster.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (iHjB5)

310 I thought about reading Walkabout, in the book the kids are American and survive a plane crash

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (hk3Fb)

311 rickb223 A bunch of little kids eaten by mountain lions.

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 06:25 PM (voOPb)

312 Don't know if someone mentioned this up-thread: This is a re-make of a 70's TV movie that starred Andy Griffith (yes, Andy Griffith!) in the evil hunter role. I'll have to look up the original title. Sounds exactly the same- desert bighorns, ultra rich snob hunter, and so on.

Posted by: Alamo at January 29, 2016 06:25 PM (ceIDk)

313 The dingos ate my baybay.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:25 PM (rwI+c)

314 Does Obamacare cover treatment for "sun-blistered schlong"? Even if it does, the salve to treat it would probably be applied by one of those creepy male orderlies in white shoes and scrubs.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (KS+qL)

315
I could totally see Alia being a cum dumpster. I'd make her look like Leeloo from the 5th element.

Posted by: cheesehead at January 29, 2016 06:09 PM (HUeC4)







Funny. Since in Lynch's Dune, she's played by Alicia Witt, who later played the hawt ginger with the nice ass paralegal Crowe sister/cousin in Justified.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (o98Jz)

316 Sean "Never say never again' Connery.

How about him as Captain First Class Ramius?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (osI0T)

317 Discussed earlier, as a possible remake in Detroit.
I call dibs on that one.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (zLP1L)


Use Boko Haram as the "natives" and it would be a good remake.
Michael Moore should play the guy who gets spit roasted in a mud ball.

Posted by: jwb7605 at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (DofIg)

318 Deep fried German bratwurst, with tomato relish and french fried onions, on toasted pumpernickel

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:22 PM (zLP1L)
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It must needs be said -- I'd hit it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (jR7Wy)

319 Andy Griffith could play a great villain.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (rwI+c)

320 Az., Ut., Nv., Ca., I think all have once in a lifetime draws for the best (read:trophy) sections.

Mexico has them, too. I just don't know the process for getting tags down there, other than Outfitter Sponsored Tags.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (b99VK)

321 308 Connery really was/is quite a fine actor. Way beyond Bond.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:20 PM (zLP1L)
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"Robin and Marian", "The Wind and the Lion"...I love Connery as Bond but the best thing he ever did was leave the franchise.

Oh, and of course "Zardoz".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (jR7Wy)


I forgot the name of the flick but he plays a Scottish cop who kills a child molester while he's interrogating him. POWERFUL. I think Sidney Lumet directed that too.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (zLP1L)

322 Zardoz, the gun is good, the schlong is bad

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (hk3Fb)

323 303 Far-left anti-hunting enviro-extremists have as of last week completely taken over the California Fish and Game Wildlife Commission, and will like completely ban all hunting in California this year, forever.
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Wow. That's huge. And incredibly stupid. You HAVE to manage your wildlife, and hunting is a critical tool.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (CoX6k)

324 the past is defective because racist sexist capitalist religious etc

all films should be remade and given award treatment for the brave new world to come

new scripts are ideologically unapproved, please conform and have a nice day

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (Uk9e2)

325 Still fixating on Alia of the Knife who married Duncan Idaho?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (osI0T)

326 damn now I want to shoot one of these damn sheep
Posted by: ace


It's too late. CA is about to ban hunting forever -- any and every kind of hunting:

http://www.sfgate.com/science/article/ Upheaval-at-Fish-and-Game-highlights-shift-in-6759859.php

"The sudden resignation of the most adamant defender of hunting and fishing on the California Fish and Game Commission could put the finishing touches on a sweeping philosophical shift in the way the state views wildlife, sets rules for fishing and controls predators like mountain lions and wolves.

Commissioner Jim Kellogg retired in late December in frustration over what he termed a lack of consideration for the sportsmen and women he represents. The resignation — combined with the unrelated recent departures of commission President Jack Baylis and Sonke Mastrup, the commission’s executive director — sets the stage for Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint conservationists to the increasingly pivotal state board.

Such a move may, observers say, complete the transformation of the commission from an organization that advocates for fishing and hunting to one that safeguards endangered species, preserves habitat and protects California’s top predators from slaughter.

...At the same time, noted Gaines, recent studies have shown that only 10 percent of Californians actively support hunting. The number of state residents who hunt and fish has been declining for decades, according to researchers.
Hunting groups believe animal rights advocates want to outlaw the pastime entirely"

Etc.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (jBuUi)

327

Sheriff Taylor was a nasty sonofabitch.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (pbBzW)

328
Oh, fuck. "Walkabout."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (zLP1L)

329 Mexico has them, too. I just don't know the process for getting tags down there, other than Outfitter Sponsored Tags.



$50, a kilo, and some F&F guns and you are golden.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:28 PM (SAhpk)

330 Recommended Movie-

The Art of the Steal

A recent movie starring Kurt Russell and Matt Dillon, I had never heard of it, it showed up on Netflix streaming. A good fun art thief/con artist caper movie.

Posted by: Bill at January 29, 2016 06:28 PM (Wg3o4)

331 Other sections have 5-10 year waits before you can re-draw in the Trophy Sections.

Getting permited to kill shit is getting more and more confusing every damned year.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:28 PM (b99VK)

332 The dingo ate my baby is true, they found the remains years later.My sister mentioned that on New years day and told her the same.

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:28 PM (hk3Fb)

333
It'd be funny if the wildlife takes over California.



Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:28 PM (pbBzW)

334 What about the Redford film ' All is Lost ' ? The Pacific is pretty close to a desert too, no? Talk about no dialogue.

Posted by: Jake from State Farm at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (msVAP)

335 Robin and Marian was horrible.


Easily the worst thing Connery and Audrey Hepburn ever did respectively.

Posted by: eleven at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (qUNWi)

336 327

Sheriff Taylor was a nasty sonofabitch.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (pbBzW)


"Gooooood cracka!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (zLP1L)

337 Would be great to document all the animals that starve to death due to overpopulation after no hunting.
Posted by: rickb
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Heh. My über Liberal friend in Maryland sent me a picture of Whitetails grazing on his shubbery, referred to them as 'vermin'. I was amused. Up until they started doing that, he was one of those that would say, "It's our fault for encroaching on their habitat."

Posted by: Al Sharpton at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (n22zQ)

338 >>>Cornel Wilde...Naked Prey? Naked in Africa and some tribe was hunting him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Prey

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (iQIUe)'





Discussed earlier, as a possible remake in Detroit.

I call dibs on that one.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:24 PM (zLP1L)<<<




Detroit is the worst kind of desert... a food desert!!!

Posted by: Moochelle Obama at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (H9MG5)

339 Okay, I didn't read the whole thing because I actually want to see this so thanks for the review. I will check the movie out. Love Michael Douglas.. always have since the Streets of San Francisco.

If you all want to see a good Kurt Russell movie rent Bone Tomahawk. Excellent movie, but for the squeamish there is one horrific scene I had to turn my head (and plug my ears).

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (CNHr1)

340 It must needs be said -- I'd hit it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (jR7Wy)

Ya gotta love the 'ettes.

Posted by: tbodie at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (3CXto)

341
I love a sunburnt country
A land of sweeping plains
Of ragged mountain ranges
Of droughts and flooding rains ...

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (iQIUe)

342 The term wildlife in California can cover multiple fauna, some four legged and some two legged.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (osI0T)

343 320 Az., Ut., Nv., Ca., I think all have once in a lifetime draws for the best (read:trophy) sections.

Mexico has them, too. I just don't know the process for getting tags down there, other than Outfitter Sponsored Tags.
Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:26 PM (b99VK)

TX issues about 15 permits per year.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:30 PM (CoX6k)

344 Semi-Literate Thug at January 29, 2016 05:46 PM

Yep-- that's it. Andy Griffith as an evil rich big game hunting lawyer.

Posted by: Alamo at January 29, 2016 06:30 PM (ceIDk)

345 I think blisters on you schlong would hurt big time.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:30 PM (iQIUe)

346 342 The term wildlife in California can cover multiple fauna, some four legged and some two legged.
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:29 PM (osI0T)


Delta smelt. Friggin minnow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:30 PM (zLP1L)

347 If you all want to see a good Kurt Russell movie rent Bone Tomahawk. Excellent movie, but for the squeamish there is one horrific scene I had to turn my head (and plug my ears).



That movie was


different.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:31 PM (SAhpk)

348 idiot Californians ruined a beautiful state

Posted by: Lord Barry at January 29, 2016 06:32 PM (Uk9e2)

349 328 Oh, fuck. "Walkabout."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (zLP1L)


Yeah, in hindsight, they're not all that they're cracked up to be.

Posted by: Dr. Franklin, deceased, etc. at January 29, 2016 06:32 PM (jV8Mq)

350 I've been through the desert with a schlong with no name.

Posted by: America at January 29, 2016 06:32 PM (6MUFb)

351 idiot Californians ruined a beautiful state



Next up, Colorado

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (SAhpk)

352 You didn't like it rickB?

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (CNHr1)

353 Ace, do you watch any series? I've asked this before and you say you dont watch television. However, what's the difference between tv and some of the great cable series? My recommendations which you will hate:

Narcos
Romeo Section
Fargo
Mozart in the Jungle

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (iQIUe)

354 Far-left anti-hunting enviro-extremists have as of last week completely taken over the California Fish and Game Wildlife Commission, and will like completely ban all hunting in California this year, forever. It's big news that has flown under the radar. The last pro-hunting old-timer on the commission quit in disgust last week, completing the total transition from a hunter's committee to an anti-hunting politburo.

have you heard about what's happening in yosemite?!
they are renaming everything, including the baddest of hotels, the ahwahnee. also shutting the doors on the le conte memorial vistors center because he was rumored to have owned slaves. thanks sierra club!

Posted by: north and judd at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (0KgAM)

355 349 328 Oh, fuck. "Walkabout."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (zLP1L)

Yeah, in hindsight, they're not all that they're cracked up to be.
Posted by: Dr. Franklin, deceased, etc. at January 29, 2016 06:32 PM (jV8Mq)

Babylon 5 and my most hated plot idea reference?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (iHjB5)

356 >>TX issues about 15 permits per year.


and if one of those goofy things gets pneumonia, they kill the entire herd!?

Never could figure out the Sheep Biology Agenda...but they are all over the place, now. See huge rams every year.

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (b99VK)

357 If you all want to see a good Kurt Russell movie rent Bone Tomahawk. Excellent movie, but for the squeamish there is one horrific scene I had to turn my head (and plug my ears).

Posted by: jewells45


There were multiple scenes with over-the-top stuff. Shitty flick.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2016 06:34 PM (W0RfD)

358 Plus 1/2 Star for No Schlongs. Even though Douglas strips the guy, he lets him keep his jockey shorts, so we don't see any schlong bouncing around. And if that sounds bad to you womenfolk -- we also don't see sun-blistered schlong, which wouldn't be too cool.

No, I give it a full star for No Schlongs. Women do not want to see schlongs except under certain circumstances. If women wanted to see schlongs 24/7 and didn't much care who they were attached to, dudes everywhere would be walking around with their schlongs hanging out of their pants and they'd be applauded instead of arrested. Going out on the street would be like stepping into a jungle filled with little elephant trucks everywhere.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 29, 2016 06:34 PM (P8951)

359
Tip: If you're sick of tracking sand and dirt into your home but forget to take off your shoes, try 3M's Sticky Mat.

You put the Sticky Mat at your entrance like a doormat and grabs most debris, thus cleaning the bottom of your footwear.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:34 PM (pbBzW)

360 The resignation --combined with the unrelated recent departures of commission President Jack Baylis and Sonke Mastrup, the commission's executive director -- sets the stage for Gov. Jerry Brown to appoint conservationists to the increasingly pivotal state board.

Such a move may, observers say, complete the transformation of the commission from an organization that advocates for fishing and hunting to one that safeguards endangered species, preserves habitat and protects California's top predators from slaughter.
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A parallel with the SCOTUS after Hillary wins.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (n22zQ)

361 319
Andy Griffith could play a great villain.

The most villainous role that old bastard ever played was salesman for Obamacare.

Posted by: Alamo at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (ceIDk)

362 Walkabout, isn't that the film with the girl in Logan's Run swimming nekkid?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (39g3+)

363 Delta smelt. Friggin minnow.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton


Which leads me to anotherr YUUUGE under-the-radar story that blows the lid off the "drought" crap.

Turns out, in order to make the Delta Smelt and other fish more comfortable, the State of California releases up to 25% of the coolest (and thus most desirable and drinkable) water from the lower levels of the state-owned reservoirs solely to lower the temperatures in the rivers to make it more appealing for fish to spawn (they like cooler water temperatures, apparently). Then the remaining water in the reservoirs is not high-enough quality for drinking -- end result, we're in a horrible "drought and anyone who waters his or her lawn is fined, etc.

if they didn't release to good water for the fish sexcapades, there would actually be plenty of water for humans.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (jBuUi)

364 Well come on you guys.. it was labeled a HORROR western.

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (CNHr1)

365 345 I think blisters on you schlong would hurt big time.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:30 PM (iQIUe)

It would certainly be one of those times when a guy would be praying that he didn't get one of those rogue boners. You know, like the ones that suddenly cropped up in junior high seconds before the teacher told you to go the chalkboard and work out a math problem in front of the class.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (KS+qL)

366 Would be great to document all the animals that starve to death due to overpopulation after no hunting.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:23 PM (SAhpk)
-----------I think this is what happened in PA. They killed off all the natural predators, then restricted deer hunting licenses. The deer population there is out of control with deer destroying crops, being hit by cars, etc.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 29, 2016 06:35 PM (9iR5/)

367 Last year Tx passed an amendment guaranteeing the right to hunt and fish. It passed easily, of course, but a few twits asked why we needed to do that.

18 other states have done this. I never thought I'd see the day this would be needed in the US. People really are divorced from natural processes.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM (CoX6k)

368 "Deliverance" started it, a bunch of movies like "The Hills Have Eyes" confirmed my lifelong resolution to never go more than 10 feet off a paved road without a gun (and at least one knife).
Survival-oriented movies, over the years, have added about a pound (compass, matches, space blanket, garbage bag, etc, etc) to the basic load.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM (Z8DIA)

369 Plus 1/2 Star for No Schlongs.

*sigh*

Posted by: Sandra Flook at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM (Dwehj)

370
I liked the Addiction. Walken was a vampire in NYC.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM (iQIUe)

371
342 The term wildlife in California can cover multiple fauna, some four legged and some two legged.
Posted by: Anna Puma
...................

but most wearing chaps with pink cowboy hats

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM (HgMAr)

372 You didn't like it rickB?
Posted by: jewells45



Yes. LOL. It was just different. Cannibals? Srsly?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM (SAhpk)

373 idiot Californians ruined a beautiful state
Posted by: Lord Barry
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Wherever Liberals land, they bring destruction.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at January 29, 2016 06:37 PM (n22zQ)

374 Going out on the street would be like stepping into a jungle filled with little elephant trucks everywhere.
Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 29, 2016 06:34 PM (P8951)
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And now I've got "Baby Elephant Walk" stuck in my head.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:37 PM (jR7Wy)

375 Cecil.. where can I order it? Amazon? Man that would be ideal for my car. I want to keep it looking as new as possible since I will probably own it as long as did the Lumina, 14 years.

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:37 PM (CNHr1)

376 323 Wow. That's huge. And incredibly stupid. You HAVE to manage your wildlife, and hunting is a critical tool.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:27 PM (CoX6k)


These are the same worthless twats who puke out such pithy one-liners as, "Hunting for conservation is like screwing for virginity." Who needs critical thinking skills when you've got Jon Stewart-esqe snark?

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 06:37 PM (jV8Mq)

377 Thought I'd just pop in to see what was up.

Posted by: Rogue Boner at January 29, 2016 06:38 PM (Dwehj)

378 363.
Eh. We have afterbays designed to warm irrigation water before it's loosed on Rice - cold water shocks and kills rice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oroville-Thermalito_Complex

Posted by: 13times at January 29, 2016 06:39 PM (WHVu+)

379 OMG, my husband just emailed from the ranch where he's with a bunch of guys "hunting" (drinking and farting around) quail.

They started a pretty big fire with their tannerite. Oops, he says.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:39 PM (CoX6k)

380 377 Thought I'd just pop in to see what was up.
Posted by: Rogue Boner at January 29, 2016 06:38 PM (Dwehj)
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Red Leader standing by!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:39 PM (jR7Wy)

381 Maybe we should make a horror movie about how the vengeful spirits of dead forest creatures hunt down the billionaire who buys off the Sierra people to build a 5,500 sq ft mansion on a formerly pristine mountain side.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:39 PM (osI0T)

382 critical thinking skills are not in the long term interests of The State.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (Z8DIA)

383 Isn't that Red Five standing by?

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (osI0T)

384 My wife and I drove across the Mojave on the Old Government Road last July. 140 miles in first gear, two and a half days to complete: Absolutely beautiful and incredibly isolated country. Took extra gas and water and another vehicle driven by my son. It is not a place to be driven alone. We never saw another soul.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (WQMJ4)

385 377 Thought I'd just pop in to see what was up.

Posted by: Rogue Boner at January 29, 2016 06:38 PM (Dwehj)

It should also be mentioned that Rogue Boner is also a good name for a new metal or punk rock band.

Posted by: Slappy at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (KS+qL)

386 I saw this several months ago. I also enjoyed it. It seems a real shame M. Douglas has no child or grandchild who is acting. We are poorer to see the end of that clan.

Posted by: Steve at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (+jHI5)

387
What I got out of Ace's movie review...


Not that good of a movie due to lack of shlong?


Additional comment by Ace:

Would've rated it higher if someone drank piss.


My conclusion:

AVOID this film until the East Berlin S&M Directors Cut comes out.

Posted by: Some Guy in Wisconsin at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (Qj6zv)

388
jewells, I got mine on ebay. I don't think you want one in your car because your foot will stick to it. It's pretty strong adhesive.

Plus, it's the size of a large doormat.

For my car, I bought a set of those large rubber all-weather floormats that I put over the carpet floormats. My floormats underneath are still like brand new. You get those at any auto parts store.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:41 PM (pbBzW)

389 Big Blue One, standing by.

Posted by: Rogue Boner at January 29, 2016 06:41 PM (Dwehj)

390 355 Babylon 5 and my most hated plot idea reference?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at January 29, 2016 06:33 PM (iHjB5)


Heh. As bad as that was, it's still better than "Grey 17 is Missing."

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 06:41 PM (jV8Mq)

391 383 Isn't that Red Five standing by?
Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:40 PM (osI0T)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0E96CfPLkPU

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at January 29, 2016 06:41 PM (jR7Wy)

392 There was a guy in SoCal who was head of the board of some environmental state gov group. He shot his gf several times but she lived. Instead of calling 911, he called his parents and they took her to their garage and tried to nurse her to health. After 3 weeks and not getting better and her begging to be taken to a hospital, they finally called for help.

They all got prison but the guy refused to resign and they had no mechanism to kick him off the board so they couldnt do any business.

I relate this as an example of how freaking entitle leftards think they are, that they can get away with anything bc they think they are good people when they are effing not.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:41 PM (iQIUe)

393 Saw this film as well, entertaining was worth the 90-120 minute or whatever it was.

Posted by: ThisBeingMilt at January 29, 2016 06:42 PM (MbrzC)

394 Cecil.. I was actually thinking of putting it right outside the drivers side of my car so when I get in I won't track a bunch of crap in there.

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:42 PM (CNHr1)

395 So you might say Michael Douglas gets sheepwrecked.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (NeFrd)

396 Foxtrot, Alpha, Papa

Posted by: Rogue Boner at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (Dwehj)

397 I especially liked Narcos opening scene which they show several times through out season one.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (iQIUe)

398
Funny thing about the Lumina, it's engine was on sort of a hinge.

From what I understand, it was designed to kinda swing up and out of the engine compartment for repair/replacement, or access to transmission. I dunno.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (pbBzW)

399 Jenny Aguilera is in Walkabout, Logans Run, and there is a western I can't find the name of as well as many more

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (hk3Fb)

400 There are always movies about how terrifying and evil rural areas are put out by urban people who break out in a cold sweat at the thought of not being able to order delivery food.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (39g3+)

401 These are the same worthless twats who puke out such pithy one-liners as, "Hunting for conservation is like screwing for virginity." Who needs critical thinking skills when you've got Jon Stewart-esqe snark?
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 06:37 PM (jV8Mq)

These nuts have gone full retard on this.

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 06:43 PM (CoX6k)

402 No wonder I didn't catch the reference. Too busy watching anime to watch such mainstream TV.

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:44 PM (osI0T)

403 OMG. Taxi driver smells like ass, dirty hair and ranch dressing

Posted by: ThunderB at January 29, 2016 06:44 PM (5uWpo)

404 Wait til a deer knocks one of them off their bike and breaks their hip, or worse.

Posted by: Sal at January 29, 2016 06:44 PM (MRX6w)

405
Yeah, if you park in a garage/carport, that'd work.

Posted by: Cecil Lipshitz at January 29, 2016 06:44 PM (pbBzW)

406 The Lumina is still serving us well. Hubby got rid of his junker and is now driving it. Damn thing is a workhorse.

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:44 PM (CNHr1)

407 Agutter, Jenny Agutter. She was one of the sinister council members in Avengers and Captain America II (the one that pulls her face off to reveal Black Widow, actually)

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:44 PM (39g3+)

408 >>> These are the same worthless twats who puke out such pithy one-liners as, "Hunting for conservation is like screwing for virginity."

It keeps in check the boom and bust cycle of animal population. These same clowns will whine when Bambi starves.

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2016 06:45 PM (AfsKp)

409 Long horns can be quite useful:


https://goo.gl/ebqXUX

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:45 PM (iQIUe)

410 Christopher Taylor, talk about bad feelings. Submissions for Angry Robot and they talk about the Diversity of voices they are looking for. Perhaps I should self-identify as a neko-gynoid ...

http://angryrobotbooks.com/submissions/

Posted by: Anna Puma at January 29, 2016 06:46 PM (osI0T)

411 sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:36 PM

I drove the land route from Washington State to Alaska and back in an old, ready to break down dodge pickup truck. Under financed, under equipped.

And after all the bear stories, what to do, not do, if you see a bear, etc and so forth, I was afraid to get out of the damn pickup!

Posted by: Willburn Sooner at January 29, 2016 06:46 PM (EgFeC)

412 China 9 Liberal 37 is the western that was on one morning on TMC

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:46 PM (hk3Fb)

413 So, you are saying you can smell the Cab Driver's Hidden Valley?

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:46 PM (b99VK)

414 Beyond the Reacharound is coming to a local video store near you.

Posted by: bjk at January 29, 2016 06:46 PM (x2rNW)

415 Bravo. Oscar, India, November, Golf

Posted by: Rogue Boner at January 29, 2016 06:47 PM (Dwehj)

416 These are the same worthless twats who puke out such pithy one-liners as, "Hunting for conservation is like screwing for virginity." Who needs critical thinking skills when you've got Jon Stewart-esqe snark?
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik



Anal, bitchez. Preserves virginity.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 29, 2016 06:47 PM (SAhpk)

417 [384 My wife and I drove across the Mojave on the Old Government Road last July. 140 miles in first gear, two and a half days to complete: Absolutely beautiful and incredibly isolated country. Took extra gas and water and another vehicle driven by my son. It is not a place to be driven alone. We never saw another soul.
Posted by: Jinx the Cat


Abou tfive years ago a friend of my mother's went driving in the Mojave along with her husband. Both were senior citizens (young-ish seniors -- in their 60s -- but technically still seniors.)

They were just planning a drive, and had no intention to go hiking, but a one point "it was so beautiful" that the wife convinced the husband to stop the car so they could go take a look around for a few minutes.

Abouta quarter-mile into their impromptu "hike" -- still within eyesight of the car -- the husband's ankle started hurting so he said he needed to go back to the car to rest it. The wife convinced him to let her poke around for a couple more minutes on her own, never losing sight of the car. He said OK and went back to rest his ankle.

45 minutes later he called her name and got no response. he limped around for a bit and couldn't find her.

She had, of course, wandered just a little bit too far and lost sight of the car and suddenly couldn't remember how to get back, even though she was probably no more than half a mile away.

In the blistering heat.

She alternated between "I'll just sit here and wait to be rescued" and "I'll keep trying to find my way back", each time getting further and further from the car.

Five hours later, at nightfall, by some sheer miracle she found the car again. Whew!

She later said she was preparing to die. She thought her time had come.

Posted by: zombie at January 29, 2016 06:49 PM (jBuUi)

418 Two Scoops for Sister Sarah

Posted by: Great Dessert Movies at January 29, 2016 06:49 PM (b99VK)

419 tough to get published these days unless youre half native american, half black, lesbian female.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 29, 2016 06:49 PM (39g3+)

420 So you might say Michael Douglas gets sheepwrecked.

Posted by: Seamus Muldoon


Wool ewe ought to know, kid.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at January 29, 2016 06:50 PM (W0RfD)

421 >>> I respect Michael Douglas for just taking films he likes or finds interesting rather than big budget<<<<

That's one of the things I like about Charlton Heston. In the late 60's/early 70's he was responsible for three of my favorite sci-fi movies-- Planet of the Apes, Soylent Green, and Omega Man, none of which would have gotten made if Chuck hadn't signed on and pushed for them.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living... at January 29, 2016 06:50 PM (tEDMc)

422 I've driven thru federal/state forest land in NoCal for 8 hours and only seeing 1 other car. It was creepy.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:50 PM (iQIUe)

423
377 Thought I'd just pop in to see what was up.
Posted by: Rogue Boner
............

You want us turn a light on? Must be hard with just the one eye.

Posted by: wth at January 29, 2016 06:50 PM (HgMAr)

424 Speaking of bears.. another good one I saw recently was Backcountry. True story of a couple who go hiking in the Canadian wilderness and meet up with a very mean bear. Again.. one very hard to scene to watch. I actually remember when this happened. Don't want to give too much away for any who haven't seen it.

Posted by: jewells45 at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (CNHr1)

425 Anyone mention-

"Sands of the Kalahari"?


Great desert movie.

Plus-

Baboons!!!

Posted by: naturalfake at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (KUa85)

426 368 "Deliverance" started it, a bunch of movies like "The Hills Have Eyes" confirmed my lifelong resolution to never go more than 10 feet off a paved road without a gun (and at least one knife).

That's Plan B to me. Once I went on a day cruise up the coast of British Columbia, which has to be one of the most lavishly beautiful sights on this planet, and I thoroughly appreciated nature - while sitting on the deck with a vodka tonic in my hand. Now that's the Donna &&&& V approach to the great outdoors. That's about how close I want to get to that bitch Gaia.

And I knew she was a bitch when I was 8. I stayed awake the entire night in Girl Scout camp because I was sure - absolutely positive that a bear would eat me, decades before "Grizzly Man" ever came out. I never bought that Mother Nature is our Friend bullshit.

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (P8951)

427 I remember, Ace, when you said that you liked to throw in non-political things on the site because not everything was about politics. But even in this review, which should have nothing to do with politics, you just have to take a shot at someone you adored -- very publicly and in a very gross way -- who has now fallen out of the Ewok's favor.

You know what, buddy, you've decided me. Ever since Walker and Perry dropped out of the race, I've been leaning toward Rubio. Now, because you have so consistently been such a jerk toward him, I will absolutely vote for him in my primary. You're a self-confessed liar, a self-confessed non-Republican, and a self-confessed non-conservative. If Rubio pisses you off so, then he must have a hell of a lot going for him.

Posted by: Demosthenes at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (9V0rz)

428 Michael Douglas kids (not the one in prison) are young teens. I hope they dont go into acting. It's a crappy profession.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (iQIUe)

429 Lol @ Donna vvvv you city slicker

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 06:52 PM (voOPb)

430 I bought my first wrist rocket slingshot after reading that book!

Posted by: Amy Schumer at January 29, 2016 06:53 PM (b7AU3)

431 No one has mentioned the Ten Commandments, also up there in top desert movies

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:53 PM (hk3Fb)

432 I turned it down.

No rattlesnake rape.

Posted by: Leonardo DiCaprio at January 29, 2016 06:53 PM (JIElb)

433 I hate fucking baboons.

*sniff*

Posted by: garrett at January 29, 2016 06:53 PM (b99VK)

434 ProTip: wear a lanyard with a whistle. It's easier and louder than yelling.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:54 PM (iQIUe)

435 Posted by: Demosthenes at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (9V0rz)


Your concern is

[X] Noted
[...] Other than noted.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:54 PM (rwI+c)

436 >>> I never bought that Mother Nature is our Friend bullshit.

Outdoors is trying to kill us, but it doesn't try very hard.

Posted by: fluffy at January 29, 2016 06:55 PM (AfsKp)

437 There were fetish films with snakes or eels in ladies va jay jay popular about 20 years ago.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:55 PM (iQIUe)

438 >ProTip: wear a lanyard with a whistle. It's easier and louder than yelling.


Go ahead.

You'll only encourage more raping that way.

Posted by: Rapey Dolphin at January 29, 2016 06:56 PM (b99VK)

439 Nood Catwoman Thread

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:56 PM (rwI+c)

440 Posted by: Demosthenes at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (9V0rz)

what

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 06:56 PM (jV8Mq)

441 If Rubio pisses you off so, then he must have a hell of a lot going for him.

Posted by: Demosthenes at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (9V0rz)

Well he lies like a democrat, so at least he's got that going for him.......

Posted by: Alamo at January 29, 2016 06:57 PM (ceIDk)

442 Yeah, not that I'm afraid of rural areas as such (I live in one & spend most of my time in them over two states) as I am aware of just how wrong stuff can go where there are no witnesses.
These days, truth be told, I am far more wary on the rare occasions I go into The Big City.
I have evolved over the years.
And as for bears, if I go into their turf, I carry the snubnose 629 instead of the Chief's Airweight.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at January 29, 2016 06:57 PM (Z8DIA)

443 Well he lies like a democrat, so at least he's got that going for him.......


He can lie in two languages.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 06:58 PM (rwI+c)

444 You're a self-confessed liar, a self-confessed non-Republican, and a self-confessed non-conservative. If Rubio pisses you off so, then he must have a hell of a lot going for him.
Posted by: Demosthenes at January 29, 2016 06:51 PM (9V0rz)

==========
Challenge Ace to a duel at dawn. Settle this like gentlemorons.

Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at January 29, 2016 06:58 PM (iQIUe)

445 Nature is all about the fittest, the tiny fish gets eaten by the little fish, the little fish gets eaten by a bigger fish and so on infinitum

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 06:59 PM (hk3Fb)

446 Best desert movie? Nominate "The Lost Patrol", 1934.
Dialog like:
"Sanders: Why? Why in Heaven's name, man, what do you believe in?
Brown: Would it really interest you? Oh, a lot of things. A good horse, steak and kidney pudding, a fellow named George Brown, the asinine futility of this war, being frightened, being drunk enough to be brave and brave enough to be drunk, the feel of the sea when you swim, the taste and strength of wine, the loveliness of women, the splendid, unspeakable joy of killing Arabs, the smell of incense and bacon, the weight of a fist, an old pair of shoes, a toothache, triunph... "

Posted by: OK, Thanks, sock now off! at January 29, 2016 07:00 PM (ucB75)

447 Rubio isn't showing up on IMDB

Posted by: Skip at January 29, 2016 07:01 PM (hk3Fb)

448 I don't need to these lengths, to get away with murder.

Posted by: Hillary at January 29, 2016 07:01 PM (b2qGx)

449 ELO concert showing now on VH1 Classic.

I find ELO's music to be happy-making, in general.

This is a welcome reprieve.

The commercial breaks are gonna suck though, being an MTV network.

Posted by: filbert at January 29, 2016 07:04 PM (s5o+q)

450 "It'd be funny if the wildlife takes over California."

Too late...

Posted by: navybrat at January 29, 2016 07:05 PM (8QGte)

451 >>>I remember, Ace, when you said that you liked to throw in non-political things on the site because not everything was about politics. But even in this review, which should have nothing to do with politics, you just have to take a shot at someone you adored -- very publicly and in a very gross way -- who has now fallen out of the Ewok's favor.

You know what, buddy, you've decided me. Ever since Walker and Perry dropped out of the race, I've been leaning toward Rubio. Now, because you have so consistently been such a jerk toward him, I will absolutely vote for him in my primary. You're a self-confessed liar, a self-confessed non-Republican, and a self-confessed non-conservative. If Rubio pisses you off so, then he must have a hell of a lot going for him.

...

i see your lips moving but my dick is oddly dry

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 07:07 PM (dciA+)

452 if you can't take a "Marco Rubio likes water" joke, maybe you're just, what's the word, insane?

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 07:08 PM (dciA+)

453 >>>
Your concern is

[X] Noted
[...] Other than noted.

funny. i'll steal that.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 07:09 PM (dciA+)

454 Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 29, 2016 06:52 PM (voOPb)

MH, my dad loved fishing more than just about anything and once a year we'd rent a cabin "up North" - near Phillips or Hayward or Rhinelander so he and my brothers could fish to their heart's content. And it seemed like every single time I went something bad happened to me - a fish hook ended up in my foot or arm or face or I cut my feet on rocks or fell into a nest of wasps and got stung 20 times or bats got in the cabin. So all that got to me.

You have to give me some credit though - even when I was a little Donna V. I could put bait - worms, maggots whatever on a hook without batting an eye. Didn't bother me at all - so I'm not a complete wuss

Posted by: Donna&&&&V (a white) (whitely brandishing ampersand privilege ) at January 29, 2016 07:10 PM (P8951)

455 if you can't take a "Marco Rubio likes water" joke, maybe you're just, what's the word, insane?


I'm more impressed with the effort to form sentences and then post them. As though someone might care about the opinion and angsty anger of anonymous posters.

Posted by: Grump928(C) says Free Soothie! at January 29, 2016 07:11 PM (rwI+c)

456 453 funny. i'll steal that.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 07:09 PM (dciA+)


THREADWINNER!!

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 07:13 PM (jV8Mq)

457 A musical interlude:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBa746RVNHA

Posted by: rickl at January 29, 2016 07:14 PM (sdi6R)

458 Ace, if you're out there and would be willing to do it, I'd love to have you do a cameo in my own upcoming desert horror flick.

Posted by: qdpsteve at January 29, 2016 07:25 PM (ntObR)

459 @430 One of my brothers did the same thing. Loved that book. Bet it sold quite a few wrist rockets.

Posted by: Mentor of Arisia at January 29, 2016 07:30 PM (ybzJi)

460 Saw the title and thought it was a documentary about Hillary and her email server

Posted by: SVH at January 29, 2016 07:48 PM (apHTI)

461 Like a movie with little dialogue, two main characters and the biggest, loudest, meanest looking souped-up Semi-truck in existence? Watch "Duel" with an amazing performance by Dennis Weaver. One of my all time faves!

Posted by: NoLaChingues at January 29, 2016 08:03 PM (I+4FK)

462 i think a "marco rubio loves water" joke is just silly, but I get this angry young man's point that it sucks to have a non-political aside stuffed with a political sucker-punch. So I deleted the joke, which was this, about the desert:

"A hellscape born of Marco Rubio's worst nightmares: A land without sweet, sweet water."

I get the point of not wanting a sucker punch, though I still think this is a sucker tap-in-the-shoulder.

Posted by: ace at January 29, 2016 08:11 PM (dciA+)

463 I'm very, very concerned about the Soviet revisionism I see manifesting itself here.

But, seriously, Ace. Had you stuck something in your post about "a land without dreamers and undocumented, future Americans" or some shit like that--THAT I could understand someone taking exception to.

Your reference to Rubio's water drinking--something about which he himself has made self-deprecating jokes--was totally apolitical, silly, and undeserving of redaction.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at January 29, 2016 09:06 PM (jV8Mq)

464 &

Posted by: stace at January 29, 2016 11:03 PM (CoX6k)

465 If you got Starz then you should watch Whiplash. Instant classic that one.

Posted by: guy at January 30, 2016 01:09 AM (TOgUO)

466 If his futuristic-looking Steyr rifle is like mine, I give the movie Two Thumbs Up.

Posted by: J Moses Browning at January 30, 2016 01:29 PM (BlyPh)

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