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07-09-2006, 01:12 PM
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#1876
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Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: a house full of "catmons"
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X-Men: The Last Stand. Not bad, but I liked the first two better.
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07-09-2006, 04:26 PM
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#1877
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: The Beautiful U.S. of A.
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Originally Posted by SycophAntichrist
Just out of interest - when you're at a video store, and you read the blurb on the back of a prospective title and it makes reference to how said title combines elements of 'movie x' and 'movie y'; do you generally put it back on the shelves and continue looking?
I tend to, as in my opinion the movies which 'inspired' such a title are probably superior to that which is derived from them.
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Yep. Indeed, and the same goes for music which is drescribed as " blah blah blah meets blah blah blah." Just a gimmick to sell you a product based on industry name dropping. Official descriptions with such an analogy can generally, but not always, forecast a mediocre movie.
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"[Brian Blair] was a punk. I can break his fucking back - break his back and make him humble and then fuck his ass ... Suplex him, put him in a camel clutch, break his back, and fuck his ass - make him humble. Teach him to respect the Iron Sheik. And I didn't do it, because for the God and Jesus, and Mr. McMahon." -Khosrow Vaziri (The Iron Sheik)
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07-09-2006, 04:39 PM
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#1878
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: United States
Posts: 6
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I saw the new X Men one as well.
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07-09-2006, 07:19 PM
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#1879
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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The last movie I saw was 'V for Vendetta' when I was coming back on the plane from London. It was very moving, I almost cried at the end when V died. Hugo
Weaving is an amazing actor.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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07-09-2006, 07:53 PM
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#1880
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Blountsville, AL
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What was that movie about anyway, Rose? I was very interested in seeing it.
The last movie I saw was "Syriana" I rented on DVD. It was a very good movie, but the kind that was meant to be watched three or so times. Each scene was less than five minutes in length, and it really made the film seem twice as long as it really was. It also made the film very difficult to comprehend, but I'm definitely compelled to buy it.
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07-12-2006, 12:21 PM
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#1881
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
Posts: 7,162
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Does for rock and roll what "The Sound of Music" did for hills
This is Spinal Tap !!! (1984, Directed by Rob Reiner)
In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
Classic !!!
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far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
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Be excellent to one another !!!. 
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07-12-2006, 01:05 PM
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#1882
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Georgia
Posts: 797
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Originally Posted by Beowulf
This is Spinal Tap !!! (1984, Directed by Rob Reiner)
In 1982 legendary British heavy metal band Spinal Tap attempt an American comeback tour accompanied by a fan who is also a film-maker. The resulting documentary, interspersed with powerful performances of Tap's pivotal music and profound lyrics, candidly follows a rock group heading towards crisis, culminating in the infamous affair of the eighteen-inch-high Stonehenge stage prop.
Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and...
Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
Nigel Tufnel: Exactly.
Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder?
Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
Marty DiBergi: I don't know.
Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven.
Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven.
Classic !!!
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Last movie I watched was...the matador
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord to tell everyone about that time at Ronnie's house when I smashed the beer bottle over my own head.
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07-13-2006, 07:57 PM
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#1883
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Originally Posted by Draconysius
What was that movie about anyway, Rose? I was very interested in seeing it.
The last movie I saw was "Syriana" I rented on DVD. It was a very good movie, but the kind that was meant to be watched three or so times. Each scene was less than five minutes in length, and it really made the film seem twice as long as it really was. It also made the film very difficult to comprehend, but I'm definitely compelled to buy it.
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It's set in the future in London where the government is feared and the society is strongly controlled. V is a vigilante fighting against the government tyrannical reign. He rescues a woman named Evey from the government and she eventually joins up with him.
That's a very small, crappy outline of it but it's a brilliant film. A really funny part is when V blows up the Old Bailey to the tune of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. Such irony!
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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07-16-2006, 04:56 PM
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#1884
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: Oslo, Norway
Posts: 1,830
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I was in the cinema this evening and watched Pirates of the Caribbean. It's great, sooo funny... but then, I'm a big time fan of the first movie, aswell. Can't wait to see no. 3 - need to know what happens with Jack...!
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07-16-2006, 05:56 PM
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#1885
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Georgia
Posts: 797
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I went to the theatre last night and saw Little Man.
It's actually pretty funny.
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Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord to tell everyone about that time at Ronnie's house when I smashed the beer bottle over my own head.
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07-16-2006, 06:38 PM
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#1886
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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The last movie I saw was on the weekend. It was some French arthouse thriller called Hidden. It was well done but the ending was irritating.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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07-17-2006, 10:03 PM
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#1887
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Halloween Town//Sleepy Hollow
Posts: 29
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I saw Superman Returns last night.
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07-19-2006, 04:05 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: In my boudoir
Posts: 112
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Right now I'm in the middle of watching The Wicker Man for about the 127th time. It's an amazing movie with a soundtrack that pretty much defines my childhood - and has the added extra of Christopher Lee in a frock...
It just doesn't get any better.
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07-19-2006, 12:37 PM
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#1889
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
Posts: 7,162
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Originally Posted by DrenchedInGin
Right now I'm in the middle of watching The Wicker Man for about the 127th time. It's an amazing movie with a soundtrack that pretty much defines my childhood - and has the added extra of Christopher Lee in a frock...
It just doesn't get any better.
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Thats an excellent film !!!
The storytelling is fantastic, in that film, especially the twist at the end !!!.
Classic !!!
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!.
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07-19-2006, 12:42 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: London
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The last film I saw was The Rocky Horror Picture Show. I watched the film for the thousandth time while getting ready to go and see it at the theatre for the hundreth time, beacuse I'm that cool.
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07-19-2006, 01:43 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
Posts: 7,162
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The Corpse Bride (2005 Directed by, Tim Burton)
A man, after butchering his lines at his wedding rehearsal, is sent into the woods to practice his vows. He performs his vows perfectly and places the ring on a twig on the ground. It turns out the twig was really the hand of the Corpse Bride, who now claims she is his legal wife. IMDB
Excellent, the story, the animation, the art direction, and the voice casting !!!
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!.
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07-22-2006, 05:41 PM
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#1892
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: a russian, vienna-educated, living in the Netherlands. beat that.
Posts: 465
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I watched a movie on TV and I have no idea what its called.
It's the second time i've seen it and I kind of just can't get enough of it.
It's not exactly a very new movie....with Ingred Bergman (I think). Its not all gothic or whatever, just cute.
Its about a dentist, his secretary, his lover, his lover's neighbour and his "wife" who is actually his secretary playing this role for the sake of his lover.
In the end the dentist and the secratary fall in love and the dentists's lover's neighbour climbes through a window into her room and they fall in love too. Everything goes back in its place. The movie is just so cute. I love it.
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07-23-2006, 01:58 AM
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#1893
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Down ze wabbit hole
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Originally Posted by Beowulf
The Corpse Bride (2005 Directed by, Tim Burton)
A man, after butchering his lines at his wedding rehearsal, is sent into the woods to practice his vows. He performs his vows perfectly and places the ring on a twig on the ground. It turns out the twig was really the hand of the Corpse Bride, who now claims she is his legal wife. IMDB
Excellent, the story, the animation, the art direction, and the voice casting !!! |
Heh, I've got the film on DVD along with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. In my opinion, the best Tim Burton films are Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow.
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O loneliness, O hopelessness
To search the ends of time,
For there is in all the world
No greater love than mine.
-Annie Lennox, Love Song For A Vampire-
Rouge Z. Hatter has FINALLY returned to Gnet!
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07-23-2006, 08:31 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
Posts: 7,162
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Originally Posted by roserougesang
Heh, I've got the film on DVD along with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Edward Scissorhands. In my opinion, the best Tim Burton films are Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow.
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roserougesang (does your name translate as Blood red rose?) you rawk !!!,
Tim Burton is one of my all time favourite directors, and `Nightmare Before Christmas` and `Sleepy Hollow` are absolute classics, and Edward Scissorhands is probably one of his best films !!!.
What do you think of `Ed Wood` !!!
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!.
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07-27-2006, 01:24 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: U.K
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'The Lost Boys' I can't say I enjoyed 100% it because it wasn't really my sort of vampire film, but it brought me & my mother together for once. She really liked it though.
(Beowulf I'm adoring your avatar!)
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07-27-2006, 02:11 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
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Hi She_Is_My_Sin, *waves*
Long time no see !!!.
So you`ve spotted Gothzilla, I`m glad you like him !!!
Imagine `Gothzilla: The Movie !!!`
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!.
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07-27-2006, 05:19 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Iowegia ;)
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The silent version of "faust".
Kino Video released an excellant digital printing of it and if you like the old German impressionist films at all, honestly - buy this one.
The special effects in it are over the top for a silent film and the english subtitle translation is very good. A long film that you'll not tire of and will enjoy for years!
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07-27-2006, 08:53 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Somewhere over the rainbow?
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Sleepy Hollow
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He said "It's all in your head"
And I said, "So's everything," but he didn't get it
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07-27-2006, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: With the Zombies
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ha ha..."gothzilla returns" could be an interesting sequel!
last movie i saw was Pink Floyd's "The Wall"...AGAIN...for like the thousandth time! it rocks!!!
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It's not so much the pain
It's more the actual knife
Pretending the picture is perfect
I cut myself to sleep
I close my eyes for a second
And curse my fragile soul
I scream to hide that I'm lonely
The echo calls my name
*ANIMAL CRACKERS*
http://www.myspace.com/persephone_x
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07-29-2006, 04:06 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Cimmeria
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Experience it. Enjoy it. Just don't fall for it.
Almost Famous (2003, Directed by, Cameron Crowe)
A 15 year old boy named William Miller (Patrick Fugit) gets an opportunity to travel with a rock band, Stillwater on a 1973 tour. As a younger boy, his sister (Zooey Deschanel) and his widowed mother Elaine (Frances McDormand) had fought about the mother's control over the family and her denial of rock music. The sister leaves home and leaves the young boy her record collection, which immediately seizes his attention. As a teen, he makes record reviews for an underground newspaper. He submits those to Creem magazine writer Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) and gets his attention. The two become fast friends and Bangs acts as his mentor as Rolling Stone magazine comes calling. Slipping into an inner group connected with Stillwater, Rolling Stone agrees to bankroll him on a trip with the group. There he meets the "Band Aids", a group of girls that refuse to be called groupies because they are dedicated only to specific bands. "Penny Lane" (Kate Hudson), the Band Aid's leader is enamored with the group leader (Billy Crudup), but befriends the teen. He responds with complete infatuation with her, but he is equally enamored with the charismatic guitarist. While accepted by the band (other members are Jason Lee, John Fedevich and Mark Kozeleck), they nonetheless refer to him as "the enemy - a rock critic". IMDB
Excellent !!!
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For in each delve and greenwood,
far wiser creatures play,
and in their veins and sinews,
live the gods of yesterday.
Be excellent to one another !!!.
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