Jolt Country

Hell of a movie. Agent Smith aquits himself nicely, and Portman... well, let's say she makes a valiant effort at an English accent but looks too much like a boy with her head shaved. I found it amusing how they brushed over the fact that Guy Fawkes day was meant to celebrate the failure of his bombing, not the attempt. They included a song by Cat Power and the Bennie Hill song in their soundtrack, which earns them brownie points. Timely and relevant, without being too preachy. Never read the comic so I can't compare there.

Watch it. Enjoy it. Live it. Go blow up something dear to someone else.

Natalie Portman made fun of death metal during some story she was telling about the filming of on the Daily Show. Cunt.

"Hi, I'm going to be a stripper in this movie and not get naked, tee hee hee."

That's out of the way. Hey, did Alan Moore finally have a good movie made of his stuff? I guess he has something else to look forward to, other than living in a lesbian tryst camp and not shaving.

If anyone wants to read the comic here. You might need to make a forum account and post an introduction post or something.

Worm wrote:If anyone wants to read the comic here. You might need to make a forum account and post an introduction post or something.

Hey, where the shit is the zcult tracker now? The website's just forums and there's no mention of torrents anywhere. I even registered, thinking it was a hidden option, but all it got me was the occasional bit of spam.

If you have a premium usenet service, it was posted twice recently to a.b.pictures.comics.repost. Grab the one single 120-meg file rather than the individual ones; the big one seems to have slightly better scan quality, more readable and all.

Alan Moore has disowned the movie, but it definitely sounds better than the rest of his adaptations. Speaking of which, usenet users can also find "From Hell" posted recently.

Debaser wrote:

Worm wrote:If anyone wants to read the comic here. You might need to make a forum account and post an introduction post or something.

Hey, where the shit is the zcult tracker now? The website's just forums and there's no mention of torrents anywhere. I even registered, thinking it was a hidden option, but all it got me was the occasional bit of spam.

That's a direct link to it. It's the same damn place, right in the forums after you log-in at the bottom. If you had AIM, I could help you. I guess you traded AIM for the house or something.

Worm wrote:That's a direct link to it. It's the same damn place, right in the forums after you log-in at the bottom.

For true? I swear I scanned that page top to bottom after the reboot and couldn't find nothing. I'll check again if I get the chance.

If you had AIM, I could help you. I guess you traded AIM for the house or something.

Really, Worm, and I'm slightly ashamed to admit this, I traded AIM for the girl. And maybe that makes me a shitty e-friend but quite frankly I'm too pleased at the moment to be getting regular meals and not having to face that whole long, dark teatime of the soul thing every Sunday morning to feel that bad about it.

Don't get me wrong, I too miss those endless lazy days when we could sit around and talk about stupid geek chic chicks, free anime, and our bowel movements; but I seriously have three blocks of time to myself: The hour between when she leaves for work and when I leave for work (if I don't just crawl back into bed and go back to sleep because fuck this 7AM shit), my lunch break, and the hour or so between when I get home and when she gets home; and a lot of that time goes to my reading and my video games. In order to make a proper go at Oblivion I'm going to have sacrifice a large portion of my sleepy-time.

I traded AIM for these magic beans. Toot toot!

Debaser wrote:but I seriously have three blocks of time to myself: The hour between when she leaves for work and when I leave for work (if I don't just crawl back into bed and go back to sleep because fuck this 7AM shit), my lunch break, and the hour or so between when I get home and when she gets home; and a lot of that time goes to my reading and my video games.

Because, what, when she's there you're not allowed do do your own shit? That's the saddest thing you've ever written.

Vitriola wrote:Because, what, when she's there you're not allowed do do your own shit? That's the saddest thing you've ever written.

Look, I'm not neccessarily saying I'm not horrifically pussywhipped; but it's more that I'm spending as much time as possible doing all the things I didn't have the opportunity to do for the past... oh... 7 years or so.

Once my buddy moved back up here from St. Louis ,Worm officially became the only person I ever, ever talked to on AIM. I just don't have an assload of empty time I need to fill up sitting online hitting refresh here and on POE News and waiting for that one guy to log in and hopefully have something to talk about, as much as I dig the man from Forty Fort.

You're saying that events in your life prevented you from checking on something you spent years of your life on for an entire year? It just seems like you set some kind of milestone and went with, but you could have at least set something on "vacation" mode.

Worm wrote:You're saying that events in your life prevented you from checking on something you spent years of your life on for an entire year? It just seems like you set some kind of milestone and went with, but you could have at least set something on "vacation" mode.

This stuff I'm saying here has little to do with my absence on JC.com. I stopped coming here because I'm a flaky ass flake; I could go into more detail on the whys and hows, but I've already crossed the threshhold for "saddest thing I've ever written" once in this thread and I'd just as soon let that record stand for at least the rest of the week. Maybe all the shit that's changed in my life stopped me from "checking back in" sooner, but the simple version is this: I've dropped off of JC for longish periods before for various reasons, and even odds are that I'll do it again at some point. 3/4's of the user base is exactly the same way, if you haven't noticed.

As far as IM goes, you're mistaken if you think I've spent "years of my life on it". Unless by years you mean "two years wherein I actually remembered to turn it on about 10% of the time I was at the computer". It's just never been a major form of communication for me. Like I said on my second post back, I'll try to get on some time. In fact, I am logged on as I'm typing this. If you're logged on at the same time, we'll chat. It'll be fun. But the Siva's honest truth is I'm just not spending a heck of a lot of time in front of my computer these days, and while that will probably change at some point, it won't be in the immediate future.

Jesus Christ, Worm.

Here's my take on IM: you can have it on, but you will get absolutely nothing accomplished if you do. This is contrary to the opinions of some people, but not mine, so I am going to run with it.

Plus, I can't even imagine the process of buying a house and what it does to your free time. I really hope to buy one in a few months. But if I do go forward with it I'm not going to even bother signing up for classes -- it's not worth getting a C or a B due to lack of time.

Doubleplus, I can imagine how busy you get when you start to live with someone. Actually, even though I sometimes hate him, ESPN radio guy Colin Cowherd has a great take on how busy you get as you approach your thirties. His take on it is all sports-related, but it sticks: when you are in college, you're a fan of all sports. For our purposes, we can say that when you are in college (or of college age) you can be everywhere on the Internet, still date, still play video games, blah blah blah. As you get older, Cowherd posits that you begin to eliminate your interest in sports.

The average guy whacks hockey or the NBA first, depending on which he likes more. I stopped following the NBA at all when I was 24. The sports you never followed (for me it's golf, NASCAR, the Olympics and tennis) you become completely ignorant of. If it weren't for Pinback posting golf updates I can honestly say that I would have no conduit to golf.

Next to go is baseball for the majority of fans who do not have one of the gifted six teams (NYY, Boston, Atlanta, Angels/A's, St. Louis - but only because they are good, not entitled - and, ohhhhhh, say Houston) that make the playoffs every year. As a Blue Jays fan, I was able to eliminate baseball very easily. I'm not watching Yankees-Red Sox in October... I'm just not. There isn't a single compelling thing about those games.

You then pick college football or the NFL. The reason is because one is on Saturday and the other on Sunday. If you are in a relationship you can't get away with sacking out in front of the TV for BOTH days. You have to pick. Again, it was easy for me -- Syracuse sucks and I only tangentially caught their games and College Football Fan of Team You Don't Follow is waaaay more annoying than his NFL brother. So long, NCAA!

Oh, and college basketball? With the good players pulling a one-and-done? No way. College basketball only exists as the Big East tournament and then until Cuse gets knocked out in the first round for me. I used to actually attend college basketball games when I was 20.

So that leaves you with the NFL and NBA/NHL if you're me. There's 82 NHL games - no frigging way am I committing myself to that kind of lineup. The NHL actually tells me on my zombieworld.com e-mail address when the Flyers are going to be on TV, so that's cool. I will happily follow the NHL playoffs. I was informed that I would have to go over someone's dead body to get MLB Extra Innings this year (the first year since 1994 that the Jays have had a realistic shot at making the playoffs -- 11 fucking years went by when I knew that they had NO chance. Baseball is a fucking comedy).

Anyway, all of this relates nicely to your Internet efriends. I don't mean to come off, Worm, in any sort of condescending manner. I used to hate it when people said, "You'd feel differently when you got older, HURR!!!" For the most part they weren't even right, although I do now think that 16 year olds driving cars is the most insane act of legislation currently on the books and the first thing I'd eliminate (at least in terms of highway driving) if I were ever elected to official office. Buying a home wipes out your "free" time for six months. Living with a woman wipes out your "free" time for at least eight. And it's not that the home or the girl are a drag. In fact, the reason that they "wipe out" such time is because they are unbelievably rewarding and worth it and a preference.

I mean, goddamn, Worm. Did you mean to say that Debaser spent a year developing some sort of twisted eRelationship with you over AIM? Am I parsing that right?

Confidential to D. Baser, Aurora, IL: Please know that as one of the top three most-entertaining people the lot of us have ever Internettingly encountered, you are only receiving some joshing because we like you so much. It wouldn't surprise me at all if your take on the New Jolt Country Dot Com was that it was made up of a bunch of co-dependant teat sucklers who are no longer worth your time. I'm in the last week of developing a Hugo game which is why I've been so quiet, but at the same time I know exactly where you are coming from with the whole "squeezed for time" thing. I'm there, too!

Debaser wrote:I stopped coming here because I'm a flaky ass flake; I could go into more detail on the whys and hows, but I've already crossed the threshhold for "saddest thing I've ever written" once in this thread and I'd just as soon let that record stand for at least the rest of the week.

Those beans will spill.

As far as IM goes, you're mistaken if you think I've spent "years of my life on it".

I meant the forum. If you remembered the forum, you could remember AIM so I could berate you in real time. Geez, is it so much if my aim buddy comes back and I wanna call him a maggot via that system? No, it's not.

Like I said on my second post back, I'll try to get on some time.

Missed that!

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:Buying a home wipes out your "free" time for six months. Living with a woman wipes out your "free" time for at least eight. And it's not that the home or the girl are a drag. In fact, the reason that they "wipe out" such time is because they are unbelievably rewarding and worth it and a preference.

Clicheman says... "Wait 'til you have kids! Ho, ho, ho!!!"

FWIW, buying a home wipes out your "free" time for more like years (or forever) rather than just six months. You'll never go back to the relatively care-free existance of apartment living.

This thread might be get an award for the quickest and most drastic disconnect from the original topic. After the original message, it was all tangents, all the time. Now it's switched topics completely at least three times. (movie, comic, torrents, whippedness)

Now it's about you kid! Show us what you've got.

Anyway, to go (shockingly) back on topic. Just watched it this weekend as it came out on home video. The kid bought it and said it's an almost must-see. He said his English teacher loved it because of the Shakespeare quotes and the generally poetic-style of Terror Agent V. I noticed that he tapered off his Loquacious speeches as the movie went on. I also noticed NatPort's accent was going in and out like an AM radio station three hills over. It wasn't that bad, really, that's comic license on my part. Obviously the Washcloth Brothers have seen '1984' and 'Brave New World'. There were several plot holes generating from the adaptation from comic book form. I got over them, tho. I like all the bad dental work because even in the future flouride is unknown in the tap water. All in all the plot was pretty good. As good as it can get, I would say. I liked that because a major character dies in the end. This goes against everything Disney and ABC movie of the Week stands for. For a minute I thought 'Oh No! he's gonna get up again!' But he Dint! That's a good thing, with all the bullets and all.

In a predictive note; The V mask will join the Hall of famous Movie Masks. Right up there with 'Phantom of the Opera'; 'Friday the Thirteenth' Jason hockey mask; The Bill Shatner 'Halloween' mask worn by 'Michael Meyers' (actually that was s'posed to be his face, the Shatner mask is what the director used) Um....The 'Scream' mask..What else?....

Can't think of no more famous movie masks right now. Will update as brain is defragged.


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Two takes:

When H*ugo Weaving mimed chuckling up his sleeve in a Guy Fawkes mask, it was the SINGLE GREATEST piece of acting in a superhero movie there ever was. Every actor who demands that his face be seen (but won't refuse to do the comic book flick) should be forced to leave the industry, after the performance Weaving turned in.

He's all humble about it, too. What a great fucking actor.

Secondly, I loved the part where the Bill O'Reilly parallel is watching his own show and reciting it. My brother likes it when I read his posts to him and that's what the scene there reminded me of.

OK, more takes.

The Gran Dictator dude NEVER BLINKS. That was a great little effect.

Alan Moore became a lot less sympathetic when it turned out that he hated this movie, too. You know how all the Dems lost credibility by savaging Reagan all those years, so now that a truly incompetent, evil fucker is in the White Hosue nobody in the middle wants to hear it? Sort of the same thing. Moore bashed on the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and From Hell and so forth and you could see his point. He busted on VfV without merit. He's intelligent enough to know that this is the best anyone's going to do with a translation of his properties. His artist loves the movie. So do I. If I were still in the habit of buying DVDs I'd buy this one.

Oh yeah, the Benny Hill thing during the Letterman-style interview made me laugh out loud.


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