super_etecoon said:
Taht's probably a pretty good list, Akuma. I haven't seen Burn After Reading, Benjamin Button, Milk or Synechdoche....but they're all on my list. Now I'll add The orphanage and Traitor.
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Checkout Slumdog Millionaire too. I haven't got a chance to see it, but I've heard really good things.
Synechdoche is good, but it kind of gets a bit self-indulgent towards the end. I would have cut out at least twenty minutes from the movie if I was the director. It started dragging by the end. The first hour and most of the rest of the movie was top-notch though.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
