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^^The Tienanmen Square protester is one of the bravest people ever. It really is a great symbolic gesture that most likely cost the man his life but inspired millions upon millions of people around the world. A pacifist who kills people isn't badass, it makes him a hypocrite. He went against his principles - not very badass. Suffering for your beliefs impresses me more.

True, I do not. However, just because you went through crap in your life, when he likely had it harder (I mean, born in 1942, and the son of an immigrant? Thats a [bleep] hard life), but face it, you disagree with him, and he's a scumbag, yet you give no viable points other than stating that "We went through crap in our lives", which is not a good reason at all, just a little kid trying to justify something when he can't come up with anything viable. Having a hard life is no justification for many of things he espouses. It's really quite irrelevant to the topic.

Let's hope that they release a special edition or something in the future.

There's a version of Johnny Guitar released by Universal for region 2 here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Johnny-Guitar-D ... 376&sr=8-1

I'm surprised there is no region 2 Nicholas Ray boxset. I'm disapointed.

I just ordered these on Amazon, I've been meaning to read The Inferno for so long and I'm a huge fan of the Vintage classic covers as well. I have loads of them on my list to order later. I'm so glad that I'll have time to read again with uni finishing next week. [hide=] [/hide] That's on my Amazon Wishlist, to my shame it was Russel Brand who made me aware of the book with the TV series where he made a similar trip.

I'm not sure whether you're trolling or you are just a [bleep] Ragmar.

Normally, I'd argue with you more just because you have no debating skills but you really are a moron. This is the point where I don't waste any more of tonight making reasonable responses to your rubbish.

You're taking a tiny minority of Muslims and using them to tar the whole Muslim population with the same brush. That's like saying all Americans are obese - ridiculous. Why shouldn't Muslims be allowed to live where they want, if they emigrate legally then there is no reason why they shouldn't and if they were born here then they have the same rights as the so called white majority. You're an American, one of your ancestors emigrated there (unless you're a Native American) or is that somehow different because you white and Christian?

Certain religions think that women shouldn't be educated, should we all defer to that belief or are just just cherry picking?

It is "I could not care less". If you could care less then you would actually care. Sorry, I know this makes me look like I'm one of those annoying people who corrects others at any opportunity (which I'm not really) but that is a pet peeve of mine.

How do you separate what is British culture from what is, in my case, Scottish culture though? I notice and can appreciate what being Scottish is about, how our culture is unique. I can even appreciate and understand the cultural curiosities of being Welsh or from Northern Ireland but I don't see what being British is. There seems to be no strong cultural link between the between the nations that make up Britain.

What is this British identity and culture that keeps getting mentioned? I don't think it exists. Geographically, I'm British but I don't feel any strong link with the other parts of Britain other than the fact that we share a language. I don't think there is a real semblance of British culture considering that much of our history is as separate nations with separate customs. It isn't that I dislike like England or Wales, I just don't feel the connection and I feel that many people in Britain may feel the same way. British identity and British culture seem, to me, to be bywords for English identity and English culture and these seem to be things that England has had difficulty defining since WW2. If you go to Scotland, Wales or NI - they seem to have strong opinions about what their identity is and what their culture is (although in NI is split between republicans and loyalists they are still clear in their beliefs) - I don't think it is the same in England.

Illegal immigrants aren't afforded cars or council houses at all that is nonsense - if they applied for these things the authorities would be aware that they were here and deportation proceedings would begin. You're a good example of why I don't like the majority of people who complain about immigration because your opinions are not based on accurate information.

He was shot in the jaw, it wasn't like it was half of his cranium that was gone. Still impressive as hell though.

I'm finishing off my dissertation this week and I'm procrastinating a lot. I can't help it, I need to use my computer to type everything and I end up browsing the internet and looking at random rubbish. It's annoying as I need to work a a rate of 1,000 words per day (starting on Thursday just past) to get it done on time and all these distractions slow me down. I know have about 4,000 words of the main part to do and then I have to write my conclusions and methodology which should come to around 1000 words as well.

I remember seeing a video from Vanity Fair where Christopher Hitchens volunteered to be waterboarded and didn't last very long. The idea of waterboarding is horrible because people don't realise that it isn't simulated drowning as many people describe it - it is drowning but somebody stops it before you get to the point of death. It'll be good to see a blow-hard like Hannity try it but I wouldn't be surprised if he backtracked on his statement. Link to the Hitchens Video: http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/feat ... ideo200808

I like old westerns, that trailer didn't remind me of old westerns. Again, I hope I'm wrong but the trailer doesn't sell the film on me personally.

I would agree with Leonardo Da Vinci not only did he excel as an artist but also as a sculptor, engineer, biologist and chemist (poisoning anyway). He was literally centuries ahead in many of these fields, his wide-reaching intellectual curiousity is almost unparalleled in my opinion. Andrenal - Gutenberg printed the Gutenberg Bible on his mechanical press.

That reminds me of an anecdote in the book 'Easy Riders, Raging Bull' where George Lucas supposedly claimed it was easy to emotionally involve the audience, just have somebody strangle a puppy. Killing cute animals in films is one of the cheapest ways to make the audience care about a film. When it happens in a mediocre film my eyes tend to roll.

I like a his first three film; Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction and Jackie Brown and to a lesser extent the Kill Bill movies but that trailer reeks of cheesiness to me. It looks like a parody of a war film, and not even a good one. That being said, I'll probable still end up seeing it so I hope I'm wrong.

[yt]WZ88oTITMoM[/yt] It never dawned on me that A Tribe Called Quest sampled the bass line from this for 'Can I Kick It?' until just now.

I just watched 'Paid in Full' on tv. It was filled with every gangster-rap cliche there is but it was entertaining enough. Wood Harris (Avon from the Wire) was pretty decent in it, Cam'ron was almost passable as an actor (he said 'man' a bit too much though. I think a lot of my interest in it was really because it was based on the true story of Alpo, Azie Faison and Rich Porter who were infamous Harlem drug dealers in the 80's. On a sadder note, Jack Cardiff died today. He was one of the great British cinematographers for anyone interested, he shot many Powell and Pressburger's films.

Yeah, the girl in the red dress sequence in Schindler's List is the biggest emotional kick in the ribs in film. I was dumbstruck the first time I saw that scene, it's pretty much the reason I revisit that film. The scene with the women in the shower is a tough one as well. Come to think of it, that whole film is like an emotional beating, it's not an easy film to watch.

I'll deliberately invoke Godwin's Law here - That sort of thinking did not pass at Nuremburg.