placidraven22 said:Look, time catches up with everyone eventually. I saw him once on some MTV show... one of those segments where they show where musicians live now... I can't recall the title... he just looks old. His hair is 🙄... years, man. Just years...
It’s wild how fast Sebastian and Axl aged. And Bret Michaels from Poison too. They used to look like rock stars, but seeing them on an American MTV documentary a few years back actually gave me pause.
Back in early high school, my entire room was covered in Sebastian Bach posters.😁 I even grew my hair out because of him.😁
I haven't listened to the albums in years—I only ever owned the first two, *Skid Row* and *Slave to the Grind*—but I still have the original tapes tucked away in a closet somewhere.
As for the songs, I mostly remember "18 and Life" and "Youth Gone Wild" from the debut, plus "Monkey Business" from the second one.
I highly doubt they'll play anything less than a two-and-a-half-hour set. It’s just not in their DNA. If the crowd brings the energy, we might even see a few encores. 😉
Caught Metallica at Rock in Rio in Lisbon last Friday. The first time I saw them was a few years back in Chicago. I’ll admit, I had my doubts about whether they’d lost their edge. Good grief, they haven't. 🙂
So, if you can even "tolerate" Metallica, do yourself a favor and go see them. It’s the kind of thing you don't get to witness every day—and I've seen plenty of shows. I don't think there's a rock concert out there with this much intensity. The energy, the musicianship, the vocals, the way they work the crowd... Pure genius.
silentfalcon25 said:....there’s a certain look about him....not unlike Jack Sparrow
I find Jack Sparrow has this raw masculinity that really works for me. By contrast, Gabriel Byrne seems to have a more... confused gaze? Something along those lines.
I keep hearing Gabriel Byrne's name pop up constantly, and I have to admit, it leaves me feeling a bit unsettled... though I can't quite put my finger on why. Is he just too old for it? Or maybe a little too bland? I'm not sure, but I just don't see him pulling off those roles where women are obsessed with him.
I’m done with this girl back in the States and all this nonsense surrounding Depp and Brépite 😁 First off, he’s flying high, but the whole thing feels hollow It’s like some ridiculous competition in Miami where everyone tries to outdo each other by being more obnoxious If he actually faced them in person, they’d probably pass out 🙄
Benicio has real presence—something Russell Crowe just can't replicate
Depp and Brépite are certainly easy on the eyes
For me, Phoenix is the weakest link here I won't go as far as calling him repulsive or use the usual insults people love to toss around here There’s just something subtly malicious about his face, and I don't care for it
The Lisbon version of AMC Theatres and galleries operates about ten multiplexes even here, "standard" cinemas are going under
A buddy of mine worked at a theater near Broadway for a bit—he says those places are like spaceships compared to the old cinema downtown where we both had short stints. It’s nothing like the one at the university where I actually learned the ropes. We used to run screenings once a week in the main auditorium, trying to sneak in some decent films. Most of our crowd were philosophy students who just wanted to smoke in the dark. Half the time the film strip would snap on us, too. It was a hell of a time. The equipment is still sitting at the university, but apparently, there are enough legal red tape issues to keep it from ever happening again.
Having spent a few months working as a projectionist 😁, I suspect the technician messed up by using the wrong lens mount—I can't recall the exact technical jargon since my training was pretty basic 😁. It seems off to me; the entire point of the job is verifying which lens matches which film reel. If you botch that, everything goes south 😁
dustyscout53 said:I don't think so. That jazz groupie is just a symbol. Bill Murray cheated on his wife with that young girl wandering around in her underwear, not with some jazz groupie. He just took it out on the groupie while he was drunk. The dynamic between the young girl and her husband is poorly executed. It needs more—maybe even a brief bit of dialogue. All you really see is him blaming Yale because of that conversation they had with the woman from Dark Horse. Sure, she did something wrong, but that’s too thin to spark any real thought about the intellectual gaps or the deeper marital issues at play. Then again, if what Bill Murray is going through is meant to be a midlife crisis, it's poorly described. It's uninspired. Sofia wanted to say a lot in her film, but she missed the mark.
She said everything she wanted to; she just used atmosphere instead of description.
Joseph Scott5 said:P.S. Do you guys also think her husband cheated on her with that "Cameron" guy before they even met in the movie, and probably during that weekend she stayed at the hotel too?
I have to admit, I hadn't really considered that. 😕