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I will confess to enjoying, as a youth, the works of S.E. Hinton - The Outsiders , Rumble Fish , like that. The movies were pretty good, too. As I got a little older, I somehow discovered the books of gun-mag writer Jerry Ahern - most notably, The Survivalist . Some of the pulpiest stuff I've ever r...

Apparently, it's really being made. Some surprising casting, too.

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Shit Kurt, he's already made that ending you wanted to see like a HUNDRED times before. Clint wanted to do something different in this movie and I applaud him for it. It's not so much about the ending I WANTED to see; it's about the ending they led me to believe I was GOING to see. I'm just saying ...

This was a piece of movie-making brilliance. I loved it thoroughly, until ... Really huge SPOILERS to be found below! ... the fucking end! WHAT ... THE ... FUCK ... was that shit? I wait the entire fucking movie to see some old-school Clint-type awesomeness ... that never fucking happens! I sat ther...

Agreed. This is a very good show, excellent all around. It can be pretty funny, too, but in a sometimes 'dark' sort of way.

I watched the first season on DVD, and I've been TiVoing the new season; haven't gotten back to it yet.

Okay, sounds like I need to check out Estleman.

Eisler's stuff is decent - well researched, nice sense of place and character - but they are missing something that John D. MacDonald's "Travis McGee" series and Lee Child's "Reacher" novels have in abundance. I read "Hard Rain", and it was a fair read. But I'd reread ...

I've read all of the 'Rain' series, and they're excellent - fast-paced, technically accurate, etc. I would highly recommend them. Just one note: If you're going to give them a shot, you should really start with Rain Fall (which is actually the first book, not Hard Rain , which is, in fact, the secon...

Wow. Judging by the cast, this one is going to be ... interesting. It certainly has potential, on an epic scale.

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I don't know if it's true, but she told me that many of the Japanese actors learned their English lines phonetically, like Lugosi in "Dracula." I never heard that (though I likely wouldn't, as my interest in the movie pretty much ended when I started watching it), but I'd be inclined to b...

I really wanted to like this movie, as the premise seemed sort of promising - but, oh, what a convoluted fucking disaster it turned out to be.

I did rather enjoy the antics of the sheriff, though.

I'm just saying - Yes, it was a very fucked-up thing, but he's been trying to make it right with the guys. Of course, it doesn't bring back Lem ...

This show is killing me, and has been for weeks. I haven't been this wrapped up in a TV show - impatiently waiting for the next episode, strung along like a junkie - since I used to watch Alias and 24 . What's with all the Shane-hating? I like him, and I feel sort of bad for the dumb-ass; he makes s...

Well, sadly enough, I rather enjoyed this film. Stupid though it may have been (and no one here is arguing that fact; it certainly wasn't Masterpiece Theater ), it entertained me for a couple hours - which is all I can really ask of a movie. As far as the various 'homages', I saw the following, at l...

Jack - I read 'Monster Island' and enjoyed it enough to buy the second book - which I've not yet read. (I've never been much of a zombie guy, so this may or may not be significant.) My first exposure to Wellington was his most recent novel, '13 Bullets', a vampire tale - which, again, I found readab...

"That movie was good, and could have been great, if not for that horrible lead Timothy Oliphant. He was too stiff to play a tobacco store Indian." If you've ever seen him in Deadwood , you know he's capable of quite a wide range of acting ability/expression (though typically a simmering r...

For those who may have missed it, I already wrote a sharp, insightful, amusing, accurate review of this book: http://www.irongarmx.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=195093 BTW, Mak, don't think I didn't notice how you're willing to listen to HIM, but not me. [-( In the words of Jack, "Pffft!&q...

"There's an option in the special features where you can stay with the character of choice during the firefight."

This was a real cool feature; I watched it tonight. There are actually a few added/altered scenes in here that weren't in the film. Well worth the viewing time.

"The author swears a lot (or writes swear words a lot), and it just seems like an attempt to be cool/tough by someone who is neither cool nor tough."

Sounds like most of the guys who hang out at IGx. :-"

"Did you read the part about Jailhouse Rock/52 Blocks, very interesting stuff." Haven't gotten to it yet, but soon. I did find the brief section on knife fighting interesting - though not being a 'blade master' myself, I can't speak to the accuracy of it. Seemed like sound advice to me ...

The full and brilliant title: Fight: Everything you ever wanted to know about ass-kicking but were afraid you'd get your ass kicked for asking . The author (my new hero) seems to hold in quite high regard the manly art and pleasure of a good scuffle. And what man, worthy of being labeled as such, do...

"Pathfinder was pretty good movie too along the lines of 300 plus is had an actress with the last name Moonblood who is hot." 'Pathfinder' was quite good, considering I'd never heard of until stumbling across it in Best Buy. Also, not nearly so bloody and violent (to me, anyway) as the Am...

"Netflix has it."

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Damn. I've been looking for this movie on DVD. I've never seen it, but I've heard nothing but good things about. Plus, it's Lee Marvin ...