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  5. Posted

    even if you dont give a fuck about animals, if you are eating intensively farmed, shit fed, rank, badly butchered, water filled 'meat' stuffed with antibiotics and random growth hormones then your food is going to taste like shit and poison you.

    so if you can only think of yourself, then you have the same priorities anyways, intensive farming is still bad ;)

    I love eating meat, but I'd never cut down on the amount i spend to get the shit stuff, becasue i dont want to eat crap, AND animals don't deserve to be shoved into little crates where they can't move around... liek the matrix but with pigs!.. maybe the piglet Neo will rescue them all. ¬¬

  15. Posted · Edited by Spaff

    Yeah, I like the special too. Although IIRC it didn't have those fantastic overblown visuals.

    haha no instead is has the amazingly underplayed and dramatic intro text, which is so tiny on the screen you can hardly see it, whcih then explodes in a tiny mushroom cloud, and then continues to animate for about 20 seconds too long

    http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y7jVnrfoZD8

    (1:15 in)

  16. Posted · Edited by Spaff

    I LOVED Brass Eye. I LOVED Blue Jam/Jam... but the Brass Eye Special just wasn't as funny/effective as the original series (even though it needed to be made).

    false, well to me anyways - if anything I'd say it's even more effective than the others, especially for the way in which the British media took hold of it and made it headline news, basically hammering every single point discussed into people's faces in exactly the way it was surely intended to do, in a horribly ironic way.

    Bushwhacked was a less funny version of videos already available on the internet.

    I dunno if that's true, I think it might pre-date them, but also the version set to music with Osymyso was awesome. :)

    I haven't seen # My Wrongs #8245 - 8249 & 117 or Nathan Barley, but I've heard some very mixed things about them.

    false.

    ok not false, see below though

    It's sad to say, but I'm just not as excited by new Chris Morris as I used to be.

    please don't make me sad! - this news makes me happy, it's the first good news of 2009 for poor appendixless, jobless me! :violin:

    If I were to over-analyse his recent public appearance that was bootlegged, this may sound absurd but... They say that every good satirist is a frustrated optimist and well, he just sounded miserable and pessimistic to me. Has father time corrupted him?

    Don't forget his horrible role in that dreadful fucking shitstorm of an embarassment - the IT Crowd, ugghhh it makes me shudder.

    Anyways... my wrongs, which is maybe 5/6 years old now, was based on a blue jam monologue, and doesnt work as well as it did when it was just a rambling set of words falling from chris's mouth.

    Nathan Barley suffered from not having Morris in it at all (well he's in one tiny background video) and coming too many years after taking the piss out of new media was no longer amusing...

    Also, if you watch the pilot, it was clear they had a different initial plan, to make Barley the hated 'cunt' that he was designed to be, and to make the character of Dan look down on them and be generally better than all these 'cunts'... but for some unknown reason they made it so that you empathised with Barley. That was a game changing folly....

    The failure of Barley is similar in my mind to the My Wrongs thing, in that part of the genius was in the over the top way it was described in words, which was then lost when filmed - the details of Barley's cunthood were described in such detail, specific model numbers of hardware he had, or brands of clothing taking up much of the description of the episodes...

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    See, there's no way to convey that properly in a visual way...

    ( read the rest of the original Charlie Brooker / probably Morris efforts from TV Go Home here: http://www.thegestalt.org/simon/cunt/ )

    AAAaaannnyways, I welcome the return of Morris, and I'd like to see what he has to offer us. He's been an incredibly important part of my life for many years, and I don't think this is going to be another Brass Eye or On The Hour, but I am excited none-the-less.

    :tup:

  17. Posted · Edited by Spaff

    http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/article1228152.ece;jsessionid=F0AA8BFEB23189F845B8821F465EC29A?postingType=complaint&parentId=1229433&mode=thanks&postingId=1229668

    Wannabe suicide bombers beware: Chris Morris movie gets go-ahead

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    Chris Morris has been criticised for previous satires such as Brass Eye

    He has persuaded MPs to campaign to keep the fictitious drug "cake" off the streets, and musician Phil Collins to warn children against paedophiles while wearing a "Nonce Sense" T-shirt. Now the satirist Chris Morris is tackling his most controversial topic yet: wannabe suicide bombers.

    Morris's film, which has the working title Four Lions, explores the "farce" of terrorism and is funded by FilmFour. It goes into production this summer, after a year of delays caused by funding difficulties over fears that it was too contentious, and is expected to be in cinemas by the end of the year. The production company Warp Films said the film, which Morris spent three years researching, "understands how terrorism relates to testosterone. It understands jihadis as human beings. And it understands human beings as innately ridiculous."

    Deirdre Steed, who worked with Morris to secure funding for the film, said the satirist, who fronted The Day Today and Brass Eye, has spoken to terrorism experts, imams, police, secret services and hundreds of Muslims to research the film.

    "Even those who have trained and fought jihad report the frequency of farce," she said. "At training camps, young jihadis argue about honey, cry for their mums, shoot each other's feet off, chase snakes and get thrown out for smoking. A minute into his martyrdom video, a would-be bomber looks puzzled and says 'what was the question again?' On Millennium eve, five jihadis set out to ram a US warship. They slipped their boat into the water and carefully stacked it with explosives. It sank."

    Ms Steed said terrorist cells share the same group dynamics as stag parties and five-a-side football teams. "There is conflict, friendship, misunderstanding and rivalry," she said. "Terrorism is about ideology, but it's also about berks.

    "Four Lions is a funny, thrilling fictional story that illuminates modern British jihad with an insight beyond anything else in our culture. It plunges us beyond seeing these young men as unfathomably alien. It undermines the folly of just wishing them away or alienating the entire culture from which they emerge. As Spinal Tap understood heavy metal and Dr Strangelove the Cold War, Four Lions understands modern British jihadis."

    The project, which Morris has described as showing the "Dad's Army side to terrorism", has suffered a year of delays, and was refused funding as a television project by the BBC, amid speculation that the subject was too controversial. But Morris remained determined that it should go into production. He asked the public to show their support by offering £25 towards the funding of the film, in return for the chance to be an extra in the comedy.

    Then, on 30 October, Morris announced to fans: "We've had some good funding news which means we won't be asking you to back your generous offer with hard cash."

    FilmFour confirmed it will be backing the film and yesterday said it will be produced this year. A spokeswoman said Morris had always envisaged the project as a feature film rather than a piece for television and that FilmFour "had been involved from the beginning of the development process".

    Morris has previously acknowledged that "some may find poking fun at terrorists offensive". But, he said: "Most of us would dearly love to laugh in the face of our worst fears. Why aren't we laughing at terrorists? Because we don't know how to, until now."

  18. Posted

    So, what's the proper way of doing this LBP multiplayer thing? I see some of you are online at times, but I don't dare do anything in fear or interrupting you and breaking shit. How do these things usually take place?

    just interrupt :)

  19. Posted

    littlebigplanert, drakes fortune 1 &2, wipeout3d, pixeljunk eden, pixeljunk monsters, echochrome, MGS 4, and real HD are some good reasons.... but perhaps not platform purchasing ones necessarily.

    But I know what you mean, it is weird, I even find it weird, but I friggin' love my PS3 (i friggin love you too mr Burgandy) , it gets used for all media related things now, and when cross platform game choices come about, i pick ps3.... GH World Tour, Dead Space, etc.

    Also one extra bonus, it doesnt make a fucking sound.. ever.

    My Elite makes weird background beeping noises when i play DVDs..... WHY? that on top of the fans and whirring makes ut a useless media device.

    but back on topic.... new handheld revisions perhaps? i mean DSi is coming but that doesnt exactly count... think PSP will do anything to boost itself a bit?

  21. Posted

    I'm having a hard time at the moment eating all the hats because PS3 has become a clear favourite of mine, the wii having been used once in 2008 and the 360 not getting much play time at all since Castle Crashers...

    The Wii isnt even plugged in.

    wow.

    tell that to me 2 years ago.