Kings Gameday: Strange Rumblings in Aztlan

by Megalodon on Dec 28, 2011 12:28 PM PST

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Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011, 5:30 PM PST
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Rudy is currently detained on the Mexican border for illegally smuggling donkeys up his ass. He wanted me to post this for him:

1. Simon Gagne broke his brain so Loki is taking his place.

2. Jonathan Toews is a little bitch.

I guess the Kings won their last game? I don't know. They were struggling for a while, but then they fired their coach so I assume they've been awesome since then, right? That's how it usually works.

So anyways what did you guys think of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? I thought David Fincher did a great job with the material, and the acting and music were great. The story itself wasn't very impressive though. I don't really understand why the books are so popular, if this is all they have to offer. I mean I guess I do understand it, because popular books are almost always shitty (The Da Vinci Code, Atlas Shrugged, The Bible), but I was hoping the movie would make me want to read the books. That didn't happen at all.

Prediction: The Kings tie the Blackhawks up and do terrible things to them.

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haven’t watch the american version, but i’m pretty sure the swedish films of those books were better

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by sleza on Dec 28, 2011 12:32 PM PST reply actions 1 recs

Yes.

The Swedish ones are better.

I hope everyone knows I have no intention of facing this sober.

by McSwarley on Dec 28, 2011 3:41 PM PST up reply actions

I haven’t seen the Swedish versions, but I’m pretty sure there is no way in hell they are better than the Fincher version. Also Meg, just like Angy should eat some Taco Bell and Chipotle you should read books other people like. It won’t kill you (Da Vinci Code was cool)

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

by Nut on Dec 28, 2011 9:55 PM PST up reply actions

I would read the fuck out of a book about Chipotle.

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by Megalodon on Dec 28, 2011 10:04 PM PST up reply actions 2 recs

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

by Nut on Dec 28, 2011 10:22 PM PST up reply actions

Meh. It depends on your tolerance for subtitles, I suppose. Fincher did a fine job, so I can’t say one version completely sucks compared to other.

I also can’t stand Dan Brown or Ayn Rand so…

I hope everyone knows I have no intention of facing this sober.

by McSwarley on Dec 29, 2011 12:16 AM PST up reply actions

Never read Da Vinci Code so I don’t know whether or not Dan Brown is a good writer (although at least one person whose opinion I trust says he’s pretty bad). But I object to him on the grounds that, based on what I’ve seen, he either refuses to admit or doesn’t understand that the premise of that novel is based on pure fantasy, not historical fact. I mean, even the guys who wrote Holy Blood, Holy Grail eventually had to admit that they’d been punked by that crazy French dude who claimed to be descended from Jesus through the Merovingians.

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by DougX on Dec 29, 2011 1:35 AM PST up reply actions

I have the same problem with the Bible

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

by Nut on Dec 29, 2011 8:03 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs

The Fountainhead was an alright book.

by Briceratops on Dec 29, 2011 1:37 AM PST up reply actions

agreed

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

by Nut on Dec 29, 2011 8:02 AM PST up reply actions

I’m always suspicious of books that lots of people that don’t usually read books love.

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by Megalodon on Dec 29, 2011 8:40 AM PST up reply actions

I saw the Swedish version myself and it was enough to get me to buy the books. As it is, I haven’t had time to read them. Not sure I’ll watch the American version since I’m convinced I’ll be disappointed.

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by Angy on Dec 28, 2011 5:10 PM PST up reply actions

The books are well written and the translation is good and well edited and the story is compelling. There is adescriptions in the book that didn’t make it into the movie cause that rape part is pretty graphic. In the book I found Lisbeth to be more self-contained and angry rather than sullen like the movie showed.

Let's go Ducks.

by deb d on Dec 28, 2011 6:13 PM PST up reply actions

i read alot. Read “No Country for Old Men” and refused to see movie cause I read the book and knew the ending.

Let's go Ducks.

by deb d on Dec 28, 2011 6:14 PM PST up reply actions

I don't understand the ending.

The guy kills that other guy’s wife and then breaks his arm in a car crash. What does it mean?

by Briceratops on Dec 28, 2011 7:09 PM PST up reply actions

That one guy is a metaphor for Jesus.

(this is true of all books)

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by Megalodon on Dec 28, 2011 8:18 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

atlUs shrugged?

Not saying DS was the best hire, but at least TM's gone.

by soccersucks on Dec 28, 2011 1:26 PM PST reply actions

Whoops, my bad. In my defense, those keys are like right next to each other.

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by Megalodon on Dec 28, 2011 1:42 PM PST up reply actions

They’re close to each other in the same way that going from Connecticut to the Rocky Mountains is, according to the map, only 4 inches away.

Not saying DS was the best hire, but at least TM's gone.

by soccersucks on Dec 28, 2011 8:45 PM PST up reply actions

Exactly.

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by Megalodon on Dec 28, 2011 9:46 PM PST up reply actions

the transformation is complete….you are now in my world meg

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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 29, 2011 8:21 AM PST up reply actions

You flatter me. I have many years of randomly banging on the keyboard ahead of me before I can even be mentioned in the same barely-coherent sentence as you, spade.

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by Megalodon on Dec 29, 2011 8:41 AM PST up reply actions

The punctuation suggests that his name is Morans.

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by Bockerz on Dec 28, 2011 3:15 PM PST up reply actions

-Do you have anything to declare?
-Declare? Like my independence? Who am I, Scarlet O’Hara?
-Get in the hole.

Also, the things you can’t bring across the border are ridiculous: fruits, vegetables, cocaine… theyreally need to change some things down there.

The West Coast is the Best Coast.

by RudyKelly on Dec 28, 2011 2:00 PM PST via mobile reply actions

Back in my youthful days, I used to think about goofing on the agricultural inspection agents that you have to deal with on the way back from Vegas (nowadays, they just wave you through, but back then they stopped most everyone):

“Any plants, fruits, vegetables?”

“No, just the dead body in the trunk.”

Probably best that I never actually told them that.

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by DougX on Dec 28, 2011 11:03 PM PST up reply actions

u bastard..im sure you had some yummy ass salsa when u were down there and pastor tacos..curse you!! i hope u got the burning hole when u went to shit!

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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 29, 2011 8:20 AM PST up reply actions

The title is especially apt because I had diarrhea the whole time I was down there!

The West Coast is the Best Coast.

by RudyKelly on Dec 29, 2011 12:59 PM PST up reply actions

Why do you get to blank a top Western team?

by Briceratops on Dec 28, 2011 11:55 PM PST reply actions

Sherlock Holmes 2 was trash. I say that having liked the first one. The new Dark Knight movie doesn’t look as good as the last one, either. And Hasbro is making a movie from their board game BATTLESHIP. Yes. I’m serious. And it involves aliens. Dead fucking serious.

by meetyourmako on Dec 29, 2011 2:17 AM PST reply actions

Also, I’m quite pissed at anybody who told me that Rise of the Planet of the Apes was a quality film. Jerks.

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by Earl Sleek on Dec 29, 2011 7:43 AM PST up reply actions

anybody who did not tell ~~told~~ me

by ScottyKnows on Dec 29, 2011 8:02 AM PST up reply actions

whoops sorry..i enjoyed..it..that should have tipped u off

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by SPADE-IN-VICTORHELL on Dec 29, 2011 8:19 AM PST up reply actions

I enjoyed too

For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.

by Nut on Dec 29, 2011 8:38 AM PST up reply actions

I thought Rudy and I made it pretty clear in our review of the film.

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by Megalodon on Dec 29, 2011 8:42 AM PST up reply actions

The West Coast is the Best Coast.

by RudyKelly on Dec 29, 2011 1:00 PM PST up reply actions

The story itself wasn’t very impressive though. I don’t really understand why the books are so popular, if this is all they have to offer.

I had the same reaction, but I’ve also liked a lot of books that didn’t make good movies.

by meetyourmako on Dec 29, 2011 1:10 PM PST reply actions

I think the answer is clearly that people love Ikea shopping lists and pages of laptop specs. If it has lots of anal rape and sadistic murder, even better.

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by ievans on Dec 30, 2011 10:32 AM PST up reply actions