Watchmen - Off-topic

Are there any movie fans out there? How many are going to see The Watchmen. It looks awesome, and Im not much into the super hero movies.
I think I'll be dragging the wife to go see it.
While we are talking about movies, what are some of your Faves
Comedy: Any Kevin Smith Movie
Horror: Rob Zombie's Production of Halloween
Action: LOL...Waterworld
Drama: Toss up between Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Reign Over Me.
Animated: Lion King 1 1/2

I Thik ill deff go an see this.
my faves are
Comedy: Any Kevin Smith Movie (me too even jersy girl have seen zack and miri yet)
Horror: Evil dead trilogy
Action: smokin aces
Drama:
A Scanner Darkly,
Total recall (we can remember it for you, wholesale),
Bladerunner (do androids dream of electric sheep),
Minority report,
The Nines
Vanilla sky
Donnie Darko
i think i may have to update as i remember
Animated:

Dood,
I totally forgot about Donnie Darko and Scanner Darkly, those are great films.

did you know that totall recall scanner darkly bladerunner were all written by the same man a long time ago aswell ill try and find when they were written but im sure minority report was 1957
ok here i go blade runner was called do androids dream of el;ectric sheep it was written in 1968 and it wasnt made into a film until 1982
total recall was 1968
1956 for minority report and scanner was '77

Very interesting. I was not aware of that. Thanks for sharing. Ill have to run that past my father. Hes a huge Blade Runner Fan.

you should advise he read the book its not like the film i reckon its better
by the way is that guy in your avatar the clown from the devils rejects

I´m a big fan of Luis Buñuel movies
Puere and simple surealism!

ok, I really wanna see this movie, even though I have never read any of the books or comics. but quick question just out of curiousity, who is the baddass looking guy who is all blue and glows??

Dr Manhattan
chrisrc1985 said:
ok, I really wanna see this movie, even though I have never read any of the books or comics. but quick question just out of curiousity, who is the baddass looking guy who is all blue and glows??
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He was exposed to radiation in some way that changed his "composition" He can be as large or small as he chooses, can be material or not. He became almost like a god, but one who doesn't actually give a crap about creation. This is not your regular superhero story. The good guys aren't always good and the bad guys aren't always bad. I just hope the filmmakers don't mess too much with the story.

sounds intense, trailer is awsome -- cant wait for the movi, i believe its coming out in Imax 2

The closest IMAX theatre to me is about 2 hours away...It sucks.

Guys read this graphic novel. It is phenomenal. I can't wait for this movie. I just hope it is half as good as the comic.
PS Philip K. **** wrote those scifi books.
Favorite Movie = Children of Men

Comedy: Three amigos
action: Iron man
best overall: Braveheart
sci-fi: The last starfighter

i forgot to mention the writer i knew it was **** ive not long read frolix 8
i love the three amigos dont make them like that anymore
just downloaded innerspace (why isnt martin short in new movies?)
i like braveheart but hate the fact its untrue

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just downloaded innerspace (why isnt martin short in new movies?)
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Because there is no room for comedians anymore unless they are profane, loud, or obnoxious. Unless its Steve Carell or Will Ferrell.

I can't believe some people have listed action films and not listed my two "naughty favourites":
Luc Besson's Taxi, and Roadhouse.
Watching Taxi is great, watching it while thinking "how did they film that?" is even more amazing. Roadhouse, well who hasn't wanted to be either of the coolers in it?!?
As for Watchmen, will definitely be dragging the wife to it!

or even steve martin
id forgive him for cheaper by the dozen and pink panther if hed release something as good as dirty rotten scoundrels

jarlaxle said:
Guys read this graphic novel. It is phenomenal. I can't wait for this movie. I just hope it is half as good as the comic.
PS Philip K. **** wrote those scifi books.
Favorite Movie = Children of Men
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I was lucky enough to winb tickets to the sneak peek. This is not my kind of movie but i went last night and loved it. One of the best movies i have ever seen. I will be reading the graphic novel.

THE DOUBLE DEUCE!!!!
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i have it in my ps3

I'll probably see this movie when it comes out as well. Anyhow, as for now, I think Taken is a must. Saw it yesterday on my Tilt and it's one of the best movies i've seen of late.

Related

What is the best movie you have ever seen?

Yesterday I was about to die; laughing when I saw the movie blades of glory (I know a lot from here want me dead, for sure muscle and maybe flar; it will not be so long believe me)
I like to watch lot movies, esp. funny ones, I like serious funny movies, like pulb fiction, Forest Gump, crossing guard(Jack Nicholson); I think it is very funny make you cry,
Recently the funny movies are not good for example epic movies not as good as scary movie the first releases, and American pie is now adult movie more than funny one, an adult movie for kids.
I did like some new movies departed for example, it maybe Jack Nicholson but I think it is a good one.
My best movie is 5 easy pieces for Jack Nicholson is it played a part of my life.
I showed my friends a movie called my life (the funny part we were crying and no one of my friends want to admit that, but someone cried loud, when turn the light on all was crying, me included) there are a lot of movies make you cry, shine for example when I opened the light my cousin was crying, a lot to count.
When I was young I did see some movies so the best was a little, but now I have a lot of best, I maybe forget some movies if I want to count if someone named it I'll say yes it is a good one.
Now my friend gave me about 20 DVD of great movies I didn't see. I picked the first one, I did see it but I don't know its name, the others I saw till now are new ones.
I saw some good Spanish movies (in English 'Talk to her', and others I don't know their names, one for feeble guy because of diving wanted to suicide), French movies, German Movies, Arabic عمارة يعقوبيان.
And of course Beethoven Movie and Chopin desire for love, Amadeus; movies about great guys
I love classical comedies in B&W like:
To be or Not to be. 1942. Ernest Lubitch
Arsenic and Old Lace. 1944. Frank Capra
Duck Soup. 1933. Leo McCarey... (I love most of the Marx Brothers' movies)
The Philadelphia Story. 1940. George Cukor.
This kind of stuff...
Man on Fire!
it like I talk too much, and I wanted it to be so short, didn't mentioned a lot of movies. I like a lot
I like old classic movie too, my old nickname was from french movie paradis
even I missed my best movie in my post
Five Easy Pieces (1970) Jack Nicholson
thanks for replying
The Boondock Saints.
Gone In 60 Seconds.
Saving Private Ryan.
the org german silent nosferatu
is pretty cool
that bramstokers dracula got much of the
shadow play ideas from that org movie
uhh....
Mel Brooks is the man! I really enjoyed Robin Hood:Men In Tights
oh, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail deserves a special mention.
More serious movies; Behind Enemy Lines
Bram Stoker's Dracula is great, Man on fire too.
For me Underworld and UltraViolet rocks (yeah Milla is that cool)
and of course everything from Monty Python !
...fear and loathing in las vegas
....and all (trashy) japanese Godzilla movies - i love them !
Mel Brooks's history of the world is his best imho
Monty Python and the Holy Grail is marginaly worse the life of brian which is my fav python movie
i also like most movies with gary oldman
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Mel Brooks's history of the world is his best imho
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That's off the wall too! Bah, today's comedies hold nothing to Mel Brooks!
Hot Fuzz!!! Yeyaaaah
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- Terminator 1 + 2 (3 is crap)
- Blood Diamond
- Fight Club
- Indiana Jones (whole trilogy)
- Godfather part 1 + 2 + 3
- Human Traffic
I also like some cantonese triad movies from director John Woo
Heres a few of my faves
Documentaries
Alex Jones:Road to Tyranny - might get arrested for watching this in the states
Loose Change
Comedy
Richard Pryors See No Evil Hear No Evil - all his movies are worth watching not to mention his standup which I say is the greatest of all time
Idiocracy
Half baked
the first three cheech and chong movies are hilarious
also Born in East L.A. is jokes to - can't get that song outta ma head
Gangster
King of New York (christopher walkens best movie)
Top Shottas ( i doubt you'll be able to find this but this is one gangster - jamaican movie *brap*- i managed to find a rip where someone put a camcorder in front of a tv - even that version is still worth watching
Belly
Deep Cover
Snatch
Revolver (ray liotta is amazing in this)
Action
Matrix ( only the first ones gets to be on this list)
Training Day
Drama
The Hurricane
I know the thread is best movie, not movies but I could've listed 20 more. This is short enuff
Thanks all for replying that means a lot to me, I saw some good movies this week.
Sin city, Home of the braves, but the others was bad.
Thanks Neptune for replying, I can't thank you enough, if I want to count the good movies this week it will be more than 20
4 Rooms (by tarentino)
natural born killers
fight club
godfather
k-pax
Doors (the movie)
Forest Gump
i could go on and on...
Hoosiers
Matrix
Maltese Falcon
African Queen
Happy Gilmore
LOTR trilogy
mmmm
Dificult one actually. There have been loads of films that are really good for there time. Now they probably suck.. but i think i would have to say the first Matrix film. It was just soooooo good. Then there is the star wars films, blade runner etc
thats just a start
Most of the Stephen Chow movies (if not all!!!)The one I like the most is The Chinese Odyssey Part 1andora's Box
if you want to know who he is, check here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_chow
Need I say more?

Britain's Got Talent

Anybody else watch the show? I'm not British but after i saw Boyle's first performance, i started watching the show. I watched the performances on Youtube and became extremely addicted to it then found a live stream but i'm still upset that she didn't win. I thought Diversity was flat out amazing and their performace was jaw-dropping and much better to that of Flawless'.
Anybody else upset she didn't win?
well imo she wasnt that outstanding, she was a good singer i thoink the reason she was so well liked was because she looked like she did and the voice didnt match, in these shows i only watch the auditions anyway, just to watch to idiots
but two thing pissed me off this year
1, the young girl who sung alicia keys getting booted in the early stages
2 simon cowell whinging at the guy who played on a guitar that lit up, even though he got that queen song rather well
my coclusion its a fix and simon cowell is probably still breast fed
Boyle was just someone fugly who could sing nothing more. Diversity were something special though, they were perfectly in time and were literally flawless. If you watched her expression Boyle was happier thatr she didnt win because she felt she didnt deserve it...
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2 simon cowell whinging at the guy who played on a guitar that lit up, even though he got that queen song rather well
my coclusion its a fix and simon cowell is probably still breast fed
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Simon Cowell is a talentless bastard.
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Simon Cowell is a talentless bastard.
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LOL
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Just found this.
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Just found this.
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that kid reminds me of someone....
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that kid reminds me of someone....
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I'm not afraid of owls!
And where's mike when you need inappropriate images?
Simon Cowell is a multi..multi..millionaire " talentless bastard "
And is " breast fed " by her.
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What are we doing wrong ?
you think britain's got talent?? check out this
Pakistan Got Talent
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TWf7IeAas0
Mike is the X factor!!!!​
sorry about the blatant image shoddiness im geting used to gimp
I thought Susan was going to win, but there were a few things that hurt her chances. Personally, I didn't think her semi-final performance was that great, and she had some incident where she threatened to leave the show.
I thought the little girl Holly who started crying was BS. And was surprised Simon allowed her to go again, the guy who sang high, Greg, should have one that, but that's me I guess.
For the finals, Diversity's performance was probably the best dance routine I've ever seen, the guy who came up with that is a genius.
But I have to say Stavros Flatley was probably my favorite though.
tabloids dont report a lot
The Diversity's performance was a stunning dance routine! They deserved to win...
Completely agree Mike. I thought that he prelim (first act) was what got her to the finals, not so much her semi-finals performance. Not sure what went behind the scenese and with all these headlines about her "Boyling" over, but she seemed like a confident naive woman. Sucks that she's in a clinic so shortly after her performance :|.

Michael Jackson has died!?

apparently so...
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/Sh...ccording-To-TMZ/Article/200906415319936?f=rss
He was only 50 too... shocking.
my heart sank when i heard. really grew with his music. my mom was such a huge fan his music was ALWAYS on.
no matter what we all thought, or thought we knew about him, he affected us all, and most of us loved him or his music, or both. R.I.P Michael
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my heart sank when i heard. really grew with his music. my mom was such a huge fan his music was ALWAYS on.
no matter what we all thought, or thought we knew about him, he affected us all, and most of us loved him or his music, or both. R.I.P Michael
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+1.. cant belive it
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+1.. cant belive it
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R.i.P man i was channel surfing past cnn and saw it sux big time.
R.I.P. Micheal Jackson, you will be missed, but never forgotten. I'll be listening to your work all day.
May rest in peace
Thriller
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i still can't believe it
R.I.P Michael
got this image in my head of him sitting on a really big throne with a smile saying shamone
Regardless of what you thought of the guy, he did so much much for music and entertainment... Thanks for everything Mike... R.I.P.
r.i.p
Yeap incredible!
I remmember his reverse walk and his trck versus the gravity on Smooth criminal
BTW Farrah Fosset has died too... this day was the death day... maybe God wants a big concert in the heaven!
BTW paisa do you know that Manuel Sabat has died today too?
Gone too soon M.J
too soon
i heard he was gonna do a huge music tour to get money so he gets out of financial problems but i guess he doesn't need to worry about that. Sad. R.I.P MJ
The tour was gonna start on the 13th of June or something like dat starting in LA
finance problems boy michael jackson been a billionaire all you MOD EDIT haters out here in this world has to die as well if anything elvis ole punk ***** ass had money/drug problems so dont get on here talking all this **** about michael ya heard cos you have to die one day to but where will the hell you go i wonder so kick MOD EDIT rocks and who ever dont like this can bring it punk *****es yea thats right so watch what you say cos you never know...hehe that MOD EDIT
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finance problems boy michael jackson been a billionaire all you MOD EDIT haters out here in this world has to die as well if anything elvis ole punk ***** ass had money/drug problems so dont get on here talking all this **** about michael ya heard cos you have to die one day to but where will the hell you go i wonder so kick MOD EDIT rocks and who ever dont like this can bring it punk *****es yea thats right so watch what you say cos you never know...hehe that MOD EDIT
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This kind of language is not tolerated. Next outburst will result in a 3 day ban!
no matter what we all thought, or thought we knew about him, he affected us all, and most of us loved him or his music, or both. R.I.P Michael
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Well said. It's too bad, my generation is one of the last that will really remember him. His memory will live on through his music though.
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Thriller
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I couldn't have said it better myself.
Dave
The guy was a true musical pioneer and icon but that legacy will most likely have a dark cloud because of the accusations of child molestations.
RIP.
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finance problems boy michael jackson been a billionaire all you MOD EDIT haters out here in this world has to die as well if anything elvis ole punk ***** ass had money/drug problems so dont get on here talking all this **** about michael ya heard cos you have to die one day to but where will the hell you go i wonder so kick MOD EDIT rocks and who ever dont like this can bring it punk *****es yea thats right so watch what you say cos you never know...hehe that MOD EDIT
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RIP Michael. You are a true legend.
We have a musical showcase tonight, and I'll be doing an MJ tribute, with Heal The World as the cover.
A fitting way, i believe, to remember him, no matter what his detractors say or those who have only negativity to throw around on other people's success.
Oh my god!
That's so sad!
If you liked his personality or not, his music is legendery!
He was such a great performer!!!
R.I.P MICHAEL JACKSON

Cool movie, bro

I've been getting my money's worth out of my netflix account lately and I've come across some very obscure but pretty good/interesting movies and I thought there might be one or two other people here who enjoy good movies
Share em if you got em but please no blockbusters, they get enough attention.
Interesting and Unique Movies:
INK
Visioneers
Revolution OS
Gabriel
Serenity
Right At Your Door
Deadline
Food INC
*edit- Part of the OP is obviously easy to overlook, please let me reiterate:
Please no blockbusters, they get enough attention.
The goal here is to expose some great obscure movies that most of us may not have heard of before.
Thanks
Entropy is my favorite movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156515/
Also, Comedian was a great movie.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328962/
Bladerunner. Best movie ever.
netflix movies
The box, and the skeleton key are both movies related to TV shows like twilight zone and tales from the crypt but with hotter women leads.
Loved Serenity but the marketing of it was not up to the movie itself. It should have been a blockbuster.
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Loved Serenity but the marketing of it was not up to the movie itself. It should have been a blockbuster.
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It's really a shame it wasn't. I was very pleasantly surprised by it.
I don't know if you've ever watched it OP, but try a movie like The Nines with Ryan Reynolds. Interesting and thought provoking.
Other good movies that I enjoyed....Moon with Sam Rockwell. Awesome one-man show.
Ink & The Nines is really good
City of God/City of Men http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/ / http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870090/
Shrink http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1247692/
Mum And Dad http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1129428/
Essex Boys http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0191996/
City Rats http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1090646/
Dead Man's Shoes http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0419677/
avatars awesome
but so's hurtlocker
Platoon
schindler's list
Gladiator
Batman - Dark Knight
Memento
Lotr Trilogy
Starwars (all of them)
saving private ryan
gran torino
Traffic
No Country for Old Men
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It's really a shame it wasn't. I was very pleasantly surprised by it.
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I had no idea that firefly existed before I watched serenity, was a little confused!#
But after watching that, and then watching again, it made for very good entertainment. Definately would recommend it to most people.
(Random side note - I used to play a game called EVE, I thought there were a few, not loads, of similarities between the two.)
If you're into reading films, I enjoyed "La Haine" as well, but that is getting on a bit now.
Thanks for the input guys! I look forward to watching some new (to me) movies.
Office Space...'nough said
Cat People
Directed by: Paul Schrader 1982
Starring:Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, John Heard, Annette O Toole
Music: Georgio Moroder & David Bowie
The shining (dunno...if this was a bluckbuster)
A Clockwork Orange
A few more
Pan's Labyrinth
The Business
Jesus Son
Time Bandits
London To Brighton
Made in England
K-Pax
Leon
stylez said:
A few more
Pan's Labyrinth
The Business
Jesus Son
Time Bandits
London To Brighton
Made in England
K-Pax
Leon
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Pans Labyrinth and Leon are 2 amazing films, agreed.
Donnie Darko too, I guess most people here would have seen it though, but didn't think it would be classed as blockbuster.
OMG Time Bandits!!
You just brought back some very fond memories, excellent movie
Pan's Labyrinth was a treat too, great monsters in that one
Kung Pow! (Enter The Fist) Great comedy that did not do well on movie teathers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tBbkCTBqRk
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haha kung pow is the greatest..
Rampage
Just watched it the other night, pretty cool flick.
Very dark but somehow not depressing.
Who knows what the solution might be but I have said for years that the earth has too damn many people on it.

HTC HD Pro Concept by Jukah

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Soooooooooooooo Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiice, hope it'll became true
Now that is SEXY! Makes my HD2 look down right boring, love the lines which flow so perfectly down..............oops I forgot I was describing a phone, you definitely made a stunning concept! Well done.................................cheers.
Thanks! I might make another concept for a 3.7" device depending on the reception of this one.
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Respect! Your Photoshop skills are amazing, far beyond my possibilities.
Edit: I truly didn't see your last post, so do not think I said that with sympathy. My render also didn't get much attention, so don't be dissapointed.
Edit 2: Being featured on the XDA portal soon.
EC
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It is amazingly cool!!
Thanks a lot
JWang158 said:
Wow thanks! Respect from a legend! I a big fan of your work.
I have to admit that most of it wasn't done in PS but done by render (yea I know its sorta cheating )
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Well, nevertheless it looks great! Are you also good in designing user interfaces?
Simply beautiful, hope it becomes reality someday.
beautiful stuff!
PURE SEX..
This is SICK.. in the very best way!!
Pretty freaking awesome man.
Wish I had those skills, lol.
Nice job.
Make sure you send a link to someone at HTC.
JWang158 said:
Hai guys!
Following the footsteps of Livven and ElCondor, I decided to make an HTC Mondrian concept myself.
Ladies and gents, I present to you, the HTC HD Pro Concept!
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Not only is this beautiful and elegant -- but the reason I am QUOTING is because I *did* go visit your page to read about your thoughts as well as see the comments written THERE too.
This comment both cracked me up and was sheer brilliance... But if you don't know the reference it would fly right over a person's head and be totally wasted. SO, just to help make the point really CLEAR, i will translate it afterwards. The comment itself is EPIC:
Jukah I feel like Bugsy at the opening of the Flamingo.
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To really appreciate what the commenter is saying here, you have to know this is Bugsy Malone he is referring to -- a gangster in the USA, who saw an empty place in the desert land in Nevada (a state in the USA not too far from California) and envisioned on this empty barren land, with no highways around, no cities around, no nothing -- he envisioned a city in the middle of this desert -- which would be a place where military people and others could come to get inexpensive enterainment....
Everyone thought he was NUTS! Who the hell wants to come to this sh*thole in the desert, Bugsy? he said "you'll see after I've built my first casino here"... and he drew up plans with architects for "The Flamingo" -- an iconic marker now for the original LAS VEGAS, the city, the gambling, the culture, the entire state of mind that he created --- casting his gaze out across the barren landscape of the desert.
The photo above is from when the Flamingo first opened... proving all the doubters wrong.
And now, just for further context... A reminder that once things are indeed built, bigger is not always better, iPadius Jobius.
Las Vegas strip, today.
Awesome design!Realy like it.I'm not a fan of the fisical keyboard but device looking like this I'd gladly use
quicksite said:
who saw an empty place in the desert land in Nevada (a state in the USA not too far from California) and envisioned on this empty barren land, with no highways around, no cities around, no nothing -- he envisioned a city in the middle of this desert
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Even better, here's the scene, in the film BUGSY, directed by the great Barry Levinson, Bugsy played by Warren Beatty, film nominated for 10 Academy Awards.
Fast Forward if you like to 3:09 to jump to the heart of the scene in the desert:
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Haha I'm not good at all at designing interfaces. That's why I rely on you guys!
Thanks for the front page! Wow! You guys are awesome!
And glad you got the reference XD
wow , it's very delicious

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