SR XVI: Faces glow of worms - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Swaim is my favorite. I also liked Gladstone's Hate By Numbers.

Seeya Jon.

Originally posted by Any Colour You Like

Any Colour You Like wrote:

Existentialism is much more interesting than any religion thread. Philosophy thread time?

Yeah I keep wanting to see one made.

I think I might be off for tonight though.

Henry Plainview wrote:

Philosophy is masturbating with your brain.

Maybe, but they both feel good. Hedonists rejoice.

Whether they are pointless or not depends on the individual, and while masturbation should not be done in public, philosophical ranting most definitely should also not.

I should not have started Platoon at 2am....

Good idea JJ, have you tried it while doing math? Zeros are so much sexier than words.

if you own a sodastream i hate you

I hadn't read that Wikipedia article before, it was kind of upsetting.

Platoon is kind of boring, I don't think I will finish it. Maybe I'm just tired of war movies, because they always boil down to how unpleasant it is to be a solider, or maybe it's just 2:30. But it seems kind of cliche for 1986.

Edited by Henry Plainview - July 08 2010 at 01:46

if you own a sodastream i hate you

The Hurt Locker was pretty great and only had a few grating cliches. It also is fundamentally "war is hell" (and while it pretends to be realistic, it isn't actually realistic!), but it's not fundamentally anti-war like the Vietnam movies are, so it escapes a lot of the heavy-handedness that accompanies those movies. I don't think the three of them even killed any civilians. I agree FMJ was underwhelming, the best part of the movie was boot camp, Vietnam itself was a drag.

I've complained about the soundtracks for FMJ and Apocalypse Now (because I don't like pop music), but Platoon's was even worse. I'll concede that I only watched most of it because I skipped ahead, so I didn't really care about the characters and so much of the drama was lost on me (although even still, it's very difficult for me to keep straight a bunch of guys wearing fatigues and covered in mud), but the parts that I did watch were just cliche scenes from every war movie ever. Platoon was before FMJ and Hamburger Hill, but there was still almost a decade of Vietnam movies before it, and of course even more WW2 movies before that, and the famous scene of Elias' death is just urgh.

So I skipped through Platoon so I could go to bed before 4 (and because I got bored), but now it's 4! Argh!

Edited by Henry Plainview - July 08 2010 at 02:45

if you own a sodastream i hate you

James wrote:

A Person wrote:

Thunder?

Thunder
Thunder
Thundercats... hooooooooooooooooooooooo!

I used to love that show so much.

Vompatti wrote:

All lightning bright and thunder loud
A little girl dreams safe and sound

Never heard that before.