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I've seen a few of the other countries efforts and they just don't work. They should stop trying to be the UK version and do there own stuff.
I agree. Top Gear USA ought to be a bit more outrageous, and perhaps a bit more patriotic as well. Right now it's too much like a reality TV show. First things first: a Death Race style showdown.
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I thought I was the only person here who liked Death race' date=' that would make for a freakin' AWESOME video game[/quote'] There's an online version and it sucks. If there were a dedicated platform version it could be great though. Anyhow, I'm resting after about two and a half hours of yard work this morning.
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Re: Now...? I thought Death Race was idiotic (the movie, haven't played the game), Jason Statham is almost always good, but he alone can't save a shitty movie. This should be more for the movie thread, but his best action movie was The Transporter, just the first one. I honestly tend to prefer him working on Guy Ritchie type movies, as he was great in Snatch and Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels.

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Re: Now...? They were eye catching, but totally banal, with everything blowing up at one point or another. This is how modern US cinema has been for the last little while, especially when losers like Michael Bay and James Cameron get as much funding to make visually stunning trash (the equivalent girl that is gorgeous but braindead to the point of drooling all over herself), so I don't get out to watch many new movies anymore.

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Re: Now...? And the whole enviromentalist crap it was trying to shove down my throat. I'm as concerned about enviromental issues as the next man but the wild is not some cuddly fluffy blanket were all the itchy-coo animals lives in all the harmony with each ovvar and the magic bond cares for them so sweetly - it is cruel, rough, dog eat dog world full of diease, pain and hunger :x ! The worst thing is Cameron is so in love with himself and his idea that apparntly he's condering I think three sequels and intend to invest the rest of his career to it. Hollywood corporate guilt at its worst. Oh, and I didn't thing the visuals were frankly that great, just a mish-mash of star wars, computer versions of rubber models used in the Lost World film from yonks ago and stuff you actually find in real life. And need I say anything about the cliched characters! I could giva long list of the stereotypes so unimaginatively used :x !

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In summary' date=' fuck Avatar.[/quote'] You mean 'Dances with Smurfs' :D Eating - Nothing Drinking - Water Listening - Dark Tranquillity Doing - Work...oh I hate Tuesdays... Thinking - Trying to set a gig up is annoying, especially when the bands you contact don't bother contacting you back.
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Re: Now...? It took forever to find them on fb too. I've contacted 3 bands and only one has responded. I'm trying to set up a 2-3 band bill (anything more is boring!) and the bands I've contacted are varied enough to keep it interesting, or so I'd like to think. I'm hoping to schedule a gig for the 30th but we'll see.

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oh I remember what it's like to feel that way' date=' I stopped listening to Slayer when I was seeing my now ex-girlfriend because she was offended by their lyrics and well love does crazy things[/quote'] tbh i'd stop listening to music just to have her as my girlfriend. (i know, i like her a lot)
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