Mullenkamp

Yeah, I understand where you're coming from now, but seeing just how much is seen in Planet Terror, a lap dance really wouldn't be anything. Either way, having the lap dance being shown in Europe isn't going to make up for breaking a movie in twain. What's really sad is that, had the movie opened up a few weeks prior to this, it probably would've ran the theater. To be more specific, had it been released before Meet The Robinsons, despite it's length, it would have been the only new movie worth a look that had just arrived. Shooter has run it's course, and 300 is finally beginning to run out of fumes. All the fathers who are being dragged off to see Are we Done Yet?, Firehouse Dog, and Meet The Robinsons may have formed groups and gone to see Grindhouse in much the same way a whole lot of groups came to see 300. It's a pity, but you see, Grindhouse is a perfect movie to see on DVD except for the fact that watching it at home ruins some of the premise behind the film's very existence. It should do well on DVD.

No. I work at a movie theater and I've seen Grindhouse. During the sex scene in PT, the strip does literally sizzle and burn, but right afterwards, the words MISSING REEL appear and it advises the audience to tell Theater Management. In case you wondering, no one did. Well, it doesn't burn literally...but..whatever. I'm being too serious. The lap dance being editted out is clearly a part of the joke. Right before Death Proof starts after the faux movie trailers, there's a card that appears which states that "This film may contain one or more missing REELS. Please consult theater management." I'm not a pervert or anything, but DP was so slow that when that missing reel came up in the place of the lap dance I voiced my disappointment a bit more loudly than I should have. One of my friends who works the Booth (the projector) told my manager that Grindhouse had a bunch of scrathes on it and our manager got pretty scared since we're going to have an audit soon. Those who've seen the movie probably understand. You know, what's sad is that when I worked in our movie's ticket box, not a lot of people came to see Grindhouse. I daresay, more people came to see 300 more than likely. Grindhouse isn't doing too good overall either. Seems someone might have forgotten how bad an idea it is to put blood and guts against three family movies opening up. The movie is three hours and 10 minutes long, which does not bode well in it's favor. Luckily for me, I just got me free ticket in hour or so into the movie so I could see DP instead of sitting for all that time. For those outside the states, I do sympathize. While Kill Bill 1 and 2 could survive being cut in two, these two movies seem to...work together in a quirky way. I don't really see how well the inside jokes can work without the two movies. If.your.thinking.of.seeing.this.movie.alone.DON'T.

Well, I didn't know Light was going to lose his powers...hopefully that's just the tip of the iceberg 'cause I'm spoiled for it now. That's what I get for reading the topic then. A friend of mine told me that I should read Death note. Well, Barnes and Noble didn't have the first volume...but I did see a manga that was pretty interesting instead: Monster So, yeah, ya'll bringing up Monster is pretty funny considering the fact that looking for Death note is what lead to me find Monster. I don't read manga. Monster is the first manga I have ever bought in recent memory and I have no objections against it. I go to B&N almost every Sunday and read a volume so I don't have to spend 7.99 on it. I'm cheap like that. I love Monster because it's everything I don't expect from a manga or anime for that matter. It's doesn't get too out there besides the whole let's raise the next Hitler! explanation that seemed a bit too...I don't know, "tight" of an explanation to me, although I realize how little sense that makes. It's taut, suspenseful, and rife with characters I actually care about. Characters that don't last a single volume are portrayed with such candor that they still matter despite how short their tenure in the series is. ...Okay, I've gone off track. Death Note is really good. I'm at a disadvantage however; ya'll can go download the anime or view on youtube, I'm reduced to hoping that the volumes are available. Although it does seem to me that Light is the epitome of a self-righteous jerk. I just got to the part where he killed Raye Penber. I thought Vic Mackey was two-faced or House M.D., but Light has a monopoly on that.

I love how you totally, and completely misread or ignore parts of my post that invalidate your argument. In the same paragraph you quoted from me, I'm not talking about Zyko, I'm not talking about anyone who had anyting to do with the song. In fact, in that same paragraph I'm talking about black people who use the word, so, really, I think you should read my posts a bit more concisely before you making such statements. Look, I don't have a problem with Zyko. Hence the reason why I never once complained about him personally despite what you believe. He hasn't done anything to really incur a large amount of my displeasure. He made a song. My whole post is discussing black people and how we need to change, and how if we don't change our deformed context of the word, people like you are going to assume it's okay to say it. In fact: You seem to have totally missed that part, the part that clearly states what you say I didn't. I don't like the fact that people throw the word out like it's something great, when really it deserves to be dead and buried. Alright. Did I every say Zyko was racist? No. I did not. I don't think he's racist, I don't believe people who use the word are racist; I just think they are misguided, the same way people who wave the Confederate flag around and wear it say it's just celebrating their "Southern heritage" are misguided. A heritage of treason and selfishness, but a heritage nonetheless I suppose. I don't have a problem with Zyko. He wasn't ever mentioned in my first post in this topic. At all. Most of my post dealt with complaining to Africa-American people at large who make people like you talk about context instead of understanding a very simple truth: There's only one context that word was originally used for, and that conext is a lot more degrading than anything any curse word can be in my opinion. It has a history that's as dark as the bowels of the human soul. It's very existence and usage for over a hundred years, mainly, was dependent on the ignorance of humanity. It's a tie that binds humanity to the worst and blackest spot of it's history, and if not that, at least the worst and most infamous, and senseless point of American history. No offense, and I don't mean to be rude or anything, but it seems like your being single-minded, mainly because you seem to be limiting my last post to the song. I'm not focusing on the song. I'm focusing on how shocked I was at how some posters seem to believe that it's an "okay" word nowadays because some black people, for some reason, have decided to use it in a positive context. The word has no other contect, racist people have assured of that, and society doesn't need to try to change the wickedness of the word. It's wickedness can never be erased, and it shouldn't be. It should be remembered, as a bleak reminder of how horrid humanity's ignorance can be, so that we may never return to our savage ways. If we try to superficially change that, humanity is doomed to follow the same path of damnation again and again. The word's context shouldn't be changed so white people can think it's okay to say, and I'll be darned if any self-respecting black man should believe the word to be a part of his daily vocabulary. To be frank; I don't care what anyone says about contexts in the case of this word. Look back to my past post for a good example of what I'm saying. I said that the word idiot is always going to be an insult. There's no other context for the word. It's an insult. The word nigger, nigga, or however some people want to change it around so as to feel it's "better" is the same way. It's an insult. It's not a word anyone should be using in a song. It's not a word we should find to be acceptable. I seriously don't think you read my last post very well, so please do so. Don't skim by it, don't judge it half way through. Read it. Otherwise, I'm left saying the same thing's I already said. It's not that hard of a concept to grasp. I'm not going to make a song called "Crackers 4 Life" and I'm not going to go up to every white person I see and say, "My Cracker." Geez, the word's insensitive and degragatory by it's nature. Deal with it folks, and throw out all this meaningless banter about context. Maybe if some of the racist white ancestors of America hadn't been so arrogant as to deem so people less then them based on the color of their skin, you could, but they didn't. So too bad.

(Edit: It should be noted, that the song is pretty darn good, or at least worth a listen, especially for the semi-Micheal Jackson impersonation thing someone mentioned. Hope this sentiment doesn't undermine everything else I wrote...but I had to stay on topic at least a bit) It's very strange that you mention Mark Twain, considering that's one of the only times I can somewhat look "past" the deragatory language because of two reasons: 1, the book takes place in the South. People in the South were racist sons of guns for the most part back then, their not going to be politically correct. Two, because despite how many times the word is used in the book, it all seemed to be...I don't know, funny, considering the fact that the greatest, kindest, and indeed, best person in the whole book is Jim. With the exception of a few of the supporting characters (Mary, I think her name was, and her sisters, for instance, and Aunt Polly) everyone in the book Huck encounters is either a liar, a cheat, a racist, a murderer, a human being consumed by a senseless, and murderous rage (as in the case of the Grangerfords and Sheperdsons) or generally bad people. Jim is the only honest, kind, and otherwise good person in the whole book. No matter what you say, or what is going on in the society however, the context of that word will never change. It represents a part of the most vile underbelly of America's history. I don't care if some black people forget that and for some reason look at the word with some degree of misplaced and misguided...adoration towards another person. The word is not a title. It is an insult. The word idiot will never be considered a title of honor. Neither should this word. If a friend of mine came up to me, a very good friend, and said "My Nigga" as it usually works, I might fancy amusing a few times by letting him give me some dap, but sooner or later I'd have to profess my annoyance towards the use of the word mroe and more frequently as some substitute for the title of "friend" and I'd have to tell him the same thing I'd tell anybody; I'm nobody's Nigga. There's only one group of people to blame in the present time for everyone's apparent ability to push it off as something that isn't a big deal; the African-American community at large. Stop calling each other a word that was used to subjugate, your, my, ancestors. Stop referring to yourselves by the same degrading term that was spat out by countless ignorant women, children, and men. Stop it. Grow up. It's not cool. It's not smart. It's one of the dumbest things we could ever do because it helps cover up the vile and bleak history of that term. It helps people kind of...cover it up so much easier when you veil the truly hideous meaning behind the all of this ignorant hoopla. My gosh, stop making it so much easier for people to accept such a word into proper society. We're better then this. We have more sense than this. The people who died, the people who worked so hard to secure our equality would turn in their graves ever so slightly and maybe more so if they saw what we were doing, how we're forgetting something so important; the ignorance, the bleak and terrible history behind such a word, and the shadow of despair that comes from it. We need to make it where white people, and everyone stops thinking it's okay to say the word at all. No, that "Do as I say..." and "It's different because he's not black" crap is not going to fly, and rightfully so. Stop covering how stupid we're being in general by celebrating the word in our hip-hop videos that succeed in immortializing the excesses of the world and stop making things like drugs, guns, and gangs glisten that when they should be dull. Stop making the dregs of society look like their trophies which should be glorified. We've failed as a people if we can't even remember a terrible emblem of the past injustices that have befallen us, and as a result of that, we've allowed others to slowly, but surely become hardened and insensitive towards realizing the truth; the word has become inherently degragatory, as it's past nature has been dominated by the ignorance of the white people who used it, and determined to use it as a way to subjugate people they spat on as they themselves sat on their sorry behind's, sipping lemonade and generally being lazy, and perhaps wholly pathetic people I can feel almost nothing for contempt for. We can't let this get any further than it already has. This thread is about a song of all things, not my overbearing rants about African-American culture, and how, somehow, we've helped revive a word that should be dead and buried in the annals of history as a word that only represents how far the ignorance and arrogance of humankind can go. I wouldn't have made a huge deal about it if I hadn't read Sinewav's post. That's the real engine behind this machine. It's a perfect example of how badly we've all screwed up. We've got white people viewing the word as ok now. It all starts with that. If the majority of white people deem something to be ok, it won't be long before this all spreads like some infectious disease. It needs to end, and it needs to be said; the connotations behind that word has not changed, the meaning behind it did not change during the 150 or so years African-Americans were in bondage, it's innate ability to summon up horrid memories of what our ancestors experienced did not change during the time it took for our ancestors to gain equality for us in the present day. It took us so long to gain ground, and now we're going to make people say "The truth is that the word "nigger" is a very context sensitive word and has changed in meaning." and actually believe it? Geez, have we learned anything? It's a horrid word. Don't let the guise of misguided use of it shield you from the truth. It's a mark of shame, and nothing else. You can use it for a different purpose, but you can't change that. If I use crap instead of glue to keep something together, it might work, but it's still going to smell pretty bad. If you use the word as a subsitute of friendship, it might work, you might, horrifically, make the person believe it's okay to use the word, but I doubt that there won't be someone who can simply taste the bitterness, the history of the word, the tragic venom of a snake forcing all the progress we've made slipping away through our own idiocy. The word shouldn't be in songs, it shouldn't be in common language, and it shouldn't be considered appropritate. I'm ashamed that I almost succumbed to that same venomous snake that so many other people did, people who throw the word out every day, who think it's okay, when it so clearly is not. It may seem blurred, but keep staring at the image a little while longer, and you'll see there is nothing in the word by cruelty and sorrow, accompanied by the stench of ignorance. It's not okay. Seems like we learn from the "best", huh?