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It shows how out of it I was in trying to be in it, acknowledging that I was out of it to myself, and then thinking, “Okay, how do I stop being out of it? Well, I get some legitimate illogical narrative ideas” — some novel, you know?
So I decided on three writers that I might be able to option their material and get some producer, or myself as producer, and then get some writer to do a screenplay on it, and maybe make a movie.
And so the three projects were “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” “Naked Lunch” and a collection of Bukowski. Which, in 1975, forget it — I mean, that was nuts. Hollywood would not touch any of that, but I was looking for something commercial, and I thought that all of these things were coming.
There would be no Blade Runner if there was no Ray Bradbury. I couldn’t find Philip K. Dick. His agent didn’t even know where he was. And so I gave up.
I was walking down the street and I ran into Bradbury — he directed a play that I was going to do as an actor, so we know each other, but he yelled “hi” — and I’d forgot who he was.
So at my girlfriend Barbara Hershey’s urging — I was with her at that moment — she said, “Talk to him! That guy really wants to talk to you,” and I said “No, fuck him,” and keep walking.
But then I did, and then I realized who it was, and I thought, “Wait, he’s in that realm, maybe he knows Philip K. Dick.” I said, “You know a guy named—” “Yeah, sure — you want his phone number?”
My friend paid my rent for a year while I wrote, because it turned out we couldn’t get a writer. My friends kept on me about, well, if you can’t get a writer, then you write.”
~ Hampton Fancher
“That was the most disappointing thing to me in how this thing was played. Is that I’m on the phone with you now, after all that’s been said, and the fundamental distinction between what James is dealing with in these other cases is not actually brought to the fore. The fundamental difference is that James Franco didn’t seek to use his position to have sex with anyone. There’s not a case of that. He wasn’t using his position or status to try to solicit a sexual favor from anyone. If he had — if that were what the accusation involved — the show would not have gone on. We would have folded up shop and we would have not completed the show. Because then it would have been the same as Harvey Weinstein, or Les Moonves, or any of these cases that are fundamental to this new paradigm. Did you not notice that? Why did you not notice that? Is that not something notable to say, journalistically? Because nobody could find the voice to say it. I’m not just being rhetorical. Why is it that you and the other critics, none of you could find the voice to say, “You know, it’s not this, it’s that”? Because — let me go on and speak further to this. If you go back to the L.A. Times piece, that’s what it lacked. That’s what they were not able to deliver. The one example in the five that involved an issue of a sexual act was between James and a woman he was dating, who he was not working with. There was no professional dynamic in any capacity.
~ David Simon
SO has anyone read all the comments over on Wells’ site calling ANTI-CHRIST a masterpiece and the bet of the year? So delusional.
Liam Neeson makes a decent ‘Hannibal’ Smith. I’m not sure what I think of the rest of the new A-Team.
“Antichrist” struck me, straight up, as a combination of Ferreri’s “The Last Woman” and Oshima’s “In the Realm of the Senses” thrown into a blender.
So now that “Wild Things” has become too divising and Gosling’s Half Nelson-sounding flick has been bumped to 2009..could “The Messenger” with Ben Foster and Dennis Quaid be the sleeper of the year???? The trades both give it a big thumbs up, along with Manny Levy. We’ll see…
bumped to 2010 I should have said…and divisive not divising lol…that sounds like something out of “Men Who Stare at Goats”
Liam Neeson is headlining A-Team? wtf$$$
sharlto’s (mad dog murdoch) yank accent, in case anyone is biting their fingernails to the fockin’ quik:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB1e9og0fVE
Jeff Wells hated Antichrist though, right? I assume he would because homeboy has the most white-bread artsy but in a middle of the road way pedestrian taste in movies. He has an old man’s reaction to anything visceral or too crazy.
i’m no old man and i find ‘antichrist’ laugh-out-loud mock-worthy and not visceral in the slightest. obvious, not scary or profound gory-for-no-purpose, surprisingly dull exercise in pseudo-religious nonsensical misogynist psychotherapy. the only thing it manages to be is well-photographed, achieving an atmospheric condition totally wasted on the actual movie
I liked Antichrist as I’ve said before. Finally saw Paranormal Activity and I’m fine with admitting that I was scared shitless during the second half of the movie. Katie’s acting wasn’t very good though and the day scenes weren’t as equally enthralling as The Blair Witch Project. The last few nights of Paranormal Activity (as in “Night 20” or whatever) were legitimately terrifying.
Of course, to some people I am merely kowtowing to some pre-ordained belief that the movie is scary when it actually isn’t, but those people are tools.
The final 15 minutes of Paranormal Activity are pretty terrific. I’ll also defend the acting. They do all the things veteran actors wouldn’t. Featherston has a prickly vunerability that’s quite haunting when you think back on the whole movie.
The next role for Micah should someone who is completely likable and sympathetic.
THE GRAND HURRAH by LEXG
(A Story In One Part By He Who is King…)
CHAPTER ONE: FINALITY AND THE GOD OF THE OCEAN.
VAG has been outlawed of late. There is no vag, no proof that it still exists. It is as rare as the almighty BLUE COCAINE that needs to be in regular rotation YEP YEP YALL.
Okay this one comes from the fuck:
For THREE YEARS I, GOD, have been trying to CRACK THE SEAL of MEDIOCRITY in people who LIVE A LIE, who can’t admit that they are weak, that they are BULLSHIT, that their petty lives are in the shadows of people FAR SUPERIOR.
PEOPLE WHO ARE GODS.
You are dying with each breath and YOU REFUSE TO BE ANGRY.
All accepting your mundanity, all accepting a life THAT IS BENEATH YOU.
There are PEOPLE ON THIS PLANET WHO ARE DICKIN’ CHICKS with EACH FUCKING BREATH. EACH BREATH. EACHFUCKBREATH, dipping that dick and fucking that chick.
What are you doing? Baking a cake? Being a person? Being mundane? Living lives of nothing?
GET ANGRY. ANGRY. ANGEEEEEEEEEEEEEER MOTHERFUCKER. WHAT DO YOU NOT GET?
Why do you settle for invisibility?
Are you OKAY with the fact that PENN BADGELY is a GOD and you are a weak nobody poseur bitch?
HE IS SUPERIOR TO YOU. YES, YOU, with your WEAK SMARM, your tired Caucasian IRONY, your ludicrous OVEREDUCATION.
All that shit FLIES OUT THE WINDOW when you aren’t fucking THE HOTTEST CHICKS. Every cheeseball kid on the CW is pulling mad gash, AND YOU ARE NOT.
WHY ARE YOU OKAY WITH THIS? WHY ARE YOU OKAY WITH YOURSELF?
WHY ARE YOU NOT SUICIDAL?
YOU SHOULD HATE YOURSELF if YOU ARE NOT FAMOUS.
WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO… SAY IT! SAY IT.
YOU ARE INFERIOR. WEAK. A NOTHING. A NOBODY.
GET THE FUCK UP and BEEEEEEEEEEEEE ANGRY MOTHERFUCKER.
REFUSE TO BE INVISIBLE. STOP BEING A NOBODY NOTHING FUCKING NOTHING, or at least ADMIT IT.
Why does NO ONE HERE admit that they are NOBODY? They never WILL be anybody? Why do you accept it? WHY ARE YOU COMPLACENT?
I am rageful, miserable, and suicidal EVERY SECOND OF MY LIFE because I NEED TO BE GOD, TO BE MORE POPU–
Ah, fuck it, you didn’t read this far and I don’t like you anyway.
But good luck with NOT BEING FAMOUS. FAMOUS PEOPLE are BETTER than NONFAMOUS PEOPLE.
We all fucking suck and there’S NO REASON TO BE ALIVE IF YOU’RE NOT FAMOUS.
I WANT TO BE FAMOUS MORE THAN ANYTHING IN THE FUCKING WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD.
FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME.
Oh yeah, case’n that shit weren’t plain enough…
This is what happens when
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
ALL WORK AND NO PUSSY MAKES LEX A RAVING LUNATIC
I need some VAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAG.
VAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
I AM H0RNY AS FUCK and I WANT TO KILL MYSELF because I CAN’T GET LAID because I AM SUCH A LOSER and SUCH A NOBODY and SUCH A FAILURE
Is it really THAT HARD to ever speak to a WOMAN in the course of two or three years?
I work 87 hours a weak in a cockfuck office and come home and drink myself to oblivion.
I POSTED 17 ADS ON CRAIGSLIST LAST MONTH AND THE ONLY RESPONSES I GOT WERE BOTS AND A COUPLE CREEPY OLD MEN.
I WANT A HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT SQUAAAAAACK.
I HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE MYSELF.
FUCK IT I AM TOTALLY DOING THIS GANGBANG VIDEO, FUCKING A RIGHT, I get to pump this chick for thirty seconds in a roomful of 200 disgusting other dudes.
Might be the only snatch I get from here out.
GANG BANG VIDEO SUPERSTAR LEXG.
PORN FUCKING HELL.
DEDICATED TO THIS BLOG, LYRICS COURTESY OF SUICIDAL TENDENCIES:
“CAN YOU SAY FEEL LIKE SHIT?
YEAH MAYBE SOMETIMES I DO FEEL LIKE SHIT
I AIN’T HAPPY ABOUT IT
BUT I’D RATHER FEEL LIKE SHIT
THAN BE FULL OF SHIT
AND IF I OFFENDED YOU
OH I’M SORRY
BUT MAYBE YOU NEEDED TO BE OFFENDED
BUT HERE’S MY APOLOGY
AND ONE MORE THING:
FUCK YOU.”
If ANYBODY here has an inroad with a STRAIGHT UP FUCKING WHORE, please EMAIL.
If I don’t put my dick in a pussy by FRIDAY,
I AM GOING TO FUCKING KILL MYSELF.
MAKE IT HAPPEN.
VAGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG POWER
I NEED PUSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSY
COME ON SLUTS
HOW DOES IT FEEL KNOWING PENN BADGELY IS INHERENTLY SUPERIOR TO YOU,
AND YOU ARE INFERIOR?
In a DARWINISTIC SCALE, you are nothing.
GET FAMOUS OR KILL YOURSELF.
LexG = threadkiller?
So, I know I guess I am prude but I am still not quite an old man (just turned 37). *** SPOILER*** watched AC sat afternoon and when CR sliced her clit off, that was it for me.
leahnz, I don’t doubt that there’s a great chance I’d hate Antichrist. I don’t tend to like Von Trier that much. But Wells is as predictible as sunset.
You know what would be funny, if Lex did that gangbang video and the woman has already fucked like 120 guys, then Lex comes up for his turn, holding his stomach up so he can reveal his semi-flaccid penis. And she looks at him and says “not you.” And like a douchebag, Lex silently moves away and behind him is this mongoloid with only one arm and he’s drooling and she says “better than that last guy, hop on son.” And he does and pumps away, and no one laughs because they’re really embarrassed for Lex, but at the same time they agree with what the woman did, and then Lex has to spend the next two hours in his car jerking off furiously but the only fluids to emerge from him are the tears in his eyes.
Don’t want to go over the top in calling you out, BigPerm, but all that was a bit needless and nasty.
“For your consideration: Best Supporting Actress, Betty White, The Proposal”
Talk about needless and nasty.
For your consideration: Best supporting actor, Gerard Butler, The Ugly Truth
For your consideration: Best supporting actor, James Cromwell, Surrogates
For your consideration: Best animated feature,
Delgo
Any others I’m forgetting?
For Your Consideration: Milla Jovovich as “Actress Milla Jovovich” as “Abigail Tyler” in The Fourth Kind
Is there anyone who still defends Ridley Scott
I’ve always hated Gladiator, but think “apologia for empire” is a stretch. Crowe strikes me as more like a heroic “enemy combatant” than anything, if you want to make that analogy.
It’s been awhile since I’ve seen GLADIATOR, but I liked it quite a bit back when. However, I always felt it was saved by Crowe and the Hans Zimmer score. It feels like an in-between movie; would’ve been better had they just gone pure action and tightened it up, or more nuance and drama and opened it up to a 3+ hour length. Instead, it’s stuck in the middle.
Our hero is invested by the father-emperor with the divine task, through which he must sacrifice all of himself, of restoring the “the dream that was rome”. Of thus overcoming the false son to become the true son. We, as the audience, are supposed to believe in the gravity and divine intent of this project, a kind of hilariously empty rearward projection of the city-on-the-hill mythology that still haunts america. THE FILM IS GARBAGE.
I love Crowe, but this movie utterly paves over his ability.
I remember that two year run, when everybody was fawning over Gladiator and A Beautiful Mind. Proof of Life was sandwiched between them, and everybody seemed to turn up their noses.
And yet I still contend Proof of Life, while not great, was the best film of the three.
“I’ve always hated Gladiator”
Hear, hear!
A Beautiful Mind had a great surprise gimmick; I’ll give it credit for that. Plus, unless I’m forgetting something else, it was a breakthrough for Paul Bettany.
i think it was ‘a knight’s tale’ that brought bettany to the public’s attention and won him his first major award…..
Hm, I never thought I’d say this but I think Lex might be losing it.
“Is it really THAT HARD to ever speak to a WOMAN in the course of two or three years?”
as long as you continue your fantasies of disrespecting of women on their age, abilities and usefulness in society I would say yes it will be hard for you Lex so you better change or ways, get rich so you can pay for women, or tie that noose since you’ve backed yourself into a corner and you don’t have anywhere else to go.
and you better apologize to Leah or you will have no female speaking to you, since I can;t be bothered anymore.
and yes to All who bring out Gladiator as tepid filmmaking at its most depressing. That and a Beautiful Mind were sad films to be celebrating at the Oscars.
Bettany was amazing in Gangster # 1…which got him noticed by a lot of people, and he should have won something for that.
He came to attention in Europe in the Sharpe’s series.
He reminded me, in his early days of a skinnier Rutger Hauer.
I just hate seeing him doing blockbustery stuff since his is his best being gritty evil (as opposed to blockbuster evil) or a weirdo.
I had always thought A Knight’s Tale was widely considered a flop.
I should HOPE The Pope would think what I wrote was nasty. Otherwise he shouldn’t be a Pope.
Gladiator…it was ai’ight. Is that how you spell “Ai’ight,” or is it simply “aiight?”
KNIGHT’S TALE performed “below expectations,” but it was not a flop. It did $56m domestic and close to $120m worldwide, not bad for 2001 numbers.
And yes, GLADIATOR was horrible. And it has a special place in Hell for me as it was the last film I saw at the Dome before they remodeled it and fucked up the acoustics.
I still like Gladiator, but I’d be happy to shit on A Beautiful Mind if the subject persists.
hey dork with the Big Perm–it’s AIGHT…aight?
hey Jeff–>do a BM on ABM
Wow, now that I’ve read through all the active threads, Lex really seems to be attempting to up his ‘Look at me and how awful I am!!!’ ante.
I’ve always found beating up Gladiator and A beautiful Mind to be very trendy. For me, they’re both solid three-star films. No, they’re not great. No, they’re not Best Picture material. But they aren’t that bad.
Granted it’s a simplistic view of a very scary disease, but A Beautiful Mind is a certain kind of movie in that regard. The odd thing for me is the film gets better as it goes on. Act I is weak, Act II is a bit better and Act III is where it gets good. Some of the “life in the suburbs” section is amazing. And the cinematography by Roger Deakins is just as good as any of his stuff with the Coens.
Yeah, it has good elements in it – great cinematography, production design, etc. – but I’d say that it’s a story that has absolutely no idea what it’s getting into and actually mimics John Nash’s dementia as it goes along. I mean, there’s a scene towards the end where Nash literally breaks up with his hallucinations and the music and the way it’s shot suggest that we-the-audience are supposed to feel sad! And then they stalk him for a couple of decades as he ‘ignores’ them, which is all kinds of bonkers.
It would all work in a movie that wasn’t so set on positioning itself as serious Oscarbait.
“I’ve always found beating up Gladiator and A beautiful Mind to be very trendy.”
Beautiful Mind, sure. I have to say this thread is the first I’ve been aware of any other major cinephiles willing to bash Gladiator.
Isn’t any Ron Howard movie these days by default positioned as Oscarbait no matter what? Same with Spielberg, Eastwood, most Woody Allen.
I wonder if he decided to make Willow 2 if there’d be awards buzz on it.
I always thought that if there was no Braveheart, then there would’ve been no Gladiator. It comes across as a paint by the numbers wanna be epic to me. I enjoyed it when I saw it, but Best Picture of the year? Mo way. My wife and I have a thing where we could never say the title Gladiator without imitating Liz Taylor and the way she said it.
Lota said “I just hate seeing him doing blockbustery stuff since his is his best being gritty evil (as opposed to blockbuster evil) or a weirdo.” Well then you will absolutely hate the trailer for LEGION. check it out if you have not seen it already.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8lGCjd9W8U
I know I’m not a big participant here (though I read the threads everyday).
But am I the only one who doesn’t take LexG even remotely seriously?? Unless there is something I don’t know about him it’s just mindless internet role-playing.
Is it annoying? Yea. Especially when it throws a good thread off the rails. But I laugh at some of his schtick. I admit that.
I guess that at the end of the day perhaps it’s best to ignore the sub-moron Lex, and focus on the occasional on-topic things he posts. He usually does have something in their to respond to. I’m sure many here are parents and can relate with the concept of encouraging and fostering the good and successful traits, while not feeding the bad side. Or something like that.
Or maybe he just needs a spanking and a time-out.
On topic: liked GLADIATOR when it came out. But it is weaker and weaker everytime I see it. But at least it revived Ridley’s career and he made BLACK HAWK DOWN the following year.
No problem with Crowe’s Oscar win though. Don’t remember who he was up against but not winning for THE INSIDER was highway fucking robbery.
Never liked BEAUTIFUL MIND too much. Crowe was good, but the movie is obvious. It does do a good job of putting you in the guys head here and there.
CleanSteve, I totally agree with you about LexG, seems like shtick to me. Dude professes to be dead drunk at times, but there’s not one typo.
Lex, if it’s true then the do the following, in the following order:
–Go to the pound, rescue a dog. Develop empathy for another living creature.
–Start walking said dog, somewhere beautiful, out in nature.
–Scrape together the money to attend the Landmark Forum…seriously! Some major transformational work is needed!
–Keep walking the dog, give up one vice: cigarettes, Coke (either kind), candy, porn, etc.
–As you get healthier, scrape together the money and attend Writer Boot Camp…online. You need the discipline but not the distraction of any female within 10 feet of you.
–Give up one more vice.
–Force yourself to face whether any of your brilliant concepts for scripts are viable.
–Acknowledge that you’re more a novelist than screenwriter and move out of soul-sucking Los Angeles.
–You and your beloved dog settle somewhere peaceful, surrounded by great, natural beauty.
–Walk your dog, meet a nice girl, be inspired and motivated to write your novel.
–Live happily ever after…
Lex does not need a dog, I’d feel very sorry for any dog he adopted he’s too selfish for a pet let alone another human being. I don’t know what the landmark forum is but it sounds lame. What Lex needs to do is get his ass off the computer all day and try to forge a life in the real world. That seems to be what he wants and he just needs the prodding to do it. He also probably needs to be on an antidepressant bc he seems seriously bipolar and those drugs can help a lot. One definition of crazy is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result at some point. He needs to stop being self pitying and take charge of his problems, IMO.
lex doesn’t need a dog…..he needs a fleshlight…
Martin, you’re probably right about the dog and the anti-depressants. The Forum can be helpful…or not. Depends on the person. But it’s an intense ass-kicking for people who need some guidance getting their shit together.
Jenna, having read/taken some of those sorts of classes myself, I think that they mainly work for those with relatively low IQs. Lex IMO is too intelligent to really benefit from a Tony Robbins type of deal in the long term. He needs to resolve these issues on his own and in his own way, or he won’t take the kind of ownership of them that would make them stick.
“What Lex needs to do is get his ass off the computer all day and try to forge a life in the real world.”
if we take through yesteryear we see that 18 months-2 years ago…Lex had the same problems on this blog.
AFter that lengthy spell with many telling him the same or offering to help him…he is still “not helped”.
Lex is just goofy now. It’s absolutely goofy. Are we supposed to take this seriously? Wow. He wants a girlfriend. Good for him, but does he have to be a little bitch about it? Seriously man, get over it, and act like the semi-knowledgeable film geek that you are. If not, well, type vagina some more. It might be therapeutic or something.
I think Lex has stated pretty clearly that of all the things he wants, a girlfriend isn’t one of them. Stripper, hooker, fuckbuddy, sure.
My question for those who say Lex is all schtick – what kind of schtick is it that has a person repeating over and over again that they hate themselves and want to commit suicide at 4 am? Was there a Lenny Bruce routine that I don’t know about that he’s aping? Some lost Andy Kaufman bit?
And let’s not forget, David Poland gave him a shot at a column and some of us were very supportive of it, and he could only manage (I think) three essays and gave up.
Wouldn’t it be funny if we eventually find out that LexG really is someone like Brad Pitt or George Clooney, and he’s having a great big laugh about all of this?
Hey, if it turned out to be Andy Kaufman, I’d kick myself in the balls.
Jeff, you have to get by the bluster, and get to the meat of this guys delusional ramblings. It’s very likely that they are all bogus and full of shit, but let’s act as if they are true. If they are true. It’s quite obvious to me that the chubby little bastard wants one girl to validate him in some way. So, again, that’s my two cents. He wants vag, but secretly he just wants a woman who accepts his chubby little self.
good grief, do people not see that lex just wants to be the centre of attention like a spoilt 8yr old brat? and lo and behold he gets his wish again and again and again, like a marionette playing with puppets on a string
why does anybody waste their finger-tapping time talking about him or trying to ‘help’ him, that’s exactly what he’s after — plus he knows he can dish out as much bullshit as he wants and then if anyone dares rebuke him, he knows he can get as insufferably whiny and personal and vicious as he likes and he’ll get away with it with at most a tap on the wrist before he does it all over again like clockwork. it’s no big mystery
(and just to point out and then i’ll quit helping to feed the chubby little labradoodle, anyone who’s watched his youtubes knows exactly what lex looks like so his ‘identity’ is no big secret, he’s just some bland dweeb auditioning for some non-existent gig on a blog instead of auditioning out in the actual world where rejection is real)
Leahnz is correct.
The whole Lex persona is designed to become the focal point of a faceless online mass. The real person is probably somewhat sociable but has no strong friendships and has failed at any long term relationships. He thinks his caricature is an exaggeration but is unaware how close it truly is. He’s narcissistic and dismissive of other’s opinions. He never enters into discussions unless they’re about ‘him’. He suffers from delusions of grandeur and enjoys being the forum puppet master. He’s extremely jealous of others successes on here and ridicules their efforts when confronted. His insecurity is very real but he thinks by amping it its his ticket to fame. He doesn’t realise that 90% of people skip over his existence online. Even after being linked to Defamer he struggles to get any views on youtube. A pig with a wig and Lex spray painted on its fat belly would get at least 5000 views.
The bottom line is Lex doesn’t care about anything in the world but Lex. The two things that actually are real about Lex is that he’s rather unfortunate looking and has as much talent as the next blockbuster employee.
He’s sitting in soiled boxers salivating at every word being written in this thread. Hookers, strippers, skanks don’t get him off. Reading other dweebs comments on a forum. Now thats primo jerk-off material.
Ugly, chubby, sad and talentless Lex sits in front of his computer thinking he’s in Boogie Nights.
I’m a star.
I’m a star.
The only difference… his cock is 13mm not inches.
My question for those who say Lex is all schtick – what kind of schtick is it that has a person repeating over and over again that they hate themselves and want to commit suicide at 4 am?
The kind that gets people tapping out multi-paragraph analyses and endlessly wondering whether it’s a schtick or not
Gee, and “Jeffrey Boam’s Doctor” (class nickname, dude, maybe you’d wanna explain that away to the guy’s surviving relatives, Mr. Industry Professional) was so charming and helpful not two days ago recommending old, middling Westerns to me.
Talk about fucking bipolar; At what point do you bounce from amusing ball-busting to friendly bonhommie to a fucking TORRENT of hostility that’s so far beyond the pale it makes you sound wantonly sociopathic? Did some special brand of coke kick in before you typed that? Would your kids be proud of you, Dad? That wife you’re sick of fucking but you pretend you’re not?
I want you to picture one of your kids right now, one of your mop-topped and probably stupid offspring and imagine looking them right in the eyes and explaining why you think making fun of a *dead screenwriter* is swell choice, why daddy looks up pictures of cocks online and posts them in his handle, and why he posts shit like the above. Come on, Father of the Year, Husband of the Year. I hope your little kids and your wife continue to be nice and svelte, lest you unleash that hair-trigger coke temper on them, too. We all know Bitch Perm is a rich-kid, psycho, functionally illiterate and humorless cokehead straight out of Bret Easton Ellis (and pulling all the HOT SUPERMODELS in Maryland), but what’s your excuse, aging failure?
And if you’re gonna deride my fucking appearance, let’s see that gleaming Scott Stapp-like Jersey mook visage of yours. Oh, that’s right, you refuse to because it would endanger your standing within the industry, as you’ve actually yourself said. So email it to me. I want to see a picture of you, so I can critique every wrinkle, every hair, every bag under your eyes, everything. Put up or shut up, motherfucker. You can even fucking email it to me, bitch.
And, really, that’s all you got? Appearance? Christ, then why aren’t you riding 90% of the other posters here? I didn’t realize The fucking Hot Blog was the Muscle Beach Adonis Contest. I’m ugly and chubby? By what standard? Yeah, I TOTALLY outweigh Poland by a good hundred, JBD.
Gee, sorry I can’t uphold to the strict standards of MALE BEAUTY exemplified by obvious Brad Pitt stand-ins like Leydon, Kenny, Poland, Feraci, and LYT. And that’s NOT A BASH AGAINST any of them, just sayin’. Fuck you, you think you have some little IN or some little DIG that’ll really get under my skin, but and congratulations, it kinda does.
But are you really THAT FUCKING DENSE that YOU SERIOUSLY THINK I’m sitting around day and night BANKING A FUCKING CAREER on POSTING ON A BLOG? REALLY? REAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLY? Fucking same 15 people post here every day. SHHHHHH, don’t tell anyone, but I don’t REALLY THINK Cadavra or you are gonna get me a SAG card, or that a shitty puppet show making fun of BLOG PERSONALITIES is my key to success. Here’s another possibility, O BRAIN TRUST: Maybe instead of sitting at home hanging on everybody’s word and REALLY THINKING THIS’LL BE THE POST THAT GETS ME SOME PUSSY… maybe I’m just REALLY FUCKING BORED AT WORK or AT HOME with nothing to do, so I do it to AMUSE MYSELF or to BLOW OFF SOME STEAM. At the most I JUST WANT TO MAKE EVERYONE AS MISERABLE AS I AM.
And at best it’s awesome because this LAME SHTICK brings out ALL the WORST in ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS. Look at some of the shit you assholes wrote above. LOOK AT IT. It’s definitely Borat-esque or Kaufman-esque, because a few (thousand) posts about wanting vag, and you so-called lefty arty sensitive film nerds start coming off like the worst, stupidest, most unpleasant high-school asshole who stuck you in a locker, ever. Exactly as your “hero” Obama would approve of.
Also gotta love that spazzboy virginal psycho IO, probably hopped up on a Skittles, Smarties and Fruit Loops bender watching LOST with his Mommy and designing his Thor Halloween costume, taking shots. ‘Cause I’m sure this pizza-faced runt with his nose in a copy of DEADPOOL LIMITED EDITION is a fucking walking Eric Bana clone.
And when Jeff McDouche reads this in the morning, instead of the inevitable (nerdvoice) “It boggles my mind that Lex can accuse someone else…” of, blah, blah, blah, motherfucker.
Just save your energy and go blow your roommates or something. Or sext Big Perm. I hear he likes pussy but you never know, Jeffy.
Oops, hope that didn’t offend THE COUNT FROM DOWN UNDER.
Oh, and Jennab, Martin and EOTW:
You’re cool.
Everyone else can eat a fucking dick. Now I wanna get famous twice as bad just so I can blacklist all you psycho motherfuckers. A lot of you people would make excellent rapists.
Gee, can’t wait to get my incensed email from Poland, which I probably won’t even open.
Poland, unless you ban Boam or the Perm or McDouche, you probably shouldn’t ban me, since they’re a trillion times more hostile, ugly and loathesome, and truly make THB a worse place.
Especially funny that McDouche thinks he’s some Obama-age liberal (mostly to impress his gay roommates), when in fact he has the most reactionary, humorless, authoritarian, violence-brewing, judgmental, fascistic right-wing persona imaginable.
Yes, an 8 yr old is correct.
Boam and Perm are very funny and have decent taste in movies.
and as pedantic as Jeff is, I have to defend him as not being nearly as vile as you continue to insist upon Lex–it is more your problem than his.
Can’t we all just get along?
Gee Lex, for someone who just posts because he’s bored you sure seemed to take what JBD said really poorly. I would think someone fucking around would have just said something like “Hey JBD, it seems like you got sand in your vagina, how about I clean it out with my cock?” And left it at that.
So Lex, let me just say…you seem to have sand in your vagina. Notice I’m leaving the second part out just in case you wanted to take me up on it.
Oh I’m sorry Lex. That’s just my schtick.
Leahnz and JBD are correct.
Lex is basically the FOX news of the Hot Blog, whining screaming accusing when he’s not making valid points about certain events. And the more he whines, the more people feed him to the point where the loudest rudest guest at David’s party gets special treatment and therefore some kind of weird validity. Just like FOX.
You’ll note that Lex doesn’t pull his post hijacks at Jeff Wells site. Like the bully Lex is, he responds positively to bullies.
And Lex, what would a female you’re interested in make of your posts? Besides a quick exit stage left…
Big Perm, I found a few better solutions to your problem that don’t involve Lex:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080314115539AAaw6RH
Martin, you made me LOL. Literally LAUGH OUT LOUD!
Bulldog
that was an awful experience to watch that clip for LEGION. I was gasping like a codfish.
maybe he has a high maintenance family or summat, since that was AWFUL awful.
“this LAME SHTICK brings out ALL the WORST in ALL YOU MOTHERFUCKERS”
This is what Lex is proud of.
And goddamn he projects a lot in his posts. Take a look at them and see how much stuff he’s including that’s totally imagined?
For the record, if Poland decided that in order to be ‘fair’ he had to ban a whole slew of other people in addition to Lex, such as myself, I would be TOTALLY HAPPY with that outcome.
as someone who is old, fat, ugly and, occasionally, wears a hat i’m a little insulted i didn’t make the cut on that list….
*Yaaaaaaaaaaawn* Morning, everyone. What’s going on?
Well, I’ve just gone ahead and saved a copy of this thread. I think it might be valuable some day.
Thank you, mother.
The one simple truth of Lex is that if you feed it, it will grow. And while I have allowed it, many have you have fed it in exactly the way that assures the behavior you most loudly complain about.
Lex is banned, again. Many posts are gone. Unless he sneaks in some other way, he will not be in here through the month of November.
If he will not take positive steps, there is no other alternative. I am not worried about him being an imposition on those of you who go on and on about him. I am worried about the imposition of this on the readers who never post and don’t come here for circus.
Unfortunate.
Again David sidesteps the reality: that Lex insults and degrades those who post here who have not “fed” him in any way except perhaps in the worst: responding to his random personal hateful attacks. So it’s “others” fault that Lex posts ten screeds in a row about jizz on vag? If only nobody would respond to him on a comments section. THEN the circus would surely stop. You hear that ladies?
Show him the rabbits now, David.
David, it is not about “feeding it and it will grow” it is about the fact that he is a degrading, offensive buffoon who routinely spews out sexist and homophobic garbage. Purely reacting to my side of it, I’ve said that I shouldn’t have to come here and have homophobic gay slurs thrown at me, whether I respond to them or not (and they were not in reply to anything either, they were out of the blue).
It’s about Lex being given a platform to be the most unpleasant human being possible to as many other human beings as possible. You yourself have shown time and time again that it’s not that bad or taking the side that it’s our fault because we feed him but it most definitely is not. Lex thinks it is funny and that he is allowed to make jokes about peoples sexuality and their gender and anything else about them that he sees fit and people get fired for that sorta shit these days, but because he’s a merely a commenter on a blog he can get away with it.
Lex is, truly, one person I wouldn’t care one single iota about if he got hit by a bus and thrown down the other end of the street. He’s a vile, inhuman piece of garbage.
holy shit, DP. lex spouts hateful, nasty shit day after day after day, demands to be the centre of attention, runs amok and then goes ballistic when it doesn’t go his way, and it’s OUR fault, the other commenters?
your warped refusal to hold lex responsible for his asshole behavior is now officially that of an enabler and really quite dispiriting and disappointing (shhh, just don’t piss off the wife-beater, then he won’t beat you up! just let lex do and say whatever he wants and nothing bad will happen. it’s YOUR fault!). why have you removed his comments from last night, after allowing all his other vitriol? is seeing him go off the deep just too damning? your inconsistency is baffling.
if you had stepped in with the hard word earlier when lex was bullying and name-calling people all over the place as you should have, this ugliness could have been avoided. this is your blog obviously, but blaming the other commenters for lex’s mess is highly suspect, and your insistence on making excuses for lex’s behavior are troubling.
is troubling
and something i should have included above:
what about the people lex has insulted on your blog without cause, what do you have to say to them/us? nothing?
lota has been restrained dealing with lex and i have been ENDLESSLY patient with his woman-hating nonsense, which has only become more and more vicious, but not a peep to us or the multitude of other women he’s insulted day after day after day? just ‘middle finger to you, it’s your fault for making poor lex angry’ after the storm? charming.
Let’s be fair here. LexG provides some sort of life to this blog, whether it be offensive/nutty or not. I’m not a fan, but he’s provided a nice test of the limits of free speech constantly, and DP has taken a middle of the road approach to a very weird situation/poster….god knows what we’d do with this guy if he showed up on the-numbers, I would hope something similar.
As a mostly gay, in his 20s film student, I think his rants are frequently idiotic, yet they also reflect more of the sad truth of the human condition today more than…well…almost anything. I’m not offended by his homophobic/sexist remarks, not because they’re frequently hilarious, but because it’s a GODAMN BLOG. Grow the hell up people…there’s no reason to feel personally insulted because this isn’t life…at least I hope not. On the other hand, a poster who constantly takes over threads should be banned…whether he’s talking about his or her personal love for Adolf Hitler or Garbanzo Beans because it interrupts the intent of the thread. Those are the rules of blogs on the internet. In this case Lex broke the rules, and knew so going in, judging by his first threat post.
Also, this doesnt mean I don’t think you ladies aren’t invaluable contributors here….cuz you are..and aren’t hens.
And I have to agree with leah on one point here. DP…look in the mirror. You’ve CREATED THREADS ON YOUR OWN MOTHERF**KING BLOG WITH LEXG IN THE TITLE. THAT’S WHAT I CALL CONTRIBUTING TO LEXG’S BEHAVIOR. If you can’t see that then you have a serious issue, and don’t have any write to call out people on this blog for “enabling” LexG. It’s the equivalent (in this blog) of Obama naming Alan Grayson, the batshit insane Congressman from Florida, for a piece of legislation, and then berating members of the House for standing by him.
any right**
Need to work on Homophone use…
uh ethan, that felt rather patronising. just because YOU aren’t offended by something doesn’t mean it’s not offensive or that the offended party must be overreacting.
for one thing, you aren’t female so you haven’t been the target gender of lex’s derision for lo these long years, so of course you’re not offended (and yes, this is a blog, what does that have to do with it? people are only allowed to react to abuse in ‘real life’? sorry to be the one to point this out, but real people are typing the shit on here)
lex’s homophobia is a drop in the bucket compared to his misogyny, so if and when lex abuses gay people to the extent that he has put women down here, then you can express a valid opinion on taking offence with his sexism.
and ftr, anyone who wants to tell me i haven’t been endlessly silent on and forgiving of lex’s rather pathetic woman issues, that i’ve been too sensitive or taken undue offence at his misogyny, have at it and good luck with that
So Leahnz… If I owe to having sexual fantasies about you… Does that make me sexist? Theoretically speaking, of course.
Interestingly enough, I came to the site to learn a thing or two about film, and to interact with persons who are employed in the industry and talk about film. The sidebars like Roman Polanski, religion, politics, personalities and so forth, have been all great. I’ve also learned a thing or two from Lex, but I have to agree with leahnz. At what mark does he cross the line between free speech and hate speech? Is everything okay if it’s done for comedic effect? And its not some odd off color remark, its a constant barrage of bullshit. There are porn blogs for that. Lexg revels in his hi jinks and hijacks of this blog, and as a irregular commentator, having to scroll down past numerous rantings of VAG & BONER & FAG and all that shit was a bit much. I’m sure he’s reveling in this post right now.
I’m a black guy from the Caribbean, with a penchant for off color humor, and I never saw him call anybody nigger, but that doesn’t mean that I wasn’t offended when it seemed that he got personal with others. None of us here are saints, but some due respect to each other should be expected, with a little goodhearted ribbing.
I never rejoice when Lexg is banned. I just wish he would stop his shit.
Well, apparently I missed out on some juicy tidbits. Joe, Did Lex expose all of my secrets? All of my secret-identity-having, being-gay, blowing-Big Perm, hipster douchebag closet reactionary humorless wormy secrets?
Seriously, all Lex ever needed to do to be excused forever and permanently was BE FUNNY. Instead the humor gradually drained away as he realized he could get away more and more with using this place as his secret emotional dumping ground that people in his ‘real life’ couldn’t find out about.
uh…well, joe, while i know you’re just joking around, if such a thing were to actually occur i think it would make you SEXY rather than sexist
(and ftr re: lex, i’ve never personally called for him to be banned, but he needs to learn that if he is going to play the provocateur and act like an ass and a bully and call people names, that people have every right to throw it right back in his face without lex then playing the victim, packing a sad like a toddler and melting down like chernobyl)
Bulldog: No one in his right mind would drop the N-bomb with you around. Seriously. Even if they might have a mind to, they would, to quote David Bowie, close the blinds and change their minds.
jeff, most of lex’s pyroclastic flow went JBD’s way, but from what i recall the rest of us got called ugly, lame, retarded, old, poorly dressed, spastic, the usual suspects (there was even a list)
Leahnz: From your postings, it’s obvious that you’re smart and witty, and you know a lot about movies. Therefore, it’s a given that you must be the object of sexual fantasies. But, of course, we’re speaking theoretically, you understand.
i’m flattered you think so, joe…i was gonna say something naughty but i’ll be prim and proper and just thank you for the compliment
Damn. I feel like Harvey Keitel in The Piano.
naked? (hopefully not wielding an axe!)
wait, sam was the axe-wielding finger chopper, sorry. duh
Well, maybe naked. But no axe. Honest.
Ethan, until Lex personally singles out you and calls you a queen and “too gay” (whatever the fuck that means) for no reason then I wouldn’t expect you to care one little bit. But, you’re bit about this being a blog and we shouldn’t care? Yeah, exactly IT’S A BLOG! I though I had left high school, ya know. I shouldn’t have to come on to a website run by a perfectly mature adult such as Dave Poland and find myself being the subject of gay taunts. Seriously.
And I can’t even begin to fathom what Leah and Lota feel (and any other women around here who aren’t so vocal).
I’m glad Leah chimed in about the “being our fault” thing. Yes, it’s our fault that we have the gall to visit this place and be subjected to insults and attacks for no reason other than Lex was bored or drunk or whatever. It’s a crazy world if people think that shit is normal and should just be tolerated.
Joe, Leah sure as hell ain’t no mute (and for that we should be thankful!)