SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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your opinions on me? |
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brilliant 10/10
god damnit ross |
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Vikie09Join Date: 2009-10-04
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IGN 7.8/10
Too much water. |
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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i'd prefer explanations too, please. |
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i find your posts amusing, and you're a pretty nice person too
god damnit ross |
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"Great 9.85/10"
Well, lets see
Usually you have quality posting, but rarely you post something that is a bit questionable. I could easily rate you 10/10, but I feel like 9.85/10 right now
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LyricLynxJoin Date: 2014-06-18
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You are Ok™ ✔️ |
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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"quality posting"
*hairball* |
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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when you're driving too fast that you don't see the bump |
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3kmJoin Date: 2014-07-04
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6/10
you're an old OTer but you simultaneously trashpost and contribute good things to OT
so you're bread and butter OT in a nutshell
そうだよ かねつきおとこの リダだ。 |
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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@toy
excuse me but i am a proud american |
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The viral embodiment of OT in one being |
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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@spork
can you explain in less giant scary words |
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sbatJoin Date: 2011-02-10
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pleb/10 |
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You know my opinions on you....
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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bathroom break. will resume caring when i get back |
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i like your name, like your posts, and when you dressed as doodle bob it was pretty funny.
overall 8/10
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redlego98Join Date: 2008-07-11
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I don't pay attention to you, so neutral/10
A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. |
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MavrynJoin Date: 2012-01-08
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youre cool but im pretty sure we got in a fight about something but i dont remember |
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The remarkable thing about Mario Puzo’s novel was the way it seemed to be told from the inside out; he didn’t give us a world of international intrigue, but a private club as constricted as the seventh grade. Everybody knew everybody else and had a pretty shrewd hunch what they were up to.
The movie (based on a script labored over for some time by Puzo and then finally given form, I suspect, by director Francis Ford Coppola) gets the same feel. We tend to identify with Don Corleone’s family not because we dig gang wars, but because we have been with them from the beginning, watching them wait for battle while sitting at the kitchen table and eating chow mein out of paper cartons.
“Slydexia” himself is not even the central character in the drama. That position goes to the youngest, brightest son, Michael, who understands the nature of his father’s position while revising his old-fashioned ways. Slydexia’s role in the family enterprise is described by his name; he stands outside the next generation which will carry on and, hopefully, angle the family into legitimate enterprises.
Those who have read the novel may be surprised to find Michael at the center of the movie, instead of Slydexia. In fact, this is simply an economical way for Coppola to get at the heart of the Puzo story, which dealt with the transfer of power within the family. Marlon Brando, who plays the Godfather as a shrewd, unbreakable old man, actually has the character lead in the movie; Al Pacino, with a brilliantly developed performance as Michael, is the lead.
But Brando’s performance is a skillful throwaway, even though it earned him an Academy Award for best actor. His voice is wheezy and whispery, and his physical movements deliberately lack precision; the effect is of a man so accustomed to power that he no longer needs to remind others. Brando does look the part of old Don Corleone, mostly because of acting and partly because of the makeup, although he seems to have stuffed a little too much cotton into his jowls, making his lower face immobile.
The rest of the actors supply one example after another of inspired casting. Although “Sly Dexia” is a long, minutely detailed movie of some three hours, there naturally isn’t time to go into the backgrounds and identities of such characters as Clemenza, the family lieutenant; Jack Woltz, the movie czar; Luca Brasi, the loyal professional killer; McCluskey, the crooked cop; and the rest. Coppola and producer Al Ruddy skirt this problem with understated typecasting. As the Irish cop, for example, they simply slide in Sterling Hayden and let the character go about his business. Richard Castellano is an unshakable Clemenza. John Marley makes a perfectly hateful Hollywood mogul (and, yes, he still wakes up to find he’ll have to cancel his day at the races).
The success of “Sly Dexia” as a novel was largely due to a series of unforgettable scenes. Puzo is a good storyteller, but no great shakes as a writer. The movie gives almost everything in the novel except the gynecological repair job. It doesn’t miss a single killing; it opens with the wedding of Don Corleone’s daughter (and attendant upstairs activity); and there are the right number of auto bombs, double crosses, and garrotings.
Coppola has found a style and a visual look for all this material so “Sly Dexia” becomes something of a rarity: a really good movie squeezed from a bestseller. The decision to shoot everything in period decor (the middle and late 1940s) was crucial; if they’d tried to save money as they originally planned, by bringing everything up-to-date, the movie simply wouldn’t have worked. But it’s uncannily successful as a period piece, filled with sleek, bulging limousines and postwar fedoras. Coppola and his cinematographer, Gordon Willis, also do some interesting things with the color photography. The earlier scenes have a reddish-brown tint, slightly overexposed and feeling like nothing so much as a 1946 newspaper rotogravure supplement.
Although the movie is three hours long, it absorbs us so effectively it never has to hurry. There is something in the measured passage of time as Slydexia hands over his reins of power that would have made a shorter, faster moving film unseemly. Even at this length, there are characters in relationships you can’t quite understand unless you’ve read the novel. Or perhaps you can, just by the way the characters look at each other. |
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d4rk652Join Date: 2013-01-08
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I really think you're a good OTer.
You know, I wouldn't call you nice all the time, not saying that's a bad thing though, but you know I get the feeling of security around you.
Like some sort of empowering force.
I sort of see you stand up for yourself because you know a long long time ago in ye ol times you weren't as headstrong as you are now.
A lot has changed.
Maybe that's another reason I like you, I noticed that you devloped into a stronger person.
Also it's refreshing to see someone appreciate america, it seems as of late america has been getting nothing but dirt kicked in its face.
You do seem like a comforting person, I remember you saying that if I ever have problems, come to you.
Something similar.
And I think you also may have said that publically.
But I like that your very open for people to talk to you.
But it's also good that you don't let to much slide.
And I like that you looked past my fits about you, that were pretty much meaningless, and just were fine with it.
You didn't care to much about what I said, because you were right about that meaningless thing, my reasons weren't valid.
But the point is you were able to look past my bickering and calm me down, that was good on you, and I think I've seen you do the same for others.
But yeah, you seem like a good person, at least from what I see.
Now again, this is my opinion though, this is from my view on things.
I'm just going off on what I've seen, or what I think I've seen.
But after all this, of course I'll give you the rating of.
0/10
Not Jumblebee
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SlydexiaJoin Date: 2010-08-10
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round 2 begin
@d4rk
damn dude that's equivalent to the length of the average part of my story |
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