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2010/01/27 14:09:26
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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lt's Friday night and the residents of Spokane are consumed with the thoughts of the local high school football game. The Wolverines just lost a nail biter and the team's quarterback Matt Eckert is trying to shake off the tough loss. Adding to Matt's worries is the sudden and unexpected return of his older brother Jed (played by Chris Hemsworth, STAR TREK). After their mom died, Jed left town with no warning and enlisted in the military. Now Jed is home unexpectedly after serving in Afghanistan and the brothers' relationship is strained at best. After some encouraging words from his dad and his girlfriend Erica, Matt heads home to sleep off his loss. The next morning Matt is startled awake as their whole house shakes violently. Running outside, Matt and Jed find the sky filled with parachutes and the streets lined with military vehicles. For the first time in history, the United States is being occupied by foreign armies. The invaders are calling themselves the "People's Liberation Army" and they easily outnumber the citizens of Spokane. Matt and Jed's worst nightmares are actualized as missiles scream into nearby houses, rocking them with explosions. On the once quiet streets of their neighborhood, U.S. citizens are being rounded up and taken prisoner. Suddenly, with horror, Matt realizes that the foreign invaders have captured his father and his girlfriend Erica. Matt screams out to them, vowing to save them as Jed drags his brother away to safety.
With the town completely overrun by the enemy, Matt and Jed watch helplessly as their father gives up his life to protect his family, allowing his sons to escape into the Cascade mountains. Determined to fight for their community and rescue what's left of their hometown, the brothers assemble a ragtag group of high school students and begin to fight back. Being a war hero, Jed is able to train this unlikely group of heroes the same way that he was trained. Soon they are transformed into sharp shooting, camouflaged, freedom fighters. Known as the "Wolverines" (after Matt's football team), the group soon becomes a national symbol for the resistance and the hope of Americans everywhere. What this enemy didn't realize is that what makes the U.S. great is not the size of its military, but rather the men and women who wear the uniform and the communities they come from.
With the help of an underground network of scared but brave townspeople, the Wolverines quickly go from a minor nuisance to serious threat as they begin to batter away at the invaders. Using their superior knowledge of the landscape that they grew up around gives them a strategic advantage. The foreign invaders want to destroy the American way of life but the Wolverines aren't going to let that happen.
Meanwhile, Matt is searching tirelessly for his girlfriend Erica who is being held prisoner by the invaders. He will stop at nothing to rescue the girl he loves even if it means risking his life to do so. With the fate of the country on the shoulders of these small town heroes, the Wolverines must summon the courage to overcome impossible odds and unity a town against the greatest threat this country ever faced. Outnumbered and with limited supplies, the Wolverines must rely on the spirit instilled in every small town across the U.S... protect your neighbor at all costs, because even though they aren't your blood, they're still your family. RED DAWN will show you that when this country is in its darkest hour, salvation can be found where we least expect
I hope they keep the deer blood drinking scene. And I hope China doesn't get too pissed, they will want thier money back.
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And whilst you're pointing and shouting at the boogeyman in the corner, you're missing the burglar coming in through the window.
Well, Duh! Because they had a giant Mining ship. If you had a giant mining ship you would drill holes in everything too, before you'd destory it with a black hole |
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2010/01/27 14:11:01
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Killer Klaivex
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So this is basically another anti-communist wankfest?
Please, the Cold War ended ages ago.
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People are like dice, a certain Frenchman said that. You throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing. People are free because they can do that. Everyone's circumstances are different, but no matter how small the choice, at the very least, you can throw yourself. It's not chance or fate. It's the choice you made. |
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2010/01/27 14:11:56
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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[SWAP SHOP MOD]
Yvan eht nioj
In my Austin Ambassador Y Reg
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I'm guessing from that synopsis that China is to replace USSR as the antagonist?
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2010/01/27 14:17:21
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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filbert wrote:I'm guessing from that synopsis that China is to replace USSR as the antagonist?
Tsk, Google has a lot to answer for...
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2010/01/27 14:19:57
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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... and then the Chinese use their nuclear stockpile to lay waste to the Cascade mountains...
Or
... and then the Chinese use their 870bn troops to comb the mountain ranges and capture the Wolverines, shooting them in the backs of the head and laying them in unmarked graves before continuing on with their occupation of Americatown (as the Chinese now call America  )...
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2010/01/27 14:37:11
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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Inexperienced VF-1A Valkyrie Brownie
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I hope they at least make the reason for the attack logical. Probably too much to hope for.
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2010/01/27 14:37:22
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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I thought you were joking. You weren't joking.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1234719/
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/01/27 14:43:51
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Inexperienced VF-1A Valkyrie Brownie
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2010/01/27 14:46:52
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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[SWAP SHOP MOD]
Yvan eht nioj
In my Austin Ambassador Y Reg
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Hollywood sure seems to be going through a 'lets reboot every 70's / 80's movie we can' phase at the moment.
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2010/01/27 14:49:35
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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efarrer wrote:
Soylent Green as well.
Thats two movies I won't be watching remakes of.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/01/27 14:51:02
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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[DCM]
Coastal Bliss in the Shadow of Sizewell
Suffolk, where the Aliens roam.
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I heard 'The Warriors' was getting remade as well, but set in LA. o.O
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"That's not an Ork, its a girl.." - Last words of High General Daran Ul'tharem, battle of Ursha VII.
Two White Horses (Ipswich Town and Denver Broncos Supporter)
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2010/01/27 15:00:05
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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efarrer wrote:I hope they at least make the reason for the attack logical. Probably too much to hope for.
I hope they make it as ridiculous and illogical as the last time. I mean, you've got the Chinese firing missiles into homes in some podunk town as part of a first strike on the US, nothing could explain that so it's best to not bother. It's basically a fantasy for teenagers about fighting for your home town and for AMERICA!!! and being a big damn hero. Honestly the exposition that's there with the argument the night before sounds like too much talking crap for a film like this.
My big hope is they keep the elements that undercut the fantasy, have the sympathetic captive soldier that had no choice in being sent here, and in the final (failed) the protagonist should end slumped on the ground, slowly bleedinf out.
I'm never going to say Red Dawn was a good movie, but I loved the hell out of it as a kid and even now I can see how that film was exactly what it needed to be. If the new film hits the same marks it could be enjoyable.
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2010/01/27 15:14:19
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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Alluring Sorcerer of Slaanesh
Union, Kentucky United States
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I announce a war against those who would dare defile the name of 'WOLVERINES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Listen, my children, as I pass onto you the truth behind Willy Wonka and his factory. For every wonka bar ever created in existance, Mr. Wonka sacraficed a single Oompa Loompa to the god of chocolate, Hearshys. Then, he drank the blood of the fallen orange men because he fed them a constant supply of sugary chocolate so they all became diabetic and had creamy, sweet-tasting blood that willy could put into each and every Wonka bar. That is the REAL story behind willy wonka's Slaughter House! |
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2010/01/27 15:18:50
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Oh dear. You can tell there is a recession on when Hollywood switches to recycling toot.
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2010/01/27 15:21:10
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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The Dread Evil Lord Varlak
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Oh dear. You can tell there is a recession on when Hollywood switches to recycling toot.
So you're saying the recession has been going for about a hundred years then?
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“We may observe that the government in a civilized country is much more expensive than in a barbarous one; and when we say that one government is more expensive than another, it is the same as if we said that that one country is farther advanced in improvement than another. To say that the government is expensive and the people not oppressed is to say that the people are rich.”
Adam Smith, who must have been some kind of leftie or something. |
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2010/01/27 15:23:06
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Alluring Sorcerer of Slaanesh
Union, Kentucky United States
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Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Oh dear. You can tell there is a recession on when Hollywood switches to recycling toot.
good sir though I humblely respect your opinon I know you are not refearing to RED DAWN as "TOOT". This is the greatest movie of my generation with a cult following that has spanned many decades.
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Listen, my children, as I pass onto you the truth behind Willy Wonka and his factory. For every wonka bar ever created in existance, Mr. Wonka sacraficed a single Oompa Loompa to the god of chocolate, Hearshys. Then, he drank the blood of the fallen orange men because he fed them a constant supply of sugary chocolate so they all became diabetic and had creamy, sweet-tasting blood that willy could put into each and every Wonka bar. That is the REAL story behind willy wonka's Slaughter House! |
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2010/01/27 15:24:38
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Ridin' on a Snotling Pump Wagon
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Erm....I never heard of Red Dawn before this thread. Many apologies if I have inadvertantly offended anyone.
Not a fan personally of the whole anti-communist propaganda machine.
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2010/01/27 15:27:00
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Avatar of the Bloody-Handed God
Inside your mind, corrupting the pathways
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I would love to see a British version of this film.
Fighting off the French with cricket bats, cucumber sandwiches and personal hygiene products 
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2010/01/27 15:31:23
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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SilverMK2 wrote:I would love to see a British version of this film.
Fighting off the French with cricket bats, cucumber sandwiches and personal hygiene products
Wait that wasn't Shaun of the Dead?
Seriously youcouldn't have a movie here
- French army appears
- MDG puts dons a kilt, grabs a cricket bat
- French army throws rifles to ground and runs away
- end movie
borinnnnggg!
(I know I know, don't make fun of France...)
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/01/27 15:35:12
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Inexperienced VF-1A Valkyrie Brownie
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Empchild wrote:Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:Oh dear. You can tell there is a recession on when Hollywood switches to recycling toot.
good sir though I humblely respect your opinon I know you are not refearing to RED DAWN as "TOOT". This is the greatest movie of my generation with a cult following that has spanned many decades.
You mean the Breakfast Club had an alternate name.
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2010/01/27 15:43:01
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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Alluring Sorcerer of Slaanesh
Union, Kentucky United States
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Every actor from red dawn at one point or another did work with each other again. Side note the breakfast club / home alone were filmed in my home town 
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Listen, my children, as I pass onto you the truth behind Willy Wonka and his factory. For every wonka bar ever created in existance, Mr. Wonka sacraficed a single Oompa Loompa to the god of chocolate, Hearshys. Then, he drank the blood of the fallen orange men because he fed them a constant supply of sugary chocolate so they all became diabetic and had creamy, sweet-tasting blood that willy could put into each and every Wonka bar. That is the REAL story behind willy wonka's Slaughter House! |
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2010/01/27 15:45:10
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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Inexperienced VF-1A Valkyrie Brownie
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Empchild wrote:Every actor from red dawn at one point or another did work with each other again. Side note the breakfast club / home alone were filmed in my home town
Many good actors have appeared in bad films and then worked with each other again.
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2010/01/27 16:18:41
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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I always find it amusing when people act as if this is the first time Hollywood has had a bout of remake syndrome. It really isn't any better or worse than it has ever been. They remake movies and books all the time. The greatest bulk of ticket sales are teenagers and young adults, many of whom weren't even alive when the original came out on this and most of the others.
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2010/01/27 16:38:32
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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Fireknife Shas'el
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WOLVERINES!
I'm sure it was already mentioned in the thread, but it had to be done.
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2010/01/27 16:44:41
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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No need to remake this film IMO.
I saw the first one when it came out as a wee lad, and was absolutley blown away. I thought it rocked.
But when I got older I realized how preposterous the plot was and I can't really enjoy it now.
There is no way a foreign army like the USSR or China could get anywhere near our defense systems to drop parachutes. It's laughable.
GG
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2010/01/27 16:48:57
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Fixture of Dakka
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efarrer wrote:Soylent Green as well.
Is someone working through Charlton Hestons back catalogue, and pissing on it? Planet of the Apes... Omega man...
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2010/01/27 16:54:57
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Hangin' with Gork & Mork
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George Spiggott wrote:efarrer wrote:Soylent Green as well.
Is someone working through Charlton Hestons back catalogue, and pissing on it? Planet of the Apes... Omega man...
You know Omega Man was a remake of "The Last Man on Earth" which was based off the novella "I Am Legend" right?
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Amidst the mists and coldest frosts he thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.
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2010/01/27 17:14:59
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Fixture of Dakka
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I didn't know it was a remake of another film.
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2010/01/28 19:42:13
Subject: Re:Red Dawn remake!
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5th God of Chaos! (Yea'rly!)
The Great State of Texas
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Found this.
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-"Wait a minute.....who is that Frazz is talking to in the gallery? Hmmm something is going on here.....Oh.... it seems there is some dispute over video taping of some sort......Frazz is really upset now..........wait a minute......whats he go there.......is it? Can it be?....Frazz has just unleashed his hidden weiner dog from his mini bag, while quoting shakespeares "Let slip the dogs the war!!" GG
-"Don't mind Frazzled. He's just Dakka's crazy old dude locked in the attic. He's harmless. Mostly."
-TBone the Magnificent 1999-2014, Long Live the King!
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2010/01/28 19:45:30
Subject: Red Dawn remake!
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Preacher of the Emperor
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Can anyone spot the big gun safety no no?
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mattyrm wrote: I will bro fist a toilet cleaner.
I will chainfist a pretentious English literature student who wears a beret. 
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