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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 04:58:17 AM

Title: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 04:58:17 AM
Recap:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2g5KyQvoTHQ

As for the new chapter in Shalitsaga, the AV Clug said it better than I could:  Gene Shalit thinks Taken is a documentary.

Video and article at the link:

http://www.avclub.com/articles/gene-shalit-thinks-taken-is-a-documentary,23399/
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Mandark on February 05, 2009, 05:28:50 AM
Shalit strikes me as this weird anachronism, who should have been doing guest spots on Match Game and the original Hollywood Squares.  I know he's been around a while, but still.



...wait, check that.  He's almost 83, which is crazy.  He's older than Charles Nelson Reilly, and that guy's dead.



...double-reverse undo check that.  Wikipedia says he's almost 77, which is still damn old, but younger than the imdb number.  Which unreliable web source do I believe?
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: border on February 05, 2009, 09:33:39 AM
Taken was pretty awesome (especially considering the PG-13 rating).  Neeson must've punched at least 15 guys in the throat.  Good times.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 05, 2009, 09:37:28 AM
yeah, it's even more awesome when not cut down by the fucking losers at Fox
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 05, 2009, 09:38:58 AM
"Cheer the undead army's affirmative action!"

 :lol
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Joe Molotov on February 05, 2009, 04:33:45 PM
"Frighting. That's hard to watch at all."

Are they talking about the movie, or Gene Shalit's mustache?
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 05, 2009, 06:08:54 PM
Gene Shalit is a national treasure.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 06:11:10 PM
Gene Shalit is a national treasure.

They should give him his own nightly show on one of the 24 hour cable networks.  I bet if you put a camera n him for an hour, he'd come up with the most entertaining shit ever.  And if he ever got boring, the camera could just zoom in on his mustache for 20 minutes or so..
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: The Fake Shemp on February 05, 2009, 06:15:00 PM
TVC, I think you've given me the material I need for my first blog post.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Barry Egan on February 05, 2009, 06:21:13 PM
Gene Shalit is a national treasure.

They should give him his own nightly show on one of the 24 hour cable networks.  I bet if you put a camera n him for an hour, he'd come up with the most entertaining shit ever.  And if he ever got boring, the camera could just zoom in on his mustache for 20 minutes or so..

This is such an amazing idea.  I'd be especially keen to having him talk us through the creation of his artistic set designs, Bob Ross style. 
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 06:33:49 PM
Also, if he dies, he can easily be replaced with a muppet lookalike and nobody would notice.

Bizzare fro and mustache aside, he really doesn't look bad for 82.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 05, 2009, 06:36:46 PM
can anyone confirmed Mummy 3>Indy 4? I like the first Mummy, second was meh. Doesn't seem hard to be better than Indy 4
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 06:37:45 PM
can anyone confirmed Mummy 3>Indy 4? I like the first Mummy, second was meh. Doesn't seem hard to be better than Indy 4

I think Prole saw both.  I'll try to get his opinion. 
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 05, 2009, 06:38:15 PM
in that youtube still, he looks like he's stalking a deer in the forest, preparing to pounce and feast

or about to whip out some ballstomp on a drunk talking shit at a bar - he would call that devastating martial arts maneuver "Simple Chronic Shalitosis"
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Mandark on February 05, 2009, 06:38:44 PM
I think that's actually a good look for someone his age.

Giant fro + giant mustache + giant glasses = less area of uncovered oldman skin + very distracting visuals.

I know how I'm dressing in 40 years.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 06:39:37 PM
in that youtube still, he looks like he's stalking a deer in the forest, preparing to pounce and feast

or about to whip out some ballstomp on a drunk talking shit at a bar - he would call that devastating martial arts maneuver "Simple Chronic Shalitosis"

In the AV Club comments somebody said that in this picture,

(http://www.avclub.com/assets/images/articles/article/23399/shalitastic_jpg_300x1000_q85.jpg),

it looks like he just smelled his own fart.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Eel O'Brian on February 05, 2009, 06:40:11 PM
i would use him as a character in SFIV
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 05, 2009, 06:43:21 PM
that fucker's 82?!?
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 06:46:46 PM
Oops, 77, I missed Mandark's edit up there.  Still, he looks very good for 77.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TakingBackSunday on February 05, 2009, 06:52:40 PM
that fucker's 77?!?!
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: TVC15 on February 05, 2009, 06:55:00 PM
According to wiki, his son is gay.  I'm not sure if I'd date a dude if I knew he'd grow up to look like that.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Cheebs on February 05, 2009, 06:56:31 PM
wtf. Somehow Leonard Nimoy makes Gene Shalit seem halfway normal by comparison in this interview, he has to be drunk or something:
[youtube=560,345]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLUpFvcNuPU[/youtube]
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Great Rumbler on February 05, 2009, 10:19:07 PM
wtf. Somehow Leonard Nimoy makes Gene Shalit seem halfway normal by comparison in this interview, he has to be drunk or something:
[youtube=560,345]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLUpFvcNuPU[/youtube]

He sounds more sarcastic than drunk, although he might possibly be both.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: chronovore on February 06, 2009, 12:52:34 AM
Mummy 2 was better than Indy 4, so it's probably a safe bet that Mummy 3 is better.
Title: Re: Gene Shalit has done it again.
Post by: Cheebs on February 06, 2009, 02:07:12 AM
Mummy 3 looked terrible seeing how the trailer has Fraiser going "Here we go....AGAIN!". Sequels should never have that line, ever.