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Orpheus
 Post subject: Why Americans don't play super heroes
PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:12 am 
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I've been talking about this for a while and someone finally wrote an article about it. I found it pretty interesting:

http://tinyurl.com/6x7psmg

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 12:38 pm 
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basiclly the article says:
America is filled with pansy boys and that is why they don't have any actors in their 20's or 30's who can play manly man roles in movies.........

I don't know about that. It seems a pretty big slippery slope :?
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That article is unbelievably stupid.

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To be honest it makes a nice change from nearly every single action film having an English baddie.

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Iron Man
Spider Man
original Superman
All those Batman movies
Incredible Hulk

yeah, no American superheros. Those were just the ones off the top of my head.

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Alex wrote:
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I counter that with this manly photo:
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is that backpack baby blue?

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E.H. Ruddock wrote:
is that backpack baby blue?

i'd say robins egg.

but i'm assuming there's an inside joke afoot.

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EllisEamos wrote:
E.H. Ruddock wrote:
is that backpack baby blue?

i'd say robins egg.

but i'm assuming there's an inside joke afoot.

oh. well regardless of whether it's baby blue or robins egg, it adds to the manliness of the photo.

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i'm appalled that val kilmer hasn't been brought up in this dialogue

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Alex wrote:
i'm appalled that val kilmer hasn't been brought up in this dialogue

I can't count how many RM threads I've almost posted these exacat words.

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Alex wrote:
i'm appalled that val kilmer hasn't been brought up in this dialogue

I did say "all those Batman movies".

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durdencommatyler wrote:
Alex wrote:
i'm appalled that val kilmer hasn't been brought up in this dialogue

I can't count how many RM threads I've almost posted these exacat words.



Damn, this was gonna be a great post and then a typo ruined it. What a shame.
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http://exacat.com/

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Patrick Bateman wrote:
durdencommatyler wrote:
Alex wrote:
i'm appalled that val kilmer hasn't been brought up in this dialogue

I can't count how many RM threads I've almost posted these exacat words.



Damn, this was gonna be a great post and then a typo ruined it. What a shame.

I still think it's funney.

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michael chiklis in the fantastic four

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will smith in that movie about the american revolution

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