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#1831 Re: The Sunset Strip » The BATMAN Thread » 914 weeks ago
I was reading an article about the new Batman film in this months empire magazine. It does a comparison between all the different versions of Joker there have been. I didn't realise but it says Nicholson was on the fence about playing Joker and only agreed if he could take a percentage of the films gross, I forget the percentage he asked for, but because the film was so successful and made so much it means Jack Nicholson's Joker is technically the highest paid role there's been in movie history.
This new film looks awesome I can't wait for it's release.
Have they agreed to do anymore Batman films after this or they taking them one film at a time?
#1832 Re: The Garden » The Wrestling thread » 914 weeks ago
I thought Magnum TA was wheelchair bound?
#1833 Re: The Sunset Strip » ‘It was time to grow up,’ Lohan says of new life » 915 weeks ago
How annoyed must Slash's friend be? I bet they thought they were nailed on to get the tickets, only to be beaten by a friend of Linsey Lohans...gutting.
#1834 Re: Guns N' Roses » Remember this document? » 915 weeks ago
Axl was reported to be in a studio in Vegas at some time in Jan from numerous sources. The album was said to have been 'finished' in Jan/Feb so that part of the statement they did keep to. It just seems from then on things have gone tits up in a way they only do for GNR. Forgetting all other delays we've had on the album and just focusing on the last year, it's absoloutley baffling to me how you can set a release date of March 6th, tentative or otherwise, and miss it by what surely now will be over a year.
If we are delayed for unseen reasons you will also be notified as soon as possible in regard to a new date and the album will be released as shortly thereafter as is possible. We thank you for your patience.
A years worth of unseen reasons? Sceptical, I think is the best way to describe my thoughts on that.
In the end it's just an album and one that I, the band, our record company and all involved believe and feel is a true Guns N' Roses album. Ultimately the public will decide and regardless of the outcome our hearts, lives and our passion has been put into this project every step of the way. If for no other reason we feel those elements alone merit your consideration. We do hope you can hold on just a bit longer and if not we hope you would please feel free to take a break and we'll be more than glad (if you so choose) to see you again later.
Someone brought up a good point the other week about this part of the statement. Why advise fans to take a break in waiting for the album if it was, at that point, less than 3 months away? Some people have waited 14 years for this album, yet they couldn't manage another 3 months?
Eerily similar to this statement from Axl back in 02 really isn't it?
It feels right, the timing, and a lot of things. We've sorted it down to what songs are on the record. What the sequence of the songs is. The album cover art is ready. Blah, blah, blah. If you're waiting...don't. Live your life. That's your responsibility not mine. If it were not to happen you won't have missed a thing. If in fact it does you might get something that works for you, in the end you could win on this either way. But if you're really into waiting try holding your breath for Jesus cause I hear the payoff may be that much greater.
That's twice in 5 years Axl has said the album's ready to go and then followed up by saying 'but don't hold your breath or bother waiting for it'. In hindsight great advice, although given the context still very bizzare, it was either ready or it wasn't, you don't warn people not to hold their breath or take a break from something that's coming imminently, it doesn't make any sense.
#1835 Re: The Garden » Anyone with a surname relating to any of these ? any spelling. » 915 weeks ago
Well there's nothing there that resembles my name, although I do have a friend called A return to index so he might be interested in this.
#1836 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 915 weeks ago
Seeing as Dizzy is planning on touring in early 08, my guess of touring is already wrong as the question was the first few months of 08
Not necessarily, that's not to say GNR will tour but Dizzy dates don't mean anything, he'll cancel those at the drop of a hat if Axl gives him the call. What it does mean is that of this moment there aren't plans to tour in early 08. That doesn't concern me too much though, a tour can be, and should be set up after the albums release has been finalised and set in stone. It's not necessary to be on a full tour when the album drops, a few dates here and there at key venues around the release for promotional purposes is enough, then kick off the world tour once the albums been out a month or two and there's a second or third single on the radio. That way demand for the band can be gauged and the appropriate sized venues booked.
#1837 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 915 weeks ago
They are not a stadium band in the US...don't know what country you live in ...they are a typical arena rock act.
I'm in the UK and the last shows they did here were sell out shows at the Milton Keynes bowl, the same venue GNR played at in 93. It holds approx. 70,000 people. I assumed the rest of their tour was on a similar scale (I know they finished the tour in Australia at a similar sort of venue). I must have mis judged their popularity in the U.S.
#1838 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 915 weeks ago
They could rival Green Day easy with a good album out...only a reunion could come close to matching U2 at this point.
It's possible, Green Day only cemented themselves as a stadium band with American Idiot, if CD's good enough they could rival Green Day in terms of tour scale but it's still far from a given.
#1839 Re: Guns N' Roses » Yes it's a what will GNR do poll ...humor me LOL » 915 weeks ago
If they tour without an album it'll have to be in South America, it's the only large market left to them that they haven't visited.
James, even with an album out it's unlikely GNR could tour the US on the same scale that most of those acts you listed will. In terms of tours they don't get bigger than U2, Stones, Greenday and potentially Led Zep, GNR have to set their sights lower than that. Whilst it'd be great if it happened, it's a big assumption to think CD could put GNR on a tour that would rival U2 or Greenday. Whenever CD gets released their aim should be filling those arenas that had thousands of spare seats in 06, if they can do that then maybe they should look at booking a stadium or two, but lets not run before we can walk 
#1840 Re: The Garden » Black Knight » 915 weeks ago
Pretty interesting. I've never heard of this before although I have heard the theory that man was technologically very advanced thousands of years ago. People have pointed to things like the egyptian pyramids to support this theory. It leaves a very big question though if you accept that we could go to space thousands of years ago, what happened in the period in between? Civilizations thousands of years ago were sending satellites into space yet the technology to do so was only developed in the last 50 or so years. How did we forget to do that? What happened to humanity to put us back to the stone age in terms of knowledge when we could supposedly fly into space thousands of years ago?
What's more likely, the satellite was sent by man thousands of years ago or the satellite was from another planet entirely?
