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Touch of Evil is great -- very artfully made (fantastic framing, mise en scene, lighting, editing, and sound design -- Orson Welles was after all the same guy who, a generation earlier, had made Citizen Kane) but also very pulpy so that even if you don't know (or care) a thing about technical filmcraft you can still appreciate it as straightforward entertainment (as opposed to something like Mr. Arkaddin, which you pretty much have to be a movie-nut to get anything other than boredom and confusion out of). Touch of Evil is often described as "the greatest b-movie ever made," and with good reason.

AWJ wrote:

Semaj Khan wrote:Sad thing is: I know many liberals will be celebrating his death because he was a big deal in the NRA.

Projecting much? There's a helluva difference between disagreeing with (some of) an individual's politics and celebrating their death.

I think you misunderstand me, and that's my fault since I left a word out of my OP. It should have read "I know many liberals who will be celebrating..."

And I do.

That was my fault, so forgive me. However, I suspect there will be a lot of liberals I don't know who will be doing the same thing... not because they're liberals, but because they're petty trash. Rosie O'Donnell is the first to spring to my mind.

I have experienced in person the rantings of some who hold that anyone who advocates private ownership of firearms is, by (their) definition, violently insane and should be institutionalized.


Don't underestimate the fanatics.