Spam, or Society Events, or something.

Pugwash

Three Time Oscar Winning Director Oliver Stone is set to visit Trinity's
University Philosophical Society. Stone will be the first guest in the
322nd session of The Phil.

Mr. Stone will be speaking at the Society on Saturday September 30th at 7:30pm in the GMB. The writer director will speak candidly about his life thus far, past productions (JFK, Natural Born Killers, Alexander, Born On The Fourth Of July, Platoon, Midnight Express) and new film World Trade Centre with Nicholas Cage and Maggie Gyllenhaal, which opens nationwide September 29th.

The interview shall be followed by an audience Q&A.

The meeting begins at 7:30 and will be followed by a Tiger Beer reception.

This year Mr. Stone will be in the company of names such as US Supreme Court Justice - Ruth Bader Ginsburg & 2005 Nobel Prize Winner Mohammad El-Baradei who will also receive the patronage. Other guests throughout the year include the controversial Fox News journalist Bill O'Reilly, former Conservative leader Michael Howard, Perrier Award Winning Comedian Tommy Tiernan and Barry Scheck who famously represented OJ Simpson and Louise Woodward.

A Phil press release?

shay_562

Myth wrote:

A Phil press release?

El presidente, I'd assume, since Pugwash is (to the best of my recollection) one of the second-year BESSheads.

Pugwash wrote:

Barry Scheck who famously represented OJ Simpson

Didn't Johnny Cochran represent OJ? Surely South Park wouldn't lie to me?

And I'd actually love to go to this, if only to pelt that talentless hack with abuse and/or rotten fruit and demand my ticket money for "Alexander" back, but I'll be stuck in Limerick. Boo-urns.

shay_562

shay_562 wrote:

El presidente, I'd assume

And I'd actually love to go to this, if only to pelt that talentless hack with abuse and/or rotten fruit.

Ah, selective quoting

Endymion

Can we change this thread title to something like Phil Spam, or Society Events, or something.

Carnivore

Carnivore wrote:

Can we change this thread title to something like Phil Spam, or Society Events, or something.

How about 'Free drink in the GMB at approx. 8:30pm this Saturday!'

shay_562

Myth wrote:

Ah, selective quoting

Hee! It's funny 'cause it's still true!

Time Magazine

Pugwash is SF BESS, but not El Pres.

Crash

heh, he's around dublin from this wednesday onwards afaik. he's in work for the world trade centre film - tempted to go in and just go "...you know, alexander was ****, right?"

Time Magazine

He's admitted Alexander was shite, he said he "failed him".

Endymion

Alexander was actually a class film. If he had of cut out the gay stuff, and cut large sections of the middle, it would ahve been a commerical success.

Crash

I still want to get him to admit it to me :P

shay_562

Pugwash is SF BESS, but not El Pres.

Ah, I see. 90% sure I know who it is now.

He's admitted Alexander was ****e, he said he "failed him".

Strange how he noticed this not during the months of shooting and editing, but after it flopped both critically and commercially. And much like crash, I'd still love to hear it from him personally.

Alexander was actually a class film. If he had of cut out the gay stuff, and cut large sections of the middle, it would ahve been a commerical success.

...you think? Not to go wildly off-topic (but really, it's a spam thread, so does it matter?) what was actually good about it? The dry-****e narration? The ridiculous sex scenes? The creepy incestuous Olympias stuff? Colin Farrell's hair? All horrific. The battle scenes were decent, and it kept largely to the accepted version of Alexander's life (which is more than I can say for Troy), but aside from that, it was dreck.

xebec

And don't forget all the ancient greeks having Irish accents and Miley from Glenroe selling the horse to Alexander (I was with a german who didn't really understand why I was laughing during that scene - she didn't know who Miley was)

shay_562

Oh, Christ, Miley...how could I forget?

Endymion

shay_562 wrote:

...you think? Not to go wildly off-topic (but really, it's a spam thread, so does it matter?) what was actually good about it? The dry-****e narration? The ridiculous sex scenes? The creepy incestuous Olympias stuff? Colin Farrell's hair? All horrific. The battle scenes were decent, and it kept largely to the accepted version of Alexander's life (which is more than I can say for Troy), but aside from that, it was dreck.

I just enjoyed it. Once I got past the Irish accents and really got into the film I liked it. True slow burning epic. Homosexual scenes didn't bother me, nor the ****ed up incest relationship. I'll admitt, theres allot to get hung up on in this film, but it didn't seem to bother me.

RagShagBill

Oliver Stone harbours the pretention that he makes films: he doesn't, he makes movies. Mostly bad movies, at that.

John

Agreed. Apart from Natural Born Killers, I can't think of an Oliver Stone movie I like.

Chardee MacDennis

JFK, Natural Born Killers, Alexander, Born On The Fourth Of July, Platoon, Midnight Express

except for Alexander all very good films - now WTC is absolutely pants, sitting thourgh it was painful, particualrly all the religious imagery(jesus with a bottle of water) and the stoopid marine!! but i may go along and see what he has to say...

KamikazeBananze

Since this has degenerated into a StoneFest (or is that a Stoner Fest? Meh), I'm going to post some society events.

The TCD Gamers will be running events every day from about 6 till 10. Come by for madness, lunacy and, in one or two cases, cheering.

You may now return to your Stone-induced hallucinations.

Tricity Bendix

AAAAAAAAAAH!

the Phil wrote:

Baywatch's Mitch, Star of Knightrider & German Pop Sensation David Hasselhoff will be speaking at The Phil this Saturday, September 30th. The first of the Phil's Freshers week event's will kick off at 3pm in the GMB

The Hoff is the Star of the new Adam Sandler movie - Click which opens on Friday. He's also penned an autobiography - Making Waves and his new single Jump In My Car is in shops now.

The Hoff will be taking questions from the floor, spread the word for what is sure to be one of the biggest events of the year.

DAVID HASSELHOFF At The Phil 3pm Saturday in the GMB.

Its the Hoff!

Troglodyte

The Hoff? The Legend? The German pop phenomenon? He who drives the talking car? IN TRINITY??? God truly has answered my dreams!!

Holy crap, half of Trinity will be at that. I'll be lucky to get into the GMB at all...

shay_562

Ah, bollox. That's two guests I'd love to come along and mock in one day that I'm gonna have to miss. Stupid family...

Agent Smith

Pugwash wrote:

Perrier Award Winning Comedian Tommy Tiernan

Not bad, only around 18months after science Fiction got him.


to the people who mock oliver stone....



lets see your oscar

Chardee MacDennis

i have many oscars, also kevin costner, robert redford, whoopi goldberg, halle berry and cher have oscars - it doesnt seem too hard a club to join!!

The_Radiator

Am I the only one that finds the Phil/Hist having big events on the 30th of September a bit weird? First it's a saturday secondly, it's before freshers' week has begun? Is this one last hurrah before the younglings arrive?

shay_562

lets see your oscar

I think I lost complete faith in the oscars as a system of recognising talent right around "Oscar-winner Cuba Gooding Jr. in 'Boat Trip'!!!".

Am I the only one that finds the Phil/Hist having big events on the 30th of September a bit weird? First it's a saturday secondly, it's before freshers' week has begun? Is this one last hurrah before the younglings arrive?

At a guess? Only day they could get Stone (and, I suppose, the Hoff) for. I can't see it being intentional (the GMB is in-crowdy and cliquey, sure, but not at the expense of the hundreds of freshers Stone and Hasselhoff would draw in if they came a few days later).

b.ie curious

b.ie curious wrote:

AAAAAAAAAAH!



Its the Hoff!

Dammit! I heard this last week, you had to go tell people.

Tricity Bendix

Myth wrote:

Dammit! I heard this last week, you had to go tell people.

You expect me to keep this to myself? That would be damn near impossible.

Crash

Jesus man everyone who knew was keeping it low profile so it wouldnt be overly packed :P