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Los Angeles looked amazing in 1994!


If you watch this film as a time capsule it’s a nice exposé. LA looked so clean and safe. 30 years later it’s a shit hole!

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I agree, LA used to be great.
I have a small part as a background actor in this. You can see me at Union Station when SIL exits the train. I’m holding a football with a 90s bowl haircut. I was also used as a clubgoer where SIL picks up that guy that first guy. This was shot on a set in Raleigh on Melrose.

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Did you get a chance to speak to any of the actors? Michael Madsen always struck me as a really approachable guy.

And was Natasha Henstridge even hotter in person?

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No, unfortunately not! I was unaware who Natasha Henstridge was at the time. I only said hallo to her.

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Sounds like a cool experience, nonetheless. Species was good 90s schlock, I'd love to be an extra on a movie like that.

I think that movie was Natasha Henstridge's breakthrough role, a complete unknown before. I actually thought she was a decent actress (John Carpenter gave her a lead part, and he has a good eye for talent), but she never really got many good roles.

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When did Natasha Henstridge work with John Carpenter?

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Ghosts of Mars aka Assault on Red Planet 13.

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Thanks.

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You're welcome.

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I don't think I knew of that film.

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If you like schlocky fun B-movies, you'll dig it. The studios did their best to ruin it when they forced Carpenter to pick the shitty Ice Cube over Jason Statham (who wasn't a big star at the time). He was so pissed at their meddling that he pretty much went into retirement after that.

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Nice, how long did you need to shoot your part in the movie?

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vote Dem......... and they will bring in the shit by the boatload.

US population 1992 = 250 million
US population 2024 = 345 million


100 million more in 30 years !!??

59 million immigrants who arrived in the U.S. between 1965 and 2015
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https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2015/09/28/modern-immigration-wave-brings-59-million-to-u-s-driving-population-growth-and-change-through-2065/

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Your ancestors were immigrants as well.

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i am not American. I am from Europe.

what i can tell you though, is that the immigrants that came to the US 100-200 years ago, they worked hard and amoung them were brilliant minds, who intended things and made america a great country.

they were mostly European, so they were intelligent people.
those that flood America now are not from Europe, but from countries with much lower IQ.
Countries riddled with crime and deceases that had been eradicated in the US.

so therefore nothing good will ever come from this.

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Progressives don't understand logic.

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"In March 2018, immigrants with less than a four-year college degree made up 10 percent of all persons (and 11 percent of all U.S. workers) in the United States, but they reflected a large share of all workers in many important occupations and industries, according to Census data. (See Table 1.) Fully 36 percent of workers in the farming, fishing, and forestry fields are immigrants without a college degree, as are 36 percent of building and grounds cleaning and maintenance workers, 27 percent of hotel workers, and 21 percent of home health care industry workers

"In these and other jobs, immigrants help fill keys gaps in the U.S. economy. Indeed, in an authoritative 2015 report, a National Academy of Sciences (NAS) panel of experts determined that immigrants’ economic contributions would be hard to replace"

https://www.cbpp.org/research/immigrants-contribute-greatly-to-us-economy-despite-administrations-public-charge-rule

I know a couple of rabid Trump supporters who routinely drive to the local Home Depot and snag immigrants that are sitting around waiting for any odd job to pop up for a little cash. The Trumpsters laugh about how cheap the labor was compared to the size of the job. In those cases, they don't mind immigrants at all.

Funny how that works.

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All of those jobs were handled by American citizens prior to the mass migration of unskilled immigrants into the country.

When I was younger, I worked landscaping, fishing and farming. The pay was good-REALLY good back then.

Unfortunately, illegal immigrants took over those jobs because they were willing to work for almost nothing. So, the people hiring them EXPLOIT them by paying them almost nothing.

NO ONE is laughing about the EXPLOITATION of illegal immigrants. Illegal immigrants took high paying jobs and turned them into low paying jobs that only people living here illegally could afford to take. If those jobs still paid what they paid when they were dominated by LEGAL American citizens, then LEGAL Americans would still be taking those jobs.

EPLOITATION is a bad thing. Breaking the law and coming into a country ILLEGALLY is a bad thing. If you can't see how the EXPLOITATION of ILLEGAL immigrants is a bad thing and how it hurts both ILLEGAL immigrants and LEGAL American citizens, then you live in an echo chamber and no application of logic or facts will help you to see beyond the constrains of what you are being fed.

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Everything was better in the past. There's a reason why so many classic films would depict the future as a dystopia.

In regards to LA, that same thing is happening to every major city in North America and Europe. I don't think you need to say why, it's pretty obvious.

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