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You sure you didn't mean to post this on Tumblr?Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
And miss your darling reaction posts? There's a logic to it that makes sense.
I took it to be from a place of beginning to be out of touch with the world. He's getting old and expressing that he doesn't get it anymore.
I did like the talk of real oppression v nonsense.
I like Patton when he's not doing stand-up.
I agreed with his point about language being of really low-importance.Quote:
Originally Posted by icarusfall
I suppose we would eventually get to the point where white people speaking on the behalf of minorities or trying to help them would eventually be considered racist.
It's misfortune. Our children and grandchildren will not have a perspective on this and tire of the weeping and knashing of teeth from the middle class nonwhites and it will probably swing back the other way.
This is already happening with conservatives and the Chan kids in response to tumblr.
You can complain about trivialities to the point that no one cares about the big issues.
That will be the legacy of tumblr and the sjw. They turned justice into a fad to be discarded with old shoes.
I don't think there's a lot wrong with a man speaking at an event that he organized. The issue becomes that he's solely profiting off of the issues of minorities and the underrepresented when it's the underlying theme of his entire act.
But whatever. Small issue overall just thought it was an interesting note for anyone who wants to make a name off equality and inclusion.
Solely? Really? If he gets one bigot to lighten up and release his hate filled an us muscles, he's done the world a service.
This idea that do good er have to be selfless is Saturday morning trash. Buddies with jabberjaw and the great smoo.
CUT HIM A BREAK HIS WIFE JUST DIED JESUS
This is correct. Not to sound like an old hippie but the term "social justice" used to mean something significant and valuable. Now it's just a joke.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Nobody has a monopoly on discourse. The idea that only people with the right skin color can do or say something is actually really bizarre.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
That's the problem with equality and freedom, some people are going to use it to gain power and be assholes.
There are plenty of young people that use the narrative of their elders to gain power. The idea that only the minority can protect the minority is part of that. It's a way to expel the undesirables.
I suppose that was always the greatest fear of the bigots and racist. That the oppressed had people just like them. That we all really were equal and allike.
I agree. I was being too sensitive.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
I'm just a really sensitive guy.
I've been watching Raiders of the Lost Art on Netflix.
The current episode is about the artist that famously cut off his ear.
My entire life I've only ever heard him called "Van Go." Yet they keeping calling him "Van Goff."
Is Van Go some stupid westernization like Japan?
Yep.
Shit. Guess I better stop calling that deer Rudol as well.
I think it's an American thing. Michael-angelo vs Mickel-angelo.
I mean, it's ok to say Americanized things I think. Just because I know how to pronounce "tortilla" doesn't mean I'm asking someone in the grocery store where to find the toreteeyahs.
Removing the U from words is another thing. That shit isn't cool.
Wait, how do you pronounce tortilla in the grocery store?Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
"Edible frisbee"
I just want to know if anyone actually says tor-till-uh.
I think it's fine for some things, but pronouncing proper names for people or places should be done so correctly. It's a matter of respect.
I work with a guy that is the spitting image of Van Gogh (minus the missing ear). The best part is he knows how to pronounce the name right and everyone telling him he looks like Van "Go" drives him crazy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
I say Volksvagon.
South of the mason dixon line, but not too far south.Quote:
Originally Posted by cigsthecat
I think you mean 'couol', Yankee Dog.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Both Van Gogh pronunciations are actually wrong. The original dutch is closer to something like van KHOKH
"White people have never been nicer"Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
It's mind blowing that we ever held so much power that we could just decide to rename people and places.
Ok FaggoutQuote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Only men with cleft assholes.Quote:
Originally Posted by cigsthecat
This is the truth! I was told his name, when spoken aloud, kinda sounds like you're choking hahhaQuote:
Originally Posted by FirstBlood
Van cock imo
Ask Texas about my van cock.
10 minutes of (old school) glass blowing with a Mr. Rogers-core soundtrack.
https://vimeo.com/160106895
I moved my main laserdisc player into the living room with the big plasma, set it up and used a few test discs to see how it looked. I accidentally watched all of the Transformers movie. Oops.
Nice.
Hardcore Henry
Saw this about a month ago when it was still in theaters. Objectively speaking it's a pretty bad movie, but, for the most part, I ended up liking it anyway. The first 20 minutes or so - aside from the opening credits and a certain reveal about the main antagonist - were rough; it was very obviously low budget, the characters/acting were incredibly cheesy, and the GoPro action was so shaky that I actually considered walking out and getting my money back. But then something happened. Either my eyes and brain adjusted to the manic cinematography or things slowed down a bit, but either way I found myself starting to have fun. This movie is all about being gratuitous and it gets progressively more creative with how Henry dispatches those who would see him dead. Because of this the first-person shooter gimmick never gets totally stale. The other thing that kept my opinion of the movie in positive territory was Sharlto Copley. I dug the twist about his character and I think that he effectively served his purpose of keeping things light. So, yeah. The plot was simply there to move things along and overall the movie was way too ADHD for me to file it next to the action greats like Ong-Bak, Dredd, The Raid, and John Wick, but if you're a fan of the genre then I can at least say that HH is worth a watch. Especially if you have a home theater with a good sound system, because the low end of the sound effects was fairly killer.
Anyway, I'm terrible at writing reviews. This dude from Rotten Tomatoes does it way better:
"Hardcore Henry is about every bit as juvenile as you can imagine: its story is about as complex as that of a Call of Duty campaign, it visually looks like a Call of Duty game, and the entire movie is basically nonstop action. It should be a recipe for disaster. That said, director Ilya Naishuller understands how juvenile it is, and instead of backing down and shying away from it, he fully embraces this nature. Hardcore Henry may be stupid, but it is fully aware of the fact that it is stupid, it embraces that stupidity, and also pokes fun at itself and the genre in the process. The movie's relentlessness at embracing this tone makes Hardcore Henry a heck of a lot more fun than it should be. It's far from perfect: its action could be easier to follow and a lot of the movie feels repetitive, but the fact that this movie works at all is a miracle. If you think that this looks like your kind of movie, be assured that it definitely is."
I saw Satsuki cry over a Van Kokh painting once.
Or maybe it was some other artist lol
Maybe it was something you said. Meanie.
this is wonderful.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
the bottling part fucked me up.
This Fargo TV show is pretty good, you know?
GrossQuote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Depends on which Transformers movie, noob.
Does it?
Yes.
Fargo managed to jump shark six episodes in. Do we have a thread on this?
Yes.
The good one.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I skipped all the human scenes in Transformers 1-3 and they become infinitely more enjoyable. Makes for a quick experience as well. The SFX and surround sound in 3 is especially impressive, I used it to demo my home theater/7.1 surround setup very nicely.
Well it wasn't any of those.
Protip: If they came out after 2000, they're probably not on laserdisc.
that robot john goodman was good in that last one.
There were dinorobots at the end for no reason too.
I watched 30 minutes of that most recent TF movie (on Amazon I think), just felt gross to observe. I don't think I ever saw the third one, the second gave me the worst migraine I'd ever had.
Ba weep grahna weep nini bong.
No Energon goodie?
A Single Shot.
Sam Rockwell, Jeffrey Wright, William H. Macy.
Ex farmer, current poacher John Moon seemingly profits from a terrible mistake. Isn't long before he comes to learn everything comes with a receipt attached.
Sam Rockell has never disappointed, but it was Jeffrey Wright's performance that really shined. It's on Amazon instant, definitely worth watching.
Incidentally, this is the third thing in a row I've watched in which Ted Levine appeared. It was weird because outside of knowing he was on Monk, I couldnt recall him in anything since Silence of the Lambs.
Going to an Alien / Aliens double feature on Saturday! Stoked, I've always wanted to see Aliens in a theater.
Dope. Are they screening an actual print?
Still fun if they're not, but amazing if they are.
It's Alamo Drafthouse, so probably! They screened a print of Return of the Living Dead a little while back on 35mm so it wouldn't surprise me in the least.
I'm curious which version of Alien they're showing too, hopefully not the 'director's cut' Fox was screening for the 25th Anniversary.
Alamo usually has a killer preshow reel with old toy commercials, 35mm movie trailers, weird network TV news clips and cool random miscellany, I'm very happy about this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT5IngAP_yk
Two of the more maligned superhero movies: Green Lantern and last year's Fantastic 4.
While I'm not going to go out of my way to defend them, they really didnt seem any more awful than most genre films.
I definitely liked this FF much more than the previous two, which were far too hokey for me to enjoy. I think a lot of the hate stems from Doom, which I can understand. But putting what Doom should be aside and pretending this dude's name was Dasterdly Dave, it really wasn't that bad.
I didn't think it was that bad either but I see why it got pooped on.
It was so unstructured and idiotic. Planet portal vacuum? Ridiculous. Fucking up Doom also can't be tolerated. They do it too much.
Been awake forever so I watched Captain America, The Avengers, Winter Soldier, and Age of Ultron. More accurately I'm watching age of Ultron now and dicking around on the internet. I was on the edge of my seat for the other three movies (that I had already seen) but this one isn't doing it for me. That scene at the beginning where it got slow mo while everyone was doing a cool pose was pretty fuckin' sweet though. I actually said "fuckin' sweet" out loud. Also a "Fuck yeah, dude!" way louder than the hour required when that older lady started handing out beatings at the end of Winter Soldier. I've become a parody of myself.
The Captain America movies are really good. Easily my favorites out of all the superhero movies, including Toby-Man (which I still think is a really good set of movies, shut up) I don't know much about the character except he was a shithead in the VS games, so I don't know if these movies are accurate. I also guess I don't care. I did notice, like, 50 times that shit-tier goons could have shot Cap in the back in Winter Soldier, but w/e. They were probably just admiring his shoulders.
Doesn't seem any more ridiculous than the dumb schemes in most of these movies, let's be honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
When you say unstructured, what exactly do you mean? It sounds fancy I guess, but...Characters and goals were introduced, shit went sideways and people got powers they didnt know how to handle, they learned, they went back, shit happened, they saved the day.
I watched Mad Max Fury Road for the second time and it kicked my ass all over again.
Most of the other movies have the common story-telling decency of showing their main antagonists' rise to power and reasoning for trying to kill the world. Usually it's because of humanity being a "disease". The entire part at the end with Doom seemed to develop in the last 10-20 minutes. It meandered with them in captivity and Reid isolated in Panama for reasons not fully explained. Everyone's motivations were extremely weak.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Marvel movies, love them or hate them, have a general string of logic behind the characters' actions. I felt FF basically just used the reason "because they're superheroes duh!". Cheap.
I suppose that is why shows will always be better. Movies have to waste a lot of time on what you just said.
Stuff like the animated batman could take care of that in the first season.
victor was anti this world from his second line of dialogue.
I watched A League of Their Own. I used to love this movie as a kid.
It's probably the worst movie I've ever professed to like. Forty minutes of baseball montages, thirty minutes of dialogue that made me for-real-cringe a number of times, and ten minutes of Madonna swing dancing.
But at least my recognizing it as terrible now proves my development didn't totally arrest at age 9.
I haven't seen that since it was on tape. Lots of baseball movies in the 90s!
I generally don't like Tom Hanks very much, I don't think I was ever in to that one.
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Watched the Toshiro Mifune "Samurai Trilogy" on LD, it was extremely rad. One of the best westerns ever, in the sense that samurai movies and cowboy movies are basically interchangeable if you swap some themes around.
The fights were really great throughout. At one point in Samurai II, Mifune's Miyomoto Musashi is betrayed by the head of a school who sends 80 of his students out on an ambush. It does not go well for the students. Or the teacher.
The '90s feel good period dramedies are today's direly sober, hand-wringing Danish Girls and Races.
Not sure which is worse.
We also finished the last-and-final episode of Downton Abbey, which was a delight.
I haven't seen it in probably a decade now, but I do recall liking it at first and subsequent viewings over the years trended downhill.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
Although we do still quote, "There's no crying in baseball!" at work.
That's not a movie I ever felt was worth re-watching but I thought it was okay at the time.
I just watched Timecrimes. It's a must watch if you like time travel plots. And I saw the pilot episode of Outcast. This has potential. Exorcist fans should check it out.
Watched my unsubtitled LD copy of Porco Rosso using a 'Subtitles Viewer' app on my phone, it was not a terrible way to watch a thing. Beautiful movie! Might well be my favorite Ghibli thing.
What do you do, hold your phone in front of you the whole time?
Timecrimes is a fantastic flick. It's a good one to go back and watch for all the little background bits, like seeing one of the main guy's hands in the background while his pqst self is talking to the scientist.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeoZeedeater
I watched Star Trek Generations for the first time since like 99 or something. Still love it. Still hate how Kirk died.
Just kinda prop it up just under the eye line to the tv. It's not a perfect setup, but it beats following a script on a laptop.Quote:
Originally Posted by GohanX
Watching the premiere of Preacher on AMC now...only 45 minutes in, but it's kinda 'eh' so far and it's filled with things that weren't in the comic.
It was ok, but they changed/altered so much from the comic that it's barely even Preacher anymore. Like, why bother?
I'm gonna nope my way out of watching that one. I didn't think Walking Dead was a particularly good adaptation, much less did I think AMC could handle getting Preacher right. Way higher bar.
They didn't at all, at least so far. It was too slow and boring most of the way through, and barely anything happened throughout its 90 minutes. Preacher the comic was many things, but it wasn't boring.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I just read a few reviews of the first four episodes, and apparently the slow pace and lack of development continues. Oh, well...I had low expectations anyway, thankfully.
The only thing about Preacher that concerns me is the tone. Jesse was a preacher only in name in the comic, rebelling against a god that abandoned its creation. The tv show? He's more serious in his role, and I'm really hoping the irreverence comes out more in future episodes. I didn't dislike it, but if the series doesn't end up waving a giant middle finger to religion then it's failed.
The plot doesn't even matter, but if that tone and the characters don't work there's no point.
Yeah, in the TV show Jessie seems to be a preacher because he wants to be, but in the comic it was anything but that. I'm a little confused because of the flashbacks of his father (who was not a preacher in the comics), but it looks like the whole backstory with Grandma and Jody just isn't there. That's an enormous thing to leave out.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
AMC can't keep milking The Walking Dead, and they're hoping this will be their next big breakout hit, but I don't see this episode getting anyone interested in it. I had bad feels when Seth Rogen's involvement was announced, and it looks like those fears were warranted. The dude just sucks.
Yeah, the overall tone of the show is 100% wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
As for the characters, Cassidy is spot-on, although they added this ridiculous subplot about him being chased by vampire hunters(!). Tulip is ok so far. But other than one short bar fight scene, Jesse isn't even remotely Jesse. And Arseface's makeup was fucking terrible.
They're working with Ennis and Dillon on the show so I expect the pace is right. I've read talk that the first season is slower and all set with Jesse as a priest to really develop the characters well, they have said from season 2 on is when they plan to really get into the craziness of the comics.
I don't think Ennis and Dillon know how TV works, maybe.
That's possible
Tried and true tv structure- drive off the audience early and then really talk about what should have happened if only the show hadn't gotten canceled by season 2.
I wish Firefly season 2 had happened and been mediocre just so I wouldn't have to hear about that damn show ever again.
I'm gonna watch Preacher in a few, but my hopes aren't high.
Anyone else watching the Night Manager? (enemy of the day manager.)
That's basically what's going to happen. No one expects a TV or film adaptation of a comic book to be spot-on to the source material, but to miss the mark this much - from what I'm hearing, on purpose - that's just stupid. It's not like the characters weren't developed a lot in the comic book while all the craziness was going on.Quote:
Originally Posted by James
Pretty good review: http://www.theverge.com/2016/5/10/11...lot-seth-rogen
TV shows seem to either blow their load on the first season and then go nowhere for years or have a completely garbage first season or two that I can't understand why anyone would suffer through and have no idea why it's getting renewed and then gets good later on. Hopefully this does end up being competent and falls into the latter category, but I'm not going to hold my breath.
Didn't that happen with Babylon five?
I'm happy with the season we got—the movie was only OK. Too much wrapping shit up IMO.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I don't hate Seth Rogen, but the guy has absolutely zero subtlety and little restraint. Not good combo for a drama.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Walking Dead's first season was kind of shitty and other than Shane season 2 was hot garbage, too. It didn't start getting consistently average to good until the prison (or slightly thereafter).
I saw the movie in the theater without any show background, I thought it was a bad movie.
I think the show proper is just ok. The killer last episode forgives a lot of dull crap in between.
I've watched bits and pieces recently because it's on HBO or whatever. I like Lori Petty's moxie and Tom Hanks is in top form but yea, it's not worth watching.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
It's probably Tom Hanks at his most Tom Hanks.
Just watched the new Jungle Book. It's pretty much amazing. Still not as sad as the book was but I loved the style and the kid they cast was perfect. The book seemed much more primal but probably would make a duller movie.
Bill Murray was an awesome Baloo and Idris Elbas voice was a spot on Shere Kahn.
I know it's stupid but I prefer the Tailspin voice for Baloo. Murray was just too laid back. I get it that's the character but I didn't like the voice.