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Dangerllama posted:Speaking of books/movies that were revolutionary but are now considered trite: The Matrix would have made everyone's top-10 list if they hand't made more than one. Matrix was an awesome movie. Just curious, does anyone under the age of 45 like Commando? I can't imagine a younger person putting that on their top 10 list.
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Solice Kirsk posted:I thought myself a white guy that could handle hot stuff until I asked my Thai place for a "Thai hot" dish. I got through it, but it wasn't a nice hot. And there was level hotter they could have gone. I truly think it would have given me a heart attack. You have to have been eating chilis for a long time to handle that. It's also really disappointing when I ask for something insanely hot and it doesn't give me hiccups nor make me sweat like I'm standing over a pit on the 19th of June.
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:You've harped on this like 6 times now and it keeps getting funnier that you think a thoroughly defeated, leaderless, weaponless, supplyless enemy would return to a seized stronghold and, what, politely ask for it back? You're making a weird tactical realism argument about how the War Boys don't appear agan because they've been strategically defeated, which is visual storytelling. The actual visual storytelling is that war truck falls apart and blocks the camera. Since the War Boys don't show up again, it serves as a metaphor for their defeat. It's not a very good visual metaphor, because it's missing the actual interesting part: the War Boys. As a conclusion to their story, it's completely insufficient, and there's no sense that they're truly defeated. They simply disappear. Then we eventually see Furiosa and the brides being raised to the Citadel to take Joe's place, but they're gonna be nicer about it. Yet because the movie is cyclical, the unspoken conclusion is that things will go poo poo once again, and Joe is their heir (he's given no other origin). They even have the next generation of War Boys in the Citadel. So despite their declaration to the contrary, their children will become warlords. But since this not explored further, the narrative ends up being very weak. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Also I want to point out that the movie presents inequality as a guy holding a WATER/NO WATER lever, as if dramatizing the political cartoon with Obama holding levers marked GAS PRICE and ECONOMY. I'm glad that the likelihood of another Mad Max movie being made before George Miller keels over is about the same as Winds of Winter coming out. BravestOfTheLamps fucked around with this message at 21:30 on Jul 6, 2018 |
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Marijuana posted:We're all gonna read the poo poo out of Fire and Blood the second it comes out. Speaking of, I wonder if this book will end with the last known whereabouts of the last Targaryen. Which is Dany spraying the grass with hot dook.
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With all these differing opinions about movies and Dany dooks, I would just like to say that I'm a fan of peppers and sausage as a meal and not just a starter.
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Solice Kirsk posted:With all these differing opinions about movies and Dany dooks, I would just like to say that I'm a fan of peppers and sausage as a meal and not just a starter. I'm going to the cheesecake factory right now because my homemade fish and chips failed due to <BUTCHER DID NOT PROPERLY REMOVE FISH POOP ORGANS FROM FISH, LIKE THEY WERE REAL DEEP IN THERE MAN>
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kcroy posted:Matrix was an awesome movie. Just curious, does anyone under the age of 45 like Commando? I can't imagine a younger person putting that on their top 10 list. I'm not even 40 yet and Commando is my guide to everyday life. It helps that my father got our first VCR the day it was shown on national TV here in Brazil ,so we recorded it and my brother and I watched it some 7 billion times. It was dubbed, though, so I was utterly floored later on when I first saw Arnold speaking english and how goofy he sounded.
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kcroy posted:Matrix was an awesome movie. Just curious, does anyone under the age of 45 like Commando? I can't imagine a younger person putting that on their top 10 list. I’m in my early middle late thirties and Commando is the meh-ist of Arnold movies. It’s decent, but outshined by so many of his others.
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kcroy posted:Matrix was an awesome movie. Just curious, does anyone under the age of 45 like Commando? I can't imagine a younger person putting that on their top 10 list. I'm 37. I only discovered it in my late 20s when it hit bluray. A dude I worked with was 27 and was obsessive about it for all the reasons I mentioned. Like it's set in Montana and California but has a synth-calypso soundtrack playing over child abduction and torture and brutal murders and it WORKS. Against all odds, every part of it is terrible but the sum of its parts is INCREDIBLE.
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Marijuana posted:Dunk and Egg is extremely decent. Better than decent. Short stories are a format grrm works really well in - hence why the books have occasional chapters that blow you away
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kcroy posted:Matrix was an awesome movie. Just curious, does anyone under the age of 45 like Commando? I can't imagine a younger person putting that on their top 10 list. People today don't like Commando because it's good as a movie. People like it because when you think "ridiculous 80s action movie" Commando sits atop the pile. Movies like Predator and Conan were good as movies, Commando is good because it's so over the top ridiculous at times and Arnold has some amazing one-liners in it. The Expendables movies are probably the closest thing to Commando recently. You don't watch The Expendables for good acting, storytelling, or anything other than over the top action movie schlock and people throwing out cheesy-as-hell lines. IE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59931880kJY
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TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:Better than decent. It isn't.
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Dunk and Egg is good because it reminds me of breakfast.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Dunk and Egg is good because it reminds me of breakfast. grrm will do that i liked the first three novellas and don't expect a fourth wiki posted:
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GRRM is the "ideas guy" in every group project ever.
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Evil Fluffy posted:People today don't like Commando because it's good as a movie. People like it because when you think "ridiculous 80s action movie" Commando sits atop the pile. Movies like Predator and Conan were good as movies, Commando is good because it's so over the top ridiculous at times and Arnold has some amazing one-liners in it. The "break into a gun store and basically come out packing missile launchers and 88mm howitzers" scene formatted my young 7-year-old mind that the US was a magical place of utter gun-nuttery. Then I grew up and saw that was a silly caricature and got sad. Then I grew up MORE and saw that my young eyes were unclouded and saw truly, and was happy.
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Sephyr posted:The "break into a gun store and basically come out packing missile launchers and 88mm howitzers" scene formatted my young 7-year-old mind that the US was a magical place of utter gun-nuttery. i prefer a thinking mans gun store rampage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jSVwZ8w3C4
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:It isn't. Can you just make your next avatar this?
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whowhatwhere posted:Can you just make your next avatar this? Don’t drag Jay Sherman like that. Jay was at least somewhat likeable.
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whowhatwhere posted:Can you just make your next avatar this? No. TXT BOOTY7 2 47474 posted:and sometimes correct While I am always correct.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:While I am always correct. oh yeah? right on, my goon.
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tell me more about d w griffith's intolerance
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Blind Sally posted:tell me more about d w griffith's intolerance Intolerance is a cinematic epic made in the Hollywood of the 1910s. Hollywood as we all know is the most important centre of American film industry. Intolerance is extremely interesting to us today for various reasons. Modern filmmakers would still like to know what the secret methods were that D.W. Griffith used to make thousands of people look good on film. This interesting riddle is still quite a challenge to modern cinematography in the twentieth-first century.
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:
It also has ancient flame-throwing Babylonian tanks.
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So I caught up on some reading.. some of which I've seen recommended here. Quantum Thief, and Lies of Locke Lamora. Maybe I'm just getting older, or #metoo or something, but certain themes really grind on me. I also don't have much patience for the "oh wait he's so amazing - he's been a thief since age 2! He wins everything he tries at, except a few tragic "character building" experiences!". I won't continue with the Locke Lamora series. This negative review pretty much was what I felt: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/281wnm/reading_the_lies_of_locke_lamora_and_ive_got_some/ Also some minor points about the Grey King and how if rear end-hat can afford insane sorcerer, so could everyone else in the story. The use of sorcery was completely unbalancing, and felt like one character just had a god power. Quantum Thief started out with me being pretty irritated ( The name is stupid. I think the characters are kind of cheesy and poo poo. Main character basically rapes someone but its played off because someone else is controller her at the time... again, something that I might have thought was kind of cool years ago, but now just leaves a bad taste in my mouth ) but over all enjoying the story. Raises some interesting questions about who we are, and just sort of a fun romp in a post singularity world. sort of funny, I messed up the spoiler tag since I used [/rape] at the end. I mean... this thread really should have a [rape][/rape] tag. kcroy fucked around with this message at 10:45 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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Dangerllama posted:I’m in my early middle late thirties and Commando is the meh-ist of Arnold movies. It’s decent, but outshined by so many of his others. You have ignored the most truly bland film he did back then. Raw Deal. I don't know a single other person who has seen it.
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kcroy posted:So I caught up on some reading.. some of which I've seen recommended here. Quantum Thief, and Lies of Locke Lamora. Maybe I'm just getting older, or #metoo or something, but certain themes really grind on me. I also don't have much patience for the "oh wait he's so amazing - he's been a thief since age 2! He wins everything he tries at, except a few tragic "character building" experiences!". I won't continue with the Locke Lamora series. This negative review pretty much was what I felt: Have you thought about reading real literature
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:Have you thought about reading real literature for instance...............................?
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I will cherish this forever.
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The ending we deserve.
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scary ghost dog posted:for instance...............................? Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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http://botnik.org/content/game-of-thrones.html
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The Book Barn > ASoIaF: I swore a sacred oath to keep lumbering around the seven kingdoms until I die.
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esperterra posted:The Book Barn > ASoIaF: I swore a sacred oath to keep lumbering around the seven kingdoms until I die. i'm not gonna quote this site, exactly but how the f is strong belwas so far down this list? Lord Benedar Belmore Biter Boros Blount Maester Brenett Butterbumps the Fool Maester Caleotte Ser Dontos Hollard Lord Duram Bar Emmon Erik Ironmaker Hal the Hog The High Septon Hot Pie Illyrio Mopatis Kurleket Lorimer the Belly Lord Mace Tyrell Marghaz zo Loraq Lord Meldred Merlyn King Robert Baratheon Samwell Tarly Strong Belwas Maester Theomore Thoros of Myr Todric Tomard (Fat Tom) King Tommen Baratheon Lord Wendel Manderly Lord Wylis Manderly Lord Wyman Manderly Yezzan zo Qaggaz Zollo
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