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ufarn posted:heck of a job, Brennie
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Don We Now posted:awe shucks. golly gee willikers. 
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So is uh the president going to prosecute those folk torturers or no.
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euphronius posted:So is uh the president going to prosecute those folk torturers or no. It would open the door to making elected officials responsible for their actions. So no.
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here's a clip of obama's latest speech
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euphronius posted:So is uh the president going to prosecute those folk torturers or no.
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Aug 2, 2014 16:52
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What kind of supermarket is out of rambutan, there was a sale advertised. 
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The Gitmo detainees won't be released until Congress authorizes a mass butt-touching party .
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Am I allowed to like Tyrant? It's silly in parts and full of stereotypes (though many of them are loving deserved, heh) and I know the people behind it are going to take it completely off the rails at any moment, but I love Ashraf Barhom and will watch him in pretty much anything. Dude is mesmerizing as an actor.
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ReindeerF posted:Am I allowed to like Tyrant? It's silly in parts and full of stereotypes (though many of them are loving deserved, heh) and I know the people behind it are going to take it completely off the rails at any moment, but I love Ashraf Barhom and will watch him in pretty much anything. Dude is mesmerizing as an actor. I think it's okay to enjoy it, or at least pieces of it, as long as you're aware of its stereotypes and extreme oversimplifications of Middle Eastern culture, which you obviously are. I watched all of "American Horror Story: Coven," knowing all the while that it was pretty much the worst thing I had ever seen on TV, because A, it was fun to watch the trainwreck, and B, it did have small nuggets of good stuff in it.
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Princelings, despotic crown princes, expat society wives and self-serving opposition leaders they're got completely nailed for sure. The rest, I dunno, but it's like a less well-written alt history of the ending of Syriana and the political angle I enjoy. EDIT: Also ASHRAF BARHOM. EDIT EDIT: It's going to be like Homeland, where I'm intrigued by the first few episodes and then it becomes clear very quickly that the whole thing is hilariously off the rails. EDIT EDIT EDIT: Syriana is the best movie ever made about its subject matter. If anyone missed it, watch it. ReindeerF fucked around with this message at 20:01 on Aug 2, 2014 |
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Aug 2, 2014 19:52
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On that note, I'm curious what everyone thinks of The Honourable Woman.
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Aug 2, 2014 20:08
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ReindeerF posted:
Counterpoint: Three Kings
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Three Kings is good, but it deals with the people on the ground entirely. The scope of Syriana is breathtaking and its portrayals of how things go from top to bottom and back is fantastic. Like if you ever wonder what it's like in the world that Bennett and Dean and Jimmy and Bryan and Prince Nasir occupy, it's about as close as film is going to get by reliable accounts.
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Aug 2, 2014 20:37
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I'm not familiar with Truth and Reconciliation commissions but Obama's statements made me think of them.
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When it came out, I passed on going to see Syriana because the clips of the "Corruption makes America great" scene and George Clooney walking away from an exploding car seemed hokey.
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boyhood... was great. *shoots a gun in the air*
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I really liked Body of Lies when I watched it in a cinema, but I don't know if it holds up. It's very talking heads-y, IIRC, but Leo and Russell Crowe are good actors, so.
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was this the thread someone posted about charisma.com? i forget, i think i might have seen this in the UKMT or something. anyway, just so the stupid discussion thread has at least one post about charisma.com, they are good. electro rap from glorious nippon. here is a good song by them, thanks for reading my post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ni_IxpF0vNU
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comes along bort posted:They would've been way more entertaining if Peter Jackson was limited to the budget, set, and prop department from Meet the Feebles. drat. I'm unfortunately not willing to pay $25 for this even though it looks amazing. The preview I found on youtube really makes me want to buy it though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_Sl9OTtUkU
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Mauser posted:drat. I'm unfortunately not willing to pay $25 for this even though it looks amazing. The preview I found on youtube really makes me want to buy it though: You can't be bothered to devote $25 to the workers' cause? Bourgeois bootlicker. 
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If you were wondering if all the great reviews of Snowpiercer are accurate: Yes, they are. You should go see it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX5PwfEMBM0
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Thanatosian posted:If you were wondering if all the great reviews of Snowpiercer are accurate: Yes, they are. You should go see it.
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The second half of Snowpiercer is orders of magnitude more interesting than the first one, that's for sure, but I couldn't bring myself to like it, even though it was funny with a Bioshock on a Train.
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ReindeerF posted:I have a lot of time for the Wachowskis You are a very patient man. Forgiving, too.
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Did someone five pages back really say Eternal Sunshine was the best movie they've seen because Jesus Christ
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Wolfsheim posted:Did someone five pages back really say Eternal Sunshine was the best movie they've seen because Jesus Christ the best movie ever, then, is tarkovsky's stalker.
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If you think Snowpiercer is Bioshock on a train, then you didn't pay very much attention to one or both of those things.
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paragon1 posted:If you think Snowpiercer is Bioshock on a train, then you didn't pay very much attention to one or both of those things. 
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Wolfsheim posted:Did someone five pages back really say Eternal Sunshine was the best movie they've seen because Jesus Christ Every Valentine's Day I get a big pile of food delivered, watch Eternal Sunshine, and drink myself as close to unconsciousness as I can. One year I got a small shot glass and shot my age (25) with some friends, then went a few extra, but I'm getting a little too old for those kinds of shenanigans now.
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Dr. Strangelove Sneakers Howard the Duck
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Does anyone have the sparkly, possibly pink "gently caress ISRAEL" animated gif?
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I'm trying to find concealed carry statistics, but the first few results on google do not look promising.
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spoon0042 posted:Dr. Strangelove This guy right here knows what's up!
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ReindeerF posted:Check out the angry Bioshock nerd. Actual photo taken from his hacked webcam just now: Well I wasn't angry before but your incredibly douchey post is certainly getting me there! It's really not my fault if you can't tell the differences between two different things!
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skaboomizzy posted:Every Valentine's Day I get a big pile of food delivered, watch Eternal Sunshine, and drink myself as close to unconsciousness as I can. I know the point of the movie is "relationships, huh?" but I hate that instead of treating the memory-eraser as something to be hand-waved away for the sake of letting the protagonist go on a visually-surreal emotional journey they actually keep it at the forefront. And then, a major plot point depends on a character realizing near the end of the film that erasing a huge chunk of someone's memory might cause problems unrelated to getting over a bad break-up. It basically gives itself props for inventing a bad thing and then pointing out that it would be bad.
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Swan Oat posted:Counterpoint: Three Kings counter-counter-point: four lions
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illrepute posted:counter-counter-point: four lions Counter-counter-counter-point: Five Guys Burger and Fries.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Counter-counter-counter-point: Five Guys Burger and Fries. gently caress i've been vanquished
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hamster_style posted:This guy right here knows what's up! I love Sneakers but Robert Redford is just so amazingly badly cast. He's a great actor but that was just not his role, you know?
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