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CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

weekly font posted:

"Scully can jet fuel melt steel beams?"

You know, they already did a "government conspiracy to bring down the Twin Towers to usher in a golden age of militarization." In March 2001.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 18:15

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# ? Jun 9, 2024 01:16

LesterGroans: Jun 9, 2009; It's funny...

You were so scary at night.

penismightier posted:

I'm all tingly now.

You say that now. Wait until they're all written and directed by Chris Carter.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 18:16

Mechafunkzilla: Sep 11, 2006; If you want a vision of the future...

X-Files 2015 featuring Taylor Lautner as Mulder and Megan Fox in a red wig as Scully. Directed and produced by McG.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 18:25

MacheteZombie: Feb 4, 2007; Can't post for 25 minutes!

Free Dick..........eye

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:25

Criminal Minded: Jan 4, 2005; Spring break forever

I'm watching The Civil War and I'm starting to think it should've been subtitled "George McClellan was a cowardly moron."

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:38

Criminal Minded: Jan 4, 2005; Spring break forever

FishBulb posted:

Haha now she thinks you're that weird dude who likes rape movies. Smooth move ex lax

My cousin and his family gathered around on Christmas Eve 2012 to watch what I had recommended as the best movie of the year on facebook:

Killer Joe.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:41

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

Criminal Minded posted:

My cousin and his family gathered around on Christmas Eve 2012 to watch what I had recommended as the best movie of the year on facebook:

Killer Joe.

How far did they get?

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:41

Criminal Minded: Jan 4, 2005; Spring break forever

morestuff posted:

How far did they get?

About half an hour if I recall.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:43

Carly Gay Dead Son: Aug 27, 2007; Bonus.

therattle posted:

There's a fantastic party scene in the film, I think the opening. Sorrentino is one of my favourite contemporary directors.

Yeah I didn't get a chance to finish the whole thing but that was one hell of an opener. I'm the old dude with the glasses saying "I'm going to screw you!"

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:43

MacheteZombie: Feb 4, 2007; Can't post for 25 minutes!

Criminal Minded posted:

My cousin and his family gathered around on Christmas Eve 2012 to watch what I had recommended as the best movie of the year on facebook:

Killer Joe.

Haha I watched Killer Joe on Christmas with my mom. The following year we watched Prisoners.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:45

Air Skwirl: May 13, 2007; Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed shitposting.

Criminal Minded posted:

My cousin and his family gathered around on Christmas Eve 2012 to watch what I had recommended as the best movie of the year on facebook:

Killer Joe.

I love the Amazon reviews for Killer Joe, just for the number that start with some variation of "Got this from Redbox, because my mom and I love everything with Matthew McConaughey..."

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:45

Maarak: May 23, 2007; "Go for it!"

LORD OF BUTT posted:

I mean I watch most[...] stuff high off my loving nuts so penismighter may be on to something there.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:53

Mechafunkzilla: Sep 11, 2006; If you want a vision of the future...

Criminal Minded posted:

My cousin and his family gathered around on Christmas Eve 2012 to watch what I had recommended as the best movie of the year on facebook:

Killer Joe.

I recommended Killer Joe to my parents and they called me afterwards to talk about how great it was.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:54

WeedlordGoku69: Feb 12, 2015; by Cyrano4747

If we're going to chalk my love of Predator 2 up to any bias, it's nostalgia, I loved that movie waaaay before I discovered :420:

# ? Mar 24, 2015 19:54

Alhazred: Feb 16, 2011

Hodgepodge posted:

TCC needs a mod, evidently. I feel like there's some tension there between "sensible and stable enough to be a good mod" and "is bad enough at making good life choices to want to be a TCC mod."

A man falls through the earth and into parisian catacombs. taking a torch from the wall he spies row upon row of skeletons. grasping the nearest by the shoulders, he shakes it madly, yelling "my nigga have u tried lsd"

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:07

Carly Gay Dead Son: Aug 27, 2007; Bonus.

Watching that Hitchcock joint one of you folks posted earlier. This scene is really good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1J0pUURCj8

Am I overestimating Hitchcock's reputation as a total horn dog, or is that champagne bottle supposed to resemble a giant boner?

EDIT: hm can't embed with a start-at time. Go to 8:06.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:10

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Beyond sane knolls posted:

Am I overestimating Hitchcock's reputation as a total horn dog, or is that champagne bottle supposed to resemble a giant boner?

The closing shot of North by Northwest is a train going into a tunnel. If anything, you're underestimating his status as a horndog.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:28

Mechafunkzilla: Sep 11, 2006; If you want a vision of the future...

Hitchcock's horndog status is legendary.

e: although "horndog" is maybe too nice a way of putting it.

Mechafunkzilla fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Mar 24, 2015

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:31

CelticPredator: Oct 11, 2013; 🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

Slate Action posted:

So, uh, The X-Files is coming back.

Six episodes, probably a summer 2016 release.

I am really good about binge watching series. First I watched Twin Peaks, and then that comes back. Now I watch The X-Files and it comes back.

What other shows should I test this power on CD? (Zim's coming back in comic form, so that counts! :v:

)

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:33

banned from Starbucks: Jul 18, 2004

LORD OF BUTT posted:

If we're going to chalk my love of Predator 2 up to any bias, it's nostalgia, I loved that movie waaaay before I discovered .

Predator 2 and Alien 3 deserve a thread just explaining to dummies how awesome they are

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:35

CelticPredator: Oct 11, 2013; 🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

zVxTeflon posted:

Predator 2 and Alien 3 deserve a thread just explaining to dummies how awesome they are

loving right they do.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:36

feedmyleg: Dec 25, 2004

CelticPredator posted:

I am really good about binge watching series. First I watched Twin Peaks, and then that comes back. Now I watch The X-Files and it comes back.

What other shows should I test this power on CD? (Zim's coming back in comic form, so that counts! )

Young Indiana Jones.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:41

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

Mechafunkzilla posted:

Hitchcock's horndog status is legendary.

e: although "horndog" is maybe too nice a way of putting it.

I've posted this before but:

quote:

Hitchcock lived the life of a good burgher. He dressed like a banker and never did anything irregular. His roots were Edwardian, in the nineteenth century. He once told me that he only vaguely understood �the mechanical aspects of sex� until he was in his early twenties. But below the surfaces of many of his films, rude, angry sex simmered; cool, icy blondes were tied up, handcuffed, humiliated. It was clear to me that at least at the end of his life the Dionysian streak was trying to get out.

I begin talking about the nature of the love affair in the script. Sex and passion; compulsive, life-changing, soul-altering sex, all to be made more explicit than he had done in the past. I genuinely believe that some spelling out of the passion is necessary for the film, and in fact I had been brooding about how to bring it up. I sail on, but I don't have to sail far. The talk of love is a tonic for him. �Yes, yes. That will work. Very exciting.� He's telling me, �I will put that in my movie.� Hitchcock's off and running.

�The lovers are seated across the room from each other,� he begins in his deliberate tones. �Their robes open as they look at one another.� Hitchcock stops, savoring the scene, and repeats that the robes are open. He's starting to sound like a schoolboy with a copy of Penthouse. �Outside, on the bay, a tiny boat is approaching, coming over the horizon� (the scene takes place in a cabin on an island off Finland). �The lovers know the husband is approaching. They can hear the sound of his boat's motor, growing louder as it comes over the horizon. They stare at each other and begin to masturbate, each of them. The camera moves closer to their eyes. The sound of the motor grows louder as their eyes fill the screen.� He's grinning now and actually stretching his legs--his cane has fallen away as he speaks of the !overs' robes. �Then, after orgasm, the man must take an ivory comb and comb her pubic hair.� He doesn't actually intend to put this scene in the film--it's a true home movie. This leads to a chat about pornography.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:42

Mechafunkzilla: Sep 11, 2006; If you want a vision of the future...

CelticPredator posted:

I am really good about binge watching series. First I watched Twin Peaks, and then that comes back. Now I watch The X-Files and it comes back.

What other shows should I test this power on CD? (Zim's coming back in comic form, so that counts! )

Hercules: The Legendary Journeys

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:43

CelticPredator: Oct 11, 2013; 🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

Hmm. I have a whole dvd set of Brisco County Jr. Would that suffice?

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:44

CharlieFoxtrot: Mar 27, 2007; organize digital employees

feedmyleg posted:

Young Indiana Jones.

That show was pretty drat cool, I don't think I can name another American TV show (or any other American media really, besides Reds) that dealt with the Russian Revolution

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:44

Alfred P. Pseudonym: May 29, 2006; And when you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss goes 8-8

CelticPredator posted:

Hmm. I have a whole dvd set of Brisco County Jr. Would that suffice?

All I know about Brisco County Jr. is that Bruce Campbell is in it and it has the Olympics music

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:46

CelticPredator: Oct 11, 2013; 🍀👽🆚🪖🏋

Same. But I also know there is a ball device that looks kind of like the room sucker thing from The Arrival.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 20:48

I AM GRANDO: Aug 20, 2006

It was on right before X-Files on Friday nights. The first death slot casualty.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:07

Uncle Boogeyman: Jul 22, 2007

my girlfriend texted me a fun movie related prompt that i'm gonna just post here verbatim:

"if you were teaching a philosophy class to a bunch of smart high schoolers what would you show them? my friend is, and he wants to show waking life and i heart huckabees and THAT CAN'T HAPPEN"

my suggestion was any given episode from the Dekalog. backup choices are The Seventh Seal and Crimes and Misdemeanors (the latter of which she almost certainly will not pass along because she haaaaaates Woody Allen)

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:09

Fat Lou: Jan 21, 2008; Desert Heat? I thought it was Dessert Heat. No wonder it tastes so bad.

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

my girlfriend texted me a fun movie related prompt that i'm gonna just post here verbatim:

"if you were teaching a philosophy class to a bunch of smart high schoolers what would you show them? my friend is, and he wants to show waking life and i heart huckabees and THAT CAN'T HAPPEN"

my suggestion was any given episode from the Dekalog. backup choices are The Seventh Seal and Crimes and Misdemeanors (the latter of which she almost certainly will not pass along because she haaaaaates Woody Allen)

Enter the Void.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:11

morestuff: Aug 2, 2008; You can't stop what's coming

I dunno, I feel like high school is the one time you could see Waking Life and take it on its face. I Heart Huckabee's is dogshit, though.

Comedy option The Matrix

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:11

Uncle Boogeyman: Jul 22, 2007

morestuff posted:

I dunno, I feel like high school is the one time you could see Waking Life and take it on its face. I Heart Huckabee's is dogshit, though.

i actually like I Heart Huckabees but i also read it as a movie specifically taking the piss out of philosophy students so it might not be a great choice

quote:

Comedy option The Matrix

if he's going for "cool substitute teacher" points this is actually a pretty good one. it also feels broader than the ones i suggested, which is probably a good thing.

# ? Mar 24, 2015 21:14

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Uncle Boogeyman posted:

my girlfriend texted me a fun movie related prompt that i'm gonna just post here verbatim:

"if you were teaching a philosophy class to a bunch of smart high schoolers what would you show them? my friend is, and he wants to show waking life and i heart huckabees and THAT CAN'T HAPPEN"

my suggestion was any given episode from the Dekalog. backup choices are The Seventh Seal and Crimes and Misdemeanors (the latter of which she almost certainly will not pass along because she haaaaaates Woody Allen)

The Grey