axleblaze posted:Naw. HotD2 >>>>>>>>>>>>>>> HotDO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg2GNbYr_AM&t=142s
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Vertigo Ambrosia posted:I can't believe Greys Anatomy is still on. I was watching old episodes on Netflix. Apparently I kept taking about waning to "make a baby with Dr Katherine Heigl MD"
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House of the Dead Overkill is a good game but it tries very hard to be as amusing as it is and it's still less amusing than House of the Dead 2 manages to be by just being janky as gently caress. Nothing in Overkill makes me smile as much as hearing that little demon say "suffer like G did".
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axleblaze posted:House of the Dead Overkill is a good game but it tries very hard to be as amusing as it is and it's still less amusing than House of the Dead 2 manages to be by just being janky as gently caress. Nothing in Overkill makes me smile as much as hearing that little demon say "suffer like G did". We can never be friends.
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Apr 3, 2015 21:41
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To put it in a more CineD way Overkill is Planet Terror and House of the Dead 2 is Miami Connection.
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Apr 3, 2015 21:45
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I didn't see Divergent, but I read Insurgent in theaters as a communist revolution gone wrong. The "better tomorrow" outside the walls is imaginary pie-in-the-sky horseshit, a displacement of unresolved social trauma to a semi-mythical CGI Outside, and it's clear enough from the final shot of the movie that, however hopeful everybody might be, the grudges of the old society still haven't been overcome and there's a lot more purging yet to come. Speaking of which, more people get shot in the head execution-style here than in the last three YA movies I've seen combined. I was for that.
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Man, going into Killing Them Softly I was so prepared to like it. Based off of a George V. Higgins novel and a cast of Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, and Ray Liotta? Sounds amazing! Except its not. Great performances, but what a dreadful script. Its just your run of the mill mafia pastiche with the laziest political comparisons I've ever seen thrown in for good measure. What a turd.
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Axeface posted:I didn't see Divergent, but I read Insurgent in theaters as a communist revolution gone wrong. The "better tomorrow" outside the walls is imaginary pie-in-the-sky horseshit, a displacement of unresolved social trauma to a semi-mythical CGI Outside, and it's clear enough from the final shot of the movie that, however hopeful everybody might be, the grudges of the old society still haven't been overcome and there's a lot more purging yet to come. I vaguely recall hearing that the overarcing plot in the books is that (I'll spoiler block it, just in case) the city is locked down from the outside, and once the folks inside the city realize that breaking up folks into groups like that is stupid, the outside world will open the city. EDIT: I'll repeat a Dumb Argument I'm hearing on the radio here for discussion: After a bowl of cereal, you have a little bit of milk left over, mixed with the detritus from the cereal. Do you drink/consume the tainted Cereal Milk, or dump it down the sink? Personally, my favorite cereal leaves too much mess in the milk for it to be tasty milk anymore, but I know people who swear by Cereal Milk. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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Apr 3, 2015 22:26
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Jeff Wiiver posted:Man, going into Killing Them Softly I was so prepared to like it. Based off of a George V. Higgins novel and a cast of Brad Pitt, James Gandolfini, and Ray Liotta? Sounds amazing! Except its not. Great performances, but what a dreadful script. Its just your run of the mill mafia pastiche with the laziest political comparisons I've ever seen thrown in for good measure. What a turd. ending monologue's the best thing ever, tho
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MisterBibs posted:I vaguely recall hearing that the overarcing plot in the books is that (I'll spoiler block it, just in case) the city is locked down from the outside, and once the folks inside the city realize that breaking up folks into groups like that is stupid, the outside world will open the city. Cereal milk is awesome, I hadn't considered the idea that there might be weird people who'd throw it away.
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Apr 3, 2015 22:35
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Real Talk: The only way I can have cereal is if I use hot chocolate for the milk. I can't take plain milk by itself or cold.
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Apr 3, 2015 22:36
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah, it's very generic "YA dystopia, here are some run down buildings and color filters." It's threadbare enough that you start paying attention to the details of the setting and how they make no sense (even on a thematic level since I don't even get what the theme is supposed to be.) The basic idea seems to be that they've discovered a neurobiological basis for a belief in the five 'elements'. Thanks to the same cognitive science that allows the baddies to hack people's brains, they are able to scan someone to tell that they have a 'firey' personality, or whatever. These people then undergo conditioning to become as 'firey' as possible. (Or maybe they are conditioned first and then tested. This is unclear.) By their power combined, the hero is Captain Planet. Her '100% divergence' means that her brain is divided into perfect elemental fifths, which makes her immune to conditioning. The films, bizarrely, don't present this as pseudoscience. Although everything in the films shows that these behaviors are socially constructed - anyone can join the military team and undergo brutal training to become 'more firey' - the personality tests work on toddlers, and the hero is genetically(?) immune to having her personality altered. And then, there's the point that roughly a third of the population is arbitrarily excluded from the five-element system. This exclusion is a simple form of punishment, and has nothing to do with the cognitive testing - yet everyone in the film treats exclusion as scientific proof that these people are devoid of 'elemental traits', including the excluded themselves. Is that the joke? If so, it means that the element system actually works, and the only problem is when people are rude and greedy for no reason. But really, this is all just groundwork for a satire of (of all things) corporatism - in a world that is, pointedly, without capitalism. That's the whole point of the post-apocalyptic setting. The capitalist system failed, so let's try this new thing. However, as a satire of totalitarian governments, the film is not only incredibly stupid but irrelevant. The only way to redeem the films is to read them as an ugly, idiotic version of Shyamalan's The Village: "What if the true Evil of our societies is not the capitalist dynamics as such, but the attempts to extricate ourselves from it (while profiting from it), to carve out self-enclosed communal spaces, from "gated communities" to exclusive racial or religious groups? That is to say, is the point of The Village not precisely to demonstrate that, today, a return to an authentic community in which speech still directly expresses true emotions, etc. - the village of the socialist utopia - is a fake which can only be staged as a spectacle for the very rich? The exemplary figure of Evil are today not ordinary consumers who pollute environment and live in a violent world of disintegrating social links, but those (top managers, etc.) who, while fully engaged in creating conditions for such universal devastation and pollution, exempt themselves from the results of their own activity, living in gated communities, eating organic food, taking holidays in wild preserves, etc." It's only in this sense that the Divergent films actually work: as a satire of the failure to escape capitalism - and this is not the failure of the villains (who are simply trying to fix the broken system), but of the heroes. What is Captain Planet if not the ultimate liberal? SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Apr 3, 2015 |
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Apr 3, 2015 22:36
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Furious 7 was brilliant, less good than Six though and less good than the Fury Road trailer which was phenomenal. Glad I caught an afternoon showing since I'm now back in the theatre to see Blade Runner and the queue for it is huge (its the only other film on this late and there's nobody in this screen.)
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Apr 3, 2015 22:41
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Gatts posted:Real Talk: The only way I can have cereal is if I use hot chocolate for the milk. I can't take plain milk by itself or cold. switch to almond milk bruh granola and almond milk \mm/
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Apr 3, 2015 22:45
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:switch to almond milk bruh Yes, this. Cereal milk is a distillation and concentration of the whole meal. If the cereal you ate was good for you then the cereal milk is a beautiful capstone. If you can't finish your cereal milk then perhaps you might want to contemplate the other 95% of it you just put in your body
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Apr 3, 2015 22:57
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Yes, this. Cereal milk is a distillation and concentration of the whole meal. If the cereal you ate was good for you then the cereal milk is a beautiful capstone. If you can't finish your cereal milk then perhaps you might want to contemplate the other 95% of it you just put in your body yeah also if you're the kind of person who pours hot chocolate on cereal then i may be playing to the wrong crowd
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Apr 3, 2015 22:58
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:switch to almond milk bruh Could use some animal suffering
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Literally The Worst posted:Could use some animal suffering to balance it out i smother an infant every time i have a bowl
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So, I'm watching Guardians of the Galaxy after being told over and over again how great it is and how you'll like it even if you find the entirety of the MCU stupid... And I don't dislike it, per se, so far, but... I mean, the Zemeckis-ness seems rather intentional, but I'm getting flashbacks of Mars Needs Moms.
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K. Waste posted:So, I'm watching Guardians of the Galaxy after being told over and over again how great it is and how you'll like it even if you find the entirety of the MCU stupid... And I don't dislike it, per se, so far, but... I mean, the Zemeckis-ness seems rather intentional, but I'm getting flashbacks of Mars Needs Moms. you should try to dislike it harder
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almond milk is disgusting
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zVxTeflon posted:almond milk is disgusting try pouring hot chocolate on cereal instead, sounds more your speed
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I got a free movie ticket, is there anything coming out soon I should check out or should I save it for Avengers? Not gonna see It Follows, at least until I can rent it. Or should I just see Furious 7 again?Gatts posted:Real Talk: The only way I can have cereal is if I use hot chocolate for the milk. I can't take plain milk by itself or cold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ut_XBAaHT4
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K. Waste posted:So, I'm watching Guardians of the Galaxy after being told over and over again how great it is and how you'll like it even if you find the entirety of the MCU stupid... And I don't dislike it, per se, so far, but... I mean, the Zemeckis-ness seems rather intentional, but I'm getting flashbacks of Mars Needs Moms. Since I'm on the topic, it's worth pointing out that Guardians Of The Galaxy and Divergent are not dissimilar films at all.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:try pouring hot chocolate on cereal instead, sounds more your speed i dont eat breakfast
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Save it for the Avengers.
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zVxTeflon posted:i dont eat breakfast sounds bleak
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:sounds bleak extremely
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Since I'm on the topic, it's worth pointing out that Guardians Of The Galaxy and Divergent are not dissimilar films at all. There's the SMG we know.
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Apr 3, 2015 23:28
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i rented Interstellar tonite. how poopy is it?
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LORD OF BUTT posted:Nah it's a really loving fun (if slightly sleazy) action movie that just happens to be animated. Bizarrely enough for something that was pretty much the face of anime in America for like a decade it's not that "anime", it's kind of a standard martial arts movie just with really batshit villains.
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Breakfast food is great (well, meh to cereal and white milk in general), but the idea of being up in time to actually enjoy breakfast is alien to me. I work nights and am a night owl in general.
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Apr 3, 2015 23:32
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:i rented Interstellar tonite. how poopy is it? It's good
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Criminal Minded posted:Breakfast food is great (well, meh to cereal and white milk in general), but the idea of being up in time to actually enjoy breakfast is alien to me. I work nights and am a night owl in general. waking up at 6 am, showering, and making a bomb breakfast is dope. highly recommended. axleblaze posted:It's good dammit. maybe i'll watch this Ren & Stimpy DVD i rented instead.
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Noxville posted:The original Typing of the Dead is way better. Uncle Boogeyman posted:i rented Interstellar tonite. how poopy is it?
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Is that Ren and Stimpy Pre or post John K?
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axleblaze posted:Pre it post John K? seasons 1 & 2. i didn't watch that newjack poo poo.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:waking up at 6 am, showering, and making a bomb breakfast is dope. highly recommended. One hour of sleep isn't enough for me
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Criminal Minded posted:One hour of sleep isn't enough for me pussy.
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