What's that clip where the guy from Silicon Valley auditions to be in the X-Men?
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 06:48 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:32 |
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Count Chocula posted:What's that clip where the guy from Silicon Valley auditions to be in the X-Men? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlVMEqjGrIQ Pete Holmes has a bunch of these called Ex-Men from his show but it looks like the official ones were all taken down. There's a series of similar ones with Street Fighter characters with some other guys like Kumail too.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 10:20 |
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I bring a gift from another thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FswhQmILLU
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 16:16 |
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"It's a magma factory, they're making magma... for the troops. For the lava troops."
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 17:12 |
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Empress Theonora posted:"It's a magma factory, they're making magma... for the troops. For the lava troops."
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 18:37 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 21:53 |
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Just got the email that my Ecto Cooler is waiting for me at home.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 21:55 |
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I really wish soft drink companies could just make their limited editions without making it into some ~social media experience~/artificial scarcity bullshit. Surge eventually wound up in gas stations after the Amazon-only buy-by-the-case gimmick ended but Crystal Pepsi never moved beyond that and Mountain Dew is holding Pitch Black hostage for some contest.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 22:40 |
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I wonder if previous generations were as obsessed with nostalgia/reliving their childhood as this one.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 22:48 |
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Yaws posted:I wonder if previous generations were as obsessed with nostalgia/reliving their childhood as this one.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 22:55 |
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Yaws posted:I wonder if previous generations were as obsessed with nostalgia/reliving their childhood as this one. Previous generations weren't raised from birth to think of their childhoods as composed of consumer products. But yes: all those digital substations that have popped up over the last few years are nostalgia aimed at boomers.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 22:55 |
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Yaws posted:I wonder if previous generations were as obsessed with nostalgia/reliving their childhood as this one. Longing for the imagined past is definitely not new.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 23:02 |
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Happy Days and Grease were 1950s nostalgia for people in the '70s. We got That 70s show in 1998. The 80s/90s nostalgia wave is natural, yet feels exacerbated due to the Internet.
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# ? Jun 3, 2016 23:39 |
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I don't know why but the "Magneto has no G-D reason to be in this movie" made me crack up.
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 01:58 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:Happy Days and Grease were 1950s nostalgia for people in the '70s. We got That 70s show in 1998. The 80s/90s nostalgia wave is natural, yet feels exacerbated due to the Internet. You forgot American Graffiti, even though that's technically the early '60s, it's got that same vibe because of Wolfman Jack and the greasers.
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 02:20 |
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TetsuoTW posted:I bring a gift from another thread: This whole time I thought they were exaggerating
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 02:42 |
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Detective No. 27 posted:The 80s/90s nostalgia wave is natural, yet feels exacerbated due to the Internet.
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# ? Jun 4, 2016 05:14 |
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As of the latest on-screen, WHM is now the world's premium x-themed entertainment. It sounds like they enjoyed Apocalypse enough, was fairly surprised they were so positive - i've heard quite a lot of negativity about it.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 06:55 |
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well why not posted:It sounds like they enjoyed Apocalypse enough, was fairly surprised they were so positive - i've heard quite a lot of negativity about it.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 07:08 |
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Yep, everyone tries to trash films for outrage-fuelled pageviews.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 08:15 |
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I watched Apocalypse yesterday and it was boring as gently caress aside from a few scenes which legitimately ruled.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 08:21 |
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Apocalypse is loving terrible, it has nothing to do with people wanting to poo poo on it, it's just outright bad and at time genuinely incompetent film-making.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 13:20 |
TetsuoTW posted:The Internet's latest gimmick is racing to be first to poo poo on movies expected to be popular, or at the least to do the most spackle-y, wall-decorative splattershit on it. This is 100% true, but it's interesting in this case, because, as much as I love the WHM guys, they have been some of the same people who normally do exactly that. I mean, even ignoring their BvS reaction, it's a podcast tearing apart bad movies. That's...kind of what they do.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 13:43 |
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Well yeah, but "making GBS threads on" and "making fun of" are different things, as highlighted by one literally involving fun and the other figuratively involving poo poo.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 15:23 |
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TetsuoTW posted:The Internet's latest gimmick is racing to be first to poo poo on movies expected to be popular, or at the least to do the most spackle-y, wall-decorative splattershit on it. I'm kind of predicting that Suicide Squad will be somewhere between entertaining to mediocre, and regardless of its actual quality, the internet will rush to declare it the worst film ever created before the first group even leaves the theater.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 16:04 |
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They're already complaining that it "doesn't know whether it wants to be gritty drama or action comedy", a) as though those were exclusive, and b) because they're loving dumb.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 17:22 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:I watched Apocalypse yesterday and it was boring as gently caress aside from a few scenes which legitimately ruled. This is how every Bryan Singer X-Men movie goes so that checks out. I distinctly recall being so absolutely bored coming out of the theater for the original X-Men 2 and not really getting why people loved it. First Class is the best X-Men film, hands down.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 17:30 |
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precision posted:This is how every Bryan Singer X-Men movie goes so that checks out. Woah, let's hope Steve doesn't read this thread, that's in his top 30!
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 17:55 |
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I mean, we're talking like, 29, 28, right?
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 18:19 |
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precision posted:This is how every Bryan Singer X-Men movie goes so that checks out. The love of X2 escapes me too. I feel it has a great opening, a fantastic Wolverine fight and then an ungodly amount of time with people running around corridors.
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# ? Jun 6, 2016 18:37 |
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X2 does really suffer from having half the movie set in a gray bunker. well why not posted:As of the latest on-screen, WHM is now the world's premium x-themed entertainment. I mean listening to them talk about it you can tell why they liked it, they're wearing their nerd hearts on their sleeves. Which isn't a bad thing: it's okay to like a movie!
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 02:56 |
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Tender Bender posted:it's okay to like a movie! Tell that to the Internet!
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 03:30 |
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The Vosgian Beast posted:I'm kind of predicting that Suicide Squad will be somewhere between entertaining to mediocre, and regardless of its actual quality, the internet will rush to declare it the worst film ever created before the first group even leaves the theater. On the other hand Deadpool, Ant Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy seemed to mostly get by unscathed once they came out and Suicide Squad seems much more in that wheelhouse rather than a movie like Batman v Suparman that was trying so hard to be taken seriously and set up a franchise.
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 03:40 |
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Guy Mann posted:On the other hand Deadpool, Ant Man, and Guardians of the Galaxy seemed to mostly get by unscathed once they came out and Suicide Squad seems much more in that wheelhouse rather than a movie like Batman v Suparman that was trying so hard to be taken seriously and set up a franchise. Kind of. Ant-Man and GotG were pretty firmly PG-13 adventure movies with campy cheesy humor as a selling point, whereas Suicide Squad is going for "edgy" and we all know it's really fuckin' hard to do "edgy" well, especially in the superhero genre. Personally I think SS is gonna be fine, but it's not like there isn't reason for concern. Jared Leto's stink is all over it and he's got what you'd charitably call an "inconsistent track record".
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 03:51 |
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I think misogynists getting angry about Ghostbusters is going to make that movie's impact more tolerable, because the other people who will dislike it will be consciously trying to not overstate things to sound like MRAsprecision posted:Kind of. Ant-Man and GotG were pretty firmly PG-13 adventure movies with campy cheesy humor as a selling point, whereas Suicide Squad is going for "edgy" and we all know it's really fuckin' hard to do "edgy" well, especially in the superhero genre. I mean it's only edgy compared to the standard MCU bowl of Lucky Charms
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 04:08 |
Am I going nuts or has Andrew told that story about running into the costume guy with his head off before?
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 13:07 |
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Illinois Smith posted:Am I going nuts or has Andrew told that story about running into the costume guy with his head off before? He did, but I don't remember which episode it was.
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 14:06 |
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Evil Mastermind posted:He did, but I don't remember which episode it was. Space Jam, I think?
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 14:26 |
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Bryan!
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# ? Jun 7, 2016 18:13 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 22:32 |
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Who's the guy who pronounces mutant as mu-TAHNT and villain as vil-LANE? It bothers me.
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# ? Jun 8, 2016 01:57 |