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I finished The Wire this weekend, and I really like how it ended. A fitting wrap-up for a great show. My ranking is officially 2>4>3>5>1. I started Fargo season 2 yesterday, and it's really funny that its biggest influence is obviously DePalma, not the Coen Bros. Still enjoying it, and the cast is loving loaded between Dunst, Wilson, Offerman, my dude Donovan, and that neo-Nazi from Breaking Bad.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:"When they go low, we go high" is an ideology that cost Democrats the Presidency and a shitton of down-ballot positions. You can't use ideas, reason, or truth against a 38-year-old Macklemore lookalike who thinks Black people should literally be wiped from the face of the earth. Yeah the high ground is fine when everyone agrees it's where you should be but clearly the right doesn't give a poo poo so the democrats positioning themselves to be "morally superior" (whatever that means) is just walking into a trap. That poo poo failed and has been failing for years. It's time to fight and get active not tut tut about mores and decency. quote:This one is my favorite so far oooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh mmmmmmmyyyyyyyyyyyu gaaaaawd
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Coaaab posted:Could Ebert have swayed internet opinion like that back then? He loved the Nolan Batmans and was generally mixed on previous Batman blockbusters. Ebert gave Batman '89 a 2-star rating, but gave Batman Begins and The Dark Knight 4-star ratings. I think Rises got 2 1/2 stars. Rises is a mess. Even in IMAX, which I think makes any movie better, I had the feeling I was watching a rough cut of a movie that never went through final editing stages.
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Jan 23, 2017 15:43
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the Ceremony one is pretty perfect: https://twitter.com/noimjory/status/822630772326694912
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Jan 23, 2017 15:46
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:the Ceremony one is pretty perfect: I need more metal/hardcore videos of this dickweed getting clocked in the jaw. Hell, even one set to Angel of Death.
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Jan 23, 2017 15:53
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X-Ray Pecs posted:"When they go low, we go high" is an ideology that cost Democrats the Presidency and a shitton of down-ballot positions. You can't use ideas, reason, or truth against a 38-year-old Macklemore lookalike who thinks Black people should literally be wiped from the face of the earth. But did the dems do that even? I mean, they certainly focused their sights on the higher strata of society.
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Jan 23, 2017 16:01
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Honest Thief posted:In the case of Nazis like this dude, as much as pain me to admit, Woody Allen was right. They didn't. "Where they campaign, we don't" cost them their party.
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Jan 23, 2017 16:20
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"if you punch a nazi, don't u sort of become a nazi? and if you burn a limo, don't u sort of become a limo?" "I burned a limo once and now, since then, rich men are inside me all the time"
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Jan 23, 2017 16:26
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Hat Thoughts posted:I take your word 100% on this because not only did you mention a book, but your avatar is the kind where it's like...drat this guy reads the books. If you weren't aware it's abolitionist and martyr John Brown
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Jan 23, 2017 17:20
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Egbert Souse posted:Yo, the GBS Inaguration Candid Camera thread is great. CNN has a gigapixel image up that you can zoom in on. I found the only person in the entire crowd with the correct expression on her face: 
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Jan 23, 2017 17:36
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A scream of terror or a yawn of boredom or maybe a yawn of terror
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Jan 23, 2017 17:38
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Spatulater bro! posted:I found the only person in the entire crowd with the correct expression on her face:
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Jan 23, 2017 17:45
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:"if you punch a nazi, don't u sort of become a nazi? and if you burn a limo, don't u sort of become a limo?" not emptyquoting to show my appreciation of this joke
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Jan 23, 2017 17:48
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long-rear end nips Diane posted:not emptyquoting to show my appreciation of this joke New episode of Chapo baby
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Jan 23, 2017 18:02
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Patriot's Day is loving incredible.
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Jan 23, 2017 18:46
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I enjoy this punch video myself. https://twitter.com/donswaynos/status/822806687207870464
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Jan 23, 2017 19:01
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Reading Senator Pettigrew's 1898 speech against the annexation of Hawaii and it's loving badass cause in the beginning dude is just railing hard against imperialism and plutocracy. It's crazy to read poo poo that's over 100 years old, that's prophetic in its warnings against corporate oligarchy and the consequences of becoming an empire. It totally turns into a turd tho once he simultaneously speaks in defense of the indigenous peoples autonomy while scare-mongering the senate with bizarre race science and praise of Japan's homogenous population. Fun fact: dude got charged with the Espionage Act in 1917 for speaking out against corporate interests leading us into WWI. He's a really strange anomaly of anti-corporate proto-libertarianism.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:02
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Patriot's Day is loving incredible. I think I prefer Deepwater Horizon, but, yeah, it's a pretty raw experience. What would you say was your favorite scene?
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Jan 23, 2017 19:05
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Patriot's Day is loving incredible. now that's a movie I'm guaranteed never to see.
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Jan 23, 2017 19:18
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Patriot's Day is loving incredible. Elaborate
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Jan 23, 2017 19:27
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wyoming posted:Good if you were looking to be converted by them, I suppose. I disagree. Like Catfish pointed out, peer pressure is a major factor in changing opinions, especially for people who haven't really examined their own perspectives critically before. I'm not saying join the young republicans or something, but minds can be changed. FishBulb posted:Elaborate Peter Berg has never made bad movie, unless Deepwater or The Kingdom are bad I haven't seen them. His pedigree is enough that I'm interested despite a premise I couldn't give a poo poo about. DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Hat Thoughts posted:is any1 watching snl?? The answer to this has been "no" for at least 10 years.
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DeimosRising posted:Peter Berg has never made bad movie, unless Deepwater or The Kingdom are bad I haven't seen them. His pedigree is enough that I'm interested despite a premise I couldn't give a poo poo about. He didn't direct it, but watching Peter Berg act in Great White Hype is great. I like him in Wes Craven's Shocker too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8UgLWn9LHY ruddiger fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Jan 23, 2017 20:20
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I finished The Wire this weekend, and I really like how it ended. A fitting wrap-up for a great show. My ranking is officially 2>4>3>5>1. People who hate season 2 Just Don't Get It. You ever Watch Homicide? I kinda love that show.
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Jan 23, 2017 20:23
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Lurdiak posted:People who hate season 2 Just Don't Get It. I thought season 2 was often considered as the best/second best season. People hate that season? I loved it because it was the most focused, it just tackled two sides of one crime, and the efforts to get one over on the other guys. I have not seen Homicide, it was also a Simon show, right?
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Jan 23, 2017 20:26
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DeimosRising posted:Peter Berg has never made bad movie Is Hancock considered not bad now? I'm like 1/4 on actually liking Peter Berg movies..
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Jan 23, 2017 20:34
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Hancock is okay. It's not perfect, and suffers a lot for trying to have its cake and eat it too, but it's a fairly enjoyable movie.
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Jan 23, 2017 20:43
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I thought season 2 was often considered as the best/second best season. People hate that season? I loved it because it was the most focused, it just tackled two sides of one crime, and the efforts to get one over on the other guys. He had a hand in it and it's what got him into television but his biggest contribution was writing the book it was based off of. A lot of little bits in The Wire also came from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. I read it shortly after finishing The Wire a couple years ago, which was fun.
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Jan 23, 2017 20:54
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Oh man, you guys all probably already knew this, but the Magnificent Seven remake suuuuuuucks.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:now that's a movie I'm guaranteed never to see. It's wonderfully pure capitalism - a bunch of people die and some producer's eyeballs turn into big $$ signs.
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Jan 23, 2017 21:02
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Lonesome Rhodes screamin' "SAY YOURE GONNA LOVE ME LOVE ME LOVE ME"
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Magic Hate Ball posted:It's wonderfully pure capitalism - a bunch of people die and some producer's eyeballs turn into big $$ signs. I just know there's no way a movie by Peter Berg of all people is going to be more interesting than actually being at the marathon when the bombing happened and subsequently being stuck in my girlfriend's apartment during the lockdown & manhunt. poo poo was pretty wild.
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Hancock is good because Eddie Marsan is in it.
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Escobarbarian posted:Going to a 20th anniversary screening of Gummo. Not sure if there's even a point in seeing this movie in 35mm but let's find out! I feel like the print could be all kinds of hosed up. This actually ended up being the best quality 35mm print of an old movie I've ever seen. Presumably because nobody ever wants to show it. Escobarbarian fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jan 23, 2017 |
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I just know there's no way a movie by Peter Berg of all people is going to be more interesting than actually being at the marathon when the bombing happened and subsequently being stuck in my girlfriend's apartment during the lockdown & manhunt. poo poo was pretty wild. Well, it's not supposed to be very wild. Stylistically and thematically, it's much closer to Spotlight.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I just know there's no way a movie by Peter Berg of all people is going to be more interesting than actually being at the marathon when the bombing happened and subsequently being stuck in my girlfriend's apartment during the lockdown & manhunt. poo poo was pretty wild. I'm imagining the bombers as looking like the Libyans from Back to the Future rubbing their hands together and cackling while a brace American jogger gasps and yells, you dirty muslims will never get away with hurting America!" while she clutches a crucifix hung around her neck and flies buzz around the bombers, whose complexions get darker in every shot and whose noses get bigger and more hooked on every close-up. Also a scene where angel-faced white cherubic child Martin Richard asks his parents why people hurt each other. And one where people finishing the race run past the finish line directly into blood donation booths that are already set up, and one where a gutless federal bureaucrat in a bunker, his face hidden by shadows and lighting, refuses a request to send in the marines to get those dirty terrorists. Also a scene where the one bomber guy hits his wife for wanting to go to community college, and one where the MIT cop who died sits down for dinner with his girlfriend and reflects on how happy he is, right before his shift begins. "Don't worry, honey," he says, "I definitely won't be killed by terrorists."
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X-Ray Pecs posted:
Yes and no. It was based upon Simon's book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (which is essential reading, and several cases in the first two seasons are drawn from it), but Simon wasn't as directly involved in it as he was with The Wire. Simon spent a lot of time on the set, wrote maybe a half-dozen scripts and consulted on stories (and I think he had a producer credit during the last season or two), but Homicide was much more a Tom Fontana and Paul Attanasio show. The Wire is Simon's baby from cradle to grave. That said, Homicide is the best television show of the 1990s, full stop.
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The bombers are actually portrayed basically as more competent versions of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The movie really isn't hawkish at all, even though it necessarily portrays hawkish characters. But it's incredibly poetic in its un-packaging the question of 'radicalization' - how there really is no consistency with the superficial content of Islam and the more banal conspiracy theories that the brothers also espouse, such as 9/11 being an inside job, despite their ultimate plot still pertaining to taking their mission to New York City. The two guys playing the brothers are just so loving good. This may be the best depiction of radicalized young men since Paradise Now.
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