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TOOT BOOT posted:People still read Time Magazine? The only time I ever hear about that magazine or any of their journalism is like one day a year when they announce person of the year I saw a Time magazine while I was waiting in line at a Walgreens today and it was a whole issue about Donald Trump. I thumbed through it quickly and saw and article called "How to raise optimistic children in a pessimistic world" or something like that. WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE!
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Timby posted:As if Bezos wasn't bad enough, now Marc Benioff, the founder of Salesforce, is buying Time Magazine. On the upside, Time Magazine hasn't been relevant in decades
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CPL593H posted:I saw a Time magazine while I was waiting in line at a Walgreens today and it was a whole issue about Donald Trump. I thumbed through it quickly and saw and article called "How to raise optimistic children in a pessimistic world" or something like that. To be fair, if I was the parent of a young child that's something I'd probably wonder about.
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Skwirl posted:To be fair, if I was the parent of a young child that's something I'd probably wonder about. The best advice you can give a child now is "Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed.".
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CPL593H posted:The best advice you can give a child now is "Dehumanize yourself and face to bloodshed.". Hand your child a goalie mask on their sixth birthday and train them to become the lord humongous
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CPL593H posted:WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE! Just gonna take this opportunity to recommend the podcast What A Time to Be Alive since it’s one of my favorites. Carry on
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Skwirl posted:To be fair, if I was the parent of a young child that's something I'd probably wonder about. to most of my recently parent friends I just try and be supportive, and not bugout bag crazy "you need to learn how to make your own irrigation system"
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Oh poo poo, unironic usage It was The Exorcist, by the way.
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Lol if you don't raise your children to be urban guerillas in the future war against capital.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Lol if you don't raise your children to be urban guerillas in the future war against capital. Can my son still wear his Hulk costume? Like, to confuse the enemy?
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Sep 17, 2018 13:26
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Did we ever have a thread on the Dekalog? I'd love to read people's thoughts on some of the episodes.
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How about Liamsploitation, which capitalises on Liam Neeson's post-Taken reinvention as an action star whose movies always look like they're DTV even when they're getting theatrical releases? 
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Samuel Clemens posted:Did we ever have a thread on the Dekalog? I'd love to read people's thoughts on some of the episodes.
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Yeah, just went ahead and made one. Feel free to join. Though the SA thread title system doesn't seem to like the ´symbol. If you could fix that GonSmithe, I'd be much obliged.
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Wheat Loaf posted:Which do people like better - Predator or Die Hard? Die Hard, it’s a flawless script. The first act of Predator is a drag. Dissapointed Owl posted:Die Hard is a tighter a flick, and that's without slighting Predator much. This is a pretty fun comment because Die Hard is almost a half hour longer than Predator.
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Samuel Clemens posted:Did we ever have a thread on the Dekalog? I'd love to read people's thoughts on some of the episodes.
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Wheat Loaf posted:How about Liamsploitation, which capitalises on Liam Neeson's post-Taken reinvention as an action star whose movies always look like they're DTV even when they're getting theatrical releases? Old white men will literally watch any movie of you put an old white man with a gun on the cover. Bonus points for a sexy lady young enough to be his daughter.
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Coffee And Pie posted:Old white men will literally watch any movie of you put an old white man with a gun on the cover. Bonus points for a sexy lady young enough to be his daughter. Harry Brown is probably the quintessential example of this.
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Wheat Loaf posted:How about Liamsploitation, which capitalises on Liam Neeson's post-Taken reinvention as an action star whose movies always look like they're DTV even when they're getting theatrical releases? Yeah, I feel like a lot of Wixploitation ends up getting mixed-in/conflated with a longer standing cycle of Liamsploitation. Like, you could argue that The Equalizer is Wixploitation, except it actually came out in the same year as John Wick. And both films, in their portrayals of older gentlemen being these hyper-competent, individual agents of brutalizing violence, are very much descendent of Taken. Meanwhile, I think you could argue that the upcoming Peppermint is both explicitly Liamsploitation as well as Wixploitation.
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The Equalizer is itself an adaptation of a television series from the 80s about an ageing retired spy who solves problems for people to make amends for his dark past.
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Coaaab posted:I was briefly digging through archives to see if one could actually be found, and man, this forum used to care a lot more about michael haneke I remember SubG having an extremely long argument with someone in the Horror thread about the failure of Funny Games as a didactic work a few years ago. It went on for pages, mostly because the other guy didn't seem entirely sure himself what point he was trying to make other than "it's good".
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I really like Ray Dennis Steckler's weird rear end movies. Incredibly Strange Creatures... is fascinating and oddly beautiful at certain moments (iirc there's a dream sequence that feels ripped from Kenneth Anger, but it's been awhile since I've seen it). Anyway, I'll take it to the Mandy thread but I saw it as a midnight Saturday and drat, y'all weren't kidding. There's times where it gets a bit too Heavy Metal (the movie/mag I mean) but drat if it isn't the perfect thing to see on the big screen when you're half-asleep delirious.
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K. Waste posted:Yeah, I feel like a lot of Wixploitation ends up getting mixed-in/conflated with a longer standing cycle of Liamsploitation. Like, you could argue that The Equalizer is Wixploitation, except it actually came out in the same year as John Wick. And both films, in their portrayals of older gentlemen being these hyper-competent, individual agents of brutalizing violence, are very much descendent of Taken. And really, aren't the Neeson films a part of the greater Bronsploitation movement derived from Death Wish and its follow-ups?
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I ate some edibles on Saturday night and it turned Valerian into a good movie? It did not, however, turn Battle of Sevastopol into a good movie (despite an unexpected appearance by Woodie Guthrie!!). It's a film in which the message of the first hour is "woman killing fascists is good" and the message of the second hour is "but she needs to be fixed by some good dick". Still has a funny montage of Nazi killing set to Guthrie's Miss Pavlichenko.
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I Before E posted:And really, aren't the Neeson films a part of the greater Bronsploitation movement derived from Death Wish and its follow-ups? I'll grant the Neeson thing as a broader category that Wixploitation is largely building off of, but frankly I don't think they have a lot in common with Death Wish and related. The key difference is that, in Death Wish, Paul Kersey isn't a violent person or in any way skilled in it from the get-go. He's a loving architect, not a veteran or hitman or police officer or superspy; when he begins his revenge (at least in the 1974 movie), it's consciously depicted as awkward as hell and Kersey is not shown to be fully comfortable with what he's doing. Contrast with Taken, in which Neeson is established as someone you would absolutely not want to gently caress with from practically the first scene, or John Wick, which establishes the protagonist as a legendary hitman before the dog is even touched. The thing that separates these movies from your average vigilante movie is that the antagonists are, essentially, waking a sleeping giant rather than pushing a normal dude over the edge; it's more comparable to The Punisher, who in most incarnations is a decorated veteran well before any revenge becomes necessary, or Mack Bolan, who's basically a fictionalized crazy-person version of Carlos Hathcock.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:The key difference is that, in Death Wish, Paul Kersey isn't a violent person or in any way skilled in it from the get-go. He's a loving architect, not a veteran or hitman or police officer or superspy; when he begins his revenge (at least in the 1974 movie), it's consciously depicted as awkward as hell and Kersey is not shown to be fully comfortable with what he's doing. Had he not been in Korea in the first movie or was that added for the sequels? In any event, I feel like the Death Wish sequels - particularly Death Wish 3 - can sometimes colour perceptions of the first movie, which I think is slightly less of an outright revenge fantasy than it's sometimes regarded as being.
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I really don't feel John Wick is remotely unique enough to justify it's own sub genre name
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If you can find another neon soaked head shooting revenge series, I’m all for it.
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axelblaze posted:I really don't feel John Wick is remotely unique enough to justify it's own sub genre name Yeah, same.
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So what is the current status of MoviePass and its restrictions? Are there movies still blocked from the app? Are they limiting the number of movies you can see, etc.?
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CelticPredator posted:If you can find another neon soaked head shooting revenge series, I’m all for it. Pretty much Nicolas Winding Refn's entire filmography.
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Thing about The Purge and John Wick as reference points is that while they're certainly more recent and quality examples of their respective genres, neither is inventing something all that new. The Purge has certainly shown itself to be influential, but it's absolutely in the vain of Death Race 2000 and the myriad of American near-future dystopia films, while John Wick is even less unique as you can directly position it within the broader and more common revenge genre. Even its bright visuals had been in formation for several years, with Dredd, Refn's work, and plenty of other films already brought up here. Again, both movies are excellent in their own right, but I think coining "sploitation" terms for them is putting the cart before the horse. Something like the Blumhouse style, however (which The Purge is a part of), I think can be better defined. As a production company their films -- including Upgrade -- seem to share stylistic similarities in their dialogue, premises, and visuals. There will be a good book written about that company in 20 years.
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TrixRabbi posted:Pretty much Nicolas Winding Refn's entire filmography. Don’t remember a lot of head shots in those movies.
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CelticPredator posted:Don’t remember a lot of head shots in those movies. I remember one very big one.
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:So what is the current status of MoviePass and its restrictions? Are there movies still blocked from the app? Are they limiting the number of movies you can see, etc.? On a given day there’s a list of movies you can use it on. A few weeks ago it was like two movies at a time but today it’s most of the stuff in theaters besides The Predator. You can only use it three times in a month and only once on a given title.
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John Wick is in the gun ballet genre, going back to HK films from the 80s. It's not a new thing.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:On a given day there’s a list of movies you can use it on. A few weeks ago it was like two movies at a time but today it’s most of the stuff in theaters besides The Predator. You can only use it three times in a month and only once on a given title. Thanks. I'd want to use it on A Simple Favor but it hasn't shown up on the app and I didn't know if there were some shenanigans with it. I also didn't know if there's some weird blacklisting/algorithm involved because when I search for it on Google the showtimes aren't automatically the first thing up unlike any other current release title I type in
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Hey y’all our friend needs some help https://twitter.com/seespotgoranger/status/1041768395618877441
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Mechafunkzilla posted:John Wick is in the gun ballet genre, going back to HK films from the 80s. It's not a new thing. It's very obvious that the directors watched a poo poo ton of John Woo growing up.
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