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The oddest thing about the Reacher novels aren't the novels themselves, but the fact that there's a second series of novels, by a completely different author, about investigators trying to track down Jack Reacher.
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Pigbuster posted:Feet are a bit of a taboo body part since they smell and look goofy so you kinda see a lot of that kinda thing in grossout kid's media alongside stuff like boogers and farts. Both grossout jokes and fetishes are often about breaking taboos, so the latter can look just like the former as long as it isn't blatantly explicit. It's only in retrospect, looking back and seeing just how often he did it, that it starts to look really iffy. Oh sorry I wasn’t clear, I meant for the YouTube thing.
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Nov 15, 2018 01:32
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The main thing I know about Lee Child is that he smokes weed, which makes him the coolest boilerplate paperback novelist by default
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Nov 15, 2018 01:37
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Werner Herzog was the best part of Jack Reacher https://youtu.be/yJKbNfGBtnM
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Nov 15, 2018 01:38
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whydirt posted:Werner Herzog was the best part of Jack Reacher Yup. The first movie is a lot of fun. Cruise is good in the role, Herzog rules as the villain, and you didn't really have the burden of expectations going in. The problem with the sequel is that it couldn't keep up the first installment's weird energy.
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Nov 15, 2018 01:41
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whydirt posted:Werner Herzog was the best part of Jack Reacher
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Fart City posted:Yup. The first movie is a lot of fun. Cruise is good in the role, Herzog rules as the villain, and you didn't really have the burden of expectations going in. The problem with the sequel is that it couldn't keep up the first installment's weird energy. It also has what is arguably Jai Courtenay's strongest performance to date!
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Nov 15, 2018 02:00
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porfiria posted:It also has what is arguably Jai Courtenay's strongest performance to date! Yea because he has like five lines in the whole movie, then gets completely owned by Reacher.
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Nov 15, 2018 02:02
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It's really not enough to call a movie Jack Reacher or John Carter and expect people to muster the energy to watch them sight unseen. John Wick gets by because the first thing you learn about it is that it's about a guy who avenges his dog, which is a great hook. Mortdecai would have made money if it were released in 1975 and its lead-actor wasn't a walking-oval office who people tired of years ago.
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Nov 15, 2018 02:04
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The MSJ posted:That's Jack Ryan. They absolutely should make another Pokemon movie that's exactly Real Steel with Hugh Jackman except instead of a robot it's a bunch of fighting type Pokemon. Edit: And nobody say Real Steelix, aside from the pun that would not be a suitable mon
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Nov 15, 2018 02:05
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I've read three Jack Reacher books and remember nothing about them except that Reacher beats the poo poo out of an astounding number of people. Apparently, Dwayne Johnson was initially considered for the lead of the film adaptation (and is a huge fan of the book series). I think that might have been better than the Cruise version we got.
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Nov 15, 2018 02:13
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Inspector Gesicht posted:It's really not enough to call a movie Jack Reacher or John Carter and expect people to muster the energy to watch them sight unseen. John Wick gets by because the first thing you learn about it is that it's about a guy who avenges his dog, which is a great hook. Mortdecai would have made money if it were released in 1975 and its lead-actor wasn't a walking-oval office who people tired of years ago. It took me pretty much a year to see John Wick just because of that first name, last name title.
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Nov 15, 2018 02:16
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If you pay any attention to movie trailers at all you definitely would've been hyped to see John Wick because they did a really good one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AUmvWm5ZDQ
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Nov 15, 2018 02:21
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Friends Are Evil posted:It took me pretty much a year to see John Wick just because of that first name, last name title. Yeah, being a FATAL and Friends regular, to hear the name John Wick is often one of caution.
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Nov 15, 2018 02:59
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Young Freud posted:Yeah, being a FATAL and Friends regular, to hear the name John Wick is often one of caution. I will never stop laughing about that coincidence.
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Nov 15, 2018 03:04
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Friends Are Evil posted:It took me pretty much a year to see John Wick just because of that first name, last name title. I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog.
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Nov 15, 2018 05:18
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AceOfFlames posted:I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog. You've clearly never owned a dog before.
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Nov 15, 2018 05:21
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AceOfFlames posted:I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog. What the gently caress
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Nov 15, 2018 05:26
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Spoilers: it's an incredibly dumb movie that's also fairly entertaining, even if I got bored by Wick being pretty much invincible by the end.
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Nov 15, 2018 06:04
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AceOfFlames posted:I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog.
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Nov 15, 2018 06:42
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AceOfFlames posted:I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog. If it helps, it's not just a dog, it's a dog his wife got him as a parting gift as she was dying of cancer.
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Nov 15, 2018 06:48
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AceOfFlames posted:I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog. I hate dogs and I still think it was OK. Not as good as the second one though.
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Nov 15, 2018 06:49
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:If it helps, it's not just a dog, it's a dog his wife got him as a parting gift as she was dying of cancer. They also beat the poo poo out of him and take his car. All right after his wife died.
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Nov 15, 2018 07:09
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Basebf555 posted:If you pay any attention to movie trailers at all you definitely would've been hyped to see John Wick because they did a really good one. I was also in a phase where I barely watched films in theaters or trailers for them when it originally came out, but the name was the nail in the coffin for me.
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Nov 15, 2018 07:17
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:If it helps, it's not just a dog, it's a dog his wife got him as a parting gift as she was dying of cancer. If my SO was dying the last thing I’d want would be for her to give me something I’d have to take care of. I’d probably be too depressed to do so and hand the dog over to the nearest shelter. Rageaholic Monkey posted:Are you incapable of feeling attachment or what I asked for a dog multiple times as a kid and was always told no because my mom didn’t want me to get attached to it only to get sad when it died. Good move. Vince MechMahon posted:They also beat the poo poo out of him and take his car. All right after his wife died. That is somewhat more understandable but still. I know fridging is problematic and revenge for a dead wife is kinda old hat at this point but everyone freaking out about a dog? I don’t get it. I see more people outraged about dogs dying in movies than humans dying. Makes no sense. Human death is a much greater tragedy. AceOfFlames fucked around with this message at 08:37 on Nov 15, 2018 |
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Nov 15, 2018 08:35
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Dogs are cool. Humans, by and large, are not.
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Nov 15, 2018 08:40
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You’ll never have an argument that will ever satisfy you.
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Nov 15, 2018 08:42
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And the point for giving John a dog after her death is to keep John as a caring and loving person. His wife was keeping him from his previous career. That dog is a lesser step but once that is gone, and the car, that sends him way over the top. It’s not as cut and dry and some say but imo it’s fun that someone did a dog revenge movie with such a high body count.
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Nov 15, 2018 08:47
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AceOfFlames posted:If my SO was dying the last thing I’d want would be for her to give me something I’d have to take care of. I’d probably be too depressed to do so and hand the dog over to the nearest shelter. maybe it helps to know that Wick used to be an assassin and got out of the business because he met his wife. It's not some schlub becoming King Headshot because some guys killed his dog. It's about idiots incurring the wrath of Old Testament God after God had initially vowed not to do that smiting poo poo anymore. And then he smites them, right in the head.
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Nov 15, 2018 09:12
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You only have to see the Leguizamo scene to understand the whole movie.
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Nov 15, 2018 09:29
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It's a good thing they didn't get a really tall person for the first Jack Reacher movie, because this scene would not have worked that well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgLMSMIU124 More modern movies need slapstick like this or the Quaaludes scenes in The Wolf of Wall Street.
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Nov 15, 2018 11:20
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AceOfFlames posted:
Your mom just said this because she didn't want to be the one who took care of the dog. Sorry you were denied a decade of joy.
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Nov 15, 2018 12:45
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AceOfFlames posted:I still haven’t seen John Wick because I think it’s dumb he’s doing all of this because of a dog. I have seen John Wick exactly because it's dumb he's doing all of this because of a dog. It never stops being funny to think about, and is also part of why I didn't like the sequel.
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Nov 15, 2018 15:22
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Pigbuster posted:Feet are a bit of a taboo body part since they smell and look goofy so you kinda see a lot of that kinda thing in grossout kid's media alongside stuff like boogers and farts. Both grossout jokes and fetishes are often about breaking taboos*, so the latter can look just like the former as long as it isn't blatantly explicit. It's only in retrospect, looking back and seeing just how often he did it, that it starts to look really iffy. the circumstances of Scheinder leaving are crazy suspicious, and don't forgot someone actually came forward as a victim of his grooming.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:05
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married but discreet posted:I have seen John Wick exactly because it's dumb he's doing all of this because of a dog. It never stops being funny to think about, and is also part of why I didn't like the sequel. Yeah it’s really funny also very late stage crapitalism that blowing up John Wick’s house is somehow on the same level as the dog for an emotional hook
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Nov 15, 2018 16:12
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Didn't Schneider's period of influence at Nick involve making a ton more live action shows with teenagers? On a less disturbing note, Nickelodeon had a whole thing on some level during pretty much the entire 'splat' logo period for gross-out humour and general boundary pushing to some extent. Ren and Stimpy and its many imitators and all. Kinda funny looking back in retrospect that shows like I Am Weasel and Cow & Chicken were CN's answer to Ren and Stimpy's popularity. I wonder if you can trace influence from there to Adult Swim.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:12
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Didn't Schneider's period of influence at Nick involve making a ton more live action shows with teenagers? That was his entire stock in trade. That (along with Spongebob) was basically the Nick brand for most of the past 15 years or so. Family Guy made a joke about it.
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Nov 15, 2018 16:14
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Didn't Schneider's period of influence at Nick involve making a ton more live action shows with teenagers? It all comes from You Can’t Do That On Television, probably. That’s where slime comes from. There’s an excellent video about it and its creepy producer Roger Price from fellow goon Poparena: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl44gvb8b9E
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Nov 15, 2018 16:18
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Brother Entropy posted:is being a certain height an important part of those books or something I've not seen the movie or read the books, but my mum complained about how Jack Reacher was supposed to be tall and didn't want to see the film because of it. No idea if she ever did. I also didn't see John Wick for ages, but now I think it's the best action movie of the decade (I like it more than Mad Max: Fury Road, even).
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Taintrunner posted:Yeah it’s really funny also very late stage crapitalism that blowing up John Wick’s house is somehow on the same level as the dog for an emotional hook It's the pictures and memories in them, not the house. They're obliterated.
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