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Fart City posted:
Were his hands the size of California Condors?
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Nov 16, 2018 23:22
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MonsieurChoc posted:I want a movie where Batista plays a smart professor or something. Because he had glasses in Blade Runner and I think he could pull it off and it would be funny. Batista and Dolph Lundgren as the Professor Brothers in the live action thrill ride China, IL: Summa Cum Fully Loaded
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Nov 16, 2018 23:37
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Jack Reacher, Jack Reacher Twenty foot tall espionage creature Opponents beware, Opponents beware He's coming, he's coming, he's coming. DoctorWhat fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Nov 16, 2018 |
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Nov 16, 2018 23:39
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I watched the new Fantastic Beasts movie and apparently Wizard Hitler's goal is to stop Real Hitler. They didn't outright say Dumbledore is gay, but the non-sexual stuff they show him doing with Grindelwald sure is gay. Also he's the best-dessed guy in the movie.
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Nov 17, 2018 00:09
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Colostomy Bag posted:Were his hands the size of California Condors? Watch out buddy, you're talking about "Demo" Dick Marcinko there, aka The Shark Man Of The Delta. No but seriously, Rogue Warrior is the worst kind of jingoistic trash. The main character is "based" on the author (who really was a special ops guy in Vietnam - and later got sent to jail on fraud charges because "the man didn't like what I had to say"), but regularly has him doing poo poo like fist fighting Al-Qaeda on top of the Vatican. That is not hyperbole.
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Nov 17, 2018 00:43
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Fart City posted:Watch out buddy, you're talking about "Demo" Dick Marcinko there, aka The Shark Man Of The Delta. They can never help themselves. I read 'The Men with Green Faces' a couple of years ago, and while it's mostly pretty sensible milporn, it ends with the chief navy seal using his karate against an NVA officers Tae Kwon Do. No, it is not explained why a Vietnamese guy does Tae Kwon Do. Basebf555 posted:If you want to see a major influence on John Wick check out Le Samourai. Le Cercle Rouge is brought up more often because of the specific reference to it in the movie, but I think there's more of Le Samourai's DNA in there as far as Melville influences. Suzuki Seijun too, stuff like 'Tokyo Drifter' or 'The Youth of the Beast' Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 01:09 on Nov 17, 2018 |
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Nov 17, 2018 01:05
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Colostomy Bag posted:Were his hands the size of California Condors? No but in every book he is losing a fight then remembers that he bench presses 200lbs one hundred times every day and then wins the fight
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Nov 17, 2018 01:46
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Fart City posted:I mean Reeves is 54, so it still kind of works. I don’t remember, did they ever firmly nail down how long he’s been retired in the movies? The bartender says she hasn’t seen him in 4 years, so probably around that long.
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Nov 17, 2018 07:08
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Colostomy Bag posted:Were his hands the size of California Condors? If the book is anything like the game voiced by Mickey Rourke, his hands are big loving commie-killing cocksucker stranglers, I believe.
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Nov 17, 2018 07:11
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Alan Smithee posted:I dont know how I felt about Road to Perdition. Felt weirdly lifeless to me for all its accoutrements That's how I feel about Sam Mendes in general.
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Nov 17, 2018 10:13
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Fart City posted:Watch out buddy, you're talking about "Demo" Dick Marcinko there, aka The Shark Man Of The Delta. I met Dick Marcinko for a few seconds at a GameStop conference in like 2009 or 10 because the very very very long delayed and completely awful Rogue Warrior video game was finally coming out. It was supposed to launch with the 360 but I guess for quality/book timing/whatever reasons it kept getting pushed back and bouncing from dev to dev. Anyway I got an autographed free copy of one of his books which I threw away the same day and he kept greeting everyone by going up to anyone coming by the table shaking one's hand while handing them a book, and boldly stating HEY KID......I'M THE ROOOGUE WARRRIOR™. I want to say it was 2009 because I remember that it was within the time period where SquareEnix bought Eidos and WBIE became a thing but before Arkham city came out so I had to go to like five different publisher presentations where each one was acting like they, personally, coded and created every aspect of Batman: Arkham Asylum. 
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Nov 17, 2018 15:42
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I'm torn over this.
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Nov 17, 2018 17:21
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I honestly love the Val Kilmer film. Everyone's engaging in it, it gave the world Rade Serbedzija, the villains were prescient and now frighteningly familiar and the soundtrack is pure '90s EDM. I swear to God that, when I die, I want Superior's "Polaroid Millennium" to be the last thing I hear. Instead of smashing my wristwatch across the rocks to tell everyone when I died, it will be a MP3 player timed so the last lines are "these four walls are lost forever/I could never be that clever". That's such a great outro song.
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Nov 17, 2018 19:40
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One of the weirder old hollywood things is in the original Saint series, the main actor George Sanders left to do the series The Falcon which was functionally identical to The Saint (to the point where they got sued), then he left that series but instead of recasting The Falcon they invented his brother and killed him off, the brother was played by Sanders's actual brother.
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Nov 17, 2018 19:52
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Maybe this could be the start of ITC Action-Adventure Show Reboot Shared Extended Cinematic Movie Universe. Your post-credits scene is Chris Pratt as Simon Templar going back to his house and being confronted by a man in a bowler with a brolly played by Tom Hiddleston saying he's here to talk to him about the Avengers Initiative.
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Nov 17, 2018 20:21
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Wheat Loaf posted:Maybe this could be the start of ITC Action-Adventure Show Reboot Shared Extended Cinematic Movie Universe. Really, it won't take off until they do an Action Man/Secret Agent Man with Tom Hardy as John Drake, which inevitably turns into The Prisoner. Also, you gotta throw in Space: 1999 and UFO in there as well.
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Nov 17, 2018 20:36
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Young Freud posted:Really, it won't take off until they do an Action Man/Secret Agent Man with Tom Hardy as John Drake, which inevitably turns into The Prisoner. Of course you'd need to get CGI Peter Wyngarde to play Jason King because nobody else could.
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Nov 18, 2018 00:29
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davidspackage posted:If the book is anything like the game voiced by Mickey Rourke, his hands are big loving commie-killing cocksucker stranglers, I believe. So they're for strangling commie-killing cocksuckers?
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Nov 18, 2018 00:36
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The MSJ posted:I watched the new Fantastic Beasts movie and apparently Wizard Hitler's goal is to stop Real Hitler. Everything I’ve heard about this just makes me more and more baffled. Did Centrist Disease finally infect J.K. Rowling’s writing?
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Nov 18, 2018 01:16
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Friends Are Evil posted:Everything I’ve heard about this just makes me more and more baffled. Did Centrist Disease finally infect J.K. Rowling’s writing? She’s always been a third-way liberal galaxy brain, at least on twitter. Dumbledore being gay but not being “in your face about it” is exactly her kind of rainbow capitalism.
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Nov 18, 2018 01:20
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:She’s always been a third-way liberal galaxy brain, at least on twitter. Dumbledore being gay but not being “in your face about it” is exactly her kind of rainbow capitalism. Of course. What I mean is, has it infiltrated her actual stories before now?
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Nov 18, 2018 01:22
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The spoilers I read made little sense so I'll probably just end up watching it one day at a hotel like I did the last one.
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Nov 18, 2018 02:31
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:Dumbledore being gay but not being “in your face about it” is exactly her kind of rainbow capitalism. I think it's important to note that with the Dumbledore thing, the book series ended in 2007 after a decade-long run. Being able to include gay characters in kids media without coding it or attracting absolutely insane amounts of controversy is a pretty new development. The way Dumbledore is actually handled in the books is way less consistent with how you characterize it, and more consistent with Rowling probably not thinking she'd be allowed to say it outright without getting a lynch mob of fundies after her- it's pretty blindingly obvious if you're looking at all.
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Nov 18, 2018 02:53
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She’s British, fundies can’t do much to her. Oh no they might boycott a franchise they would never purchase
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Nov 18, 2018 02:54
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I liked the new harry potter, it reminds me a lot of Empire Strikes Back The worst part was seeing the new Mary Poppins trailer, it looks totally devoid of originality and Lin miranda appears to be a show-stoppingly bad actor in any scene he's in
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Nov 18, 2018 03:00
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CharlestheHammer posted:She’s British, fundies can’t do much to her. Fundies hated Harry Potter regardless for witchcraft and constantly tried to get it banned when it was first taking off. Sorcerer's Stone is still in the 100 most banned books around the globe.
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Nov 18, 2018 03:08
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Cythereal posted:Fundies hated Harry Potter regardless for witchcraft and constantly tried to get it banned when it was first taking off. Yeah trying to sell fundies on witchcraft was already a non starter, gay people ain’t gonna do poo poo
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Nov 18, 2018 03:10
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Cythereal posted:Fundies hated Harry Potter regardless for witchcraft and constantly tried to get it banned when it was first taking off. It's nice that Alabama and Saudi Arabia can find common ground like this 
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Nov 18, 2018 03:48
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If you are wondering about the big spoiler for Crimes of Grindelwald, it's about Ezra Miller's character Credence. Grindelwald told him that his real name is Aurelius Dumbledore. JK Rowling never even hinted at the character existing before this.
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Nov 18, 2018 04:19
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CharlestheHammer posted:Yeah trying to sell fundies on witchcraft was already a non starter, gay people ain’t gonna do poo poo I've lived in the absolute heart of fundie-land for all my life. As it stands, Harry Potter was only a big deal in that regard at the very outset, and as the series went on and became more widely known, everyone along those lines who wasn't a complete nut kinda went "okay, this is very clearly not teaching my children how to be wizards IRL with Satan's help, I'm grudgingly ok with this." Like, I remember watching the Prisoner of Azkaban movie with my ultra-ultra-fundie grandma when it came out on DVD (at HER suggestion), who was completely okay with it because it bore absolutely no resemblance to what most fundies understand "witchcraft" to be. (If Chilling Adventures of Sabrina had come out before she passed away, she probably would have utterly lost it with anger at that show's existence.) Making Dumbledore explicitly gay, instead of just very very heavily coded as such, would have nuked that grudging acceptance from orbit.
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Nov 18, 2018 04:27
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Though the fact that the argument has progressed to she couldn’t do it because it would cost her money is kind of exactly what the original post was accusing her of. So I’m not even sure what is being argued
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Nov 18, 2018 04:30
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The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is interesting because one of the villains is Father Blackwood who is a sexist fundie Satanist who dislikes Sabrina because her father was a progressive Satanist who banned human sacrifice and married a mortal.
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Nov 18, 2018 04:44
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I haven’t seen the latest movie but her Comoran Strike series (which she tried to write under a pseudonym) is a delightful crime airport thriller. Rowling clearly loves the characters. There are a few points where her politics and frustrations bleed through (a big part of The Silkworm is Rowling dunking on the publishing industry and “serious literary authors”) but they never make the books unreadable. A Casual Vacancy is all about local British politics and it is an absolutely atrocious book.
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Nov 18, 2018 05:48
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I think it's important to note that with the Dumbledore thing, the book series ended in 2007 after a decade-long run. Being able to include gay characters in kids media without coding it or attracting absolutely insane amounts of controversy is a pretty new development. The way Dumbledore is actually handled in the books is way less consistent with how you characterize it, and more consistent with Rowling probably not thinking she'd be allowed to say it outright without getting a lynch mob of fundies after her- it's pretty blindingly obvious if you're looking at all. Yeah depending on where you live and how old you are, it can be really shocking for a lot of folks to find out that in 2004 GWB ran a successful re-election campaign in the US with about 1\3rd to half of the messaging focusing on more or less open homophobia. Being anti-gay was a winning issue with over half the US population, less than 15 years ago. The social change we've seen since then had been massive and extremely fast. Rowling is still pretty awful of course.
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Nov 18, 2018 06:09
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Yeah depending on where you live and how old you are, it can be really shocking for a lot of folks to find out that in 2004 GWB ran a successful re-election campaign in the US with about 1\3rd to half of the messaging focusing on more or less open homophobia. Being anti-gay was a winning issue with over half the US population, less than 15 years ago. The social change we've seen since then had been massive and extremely fast. And even then, many big companies like Disney and Blizzard still don't include or recognize gay characters in their main works because that would potentially lose them money from American conservatives and parts of the world where such things are banned. Rowling's mediocre at best with her record, but she's still in plentiful company.
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Nov 18, 2018 06:17
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I Before E posted:So they're for strangling commie-killing cocksuckers? I really needed a comma there, didn't I? As Dick Marcenko would put it, that sentence was a complete goatfuck.
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Nov 18, 2018 07:24
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The MSJ posted:The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina is interesting because one of the villains is Father Blackwood who is a sexist fundie Satanist who dislikes Sabrina because her father was a progressive Satanist who banned human sacrifice and married a mortal. The way the show treats Satanism is absolutely hilarious. It's basically an ironic Chick Tract.
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Nov 18, 2018 07:42
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How dare people mention Rogue Warrior in this thread and not also mention Mickey Rourke "singing" the greatest ending theme in videogame history.
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Nov 18, 2018 11:16
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Cythereal posted:And even then, many big companies like Disney and Blizzard still don't include or recognize gay characters in their main works because that would potentially lose them money from American conservatives and parts of the world where such things are banned. Isn't Tracer confirmed gay? 
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Len posted:Isn't Tracer confirmed gay? She is yes, in a relationship and everything. But at the same time that was mentioned in a spin off comic and never brought up in game as far as I'm aware. I kinda enjoyed the Saint revival movie that is on Netflix that has both Roger Moore and Ian Ogilvy in cameos roles. But mainly due to the banter because the plot was somewhat awful.
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