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Skwirl posted:As far as we know, Seinfeld doesn't have a button under his desk to lock the door on those 17 year olds that he dates. Yeah, but NBC probably wouldn't hire a 17 year old so Matt still somehow manages to be less creepy.
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Did Seinfeld get me tooed and I missed it or something?
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Jan 6, 2019 20:15
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He dated a high schooler in the 90's.
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Teenage Fansub posted:He dated a high schooler in the 90's. #metoo
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Who didn't date a high school in the 1990's? EDIT: schoolER. I wish I was popular enough to date a whole high school. Krispy Wafer fucked around with this message at 23:00 on Jan 6, 2019 |
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Jan 6, 2019 22:53
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Krispy Wafer posted:Who didn't date a high school in the 1990's? That'd be really creepy for several posters here for the opposite reason it's creepy that Seinfeld did it.
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Jan 6, 2019 22:59
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Is the original four-hour cut of Chris Marker's A Grin Without a Cat still available anywhere? Or is the re-edited three-hour version the only one that you can watch nowadays?
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Samuel Clemens posted:Is the original four-hour cut of Chris Marker's A Grin Without a Cat still available anywhere? Or is the re-edited three-hour version the only one that you can watch nowadays? If anyone knows this answer to this I'd be very interested in this too.
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Jan 7, 2019 16:48
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Why did Mission Impossible Fallout get such good reviews? I just watched it last night and it was the most generic action movie I've ever seen. Tom Cruise plays Ethan Hunt, The Man With No Personality, who does generic action things for two hours without cracking a joke. I couldn't ever get a handle on who he was supposed to be -- the fight scene with the Asian guy was great, this guy just clowns on Hunt and Henry Cavill for like fifteen minutes, and I thought okay, this is a secret agent who's getting too old for this poo poo. (Because holy poo poo did Cruise look like a middle-aged dad with a paunch, and not someone who should be thinking about getting in kung fu fights.) But no, the next couple scenes show how Hunt is ACTUALLY a super badass who fights off multiple knife-wielding assailants with no mistakes and doesn't ever look worried. I guess the Asian guy was just an extra-super badass? So then you sit through another hour of by-the-numbers action like car chases and kicking a guy out of a helicopter without Hunt ever smiling or getting upset or saying anything interesting. I mean, it wasn't a TERRIBLE movie, but it was so blah and generic that it felt like they were writing a script for James Bond but they couldn't get the license, so they just stripped out every ounce of character and ran with it anyway. It sounds like I'm hating on Tom Cruise, but I just watched Edge of Tomorrow too, and I thought he did a great job in that (and actually looked like an action hero). Would I have liked it more if I'd seen the other Mission Impossible movies? I watched the first couple when they came out like twenty years ago. 
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I'm in the same boat in that both of McQuarrie's Mission: Impossible movies have left me feeling really quite cold. Then again, I don't think it's possible for the series to hit the high points of Ghost Protocol.
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Maxwell Lord posted:The Gamera series, not counting flashbacks. Which? The 90s Gamera flicks have both the ornithologist character Mayumi and Asagi in more than one of them DeimosRising fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Jan 8, 2019 |
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Jan 8, 2019 01:54
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Mi: falout was a plot designed around stunt scenes they thought of with little advance planning. Thats why it rules
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Mission Impossible movies are very popular overseas. So it's one of those series where the films just have to break even domestically for them to keep cranking out sequels. Kind of like Transformers. https://www.boxofficemojo.com/franchises/chart/?id=missionimpossible.htm Tom Cruise has played Ethan Hunt longer than any actor played James Bond.
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Jan 8, 2019 03:38
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Mission Impossible has always required a level of suspension of disbelief that I just couldn't reach, so they've always had a limited appeal for me. I thought Fallout was just ok until the helicopter scene, which is fuckin amazing. But I'd be satisfied with just watching the big action setpieces from these movies by themselves and save myself the hassle of having to slog through two hours of dumb plot.
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Jan 8, 2019 05:41
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I quite enjoy them because Tom Cruise has some crazy unmatched level of on screen charisma, plus watching him do all these insane stunts just makes it better. I probably couldn't recount the plot of any of the last three movies but I will swear up and down to how fun they are to watch.
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couldcareless posted:I quite enjoy them because Tom Cruise has some crazy unmatched level of on screen charisma, plus watching him do all these insane stunts just makes it better. I probably couldn't recount the plot of any of the last three movies but I will swear up and down to how fun they are to watch. I literally walked in on the free climbing scene from, idk MI:2? and was like, dang I kinda wish I was seeing this movie instead
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Jan 8, 2019 12:22
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My first and last was MI3 not because it sucked but because I don稚 know how you can top Philip Seymour Hoffman.
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I mean, you can't. MI3 is the best one. But each following entry is really solid and fun in its own way.
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Jan 8, 2019 14:09
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3 was probably my favorite, and that was a big part of why. Watched all except the first 2 in the last few months (mainly because of the Fallout hype) and yeah, Fallout got a bit overhyped. The IMAX stuff at the end was real nice tho, was waiting for those shots all film.
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MI series is great because it's got the best of the Bond style stunts and action set pieces combined with the Fast and Furious your crew is your family spirit.
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feedmyleg posted:I mean, you can't. MI3 is the best one. But each following entry is really solid and fun in its own way. It is also the latest movie I can remember with "rap theme that uses the title of the film" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk8nu6mMZOA
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Jan 8, 2019 15:27
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The only "bad" Mission: Impossible movie is the second one, and that's just because it drags and Ethan Hunt is too horny for my liking. The last act rips though.
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LesterGroans posted:The only "bad" Mission: Impossible movie is the second one, and that's just because it drags and Ethan Hunt is too horny for my liking. The last act rips though. I'm still pissed that that was one of the DVDs that was stolen when my apartment was burglarized on Christmas Day 2005.
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Timby posted:I'm still pissed that that was one of the DVDs that was stolen when my apartment was burglarized on Christmas Day 2005. That sucks. But it would be very funny if that was the only thing stolen from your apartment.
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LesterGroans posted:That sucks. But it would be very funny if that was the only thing stolen from your apartment. They stole my OG Xbox and Super Nintendo, all the video games, a leather jacket, and my frozen pizzas. They left my beer and all my video equipment and the engagement ring I gave to my ex-wife the next month. Fuckin' tweakers.
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Was number 2 the one where they couldn稚 get enough of masks that look just like other people? Because that got old after the 2nd or 3rd time they used it.
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They use it in every movie I think, it's a bit worn out tbh as it kind of opens the door to "why don't you just fix it with a mask" to a bunch of problems.
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Krispy Wafer posted:Was number 2 the one where they couldn稚 get enough of masks that look just like other people? They used masks like nearly a dozen times in the second one.
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EL BROMANCE posted:They use it in every movie I think, it's a bit worn out tbh as it kind of opens the door to "why don't you just fix it with a mask" to a bunch of problems. They turned it into a running gag that Simon Pegg never gets to wear one. But they usually only use it once a film, it was used a ton in the second.
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Yeah, the second one has a ton of masks because the villain has access to the same tech, being a rogue agent, and he uses it not just for heists but to, like, test his girlfriend's loyalty. With the third one on you start seeing scenes of the face-making machine not working right, or ID systems that masks aren't good enough for, presumably to claw back some space for spy missions where they don't solve everything with a quick 3D print.
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Ghost Protocol specifically has a gag where they can't use a mask. But then the villain is using one.
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The screenplay of 2 is such a mess they just use it every time they write themselves into a corner
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Ah #2 is the only one I haven't seen (despite owning a copy, I think I bought it second hand specifically to watch the MTV Movie Awards bit again).
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The theme song and the masks are the things that connect it to the original tv series (which it is amazingly still in continuity with).
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The first film was suppoused to end with everyone revealing they were someone else and double-crossing each other. I guess the mask-shenanigans in the second film is residue from that. It's a very De Palma touch anyway.
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The series is so old that in the first one I think the good guys used PC's and the bad guys used Macs. And the top of the line IBM laptop they used was 75mhz and had no USB ports. Oh, and it ran Windows 3.1.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The series is so old that in the first one I think the good guys used PC's and the bad guys used Macs. And the top of the line IBM laptop they used was 75mhz and had no USB ports. Oh, and it ran Windows 3.1. "Thinking machine laptops? I'm talking about the 686 prototypes, with the artificial intelligence RISC chip..."
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Timby posted:"Thinking machine laptops? I'm talking about the 686 prototypes, with the artificial intelligence RISC chip..." hahaha I知 not just talking about my pc, I知 talking about my life. I can稚 seem to get that through to you. I知 not just talking about one system, I知 talking about every user, I知 talking about form, I知 talking about content, I知 talking about interrelationships. I知 talking about Steve, Bill Gates, GNU, Linux.
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Timby posted:"Thinking machine laptops? I'm talking about the 686 prototypes, with the artificial intelligence RISC chip..." Their super secret spy list was on a floppy disk, and at one point Ethan types an email to the mole person using the address:" Max@Job 3:14" , the space is left in.
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couldcareless posted:I quite enjoy them because Tom Cruise has some crazy unmatched level of on screen charisma, plus watching him do all these insane stunts just makes it better. I probably couldn't recount the plot of any of the last three movies but I will swear up and down to how fun they are to watch. Couldn't disagree more. I thought he would have some charisma, but in Fallout he was basically completely devoid of personality. He didn't even seem that invested in the job. Stunts were pretty good, though. Pussy Quipped posted:Their super secret spy list was on a floppy disk, and at one point Ethan types an email to the mole person using the address:" Max@Job 3:14" , the space is left in. Holy poo poo, I remember that now. Yeah, I said the last MI movies I'd seen were twenty years ago, but I thought I was exaggerating. First one came out in 1996. We're getting old. 
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