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What's a bigger red flag as "favorite movie" in terms of measuring personality: Donnie Darko, Fight Club, or Atlas Shrugged?
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Jan 17, 2019 16:47
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Atlas Shrugged. You can enjoy Fight Club for multiple reasons, just as long as “Tyler Durden is so freaking cool” or “Chuck Palahniuk is such a great writer” are not ones.
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Jan 17, 2019 16:50
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Android Apocalypse posted:What's a bigger red flag as "favorite movie" in terms of measuring personality: Donnie Darko, Fight Club, or Atlas Shrugged? Atlas Shrugged by several thousand miles.
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Jan 17, 2019 16:52
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No contest whatsoever.
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Jan 17, 2019 16:55
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God, can you even ask this question sincerely? Donnie Darko and Fight Club might garner eye-rolls, if someone says their no poo poo favorite flick is Atlas Shrugged I'm gonna Atlas Sprinted the gently caress out of that conversation
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Jan 17, 2019 16:57
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Donnie Darko < Fight Club < Atlas Shrugged < Anime
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Jan 17, 2019 16:58
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*Boondock Saints sits sadly at the top of the stairs, looking into the middle distance*
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Jan 17, 2019 16:59
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Slippery posted:God, can you even ask this question sincerely? Donnie Darko and Fight Club might garner eye-rolls, if someone says their no poo poo favorite flick is Atlas Shrugged I'm gonna Atlas Sprinted the gently caress out of that conversation  Pissed Ape Sexist posted:*Boondock Saints sits sadly at the top of the stairs, looking into the middle distance* Oh man. I agree that Atlas Shrugged is #1 in the warning sign department, but we can't forget about this gem.
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Jan 17, 2019 17:01
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Android Apocalypse posted:What's a bigger red flag as "favorite movie" in terms of measuring personality: Donnie Darko, Fight Club, or Atlas Shrugged? scarface
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Jan 17, 2019 17:17
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I used to say American Beauty was my favorite movie, but man that one is problematic and just keeps getting worse. I liked K-Pax too. 18 year old me was embarrassing. Right now I'd say The Cabin in the Woods is my favorite. Bradley Whitford is just sublime in that movie. As far as subtle things go I think it's up there, between the board with all the monsters, the elevator scene, I just think it's really well put together.
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Jan 17, 2019 17:25
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scary ghost dog posted:scarface Scarface is awesome as hell, but yea it's definitely one of those movies that scummy people think is The Best.
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Antioch posted:I used to say American Beauty was my favorite movie, but man that one is problematic and just keeps getting worse. I liked K-Pax too. 18 year old me was embarrassing. Cabin in the Woods as your favorite movie is still pretty embarrassing though. Watch more movies. Pissed Ape Sexist posted:*Boondock Saints sits sadly at the top of the stairs, looking into the middle distance* I think Boondock Saints is definitely a bigger red flag than Donnie Darko. Donnie Darko is just a mildly interesting movie that people nerd-out over so if someone says it's their favorite they're probably just a big nerd. Boondock Saints is much worse.
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Jan 17, 2019 17:52
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Tumble posted:Scarface is awesome as hell, but yea it's definitely one of those movies that scummy people think is The Best. Or if you are filming an episode of MTV Cribs.
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Jan 17, 2019 17:55
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Tumble posted:Scarface is awesome as hell, but yea it's definitely one of those movies that scummy people think is The Best. I'd say Scarface is the #1 "missing the point" movie.
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Jan 17, 2019 17:58
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'd say Scarface is the #1 "missing the point" movie. The real scar isn't on his face. it's on his soul.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:00
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Aphrodite posted:The real scar isn't on his face. Scarsoul sounds like a 90s comic supervillain.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:06
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Android Apocalypse posted:What's a bigger red flag as "favorite movie" in terms of measuring personality: Donnie Darko, Fight Club, or Atlas Shrugged? Triumph of the Will. Edit: Or Birth of a Nation.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:19
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Cessna posted:
These or Super Troopers.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:20
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Cessna posted:
Death of a nation
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Jan 17, 2019 18:23
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American Sniper Or when they love Starship Troopers but unironically.
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Jan 17, 2019 18:26
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Queen Combat posted:American Sniper It's ok to love Starship Troopers as hilarious satire though, which it is. Not really the same thing as ironically liking something. But yea it's one of those movies where a lot of people completely missed the point. It's amazing to think that Starship Troopers was made before 9/11, its very prescient in that way.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:02
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Man I forgot about Boondock Saints. I thought it was a dumb fun movie, but the people that were really into it were insufferable.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:09
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Android Apocalypse posted:Man I forgot about Boondock Saints. I thought it was a dumb fun movie, but the people that were really into it were insufferable. nothing about boondock saints belongs anywhere near a thread with "subtle" in the title though 
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Jan 17, 2019 19:14
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:These or Super Troopers. super troopers is good
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Jan 17, 2019 19:15
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My dumbass brother was/is really into Boondock Saints to the extent I had to hide granddad’s WW2 rosary because he wanted to wear it when going out. And no, he wasn’t 12. He was a grown rear end man of 21.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:18
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I’m very glad Boondock Saints never caught on in the UK, at least in my age group. Tyler Durden was bad enough.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:19
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I sort of liked Boondock Saints, but really didn't like the part about the cleaner. Something about some emotionless psycho systematically taking out an entire family just because bothers me. I know it's fiction, but it reminds me that it happens in the real world, and ugh 
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Jan 17, 2019 19:21
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poonchasta posted:I watched Donnie Darko a couple years ago. It still holds up as long as you are watching the theatrical cut and not the director`s cut that over explains the bizarre concepts in the movie. The theatrical cut is open to the interpretation that Donnie just has a severe mental disorder. Plus, it's kinda cool to see a young Jake Gyllenhaal and see that even back then he was a ballin' actor. Oh yeah, both the Gyllenhaals own (how exactly does one suck a gently caress?) it just doesn't speak to me quite so strongly now I'm no longer a disaffected teenager.
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Jan 17, 2019 19:32
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Basebf555 posted:It's ok to love Starship Troopers as hilarious satire though, which it is. Not really the same thing as ironically liking something. But yea it's one of those movies where a lot of people completely missed the point. It's amazing to think that Starship Troopers was made before 9/11, its very prescient in that way. I'm going to show young people Starship Troopers in the following decades to explain to them what it was like in America right after 9/11.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:15
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Antioch posted:Right now I'd say The Cabin in the Woods is my favorite. Bradley Whitford is just sublime in that movie. As far as subtle things go I think it's up there, between the board with all the monsters, the elevator scene, I just think it's really well put together. Jesus
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Jan 17, 2019 20:21
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Hey, we were all young once. Plus it was very funny when horror nerds got all offended by it
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Jan 17, 2019 20:31
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It was easy when we were kids, but these days the idea that you can have a single favourite movie kind of weirds me out. I will never be able to choose between Jurassic Park and Ghostbusters.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:33
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I always say Starship Troopers because you get a good idea of who you're talking to when you do.
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Jan 17, 2019 20:46
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Oh I got a winner: "I judge all my acquaintances by how much they like High Fidelity"
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Jan 17, 2019 20:58
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How do you judge people who have never seen it because gently caress Nick Hornby?
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Jan 17, 2019 21:03
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm going to show young people Starship Troopers in the following decades to explain to them what it was like in America right after 9/11. Subtle thing that Verhoeven scifi satires Robocop and Starship Troopers did: they became reality.
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Jan 17, 2019 21:10
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I reread High Fidelity last year and Oh loving Boy does that not hold up
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Jan 17, 2019 21:21
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Fish of hemp posted:Subtle thing that Verhoeven scifi satires Robocop and Starship Troopers did: they became reality. I've come to realize that the greatest satires eventually become true. Just look at Dr. Strangelove
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Jan 17, 2019 21:34
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I liked Starship Troopers because it had dudes with nuke rifles fighting giant monsters from space. It came out just in time for Starcraft, too. But I have to say that as a kid I wasn't sitting there going "Hah, look at this fascist dictatorship that needs a foreign adversary to justify its existence and sends people to die in pointless wars. That asteroid probably just fell out of space and the Klendathians were peaceful! Look at these proles, celebrating these jack-booted xenophobes! Harrumph!" Instead it was "haha, did you see that bug's face when he ate the hand grenade? why can't more movies be this cool?" At any rate, nothing in that movie is subtle. (Also Boondock Saints was fun at the time and anyone who likes Ayn Rand at all has a leaky brain)
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Queen Combat posted:American Sniper Starship Troopers the film is amazing, I agree if you mean the book though
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