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The whole matrix/wire fights thing from the Charlies Angels movies seems weird now. Maybe it was weird at the time too but I don't remember.
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Gaunab posted:The whole matrix/wire fights thing from the Charlies Angels movies seems weird now. Maybe it was weird at the time too but I don't remember. If that feels weird, it is even weirder in Men in Black 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmiuxlIAlhY Why is this overweight and middle aged man capable of doing wuxia somersaults all of a sudden?
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Mar 10, 2019 17:10
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Its a joke in a comedy film
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Mar 10, 2019 21:13
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I've said it a million times, but please keep jokes out of this, the Wuxia Purity Forum
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Mar 10, 2019 21:16
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So glad the time when every comedy had to have a Matrix bullet time parody sequence ended. It's even in the cow fight in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, which is already the weakest part of the movie.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:25
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I kind of miss the leather trench look.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:28
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It’s crazy to me that The Matrix is 20 years old. Also worst matrix parody was this, but they get points for using the song from the lobby scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHJYN7anzqg
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Mar 10, 2019 21:29
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Sunswipe posted:So glad the time when every comedy had to have a Matrix bullet time parody sequence ended. It's even in the cow fight in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, which is already the weakest part of the movie. 
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Mar 10, 2019 21:29
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Sunswipe posted:So glad the time when every comedy had to have a Matrix bullet time parody sequence ended. It's even in the cow fight in Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, which is already the weakest part of the movie. Kung Pow is proof that God is real but he hates us and wants us to suffer.
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Mar 10, 2019 21:56
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rodbeard posted:Kung Pow is proof that God is real but he hates us and wants us to suffer. Because Kung Pow gives us a glimpse at the comedy of heaven, then leaves us in a world of Seltzer and Friedberg.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:10
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Even more baffling was the Matrix slow or in games. I recently replayed Final Fantasy IX on the Switch, and during the ending cutscene it has a out of place Matrix camera spin that just takes you out of the action.
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Mar 10, 2019 22:36
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CelticPredator posted:It’s crazy to me that The Matrix is 20 years old.
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Mar 10, 2019 23:21
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Jedit posted:Better than that, someone actually put up a joke Kickstarter to fund a real release of Cones of Dunshire. The Gloomhaven guy made his own Cones of Dunshire version at some point and subjected his friend group to it. You can read about it on his blog.
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Mar 11, 2019 00:37
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Once upon a time I decided to rent Kung Pow because someone told me it was a good movie but I had forgotten the name and ended up renting Kung Fu Hustle by mistake. Turned out pretty well imo
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Mar 11, 2019 01:12
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christmas boots posted:Once upon a time I decided to rent Kung Pow because someone told me it was a good movie but I had forgotten the name and ended up renting Kung Fu Hustle by mistake. Yeah that was for the best for sure
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Mar 11, 2019 01:15
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christmas boots posted:Once upon a time I decided to rent Kung Pow because someone told me it was a good movie but I had forgotten the name and ended up renting Kung Fu Hustle by mistake. Lucky! Holy crap Kung Fu hustle is a great movie!
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Mar 11, 2019 15:19
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Talk about failing up!
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Mar 11, 2019 16:02
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I watched a Star Trek TNG episode a few months back that was weird and staggeringly racist/anti-Irish. They respond to an old distress signal and find a planet full of Irish people living like peasants, and all they want to do is drink, and the leader keeps offering his daughter to be married off to the crew. And then they find another planet where everyone is a clone, but the people on the enterprise are horrified at the idea of this planet taking some of the crews dna to bring more healthy diversity to the gene pool of the planet, even though not doing so will make them extinct within the next generation or so. And then all the star fleet people are so sick of those troublesome Irish peasants that they just offload them onto the clone planet to get rid of them. It ends with them joking about mandatory polygamy. Then the next episode was just one long joke about Diana Troy's mother going into menapause.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:03
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Red Bones posted:I watched a Star Trek TNG episode a few months back that was weird and staggeringly racist/anti-Irish. They respond to an old distress signal and find a planet full of Irish people living like peasants, and all they want to do is drink, and the leader keeps offering his daughter to be married off to the crew. Dammit, Wesley This show sucks now and it's all your fault* *there are a few good scenes in the multiple seasons of that dreck but good luck wading through that 
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Mar 11, 2019 19:10
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Red Bones posted:I watched a Star Trek TNG episode a few months back that was weird and staggeringly racist/anti-Irish. They respond to an old distress signal and find a planet full of Irish people living like peasants, and all they want to do is drink, and the leader keeps offering his daughter to be married off to the crew. If I remember correctly, at least one early ST:TNG casting director or writer or something was fired for being overtly racist and for constantly using Irish and/or dark skinned people as a shorthand for degenerates and/or savages.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:11
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Skratchez posted:Dammit, Wesley Oh yeah. Absolute dreck, like who can even sit through Chain Of Command or The Drumhead? Kidding aside, season 3 onward had waaay more hits than misses.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:30
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Der Kyhe posted:If I remember correctly, at least one early ST:TNG casting director or writer or something was fired for being overtly racist and for constantly using Irish and/or dark skinned people as a shorthand for degenerates and/or savages. A director got fired for being hoo-booy racist in an early ep? Code of Honor
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Mar 11, 2019 19:37
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bunnyofdoom posted:A director got fired for being hoo-booy racist in an early ep? Never forget, the writer for that episode somehow wound up on SG-1 and plagiarized that episode to write the worst SG-1 episode.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:48
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bunnyofdoom posted:A director got fired for being hoo-booy racist in an early ep? God that episode of was a piece of poo poo.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:51
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quote:In this episode, the entire humanoid population of the planet is portrayed by African-American performers. In the teleplay, however, only Lutan's guards were specifically written as being African. Why would this even be in the script.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:51
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MorgaineDax posted:Why would this even be in the script. Because it is quite apparent that "shoe box full of cocaine" should get writing credits for at least half of the S1 and S2 TNG episodes where the Old Perv Gene was still calling the shots.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:54
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I’m sad the script wasn’t racist in a completely different way, like by having everyone be Dutch or Japanese or something.
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Red Bones posted:I watched a Star Trek TNG episode a few months back that was weird and staggeringly racist/anti-Irish. They respond to an old distress signal and find a planet full of Irish people living like peasants, and all they want to do is drink, and the leader keeps offering his daughter to be married off to the crew. Ah yes, everyone's favorite episode, "Up the Long Ladder". And just in time for Saint Paddy's Day. Top o' the marnin' ta ye! The best part is in the clip show "Shades of Grey" when Riker remembers Midriff Lass during his coma. Nothing else about the episode of course. He just like "drat." Speaking of which, on my end, it looks like we're about to watch the episode that I hear got a bunch of people in the UK angry. Either at the Irish, or on behalf of the Irish, I don't remember. "The High Ground". And yeah, the other episode, with Troi's mom going through menopause, has some funny moments but gets kind of weird and sad in an unpleasant way. Especially when she falls in love with a hologram because she can't read his mind, and everyone just kind of laughs at her for not knowing. And then she's just like, sad about it. It's really awkward.
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Mar 11, 2019 19:57
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They had to take her down a peg because Lwaxana Troi is the best character on any star trek and the other actors were getting jealous
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Mar 11, 2019 20:09
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Sir Lemming posted:Ah yes, everyone's favorite episode, "Up the Long Ladder". And just in time for Saint Paddy's Day. Top o' the marnin' ta ye! It was funnier when Lwaxana fell in love with Odo But that's DS9 and not TNG
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rodbeard posted:Kung Pow is proof that God is real but he hates us and wants us to suffer. tiger tiger, thats alot of nuts, taco bell and shirt ripper was the height of comedy
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Skratchez posted:It was funnier when Lwaxana fell in love with Odo DS9 was the best. Speaking of not aging well, 
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Detective No. 27 posted:DS9 was the best. Is there literally a single Star Trek book that has aged well?
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Mar 12, 2019 05:21
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A TOS one I can vaguely remember had a friendly crew of Neo-Confederate sympathizers. Yes, that kind of Confederate.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:32
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I'd say Diane Duane's books aged well. Or at least they stood up preeeety well when I re-read them last year. She's got the writing chops to pull off a Mary Sue, her other main OCdonotsteal had a job based on actually thinking about what crew actually need to stay sane. So she wrote in the head of Recreation as a sub-department head under McCoy. They didn't have a full-up holodeck, but the head of recreation could come up with the occasional immersive environment or have a conversation with the main cast that sheds light on character or plot points.
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Mar 12, 2019 05:48
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Yeah, I remember the early Pocket Books novels (which kicked off with the novelization of the first movie) being pretty decent.
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Sir Lemming posted:Speaking of which, on my end, it looks like we're about to watch the episode that I hear got a bunch of people in the UK angry. Either at the Irish, or on behalf of the Irish, I don't remember. "The High Ground". There's like one line where they mention the 'reunification of Ireland in 2024', which got the episode cut from airing in the UK until 2007.
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Going back to Scrubs for a moment, I just remembered how they had a big dramatic episode where they killed off a long-standing tertiary character (Laverne) only to recast the same actor as an identical character with a different name. What the gently caress was going on there? Who thought that was a good idea?
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Tiggum posted:Going back to Scrubs for a moment, I just remembered how they had a big dramatic episode where they killed off a long-standing tertiary character (Laverne) only to recast the same actor as an identical character with a different name. What the gently caress was going on there? Who thought that was a good idea? I think the story was they thought it was the last season so they wanted some emotional weight with a dead character but oops they got renewed and felt bad she was gone so they brought her back. Should have had it be one of the even more tertiary characters like Colonel Doctor or Snoop Dog Resident
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Tiggum posted:Going back to Scrubs for a moment, I just remembered how they had a big dramatic episode where they killed off a long-standing tertiary character (Laverne) only to recast the same actor as an identical character with a different name. What the gently caress was going on there? Who thought that was a good idea? i remember the episode where she died being godawful so i like to tell myself that the writers realized that and just decided to bring the actress back because gently caress that episode
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