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vyelkin posted:dont forget that they show the villain being a secular muslim frenchman in a paris banlieue and then one time he gets arrested by the racist french police for protecting his brother and goes to prison and when he comes out of prison he's magically now a jihadi and that change is never explained except for a vague sense of "oh i guess french prisons are full of muslim extremists and therefore every arab who enters a french prison becomes a jihadi" i haven't gotten that far yet. that's stupid. suleiman carrying a grudge from his family getting blown up in lebanon in 83 makes way more sense, because that i can sympathize with
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Serf posted:episode 3 of jack ryan is the most dogshit evil propaganda i've ever seen wait until you see what the drone pilot does with all that money!!! Serf posted:i haven't gotten that far yet. that's stupid. suleiman carrying a grudge from his family getting blown up in lebanon in 83 makes way more sense, because that i can sympathize with i hatewatched it like a year ago so i may be forgetting some details but iirc they forget about that grudge and show him living a normal life in paris and then whoops suddenly he's a jihadi again because french people were racist to him
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 15:28 |
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also James Greer is Muslim this time around, because He's One of the Good Ones
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 15:28 |
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Some Guy TT posted:id say we need a crying ebert icon but what possible context could it ever be used in aside from this one a movie that teases showing breasts but fails to deliver
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# ? Sep 12, 2019 15:31 |
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in christopher nolans first big movie memento a major plot point revolves around an insurance agent proving that a guy has a mental illness rather than a physical one so that the insurance company can avoid paying for his health care i bring this up because warrens new health care plan has failed to realize that even hacky gimmick writers can see the obvious hustle involved in treating mental health differently than physical health
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 06:47 |
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i got on a kick in my teens and read basically every loving Tom Clancy book everything i can remember (which is a lot) is hot garbage lol all the bad guys are cartoon evil, all the good guys are shouldering the unfathomable burdens of western civilization and its paternal obligation to the savages of the world
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 06:53 |
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When I was in Middle School I started reading Tom Clancy books that were in my classroom's library and like every other war obsessed dork I thought he was great because of how much detail he'd go into describing weapons porn. Anyway I remember reading a Clancy book where the main plot thread was that there was a French Nazi conspiracy to make white people racist by producing racist video games. So it's funny that now we live in a world where Tom Clancy games are just fascist. I can't find the title for it now, but I know it existed because Jack Ryan had a bit role in it.
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StashAugustine posted:i actually liked hunt for red october even if it is red scare poo poo I liked the movie adaptation, though it may come from my dad taking me to see it when I was 5 (probably mostly because he wanted to see it, I was obviously not following much of it at all lol) Pener Kropoopkin posted:When I was in Middle School I started reading Tom Clancy books that were in my classroom's library and like every other war obsessed dork I thought he was great because of how much detail he'd go into describing weapons porn. Anyway I remember reading a Clancy book where the main plot thread was that there was a French Nazi conspiracy to make white people racist by producing racist video games. So it's funny that now we live in a world where Tom Clancy games are just fascist. was it one of the licensed novels written by other people? it sounds like some garbage from the Op-Center or Net Force series (wiki browsing suggests maybe Games of State?) LGD has issued a correction as of 07:06 on Sep 13, 2019 |
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The Sum of All Fears movie was accidentally accurate in that as soon as it seems like they're on top, the international right wing conspiracy starts backstabbing each other.LGD posted:was it one of the licensed novels written by other people? it sounds like some garbage from the Op-Center or Net Force series (wiki browsing suggests maybe Games of State?) Yeah it's Games of State. I searched for 'video game' in Google Books, and the French Nazi game developer is Gerard Dominique. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 07:51 on Sep 13, 2019 |
# ? Sep 13, 2019 07:05 |
A Quiet Place was really, really good
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 08:39 |
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Hot take about Sorry to Bother you: it was good, but I was a bit disappointed after all the hype.
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 08:51 |
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:A Quiet Place was really, really good it's pro-life propaganda, OP
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 08:57 |
gradenko_2000 posted:it's pro-life propaganda, OP okay, I’ll bite. how so?
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 09:00 |
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Grevling posted:Hot take about Sorry to Bother you: it was good, but I was a bit disappointed after all the hype. Sorry to Bother You was overhyped because explicitly left wing movies never get made or screened, but it still stands up on its own merits. I still think the scene where all the commodities in his apartment literally transform into luxury versions as a practical effect is one of the best scenes in recent years.
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 09:47 |
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mcu
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 09:50 |
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Marvel-Clancy Universe
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 09:56 |
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KomradeX posted:I just can't wait to see of that a Rainbow Six movie outs going ro keep with the plot about all the millionaire environmentalist hippies weaponizing Ebola to create a mass population die off to prevent global warming lets talk about rainbow six patriots, a game so overloaded with obama era lib nonsense that it got cancelled https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCQysh2Ci0c
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 10:01 |
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Press X to KISS WIFE
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 10:05 |
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Farm Frenzy posted:lets talk about rainbow six patriots, a game so overloaded with obama era lib nonsense that it got cancelled on the one hand, R6 was shooting cops on the other hand, R6 stopped the dudes taking revenge for the Great Recession land of contrasts
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 10:12 |
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Marvel-Clancy Universe why would you bring such evil into the universe
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 10:13 |
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late twentieth century general fiction was shockingly bad and its honestly not that hard to see how harry potter and young adult fiction was able to displace it because just about everyone was doing nutty clancy stuff like jon grisham is a name youd generally regard as boilerplate and even he dipped into horribly aged storylines about judges running extortion rings around gay personal ads or the cia head playing kingmaker in the presidential race because the soviets are coming back as militarist whackos who undermine free and fair elections
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 11:33 |
Michael Crichton is the true thinking man’s airport fiction
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 11:37 |
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:Michael Crichton is the true thinking man’s airport fiction yeah especially his book about how climate change isn't real and an international cabal of liberals were faking extreme weather to make people think it was and then some savage pacific island cannibals ate a dude
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 12:30 |
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Grevling posted:Hot take about Sorry to Bother you: it was good, but I was a bit disappointed after all the hype. same but i watched it with a politically disengage/liberal friend and they were completely blown away and kept talking about it for days. leftists sometimes forget what parts of their perspectives seem obvious, routine or minor that have to be given significance, time and space in media to get across to others
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 12:38 |
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sorry to bother you owns. critically, it doesn't stop at the workers getting a union and improving their conditions, it ends on a real call to action for class warfare and depicts the proles kicking down the doors of the rich the first purge is almost as radical
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 12:46 |
A few days ago in the success thread some mentioned another thread had a long write-up on the neoliberal bullshit in Harry Potter. Anyone got a link to that?
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 13:27 |
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https://twitter.com/SeanMcCarthyCom/status/1172270460102414343 https://twitter.com/nickmullen/status/1172313664495353856
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 13:39 |
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I reckon a double showing of sorry to bother you, followed by parasite, should get most lib friends down with class struggle, and the importance of stabbing your boss Also, yes minister owns even if its creators are libertarian trash
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 14:17 |
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I too thought it was a little overhyped but there are some genuinely great bits in there. The art show was loving hilarious
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 15:47 |
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Is Don Bluthe a fascist for doing Anastasia or is he a hero of the people for trying to stand up to Disney's animation hegemony in 80s and 90s?
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 17:50 |
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he rules https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eryzVc2aw6Q picked up the slack for Disney during the 80s at least for well done animated features, the “nobility” of being a market contester to them is debatable though
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 17:53 |
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my eyes glanced over some dumb rear end in a top hat saying that loving yes minister was good and I had to scrub my brain by binging the New Statesman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVltOSC0JMQ
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# ? Sep 13, 2019 20:26 |
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two eps into Righteous Gemstones and it's pretty good. the pilot was a banger
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# ? Sep 14, 2019 18:42 |
get that OUT of my face posted:two eps into Righteous Gemstones and it's pretty good. the pilot was a banger it only gets better, OP
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# ? Sep 14, 2019 18:54 |
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I guess it's only cspammy in atmosphere, but I can't stop watching Dark on Netflix. Maybe the best bit of cosmic horror ever made for any visual media. True Detective season 1 only speculated on the concept of infinite recursion, but Dark makes it explicit.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I guess it's only cspammy in atmosphere, but I can't stop watching Dark on Netflix. Maybe the best bit of cosmic horror ever made for any visual media. True Detective season 1 only speculated on the concept of infinite recursion, but Dark makes it explicit. I watched both seasons a couple months ago and was mentally hootin' and a hollerin' the whole time.
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# ? Sep 14, 2019 19:44 |
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Gareth Gobulcoque posted:I watched both seasons a couple months ago and was mentally hootin' and a hollerin' the whole time. Every episode is intense. I love it. They're gonna start shooting the third season in December.
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# ? Sep 14, 2019 19:49 |
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Patriot is the best spy show ever made and it's a shame that no one watched it.
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# ? Sep 14, 2019 22:18 |
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Some Guy TT posted:id say we need a crying ebert icon but what possible context could it ever be used in aside from this one is close enough to an Ebert icon.
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I first saw sorry to bother you when I was drinking with a friend and I loving loved it. It's straight up funny and also layered in a bunch of ways, way beyond just gently caress capitalism but in how it makes people into parodies of themselves. I love how the revolution comes for reasons that are never high minded but like, cause of the relationships people have with one another. You can tell boots has actually lived the stuff in the movie it's very true to life even while also being surreal lol I just watched it again cause you guys were all "it's great it just doesn't live up to expectations" and I thought maybe I was just remembering being drunk with a friend. that's not the case I still think it's basically perfect. thank you for reminding me to watch it again!
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