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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I watched Equilibrium for the first time since 2003 this afternoon because people on the internet keep telling me to and it was... good? If one overlooks the silly gun kata thing then yeah, it's pretty decent Edit: Gun Kata snipe
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McCloud posted:If one overlooks the silly gun kata thing then yeah, it's pretty decent gun kata is real
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If I recall correctly, the early-2000's shithead argument against Equilibrium, which I totally parroted, went a little something like this: "It's all too broad and cartoony, the gun-kata is silly, the fights are bad, they're trying to rip off The Matrix and do a bunch of stuff that's already been done. Now Fight Club, that's a true thinking person's movie!"
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Cuttlefush posted:gun kata is real gun, k? at a israel
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no krav maga is bullshit. gun kata (aka gun fu/wushoot) is real and there are many documented demonstrations of it
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Cuttlefush posted:no krav maga is bullshit. gun kata (aka gun fu/wushoot) is real and there are many documented demonstrations of it lmfao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_Vl67brJjM
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Cuttlefush posted:gun kata is real arcade games have those tethers on the guns because the atf doesnt want you to discover it
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I watched Equilibrium for the first time since 2003 this afternoon because people on the internet keep telling me to and it was... good? it's a truly great bad-movie. gunkata whips rear end shame about kurt wimmers other movies, they suck rear end
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:If I recall correctly, the early-2000's shithead argument against Equilibrium, which I totally parroted, went a little something like this: This is correct.
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fight club is also still a great movie tho too
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Xaris posted:fight club is also still a great movie tho too Yeah but a lot of dumb guys took Tyler Durden at surface level and turned everything Fight Club was making fun of into a political/life type movement that’s 100% serious
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did they? i'm not old enough to remember the popular reaction to fight club. just seems to be in tune to a certain kind of guy mindset. like some women get into crystals, some dudes become mma terrorists.
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the anti-durdens always outnumber the durdens by a few orders of magnitude and always have. you dont need to tell people not to emulate tyler durden. if someone is doing that in 2022 they have earned that right. leave em alone
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All male Americans born between 1980 and 1990 read at minimum one Chuck Palahniuk book as teenagers and found it very deep
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Cuttlefush posted:the anti-durdens always outnumber the durdens by a few orders of magnitude and always have. you dont need to tell people not to emulate tyler durden. if someone is doing that in 2022 they have earned that right. leave em alone
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Farm Frenzy posted:Durdens play a very valuable role in society of helping people feel smart for understanding the plot of enormously popular Hollywood movie s they're givers. the anti-durdens only take.
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It's an important internet skill, to be able to declare with your whole chest that you're not among these countless legions of dudes who took the wrong message from Fight Club
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it's the same thing with rick and walter white. like no duh, people find hosed up but competent badass anti-heroes/villains to be interesting. and now we have to have 5 episodes of crying rick so the audience gets not to like him.
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YaketySass posted:It's an important internet skill, to be able to declare with your whole chest that you're not among these countless legions of dudes who took the wrong message from Fight Club Umm, excuse me, but I was a cool kid and only took the wrong message from lesser Palahniuk books
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Umm, excuse me, but I was a cool kid and only took the wrong message from lesser Palahniuk books it's too bad if you think accidentally inverting your colon is cool, but that's nothing a couple of youtube essays can't fix
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an older friend described the plot of the pool story to me and i decided to never read chuckYaketySass posted:it's too bad if you think accidentally inverting your colon is cool, but that's nothing a couple of youtube essays can't fix lmfao there it is
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Chuck was one of the few popular authors at the time writing about gender and sexuality from a male perspective that wasn't toxic. The fact that such a voice was so rare made him a lot more popular.
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Nix Panicus posted:Sad to hear about Witcher though. Just give me a monster of the week starring Henry Cavill grunting at monsters and leave all the boring rear end wizard politics out of it The same exact problem that x files suffered from. Amazing. Smoking man was epic tho
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im watching Total Force (1997) and oh my god this thing is a crime scene. every shot is a dutch angle, rotating, shaking and digitally cropped all at once, well beyond the point of motion sickness. the camera is an early digital camera and they left it in auto-exposure, so every shot is either uselessly blown out or pitch black. the plotting is incoherent, the action choreography is charmingly amateurish, and a lot of the dialogue seems to be improvised. about twenty minutes of the runtime is military stock footage. they had Robert Z'dar on set and didn't give him a line or a character and killed him in twenty seconds, just what a loving waste of resources. Richard Lynch is acting circles around everyone and it barely seems like he even wants to be there. but, to its credit, its never not being completely stupid in laughable ways -- only recommended if you're looking for something to holler at with an intoxicated group of friends. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6g450-CqJ4 contains nudity
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Chuck was one of the few popular authors at the time writing about gender and sexuality from a male perspective that wasn't toxic. The fact that such a voice was so rare made him a lot more popular. it was absolutely still toxic, just couched in levels of irony and detachment
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Running on Empty CSPAM parenting thread Lethal Weapon gently caress yes, i want to see the others
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Mantis42 posted:it's the same thing with rick and walter white. like no duh, people find hosed up but competent badass anti-heroes/villains to be interesting. and now we have to have 5 episodes of crying rick so the audience gets not to like him. The aggravating thing is that writers keep harming their own shows because they’ve drunk the twitter kool aid that says liking something in fiction means supporting it in real life. So they create this nonexistent evil fanbase in their head who “doesn’t get it” that they must oppose and “educate”. No you idiots people liked Rick because he’s a miserable cynical fuckup. That’s entertaining. It’s fun to watch. We understood it the whole time. No one thought “Oh Rick is such a good role-model”. And if they did so what? You can’t write every story based on the fear some random idiot will misinterpret your story as a secret message telling them to kill John Lennon.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Umm, excuse me, but I was a cool kid and only took the wrong message from lesser Palahniuk books i sure as gently caress never get anywhere near big pool drains e: fb e2: i feel like there's a delta p joke in here somewhere but i dont have the skill to make it
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galagazombie posted:You can’t write every story based on the fear some random idiot will misinterpret your story as a secret message telling them to kill John Lennon. but yes the dumb tumblr lib tut-tutting over some imaginary audience 'that doesn't get it' is easily one of the worst things about american media
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Xaris posted:did our annual re-watch of Over The Garden Wall while carving pumpkins tonight. show still kicks rear end 8 years running https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4vryZTr6MA amazing show
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Serf posted:just watched "deadstream" on shudder and that movie also owns. pretty good send-up of youtube and livestreaming culture, with a guy doing a pitch-perfect imitation of the most annoying type of streamers. it manages to be actually funny and scary, and all the effects are physical. love to see some actual effort put into good costuming and old-fashioned physical props Yes, I really liked this one as well. The guy nailed that type of personality, plus I like when any horror movie goes the route of having the protagonists try to fight back rather than just kind of being pushed around for 90 minutes until they're finally eaten
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Yes, I really liked this one as well. The guy nailed that type of personality, plus I like when any horror movie goes the route of having the protagonists try to fight back rather than just kind of being pushed around for 90 minutes until they're finally eaten i kept waiting for him to break character and reveal that the streamer personality was just a facade, but the fact that he never does and just actually is that kind of annoying guy was actually better. and yeah, the fact that the ghosts were physical and could be fought led to a lot of fun moments
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