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Alaois posted:i think having the assumption that big trouble in little china is a jackie chan movie is more racist than anything thats actually in big trouble in little china lol Apparently John Carpenter wanted Jackie Chan to co-star in the film and offered him the role but he turned it down  The studio were also worried that Chan's English wasn't good enough, those idiots
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Jedit posted:Big Trouble in Little China is an intentional subversion of White Saviour narratives. Jack Burton is a blustering, ignorant fool who is in way over his head and fucks up almost everything he tries, but thinks he can take charge because he's a True American Hero. He's the butt of every joke. The Chinese characters, meanwhile, are all very competent and understand what's going on. Totally this. Plus James Hong is a gem in whatever film he's in.
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Mr Interweb posted:but while we're on the subject, one thing i always found fascinatng was how the MK theme became orders of magnitude more popular than the movie itself. lots of people haven't seen MK, but EVERYONE'S heard of the MK theme. The track was in all the ads. Marketing campaigns are still one of the main ways people vicariously experience other media, and it was even more so back in the day. Torquemada posted:I saw it a couple years ago, and I can't remember anything too egregious. It was a lot clearer to me that Jack is actually the sidekick this time, passed me by when I saw it at release. Yep, it's been a few years myself so grain of salt and all that, but if anything I'd guess Big Trouble in Little China probably plays better today than it did in the 80s. Now that we're some distance away from the "everybody was kung fu fighting" era the movie feels more like the sendup of stereotypes that it is and harder to mistake for a genuine iteration of them. But like I said it's been a few years, lol...
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There's a full on display in the National War Museum celebrating the VC and uniform of the most decorated Solider alive and going out of it's way to state that this is the man you want to be. Yesterday, he was found guilty in a court of law of being a war criminal, murderer, abuser, bully and domestic abuser. The War Museum is not removing his place in the museum but says they will "change how it's displayed". This...has not aged well.
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Mr Interweb posted:but while we're on the subject, one thing i always found fascinatng was how the MK theme became orders of magnitude more popular than the movie itself. lots of people haven't seen MK, but EVERYONE'S heard of the MK theme. I remember an mp3 that replaced "Mortal Kombat" with ANAL GANG BANG!!! and now that's the version that reigns in my mind I was hoping to link it so my post sounds less insane but no luck naturally
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Comstar posted:There's a full on display in the National War Museum celebrating the VC and uniform of the most decorated Solider alive and going out of it's way to state that this is the man you want to be. I don't watch the news, so I was trying to remember the dude's name, and all my brain would yield was "Ben Cousins", not quite. But I do remember back in the mists of time, when no less a personage than Kate Langbroek had a throwaway crack at Mr Roberts-Smith about his intelligence, and was duly hauled over the coals? Who's laughing now?
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Chrpno posted:But I do remember back in the mists of time, when no less a personage than Kate Langbroek had a throwaway crack at Mr Roberts-Smith about his intelligence, and was duly hauled over the coals? Who's laughing now? I should have added: the domestic abuse was ruled by the Judge not to have tarnished his honor, as after all the other crimes, it's assumed he has none left. This was all funded by the richest man in the country who owns one of the television stations and newspapers that's been defending him non-stop. Or you might say...media that did not age well.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Here's the weird part: Trevor Goddard is from the UK and he wasn't doing an Australian accent in the movie, it was a Cockney accent and people apparently mistook it for an Australian accent. Apparently he played along with this and even pretended to be an Australian IRL for a while I guarantee that he's not doing a "cockney" accent here, it's the standard "Australian accent" that everyone in the UK did at the time thanks to the massive success of Neighbours
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When are Harold and Toadfish going to be playable in a Mortal Kombat game?
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Comstar posted:I should have added: the domestic abuse was ruled by the Judge not to have tarnished his honor, as after all the other crimes, it's assumed he has none left. This decorated war criminal was up until today the general manager of said television station in my home state, which I had no idea about. loving incredible.
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Yeah. Instead of vague posting. I think, from context clues, this is Australia, but like, at first due to National War museum and VC, I thought it could be my home country of Canada.
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bunnyofdoom posted:Yeah. Instead of vague posting. I think, from context clues, this is Australia, but like, at first due to National War museum and VC, I thought it could be my home country of Canada. For the briefest of seconds, I thought there was an American war museum celebrating the Viet Cong as aspirational. Self-awareness!
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Stayne Falls posted:For the briefest of seconds, I thought there was an American war museum celebrating the Viet Cong as aspirational. Self-awareness!
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endocriminologist posted:Who are you talking about Australian Ben Roberts-Smith, ex-SAS member who received the prestigious Victoria Cross award for "valour in the face of the enemy" who sued a bunch of journalists for defamation when they said he did some war crimes The judge just threw out his case (ie: confirmed he did some war crimes) It turns out he was being bankrolled by Kerry Stokes, a billionaire who is the chairman of one of the largest TV stations & news media organsations in Australia and who also employed him as general manager of Seven West Media's Queensland operations Stokes has also allegedly bankrolled several other high profile defamation cases brought about scumbags (Christian Porter, Bruce Lehrmann, etc etc) Snowglobe of Doom has a new favorite as of 15:19 on Jun 2, 2023 |
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Wonder what it means to be the most decorated soldier in a country that lost a war to birds
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mandatory lesbian posted:Wonder what it means to be the most decorated soldier in a country that lost a war to birds It's more "what's it like to be the most famous Aussie soldier since Breaker Morant?"
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mandatory lesbian posted:Wonder what it means to be the most decorated soldier in a country that lost a war to birds Hey, every country has lost the war against birds. Australia is controlled by the emus, Canada is ruled by the Canadian Goose, I'm assuming the US lost the war against a religious cult ruled over by an ugly scavenger bird...
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Randalor posted:I'm assuming the US lost the war against a religious cult ruled over by an ugly scavenger bird... 
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Randalor posted:I'm assuming the US lost the war against a religious cult ruled over by an ugly scavenger bird... Never forget that picture of a bunch of bald eagles who found their way into a dumpster full of fish guts and got so gore-soaked while gorging themselves that they were unable to fly No metaphor 
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Phy posted:Never forget that picture of a bunch of bald eagles who found their way into a dumpster full of fish guts and got so gore-soaked while gorging themselves that they were unable to fly Brings a tear to your eye. 
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Chrpno posted:I don't watch the news, so I was trying to remember the dude's name, and all my brain would yield was "Ben Cousins", not quite. But I do remember back in the mists of time, when no less a personage than Kate Langbroek had a throwaway crack at Mr Roberts-Smith about his intelligence, and was duly hauled over the coals? Who's laughing now? Ben Cousins for what it's worth has also not aged well. Self medicating schizophrenia with meth is a hell of a thing.
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The IIMM thread reminded me of the Ellis/Granov run on the Iron Man comics, where Stark rolls out the ultimate cell phone. And it's this: On the other hand, something that unfortunately hasn't aged out of relevance is the behavior of its right-wing antagonist...
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The behavior of Warren Ellis unfortunately has aged badly
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Does the guy who did watchmen still have that snake church or did he admit it was a goof?
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I don't remember Alan Moore having a snake church, he's always been the solitary cave wizard type.
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1 man snake cult. I myself was just having a goof, because he was having a goof from the beginning. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycon
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Volcott posted:1 man snake cult mods plz
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It's like what happened with the Star Wars sequels, Star Wars openly and lovingly stole from Flash Gordon sci-fi, samurai and cowboy movies, and war movies, while the sequels were just fixated on being Star Wars, or rather the popular idea of Star Wars, near exclusively. Happens a lot to long running franchises, see also Star Trek. This is probably the best way I've ever seen it expressed.
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Jedit posted:Wait, are you dissing BTILC? Not at all, just pointing out Raiden would've been too obvious a ripoff had the Mortal Kombat movie just directly took his appearance from the games. And on that note, looking back at more clips of Big Trouble it's apparent that the whole aesthetic of Mortal Kombat in general was "Enter the Dragon meets Big Trouble in Little China." Lo-Pan 's an obvious inspiration for Shang Tsung, you can see the various monsters reflected in Goro and the like, etc. Edit: Oh poo poo the official Scream Factory promo channel posted the same clip I did earlier but they straight up gave it the headline "Mortal Kombat"!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92kCIrkClnoJedit posted:And became good enough at it that he began stealing work from actual Aussie actors, who were understandably quite pissed off about it. It's sad that he never got bigger than he did - he certainly deserved at least a main credits role on TV. Looks like Trevor Goddard had a pretty major recurring role on JAG for a few years at least - I wonder what accent he used in that. SidneyIsTheKiller has a new favorite as of 10:03 on Jun 3, 2023 |
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Looks like Trevor Goddard had a pretty major recurring role on JAG for a few years at least - I wonder what accent he used in that. Holy poo poo I never realized Mic was Kano. Yeah. He used a fake-as-hell Aussie accent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHrsurfxaoQ
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SidneyIsTheKiller posted:Not at all, just pointing out Raiden would've been too obvious a ripoff had the Mortal Kombat movie just directly took his appearance from the games. Also, Kano's knife throw attack in the first game was inspired by the the Three Storms throwing their knives during the big street fight.
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I just watched the 2010 Jonah Hex movie based on the old DC Western comic series and it was a terrible bomb back when it was released so I don't know if you can say it didn't age well if it always stank but you really gotta wonder who greenlit a film where the hero was an ex-Confederate soldier who still wore his Confederate uniform and rejected the legitimacy of the Union. The film goes to fairly significant pains to explain that he wasn't in favour of slavery and actually has a black friend who he trusts and respects and the only reason he fought against the Union was that he was anti-big-government, and in the end he actually turned in his commander and squad because they were trying to slaughter innocents and was considered a hero by the Union forces. But then it goes and plays the traditional pro-Confederate folk song I'm a Good Ol' Rebel over the closing credits which was a real fuckin' choice I gotta say. (They cut out the nastiest lyrics, their version was much much shorter) Also Michael Fassbender plays a psychopathic Irish character who inexplicably has traditional Maori facial tattoos.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f63BYEY8Tdw (Crossposted from CD where I made a longer post going over the general shittiness of the film)
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https://twitter.com/jsf/status/1664351038252494851 Looks like folks are turning on Hannah Gadsby and Nanette?
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Pachylad posted:Looks like folks are turning on Hannah Gadsby and Nanette? Article is paywalled for me, but there was a backlash against Gadsby recently after beloved Australian transphobe Barry Humphries died and people dug up stuff Gadsby had said about him years ago
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Pachylad posted:https://twitter.com/jsf/status/1664351038252494851 this av club article makes it out to basically be a bunch of critics smelling blood in the water from a bad art exhibit and taking out old axes against nanette: https://www.avclub.com/hannah-gadsby-picasso-exhibit-roasted-by-art-critics-1850500085
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Here's a gift link.
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Alaois posted:The behavior of Warren Ellis unfortunately has aged badly Never go back and read his stuff it's a lot creepier with what's known about him now.
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