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Worst way to announce a good American Godzilla movie in 20 years.
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Jan 29, 2024 22:26
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IRQ posted:Japan is like full on attacking the US because their economy imploded, and got nukes. I forget how all that was the US's fault. That book was bananas. Yeah, a JAL pilot caught up in nationalist fervor goes off the deep end when Japan loses the war, stabs his copilot and does a kamikaze on the capital. It was the US's fault because a grandstanding congressman gets protectionist tariffs placed on Japanese cars after a family dies in a car accident.
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Jan 29, 2024 22:34
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Get in the robot Jack Ryan
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Jan 29, 2024 22:35
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I don't even KNOW Ryan!
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Jan 29, 2024 23:46
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I want to see Jack Ryan fight Jack Reacher. Reacher would obviously win.
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Jan 29, 2024 23:47
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thrawn527 posted:That's why they changed the villains from Middle Eastern terrorists (I forget which country, but I think they were Palestinian?) to Nazis. They figured making them Nazis would be way less topical. This is a popularly held belief, but it's wrong. The Sum of All Fears finished filming in June 2001, three months before 9 / 11.
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Jan 29, 2024 23:48
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I found out this week (through one of my all time favorite TV shows, PBS' Finding Your Roots), that Sammy Hagar is not actually genetically related to his Hagar ancestors. According to the genealogists, he should actually be Sammy Belcher. I don't know what to do with that information, I just find it delightful as a fan of Bob's Burgers
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Jan 29, 2024 23:49
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thrawn527 posted:Holy poo poo, I completely forgot that movie existed. And no, I never saw it. From the trailers, it just looked like a generic action movie, not a Jack Ryan movie at all, and from what I understand, wasn't based on any book. I also haven't bothered with the Amazon show, because it also looks boring as hell. If you can ignore the fact that the entire thing is jingoistic CIA propaganda, the first season at least is fun especially if you enjoy spy thrillers at all.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:00
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Timby posted:This is a popularly held belief, but it's wrong. The Sum of All Fears finished filming in June 2001, three months before 9 / 11. Really? I didn't know that. My mistake. I wonder why they changed the villains to neo-Nazis, then.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:07
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thrawn527 posted:Really? I didn't know that. I wonder why they changed the villains to neo-Nazis, then. Maximizing box-office revenue potential in EMEA markets, I believe.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:09
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Timby posted:This is a popularly held belief, but it's wrong. The Sum of All Fears finished filming in June 2001, three months before 9 / 11. Thanks jerk I wasn't feeling old today until I saw that the "new" Jack Ryan movie is over 20 years old
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Jan 30, 2024 00:14
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thrawn527 posted:Really? I didn't know that. My mistake. I wonder why they changed the villains to neo-Nazis, then. I mean middle eastern politics and terrorism were still a thing on 9/10. It still makes sense that they'd change from a provocative modern example to a then safe option of Nazis even without a specific historic tragedy to react to.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:21
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Man this a pretty dark season of True Detective, though a part of me wonders if it's an adaptation of 30 Days of Night no I don't actually think that but there's a lot of similarities!
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Jan 30, 2024 00:48
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I really wish I had another throwaway watch-in-the-background comfort show that I could vibe with no matter what, because I've almost finished rewatching all of the good seasons of Mythbusters. Everything else I think of just feels like it would involve more engagement than I have the ability to give at the moment.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:53
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feedmyleg posted:I really wish I had another throwaway watch-in-the-background comfort show that I could vibe with no matter what, because I've almost finished rewatching all of the good seasons of Mythbusters. Everything else I think of just feels like it would involve more engagement than I have the ability to give at the moment. How It's Made is on Tubi and Max.
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Jan 30, 2024 00:58
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feedmyleg posted:I really wish I had another throwaway watch-in-the-background comfort show that I could vibe with no matter what, because I've almost finished rewatching all of the good seasons of Mythbusters. Everything else I think of just feels like it would involve more engagement than I have the ability to give at the moment. I just did a rewatch of Nathan For You as my background show and it's still amazing
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Jan 30, 2024 00:58
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I was watching Bar Rescue in my background slot but I ditched my Paramount+ sub. Of course they then gave me one of those “3 months for 3 dollars” offers so maybe I’ll continue. Meh.
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Jan 30, 2024 01:09
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Jack Ryan for all his faults, gave us the pinnicle of tactical shooters in the Rainbow Six games. Obviously not including anything after 2005
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Jan 30, 2024 01:18
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Just finishing up S3 of Slow Horses and literally shouting at the loving screen right now for River to snatch it back, it's so loving obvious what that senile old gently caress is going to do you useless loving muppet! Jesus Christ! No wonder he's stuck there forever, is there a bigger gently caress up on TV? Still, megalol at Cokehead Shirley saving the day taking out nine PMC wankers, you go girl.
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Jan 30, 2024 02:10
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Sentinel Red posted:Just finishing up S3 of Slow Horses and literally shouting at the loving screen right now for River to snatch it back, it's so loving obvious what that senile old gently caress is going to do you useless loving muppet! Jesus Christ! No wonder he's stuck there forever, is there a bigger gently caress up on TV? 
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Jan 30, 2024 02:25
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Yes, yes, okay, I rescind my earlier statement somewhat. Pah. He's still mostly loving useless though!
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Jan 30, 2024 02:29
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It's still stupid to lose the originals.
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Jan 30, 2024 03:42
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I love River Cartwright so much, he's fully convinced he is the main star of a spy action movie and does just the stupidest loving poo poo all the time and seems so confused when he isn't rewarded for it 
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Jan 30, 2024 03:48
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Medullah posted:Thanks jerk I wasn't feeling old today until I saw that the "new" Jack Ryan movie is over 20 years old No, the 'new' Jack Ryan movie is only ten years old.
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Jan 30, 2024 04:21
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Oh man, Expats is so loving sad. I spent the last ten minutes of the second episode in knots, because I sort of knew what was going to happen but I honestly thought it wouldn't happen so loving soon. It's also good and funny though, and Kidman is great.
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Jan 30, 2024 15:18
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Matlock is pretty fun at the start. One of the major trial gimmicks is that Matlock, without any wild grandstanding or dramatics, will expose people committing perjury while they are on the stand. It doesn't then result in a massive furor or crazy court room shenanigan just as part of the process where he then gets them to admit the truth he already knows and could prove. When did court room legal dramas sort of peak and transform to the over dramatic character acting and shocker reveals causing the whole thing to break down while a judge slams the gavel screaming "order!"? I saw that sort of happen over the series run of The Practice. I've never seen early season Law and Order so I don't know how dramatic they got but given it's run in the 90s it's got to be pretty influential.
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Jan 31, 2024 00:29
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OG Law & Order was fairly low key for a courtroom drama up through the Lenny Brisco years (so season 13 or so). The cases were usually murky, with the audience not being given any special information that the police/lawyers didn’t have, and it was often unclear if the person on trial was actually guilty or not. The moral uncertainty and the more professional nature of the characters - you only ever saw the characters at work, and often knew little of their personal lives* - were part of the show’s calling cards After Jack McCoy stopped being ADA and was promoted to full DA, (seasons 17+) the courtroom part became a lot more melodramatic and tended to rest on flashy reveals, and interpersonal drama. *Legendarily, and hilariously, one character was revealed to be gay on the exact episode where she got kicked off the show. It was essentially the first time her personal life was ever touched on. It was so bad. Old Kentucky Shark fucked around with this message at 02:35 on Jan 31, 2024 |
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Jan 31, 2024 02:30
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Watching the first episode of Masters of the Air and the show definitely has a problem of everyone dressing exactly the same, wearing flight helmets and masks while talking over radios.
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Jan 31, 2024 03:12
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muscles like this! posted:Watching the first episode of Masters of the Air and the show definitely has a problem of everyone dressing exactly the same, wearing flight helmets and masks while talking over radios. They're also all basically in the same identical sets, which makes working out who's where in relation to each other kind of hard. Vomit guy doing yeoman's work by virtue of being covered in vomit.
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Jan 31, 2024 03:16
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I know it doesn't match up at all and would be ahistorical but it would be funny if all of a sudden Jimmy Stewart was there too.
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Jan 31, 2024 03:25
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Those sheepskin leather suits must be worth a fortune these days. Sheep are at a premium, i blame Ugg boots.
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Jan 31, 2024 06:30
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Anyone who had THE SUM OF ALL FEARS on DVD had the delightful commentary with Phil Alden Robinson (The Director) and Tom Clancy where Clancy just bitches the entire time about the changes and how unrealistic everything is. I don't know how I feel about TRUE DETECTIVE. There's plenty to like with this season, but trying to tie anything in with the first one is kinda embarrassing (And feels like a corporate mandate) and while there's stuff visually that works, the whole thing feels like a slow walk in circles. The less said about some of the writing the better. It's like getting a glimpse into how the show would have been if it was made by CBS.
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Jan 31, 2024 11:38
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Wasn't there a seinfeld thread? I ctrl fed "seinf" but got nothing for several pages. God I hope I didn't misspell it, although that would explain it
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Jan 31, 2024 12:40
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Its title is probably a Seinfeld quote, making it a bit hard to find It may be better to use Google with the site:forums.somethingawful.com modifier and just search for Seinfeld
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Jan 31, 2024 12:44
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3295518
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Jan 31, 2024 12:45
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muscles like this! posted:Watching the first episode of Masters of the Air and the show definitely has a problem of everyone dressing exactly the same, wearing flight helmets and masks while talking over radios. I think they made a mistake not showing any of the training stuff that BoB did. That was really valuable in getting to know and differentiate all the characters before they got thrown into a bunch of hectic action.
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Jan 31, 2024 12:59
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Milo and POTUS posted:Wasn't there a seinfeld thread? I ctrl fed "seinf" but got nothing for several pages. God I hope I didn't misspell it, although that would explain it It's a quote thread of endless lines that don't actually make sense in sequence to one another, much like how the MST3K thread is endless random quotes and there's one or two random posts about the show itself that get quickly ignored.
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Jan 31, 2024 13:14
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I ended up remembering what I was thinking of anyway, it was something that happened to george and I thought it was in the opposite episode instead
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Jan 31, 2024 13:24
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Timby posted:It's a quote thread of endless lines that don't actually make sense in sequence to one another, much like how the MST3K thread is endless random quotes and there's one or two random posts about the show itself that get quickly ignored. Once again proving the Simpson's wrong quote thread supremacy.
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Jan 31, 2024 13:46
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Freshmen season: A's across the board Sophore season: sophmoric Junior season: tried, but took the wrong classes Senior season: if they hadn't switched to this new school it'd have been okay
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