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Augus: Mar 9, 2015

okay when they said "texas and california form an alliance" I didn't think they meant ONLY Texas and California. That makes even less sense :psyduck:

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Laterite: Mar 14, 2007; It's Gutfest '89; Grimey Drawer

i watched the first episode of 3 Body Problem and hit da bricks

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:05

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Augus posted:

okay when they said "texas and california form an alliance" I didn't think they meant ONLY Texas and California. That makes even less sense

All these factions perfectly fit within state borders too. If you live in Wisconsin, five minutes from the Minnesota border, you're now going to kill your neighbors

Laterite posted:

i watched the first episode of 3 Body Problem and hit da bricks

I wish ya luck Samwell Tarly and Onion Knight cuck!

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:06

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Nichael posted:

All these factions perfectly fit within state borders too. If you live in Wisconsin, five minutes from the Minnesota border, you're now going to kill your neighbors

"it's actually a story about war journalism, so it's okay to sketch out a setting that makes no sense for them to be having a war in"

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:08

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Augus posted:

okay when they said "texas and california form an alliance" I didn't think they meant ONLY Texas and California. That makes even less sense

also I don't even think a texas/california alliance is that silly. it's a potentially interesting premise, but it also requires someone to write.

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DR FRASIER KRANG: Feb 4, 2005; "Are you forgetting that just this afternoon I was punched in the face by a turtle now dead?

presumably musk built a hyper loop tunnel linking the two states in this continuum

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:11

Gumball Gumption: Jan 7, 2012

Love Lies Bleeding is another good movie currently out. Some weird discourse too from people who think the movie where two women inject each other with testosterone was made for the male gaze. Movie itself is like 7/10 but we need more weird kinda exploitation films and it's surprisingly funny.

Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare looks like ahistorical garbage to get mad at, turning a group of psychos into the A Team. Good poo poo.

A bunch of reviews say that Challengers is bringing sex back to movies but it looks boring.

Sasquatch Sunset looks like one of the stupidest movies ever made and I want to know what it was like to be the camera guy filming Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough have bigfoot sex and how much he wishes he was dead.

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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:

presumably musk built a hyper loop tunnel linking the two states in this continuum

it's a bit outlandish but i can just about believe this as backstory for the fallout setting, sure

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:21

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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Civil War is triggering some of the dumbest "discourse" where people are arguing with 100% sincerity that war journalists are supposed to be neutral and impartial.

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In Training: Jun 28, 2008

Gumball Gumption posted:

I don't know if reading wikipedia to get mad at the politics of a movie is a step up from the Fallout chat, we should go back to that

It's actually definitely what should be the main topic of discussion for at least two weeks. This is what this forum is for.

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:32

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

Gumball Gumption posted:

Sasquatch Sunset looks like one of the stupidest movies ever made and I want to know what it was like to be the camera guy filming Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keough have bigfoot sex and how much he wishes he was dead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PpEpK4Ko-g

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:33

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

In Training posted:

It's actually definitely what should be the main topic of discussion for at least two weeks. This is what this forum is for.

yo you hear about this show called star trek

I think Enterprise is the best one

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:35

In Training: Jun 28, 2008

I hope Civil War makes a bajillion dollars are they churn our a decade of sequels with increasingly distressing Maps.

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In Training: Jun 28, 2008

in Civil War 3 New Hampshire teams up with Utah and theres a big hyper loop that connects them and uhhhh hackers from Louisiana figure out the Tesla kill switch .

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:37

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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A real American civil war would break down along subcultural lines.

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Open Source Idiom: Jan 4, 2013

Gumball Gumption posted:

A bunch of reviews say that Challengers is bringing sex back to movies but it looks boring.

Actually it looks hot.

Interesting that Hollywood's now allowing (multiple!) young male actors to make a career playing queer roles, when that wouldn't be heard of even five years ago. I wonder if this is the going to be a more dominant form of young male sexuality that we'll be seeing on screen for a bit, since it potentially reads as safer than straight male sexuality for young women.

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tristeham: Jul 31, 2022

Mr Hootington posted:

I read the cineD thread and just laugh at it.

lol they're so dumb

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

Okay my good thing is going to sound cheesy, but my 13yo daughter and I have been watching Gilmore Girls together and she immediately clocks that Dean is bad news and has gone on a rant about this town having not LGBTQ characters. And we are having a great time but her noticing those things gives me hope for the future. Actually talking to most teens gives me hope for the future these kids don't mess around.

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docbeard: Jul 19, 2011

My roommate and I have been watching the John Wick movies for our weekly(ish) tv/movie nights and between that and playing Cyberpunk I've got a lot more Keanu in my life all of a sudden. I think Johnny Silverhand is a more interesting and nuanced character but the John Wick Murder Cartoon is fun too.

I do need to watch more of Lucy Vaultington teaming up with Max Fallout and Boyd Crowder though.

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KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

A real American civil war would divided on brand lines, closer to Demolition Man, rather than geopolitical lines like how Civil War posits.

I wouldnt enlist for the Western Forces, but I might enlist for Taco Bell.

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docbeard: Jul 19, 2011

Sorry, Sir Max of Fallout, need to be respectful and get the names right

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

Open Source Idiom posted:

I can think of a few people there who'd have been all over it, but their former head film writer wasn't too impressed.

drat that's a well written and thoughtful review.

The AV Club should hire that guy.

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DJJIB-DJDCT: Feb 1, 2024

Gumball Gumption posted:

A bunch of reviews say that Challengers is bringing sex back to movies but it looks boring.

Wasn't Emma Stone full frontal for huge swaths of Poor Things?

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Open Source Idiom: Jan 4, 2013

Some Guy TT posted:

Okay my good thing is going to sound cheesy, but my 13yo daughter and I have been watching Gilmore Girls together and she immediately clocks that Dean is bad news and has gone on a rant about !this town having not LGBTQ characters. And we are having a great time but her noticing those things gives me hope for the future. Actually talking to most teens gives me hope for the future these kids don't mess around.

The way they "solve" this in the addendum series is very on brand.

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Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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KirbyKhan posted:

A real American civil war would divided on brand lines, closer to Demolition Man, rather than geopolitical lines like how Civil War posits.

I wouldnt enlist for the Western Forces, but I might enlist for Taco Bell.

[me and the boys form a circle to show off our matching "YIFF IN HELL" tattoos]

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:57

the milk machine: Jul 23, 2002; lick my keys

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

"it's actually a story about war journalism, so it's okay to sketch out a setting that makes no sense for them to be having a war in"

it was originally supposed to have the main character journalist wake up at the end and go "wow, it was just a dream!"

# ? Apr 15, 2024 16:58

Pener Kropoopkin: Jan 30, 2013; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
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"What's your favorite Fallout?"

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Gumball Gumption: Jan 7, 2012

DJJIB-DJDCT posted:

Wasn't Emma Stone full frontal for huge swaths of Poor Things?

I don't think you're meant to find it very horny or titillating. It's about sex but not very sexy

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Open Source Idiom: Jan 4, 2013

Yeah, a better example would be Saltburn.

Edit: though as is often the case, the answer is that it didn't disappear, it just jumped to a different platform. All the horny stuff went to TV.

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Tankbuster: Oct 1, 2021

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"What's your favorite Fallout?"

BOS.

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KirbyKhan: Mar 20, 2009; Soiled Meat

Tankbuster posted:

BOS.

*BLAM BLAM BLAM* pause *BLAM*

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Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

has anyone seen that movie where mark wahlberg befriends a dog while running around the dominican republic im trying to figure out if its socialist

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mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

Some Guy TT posted:

has anyone seen that movie where mark wahlberg befriends a dog while running around the dominican republic im trying to figure out if its socialist

nope.

anyone seen this? any good?
Deal of the Century

en.wikipedia.org posted:

Deal of the Century is a 1983 American comedy film directed by William Friedkin and starring Chevy Chase, Gregory Hines, and Sigourney Weaver.

The film follows the adventures of several arms dealers that compete to sell weapons to a South American dictator.

## Plot

Eddie Muntz is a small-time American arms dealer who talks his way into a job with a large defense corporation selling high-tech military unmanned aerial vehicles to a mentally unstable South American dictator. Muntz arrives in war-torn and impoverished "San Miguel" to sell weapons to both its leader and the rebels seeking his ousting.

In the middle of a sales pitch to the rebels, Muntz is caught in a firefight and is shot in the foot. Hobbling in a rundown hotel days later, Muntz meets Harold DeVoto, a sales rep for the American defense contractor, Luckup.

Muntz peddles small arms (assault rifles, anti-personnel mines, and machine-pistols disguised as cassette tape players), whereas Luckup's product is more sophisticated�the Peacemaker UAV, a military dream that operates without pilots or airbases. But the military junta of San Miguel strings DeVoto along, driving the man to suicide. Muntz successfully takes over the deal and wins a contract worth millions.

On returning to America, he is angrily confronted at gunpoint by Catherine, Harold's widow. Demanding the contract, Catherine shoots Muntz instead, reopening the wound on his foot. Waking up in the hospital, Muntz is told by Frank Stryker, a Luckup executive, that San Miguel reneged on the deal after a disastrous and highly publicized demonstration of the Peacemaker.

Muntz nevertheless decides to help Luckup re-sign San Miguel. He is joined by his partner, Ray Kasternak, an ex-fighter pilot now undergoing a religious crisis of conscience, and also by Catherine. Muntz's efforts are complicated by tensions with Luckup, Ray's religious conversion, "The Peacemaker's" many technical glitches, and his own growing moral reservations.

On the eve of a major defense industry exposition, Muntz is visited by Massagi, an immensely wealthy arms merchant who both encourages him to finalize the San Miguel deal and coaches him on how to do it. Massagi reveals that the global arms industry has a stake in sales of weapons like the Peacemaker because they allow for localized and conventional wars that will keep their business viable into the next century. Massagi also explains how recent changes to federal law not only legalize bribes to foreign dictators, but make those bribes tax deductible. These revelations spur Muntz on, while also adding to his unease.

Muntz accompanies San Miguel's dictator to the weapons expo, where billions of dollars of high technology are displayed and demonstrated. To the dictators, Muntz disparages any warplanes he sees, reminding them of the obvious benefits of pilot-less aircraft.

While Muntz demonstrates some of his own wares (including a booby-trapped urinal), Ray hijacks one of the fighter jets being demonstrated, threatening to attack the expo, also daring them to attack him. Ray circles overhead as representatives for defense contractors bicker among themselves as to whose weapons are good enough to shoot him down.

Stryker takes matters into his own hands, launching the Peacemaker. This time, the UAV proves a much more formidable threat, and not even Ray can destroy it. Misusing all of the Peacemaker's weapons, however, Stryker instead destroys the entire expo. Before he can try again for Ray, Muntz uses his cane to shut off the Peacemaker's remote control panel, allowing Ray to destroy it.

In the final scene, we learn that Ray has left the arms industry to become a missionary. Muntz is also out of weapons trafficking, but still a salesman working at his brother's used car dealership. He sells Catherine a car, and it is implied that they will be doing other deals together.

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Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

finally got to the Petticoat Junction part of the Beverly Hillbillies Youtube video

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GD_American posted:

I played like the first and second Fallout games. Who is Todd Howard and why do I keep seeing angry poo poo about him on Twitter

Some call him God Howard

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Nonsense: Jan 26, 2007

GD_American posted:

I played like the first and second Fallout games. Who is Todd Howard and why do I keep seeing angry poo poo about him on Twitter

He personally coded, wrote, and voice acted in Fallout 3 single-handedly of course.

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my_custom_username: Nov 30, 2023

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

"What's your favorite Fallout?"

New Vegas.

# ? Apr 15, 2024 19:05

my_custom_username: Nov 30, 2023

haven't seen civil war yet but i know that map has been pissing people off for months. texas and cali linking up isn't the most absurd thing in the world honestly.

# ? Apr 15, 2024 19:08

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

my_custom_username posted:

haven't seen civil war yet but i know that map has been pissing people off for months. texas and cali linking up isn't the most absurd thing in the world honestly.

it just seems like the movie is not very interested in its own premise

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Nonsense: Jan 26, 2007

That entire movie was written in Austin, not California.

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