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Holy poo poo, this scene. I watched Robotech for some time, decades ago when I was a child, and this is literally the only scene I remember. Never thought I'd ever see it again.
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OldTennisCourt posted:This extends from TV and movies but I really can't stand how defense attorneys seem to mostly be depicted as evil, greedy scumbags with no morals who gleefully cheer when they let murderers go free. I know that most cop/court shows are from the perspective of the police/prosecutors but it really pisses me off how we now have this cultural idea that defense attorneys are soulless creatures who don't care about victims. Well SVU is the one where every case is sex crimes. You probably don't want to make the rapist's side sympathetic on network TV.
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Jun 3, 2015 00:19
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Aphrodite posted:Well SVU is the one where every case is sex crimes. But lots of times they arrest innocent people first, and even then the defense attorneys are seen as scum-sucking vermin. Is Saul Goodman the only sleazy defense lawyer that isn't a totally bad person?
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Danger Mahoney posted:Speaking of irrationally irritating, that spoilered scene you're talking about was preceded by Peter dramatically telling Roman to cook a crazy amount of bacon for the fat. Peter was going to use that bacon fat as the way to make that spoilered scene happen. Roman, like a good friend, fried up pounds and pounds of bacon eventually coming up with like four gallon-size mason jars full of the stuff. There is a whole bacon-frying montage scene. When those jars are delivered to Peter he only uses a small handful. About a tenth of one jar. Oh, yay. Finally I can sperg about this loving scene. First of all, yes, he only uses a loving handful. Secondly, I'm no werewolf expert but I'm fairly sure that you don't need bacon grease for them to bite you. That is what werewolves loving do, they loving BITE YOU, INCLUDING PARTS YOU MAKE AVAILABLE FOR BITING WITH NO OH, HUM, MAYBE I SHOULD WAIT FOR A TASTIER BIT TO GET SHOVED IN MY FACE. poo poo, even aggressive domesticated dogs would happily bite parts of your body that you shove at them with no hesitation. Basically I have no explanation for the bacon grease except that it was busy work for Roman. Maybe the ritual needed an offering? Peter needed to show he was serious about this poo poo by smearing bacon grease on himself? I have no idea except it was dumb and if there was another reason than "Roman do the thing", it wasn't clarified.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:33
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I skimmed that post with the spoilered scene and just assumed that homo vamp was going to have gay sex with his werewolf friend with bacon grease because gently caress if I know. I haven't watched the show, and pretty much don't plan to, but seriously someone tried to get bitten by lubing up with bacon grease? That's loving retarded. I mean, wanting to become a werewolf after seeing how incredibly painful it is to literally change is already dumb, but the bacon idea just loving lobs it fully over the top. Is this a comedy show? Anyway, the gold standard for werewolf transformations will always be An American Werewolf in London, for me anyway.
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Jun 3, 2015 01:39
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empty sea posted:Oh, yay. Finally I can sperg about this loving scene. First of all, yes, he only uses a loving handful. Secondly, I'm no werewolf expert but I'm fairly sure that you don't need bacon grease for them to bite you. That is what werewolves loving do, they loving BITE YOU, INCLUDING PARTS YOU MAKE AVAILABLE FOR BITING WITH NO OH, HUM, MAYBE I SHOULD WAIT FOR A TASTIER BIT TO GET SHOVED IN MY FACE. poo poo, even aggressive domesticated dogs would happily bite parts of your body that you shove at them with no hesitation. I remember Peter saying something about "the price" being his "human face" after the whole cat debacle. (It's such a stupid show but I love it)
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Jun 3, 2015 12:26
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Cowslips Warren posted:But lots of times they arrest innocent people first, and even then the defense attorneys are seen as scum-sucking vermin. How soon we forget a national treasure, straight from the early 2000's… 
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Jun 3, 2015 14:15
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:Anyway, the gold standard for werewolf transformations will always be An American Werewolf in London, for me anyway. It's great, but The Company of Wolves may top it.
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Cowslips Warren posted:But lots of times they arrest innocent people first, and even then the defense attorneys are seen as scum-sucking vermin. I wouldn't hold up Saul Goodman as the example of a good person 
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Jun 3, 2015 16:23
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Jimmy McGill is though.
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empty sea posted:Oh, yay. Finally I can sperg about this loving scene. First of all, yes, he only uses a loving handful. Secondly, I'm no werewolf expert but I'm fairly sure that you don't need bacon grease for them to bite you. That is what werewolves loving do, they loving BITE YOU, INCLUDING PARTS YOU MAKE AVAILABLE FOR BITING WITH NO OH, HUM, MAYBE I SHOULD WAIT FOR A TASTIER BIT TO GET SHOVED IN MY FACE. poo poo, even aggressive domesticated dogs would happily bite parts of your body that you shove at them with no hesitation. I don't think any scene in the show to date has been clarified. The whole show is one stupid, nonsensical jaunt from one gory scene to another. The premise, business-wise, is "give Eli Roth 45 million dollars per season and eight bucks an hour to the writing team". The wife made me watch the show with her, and lord help me I love it.
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Android Bicyclist posted:How soon we forget a national treasure, straight from the early 2000's… Between this, Party of Five, and Dark Angel and it's honestly impressive how much of Fox's late 90s/early 00s lineup has fallen straight off of the pop culture cliff.
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mind the walrus posted:Between this, Party of Five, and Dark Angel and it's honestly impressive how much of Fox's late 90s/early 00s lineup has fallen straight off of the pop culture cliff. But not Family Guy! Eh? eh? Futurama was good though. I was watching tv the other night and apparently SA front page fodder Golan the Insatiable has been renewed from Animation Domination HD *sigh* to Sunday Funday. So good on them. That'll probably last. Lucas bros. are cool too. Sunday Funday be there
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I hope Golan takes off, because that would mean steady work for SA forums superstar Crosshatch.
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Android Bicyclist posted:I hope Golan takes off, because that would mean steady work for SA forums superstar Crosshatch. Considering what Fox did to futurama and fambly guy I am not crossing my fingers. And burning bridges with Mike Judge as fast as Murdoch's underlings could. They're a really stupid organization that's been real lucky with Simpsons, Cops, MWC and X-Files. Okay they might have something.
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Oh wait they're adding a new McFarlane joint about immigrants in America and they dumb redneck neighbors. So hopefully reverse KotH? They're putting taco shells on the salmon!!!
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Zaphod42 posted:Except for those few times in Law and Order where the vic gets charged or something, and then they bring in the one token good guy defense attorney. I am friend's with a bunch of insurance litigation lawyers and they pretty much unanimously agree that you only go into criminal defense if you want to be a hero helping people as there is bugger all money in it except for the top 1%. The whole "making GBS threads on defense attorneys" is pretty stock standard really even here in Australia and it annoys me now as well.
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I really really wish I was joking, but seriously, that's what a lot of people believe. Only lawyers and judges seem to appreciate the need for Gideon v Wainwright.
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Panfilo posted:I wonder if these people would have the same attitude if the state accused them of a serious crime and they needed a public defender.
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My Lovely Horse posted:Of course not, they're not criminals. They're citizens unjustly accused and deserve a good defense. Those other guys? They're criminals. Everybody in jail is innocent.
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OldTennisCourt posted:This extends from TV and movies but I really can't stand how defense attorneys seem to mostly be depicted as evil, greedy scumbags with no morals who gleefully cheer when they let murderers go free. I know that most cop/court shows are from the perspective of the police/prosecutors but it really pisses me off how we now have this cultural idea that defense attorneys are soulless creatures who don't care about victims. This is like twice as bad in anything Japanese. If a lawyer gets murdered in a cop show, the police will stand around complaining about how the victims of every criminal he defended are potential suspects, and why do they have to solve this case anyway. Even Legal High where the main character was a defense lawyer, portrayed him as a money grubbing rear end in a top hat who regularly cheated the system to get guilty criminals cleared.
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Shouldn't 300 have been called 301? Since Leonidas took his 300 hundred best and himself to Thermopolae.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Shouldn't 300 have been called 301? Since Leonidas took his 300 hundred best and himself to Thermopolae. Could he have included himself as one of the 300?
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Shouldn't 300 have been called 301? Since Leonidas took his 300 hundred best and himself to Thermopolae. Ephialtes was so terrible he counted as negative one.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Shouldn't 300 have been called 301? Since Leonidas took his 300 hundred best and himself to Thermopolae. Then he sends the one guy who narrates away, so it's still 300 at the end.
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Aphrodite posted:Then he sends the one guy who narrates away, so it's still 300 at the end. But a few men had died in previous fights, such as that one captain's son, so there's less than 300 at the end. 
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Eh! Frank posted:But a few men had died in previous fights, such as that one captain's son, so there's less than 300 at the end. Fewer
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It's not about the size of the army, it's about the number of corpses.
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Saw that Denzel version of The Equalizer and while it was mostly okay it gets pretty bad at the end. Specifically the home improvement store action scene where Denzel goes from taking guys out in straight up fights to murdering them with brutal traps. It just got unpleasant with stuff like drills to the back of the head or hanging a guy with a barbed wire noose. It was the kind of stuff you'd expect a horror movie villain to do.
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muscles like this? posted:Saw that Denzel version of The Equalizer and while it was mostly okay it gets pretty bad at the end. Specifically the home improvement store action scene where Denzel goes from taking guys out in straight up fights to murdering them with brutal traps. It just got unpleasant with stuff like drills to the back of the head or hanging a guy with a barbed wire noose. It was the kind of stuff you'd expect a horror movie villain to do. But... That was the best part. 
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muscles like this? posted:Saw that Denzel version of The Equalizer and while it was mostly okay it gets pretty bad at the end. Specifically the home improvement store action scene where Denzel goes from taking guys out in straight up fights to murdering them with brutal traps. It just got unpleasant with stuff like drills to the back of the head or hanging a guy with a barbed wire noose. It was the kind of stuff you'd expect a horror movie villain to do. And Home Alone was one of the highest grossing movies ever for a good stretch. E-- Honest Action - Home Alone: https://youtu.be/8WKgNyvsNDM mind the walrus has a new favorite as of 04:17 on Jun 7, 2015 |
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muscles like this? posted:Saw that Denzel version of The Equalizer and while it was mostly okay it gets pretty bad at the end. Specifically the home improvement store action scene where Denzel goes from taking guys out in straight up fights to murdering them with brutal traps. It just got unpleasant with stuff like drills to the back of the head or hanging a guy with a barbed wire noose. It was the kind of stuff you'd expect a horror movie villain to do. That was pretty much the point though, he was forced to abandon his 'high minded' style and get down in the dirt with the people trying to kill him. Character development!
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Vulpes posted:That was pretty much the point though, he was forced to abandon his 'high minded' style and get down in the dirt with the people trying to kill him. Character development! Yeah, that's how I saw it. He had spent his "retirement" trying to leave the brutality of his past behind, only to find it was core to who he was. Even the TV series the movie is based on, the guy was pretty ruthless in a sanitized TV show from the 80s kind of way.
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As very meh as the movie was i did really enjoy his whole "i have 15 seconds to kill everybody in this room so i'm going to actually time myself" thing. Of course then John Wick came out and showed everybody how to do an action movie the right way so now it's hard to watch these kinds of movies without thinking back to it.
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Celery Face posted:The entire movie is hilarious but god, it was hysterical how when the two detectives started questioning the doctor about the missing tourists, the doctor leaps up, screams something like "How dare you! You think there is a connection! WHAT A NERVE!" and shoves his roofied glass of water in their faces. When that doesn't work, the doctor excuses himself and comes back with a needle hidden in a towel. When the detectives catch what he's doing, they believe him when he says that it's insulin. This might be my biggest irritation I can remember, and it goes hand in hand with the talk a bit ago about the nefariously evil defense lawyers. In this case it applies to both the defense lawyers and their sometimes suspiciously smug and slimy-seeming defendants who sometimes look like they're one scene away from shooting a cop's partner, standing on a shipping crate and saying "I have diplomatic immunity!"  It's like, drat, I know some of these defendants think they have an air-tight alibi but you'd think they'd try to play it cool and not make themselves seem like a smug sociopath when they're still being investigated. Although the difference between the quoted example from Human Centipede and the Law and Order variants is that the latter case, the DAs and investigators don't tend to fall for it. The former case of the cliche is probably what bothers me more than anything, in watching characters act just really weird and suspicious and nobody picks up on it. I can't count the number of horror or suspense scenes I've seen where the killer is basically talking his way out of getting caught, sometimes in a "charming" way that just kind of oozes with sociopathic cheesy slime. It's almost like they're flirting, except they ham up the creepy angle so much that it's totally unbelievable that anyone would keep talking to them without trying to figure out a way to safely disengage without exposing the back of their head to this person and maybe call the police. Like a really bad Hannibal Lector impression in some cases. And then factor in the ones where they get weird anger jags or bizarre behavior or playing with dangerous implements, and I just groan as yet another investigating cop or victim is about to get brained by a villain with all the subtlety of Daffy Duck. Edit: VVV uggggh Midnight Raider has a new favorite as of 14:31 on Jun 8, 2015 |
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In the same vein, I can't stand this cliche: "You'll never make these charges stick. Don't you know who you're messing with?"
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Saw Pitch Perfect 2 yesterday. While it was pretty funny, the music just didn't stand up to the original. Probably wouldn't watch it again but would still watch the first one 937464 more times. My gripe with it is the German team. While they're singing, words like "the" and "there" get changed to "zee" and "zere". Fine whatever, they're supposed to be roided out Übermensch with incredibly thick accents. When they switch to normal conversation, though, they actually say "the" and "there", etc. it's really kind of annoying.
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I just watched a fairly bad movie called "Killing Season" with Robert Deniro and John Travolta playing a Serbian guy who is mad about something Deniro did during the war and is trying to kill him. Throughout the course of the movie each of them has the other one completely powerless and ready to kill, but they keep talking and dicking around, giving the other a chance to get the upper hand and escape. This happens like 5 times each. Stop talking, kill the guy. You don't have to get your dramatic monologue in before you do it, just get it over with.
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On last night's Penny Dreadful this hilariously incompetent bounty hunter keeps threatening this werewolf dude that he's going to scalp him and anyone close to him if he won't come along back to America. Except half his face is off because Hartnett had him for a chew toy a while back and his only defensive ploy is that he can't shoot him in the drawing room because it's very fancy and the others will hear the gunshot. As if they'd give a gently caress. Or he could just palm the disgusting little texan's face and drag him down to the river. I honestly can't make any sense of him as a threat other than he fact that he tells boring stories after being politely asked not to.
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Murphy Brownback posted:I just watched a fairly bad movie called "Killing Season" with Robert Deniro and John Travolta playing a Serbian guy who is mad about something Deniro did during the war and is trying to kill him. Throughout the course of the movie each of them has the other one completely powerless and ready to kill, but they keep talking and dicking around, giving the other a chance to get the upper hand and escape. This happens like 5 times each. Stop talking, kill the guy. You don't have to get your dramatic monologue in before you do it, just get it over with. 
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