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There was a french song about 9/11 that basically made a comparison between someone dying in the towers and a little afghan girl getting bombed to death. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM2wHg99pts
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I caught The Specialist on telly the other night and have been on a pre-Matrix 90s action movie kick since then. I was about half an hour into Clear and Present Danger when I saw that tweet about the new Jack Ryan show. Had to turn it off, Prime Harrison Ford or no. The Specialist loving bangs though, especially the start where Sylvester Stallone somehow loses a stand up fight to James Woods.
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joedevola posted:I caught The Specialist on telly the other night and have been on a pre-Matrix 90s action movie kick since then. In the film Action Jackson, Carl Weathers fistfights the villain Craig T. Nelson, and it's treated like a serious threat.
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joedevola posted:I caught The Specialist on telly the other night and have been on a pre-Matrix 90s action movie kick since then.
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Lmao if you didn’t read at least five (5) of your republican dad’s Tom Clancy novels as a kid. Bonus points if you also read a Left Behind.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Lmao if you didn’t read at least five (5) of your republican dad’s Tom Clancy novels as a kid. Bonus points if you also read a Left Behind. What if your dad is an old hippie?
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MonsieurChoc posted:What if your dad is an old hippie? what do hippie dads read? I genuinely don’t know
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:what do hippie dads read? I genuinely don’t know Carl Hiaasen and Edward Abbey were the ones I stole from my dad.
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my dad's not a republican but he had the clancy novels. but he's also a weirdo that's super smart and well read but also loves airport novels for some reason.
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Halloween Jack posted:The 90s was a particularly horrible era for action movies; why would you do that? Even John Carpenter magically forgot how to use a camera because it was the 90s. It's not quite ironic appreciation but there's a sort of corny professionalism to 90s action movies that came out before The Matrix changed everything. Cliffhanger might be the best example of what I mean. The genre had become pretty tired but there's something about that I like. It's a very specific niche. Action Jackson is closer to the wacky excess of 80s action, but it is great.
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Clearing up a lil Clancy lore for the thread Sum of all fears was Palestinians nuking the super bowl. Debt of honor was a Japanese 737 kamikaze into the Capitol building in the final pages, and Executive Orders was Ryan becoming president after the attack These were such a slog, but I enjoyed the hell out of his early books Red Storm Rising and Cardinal and the Kremlin when I was 14
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The only stuff with Tom Clancy's name on it that was worth a drat are the original Rainbow Six PC game and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory
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Sep 6, 2019 19:27
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rainbow six, the book, is beyond awful
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The Mummy was a really good nineties action movie.
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i say swears online posted:rainbow six, the book, is beyond awful yeah i read it back when the game came out. other than it being stupidly long the only thing i remember is the terrorists execute a girl in a wheelchair so the team's sniper (it might have been ding chavez himself) shot the terrorist in the stomach so he'd suffer as he died.
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Clancy wrote a book in 2003 that was like "Yes, Al Qaeda is going to bomb the mall in your suburb."
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The Kingfish posted:The Mummy was a really good nineties action movie. also living proof as to why Hollywood actors don't do their own stunts, Brendan Fraser ended up in crippling pain and gained like 80 pounds as a result so internet jerks like us can make fun of him https://twitter.com/ByYourLogic/status/1170048495790829569
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Failing Matt Christman proves himself the worst chapo by ignoring Pamala Anderson on the view
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MeatwadIsGod posted:The only stuff with Tom Clancy's name on it that was worth a drat are the original Rainbow Six PC game and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory I never played much Chaos Theory, so I got it on Steam and have just interrogated the first guard and dropped his body in a hole. Game still slaps. Edit: plugged the next guy with the ol' SC pistol headshot. Man, Sam Fisher owns; why didn't he ever get to be president? Papa Was A Video Toaster fucked around with this message at 20:40 on Sep 6, 2019 |
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Groovelord Neato posted:yeah i read it back when the game came out. other than it being stupidly long the only thing i remember is the terrorists execute a girl in a wheelchair so the team's sniper (it might have been ding chavez himself) shot the terrorist in the stomach so he'd suffer as he died. hahahaha i almost typed that out as probably the main reason it was so bad. that's really the only thing from the book that stayed in my memory
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"without remorse" is an older book of clancy's that's truly bad. baltimore vigilante goes after drug dealers when his gf gets killed. he kills a guy via the bends in a pressure tank
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Iirc executive orders is about an Iranian sleeper agent killing Saddam, Iran annexing Iraq and invading KSA Oh yeah while also launching an ebola outbreak in the US
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What were those two books they recommended during the JFK episode? I'm about to go on a trip and I need something to read along the way. I'll also take any other fiction recommendations on any subject if people have anything sick they wanna plug.
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fadam posted:What were those two books they recommended during the JFK episode? I'm about to go on a trip and I need something to read along the way. I'll also take any other fiction recommendations on any subject if people have anything sick they wanna plug. SSN: Strategies for Submarine Warfare by Tom Clancy The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy
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fadam posted:What were those two books they recommended during the JFK episode? I'm about to go on a trip and I need something to read along the way. I'll also take any other fiction recommendations on any subject if people have anything sick they wanna plug. One was Libra, by Don DeLillo.
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prefect posted:One was Libra, by Don DeLillo. + american tabloid by james ellroy
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coathat posted:Failing Matt Christman proves himself the worst chapo by ignoring Pamala Anderson on the view Her unvarnished disdain for Meghan was nice, plus she owned her multiple times
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i say swears online posted:rainbow six, the book, is beyond awful It's pretty good if you start from the premise that the eco-terrorists were right from the outset and it's a dystopian rumination on the abuse of state power to protect capital
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i say swears online posted:"without remorse" is an older book of clancy's that's truly bad. baltimore vigilante goes after drug dealers when his gf gets killed. he kills a guy via the bends in a pressure tank When I was young, way too young to really be allowed to read those books, I legit thought that was badass af. I hate that I ever thought that. I do stand by enjoying most of his older stuff though, but once the 90's hit his brain broke and he put out Sum of All Fears. And then 9/11 broke it further. I do find it kinda hilarious though that some of the stuff in his older books almost got him torn apart by contemporaries for being 'too left wing' though.
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Rainbow Six Vegas was one of the best competitive fps of its day.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:what do hippie dads read? I genuinely don’t know In my case: The Morning of the Magicians, lots of european comics and novels. Also detective novels.
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:+ american tabloid by james ellroy This should be mandatory reading for this thread. A magnum opus.
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i say swears online posted:"without remorse" is an older book of clancy's that's truly bad. baltimore vigilante goes after drug dealers when his gf gets killed. he kills a guy via the bends in a pressure tank What the gently caress https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499097/
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net work error posted:Rainbow Six Vegas was one of the best competitive fps of its day. They need to put out that Rainbow Six Patriots (?) game where the trailer was guys throwing Wall Street execs out the windows with bombs strapped to their chests
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Jackie D posted:They need to put out that Rainbow Six Patriots (?) game where the trailer was guys throwing Wall Street execs out the windows with bombs strapped to their chests Yeah that was pretty dope
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Popelmon posted:What the gently caress https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499097/
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FlamingLiberal posted:That movie has been in development hell for more than a decade now. At one point John Singleton was attached I think. It's in the same place as the Splinter Cell movie that was rumored to be coming for years but never got off the ground. I'm in if it's Michael Ironside.
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:what do hippie dads read? I genuinely don’t know theory
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FlamingLiberal posted:That movie has been in development hell for more than a decade now. At one point John Singleton was attached I think. It's in the same place as the Splinter Cell movie that was rumored to be coming for years but never got off the ground. thank god, it's just another grand turino ACES CURE PLANES posted:When I was young, way too young to really be allowed to read those books, I legit thought that was badass af. I hate that I ever thought that. yeah same. i'm glad i spent my dipshit years reading instead of speaking with other people
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Jackie D posted:They need to put out that Rainbow Six Patriots (?) game where the trailer was guys throwing Wall Street execs out the windows with bombs strapped to their chests im obsessed with that game ever since i saw this video. the bad guys are supposed to be a mix of occupy and the tea party. its the most 2011 poo poo ever https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCQysh2Ci0c
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