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Egbert Souse posted:There should be a reversal where a bug transforms into a human and becomes a successful businessman I have the best thorax, just a really great thorax, everybody says so. Thorax!
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Sharing YouTube clips from Godzilla movies to keep my two-year-old nephew occupied and I'd forgotten A) how many of these fights are just monsters taking turns blasting each other with lasers and B) 80s era Godzilla probably isn't the best stuff for two-year-olds
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Jan 2, 2017 05:14
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I thought King Kong vs Godzilla would be relatively tame but there's a long segment where Kong keeps getting rocks dropped on his head. Also it became clear at some point that he thought KK was Curious George
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Jan 2, 2017 05:23
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Magic Hate Ball posted:I can't stop listening to the Alvin and the Chipmunks pop covers slowed down to their original recording speed. I like that version of Heaven Is A Place On Earth a lot.
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Jan 2, 2017 18:32
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I think the last thing I watched in 2016 was the new De Palma doc. All the clips from his stuff make it a fun watch regardless but it's basically just a long interview and the dude is a poo poo storyteller.
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Jan 2, 2017 18:46
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Not anymore.
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Jan 3, 2017 19:40
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JC Chandor directing Channing Tatum and Tom Hardy in a Mark Boal script developed by Kathryn Bigelow sounds cool
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Jan 6, 2017 16:54
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Jenny Angel posted:To this point, there's a kernel of something interesting in the Forza Horizon series where the initial setup has the window dressing of "you're at this massive outdoor music and car festival in a gorgeous location with a bunch of colorful characters, go have bonding and self-discovery experiences in the Italian countryside while racing your obnoxious cars" but that's mostly just a pretty spare setup for a Ubisoft-style content map. It'd be pretty rad imo to actually lean into that setup What about the Stardew Valley formula would you want added to that? Just more character interaction/minigame type stuff?
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Jan 10, 2017 17:39
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Chicago has some of the most openly racist people I've ever met and I grew up in South Carolina edit: well, the suburbs at least
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Jan 13, 2017 18:44
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Timby posted:Chicago's western and northwest suburbs are basically WhiteFlightInAmerica.txt. Black populations in those areas are generally around 3 - 4 percent at the absolute most, and in some places that's being generous -- in college I very briefly dated a girl from Barrington, which is this ridiculously wealthy northwest suburb, and while we were driving around town one day she said to me, "Hm, that's odd." The company I work for was based out of Barrington when I was brought on. It's apparently one of the richest zip codes in the U.S., though the town is pretty button-down. I guess a lot of people live in sprawling estates outside the downtown area. For what it's worth the locals I knew there were typically well-meaning but old-money to the core and sort of clueless. They've since sold the company to some Southside bros that live up to all the worst stereotypes, basically being pieces of poo poo and hiding behind "just busting balls." One of the new owners randomly started drawing Sambo while I was having a work conversation with him. This morning I got called a human being for eating one donut instead of two If you know someone hiring let me know
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Jan 13, 2017 20:20
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The whole thing should have just been Mutt vs. psycho-fascist Cate Blanchett w/ the ants as a featured player
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Jan 17, 2017 17:45
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Spielberg's TinTin movie is already the best new Indiana Jones we're ever going to get
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Jan 17, 2017 17:54
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MacheteZombie posted:I've really enjoyed the rise of offbeat indie games. I just picked up a PC for the first time in 20 years because I was tired of missing out on weirdo indie PC stuff. Unfortunately I'm finding a lot of these games sort of suck Hyper Light Drifter is pretty good, though
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Jan 17, 2017 21:13
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MacheteZombie posted:What kind of games do you like? I picked up a few of those during the last Steam sale but haven't gotten around to them yet. Ideally looking for something that can be played in discrete chunks, like X-Com-style turn-based strategies or short-run platformers.
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Jan 17, 2017 21:41
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I've wanted an excuse to post this but they definitely still make inexplicable videogame commercials: Suggested Video: This Hot Girl Has Piano Skills
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Jan 18, 2017 16:12
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:its script definitely has some issues but the cinematography is out of this world great. The style of some people just clicks with you, I think I'd watch pretty much anything Soderbergh shot
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Jan 18, 2017 18:01
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:I think Kavalier & Clay are basically supposed to be Simon & Kirby mixed with Siegel & Schuster. There's a lot of Steranko in there, too.
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Jan 18, 2017 22:25
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It looks like M. Night is on a hot streak, good for himquote:At last, M. Night Shyamalan has decided to let his freak flag fly, and made the sort of unapologetic B-movie one always suspected he had pent up inside of him; it swerves from dark comedy to 1970s-esque psycho-horror as the irresistibly preposterous script struggles for attention against a delirious lead performance by James McAvoy. Split is funnier, campier, and more freewheeling than anything its writer-director has done—slightly overlong, but reminiscent of Brian De Palma films like The Fury and Femme Fatale in its refusal to be boring. Shyamalan pulls out one ingenious camera move after another with the help of Michael Gioulakis, the cinematographer of It Follows, echoing Split’s subterranean setting and subconscious concerns through creative and formalist thrills. Self-reflexive, maybe even therapeutic, it twists the themes of fate and trauma that have been his stock-in-trade since The Sixth Sense into a very entertaining genre exercise—some of his strongest work since the days of The Village and Signs. X-Ray Pecs posted:Almost all roasting of Trump is completely ineffective and is only performed to show how smart the roaster is. People still can't get over the jokey nature of the Trump presidency and realize how much poo poo is going to be hosed. Not that any of this was unexpected, at all, but seeing it in ink and laid out end to end made me want to ralph this morning 
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Jan 19, 2017 16:26
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's rad, it's got the same charm as the film itself where Borchard just defies every opportunity presented to be self absorbed. It's amazing how well the movie threads the needle between being too sympathetic or too cruel. I wonder how big an influence it had on all the cringe humor we got in the 2000s — you can draw a pretty direct line, but I guess it's probably mostly Christopher Guest instead
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Feb 27, 2017 20:00
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:oh my god I have to read this quote:Every generation needs a hero, and, ladies and gentlemen, 36-year-old “La La Land” producer Jordan Horowitz might just be ours. https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/mo...tIJI/story.html
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Feb 27, 2017 20:12
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If that counts then this does
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Feb 27, 2017 21:53
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K. Waste posted:Get Out was pretty decent, I dug it. A little over-hyped, I think Peele's action scenes leave a lot to be desired, but it was pretty funny. That's where I landed. I liked it on the whole but it's always a downer when a movie starts way stronger than it finishes.
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Feb 28, 2017 19:52
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New Alien trailer is just kind of a bummer, like Scott is locked into some Sisyphus deal remaking the first movie until he makes the franchise fetishists happy
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Mar 1, 2017 15:07
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Prometheus is a remake of Alien in very broad strokes and Scott filled in the margins with stuff that a lot of people hated. Covenant looks like another redux with more Alien-y aliens. It's just kind of a bummer coming off his best movie since…Gladiator I guess
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Mar 1, 2017 15:51
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Return of the Living Dead, Re-Animator, and Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn are the holy trifecta of horror-comedies. That Dickeye hasn't seen Return is a travesty. Needs to expand to a quadfecta to make room for Dead Alive
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Mar 1, 2017 17:08
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Personally I would make it a pentfecta (??) and include Hausu as well, but the horror thread made it a trinity, and I can't push back against what the horror thread says. You can probably dock Dead Alive for all the spear-chucking native stuff Peter Jackson seems to like a lot
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Mar 1, 2017 17:16
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Nah, that stuff is great. It's kind of hard for me to defend, especially since it gets revisited in King Kong (and depending on how far you want to go with that, Lord of the Rings). You just like it as throwback pulp adventure pseudo-commentary or what?
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Mar 1, 2017 17:21
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I know some people here go to preview screenings, any advice on how early to show up? It usually doesn't seem worth the hassle but if I'm going to see King Kong beat up dinos it may as well be for free and on a 5,160 square-foot screenHUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:It's a thruline in the film. How offensively are the bone in the nose Sumatrans portrayed compared to the way the guy who arrogantly steals from them is treated? Fair enough, but on a gut level it's still harder for me to sit through than all the goop
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Mar 1, 2017 19:31
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CelticPredator posted:Early early early early. If you didn't buy a ticket or have an assigned seat you many not even get in. Like…an hour? Or should I just not bother
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Mar 1, 2017 19:37
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Detective No. 27 posted:I did this for Shin Godzilla. Theatres are cool now. It's a mixed blessing. The only screening of Get Out I could catch last Friday was in one of Regal's semi-scammy RPX theaters. Assigned spots don't matter as much when it's 4:20 in the afternoon and you're paying $20 for the privilege of your own personal seat in a theater with two other dudes
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Mar 1, 2017 21:25
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Skwirl posted:If you think that poo poo is confusing and full of plot holes you should try reading the comics some time. The movies at least have the good sense to not give a poo poo
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Mar 2, 2017 01:29
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The movies have completely recreated the excesses of the comics. I don't really remember the movies getting that hung up on continuity beyond the broad strokes but I guess there's like a half-dozen I haven't seen
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Mar 2, 2017 01:40
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Every time I played Burnout I'd drive my Prius into oncoming traffic
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Mar 2, 2017 15:56
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My boss brought paczki even though I asked him not to
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Mar 2, 2017 17:13
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ruddiger posted:That sounds very rude on your part. It's just me and him in the office and he brought a dozen
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Mar 2, 2017 17:57
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It feels dumb to stan for a distributor but A24 has such a good track record and it's nice knowing that even if I don't catch their stuff in theaters it'll hit Prime eventually
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Mar 2, 2017 19:39
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weekly font posted:Do you guys find yourselves getting into hopeless film arguments outside of here/with people who aren't film assholes like us? I try to avoid it like a boxer in a barfight but it happens sometimes and I'm always disappointed when I engage. Knowing when to cut your losses is one of the most useful skills to have in life
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Mar 3, 2017 19:53
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:See, I don't get in arguments with my real life movie nerd friends because my real life movie nerd friends know what's up I am watching Scream now and it is extremely good
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Mar 4, 2017 05:08
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ruddiger posted:I like when Squiggy shows up as the dean. Late-era Winkler rules I bought it because The Craft was on at the bar and seeing Skeet Ulrich/Neve Campbell + so many great 90s-era stars made me want to watch Scream again. Great decision
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ruddiger posted:Skeet Ulrich is Jughead's dad on Riverdale. Has he learned how to play a non-psychotic in the last 20 years
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