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gradenko_2000 posted:Denver gets mini-nuked in The Sum of All Fears, the Hill gets 9/11'd in Debt of Honor, the Iranians unleash an ebola outbreak in Executive Decisions, Washington DC narrowly avoids getting nuked in The Bear and the Dragon, and by the time we pick up the story in Teeth of the Tiger, the physician that distributes succinylcholine injection guns to Jack Ryan's son to help him run his black-than-black-op intel service tells us he joined this assassination outfit because he "had a brother working in Cantor Fitzgerald on the 102nd floor of the North Tower" Lol my mom is both really conservative and an avid reader of thriller trash but even she got to teeth of the tiger and was like "uh so the presidents friends just have a literal blank check to murder anyone they dont like? What?"
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i actually liked hunt for red october even if it is red scare poo poo
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I too thought it was a little overhyped but there are some genuinely great bits in there. The art show was loving hilarious
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gradenko_2000 posted:Captain America: Winter Soldier might inspire some people to join the alphabet agencies well the reveal is that the spy agencies are literally Nazi staybehinds
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Some Guy TT posted:they just throw that out there but still trust that well understand the problem was permanently solved for all future movies since captain america successfully punched a bunch of nazis oh of course, everything has to reset to status quo at the end of the movie
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Sep 25, 2019 16:36
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Some Guy TT posted:national review has better film criticism than most mainstream publications because their writers have mastered the dark art of discussing plot without just doing plot summaries weirdly their print critic is ross douthat, but their online stuff is just hilarious hot takes
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The show was pretty good even if it did have a bit too much residual Ennis but I cannot imagine a watchmen tv show being good at all
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I just realized I had Ennis and Ellis mixed up Dickeye need your opinion on from hell because I heard it mentioned recently and jack the ripper was a freemason working for the Victorian British sounds just crazy enough for me
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Oct 3, 2019 00:50
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Yeah I'm not super into comics but afaik Cap has always been about an idealized America and frequently ends up turning against the actual American government
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Oct 3, 2019 05:46
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:anyway this is completely subjective but the best musical is Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors is a deeply reactionary story about how the struggles of the poor lead them to unleash a monster that consumes the world, please @ me because there's no point in a hot take if you cant argue about it
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Oct 3, 2019 23:20
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Also Les Mis rules
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i think it's possible he was trying to do a sorta radlib thing about how if you treat the poor badly they'll do stupid things like start a revolution maybe? idk havent seen it
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Oct 7, 2019 16:33
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:Still funny to me that they are turning the boys into a successful tv show considering the amount of ghoulish sexual violence and gore that happens in that comic. its one of those things that very much benefits from editing
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Oct 23, 2019 03:46
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I did like that Homelander just straight up quotes GWB afterwards
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Last Temptation of Christ as "crime flick" has to be a joke right
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If you exclude kids movies, remakes, and series, rhe first original movie in there is The Martian at 41
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ikanreed posted:The USA isn't a dead culture. It's an undead culture, a grotesque Frankenstein's monster made from the corpses of past culture Yeah the martian's dialogue is also like 30% nerd pop culture references
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Honestly there's a lot of media that basically presents all the insane fears of the right as correct and we need hard men to fight them, but also throw in an American bad guy or something so the writers can still call themselves liberals
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i remember westworld s1 had lots of people talking about it and p much everyone ive seen said s2 sucked and dropped it there
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Watching Paths of Glory for armistice day. Thought the general was over the top but then I looked it up and its all true
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Nov 12, 2019 00:41
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Alhazred posted:WWI was insane. Everyone knew when the armistice was coming for example but the generals still sent their troops into combat in order to grab land. Henry Nicholas John Gunther was killed one minute before the armistice went into effect. yeah like i knew it was bad in general but when he started calling artillery down on his own men i was thinking "okay this is some 40k bullshit"; except it actually did happen. it's like the reverse enemy at the gates
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Nov 12, 2019 22:48
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Some Guy TT posted:this is why i dont consider most vietnam movies to be antiwar movies they get as far as war is hell but just act like this is an inevitable aspect of the human condition and not the direct outcome of decisions made by a small number of rich idiots who never suffer consequences from failure This is why the best modern war movie is Generation Kill
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Nov 15, 2019 16:36
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I am entirely okay with a reading of the prequels that its about the Jedi hubris that blows up the galaxy because their heads are firmly up their own asses, in fact I thought that was pretty obvious from any reasonable viewing; that doesn't change the fact that they're boring as hell
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Nov 19, 2019 17:52
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Hodgepodge posted:One of the big reasons that people didn't like the PT was that they were expecting the Jedi to be great wise leaders of a utopian society, but it turns out they are hypocritical liberal cops propping up capitalism. See the thing here is that looking at the original trilogy theres some stuff like the whole "are droids slaves" thing and the reference to Triumph of the Will and so on, but the story doesn't really work if you want to say that Lucas was trying to tell a story where the hero's journey is bad (compare Dune, where its pretty obvious). Of course you can read it against the intention of the author and of course that is more or less what the prequels are doing, but I don't think that the OT is like a really deep cover Vervohoven or something
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Nov 19, 2019 17:57
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Can't wait to be on this still dead forum in a decade arguing with people saying the original disney movies were way better than the deck they're putting out now
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I will side with the "OT is deep cover Starship Troopers" theory if it makes people like that mad
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Forceholy posted:Are you calling a Guatemalan dude white? Poe Mengele-Eichmann
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Nov 20, 2019 20:34
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Wasn't into darkness written by a 911 truther
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Nov 21, 2019 16:08
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MonsieurChoc posted:The rlm videos are pretty good at explaining why people don't like the prequels. They're pretty bad at actually analyzing them. What is the internet for but arguing about pointless bullshit
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Dec 6, 2019 17:29
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Serf posted:my favorite bit of background on the prequels is that lucas had no interest in directing them, and he asked basically all his friends to do it and they, rightly, told him that it would be a career disaster to try and do more star wars. but the funny part is that he asked david lynch and its so loving funny to imagine the lynchian star wars movies That just Dune
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black 47 is a pretty decent movie, watch it if you want to see redcoats get murked
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Finicums Wake posted:the best thing about the prequels was the n64 pod racing game. i haven't seen the sequels, and i hope i'm not subjected to them. rogue one was fine. star wars chat sucks Republic Commando was good
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Honestly I think the thing is that the OT had a ton of flaws that you just don't care about because it was overall good
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:Which one of the three sets of classic Star Wars films do you guys think are the best The good one
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Helsing posted:Something that reinforces this interpretation is that "Ozymandias" is also the title of a famous poem regarding the ultimate futility of all empire builders and how even the grandest schemes are eventually buried beneath the sands of history. Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends.
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There was a joke going around that the old Robocop was a better Dredd than old Dredd and the new Dredd is a better Robocop than new Robocop; and thats basically Watchmen and The Boys
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Dec 11, 2019 16:43
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A Gnarlacious Bro posted:If you aren't watching some Street Trash style insanely nasty poo poo then they have cleaned it up for sure yeah there's one or two bits that are a little over the top but it manages to sand it down enough that it works
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Bro Dad posted:Tbf they do pivot to that later by monetizing starlight's metoo moment but yeah that episode is jarringly out of date The bit where she realizes that the company is going to make money off it either way is great
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