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'nother Simpsons post: The Frank Grimes episode. Because as a working adult you will no doubt encounter both sides of it: - the Homer Simpsons who fail upwards, or really any time you have to deal with watching someone get promoted over you when you know you're the better candidate. - The Frank Grimes types who overwork and hold an entitled attitude because of that and end up bitter and resentful at everyone else. The whole thing is a harsh lesson that working hard and overcoming more struggles than others does not guarantee you success and being a prick about it only makes it worse. it took me a bit too long into adulthood to realize I had the Frank Grimes mentality.
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When I was a stupid child I thought the scene in Godfather Part 2 where they bring Frank Pentangeli's brother to the courthouse was just a way of saying "Look how disappointed you will make your poor brother if you rat on us, the mafia."
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Hackers is 100% happening/happened except for the part where the kids win the day by that i mean a billion dollar multi-national corporation threatens an environmental oopsie doodle to embezzle millions and tries to frame supposed hackers for the damage while using the FBI/law enforcement as lackeys. 'haha, theres no way a corporation would ever be this evil' we all laughed before being flashed by angelina jolie's ta tas, quickly forgetting the horrific scene of a random citizen's identity being manipulated so that they are lost to the prison industrial complex OMFG FURRY fucked around with this message at 20:35 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Jun 8, 2023 20:30
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I just watched Idiocracy again and pretty much all of it when contrasted against the updated backdrop of modern society.
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There sure were some boobs in that scene in Clockwork Orange when i was 12 but now the boobs kinda take a back seat to other things
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Jelly posted:I just watched Idiocracy again and pretty much all of it when contrasted against the updated backdrop of modern society. Someone in another thread pointed out that the characters in that movie were actually willing to acknowledge that they had problems and take the advice of people who knew more than they did (i.e. the protagonist). It's a quaintly optimistic film lol
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Yeah, the president in Idiocracy had a huge problem that needed solving, so he found a much smarter person and took that person's advice. Which, just, lol when you consider how actual politicians operate. e: that's what I get for not refreshing the page before I replied
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OMFG FURRY posted:Hackers is 100% happening/happened except for the part where the kids win the day similarly, "the Net" from like 1995 is very good and actually quite prescient in a lot of ways, it's a very interesting movie to watch in 2023
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Jun 8, 2023 21:19
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:Ferris never hurts anyone. It's been a few decades since I saw it, but didn't they literally steal a vintage car and then wreck it?
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Jun 8, 2023 22:01
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Brave mujahideen fighters in Rambo
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Every time AJ and Meadow act like spoiled little shits it grates on me. Meadow especially, she's so mean to Carmela all the time
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Jun 8, 2023 22:31
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You Are A Elf posted:And a spoiled entitled rear end in a top hat. Movie is garbage when you’re an adult, and Sloane and Cameron deserve better. I thought that when I was a teen and to this day have never understood the movie's appeal.
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TheKub posted:It's been a few decades since I saw it, but didn't they literally steal a vintage car and then wreck it? They stole Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari, but Cameron’s dad is likely abusive. They didn’t wreck it though. Cameron destroyed it after they brought the car back to the house because his dad loves the car more than him. After his day out with Ferris and Sloane, he realized that life had a lot more to offer. Destroying the car was his way of breaking free from his parents. Ferris sets Cameron free. I used to also think Ferris was just an entitled douchebag, but he’s really about being your own person and being free and he shows that to Cameron. I think its a much more complex movie than it seems on its surface. The museum scene is profound, and the way Cameron stares at the Seurat painting makes me feel so sad for him.
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The end of the "Commendatori" episode of The Sopranos, in which Tony, Christopher, and Paulie return from Italy. Christopher Moltisanti desperately purchasing Adriana some Fendi item from the airport when he's spent the whole trip nodding off from heroin is relatable in a lot of ways it wasn't when it first aired. Not the heroin part though, thankfully. Tony being aspirational and miserable after seeing how good life is in Italy, something he fantasizes about constantly, always a "grass is greener" type. And finally, Paulie being so blissfully unaware and content with his own story being a simple one, despite living a relatively disgusting life in NJ. He says it at another point in the series about how he doesn't have "an arc" or something like that. He's almost nihilistic in his contentedness. As long as he makes his payments, hes good. All three "hit different" these days.
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This whole movie is a depressing nightmare. I love it.
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Kinda left field but back when I was a child a lot of educational children's shows -- Sesame Street, Electric Company and Square One -- had more sophisticated humour sprinkled into them and when I go back and watch them now as an adult I get a lot more out of them. Like the skits with Grover as a waiter. I love how the customer is clearly tired of Grover's bullshit, and it's funny to a kid but even more so as an adult since the body language and vocal tones are clearly delivering the "oh not this poo poo again" intent without using any of the exact words. Old Sesame Street (the collections of which are now marked as not being suitable for children for... reasons?) is great, and I remember reading that they specifically wanted to keep things as real as possible when they made it.
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Poohs Packin posted:The end of the "Commendatori" episode of The Sopranos, in which Tony, Christopher, and Paulie return from Italy. Im Paulie
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Homer Simpson is the sole provider for his family and they are unrealistically well off in modern America, and potentially for even the era it came out. Friends has incredible levels of rent control. Lewis explicitly rapes Betty in Revenge of the Nerds. Jim shares a nude non-consensually of Nadia in American Pie and she is punished and sent back to her home country. This is actually incredible hosed up. Padme rejects Anakin's advances in a beautiful romantic vista location while consistently and casually wearing incredibly revealing and intentionally seductive clothing. There is a bit of a mixed message there. Her falling for Anakin makes sense when you think of her as immature. Paulie Shore ruined a science experiment because he was a stoner loser who's buddy had to take a massive poo poo and he was rewarded for it. Nelson Mandingo fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Nice Cage's plan in Leaving Las Vegas Not with booze tho, too difficult
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I now understand that a rich billionaire absolutely would build the cube from Cube
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Jim shares a nude non-consensually of Nadia in American Pie and she is punished and sent back to her home country. This is actually incredible hosed up. I definitely blocked this scene out after the one and only time that I've seen American Pie. Thank you for reminding me why I never liked that loving turd of a movie olives black fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Jun 8, 2023 |
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Nelson Mandingo posted:Paulie Shore ruined a science experiment because he was a stoner loser who's buddy had to take a massive poo poo and he was rewarded for it. When I was a teen I knew a guy who would rent Biodome every weekend. He would watch it at least three times before returning it. As a side note he was also a big fan of Faces of Death and a documentary called Executions, which I heard was actually illegal and the video store wouldn't have had it if it was a big franchise.
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American Pie did serious damage to the movie-making overall
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I thought it was cool and badass when the lady cut her clit off with scissors in Antichrist, but now I lean toward it not being such a great idea. I mean, I don’t think you can sew that back on!
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olives black posted:Someone in another thread pointed out that the characters in that movie were actually willing to acknowledge that they had problems and take the advice of people who knew more than they did (i.e. the protagonist). Oh definitely, Camacho identified the problem, found the best SME available, delegated maximum authority and terminated all blockers with extreme prejudice. He's the boss all of us wish we had.
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WILDTURKEY101 posted:They stole Cameron’s dad’s Ferrari, but Cameron’s dad is likely abusive. They didn’t wreck it though. Cameron destroyed it after they brought the car back to the house because his dad loves the car more than him. After his day out with Ferris and Sloane, he realized that life had a lot more to offer. Destroying the car was his way of breaking free from his parents. lol no thats not quite what happened. Cameron didn't destroy the car on purpose at all. he intentionally dented the car, kicking the bumper and grill in, and had that realization about his dad. destroying the car was an accident that happened afterwards when he casually just rested his foot on the bumper, forgetting that it was going 80mph in reverse in their attempt to undo the mileage, causing it to go through the window and into the forest, which is when it was actually destroyed.
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Seeing the twink towers collapse as an adult would probably make me lose my mind. As a 4th grader, seeing it on TV didn’t really have a deeper impact other than learning NY was really really far away and that some people dislike our freedom.
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Zugzwang posted:Yeah, the president in Idiocracy had a huge problem that needed solving, so he found a much smarter person and took that person's advice. I would 100% vote for President Camacho today and that’s, uh, a take I never thought I’d have
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As an adult I can truly appreciate the latent homoeroticism of 80s action movies
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buglord posted:Seeing the twink towers collapse Sometimes bears can be really aggressive
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Earwicker posted:lol no thats not quite what happened. Cameron didn't destroy the car on purpose at all. he intentionally dented the car, kicking the bumper and grill in, and had that realization about his dad. ok you are right. Cameron owned it and was proud of doing it though.
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shame on an IGA posted:Oh definitely, Camacho identified the problem, found the best SME available, delegated maximum authority and terminated all blockers with extreme prejudice. He's the boss all of us wish we had. That's true, but I think the biggest thing is that he actually changed his mind when he saw evidence. The smart solution turns out to be unprofitable and hurts the economy so they blame the smart guy. But then it turns out he's actually right, and he has proof, and so everything is fixed. Goddamn but is that not how it works in real life. IMO, Idiocracy is a utopia because it presents us with a world full of well-meaning idiots. Nobody is smart enough to lie and bad actors who would intentionally embrace misinformation for personal gain have gone extinct.
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That dog waited for fry to come back but fry never came back because he was frozen ):
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You should root for Ferris more now because the principal turned out to be a pedo IRL
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By popular demand posted:"Hold on Captain Ron and Weekend At Bernie's are actually quite hosed up when you get into it! Yet I’ve come to realize the true heroes of the Police Academy franchise were the leathermen in the Blue Oyster Bar, humiliating homophobes and fascists through the power of tango.
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When the Pixar movie Up! first came out I was relatively newly married. I’m now married 18 years and I cannot watch the beginning. Wife and I switch channels as quick as possible. That poo poo is SAD.
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Robin Williams could have stayed married and seen his kids everyday if he didn’t decide to treat Sally Field like garbage and quit his huge studio voiceover job then trashed the house. Pierce Bronson was a saint for shrugging off that attempted murder.
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The original M*A*S*H is a dumb movie about a bunch of bro douchebags sexually harassing a woman and then playing football. The song is pretty good, though. E: To be fair, I only saw this movie once, and that was years ago. But I distinctly remember, like, the whole first act was about teaching the "bitchy" nurse to know her place, or some misogynist bullshit like that. BeastOfTheEdelwood fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Jun 9, 2023 |
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