mysterious frankie posted:

I just want to take this time to respond to the poster who, near the end of last thread, made the erroneous claim that “Ds get degrees”. Ds do NOT get degrees. Not even at junior college. Probably not even at clown or hamburger college. Please don’t start this new year by slacking off and getting Ds because an elderly man or woman in the old folks thread told you it was ok, young people. Strive for Cs, the grade of champions.

Thank you.

Argyle Gargoyle posted:

I've heard praise about this over the years but haven't bothered with it. Seemed like a generic action movie. Is it worth it? I'd assume very few practical effects and just a bunch of cg crap

Cacator posted:

There were some scenes where I may have been the most scared I've ever been watching a movie and also parts where I literally nodded off, a land of contrasts. Should've been at least half an hour shorter and two fewer jump scares.

Vakal posted:

The funny thing is that the Stallone Judge Dredd movie is problably more accurate to the comic which can get pretty silly at times.

kalel posted:

just to be completely clear for everyone else: nobody says "it's morbin time" in the movie, it's just an internet joke. I haven't seen the movie but I know in my heart it can't be real

Kingo Ligma posted:

Cops

priznat posted:

The funny thing is that he’s now getting trounced in the offensive rear end in a top hat comedian category by Chappelle, who is actually an extremely talented standup when he’s not being a complete prick to marginalized groups.

priznat posted:

I thought ansel elgort got semi cancelled for being horny on main

It is kind of a shame that Tokyo vice has got the whole “white guy at the centre of bringing down yakuza bosses” thing going on or so the trailer makes it seem anyway

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/tokyo-vice-problematic-source-material-1235135828 posted:

Did Adelstein, for instance, really use aikido skills to beat up a huge yakuza bouncer? Was he the target of yakuza “snipers”? Did female sources agree to give him information only if he would sleep with them — with one woman in his book throwing a wad of 10,000 yen ($100) bills at him and demanding sexual satisfaction? Among those who have known and worked with Adelstein, sources assess that some of his more far-fetched adventures run the gamut from merely colorful and larger-than-life to “exaggerated” or, simply, “fiction.”

https://globalitewatchdog.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/jake-adelstein-tokyo-vice-japan-journalist/ posted:

–told the Foreign Correspondents Club of Japan that he turned down $500,000 offer from gangsters to keep his mouth shut. Gangsters deny this, telling Japanese reporters that they never heard of Adelstein.

–says Japan’s largest criminal syndicate agreed to protect his family, kill only him

–told Bloomberg News in October, 2013, and many other news organizations, that he lives under police protection in Tokyo. Police officers in Adelstein’s neighborhood say this isn’t true. While trying to recruit a cute young female assistant, Adelstein told her that it’s safe to come over and live with a French model in his house in Shimokitazawa in west Tokyo. As he told her in an email: “I’m not in any danger nor is anyone working for me or who knows me.”

–says he spent 12 years as a “police reporter”, while his name card says he was in the “Society Department”. Several Yomiuri colleagues called him a pathological liar, according to a New Yorker article written by his high school classmate.

–told the New Yorker in 2011 he was dying of liver cancer, a disease which kills many victims in weeks or months. Claimed he was undergoing chemotherapy, but went smoking, drinking heavily with a reporter. Also claims to have brain lesions, flashbacks due to “beatings” from gangsters

–made dozens of allegations in 23-page complaint filed in US court claiming that yakuza gangsters would kill anyone involved in National Geographic documentary, which Adelstein quit after going to US in middle of shooting schedule in Japan. Nobody died.

–says he once “broke a gangster’s knees” with a golf club during a fight in a Tokyo real estate office

–claims in his “non-fiction” book Tokyo Vice, and in various interviews, that his informant, “a prostitute friend” named “Helena”, was murdered due to his actions. He told the BBC that she had been “raped, tortured and killed.” Adelstein’s assistant and another person identified “Helena” as Olivia Stelcer. When contacted in 2013, Stelcer in several emails confirmed that she helped Adelstein’s reporting in 2001, continued to live in Japan for 16 years, and that she wasn’t “murdered”. She said Adelstein continued to contact her, even as he told the public he felt guilty for her murder and lamented her loss.

–Though he never covered the Japan tsunami and nuclear disaster, nor the riots near his home in Missouri, he claims that he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, and says he sleeps in 2-hour shifts, despite help from psychotherapists. Says he often took marijuana, lyrica and other drugs, and has overcome addictions which caused him to make bad decisions and do regrettable things, but denies accusations he uses crystal methamphetamine.

–Adelstein claims he employs a former yakuza boss and convicted drug dealer, Teruo Mochizuki, of driving him around Tokyo in a black Mercedes S600 “Vice-mobile”. Adelstein denies using drugs.

–says his father, a pathologist, told the FBI, Congress and ABC News that a local nurse murdered 42 patients at his hospital. After being acquitted due to lack of evidence, the nurse moved to another state.

–says that while living in a Zen monastery in Tokyo for three years, he worked as a “Swedish masseur” for attractive Japanese women.

Gutcruncher posted:

Fake or not, the story was still popular and good and changing it between seasons is a stupid move

Edit: was ANY of it real to begin with? Like was he exaggerating WAYYYYY too much or was he just straight up full on fantasy?

Vakal posted:

Finally got around to checking out the Reacher show.

It's peak alpha-male fantasy, but drat if it doesn't scratch the itch left since Banshee ended.

Nefarious 2.0 posted:

Cubone posted:

Bloodsport owns

I'm not sure if this post is part of the "fake true stories about white dudes becoming the most important person in secret asia" conversation or the "uncontrollable boners" conversation

Non Compos Mentis posted:

They've got a real thing for deciding characters have entirely different powers for the tv shows

No Mods No Masters posted:

I'm pretty ignant as well but I feel like it's sort of like a less severe version of the reunification of korea problem, where you have to ask if you really want to reunite with a bunch of malnourished people who have no useful skills. But I understand it's probably beautiful country and has a certain romantic appeal and such

PostNouveau posted:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/2024/01/10/george-carlin-ai-comedy-special/72174280007/

https://twitter.com/jeremysmiles/status/1745244942505558206

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kONMe7YnO8

This appears to be some kind of weird art piece from Will Sasso? I dunno what he's going for but everyone is mad at him now.

MacheteZombie posted:

Miike is great

George H.W. oval office posted:

Joe Pera rules. Conner O’Malley is a great foil to Joe's calm nature.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktVIQZ7tiag

No Mods No Masters posted:

I feel like I've been appreciating more and more lately how funny star wars 9 was. There are so many angles to it and they're all good for a laugh

Frank Frank posted:

Look, no matter what Disney does next I think we can all agree that the comedy stylings of Lizzo and Jack Black should be part of it.

Automatic Slim posted:

I encountered him once the day he wrapped shooting "Bernie". He and Linklater decided to celebrate by going to see the Butthole Surfers and Black was dressed like Mario because it was Halloween.

That's my story, thanks for reading.

PostNouveau posted:

IIRC, some author in the old books tried to pull an "actually Palpatine was a good guy because everything he did was in service of preparing to fight an even bigger, more evil threat from outside the galaxy".

Pretty common trope, but you usually don't use it with your moustache twirling villains who are evil because they love being evil.

Cubone posted:

I will not hear a bad word about the o.g.
topic locked.

Arc Hammer posted:

So in another case of "what's the point of this?" Sony is turning another video game into a movie, this time the 2015 game Until Dawn.

You know, the game that is literally a movie with QuickTime events that homages 80s slasher films. Take out the gameplay and it's already a movie, it even has Remi Malek in it!

I also can't remember the name but a movie that was very obviously an inspiration for Until Dawn was on a Best of the Worst episode. About a vengeful guy who invites his former friends to an isolated ski lodge so he can start killing them.

Gutcruncher posted:

33 dollars for a DVDR without any artwork

Beautiful. Never change, breen

Edit: for comparison Who Killed Captain Alex also came on a DVDR without a dvd case but it came with artwork to put in your own case and the disc itself had a hand drawn label with my name on it and a scrap of cardboard with marker doodles of a machine gun and a helicopter for 10 dollars

sharknado slashfic posted:

Lol

Crescent Wrench posted:

But then we wouldn't have gotten the classic ending where security is marching him to his execution as he begs for his life.

No Mods No Masters posted:

I feel the common person will feel godzilla was robbed, and they'll be right. This town will regret this

Cubone posted:

kevin spacey's handler is this dude who had a one hit wonder in 2000 ("when you look at her and she looks at me / she's got me thinking about her constantly" that one) and spent the next couple decades trying out other ventures and not finding much success. he was seen on the show "american inventor" in 2006 pitching his invention, a bowl on top of another bowl
he struck gold when his talent management company picked up spacey about a year before the allegations hit, and he's stuck by him ever since.
remember the "wait, who the gently caress would help him film this?" confusion after the initial christmas video? it was this guy. he can also be seen being the only person standing by spacey at his acquittal

everything spacey has done post-allegations makes a lot more sense to me when viewed through the lens of former rock star/failed bowl manufacturer evan lowenstein desperately trying to shore up his second taste of fluke success

Pen Expers posted:

This has remained my favorite even after the hundreds that channel has made

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mgPy2kU9nEk

Arc Hammer posted:

Godzilla Minus One on the biggest drat screen you can find.

I'm going to watch it in theaters again tomorrow

priznat posted:

God I love Top Secret. It’s like a comedic fever dream.

counterfeitsaint posted:

Everything that happens in previous movies is completely invalidated every time. Everyone who fought and died to beat the empire, and succeeded only for there to be a new, identical empire to fight now. It made the whole thing feel like a Saturday morning cartoon where the reset button has to get pressed between episodes. Doesn't matter how many times you win, how many progressively bigger and bigger ships you blow up, at the start the next movie you're still going to be the hopelessly outnumbered plucky rebels fighting the big overwhelmingly powerful empire.

Also Leia surviving in such a stupid way in the second movie, only to do absolutely nothing for the rest of the series and then disappear under a blanket. They knew drat well the actress was dead, they could have just let the character die and nothing about the story would change.

The evil sith knife. Chewie death fake out. God, just everything.

priznat posted:

It really looked like purestrain Oscar bait that will be instantly forgotten after the ceremony, just like Shakespeare in love and The Artist. Everyone wishes they could forget Crash (the bad one).

Awards shows are such a massive waste of time, who cares.

kalel posted:

yeah I was definitely thinking about euphoria with that post

zoomers are among the least sexual zoomers of any generation ever. the whole hypersexual myth has literally been fabricated wholecloth by hollywood perverts. sam levinson has fully demonstrated himself to be a complete idiot

Arc Hammer posted:

how NZ's film industry got hosed by its own government and Warner Bros, I still feel bad for the guy.