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Originally posted by hostile View PostPretty cool he won a posthumous Grammy last night."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
- SeattleUte
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Originally posted by Northwestcoug View PostConfession: I was never a big fan. And that's after my FIL and wife tried to push his music on me. He was a dapper dresser though.PLesa excuse the tpyos.
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Originally posted by creekster View PostCould be a clever lyricist and writes some nice songs. A horrible singer and performer. Horrible. When he connected as a writer his stuff was very good. But he wrote a crap load of songs and a lot of them were simply not very good."...you pointy-headed autopsy nerd. Do you think it's possible for you to post without using words like "hilarious," "absurd," "canard," and "truther"? Your bare assertions do not make it so. Maybe your reasoning is too stunted and your vocabulary is too limited to go without these epithets."
"You are an intemperate, unscientific poster who makes light of very serious matters.”
- SeattleUte
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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostBecause war movies, by and large (e.g. those that aren't cautionary tales), are nothing more than state-sponsored propaganda.
Rarely do you get a war movie that is honest about the costs of engaging in war (let alone willfully engaging in such)... see Saving Private Ryan, Dr. Strangelove, et al.
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Originally posted by Donuthole View PostI saw The Shape of Water yesterday. I like it, but I'm not sure I love it. It's a period piece and an obvious homage to monster-horror films from generations ago. It's visually stunning, just as you would expect from Guillermo Del Toro, and the sets are fantastically detailed and colored. It's a fun story with likeable characters, but for me the story arc just fell a little flat. For one, it's a little too black and white about who is good and who is bad--perhaps that part of the homage to films of old. But more nuance with the characters, or perhaps some back story about why the foil was so unreasonable, might have made for a more interesting climax. The show was plenty long, but the relationship between the protagonist and her lover felt rushed and superficial. The antagonist, Michael Shannon, is great, but it feels like he plays the exact same character in everything; he essentially reprised his exact character from Boardwalk Empire for this role. Richard Jenkins is also great, and I wouldn't be surprised to see a best supporting actor nominee for him. In fact, this thing is going to get tons of Oscar buzz, and will likely be nominated in all of the major categories. It's definitely worth seeing, but I don't think it's nearly as profound as it wants to be.You're actually pretty funny when you aren't being a complete a-hole....so basically like 5% of the time. --Art Vandelay
Almost everything you post is snarky, smug, condescending, or just downright mean-spirited. --Jeffrey Lebowski
Anyone can make war, but only the most courageous can make peace. --President Donald J. Trump
You furnish the pictures, and I’ll furnish the war. --William Randolph Hearst
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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostBecause war movies, by and large (e.g. those that aren't cautionary tales), are nothing more than state-sponsored propaganda.
Rarely do you get a war movie that is honest about the costs of engaging in war (let alone willfully engaging in such)... see Saving Private Ryan, Dr. Strangelove, et al.
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Originally posted by Walter Sobchak View PostTwelve hours later and I'm still trying to figure out why this soft-core alien porn movie received 13 AA noms."I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"
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15:17 to Paris.
I think the experiment to use the actual heroes as the actors was a big miss. They were beyond terrible. Their backstories were not interesting at all. The 45 minute european travelogue went on and on. The actual scene on train was good enough, but the rest was sooo bad.
Oh well.
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Originally posted by LiveCoug View Post15:17 to Paris.
I think the experiment to use the actual heroes as the actors was a big miss. They were beyond terrible. Their backstories were not interesting at all. The 45 minute european travelogue went on and on. The actual scene on train was good enough, but the rest was sooo bad.
Oh well.
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Black Panther- Again- a comic book movie, so trigger warning to everyone out there. You know who you are. Not too shabby. I think I was the least excited/impressed with it in my group, but then again I had been hearing some crazy hype about it. This movie is about Wakanda, a fictional utopian African nation that is supposedly the epicenter of the Marvel Universe since it sits on a giant deposit of the amazing quasi-supernatural mineral Vibranium- the stuff Cap'n America's shield is made of. Other than that, it felt like its own thing and not very Marvel-y. No cameos by other Marvel characters during the actual film, etc. Andy Serkis plays a heavy in the movie in the flesh and has a fantastic presence-- I'd like to see him do more movies the old fashioned way. He and the guy who played the Hobbit are the only non-black characters of note. Pretty fun movie, overall.
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-Michael B. Jordan is shredded. I think it must be all that training with Stallone, but he's crazy jacked in this.
-I guess this is the highest grossing movie for opening weekend ever by a black director, and had the second biggest opening weekend of all the Marvel movies so far. Not too bad!"I'm anti, can't no government handle a commando / Your man don't want it, Trump's a bitch! I'll make his whole brand go under,"
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Originally posted by Commando View PostBlack Panther- Again- a comic book movie, so trigger warning to everyone out there. You know who you are. Not too shabby. I think I was the least excited/impressed with it in my group, but then again I had been hearing some crazy hype about it. This movie is about Wakanda, a fictional utopian African nation that is supposedly the epicenter of the Marvel Universe since it sits on a giant deposit of the amazing quasi-supernatural mineral Vibranium- the stuff Cap'n America's shield is made of. Other than that, it felt like its own thing and not very Marvel-y. No cameos by other Marvel characters during the actual film, etc. Andy Serkis plays a heavy in the movie in the flesh and has a fantastic presence-- I'd like to see him do more movies the old fashioned way. He and the guy who played the Hobbit are the only non-black characters of note. Pretty fun movie, overall.
*Sidenotes
-Michael B. Jordan is shredded. I think it must be all that training with Stallone, but he's crazy jacked in this.
-I guess this is the highest grossing movie for opening weekend ever by a black director, and had the second biggest opening weekend of all the Marvel movies so far. Not too bad!
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Originally posted by Commando View PostAndy Serkis plays a heavy in the movie in the flesh and has a fantastic presence-- I'd like to see him do more movies the old fashioned way. He and the guy who played the Hobbit are the only non-black characters of note.τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πλείονες ἢ δυόμενον προσκυνοῦσιν
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Originally posted by All-American View PostOne might say they are the Tolkien white guys."There is no creature more arrogant than a self-righteous libertarian on the web, am I right? Those folks are just intolerable."
"It's no secret that the great American pastime is no longer baseball. Now it's sanctimony." -- Guy Periwinkle, The Nix.
"Juilliardk N I ibuprofen Hyu I U unhurt u" - creekster
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Originally posted by Commando View PostBlack Panther- Again- a comic book movie, so trigger warning to everyone out there. You know who you are. Not too shabby. I think I was the least excited/impressed with it in my group, but then again I had been hearing some crazy hype about it. This movie is about Wakanda, a fictional utopian African nation that is supposedly the epicenter of the Marvel Universe since it sits on a giant deposit of the amazing quasi-supernatural mineral Vibranium- the stuff Cap'n America's shield is made of. Other than that, it felt like its own thing and not very Marvel-y. No cameos by other Marvel characters during the actual film, etc. Andy Serkis plays a heavy in the movie in the flesh and has a fantastic presence-- I'd like to see him do more movies the old fashioned way. He and the guy who played the Hobbit are the only non-black characters of note. Pretty fun movie, overall.
*Sidenotes
-Michael B. Jordan is shredded. I think it must be all that training with Stallone, but he's crazy jacked in this.
-I guess this is the highest grossing movie for opening weekend ever by a black director, and had the second biggest opening weekend of all the Marvel movies so far. Not too bad!Ain't it like most people, I'm no different. We love to talk on things we don't know about.
"The only one of us who is so significant that Jeff owes us something simply because he decided to grace us with his presence is falafel." -- All-American
GIVE 'EM HELL, BRIGHAM!
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