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The Brosnan Bonds are really great camp. Skyfall strikes a good balance between the campier ones and Casino's serious realism tone (which bored me personally).
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The episode of The Simpsons where Bart overeats junk food and gets sent to fat camp (guest starring Albert Brooks as the fat camp coach) was just on TV. I loved that episode but forgot where it was located in the series' timeline. Apparently it came out in 2005? That's way later than I thought, but that officially makes it the last Simpsons episode I really enjoyed all the way through, so 9 years ago.
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mr. stefan posted:It still weirds me out a little that Duran Duran has a Bond theme under their belt. So does A-ha 
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May 27, 2014 02:04
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mr. stefan posted:It still weirds me out a little that Duran Duran has a Bond theme under their belt. The best Bond theme, the worst Bond movie. 
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May 27, 2014 02:09
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When I left China a tv show about a middle aged guy and his 20 year old girlfriend was all the rage. I return to find a new show has taken its place, about a middle aged woman and her 20 year old boyfriend. That's... progressive? I kind of dig the concept in a country where, as a woman, you're a spinster if you're not married before age 25. e: actually it's still bullshit, because the guy in the first show was like 50 and the woman in the second show is like... 35(!!) Dissapointed Owl fucked around with this message at 02:21 on May 27, 2014 |
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May 27, 2014 02:17
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The only Chinese show I've ever watched is the 2012 drama "Three Kingdoms," which is loving hysterical. They spend literally all the budget on giant hats and the occasional anime fight scene. The best episode thus far has definitely been Zhao Yun fighting at Changban to rescue Liu Bei's son, taking on several thousand dudes with the baby strapped to his chest... and then this happens (which was apparently in the original novel).
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May 27, 2014 02:24
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I just watched last night's Mad Men and I am agog at the last three minutes. Amazing television. Amazing.
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May 27, 2014 02:26
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Literally The Worst posted:I just watched last night's Mad Men and I am agog at the last three minutes. Amazing television. Amazing. Yeah it was loving incredible. Last night I was at a Chinese restaurant and the TV in the dining room was playing some Chinese channel which was showing what I'm pretty sure was a propaganda film called Glorious Mission and it owned.
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May 27, 2014 02:28
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Vermain posted:The only Chinese show I've ever watched is the 2012 drama "Three Kingdoms," which is loving hysterical. They spend literally all the budget on giant hats and the occasional anime fight scene. The best episode thus far has definitely been Zhao Yun fighting at Changban to rescue Liu Bei's son, taking on several thousand dudes with the baby strapped to his chest... and then this happens (which was apparently in the original novel). That baby should've taken care of itself. Instead it shamed the family. Chinese television won't show Walken mouth-biting in Sleepy Hollow, but has several shows running during the day about snipers gorily blowing people's heads off. Frigging weird.
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May 27, 2014 02:31
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Sheldrake posted:Yeah, what the hell. It's not even the worst Shirley Bassey theme song. That would be HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD
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May 27, 2014 02:45
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penismightier posted:That would be HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD In what world is Goldfinger the worst Bond theme?
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May 27, 2014 02:46
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If there's one good thing we can take from this tragedy, it's me finding out that the Government Gets Girlfriends guy has a new blog where he can talk about how his parents not getting him laid is literally murder.
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May 27, 2014 02:47
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penismightier posted:That would be HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD HE LOVES ONLY GOLD Yeah, but "Goldfinger / He's the man, the man with the Midas touch / A spider's touch / Such a cold finger / Beckons you to enter his web of sin / But don't go in" is a killer opening verse.
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May 27, 2014 02:48
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Bond themes can suck Dickeye's balls.
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Has anybody seen this yet? Zizek Delenda Est http://www.leftforum.org/content/zizek-delenda-est quote:Is Slavoj Zizek a US propaganda psyop? I want to ask my comrades on the left to consider the possibility. After years of research, I have come to the conclusion that Zizek is a charlatan posing as a "Stalinist" to both discredit communists by performing a caricature Bolshevik and simultaneously, to smuggle fascist ideas including old fashioned Aryan supremacism and 19th century race theory, back into public discourse disguised as radical left critique of liberalism. I will focus on how he exploits his radical left image to spread imperialist propaganda and disinformation. I'll trace the origins of the Zizek Industry to his first anointing by the New Left Review, then edited by Quentin Hoare and Branka Magas, Croatian Nationalists and Tudjman supporters and founders of the Bosnian Institute, as the Balkan Leftist who would initiate, in 1990, the dominant strain of imperialist propaganda about Yugoslavia, and yet further back to his career as an antiMarxist, antiCommunist "dissident" and Slovene ethnic nationalist. I will discuss the way he has influenced a generation to the point where now right wing and reactionary ideas as well as pure white house disinformation and propaganda are routinely packaged as hip "lefty" and "radical" thought. No idea what this conference is but I hope somebody goes so we learn how this might affect close-readings of Human Centipede 2.
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May 27, 2014 02:57
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Kramjacks posted:Bond themes can suck Dickeye's balls. Bond themes loving rule, actually. I still remember the first time I heard Live and Let Die back when ABC showed Bond movies every Thursday for some reason.
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CPL593H posted:In what world is Goldfinger the worst Bond theme? It'd be pretty solid if it wasn't 45 minutes long.
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May 27, 2014 02:59
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Jack Gladney posted:Has anybody seen this yet? Who the hell saw "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" on the Reading List and decided, "Yes, seems okay. Let's put it through."
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SALT CURES HAM posted:Y'all are being good about this, it's more of a general worry; I have a feeling that if everyone fixates on the MRA aspect and ignores the other issues that led to this (mental health problems, gun culture, social isolation) it'll end pretty poorly all around. As usual, the answer lies somewhere in the extreme left. MRA is abhorrent and should be abolished, but the solution is not to attack the idiots themselves, tempting as that may be. This killer is frankly not a complex case. His basic question is 'why can't I be happy - despite all my wealth, prestige and privilege.' Since, in the logic of capitalism, he has no reason to be unhappy, happiness must have been stolen from him by not only the women themselves but the support network that 'defends them' from his power. His solution was, of course, a greater display of power. His reasoning is actually rather straightforward and coherent, given you accept the idiotic premises, so I actually don't think he was all that insane. It's just basic racism and misogyny, which can't be fought by giving individual idiots a stern lecture. The whining about gun control after Sandy Hook, on either side, was just impotent non-action to prevent having to actually do something. The issue was not the number of guns, corresponding to the amount of state intervention, but the kind of state that's doing the intervening. People saying 'Obama's going to take my guns!!' do understand that there's no private solution here, which is precisely why they freaked out so vocally. The fear is not that Obama actually will take all the guns, but that the militia types will be forced to put their money where their mouth is, and actually go live in the forest like a Wolverine. In practice, 'from my cold dead hands' means 'oh god please don't kill me!' If Obama is already so dangerous that their lives are at his very whim, they should have already united against him years ago. "Give me liberty or give me death" has been twisted to include an implicit third option where the addressee just says 'no.'
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Vermain posted:Who the hell saw "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" on the Reading List and decided, "Yes, seems okay. Let's put it through." I think that's part of the guy's argument about fascism but who knows? "Radical left" and "antisemitism" have been getting closer and closer in conspiracy theory circles for the last decade. I hope Zizek goes.
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Who does the shot context blog now? "...the top of the sun rose out of nothing like the head of a great red phallus..." -Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West "...as the sun fucks the dawn..." -Michael Gira, "A Piece of the Sky" (The Seer)
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The only good Bond theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7hyTd0zRcw
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wyoming posted:The only good Bond theme: Also easily the best Bond movie.
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wyoming posted:The only good Bond theme: Exactly what I hoped it would be. What a thrill!
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Somedayyyyyyy you'll go through the raaaaaaaaaaaain Somedayyyyyyy you'll feeeeeeeeed on a treeeeeeeeee froooooooooooog
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7KMMxAQp8I Pretty much a pastiche of all of John Barry's 1960s scores (mainly Thunderball, but bits of Goldfinger, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and From Russia with Love thrown in). Egbert Souse fucked around with this message at 04:23 on May 27, 2014 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Somedayyyyyyy you'll go through the raaaaaaaaaaaain I give my liiiife, not for hoooonooooor, buuuuut foooooor youuu-uuuu-uuuuuu!
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DoctorWhat posted:So does A-ha I was gonna say that Garbage is the weirder one, but then I remembered that Chris Cornell has one too.
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Vincent posted:I was gonna say that Garbage is the weirder one, but then I remembered that Chris Cornell has one too. Louis Armstrong, kinda-sorta, is the weirdest to me.
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May 27, 2014 04:44
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Weird thing- the cineplex over in Merriam was showing a couple of current Indian movies in addition to everything else they had- Manam and Kochadaiiyaan. Maybe there's a big Indian population there.
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I Before E posted:I give my liiiife, not for hoooonooooor, buuuuut foooooor youuu-uuuu-uuuuuu! I still need to get the MGS Legacy Collection with my next check. MGS 2-4, a DL code for 1, and Peace Walker for 60 bucks.
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Criminal Minded posted:Who does the shot context blog now? I'm running it. I should not have started a blog a month before graduating and moving to a city I've never spent any time in, because I'm really behind on the blog. Once I get settled, though, it should be running smoothly again. wyoming posted:The only good Bond theme: Don't forget the ability to "SN-SN-SN-SN-SNAKE EATER-ER-ER-ER-ER" Moviechat: I saw The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty last night, and Ben Stiller can still direct the hell out of a film. The blue motif was too obvious and was distracting after about 10 minutes, but one of my friends said she didn't notice it. Stiller has a real knack for comedy, and watching him branch into less outrageous stuff was interesting, but still worked for me.
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Literally The Worst posted:I still need to get the MGS Legacy Collection with my next check. MGS 2-4, a DL code for 1, and Peace Walker for 60 bucks. I have it and its rad. There's a mini artbook too if you're interested in that sort of stuff.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:His reasoning is actually rather straightforward and coherent, given you accept the idiotic premises, so I actually don't think he was all that insane. I don't really disagree with what you're saying, but uh, sane people don't go on shooting sprees. The fact that he went on a shooting spree (also the fact that his "manifesto" was completely incoherent and absurd) makes it pretty clear that the dude had serious issues.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Weird thing- the cineplex over in Merriam was showing a couple of current Indian movies in addition to everything else they had- Manam and Kochadaiiyaan. Maybe there's a big Indian population there. There is a big indian population in the area, Sprint has a large contingent of Indian employees. They used to show Indian films at the small theatre near the Oak Park Mall until they tore it down.
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FishBulb posted:There is a big indian population in the area, Sprint has a large contingent of Indian employees. They used to show Indian films at the small theatre near the Oak Park Mall until they tore it down. Are there any theaters in the KC area that I should know about other than the Alamo?
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Are there any theaters in the KC area that I should know about other than the Alamo? Screenland Armour, the Tivoli in Westport and theres a couple small art film theaters in the Overland Park area that go by "the fine arts theater group" or something, Glenwood Arts is the one I'm most familiar with but they have a couple more (the Rio etc...)
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What's a good movie for when you want to watch something but just cannot focus?
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mr. stefan posted:I have it and its rad. There's a mini artbook too if you're interested in that sort of stuff. I want to Maximize My Money so I'm picking up collections of things, especially ones that are super cheap. Sixty bucks for five games is a pretty good deal!
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Watched Ravenous again today for the first time in years. Only now realized how homoerotic that movie is. I mean, sure it's a movie about men eating another man's essence to gain strength and how afterwards that's all you'll ever want, but it goes way beyond that. The closing shots are even of two men cuddling while the movie's only woman walks away in disgust.
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