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I need to say that Catch-22 is one of 3 books that I have nothing but pure hate for. IT SUCKS
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Mash is like the complete opposite of TV series that didn't age well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYjy7uUn7fc
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Dec 5, 2017 09:07
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Aesop Poprock posted:Mash is like the complete opposite of TV series that didn't age well That will never stop being beyond hosed. It hurts just like new!
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Dec 5, 2017 09:12
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Aesop Poprock posted:Mash is like the complete opposite of TV series that didn't age well I'm going to assume this is the chicken thing, which is, in fact, not real but only a fever dream I had as a child.
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Dec 5, 2017 09:34
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oldpainless posted:I need to say that Catch-22 is one of 3 books that I have nothing but pure hate for.
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Dec 5, 2017 09:59
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Catch 22 is one of the funniest and most infuriating books I've ever read. I hope they cast someone with the most punchable face possible for Arfy.
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Dec 5, 2017 13:55
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Achernar posted:This is actually an old Hollywood gimmick to give more money to show creators. The theme to Bonanza or I Dream of Jeanie also had lyrics written for them but not used in the intros. Huh. That scene in The Pest makes a lot more sense now.
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Dec 5, 2017 14:09
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Aesop Poprock posted:Mash is like the complete opposite of TV series that didn't age well Wow. Totally disagree. I think it's practically the poster child for shows aging terribly. Only episodes I can still watch or the ones with Larry Linville
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Dec 5, 2017 14:37
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The acting is just as bad as I remembered it.
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Dec 5, 2017 14:48
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Catch 22 is one of the funniest and most infuriating books I've ever read. I hope they cast someone with the most punchable face possible for Arfy. Jake Busey, then?
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Dec 5, 2017 16:44
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Tiggum posted:It's one of those books that people say are brilliant and hilarious and I just don't get it at all. Along with A Confederacy of Dunces and The Man Who Was Thursday.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:00
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Genuinely surprised by Confederacy - as the ur-goon myself, I instantly recognized it as a book about a goon who lives before the internet.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:03
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Ugly In The Morning posted:Catch 22 is one of the funniest and most infuriating books I've ever read. My dad felt the same way the first time he read it. Then he got sent to Vietnam. It wasn't nearly as funny to him when he reread it after he got home.
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Dec 5, 2017 17:45
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I was binging MASH, and one of the episodes back when it was still Col. Blake in charge had a plot that was just Hawkeye refusing to go to sleep and becoming increasingly manic from sleep deprivation, which was played for comedy, even though the entire episode was just him having a massive breakdown from the stress of the war. I don't know if it's because of current attitudes towards PTSD are different now or what, but it was honestly the most effective political MASH episodes I saw, largely because the whole thing was played for laughs and the whole thing was just really horrible. That, and the scene where everyone's doing the usual hokey wise cracks during a meeting and Col. Potter just blows up on everyone because the meeting's about how they should start expecting white phosphorous burns and how to treat it. Harry Morgan's delivery on "If they can keep inventing better ways to kill people, why can't they invent a way to end this STUPID WAR" just really just sticks with me. It's great self-critique. MASH is a show that's aged weirdly--it's stiff, the humor's weak more often than not, and a lot of the politics are artless, but it has some bits that really just hit home because they're running on a different standard of what is and isn't inappropriate for TV.
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Dec 5, 2017 19:00
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Ugly In The Morning posted:It's tiggum, though. If there were dosimeters for obliviousness we all would have hit the lifetime limit after being exposed to a year or two of his posts. 
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Dec 5, 2017 19:15
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Precambrian posted:Harry Morgan's delivery on "If they can keep inventing better ways to kill people, why can't they invent a way to end this STUPID WAR" just really just sticks with me. That is a good moment
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Dec 5, 2017 20:00
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Plane carrying man with silly hat shot down over Sea of Japan, AP confirms.
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Dec 5, 2017 20:02
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Zamboni_Rodeo posted:My dad felt the same way the first time he read it. Then he got sent to Vietnam. It wasn't nearly as funny to him when he reread it after he got home. My dad said all his army buddies made fun of the scene where the guy gets chopped in half. Apparently it looks fake, but it always looked real to me. That said, if people in the military say someone getting mangled or decapitated looks fake, they probably know what the real stuff looks like.
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Dec 5, 2017 20:46
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Precambrian posted:That, and the scene where everyone's doing the usual hokey wise cracks during a meeting and Col. Potter just blows up on everyone because the meeting's about how they should start expecting white phosphorous burns and how to treat it. Harry Morgan's delivery on "If they can keep inventing better ways to kill people, why can't they invent a way to end this STUPID WAR" just really just sticks with me. It's great self-critique.  
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Dec 5, 2017 20:54
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Krispy Wafer posted:My dad said all his army buddies made fun of the scene where the guy gets chopped in half. Apparently it looks fake, but it always looked real to me. Yeah, my dad was a medical corpsman in the Navy. He got to see the worst of what war does to people. He really doesn't talk about it much.
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Dec 5, 2017 22:11
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There's also the old story about Christopher Lee correcting the direction on a movie he was acting in because he knew exactly how a guy being stabbed in the back sounded and the director's direction was unrealistic.
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Dec 5, 2017 22:33
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I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Christopher Lee also knew exactly how a battle between two wizards should sound either
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Dec 5, 2017 22:38
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BioEnchanted posted:There's also the old story about Christopher Lee correcting the direction on a movie he was acting in because he knew exactly how a guy being stabbed in the back sounded and the director's direction was unrealistic. Peter Jackson and Lord of the Rings
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Dec 5, 2017 22:42
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During the filming of The Great Escape, there was John Sturges turning away Donald Pleasence's suggestions until someone informed him that Pleasence had actually been a POW in a Nazi POW camp, at which point Sturges welcomed any advice Pleasence could give him
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Dec 5, 2017 22:50
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BioEnchanted posted:There's also the old story about Christopher Lee correcting the direction on a movie he was acting in because he knew exactly how a guy being stabbed in the back sounded and the director's direction was unrealistic. Christopher Lee is even more badass than the badasses he is famous for playing in the movies.
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Dec 5, 2017 22:55
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spog posted:Christopher Lee is even more badass than the badasses he is famous for playing in the movies. If/when they make a biopic they'll have to do it Audie Murphy style and cut out half the poo poo he really did because it's so insanely unbelievable.
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Dec 5, 2017 23:22
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Mister Adequate posted:If/when they make a biopic they'll have to do it Audie Murphy style and cut out half the poo poo he really did because it's so insanely unbelievable. I still can't believe half of the things Audie Murphy did and lived through. I think he actually wanted to die heroically in battle and just kept on living despite his best efforts.
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Dec 5, 2017 23:55
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Solice Kirsk posted:I still can't believe half of the things Audie Murphy did and lived through. I think he actually wanted to die heroically in battle and just kept on living despite his best efforts. Maybe he knew James Doohan and figured he had to outdo that mad Canadian bastard.
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How about Adrian Carton de Wiart? The first paragraph of his Wikipedia entry is:quote:Lieutenant General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart[1] VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer born of Belgian and Irish parents, and recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries.[2] He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War; was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip, and ear; survived two plane crashes; tunnelled out of a prisoner-of-war camp; and tore off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly I had enjoyed the war."[3]
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Dec 6, 2017 00:22
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Murph, who stood on top of a burning tank and machinegunned like 500 Germans, was rad as hell. He also had an amount of medals you usually only see on third-world dictators.
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Dec 6, 2017 01:49
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DACK FAYDEN posted:Genuinely surprised by Confederacy - as the ur-goon myself, I instantly recognized it as a book about a goon who lives before the internet.
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Audie Murphy killed like 250 enemies on his own. That's a 250/1 kill to death ratio lifetime.
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Aesop Poprock posted:Mash is like the complete opposite of TV series that didn't age well  that poo poo, Jesus Christ. I'm going to need to lie down.
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Dec 6, 2017 02:54
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Sunswipe posted:Would a prime time TV show in the 70s have been allowed to have a theme song extolling the benefits of suicide? Hell, would it now?
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Volcott posted:Murph, who stood on top of a burning tank and machinegunned like 500 Germans, was rad as hell. He also had an amount of medals you usually only see on third-world dictators. And then plays himself in the movie about it all, which blew my mind when I was a kid.
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I'm not quoting that MASH clip because gently caress that but that scene seriously fucks with me in a way very little else does. I can't even think about it without feeling an impending panic attack, it is one of the worst things ever laid onto film and I say that as someone who adores MASH. BJ's mustache is the dividing line between Good MASH and Weak MASH, I believe in this theory. Early MASH was great if incredibly dated, later it got really up its own rear end and turbo-serious when they let Alan Alda start being artistic about things. I will totally go watch most of 1 through 4 or 5 pretty regularly though, particularly the Col Flagg episodes, those were always great.
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TheKennedys posted:I'm not quoting that MASH clip because gently caress that but that scene seriously fucks with me in a way very little else does. I can't even think about it without feeling an impending panic attack, it is one of the worst things ever laid onto film and I say that as someone who adores MASH. BJ's mustache is the dividing line between Good MASH and Weak MASH, I believe in this theory. Early MASH was great if incredibly dated, later it got really up its own rear end and turbo-serious when they let Alan Alda start being artistic about things. I will totally go watch most of 1 through 4 or 5 pretty regularly though, particularly the Col Flagg episodes, those were always great. I was literally crying and then stopping and then crying for more than half an hour after watching that. And this was on TELEVISION!? And people didn't sue?!
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I've never watched an episode of MASH and had never seen that scene. I feel like it could have had more power behind it but I don't think Alda was quite able to sell it. I don't know what I would change, exactly, but to my modern mind I don't think it had quite the as strong an impact as they were hoping for. Of course that's just seeing that scene standing alone with no context around it and having no emotional connection with the character so 
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Garrand posted:I've never watched an episode of MASH and had never seen that scene. I feel like it could have had more power behind it but I don't think Alda was quite able to sell it. I don't know what I would change, exactly, but to my modern mind I don't think it had quite the as strong an impact as they were hoping for. Of course that's just seeing that scene standing alone with no context around it and having no emotional connection with the character so It's built up more through the episode, but you're right, Alda really couldn't sell it at all.
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Solice Kirsk posted:It's built up more through the episode, but you're right, Alda really couldn't sell it at all. It's amazing how emotional the scene was even with Alda's horrible emoting. Imagine that scene with a good actor like Leonardo or Woody Harrison. And yes, I'm thinking about that scene in Zombie Land now.
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