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Beach Bum was great. Matthew McConaughy is a modern Diogenes.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 09:36 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 02:32 |
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Lodge 49 has so much heart. I'm only 3 episodes in and I'm about to move to Long Beach.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 15:09 |
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Keith Atherton posted:Started watching Mission Impossible: Fallout MI:2 way overused the masks and has taken tons of criticism for it, but for the next four movies they toned it down and found more interesting ways to use them. That scene in Fallout was an intentional nod to the opening scene in the first Mission Impossible, so if all you've seen are 1 and 2, I can see why that would be annoying. There's another mask gag in Fallout that is executed perfectly and people in my theater gasped when it happened.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 15:16 |
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The Puppy Bowl posted:Lodge 49 has so much heart. I'm only 3 episodes in and I'm about to move to Long Beach. Been wanting to see this and didn't realize it was streaming, thanks for the heads up
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 16:25 |
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Eat The Rich posted:Beach Bum was great. Matthew McConaughy is a modern Diogenes. Very very much agree. One of the best films this year.
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 17:07 |
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I love the stupid mask bits in the Missions Impossible
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# ? Sep 2, 2019 19:59 |
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I just watched World War Z on Netflix. Like it isn't good or anything, but it's fine. I thought it was meant to be a trainwreck beyond belief... It's just a middling zombie movie with a lead actor way too expensive for the rest of the film.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 11:05 |
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It's only a trainwreck in comparison to how great the book is. Taken on its own, it's just an okay zombie movie (with one amazing scene on the plane)
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 11:40 |
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SirSamVimes posted:It's only a trainwreck in comparison to how great the book is. Taken on its own, it's just an okay zombie movie (with one amazing scene on the plane) Ah ok maybe the book is the ingredient that I'm missing. I just have this vague recollection that it was some doomed unwatchable pile of poo poo when it just a couple of hours of shrug your shoulders and eat some snacks yelling.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 13:22 |
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I thought the general goon opinion about the WWZ book is that it's a collection of great ideas among stupid chud and weeb poo poo.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 13:25 |
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The MSJ posted:I thought the general goon opinion about the WWZ book is that it's a collection of great ideas among stupid chud and weeb poo poo. It’s this.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 13:50 |
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SirSamVimes posted:It's only a trainwreck in comparison to how great the book is. The book is not great. I thought it was great when I first read it after it's initial release, but then I tried to revisit it and....the book is not great.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 14:39 |
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Not sure what everyone else thinks of it, but I quite enjoyed Carnival Row. I don't know if it's based on any prior source material, but for my small scope of reference, the closest I could think was if they took the concept of Bright and actually made it good.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 14:45 |
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The MSJ posted:I thought the general goon opinion about the WWZ book is that it's a collection of great ideas among stupid chud and weeb poo poo. Not the general goon opinion at all but this is true.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 14:53 |
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WWZ is still pretty bad. It's just that at the time it seemed pretty bottom of the barrel, and we've subsequently realized that it isn't even close to the bottom.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 15:57 |
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It’s been awhile since I’ve read it but I quite like the WWZ book. I don’t recall any chud poo poo in it.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 16:05 |
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sponges posted:It’s been awhile since I’ve read it but I quite like the WWZ book. I don’t recall any chud poo poo in it. The two countries that almost immediately figure out what to do against rampaging human hordes are South Africa and Israel.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 16:08 |
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Literally the only thing I remember about WWZ is piles of zombies and some pretty questionable CGI. Other than that it was one of those movies that was fine but just exited my brain right after I finished it .
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 16:11 |
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All I remembered was Brad Pitt survived the wreck. A bad ending.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 17:27 |
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The two countries that almost immediately figure out what to do against rampaging human hordes are South Africa and Israel. By literally BUILDING THAT WALL! That's par for the course, though. Most zombie fiction is just otherization taken to the extreme: 'we're surrounded by unthinking subhumans that must be slaughtered' made literal.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 17:30 |
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Family Values posted:By literally BUILDING THAT WALL! There's definitely a sardonic read on that, but you have to consider the caricatures of other countries that appear in the book.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 17:33 |
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I love how Israel lets the filthy Palestinians in and they get punished by having those savages sing and praise Allah, which results in triggering the zombies and killing everyone. Silly Israelis, that's what you get when you treat the Palestinians humane.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 17:42 |
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Yeah the movie was way more chud than the book.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 17:53 |
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Joe Chill posted:Yeah the movie was way more chud than the book. Yes and no. That scene in particular was horrendous but the book has this stuff all throughout. As someone else mentioned, the main thrust of WWZ the book is that apartheid turned out to be actually good because it was awesome practice for the apocalypse. All the limp wristed liberals had to take their lumps and admit Israel and South Africa were right this whole time! That it was written by Mel Brooks's son makes the whole thing even weirder.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:26 |
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What did South Africa due to survive the zombies apocalypse? I don't recall that in the movie.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:27 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:What did South Africa due to survive the zombies apocalypse? I don't recall that in the movie. In the book it was basically concentration camps, only good. (If I'm recalling correctly, it's been awhile)
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:40 |
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Jesus Christ. Why is this comic so praised?
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:42 |
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Midgetskydiver posted:Yes and no. That scene in particular was horrendous but the book has this stuff all throughout. As someone else mentioned, the main thrust of WWZ the book is that apartheid turned out to be actually good because it was awesome practice for the apocalypse. All the limp wristed liberals had to take their lumps and admit Israel and South Africa were right this whole time! I didn't remember the South African stuff. That is pretty terrible. I remember it being more "lets put aside our differences and work together to survive the zombie apocalypse."
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:52 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:Jesus Christ. Why is this comic so praised? It's a novel, comprised of a bunch of anthology-style vignettes of different countries dealing with the problem. It's pretty bad in retrospect, but when I was a teenager I thought it was neat. Most zombie stories are confined to just the characters POVs, so it was novel to see it from 10,000 feet instead of ground-level.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:54 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:Jesus Christ. Why is this comic so praised? I keep getting Max Brooks and Max Landis mixed up too; does Brooks have any other problematic aspects?
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 18:58 |
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david_a posted:I keep getting Max Brooks and Max Landis mixed up too; does Brooks have any other problematic aspects? He teaches at West Point, so at the very least he's adjacent to war crimes.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 19:54 |
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It's been a while but I don't really remember the chud stuff in WWZ being defended that hard. Like, I remember the tone of the apartheid stuff treating it as basically a stopped-clock moment for an ideology that's otherwise 100% evil and untenable.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 20:08 |
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InterrupterJones posted:Not sure what everyone else thinks of it, but I quite enjoyed Carnival Row. I don't know if it's based on any prior source material, but for my small scope of reference, the closest I could think was if they took the concept of Bright and actually made it good. Yeah, I also liked it even though the mandatory gratuitous nudity combined with the subject matter make it seem like someone on the production team has some interesting fetishes.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 21:00 |
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Timby posted:He teaches at West Point, so at the very least he's adjacent to war crimes.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 21:15 |
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david_a posted:Well that explains the Israel fetish He is Jewish.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 21:26 |
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IIRC there was also something like Americans sailing to Cuba?
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 21:27 |
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There was weird time capsule of the ‘00s in there too. Like the plague spreading so wide so fast because the Chinese government executed early infected without knowing about the infection and sold the organs on the black market and Bill Maher and Ann Coulter dying because they were too busy hooking up to realize the rich compound they were staying in was falling. Oh and Russia putting all fertile women into breeding camps.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 22:04 |
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Timby posted:He is Jewish.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 23:09 |
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punk rebel ecks posted:IIRC there was also something like Americans sailing to Cuba? I think I remember that Cuba was like, the most stable democracy in the post-zombie world because of their system of letting refugees 'work their way up' or something. To me the dumbest bit was the hikkikomori that found his neighbor's Hanzo steel as he escaped his apartment complex, and teamed up with a blind gardener zen-Master type.
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# ? Sep 3, 2019 23:27 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 02:32 |
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WWZ is a very mean movie, I mean, if we take it at face value the Israel scene is basically saying that any sort of solidarity is dumb and why Rome fell or smth
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# ? Sep 4, 2019 17:23 |