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So it turns out the Iowa Democratic Party is probably no kidding stealing votes from Bernie https://twitter.com/lib_crusher/status/1225167351617712128 That this happened while I was watching The Man Who Short Liberty Valance is kinda fitting. Good movie, loved Edmond O’Brien as one of the best scene-chewing drunks of all the silver screen.
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And no one of consequence will be reprimanded. This country is a loving joke.
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therattle posted:She'd never be able to do with the Indy name for copyright reasons, but as a standalone it would be great. If they weren't loving cowards she could do it with the Indy name for Disney, but I also don't think she'd ever work for Disney.
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Got my two first picks for the Glasgow Film Festival: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3z-7HsSXKY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fhjqvb60LLw Les Mis also looks awesome but that will no doubt be out later as well.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:11
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Vincent posted:It's a solid B+ movie. It does have a campy entertainment factor, I will give you that. And, this cannot be stressed enough, lots of hot shirtless men. X-Ray Pecs posted:So it turns out the Iowa Democratic Party is probably no kidding stealing votes from Bernie So educate a filthy foreigner here, if the county says "You got our count wrong, this is what we counted", do they correct the erronous numbers and delegate delegates appropriatly?
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Feb 5, 2020 23:28
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McCloud posted:So educate a filthy foreigner here, if the county says "You got our count wrong, this is what we counted", do they correct the erronous numbers and delegate delegates appropriatly? Who loving knows! Back in 2000 in Florida, Al Gore won more votes than George W Bush but his margin was thin enough that it triggered an automatic recount, but the Supreme Court (with at least one judge placed there by W’s daddy) stepped in and declared Bush the winner, thus giving Florida’s electoral votes to Bush and making him President. American elections are screwy as poo poo and this caucus is a giant game of Numberwang designed to gently caress over Bernie Sanders.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:37
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McCloud posted:It does have a campy entertainment factor, I will give you that. And, this cannot be stressed enough, lots of hot shirtless men. Ahahaha, no one loving knows, they're going to make up the rules as they go along. We run our elections worse than countries we invaded over lovely elections.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:38
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I heard Trump gave a shout out to the guy who failed to stage an illegal and unpopular coup in Venezuela during his SotU too, which is all kinds of hosed up.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Who loving knows! Back in 2000 in Florida, Al Gore won more votes than George W Bush but his margin was thin enough that it triggered an automatic recount, but the Supreme Court (with at least one judge placed there by W’s daddy) stepped in and declared Bush the winner, thus giving Florida’s electoral votes to Bush and making him President. American elections are screwy as poo poo and this caucus is a giant game of Numberwang designed to gently caress over Bernie Sanders. It's worth noting that Bush's initial claim to winning Florida was based on Fox News announcing his victory before the votes were tallied. That first Bush term continues to do damage that the US is barely starting to reckon with.
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Feb 5, 2020 23:54
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Kirk Douglas finally croaked. One less rapist in the world.
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https://twitter.com/people/status/1225196365417996290 Rip, fellow. Might watch Paths of Glory tonight.
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McCloud posted:It does have a campy entertainment factor, I will give you that. And, this cannot be stressed enough, lots of hot shirtless men. At this point, the actual vote no longer matters. In America, we have elections every year, all year round - and something like a primary or a caucus night are basically just a theater put on between the established political parties and our mainstream news conglomerates. This was all supposed to be over Monday evening, with the eye for the networks to basically wash out as many of the contenders as possible from a "real world" litmus test of active democratic voters, before moving on to Trump's state of the union address. But there were irresolvable and opaque "technical difficulties" so now we're going into the second day after the SotU and we don't actually have a full resolution to the Monday night T.V. event. The Iowa Democratic Caucus and the DNC had plausibility deniability for maybe the first twenty-four hours. Now they're literally just waiting for as few people to be paying attention as possible before they report the "score" for the Monday night game. And I don't need to tell you, nobody waits around that long to hear the score of a game. Regardless of whether or not there was some willful ratfuckery, the Democratic Party establishment and the mainstream media, at this point, are doing damage control for just how terribly Biden and Warren performed, and how much this completely torpedoes the narrative they've been spinning for the past two years about their "electability" to "average Americans" over Bernie Sanders, who is, even if he would still lose both the popular vote and delegate pledges to Pete Buttigieg, clearly the frontrunner once you actually try giving a predictive model of who's going to take the whole primary. With ratfuckery, though... That basically means you can look forward to reading about Trump's re-election and the total schism between a liberal and left opposition in U.S. politics.
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Fund Lexi Alexander's take on a black indy who rescues cultural artifacts from white graverobbers, you cowards I similarly joked about Indy earlier, but to be fair he rescues an artifact to its rightful owners in Temple of Doom
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These assholes can keep their smart hats. I'm sticking with knife hat. McCloud posted:So educate a filthy foreigner here, if the county says "You got our count wrong, this is what we counted", do they correct the erronous numbers and delegate delegates appropriatly? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWhtPByViJU Vincent posted:Kirk Douglas finally croaked. One less rapist in the world. Uhhh, what?
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CPL593H posted:These assholes can keep their smart hats. I'm sticking with knife hat.  The smartest hat.
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Oh good. Things are as bleak as ever in the US political landscape. Fantastic. And now I find myself applauding Mitt loving Romney of all people. This really is the worst loving timeline. CPL593H posted:Uhhh, what? Kirk Douglas is rumored to have raped Natalie Wood back in the 50's, and was apparently a Weinstein-esque figure in Old Hollywood.
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McCloud posted:Oh good. Things are as bleak as ever in the US political landscape. Fantastic.  They basically counted precincts in the exact way necessary to give Pete maximum air time as the lead candidate.
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McCloud posted:Kirk Douglas is rumored to have raped Natalie Wood back in the 50's, and was apparently a Weinstein-esque figure in Old Hollywood. Well that's loving terrible. Safety Factor posted:Things are looking up in Iowa. For all the numerous reasons I hate Pete Buttigieg, perhaps the top reason is that he's made me see a silver lining to homophobia in that he definitely can't get elected.
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I’m sure most of Ford V Ferrari is lies but who cares, they’re FUN lies The race scenes are amazing Edit: apparently the ending is real, and it’s infuriating how stupid it was IRL Steve Yun fucked around with this message at 10:57 on Feb 6, 2020 |
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Feb 6, 2020 10:36
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Good start to the day. Car broke down on the way to work. Had to take the bus. Additionally bleeding from the stump.
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Feb 6, 2020 10:43
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Upside: happened by a gas station near my street instead of on the freeway. Same as a couple of years ago when I started vomiting uncontrollably just as I pulled out of the parking lot. Not very pleasant but preferable to it happening in traffic.
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A bleeding stump sounds bloody painful.
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Steve Yun posted:I’m sure most of Ford V Ferrari is lies but who cares, they’re FUN lies
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I agree for the most part but the car scenes were so fun I didn’t care
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I feel I can never trust any review that raves about car movies because I just could not give less of a poo poo about cars. Car people always seem to tack on a few extra stars just because of vroom vroom.
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I’m not a car person
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C’mon FML, don’t you like fun
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Steve Yun posted:C’mon FML, don’t you like fun In my experience, no. He doesn’t really enjoy laughing either. Odd.
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Steve Yun posted:I agree for the most part but the car scenes were so fun I didn’t care Like I said, it feels like it's from another decade and I kind of mean that as a compliment. If it had come out in the 90s it would probably be fondly remembered. As-is, it's just going to be forgotten.
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I think fun is bad and I don't care who knows it.
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McCloud posted:Oh good. Things are as bleak as ever in the US political landscape. Fantastic. Lol don’t, Mitt doesn’t give a gently caress and he’s just doing this for PR and goodwill from liberals.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:Lol don’t, Mitt doesn’t give a gently caress and he’s just doing this for PR and goodwill from liberals. Yeah, mitt is 100% doing this because he thinks that if Trump gets a second term, he can run for prez in 2024 and pick up lib votes by appearing as the safe and sane option.
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Bernie Sanders will make privately owned vehicles illegal and release more fast and furious movies to compensate.
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Look, you don't have to make up reasons for me to vote for him.
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duz posted:Look, you don't have to make up reasons for me to vote for him. No i know this thread is already solid bernie territory. That was sort of a “post-as-vision-board” experiment. If I type lies here with enough conviction and pureness of heart, maybe they’ll manifest out in meatspace.
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I watched the 3 hour Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep, and I've never seen the theatrical version but I have a hard time seeing how they can cut 30 minutes out. Everything seemed pretty crucial to the plot and from what I read apparently the theatrical cut even drops the whole chapter format so it's almost like they're two different films. I'll have to check it out at some point to compare.
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Basebf555 posted:I watched the 3 hour Director's Cut of Doctor Sleep, and I've never seen the theatrical version but I have a hard time seeing how they can cut 30 minutes out. Everything seemed pretty crucial to the plot and from what I read apparently the theatrical cut even drops the whole chapter format so it's almost like they're two different films. I'll have to check it out at some point to compare. But was it good?
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I liked the theatrical cut of Doctor Sleep a lot up until the final act, which kinda killed the momentum of the movie. Yeah, I know it’s about Danny Torrence but spending the entire finale reminding people Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining exists was pretty drat weak, and wasn’t as emotionally fulfilling as the story required.
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Franchescanado posted:But was it good? Yea it's good. Maybe not great, although I typically need to rewatch something to distinguish between good and great. It's mostly a performance driven movie though, Ferguson, McGregor, and the young actress who plays the girl are all excellent and most scenes have at least one of them. It's not as visually stunning as The Shining though, which I suppose is obvious and probably not a fair criticism. But if you're looking for something that is on the level of Kubrick technically, no it's not gonna clear that bar. But as a followup to the story of The Shining, it works extremely well and does a good job of walking that tightrope between callbacks to the original and new ideas.
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