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I made the bad call to see Tenet, it sucked, and using this as the bellwether despite terrible word-of-mouth and marketing is making the studios’ balls retract up to their neck. However I made the good call to see it at AMC; I work for a company that has close ties with AMC and drat they are making it safe via (blah blah read about it if you care) and following good medical advice.* *At least in the premium rooms I have no insight into the small ones.
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Red Bones posted:The vast majority of the costs for holding the Olympics go into constructing all the facilities, so they've already spent most of the money. It gets taught a lot in Geography programmes at universities as this classic case of a white elephant project, although when I studied it they didn't mention the corruption angle. But if you have the Olympics in multiple places, you don’t get every athlete living in one place and turning it into a giant nonstop fuckfest.
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I said it before and I'll say it again: just make a permanent facility in Greece and host every Olympics there.
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Olympics should be held on the moon
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The Klowner posted:Olympics should be held on the moon "Unfortunately medals are not awarded post-humously so, while he did throw the javelin farther than the other athletes, he was disqualified after it went all the way around and impaled him in the back."
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Lobok posted:"Unfortunately medals are not awarded post-humously so, while he did throw the javelin farther than the other athletes, he was disqualified after it went all the way around and impaled him in the back." Yeah but imagine the high jump event.
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reminds me of the lonely island's space olympics song
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X-Ray Pecs posted:But if you have the Olympics in multiple places, you don’t get every athlete living in one place and turning it into a giant nonstop fuckfest. - Mr. Sinister.
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AceOfFlames posted:I said it before and I'll say it again: just make a permanent facility in Greece and host every Olympics there. You say this, but Greece is ironically one of the countries least financially able to handle running the Olympics. If I remember correctly, aren't there several US/Canadian cities that already had the sporting infrastructure for the games and thus didn't have to waste giant piles of money on soon to be rotting stadiums? Those places should just rotate the games.
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The Klowner posted:Olympics should be held on the moon According to Judge Dredd, this ends up with the Soviets hating Mega-City One and a war that kills millions of people and an alternate timeline earth.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:According to Judge Dredd, this ends up with the Soviets hating Mega-City One and a war that kills millions of people and an alternate timeline earth. Wasn't that just because Dredd's brother was sabotaging it?
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Anonymous Zebra posted:You say this, but Greece is ironically one of the countries least financially able to handle running the Olympics. If I remember correctly, aren't there several US/Canadian cities that already had the sporting infrastructure for the games and thus didn't have to waste giant piles of money on soon to be rotting stadiums? Those places should just rotate the games. Greece was already in trouble and holding the 2004 Summer Olympics further devastated their economy. The Olympics that have been held in the US (Summer '84 in Los Angeles, Summer '96 in Atlanta, Winter '02 in Salt Lake City) have all been profitable due to using as much existing infrastructure as possible, making sure new facilities will have a use after the games, and the sheer amount of advertising and sponsorships.
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AceOfFlames posted:It was a shame how he carried on. Well mostly the Song of Songs
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The MSJ posted:https://twitter.com/ryandroyd/status/1306089913301872641?s=19 Rasputin, famous for still being alive in 1918.
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Sometimes I wish time travel really did exist just so you could go back and show real historical figures how their memories have been so completely and utterly perverted in fiction. I'm sure Anastasia would have a blast hearing about her goofy 1980s romp before she and her entire family were gunned down by soldiers and buried in anonymous graves. But also I'd probably go back and step on that first fish that climbed out of the ocean to just do everyone a favor.
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Wasn't it the 1930s Rasputin movie that caused legal shenanigans, eventually resulting in most film credits ending with the "everything shown is fictional, any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental" boilerplate? Hell of a historical legacy to have.
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ynohtna posted:Wasn't it the 1930s Rasputin movie that caused legal shenanigans, eventually resulting in most film credits ending with the "everything shown is fictional, any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental" boilerplate? I believe it was actually the book version responsible. It named a killer and he definitely didn't want to be known for that so he sued.
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These days, a situation like that would be considered a premium personal brand awareness escalation opportunity.
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u brexit ukip it posted:Rasputin, famous for still being alive in 1918. Well he was notoriously difficult to kill.
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feedmyleg posted:But also I'd probably go back and step on that first fish that climbed out of the ocean to just do everyone a favor. 
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muscles like this! posted:I believe it was actually the book version responsible. It named a killer and he definitely didn't want to be known for that so he sued. The version of the story I always remember from trivia books is that they made a fake russian sounding name, that turned out to belong to a real person who sued them. Then the actual killer also sued them, because they actually did want to be known for the murder. Looking it up the real murderer sued MGM due to a scene that implied that Rasputin raped his wife.
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ynohtna posted:Wasn't it the 1930s Rasputin movie that caused legal shenanigans, eventually resulting in most film credits ending with the "everything shown is fictional, any resemblance to real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental" boilerplate? I thought his legacy was this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYnVYJDxu2Q
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I'm aching for a Daddy Cool biopic starring Denzel, personally.
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Pretty cool that most "walking fish" art I see now use Tiktaalik as the default.  Now we just need feathered raptors to be normalised. 
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Reptilian dinosaurs are much cooler looking and always will be.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Reptilian dinosaurs are much cooler looking and always will be. This has always struck me as a very odd hill to die on. It's like personally objecting to continental drift because land bridges sound cooler.
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I accept the scientific reality but they look stupid. There's also the problem of people trying to put feathers on everything now when there isn't scientific evidence for it.
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If anything it makes birds in the present day seem much more frightening and alien. It's like when you find out that some mushrooms grow out of miles wide underground networks, it recontextualizes a lot of stuff in a cool way.
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Are there any good movies that depicts dinosaurs as birds?
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Follow That Bird
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Femur posted:Are there any good movies that depicts dinosaurs as birds? Yeah any movie with birds in it 
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Who can forget Alfred Hitchcock’s masterpiece, The Dinosaurs
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This is the second time today I've thought about Big Bird's dick.
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Morgan Freeman narrated Fast Times at Ridgemont High in a charity table read so https://twitter.com/BlockbusterPlus/status/1306963166593679366?s=20
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What's Blockbuster's business nowadays?HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:If anything it makes birds in the present day seem much more frightening and alien. It's like when you find out that some mushrooms grow out of miles wide underground networks, it recontextualizes a lot of stuff in a cool way. Yes. Dinosaurs are birds. Raptor dinosaurs are closer to birds than most other dinosaurs; they might have even evolved from small gliding dinosaurs that literally became birds. Early birds are literally flying dinosaurs with teeth and claws but short tails. Ravens and crows are dinosaurs with intelligence comparable to chimps and dolphins. That's mind-blowing. Also chickens and ducks are the earliest modern birds and they lived around those big dinosaurs. Pretty funny the first birds we domesticated for food are literally one of the first to exist. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Sep 18, 2020 |
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gently caress all the new dinosaur science, the only real T-Rex is cold blooded and built like Godzilla.
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Femur posted:Are there any good movies that depicts dinosaurs as birds? This might be the problem. There isn't. Yet. When Jurassic Park was released it changed the public conception of dinosaurs. The cinematic T-Rex used to stand with both feet and its tail on the floor in a tripod-esque fashion that would cause it to absolutely tower over treetops. Of course, palentology dictated that the Tyrannosaurus actually had it's head closer to the ground parallel with its tail for balance, effectively making it smaller. And who wants a smaller T-Rex right? But then Spielberg and his team pulled it off, they made that smaller T-Rex awesome. It didn't tower over the trees anymore, true, but could burst out of them as a suprise and chase you because it was faster. They proved that the more accurate Rex could be just as cool, and going forward most cinematic dinosaurs followed that example. But we've not had that cinematic moment for feathered Rexes yet. The Jurassic Park sequels certainly didn't take it on. But one day it will happen. Somebody just needs to take the leap and find a way to make them as cinematically impressive.
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The feathered rexes are exactly what I was talking about when I said people are throwing feathers on ones we have no evidence were feathered (we have skin imprints).
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Groovelord Neato posted:The feathered rexes are exactly what I was talking about when I said people are throwing feathers on ones we have no evidence were feathered (we have skin imprints). Those skin imprints also look like featherless turkey skin, and they come from parts of the T.rex that also can be featherless on actual flightless birds. Plus, earlier tyrannosaurs had feathers. People are also just talking about tyrannosaurs being feathered, not other large theropods like Carnotaurus and Megalosaurus, because tyrannosaurs are from a family of dinosaurs (coelurosaurs) that are known to be feathered. The MSJ fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Sep 19, 2020 |
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