Yoshifan823 posted:

I mean, Panda is just a mass-marketed version of American Chinese cuisine, which is why I don't feel bad saying that their Orange Chicken is almost definitely laced with crack, because it is amazing.

DetoxP posted:

So where I live we just had the worst mass murder in our city's history because at a party celebrating the end of the school year (which I was also busy celebrating at the time), 5 people were stabbed to death. No alcohol, no drugs, and at this point, seemingly no motive. What the gently caress?

And the killer was invited to the party and welcomed by everyone there. I can't make sense of it.

Criminal Minded posted:

Gabriel Garcia Marquez died, y'all.

Swagger Dagger posted:

I don't know if you guys want to count the ESPN 30 for 30 documentaries as movies since they're made for TV but holy gently caress is the Hillsborough documentary required viewing for anyone with a passing interest.

Edit: seriously it's one of the best documentaries I've ever seen, right up there with Harlan County or Hoop Dreams or whatever.

GonSmithe posted:

For sure. The Two Escobars is probably one of my favorite documentaries ever, and I could give less of a poo poo about soccer.

Tars Tarkas posted:

If they don't have a TA program or something that will cover the additional costs and give you something to live on, I don't see it being worth it.

effectual posted:

I took my 11yr old niece to dinner and as we were talking she mentioned a friend showin her the urban dictionary and redtube. I had no idea what to say, so I just told her there's a lot of weird stuff on the internet and she should just close a site asap if it's bad. Then she asked me for examples, and before I knew it I ejaculated "goatse". Now she keeps hounding me to say what that is. I told her to ask her urban dic friend. Ugh.

DetoxP posted:

I felt that the second half of Battleship really dropped off in quality but that's also coincidentally the point where I stopped being stoned as all hell (and oddly the only time I've ever gone to the theatre under the influence of anything), so I don't think I've ever been able to properly review the film so I didn't talk about it much when y'all were into it.

Coffee And Pie posted:

Right now, I'm writing a play where two people are trapped on a roof during a crappy apartment party and just talk while they split a month-old box of wine they found. I have no idea how I'm going to end it, so I guess they're just gonna get abducted by aliens.

Literally The Worst posted:

Eltingville Club is a comic about my life and CPL made me read it because he's a piece of poo poo and he hates me. Pretty great book that's spot on about why comics fans are the loving devil though.

zVxTeflon posted:

are you guys putting goony rear end poo poo in your e-dating profiles like zizek or some crap?

Dissapointed Owl posted:

You're thinking of the sinew sector and muscle metropolis.

CloseFriend posted:

My favorite aspect of the Bond series has always been the villains, specifically the semi-cartoony ones who exist in that gray area between badass and superhuman. That's why the only post-Moore Bond movie that ever really grabbed me was Goldeneye. I feel like it was the last one with really distinctive, memorable, interesting villains (mostly Onatopp).

Sheldrake posted:

I'm very much in the 'no fictional character should be a Yankees fan' camp. Unless they're the villain, of course.

Anonymous Robot posted:

Drive Angry loving rules.

bows1 posted:

Still haven't seen a single Kurosawa film. I hesitate to watch them cause lately it seems the only way I can pay attention to a movie is in the theater or on a plane. Too many devices

TrixRabbi posted:

Yeah, though that's the US South. If we're talking real down South we gotta be getting at Africa and South America.

effectual posted:

HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:

My favorite case in point is Adrien Brody. He truly doesn't give a poo poo and will just be in anything.

TrixRabbi posted:

What are everybody's favorite movies?

The MSJ posted:

Kevin Spacey will be in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare.

morestuff posted:

Someone brought a baby to the last party I went to, which I think means I'm getting pretty close to death

SALT CURES HAM posted:

Honestly I don't even have any issues with vagina blood (speaking from way too much personal experience) and that still made me a little queasy.

e: On an unrelated note, why the gently caress do cops like Taco Bell so much around here? Tonight is like, the tenth time I've decided to randomly go into Taco Bell to get food and witnessed a pig convention going on.

penismightier posted:

There's this "he could've freed the slaves any day he wanted" school of thought which says that the Emancipation Proclamation was practically an insult since it took him so long and really didn't free anyone. But the trouble with that thinking is that it overlays a post-McKinley, if not even post-FDR view of the presidency. A less artful process of emancipation would've at best have been roundly ignored and shut down by a Senate bent on capitulation, or at worst pushed white America away from the war. Either way you're not looking at a reunion or a dissolution of the institution, you're looking at a lot of compromises. Lincoln's combination of an excellent legal mind and an unparalleled communicative ability (Hemingway is wrong - it's Lincoln who invented American literature, not Twain) sold the previously unsellable idea that the war was about slavery because slavery was an affront to our inception, and that impossibly delicate tightrope of "the southern states are our brothers and our countrymen" and "we must fight this war because this blood is worth spilling."

It's really a miracle of political discourse. I'd say you get a mind like that once or twice a millenia - the last one was my boy Genghis Khan, and before him probably Caesar.