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Falukorv posted:What irritated me the most about Gladiator was Marcus Aurelius secretly longing for a Republic. That is some Hollywood history right there. And of all people, Marcus Aurelius is pretty well known and even wrote a whole diary of sorts about his philosophical outlook on things, which survives to this day and has been sold in English for centuries. Nothing in there about returning to the good ol' republican days. Or 99% of anything concerning Roman history, for that matter.
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Ms Boods posted:It was way more a metaphor for the whole Clinton-era 'family values' stuff popular at the time. Try watching it wearing 1990s American-coloured glasses and it makes a heck of a difference. But it was really nothing more the writers picking a name out of a hat and slapping it on Jacobi because he was in I, Claudius.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:I guess it sort of makes sense if the Empire went whole hog into supressing any knowledge or remants of Jedi, but this guy was on a capitol ship with Darth Vader. He never saw him force choke someone during a teleconference or do any other space magic? quote:George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been the mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.
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Jedit posted:Exactly. Maximus was basically reenacting the Battle of Teutoberg Forest, where three Roman legions were annihilated.
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Zaphod42 posted:Course then there's BEER brand beer   
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KozmoNaut posted:And Rip Torn as Also, he hit Norman Mailer with a hammer. He gets a few points for that one.
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ChogsEnhour posted:I remember Morrison drunkenly talking about sigils and how to get whatever you wanted through sigil magik but he went way off track talking about McDonalds or something.
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ChogsEnhour posted:Hahaha. Seriously? Well, ok... Here goes.
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exquisite tea posted:This is a few days old but uh, Persians are ethnically white, dudes. Iran = same root word as Aryan. The term "Caucasian" literally comes from the Caucasus region bordering Iran. 
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Ryoshi posted:Wait, what?! When the hell did that happen, I only watched up to I think the peach episode and I don't really remember much of it.
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Zaphod42 posted:I really really do not like how they just seemed to go "yeah, he got that radioactive ooze from teenage mutant ninja turtles all over his eyes, so now he's blind but he has superpower vision 
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Zaphod42 posted:Its the fact that he can fight tons of dudes just fine (he may as well not be blind except when he's in court) and really pushing things beyond belief (I can smell the cologne of the guy 2 floors down, and I know that he's going door by door because of just how loving sharp my nose is). 
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bobkatt013 posted:You also destroyed her life
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QUACKTASTIC posted:John Big Booty is Matt Murdock!? 
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cheerfullydrab posted:I would pay large amounts of money for it to be very socially unacceptable for people older than 17 to watch superhero movies/tv shows etc. Or at least to not have to hear about them ever. None of them make any sense! No matter how gritty or grounded or anything! What the hell is wrong with everybody?
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BiggerBoat posted:In Boogie Nights, Sam Molina's character is supposed to be freebasing cocaine but the pipe he's using has water in it like a bong. That's not how you smoke cocaine.
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May 30, 2015 18:50
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BiggerBoat posted:Huh. It's been decades now but I've never seen it done that way. I thought the coke disolved in the water Or so I have read. *cough*
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Zaphod42 posted:Not to mention that they're worried about the cost-effectiveness of arrows one minute but then the next they don't even care about sacrificing their own men?! Equipping and paying those men is more expensive than some bloody arrows. Although back then there was no health insurance so maybe if you died in the King's service you just didn't get paid and he told your family to go gently caress themselves or something, so it was actually cost-effective to lose as many men as possible?
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flosofl posted:It's because I can't gouge his eyes out, or rip off his ball sack, or punch him in the hyoid bone, or... a million other strikes and response that would end in crippling debility or death.
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flosofl posted:Don't drag me into your fantasies, sicko.
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Rysithusiku posted:If you thought Sucker Punch was exploitative, you missed the point.
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TheFallenEvincar posted:Honestly all his trailers and intro credits are consistently awesome and better than the films they represent. Like The Dawn of the Dead intro/intro credits were more memorable than most of the film itself. Same with 300 and its trailer.
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EmmyOk posted:I thought it did the opposite to be honest. Instead of violence being short and quick you were forced to stare at it in gross discomfort.
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sticklefifer posted:Being irritated at the sheer lack of emergency security/evacuation failsafes and procedures in that movie is in no way irrational, but I'm gonna  Despite branching out, their corporate commitment to terrible decision-making remained.
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about it here anyway. Even if only to protect itself from liability, corporate would enforce that poo poo to the nines.
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bobkatt013 posted:Not shocking that the monster who wants boys wins.
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LITERALLY A BIRD posted:I only watched the first season and a half of Californication but my
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EmmyOk posted:He gave that child a flower and it was very sweet
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rejutka posted:You're being glib, like the JJ Trek. Explain what's so Star Trek about the JJ Trek other than the franchise?
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AnonSpore posted:On the flip side, Star Wars EU is also really bad about having made up terms for things that exist in the real world simply because it's IN SPACE. Like toilets are called 'freshers and instead of "poo poo!" when something goes wrong you say "sithspawn!" http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jizz
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My Lovely Horse posted:If you're gonna look for it, read on after issue 5 at your own risk, because as much as I like good old Warren, he completely lost his mind on this one.
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Greggy posted:You go to war with the Stormtroopers you have, not the Stormtroopers you might want or wish to have at a later time.
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One young jedihadi from a nowhere planet puts a photon torpedo in a tiny exhaust port flying an x-wing that he had zero experience flying? The Death Star was an inside job.
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I don't remember when, but at some point in the 90s a lot of payphones in certain areas stopped taking incoming calls. Certain areas being total shitholes.
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Thaddius the Large posted:Hazy, but somewhat relatable to the Roman Empire at least.
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ubachung posted:I am not sure you should be 'critizing' anyone with that spelling either
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For a rationally irritating moment, when Eggsy goes back to cornhole the princess, all he takes with him is champagne. Jesus, man, at least filch a stick of butter or technical-virgin olive oil from the kitchen. That's just inconsiderate.
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sassassin posted:
Frank Miller posted:The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the same time, Spartan women had an unusual level of rights. It's a paradox that they were a bunch of people who in many ways were fascist, but they were the bulwark against the fall of democracy. ... I didn't want to render Sparta in overly accurate terms, because ultimately I do want you to root for the Spartans. I couldn't show them being quite as cruel as they were. I made them as cruel as I thought a modern audience could stand.
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sassassin posted:Frank Miller did not direct the movie 300, or write the script.
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Screaming Idiot posted:If this is the kind of stuff that passes for comic book writing these days
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