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Has anybody seen Silence yet? It has two showings today, but I'm not sure I want to watch a 160 minute movie on a lazy
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SEX HAVER 40000 posted:Welp looks like I'm on a /pol/ dox list. Anyone have any advice? i really, really, really don't wanna get doxxed. Crash Override is your friend.
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Jan 10, 2017 16:22
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Magic Hate Ball posted:the tedium is the message This got passed over but I think it's a great post and would make a great forum title
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Jan 12, 2017 12:04
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:The lesson here, kids, is that "apolitical" means "reactionary". Like libertarianism and racism, they're natural allies but there's still some important space between them.
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Jan 15, 2017 16:12
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I saw the new Star Wars movie last night. Does anyone know where the good discussion of it is in the infinite star wars thread? I don't want to have to trudge through all of it.
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Jan 17, 2017 12:34
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Hundu, do you have a twitter?
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Jan 20, 2017 14:58
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Not really. Oh well
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Jan 20, 2017 16:45
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GonSmithe posted:Shia got arrested for assault for pulling a Nazi's collar and pushing him on his livestream Transformers vindicated.
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Jan 26, 2017 17:25
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New Coens!!!
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Jan 27, 2017 14:04
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FishBulb posted:Boooo this man I tell no lies
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Jan 27, 2017 15:35
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Did I just imagine there being a Moonlight thread? I just saw it and want to read people's thoughts about it.
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Jan 31, 2017 00:11
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K. Waste posted:Yo, Shaun and Jen strikes again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9qiCN7CcB8 Hooting at Ezra Levant being put on the same level as XxDarkSmartmanofBabylonxX.
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Feb 1, 2017 12:23
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:T2 Trainspotting looks beautiful, even if the message of the trailer is very cornball. It's really, really good and I think there's some heft to it. Including the new version of "choose life." Baron von Eevl posted:I kind of want to hear Sundowner's take on it, but that would mean Sundowner posting here again. Sold out theatre in Glasgow, baby. No Catholics left.
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Feb 19, 2017 09:45
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DC Murderverse posted:This, and I cannot stress this enough, is art. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aazkVxCGXgA
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Feb 23, 2017 22:53
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So towards the end of last thread, we talked a bit about how a certain US presidential candidate "having policy" was a sort of personal branding, and was separate from actually running on policy. Well, a new study just hit and http://mediaproject.wesleyan.edu/blog/2016-election-study-published/ 
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Mar 8, 2017 17:20
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Has there been any discussion of the Heart of Darkness references in Kong? I thought it was pretty funny when the Kurtz-analog got squashed by the monkey. Revenge!
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Mar 12, 2017 14:59
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So I read a little bit of fiction every night before bed and I figure CD would enjoy this quote from The Watch that Ends the Night: "There is nothing like dislike to make a character appear vivid." Hand Knit fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Mar 19, 2017 |
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Mar 19, 2017 18:48
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Dissapointed Owl posted:I agree, Billy Zane's character was very vivid. That was a kick rear end job by me confusing words
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Mar 19, 2017 19:36
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Oh man I wonder if some people I know might get called to testify.
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Apr 4, 2017 13:42
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It's gonna be cool as poo poo when the Supreme Court rules that the Warrens were lying, therefore there stories are not fictions, and therefore Warner Bros claim that the stories are based on historical facts will be vindicated even though the stories aren't actually based on historical facts.
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Apr 4, 2017 14:39
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CopywrightMMXI posted:All Canadians over 30 have seen the Log Drivers Waltz at least 800 times. Some of us still watch it from time to time. Also, revisiting it as a grown up, there's a whole lot of sexual innuendo there.
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Apr 9, 2017 18:21
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I also have a fondness of British/European people covering Canadian folk songs. I don't know if the novelty will ever wear off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUZYuWfg7NA
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Apr 9, 2017 18:28
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Magic Hate Ball posted:"Dancing" in older stories was always a stand-in for quality of loving. Yeah but like For he goes birling down a-down the white water That's where the log driver learns to step lightly It's birling down, a-down white water A log driver's waltz pleases girls completely. That's some grade A innuendo
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Apr 10, 2017 09:50
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Snak posted:I liked The Grey. That was a pretty good movie. It's really wonderful. I've also been thinking that the casting of Liam Neeson makes it kind of a mature rejoinder to Taken, in that they both deal with the trauma of 9/11. Like, Taken is what a lot of people wanted, with the family's dad going on a revenge mission to defend and make whole again the nuclear family. Susan Faludi, in The Terror Dream, has some great stuff about the focus on the imagined nuclear family (and the paterfamilias protecting family) and how that became very prominent in the US after 9/11. Against that, The Grey presents death and domestic catastrophe as something that is irreversible, and Liam Neeson's arc is about finding the inner strength to both accept and confront the absurdity and inevitability of death.
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Apr 14, 2017 10:59
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I finally saw Speed Racer last night. I knew it by its reputation here but it still managed to be better than I was anticipating. I really liked how the Wachowski sisters managed to create this goofy cartoon tone while maintaining earnesty; it feels like anyone else would have drenched the movie in ironic distance.
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NeuroticErotica posted:Trying to think of some movies about artists selling out, not having a lot of luck. Any ideas? Inside Llewyn Davis
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Jun 12, 2017 14:22
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Forums alum penismightier was talking up The Informant the other day so I watched it and I have to say, I thought it was pretty good.
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Jun 21, 2017 22:34
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Timby posted:It's very oddly underappreciated in Soderbergh's filmography. I love it. glam rock hamhock posted:The Informant is so loving good. It might be my favorite Soderbergh, and that's saying something. It's just so weird in a way I've never seen another movie try. It also uses voiceover unlike any other movie. I did a typo. I meant The Informer
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Jun 22, 2017 05:19
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The MSJ posted:Informer is still p cool. Some time ago I was working at a club and I was stunned to see that they were advertising an appearance by him. In preparing to re-tell this brilliant story, I realized that almost as much time has passed between it and now as passed between Informer and the story.
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Jun 22, 2017 13:42
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I Before E posted:I'm a neo liberal because I love the matrix I'm a Neo liberal. I believe that the fact that an everyday office worker became a mix of superman and jesus is proof that the system is fundamentally just, and needs no more than minor tweaks to ensure that everyone has that same opportunity.
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Jun 22, 2017 14:10
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Honest Thief posted:edit: it wasn't a dig at you btw Death of the author, HT. Death of the author.
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Jun 28, 2017 16:05
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Anonymous Robot posted:As someone still struggling to puzzle out where on the spectrum they fall between Marxism and anarchism, and trying to avoid falling in with a bad crowd in the process, this is a pretty pertinent issue for examination. Have you considered liberalism?
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Terrorist Fistbump posted:Okja is really good. It goes darker than I expected it to based on everything I had seen/read/heard. Worth seeing in the theater if you get the chance. Okja rules tremendously. It kind of serves as a thematic waystation between Snowpiercer and Memories of Murder.
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FreudianSlippers posted:I liked how in Inside Llewyn Davis they constantly talk about how Please Mr. Kennedy is probably going to be huge but Llewyn won't see any of that money because he made the wrong decision and decided to sign away any possible profits for money up front . I mean the entire film basically revolves around a dude is genuinely talented but just keeps letting his huge ego get in the way and makes the wrong decision at every turn. I feel like this undersells just how much this is Llewyn's bad character coming back on him. He doesn't take the up-front money for no reason, but because he thinks he needs it for an abortion for the wife of the guy who wrote-sings the recording. And then he didn't need the money because the last time he had to pay for an abortion he was so utterly detached that he was unaware that she didn't go through with it. Relatedly, my absolute favourite joke of Inside Llewyn Davis, is how the movie begins with the implication that Llewyn and Jean were dating, and then she left him for Justin Timberlake. So you get the feeling that Llewyn is the victim, and when Llewyn hits up Jim for money (with the implication that he's done it before), Jim's doing a kind of penance. But then it turns out that Jim and Jean were married the whole time. Llewyn's just an rear end in a top hat.
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glam rock hamhock posted:In general Okja is odd in that it is very unsubtle in it's messaging while being kind of shy about making too firm of a stand. Like Swinton's character is shown to mostly be just trying her best and her main problem is she's really naive. Also, while maybe not intended, when she basically says "it's unfortunate we had to tell all these small lies but people are adverse to GMOs for some reason" I couldn't help but agree. Still it's hard to tell the movie's intent, because it doesn't really make any cases against GMOs. In general it's a movie where both extremes are shown as being kind of dumb and their own way with even the last minute pure big business character shown as not being so much evil as purely motivated by profit. It's just an odd movie because it goes through the motions of being a really playing to the crowd political movie but it adds nuance to all the characters that undermines that, though often that nuance is also quite cartoonish. I think I wrote a thing that is an answer to you in the Okja thread. Come join us in the thread. It's friendly fun.
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You ever watch a movie and it just doesn't do it for you? That is me and Radio Dreams, which I just watched. At least I got to see Lars Ullrich jamming out with an Afghani band.
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Samuel Clemens posted:That's a contentious issue. Many philosophers, like Chomsky for instance, argue that the intention behind an act doesn't matter, only the outcome does. Feels kinda weird to see Chomsky taken as a go to guy for consequentialism.
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:ive only seen him argue that point w/r/t America's interventionism with that racist new atheist guy This is a cool description because it doesn't actually narrow it down at all.
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I don't know why this is a thing but I think it's the good kind of weird, at least. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5EmZh_Obi8
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So I just miss Coen's chat and step in in the middle of full blown I/P chat. Anyway Don't Mess with the Zohan could probably be remade into a very politically good movie with some slight tweaking. Have the Real Enemy end up being one of those US-based evangelical organizations who support colonialism in Israel as a means of bringing about the End Times.
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