oldpainless posted:

For those interested, the book 120 days of sodom, which is actually unfinished, gives a description of a character who never wipes his rear end so his poo poo just accumulates around his rear end in a top hat forming a thick smelly ring of feces which becomes problematic when other characters try to gently caress him in the rear end

Solice Kirsk posted:

Couldn't you just kinda work some spit into poop crust to remoisten it and then have anal sex with the dirty man? Feels like they should have thought of that.

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Whybird posted:

What I'm taking away from this is that Kirk Johnson is a timelord.

AceOfFlames posted:

No, EGG is talking about a different show called Action. Profit was about sociopathic corporate execs while action was an account of the abuses and excesses of Hollywood thinly disguised as comedy.

nonathlon posted:

That was a good series. She wasn't an assistant however, she was a sexworker he'd raised up to executive level, one of a series of crazy moves he made. I have a dim memory that the lead character is actually meant to be crazy, like he's had a breakdown, but he was always an rear end in a top hat. There were plenty of references to post terrible things he'd done.

InediblePenguin posted:

some people will pick on the failed updating by pointing out the absurdity of the main guy being a big rock star whose big hit single was "baby can you dig your man" in 1990 but there was never a time when that song wouldn't've fuckin sucked

Thranguy posted:

The weirdest part is in the other direction, how the newspapers manage to not spell it "Darkside" in universe. Is there one of his minions whose job is to dial up saying "Actually, it's DeSaad, two a's. And Apokalips has a k, an I, and no e"

Kevin DuBrow posted:

I was watching the original Twin Peaks and I don't know if the way David Lynch uses a man with dwarfism sits well with me. It's not explicitly demeaning, but it just seems like Lynch went "you know what would really make this scene even more otherworldly and unnerving? A dwarf, how abnormal."

I'm willing to be convinced otherwise and I know it's positively respectful compared to other portrayals in media. Hell, Austin Powers came out ten years later and I absolutely don't think that the character of Mini-Me is anything but crass mockery of people with dwarfism.

IshmaelZarkov posted:

My favourite soap opera - complete with ridiculous characters, storylines that make little to no sense, and a writers room pressed to keep up an insane schedule - is the WWE.

I was never into wrestling until I worked out it was a Sweat Opera.

Strom Cuzewon posted:

Is there anything with Jason Isaacs in where Jason Isaacs isn't the best thing in it?

(tentatively I want to say The OA Season 2, because of the sheer volume of batshit insanity it was throwing around)

Barry Foster posted:

Stewart Lee's one of the greatest stand ups ever, check him out

hyperhazard posted:

iirc, Temple of Doom was the movie that made the MPAA finally realize "huh, we might need a rating between PG and R." Because ripping out a man's beating heart might not be appropriate for children.

christmas boots posted:

I’m just going to say it, but Titus Andronicus. You probably couldn’t play it as a straight tragedy, it’s just too much.

I did see it performed once as a black comedy and that worked out pretty well for the most part, although obviously what happens to Lavinia doesn’t really lend itself to that

exquisite tea posted:

Julie Taymor's Titus is a masterpiece and still probably my favorite film adaptation of a Shakespeare play. Beautiful visuals, incredible cast, supremely violent and darkly funny all at the same time. The way any good Shakespeare tragedy film should be.

Inspector Gesicht posted:

One day I will write the worst book ever written. It's about a writer struggling with writer's block, who is also a college professor who is contemplating adultery with a female student half his age. There's also a parallel story about post-war Vienna for some reason.

Sobatchja Morda posted:

Voyager was my entry point as a kid, but I haven't seen it since then. Considering the history behind it and Ronald Moore's frustrations writing it, I think the way it aged is highly dependant on if a viewer has seen Battlestar Galactica. Since, you know, that show takes the same major conceit of a hopeless journey but specifically does all the things Moore wasn't allowed to do on Voyager.

Samovar posted:

I've stopped reading many books in my time, but Atlas Shrugged is one of the few books I remember stopping reading in disgust.

The other being Naked Lunch.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

There's two things wrong with the title.

Tiggum posted:

The problem with Sam Raimi's Spider-Man is that it wasn't based on the newspaper comic version of the character. I want a Spider-Man who's an angry moron. I want a Peter Parker who goes to the doctor with his Spider-Man costume on underneath his clothes; who buys a plane ticket as Peter Parker and shows up to the airport as Spider-Man; who barges into the TV station to debate the newsreader who said something bad about him, and loses. That's a hero I can relate to.

Vandar posted:

So the Jack of All Trades intro is like, the best tv intro ever right?

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2tlews

Rochallor posted:

I did the first time I read it, though to be fair I was like 16. Humbert is such a clever, quick-witted character that it is possible for a reader to be taken in by him.

Antifa Turkeesian posted:

I found the whole scene kind of comic in that there are almost no noble houses left. The majority of the negotiating happens between bit characters we’ve barely seen, like the psycho kid who breastfeeds at 12 and the guy who spent the whole series locked in a basement, plus Sam who is only legitimate because he’s the only member of his family still alive.

I know it’s a “happy” ending because a threat has been defeated, but it does seem like kind of a post-apocalyptic ending as well in that their society really has been hollowed out and they’re trying to move on in the smoking crater of the capitol city where millions have just been burned alive.

DontMockMySmock posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt32b19j430&t=4047s

timestamp 1:07:27

Magic Hate Ball posted:

Versailles being the 17th century equivalent of a nerd convention is extremely funny to me and I'm sad I've never seen a movie capitalize on that, because it's always depicted as being sort of austerely classy.

bobjr posted:

I still wish Better Off Ted got more.

Douche Wolf 89 posted:

You... you mean like how in Elf Dinklage's character is like the top children's author, everyone is mortified by Buddy's ignorant behaviour, and gets his rear end beaten by Dinklage? It's a bit simple, but it sends a pretty consistent message with his other roles

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Grouchio posted:

So I finally heard about the comic Cerebus (1977-2003) by Dave Sim. Before I start reading it online, what about the series hasn't aged well?

Grouchio posted:

..............I started with chapter 264 and just read the ending.
I only read Latter Days and the Ending.
Whoops

Grouchio posted:

1. That latter days poo poo was the deepest spiral into spite-fueled reactionary misogynistic literature I have ever read. Wow.
2. I have not felt so proud to go agnostic in such a long time.
3. I must have the thickest skin reading this and thinking 'huh so that's what the exhaustive mind of religious bat guano looks like' without getting angry once.

Jedit posted:

I'm told they didn't talk for the last few years of the run. Gerhard just told Sim to post him the scripts and he'd return the art.

moonmazed posted:

lol that dude didn't know how to spell cerberus and just rolled with it

Megillah Gorilla posted:

The only time I picked up Cerebus was at a Minotaur book store in Melbourne. It was the one where the titular character sits on a ball in space, like Le Petit Prince, or something, and just talks and talks for the entire book and nothing happens.

Didn't even bother doing more than glancing through it because it came across like Ted Kaczynski had tried to draw a pig to make his manifesto more palatable to read.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

I remember the three story store on Bourke Street. gently caress me that was awesome. Can't even find pictures of it now

Books in the basement, memorabilia and cards on the ground floor and comics and warhams upstairs. Everything a nerd needed.

Detective No. 27 posted:

I can understand mixing up Moore and Grant Morrison since they are both magic users.

Vandar posted:

Both of them immediately took psychic damage upon you posting this and I have no doubt that Moore is planning on cursing you for saying such a thing.

The United States posted:

Getting all these old british dudes with beards who think they are magicians and wrote comics at some point confused

Cleretic posted:

A bit late, but for what it's worth while they have downsized a bit thanks to the pandemic, it's still a real good store with most everything you'd want from them. Ground floor has a lot of the 'pop culture' and anime/manga stuff, downstairs are all the comics and sci-fi/fantasy novels. I wouldn't say it's all Funko Pops, although naturally that's a display that grabs a lot of people. Personally I've found they have a pretty nice collection of more unusual gunpla than you'll find at Metro Hobbies, which is fun. I haven't seen them selling Warhammer and the like, but that might just be because I haven't looked.

I hope they do, though, because the pandemic kinda blew a lot of the physical gaming scene in Melbourne to bits. Both Goodgames stores closed up, which I know basically killed the Yu-Gi-Oh scene. I dunno Warhammer, but I can't imagine it's hanging in super well.

Gargamel Gibson posted:

What I find weird about Donald Duck is that in the comics he has normal dialogue, but in the cartoons he's incomprehensible.

Groke posted:

A tiger? In Africa?

Dirt Road Junglist posted:

Forget Norway.

Terrible Opinions posted:

The stories were obviously not originally in English. English does not have a good generic word for large predatory cat to use as a magical creature's name.

Megillah Gorilla posted:

The best Marvel story about vampires is when Dracula took all the vampires to live in castles on the moon and, while they were there, Captai Britain revoked their invitation to Earth.

So, when they launched their invasion fleet of vampire space ships, and vampires launched from cannon like human inhuman cannonballs, they all burned up in Earth's atmosphere.