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smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Telephones posted:

I love Kanye West and Post Malone. pls help

i hate how good Kanye is

someone get htat man some zoloft

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smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

gradenko_2000 posted:

One early episode of Jack Ryan begins with a Syrian father out in the boonies teaching his son to wash up, to pray, to take care of his grandfather, and then they share a tender moment as he drives away on a motorcycle

As the man gets a few miles out from the city, the motorcycle is then blown up in an instant, and we're made to understand that he was killed by drone strike.

The drone operator is slipped a one dollar bill by his partner for a "good shoot", and he folds it reluctantly. The operator is clearly suffering some kind of emotional trauma from this work, and we see one wall of his apartment covered in individual one dollar bills, numbering what must be in the hundreds.

He takes all of them down and heads to the local casino to spend it all ... except he ends up winning bTig at the roulette table, and that makes him feel even worse

Some lady at the same table starts hitting on him, and they eventually hook up, except it turns out she's married, and he gets beaten up by her husband when they're discovered

And that's the context in which he shows up to the drone facility the next day with a black eye and fat lip, at which point, his partner "jokes" about him getting beat up by a "tranny" that he must have tried to pick up.

he whole point of this mini-arc is supposed to make us feel like A. drone pilots suffer from PTSD also, and B. the Syrian child we saw at the beginning of the episode is now without a father, and THAT'S SAD

But it's never questioned whether America should be doing any of this in the first place.

___

Much later on in the season, the wife of the Syrian Bad Guy runs away from their estate after discovering that he's been working with and training Islamist radicals. She takes the kids with her, and enlists the help of a sympathetic uncle.

They get discovered by the husband's goons, the uncle is killed trying to help them escape, and then the wife is assaulted, and is heavily implied that she's about to be raped.

This is when the camera pans out to inform the viewer that they've been watched by that same drone operator we met earlier this entire time. The operator makes a snap decision to fire a missile without getting prior authorization, and manages to target the Hellfire missile in such a way that the Islamist militiaman assaulting the wife is the only one hit and killed by the missile, without significantly harming the woman. The woman escapes the dead man's clutches, runs over to her children, and continues the journey.

The operator sees all this, and it's heavily implied by the look on his face and the swelling music that this was a redemptive moment for him. He did something good, for once.

:psyduck:

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i thought Transformers was dogshit in the 80s and its dogshit today

the only watchable one was Beast Wars and that was only because of Dinobot

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i got on a kick in my teens and read basically every loving Tom Clancy book

everything i can remember (which is a lot) is hot garbage lol

all the bad guys are cartoon evil, all the good guys are shouldering the unfathomable burdens of western civilization and its paternal obligation to the savages of the world

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Marvel-Clancy Universe

why would you bring such evil into the universe

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
pop culture is a toilet in general, but all this joker meme poo poo is especially foul

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
a lot of film people take it too seriously, but comic book movies definitely are trash

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
MCU movies are fuckin'

fine art films are making love

i've done neither so i'm just speculating

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

love being a rube who thinks philanthropy isn't a scam

i've created several wage-slave ventures that have mildly aggressive targets for positive outcomes in dealing with disadvantaged people though!!!!

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
The Screwtape Letters? Gothic cathedrals? Hmm.

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Dr. Killjoy posted:

oh boy more Once Upon a Time in Hollywood Bruce Lee discourse

okay so it should be know that while popularly Gene LeBell is known to have choked out Steven Seagal until he shat himself, while Gene in his recounting will often not include the making GBS threads part out of politeness

Now the Bruce Lee fight is based on an experience on set of Green Hornet involving Gene LeBell and Bruce Lee

According to even Lebell’s probably conservative account, Tarantino let the image of Bruce Lee off lightly, because it’s frankly embarrassing for Lee

lawl:

quote:

On the other hand, when Seagal was asked about the incident, he directly denied the allegations, calling LeBell a "sick, pathological scumbag liar," and offered the name of a witness who could prove Lebell had fabricated this rumor.[22] The claim garnered a heated response from LeBell's trainee Ronda Rousey, who assured Seagal was the one lying and said: "If [Seagal] says anything bad about Gene to my face, I'd have to make him crap his pants a second time."[23]

she'd do it too

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Aglet56 posted:

Jackie brown is good

even the worst Tarantino (Death Proof) is "watchable"

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Azathoth posted:

I'm not a huge fan of Tarantino but I'll take him any day over the sea of boring, largely interchangeable directors that Hollywood execs seem to love giving billions to every year. Like everyone else who gets big enough, he desperately needs someone to edit out his worst impulses but at least he has a discernable style.

yeah, Scorcese is Scorcese because of Thelma Schoonmaker

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
https://twitter.com/LCJReviews/status/1447321811553771521

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
didn't Dahl retcon the book after a decade or two as a mea culpa after he was convinced how racist it was?

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
what if children put on the Shang-Chi costume and go around peeing in people's soft drinks

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
lmao, this is an incredible avenue for trolling

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

sexpig by night posted:

what if a black kid wears a Shang-Chi costume, but does yellowface, but calls someone else the n-word while in that costume. What if the person they call the n-word is Asian.

this does a buffer overflow and gives you root

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i watched rivers edge for the first time in like 20 years

still rules

feels more poignant today

Crispin glover is a prolific scenery chewer

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
meryl streep has been cruising on sophie's choice longer than most of us have been alive

edit:
the deer hunter and kramer vs kramer are legit tho

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
rip left eye

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
fellas getting so stressed by no scrubz they know all the words to no pigeons by the sporty thievz

these were the things to occupy us before 9/11

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

TheSlutPit posted:

this is up there with “you kick my dog” and “stoned sesame street“ on my y2k napster playlist

kerPAL

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYcWHlEPqXQ

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

indigi posted:

i wish there was a list of all the fake weird Al parodies that went around napster and kazaa

if they had swearing or slurs in them they probably weren't legit

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
you can still telnet to towel.blinkenlights.nl and watch Star Wars in glorious ASCII art

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
i am definitely not mudding literally every hour of my work day

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

StashAugustine posted:

havent gotten around to the new matrix but i rewatched the original and it still goes hard

it's weird how essentially nobody was able to capture that aesthetic as well as the first film despite it setting the tone for a generation of imitations, like the stars aligned and all the other goofy poo poo that came after were shadows on the cave wall

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
not a lot of other projects that wanted to ride the uber stylized action train hard bothered to bring in Yuen Woo-ping, which is why the standouts from that era seem to be his work still (CTHD, Kill Bill, hell throw in Kung Fu Hustle)

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
I've watched Tango & Cash an embarrassing amount of times

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
does this thread gently caress with YouTube creators? because Joel Haver is the funniest young dude I've seen come along in literal decades


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMekubv3qNM

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
is emplemon a creep or something because i really loved his video about Home Movies

edit:
linking cuz its good, it's that same-y youtube doc voice guy kinda delivery, but i think he was one of the earlier ones doing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6U9amcfU-s

smarxist has issued a correction as of 07:34 on Dec 28, 2021

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

Mantis42 posted:

I knew Jacobin's pop culture articles weren't worth reading when they thought Wolf of Wall Street was pro Wall Street.

:psyduck:

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy

500 good dogs posted:

is station eleven good

the book was really sweet and resonating, dunno about the show

its very hopeful and sincere, for post collapse fiction

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
the DefunctLand about the Ferris Wheel is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsJu0XA429A

also their Jim Henson series was beautifully done

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Paul Viewhorven

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
Joaquin turned into one of my favorite actors so slowly

i thought he was meh in gladiator and bad in the m knight movie, but Joker, Her, the master and inherent vice were all excellent performances

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
you think mike judge draws anything anymore or has he fallen back into a jim davis role

smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
no country is probably my favorite Coens, there are so many beautiful, intensely weird moments and details that i love seeing whenever i re-watch

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smarxist
Jul 26, 2018

by Fluffdaddy
also 00-10 was a big movie time for me as well, my best friend (rip) who was on the spectrum and a goon in everything but account status only decided to "get into movies" so he literally downloaded and burned the imdb top 250 and went through them, whenever we hung out he'd just be like "you gotta see this, it's called wages of fear" and we'd watch some old masterpiece or John Cassavetes flick

miss that bastard :(

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