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Schweinhund posted:In the first half of Karate Kid, Mr Miyagi is the maintenance man living in Daniel's apartment building and he's there all day and night. Then half way through the movie he takes Daniel to his house and he has this big compound with 10 cars and he lives there all day and night for the rest of the movie. It raises so many questions. I assume he was scamming the landlord the way he scammed Daniel. Well not exactly the way he scammed Daniel. I haven't seen it in years really, but I remember Karate Kid being a lot like The Music Man in that the teacher figure is scamming everyone but then miraculously the kids at the end have somehow mastered the skill that he wasn't teaching them.
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Cubone posted:idk if this was just me but the part in Ladybird where Ladybird catches her boyfriend making out with a guy, I was immediately like Did you actually finish the movie? He comes back into the narrative towards the end when Ladybird has grown as a person and learns to think more about people other herself, the fact that at the time it happens she only cares about herself is part of the major theme of the film and is something that is repeated with other characters including other boys she dates who have other issues that she's similarly blind to. Ladybird is an indie movie about a teenage girl growing up in a Catholic high school in the early 2000s, her boyfriend being a closested gay who feels pressured to date a girl to appear normal exists in the service of that. It's OK for women to get to have their own stories and the movie would be way worse as a film if it felt the need to try and crowbar in more narrative about the gay boyfriend.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Jay is a slutty bottom, but he's not nearly enough of a dirty bitch to handle Jack Packin. Jack Packin retired
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Man, last night I watched National Lampoon's Van Wilder and apart from Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds it does not hold up well at all. So that puts it on the level of most 2000s college stoner comedies that are acting like it's still the 80s. A lot of transphobic and gay panic jokes and a general sense of "laugh at the freak" humour that does not land. At least Reynolds himself is funny. Kal Penn is way better in Harold and Kumar than he is here.
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Tip posted:I hated large portions of the writing for teenagers in the first season. It was like Big Bang Theory mixed with Juno, written by a middle aged dude. Watching the first few episodes of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina made me want to not be alive, for the same reason.
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Schweinhund posted:This is about the Columbine shooters: Setting aside that specific case because it'll kick off a big derail. My understanding is that after Columbine, whether it was motivated by bullying or not, the perception was that bullying was a big problem in schools. And then a lot of districts revamped their policies. And now from talking to teachers I know about it, teachers and admin are trained to stamp that poo poo out with prejudice, and it's like 8 forms and 3 parent conferences if a teacher suspects a kid of bullying another kid. May just be anecdotal, but I've heard a lot of teachers mention it.
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PostNouveau posted:I assume he was scamming the landlord the way he scammed Daniel. Well not exactly the way he scammed Daniel. Actually it's all a plot vehicle for how hard work and discipline will reward you across all walks of life!
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The deleted scenes are Miyagi instructing his boss in karate by having him repetitively write checks.
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Karate Kid: Directors Cut Miyagi confronts Kreese in tha parking lot. Miyagi raises his fist to deliver a palm smash. Kreese looks on in fear as Miyagis battle cry increases in intensity. It builds to a crescendo, then... Miyago playfully honks Kreeses nose. Kreese deflates, beaten by this small man. Miyagi takes advantage of this lapse, delivering a true palm strike, destroying Kreeses nose. As blood wells from Kreese, Miyagi does a spinning jump kick, shattering Kreeses sternum. Kreese collapses to the ground, dead.
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He then turns to Johnny and says "You better go buy an iron, because you just lost your kreese"
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Arcsquad12 posted:Man, last night I watched National Lampoon's Van Wilder and apart from Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds it does not hold up well at all. So that puts it on the level of most 2000s college stoner comedies that are acting like it's still the 80s. A lot of transphobic and gay panic jokes and a general sense of "laugh at the freak" humour that does not land. At least Reynolds himself is funny. Kal Penn is way better in Harold and Kumar than he is here. I thought H&K was a great low stakes stoner adventure movie but then again I was high when I watched it
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I'm only through like Episode 6, but I assume the first season of Cobra Kai ends in an orgy of violence and all the adults involved going "Oh I hosed this up really badly".
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John Wick of Dogs posted:He then turns to Johnny and says "You better go buy an iron, because you just lost your kreese" He felt good about what he did for his community that day. I've only half-watched Cobra Kai while in the same room as my wife, but it seems good. The episode where the bully gets a computer for the first time ever is pretty funny. And Danny's characterization makes sense as someone who's felt like an underdog all his life because of the trauma of moving from NJ to California, which was real for him, but such a non-issue in the grand scheme of things.
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Re-watching TNG, the Space Irish episode is directly after the Pakled episode. It is too much...
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Olewithmilk posted:Re-watching TNG, the Space Irish episode is directly after the Pakled episode. It is too much... The Space Irish episode is actually toned down because Colm Meaney pitched a fit about it. It was originally also going to have a leprechaun created by the Holodeck.
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PostNouveau posted:The Space Irish episode is actually toned down because Colm Meaney pitched a fit about it. It was originally also going to have a leprechaun created by the Holodeck. Haha!
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Olewithmilk posted:Haha! Oh wait my bad it was actually a DS9 episode. Meaney had more pull on DS9. quote:The first draft script of DS9: "If Wishes Were Horses" featured a leprechaun. In the script's stage directions, this character was initially described as "a tiny man, complete with green suit, three-pointed hat, large buckled shoes and carrot red hair... in short a classic leprechaun." Ultimately, however, this character was changed to Rumpelstiltskin. The alteration was made after Colm Meaney objected, commenting, "Using caricatures or clichés of any nation is not something Star Trek is or should be into." (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion) The leprechaun was replaced with Rumpelstiltskin by the time the third draft of the script was issued.
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Milo and POTUS posted:I thought H&K was a great low stakes stoner adventure movie but then again I was high when I watched it Harold and Kumar works where Van Wilder or something even worse like Slackers doesn't: everyone in Harold and Kumar is insane. What i hate about these movies is that there is always one straight person who is no nonsense and doesn't fit in with the wacky shenanigans, and its usually the love interest. Tara Reid is loving boring and it falls into the same bullshit that infests web comics where all the men act like children but theres a no nonsense female character who is there to be the responsible mother. Meanwhile in Harold and Kumar everyone is their own brand of crazy so theres no "we need to be serious now" moment to cram undeserved attempts at pathos into a movie that does not need it. I am happy that the 21 jump street movies killed off this genre by doing a reversal where instead of a straight man entering a crazy world, its two crazy people trying to interact with the normal world. That is a lot funnier to me specifically because it plays off of the unrealistic depictions of trashy stoner comedies. Or you go the H&K route and make everyone a lunatic. Neighbors is great for that. 2000s college and high school movies feel like 1980s relics made by directors who were fed up with the nihilism of mid 90s teen movies and wanted to go back to the stuff they grew up with, not realizing that the homophobic transphobic crap that is all over 80s college and high-school films really doesnt fly in 2000.
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PostNouveau posted:Oh wait my bad it was actually a DS9 episode. Meaney had more pull on DS9. He probably learned his lesson from the Space Irish episode. Riker is currently putting his full mac on the hot irish redhead lady.
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PostNouveau posted:The Space Irish episode is actually toned down because Colm Meaney pitched a fit about it. It was originally also going to have a leprechaun created by the Holodeck. lmao, can't wait to tell my wife (her dad's family are Irish and we just watched that episode) edit: Looking forward to when we get to DS9 
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I can imagine him having flashbacks to the Space Irish episode and thinking "Not gonna loving let them put me through THAT again" e: beaten!
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Rumpelstiltskin wasn't even the best part of that episode. Not compared to Buck Bokai the greatest baseball player of all time.
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luchajones posted:Jackie Chan seems to have no issues
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I get that feeling about a lot of movies that take place at a much younger age than a writer's typical age. You're writing a college movie, you're not writing it at age 21, you're writing it at age 28+ -- your experiences are already almost a decade out of date. Almost every movie about high school or college or whatever are all going to feel like they take place years before when they're set for that reason. I got a similar feeling from Bon Cop, Bad Cop. It was released in 2006 and takes place in Quebec and Ontario, but something about the movie doesn't really feel like 2006 Ontario, it feels more like the Ontario from 10 years prior, when the writer and director were young.
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Arcsquad12 posted:Rumpelstiltskin wasn't even the best part of that episode. Not compared to Buck Bokai the greatest baseball player of all time.  This is the ideal male body. You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
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piratepilates posted:I get that feeling about a lot of movies that take place at a much younger age than a writer's typical age. You're writing a college movie, you're not writing it at age 21, you're writing it at age 28+ -- your experiences are already almost a decade out of date. Almost every movie about high school or college or whatever are all going to feel like they take place years before when they're set for that reason. At least Bon Cop, Bad Cop had them beating up Rick Mercer.
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drat, bokai looks great for a baseball player /cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/59406281/usa_today_10788081.0.jpg)
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I gotta say I have simple comedic tastes because the gag in Harold and Kumar where they forget their phones and look back at the door 15 feet away and say “no, we’ve come too far” is both hilarious and incredibly relatable. Definitely my favourite bit.
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Olewithmilk posted:He probably learned his lesson from the Space Irish episode. Riker is currently putting his full mac on the hot irish redhead lady. Love the bit in Ensign Ro where Riker is a massive space racist the entire episode.
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PostNouveau posted:The Space Irish episode is actually toned down because Colm Meaney pitched a fit about it. It was originally also going to have a leprechaun created by the Holodeck. That's a different ds9 episode
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Arcsquad12 posted:Meanwhile in Harold and Kumar everyone is their own brand of crazy so theres no "we need to be serious now" moment to cram undeserved attempts at pathos into a movie that does not need it. I am happy that the 21 jump street movies killed off this genre by doing a reversal where instead of a straight man entering a crazy world, its two crazy people trying to interact with the normal world. That is a lot funnier to me specifically because it plays off of the unrealistic depictions of trashy stoner comedies. Or you go the H&K route and make everyone a lunatic. Neighbors is great for that. Right on. H&K are shitheads and so is everyone else in their films. It's not high art but it wins because it pitches straight at that level and never deviates. It reminds me a lot of John Dies At The End (the novel).
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priznat posted:I gotta say I have simple comedic tastes because the gag in Harold and Kumar where they forget their phones and look back at the door 15 feet away and say “no, we’ve come too far” is both hilarious and incredibly relatable. I also like when Kumar is trying to pee in the woods and some drunk guy just walks up and starts pissing right next to him. Honestly that movie had a lot of good gags.
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luchajones posted:Jackie Chan seems to have no issues Yeah about that, he is a lot of issues. Lets just say no one has been asking for his autograph on the streets of Hong Kong for quite a while and if I ever saw him in person he is going to get a one finger salute. Chow Yun Fat is and will always be awesome.
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Was Jackie Chan cancelled for something besides tonguing the balls of the Chinese government, or was it just the whole him tonguing the balls of the Chinese government thing?
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I think it's just the Chinese ball tonguing.
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He more or less went head first up the CCP rear end in a top hat to lick rear end. He is still there to this day.
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It's kinda hard to blame a celebrity for saying "China is #1" when it's official state policy in China to castrate and blind you and force your family into labor camps if you don't say "China is #1".
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Sleeveless posted:Did you actually finish the movie? He comes back into the narrative towards the end when Ladybird has grown as a person and learns to think more about people other herself, the fact that at the time it happens she only cares about herself is part of the major theme of the film and is something that is repeated with other characters including other boys she dates who have other issues that she's similarly blind to. that's what I said but he should have done a flip you completely glossed over my main point, which was that Ladybird's gay boyfriend should have done a flip
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