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Argyle Gargoyle
Apr 1, 2009

ABSTRACT SHAPES CREW

nonathlon posted:

John Dies At The End (the novel).

now that's a name i haven't heard in a long time

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oohhboy
Jun 8, 2013

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
This wasn't some Mulan level twitter poo poo. When people say Donnie Yen pulled a Jackie Chan it's next level.

For years before the current troubles has repeatedly out of his own mouth sprout pro CCP including stumping books. There is some mitigating circumstances iirc as his son was arrested for "Weed" on the mainland. He has gone well above what you expect destroying what sympathy remained. The first poo poo I remember out of him was how if you didn't like his pro CCP poo poo don't watch his movies. Rest of Asia obliged bombing his movies. If it wasn't for Hollywood he wouldn't have a job.

The_Rob
Feb 1, 2007

Blah blah blah blah!!
Tony hawk is pretty much the only good celebrity and if anything comes out about him I’m just giving up on everyone.

Baronjutter
Dec 31, 2007

"Tiny Trains"

Jackie chan also is absolutely vile to the women he's knocked up and ratted out to the state and destroyed his own kids too. Deadbeat dad and general woman-hater.

TIP
Mar 21, 2006

Your move, creep.



The_Rob posted:

Tony hawk is pretty much the only good celebrity and if anything comes out about him I’m just giving up on everyone.

I went to a Sex Pistols concert and about halfway through realized Tony Hawk was standing next to me.

He seemed very nice. All throughout the show big fat sweaty guys kept running up and hugging him and he took it in good cheer.

I still have a dollar bill he signed for me. I don't really give a poo poo about celebrity signatures, but it's a nice reminder of a weird day.

John Wick of Dogs
Mar 4, 2017

A real hellraiser


I one went to see an improv show and found I was sitting next to Matt Walsh (the good Matt Walsh not the evil one)

piratepilates
Mar 28, 2004

So I will learn to live with it. Because I can live with it. I can live with it.



John Wick of Dogs posted:

I one went to see an improv show and found I was sitting next to Matt Walsh (the good Matt Walsh not the evil one)

I once went to see an improv show for some rising stars. There was some guy in the back of the (quite small) theatre room, wearing a fake glasses/nose/moustache thing and a hat. I asked him if anyone was sitting next to him since it was like the last empty seat, but then a second later saw where my friends were sitting.

To this day I still wonder who that was, it seemed like they were wearing a disguise to not be seen. Was it anyone recognizable (coming to some random improv show in Toronto)? Was it just a complete weirdo? Was it a time traveller? Was I in a Looper situation? I'll never know, and I'll have to take that regret to my grave.

THE BAR
Oct 20, 2011

You know what might look better on your nose?

Dexter Holland from The Offspring seems like a nice guy.

AHH F/UGH
May 25, 2002

THE BAR posted:

Dexter Holland from The Offspring seems like a nice guy.

SilvergunSuperman
Aug 7, 2010

I wonder who the webmaster of jetphotos.net is

Quantum of Phallus
Dec 27, 2010

SilvergunSuperman posted:

I wonder who the webmaster of jetphotos.net is

Jet Li

colonelwest
Jun 30, 2018

These days I get my celeb fix by watching Hangin’ with Leo on an endless loop. There’s no CCP bootlicking, just awkward “between films” paunches.

carry on then
Jul 10, 2010

by VideoGames

(and can't post for 10 years!)


Call the President, we've just found the CEO of Antifa

there wolf
Jan 11, 2015

by Fluffdaddy

Arcsquad12 posted:

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.

Harold is the straight man in Harold and Kumar; he's just allowed to get crazy as crazy things keep happening. His arc about learning to loosen up actually involves him loosening up, unlike a token love interest for which "loosening up" just means stop getting mad at the antics of a manchild and start bailing him out of poo poo.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
If he's rich enough to afford a private plane I'm pretty sure he's off limits

sexpig by night
Sep 8, 2011

by Azathoth

there wolf posted:

Harold is the straight man in Harold and Kumar; he's just allowed to get crazy as crazy things keep happening. His arc about learning to loosen up actually involves him loosening up, unlike a token love interest for which "loosening up" just means stop getting mad at the antics of a manchild and start bailing him out of poo poo.

yea Harold has one of the few 'you just gotta loosen up' straight man arcs in comedies where the point is genuinely 'he needs to stop being an obsessive panicker and just let himself enjoy the dumb stuff that he likes'. Harold enjoys doing dumb poo poo with his insane friends in their dumb and weird stoner comedy world, he just needs to let himself enjoy it. It's a big contrast to the normal arc of 'you just need to accept that I'm the one idiot allowed to do whatever he wants in the world.

Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

Got any deathsticks?
He's a straight man relative to Kumar's antics but Harold is still a neurotic mess most of the time which puts him a step above a no nonsense character who is meant to be taken seriously. We're meant to laugh at Harold being an uptight fuckup. Too often the straight man / love interest characters are meant to be serious and it always sucks.

Linda Cardillini getting drunk and singing Push It in Grandma's Boy is better than any number of "hot lady that acts as a prize for the manchild if he grows up a little" non entities from other films.

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Sep 24, 2020

No Mods No Masters
Oct 3, 2004

It took some time but I'm glad we were able to finally reach consensus that harold and kumar is a perfect film

screaden
Apr 8, 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jysl05LbnEQ

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
On one hand it sucks that we never got any more Harold and Kumar movies because Kumar stopped acting to work for the Obama administration, but on the other hand after Harold and Kumar Escape Guantanamo Bay maybe it's for the best.

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.

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.

That's how pretty much all media about people under 30 is though just by virtue of how long it takes to get established in television and film. It's especially bad in childrens entertainment since adults having to go off their own childhood for reference means they're perpetually 20+ years out of date, like how in the 90s kids cartoons all had beatnik and hippy characters and referenced old sitcoms and now all the kids cartoons have goth characters and reference cartoons like The Simpsons and anime that are 30 years old.

Milo and POTUS
Sep 3, 2017

I will not shut up about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. I talk about them all the time and work them into every conversation I have. I built a shrine in my room for the yellow one who died because sadly no one noticed because she died around 9/11. Wanna see it?
I liked the second h&k too but again, I was inebriated

poisonpill
Nov 8, 2009

The only way to get huge fast is to insult a passing witch and hope she curses you with Beast-strength.


I just looked it up and.... there was a third one?!!!

Sleeveless
Dec 25, 2014

by Pragmatica
Guantanamo Bay had like two or three really funny goofs but most of it just wasn't funny and it had way too much plot and stakes for what should have been a goofy stoner comedy. Also aside from running the Neil Patrick Harris meme into the ground the scene of them chilling out with President Bush and him just being a dumb chill well-meaning guy was bad at the time and really hasn't aged well at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfilaKrnAhQ&t=22s

ProperCauldron
Oct 11, 2004

nah chill
hhey uh also, Harold & Kumar endures because the asian man and the indian man trying to make their way into WHITE CASTLE is still relevant today.

Phi230
Feb 2, 2016

by Fluffdaddy
Battleshits changed the world

mallratcal
Sep 10, 2003


Harold and Kumar Christmas was not good.

luchajones
Jan 28, 2018

I have no beard, and I must scream

oohhboy posted:

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.

I was referring that he was working with black people.

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
https://twitter.com/TheGoldMan25/status/1307726433092018181





DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO STARWARS

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


In the UK it was called “Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies”

This has been another RLM Fun Fact Corner

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
Harold and Kumar go to the chip shop

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007


Gerald and Kurt Pop Down To Nandos

Sydney Bottocks
Oct 15, 2004
Probation
Can't post for 40 days!
Harold and Kumar vs. Bubble and Squeak

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

Endless Trash posted:

In the UK it was called “Harold and Kumar Get The Munchies”

This has been another RLM Fun Fact Corner
seems unnecessary

we don't have white castles in like 2/3 of the u.s.

PostNouveau
Sep 3, 2011

VY till I die
Grimey Drawer

Cubone posted:

seems unnecessary

we don't have white castles in like 2/3 of the u.s.

Or more.

I went there once to see what the fuss was about and I can tell you White Castle is some nasty nasty poo poo. It is downright gross.

Stink Billyums
Jul 7, 2006

MAGNUM

luchajones
Jan 28, 2018

I have no beard, and I must scream

PostNouveau posted:

Or more.

I went there once to see what the fuss was about and I can tell you White Castle is some nasty nasty poo poo. It is downright gross.

:aaaaa:

Endless Trash
Aug 12, 2007



Watched the first five seconds of the video to confirm he has one of those voices that only sounds correct when it’s coming from inside a locker.

RealityWarCriminal
Aug 10, 2016

:o:
most places do not have White Castle but I'd wager most people at least know what it is. those tiny burgers were loving famous man, well before someone invented sliders.

I wonder how much White Castle paid for the endorsement. or was it an al pacino dunkaccino situation?

Gutcruncher
Apr 16, 2005

Go home and be a family man!
White Castle is dope and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise.


I’ll lose the fight though, being the type to eat White Castle and all

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luchajones
Jan 28, 2018

I have no beard, and I must scream
Too bad their fries suck

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