Watched Fight Club again this past week. Such an excellent film. Reading the Prime Video x-ray trivia thing, even the author of the book said the movie was an improvement to the novel (high praise). Having read the novel too, I would agree.
The movie hits so many themes…and still aptly applies over 2 decades later.
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I understand your husband’s pain … I married a nurse as well
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I married a commie. She laughed herself into tears at the end of Arrival when Amy Adams gets a China GENERAL to stop going to war because she recited his dead wife’s dying words to him. I was flabbergasted at the naivety of the filmmakers.
They think some dumbass, mouth breathing, holistic medicine loving Jimmy Fallon fan can get to the rank of general in a country with a population of 1.3 BILLION people with the 2nd or 3rd most sophisticated military in the world? Holy fuck, it was worse than anything Roland Emmerich can pull out of his ass and people took that film SERIOUSLY.
The general would have immediately checked for bugs and sacked and interrogated his entire staff working closely with him with psychological and physical torture techniques in a place no one would ever find them lol. Da fuck. How did they even think that part was even remotely logical in a movie that was about complex science and shit?
But, no, Amy Adams stopped WW3 just like that. ONE fucking phone call to a general’s private phone. Yeah, ok, even in the minutely probable event that the dude somehow bought it, ONE fucker isn’t going to make the entire CCP stand down.
What the fuck did he do? Go up to the president and go, “Hey! Some US chick got my private cell phone number. Told me what my dead wife said before dying. I know we’ve been doing drills and shit for months, spent millions on anti-alien on top of our normal anti-US propaganda budget to get everyone hyped up and everyone’s at their stations ready to be deployed but let’s like, call all this shit off and sing “Auld Lang Syne” with them, ok?”.
Fucking almost wanted to give it a standing ovation for the sheer amount of stupidity involved.
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To fully appreciate how stupid it was, THIS would have been more believable:
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My wife married an engineer…she can’t watch any science type scene anymore with me.
Worst offender though is the “F-35” from that Die Hard film where there was a fire sale.
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Pretty sure Amy Adams could stop or start world war 3 if she tried hard enough…
Modern day Helen
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Meh. I believe Anna Kendrick could just by reciting a couple of puns to Xi or Putin. Not Amy.
I was actually quite surprised that one didn’t suck nearly as bad as I thought it would. It was pretty entertaining. The next sequel was just crap.
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I gave up after that one.
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It’s the textbook example of “bourgeois sentimentality” that Marx wrote about extensively (that’s why he left one of his daughters to starve to death while drinking expensive cognac himself), and is one of the fundamental tenets of doctrinaire communism.
When I was a kid, my first door neighbor - a small, wiry middle aged lady - was an actual communist. Not going through the motions stuff, but a real true believer.
When her son started applying for his first job after graduating, she meticulously sent a letter to each prospective employer listing and denouncing his ideological failings and bourgeois tendencies, notably “technocratic individualism”.
Her kids broke off all contact and never spoke to her for the rest of her life, and she was perfectly fine with that. Party takes precedence.
And a phone call is supposed to change that?
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One of my favorites. First time I watched it, I wanted a manly fight movie, but got a lot of philosophical ideas that impacted my life. A lot of the anti-consumerism stuff (and other themes) from that movie really stuck with me.
Agree again. I don’t exactly know what it is about Amy that is so attractive. She isn’t hot by pop culture standards, but there is something about her that does it for me.
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Maybe it’s because she spoke Mandarin?
I mean, dammit, even without this bourgeois sentimentality, the entire idea that a phone call can stop the entire government from going to war is absurd. Xi would just throw him in an asylum and get the second-in-command to proceed lol.
Unless they think this is some early 1900s thing where the generals have their own military factions like in countries like in present day Thailand and Indonesia.
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Why Jackie? Why?
The CGI is so bloody obvious and the movie looks lit and colored like a bloody cartoon. Stanley Tong’s not made a good movie since First Strike, which is probably my 2nd favorite Jackie Chan movie. That was in the '90s. It’s been over 20 years and like 10 shitty movies including that horrific remake of Mr Magoo starring the dude from The Naked Gun. Fuck off.
Why doesn’t he just get behind the camera and train some new stunt prodigy? He directed Police Story 1 and 2 and the Armor of God and Project A series of movies Jackie’s a good action director. Lower the budget, groom some new guy with brass balls and go back to old school stunts and action, and make an extended cameo so you can slap your picture on the poster. I’d watch anything he directs just like I’d watch anything Stephen Chow directs even though he’s not in it.
Come on man. It can’t just be about the money at this age when he’s already worth over 300 million USD and he’s living in China, which makes him a fucking billionaire in terms of purchasing power. I get the Michael Bays and Wong Jings of the world, but Jackie used to do all this crazy shit for his fans and has been rewarded extremely well financially for his efforts. The least he can do now is stop disappointing them.
A quote from a Japanese movie about a wannabe stuntman goes something like this from what I can recall:
“When I watched Armor of God for the first time, I went home and cried uncontrollably all night. I was genuinely touched. This was a man literally willing to DIE for his fans. That’s why I wanted to become a stuntman”
The movie is called No Problem and it sucks so don’t bother watching it. I just remembered these lines because they were so fucking true about Jackie in the 80s-90s.
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Farewell, good Sir.
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A man’s man
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One of my favorite…
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Borat 2
Doesn’t have the novelty of the 1st movie and the “plot” is a little more complex, so the authenticity of capturing people’s reactions to him in real life situations gets lost because lots of times you can’t tell when they’re using real actors or not.
Essentially, Borat’s been in jail doing hard labor since his previous movie made “Kazakhstan” an embarrassment worldwide and the fat fuck who’s balls were rubbed in his face in part 1 has allegedly been killed and made into a sofa with his dick on the seat.
Trump’s presidency now represents the ideals of the great nation of “Kazakhstan” so he’s released and put on a mission to present a monkey, which is also “Kazakhstan’s” Minister of Culture, as a gift to VP Mike Pence but his 15 year old(played by a 25 year old) daughter eats it so he decides to give her to him instead.
It’s less interesting than it actually sounds.
The Guliani scene is very obviously faked and I did a long write-up in another thread detailing how they did it which I’m not gonna repost here so just take my word for it please ok lol?
The unexpected development of the relationship between Borat and his daughter saves it, though and the actress playing her does an amazing job so perhaps they intentionally sacrificed authenticity for character development.
However, it’s not enough to sustain a movie like this. If this was a real movie it would be a pile of crap.
Warning to Trump fans: Expect a lot of Trump bashing.
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Funny and informative Katee Sackhoff “reviewing” Halloween: Resurrection (2002) (she’s in it):
I would be 80%+ reacting like Katee, which is why I don’t watch horror movies @dt79
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She looks a cross between Kathy Baker(Pickett Fences) and Jennifer Carpenter.
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I think I did some kind of self reflection the past month and came to the conclusion that my obsession with horror stems from reading some gory story in the Catholic version of the Old Testament.
Google Brittany Murphy, literally doppelgangers (KS mentions this in video).
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Removed thread link out of respect for sticking to the intended subject.