I don’t think anyone ever said this one, I was watching Alien 2 this week and I remembered this.
The stereotypical Mexican/Latina tough-girl that has more testosterone in a strand of hair than all the guys in the movie. There’s ALWAYS a chick like this. Just look at most movies with Michelle Rodriguez.
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I don’t think anyone ever said this one, I was watching Alien 2 this week and I remembered this.
The stereotypical Mexican/Latina tough-girl that has more testosterone in a strand of hair than all the guys in the movie. There’s ALWAYS a chick like this. Just look at most movies with Michelle Rodriguez.[/quote]
Ugh. I hate that too. Also ANY film which shows an attractive THIN woman kicking a guy’s ass with martial arts AND great feats of strength (like tossing a dude across a room), AFTER she gets punched in the face.
That scene in “Live Free or Die Hard” is one example.
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The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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You’d also probably make squeaky sounds if a giant started squshing you with a paintbrush the size of a palm tree dripping with hot pink acrylic paint.
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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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You’d also probably make squeaky sounds if a giant started squshing you with a paintbrush the size of a palm tree dripping with hot pink acrylic paint.[/quote]
lol
At the time I WAS using acrylic hot pink and similar colors.
Wait… do I know you?
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]Cuso wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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You’d also probably make squeaky sounds if a giant started squshing you with a paintbrush the size of a palm tree dripping with hot pink acrylic paint.[/quote]
lol
At the time I WAS using acrylic hot pink and similar colors.
Wait… do I know you?
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Still can’t get that crap off my back.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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That sounds almost Kafkaesque
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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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That sounds almost Kafkaesque[/quote]
Don’t get me started on Kafka! One of my favorites of all time is The Metamorphosis. There isn’t a movie director in the world that could pull it off convincingly and with the subtle and varied emotional content intact without a trace of irony or kitsch - Tim Burton need not even try.
Maybe, just MAYBE David Lynch.
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…you just don’t get it, do you?..[/quote]
LOL!
Funny thing is, I’ve NEVER said that in my life, nor do I recall hearing anyone else actually say it either.
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I don’t think anyone ever said this one, I was watching Alien 2 this week and I remembered this.
The stereotypical Mexican/Latina tough-girl that has more testosterone in a strand of hair than all the guys in the movie. There’s ALWAYS a chick like this. Just look at most movies with Michelle Rodriguez.[/quote]
Hey, hey, hey. That movie was one of the first to do that. Remember, before Ripley, women weren’t ever considered to be “action heroes”. It was “new” to see a chick like that (let alone one IN THE MARINES) when that movie was made.
You can’t blame the original for being trite just because others copied it. Before movies like that, women just tripped over their heals and got eaten in horror movies.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
…you just don’t get it, do you?..[/quote]
Funny thing is, I’ve NEVER said that in my life, nor do I recall hearing anyone else actually say it either.[/quote]
I pretty much like every scene Scott and Dr. Evil are in.
Scotty Don’t!
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I don’t think anyone ever said this one, I was watching Alien 2 this week and I remembered this.
The stereotypical Mexican/Latina tough-girl that has more testosterone in a strand of hair than all the guys in the movie. There’s ALWAYS a chick like this. Just look at most movies with Michelle Rodriguez.[/quote]
Hey, hey, hey. That movie was one of the first to do that. Remember, before Ripley, women weren’t ever considered to be “action heroes”. It was “new” to see a chick like that (let alone one IN THE MARINES) when that movie was made.
You can’t blame the original for being trite just because others copied it. Before movies like that, women just tripped over their heals and got eaten in horror movies.[/quote]
I believe he is referring to Vasquez the tough latin chick. Not Ripley who yes you are correct was a new thing in movies.
[quote]punchedbear wrote:
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I don’t think anyone ever said this one, I was watching Alien 2 this week and I remembered this.
The stereotypical Mexican/Latina tough-girl that has more testosterone in a strand of hair than all the guys in the movie. There’s ALWAYS a chick like this. Just look at most movies with Michelle Rodriguez.[/quote]
Hey, hey, hey. That movie was one of the first to do that. Remember, before Ripley, women weren’t ever considered to be “action heroes”. It was “new” to see a chick like that (let alone one IN THE MARINES) when that movie was made.
You can’t blame the original for being trite just because others copied it. Before movies like that, women just tripped over their heals and got eaten in horror movies.[/quote]
I believe he is referring to Vasquez the tough latin chick. Not Ripley who yes you are correct was a new thing in movies.[/quote]
I know…same with her. Ripley wasn’t in the Marines so I was referring to Vasquez. This was before “GI Jane” and before women were seen as equals in the military like they are now. There were very few “manly” women in movies before Aliens without it being a big joke.
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
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That sounds almost Kafkaesque[/quote]
Don’t get me started on Kafka! One of my favorites of all time is The Metamorphosis. There isn’t a movie director in the world that could pull it off convincingly and with the subtle and varied emotional content intact without a trace of irony or kitsch - Tim Burton need not even try.
Maybe, just MAYBE David Lynch.
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Sorry to say this, but HH is also a fan of The Metamorphosis. During one of our encounters, he called me “his cockroach”, probably because I was hounding him and his personas like a bastard at the time.
Just to make sure that the reference wasn’t lost on me, he kindly provided a wikipedia link to the plot synopsis. That’s kind of like insulting someone, giving them a book to read so they could understand the insult and making them agree to return to the same place in a few days, just so he could see how cutting the insult was.
Nice to know that he has a soft spot for the culturally challenged peons…you’d swear he’s the only guy who ever broke open a book.
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
The squealing noise that insects make when they get burned or stepped on. [/quote]
Haha! True.
However, years ago I found a strange beetle in my hallway at home. It was moving quickly and looked a bit aggressive. I was holding a paintbrush at the time and pressed the bug with the bristles… and the damn bug actually made a raspy squeaking sound over and over!
[/quote]
That sounds almost Kafkaesque[/quote]
Don’t get me started on Kafka! One of my favorites of all time is The Metamorphosis. There isn’t a movie director in the world that could pull it off convincingly and with the subtle and varied emotional content intact without a trace of irony or kitsch - Tim Burton need not even try.
Maybe, just MAYBE David Lynch.
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Sorry to say this, but HH is also a fan of The Metamorphosis. During one of our encounters, he called me “his cockroach”, probably because I was hounding him and his personas like a bastard at the time.
Just to make sure that the reference wasn’t lost on me, he kindly provided a wikipedia link to the plot synopsis. That’s kind of like insulting someone, giving them a book to read so they could understand the insult and making them agree to return to the same place in a few days, just so he could see how cutting the insult was.
Nice to know that he has a soft spot for the culturally challenged peons…you’d swear he’s the only guy who ever broke open a book. [/quote]
Thanks Roy. My day was going SO well up until now.
lol
[quote]Professor X wrote:
[quote]DeltaOne wrote:
I don’t think anyone ever said this one, I was watching Alien 2 this week and I remembered this.
The stereotypical Mexican/Latina tough-girl that has more testosterone in a strand of hair than all the guys in the movie. There’s ALWAYS a chick like this. Just look at most movies with Michelle Rodriguez.[/quote]
Hey, hey, hey. That movie was one of the first to do that. Remember, before Ripley, women weren’t ever considered to be “action heroes”. It was “new” to see a chick like that (let alone one IN THE MARINES) when that movie was made.
You can’t blame the original for being trite just because others copied it. Before movies like that, women just tripped over their heals and got eaten in horror movies.[/quote]
I wasn’t referring to Ripley, just a note though, in the first movie ( where she was hot as fuck may I add ) she still was portrayed as the crying desperate female, except she blew the xenomorph with the shuttle’s engine instead of dying ( and Scott revealed the original plan was to end the movie with the xenomorph killing Ripley )
I don’t have a problem with the movie since it was the first one to use the idea. But I dislike how every action flick has been recycling that kind of character at every chance given. It’s always an angry and hot Latina girl that is supposed to be tough-as-nails but in the end becomes cannon folder or dies, it’s either that or a very serious asian girl that whoops everyone’s ass with her super martial arts but still dies in a silly fashion at the mid point of the movie.
And I’m not complaining about women being portrayed in positions of power, is just the overuse and constant recycling of the character I wrote above and the bad acting involved.
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Tom Cruise managing to fit his vacation activities into his movies, especially the Mission Impossibles: rock climbing at the start of MI:2 and monkeying around at the top of the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol.
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In the same vein, I hated that Robert Downey Jr. shoe-horned Wing Chun into Sherlok Homles. Sherlock Holmes did not do fucking Wing Chun.[/quote]
There was a Victorian-era martial art called Bartitsu which was used by English gents and incorporated walking stick self-defense - probably an off shoot of Savate. That’s kind of the reasoning behind why they made Holmes a fighter. Plus, it wasn’t all on RDJ: Guy Ritchie is a high ranking Karate black belt. [/quote]
The fact that Holmes used Bartitsu is what pisses me off about Downey doing the Chun. The striking in Bartitsu is derived from boxing. I was a fan of the old black and white Sherlock Holmes movies as a kid, and Holmes would regularly box it out with villans. I’m more forgiving of Downey’s sloppy arm bar in the first one than those goofy arm punches.[/quote]
I dunno. I don’t want to read too much into Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies as they’re ostensibly a modern buddy movie wrapped in period clothing, but I think the implication is that Holmes’ eclectic fighting style is one way of showing how well-travelled he is. Like all that crap in his house. [/quote]
The fact that they’re just a modern budy movie is what annoys me about them. They replaced all the deductive reasoning Holmes is famous for with kung fu. Not to mention they pushed back the period it was set in to have that tired and predictable WWI plot line.[/quote]
In other words, you don’t like Ritchie’s take on Sherlock Holmes, period. You could’ve just said that instead of engaging me in a pointless, protracted back and forth where I bring up an aspect of the movies and you say that’s the fact that annoys you about 'em…[/quote]
lol, you’re right.
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
[quote]Razamataz wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Tom Cruise managing to fit his vacation activities into his movies, especially the Mission Impossibles: rock climbing at the start of MI:2 and monkeying around at the top of the Burj Khalifa in Ghost Protocol.
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In the same vein, I hated that Robert Downey Jr. shoe-horned Wing Chun into Sherlok Homles. Sherlock Holmes did not do fucking Wing Chun.[/quote]
There was a Victorian-era martial art called Bartitsu which was used by English gents and incorporated walking stick self-defense - probably an off shoot of Savate. That’s kind of the reasoning behind why they made Holmes a fighter. Plus, it wasn’t all on RDJ: Guy Ritchie is a high ranking Karate black belt. [/quote]
The fact that Holmes used Bartitsu is what pisses me off about Downey doing the Chun. The striking in Bartitsu is derived from boxing. I was a fan of the old black and white Sherlock Holmes movies as a kid, and Holmes would regularly box it out with villans. I’m more forgiving of Downey’s sloppy arm bar in the first one than those goofy arm punches.[/quote]
I dunno. I don’t want to read too much into Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies as they’re ostensibly a modern buddy movie wrapped in period clothing, but I think the implication is that Holmes’ eclectic fighting style is one way of showing how well-travelled he is. Like all that crap in his house. [/quote]
The fact that they’re just a modern budy movie is what annoys me about them. They replaced all the deductive reasoning Holmes is famous for with kung fu. Not to mention they pushed back the period it was set in to have that tired and predictable WWI plot line.[/quote]
In other words, you don’t like Ritchie’s take on Sherlock Holmes, period. You could’ve just said that instead of engaging me in a pointless, protracted back and forth where I bring up an aspect of the movies and you say that’s the fact that annoys you about 'em…[/quote]
lol, you’re right.[/quote]
Fair enough. I’m not a fan of them, either tbh.