Crazy is undefeated.
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People who sayā¦ oh yeah! iāll give a hand or Iāll help you, and then when itās time, they are conveniently silent.
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The piping from my propane tank to my house is not buried to codeā¦ Fml.
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9-10ā short on depth?
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Ya, at least.
This chick really needs to shut up. With her looks and acting ability, I donāt believe she would be able to get a lead role in any movie in any Asian country with a predominantly Chinese population today.
The Great Wall starred Matt Damon because the China market wanted to see Matt Damon starring in a Chinese movie. The Martian was a surprise hit there for some reason. If the lead was meant to be a Chinese, the role would have gone to a China actor.
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Adrien Brody and John Cusak starred in major supporting roles.
Get it?
The Ghost in the Shell remake was too dumb to be offensive. It literally went full retard at the end.
Twas a pg13 remake of an original awesome, deep cartoon aimed at adults. Hollywood has been dumbing down remakes and live action film adaptations for a while now, and it pisses me off, when a film is toned down to become pg13 the whole world suffers. In Aus we have G PG M Ma15+ R18+. M is the equivalent of pg13 but allows tits, drugs, profanity etc which isnāt important, however some films need to be more mature with regards to their content in order to get their points across. NO one wants to see pg13 Aeon flux, no one wants to see PG13 aliens (AvP), terminator, max Payne, die hard, expendables, suicide squad etc. Tom Hardyās venom, after being filmed and scripted as an R rated film, is now on track to getting a Pg13. The original suicide squad comics had imagery like this
This kind of stuff was fairly common in the suicide squad comics, therefore people who actually read the comics or watch the original expect a faithful adaptation, what we got was an extremely toned down, shitty movie. Other films that shouldāve been R, but movie studious were too pussy to do itā¦ I love you Beth Cooper comes to mind, seriously what the FUCK happened there! Directors these days get their movie budgets CUT if they decide to go R. The decision to possibly cut venom is terrible, it has been shown time and time again mature superhero movies can do very well, kickass, deadpool, watchmen, all the Marvel Netflix seriesās. The same goes with remakes of original, critically acclaimed foreign films, mature films donāt need a pg13 remake. some films do better as pg13, the style just doesnāt fit some films, however Hollywood needs to stop neutering films with otherwise great potential. TAKEN was a film about sex trafficking for Godās sake, in what idiots mind was it a good idea to make that pg13.
American cinema also seems to demonize sexual content moreso than violence, graitutious violence is able to be shown as long as it is in the absence of bloodletting or excess gore, but a single female nipple or simulated sex scene is an automatic age restricted, 17+. Iāve never understood that, when one turns 17, like 99 percent of kids have never seen any kind of serious violence up close, yet how many 16 year Olds have actually had sexā¦ quite a lot, Yet they a female nipple or male penis is too jarring for their fragile young minds. It really pisses me off when Hollywood neuters films like ghost in the shell, so much so that I donāt see them and I encourage others thinking of watching said films not to spend their money on them.
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The degree to which something should be considered obscene does not logically correlate (or anticorrelate) with the commonness or likelihood that viewers have encountered that thing in their real lives. Nudity, sex, bowel movements, and urination are altogether natural and common in the lives of normal people. Crude humor and violence are not altogether uncommon for many people. On the other hand, interstellar space travel, talking bears, unicorns, and historical settings are not actually part of common life, yet make great fodder for movies.
Iām not arguing that violence shouldnāt be taken more seriously by the motion picture industry. But your logic for comparing sex and violence is flawed.
Iāve recently hired a retired Texas Ranger (no, not Chuck Norris, but he is pretty darn grizzled and tough) to work security for our company. Everything from drug tests, to drug searches on location, to theft of yellow equipment (or whatever ā some assholes stole boxes of nuts & bolts that cost ~$100K), to vendor or customer audits (where he works with an accountant), to security/anti-theft/vandalism measures.
Heās constantly says heās relieved to have a consistent āvictimā (i.e., the company) that has its shit together and is not āalso a criminalā like 95% of the āvictimsā he dealt with. He says itās a most refreshing change and has improved his outlook on life.
(We got our bolts back, BTW. Three guys loaded a truckload of 50lb boxes, by hand, in a couple of hours. If they werenāt meth heads, I would totally hire them. Hard workers.)
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Sometimes Iām in awe of the lengths people will go to steal. At one place I was at a guy tried to steal a bunch of 50ft.welding leads by wrapping them around his body and wearing thick clothing over top.
He passed out from the heat on his way to the parking lot.
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We had a guy try and smuggle VIM refined Tantalum $180/lb out in his lunchbox over the course of a few months. He went to sell roughly 50lbs to a local scrapper. Thereās basically one company that makes that product in the US and they sell to roughly 3 customers.
What he didnāt know was that thereās a nationwide system that sales of those metals go through. Easiest arrest ever.
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And Iām like āif you just worked this hard at your job, you wouldnāt need to steal!ā.
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Similar scenario; we had them on video and a plate number on the truck, but the way we got them is they took the connections to the connection guy ā who sold them to us. The serial numbers were still on the boxes. He called me, then called the cops.
My guy had the report, with video, all ready for his DPS buddies on a flash drive ready.
Then we all are burritos.
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Iāve worked with, and told many fools that āIf you just put 20% of the effort and ingenuity you use in getting out of work actually doing your job you would be one hell of an employee.ā
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We use that on glass lined tank patches we have to pay out the ass for, seems to be chemically bomb proof. What do you see it on?
Iām kind of wondering now if we have mechanics leaving with old patchesā¦
Itās an alloy that goes into jet and rocket engine parts. Think: GE, Rolls Royce, Space-X etcā¦
The VIM refined stuff is 99.999% pure like most alloys that go into turbine blades. An inclusion just a couple micrometers across in the metal can cause catastrophic turbine failures. No good.
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I got 99 problems but crack propagation due to undesirable crystaline structure caused by contaminants aināt one.
There just isnāt really any way to make that sound cool, is there?
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The facility where we made metal for NASA had banned normal pens because the ball in an ink pen is made of tungsten.
We had 1,000lb drums full of tungsten in the RM area. Regs man.
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Some dumb welder dipped his electrode one freaking time too many, and BAM! No more tungsten!
I get it though. Iāve worked in a 100% traceability environment. We used to have to shrink wrap the stainless to prevent ferritic contamination.
Then slap the plates up on the same plasma table used for everything else!
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