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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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jimmy olsen

#38925
February 18, 2018, 06:59:53 PM
Saw Black Panther with my wife yesterday. It was really good. Killmonger is defintely one of the best Marvel villains, up there with Loki and the Vulture.
It is far better for the truth to tear my flesh to pieces, then for my soul to wander through darkness in eternal damnation.

Jet: So what kind of woman is she? What's Julia like?
Faye: Ordinary. The kind of beautiful, dangerous ordinary that you just can't leave alone.
Jet: I see.
Faye: Like an angel from the underworld. Or a devil from Paradise.
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Josquius

#38926
February 18, 2018, 07:00:51 PM
Finished Altered Carbon.
Yes. It's very good.
What's with the bed press I've heard about it?
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Grey Fox

#38927
February 18, 2018, 07:26:57 PM
It is apparently very far from the book.
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

mongers

#38928
February 18, 2018, 07:42:47 PM
Is 'Homeland' worth watching, as I caught the start of series 7 and am undecided; maybe I've missed too much already?  :D
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

#38929
February 18, 2018, 07:51:05 PM
:mellow:
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#38930
February 18, 2018, 08:07:52 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2018, 07:42:47 PM
Is 'Homeland' worth watching, as I caught the start of series 7 and am undecided; maybe I've missed too much already?  :D

I've seen seasons 3-5 which were pretty exciting. Kind of like a more realistic 24.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

11B4V

#38931
February 18, 2018, 08:13:29 PM Last Edit: February 18, 2018, 08:15:59 PM by 11B4V
Magnificent Seven (Assburger Version): C- meh.

All white boys die in the end. Minorities survive.
"there's a long tradition of insulting people we disagree with here, and I'll be damned if I listen to your entreaties otherwise."-OVB

"Obviously not a Berkut-commanded armored column.  They're not all brewing."- CdM

"We've reached one of our phase lines after the firefight and it smells bad—meaning it's a little bit suspicious... Could be an amb—".

mongers

#38932
February 18, 2018, 09:57:53 PM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 18, 2018, 08:07:52 PM
Quote from: mongers on February 18, 2018, 07:42:47 PM
Is 'Homeland' worth watching, as I caught the start of series 7 and am undecided; maybe I've missed too much already?  :D

I've seen seasons 3-5 which were pretty exciting. Kind of like a more realistic 24.

Thanks for that. :cheers:

I'll try watching a bit more and reading wiki for the back story ie seasons 1-6.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Razgovory

#38933
February 18, 2018, 10:04:16 PM
Showtime started a cartoon about Donald Trump.  Essentially he's Homer Simpson which means he's a kinder, more articulate, more coherent, more intelligent and more sympathetic version of Donald Trump.  Also, he sound like Fred Flintstone. 

Take this line:   "Each and every one of you voted for me, and the ones who didn't, you kinda wanted to see what would happen."

I don't think the real Donald Trump is that self-aware.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

mongers

#38934
February 18, 2018, 10:09:19 PM Last Edit: February 18, 2018, 10:12:57 PM by mongers
Quote from: Razgovory on February 18, 2018, 10:04:16 PM

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I don't think the real Donald Trump is that self-aware.

Yeah, he is his own cartoon.


As drawn by Gerald Scrafe:

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

garbon

#38935
February 19, 2018, 03:18:05 AM
So apparently a segment of the online universe has turned to the position that Black Panther 'isn't a movie about race' and 'would have been just as great with a white cast.'
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#38936
February 19, 2018, 03:23:23 AM
There are plenty of good superhero movies with mostly white casts. Does Black Panther ignore the formula?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

garbon

#38937
February 19, 2018, 03:49:40 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on February 19, 2018, 03:23:23 AM
There are plenty of good superhero movies with mostly white casts. Does Black Panther ignore the formula?

It would need substantial edits to make it suitable for a majority white cast. Race is always swirling around whenever the Wakandans talk about the wider world.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Savonarola

#38938
February 21, 2018, 08:57:57 AM
Blade! Runner 2049 (2017)

The movie was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

The film is visually stunning, despite its limited color palette (not even 50 Shades of Grey had this much grey.)  The story, on the other hand... well, the first two hours are a drawn out noir mystery, which also is a meditative reflection on what it means to be human; then Harrison Ford shows up and the film turns into a pulse pounding action thriller, and then the special effects budget runs out and the film ends.

:P ;)

I assume they're planning a sequel to this film; (not that they really ended it with almost everything unresolved due to running out of special effects.)  Even so the first two thirds of the film seem drawn out; and the final third rushed.  It's watchable; but nowhere near as good as the original.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

Gups

#38939
February 21, 2018, 10:05:12 AM
Part way through season 2 (of 4) Halt and Catch Fire set in the world of early home computing and the start of the popularity of the internet/forums. It's pretty good, if a it formulaic (there is a crisis every week). It's not well known here for some reason.

In other news Gomorrah Season 3 is fucking awesome. Lighting and photography is spectacular. Up there in the top 10 of all time list.
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