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[Eddie Teach]

After the battle is over. She probably didn't pick up the sword at Walmart.

[Habbaku]

I'm sure she sharpens it when you're not looking.

In the few seconds where the camera cuts away between her chopping off 5 zombies heads and cutting another in half just after smashing open a chain?

Swords don't instantly go dull after use... You use kitchen knives, right?  How many vegetables have you chopped up without sharpening one?

[viper37]

Do you know how many bullets there are in the US of A?

a lot, certainly.  But as I said, there is a limit to where you can get it, and other people may have gotten there.
Look at medications.  There is certainly tons of medication in all of the USA.  Yet, they say they cleaned up the area of medication, and others before them.

I figured, eventually, something like this might happen with bullets.

[viper37]

Something interesting almost happened on Agents of SHIELD this week (the show is just barely holding in the "something to have playing in the background while I play EU3" category) but they didn't even have it in them to kill off Blandy MacScot Girl (not to be confused with Blandy MacScot Guy or Bland Hacker Girl or Bland Agent Guy or Bland Asian Agent Girl).

Yeah, I thought she was a gonner.  I think it still turned well, but it would have been much more dramatic if they couldn't rescue her.  It seems targetted at teenagers rather than adults.

[Josquius]

I'm sure she sharpens it when you're not looking.

In the few seconds where the camera cuts away between her chopping off 5 zombies heads and cutting another in half just after smashing open a chain?

Swords don't instantly go dull after use... You use kitchen knives, right?  How many vegetables have you chopped up without sharpening one?

Cutting a human in two is a bit more difficult. It strikes me as doubtful it could be done so often and so easily with a katana.

[Eddie Teach]

They are decaying.

[jimmy olsen]

I'm sure she sharpens it when you're not looking.

In the few seconds where the camera cuts away between her chopping off 5 zombies heads and cutting another in half just after smashing open a chain?

Swords don't instantly go dull after use... You use kitchen knives, right?  How many vegetables have you chopped up without sharpening one?

Cutting a human in two is a bit more difficult. It strikes me as doubtful it could be done so often and so easily with a katana.

I'd imagine a modern high end katana produced by a machine shop or whatever would be a lot better than the ones made by medieval japan.

[Eddie Teach]

Even the medieval ones usually could last through a battle.

[Josquius]

Even the medieval ones usually could last through a battle.

Not with such epic beheading skills though.

I'd imagine a modern high end katana produced by a machine shop or whatever would be a lot better than the ones made by medieval japan.

I guess so. Maybe all the criticisms I've read were based on the real thing.

[Ideologue]

For Ide:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray-Disc-DVD-Special-Editions/379003202

50% off on the Criterion Collection

I want Rashomon and Things to Come and The Blob and Videodrome and Paths of Glory (the one real/non-Fear and Desire Kubrick movie I don't own). 

I'm also tempted by the Zatoichi set because that's actually a legitimately good price rather than simply being cheap for Criterion, though I'm unsure if I would even like those movies (the one film I've seen, Incident at Blood Pass, starring the actor who plays Zatoichi, Shintaro Katsu, is pretty awful).

[Kleves]

Anyone seen Arrow? I watched the first couple of episodes and it seemed kind of meh. Does it get better?

[jimmy olsen]

I'd imagine a modern high end katana produced by a machine shop or whatever would be a lot better than the ones made by medieval japan.

I guess so. Maybe all the criticisms I've read were based on the real thing.

The high level of craftsmanship was necessary because of the poor quality iron Japan had. Not a problem with a high quality modern sword which would be better than Damascus steel.

[viper37]

Btw, "shield", is that a British thing that it's sometimes pronounced like "tch-ield" ?

[Sheilbh]

Btw, "shield", is that a British thing that it's sometimes pronounced like "tch-ield" ?

....No

[Savonarola]

The Ocean Waif (1916)

An orphaned girl is raised by a violent, drunken man and a halfwit hunchback.  She runs away from home after a particularly abusive episode and squats in a nearby abandoned mansion.  Meanwhile a novelist traveling at sea is just given word that his novel has sold 300,000 copies and must immediately start writing his next novel.  He disembarks and rents a nearby abandoned mansion.  Hilarity ensues.

This is a paint-by-numbers rom-com by one of the first female directors, Alice Guy.  This was just about at the end of her career.  She refused to move to the west coast when the film industry moved there; and instead returned to France to lecture on film and to be forgotten.  The only surviving print is in pretty rough shape with missing scenes or severely decayed film.

The high point of the film is when the now dolled up waif returns home after the obligatory romantic misunderstanding.  Her foster father says in the title card:  "She's a slick looking girl and I ain't her father."    Hilarity ensues.