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Scipio

#15045
December 23, 2013, 08:27:05 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on December 23, 2013, 02:45:16 AM
I'm watching Black Hawk Down on Netflix, and I have a question.  In the big hanger where all the soldiers hang out, they are having a pig barbecue, and a captain catches a Delta Force guy wandering around the hanger with his gun out with the safety off.  The captain tells the soldier put the safety on, and the solider just blows him off.  Is that the way it really works?  Do soldiers just go to eat at the mess with their guns out and the safety off?  When a captain tells an enlisted man to not do things like that, do the enlisted men just blow off the officers?
IIRC, that actually happened (according to the book). Delta also got a free pass from the commander.
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-Every cop, The Wire

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-John Hurt

Malthus

#15046
December 23, 2013, 11:02:28 AM
Saw the Desolation of Smaug the other day.

I enjoyed it, but less than I had hoped. Lots of changes from the book, mostly not for the better.

[spoiler] My biggest beef with the changes is that the lengthy sequence with the dragon chasing the dwarves and Bilbo around really ratcheted down the threat posed by said dragon.

How awesome and awful can Smaug be, if he can chase the dwarves about for a half hour and not even get one? Even when they are standing on his very lip?

Also, Smaug leaving to toast Lake-Town made no sense. The dwarves were standing right there at the end of the chase, having covered him with molten gold. Why not eat or flame them, the dwarves who are pissing him off? Is it that Smaug just accepts that they are too agile for him to get?

In the book, Smaug is unable to get at the dwarves directly, because he doesn't know exactly where they are - so he smashes up the mountainside where he thinks (rightly) the door may be, hopes that dealt with them - in any even he's eaten their transport so they are stuck there - and then flies off to smash lake town. [/spoiler]
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Capetan Mihali

#15047
December 23, 2013, 11:06:37 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on December 21, 2013, 02:38:48 AM
Turns out Suspiria is also on Youtube, but I had the DVD coming to me.  Never seen it, but am very much looking forward to it.  I hear that it's got a lot of production design. :o

Suspiria is awesome.
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The Brain

#15048
December 23, 2013, 11:07:00 AM
Quote from: Malthus on December 23, 2013, 11:02:28 AM
Saw the Desolation of Smaug the other day.

I enjoyed it, but less than I had hoped.

Ouch.
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Eddie Teach

#15049
December 23, 2013, 12:23:48 PM
Stander. South African cop robs banks. It was ok.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Capetan Mihali

#15050
December 23, 2013, 12:32:36 PM
Quote from: The Brain on December 23, 2013, 11:07:00 AM
Quote from: Malthus on December 23, 2013, 11:02:28 AM
Saw the Desolation of Smaug the other day.

I enjoyed it, but less than I had hoped.

Ouch.

He was hoping for the Desolation of Smug.  :Canuck:
"The internet's completely over. [...] The internet's like MTV. At one time MTV was hip and suddenly it became outdated. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you."
-- Prince, 2010. (R.I.P.)

Kleves

#15051
December 23, 2013, 02:53:53 PM
American Hustle. You will believe that choosing Amy Adams over Jennifer Lawrence is a rational decision.
My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

11B4V

#15052
December 23, 2013, 04:33:39 PM
Jack and the Beanstalk: D
"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—".

Admiral Yi

#15053
December 23, 2013, 04:35:22 PM
Oh come on.

Eddie Teach

#15054
December 23, 2013, 04:38:42 PM
Mickey and the Beanstalk was better.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

11B4V

#15055
December 23, 2013, 04:45:37 PM
"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—".

Admiral Yi

#15056
December 23, 2013, 04:46:13 PM
Takes backs.  I thought you said Jack the Giant Slayer.

11B4V

#15057
December 23, 2013, 04:50:16 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 23, 2013, 04:46:13 PM
Takes backs.  I thought you said Jack the Giant Slayer.

Ahh, that one was an F
"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—".

Sheilbh

#15058
December 23, 2013, 08:23:04 PM
Witchfinder General. One of my favourite horror films :wub:
Let's bomb Russia!

Queequeg

#15059
December 23, 2013, 08:31:47 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on December 23, 2013, 08:23:04 PM
Witchfinder General. One of my favourite horror films :wub:
Hilary Dwyer :wub:
Quote from: PDH on April 25, 2009, 05:58:55 PM
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