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

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katmai

#28515
July 17, 2015, 06:45:45 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on July 17, 2015, 11:56:08 AM


Speaking of which, who's seeing Ant-Man? I'm terribly enthusiastic about it.

Just got back from it. I am fan of Paul Rudd, and Michael Pena is one of my favorite actors.
First impressions overall i liked it, but still wish we could have seen Edgar Wright take on the subject.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

katmai

#28516
July 17, 2015, 06:47:39 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on July 17, 2015, 05:10:47 PM
Adults who enjoy superhero movies(and comics) should be watched as potential pedos.
She told me she was 18!
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Eddie Teach

#28517
July 17, 2015, 09:52:02 PM
Iron Sky. Rather more anti-Americanism than necessary for a movie about Nazis on the moon.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

#28518
July 17, 2015, 10:15:23 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 17, 2015, 06:16:16 PM
Next thing I'll tell you I've never read any of Cicero's works.

You don't have to have read the Xenophon to know about the Anabasis.  It's one of the most famous military campaigns in history.
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

Eddie Teach

#28519
July 17, 2015, 10:21:38 PM Last Edit: July 17, 2015, 10:24:30 PM by Peter Wiggin
Tell you what, you go ask 100 people on the street what the Anabasis is and if 5 of them correctly* identify it, I'll read it.  :sleep:

*without googling it on their phones first
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

#28520
July 17, 2015, 10:29:23 PM
Okay, but I'll the pick the street.
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

frunk

#28521
July 17, 2015, 10:51:33 PM
An Honest Liar, a documentary on the Amazing Randi, magician/escape artist/debunker.  More entertaining than I expected.  I was surprised that they got interviews with Uri Geller and Peter Popoff, although I suppose they operate under the "no bad publicity" theory.

Duque de Bragança

#28522
July 17, 2015, 11:55:54 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 17, 2015, 04:42:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 17, 2015, 04:41:21 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 17, 2015, 11:18:42 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 16, 2015, 10:20:05 PM
The Warriors. Dumb, forgettable movie. If you've seen the taunt by Big Chin Sean Penn lookalike and the baseball/KISS crossover gang uniform, there's no need to see the rest.

The film's deranged larger-than-life depiction of 70s gang life is pretty damn fun, imho. It's my favorite Manhattan-set adaptation of a Greek classic.

Cyrus' speech at the beginning is also a highlight.

Which Greek classic do you mean?

The Anabasis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)

The new cut has some comic transition scenes so you know it's the Anabasis in any case. A bit clumsy and altering the pace of the movie according to some critics.

celedhring

#28523
July 18, 2015, 01:55:36 AM
Quote from: Duque de Bragança on July 17, 2015, 11:55:54 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 17, 2015, 04:42:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 17, 2015, 04:41:21 PM
Quote from: celedhring on July 17, 2015, 11:18:42 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 16, 2015, 10:20:05 PM
The Warriors. Dumb, forgettable movie. If you've seen the taunt by Big Chin Sean Penn lookalike and the baseball/KISS crossover gang uniform, there's no need to see the rest.

The film's deranged larger-than-life depiction of 70s gang life is pretty damn fun, imho. It's my favorite Manhattan-set adaptation of a Greek classic.

Cyrus' speech at the beginning is also a highlight.

Which Greek classic do you mean?

The Anabasis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabasis_(Xenophon)

The new cut has some comic transition scenes so you know it's the Anabasis in any case. A bit clumsy and altering the pace of the movie according to some critics.

Wasn't aware of that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqmAHGPRaYU

Yeah, it looks pretty jarring.

lustindarkness

#28524
July 18, 2015, 09:23:40 AM
Hmm, I had no idea they fucked with that movie.
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

lustindarkness

#28525
July 18, 2015, 12:43:38 PM
I read a good novel version of the Anabasis, The Ten Thousand maybe?
Grand Duke of Lurkdom

Josquius

#28526
July 18, 2015, 02:00:48 PM
Punch Drunk Love- What is this? Such a discordant mess. Even the music hurts my head.
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Habbaku

#28527
July 18, 2015, 03:25:00 PM
Quote from: Tyr on July 18, 2015, 02:00:48 PM
Punch Drunk Love- What is this? Such a discordant mess. Even the music hurts my head.

:rolleyes:
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

11B4V

#28528
July 18, 2015, 04:01:46 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on July 18, 2015, 03:25:00 PM
Quote from: Tyr on July 18, 2015, 02:00:48 PM
Punch Drunk Love- What is this? Such a discordant mess. Even the music hurts my head.

:rolleyes:

Damn dude (tyre) that is a good movie.
"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—".

Eddie Teach

#28529
July 18, 2015, 04:45:43 PM
How good can it really be, with Adam Sandler in the lead? :contract:
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?
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