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#31

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Last post by Valmy - December 27, 2025, 01:18:32 AM

Joe Rogan is reachable, and by extension, the brosphere.

I don't know. He seems pretty audience captured by this point.

#32

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Last post by Josquius - December 27, 2025, 01:05:19 AM

Let's be realistic, I don't think Isis can be relied on to submit accurate casualty reports to the international press.

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From the reporting I've seen it hit an area where daesh don't really operate much.

#33

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Last post by Tamas - December 27, 2025, 12:42:11 AM

Let's be realistic, I don't think Isis can be relied on to submit accurate casualty reports to the international press.

#34

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Last post by DGuller - December 26, 2025, 11:59:20 PM

That one made laughed.  I just rewatched the movie, it helped.

You should post it in Youtube recommendations thread.

#35

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Last post by viper37 - December 26, 2025, 10:25:58 PM

 That one made laughed.  I just rewatched the movie, it helped.

#36

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by mongers - December 26, 2025, 10:01:25 PM

'An American Werewolf in London' - an near perfectly crafted horror film. Jenny Agutter, besides being a beautiful woman, she give a live-wire of a performance, possibly the best I've ever seen from a heroine in the genre.

Also Brian Glover gives a 1st rate Brian Glover performance. 

Odd to see Rick Mayall in pre-young ones bit-part role.

[It's not about greed or anything like that but simply being in an office/working for a company.]

#37

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by mongers - December 26, 2025, 09:57:00 PM

Sure - and she has a boss. She flagged the risk, they accepted it.

I think my view is similar to cc's but a little different in that I don't read it as a character flaw. I think why I like the film is that none of the characters' flaws actually matter - similarly there are no heroes. It's not about greed or anything like that but simply being in an office/working for a company.

I think there's several points in the film (including with her) where different characters note "didn't seem like much a choice" and that's the point in my view. You could be the most principled person in the world screaming about the risk a year before it hits and you'd have been fired a lot earlier, and you'd have lost your options and your healthcare etc. Similarly you could be the opposite (maybe the Penn Badgley character) and you'll still get fired. Everyone is doing their job, everyone's smart and doing it well - none of them exemplify anything, they are just in the system, working.

Why can't it be both?

#38

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Last post by Sophie Scholl - December 26, 2025, 09:11:42 PM

Apparently this attack killed nobody. Landed in empty fields bemusing the locals. Though I've also read it might have killed a camel. Clearly a very dangerous camel to demand a multi million dollar response.

Thus ended Joe Camel's comeback attempt. 

#39

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Admiral Yi - December 26, 2025, 09:09:25 PM

Is Tucci also working by chance?  Or is he doing the same job as Demi, but better?

Irons doesn't spot anything.  Sisko tells him something has been spotted and Irons believes him.

The General Counsel doesn't matter.  The dweeby risk guy doesn't matter.  Ironally, Demi doesn't matter.  Without those three you have the exact same movie. Every other character is indespensible. The bank doesn't do what it has to do without each of them.  They each have a superpower.

#40

Off the Record / Re: TV/Movies Megathread

Last post by Sheilbh - December 26, 2025, 08:08:13 PM

Yeah I just don't have that read. So on the flagging point the issue is that one year ago it was a risk but things looked fine and they'd make lots of mney so despite reservations (Spacey, Tucci, Moore) they go ahead. Irons - who is brilliant and I think quite a good leader - spots the music stopping in this film, I suspect twelve months prior he spotted it getting louder.

Similarly look at why Quinto flags it - chance. Tucci's working on something that doesn't quite add up and, because he's fired and because Quinto says something nice, he hands it over. Quinto is then very smart and works it out. But it's not a Moneyball thing of one guy cracking the code. As several characters point out - if he's worked this out it's only a matter of time before someone else for another firm does. Which again cuts to Irons: be smart, be first, or cheat (and they're first).

I get your point because I think the characters are really well portrayed and there is a drama to it. But my read is, as I say, that no-one really matters individually. It's sort of a thriller and the workplace, the office, the company is the antagonist.