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

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Ideologue

Finally watched Kick-Ass.  It's actually pretty great, although the jetpack was pretty ridiculous.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Viking

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The Boss - Kelsey Grammar as morally grey dying mayor of Chicago, conveniently set to die in 3-5 years (for the show, not himself). I seems well made, well written. I see much promise.

Edit: Just in case there is any doubt Pornoholic Kelsey Grammar had some input in the wardrobe department...



Either that or Vivid entertainment provided the costumes.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Ideologue

I'm pretty sure people wear that outside of porn.
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Viking

Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2011, 06:54:23 AM
I'm pretty sure people wear that outside of porn.

Yes, outside the pron studio when they are taking a smoke break.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Ideologue

Quote from: Viking on October 15, 2011, 07:02:39 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2011, 06:54:23 AM
I'm pretty sure people wear that outside of porn.

Yes, outside the pron studio when they are taking a smoke break.

I've seen people wearing similar clothing.  Not at my porn studio.
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Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Viking

Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2011, 07:30:51 AM
Quote from: Viking on October 15, 2011, 07:02:39 AM
Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2011, 06:54:23 AM
I'm pretty sure people wear that outside of porn.

Yes, outside the pron studio when they are taking a smoke break.

I've seen people wearing similar clothing.  Not at my porn studio.

You should invite Caliga round to your porn studio, he might enjoy it. Though you might want to work on your porn literacy if you have a pron studio.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Zoupa

That's just a regular she-suit, dude.  :mellow: The woman happens to be attractive, that's all.

Neil

Viking's a little off on this one.
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Quote from: Ideologue on October 15, 2011, 05:15:58 AM
Finally watched Kick-Ass.  It's actually pretty great, although the jetpack was pretty ridiculous.
I believe jetpacks are obtainable.
PDH!

garbon

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HVC

Walking dead Season premier was slow. although i was not seeing that ending. From the kids expression i thought he was going to go all crazy.
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Tonitrus

Quote from: HVC on October 16, 2011, 09:39:36 PM
Walking dead Season premier was slow. although i was not seeing that ending. From the kids expression i thought he was going to go all crazy.

I thought it was alright.  Could have easily been far worse.

Habbaku

The Walking Dead premiere was rather unimpressive, but not bad, per se.  Judging by how the episode ended, they're headed off to Hershel's farm in the next episode.  I thought they spent entirely too much time hunting for the little girl for relatively little dramatic payoff.
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.

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Josquius

Walking Dead- I'm unfamiliar with the comic and only have regular zombie law to go on but....that one that walked into the motorhome was way too aware and actively hunting. Weird. They were quite agile jumping over the fence after the little girl too.
And why did the hillbillie put his arm in front of the zombie before stabbing it? eww to the body kissing. heh.
Zombies in church was just odd. Though kinda consistant I guess with Romero stuff.
The ending was out of nowhere and quite unrelated.
Overall it was thoroughly meh. Just looking for the girl and failing.

It seems to me with WD they're trying to do something cheap and cheerful.
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Viking

Quote from: Tyr on October 17, 2011, 07:03:13 AM
Walking Dead- I'm unfamiliar with the comic and only have regular zombie law to go on but....that one that walked into the motorhome was way too aware and actively hunting. Weird. They were quite agile jumping over the fence after the little girl too.
And why did the hillbillie put his arm in front of the zombie before stabbing it? eww to the body kissing. heh.
Zombies in church was just odd. Though kinda consistant I guess with Romero stuff.
The ending was out of nowhere and quite unrelated.
Overall it was thoroughly meh. Just looking for the girl and failing.

It seems to me with WD they're trying to do something cheap and cheerful.

Walking dead zombies are like romero zombies who operate on instinct but they have some degree of trainability and possibly some level of memory. There are examples of tame zombies who have been acclimatized to an "owner" and held on a leash, but there is an example of the opposite. It does need to be said, however, that no zombie in the comic has displayed the level of apparent intelligence that was shown by the zombie in the RV. 

The comic does focus a lot on keeping silent and not using guns. They do like their melee weapons.

I can appreciate that for TV they can make the zombies more threatening and dangerous for some drama every episode. A little girl freaking out and running is not in the too stupid to live class, but letting ben tag along was; you'd think the kid was freaked out as well and followed his well armed daddy's instructions to the letter. There have been significant plot deviations from the comic, I'm fine with that since it means they can highlight characters that work and kill off characters that don't as well as keeping me guessing.

The plot in this episode was a bit contrived, but still not a challenge to my willing suspension of disbelief. It's not like it's raping the zombie genre like the family dramas of Falling Skies and Terra Nova did to alien invasions and the land that time forgot.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.