You both sound like the sort of people who are unhappy that TLC and The History Channel finally got rid of all their dusty, boring programming and finally started showing what people WANT.
--Patrick
[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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--Patrick
Wow, they get really specific on your restrictions when you're a psych major. Though police, anyone? Wake up, America.
Welcome to modern Luc Besson movies, sadly. I don't know what happened to him after Leon the Professional and Fifth Element, but it must have been pretty bad.
It's like cops not being able to watch crime shows or doctors not being able to watch medical dramas. The premise is so laughably ridiculous that I just can't accept it.[DOUBLEPOST=1406503715,1406503672][/DOUBLEPOST]
Sorry, my mistake Honey Boo Boo and that alien conspiracy nut are vast improvements over actually educational programming.
Yes, but psych major, and then thought police. I did a thing. Get it? Anyone?
A funny. Yes?
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*crickets chirp*
*tumble weed blows by*
*hollow wind howls*
*Then, finally, after a long wait...*
I get it!
*tumble weed blows by*
*hollow wind howls*
*Then, finally, after a long wait...*
I get it!
And now I have an erection.
Dat's lacist!An election?
They are both amazingly good movies, but the 2nd one is my favorite.
You'd probably feel differently if you weren't engineering so many space Kerbals.
--Patrick
I can't wait to watch Lucy and love it and jerk off over incorrect neuroscience
Oh I forgot, I watched Ender's Game last week. It was okay, though I've never read the book so any glaring inaccuracies escaped me.
What really bugged the shit out of me, though, was during the big finale. The occasional close-up of the kids typing and sending out orders and they're all using fucking Nostromo gamepads, like the one on my brother's desk. No additions to make them not stand out as something the prop guy just bought in fucking bulk, just fresh out-of-box gamepads.
What really bugged the shit out of me, though, was during the big finale. The occasional close-up of the kids typing and sending out orders and they're all using fucking Nostromo gamepads, like the one on my brother's desk. No additions to make them not stand out as something the prop guy just bought in fucking bulk, just fresh out-of-box gamepads.
Yeah, I suppose they could've gotten BAT one-handed keyboards:fresh out-of-box gamepads.
Also, let's not forget the most blatant I DON'T CARE WE DON'T HAVE THE PROPS JUST GO WITH IT moment that I can remember...
I will destroy Alderaan...WITH A DIAGONAL WIPE! MUHAHAHAAA!
--Patrick
Yeah, even at 7 years old when I saw it back in '77, I knew that was a video/audio production board...
The manual flight control for the ship on Farscape is my old trackball mouse.
You know, throwing out the bullshit that one night of chaos and murder and delving into all our negative impulses would somehow fix society, the part of that movie that bothered me most was how there were gun battles happening inside the house that people in other rooms couldn't hear.
GasBandit
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When I first heard of the premise of The Purge, I thought it might be an intriguing look at large scale group psychology and the nature of man, law, and morality... but then after it came out, I heard it was just a mediocre home invasion suspense movie, and was very disappointed.
The whole idea that people can somehow purge themselves of violent impulses by allowing them to indulge them one night a year is contrary to any research that's actually been done on the nature of aggression. Indulging in shows of aggression actually increase aggression rather than releasing it.
GasBandit
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From what I read, even in context in the movie that was bad science - the results were really achieved by killing off the poor, disenfranchised and homeless (where disproportionately more violent criminals are, demographically). Or rather, having them kill off each other while the affluent barricaded themselves in their fortress-homes for a night. But it wasn't told that way to the masses because "purging your inner violence" sounds less horrific than "purging the poor from society."
The sequel seems to make it clear that the lawmakers who put the Purge into effect are fucking morons.[DOUBLEPOST=1406672783,1406672712][/DOUBLEPOST]
Although, in the second movie someone decides that not enough people are taking part in the Purge anymore, so they start dragging people out of their homes to make them. Seems counter-productive.
GasBandit
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Seems more efficient simply to adopt Thunderdome to replace civil litigation.
The second movie really feels like a different genre... like it's a class-aware action movie, not a horror movie. By playing up the class warfare aspect of the first film, it really feels like a much better movie. I'm not sure I'd call it GOOD, but it'd definitely better.
I haven't watched Lucy, but I feel like I might have to. Not in a "hey, that looks good" way that I thought from the first trailer. More like how I had to see The Spirit. Sometimes, you just need a laugh.
But on a rental price.
But on a rental price.
I still want to see The Spirit out of morbid curiosity.