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I only like it fried. I'll tolerate in soups in small quantities. My wife likes them dried like chips.
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We had it a lot growing up in SC. I always hated it. It's like fried boogers. So there's that one perk of being married to a Yankee, I thought. Ironically, she loves the stuff.[DOUBLEPOST=1429898608,1429898500][/DOUBLEPOST]Which reminds me: people think that because you're from Region X, you like the cuisine from Region X. There's a lot of SC food I like, but there's plenty that's just gross.
@fade doesn't like it.
I fuckin' love okra. You throw that shit in a stew or soup, it'll make a nice thick broth. Or you can just cook it the way the south cooks everything... battered and deep fried.
Okra is one of those "foods of necessity" that have become cultural stables. Without a large wheat or potato crop to use for flour, a substitute thickener would have to be found. Okra comes from areas with high levels of clay in the soil and is heat and drought resistant, which made it valuable in certain areas of the American South as well as the Caribbean. That's why it's in so many things - it was a reliable food source, it thickened other foods, and it required a lot of experimentation to be palatable.
The problem with okra is if you make it wrong, it's literally big slimy boogers in a bowl. Fried it's not bad at all.
Oh, yeah, eww, you don't boil the stuff.
Cut in thin rounds, dusted with corn meal and fried until a golden brown, yummy. I also eat it raw, but don't like it in soups or gumbo.
The Babadook: It was decent. Good imagery and some eerie moments, some scary ones in the later part of the movie thanks to the performances. Really, the audio work was more effective than the visuals for creep factor.
Definitely an interesting movie that gives you a lot to discuss afterward. The ending was very different and not at all what I expected. I'd recommend it.
Definitely an interesting movie that gives you a lot to discuss afterward. The ending was very different and not at all what I expected. I'd recommend it.
It's kind of refreshing when the biggest twist of the movie is that there actually IS something going on. The movie spends a lot of time setting up the ol' "The mom is just crazy, there is no monster" gambit a lot of modern horror movies use, especially with the revelations that she's both a writer and artist who is only doing the nursing thing for the money (which seems to be the only rational explanation for how the book returns, other than someone else is doing it to them). But no, it's totally a fake out and makes movie all the better.
Though there was actually something going on, I think it's possible she was still the source of it, both in that she may have written the book and that the creature is intricately tied with her grief, i.e. "the more you deny me, the stronger I get." But yeah, the fake-outs were clever. First it seems like the kid is crazy, then he gets sedated and it seems like she's crazy, and then no, there's a real thing.
Rewatched Toxic Avenger, FUCK I love this crazy super-hero comedy flick! And the fact that someone thought they could sell it to kids with a cartoon and a toy line is freaking hilarious to me to this day. TOXIC CRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSADERS!
Saw Bubba the Redneck Werewolf at Wizard Comic Con today, damn fun film. Only minor criticism, I was hoping for more gore.
I wanted to watch something with more weight yesterday, but I saw my wife was nearing the end of a rough week and could use something silly and stupid, so I watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back for the first time in probably 13 years. It's a dumb movie, but it's got some good laughs and many of the cameos and jokes around them are great.
Felt weird as hell seeing George Carlin for some reason.
Felt weird as hell seeing George Carlin for some reason.
Mad Max: Fury Road is awesome. I don't think I can be friends with someone who didn't like it. It's EXQUISITELY crafted. No movie that was basically shot around two sand dunes has the right to be as visually stunning as this. It has no God damn plot beyond drive here, then we drive there and is still an incredible ride.
Tom Hardy's Mel Gibson impression started getting a little Baney.
I reveled in the FEMINIST PROPAGANDA of the film and drank up the MRA tears from returnoftheking.com or wherever those fucking goons that started the boycott is from. If the whole city wasn't absolutely covered in my brethren out in ridiculous force for whatever reason, I would have had my girlfriend take the wheel while we drove at top speed while I put some God damn hard shootin' metal on and started throwing things at my friends' cars.
Fucking awesome movie.
22 thumbs up.
Seriously gorgeous. More please! I NEED MORE! I AM A CONSUMER WHORE!
Anyways, now that I'm done being hyperbolic, I'd like to add a few things about the film that, to me, were exceptional. I'm gonna get a little spoilery so I guess I should cover it up.
Charlize Theron was excellent, Tom Hardy was excellent and Rosie Huntington-Whitley (I think) proved that she is a strict upgrade from Megan Fox in any film, she had some pretty amazing scene stealing moments.
It's a God damn action masterpiece and should cement George Miller with any project he damn well wants after this (I know he's old, don't retire George!).
FINALLY, the rock and roll mutant is the coolest thing in any movie, ever. AND, it's apparently fully functional and practical. The whole rig. MADNESS.
http://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-player-doof-warrior-colin-gibson/
Tom Hardy's Mel Gibson impression started getting a little Baney.
I reveled in the FEMINIST PROPAGANDA of the film and drank up the MRA tears from returnoftheking.com or wherever those fucking goons that started the boycott is from. If the whole city wasn't absolutely covered in my brethren out in ridiculous force for whatever reason, I would have had my girlfriend take the wheel while we drove at top speed while I put some God damn hard shootin' metal on and started throwing things at my friends' cars.
Fucking awesome movie.
22 thumbs up.
Seriously gorgeous. More please! I NEED MORE! I AM A CONSUMER WHORE!
Anyways, now that I'm done being hyperbolic, I'd like to add a few things about the film that, to me, were exceptional. I'm gonna get a little spoilery so I guess I should cover it up.
It used visuals more often than not to do it's world building. For example, no one explains that the War Boys worship Imortan and cars, they fucking show it, through the steering wheel ritual and the use of the chrome spray paint they use on their own grills before they die. It's all there in the visuals and the actions of the characters.
Charlize Theron was excellent, Tom Hardy was excellent and Rosie Huntington-Whitley (I think) proved that she is a strict upgrade from Megan Fox in any film, she had some pretty amazing scene stealing moments.
It's a God damn action masterpiece and should cement George Miller with any project he damn well wants after this (I know he's old, don't retire George!).
FINALLY, the rock and roll mutant is the coolest thing in any movie, ever. AND, it's apparently fully functional and practical. The whole rig. MADNESS.
http://www.mtv.com/news/2161513/mad-max-fury-road-guitar-player-doof-warrior-colin-gibson/
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Mad Max (1979)
Decided to watch the original Mad Max films in prep for the new one which I will be seeing next weekend. I know the stories aren't so connected that they are really required viewing, but figured I should use it as an excuse to finally getting around to seeig the films which influenced so many of my post apocalypse favourite tropes.
So, the original...... kinda boring. It's a revenge film where there's no revenge until the last 15minutes. That's not a good pace for a revenge film. Worth watching as the prologue to the tale of the Road Warrior it is, but it doesn't really set up the world of these movies very well considering ithe nuclear apocalypse happens awkwardly inbeteen this and Mad Max 2.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Noe this is what I'm talking about! Love the details in costume design that hint at Max's past and tie together little things from the first one. Love the chase sequences and the killer vehicle designs. This is what I signed on for.
Up next: Beyond Thunderdome. Then Fury Road next weekend.
Decided to watch the original Mad Max films in prep for the new one which I will be seeing next weekend. I know the stories aren't so connected that they are really required viewing, but figured I should use it as an excuse to finally getting around to seeig the films which influenced so many of my post apocalypse favourite tropes.
So, the original...... kinda boring. It's a revenge film where there's no revenge until the last 15minutes. That's not a good pace for a revenge film. Worth watching as the prologue to the tale of the Road Warrior it is, but it doesn't really set up the world of these movies very well considering ithe nuclear apocalypse happens awkwardly inbeteen this and Mad Max 2.
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior
Noe this is what I'm talking about! Love the details in costume design that hint at Max's past and tie together little things from the first one. Love the chase sequences and the killer vehicle designs. This is what I signed on for.
Up next: Beyond Thunderdome. Then Fury Road next weekend.
GasBandit
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I'll have to see it, but I still maintain that Trigun: Badlands Rumble is as close to "Borderlands: The Movie" as you can get without directly getting a licensing agreement from 2K. It's got hundreds of crazy wierdoes with insane patchwork guns, evil rich guys, bandit lords, and the primary foil is voiced by Colleen Clinkenbeard (who voiced Lilith in Borderlands).
Though I must say I feel a slight twinge of "this is just too much coincidence" because the bandit lord's name is "Gasback." That's like 80% of the way to "GasBandit!"
It's the Terminator 2 of 2015. An action film that actually pushes the genre forward and is so heads and shoulders above it's contemporaries it isn't funny.[DOUBLEPOST=1431826036,1431825988][/DOUBLEPOST]
He was in the whole movie, he just didn't have a whole lot of lines. No one really did.
GasBandit
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Watched Mad Max: Fury Road, and it's damn good. Over the top awesomeness from the get go. Took the best parts of Road Warrior and Thunderdome both, without ripping off either one. But what I really like about this movie is the visual lore - everywhere you look in almost every scene, there's a thousand stories you barely get to glimpse and then are lost. Questions you'll never get answered (like why did Lord Humongous have photographs and insignia of a WW2 nazi in his magnum revolver's gun case in Road Warrior). Why does Immortan Joe have that respirator, and how did he come to power? What is the balance of power and the state of diplomacy between the War Citadel, Gas Town and the Bullet Farm? Why are that guy's ankles like that? How did Furiosa come to rise to such a trusted rank? What's the deal with the Buzzers? The Rock Riders? Those guys on quadrastilts in the quagmire? And a million questions about the Doof Warrior. Hell, they never even say most of these peoples' names out loud, you just know them by sight as "that guy" and "that other guy" and "that one guy" etc. Every frame is so jam-packed with evocative imagery that makes you feel like everything that has happened to every character in this movie has led up to this exact moment, and we'll never know just how or why, but oh my god what a moment.
What a lovely day, indeed.
What a lovely day, indeed.
Question: would it be better to see the other Mad Max movies before seeing this? I think I saw some of the first one but not all of it.
Honestly, in my opinion you don't need to see any of the others to enjoy this.
Dave
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Not really. The first movie is boring, the second damned near perfect for its time and the third...well, let's just say it was very 1980's.
This movie stands alone. Besides, it's years after Thunderdome and Max got younger.
edit: Okay, Mel was only 29 and Hardy is 38. But he LOOKS younger.
This movie stands alone. Besides, it's years after Thunderdome and Max got younger.
edit: Okay, Mel was only 29 and Hardy is 38. But he LOOKS younger.
GasBandit
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It's not necessary. But as was referenced by checkeredhat, you can probably give Mad Max 1 a miss. 2 and 3 are the good ones, with 2 being the one I prefer (but 3 is good too). But you don't have to see them to appreciate Fury Road, as this is kind of a reboot, not a sequel.[DOUBLEPOST=1431908337,1431908178][/DOUBLEPOST]
I don't think it actually takes place in the same continuum. Max doesn't have his knee brace, so obviously he never got shot in the knee in this Max's confrontation with Toe Cutter. But he still lost his wife and child. He still has his V8 Interceptor, and still has gas for it - by the time Thunderdome began, there was no fuel left for his vehicle so he had resorted to yoked animals.
GasBandit
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Ok, I stand corrected, looking back at the trailer, he IS wearing his knee brace. People seem to be saying this happens between Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but that leaves me wondering where he got the replacement car after the Pursuit Special bit the big one in Road Warrior.
GasBandit
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Clearly false. The knee brace alone in Road Warrior (and the knee bandage in Thunderdome) show he does at least give nods to continuity. Max has a bum knee from getting it shot.
The first movie is tedious, badly paced, and the dialogue is often incomprehensible.
More the point, Mad Max doesn't really fit in the "Post Apoc Mad Max" genre that Road Warrior spawned. Mad Max is about people who are victims of a society that is coming apart out of neglect, more or less. Road Warrior is where the whole "after the bomb, back to savagery" part came in. They're really two entirely different films who happen to share a main character.
Pretty sure the leg brace is from the injury he gets in Mad Max, right after his family.... well you know. He has it all throughout Road Warrior.
GasBandit
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.... yes, that is what I have been saying all along.