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    FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Of films in general. I have been surprised in the past as well. By movies I had seen before, even!

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    TaramoorTaramoor Storyteller Registered User regular
    Fencingsax wrote: »
    Of films in general. I have been surprised in the past as well. By movies I had seen before, even!

    Fuck Holiday Inn and any teacher who makes their kids watch it.

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    NosfNosf Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    Various channels show it and excise the blackface dance number these days. I mean, they could really high road it and do what they did for the old Bugs Bunny cartoons and have a little educational disclaimer about the scene.

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    manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Overlord is some Grade-A Nazi B-movie action. Just delicious pulpy comic book candy from start to finish. Everyone overplays their part perfectly, every shootout, every explosion, all exactly as over the top as they should be. Wyatt Russell channels his dad's Escape from New York sneering growl like he wants to make a sequel. It's not as insane as The 25th Reich, not as farcical as Iron Sky, just a solid, enjoyable b-movie that does the genre proud.

    It's best enjoyed in the vein of a Wolfenstein film.

    Where Eagles Dare is literally Wolfenstein the movie, complete with a a final shootout that results in HUNDREDS of dead Nazis. It's ludicrous if you've never seen it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIZwbXDF0o

    It's probably best compared with some of the final fights in Lone Wolf and Cub.

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    FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Overlord is some Grade-A Nazi B-movie action. Just delicious pulpy comic book candy from start to finish. Everyone overplays their part perfectly, every shootout, every explosion, all exactly as over the top as they should be. Wyatt Russell channels his dad's Escape from New York sneering growl like he wants to make a sequel. It's not as insane as The 25th Reich, not as farcical as Iron Sky, just a solid, enjoyable b-movie that does the genre proud.

    It's best enjoyed in the vein of a Wolfenstein film.

    Where Eagles Dare is literally Wolfenstein the movie, complete with a a final shootout that results in HUNDREDS of dead Nazis. It's ludicrous if you've never seen it.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khIZwbXDF0o

    It's probably best compared with some of the final fights in Lone Wolf and Cub.

    Fun Story: Clint Eastwood intentionally asked for many of his lines to be offloaded to Richard Burton because he had trouble following the (admitting, quite convoluted) plot with all of its double-crosses.

    Which has the end result of Richard Burton looking like he's willing to take any opportunity to show off how much of a genius spy he is with Clint Eastwood rarely saying more than a single sentence at a time between the scenes of him killing an almost endless number of Nazis.

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    The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    shryke wrote: »
    I watched Ghost in the Shell. The live-action one. That movie was ... dull.

    So like, firstly, I'm completely unconcerned out any of the controversy or whatever involved here. The movie is it's own thing and so I judged it as such and I've never seen any other GitS media anyway, so that was easy to do.

    This movie is just terribly uninteresting. Not, like, actively terrible, just dull. The story is by-the-numbers. None of the plot beats or "twists" or whatever even register as interesting or exciting. The movie has nothing interesting or really at all to say about the whole idea of personal identity in a world where you can change your body at will. There's no introspection or even overly heavy-handed philosophizing like one would expect from this kind of property. The action scenes aren't bad but aren't interesting in any way. They are just kinda ... there. The first one is probably the best and it's not really memorable.

    In the end it's just a very expensive nothing of a movie. Not even offensively bad enough to be memorable or to illicit a real reaction. Just a waste of your time. A few hours of your life passed without incident.



    Also I kept feeling like this whole thing was a videogame. Part of that was the TV I was watching it on. I tried to turn off all the motion smoothing but I must have missed something. Every part that was CGIed background felt like a videogame cutscene, which really makes the start where it swoops through the city and then settles on our player character on the rooftop feel like the start of a new level. But more then that just the structure and quality of the writing and the way the plot unfolds and even ends with a boss fight just really gave me mediocre video game story vibes. I just couldn't shake that feeling as the whole thing unfolded.

    It's what happens when you strip away the interesting theme/story idea of "can the mind be freed from the body" and turned into a generic, "they stole your REAL body and used you as a weapon!" crutch for people who don't really watch cyberpunk anyway.

    In the world of GitS, no one cares if you have your original body or not, there are more interesting questions to explore.

    In a world where that isn't common place, the body horror of waking up a full cyborg chassis was done way better in the new Robocop movie.

    I remember walking out of the new robocop movie and commenting i felt like id seen a lot of the plot beats already... in Metal Gear Solid Revengence. (Or at least some of the thematic structuress etc).

    which is no dis on Robocop, i actually really enjoyed the reboot! It had some fun and interesting moments.

    And now i'm thinking i want a Robocop/Raiden/Major Kusnagi Team up movie. 3 cyborgs enter a dystopia, body parts leave.

    Edit: Thinking more on this, i dont think i've ever seen a series/movie that has multiple full body borgs like that front and centre - You usually have one, their support staff, and their drama on if they're still human. Be interesting to see a series really commit to actually having a full team of full body borgs (for instance, think of the amount of fuckery you could get out of the "So who's brain is in who's body, currently?"). GITS:SAC comes close, but hrrm.

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    manwiththemachinegunmanwiththemachinegun METAL GEAR?! Registered User regular
    Battle Angel Alita was surprisingly good and had several full, or 90%+ mechanical cyborgs. It redeemed a bit of my faith in Cameron going full-spectacle.

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    OrcaOrca Also known as Espressosaurus WrexRegistered User regular
    Yeah, I expected to find it garbage. I actually had a lot of fun with Alita! It's schlocky and silly but it still manages to pull off some surprises. And visually it's great.

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Where Eagles Dare is a ruddy fantastic movie. It's something I find it hard to drag myself away from if I catch it halfway through on a Sunday afternoon or late at night.

    Eastwood saying very little the whole way through is an excellent choice. He's a laconic angel of death who barely musters a raised eyebrow while mowing down a regiment of Nazis.

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    ThirithThirith Registered User regular
    As a kid I watched Where Eagles Dare about once, I think, and it didn't do all that much for me. However, I absolutely loved The Guns of Navarone, which IIRC is a similar type of movie. Perhaps it's that the latter had more of a heist-style ensemble of characters.

    I rewatched Berberian Sound Studio yesterday, and it remains one of the most puzzling films I've ever seen. There are elements of it that I can begin to analyse and interpret, but as a whole I'm finding it more cryptic than any David Lynch film I've seen. It's magnificently atmospheric, though, and I definitely dig Strickland's melange of uncanny and archly camp. I liked The Duke of Burgundy better as a whole, mainly because its characters are stronger and more nuanced (and I could watch Sisde Babett Knudsen wrinkle her nose for days and weeks on end), but I think I will keep coming back to Berberian Sound Studio every now and then to be puzzled and intrigued.

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    SolarSolar Registered User regular
    Eastwood kills so many Nazis in that movie. He literally must kill hundreds

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    BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    There are 100 deaths, apparently.

    Leftenant Schaffer (Eastwood): 73 (5 shared with Smith and 10 shared with Mary)
    Major Smith (Burton): 26 (5 shared with Schaffer)
    Mary (Ure): 12 (10 shared with Schaffer)

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    MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Nightmare on Elm Street is still a banger. What is real? What is a dream? I don't know!

    I am in the business of saving lives.
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    KrathoonKrathoon Registered User regular
    Dream Warriors was the best Elm Street. It has a cool movie poster.

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    BlackDragon480BlackDragon480 Bluster Kerfuffle Master of Windy ImportRegistered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    Dream Warriors was the best Elm Street. It has a cool movie poster.

    And the Wizard Master.

    No matter where you go...there you are.
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    Commander ZoomCommander Zoom Registered User regular
    He's a wizard and a master.

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    GrisloGrislo Registered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    There are 100 deaths, apparently.

    Leftenant Schaffer (Eastwood): 73 (5 shared with Smith and 10 shared with Mary)
    Major Smith (Burton): 26 (5 shared with Schaffer)
    Mary (Ure): 12 (10 shared with Schaffer)

    The old 'nazi death count!' video has 89, but I think it misses some:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRHqtbt3ORc

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    KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    Krathoon wrote: »
    Dream Warriors was the best Elm Street. It has a cool movie poster.

    For reference:
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    Also Dream Master has a cool one too:
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    And then 5, 6, and 7 were are pretty bad or bland.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular


    I heard they were doing an updated home alone...

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    DonnictonDonnicton Registered User regular
    I'm in love with his Twitter name.

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    TexiKenTexiKen Dammit! That fish really got me!Registered User regular
    Rich Evans as Harry, and Richie Rich as Marv, it's so money.

    But at the same time you're gonna ruin it, Disney. Instead of Kevin with fist pump "yes!" he's gonna dab or floss on them. And they'll make the McCallister's be dirty money who got that fancy house from turning baby seals into oil or something in order to make Harry and Marv sympathetic.

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    PreacherPreacher Registered User regular
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.

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    dlinfinitidlinfiniti Registered User regular
    good slapstick/physical comedy died in the 90s
    probably something to do with jackass and youtube

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    The parents did call the police in the first one, once they got to France. The police did a half-assed wellness check and told the dispatcher to "tell them to count their kids again".

    The lawsuit alone would've bought them another house in that neighborhood.

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    kimekime Queen of Blades Registered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    The parents did call the police in the first one, once they got to France. The police did a half-assed wellness check and told the dispatcher to "tell them to count their kids again".

    The lawsuit alone would've bought them another house in that neighborhood.

    Police are not obligated to help you with anything, nor succeed if they try. Not sure there would have actually been a successful lawsuit.

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    MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    I definitely posted, or meant to post while drinking, 'What the hell does a 2019 Home Alone even look like?'

    I have one toddler and could wreck that movie six ways.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
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    FoefallerFoefaller Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    kime wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    The parents did call the police in the first one, once they got to France. The police did a half-assed wellness check and told the dispatcher to "tell them to count their kids again".

    The lawsuit alone would've bought them another house in that neighborhood.

    Police are not obligated to help you with anything, nor succeed if they try. Not sure there would have actually been a successful lawsuit.

    Eh, it would depend on if the motion to dismiss the police would start with was approved or not. If it was denied I could see the police settling in order to get rid of the negative publicity and move on.

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    wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    I feel like a modern Home Alone movie should be about Kevin vs internet pedophiles

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    Munkus BeaverMunkus Beaver You don't have to attend every argument you are invited to. Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPA regular
    They would just call Kevin's cell phone or make a post on his instagram telling him to stop fucking around and go to a neighbors.

    Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
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    matt has a problemmatt has a problem Points to 'off' Points to 'on'Registered User regular
    edited August 2019
    wandering wrote: »
    I feel like a modern Home Alone movie should be about Kevin vs internet pedophiles

    Home Alone meets Taken

    "I have a very particular set of skills, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you..."

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    ZiggymonZiggymon Registered User regular
    Home Alone Kevin in a weird Amish style anti technology village. Kevin has to learn to not rely on technology and use his witts to beat the criminals old school. Runtime 71 minutes approx

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    HonkHonk Honk is this poster. Registered User, __BANNED USERS regular
    The Dark Knight Rises being on Netflix I gave that a rewatch, I don’t think I like it so much despite weird Hardy voices.

    I looked at some of the background fighting when they face off, I would recommend doing so if you see it again.
    Police and Bane’s crew hugging in pairs taking clear turns in kneeing each other in the stomach for what feels like a really long time.

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    wanderingwandering Russia state-affiliated media Registered User regular
    Ziggymon wrote: »
    Home Alone Kevin in a weird Amish style anti technology village. Kevin has to learn to not rely on technology and use his witts to beat the criminals old school. Runtime 71 minutes approx
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    wandering wrote: »
    I feel like a modern Home Alone movie should be about Kevin vs internet pedophiles

    Home Alone meets Taken

    "I have a very particular set of skills, skills that make me a nightmare for people like you..."
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    MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    kime wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    The parents did call the police in the first one, once they got to France. The police did a half-assed wellness check and told the dispatcher to "tell them to count their kids again".

    The lawsuit alone would've bought them another house in that neighborhood.

    Police are not obligated to help you with anything, nor succeed if they try. Not sure there would have actually been a successful lawsuit.

    I wasn't sure if this was satire, but uh, yes the police are obligated to help people.

    That's like their entire fucking job.

    I am in the business of saving lives.
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    CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    kime wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    The parents did call the police in the first one, once they got to France. The police did a half-assed wellness check and told the dispatcher to "tell them to count their kids again".

    The lawsuit alone would've bought them another house in that neighborhood.

    Police are not obligated to help you with anything, nor succeed if they try. Not sure there would have actually been a successful lawsuit.
    I wasn't sure if this was satire, but uh, yes the police are obligated to help people.

    That's like their entire fucking job.
    Legally they are not liable if they say "no thanks"
    WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

    The decision, with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and dissents from Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court in Colorado. The appeals court had permitted a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed.

    For hours on the night of June 22, 1999, Jessica Gonzales tried to get the Castle Rock police to find and arrest her estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, who was under a court order to stay 100 yards away from the house. He had taken the children, ages 7, 9 and 10, as they played outside, and he later called his wife to tell her that he had the girls at an amusement park in Denver.

    Ms. Gonzales conveyed the information to the police, but they failed to act before Mr. Gonzales arrived at the police station hours later, firing a gun, with the bodies of the girls in the back of his truck. The police killed him at the scene.

    The theory of the lawsuit Ms. Gonzales filed in federal district court in Denver was that Colorado law had given her an enforceable right to protection by instructing the police, on the court order, that "you shall arrest" or issue a warrant for the arrest of a violator. She argued that the order gave her a "property interest" within the meaning of the 14th Amendment's due process guarantee, which prohibits the deprivation of property without due process.

    The district court and a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit dismissed the suit, but the full appeals court reinstated it and the town appealed. The Supreme Court's precedents made the appellate ruling a challenging one for Ms. Gonzales and her lawyers to sustain.

    A 1989 decision, DeShaney v. Winnebago County, held that the failure by county social service workers to protect a young boy from a beating by his father did not breach any substantive constitutional duty. By framing her case as one of process rather than substance, Ms. Gonzales and her lawyers hoped to find a way around that precedent.

    But the majority on Monday saw little difference between the earlier case and this one, Castle Rock v. Gonzales, No. 04-278. Ms. Gonzales did not have a "property interest" in enforcing the restraining order, Justice Scalia said, adding that "such a right would not, of course, resemble any traditional conception of property."

    Although the protective order did mandate an arrest, or an arrest warrant, in so many words, Justice Scalia said, "a well-established tradition of police discretion has long coexisted with apparently mandatory arrest statutes."

    But Justices Stevens and Ginsburg, in their dissenting opinion, said "it is clear that the elimination of police discretion was integral to Colorado and its fellow states' solution to the problem of underenforcement in domestic violence cases." Colorado was one of two dozen states that, in response to increased attention to the problem of domestic violence during the 1990's, made arrest mandatory for violating protective orders.

    "The court fails to come to terms with the wave of domestic violence statutes that provides the crucial context for understanding Colorado's law," the dissenting justices said.

    Organizations concerned with domestic violence had watched the case closely and expressed disappointment at the outcome. Fernando LaGuarda, counsel for the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said in a statement that Congress and the states should now act to give greater protection.

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    MegaMan001MegaMan001 CRNA Rochester, MNRegistered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    MegaMan001 wrote: »
    kime wrote: »
    Preacher wrote: »
    Home alone just doesn't work with our current level of technology. And like the McCallisters are the kind of helicopter parents to have like nanny cams and cell phone trackers. Its just a movie that would be out of place in our time.

    There was a commercial with Macaulay Culkin that basically showed what it’d be like.

    He uses a bunch of devices and doesn’t give a shit.

    The movie basically dies if a parent of his has a cell phone.

    The parents did call the police in the first one, once they got to France. The police did a half-assed wellness check and told the dispatcher to "tell them to count their kids again".

    The lawsuit alone would've bought them another house in that neighborhood.

    Police are not obligated to help you with anything, nor succeed if they try. Not sure there would have actually been a successful lawsuit.
    I wasn't sure if this was satire, but uh, yes the police are obligated to help people.

    That's like their entire fucking job.
    Legally they are not liable if they say "no thanks"
    WASHINGTON, June 27 - The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that the police did not have a constitutional duty to protect a person from harm, even a woman who had obtained a court-issued protective order against a violent husband making an arrest mandatory for a violation.

    The decision, with an opinion by Justice Antonin Scalia and dissents from Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court in Colorado. The appeals court had permitted a lawsuit to proceed against a Colorado town, Castle Rock, for the failure of the police to respond to a woman's pleas for help after her estranged husband violated a protective order by kidnapping their three young daughters, whom he eventually killed.

    For hours on the night of June 22, 1999, Jessica Gonzales tried to get the Castle Rock police to find and arrest her estranged husband, Simon Gonzales, who was under a court order to stay 100 yards away from the house. He had taken the children, ages 7, 9 and 10, as they played outside, and he later called his wife to tell her that he had the girls at an amusement park in Denver.

    Ms. Gonzales conveyed the information to the police, but they failed to act before Mr. Gonzales arrived at the police station hours later, firing a gun, with the bodies of the girls in the back of his truck. The police killed him at the scene.

    The theory of the lawsuit Ms. Gonzales filed in federal district court in Denver was that Colorado law had given her an enforceable right to protection by instructing the police, on the court order, that "you shall arrest" or issue a warrant for the arrest of a violator. She argued that the order gave her a "property interest" within the meaning of the 14th Amendment's due process guarantee, which prohibits the deprivation of property without due process.

    The district court and a panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit dismissed the suit, but the full appeals court reinstated it and the town appealed. The Supreme Court's precedents made the appellate ruling a challenging one for Ms. Gonzales and her lawyers to sustain.

    A 1989 decision, DeShaney v. Winnebago County, held that the failure by county social service workers to protect a young boy from a beating by his father did not breach any substantive constitutional duty. By framing her case as one of process rather than substance, Ms. Gonzales and her lawyers hoped to find a way around that precedent.

    But the majority on Monday saw little difference between the earlier case and this one, Castle Rock v. Gonzales, No. 04-278. Ms. Gonzales did not have a "property interest" in enforcing the restraining order, Justice Scalia said, adding that "such a right would not, of course, resemble any traditional conception of property."

    Although the protective order did mandate an arrest, or an arrest warrant, in so many words, Justice Scalia said, "a well-established tradition of police discretion has long coexisted with apparently mandatory arrest statutes."

    But Justices Stevens and Ginsburg, in their dissenting opinion, said "it is clear that the elimination of police discretion was integral to Colorado and its fellow states' solution to the problem of underenforcement in domestic violence cases." Colorado was one of two dozen states that, in response to increased attention to the problem of domestic violence during the 1990's, made arrest mandatory for violating protective orders.

    "The court fails to come to terms with the wave of domestic violence statutes that provides the crucial context for understanding Colorado's law," the dissenting justices said.

    Organizations concerned with domestic violence had watched the case closely and expressed disappointment at the outcome. Fernando LaGuarda, counsel for the National Network to End Domestic Violence, said in a statement that Congress and the states should now act to give greater protection.


    That's really fucked?!

    I am in the business of saving lives.
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    SiliconStewSiliconStew Registered User regular
    It is. And as much as I wish it weren't, particularly in an egregious case like that, the police's duty is only to protect society as a whole, they have no specific duty toward any specific individual or incident. If they were to be held liable for failure to prevent any specific crime, then by extension it opens them up to be liable for failure to prevent every crime, which is obviously impractical.

    Just remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence.
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    cj iwakuracj iwakura The Rhythm Regent Bears The Name FreedomRegistered User regular
    Mojo_Jojo wrote: »
    cj iwakura wrote: »
    Overlord is some Grade-A Nazi B-movie action. Just delicious pulpy comic book candy from start to finish. Everyone overplays their part perfectly, every shootout, every explosion, all exactly as over the top as they should be. Wyatt Russell channels his dad's Escape from New York sneering growl like he wants to make a sequel. It's not as insane as The 25th Reich, not as farcical as Iron Sky, just a solid, enjoyable b-movie that does the genre proud.

    It's best enjoyed in the vein of a Wolfenstein film.
    shryke wrote: »
    I watched Ghost in the Shell. The live-action one. That movie was ... dull.

    So like, firstly, I'm completely unconcerned out any of the controversy or whatever involved here. The movie is it's own thing and so I judged it as such and I've never seen any other GitS media anyway, so that was easy to do.

    This movie is just terribly uninteresting. Not, like, actively terrible, just dull. The story is by-the-numbers. None of the plot beats or "twists" or whatever even register as interesting or exciting. The movie has nothing interesting or really at all to say about the whole idea of personal identity in a world where you can change your body at will. There's no introspection or even overly heavy-handed philosophizing like one would expect from this kind of property. The action scenes aren't bad but aren't interesting in any way. They are just kinda ... there. The first one is probably the best and it's not really memorable.

    In the end it's just a very expensive nothing of a movie. Not even offensively bad enough to be memorable or to illicit a real reaction. Just a waste of your time. A few hours of your life passed without incident.



    Also I kept feeling like this whole thing was a videogame. Part of that was the TV I was watching it on. I tried to turn off all the motion smoothing but I must have missed something. Every part that was CGIed background felt like a videogame cutscene, which really makes the start where it swoops through the city and then settles on our player character on the rooftop feel like the start of a new level. But more then that just the structure and quality of the writing and the way the plot unfolds and even ends with a boss fight just really gave me mediocre video game story vibes. I just couldn't shake that feeling as the whole thing unfolded.

    The OST is top shelf, though.

    The sound track was the most frustrating part! They completely ignored the original in favour of an utterly generic film score that sounds like it comes free with Adobe Premiere

    I had to highlight a sample to show your incorrectness.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xn3t6pJQgQY

    It oozes synthwave style.

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    Danny Trejo continues to be fucking awesome.

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