astrobstrdSo full of mercy...Registered Userregular
The existence of Baby Yoda is worthwhile only for how much the puppet reduced Werner Herzog to tears and caused him to have an existential crisis when it was suggested to shoot extra takes for CGI.
The existence of Baby Yoda is worthwhile only for how much the puppet reduced Werner Herzog to tears and caused him to have an existential crisis when it was suggested to shoot extra takes for CGI.
I fucking love this story
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
werner Herzog has added a lot to my enjoyment of The Mandalorian
he is a treasure
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
We Hate Movies has really opened up my eyes to the message behind Armageddon.
yeah I mean its literally about tough pro guns oil magnate saving the world when pansy scientists couldn't
It's painfully obvious once you think about it but they play Bruce Willis as the perfect blu collar guy instead of the fucking millionaire oil guy be really is.
It's a shame because the white skull would be a really good stand out image, it's that kind of Darth Vader iconic style if done well instead of guy in off-the-rack biker novelty biker helmet. It's worse because I've just played Death Stranding and Higgs has such an awesome looking gold skull mask.
yeah I mean its literally about tough pro guns oil magnate saving the world when pansy scientists couldn't
Whereas I, coming in off Apollo 13, wanted the NASA guys to listen to their list of selfish demands with incredulity and then tell them to GTFO, and come back only when and if they're serious about saving the fucking planet.
As someone who was waiting until more eps of the Mandalorian came out before I got a Disney+ sub, it's been illuminating how the internet has had zero chill when it came to baby yoda. That shit was spoiled almost instantly.
Undead Scottsman on
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
in retrospect it is hilarious when Armageddon asserts that NASA couldn't put together a transmission based off a set of blueprints
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Ben Afflek dunking on Michael Bay and the plot of Armageddon is eternal.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Sims: I hope the answer is no, but was there ever a point at which you said his southern accent was too much?
Johnson: No, though I’m sure my producer was sweating. Jamie Lee Curtis reminded me recently that in the script I described [Benoit Blanc’s] accent as “the gentlest southern lilt possible.” But when we got on set, I was just having so much fun watching [Craig]. I think in the movie, it probably takes a few minutes to adjust to him having that voice, but I could listen to him forever.
Everything Daniel Craig does in Knives Out was a treasure and I'm glad Johnson recognized it.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
that's an automatic valve body, a guy like harry stamper would never build anything but a manual transmission for his special drill baby
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
Yeah, but I also I remember a case study from my Management courses at uni.
It went something like Mercades or Rolls Royce or Astin Martin or some other prestige European car manufacturer had not wanted to put Automatic transmissions into their cars while they were still new tech and had waited for the engineering to mature. Then once they started getting reliable and efficient and (most importantly) a selling point, they went around and surveyed all the other manufacturers for the most reliable and popular - which turned out to be Chevy or GM or some other Detroit motors corp.
They licenced the transmission and built it from the patent documents to the peak of European engineering and precision - and it seized. They built it again - and it seized. They kept trying to get it to work for months before they eventually had to fly over one of the American engineers. They sat him down and told him how they had built it exactly according to plan and with micrometer tolerances and he looked at them in disbelief and said 'what?'.
He took them down to the shop, took their immaculate transimmision, and just started filing bits and pieces off, grinding down gears, generally just repeatedly trying to find out what did and didn't work and then attacking those bits with gusto. The end product was nowhere near the designed patent blueprints - but it worked.
I remember this because that course was 1998, about 2 months before Armageddon came out, so when I saw the movie I was like 'oh, someone lifted that same story'.
And Harry Stamper is also totally the kind of American Detroit-motors guy to put close-enough good-enough measurements in his patent filing that it would provide legal protections and yet still not describe an actual working instrument.
If a superhero or villain was pirate-themed I would allow it, but obviously that's not how they were usually deployed in comics, character designers just thought they looked cool and were easy to draw at some point.
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Armageddon has always been Peak Middle-Aged Reactionary in tone, characters, plot, and music choices, which is why Deep Impact was the superior asteroid-threatens-Earth movie that year.
Armageddon has always been Peak Middle-Aged Reactionary in tone, characters, plot, and music choices, which is why Deep Impact was the superior asteroid-threatens-Earth movie that year.
I was 17 when Armageddon came out and it was loud and fun and I didn't even think about any of that crap so as I got older and kept watching it... I never really thought about it
Armageddon has always been Peak Middle-Aged Reactionary in tone, characters, plot, and music choices, which is why Deep Impact was the superior asteroid-threatens-Earth movie that year.
The reason there was a name for "alternative" culture in the 90s was that anything that wasn't straight white conservative was seen as somehow outside the norm by the media at the time. It was always just a case that the kids weren't down with what the old people were selling, and it's only changed now because there are finally enough kids that Boomer culture is no longer so pervasive as to be the unchallenged norm.
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Shortytouching the meatIntergalactic Cool CourtRegistered Userregular
I still like Armageddon but it's always been true that there's a lot you have to be willing to overlook to enjoy it
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FishmanPut your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain.Registered Userregular
The Playlist dropped their list of the Top 100 films of the Decade which I quite like because it gives a lot of room to international movies that deserve the attention.
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Baby yoda likes to get down
Gee I dunno going by appearances I guess HUMANOID ALIEN would be fun and imaginative
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I think this might be my new favorite thing about you.
I fucking love this story
he is a treasure
Is it 'don't go to school for space just work on oil rigs'
No, it's an extremely right wing, pro capitalism movie
So, yes, then
I'm glad Marvel continues to make their villains look like old power rangers characters
It's painfully obvious once you think about it but they play Bruce Willis as the perfect blu collar guy instead of the fucking millionaire oil guy be really is.
One of their requests is to not have to pay taxes
It's a shame because the white skull would be a really good stand out image, it's that kind of Darth Vader iconic style if done well instead of guy in off-the-rack biker novelty biker helmet. It's worse because I've just played Death Stranding and Higgs has such an awesome looking gold skull mask.
Whereas I, coming in off Apollo 13, wanted the NASA guys to listen to their list of selfish demands with incredulity and then tell them to GTFO, and come back only when and if they're serious about saving the fucking planet.
Michael Bay absolutely thinks the N in Nasa stands for Nerds, and they wouldn't understand tough greasy mechanic stuff.
Good read, thanks for sharing!
Everything Daniel Craig does in Knives Out was a treasure and I'm glad Johnson recognized it.
that's an automatic valve body, a guy like harry stamper would never build anything but a manual transmission for his special drill baby
It went something like Mercades or Rolls Royce or Astin Martin or some other prestige European car manufacturer had not wanted to put Automatic transmissions into their cars while they were still new tech and had waited for the engineering to mature. Then once they started getting reliable and efficient and (most importantly) a selling point, they went around and surveyed all the other manufacturers for the most reliable and popular - which turned out to be Chevy or GM or some other Detroit motors corp.
They licenced the transmission and built it from the patent documents to the peak of European engineering and precision - and it seized. They built it again - and it seized. They kept trying to get it to work for months before they eventually had to fly over one of the American engineers. They sat him down and told him how they had built it exactly according to plan and with micrometer tolerances and he looked at them in disbelief and said 'what?'.
He took them down to the shop, took their immaculate transimmision, and just started filing bits and pieces off, grinding down gears, generally just repeatedly trying to find out what did and didn't work and then attacking those bits with gusto. The end product was nowhere near the designed patent blueprints - but it worked.
I remember this because that course was 1998, about 2 months before Armageddon came out, so when I saw the movie I was like 'oh, someone lifted that same story'.
And Harry Stamper is also totally the kind of American Detroit-motors guy to put close-enough good-enough measurements in his patent filing that it would provide legal protections and yet still not describe an actual working instrument.
If a superhero or villain was pirate-themed I would allow it, but obviously that's not how they were usually deployed in comics, character designers just thought they looked cool and were easy to draw at some point.
NOBODY IS AS SMART AS WHITE, BLUE COLLAR, MALE HARRY STAMPER
I was 17 when Armageddon came out and it was loud and fun and I didn't even think about any of that crap so as I got older and kept watching it... I never really thought about it
The reason there was a name for "alternative" culture in the 90s was that anything that wasn't straight white conservative was seen as somehow outside the norm by the media at the time. It was always just a case that the kids weren't down with what the old people were selling, and it's only changed now because there are finally enough kids that Boomer culture is no longer so pervasive as to be the unchallenged norm.