rebelrouser

MTV was very much a part of my formative years, and I couldn't care less about this. No feelings at all and that is a statement on what they have become. Funny to watch the U.S. entertainment industry fail so spectacularly.

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I saw Harakiri by Kobayashi this year for the first time.

definitely would recommend

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Great movie, noe of my all time favorites.

Cool poster too:

Detour is great despite being very cheaply made. Good suggestion.

While the story is not factually true, it was written to explain and define the national identity of the ancient Greek city states. Therefor, it is true in a sense and historical accuracy seems kind of important. The Aeneid did this for the Romans.

When your actions don't have consequences because Hollywood is creatively bankrupt and uses multiple universes and forced logic to do whatever they want, who cares. Another example of this is Palpatine coming back. We are bombing, what can be done? Bring back Captain America and RDJ. They need to bring ScarJo back as another MCU character with a skin tight outfit and jiggly body parts.

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Eddie's racial jokes were milquetoast at best. His jokes carried none of the weight of the others. He was a guffawing turd

They were no where in the same vein as those others. He was a go along, get along, step n fetch it bitch.

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What? He's one of the funniest comedians of all time. Just because he wasn't overtly political doesn't mean he was a suck up. This is the same logic that says black people must be liberal democratic supporters. It is just demeaning. Everyone can have their own opinion and bring that to work or not. Entertainers do better when they don't bring it to work. The people who go to to stand up to have their political beliefs reinforced like the smell of their own farts.

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There will presumably multiple gods involved here, directly

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We talked about Nolan's statement below so not so fast:

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“One of the things I needed to crack was how to approach mythological elements in a sort of real-world way. The big breakthrough creatively in thinking about the gods was that everything that is now explained by science was once supernatural. Lightning, thunder, earthquakes, volcanoes... people are literally seeing gods everywhere; not even the evidence of gods, they're seeing the actions of gods. I don't want to say too much about it beyond indicating that yes, the evidence of the supernatural is all around these people. It's very much part of their lives. And I think it's quite a lot of fun to tap into that.”

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Not sure how they explain Athena and the giant one eyed man.

Based on what you listed above:

At Close Range (1986) Sean Penn/Christopher Walken crime drama
Near Dark (1987) vampire/horror Bill Paxon and Lance Hendrickson; early Kathryn Bigelow
Killing Zoe (1993) very Tarantino feel to it
Following (1998) drama Christopher Nolan's first
The Spanish Prisoner (1997) Mamet
A Simple Plan (1998) crime drama Billy Bob Thornton/Bill Paxon

The fact that so many people from various teams are actually entertaining the possibility of this type of behavior says a lot.

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Man go watch revenant


10 minutes of Leo fighting a terribly CGIed Bear

30 minutes of Tom Hardy grunting grumpy shite.

2 hours of nature shots.

Biggest waste of time I’ve ever given a movie.

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Agree. I always tell people to read Lord Grizzly (same story but more truthful accounting) instead of watching The Revenant. The trailer looks intriguing but the director's work is not inspiring for my taste. I have never seen Birdman but it seems like a lot of people hated it.

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Did you know that most pro stadiums seat between 60 and 70,000?

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Once you get beyond this number, is it really any fun to attend a game? I would rather watch on tv in my home or at a bar than be in the nosebleed seats. It's like watching a football game from an airplane.