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Trey was in Very Bad Things?

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Schindler's List
In 1944 German efficiency hit it's legendary peak. Watch one Czech immigrant who made his fortune on the back of this efficiency become intent on ruining everything his adopted nation worked towards.

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Pretty sure my contribution counts as click-bait.

Worst. Podcast. Ever.

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Mulholland Drive
I saw Naiomi Watts' nipples.

You have no interest in being productive? wink

Seriously though, what will you discuss if not the questions minecraft raises?

Also, it's old. Why not an episode about commander keen, or Sim City 2000?

I don't know that mine craft counts as gaming any more than a community Lego set does.

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Yes, especially want to see his awkward first kiss with himself.

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Consumer whores, represent!

http://i.imgur.com/JFokLvg.jpg

For the wife

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So I just watched Elysium. My disappointment is palpable.

That edit is not good.

There are great bits involving robots and technology, buried under heavy-handed moralising, a predictable third act, and lashings of sentimentalism.

I wasn't bothered by the divide between the haves and the have-nots, nor the disregard shown. By and large that's totally accurate.

Later, we discover Zarban was never actually here!

http://memecrunch.com/meme/13FIX/what-a-twist/image.png

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TechNoir wrote:

I saw a 25 second clip on Craig Ferguson and it spawned an inner monologue where I was pretending to be the Director of Photography of the film and explaining why they shouldn't do what they just did... I guess it maybe wasn't confined to those 25 seconds?

There are choices in the film which I would not have thought a professional cinematographer (Haris Zambarloukos - also did Thor) would make, so I have to put those back on Branagh. Shots with overdone motion blur, others which are out of focus, and action sequences which are pushed in so tightly, and cut so quickly, that you literally don't know who's doing what to whom. There didn't seem to be a uniform stylistic choice to the film, which can work with characters, but this felt haphazard and unfocused.

Visually it's a bit of a mess.

I really liked watching Costner and Pine together, despite some memorably bad dialogue, they had a good dynamic and they both have an earnestness to their delivery which is engaging. Knightly though, is never the right choice - she has no depth to her performance.

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I don't think Kenneth Charles Branagh should direct films with action sequences.
http://img1.gomolo.com/images/news/284/12398_poster-of-jack-ryan-shadow-recruit.jpg

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It may get a bit ... Punchy.

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That's such a great video. I've not catalogued setup and payoff, but think it would be a great exercise to further appreciate some of my favourite films.

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Dorkman wrote:
Lupinpatronus wrote:

my kneecap popped out of place

Traumatic dislocation-five!

http://theoverlookedonlookers.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/shudder.gif

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Hi Michael, welcome aboard. Favourite Ghibli film (porco rosso is the only correct answer)?

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One niece was disowned on Boxing Day.

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Scientology, rehab, Oprah.

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Zarban wrote:

A female magician named Blunt
Was all her spectators could want
  She could reach down and snare
  A rather large hare
From her perfectly clean-shaven cunt

This reminds me rather of our lord Jesus.
http://thesuiteworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/holy-vagina-jesus-christ-srt-michael-hussar-michaelhussar.jpg

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Remember Mel Gibson's career after his rant about Jews? Well this is worse, because, you know.

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BigDamnArtist wrote:

Isn't that like the definition of a cult? Or at least a modern one. Some crazy, exuberant, charming bastard convinces a bunch of people to follow him, and bam suddenly you're the center-figure of a religion.

Have you heard of Teague? We have this great forum I think you'd really enjoy.

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No kickstarter?

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My understanding of Zen, if you could call it that, is basically that it's nothing, punctuated by sitting. Occasionally you might ponder koans. If you're lucky - satori!

A monk told Joshu: `I have just entered the monastery. Please teach me.'
Joshu asked: `Have you eaten your rice porridge?'
The monk replied: `I have eaten.'
Joshu said: `Then you had better wash your bowl.'
At that moment the monk was enlightened.

I think it's being like water, becoming the shape, but not holding the shape. And because I still think about it, I've not reached enlightenment.