What have you been watching lately

ed · Post by ed » Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:19 am

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:57 am Currently watching another Korean show about an attorney who has autism spectrum disorder.

Reread this carefully and then consider how far you have fallen.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:21 am

Lat season of Doc Martin. Harmless and pleasant.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:54 pm

ed wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:19 am
Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:57 am Currently watching another Korean show about an attorney who has autism spectrum disorder.
Reread this carefully and then consider how far you have fallen.

https://i.imgur.com/ZSMBRzB.jpg

ed · Post by ed » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:36 pm

another Korean attorney who has autism spectrum disorder.

:doglaugh:

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:45 pm

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:50 pm

Pyrrho wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:54 pm
ed wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:19 am
Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:57 am Currently watching another Korean show about an attorney who has autism spectrum disorder.
Reread this carefully and then consider how far you have fallen.
https://i.imgur.com/ZSMBRzB.jpg

I am not sure pizza is the answer to autism.

– J.D.

ed · Post by ed » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:20 pm

For the win

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:57 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:50 pm
Pyrrho wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 12:54 pm
ed wrote: ↑Sat Oct 01, 2022 10:19 am
Pyrrho wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 6:57 am Currently watching another Korean show about an attorney who has autism spectrum disorder.
Reread this carefully and then consider how far you have fallen.
https://i.imgur.com/ZSMBRzB.jpg

I am not sure pizza is the answer to autism.

– J.D.

Yeah but there are most definitely Popes in this pizza.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:00 pm

I would prefer some more Germans since I like sausage on my pizza.

Let me rephrase that. . . .

– J.D.

DJ · Post by DJ » Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:07 pm

*not that there’s anything wrong with it.

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:43 pm

I've seen this movie and I a NOPING out right now.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:20 pm

Amazon Blows Entire $1 Billion 'Rings Of Power' Budget On Making It Look Like A Woman Can Hold A Sword
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Sep 30, 2022 · BabylonBee.com
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CULVER CITY, CA – After filming only 8 episodes of The Rings of Power, Amazon has exhausted the entire $1 billion budget allotted for the production of the show. Initial reports indicate that most of the money was spent on special effects to make it look like a woman can hold a sword.

"These kinds of effects are a challenge because as everyone knows, women absolutely suck at holding swords," said visual effects supervisor Brad Gragdrad. "Their tiny little noodly arms and 120-pound frames are barely able to hoist a sword above their heads, much less swing it around and cut through foes like a male warrior. Sad!"

Sources say it took a visual effects crew of 380 people over 15 months to make it look like Galadriel, the strong female lead of the show, was actually a battle-hardened warrior able to hold up a heavy steel blade and swing it with ease.

When asked what else the budget was spent on, insiders confirmed the rest was spent on trying to find ways to make Galadriel a likable character. "Unfortunately," said Gragdrad, "They ran out of money before we could figure that part out."

https://babylonbee.com/news/amazon-blow ... ld-a-sword

tiny little noodly arms

:doglaugh:

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:04 pm

There's nothing likable about Galadriel, and it's not all about special effects. They wrote and directed her character to be obsessed with revenge and genocidal towards the orcs (no, Uruk. "Orc" is a hurtful racial slur). She also manipulates individuals, political leaders, and entire nations into joining her bloodlust. Not at all inspiring or characteristic of a high elf.

At the end of this week's episode, I found myself rooting for the Uruk. Is that wrong? :notsure:

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:52 pm

Bruce wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:04 pm
At the end of this week's episode, I found myself rooting for the Uruk. Is that wrong? :notsure:

I stopped watching the episodes when I decided that the Harfeet were simply more cruel and evil than Sauron would ever be, but I have seen clips from the last couple of episodes, and you are not wrong.

G specifically told the "villain" that she was going to kill the ones he cared about in front of him but keep him alive to suffer through it when regular threats and torture looked unlikely to get her what she wanted. She is a terrorist at this point.

She and the Harfeet deserve each other; I actually wish harm upon them all. I am Team Orc.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:33 pm

Surely Galadriel is Sauron? It’s the only way it makes sense.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:52 pm

Better episodes of both Game of hot Dragonblood and the Rings of destiny. In the former, apart from the King being as dumb as fuck, it's getting better.

>G specifically told the "villain" that she was going to kill the ones he cared about in front of him but keep him alive to suffer through it when regular threats and torture looked unlikely to get her what she wanted. She is a terrorist at this point.

All she had to do was 20 mins of Elven laments and he would have spilled everything.

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:17 pm

Giz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:33 pm Surely Galadriel is Sauron? It’s the only way it makes sense.

OMG. That would explain everything. The haughty cruelness, the arrogance, the indifference to the suffering of the people under her . . . .

Maybe the harfeet are Sauron, too.

ed · Post by ed » Sun Oct 09, 2022 5:12 pm

Lou: Stupid, turgid, mostly in the dark in the rain.

Bullet Train: Beyond stupid. Loud, incoherent.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:21 pm

Ben Trovado wrote: ↑Tue Oct 04, 2022 7:17 pm
Giz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 6:33 pm Surely Galadriel is Sauron? It’s the only way it makes sense.
OMG. That would explain everything. The haughty cruelness, the arrogance, the indifference to the suffering of the people under her . . . .

Maybe the harfeet are Sauron, too.

Candidate #1 for Sauron is whoever is writing the dreck.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Sun Oct 09, 2022 8:25 pm

Maybe we are viewing this the wrong way.

Maybe they are doing a ‘cobra Kai’ type show.

Kreece was banished after the first conflict, leaving his lieutenant Johnny without power or purpose. Then the action picks up in the next age, from Johnny’s POV, showing the heroes as jerks.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:03 am

13 assassins. (Japanese movie set in shogunate times)

Plain good old storytelling and action. Very good (particularly compared to what most western media serves up nowadays)

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:49 am

Takashi Miike?

Does anyone anally rape a dead woman?

I enjoyed Ichi the Killer but vowed to never again with Visitor Q. Another poster has a similar vow after seeing Audition. At least that one had an infamously awesome Japanese Original actor.

– J.D.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 9:45 am

Doctor X wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:49 am Another poster has a similar vow after seeing Audition.

– J.D.

Much preferred Murakami's book. Visitor Q was just an exercise in voyeuristic "look how shocking we can be you're gonna love it!" Didn't.

Doctor X wrote:At least that one had an infamously awesome Japanese Original actor.

Eihi Shiina?

https://i.ibb.co/dbgnyry/29fatz1w8k7ok8oz.jpg

What?

ed · Post by ed » Mon Oct 10, 2022 10:52 am

Sorta curious about AC's take on the LOTR travesty.

Where is he?

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Mon Oct 10, 2022 8:18 pm

また怖い。

何？

– J.D.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 3:46 am

The Northman.

Hollywood can still make good period pieces.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:25 am

Giz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:03 am 13 assassins. (Japanese movie set in shogunate times)

Interesting. When Miike did not actually show the results of a disembowelment in the opening scene, I gathered it was different than his usual fare.

Has a lot of Japanese "That Guys" in it. This includes That Guy who always plays a villain in Kitano films.

Does have a "Yeah . . . Fuck Him" villain with zero redeeming qualities.

– J.D.

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 12:57 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 8:25 am
Giz wrote: ↑Mon Oct 10, 2022 4:03 am 13 assassins. (Japanese movie set in shogunate times)
Interesting. When Miike did not actually show the results of a disembowelment in the opening scene, I gathered it was different than his usual fare.

Has a lot of Japanese "That Guys" in it. This includes That Guy who always plays a villain in Kitano films.

Does have a "Yeah . . . Fuck Him" villain with zero redeeming qualities.

– J.D.

I mean, it has someone with all their limbs cut off as a motivational’speaker’ …

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:19 pm

A female motivational speaker!

Who ever said Japan was not progressive?

– J.D.

P.S. It is a flawed production. It is your basic "brought together band on a mission" where we only get to know maybe three of them, and even then not at all well. Oh and they pick up The Random Street Rat Dude [Found in a mountain. – Ed.] SHHH! who is an "expert" at "something."

Because swinging a rock widely around in a sling will not at all get you cut and stabbed into pieces when you are in a crowd of pissed-off samurai.

Though there are "200 enemy!" "200! NOT 70?!!11!" the enemy obliges by predominately attacking one at a time.

You then construct an intricate murder trap that covers an entire village, without any protest from said villagers, presumably with their help since, "samurai," in . . . like . . . a day? We know they worked hard because all we see is the samurai pounding fence posts randomly in the village.

Fine.

You then give up the "high ground." You were raining arrows and explosives. That Guy from That Film About Japan's "Longest Day" where the Emperor is STILL Totes for Peace All the Time Never for War or Raping Manchuria Goodness No orders that all will die . . . so he does not just keep raining arrows and explosives on them?

Oh, but to face them honorably!

You are thirteen assassins . . . with explosives . . . and death traps . . . honor was left at home banging the staff long ago.

Why not a, "Hey, Idiots. That Guy there? He's a cunt. You know he's a cunt. Why not, I don't know, help him trip and fall on those stakes while trying to rescue him with your swords? This is official but it's officially not happening so, officially, you were all admiring sakura while he choked to death on someone's dick. But none of yours."?

Still, so far no dead chicks anally raped.

No dads hiring their daughters as prostitutes.

No one saying "inconceivable."

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:13 pm

Doctor X wrote: ↑Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:19 pm
Still, so far no dead chicks anally raped.

No dads hiring their daughters as prostitutes.

No one saying "inconceivable."

My favorite three scenes from The Princess Bride.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sun Oct 16, 2022 11:25 pm

It was a family movie.

– J.D.

[Edited to redact to the textus receptus. – Ed.]

Ben Trovado · Post by **Ben Trovado** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 12:15 am

Whoops. Typo. Apparently my online search led me to "The Princess' Bridle" by mistake.

Still, very nice film.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Mon Oct 17, 2022 3:51 am

Giz · Post by **Giz** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:38 am

Q: What kind of Batman would skip church?

A: Christian Bale

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 6:27 am

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u264 ... /brood.gif

– J.D.

Pyrrho · Post by **Pyrrho** » Thu Oct 20, 2022 3:13 pm

Now watching Juvenile Justice on Netflix. I should learn Korean.

Hotarubi · Post by **Hotarubi** » Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:14 pm

Started watching "Train". A Korean supernatural serial killer thing.

What a load of bollocks.

Doctor X · Post by **Doctor X** » Sat Oct 22, 2022 2:06 am

Hotarubi wrote: ↑Fri Oct 21, 2022 4:14 pmStarted watching "Train". A Korean supernatural serial killer thing.

:hyper:

What a load of bollocks.

https://i.imgur.com/HKxeNjB.gif

You should have taken the train to Busan.

– J.D.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Sun Oct 23, 2022 3:36 am

Latest reboot of Unsolved Mysteries.

They might have gotten right this time. Still need to resurrect Robert Stack.

Anaxagoras · Post by **Anaxagoras** » Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:26 pm

Downfall: The Case Against Boeing

on Netflix. About how Boeing made a plane that flew itself into the ground. Twice.

No, not because the pilots were furriners.

Incidentally, this was in the news recently:

Passengers in fatal Boeing 737 MAX crashes are ‘crime victims,’ US judge says (CNN)

Also covered by Reason:
Judge O'Connor Rules that the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes Victims' Families Represent Protected "Crime Victims" and Can Seek Boeing's Prosecution