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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
ddlloo said:
People unironically watch Die Hard as a seasonal film around Christmas, never heard of a similar phenomena for ID4 and it's analogous holiday.
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If there is one fucking thing I wish randos would stop doing it is repeatedly telling me DID YOU KNOW DIE HARD IS TECHNICALLY A CHRISTMAS MOVIE every fucking year.

Like, yes, I knew. Because I paid attention to the movie.
 
KrewlKween said:
I feel like only RLM could get away with saying something offhand like if a disaster happened China would fuck off to their own corner of the world and help no one but themselves.
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This happens in Arrival.
Mikoyan said:
If there is one fucking thing I wish randos would stop doing it is repeatedly telling me DID YOU KNOW DIE HARD IS TECHNICALLY A CHRISTMAS MOVIE every fucking year.
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Judging by the opening credits it should be a hanukkah movie
 
DID YOU KNOW STAR WARS THE LAST JEDI IS TECHNICALLY A MOVIE ABOUT FAMILY

I don't really know nor care much about roland emmerich, but I do have to say looking at this massive privately-funded movie I didn't know existed flop terribly has been pretty amusing. Like, to make a big, dumb, bloated mess like this you need lots of money for shit that ultimately doesn't matter - you need the studios.
But then your shit keeps bombing and bombing, and you refuse to change anything... so you go the route that a lot of filmmakers take when they wanna make more personal, interesting, cerebral bits than the studios would ever sign on to. I love those pretentious things. And then you swing around a fuckton of private cash and then you lose a fight with gravity
 
Mike Stoklasa said:
I can't wait for Star Track Picard to assassinate Donald Trump to save the future.
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They'll transporter accident him into the sun but really it sends him to the mirror universe where he founds the Terran Empire and personally ruins T'Pol's Vulcan puss for Archer and all other men human or Vulcan
 
Mikoyan said:
If there is one fucking thing I wish randos would stop doing it is repeatedly telling me DID YOU KNOW DIE HARD IS TECHNICALLY A CHRISTMAS MOVIE every fucking year.

Like, yes, I knew. Because I paid attention to the movie.
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Lethal Weapon is the superior Christmas film anyways.
 
Mikoyan said:
If there is one fucking thing I wish randos would stop doing it is repeatedly telling me DID YOU KNOW DIE HARD IS TECHNICALLY A CHRISTMAS MOVIE every fucking year.

Like, yes, I knew. Because I paid attention to the movie.
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Hey hey HEY HEY HEY DID YOU KNOW THAT

Home Alone would not work in the modern day due to cell phones??????????????????????????????????????????????????????
 
Dom Cruise said:
On a side note, even though I don't remember this my mom tells me that when I was really little I was a fan of Bruce Campbell's The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, it's funny to think I would later become such a fan of his without even remembering that show.
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Based, first person I've ever seen mention BCJ. What an absolutely delightful show.
 
Chin of Campbell said:
Based, first person I've ever seen mention BCJ. What an absolutely delightful show.
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As I mentioned I don't remember anything about the show and haven't re-watched it yet, but I'm sure I should.

It's just really funny and strange to me to think of being a Bruce fan as a little kid, forgetting about him and then rediscovering him later.
 
Chin of Campbell said:
Based, first person I've ever seen mention BCJ. What an absolutely delightful show.
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Dom Cruise said:
As I mentioned I don't remember anything about the show and haven't re-watched it yet, but I'm sure I should.

It's just really funny and strange to me to think of being a Bruce fan as a little kid, forgetting about him and then rediscovering him later.
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You should, I watched it not too long ago and loved every minute of it, there's really nothing else quite like it. It's a crying shame it didn't last longer than a single season, but I guess it's just another entry in the long list of shows Fox has canceled before their time, as well as the list of Bruce Campbell starring roles that somehow didn't manage to majorly further his career. Luckily, it at least ends on a high note, and it didn't leave any major cliffhangers, so it's a great self-contained story to watch.

Also, it's fun to see how many 90s TV actors you can spy, especially those from Star Trek. Denise Crosby is in one of the early episodes, as I recall, and there are a few others.
 
BScCollateral said:
I beg to differ: Legend and Wild, Wild West which is generally acknowledged as one of the first Steampunk works, considerably predating the term "Steampunk."
Brisco is outstanding, though.
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WWW was ahead of its time, I don't get how it was critically panned. It was clearly a breakthrough in genderbending roles, and should be praised for it's nonconformist nature.
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BScCollateral said:
I beg to differ: Legend and Wild, Wild West which is generally acknowledged as one of the first Steampunk works, considerably predating the term "Steampunk."
Brisco is outstanding, though.
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Steampunk was more or less invented by Harper Goff, lead designer on the 1954 Disney 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Goff is quoted as saying "Nothing looks more attractive than a combination of rough iron, and elegant luxury." Which if that doesn't describe steampunk, I dunno what does.

Also, while the original design already looks quite steampunk:
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It turns out Goff's original study model looks even more steampunk:
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The Nautilus is technically nuclear powered (in the movie not the book), but based on the machinery we see in its inner workings its using the nuclear reactor to drive a steam turbine rather than charge batteries.

The term obviously came about later, but the 1954 Nautilus has all the stuff we normally assocaite with modern steampunk like big pistons, rivets, oxidized iron or copper plating, port holes, an exotic power source of some kind driving a steam engine, and of course a tasteful 19th century Victorian-style interior. All that's really missing is the giant exposed gears that ended up being the death of steampunk anyway.
 
Actually, the original Wild Wild West TV show might be what you're thinking of. Definitely steampunk before steampunk. It was developed as a mash up of Man From U.N.C.L.E., Adam West Batman, and Gunsmoke (Bond ripoffs were big business in the mid 60s and westerns were still so huge that Star Trek was pitched as Wagon Train in Space because TV execs couldn't conceive of anything that wasn't an oater or a James Bond riff). It used to run in syndication ad nauseum when I was a kid and I loved the shit out of it. Still holds up now, it's just as batshit as you'd imagine, and the movie remake is like it was made on a different planet by aliens.

 
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