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blizzardboy
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posted July 03, 2015 07:56 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 20:03, 03 Jul 2015.

artu said:
What has that guitarist got anything to do with audacity or unrelenting work ethics, blizz? It's just a waste of crucial resources.


There's a 21-year-old on the firecrew at the Bureau of Indian Affairs where I'm working for extra cash (and adventure/experience) this summer between teaching. He has probably clocked in 200 hours of work in the past two and a half weeks, and when he does work, he is a very hard and reliable worker. He goes to the gym for 1-2 hours before starting a 12-16 hour shift. He chews tobacco, smokes tobacco & marijuana, drinks, has two kids and a girlfriend (whom he occasionally refers to as "his *****"), and can easily burn through hundreds of dollars in a single weekend. He grew up with an alcoholic father who is currently in prison, but he has drive & will, and a lot of it.

He is a very impractical, but very tenacious and hard-working individual. There are millions of people in the world that roughly fit his profile, and yes, in a survival situation, he would probably survive.
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posted July 03, 2015 08:00 PM
Edited by artu at 20:04, 03 Jul 2015.

@Corribus

I don't expect it to "make complete sense on every possible level" and as I said, it's a stylistic choice that sacrifices logic for the sake of atmosphere. However, I wouldn't call that choice significantly intelligent. To me, significantly intelligent writing means making a sense out of that grotesque atmosphere, giving it a reasonable, even mind-boggling explanation. (The body experiments in Alien: Ressurrection comes to my mind as an OK example.)

Yes, tyrants love to show off but they don't do it on resources that has military value. For example, they don't throw away food during a siege. In the movie, can they have access to a vast supply of fuel in the middle of nowhere? I'd call that strecthing it a little too far. I think, they'd trade it and eventually become much wealthier than the conditions we've seen them in.

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He is a very impractical, but very tenacious and hard-working individual. There are millions of people in the world that roughly fit his profile, and yes, in a survival situation, he would probably survive.

If he changes his habits. And as I said, the expenses are not decided by the soldier ants in this case, so, it's really beside the point.
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posted July 03, 2015 08:05 PM

Mad Max in general tries to say these are the kind of people who not only would survive, but likely rise to power. While the circumstances are less than believable, that's not what the movie is about. It's more about how masculine values (like the mindless waste of recourses of that truck) are in no way functional in a modern/progressive society. To say that and still be an awesome action flick they did a pretty good job. The film is very intelligent, it just uses stupid stuff to get its point across

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posted July 03, 2015 08:11 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 20:17, 03 Jul 2015.

artu said:

If he changes his habits. And as I said, the expenses are not decided by the soldier ants in this case, so, it's really beside the point.


Option B: He walks into you apartment. You are storing up food & resources, and you give him a perfectly reasonable argument for how the two of you can work together to mutual benefit. He completely ignores you - because he doesn't care about any of that and his life is all about ego & power - he punches you in the jaw and knocks you to the ground. He rapes your wife, and then takes all of your stuff. He gives you the finger, and he walks out, and then he uses some of his booty to fuel his bad habits. He trades some of it in for a diamond-studded muffler and a case of cigars. He gets smashed over the weekend. When he runs out of supplies, he finds somebody else to exploit.

In the real world, criminal leaders don't reliably control their men through force in a neat structured hierarchy. They do it through persuasion by fueling the cravings of their men, and criminal leaders often have the same habits as the men they are in charge of.
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posted July 03, 2015 08:17 PM

Well, in this case, after killing me and raping my wife, he is putting his extremely rare loot in waste. And for the third time, it's not an individual that's doing this, it's like the mafia burning heroin in an organized manner. Try wasting one bag of it and see how any capo will react.
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posted July 03, 2015 08:21 PM
Edited by blizzardboy at 20:24, 03 Jul 2015.

Heroine can be sold for a lot of money, but lesser men in the chain still get to use it. It helps keep them in line and in control, and since the leader was himself an underling at one point, he understands this.

You could even say there is a certain rationality to allow wasteful habits to exist: in the underground world, it is how control & loyalty is maintained. You could save a lot of resources by not popping open a case of champagne on some hot *****es on a Friday night, but do you think the higher ups are going to say (with a lisp and a soprano voice) to the men, "Mmkay you guuuuys, no wasting monnneeeey. We have bills to pay, mmkaay?". No, they let them have their fun.
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artu
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posted July 03, 2015 08:27 PM

They can waste (their own) money cause they make plenty of it. It's not analogous.

Maybe, our own old-enough members here, from the Eastern Bloc countries can enlighten you on how people behave when rare things are on the black market.
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posted July 03, 2015 08:36 PM

Dunno, mad max let me limp. Here is my spoiler:

They drive away from someplace for half the movie and then decide to turn around and go back. The only thing that happened was that they picked up a gang of old ladies. That's as deep as it gets right there. They're running away, fighting the whole way, they get away and then they decide to go back, so they have to fight the whole way.

The + : if you feel hungry or thirsty, don't hesitate and go to the kitchen. There are big chances when you are back that same fight is still ongoing.

The - : the same fight is still ongoing.

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posted July 03, 2015 08:36 PM

Concluding remark: crossguard light sabers are awesome. That is all.


Good talking to you. I gotta grab lunch & run.
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posted July 07, 2015 06:18 AM

Jurassic World was a good movie except the last 45 minutes kind of dragged. Chris Pratt is a very fun actor.

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posted July 07, 2015 07:59 AM
Edited by friendofgunnar at 02:30, 11 Jul 2015.

Heheheheh,here's a clip of all the guitar guys doof warrior's scenes.

For the life of me I couldn't figure out how the same guy that did "Fury Road" could have done "Thunderdome".  Then I found out that a lot of the art direction and ideas came from Brendan McCarthy.  So it was him that presumeably invented guitar guy doof warrior


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lmfao, Conan O'Brien did an awesome homage to the doof warrior.





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posted July 12, 2015 11:36 AM

A real bummer that there was no Warcraft movie trailer on Comic-con. And the hype was real. Will have to wait till November...

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posted July 12, 2015 04:34 PM

blob2 said:
A real bummer that there was no Warcraft movie trailer on Comic-con. And the hype was real. Will have to wait till November...


For real. I've been waiting to see just a glimpse of the movie and they wait till the next day to say "oh btw, the trailer is going to come out in November and not at Comic-con"

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posted July 12, 2015 04:37 PM
Edited by Pawek_13 at 16:37, 12 Jul 2015.

Week ago I saw "Inside out". Pixar is back in shape and Polish dubbing is great, as usual. Definitely I'm going to buy it on Blu-ray when it is released. I highly recommend it.

Now I only have to wait for "The Force Awakens..."

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posted July 12, 2015 07:17 PM

The_green_drag said:
blob2 said:
A real bummer that there was no Warcraft movie trailer on Comic-con. And the hype was real. Will have to wait till November...


For real. I've been waiting to see just a glimpse of the movie and they wait till the next day to say "oh btw, the trailer is going to come out in November and not at Comic-con"


Well, we did at least get our first look on Durotan and Lothar. Despite some negative comments, I for one must say their posters look really good and definitely made me craving for more. It's one fantasy movie I'm looking really forward to.

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posted July 13, 2015 08:02 AM
Edited by blizzardboy at 15:49, 13 Jul 2015.

Pawek_13 said:
Week ago I saw "Inside out". Pixar is back in shape and Polish dubbing is great, as usual. Definitely I'm going to buy it on Blu-ray when it is released. I highly recommend it.

Now I only have to wait for "The Force Awakens..."


x2. If you want a movie to be engrossed in from beginning to end, Inside Out is a great pick. I think I still might like WALL-E a little more, but an excellent Pixar movie.

THE VOLCANO MOVIE AT THE BEGINNING MADE ME CRY. HALFWAY THROUGH I WANTED TO CRAWL UNDER MY SEAT AND DIE.
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posted July 15, 2015 07:34 PM

Ok so after seeing the comic-con leaked trailers, it is clear that 2016 will be the year of great movies.

Deadpool: Looks amazing. Not a big fan of Ryan Reynolds but I wont have to look at his face so its okay The movie looks sick and they seemed to have made it in the way a dead pool movie should be. Rated R so they won't hold back on the violence and breaking that fourth barrier by talking to the audience. The subtle puns are great too.

Suicide Squad: I don't anything about anyone in this movie besides the obvious characters. Looks pretty kick-ass. The dark and grim setting makes the DC movies so much better than marvel films. A collection of heroes makes for good movies so this squad of villains should be quite interesting. Not a fan of the prison, meth head looking joker but its hard to top the last joker...I'll just have to see how this one plays out.

Warcraft: I've been waiting for this for a long time. I like what I saw. I've been reading that people say it looks too much like an in-game cinematic. I guess I can agree with that....but those cinematics are always awesome. The video and audio quality was shoddy so it's hard to tell anyways. But the orcs look really cool and it left me hungry to see more.


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posted July 18, 2015 05:35 AM

Jurassic World: I can't say I didn't have a good time, no matter how fundamentally retarded it was. Probably one of those movies that just isn't the same in the living room.
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posted July 23, 2015 09:58 PM

So Ant-man is a lot, and i mean A lot of fun. One of the more enjoyable Marvel movies and had a good time throughout the entire thing. So much playfulness and light hearted movie. strongly recommend.

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posted July 24, 2015 05:43 AM

Ant man, man!

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