Moments when a piece of entertainment completely rocked you.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 2:09 pm

The advertisements billing Deadpool was a romantic comedy weren't inaccurate. That was surprising.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:03 pm

My point was that it comes across as rather disingenuous when you say "any number of sweaty action titles" as if you were picking random movies out of a hat rather than citing what is actually a pretty specific deconstruction of a prior work. It'd be like if I cited Attack The Block as a counterpoint but fronted like that film was the rule and not the exception.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:09 pm

Whipstitch wrote:My point was that it comes across as rather disingenuous when you say "any number of sweaty action titles" as if you were picking random movies out of a hat rather than citing what is actually a pretty specific deconstruction of a prior work. It'd be like if I cited Attack The Block as a counterpoint but fronted like that film was the rule and not the exception.

Yeah this. There are certainly movies of both types, but a specific one in a specific decade means nothing.

Eikre · Post by **Eikre** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 3:55 pm

Put in that way, I agree that yours is a reasonable counter-assertion.

Chamomile · Post by **Chamomile** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:26 pm

I've noticed that 80s cinema is a high point in Hollywood non-racism, but I'm not sure if it's because the movies in general had better diversity or if it's because the ones we remember and care about had better diversity.

Kaelik · Post by **Kaelik** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 5:36 pm

Chamomile wrote:I've noticed that 80s cinema is a high point in Hollywood non-racism, but I'm not sure if it's because the movies in general had better diversity or if it's because the ones we remember and care about had better diversity.

This... the SNES was gods gift to gaming and infinity times better than any other console because literally zero bad games were made for it...

Or alternatively, I've only played the ones that are actually good, and there was a bunch of shit too, but I didn't play the SNES until after I had played the n64.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 6:53 pm

I feel like you get a better idea of how shit is going by looking at the boiler plate stuff rather than message movies or the exceptional. By that metric I'd argue that the '80s and early '90s had an OK amount of diversity if measured by number of actors employed but the diversity of the roles they got was actually pretty low. By contrast these days even J. Lo and fucking Ice Cube can do bullshit comedies.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:00 pm

I don't think J Lo and Ice Cube are great barometers, though, because they've both been in the business for a long time, so the wider availability of roles could be due to progress, or length of career.

John Boyega's not a bad barometer, I don't think. I don't have IMDB open, but before playing Fin in TFA, his other major role (that I know of) was Moses, a gang leader in Attack the Block, which came out like five years ago. So he's still relatively new. What were newish black actors being given for roles in the 80s?

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 7:21 pm

They popped Eddie Murphy directly into the Richard Pryor socket. Denzel's probably the best case "Good parts right away" guy.

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 9:12 pm

Whipstitch wrote:I feel like you get a better idea of how shit is going by looking at the boiler plate stuff rather than message movies or the exceptional. By that metric I'd argue that the '80s and early '90s had an OK amount of diversity if measured by number of actors employed but the diversity of the roles they got was actually pretty low. By contrast these days even J. Lo and fucking Ice Cube can do bullshit comedies.

Yeah, but those bullshit comedies suck.

Ice Cube and J. Lo can star in bullshit comedies because they starred in awesome career-making moving in 90s.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:28 pm

hyzmarca wrote:
Yeah, but those bullshit comedies suck.

That doesn't actually matter.

hyzmarca wrote: Ice Cube and J. Lo can star in bullshit comedies because they starred in awesome career-making moving in 90s.

Yeah, in hood films and latino biopics respectively. Look, I ain't saying shit is a million times better. I'm saying that this whole business where Michael B. Jordan is a front runner for the lead only when the part specifically requires a young black guy isn't new. Remember when I said Denzel Washington had one of the easier transitions from quality tv to Hollywood? Well, behold his first theatrical release, ye mighty, and despair.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:33 pm

Whipstitch wrote:They popped Eddie Murphy directly into the Richard Pryor socket. Denzel's probably the best case "Good parts right away" guy.

I'll see your Denzel and raise you Will Smith. I think his career took off even faster. They both got their starts in TV, but Will Smith had fewer movies before he landed big with Independence Day and then it was a long string of big money makers that allowed him the pick of good roles that didn't revolve around his skin color (unlike say, Glory or Malcolm X, which were good roles, but not really a good example of Denzel breaking ground into the industry).

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:39 pm

Yeah, I mostly didn't really consider him because I was thinking '80s theatrical releases in particular rather than television but it'd be weird to insist that Fresh Prince had nothing to do with him making it.

erik · Post by **erik** » Tue Mar 01, 2016 11:44 pm

Denzel had a long long run on St Elsewhere before he transitioned to movies as his major roles so I think it's fair game.

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Mar 02, 2016 4:27 pm

I really like the Copy Cat in Venture Brothers this season, and I'm enjoying some of the politics happening within the Guild.

I still wonder why/how they're getting fewer episodes per season with a longer gap between seasons.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu Mar 03, 2016 3:55 pm

I finally realized that I like May from Questionable Content because she reminds me of someone. And who that is.

May is android Koumei.

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Mon Mar 07, 2016 2:42 pm

Nate Diaz vs McGregor
Holly Holmes vs Miesha Tate

A great night for the rear naked choke

Josh_Kablack · Post by **Josh_Kablack** » Wed Mar 09, 2016 10:46 pm

So I saw this guy's package and audition on The Voice.

And while the performance was decent, what really got me was the realization that

He's the guy who should play Greg Universe in any live action version -- if not part of the inspiration for the animated character.

Post by **fbmf** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:13 am

I apologize if this is been shared before, but I'm just now finding out about it and this is Poe's Law at its finest.

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Game On,
fbmf

hyzmarca · Post by **hyzmarca** » Thu Mar 10, 2016 2:17 am

fbmf wrote:I apologize if this is been shared before, but I'm just now finding out about it and this is Poe's Law at its finest.

https://m.facebook.com/Christian-Mother ... 604170522/

Game On,
fbmf

Terrible acrynomn.

They should call themselves Christian Ladies Indignant Towards Self-Abuse.

phlapjackage · Post by **phlapjackage** » Fri Mar 11, 2016 2:29 am

hyzmarca wrote: Terrible acrynomn.

They should call themselves Christian Ladies Indignant Towards Self-Abuse.

Or my own personal favourite, the "Christian Ladies Indignant Towards Onanism and Rapaciously Immoral Selfabuse"

One drawback with that: the initials spell "CLITORIS"

Shrapnel · Post by **Shrapnel** » Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:07 pm

http://www.ssega.com/

A site where you can play Sega Genesis games IN YOUR BROWSER without needing to download an emulator or anything. My brother clued me onto it, and it's awesome.

Hiram McDaniels · Post by **Hiram McDaniels** » Sun Mar 13, 2016 8:20 pm

The Cartoon Network Looney Tunes series that came out about 2012-ish.

Rather than being a bunch of slapstick vignettes, it was more like Bob's Burgers with WB cartoon characters.

Also, it gave us this:

The Wizard

OgreBattle · Post by **OgreBattle** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 5:03 am

Always Sunny In Philidelphia is the most fun D&D tv show around. They really feel like murderhobo adventurers in a modern setting.

Whipstitch · Post by **Whipstitch** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 3:33 pm

King Fucking Cuerno.