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December Wrasslin' |OT2| I dec-declare this territory owned by the Holy Roman Empire
Mr. Luchador
Member
I can't seem to find a Coffee Community Group on GAF, very surprised at this. Also, I think I need to broaden my range of drinks.
Tea
Coffee
Jack Daniel's
Water
I need something different.
Tea
Coffee
Jack Daniel's
Water
I need something different.
Is that? Why, Tazz, I think you know who that is. It's Saint James Smythe!
There should have been a Magnum/Miami Vice cross over. Could have been THE cultural event of the 80s.
British Monsoon
Member
Merry Christmas from The Destroyer;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_F9bTHQi_U
Try a nice bourbon (Johnny Drum & Wild Turkey are good places to start) and google a recipe for an 'old fashioned'. You're welcome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_F9bTHQi_U
Try a nice bourbon (Johnny Drum & Wild Turkey are good places to start) and google a recipe for an 'old fashioned'. You're welcome.
Sinjinn Smythe, actually. James Sinjinn Smythe.
Need the scene of Zorin reacting to reading out Bond's resume on the computer.
Roman Reigns Era countdown. Now four and a half weeks left.
Still like these movies, but Kevin is someone who feels like a serial killer in the making now.
I think HDTGM picked the wrong Bond movie. A View to a Kill isn't that crazy by Bond standards. It's actually pretty dumb and boring. They should have done Live and Let Die, which is truly insane and really begs the question "how the fuck did this get made?". That's a movie where every black person is either part of an evil cabal or super into voodoo. Except for one. And he's Bond's boat driver. I really can't believe that movie got made without anyone saying, "Hey, what the fuck kind of movie are you trying to make".
Maybe I just haven't watched the right movies recently, but I'm amazed at how well all these late 70s to early 90s movies I've been watching are shot. So many good shots in Home Alone 1 & 2 alone that they make up for some of the issues the movie has. Like the Church shot in 1, Kevin walking home in the snow on Christmas Eve in 1, Kevin riding across the Brooklyn Bridge, the shot from the ground up at the Twin Towers.
Mr. Luchador
Member
If you think the movies are racists, you should read the original stories...
British Monsoon
Member
Yeah, there were some real dodgy racist undertones in that film - the funeral scene was bad as it pretty much insinuated that the entire black community was involved in some way with gang culture.
If anything, the decreasing size of equipment combined with the increasing mobility and versatility of camera tech has been largely detrimental to modern film making. Also, CG. Nothing makes me give less of a shit about a scene than when the camera starts zooming around all these crazy angles that just wouldn't be possible in real life with real life equipment.
If anything, the decreasing size of equipment combined with the increasing mobility and versatility of camera tech has been largely detrimental to modern film making. Also, CG. Nothing makes me give less of a shit about a scene than when the camera starts zooming around all these crazy angles that just wouldn't be possible in real life with real life equipment.
Macho Madness
Member
Every 5 movies or so the Bond production people decide they need to get hip and crib something that is popular. Live and Let Die is their take on Blacksploitation...only with a British dude as the lead, and it heads backwards from there.
Man with the Golden Gun is a weird one. It unintentionally predicted the future success of Fantasy island (Young Christopher Lee looks a hell of a lot like Khan, lives on an island with the same manservant) but the movie itself is trying to catch on a wave of Orientalism (as is You Only Live Twice)
License to Kill is basically a really long, pretty boring episode of Miami Vice.
Casino Royale is an answer to the Bourne movies. Also it turned Bond into Dean Malenko.
EVERY scene implied that. In Harlem, literally every person was black and in on some evil plot. Random people on the street were calling back to the bad dude. People in the bars watched Bond get turned behind a wall and didn't even flinch. Later, they saw him get dropped down into the floor and have his table and drink immediately replaced WHILE THE SINGER WAS SINGING THE TITLE SONG AND MOCKING HIM and again, no one even flinched. The New Orleans brass band were part of the same gang. Then EVERYTHING on the island. I mean what in the flying fuck. You also had the one cop guy in the office saying things like, "get the pimpmobile", a random "kill that honky" line. That movie is unbolievable. In the sense I can't believe that got released as part of a major film series, even in the 70s. It's a blaxploitation movie, but made by white English people. SO awkward and uncomfortable.
Macho Madness
Member
THAT'S NOT CICLOPE!!!!!!!!!
Marvel
could never
The main demographic is 30-65 year old males. Is he over with the old folks?
Die Another Day is probably the best movie to pose the question of How Did This Get Made to as it is an abject failure on all levels. It messes up things that even other really bad Bond movies get right.
The CGI is bad. The cold opening is boring. The title song is god awful. The premise is boring. An Oscar winning Bond Girl whom they wanted to make a sequel series for puts in a worse performance than Denise Richards as a Nuclear Physicist. The villains are dumb. The plan is dumb.
Worst of all though? None of the action sequences work at all. You can give the other non Goldeneye Bronson movies crap for bits and pieces of that but the camera work is excellent, both have great cold openings, themes, and TWINE especially has some excellent acting (by everyone who is not Christmas Jones)
It's clear no one was having fun on Die Another Day. Pierce was completely checked out and knew this was it. It's no surprise the franchise took such a long break after it. No other movie in the franchise failed on this many levels.
The CGI is bad. The cold opening is boring. The title song is god awful. The premise is boring. An Oscar winning Bond Girl whom they wanted to make a sequel series for puts in a worse performance than Denise Richards as a Nuclear Physicist. The villains are dumb. The plan is dumb.
Worst of all though? None of the action sequences work at all. You can give the other non Goldeneye Bronson movies crap for bits and pieces of that but the camera work is excellent, both have great cold openings, themes, and TWINE especially has some excellent acting (by everyone who is not Christmas Jones)
It's clear no one was having fun on Die Another Day. Pierce was completely checked out and knew this was it. It's no surprise the franchise took such a long break after it. No other movie in the franchise failed on this many levels.
No clue, but I know he gets good pops when he enters an arena.
I'm going to watch that Reigns/Big Show match out of curiosity.
I haven't watched too many recent movies but I can't recall many that hang on shots so well for such long extended periods of time. Like when I re-watched Halloween in October, and I still think that's one of the best looking movies of all time. Not because of CG but simply because of how it's shot, what times of day it's shot, that opening uncut scene, etc. Even a kids movie like Home Alone drags on this long shots and they look absolutely incredible. Which how often do you say that about kids movies?
To be fair to more recent movies, there's like NO memorable shots in Jingle All The Way. But even Miami Vice, a TV show, has more consistently great shots than a lot of movies.
sf2fanatic
Member
Merry Christmas Wrassle Gaf!!
I feel a legit shook moment in the making in
match at the rumble.
I feel a legit shook moment in the making in
Brock/Sina
Sibersk Esto
Banned
Merry Christmas friends
Home Alone 2 gets a 4/10 at best
+ Nostalgic shots of 90s New York that are beautifully done. This is also bias on my part since I grew up there in that time period but whatever
+ 90s technology everywhere. I love seeing old CRTs and car phones and shit in these movies. It's why I can't watch many TV shows from that era because they don't show enough of it since everything's on a set
+ The soundtrack
- Tim Curry coming off like a creepy pedo for the whole movie. Why was he so interested in Kevin for no apparent reason? Because he walked into the hotel alone as a kid? Even though that happens all the time in tourist cities especially before the 2000s?
- Everyone in this movie
- Marv. Joe Pesci is ok but it's run a little thin. Marv annoys the piss out of me. I can't fucking stand this dumbass shtick. Fuck off Marv, I hope you lose your foot to Tetanus next time you step on a nail so you stop making your fucking shitty Three Stooges bits.
- The movie CONSTANTLY retreads and references the first movie. It's just lazy, and the parts that are different are so different that I struggle to see how it's a Home Alone movie beyond 'Kevin is a boy and he is alone' but he's not Home. So it's just Alone 2. I would have rather had a new kid, new robbers, new city than this. But the tired references to the first one just drag and drag. It's like a Robot Chicken skit. Yeah I get it you slept in last time too, yep you almost forgot Kevin again, yeah it's the robbers from the first movie, yep the wet bandits mhm, ok I get it yeah the angels with filthy souls from the first movie. Got it.
- The toy store set. Fucking lame nondescript toys that are based around Christmas. What kid is gonna want a Santa toy and be stuck with it in January? Fucking none of them. This is where I was hoping they would go crazy with product placement for once, but it was just generic Christmas shit. I should have seen TMNT figures, WWF figures, Game Boys, Crash Test Dummies, Trolls, etc. Instead I get trains and Santa I guess.
+ Nostalgic shots of 90s New York that are beautifully done. This is also bias on my part since I grew up there in that time period but whatever
+ 90s technology everywhere. I love seeing old CRTs and car phones and shit in these movies. It's why I can't watch many TV shows from that era because they don't show enough of it since everything's on a set
+ The soundtrack
- Tim Curry coming off like a creepy pedo for the whole movie. Why was he so interested in Kevin for no apparent reason? Because he walked into the hotel alone as a kid? Even though that happens all the time in tourist cities especially before the 2000s?
- Everyone in this movie
- Marv. Joe Pesci is ok but it's run a little thin. Marv annoys the piss out of me. I can't fucking stand this dumbass shtick. Fuck off Marv, I hope you lose your foot to Tetanus next time you step on a nail so you stop making your fucking shitty Three Stooges bits.
- The movie CONSTANTLY retreads and references the first movie. It's just lazy, and the parts that are different are so different that I struggle to see how it's a Home Alone movie beyond 'Kevin is a boy and he is alone' but he's not Home. So it's just Alone 2. I would have rather had a new kid, new robbers, new city than this. But the tired references to the first one just drag and drag. It's like a Robot Chicken skit. Yeah I get it you slept in last time too, yep you almost forgot Kevin again, yeah it's the robbers from the first movie, yep the wet bandits mhm, ok I get it yeah the angels with filthy souls from the first movie. Got it.
- The toy store set. Fucking lame nondescript toys that are based around Christmas. What kid is gonna want a Santa toy and be stuck with it in January? Fucking none of them. This is where I was hoping they would go crazy with product placement for once, but it was just generic Christmas shit. I should have seen TMNT figures, WWF figures, Game Boys, Crash Test Dummies, Trolls, etc. Instead I get trains and Santa I guess.
Jimmy King
Member
Merry Christmas brothers and sisters!
Merry Christmas Friends!
Really? I could've swore there was a CoffeeGAF.
(Me thinks you'll have to call them out.)
Understandable. I had an argument over this at work with somebody in that I said the first movie was better.
2nd Movie was basically a retread in New York.
It was alright as a kid, but looking back on it now....yeah.
Really? I could've swore there was a CoffeeGAF.
(Me thinks you'll have to call them out.)
Understandable. I had an argument over this at work with somebody in that I said the first movie was better.
2nd Movie was basically a retread in New York.
It was alright as a kid, but looking back on it now....yeah.
¡HarlequinPanic!;144643483 said:
Thanks for the feedback. I guess I'll keep doing what I'm doing. Sorry, MC Safety. Put me on ignore? D:
FallingEdge
Member
Merry Christmas nerds and marks!
Your idol Nash put over the Bullet Club and that should be good enough for you too, friend. Nash knows that the Bullet Club shirt is the most popular shirt since the original nWo shirt and Austin 3:16 shirt.
too sweet me bro
Your idol Nash put over the Bullet Club and that should be good enough for you too, friend. Nash knows that the Bullet Club shirt is the most popular shirt since the original nWo shirt and Austin 3:16 shirt.
too sweet me bro
There was some booze talk earlier. Last night I had Colonel E.H. Taylor Jr. Single Barrel Bourbon Whiskey. It was gross. I don't understand how people drink shit like that at room temperature with no mixer.
Breh, Live and Let Die might have been the best performance at the GNR show I went to as well. Which was very surprising, because it sounds pretty boring on bootlegs and what not. But live, it has so much energy, Kane flames, explosions and shit. It's rad.
Breh, Live and Let Die might have been the best performance at the GNR show I went to as well. Which was very surprising, because it sounds pretty boring on bootlegs and what not. But live, it has so much energy, Kane flames, explosions and shit. It's rad.
ChosenPredator
Banned
Happy christmas yall!
also what do you guys think of
Chuck taylor?
also what do you guys think of
Chuck taylor?
Carnby
Member
He makes good shoes.
British Monsoon
Member
Chucky T's one of the most underrated guys on the indies, dude's always a ton of fun and I hope to see him wrestle live one day.
Mixer is poison to good bourbon, but you should dilute it to taste - if I'm drinking it straight I'll have a couple of ice cubes to dilute it a bit, but generally I prefer an old fashioned. It's a pain to make, but goddamn does it taste nice. My recipe;
. put two teaspoons of sugar in your glass
. add a dash or two of Angostura bitters
. mix the sugar with the bitters for a minute or two
. add a cherry or two
. put in two ice cubes and a measure of bourbon, stir until the ice cubes are half melted
. repeat step 5 two to three to four times, depending on how drunk you want to get
. cut a large, flat slice of peel off a fresh orange, then over the glass bend the peel backwards upon itself and put a flame to it so the oil in the skin sparks into the drink
Mixer is poison to good bourbon, but you should dilute it to taste - if I'm drinking it straight I'll have a couple of ice cubes to dilute it a bit, but generally I prefer an old fashioned. It's a pain to make, but goddamn does it taste nice. My recipe;
. put two teaspoons of sugar in your glass
. add a dash or two of Angostura bitters
. mix the sugar with the bitters for a minute or two
. add a cherry or two
. put in two ice cubes and a measure of bourbon, stir until the ice cubes are half melted
. repeat step 5 two to three to four times, depending on how drunk you want to get
. cut a large, flat slice of peel off a fresh orange, then over the glass bend the peel backwards upon itself and put a flame to it so the oil in the skin sparks into the drink
People have simply given up. Doesn't matter that the product's been pretty good since the summer. The company's built up too much bad will from fans, and it doesn't matter what they do...people won't come back.
TNA lacks a top star. You can pull out names like Roode, Lashley, Hardy, Aries, etc. but no one has the cool factor of someone like AJ Styles to connect with the fans on a mass level. Well, maybe Hardy.
FlammableD
Banned
British Monsoon
Member
Welp, nice knowing ya Eugene.
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