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Haley Center Basement / Re: Kaos' way behind movie reviews
« Last post by Kaos on Today at 06:57:19 PM »Three quick ones for you:
Ghosted
Tried really hard to hit the spy spoof center, but ended up missing badly. Anna de Armas and Captain America (Chris Evans) in a twist on the bumbling citizen gets pulled into a massive spy conspiracy game.
de Armas is the spy, Evans is the inept besotted farmer along for the ride. Should have been so much fun. Unfortunately the chemistry between Evans and de Armas just wasn't there. The plot kept twisting sideways and upside down. Numerous cameos from Ryan Reynolds to Bucky the Winter Soldier to Falcon, but even those couldn't save it.
It really lost me when de Armas was driving a bus backward down a mountain pass in Khandar with at least four guys chasing her in a vehicle, all armed, all firing away at the bus and she never got hit. They were literally 10 feet away with a truck-mounted gun.
It was kinda cute, but failed to deliver in the way it should have.
Argylle
A really chunky Howard daughter as an author who writes spy novels that are too close for comfort to the real spy network. Sam Rockwell is the deep cover spy tasked with grabbing her before the bad guys - who know her upcoming book will expose secrets - can get their hands on her and her ridiculous cat.
This one flips the script so many times that it was hard to keep up with who was on whose side. Bryan Cranston, Superman Cavill, John Cena, Samuel L. and a nearly mummified Catherine O'Hara (did she leave Kevin home again?) make up the rest of the cast.
This one was really poorly paced and an absolutely ridiculous colored-smoke dance/fight scene did the film no favors. Would have been nice to like it, but the bizarre ice-skating-on-an-oil slick scenario was too much to bear.
Bad.
Napoleon
Looked forward to this. The French Revolution was a fascinating era, as was the Emperor's rise and fall - as well as his well-documented fascination with Josephine.
This film did a really good job with costumes. The battle scenes were great. But it felt far too much like a series of disconnected vignettes, none of which combined to tell the entire story.
Part of it was the completely flat, dry, and emotionless performance by Joaquin Phoenix as Bonaparte. Most of the movie consisted of him slouching around looking very much like a constipated owl. I was really disappointed in his or the director's take on Napoleon's countenance and behavior.
It briefly skated past significant events and personalities (Robespierre for one) in its rush to showcase Napoleon making odd noises while he stared at Josephine or to stage the next sprawling battle scene. There was so little context, so little explanation of why those people/events mattered that it failed to connect. It took such liberties with the history I remember, that it was difficult to watch.
Napoleon's story, framed as a part of the Revolution, is one that deserves to be told. Just not like this. Done properly, it really should be more like a limited series, maybe four episodes.
Can't argue with the visuals. But once you got past that facade, the rest of the film was an empty shell. Kind of like biting into what looks like a delicious buttery croissant only to find that the insides are nothing but air.
Ghosted
Tried really hard to hit the spy spoof center, but ended up missing badly. Anna de Armas and Captain America (Chris Evans) in a twist on the bumbling citizen gets pulled into a massive spy conspiracy game.
de Armas is the spy, Evans is the inept besotted farmer along for the ride. Should have been so much fun. Unfortunately the chemistry between Evans and de Armas just wasn't there. The plot kept twisting sideways and upside down. Numerous cameos from Ryan Reynolds to Bucky the Winter Soldier to Falcon, but even those couldn't save it.
It really lost me when de Armas was driving a bus backward down a mountain pass in Khandar with at least four guys chasing her in a vehicle, all armed, all firing away at the bus and she never got hit. They were literally 10 feet away with a truck-mounted gun.
It was kinda cute, but failed to deliver in the way it should have.
Argylle
A really chunky Howard daughter as an author who writes spy novels that are too close for comfort to the real spy network. Sam Rockwell is the deep cover spy tasked with grabbing her before the bad guys - who know her upcoming book will expose secrets - can get their hands on her and her ridiculous cat.
This one flips the script so many times that it was hard to keep up with who was on whose side. Bryan Cranston, Superman Cavill, John Cena, Samuel L. and a nearly mummified Catherine O'Hara (did she leave Kevin home again?) make up the rest of the cast.
This one was really poorly paced and an absolutely ridiculous colored-smoke dance/fight scene did the film no favors. Would have been nice to like it, but the bizarre ice-skating-on-an-oil slick scenario was too much to bear.
Bad.
Napoleon
Looked forward to this. The French Revolution was a fascinating era, as was the Emperor's rise and fall - as well as his well-documented fascination with Josephine.
This film did a really good job with costumes. The battle scenes were great. But it felt far too much like a series of disconnected vignettes, none of which combined to tell the entire story.
Part of it was the completely flat, dry, and emotionless performance by Joaquin Phoenix as Bonaparte. Most of the movie consisted of him slouching around looking very much like a constipated owl. I was really disappointed in his or the director's take on Napoleon's countenance and behavior.
It briefly skated past significant events and personalities (Robespierre for one) in its rush to showcase Napoleon making odd noises while he stared at Josephine or to stage the next sprawling battle scene. There was so little context, so little explanation of why those people/events mattered that it failed to connect. It took such liberties with the history I remember, that it was difficult to watch.
Napoleon's story, framed as a part of the Revolution, is one that deserves to be told. Just not like this. Done properly, it really should be more like a limited series, maybe four episodes.
Can't argue with the visuals. But once you got past that facade, the rest of the film was an empty shell. Kind of like biting into what looks like a delicious buttery croissant only to find that the insides are nothing but air.
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The SGA / Re: What would it take?
« Last post by jmar on Today at 05:06:47 PM »In my house it does! The Snake charmer verifies it daily with the example below:Yes and I would even venture to say that these two opposing responses are universal since man has walked the earth. One might however have some hot charming success late initial phase and during the second trimester, buns and all. The correct food suggestion or bribe is all important at this stage. Get to fetching!
It’s either…
“Yes, Honey. I want you.”
OR
“Don’t touch me!”
The 2nd one is far more frequent now that she has a bun in the oven.
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The SGA / Re: What would it take?
« Last post by Kaos on Today at 04:53:38 PM »The diary has not been proven or disproven, but the details of the diary were sent with legitimate tax documents. Smoke & fire and all that.
This actually is not true. The existence of the diary and its contents was validated when the person who obtained it was arrested, charged, and convicted of stealing it.
A Florida woman who stole and then sold a diary and other items belonging to Ashley Biden — the daughter of President Joe Biden — to a right-wing media group weeks before the 2020 election was sentenced Tuesday to one month in federal jail and three months of home detention.
You cannot jail someone for stealing something that does not exist. That she spoke of multiple instances of molestation and "hyper sexualiztion" also cannot be denied.
It can be ignored by mainstream media because it doesn't fit the narrative of Ice Cream Jack. It can be ignored by people who are blinded by loyalty to false idols. But it's right there in her own, verified, handwriting.
Don't jump!
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The SGA / Homey The Clown Today
« Last post by Kaos on Today at 04:42:58 PM »Utterly useless Home the Clown twit addresses the media today.
Declares the WH will not discuss Iran or Israel - basically the only reason anyone was in attendance - and instead pivots to an attack on the Second Amendment by invoking flipping Columbine.
THIS is what wes supports. THIS!
Declares the WH will not discuss Iran or Israel - basically the only reason anyone was in attendance - and instead pivots to an attack on the Second Amendment by invoking flipping Columbine.
THIS is what wes supports. THIS!
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The SGA / Re: What would it take?
« Last post by Snakebite on Today at 04:20:29 PM »This part: “ It's an unfortunate binary choice” doesn’t apply to sex, though right?
In my house it does! The Snake charmer verifies it daily with the example below:
It’s either…
“Yes, Honey. I want you.”
OR
“Don’t touch me!”
The 2nd one is far more frequent now that she has a bun in the oven.
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The SGA / Re: What would it take?
« Last post by WiregrassTiger on Today at 04:03:19 PM »No. It was not. I keep hearing that around here, but it is patently untrue.This part: “ It's an unfortunate binary choice” doesn’t apply to sex, though right?
The laptop business has such a fucking flawed foundation as to be nonsense. The chain of custody is beyond fucked. As to the favorable banking...what do you think margie and her drooling cohorts have been digging at the past two years? They have found...nothing. Not a single fucking thing.
Eh...if there was a story here, the Rs would be all over it, 24/7. I'm open to hearing more, but I'm going in skeptical.
At this point it's an existential question of whether our attempt at democracy lives or dies. It's an unfortunate binary. I dislike much of our foreign policy. I think the DNC is too mealy mouthed when they could take stronger positions that are demonstrably popular. That said, a second Trump term would be disastrous in ways that I don't think people are willing to admit are possible.
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War Damn Eagle / Re: Portal Time Again
« Last post by jmar on Today at 03:35:17 PM »It was. The boy is not the sharpest tool in the shed but at least he’s still a tool. And he tries really hard.It's really our job to put him in the best possible place to thrive and be a winner.
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The SGA / Re: What would it take?
« Last post by wesfau2 on Today at 02:50:31 PM »From that shining beacon in the night of unbiased reporting, NPR
Mueller Report Doesn't Find Russian Collusion, But Can't 'Exonerate' On Obstruction
MARCH 24, 201910:52 AM ET
By
Carrie Johnson
,
Philip Ewing
,
Jessica Taylor
Special counsel Robert Mueller did not find evidence that President Trump's campaign conspired with Russia to influence the 2016 election, according to a summary of findings submitted to Congress by Attorney General William Barr.
"The Special Counsel's investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election," Barr wrote in a letter to leaders of the House and Senate judiciary committees on Sunday afternoon.
That was despite "multiple offers from Russian-affiliated individuals to assist the Trump campaign," he wrote.
However, Mueller's investigation did not take a position on whether Trump obstructed justice by trying to frustrate the ongoing investigation.
"[W]hile this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him," Barr quotes from Mueller's report.
The attorney general wrote that he and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had concluded that the findings of the special counsel were "not sufficient to establish that the president committed an obstruction-of-justice offense."
The Justice Department leaders reached that conclusion, Barr wrote, without regard to the "constitutional considerations" that surround whether the department can seek an indictment of a sitting president.
White House exults
Trump talked with reporters as he prepared to return from Florida to the White House, calling the investigation "an illegal take-down that failed."
"It was just announced there was no collusion with Russia, the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard. There was no obstruction, and it was a complete and total exoneration," Trump said before boarding Air Force One. "It's a shame our country had to go through this, and to be honest, it's a shame your president had to go through this."
Trump also said: "Hopefully someone's going to look at the other side," seeming to revive suggestions that he wanted an investigation into his 2016 Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton, which he has called for several times.
Asked if he found evidence of collusion between the Trump campaign and Moscow, Mueller said his team avoided the term “collusion” because it had no legal application. Mueller acknowledged there was insufficient evidence to establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russians, but he said it would not be accurate to suggest there was no evidence of coordination....
Under oath, Mueller said:
The Russians had led a campaign to swing the 2016 election in Trump’s favor and committed crimes to achieve that goal; The Trump campaign was receptive to help from the Russians; Donald Trump Jr said he would “love” to receive dirt on Hillary Clinton from the Russian government; As a candidate, Trump publicly urged the Russians to hack Clinton’s emails; Trump pursued a lucrative Trump Tower project in Moscow during the campaign; Multiple top Trump campaign and administration officials were convicted of lying to investigators about their contacts with Russians
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/24/robert-mueller-testimony-key-takeaways-exoneration-indictment
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War Damn Eagle / Re: Portal Time Again
« Last post by WiregrassTiger on Today at 02:48:47 PM »Agree WT. That was a very impressive correction.It was. The boy is not the sharpest tool in the shed but at least he’s still a tool. And he tries really hard.