Lazlo Woodbine Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I can't think what other thread I could put these in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I can't think what other thread I could put these in. Answer: Any and every thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Hey, remember Armond White? He's still trolling. arts.nationalpost.com/2014/01/13/armond-white-expelled-from-new-york-film-critics-circle-after-allegedly-heckling-steve-mcqueen-at-awards-gala/ Film critic Armond White has been expelled from the New York Film Critics Circle after allegedly heckling 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen at the group’s annual awards banquet. The critics convened Monday and voted the CityArts critic out of the group. Entertainment Weekly‘s Owen Gleiberman, a member of the group, confirmed in an online post White’s expelling. White reportedly yelled expletives at McQueen when he accepted the award for best director at last week’s New York Film Critics Awards. He was quoted as loudly calling McQueen an “embarrassing doorman and garbage man.” Shortly after the incident, White denied having heckled McQueen, while saying that any remarks he made at the awards gala were meant for his seatmates only. “Did I make sotto voce comments to entertain my five guests? Sure, but nothing intended for others to hear and none correctly ‘reported,’ ” White told The Hollywood Reporter of the incident. “I don’t even know what it means to call Steve McQueen a ‘garbage man’ or ‘doorman’ even though the racist implications are obvious. None of this makes sense which is what happens when online journalism reports a malicious lie.” Known for his contrarian reviews, White lambasted 12 Years a Slave as “torture porn.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Just watched The Air I Breathe (2007). This movie probably had the weirdest cast I've ever seen: - Brendan Fraser - Forest Whitaker - Andy Garcia - Kevin Bacon - Sarah Michelle Gellar - Julie Delpy - Emile Hirsch - Clark Gregg - Jon Bernthal and - John Cho were all in this thing. The only thing that was missing was Nicolas Cage. The movie wasn't very good in case you're wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 The Fifth Estate: So you've got Benedict Cumberbatch looking like the guy who stalked Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard, and he's saying things like "People have a right to KNOOOOOOOOOWWW!" while slowly going mad with power. It's not great. I hope the inevitable Ed Snowden movie will be better and maybe include a car chase or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 The Fifth Estate: So you've got Benedict Cumberbatch looking like the guy who stalked Whitney Houston in The Bodyguard, and he's saying things like "People have a right to KNOOOOOOOOOWWW!" while slowly going mad with power. It's not great. I hope the inevitable Ed Snowden movie will be better and maybe include a car chase or two. Bah. If you want a decent movie about the geopolitics of hacktivism and the pursuit of truth vs. the moral quagmire of responsibly handling information, watch the documentary, We Are Legion. The history lesson you get about Anonymous and CDC is pretty interesting, especially if you are an IPSEC geek like me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Does it cover how the government uses Anonymous to make useless internet attacks so they bolster support for Internet control legislation? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Does it cover how the government uses Anonymous to make useless internet attacks so they bolster support for Internet control legislation? You've been watching too many old eps of The Lone Gunmen. Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 We Are Legion was on some station on DirecTV last night actually, and without doubt will replay, if anyone with said service wants to watch it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. Please don't make me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 We Are Legion was on some station on DirecTV last night actually, and without doubt will replay, if anyone with said service wants to watch it. It was on PIVOT early in the week but it has been on the YouTubes forever. If you plan to watch on your computer, be warned that it has some rough language and visual references stuff posted to /b/, so suffice to say that it is NSFW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Does it cover how the government uses Anonymous to make useless internet attacks so they bolster support for Internet control legislation? You've been watching too many old eps of The Lone Gunmen. Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. I know who signs your checks pal. I KNOW THE TRUTH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Does it cover how the government uses Anonymous to make useless internet attacks so they bolster support for Internet control legislation? You've been watching too many old eps of The Lone Gunmen. Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. I know who signs your checks pal. I KNOW THE TRUTH. I am very Jeffersonian which actually makes me a subversive in today's political climate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcosLoura Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Speaking of Moon Landing FAKERY~! Did you guys knew about the theory about theory about Kubrick being the director of said footage? I watched http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2085910/ Room 237, which deals with interpretations of sub-texts in The Shining and one of them was about Kubrick dealing with filming the moon landing and "apologizing" for it, it's interesting but super dumb imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 We talked about ROOM 237 here a while back. I think the moon landing theory is fascinating. The guy behind that one had a Youtube video that went into much greater detail, but I can't seem to find it right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwoy2j Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. Please don't make me... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 We talked about ROOM 237 here a while back. I think the moon landing theory is fascinating. The guy behind that one had a Youtube video that went into much greater detail, but I can't seem to find it right now. The Shining and the JFK assassination are probably the most notable cultural exampls of a Rorschach test: you ask someone what they think went on, and it tells you way more about them than it will about what actually happened. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 ^ It hurt me to like that. As discussed in the JFK thread, that's the ONLY conspiracy theory I give somewhat credence to (besides the one that says the Euro was Germany's 21st century plan to rule the continent, but IMHO that's less a conspiracy theory and more of using the material conception of history as your operating paradigm, so YMMV). And it's not so much as buying into the Belzer's of the world on JFK, but that the official account/magic bullet is just too much to accept at face value. I can't tell you what happened, but I can give my reasoning as to what I think DIDN'T happen. Everything else, from Fed Reserve to Moon landing, the official account is the correct one. Does it cover how the government uses Anonymous to make useless internet attacks so they bolster support for Internet control legislation? You've been watching too many old eps of The Lone Gunmen. Next thing you'll be telling me we staged the moon landings. I know who signs your checks pal. I KNOW THE TRUTH. I am very Jeffersonian which actually makes me a subversive in today's political climate. Without turning this political, the term "Jeffersonian" is tossed around a lot by both the right and left, and being both that the man was a walking contradiction, and that we generally have similar, if slightly contrasting views (at least on the international relations sliding scale), I'd be curious as to a slight expansion on what you mean here. (IIRC from the WikiLeaks thread way back when, you work for the DoD, correct?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzkrieg Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 So I watched Mission: Impossible 2 today on Netflix. Going into it I had to say I had a hard time remembering anything about it because I couldn't remember anyone actually ever commenting on it and I don't actually remember actually seeing a commercial for it when it came out. Like I remember the first one being a huge deal and I remember the third one(which I haven't seen either) because of JJ Abrams and Katie Holmes but the second one I just didn't seem to know anything about it. The Tom Cruise climbing sequence at the beginning at least refreshed my memory that it was the one with the nu-metal soundtrack but didn't help much more than that. I did learn from the credit sequence that it was directed by John Woo which I'm not sure if it would have mattered much to me when it came out. I don't think I saw Hard Boiled till I was in college.Anyway, I'm not sure what the general opinion of the movie is but I have to say for a dated action film I kinda loved it. The plot was pretty basic and straight forward, the cinematic choices for me were so over the top that they actually went from absurd to fun, and the convoluted action sequence setups looked so bad that I didn't mind them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I do find all the fuss about "what does it really mean?" over The Shining kind of interesting. It's not like Memento or Mulholland Drive where the story is genuinely difficult to work out. It's actually pretty straightforward. If people didn't know how famously obsessive Kubrick was over his work, would anyone really be trying to figure it all out? And if it is "well, Kubrick put hidden messages in there" why don't people get the same way over Lolita or Eyes Wide Shut which he also obsessed over? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antacular Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I've only in passing heard reference to Kubrick's involvement with the landing footage, but never anything about the hidden meaning of The Shining. From what I understand, it's a pretty faithful adaption of the novel, so wouldn't people be accusing King of doctoring Buzz's radio transmissions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 It takes the bare minimum of King's plot: family taking care of a hotel in the winter, dad going crazy, etc. But it's really different from the book. King famously dislikes it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 Yeah, it's really not like the book at all. For the better, I'd say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newb82 Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 IIRC, King has softened his dislike over the years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jrag Posted January 18, 2014 Share Posted January 18, 2014 I just got back from HER. Sort of blew my mind a little bit! I really wish Jonze had snagged an Oscar nomination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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