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  1. Szlia

    Your guilty pleasure movies

    Just about all the ZAZ movies (Hot Shot, Naked Gun, Airplane, etc ) but.... dubbed in french. I first saw them as a child/teenager in their dubbed version, so the nostalgia effect only works when linked to the timing, wording and slightly stilted delivery of the french dub that is ingrained in...
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    Future First Family and Hot Protesters Thread

    Maybe the asian father is the one taking the picture?
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    Movies You Must Show Your Kids

    If you show Mel Brooks movies to children, don't you have to spend longer than the movie explaining what the jokes are about? I mean The Producers seems like the start of a LONG conversation. Probably a good thing though.
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    ReRolled's SJW Thread Primer

    The middle east thread is also the thread where non-european people are trying to explain european people how Europe is.
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    Ben-Hur remake

    Fun fact: my late grandmother, when she was a child, saw a screening of the original Ben Hur. And I mean the 1925 silent film. Having the 2016 version be close to the book is strange when you consider this part from the wikipedia article about 1959 film: "The screenplay differed more from the...
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Saw a classic of indian cinema today: Pyaasa by Guru Dutt (1957), a drama about a penniless poet struggling with love and recognition in a society he increasingly despises. In this particular song (indian cinema, so there are songs!), he describes a poor red light district, with the hook asking...
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    Who are you voting against the least?

    With the coarsening of all discussions on the board, it seems the true artful trollers only have a single way left to stand out: post reasonable, level headed and well thought out messages. Picasso: the first post-troll of the board.
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    Who are you voting against the least?

    Voted shitpost to help show the portion of the board users that will not or cannot vote.
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    Ghostbusters (2016)

    You know how there are "switch" comedies where two characters that are very different switch places? Rich and poor, young and old, single and married? It sounds like this Ghostbuster is a meta gender-switch comedy. In that context, Ghostbuster is almost a pretext to do something else and that's...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    I must say I am not a fan of the multiplication of side characters with random powers. It has a big potential to turn the show into Deux Ex Machina central.
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    Gods of Egypt (2016)

    Note that Charles Dance's part is played by Donald Sutherland in the zombie-less version directed by Joe Wright. Another actor that can make almost any movie tolerable!
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    The Culling

    Reading these posts I can guess what the anthem for the game is:
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    Zootopia (2016)

    I have not seen the film so I can only provide you with a translation of his perception of the message: My understanding of it:
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    6 million views in 5 days so you might have seen/heard it:
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    Golden age of Television?

    Lithose: People had VCR before they got Tivo, but the point still has some merit. I don't remember taping a TV show episode. Astro: How is South Park a sitcom though? Even if we remove the notion that it should be done with multi camera in front of a live audience, a core element is the...
  16. Szlia

    Zootopia (2016)

    What was the nice message? I am asking because a friend of mine said it was well done and very funny, but that the message was revolting!
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    Golden age of Television?

    You could say that with Seinfeld, Friends, Married With Children, Dream On, Growing Pains the golden age of sitcoms is behind us. What do we have now? Big Bang Theory and How I met your Mother?
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    Golden age of Television?

    We have seen acting talents doing TV work, but also directing and writing talent. Though, when it comes to writing, it feels like, at some point in the last decade or so, writers became more interested by TV work than by movie work and as a result we have seen a lot more good writing in TV shows...
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    Golden age of Television?

    I would say it's a golden age for TV series. I am not sure that exactly means it is a golden age for television as a whole considering the golden age of TV News, depending on what metric you use, is probably not now. Same for the golden age of talk / variety / comedy shows. EDIT: I should add...
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    The Astronomy Thread

    My first guess is that you can't tell easily how... cohesive the asteroid is. By that I mean that it's tough to tell if it will not lose some chunks because of gravitational forces, making the trajectory difficult to estimate. And then there is atmospheric entry and bets are off as to what...
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    Mr. Robot

    Binged watched this show and had a tough time watching the whole thing. I have a number of beefs with the show, but the main one is that you take a very very good subject (big business, banking, cyber security, hacking, hacktivism), but you derail the whole thing into some rocambolesque story...
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    Electronic Dance Music

    Flipping through TV channels I landed on a concert from this "bad on purpose" french electro band called Salut c'est cool (Hi it's cool) that reminded me of this thread. Lyrics of the song: Techno Always the same Boom boom in the ears Junkie music No regular message Nothing to say
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    2016 Oscars

    As a foreword to this reply, I think it is important to note that at no point in these previous posts I talked about racism. I am merely trying to describe the situation, not the complex mechanisms that lead to the situation. About the ethnicity of mexicans: there is a number of ways to try...
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    What's that game?

    This thread did not find its Royal just yet!
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    2016 Oscars

    I am too lazy to relink it for you, but I think I already mentioned that mexicans of purely european descent are a small minority of mexicans. The fact they are an extremely visible minority is a socio-economico-cultural oddity that is probably more complicated than "old european money breed...
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    2016 Oscars

    Let me quote myself from a few pages back: Also Ang Lee got a nom' for Life of Pi and this year you had When Marnie Was There in the animated feature film category. In the acting categories, if the nominations are not common, winning is even more rare as only three asians won: the aforementioned...
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    What's that game?

    Interesting games, but not the one I am looking for. The programming language used for the scripts of the robots you hack is a game specific and very rudimentary language made with keywords such as "warning" and "stop" and minimal looping and conditional statements. I should also mention that...
  28. Szlia

    What's that game?

    Considering the success of the "Who's that girl?" thread and considering my google-fu is failing hard and for longer than I care to admit, let me start the "What's that game?" thread. So... I am looking for a game I played on PC in the past few years. I am not sure if it was a browser game or...
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    2016 Oscars

    If they went PE they should have gone all the way:
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    2016 Oscars

    Who predicted Spotlight? Because I did not!
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    2016 Oscars

    I saw only two of the best foreign film nominee, but Saul fia was indeed very good and the best of the two I saw.
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    2016 Oscars

    The Lubezki Award goes to Lubezki!
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    NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

    I am sure they are super pissed off, but once they sleep on it, I guess they'll realize you can live with the best team in the league having to summon two miracles and an all time NBA record to beat you. If they face each others in the playoff and the Warriors have to do that several time to win...
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    2016 Oscars

    The director is nominated.
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    NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

    Is Durant still playing basketball? I browse the thread from time to time and never see him mentioned in these best shooters / MVP talks.
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    2016 Oscars

    Saw Mustang the other day. A kind of turkish version of Virgin Suicide. It's pretty good until its not because of over-writing (a perfectly fine antagonist is turned into a big bad).
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    Blade Runner 2

    I'll be cautiously optimistic about that one. For me there is a big challenge: designing a future for Blade Runner's future. By that I mean that it should evolve from that 1982 idea of the future shown in Blade Runner and not be based on a 2016 idea of the future. That being said, the themes of...
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    Worst Republican poster?

    Some of the questions in the test are extremely poorly worded. But, unsurprisingly:
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Good job Sherlock, but you might have missed the fact he drew himself in the last panel.
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    TurboKid

    My knowledge of TV series from Quebec starts and stops at "Lance et compte" back in the '80s!