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  1. Szlia

    The Huntsman: Winter's War

    This is patently false. The main problem of the first film was that it felt like it was the result of 20 rewrites by 20 different people: it was a total mess that did not know what it wanted to tell. Also, Theron going bananas as the queen is probably the worst acting she has ever done, but...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    As far as Marvel film-verse go, isn't dropping an origin story for Hydra a pretty huge chunk thing to do in the TV serie rather than in a movie? Or is that origin very well known in the Marvel comics-verse? EDIT: On a side note, I am glad that Roz was not a double agent, but, in a way, it's...
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    Rugby World Cup!

    Lomu died of an heart attack today at age 40. He had severe kidney issue for years. He had a kidney transplant, played some rugby again, but got ill again and was waiting for another transplant, spending 6 hours a day getting dialyses... It's not clear to me if the heart attack is related to the...
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    Hodj is worse than AIDS, at least Charlie Sheen doesn't have him

    I probably got that in the part where you describe going "the shemale route" for porn as "growing out their hair, getting breast implants and putting on make up and tattoos." The blog post you linked was interesting, though it's not very clear if the stats about prostitution it presents...
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    Tennis

    Day 4! Pretty balanced match between Nadal and Murray with, as expected, a number of rallies and ridiculous time between points. It took them an hour to complete a set than Nadal won and in the second Murray really seemed like he ran out of gas while Nadal grew in confidence. The theory is...
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    Hodj is worse than AIDS, at least Charlie Sheen doesn't have him

    Your original post for reference.
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    Hodj is worse than AIDS, at least Charlie Sheen doesn't have him

    You explicitly stated that (without proof) and also that gay men where doing that (without proof). Why not straight men by the way since many perform in gay porn anyway? On a side note, I seriously doubt one could become a trans porn star without hormone therapy, even with implant. Maybe in...
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    Hodj is worse than AIDS, at least Charlie Sheen doesn't have him

    Not to be a dick, but that was not your original claim. Your original claim was that gay men transitioned (which in hodj's world means grow hair, get fake boobs and get tattoos) to work as MtF transsexuals in the porn industry as it pays better and, once they are done, they detransition (in...
  9. Szlia

    The Astronomy Thread

    When I saw the pictures, the thing that surprised me the most, given the short time the module could stay on Venus before melting, is how they managed to transfer the data fast enough.
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    Gods of Egypt (2016)

    The animations in this trailer are extremely bad. I mean the flying armor thing is the kind of result you would expect from a guy that hardly ever animated anything in his life. Buuuuuut... I am sucker for movies set during the antiquity so I'll keep a little optimism for this project.
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    Homeland

    I suspect that she turned a CIA asset (the living dead guy) into a KGB asset.
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Petty Crocker is screwed in the head... *cough* More seriously though, what is that contraption on the hood of that car?
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    Tennis

    The Berdych - Nishikori was a stange affair, with both player rarely playing well at the same time. They both played a little better than in their first match though. I did not get to see the third set where apparently Nishikori found a "get out of jail free" card on break point at 3-3 and then...
  14. Szlia

    Homeland

    Obviously the info is innocuous for all but a select few people. Things are not super clear, but since it involves former assets that Carrie managed, they probably don't want the info reaching Carrie or the assets themselves.
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    Memento Remake

    The thing that is a bit sad is that it's probably more profitable to shoot a remake that has 99.9% chances of being inferior to the original and release it than it is to rerelease the original movie in a crisp digital remaster.
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    Tennis

    Day 2 was a bit lame. Murray and Ferrer played a relatively close match, but the spaniard, who struggled with double faults though the whole thing, blinked at the end of both sets. The Wawrinka vs Murray match started very strangely by two breaks to love before turning into a pretty good battle...
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    Funny, Strange, Random Pics

    Pershing and Pigs : snopes.com Oups! FSRPT!
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    Tennis

    It's the Masters' Cup this week, aka The World Tour Finals. You know the drill: two pools of 4, best 2 go to knock out phase with the first of a pool playing the 2nd of the other. POOL A: DJOKOVIC: Did not lose a match since the US Open. Hardly lost a set. FEDERER: Suffered a...
  19. Szlia

    So, I'm dying...

    What lead to this situation and why can't a pacemaker or artificial heart help?
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    What are you listening to at the moment?

    Even if you don't like the music, do yourself a favor and check the dancer on the 2nd track (2:50 onward... at first it's like 'huh?' and then it turns into 'WHAAAAAAAT? HOW?'). Apparently it's a traditional dance from Ivory Coast called Zaouli (not sure if it's the name of the dance or...
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    Spectre (2015)

    I am not too sure what to think about it. Further analysis would be needed to be sure, but I suspect that it is a pretty elegant use of the James Bond mythos and a pretty clever thematic/symbolic work, mainly around the idea of the old vs the new (old headquarters, new headquarters, old style...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    Same. I think it was accidental misdirection, because Fitz said he would check the content of the phone for clues, so we were stuck in that mindset and expected him to find something when he checked the video clips. Not too easy to write it differently though. Maybe have Simmons mention the...
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    The Martian (2015)

    After all, comedy is not about the story, it's about the way the story is told. You have to admit The Martian is much more a comedy than it is a drama. It's almost a musical too!
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    Wonder Woman (2017)

    It should be mentioned that Catwoman was the 2nd feature film of Pitof, a french special effect specialist, known for his work with Marc Caro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet. You know, the Jeunet who a few year prior graced us with Alien 4... Patty Jenkins of Monster fame should bring the base level of...
  25. Szlia

    John Wick (2014)

    I thought Common was good in Hell on Wheels.
  26. Szlia

    The Ask Kuriin, A Gay Man, Anything Thread

    To make it clear to Lumie: if they don't live very long, it's not because they get killed by the government.
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    Homeland

    You must have a strange definition of an "event": the episode was choke-full of spying and counter-spying stuff and it resulted in a total shift of dynamics between the CIA characters and in Carrie getting the documents. They can't blow a plane every episode.
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    Metroid: The Sky Calls (Fan Made)

    I saw it the other day and thought it was pretty cool (what's up with the morphing every three frames when there are close ups of Samus' face though?), but I am really not a fan of the reorchestration of the score.
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    Bridge of Spies: Spielberg/Hanks Cold War Oscarbait

    I have never been a huge Tom Hanks fan, even if he stared in a number of movies I enjoyed, but he is very good in Captain Phillips.
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    Trumbo starring Bryan Cranston and Helen Mirren

    Saw it today in a film festival and I think it just got released in the US. The movie is solid with a great cast, it's entertaining and engaging from start to finish. I feel the movie is a bit at odds with its closing statement though (see spoiler below) and there is something that bothers me a...
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    Titanic

    They did a full digital remaster of it a few years back for the 3D re-release. I believe it involved scanning in 4k the Super 35 material. The idea being that, since you only use part of a 4:3 Super 35 frame for a film that will be screened in 2.35:1, scanning the Super 35 stock allows to show...
  32. Szlia

    The Knick

    Episode 3 was a notch under the first two. It also makes a strange narrative choice about the treatment of syphilis. The introduced the sweat box in a previous episode and now that they want to give someone a fever, they go for malaria (wikipedia spoiler: both techniques were used historically...
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    College Football 2015-16

    I know very little about the rules of american football... what's the rule about passing? In that Miami play, it's obvious that, like in rugby, you can only make passes backward. Does that mean you can only pass forward when you are the team on offense? Or is the quarter back the only player...
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    Ocean's 11 remake

    It's not about being lazy or lacking creativity, it's about creating a product with known brands that allows the marketing department to make a more precise revenue forecast aka minimizing risk. I'll let you decide if it's better or worse... On the up side, bad and/or generic ideas can make...
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    That's really what suspension of disbelief is about though. How believable, how internally coherent, is the fictional world that is presented to us. So it's not because there are people with super powers that it's A-Ok to have anything and everything happen in this fictional world.
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    White Wolf sold to Paradox by CCP

    I guess we'll never get that World of Darkness MMO we could have expected when CCP bought White Wolf... not a big loss as far as I am concerned, as it would have been in the contemporary setting, which I like a lot less than the Dark Age setting.
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    About the bamboo, while not said, I think it's reasonable to assume it has been brought there by the NASA people. If you don't care about ecosystem purity, bringing bamboo sounds like a good plan as it grows very quickly and provides some material that can be used very efficiently for a number...
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    Ye Olde Sodie Pops Thread

    God tier: Fanta Green Apple from a fountain distributor at the Ikebukuro station of the Seibu line in Tokyo, Japan, in the '90s. For something more available: fountain Sprite. For nostalgia: Sumol de laranja (basical the portuguese Orangina or Sinalco). That being said I have...
  39. Szlia

    NBA 2015-2016 Season thread

    Is Rose injured yet?
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    Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

    The important info I gathered from that is that Dr. Simmons has a problem with her menstruations... More seriously, that was a good episode even if it required a good deal of suspension of disbelief.