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  1. After listening to Ian Robert's defense of the rules I've found their existence fascinating. When I saw the topic I was very must hoping for a simple breakdown of a rule that that would explain the issue of straight performers not playing gay more often.

     

    I failed to ask a Reddit question so I will ask it here with the blind faith it may one day be answered. What's the rule when a improv character is racist or bigoted? Every so often on I4H and on CBB a guest will be boxed into playing someone who is disgusted by some minority. You can hear the other performers team up and corner one person into that role. The "victim" is often not thrilled by the development but they play along to keep the scene going. Is there a rule that makes it easier for the performer to avoid killing the scene with a statement that goes to far?


  2. I always sigh when I see the new I4H is a musical guest but then I immediately love the artist. I'm probably just sad that it means we won't get a Crap on Youtube.

     

     

    Someone should let Matt know that AVClub switched it's format for Podmass. It's no longer a thumbs up/thumbs down review of that weeks podcasts. Now it's about finding Outlier podcasts and reviewing new and unestablished 'casts. At this point Improv 4 Humans is too big for what Podmass does now.


  3. I thought Jimmy would be the one to bring up the documentary Daughter From Danang if Besser didn't. Here is the AVclub write up on it.

     

    Reunions of family members who’ve been torn apart by hardship are among the most reliable tearjerkers. That’s likely what Gail Dolgin and Vicente Franco were thinking when they decided to make a film about Heidi Bub, a young woman born in Vietnam who’d been evacuated to the U.S. in 1975, near the end of the war, as part of what was called Operation Babylift. Having been raised by an American family from the age of 7, Heidi was eager to finally meet her birth family, and Dolgin and Franco tagged along with a camera to capture the heartwarming moment. Instead, Daughter From Danang unexpectedly became a slow-motion train wreck, as Heidi was perceived by her desperately poor Vietnamese relatives as their means of economic salvation. Radically different cultural expectations led to horrific misunderstandings, and the film essentially depicts Heidi’s complete mental breakdown; what was conceived as a feel-good journey of filial healing—a project that would salve old wounds even as it exposed them for our collective tsk-tsking—slowly but surely devolves into a fascinating, cringe-inducing portrait of cultural solipsism, climaxing in an emotional meltdown that wouldn’t look out of place in mid-period Cassavetes.

     

    Number 5 on the list

     

    http://www.avclub.co...se-durin-208522

     

     

    It already sounds like her investigation didn't devolve into that but I would love someone to ask if Kulap knew about that docu before she ventured on her own.


  4. This is a real train wreck, the kind of movie where in order to cover for having absolutely no meaning they just throw in 20 different conflicts per each act so it feels like something is going on. Frantic but going nowhere, like a drowning person. Just read the plot summary, it's more confusing than Primer. http://en.wikipedia....ched_(2005_film)#Plot

     

    Maybe 80% of the dialogue in this movie is Nicole Kidman talking to herself. The film also rewinds itself like 30 minutes and it's more unsettling than the scene in Funny Games. How can a film with both Stephen Colbert and Steve Carrell be so irredeemable?

     

    Also, billed last, under Trick-Or-Treater 1, Trick-Or-Treater 2, and Trick-Or-Treater 3 is Nick Lachey as Vietnam Soldier.

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  5. I watched this last night on Netflix streaming and it's a real Gem. Peter Stormare, "sugar sickness" gruesome deaths, and very well done and competent fights.

     

    It's an incredibly stupid premise with well shot fights. It's fun and would give the hosts plenty to discuss.


  6. Mind = Blown.wmv

     

    https://www.youtube....eature=youtu.be

     

    Marijuana is #BANNED and #ILLEGAL because it is a mind expanding drug that allows you to see the true nature of things. When you smoke buds with a certain type of purple and blue crystal, it activates your neuro centers and specifically a part of the brain called the cranial eczema. It is be(lie)ved that this part of the brain, regularly dormant in humans, is an ancient secret. Most pre-human societies were telepathic, using this center of the brain to communicate on a cosmic level and tap into truths that we don't know. This is why they never developed technology--no need for computers or war when you're already living in utopia. However some humans mutated and without cranial eczema activation were forced to discovering spears and crude weapons which they used to wipe out the peaceful telepathic pre-humans. It is this center of the brain that we tap into when listening to dubstep or smoking herb. It enfeebles us to be peaceful and be in touch with the divine, which is why the governments of the world want to unite to stop it and keep the people living in darkness. Whatever that's just a little bit of the stuff I know about and crazy shit I think about day to day.


  7. Not since that Will Smith and Son's film have I seen movie that announces that it's complete shit so quickly. Within the first 5 minutes the movie racks up the hammiest, most misguided, tone deaf choices you can imagine. This is the kind of failure only a master like Kenneth Branagh could create.

     

    If you dream is to see Jack Ryan get a PHD in economics and then work as a compliance officer on Wall Street for 5 years then this is the movie for you and you are an idiot.


  8. One thing I love about Todd and James being on the same show is how Todd likes to be super delicate and hesitant about "the situation," while James can be totally explicit and aggressive about it.

     

    Also, I could listen to these guys talk about damn near anything for two hours.

     

    I never actually knew James was gay so when Scott addressed him to provide insight I was a bit confused. Yeah, it is hilarious how different they are.

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  9. I really liked that episode. I've been peeking in on this show but this is certainly an ep that caused me to move from curious to looking up past and future works. Yet, I might be remembering it wrong, but I'm sure there was plenty of Forth Wall Breaking, self-referential, sarcastic comedy in the early 90's. That's where Last Action Hero bombed in my heart, the comedy was lame. The commentary was good. I still remember the line "Take his shoes?"

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