The_Triple_Lindy

Reservior Dogs, or any other movie featuring a cream gun Mexican standoff.

All I see is --

SO DARK!!!!

In a universe where facial contact with delicious desserts is fatal, we're all on borrowed time.

SO DARK

Despite the cream pie continuity issues with the last scene, if we accept that cream pies equal death, then this is one of the most violent movies ever made. Even Tarantino doesn't show the kind of POV head-shots that this flick does -- it's like if Call of Duty were set in prohibition-era Chicago. And the way the screen froze for just a second when they got hit made it even creepier. And for a second, in the final scene, it isn't clear at first that everyone is ok and the cream pies aren't actually killing them this time. And for that second, I was horrified thinking that this movie was about to end with a bunch of kids basically getting gunned down. Maybe that's just my present-day mentality reacting to a scene shot in 1976. Of course, the fact that they weren't getting killed in the end was simultaneously relieving and confusing. Like most of you, I had other things going on while I watched, and the thought I kept having was, "God, this music is hard to listen to." The pitch-shifted adult voices were intolerable. If they couldn't get child actors who could sing, they may as well just use unmodulated adult voices in the songs. That would've helped add an extra level of camp and it would've have been so grating on the ear. This is extra sad considering that the composition of the songs is actually quite engaging.

I think this tweet has given me The Glow ... thanks, Jammer! Also, it's hard to describe how mind-blowing Virtuosity was as a teenager in the dawn of widespread computer technology in the 90s. Of course it looks horribly dated and silly now, and the plot is ludicrous, but I got love for this flick. Plus, Denzel almost never plays a character like this. Can't wait for the next episode!

Pictured: Imma let you finish, but ...

So that's how U2 got the idea to put Songs of Innocence on my fucking phone!

Huh ...

Forgive my ignorance, but ... there are regional varieties of chopsticks?

Oh my god, this site sells Harlem Shogun t-shirts and now I own one!

This made me laugh, too ... that's a odd economics and small business ownership lesson thrown in the middle of an ass-whooping

Okay guys ... I know I am going way out on a limb here, but I posit that Sho’nuff and Bruce Leroy are the same person; Sho’nuff is old Bruce Leroy. We already see via “the glow” that the supernatural exists in the universe of The Last Dragon. Also, Leroy's Master (who is hilarious and didn’t get ANY coverage in the episode) sends Leroy on these random snipe hunt quests to teach him the lesson that the master he must find to get his glowing is himself, which is reemphasized by the empty fortune cookie. This would explain why Sho’nuff knows about Leroy and why Sho’nuff seems so obsessed with finding and defeating Leroy – because he is also trying to find and defeat himself. It would also explain why we don’t see Sho’nuff “glow” until the final sho’down with Leroy. Sho’nuff represents an alternate timeline for Leroy where The Master’s lesson never dawns on him, and he spends years of his life never figuring it out, and he grows more and more angry that The Master has punk’d him, and on top of that, his little brother constantly torments him about what a wussy virgin he is. This turns him evil, and he uses his power and skills to create his Harlem shogunate. How and why the time paradox occurs, I’m still working that out … I think the explanation is part of the lost 40 pages.

I bet you're right, because that warehouse/factory they fight in at the end should totally have had an incinerator. It could have played an integral part of their sho'down.

That's funny, because I thought Laura Charles could've been Maya Rudolph doing Diana Ross.

Didn't Laura Charles sing about incinerators in the 7th Heaven theme song (or whatever)? Which is extra odd because not only are there no incinerators in the movie, but there is also no fire, at all.

2 appearances: Chris Murney - The Last Dragon, Maximum Overdrive

The Matts mentioned all the actor/actress cross-overs between Bond and GoT and other franchises, but I don't think they mentioned that Geoffrey Palmer and Judy Dench starred opposite each other in As Time Goes By, the old British sitcom (although it was still on the air when TND was shot). And folks, if you think Palmer was Britishy in TND, just watch this show ... he's the most British man alive, which is kind of the show's entire premise.

I think I've updated recently, and my podcast app looks exactly the same ... I've got "Unplayed" instead of "Listen Now." And everything plays in the order they appear. But if this is something coming down the pike ...

Love Schmidty the Clam!

[/url]YYKoAqp

They could've thrown that line in during the chair torture scene in Casino Royale. Or, how 'bout a "Let's see the other guy do that!" by Roger Moore after running across the alligators in Live and Let Die?

I find the subtitles on most streaming platforms to be wildly inconsistent. Netflix is usually ok, and their original stuff is full of profanity and I have not noticed them censoring much. It is possible that the original production company provided the captions. But I have been re-watching a lot of James Bond on Amazon/Starz to follow along with the James Bonding podcast, and some of those subtitles are hilariously bad. You Only Live Twice was practically unreadable.

A lot of people here seem to have grown up with it, or at least seen it for the first time when they were young. We should never hold people accountable for the things they loved when they were kids. Anything this bright and shiny yet so full of crime and mischief would have appealed to me, too. But I did not see this as a kid. I saw this last night. Here is all I can muster: 1. The music is not terrible. I was singing "Doing it for Some Doll" earlier today. 2. Brando and Sinatra are both sexy as hell. Sharp and polished. Even though they look like they have a combined age of 150. Even though Brando talk sings "Luck" when Sinatra would have. Killed. It. Their zoot suit wise guy schtick was still pretty cool to behold. 3. This movie is set in the seedy parts of the Big City, yet everyone and everything is gorgeous. So, sexy people sinning it up. Always fun. 4. Everyone loves an anti-hero. Sky and Detroit could be the Jerry and George of their time, if Jerry and George played craps in the sewer. 5. I actually did like Sky's romantic rap on the church girl. He is a bad guy, but he knows enough about religion to correct her on her quote citation. You know he sealed the deal the moment he said the word "Isaiah." High school Triple would have aspired to be like that, and I was into shiny clothes, too. 6. It has shown me that not speaking with contractions sounds so odd these days as to sound almost elegant. So yeah ... worth seeing once. Glad I did. I will add it to the rolodex and probably get a few other Simpsons references I might not have prior.