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    Thank you for making this episode. It is amazing to me the level of disconnect that goes on in certain people's heads when discussing these issues.

     

    These same people that pride Apple in using human-centered design and ethnographic studies in making the new Iphone will turn around and call those same techniques "unscientific" when they are applied to social justice issues.

     

    These same people that use cry "free speech" (a very old concept) to defend rape jokes are quick to say other old concepts (women/minorities are inferior and property) have all died out and that everyone is just "too sensitive." They're the ones to say the past is in the past and has no bearing on how we live today.

     

    I think a big problem is that these people so up their own ass that they believe that the arbitrary biases and prejudices that they hold are somehow "logical". You can always tell them by their repeated use of the words "emotion" and "logic", even though the things they are saying don't make any sense at all. Its like they believe by just saying/writing the word "logic" will make their nonsense be true.

     

    I also liked what Jason said about people who complain about too many people on the planet. The solution in all of those people's minds is to kill millions of black and brown people. The West uses somewhere between 25-35% of the world's resources but doens't even have 25% of the world's population. When I point out that it would make much more sense to kill all of the people in the West, since we are the biggest consumers of resources, I get blank stares. When I say that the standard of living should go down in the West so that consumption is equal to population percentage, these folks get pissed.

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    OMISSION/EXTRA INFORMATION: This isn't as much an omission as a fact relevant to this episode. AUSTRIANS LOVE THIS MOVIE (at least those in their 20's to 40's). I have lived in Austria for a few years now and had never heard of this movie before coming here. Multiple people here asked me when I first arrived if I had ever heard of it. They love to ridicule Arnold's terrible English, and they specifically quote that scene Paul played where he's speaking to Zeus (Zeh-us) and he's not understandable. It was an Austrian cultural experience to get drunk and watch this movie with friends.

     

    ASIDE: I've been frequently asked how American's view Arnold, when he's in movies. Do we see him as an American guy or as a foreigner with an accent? Many here see him as having been Austrian but now being completely American. I have no good answer to this question, so I always quote the HDTGM "Jingle All the Way" episode where they point out that he's essentially presented as a small town all-American dad whose accent is not at all acknowledged, even though there is a mixup at the end with the only other Austrian man in the town, who is dressed in a Santa disguise.

     

    My point is: look how far Arnold has come. He went from this...let's say "movie"... to being a mainstream actor who's foreigness is not even acknowledged as a character trait to explain his thick accent.

     

    I heard somewhere that he has played a character named "John" atleast 8 times in his career. But it really should be Johann.

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    Oh yeah, I saw it. Fast Five is still the high water mark, but this one had tons of bonkers moments in its own right.

     

    Oh yeah it has some good moments. Cars jumping from building to building being one.

     

    ..And did you see The Rock in this movie?! He's a real-life Terminator. He's so damned huge that I really felt he could pick up cars and 1-ton machine guns.

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    Sure, our hero is a sex offender in her mid-40s that sleeps with a teenager, but the teenager is totes crazy so everything is alright!

     

     

    This is the synopsis of every Woody Allen movie. Damn, this is the like the fourth time this week, I've talked about him. There's a disturbance in the force.

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    So you feel free to be a terrible person to him because of that enormous assumption, which even if it were true, would not define somebody. Right. You have it all figured out. There's no way you thrive on drama and getting people angry at you. No way at all.

     

    A "terrible" person? I said he wasn't funny and is a rich, pampered guy. David Thomas equated these statements with murdered family members. Are you equating them to dropping the atomic bomb on Hiroshima?

     

    As for the second part of your statement. I just said I was here for June and that Armen sucks. I'm not in charge of other people's emotions. If having a different opinion about Armen makes them angry, then that's their problem.

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    Nope, pretty obviously an extreme example.

     

    And you feel that this extreme example is somehow relevant to this -- the most mundane of mundane examples -- why? They must be equivalent in your mind or else you wouldn't have brought it up. What sense would it make to bring up an extreme example and apply a solution that is only meant for mundane examples? It would be obvious that the extreme example is treated differently, wouldn't it? Well, that would be obvious to people who didn't equate saying someone is not funny to murdered family members...

     

    But you're not one of those people.

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  11. Posted · Edited by Shariq Torres

    PS If I burned down your house and cut your legs off and killed your mom your life would still go on.

    "_____'s life will go on" isn't an argument for doing something annoying/crappy/rude/whatever.

     

     

    Someone saying they didn't find Armen funny is the EQUIVALENT as the loss of a loved one to you, then? You need help, my friend.

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    Aww, poor dear :*-(

     

    These people are amazing. Someone having the nerve to have a different opinion than them and express it, makes them SOOOOO SAD!! You would think they were talking about 9/11.

     

    Listen, your lives will go on. Armen's life will go on. Kulap's life will go on.

     

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    Love this movie! Saw both this and Con-Air at the big multiplex downtown for free (my friend's girlfriend sneaked us in) and the crowd was raucous as hell.

     

    Another bad movie podcast, We Hate Movies, did this recently as well, and their conclusion is one I share -- this family should have just disbanded after all of this. Joan Allen sells the house and moves to Jamaica. The daughter -- after almost being raped by Masterson and hit on by her father -- would go live by the docks with other goths, doing goth stuff. John Travolta leaves the kid in custody of Protective Services and starts drinking heavily, which leads him to quit the FBI and go work for Ving Rhames as a hitman...and you know where I'm going with this. He ends up riding with his Bible-quoting friend talking about French cheeseburgers.

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    Face/Off Omission:

     

    I was surprised that the discussion of Face/Off did not include a mention of the trailer played in the preceding mini-episode, since that trailer appears to be for a completely different movie!

     

    The audio for the trailer consists of John Travolta as Sean Archer explaining his tireless pursuit of "the most dangerous and brilliant criminal mind" he's ever known, leading up to this set up for the movie: "and now after all this time, I've finally figured out a way to trap him: I will become him."

     

    Sounds compelling enough, but that is NOT the movie we all just watched! Archer doesn't become Troy to trap him -- by the time Archer becomes Troy, they've already caught him (in fact, he's in custody and in a coma and they use his actual friggin' face -- how are you gonna trap a guy AFTER you steal his face?!). No, Archer becomes Castor Troy in order to get his brother Pollux to reveal the location of a bomb.

     

    You could argue that maybe Archer is talking about Pollux Troy in the trailer, but c'mon, the film makes it clear he's obsessed with Castor, not Pollux.

     

    So what happened here? How did we get from the plot in the trailer to the plot in the film? WTF, mate?!

     

    The trailer was improvised as well.

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    I don't get how a comedian you don't like on a free podcast can get someone so worked up. Why not just stick to "I'm not a fan of Armen's comedy" and leave it at that?

     

    It's a free podcast; its's an open forum. The only people who are worked up are the people who are rushing to defend Armen's lack of talent.

     

    And what you're suggesting runs afoul of the Supreme Laws Of Earwolf Forums. We are actually not allowed to say anything that can be construed as being "negative" or else we're "assholes" full of "hate".

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    He's paying me in Armen Bucks. They are only redeemable at Sunglass Huts. It's...not a very good deal.

     

    Doesn't sound like it. Maybe you can trade them in for one of those Armen clones you spoke about earlier? I mean, it won't amount to much, but with a little work you could probably turn it into a cool lamp.

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    My biggest question here is why so many white knights are leaping to the defense of an uber-wealthy, marginally talented Hollywood personality that they will never meet and who will never read this forum.

     

    NathanJPK? Any insight?

     

    I think I can provide some insight. It's the very fact that Armen is uber-wealthy and marginally talented that prompts these people to cape for him. Even though he's not very funny and is a part of the 1%, to them, he's a just a poor, shy nerd.

     

    He likes comic books!

     

    He plays video games!

     

    He's just like them!

     

    In this scenario, we're the bullies because we don't find him funny and say so. They think they're protecting the quiet nerd from the big, dumb jocks, but in reality they're protected the rich kid whose dad just laid everyone off. The delusion they have runs deep.

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    I love all of you guys, but I also love Armen. As far as I'm concerned, he's just Howard with -900 confidence points.

     

    Wherever Howard was, I am confident that when Armen uttered the word 'motherly' he instinctively cried out, 'JESUS ARMEN!', and then went back to whatever he was doing.

     

    See, I have to respectfully disagree. I think Armen is doing a grotesque Woody Allen impersonation with -10000 the talent ( and hopefully -10000 the molestation). It's like someone locked young Armen in a room and made him watch every Woody Allen movie on loop for days, A Clockwork Orange-style. The result being Armen forever linking nebbish to funny.

     

    Poor guy. When you think about it like that, it's really not his fault, huh? The monster is the one who showed them those Woody Allen movies.

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