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21 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:I'm about 15 minutes in to Velocipastor and oof, for a 70 minute movie this already feels pretty long. I'll probably get high and finish it tonight.
Anyone else have long weekend plans? If you have a PS4 and haven't picked it up already, there is a big sale on one of the editions of Red Dead Redemption 2, which is apparently how Jason spends a lot of his time these days according to his appearance on How Did This Get Played?
Velocipastor is pretty nutty and I was sold as soon as the "insert burned car" or whatever popped up on the screen. As for RDR2, that was a truly amazing game that still hasn't had all of its easter eggs and hidden gems discovered in it, plus you can literally spend hours doing countless things that don't do anything to progress you through the game as Jason was doing by fishing and hunting, and still feel fulfilled when you stop playing.
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6 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:I don't even understand the logistics of it, so he's renting out the theater, producing/starring/directing a play. Then he invites a bunch of talent scouts/agents to take time out of their schedule to watch an entire production of a play that even by that point has already been mocked endlessly in a variety of mediums.
Couldn't he have just taken that money and just hired an agent. Like if he has money to fund his own production of a Streetcar Named Desire, he has enough money that a number of talent agents would be more than pleased to represent him if only to relieve him of that money even if they don't believe in his talent as an actor.
It is a real Hollywood-centric trope because they did a similar thing in La La Land where Emma Stone emailed a bunch of agents/casting directors and invited them to her one woman show. Yet as Emily Heller pointed out and Cracked later reported on, she didn't BCC the emails and made this mix of fairly big industry names and mid-level guys all the recipient, so everyone could see each other's email address which is a business no-no and makes you come of as an idiot and not worth hiring, which leads to the scene where a small fraction of the recipients showing up to her show.
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11 hours ago, GrahamS. said:When this film came out, I was 33, which is ten more numbers than 23. I turn 46 this month, which like you said, is 23 twice. It’s been 13 years since 2007 and look at our luck this year!
IT’S TIME TO WAKE UP, PEOPLE!!!!
If they don't get James Adomian for this episode then this is all for nothing!
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Prior to this post are 46 other posts, which is 23 twice. Also not including short films or bit parts/cameos when he was getting into acting, this is Carrey's 23rd major theatrical release.
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10 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:Yea Hartnett is kind of a trip in this movie his performance is bizarre and all over the place. Harrison Ford's wasn't much better but for him it was definitely more obvious that his was due to poor writing and dialogue.
Like even taking into account that he's playing someone who with zero irony thinks that a self-funded production of A Streetcar Named Desire is a legitimate launchpad into acting stardom, his character is incredibly weird.
If someone told me that Hartnett's character and storyline were written based on the life of Tommy Wiseau i'd have a hard time disbelieving them.
They were also not overly fond of each other throughout filming which explains why they are so awkward together onscreen.
I kinda understand the reasoning for renting a theater to showcase your acting ability and that you're so dedicated to the craft because you're willing to do so, but it seems like something that would have been common in the 30s and 40s when there wasn't things like demo reels that a person could submit to a casting agent. It's like Hartnett's character had read acting books but none of them were recent ones so he was going off out of date, decades old guides.
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On 8/26/2020 at 9:25 PM, muttnik said:Man, the gamer stigma of the past is so weird to me, I'm retroactively bummed for your experience. Growing up, pretty much every kid played video games, and if they didn't have a home console they'd play at a friend's house who did. During downtime in class, Nintendo Power and other gaming mags were freely passed around. There was a waiting list to play Oregon Trail on the few computers our elementary school had. I don't recall any adults ever chiding us for playing games. My father enjoyed playing Zelda, and my mother enjoyed watching my brother and I play. She still brings up how funny it was listening to me play GTA III while she was on the computer. The only criticism I recall from them was not to waste money at the arcade on a game if they could buy it for our Nintendo.
I could never get a perfect alignment during the matching mini-game in SMB3. Either the bottoms or the middles would always be off. I'm still bitter about it.
Yeah it kind of changed around the turn of the millennium in how people viewed video games I feel. My parents would play everything from Mario Kart to Goldeneye with me on the N64, but then stopped when it came to playing the Playstation as they felt there were too many buttons, which is nuts considering what the N64 controller looked like. It's not like the cost of playing a home console was the reason people turned their noses at gaming, as everything has basically stayed the same price since the 80s, and is actually cheaper today if you consider inflation. I wonder if it's more to do with the growth of things like eSports or streaming that has caused people to treat gaming as an entertainment outlet akin to how horror movies were treated in terms of cinema during the 80s and 90s.
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11 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:Just have to recap some of the craziness that goes on in this movie who are unaware how insane this movie is. Harrison Ford is a real estate agent/Homicide Detective who is in a relationship with an actual psychic who previously dated another cop in Internal Affairs who is trying to arrest Harrison Ford's character for crimes that the movie seems to concede that he actually committed.
To the extent that in the middle of an investigation Harrison Ford is interrogating the witness to a murder and mid-way though their conversation tries to sell him a house. Even the climax of the movie has Ford negotiating the price of the house in the middle of the big action scenes at the end. At one point Ford manages to track down a witness because he makes the connection to the witnesses last name to a former back-up singer to Aretha Franklin who by perfect coincidence he just happened to recall offhand.
Josh Hartnett's character is a Homicide Detective/Yoga Instructor/ Struggling actor. Who just so happens to have a father who was murdered on the job by his father's former partner who by sheer happenstance is the henchman of the villain of the movie. And even more coincidentally is also in in cahoots with the internal affairs detective hassling Ford's character.
Hartnett's character and performance are both very strange. Its absolutely insane that Hartnett's commitment to being a cop seems as tenuous as a teenager taking a summer job at Hot Dog on A Stick.
It seems like there were re-writes for this and the final writer lost his mind trying to tie up every storyline. Also it's amazing that even after his horrible performance in this, Hartnett was the lead choice for Superman in Superman Returns, only for him to turn it down. Just imagine the level of HDTGM that movie could have been with him in the role.
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This is definitely one of those movies where everyone involved is too far into the woods to see the trees, which happens a lot with these type of inside the Hollywood machine films. They either are so inside that no one gives a crap about anything happening within them (What Just Happened, Burn Hollywood Burn, among others) or they are parodies that make light of the reality and how absurd it actually is (Tropic Thunder, Last Action Hero, Entourage to an extent) but this kinda slumps in the middle because it's about probably the most mundane thing about making a movie, the press junket. It doesn't help that Zeta-Jones is completely unlikable in this film so the audience has no reason to root for Cusack to want to get back with her and Crystal is at times a genius at building anticipation for the movie and at others a complete idiot in trying to keep the train on the tracks so that the junket is a success. Then you have Walken who breaks so many laws in making his movie that even John Landis would say "hey dude that's too far," but it's okay because he's the kooky guy who bought the Unabomber's shack and now lives in it, and this movie is glorious clusterfuck.
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On 8/26/2020 at 6:40 AM, jimkiler said:Lame, it is no longer on netflix! Why wouldn't it still be available 6 years later?
I watched it recently on Amazon though I can't recall if that was because I have Shudder or if it's on Prime as well.
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1 hour ago, DrGuts1003 said:The episode does a great job of pointing out the large flaws of this movie, but there were several small things throughout the movie that really irked me.
1. I found the throwing away of the trays with the flight info to be incredibly wasteful. Why not throw out the paper with the flight info and just reuse the tray?
2. I was bothered by Teresa Palmer putting her ice cream cone inside the cup with Dylan's phone that was being used as the speaker. There is no way his phone or that speaker are not a complete sticky mess with melted ice cream.
3. Dylan ended every text message with "D." You are not sending letters or even email, you do not need to indicate who you are in every text message. What an unnecessary waste of time.
4. If Jonas does not intend to kill Teresa Palmer, then why does he bring a gun with him when they try to go away together for the weekend?
I wonder if there is something more to the tossing of the trays that was either cut from the movie or just not explained because it also seemed wasteful to me, though I thought perhaps someone else was taking the papers out and restocking the trays later. I also noticed that Teresa ended every single one of her texts to Dylan with 'xxx" which I have never seen in a movie outside of a person who is having an affair, only for their significant other to find the text on their phone.
As for Jonas' intentions at the end, I do think he had the intention of killing Teresa as a backup plan, which is why Dylan had to go to the train station to stop it from happening. It's clear to me that Jonas, who I though was played by mumble-horror mainstay Joe Swanberg for half of the movie, also knew he was a reincarnation as he was stalking Teresa with his whole mega-apartment being filled with portraits of her and that collage of headshots of hers, and saying things like how he hopes Dylan realizes how good he has it being with her and other clingy crap. Then when they are at Grand Central, he asks the ticket guy for tickets to that station that has been closed for 30 years, which if I'm that ticket seller I start wondering why multiple people are asking for tickets to a place that hasn't been running in decades. It's at this point Teresa is starting to see the signs as well and realizes that Dylan was right about the connection between them and the victims from 30 years prior, piled onto by Jonas calling her the previous girl's name. So when she starts to push away from him as he's got both hands on either side of her face and is beet red demanding she say she loves him, it's clear the next thing would have been him using that gun on her right then if Dylan hadn't shown up and taken Jonas' attention off of Teresa. And Dylan breaks the cycle of 2:22 by taking the bullet meant for Teresa, which didn't happen in 87 as evident by how piss poor it was explained in the movie. The standoff concluded with the cop killing the pregnant woman, the guy she really loved killed the cop, and the cops killed him and then framed him as a criminal to cover up the fact that this detective just unprovoked murdered a pregnant chick.
Also did this movie have the most overt, on-the-nose soundtrack ever? The ballet song was about being alone and finding someone to love, the park dance song had a similar message and if I recall the flashbacks had some overt music.
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On 6/11/2013 at 9:26 PM, isaiaher said:(Ending Spoilers for those who haven't seen it)
But the two scientist guys who placed the code in the magazine were against killing the kid. Alec Baldwin wanted the kid dead. Also, they wouldn't replace the code because, as Alec Baldwin continuously says, this code was worth $2 Billion and blame for the code being cracked would go on Alec Baldwin?
Did I mention Alec Baldwin is in this? And that when he falls to his death at the end, complete with Suit and Tie, I laughed for about a minute
What's more stupid is that the code is a McGuffin and they flagrantly flaunt that fact when anyone tries to explain what the hell it is, they are killed. Yet apparently it's so important that Baldwin and his main lackey will openly try to kill a kid and FBI agents. I can't even imagine what Baldwin's exit strategy for that plan would be as he would instantly become the most wanted man in the country for a list of crimes as long as my arm.
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What always gets me about this movie is I forget how stacked the cast was with either established stars or people who would become stars soon after its release: Smith, Voigt, Hackman, Regina King, Jack Black, Seth Green, Barry Pepper, Jake Busey, Jamie Kennedy, Lisa Bonet, James Legros, and Tom Sizemore were just a few names of what could easily be the movie with the most HDTGM All-Stars in a single film.
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10 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:Yea its a special kind of terrible to accept a role and then spend all your time on set being resentful towards everyone for his decision to take a job he felt was "beneath him" Bear in mind this is after starring in a movie about the government trying to murder a severely autistic child for being good at puzzles.
Well to be fair they wouldn't have tried to kill him if it weren't for the dipshit analyst's putting the secret code and phone number for the black bag operation they were working for in a magazine puzzle for shits and giggles. The fact that this code is a McGuffin so important that a top NSA agent would try to murder a child in full view of a team of FBI agents and civilians is all the more infuriating.
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29 minutes ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:Yea the last full leading role movie I saw him in was Cop Out which he was famously a dick on set for. Which is a shame because the movie definitely suffered because of it, it had its issues but alot of them could have been saved by him just saying fuck it and shooting for the moon and having a good time.
It's a shame he's so close-minded, he's a talented dude who could easily have a solid run on t.v. At the very least he would stand a much greater chance at doing something better than the straight to dvd stuff he's been doing for years.
Oh he could easily pull an Alec Balwdin and have a career revival with the right show, doesn't matter if it's a comedy or a drama. Him in a show akin to Breaking Bad or Ozark could be fantastic especially with how he's done those types of roles in the past. The Cop Out situation was an additional bummer in that basically everyone else involved wanted to do the movie because of his involvement and he was a shit about the whole thing. Kevin Smith at least took a good bit of credit in that movie's failure but listening to him discuss how elated he felt to know Willis was on board for the movie after the great time they had working together on Live Free or Die Hard, only for Willis to do a complete 180, along with how the whole ordeal impacted Smith where he was mentally at the time, is just another one of those examples of never meeting you're heroes because you'll just be disappointed.
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On 8/18/2020 at 7:28 AM, CNU2007 said:This is based on a comic or graphic novel? A video game? Toys? Did they think this was going to be some type of hit? Even if they did a good job, this isn't the type of movie that would generally spawn merch and toy sales. WTF
It's based on a Dark Horse comic that was originally written as a screenplay in the early 90s, but when the writer realized that current effects wouldn't have been able to match his ideas and visuals, he sold it to Dark Horse to be turned into a comic. And given that the series was only 4 issues shows how barebones the screenplay had to have been.
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6 hours ago, theworstbuddhist said:I just watched that remake of Death Wish and while I would say I enjoyed it more than the original, which wouldn't be hard, it is certainly not great. It felt like Willis was perplexed in the same way the audience was about why this film was being remade in 2020. It's yet another film (after that weird revenge-against-women picture he did with Keanu Reeves) where I wonder what the hell Eli Roth is thinking these day
Willis is frustrating. He has been in some really good indie/nontraditional action films like 12 Monkeys and Unbreakable and obviously he enjoys being this generation's John Wayne when the script calls for an elder statesman figure. Otherwise he seems to be caught up in his generation's straight-to-streaming crapshoot along with people like Pierce Brosnan.The original Death Wish worked in that it grounded itself in the reality of the times where there was a large uptick in crime around the country, especially in metropolitan areas like New York City where the film is set and while the film and its eventual sequels embraced the vigilante violence, the book it was based on had the theme of it being completely wrong and to let proper criminal justice work. Willis' version started off on the wrong foot from the first trailer, which went from him looking kind of depressed after his family is attacked, to blaring "Back In Black" by AC/DC and him popping of one-liners and laughing with his therapist while he's a trap setting crime fighter at night with zero training or prep, creating the wrong kind of tone to associate with the movie.
I have to assume his firing from Expendables 3 was what soured him for a lot of the bigger studios as after that happened, the only movies that he was in that went to theaters were either sequels to movies he had done (Sin City 2, Split & Glass), a tiny cameo in the second Lego Movie, Rock the Kasbah, Motherless Brooklyn, and Death Wish, with Death Wish being the only non-sequel he was the lead in. Outside of those he's done SEVENTEEN movies that are direct-to-home, four of which are set to come out soon. And it is unfortunate as you're right he is great in a mentor/elder statesman role, but his reputation for standing in the way of himself these last few years has really brought him down to doing some utterly horrible movies.
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8 hours ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:I think Gibson and Willis are pretty similar in regards to the class of roles they were being cast in. Where they were generally cast as characters who were usually more everyday average types thrust into extreme circumstances.
Schwarzenegger, Lundgren, Van Damme and Stallone were in kind generally cast in roles where they are mega-cops. Even in something in like Kindergarten Cop, Schwarzenegger has that opening scene in the nightclub.
The funniest thing to me is how Steven Seagal clearly sees himself as belonging in the same class as Schwarzenegger, Stallone etc... when he is much more similar to Bruce Willis in terms of his physique even in the best of times, and equally questionable hairline.
Yeah Seagal even at his peak of Hard To Kill and Under Siege was fit in the way a doughy guy went to the gym a couple days a week a few weeks before they started shooting, and while he could stand out in that he had skill as a martial artist, his acting was probably the worst of the group. Then you look at his career since On Deadly Ground/Fire Down Below and it's clear he took a page out of Marlon Brando's book and thought "I can still do movies and just sit down for everything," not realizing that as an action star that that really isn't a viable option. Also when I just looked at his IMDB I saw that for some reason and some how they are making a sequel 30 years later to Above the Law which is mind boggling as it's not his biggest movie and he is nowhere near the shape he was in when he did that movie back in 88.
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1 hour ago, Ofcoursemyhorse said:In regards to Bruce Willis. How fucking insane is it to think how non-existent his career would be if he was a young actor today trying to make it as an action star. The thought that someone who even at the peak of his career could best be described as having a somewhat fit dad body, and questionable hair line making it as a leading man today seems almost impossible.
It reminds me of the various jokes Family Guy did about old tough guys like Robert Mitchum and Joe Pesci and how antiquated they would be in modern definition of the term. While Willis wasn't what Steven Segal would become in the 90s in terms of body type, he had the unfortunate fact of being an action star in the time of Arnold, Stallone, Lundgren, Van Dam, and even Gibson. His saving grace was similar to Gibson in that they had legit acting abilities and were allowed to showcase them, while guys like Stallone and Arnold have only been able to really do so now in some of their more recent roles. Unfortunately the crossover success in an action star who could actually act was he gained an ego from it which has utterly ruined him for the last 15 years. Especially in a time when action stars now are usually leaner or muscular but not exaggerated like the stars of the 80s, a guy like Willis would be either a parody character or he'd be that guy you see on the cover a bunch of C-grade action DVDs that you kinda recognize but never really remember.
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I've enjoyed Cusack in various things over the last 20 years like Con Air, Grosse Pointe Blank, and even Identity, but it seems like whenever a pitch is brought to him he's told the character that he'd be playing along with motivations and emotions behind them and his only response every time is "and he's on quaaludes right?" As for Willis, I've said in this forum before that the only time he's really tried in the last 15 years were in movies that either had Red or Die Hard in the title, and everything else he just phoned in. Looper is the one outlier as it does come off as a genuine performance from him but after the fallout from Cop Out and how he was canned from The Expendables 3, he's been almost completely straight-to-video, which is kind of sad considering he was a top leading man for the prior 25 years. Hell even when he gets a theatrical release it's like he can't remember how to do it, as in Death Wish he was basically mugging and laughing into the camera when his character is supposed to be a depressed vigilante hunting the people who killed his family members.
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6 hours ago, jimkiler said:. When John Travolta's goons kill Torvalds (the original hired hacker) at the airport police station how come they never got caught. A secure area of the airport and the goons kill him in cold blood but we never see anyone attempt to find and arrest the goons responsible. They were literally less than 50 feet away from Don Cheadle!
My guess it just falls under the trope of "no one hears anything if it's got a silencer," which isn't how it really is as a gun with a silencer sounds like a person poorly trying to get a metal ladder hung on rack in their garage and is easy to hear. But in the world of this movie they quickly get in the listening area of the interrogation room, I'm guessing with faked IDs, though considering the Senator was involved and mentioned Torvalds already working with them and under their authority, they might have had legit badges to get them through a secure area like that. Add to it that both guys looked the part of agents so no one would really bat an eye at two plain looking dudes walking around in an office like that with hundreds of employees. And given that it took a solid 45 seconds to a minute for Cheadle to get into the office with the phone, see the person calling for him hung up, and call the dick supervisor back, then the additional minute to argue with him about getting/not getting called by him, they could have easily been out of there after killing the two dudes.
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So with all of the talk about the writer of this movie Skip Woods and his lone directorial outing with the Tarantino knockoff, Thursday, I looked up that movie to get a refresher of what it was as it sounded so familiar and then looked up Woods on Wikipedia. I was surprised at the cast in Thursday as you had a lot of known names in it such as Thomas Jane and Aaron Eckhart, who I still contend are the same person just wearing different wigs depending on the role, as well as Mickey Rourke as as corrupt cop. I mention this as when I saw the picture of Skip Woods I couldn't help but wonder if this is just Mickey Rourke wearing a bad late 90s/early 2000s wig.
Am I losing my mind or does Rourke have a side gig as a screenwriter?
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Honestly surprised that this hasn't been covered by the show yet as it's such a great bonkers movie. Won't ever forget seeing this in theaters with some friends and as we're going into the theater an older guy is leaving the prior showing and just looks at us and says "don't even bother, stupidest movie I've ever seen." Five minutes into the movie, which by that point I think Clive Owen had killed about 30 people and shot off an umbilical cord, my friend leans over to me and whispers, "that guys was a fucking idiot, this movie is glorious."
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3 minutes ago, ChunkStyle said:I think that is probably right. It is just the fact that the house is a lease that is throwing me off. If I was the one leasing the house that stocked wine cellar would be extremely bad for my health as I'd think the more I drank the better the terms of the deal have become. At the very least my friends would be getting lots of wine as gifts. Or on the other side if the terms of the lease are that the wine cellar is treated like a hotel minibar that means the leasing company has to send in some poor intern to do a full inventory and make sure that every bottle in there is what they had on the books and hasn't been replaced by Two-Buck Chuck. I guess thinking about this proves that I am not cut out to live the lifestyle of a psychotic anti-terrorist vigilante. But that does kind of bring me to a larger point. Gabriel says he wants that 9.5 billion dollars in order to prosecute his war on terrorism. But it seems like a decent chunk of that will also be going towards paying for his billionaire playboy lifestyle. Which doesn't really seem like a necessary component of his job. Maybe if he ran a more lean operation he wouldn't have put himself in the situation of needing to kill Americans he is supposedly protecting in order to get more money for his war chest.
I'm thinking the lifestyle is only really coming from the guys that he's killing and posing as, since they appear to be high level mercenaries/terrorists for hire/criminals. So it plays up the trope of action movies where the top guy criminal lives this uber crazy luxurious life while the lower end guys and cops chasing them are down in the dirt wearing cheap suits. Plus I am also guessing that any guy he's taking over he is also liquidating the assets of, so say you're replacing a drug kingpin, you're looking at an easy 7-8 figure amount of money coming in along with whatever is turn into cash to help fund the cause. The heist for the 9 billion is just a nice buffer to pad the budget while also giving you the ability to properly kickstart your war.
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17 hours ago, ChunkStyle said:When the FBI guys have Gabriel's crime mansion under surveillance one of the agents says that it was leased 2 weeks ago by a blind corporation. That just made me wonder about the wine cellar. Did the house come with a stocked wine cellar? Or did Gabriel go through the trouble to stock the whole thing for the very short time they'd be living there?
I'm guessing it was there and a happy coincidence since that was a pretty stacked cellar.
10 hours ago, Cam Bert said:Also, Hugh Jackman's character knowing enough about wines to go find some and not just grab random bottles is puzzling.
Eh at first it's trial and error, but when you find one you like you usually stick with a certain maker or grape type, plus he took the bottle with him to find another matching one. If anything is puzzling it's that he found an identical bottle so quickly in a large wine cellar that didn't look like it had any organization pattern like alphabetical or wine type.
6 hours ago, Cam Bert said:Cage, Travolta, John Cusack and Bruce Willis are the Mt. Rushmore of direct to video movies of the 2000s.
You should also consider Thomas Jane as he has really churned out some stinkers since his peak in the early 2000s.
5 hours ago, DrGuts1003 said:I know pre-9/11 airport security wasn’t as stringent as it is today, but how dumb do you have to be to leave your real passport easily found in your luggage? Is it possible the Finnish hacker wanted to get caught so he didn’t have to get involved with Travolta’s insane antics?
Yeah that infuriated me that this guy was apparently the top hacker in the world and on numerous most wanted lists and comes into the US with another passport basically lying on top of his laptop for anyone to see. Having watched Border Security on Netflix and seeing how much they delve into things when something questionable is happening in an airport or the things that they see as red flags, this is almost like it was a training exercise to see if the TSA agent was asleep on the job by catching this underhand pitch.
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Episode 247.5: Prequel to Episode 248
in How Did This Get Made?
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Yeah I enjoyed hunting a bit though doing so also gave me some of the closest moments to pissing myself as that game has a knack for scaring the hell out of you with animal sneak attacks, whether it be from snakes, gators, or damn mountain lions. Then you also got to worry about cultists playing possum, cannibals trying to eat you, or any number of the fricking serial killers running around the old west. The only downside I found with that game was the lack of simple fast travel as that map is goddamn gigantic.