WAR ROOM LOUNGE V12: Mao With Noir

[Cubo de Sangre]

Dexter is P4P the worst ending in TV history.

It's almost as if the writers just gave up....and said "fuck it."

the only worse ending I can think of , is if Dexter woke up, and it was "all a dream."

Show should have ended after Lithgow's season, with Dexter holding his blood-covered baby. The series would have been bulletproof.

 

[Limbo Pete]

Petra tho

I nearly shatted when I found out that was real.

One of my dream destinations

 

[Trotsky]

Love that film more than anyone I've met.

You do or I do?

 

[Gregolian]

HURRY UP REGULAR SEASON!

 

[HereticBD]

Sopronos just kinda meandered over the last couple seasons or so.

Disagree if you're talking about Season 5. I think it was solid, and set up a great potential climax for the final season. Then it's like the writers purposefully went out of their way to not give it to the audience.

"Oh', so you like Johnny Sac and Tony and where all that's headed? Yeah, do ya? Well fuck you, here's Vito. A side character you never gave two shits about, struggling with his sexuality for eight goddamn episodes."

Final episode was on par with Seinfeld's, but nowhere near as bad as Dexter's.

Dexter was flat out embarrassing past season 5. I swear the writers intentionally made a mockery of that show. It turned into a parody of itself. It was so laughably bad. I can't think of another show that dropped off that badly.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

"Oh', so you like Johnny Sac and Tony and where all that's headed? Yeah, do ya? Well fuck you, here's Vito. A side character you never gave two shits about, struggling with his sexuality for eight goddamn episodes."

In retrospect I'd have been more interested in this guy's story than Tony's there towards the end.

 

[HereticBD]

Like, Bane was great RIGHT up until they turned him into a lackey for Talia.

He was good, although I don't think he was amazing or anything, and certainly didn't save the movie.

It's more the really stupid parts of the movie, that boggles my mind. For instance, sending every cop...EVERY SINGLE COP in Gotham, underground to look for Bane(or a bomb or something, I can't remember). Not even strategically or anything. Just one big group marching into the sewers. Like, how does a scene like that make it all the way from a rough draft into the final product, with nobody pointing out how mind-numbingly stupid it is?

The movie is littered with dumb shit like that, that you just wouldn't expect from Nolan.

 

[Limbo Pete]

In retrospect I'd have been more interested in this guy's story than Tony's there towards the end.

Furio was frickin great

"There'suh bee onuh yer hat!"

 

[Final Rehab]

I love it too, but it's definitely more "campy" than Raiders. More humor, etc.

@Trotsky appears to not care for action/adventure much as far as I can tell.

I think Temple of Doom was by far the cheesiest of the original trilogy and the only one I'd steer anyone away from (the more recent cgi crapfest installment did nothing for me either). Kate Capshaw gave a silly performance and the plastic monkey heads with jello in them that was supposed to be a meal of chilled monkey brains was embarrassing.

 

[HomerThompson]

You do or I do?

 

[Trotsky]

Weird, that was @Cubo de Sangre 's post I was quoting.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

Weird, that was @Cubo de Sangre 's post I was quoting.

I do.

 

[Trotsky]

I do.

I'd say it's my favorite Cohen Bros flick after No Country. I'm hoping they do an art house style film again some day.

 

[Fawlty]

Okay I don't expect anybody to remember this arcade game from the 80s but dear god it was amazing at the time (1987). I fed this thing so much of my allowance at the Pizza Hut. It was like the best homoerotic barbarian shlock thing of the decade aside from the first Conan.

 

[Cubo de Sangre]

I'd say it's my favorite Cohen Bros flick after No Country. I'm hoping they do an art house style film again some day.

Only one I might consider above it is Lebowski. Great performances all around. Unusual story. Subtle humor not reliant on jokes/gags. Entertaining characters. Good to know there's another supporter around here.

 

[Ruprecht]

Okay I don't expect anybody to remember this arcade game from the 80s but dear god it was amazing at the time (1987). I fed this thing so much of my allowance at the Pizza Hut. It was like the best homoerotic barbarian shlock thing of the decade aside from the first Conan.

Rastan Saga was ok, but it was Heavy Barrel I spent all my money on in '87.
One of those games where you had to rotate the joystick to turn your character.
Although it was Video Ezy, Time Zone and DownTown that ate my 20 cent pieces and tokens.

 

[Quipling]

Okay I don't expect anybody to remember this arcade game from the 80s but dear god it was amazing at the time (1987). I fed this thing so much of my allowance at the Pizza Hut. It was like the best homoerotic barbarian shlock thing of the decade aside from the first Conan.

I think the local barcade has that in their rotation. It looks familiar

 

[Fawlty]

Rastan Saga was ok, but it was Heavy Barrel I spent all my money on in '87.
One of those games where you had to rotate the joystick to turn your character.

Haven't played that one, but that's a lot like Ikari Warriors which I played a bit. My favorite shooter back then was the unique "Cabal" which controlled movement with a big trackball, and there was only side-to-side movement. It had a good port to the NES too.

 

[Ruprecht]

Haven't played that one, but that's a lot like Ikari Warriors which I played a bit. My favorite shooter back then was the unique "Cabal" which controlled movement with a big trackball, and there was only side-to-side movement. It had a good port to the NES too.

Yeah, I played Ikari warriors and Cabal. Cabal was a cover shooter right?
Midnight Resistance was my favourite of the twist-grip type (came out in a year or two later I think), although it was a side scroller. Probably followed by Forgotten Worlds (which had a regular joystick and a rotating puck).
Takes me back.

Spoiler

 

[spin]

I think Temple of Doom was by far the cheesiest of the original trilogy and the only one I'd steer anyone away from (the more recent cgi crapfest installment did nothing for me either). Kate Capshaw gave a silly performance and the plastic monkey heads with jello in them that was supposed to be a meal of chilled monkey brains was embarrassing.

I 100 percent thought that was monkey brains as a kid.


Temple of Doom forever.