War Room Lounge v189: Big-Time Nerd Quarrels

[The Diplomat]

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Unfortunately there aren't many Chico gifs

 

[JDragon]

If you can pick any 3, 2 wouldn’t make the cut. There’s like 4 hours of scenes where he’s just holding his coma’d wife’s hand and weeping softly, ffs (I haven’t seen it in a while, but that sounds right). I’d go 1, 3, 4, but I can also dig 1, 4, 5.

How could you like 5? Isn’t that the one where the ending isn’t even a boxing match but just him punching the Don King type character in the face? I’d say 1,2,4

I was just joking. I honestly only know #1

 

[Lead]

I was just joking. I honestly only know #1

Thank goodness

 

[Possum Jenkins]

lol i was just setting up a mighty ducks joke but in all honesty i do think godfather 3 isn’t bad enough to bring the whole trilogy down. i also prefer leone’s “dollars trilogy”

GF3 is underrated.

Yes, it's vastly inferior to the first two but on its own, it's a very, very solid movie. I remember watching it and expecting a disaster because it gets trashed so often but it's actually really good.

Two GOAT-level films + one really good film = best trilogy. It's basic math.

 

[Andy Capp]

6'1" span



apparently ^^ has the reach of a 7 foot man

Not proportional and therefore not esthetically desirable, if you care about that kind of thing.

See Vitruvian Man

"Also a square will be found described within the figure, in the same way as a round figure is produced. For if we measure from the sole of the foot to the top of the head, and apply the measure to the outstretched hands, the breadth will be found equal to the height, just like sites which are squared by rule."

 

[KAZSoliloquy]

GF3 is underrated.

Yes, it's vastly inferior to the first two but on its own, it's a very, very solid movie. I remember watching it and expecting a disaster because it gets trashed so often but it's actually really good.

Two GOAT-level films + one really good film = best trilogy. It's basic math.

 

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[Trotsky]

Man, Matt Yglesias' reasoning for leaving Vox, per the Atlantic article, is priceless.

Dude is a privileged and pompous ultra-bourgeois liberal who thinks that media is becoming dominated by urban college graduate thought and thus becoming detached from the leftward sensibilities of the working class.

People are comparing his move to that of Glenn Greenwald, and I think it's a stunningly accurate comparison. Both are arrogant pricks that get angry when asked to question themselves or scrutinize their reactionary impulses. Of course, the big difference being that Greenwald has done really important original reporting.

 

[BEER]

Not proportional and therefore not esthetically desirable, if you care about that kind of thing.

See Vitruvian Man

"Also a square will be found described within the figure, in the same way as a round figure is produced. For if we measure from the sole of the foot to the top of the head, and apply the measure to the outstretched hands, the breadth will be found equal to the height, just like sites which are squared by rule."

The Vitruvian man has a tiny dangle though

 

[Jesus H. Sherdog]

6'1" span



apparently ^^ has the reach of a 7 foot man

And still does this:

Lmao! I’m a stocky 5’11” and could dunk a tennis ball when I was in my prime. But then again I’m at least a D-level athlete and Jones is clearly not quite at that level

 

[Anung Un Rama]

The Hobbit was a longish short story. 1 film ought to suffice, says I, having not seen the movies yet, but sympathetic to the Lord of the Rings being a very well done trilogy of movies that did a remarkable job of bringing the books to life, far better than I believed possible when I was younger. But even so, from the business side of things, every single aspect of them has been crafted to cynically and distastefully extract exactly all the money it is possible to obtain. For example, all three reels of the original trilogy were done and in the can before the first one ever went to theatres and they spaced them out a year at a time.

tl;dr
I have mixed feelings about the franchise.

There is no way to make LoTR in less than 3 movies (Jackson was originally planning to do the trilogy with the hobbit being the first and LoTR in 2 (he cut a ton out of the books to do it in 2 or 3 tbf). And there is no reason to make 1 and not the other 3, in fact I’m sure it was less expensive to film all 3 at the same time.

 

[Andy Capp]

The Vitruvian man has a tiny dangle though

It is a fact, and don't ask me how I know this--being a heterosexual man--but flaccid size is not predictive of erect size.

 

[Jack V Savage]

bettter?

Looks like a thumb puppet.

 

[BEER]

It is a fact, and don't ask me how I know this--being a heterosexual man--but flaccid size is not predictive of erect size.

You a grower, huh?

 

[Deleted member 539235]

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[The Diplomat]

How could you like 5? Isn’t that the one where the ending isn’t even a boxing match but just him punching the Don King type character in the face? I’d say 1,2,4

I actually liked Rocky's street fight with Tommy Gunn.

It wasn't a great movie or anything, but Tommy Morrison did a decent job as the antihero.

 

[BEER]

This Martinez v Mayes fight is making me sick, so much jiggling.

I was watching that and fucking confused.

I'm obese. According to that dude's height and weight, he should be smaller than me, but he is MUCH flabbier. The floppy saggy man tits; The back fat; the doughy gut. It's fucking bizarre.

 

[Deleted member 457759]

The Hobbit was a longish short story. 1 film ought to suffice, says I, having not seen the movies yet, but sympathetic to the Lord of the Rings being a very well done trilogy of movies that did a remarkable job of bringing the books to life, far better than I believed possible when I was younger. But even so, from the business side of things, every single aspect of them has been crafted to cynically and distastefully extract exactly all the money it is possible to obtain. For example, all three reels of the original trilogy were done and in the can before the first one ever went to theatres and they spaced them out a year at a time.

tl;dr
I have mixed feelings about the franchise.

Yea everything's orchestrated these days, it sucks.

I like the market to decide things and pop culture evolve on it's own.

I don't like them engineering all the marketing before it happens.

 

[Deleted member 539235]

It is a fact, and don't ask me how I know this--being a heterosexual man--but flaccid size is not predictive of erect size.

that's not what he said, lol

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[Trotsky]

I was watching that and fucking confused.

I'm obese. According to that dude's height and weight, he should be smaller than me, but he is MUCH flabbier. The floppy saggy man tits; The back fat; the doughy gut. It's fucking bizarre.

Certainly looks to be a case of dramatic weight loss. Some people's skin just doesn't snap back. Guessing he was once Butterbean sized.