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  1. On 9/22/2023 at 12:39 PM, Beau Vine said:

    I know that the other actors sitting behind him were coached to sit there smiling agape, but I was sitting on my couch with the exact same expression.  

    I love that they got Williams back there getting into it and jamming to his song. She's a Tony-nominated actress IRL.

  2. We live just across Mopac from St. Davids and have been there with both kids. You're in great hands and I'm so glad to hear she's doing better. And fwiw, my oldest was full-term but unexpectedly ended up in the NICU at birth with breathing problems (this was at Seton Main, not St. Davids) and today he's a thriving 15-year-old. Thinking about y'all.

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    On 8/18/2023 at 1:43 PM, Bozo_Casanova said:

    I'm still chuckling about some of the jokes tucked into throwaway lines, like "She thinks I'm a fascist? I don't control the railways, or the flow of commerce!" and "It's like I've been in a dream where I was really invested in the Zack Snyder cut of Justice League."

    The fascist line might be my favorite quote from the movie.

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  4. 4 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

    I'm sure you've seen Open Water.  I believe there was a second one.

    I'm not a fan of slasher movies, ghosts (unless there's some kind of twist i.e. The Others), or 95% of what applies to horror movies these days.  Get off my lawn! I do like movies like Open Water.  I think I mentioned this a few pages back, but there was a entire sub-genre of "what would you do?" type movies about 10 years ago.  One was called Frozen and had teens trapped on a ski lift.  To name a couple more - Break, folks stuck on a tram, Scenic Route (I think), teens stranded in a desert, 247 F, group of friends locked in a sauna.  I'm looking forward to seeing the new one with the girls trapped on top of a cell tower or somesuch.

    I'm also a fan of the Ari Aster movies.  I mean, F's sake, the car scene in Heredity and/or the old couple in Midsommar.  Still somewhat haunted by those.  Looks like he has a new one called, Beau Is Afraid.  I somehow missed this news.

    I started a thread on Beau is Afraid here back when it first came out. It's a great movie, but definitely not horror - more like a 3-hour fever dream. 

    2 hours ago, Coach pop a bitch said:

    Hush. Mike Flanagan is a damn good director.  I feel that Hush is his weakest movie but its a fun watch. 

    Haven't seen Hush yet but I love Mike Flanagan - Oculus is great. Also, Absentia is worth seeking out. It's really low-budget and I think was his first movie, but nice and creepy.

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  5. 4 hours ago, animaltobacco11 said:

    The Five Night at Freddy's movies is going to be a big time Halloween movie this year. 

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    My son is very excited about this because he loves the game, and I'm having a hard time figuring out if this will be anything approaching kid-appropriate. Rotten Tomatoes says it's PG-13, but it also says "strong violent content." They need to pick a lane.

  6. On 8/28/2023 at 6:07 PM, LCHorn said:

    Ooh, snap, I didn't know or had forgotten we had a thread on this. 

    I've got multiple horror movies I want to watch but haven't yet.  Talk to Me (still in theaters), Possum, Influencer, Knock at the Cabin, Brooklyn 45, Saint Maud. 

    Only one I've really checked off my list in the last few months was Infinity Pool (which is very twisted).  I did also watch Evil Dead Rise and The Pope's Exorcist and both were as silly as I hoped they'd be. 

    Also on team #livtylerdoesn'tsuck

    Talk to Me is amazing. Knock at the Cabin is horseshit, even though Dave Bautista is great in it - at most you could call it a drama/thriller, but it's in no way a horror movie. And (slight spoiler)

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    it doesn't have the typical Shyamalan twist ending, which I kept waiting for, hoping it would justify the rest of the movie. I feel like people should know that going in but I don't want to spoil it.

    I loved Saint Maud, and it has a great final scene.

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  7. This is from an HISD teacher in the Facebook support group for parents/teachers who oppose the takeover (Supporters of HISD Magnets and Budget Accountability). I purposely left off the teacher's name. Some key WTF points:

    • All internal doors must be open at all times (seriously, WTF)
    • No student free-writing/journaling
    • No "weak readers" can read aloud because it models disfluency
    •  No dimming classroom lights

    And of course there's the issue of closing libraries to turn them into detention centers. Even if the state could justify their takeover on the grounds of improving performance, how in God's name will any of the above improve performance? How is this anything but a blatant power grab? As an Austin ISD parent I am truly concerned that this is going to be us in the very near future.

     

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  8. On 10/3/2019 at 8:33 PM, Loco said:

    Poltergeist is a scary AF classic.   It fucked me up as a kid...  especially since TV stations went off the air back in the day ...  oh shit was that scary after poltergeist...   anthem>test pattern>snow

    you turn the TV off.

    No fuck you you turn it off!

    Random story - my oldest son watched Poltergeist a few years back with my SIL. When they got to the part where they start reciting the Lord's Prayer during the bird's funeral, my non-religious child goes "Isn't that Metallica?" 😂

    On 9/30/2020 at 4:10 PM, MissingInAction said:

    Mandy starring Nic Cage.

    That movie was amazing and I wish more people would watch it. It's like two separate movies - first, a calm relationship drama, and then the last half is like if a death metal album came to life. I mean, at one point 

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    he welds a battleaxe, then wields that motherfucking battleaxe. To great effect. Against a demon motorcycle gang. It's WTF is the absolute best way. 

    To this list I'll add

    Evil Dead Rise

    Talk to Me

    Barbarian

    Malignant

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  9. 10 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

    I really hope tuesday in houston isnt below 100. If its not, our streak would likely hit 30 days in a row over 100, when the previous record was 9. Like, how the fuck can a climate change denier even function at this point?

    Denial.

  10. On 8/14/2023 at 10:03 AM, Beau Vine said:

    Saw the 6:30 showing at at the IMAX in SA yesterday.  

    If my wife hadn't been with me and the seats hadn't been reserved, I probably would have stuck around and watched the 10:30 showing, too, because it was 3 of the fastest hours of my life.  

    The only criticisms I could make of the movie are:

    1.  Kind of agree with Foosters above.  I would rather have had an extra hour about the actual bomb-making part of things and life on The Hill than the hour they spent on Strauss's confirmation.  But the Einstein speech at the pond at the end was probably my favorite scene in the whole movie. 

    2.  I've read a lot about Oppenheimer, and hell, I've literally spent the last 4 months trying to buy a house in Los Alamos, and I cannot imagine the movie being that very fun for someone who didn't have much background knowledge of the events (or any knowledge of physics).  

    I went into the movie with criticisms of the over-bearing score in my brain, but I really only thought that was even remotely an issue in one scene.  

    Also, this guy had a very small role, but he absolutely killed it:

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    And I had no idea until a couple of minutes ago that he was this guy:

     

     

     

    What's crazy to me is that Alden Ehrenreich's character doesn't even have a name - he's credited as "Senate Aide."

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  11. 1 hour ago, BLKNSTY said:


    not at all. the prison system and meat processing (especially in the panhandle) are notorious for exploiting immigrants by taking advantage of their green card status. shut up do your job or the various agencies we have connections with will hold your path to citizenship hostage. the 102 children as young as 13 working hazardous overnight jobs cleaning slaughterhouses is another example.

    Sure, I'm not contesting that point; I'm contesting the idea that no American citizen would've stayed at their post. There are plenty of Americans who can't just leave their jobs without supervisor permission, even in dire situations.

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  12. VPNs are good to have for privacy in general. NordVPN is a good, standard one for personal use - I used it for a long time. I recently switched to Mullvad after reading an article in Wire, and it's great, but they are super-committed to privacy beyond a normal level so the sign-up and payment process is a bit different. For those of you looking for a Ron Swanson level of privacy, you want to go with Mullvad. 

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  13. 4 hours ago, hookem48 said:

    It's summer, it's fucking hot as hell, we've done this shit before and we'll do it again and we'll have summers when it never hits 100 like just 2 years ago here in Bryan. Hell we almost made it 700 straight days under 100. Fuck the cold, I lost several mature trees to that shit 2 years ago, this shit ain't killing  the trees. 

    Trees die when they burn to the ground.

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