This is a pretty horrible movie in terms of acting, plot, realism, special effects, etc. The one redeeming value is the following. Apparently it was made with the support of the local chapter of the Japan Karate Association, a "traditional" shotokan karate organization known for the rigor and quality-control of its training. So every once in a while you'll see people doing karate moves that clearly demonstrate they've spent years of practice on them.
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This is a great time for European labs to advertise any open positions.
Mother Nature is a prankster. She was just having a little fun.
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No. 4.– The picture represents the Vicious State, or State of Destruction. Ages may have passed since the scene of glory – though the decline of nations is generally more rapid than their rise. Luxury has weakened and debased. A savage enemy has entered the city. A fierce tempest is raging. Walls and colonnades have been thrown down. Temples and palaces are burning. An arch of the bridge, over which the triumphal procession was passing in the former scene, has been battered down, and the broken pillars, and ruins of war engines, and the temporary bridge that has been thrown over, indicate that this has been the scene of fierce contention. Now there is a mingled multitude battling on the narrow bridge, whose insecurity makes the conflict doubly fearful. Horses and men are precipitated into the foaming waters beneath; war galleys are contending: one vessel is in flames, and another is sinking beneath the prow of a superior foe. In the more distant part of the harbor, the contending vessels are dashed by the furious waves, and some are burning. Along the battlements, among the ruined Caryatides, the contention is fierce; and the combatants fight amid the smoke and flame of prostrate edifices. In the fore-ground are several dead and dying; some bodies have fallen in the basin of a fountain, tinging the waters with their blood. A female is seen sitting in mute despair over the dead body of her son, and a young woman is escaping from the ruffian grasp of a soldier, by leaping over the battlement; another soldier drags a woman by the hair down the steps that form part of the pedestal of a mutilated colossal statue, whose shattered head lies on the pavement below. A barbarous and destroying enemy conquers and sacks the city. Description of this picture is perhaps needless; carnage and destruction are its elements.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)
Remember those people who caught covid and were put on ventilators while denying that they had covid? When bad things happen to Trump supporters they'll just deny it or blame it on someone else.
This was a "Fuck YOU, in particular" sent right at Harris.
hmm.... I think a "fuck you" would be if people went to the polls and wrote in someone else. This was more of a "meh" sent right at Harris... they couldn't even be bothered to vote.
I firmly believe it was a combination of her race and male voters' unwillingness to vote for a woman under any circumstances.
I suspect that this played a large part, but the tricky thing is: how do we confirm this? We can't just poll people, bc they'll rarely admit it. We can't compare the performance of congressional candidates because people likely hold the presidency to a different standard. To make things even more complicated, Harris is mixed-race - and Americans are notoriously bad at studying that. And what do we do with the results of these studies? Clearly we still want to nominate qualified people regardless of gender or race.
Political scientists and historians will spend years analyzing the causes and significance of this election. My focus is more immediate. Although the data are imperfect and incomplete, I will offer preliminary answers...
To his credit, the writer explicitly warns us that this is a hot take and is almost certainly wrong.
Hey I'm really sorry to hear about your dog. It must be tough knowing that it's coming.
Yeah at one point his parents are like: "Bob, you got a letter from some guy in New England... do you know a Howard Phillips Lovecraft?"
D'Onofrio is one hell of an actor -- he played Private Pyle in Full Metal Jacket, The Kingpin in a Daredevil TV show, and was co-lead on one of those Law & Order shows. He does an OK job here, but tbh I only watched the first half then I got distracted and never finished it.
Not a GREAT movie, but I think it's fun, and the idea is solid.
"the truth is, there's more than enough. no-one has to die before their time."
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In Time is a 2011 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Andrew Niccol.
Justin Timberlake and Amanda Seyfried star as inhabitants of a society that uses time from one's lifespan as its primary currency, with each individual possessing a clock on their arm that counts down how long they have to live. Cillian Murphy, Vincent Kartheiser, Olivia Wilde, Matt Bomer, Johnny Galecki, and Alex Pettyfer also star.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Time
Hey, it wasn't that bad. It was definitely TV-movie quality in terms of plot and dialogue, but the basic idea was great and the aesthetic was cool, especially the cars, the clothes, and Amanda Seyfried's look. Yeah, Justin Timberlake's acting was distracting, and Seyfried's wasn't that much better. I bet if they'd got a better leading man and a top-notch director, they could have made a classic. As it is, the movie made a pretty good profit, so I'm not the only one who thought it was all right.
Seems like it might be a pretty good movie. I think early King was the best, and the movie almost gets the feel of some of his early stories. But tbh I stopped watching halfway through, it got kind of predictable.
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009 1080p) - Nicholas Cage, Werner Herzog
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This is my first time seeing any of this, but the party arc starts here: https://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=5404