The Pitters' Place

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What don't you like about the last act of Batman Begins?

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If the price of the new office blocks, apartments and coffee shops is that the current residents are forced out, then yes, they are evil. Surely there are ways to improve a neighborhood without completely changing its landscape. And, honestly, is it really progress to live in a loft and go to a nice...

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^ That's another thing. "Oops! There's a lot of black folk here. It must be a shitty neighborhood that they want improved. Allow me to improve it by replacing a historic building with a P.F. Chang's." By the way, have any of you been to LA and seen the construction along Crenshaw? It's fuc...

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Adapting to a "progressing" world may be well and good for yuppies who can afford to just up and move (moving isn't free), but a lot of families in poor areas of a town live paycheck-to-paycheck and can't exactly up and leave at the drop of a hat. Gentrifying, at least here, isn't always a...

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Flicks re-seen Batman Begins - 9/10 I love how Rachel is the wisest person in the whole movie. Everything she says ends up being a paramount aspect of Bruce's whole philosophy. Then she turns into Maggie Gyllenhaal and becomes a complete asshat. [none] Swingers - 8.5/10 Vince Vaughn: Top five funni...

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That's, um, fucked up nearly to the point of being alarming.

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Ouch, you guys lost Sabathia.

Well, good luck tonight and the rest of the way. If you guys make it to the World Series in LA this year, I'll buy you a ticket to one of the games.

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Obviously you're just jaded from personal experience and none of what you said applies outside of yourself.

Yes, that's insulting.

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Invictus wants to lead a civil war, is trying to recruit neo-Nazis to the party

Well, not if that part's true. But the rest is great.

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Two years ago, Augustus Sol Invictus walked from central Florida to the Mojave Desert and spent a week fasting and praying, at times thinking he wouldn't survive. In a pagan ritual to give thanks when he returned home, he killed a goat and drank its blood. He's got my vote. For anything. I vote for...

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If you guys aren't already familiar with this site, check it out and fall in love. It's very informative and interesting.

http://filmmakeriq.com/

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Make it stop!!!!! No, I've never watched any of these things. And now I don't like them. [none] I still don't think it feels like Scorsese. Maybe it's too upbeat. He might use similar frames in his other films, but the tempo is all off. Not off like it's a bad movie, just that it's a departure for S...

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Yeah fuck that. I hate it when people are concerned about image and who's talking to whom when the actual job and procedures remain fucked up. I don't give a god damn about saving face if speaking up makes things run more smoothly. Everyone in my office seems to be afraid of our boss and never tells...

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I couldn't stomach more than a minute of that.....

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Flick re-seen

The Wolf of Wall Street - 7.3/10
Funny stuff. It never really feels like a Scorsese flick, but it's a lot of fun. Drugs and sex and the stupidity of excess blah blah blah. I dunno. What was the point of this movie?

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Institutionalized oppression and inequality couldn't have had much to do with the motivations of the dude in Santa Barbara whose manifesto explained his frustration with women and that they didn't want to sleep with him. That's some self-esteem shit the roots of which are unknowable. It's about cop...

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OK, you bring the MDMA and I'll bring the coke and we'll have a movie marathon and hopefully one of us isn't murdered by the end of it.

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Yeah, our motto is pretty much: "It's not what you know, it's what you can prove." And you can't prove anything, so we're all fucked.

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I'd much rather talk about something we disagree on than both agree on everything all the time.

But yeah, you seem to suck to be around.

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To the first two paragraphs: Yeah, that's why the dictatorship failed. To outlaw emotion is to outlaw life. Even the fuckin head cheese appreciated the value of emotion. He just liked control. It was a ticking time bomb until someone had had enough of the bullshit. To the third paragraph: Maybe, yea...

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I still have major problems with the premise. Sure, they get rid of negative emotions like anger and hatred and whatnot because it led to war, which makes sense, but why get rid of positive emotions too? What's the point of that? It wasn't explained. I guess it was because they never figured out a ...

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The problem is so non-guns it's almost funny. If I wanted to, I could illegally acquire a gun today before the sun went down. If guns were outlawed outright immediately, millions of guns would still exist on the black market, easily accessible to anyone who tried hard enough. Murderous people with v...

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Yes, it is great. And admittedly a bit stupid, but mostly great.

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Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:So what you're saying is we need more pre-90's Don Bluth movies.

Yes, exactly.

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fixing the wealth gap, better education, equal opportunity for all races etc... Yes, this country is fucked a hundred ways up in and around the ass and into next week. American history has irrevocably damaged entire races of people and the government currently oppresses millions. But not everyone i...

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I mean, with any problem the best way to solve it is from as close to the beginning as possible, right? Talking about guns instead of the person's mental state is like if you're living in a place that rains constantly and instead of taking your umbrella outside you'd rather use a towel to dry off wh...

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1) I have not read the whole thread.
2) It seems to be about guns.
3) I think it should be about mental health and how root causes for wanting to do harm to people can be avoided.
4) But, people here probably know more about guns than mental health issues.
5) So, that's OK.
6) Carry on.

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/04/americas/ ... d-missing/

Hope everything's all right.

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Right in the ear!

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I know it's unrealistic, but I can't not root for my team. So, fuck the Blue Jays! Etc.

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Short version: A bunch of genius scientists explore an alien ship and at some point begin questioning reality and all become super paranoid and almost kill themselves and then later have to force their minds to forget the whole experience in order to save the planet from the knowledge of time travel...

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Current probabilities: AL East: Blue Jays AL Central: Royals AL West: Astros AL Wild Card: Yankees > Rangers Blue Jays and Royals in ALCS, Royals advance to World Series. NL East: Mets NL Central: Cardinals NL West: Dodgers NL Wild Card: Pirates > Cubs Cardinals and Dodgers in NLCS, Dodgers advance...

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Sphere - ??/10 So, uh. OK, first of all. Uh. OK. So, the first time I saw eXistenZ I was 16 years old. My mental stability was, um, unstable back then. I was a silly silly teenager doing a lot of drugs and had a baby on the way. I watched that movie for no particular reason and it was so strange an...

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Flicks re-seen

Boogie Nights - 7/10
Lots of penises and cocaine. Not PTA's best, but adequately strange.

Bourne trilogy - 7.5/10
Matt Damon at his Matt Damon-iest.

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I had to Google that reference because I've never watched that show. Jon Bernthal's character took his keys out of his pocket before they were going to have sex and in the heap was one of the rubber bracelets that Emily had previously seen the money launderer using to bundle the money rolls at the b...

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And Tony Romo is a leper.

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SIcario - 7.465/10 The director is Denis Villeneuve. He directed two excellent films in the last three years: Prisoners and Enemy . Both films had elements of surrealism tied into heavy plots. Sicario has an adequately heavy plot, but none of Villeneuve's trademark strangeness. Overall, it's a dece...

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The fact that Michael Bay is allowed to keep making movies pisses me off.

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Thanks guys

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/01/us/oregon ... index.html

Why does this keep fucking happening?

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Haven't you heard? You guys are trading for RG3 and he's going to save your season.

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Could be a slightly disgruntled branch of the family that went rogue and switched some vowels around.

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It's just a strange thing to me, a pre-game choreographed dance number. But that's probably a broader reflection of my ignorance of rugby and the culture of rugby. OK, just Googled "haka". It seems it's a traditional Maori thing with a long history. A battle cry type of thing. That's cool,...

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Oh, I saw those and didn't pay much mind. I can see why someone would see Lou as a metaphor for capitalism, but I disagree. And I have no clue what Liszt is trying to say. Carry on.

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What did I miss? The only tangents I see here are about Netflix and Apocalypse Now.

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CashRules wrote:Hey, don't blame me, I'm not the one who decided to go off on some ridiculously bullshit tangent on a thread about one specific movie.

Eh?

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But, on a serious, note: What the FUCK??

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