What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

Status
Not open for further replies.
mookie1995 said:
What men want

woman sports agent gets a bump on the head and can now hear men’s thoughts. Oh and she is black. Can’t believe a studio approved this but it’s somewhat amusing and mookie enjoyed it.
Click to expand...

Chapelle had a good spoof on this before it was an actual movie.
 
Operation varsity blues - the college admissions scandal


hahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahahahahahhahahaha
 
aparch said:
Filmed on location as well. Lots of the filming locations still exist. I absolutely love that film.
Click to expand...

The gov't buildings in the UP, especially the Keweenaw are spectacular. Some of the great midwestern buildings of that era. Calumet especially. Just beautiful. The Keweenaw must have been an absolutely spectacular place to be rich at the peak of the copper era. Just an unreal amount of money flowed in and out of that area.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
The gov't buildings in the UP, especially the Keweenaw are spectacular. Some of the great midwestern buildings of that era. Calumet especially. Just beautiful. The Keweenaw must have been an absolutely spectacular place to be rich at the peak of the copper era. Just an unreal amount of money flowed in and out of that area.
Click to expand...

It's my home. I wouldn't call it beautiful, but the history is easily appreciated. And since we're in the movie thread, "Children of the Night" was a vampire flick partially filmed here when I was in high school and features St. Anne's church, which we walk past a couple days a week. Although I am always more impressed by St. Paul's being more awe-inspiring. There are, I think, seven immigrant-built churches within sight of each other which all sermonized in their own languages.
And the money that flowed through... it's a tribute to capitalism and wealth concentration; the towns were left empty and broke when the Montana/AZ mines opened, the $ went to Boston, and the memory of the copper boom is a memory of the first fits and starts of an organized labor movement, a lot of dead workers and a few dead communists, and a lake full of PCBs and tumor-crippled fish.
And recently, the absent owners of some of these buildings are getting sued for not cleaning up the rubble when the snow caves them in.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
The gov't buildings in the UP, especially the Keweenaw are spectacular. Some of the great midwestern buildings of that era. Calumet especially. Just beautiful. The Keweenaw must have been an absolutely spectacular place to be rich at the peak of the copper era. Just an unreal amount of money flowed in and out of that area.
Click to expand...

I love all the public buildings from the 1880s to the 1930s. The only thing Dump did which I applauded was his "make Bauhaus unhappen" edict that all public buildings would look like the Parthenon again.

Cuz here's the thing. We monkey people are stupid and we've only hit on like 4 architectural styles in world history that didn't suck. Gothic cathedrals. Golden Age of Islam mosques, Periclean Greek temples, and some Chinese stuff I'm too ignint to know about.

That's it. All our other buildings have been ugly prisons. The Fountainhead is just as puerile about architecture as economics and politics: designing buildings for efficiency like circuit boards is fucking horrible.
 
geezer said:
seven immigrant-built churches within sight of each other which all sermonized in their own languages
Click to expand...

This was common 100 years ago. My Mom grew up in the 30s in a small city in PA where there were intersections with four Catholic churches: Czech, Russian, German, and Polish. She said on Sundays the little boys would run out of church, run home to change from their nice clothes, and then all have rock fights divided by enthnicity until the Polish church let out a half hour later. Then they'd all gang up and throw rocks at the Polish kids.

Just like Norman Rockwell wanted.
 
Wild card

transporter works in Vegas and runs afoul of a visiting mob guy. Transporter then does transporter things.
 
Rewatched the 1994 Lion King. Disney is like "hey, I know your uncle murdered your father in front of you, blamed you for it, told you to run away, and gave the impression if you ever came home, you'd be next. But hey, no worries!"
 
MissThundercat said:
Rewatched the 1994 Lion King. Disney is like "hey, I know your uncle murdered your father in front of you, blamed you for it, told you to run away, and gave the impression if you ever came home, you'd be next. But hey, no worries!"
Click to expand...

That's actually pretty close to Hamlet.
 
I watched the Lego Movie (the first one) over again. Watching it now with what I know now, it's probably the strongest indictment against American culture and capitalism I've seen in awhile.
 
Kepler said:
I love all the public buildings from the 1880s to the 1930s. The only thing Dump did which I applauded was his "make Bauhaus unhappen" edict that all public buildings would look like the Parthenon again.

Cuz here's the thing. We monkey people are stupid and we've only hit on like 4 architectural styles in world history that didn't suck. Gothic cathedrals. Golden Age of Islam mosques, Periclean Greek temples, and some Chinese stuff I'm too ignint to know about.

That's it. All our other buildings have been ugly prisons. The Fountainhead is just as puerile about architecture as economics and politics: designing buildings for efficiency like circuit boards is fucking horrible.
Click to expand...

Staying off topic of movies a bit... if you have never read the McMansion Hell blog, go check it out. Not only does the author rip mcmansions hilariously, but she does an excellent job of explaining why the architecture/design on them is bad and what would constitute good home architecture. She also has some good articles about other types of architecture as well.
 
Red 2

marvin: if there’s one thing I know it’s women and covert ops

frank: that’s two things

han: no grasshopper, it is not.

;-)
 
Plan tonight, pending homework and other things, is to watch "The Emancipation of Harley Quinn and the Fantabulous Birds of Prey." Can that be watched on its own or do I have to watch something like Suicide Squad before it?
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top