Captain Aggravated @ captain_aggravated @sh.itjust.works

Linux gamer, retired aviator, profanity enthusiast

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Watching an Iowa-class battleship do things is always fun.

Hey Gemini, in the style of the 2012 movie Battleship, create a screenplay based on the board game Hungry Hungry Hippos.

They shouldn't be allowed to take out a trademark on public domain characters.

Watching it flop, then become a meme, then the studio thinking it was attracting an audience because it was being mentioned a lot, to release it again only to have it flop again was just decadent.

I'm not convinced there is a correct pronunciation for "Kirsten."

I'm a bachelor living alone with family in town, it could be anywhere from 2 hours to 2 weeks.

I'm struggling to top a burst appendix.

See they should have done a Charlie's Angels type thing, have them standing kind of back to back like they're on the same team. But I guess that won't have been as controversial.

What the Leeloo's suspenders are those?

I can report something similar; the last several years of high school, literature class is just miserable shit written hundreds of years ago that seems to be deemed important because the limp dick grey hairs in charge of writing the state curriculum were forced to read it when they were in school, and they were taught not to question their elders so you WILL fucking study this.

Anyone who goes back in time to kill Hitler, could you get Emily Bronte as well?

Oh I thoroughly enjoyed the film. I went to the theater to see it 8 times, with 5 different girls.

It turned out fantastic. But it had absolutely no business being made. And that was the assignment of this thread.

It's apparently not available anywhere, no streaming service carries it.

Yeah, it sounds like you didn't explore the wrecks or their surroundings, because all the blueprints you say you need can be found above 250m fairly easily. There are Seamoth parts and a free depth upgrade for the Seamoth available right at sea level in the Aurora. I've finished the game several times without building a seabase at all.

And delicious.

Yeah, that's what the line about could vs. should was about.

Why not just get a pet turkey?

You know what? yes it is. Barely. There are two and a half moments in the movie that make it a musical.

First, let me talk about Crossroads, the one with The Karate Kid in it, not the one with Britney Spears. The plot is kind of the Devil Went Down To Georgia, it culminates in a guitar battle with the devil (or his minion) to get out of a deal once signed. There are several musical performances in the movie, but all make sense in context because it's a movie about musicians. There aren't any spontaneous street fulls of people suddenly performing an impromptu rehearsed song and dance numbers. The musical scenes in Crossroads are all perfectly plausible, like busking in a parking lot or performing on stage at a bar. Even the supernatural scene at the end is musicians performing for an audience in a venue. I love the moment where this rowdy crowd warmed up on blues and rock and roll clap politely when he busts out some classical.

Most of the runtime of the Blues Brothers has normal movie non-diegetic music; the Blues Brothers themselves don't hear She Caught The Katy or the Peter Gunn Theme. Three major and one minor performance are perfectly realistic: There's a short shot of John Lee Hooker performing Boom Boom busking in the street, then there's the performance at the Redneck Bottle Throwing Bar where they play some of Gimme Some Lovin, Theme From Rawhide and Stand By Your Man, the Blues Review concert at the big hall where they play Minnie The Moocher, Everybody Needs Somebody To Love and Sweet Home Chicago, and the epilogue in prison where they play Jailhouse Rock. So far, this isn't a capital M Musical. It's a lowercase m music movie same as Crossroads.

What makes it a Musical is Aretha Franklin belting out Think and Ray Charles's Shake A Tail Feather, during which reality slams to a halt and everyone everywhere become backup dancers, including out in the street where they have no chance of hearing the music. And the second one might even make sense if they didn't cut outside to dancers in the street. I'll buy these blues musicians knowing the song and playing along with instruments they pulled off the shelves at this music store.

No, the products. World War 2 ended in 1945, and then EVERYBODY FUCKED and 80 years later we're still cleaning up the mess.

Same reason we started with X, millennials actually got a name, and then went back to Z. Somebody with a head full of lead came up with it.

I had hamsters and gerbils, my hamsters weren't bitey. I guess we socialized them better, they just liked walking from hand to hand.