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ladyislingering · 12-24-2014, 12:55 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I just so get House and Wilson's dynamic. All of my really good friendships have basically been some form of that. Me, the outrageous, antisocial jackass, constantly pushing the other's buttons just for my own personal amusement, and my long-suffering friend, resigned to the fact that he's attached to a douchebag, but too fondly amused by my antics to ditch me.

that feel, man.

I'm such a Wilson.

I think I might just like you a little, Batlord. You're an ok guy.

The Batlord · 12-24-2014, 12:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ladyislingering

that feel, man.

I'm such a Wilson.

I think I might just like you a little, Batlord. You're an ok guy.

I guarantee you, if we met in real life, you'd laugh at my **** a third of the time, roll your eyes in fond annoyance another third, and just want to strangle the life out of me the rest.

ladyislingering · 12-24-2014, 01:00 AM

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Originally Posted by The Batlord

I guarantee you, if we met in real life, you'd laugh at my **** a third of the time, roll your eyes in fond annoyance another third, and just want to strangle the life out of me the rest.

Oh, yes, I already know that life with a hooligan angel like Ki.

He is a man who makes random fart sounds for no reason, drops his chips on the floor and leaves them for the cat, and does things that are so frustratingly hilarious that a girl can't help but laugh.

**Frownland** · 12-24-2014, 07:36 AM

I thought that the last season of Lost was just as good as the rest of the show. Tbh I think the first season is my least favourite.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-24-2014, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Urban Hat€monger ?

But then it also made it into an awesome TV series called Band Of Brothers.

never watched that but maybe i will. i liked "unsere mutter unsere vatter" better than any other ww2 film/series so far.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-24-2014, 09:06 AM

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Originally Posted by James

I'm not sure I like the idea of framing war as 'exciting'. The best war films are the ones that display just how futile and cruel the whole concept is. As for Saving Private Ryan, it doesn't have much to say, but that opening scene is beautifully shot. One of Spielberg's nicest sequences in his whole filmography.

you seen paths of glory? you'd probably like that one if not.

**Frownland** · 12-24-2014, 09:07 AM

^Definitely. No one does war films better than Kubrick.

~~John Wilkes Booth~~ · 12-24-2014, 09:33 AM

ww1 is such an interesting war to me mostly because of how it portrayed as one of the first examples of modern mechanized warfare. i know it has been a gradual technological evolution but there really does seem to be a sort of climax at the beginning of the 20th century where war really stops seeming human. i'm probably mostly influenced by this essay though.

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As I sit down to write these pages I can see before me two scenes from my experience of the late war. The first is a glimpse of a forgotten battle of 1915. It has a curious suggestion of a rather bad cinema film. Through a blur of dust and fumes there appear, quite suddenly, great black and yellow masses of smoke which seem to be tearing up the surface of the earth and disintegrating the works of man with an almost visible hatred. These form the chief part of the picture, but some where in the middle distance one can see a few irrelevant looking human figures, and soon there are fewer. It is hard to believe that these are the protagonists in the battle. One would rather choose those huge substantive oily black masses which are so much more conspicuous, and suppose that the men are in reality their servants, and playing an inglorious, subordinate, and fatal part in the combat. It is possible, after all, that this view is correct.

Daedalus, or, Science and the Future

The Batlord · 12-24-2014, 09:44 AM

It sucks that WWI isn't exactly tailored to movies---as trench warfare probably doesn't make for much excitement the vast majority of the time---as there probably aren't many wars that can really bring home just how awful and inhuman they can be. I mean, there's the Holocaust, but genocide doesn't quite match up thematically with the visceral nature of a battlefield.

Pet_Sounds · 12-24-2014, 09:58 AM

I think Twelve O'Clock High and A Bridge Too Far are a pair of movies that brought that message without resorting to excessive violence and shock value. Gregory Peck was fabulous in the former, and the latter is just incredible on all counts.

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	I thought that the last season of Lost was just as good as the rest of the show. Tbh I think the first season is my least favourite. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Frownland SOPHIE FOREVER Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: East of the Southern North American West Posts: 35,541	^Definitely. No one does war films better than Kubrick. __________________ Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth. d e a f b o x

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Pet_Sounds Remember the underscore Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: The other side Posts: 2,488	I think Twelve O'Clock High and A Bridge Too Far are a pair of movies that brought that message without resorting to excessive violence and shock value. Gregory Peck was fabulous in the former, and the latter is just incredible on all counts. __________________ Everybody's dying just to get the disease