Dek Rollins

Europa (1991) – 4/4

Watched a library DVD (always a smart move), so there were two scratched segments. Little did I know, the player actually skipped the entire chapter on the disc. So I missed two entire chapters of the film without knowing. I suspected something was up, because while the first missing chapter didn’t actually cause me any mental problems (I assumed it was resuming a few seconds after the scratch began), the second one confused the heck out of me. I assumed there were a couple lines of dialogue that I missed during the scratch, so I just kept watching to the end. Then the movie ended, and something was missing. I had only seen one part of this movie before when my brother watched it one time, and there was a specific exchange between characters that I was kind of waiting for subconsciously because of that. So I put the DVD in the computer to see what the crap is going on, and sure enough, I had to go and watch the missing chapters on the computer.

TL;DR - People who check out movies from the library suck.

The Hidden Fortress (1958) – 4/4

Frink never typed the accent!

I always pronounced it Rick Oh-Lee. So how is it really pronounced?

Possessed said:

He’s not a fan.

I’m not a fan of him then.

Mrebo said:

Have I been pronouncing “Ric Olié” wrong all this time?

How have you been pronouncing it?

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

vhs recording of landfill

You almost did it right.

yeah, add a #postid to the end

Lol, I haven’t been on all day. Fixed.

vhs recording of landfill

Next Tuesday would be tomorrow, would it not?

TV’s Frink said:

So what’s the pose for tomorrow’s Tuesday?

I’ll gladly pay you next Tuesday.

Napoleon Dynamite is objectively great. Anyone who thinks otherwise needs to get my dead cat’s poopoo out of their head. 😉

I understand that many people don’t like Nacho Libre, but I think it’s nearly as good.

Tobar said:

Dek Rollins said:

Nacho Libre (2006) – 4/4

I recommend Gentlemen Broncos if you haven’t seen it yet. I consider it the capper of the great Hess trilogy:

• Napoleon Dynamite
• Nacho Libre
• Gentlemen Broncos

I’ll have to see if I can find it somewhere. Thanks for the recommend.

darthrush said:

Napoleon Dynamite > Nacho Libre

Truth.

That phrase is generally used to refer to one thing being of considerably lower quality in the eyes of the poster.

But it don’t matter. Have a nice day.

TV’s Frink said:

Dek Rollins said:

Sue me. I know most consider it bad (might need to bump a particular thread), but I have zero problems with it other than literally one shot (bad CGI).

I’ve never even seen it and I don’t think I care enough to hire a lawyer.

Man everyone is so touchy this week.

I guess I didn’t mean to sound touchy (and yeah, that’s been goin’ around), just meant to express that I didn’t care that one is a goofy comedy and the others aren’t. If I enjoy it enough to give it a full score, it gets a four.

I just find all of the Ape sequels to be unnecessary and kinda bad. Conquest was marginally better than the others. Overall though, I did like plenty of the cinematography in all of them.

And to elaborate further on Libre, if you asked me what to rate it 3/4 of the way through the picture, I would say 3.5/4, but after the final fight, with Eagle Powers™ and all, it jumps way up. The music really helps, too (probably my favorite aspect of the film).

Sue me. I know most consider it bad (might need to bump a particular thread), but I have zero problems with it other than literally one shot (bad CGI).

Planet of the Apes (1968) – 4/4

Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970) – 1.5/4

Escape from the Planet of the Apes (1971) – 1.5/4

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972) – 2/4

Battle for the Planet of the Apes (1973) – 1.5/4

Nacho Libre (2006) – 4/4

Yojimbo (1961) – 4/4

DuracellEnergizer said:

At least the cover is better than the movie.

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

I liked the sighs.

I like how you see practically everything in ways that range from “a little bit different” to “whattheactualheckisthatboysmokin’?!”

I dislike the effect some of the stressors you experience here have on you.

I like how you’re never anything but honest.

I dislike how stubborn you appear to be.

I LOVE how passionate you are about things that matter to you.

Overall? Warbler delivers very fast and whilst his customer service skills are sometimes lacking the product is almost always durable and useful. Highly recommended ****

This.

Emphasis on “liked the sighing.”

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yhwx said:

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suspiciouscoffee said:

I’m in high school. I have many wonderful teachers. I don’t think any of them should be armed. Some of my teachers, and again, I love them, can hardly even operate a DVD player. I do not want any of them to be given firearms.

What about police officers that are extremely well trained and especially for a school environment and whom had been extremely background checked?

yhwx said:

https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964157761427787777

Every time another one of these mass shootings happen - right when the Republicans start telling us that the answer is more guns, guns for everyone, guns for teachers, guns for students - I think about Chris Kyle.

https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964157915056803840

Chris Kyle was the American Sniper guy - a highly decorated Navy Seal sniper with 150 confirmed kills in the Iraq War. Whatever else is true about him, he definitely was very good at shooting guns and used to being in combat environments.

https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964158367697723392

Kyle knew that the man he was with was dangerous. He knew he was armed - he armed him! To the degree that anyone could be forewarned and prepared for a situation, Kyle was. And yet the other guy shot two armed and trained men dead, got in a car and drove away.

https://twitter.com/markpopham/status/964158835043774470

Today a bunch of men are going to go to a gun store and they’re going to buy their third or 10th or 25th gun, because this scares them, and they think the gun is going to keep them safe.

You tell me in which scenario does a nut with gun have a better can at killing a lot of people.

1. Going into a school where no one is armed.
2. Going into a police station full of armed cops.

Or instead of hypotheticals, let’s use real numbers:

23 percent of emergency department shootings involved a perpetrator taking a gun from a security officer

But that’s in hospitals. Maybe schools are different.

Maybe these security officers need better training and maybe they need holsters better designed to prevent a perp from doing that.

Honestly the way some of you are talking, it is a wonder you don’t post that you think cops should no longer carry guns. Maybe the military as well.

Yeah I’m not crazy about the fact that cops have the ability to kill people. That’s something that needs fixing.

First of all, I don’t believe in the death penalty, and that’s after due process. So I certainly don’t think a cop should have that power.

So you don’t think a cop should have the ability to defend himself/herself. Got it. ok. I am not going waste my time engaging you on such stupidity.

Putting aside your personal attack, I never said cops shouldn’t have the ability to defend themselves.

You think they shouldn’t carry guns, the kinda leaves them defenseless against bad guys. I could probably look up countless stories where if the cop didn’t have a gun, he’d be dead. There was story a couple years ago in Philly. Some nut just walks up to a cop car and tries to shoot the cop inside. The cop nearly died, and he would have if hadn’t had his gun to defend himself.

To equal cops defending themselves against bad guys to the death penalty is stupidity. One is self defense and defense of the innocent civilians(including children), the other is a form of punishment.

Defending yourself should not equal killing someone.

When a cop is charged by a criminal with a knife, I suppose it’s safest for the cop to do some Captain Kirk chops. Definitely won’t be risking his life or anything.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Dek Rollins said:

I love everyone on this site. This is absolutly sincere.

Especially you, Duracell.

FTFY

Quoted for the truth.

I love everyone on this site. This is absolutly sincere.

Even you, Duracell. 😉

I dreampt that I was on a bus and Joel Hodgson was there, and we met. It was cool. Then we were in some room and Joel had a computer in front of him, and a girl I know from school was there now. Joel said we had to write stories, and the girl said I was good at writing fanfiction, which confused me because I don’t write fanfiction and I’m not a terribly good writer regardless. Then Joel said “name a film by the Coens with the Rens,” and then another similar demand that I don’t remember. I was really confused and I didn’t know what he was talking about, but then I woke up.