There's a sex slave subplot with bitter and twisted women so why not bring someone in that can make that fly?
Makes perfect sense to bring her in.
Also the "message" is where the good guys save people from cartoon grade over the top bad guys. Of course she and everyone else agrees with the message.
They should be blaming how fucked up family courts are then instead of an entire gender. No wonder they are not getting anywhere. Picking on schoolgirls doesn't do anything to get laws passed or judgements questioned.
12 different gun manufacturers including Heckler and Koch which I'm pretty sure does not have a manufactory in Australia at all.
I think it was in about 1996 when the last factory for making guns in Australia shut down (by a "conservative" government that decided to trim back on the military), so it's pure intentional invention on the part of the scriptwriters instead of any sort of flawed tie to reality.
One truly funny thing is this branch of the genre originally grew out of a 150% investment tax dodge and the director was allowed to make anything he liked as long as it cost a bit - the investors were originally horrified when it started making money, until it started making a lot of money. This one of course is a different story and has full blown Hollywood accounting behind it instead of small foreign studio in danger of actually being audited accounting.
Of course, since you take things personally that are aimed in completely the opposite direction. Where is your apology for your accusation that I was attacking all geeks?
Made by the same director in the same style but sorry, Gibson is a bit old for the role so someone else is Max helping out people in a post-apocalyptic road movie. It's definitely a continuation in the same setting. If "Star Wars" gets to keep it's name with a million changes then why can't this keep it's name with just one?
All CGI and jumpcuts to hide the fact the actors aren't in the action, which really detracts from the fun. Long (duration) shots with no jumpcuts so you feel the action rather than yawn at camera tricks, wide shots so you can actually follow what's going on in a fight:
From memory that's Jackie Chan's main hate of Hollywood. He based the stuff he directed on the Charlie Chaplan movies he'd seen as a kid (screened in China a lot in the 70's onwards) with long scenes full of sustained physical comedy, then when he went to America he found that Hollywood was long gone and replaced with shit like "Cannonball Run".
One of the myths has Thor asking for Loki's help to pretend to be a very convincing woman and sneak in to beat up some giants. Much hilarity follows. It's a trap!
His point is there's no equality until he's just as likely to get killed by a girl, which is way off track since he's probably bound to die from too much high fructose corn syrup like the rest of the MRA angry virgins.
What about opening MS Office instead of a Metro toy mini-application? What about getting to the real desktop instead of that Metro splash screen? Win7 is where the time lag is especially painful even with an SSD and recent i7, but Win8 still has the underlying problem and launching anything that needs more than trivial resources has to fight with the antivirus, skype and a pile of notification shit starting up.
That's a worry because the MS stuff is just so slooooow at some things - e.g. expects the user to do things like sit and wait a minute after login while lots of little applications start up and then eventually lets the user click on something and get a response. "Where do you want to go today?" turned into a wait for tomorrow.
Most definitely, because it does consider itself a Justice system and not a punishment system. "A crime has been committed and someone must pay" is a bit different to "did this person commit the crime". Those in politics frequently prefer the former but luckily the Justice system is robust enough that they cannot get their Chinese style rubber stamp court overnight.
You did that yourself. Why on earth are you taking things personally? Did you make a comment of "how woman are unsuitable for staying indoors and typing while men are"? Do you consider yourself a "MRA type"? I'll bet the answer to all of that is no, so please, instead of assuming that I'm accusing everyone of that at least pay some attention to a comment you reply to before attaching completely unrelated baggage.
My comment above is about how nearly every Friday for at least a couple of months this site has put up an article to bait the misogynistic types into posting a lot of rants, or to bait those of us that have noticed that the number of women in IT has been in a sharp decline for the last couple of decades. This latest one appears to be along those lines.
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Some of the AC shit about how women have unsuitable brains etc has floated up to 3 or more.
You mean the "poor me I can't do anything right" post is sarcasm and not a whiny complaint? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Pretending you were only joking when something backfires is pathetic.
Seems to be quite a lot of them and people modding them up too. Maybe it's all Dice employees modding them up to stir the pot, but more likely people with an account who agree. Also I refuse to take responsibility for people taking comments personally when it's very clear that the comments are directed at the utter fuckwits that fit my insult precisely, and definitely not "all nerds".
Ah yes, the juvenile "if you are not with us you are against us line". Ironically that last line was added in to deal with that stupid view from the other side where some loser would just as likely accuse me of being on the side of terrorists by being critical of blowing up weddings.
Think about it for half a second. If the cousin of the guy you want to kill is getting married it's a safe bet that he's going to turn up, and if you have no scruples wiping out the entire wedding party gets the job done. I'm not defending it, I'm just pointing out why I think the spooks are doing it that way.
The other post is really about Charles Manson's name being mentioned a lot and glorified in things like the history channel rubbish that skipped over the many fuckups that precipitated his crimes.
I agree that Manson does get briefly considered for parole every now and again and think that is how it should be - once we make an exception for him it will get applied to anyone who pisses off whoever owns the prisons system and next thing you know there are political prisoners doing life without parole.
That's because there are idiots that want to turn him into some sort of mythical supervillan instead of a guy that reacted out of spite to not getting what he wanted, couldn't find the person he wanted to murder so settled for who he could find. If it wasn't someone as famous as Sharon Tate was at the time he'd be long forgotten.
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There's a sex slave subplot with bitter and twisted women so why not bring someone in that can make that fly?
Makes perfect sense to bring her in.
Also the "message" is where the good guys save people from cartoon grade over the top bad guys. Of course she and everyone else agrees with the message.
Common fucking sense people. Childbirth is not like getting a cold.
No wonder people are making fun of these idiots if that's point number one.
They should be blaming how fucked up family courts are then instead of an entire gender.
No wonder they are not getting anywhere.
Picking on schoolgirls doesn't do anything to get laws passed or judgements questioned.
I think it was in about 1996 when the last factory for making guns in Australia shut down (by a "conservative" government that decided to trim back on the military), so it's pure intentional invention on the part of the scriptwriters instead of any sort of flawed tie to reality.
One truly funny thing is this branch of the genre originally grew out of a 150% investment tax dodge and the director was allowed to make anything he liked as long as it cost a bit - the investors were originally horrified when it started making money, until it started making a lot of money.
This one of course is a different story and has full blown Hollywood accounting behind it instead of small foreign studio in danger of actually being audited accounting.
Of course, since you take things personally that are aimed in completely the opposite direction. Where is your apology for your accusation that I was attacking all geeks?
It was supposed to be in Australia but it rained in the desert where it was going to be filmed. Not quite the same to have endless fields of flowers :)
It's still 100% Miller despite not having any Gibson.
Made by the same director in the same style but sorry, Gibson is a bit old for the role so someone else is Max helping out people in a post-apocalyptic road movie. It's definitely a continuation in the same setting.
If "Star Wars" gets to keep it's name with a million changes then why can't this keep it's name with just one?
It's a Mad Max movie just as "Live and Let Die" and "Goldfinger" are both Bond movies despite having different actors in the role.
From memory that's Jackie Chan's main hate of Hollywood. He based the stuff he directed on the Charlie Chaplan movies he'd seen as a kid (screened in China a lot in the 70's onwards) with long scenes full of sustained physical comedy, then when he went to America he found that Hollywood was long gone and replaced with shit like "Cannonball Run".
One of the myths has Thor asking for Loki's help to pretend to be a very convincing woman and sneak in to beat up some giants. Much hilarity follows.
It's a trap!
His point is there's no equality until he's just as likely to get killed by a girl, which is way off track since he's probably bound to die from too much high fructose corn syrup like the rest of the MRA angry virgins.
What about opening MS Office instead of a Metro toy mini-application?
What about getting to the real desktop instead of that Metro splash screen?
Win7 is where the time lag is especially painful even with an SSD and recent i7, but Win8 still has the underlying problem and launching anything that needs more than trivial resources has to fight with the antivirus, skype and a pile of notification shit starting up.
That's a worry because the MS stuff is just so slooooow at some things - e.g. expects the user to do things like sit and wait a minute after login while lots of little applications start up and then eventually lets the user click on something and get a response.
"Where do you want to go today?" turned into a wait for tomorrow.
Most definitely, because it does consider itself a Justice system and not a punishment system. "A crime has been committed and someone must pay" is a bit different to "did this person commit the crime". Those in politics frequently prefer the former but luckily the Justice system is robust enough that they cannot get their Chinese style rubber stamp court overnight.
You did that yourself. Why on earth are you taking things personally? Did you make a comment of "how woman are unsuitable for staying indoors and typing while men are"? Do you consider yourself a "MRA type"? I'll bet the answer to all of that is no, so please, instead of assuming that I'm accusing everyone of that at least pay some attention to a comment you reply to before attaching completely unrelated baggage.
My comment above is about how nearly every Friday for at least a couple of months this site has put up an article to bait the misogynistic types into posting a lot of rants, or to bait those of us that have noticed that the number of women in IT has been in a sharp decline for the last couple of decades. This latest one appears to be along those lines.
Some of the AC shit about how women have unsuitable brains etc has floated up to 3 or more.
Come on guys, you had to see this coming. The "conservatives" of that type are all for change if it's paid for.
You mean the "poor me I can't do anything right" post is sarcasm and not a whiny complaint? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it. Pretending you were only joking when something backfires is pathetic.
Seems to be quite a lot of them and people modding them up too. Maybe it's all Dice employees modding them up to stir the pot, but more likely people with an account who agree.
Also I refuse to take responsibility for people taking comments personally when it's very clear that the comments are directed at the utter fuckwits that fit my insult precisely, and definitely not "all nerds".
Ah yes, the juvenile "if you are not with us you are against us line". Ironically that last line was added in to deal with that stupid view from the other side where some loser would just as likely accuse me of being on the side of terrorists by being critical of blowing up weddings.
Think about it for half a second. If the cousin of the guy you want to kill is getting married it's a safe bet that he's going to turn up, and if you have no scruples wiping out the entire wedding party gets the job done.
I'm not defending it, I'm just pointing out why I think the spooks are doing it that way.
That way lies madness and the possibility that your own social, political or ethnic group will get redefined as vicious predator animals.
I agree that Manson does get briefly considered for parole every now and again and think that is how it should be - once we make an exception for him it will get applied to anyone who pisses off whoever owns the prisons system and next thing you know there are political prisoners doing life without parole.
That's because there are idiots that want to turn him into some sort of mythical supervillan instead of a guy that reacted out of spite to not getting what he wanted, couldn't find the person he wanted to murder so settled for who he could find. If it wasn't someone as famous as Sharon Tate was at the time he'd be long forgotten.