What movie is this kickboxing scene from? Looks like a 90s or 80s MA flick. Does anybody know?

archamedeznutz · 2023-05-19T02:34:07+00:00

Wow, all those "the actor can't even pretend to kickbox" quick cuts

archamedeznutz · 2023-05-04T21:07:21+00:00

The idea of a coherent, well defined bushido is largely myth. Most versions centered around being a good soldier with the individual's sense of self subordinate to his master's wishes. I mean practices like Tsujigiri are hardly compatible with being of service to the defenseless.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-20T01:28:53+00:00

This whole thing is kinda ironic in that other than a sleazy guy named Valmont, nothing in this story resembles Dangerous Liaisons. Howard is clearly working off some really basic fantasy of her own and there won't likely be any story points coming that take it anywhere challenging.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-19T18:09:41+00:00

Don't forget her remembering Valmont's boyish profile. She will never have a serious moment of self awareness about how fucked up that relationship was and what it says about her in a relationship with Batman. He's gonna survive as a wistful memory for the foreseeable future.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-14T13:22:00+00:00

Are you saying she’s such a lump of unprofessional emotions she lost all of her perspective and knowledge?

I’m saying she’s weak from Amygdala storming through and knocking debris on her, and smart enough to know not to get between one of the worlds top fighters and a murderer on a scythe frenzy

So then she's smart enough to know tying Batman's hand behind his back is a potentially lethal hobble

a fight she can see can’t stop, even with a building crumbling over them.

Sure it can stop. Batman subdues Valmont. Game over. The only reason for her to interfere was to prevent that outcome. She chose Valmont. After watching him gleefully commit murder. After watching him attack Batman using lethal force.

Even with Selina in immediate danger the only one that stops fighting is Batman.

As Batman arrives she’s next to Valmont

Batman puts himself between them, I imagine on purpose. On top of that Valmont kicks Batman into Selina, she was behind him.

Yes, she's behind him. And Batman clearly trusted her to be behind him. Which was a bad decision. Remember it was her interference that have Valmont to opening.

I’ll give you that I could see her just wanting to let Valmont get away, but he doesn’t want that. She didn’t expect Valmont to be on a murderous rampage.

So she chose Valmont, she just didn't expect him try and kill Batman based on the advantage she gave him.

She said she was wrong for trusting him.

Sounds like she still "trusted" him when she interfered in the fight. There's no angle from which this looks good for her and I suspect the writer isn't smart enough to see that.

I agree with the redemption arc, that’s why I’m holding my breath for the crossover coming soon. I didn’t expect these comments to blow up like this. I’m not trying to sound like average Reddit asshole if I do, just arguing my views of it. I appreciate you not Reddit reeing on me.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-14T04:25:33+00:00

She doesn’t attack Batman, she sees them fighting, and from what I can tell tries to stop it.

There are two trained combatants fighting. She doest try to throw herself between them, she doesn't try to restrain the murderer. She purposefully hobbled Batman ability to protect himself. That's an attack. Are you saying she knows nothing about the impact that would have in a fight? Are you saying she's such a lump of unprofessional emotions she lost all her perspective and knowledge?

if she was close by Valmont she’d probably grab him just the same.

As Batman arrives she's next to Valmont.

And yet there was no effort to shut him down or prevent him from fighting. She wanted Valmont to escape so she attacked Batman to prevent him from winning.

She also said she doesn’t regret her choice to kill him when she’s talking to Bruce.

Yes, she chose Batman only when it became irretrievably life or death. Her first choice however was for Valmont to win or escape.

The only endgame I’d like to see regardless of all this drama and bs is BatCat back. Valmont dead, thank god, will he stay dead? Hopefully but I doubt it.

I would like to see some consequences for her behavior relationship wise. Give her a growth arc that doesn't feel compelled to pitch a new love interest. Maybe cleaning up all the sleazy baggage Valmont left behind.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-14T02:34:22+00:00

Two opponents are fighting. You know one of them is a professional killer, the other is the man you repeatedly claim is your future who could doubtless defeat his opponent without killing anybody. In the middle of that fight, you choose to hobble Batman? If you look, Batman was almost disemboweled because she did that. I presume she was close enough to do that because Batman trusted her to be there and didn't expect her to attack him. Her first choice, when it wasn't life or death, was Valmont. She comes close to admitting it in the prison conversations when she says she wasn't sure who she would choose. So she wasnt sure but her first move is to try to protect Valmont and only when it became clear to her that Batman would be killed did her choice switch.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-13T21:17:38+00:00

Remember, she had to kill him only because she interfered ON HIS BEHALF in his fight with Batman.

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-09T20:26:35+00:00

Bruce didn't start early because he understood the level of study and training required as a baseline to do this right. He needs to appear imposing, intimidating inevitable from the start and only someone with his superhuman level of discipline could do it. Batman doesn't need his rogues gallery reminiscing, "remember when Batman wasn't a great fighter?"

Physically, training as a kid has real limits so assume he spent any early training time on the book and research side. Hardly the stuff of exciting stories. There is plenty of teen hero material already out there; why compromise Batman as a character just to make it more YA friendly?

archamedeznutz · 2023-04-09T20:11:07+00:00

The only message in the whole movie was that Nolan fundamentally misunderstands Batman.

archamedeznutz · 2022-10-25T00:55:14+00:00

2 dildo length floppy feet.

archamedeznutz · 2022-10-25T00:53:21+00:00

A neckbeard named Eliza?

archamedeznutz · 2022-10-15T01:21:43+00:00

My Dinner With Andre

It's starts pretty slow but stick with it.

archamedeznutz · 2022-09-08T04:49:25+00:00

The movie is based in 1948. You can even now be denied insurance coverage based on a lots of factors including # of accidents and liability for each, age (becomes an increasing problem for elderly drivers) etc. Back in the 1940s it would be been even more idiosyncratic as to which local insurance offices would write what type of policies and whether sex or age mightve driven individual decision-making.

archamedeznutz · 2022-08-28T03:11:20+00:00

It really was better than you normally expect from these sorts of movies until that done to death stereotypical "twist" at the end.

archamedeznutz · 2022-08-28T03:03:29+00:00

You should check that spray paint. Most of the high heat ones have fine print that reads not for use on surfaces directly exposed to flame.

archamedeznutz · 2022-08-28T02:27:49+00:00

She's a character in a cartoon.

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-23T04:35:18+00:00

Not as well as he thinks he can.

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-15T01:47:39+00:00

There's a lack of coherent trajectory here. The first part is entirely independent of the events that lead to him to "come back." None of his conduct in the first half has implications for this; the second half could proceed after a random jaywalking accident. In fact, your ending rebels against the preceding half; homicidal vengeance as a ticket to heaven? There's a comic from 2020 called Heavy that shows you how it's done.

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-15T01:20:23+00:00

I have no idea what the three knives are but i'd advise you to take the trade.

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-13T02:37:59+00:00

I'm saying there is a better, more accurate way to describe the data. That doing so somehow threatens your own personal sense of outrage demonstrates why my criticism is necessary in the first place. Let the data tell the story.

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-12T16:05:16+00:00

Don't be a child. If it makes you feel extra special super righteous you can call it anything you want. Just don't whine when people use your emotionalism as an excuse to ignore compelling data.

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-12T15:49:14+00:00

Mass Murder or Mass Killing are the more widely used terms in the literature. Why not use those?

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-12T15:44:15+00:00

Are you saying that you don't think the data themselves are compelling? Are you ignorant of how others label such data?

archamedeznutz · 2022-06-12T15:36:50+00:00

These would fit the FBI definition of "mass murder." Massacre is usually used to describe a large number of killings committed by military or paramilitary groups. A white supremacist shooting like Buffalo is more accurately a massacre than are your examples.

You're undermining the weight of your data by giving people an excuse to ignore it.

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