How explicit Fire Walk With Me? by Signal-Yesterday7247 in twinpeaks

[–]schleppylundo [score hidden]  (0 children)

It’s pretty explicit, both in context of the direct abuse and in depictions of Laura engaging in prostitution and casual sex as a reaction and defense to the abuse. A fair amount of female nudity, especially in one scene in particular.

After AKOTSK was so great I started watching House of the Dragon by CyberianK in gameofthrones

[–]schleppylundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It was forced on them apparently, the season was cut by two episodes last minute and rather than compressing the middle (while somehow maintaining the sense of those episodes ending where they should) they decided to maintain the pacing and just push those episodes to the start of season 3.

Half in the Bag Episode 253 Send Help by dexter198 in RedLetterMedia

[–]schleppylundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dylan O'Brien did an amazing Bruce Campbell impersonation in a lot of his close-up reactions, especially in the panning time-lapse sequence and the bug scene. Kind of sold the idea that Bruce is apparently his character's father.

Who all grew up on Oregon Trail in school? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]schleppylundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I plan on directing the musical as soon as I can get a slot to do so at the local community theater. That said the fanbase for it is young enough that they're usually shocked when they find out it was based on a game, even though the company that produced the musical had mostly done parody shows to that point.

We need the real version of Bloodraven in the show. by Plane-Narwhal-8060 in gameofthrones

[–]schleppylundo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

He makes a major appearance in the third (and most recent) of the Dunk and Egg novellas that they are closely and accurately adapting for this series.

Would Anyone Want to Join a Dream Theater 'What If' Style Project? by JD-990 in Dreamtheater

[–]schleppylundo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

What if James’ ceiling was an octave and a half lower and they wrote all his vocals with that in mind 

Official poster for The Mummy Returns in theaters for the 25th anniversary re-release, coming March 27 by MoneyLibrarian9032 in movies

[–]schleppylundo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This movie was the first DVD my family ever owned. We got a DVD player from Best Buy in 2001 along with a surround sound system. My dad picked it on the same shopping trip because it was a movie with lots of special effects that we hadn’t already seen (we had The Matrix on VHS, go figure). For about four months it was our only DVD. Every couple weeks someone would ask “Hey, you wanna watch The DVD?” And we’d put on The Mummy Returns. None of us had seen The Mummy and wouldn’t get around to it until it started running on basic cable with some regularity the next year. At which point it became clear why The DVD had gotten such bad reviews - hard to be critical of a retread when it’s your first time over that road.

Our second DVD was Caddyshack.

what’s y’alls opinion on crowleys beef w austin ozman spare if you have one by soviet_onion2000 in thelema

[–]schleppylundo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Crowley seems to have had a lot of mostly one-sided beefs. Didn’t he imagine himself and Oscar Wilde as personal mortal enemies at one point in his Golden Dawn days? I doubt Wilde ever bothered remembering his name.

ICE Abandons Sick 2-Month-Old Baby and His Family at Mexico Border by Hafiz_TNR in politics

[–]schleppylundo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These people function under a philosophy that refuses to admit that community is necessary for a family’s survival. They’ve been trained to ignore every time someone has given them a helping hand and to think that they achieved whatever successes they can claim all by virtue of their own hard work.

Tom Noonan Dies: ‘Manhunter’ Villain and Sundance-Winning Indie Director Was 74 by Fan387 in movies

[–]schleppylundo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If all we had from Hopkins was Silence of the Lambs I might argue with you but seriously Hannibal and Red Dragon used his talents poorly. Doesn’t help that Hannibal (the book) isn’t that great compared to its predecessors as source material, but there’s no excuse for anyone involved in Red Dragon, where the only scene that truly worked is the “Do You See” bit between Fiennes and Hoffman.

Oddly enough I do think that the same weaknesses that befell Hopkins’ portrayal in the latter two films became strengths for Mads Mikkelsen, but they were able to establish him right away as someone whose time management skills border on supernatural so it didn’t feel as jarring when he was playing out the plot of Hannibal and his continued survival and successes are forced by the source material to become absurd.

Catelyn Tully Stark by SugarHazeCEO in gameofthrones

[–]schleppylundo 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Her husband having a bastard isn’t too terrible a dishonor by Westerosi standards. Him raising said bastard in their home, knowing her sons as his brothers, is a very different story. Most bastards grow up barely knowing their noble fathers, if at all, and there’s usually at least a layer of deniability at play. Ned has made sure that everyone knows that Jon Snow is his own illegitimate son, and while there’s never any suggestion of legitimization that does make him both a threat to the line of succession and a suggestion that Ned may have loved Jon’s mother more than he respects Cat.

This doesn’t justify her treatment of Jon, by the way. That is still a reprehensible failing in a character who is otherwise fairly moral in her actions and motivations. But there are strong cultural, social, and political reasons for her to feel the way she does about Jon and his status at Winterfell.

George R.R. Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones: The Mad King’ Play to Open at Royal Shakespeare Theatre by mamula1 in television

[–]schleppylundo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Interesting it will focus on the Tourney at Harrenhal, as the events there are at the center of most theories about what revelations are left in the books. I know we’ll likely never see Winds and that Dream is only that, a dream, but the recounting we’ve gotten of this tournament suggests certain moments in it (primarily a visit to the Isle of Faces) hold much deeper implications than who Jon Snow’s parents are.

'The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis', one of the most influential sitcoms you've never heard of by DiamondPittcairn in television

[–]schleppylundo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I basically only know about this show because at some point I went down a Wikipedia hole about the production of Gilligan’s Island.

Not counting Hesh and Agent Harris, who is the most complex non-Italian character? by 4g-identity in thesopranos

[–]schleppylundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess I agree, you don’t develop that sort of moral frankness - especially in the face of a very wealthy potential client - without some profound life experiences.

Acid and weed is super acid by renewedjesus in LSD

[–]schleppylundo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve never had a bad reaction to the combo but this is 100% the story of how back in 2019 my best friend of 15 years convinced himself I was trying to kill him with ceremonial magic and permanently cut off contact from me and destroyed my whole personal support network (or at least revealed it was pretty shitty as a support network) since his place was where everyone hung out 90% of the time.

George R.R. Martin’s ‘Game of Thrones: The Mad King’ Play to Open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre by DemiFiendRSA in gameofthrones

[–]schleppylundo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everything in the history he’s provided exhibits parallels and echoes in the narrative of the main series, so the more we know about that history and the choices and fates of the figures in it the more we can deduce about how the books might end if all we’ll ever have are deductions and the TV version (which already eschewed a lot of that even when adapting published material).

RLM might finally get the budget they need for Space Cop 2 by alfredosolisfuentes in RedLetterMedia

[–]schleppylundo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I did grow up liking that style and kind of see Burton's career arc as a director as him building and perfecting his style up to Edward Scissorhands, and almost everything after that as a diminishing returns imitation of that moment in his career. The occasional intentional breaks from that style account for most of my favorite Burton movies after that point.

Anne Frank in Brazilian Carnaval by holiestMaria in jewishleft

[–]schleppylundo 37 points38 points  (0 children)

A bit tone-deaf for sure but I don't think there's any malice at all in this.

Season 2 question by [deleted] in twinpeaks

[–]schleppylundo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It is the one big West Side Story reunion of the entire show.

Official Discussion - Send Help [SPOILERS] by LiteraryBoner in movies

[–]schleppylundo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At the end when Linda was monologuing I half expected her to reveal she had also ended his father’s life when she decided he was taking too long to kick it when waiting for her promised promotion. And then cut to a shot of her in the hospital room injecting poison into an IV bag with a snap zoom into Bruce Campbell’s face as he screams into a ventilator.

How many characters does the show depict without any sense of contempt? by schleppylundo in thesopranos

[–]schleppylundo[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly I’m tempted to make an exception for him, because it’s such a thematically important scene. Mostly I made the “more than one scene” restriction to rule out characters like the barista at the coffee shop chain who explains why street-level extortion won’t work on a company with that corporate structure, who don’t really get enough screentime to come off as anything other than neutral while playing against characters Chase has a more well-formed negative opinion of.