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xtsho

xtsho

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I watched a few episodes of The Food That Built America last night on the History Channel. I don't know how accurate the show is but it's entertaining to me. It's a show about the history of common foods and the competition over the years between different competitors to dominate their market segment. Last night's new episode was popcorn and the battle between Orville Redenbacher and Pop Secret. A couple others I hadn't seen were the battle for sandwich domination between Subway and Blimpie and the rise of Wendy's Hamburger chain and the role that it's founder Dave Thomas had in making KFC a success before he left to start his own chain.

The over dramatize things but the timelines are accurate. I remember some of it from the 70's and 80's and the different products, marketing, etc... from the different companies.

The guy that used to do Man vs Food until his body told him to stop narrates it. He's embellishes too much as I know his age and he'll make a comment as to how he remembers this or that when there is no way he's old enough to remember. But it's television and he does a decent job even though he's full of crap. I'm sure he's just happy to still have a job in the industry and not have to eat Ghost Pepper curry or a 5 pound burrito. He's got a nice gig. I'd do it.
 
StonedGardener

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StonedGardener said:
He's an exceptional actor, blows me away. I highly recommend the Oldman movie
" State of Grace" ( 80’s or 90's I think)..... great flick...Oldman is so intense and outrageous.

I think Tom Hardy is another exceptionally great actor !
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Ya gotta check out " State Of Grace" if you like gritty, violent , mob type flicks with lots of wonderful profanity !
CunningCanuk said:
It was a great flick, this was a great one too;

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Loved that fing movie, what a cast, what a story.....watched it at leat 3 times. Tom Hardy is in the flick also. Great pick. I liked the soundtrack a lot too.
 
lusidghost

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I just watched Highlander, and that movie is an titanic piece of garbage. Sean Connery forever ruined movie magic for me when I watched Medicine Man while taking a bunch of bong hits as a teenager, but he is the only redeemable character in Highlander. And only because of his suave facial hair setup and peacock themed pimp outfit. It's hard to not respect a white guy who can pull that off.

Aside from him, wtf? I need adderall to follow the plot of that cheeseball of a movie. I kept getting lost in the cringiness of a scene and then suddenly they're in a different time period looking stupid af as some new bad actor shows up to jump the shark even more. At one point it went from a black jedi looking dude on a bridge in the 1980s to a powdered wig guy shooting another guy in the back, and then it jumped to a psycho punk rocker disturbing the peace in a cheap hotel, who later became some sort of Frankenstein zombie.

Two hours of goofy dorks playing touch-butt in parks throughout white-history. The soundtrack is also horrendous.

Now I'm about to watch Part II, which I didn't know existed until now.
 
Aeroknow

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lusidghost said:
I just watched Highlander, and that movie is an titanic piece of garbage. Sean Connery forever ruined movie magic for me when I watched Medicine Man while taking a bunch of bong hits as a teenager, but he is the only redeemable character in Highlander. And only because of his suave facial hair setup and peacock themed pimp outfit. It's hard to not respect a white guy who can pull that off.

Aside from him, wtf? I need adderall to follow the plot of that cheeseball of a movie. I kept getting lost in the cringiness of a scene and then suddenly they're in a different time period looking stupid af as some new bad actor shows up to jump the shark even more. At one point it went from a black jedi looking dude on a bridge in the 1980s to a powdered wig guy shooting another guy in the back, and then it jumped to a psycho punk rocker disturbing the peace in a cheap hotel, who later became some sort of Frankenstein zombie.

Two hours of goofy dorks playing touch-butt in parks throughout white-history. The soundtrack is also horrendous.

Now I'm about to watch Part II, which I didn't know existed until now.
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Well shit. If you didn’t like the first Highlander you’re gonna really love the second one!:roll: Oh and dont forget to binge watch the entire TV series when you get done with the movies.
 
xtsho

xtsho

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lusidghost said:
I just watched Highlander, and that movie is an titanic piece of garbage. Sean Connery forever ruined movie magic for me when I watched Medicine Man while taking a bunch of bong hits as a teenager, but he is the only redeemable character in Highlander. And only because of his suave facial hair setup and peacock themed pimp outfit. It's hard to not respect a white guy who can pull that off.

Aside from him, wtf? I need adderall to follow the plot of that cheeseball of a movie. I kept getting lost in the cringiness of a scene and then suddenly they're in a different time period looking stupid af as some new bad actor shows up to jump the shark even more. At one point it went from a black jedi looking dude on a bridge in the 1980s to a powdered wig guy shooting another guy in the back, and then it jumped to a psycho punk rocker disturbing the peace in a cheap hotel, who later became some sort of Frankenstein zombie.

Two hours of goofy dorks playing touch-butt in parks throughout white-history. The soundtrack is also horrendous.

Now I'm about to watch Part II, which I didn't know existed until now.
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That movie sucked. I think I made it through about 20 minutes before shutting it off and going to watch paint dry.
 
lusidghost

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xtsho said:
That movie sucked. I think I made it through about 20 minutes before shutting it off and going to watch paint dry.
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I tried to watch it about ten years ago and couldn't make it through the parking garage fight scene. The bad guy looked kind of like Coach Haden Fox playing Agent Smith. Then he started doing a bunch of backflips down a corridor like a 14 year old female Olympian, and I knew I was not yet mature enough to fully appreciate it.
 
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BarnBuster

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Remember Sally Draper in "Mad Men"? Kiernan Shipka all grown up and in Hollywood as an intern.


edit: just watched episode 1, and whoa, she's definitely not little Sally anymore
 
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