General purpose thread where Kitty advises posters on whatever they ask

[KrazyHorse]

the guy who got kicked out of the house with ~5 female roommates for having sex with half of them

I imagine that the one whose legs he chopped off was probably the straw that broke the camel's back.

[Elok]

Is the grotesquely excessive profanity in a Martin Scorsese crime movie meant to be comical, or is it just me who laughs at it? How about the way every character in The Departed, including extras and characters' pets, dies from a gunshot to the head at close range? Was that some BS profound statement/allusion, an aid to the invention of future drinking games, or just lazy filmmaking? Why did Scorsese bother making Casino when he could have just digitally edited Goodfellas to insert some dice and slot machines in the background? Maybe these are more questions for Rufus, but they're the questions I have at the moment.

Also, rank the Die Hard movies. I say 1, 4, 2, 3 from best to worst. I just saw three today and it was dreadfully cliche. Then again, it is an old movie; maybe the whole "heehee I'm a psycho and I'm going to make cops do stupid stunts for my amusement" bit was new at the time. I think it came before Speed but can't be arsed to Wiki.

[Sirotnikov]

Whisk(e)y drinking. Obviously.

The two manliest nations in the world (Scotland and Ireland) invented it.

They also invented Guinness and Kilkenny.

[Dauphin]

Guinness is a brand of stout, and stout originated in London.

[Elok]

And stout is a type of beer, which was invented in ancient Mesopotamia or Egypt or somewhere. And beer is a type of alcoholic beverage, which I imagine was invented in some godforsaken wilderness somewhere by accident when some hunter-gatherers left the berries they gathered to sit too long...

[KrazyHorse]

Is the grotesquely excessive profanity in a Martin Scorsese crime movie meant to be comical

I imagine so.

How about the way every character in The Departed, including extras and characters' pets, dies from a gunshot to the head at close range? Was that some BS profound statement/allusion, an aid to the invention of future drinking games, or just lazy filmmaking?

Never seen it.

Why did Scorsese bother making Casino when he could have just digitally edited Goodfellas to insert some dice and slot machines in the background? Maybe these are more questions for Rufus, but they're the questions I have at the moment.

Excuse to get Sharon Stone to give Joe Pesci a simulated blowjob

Also, rank the Die Hard movies. I say 1, 4, 2, 3 from best to worst. I just saw three today and it was dreadfully cliche. Then again, it is an old movie; maybe the whole "heehee I'm a psycho and I'm going to make cops do stupid stunts for my amusement" bit was new at the time. I think it came before Speed but can't be arsed to Wiki.

OMFG, you are a ****ing moron.

4? That ****ing sucked my taint. 1234. Duh.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Sorry. The correct answer is 1324.

[KrazyHorse]

They also invented Guinness and Kilkenny.

Those are merely brands of beer.

Whisky is a category unto itself.

[KrazyHorse]

Sorry. The correct answer is 1324.

While I appreciate the presence of Samuel L. Jackson, the climax to 2 vaults it clearly over 3.

Yippie kay yay, mother****er.

[Elok]

I'll grant you leeway on two, since I haven't seen it in years and when I did it was an edited-for-TV version. Maybe 1243. But three? That plot is just dumb. Well, four's was dumb too, but less cheesy than "Mwahaha I'm crazy so you must follow my tantalizing little hints which allow the writers to do without constructing a real plot to string the action sequences together."

[Naked Gents Rut]

While I appreciate the presence of Samuel L. Jackson, the climax to 2 vaults it clearly over 3.

Nah. 2 was just a rehash of 1. Watching half of New York get destroyed in 3, otoh, was awesome.

[Naked Gents Rut]

Also, German thieves > corrupt U.S. soldiers >>>>>>> hackers.

[Elok]

Oh, I so loved the "mystery" of a terrorist with a heavy German accent who has a grudge against McClane. Who could it be? They're all scratching their heads, since McClane has angered dozens of homicidal Eurotrash during his tenure with NYPD. The real surprise would have been if it had been somebody NOT connected with Hans.

And the daft nursery-rhyme gimmick. It felt like the script was written by James Patterson. Yes, the action scenes were fine, but they all had decent explosions n'such. The point is to put them together with style, a task at which 3 failed magnificently. With 4, the lameness of the enemy was part of the point, it's about McClane whooping goober ass and calling every other character in the movie a jerkoff. Even more than he usually does, that is.

[Guynemer]

Well, to be fair, 3 wasn't initially a Die Hard script at all. It was initially a movie called (natch) "Simon Says", but apparently the studio got the bright idea to shoehorn John McClane into it.



To KH--What is the best way to feign interest when Galnemer starts talking to me about possible plot points for her next novel, and goes on and on about researching the various paranormal **** that the novel is about, so she doesn't mess with established traditions with paranormal ****?

[KrazyHorse]

Why do you have to feign interest? Tell her that her lousy conversation bores you and hop on Poly to tell us about it.