The Shrine

If you're taking these for the reasons they're intended, you need intervention

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Sweet -- all-night Pac-Man! I'll eat one every time Pac-Man eats a power pellet.

We already have this pill.

It's called SPEED!

yeah this just sounds and looks dangerous... like the stupid ass girls in high school that used to take medication so they wouldn't sweat.

I doubt they work. As far as I can see these are just vitamins.

If you want pills to stay up all night, they need 220 mgs of caffeine, or yeah, just pop speed like Dorothea did when filming Wizard of Oz.

I think Jessie Spano taught us all an important lesson.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljtuGoIIKGs

But the Nescafe website says caffeine is good!

Black Lotus wrote:I think Jessie Spano taught us all an important lesson.

"Be very quiet folks, what we have here is a rare sight: a Saved By the Bell reference in the wild."

Hey, looks like that scene is the top Google hit for "jessie spano."

I'm so excited!

Wow, I didn't even watch that show, and I remember that scene.

It's her claim to fame. Aside from being a whore in Showgirls.

I always wondered if her doing a highly sexualized role killed her career. Then I saw some of Showgirls on tv last week, and realized that movie killed her career because it was fucking terrible.

You're probably aware, however, that Showgirls has a (for some reason) huge cult following. If not, I'm telling you it does, and I don't understand why either.

Kupek wrote:I always wondered if her doing a highly sexualized role killed her career. Then I saw some of Showgirls on tv last week, and realized that movie killed her career because it was fucking terrible.

Has Verhoven made another bad film?

Black Lotus wrote:You're probably aware, however, that Showgirls has a (for some reason) huge cult following. If not, I'm telling you it does, and I don't understand why either.

Yeah, I was always wondering why they released a limited box set version of it. Some people actually like it which is fucked up

Zeus wrote:

Kupek wrote:I always wondered if her doing a highly sexualized role killed her career. Then I saw some of Showgirls on tv last week, and realized that movie killed her career because it was fucking terrible.

Has Verhoven made another bad film?

Starship Troopers is up for debate, especially if you compare it to the source material. Personally, I've never read the book and I love the camp.

Black Lotus wrote:

Zeus wrote:

Kupek wrote:I always wondered if her doing a highly sexualized role killed her career. Then I saw some of Showgirls on tv last week, and realized that movie killed her career because it was fucking terrible.

Has Verhoven made another bad film?

Starship Troopers is up for debate, especially if you compare it to the source material. Personally, I've never read the book and I love the camp.

Starship Troopers is his best film. The reason it took people so long to get that film is because it has this campy, pretty-boy facade on a movie with shitloads of historical references and social commentary. It took me until my third or fourth time seeing it to really get it but it's an awesome film. It was completely misunderstood by nearly everyone. Hell, initially I loved it as just a very fun movie to watch with no depth. Boy was I wrong.

I'm very happy the movie really found a second life on DVD. It was considered a failure until it sold for 2+ years solid. It was the insane success on DVD (helped a lot by the rediscovering of the film by critics) that lead to both the sequel (horrible first 20 minutes, fucking brutal, not bad afterwards) and the special edition DVD. Now it's considered by many amongst his best films (look at the interview on the special edition DVD for proof)

I think I still prefer Total Recall, but for some reason I can watch ST about once every month and not get tired of it. Especially so, since I learned one of the main characters from The Wire is in it. Yes, folks, that's THE WIRE. That show you're (almost) all too retarded to watch. Keep watching that endless, gay ninja anime (buh-lee-vit!).

Sorry, we're too busy watching the best fucking sci-fi show in the history of man! You can take your cop show and put it where the other cop shows belong, in the fucking garbage.

Anyway, Starship Troopers was decent as a movie, but it wasn't Starship Troopers. I can't tell you enough times that every single reader of the book cried "WHERE THE FUCK ARE THE JUMP SUITS?" when the movie came out. And after I read the book, I said the same thing. It wasn't meant to be campy at all, but a politically-charged book. Nothing at all about how his father became a soldier, etc.

Just stop calling it Starship Troopers, and I'm fine with it.

SineSwiper wrote:You can take your cop show and put it where the other cop shows belong, in the fucking garbage.

You are a clown.

Speaking of Starship Troopers, there's a 3rd one coming

http://media.dvd.ign.com/media/142/14246214/vids_1.html

Guess the second one did well too

I like ST, and think i understood that it mocks society and has political undertone... but it looks like im missing a great deal more. Where did the revelation come from? Commentary on the DVD?

Flip wrote:I like ST, and think i understood that it mocks society and has political undertone... but it looks like im missing a great deal more. Where did the revelation come from? Commentary on the DVD?

I was a 20th Century War history buff. The Nazi propaganda ("Do You Want To Know More?") spoof, the drop ships mimicking D-Day, the bug-hole being new-aged Vietcong holes, the way they all talk about the bugs being exactly like the Americans thought of the Vietcong, the fact that Fascism won over democracy and the way the new society is set up, the entire attitude of the military and society on a whole having a very imperialistic attitude (including American "gung-ho" mentality), the way people (re: Rico) were getting promoted like mad (Vietnam), the Gestapo uniform that Doogie Houser (sp?) and the rest of the intelligence were wearing (and all their actions and 'experiments'), the very end of the movie where Rico and Ace are welcoming the new recruits which are kids (that was EXACTLY what happened with the Nazis) while still having this optimistic propaganda (especially the "Do You Want To Know More" part that ended the film)......

There's tons of war and societal references in that film. It's all over the place and very subtle, particularly considering how it's buried under the "pretty boy, turn your brain off at the door" facade it had. It's no wonder nearly everyone, including myself, missed it the first few times through.

I picked up on the Nazi and fascism references. But I missed the Vietnam parallels.

RentCavalier wrote:We already have this pill.

It's called SPEED!

MmmmMmm METH mmmmMMmM METH!!!

Kupek wrote:I picked up on the Nazi and fascism references. But I missed the Vietnam parallels.

The WW2 one with the drop-ships was quite subtle, took me a while to get that one. But the way they opened up and the people inside reacted (freakin' out, not knowing what to do) and were swarmed by the bugs and they took insane casualties was such a modernized D-Day.