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Mike Booth, the guy behind Some Grey Bloke, gave me a great idea for a post (which will be coming soon), so I’m using that as an excuse to post this video of his about the famous Red Pill, which is apparently quite popular outside the manosphere as well as within it. Apparently it comes from an old sci-film from a couple of decades ago called The Matrix?
@katz:
There’s also a big old heap of ‘consider the source’ you’d be advised to take.
For example, somebody who hates Sam Raimi’s Spider-man series and loved the GI Joe movie? All his advice about good vampire movies to watch go in one ear and out the other. (and he hated Scott Pilgrim!!!)
Howard: I know, right? I had at least one friend who I used for reverse movie recommendations: If she liked something, on no account would I see it.
@Katz
There is a boy and a Death Star. A princess’ world gets blown up and she gets taken to the Death Star. The boy does some training with a wee green thing, then sneaks on board the Death Star with a hairy thing and a couple of robots. They sneak about a bit, then save the girl and blow up the thing. Lightsabres, flights through unrealistic asteroid fields, and accidental near-incest ensue. There’s also stuff to do with a paternity test, hands getting cut off and big leggy robots.
The end.
@thenatfantastic: I understand there’s also some kind of space pirate who is pursued romantically by something that fell out of the Sphinx’s nose?
I just watched Spaceballs, for all I know you’re not mocking me.
No, I’m not mocking you. Star Wars can take it, I figure.
Space pirate.
Oh god, don’t unfold your used Kleenexes, man!
GREEBO SHOT FIRST!
(That’s really all anyone needs to know about Star Wars, imo.)
@Some Gal
I have pre-Lucasian tampering VHS tapes, it was Han. 😛
@Creative Writing Student
I still have those too. (And the post-tampering VHS tapes. Those and The Brave Little Toaster are the only VHS tapes I own anymore.)
Although, thinking about it, the joke is probably a bit mean.
No one should repeat what I said!
If the Red Pill is a depressant is ManBoobz the anti-depressant?
Love the bit about it being like a Mensa for anti-Semite misogynists. Some of these red pill guys seem to get off on bragging about their IQ, all while coming up with those outlandish, irrational arguments. It beggars belief.
@Some Gal
I rescued them from my mother. She wanted to throw them out because “we don’t have a video player” any more. Yes we do. And lack of playing equipment never stopped me (see: my Dark Side of the Moon vinyl).
Don’t know why they changed it, Greedo was actively threatening Han and they were in Mos Eisley, a ‘wretched hive of scum and villiany’… from the context and the culture they were in Han was justified in shooting first in self-defence.
(Out-of-story, though, don’t shoot people in cafes and bars. Most decent businesses will be willing to call the authorities if someone is threatening your life.)
@Creative Writing Student
I have a couple of boxes full of Star Wars stuff that I couldn’t possibly fit in my current apartment that my mom threatened to get rid of because she wanted more room in her garage. They were rescued by my sister. They are in her condo’s large storage closet.
I can’t wait for the day that I have the room to display them.
Nanny Ogg’s cat was in it?!?!?!?!?!?!
I… how did I not notice that?
Someone needs to write that fanfic, stat. (Not me. Despite my username, I cannot fanfic for shit.)
@Karalora
I was just thinking about what would be the most annoying thing to say to people who would be annoyed that you hadn’t seen the films in the first place.
(The first time I heard about the cat, I thought someone had typo-ed a Star Wars reference and tried to correct it. Oops. Anyway, it stuck with me.)
And that is way too much explaining for a (not very good) joke. Sorry everybody.
The Brave Little Toaster was one of my favs growing up.
I did not like Toy Story. And I still do not like Toy Story.
As far as Titanic…..I’ve watched wildly inaccurate films before. Pretty much any historical thing that gets turned into a film is…..changed.
Oh, and scott pilgrim was not my fav. I couldn’t get over what a jerk he was being to the girl.
Let’s see … wouldn’t watch Titanic. Yoofful Leo doesn’t do anything for me, and I don’t like the way they dissed Bruce Ismay in it; he’s had enough shit heaped on his name simply for surviving. We’ve a houseful of books on it (Mum’s much into disaster-at-sea stuff) and I’d be gritting my teeth all through.
Plus having seen Dawn and French send it up …
Saw Star Wars when it came out – I was 14 – and saw Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi on telly. Wouldn’t bother with them again; I enjoyed them but meh, that was decades ago. Not interested enough to bother with the others even if they had a better reputation.
katz, yeah, what does it matter what anyone’s seen? It’s not like life’s a film studies course.
I love the Toy Story series, particularly the first two. Liked the first Shrek and Puss in Boots a lot. Used to like Princess Bride a lot more than I do now; Westley treats Buttercup disgracefully and it gets a bit much, though it’s worth hanging around to see the beautiful Inigo Montoya.
Never watched Bond, never intend to. Blech. Ditto Die Hard or pretty much any action pic except the original Italian Job. I wouldn’t watch anything with Mel Gibson in it; the only exception is Chicken Run.
Love Casablanca. Louis Renault could teach the PUAs a thing or two about how to be a charmilng, manipulative little creep instead of just a manipulative little creep. Plus he has his heroic moment at the end, which I doubt any PUA would.
Years ago I read an excerpt from a book that continued the stories of various famous Hollywood characters in various improbable ways; f’rinstance it had Norma Desmond being pregnant by the end of Sunset Boulevard and giving birth to Julian Kaye from American Gigolo. It had Louis Renault having taken one long look at Rick Blayne and realised that he was homosexual under all the sneers about women, and the two of them living together after the famous walk off into the mist, with Renault nursing him when he died (from alcohol poisoning, I think). I kinda liked that constructed ending. 🙂
Funny that the “women are useless” Red Pill is a reference to a film co-written and co-directed by a woman, isn’t it?
@lowquacks
The day they realise this will probably be the day they implode with misogyny and transphobia. 🙁
I loved the first two Toy Story movies, haven’t seen the third yet.
Haven’t seen any Die Hard, don’t want to. Perversely attracted to Bond films, though, but the one-liners get to be a bit much. My shameful confession is I love most of the title songs.
I was a substitute teacher for a while. One day, the lesson plan consisted of “show them the Princess Bride.” Indifferent little shits talked all through the movie.
I liked the LOTR films when I saw them in the theater but now I see a lot of the problems, not only in the films but in Tolkien’s works themselves.
Oh, and I consider it a criminal offense that I did not watch The Iron Giant until 2011. How did I miss that wonderful movie? Also: most gross sobbing occurred.
The Iron Giant is truly a hidden gem. It’s good to think that your twins will get exposed to it much sooner!