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Originally posted by Foxsteak
Aristocrats go to weird mask wearing parties where they kill prostitutes.

Makes sense.

I wouldn't bat an eyelid if that came out to be true, honestly. Worse things have come out about what the elite get up to behind closed doors.

Originally posted by Scribble
I still think Full Metal Jacket is a hugely flawed film. The first 40/50m are true cinematic gold and the rest just doesn't compare.
I actually prefer the second part, imo. It's like they're on vacation only for the tone to get really dark at the end.

Like that documentary, 'Society'.

Originally posted by Foxsteak
Lmao. Kubrick trolling Cruise before it was cool.
Kubrick was a troll of the highest degree

Originally posted by Scribble
I wouldn't bat an eyelid if that came out to be true, honestly. Worse things have come out about what the elite get up to behind closed doors.
Well, Alex Jones kept talking about Bohemian Grove and he believes the moon landing was fake.

Originally posted by Foxsteak
I actually prefer the second part, imo. It's like they're on vacation only for the tone to get really dark at the end.
I like bits of the second half but it often feels too disjointed. I like the holiday comparison, though, that's an interesting way of looking at it.

Originally posted by Scribble
Like that documentary, 'Society'.
Haven't seen it.

Alex Jones is great in Waking Life

YouTube video

Originally posted by Scribble
I like bits of the second half but it often feels too disjointed. I like the holiday comparison, though, that's an interesting way of looking at it.
It is, like they're on holiday.

He takes pictures of himself with the prostitute, they tell jokes in the bunkers, they're shooting like it's just work and kinda fun, he has a peace sign and born to kill on his helmet like Joker doesn't give a shit, even when they're in that white temple thing they're playing around, they don't care about the dead bodies, more prostitutes. The moment when that guy got that booby trap is when the third act happens and it's all dark at that point.

Kubrick doesn't just troll Cruise. He trolled Stephen King kinda too, would call him up at like 2am during filming of The Shining and sometimes kinda yell at him if he didn't give the response he wanted.

Originally posted by Scribble
YouTube video
That's awesome. I love Alex Jones. Why does he look like Seth MacFarlane though?

Originally posted by Surtur
Kubrick doesn't just troll Cruise. He trolled Stephen King kinda too, would call him up at like 2am during filming of The Shining and sometimes kinda yell at him if he didn't give the response he wanted.
Now that you mention it, he trolled Alec Baldwin in Full Metal Jacket. It was like take 35 and Alec said "what does this guy want?" and Kubrick said "how about good actors"

Originally posted by Foxsteak
It is, like they're on holiday.

He takes pictures of himself with the prostitute, they tell jokes in the bunkers, they're shooting like it's just work and kinda fun, he has a peace sign and born to kill on his helmet like Joker doesn't give a shit, even when they're in that white temple thing they're playing around, they don't care about the dead bodies, more prostitutes. The moment when that guy got that booby trap is when the third act happens and it's all dark at that point.

I hadn't really thought about it that way, it's a good way of interpreting what happens. Kind of shows how war throws people into the hot seat. The murder/suicide thing at boot camp though is kind of so harsh that it's hard imagining him reacting like that. Maybe Joker is just a cold son of a ***** though. Hardcore, man. ****ing hardcore.

Originally posted by Surtur
Kubrick doesn't just troll Cruise. He trolled Stephen King kinda too, would call him up at like 2am during filming of The Shining and sometimes kinda yell at him if he didn't give the response he wanted.
He called him up at 2am just to ask whether he believed in God

Originally posted by Scribble
I hadn't really thought about it that way, it's a good way of interpreting what happens. Kind of shows how war throws people into the hot seat. The murder/suicide thing at boot camp though is kind of so harsh that it's hard imagining him reacting like that. Maybe Joker is just a cold son of a ***** though. Hardcore, man. ****ing hardcore.
No boom boom for this babysan.

Originally posted by Foxsteak
That's awesome. I love Alex Jones. Why does he look like Seth MacFarlane though?
Jones was a lot younger then tbf. Waking Life is also just a weird film and every scene is rotoscoped to all hell. Great film, really strange though.

Originally posted by Scribble
He called him up at 2am just to ask whether he believed in God
😆 He's the man.

Originally posted by Scribble
Jones was a lot younger then tbf. Waking Life is also just a weird film and every scene is rotoscoped to all hell. Great film, really strange though.
It's sad that the president made up stories about him and associated him with Trump and KKK and other things. He actually does have good material sometimes, imo.

He is an absolute goofball though 😂

I may take a look at Waking Life

Btw, have you seen Black Mirror?

Originally posted by Foxsteak
It's sad that the president made up stories about him and associated him with Trump and KKK and other things. He actually does have good material sometimes, imo.

He is an absolute goofball though 😂

I may take a look at Waking Life

Btw, have you seen Black Mirror?

Jones is an easy target because of how entrenched he is in conspiracy culture. You can take anything he says and twist it to an agenda, more or less. I think by the end of Trump's tenure, Jones will have started his own statements about closed-door activity within the Trump administration and the modern Republican party. He's just a thorough antiestablishmentarianist with a whole bunch of crazy opinions and theories. Even though he's a total madman, I have a weird soft spot for him. He does what he does, I guess, even if I disagree with a lot of his loony shit (gays are made by the establishment to decrease human population, for example).