What have you learned today?

[Dalisclock]

I learned Ken Jeong is a Licensed Doctor. Which is cool, but I noticed him from watching Community(which I'm still working through) and seeing him play Ben Chang is a weird disconnect between the actor being a doctor. It's one of those "Actor is not the character" moments I didn't really consider before, though honestly I would really fucking hope he was nothing like his character on community.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

Today I learned a whole new level of disturbing -

Top comment -

Luke Lamb 2 months ago
To the person reading this I wish you the best and hope you understand McAfee did not kill himself....

 

[Gordon_4]

Steven Segal is made of ultra-condensed cringe. Apparently he mandated in (almost) all his movies that his character be the "perfect human"- flawless and undefeatable.

Yeah, apparently he had a right old whinge when it was revealed to him his character in Executive Decision was going to die.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Not something I learned so much as realized, but when my late grandfather insisted I (a 10 year old at the time) wear a suit on the plane ride to the US, it was because he lived in a time where our people had a hard time being taken seriously by foreigners. I always thought back then that he was just being a stickler old man who thought kids these days were too damn funky. I miss him, I think he and I would have agreed on more things than I thought.

 

[AnxietyProne]

When you reach a certain age in life, your blood pressure will just do whatever teh fuck it wants regardless of your input otherwise.

Steven Segal is made of ultra-condensed cringe. Apparently he mandated in (almost) all his movies that his character be the "perfect human"- flawless and undefeatable.

I got three words for Segal

JUDO
JEAN
LABELLE

 

[Gordon_4]

When you reach a certain age in life, your blood pressure will just do whatever teh fuck it wants regardless of your input otherwise.


I got three words for Segal

JUDO
JEAN
LABELLE

That should be 'Gene', not 'Jean'. Like Gene Roddenberry or Gene Hackman. Otherwise yeah, Segal's a blowhard par excellence and its always nice to hear him taken down a peg. With that in mind, and God this is gonna make me feel dirty, his skill at Aikido is genuine. And in his heyday I would not have wanted to tangle with him.

I'd want to tangle with Gene Labelle a lot less though.

 

[Gergar12]

In the AI revolution there are three primary groups that you should look out for. Governments who control most of the lethal drones right now/hardware, the rich who own most of the software, and the AI itself.

 

[hanselthecaretaker]

In the spirit of Halloween-

 

[ObsidianJones]

TIL there was once a Steven Seagal branded energy drink. There was at least one ad for it. It is the best kind of cringe.

Oooh, so that's how it started...

 

[Gordon_4]

To my deep aggravation, although it was my own fault, I have learned about

Spoiler

the twist ending to No Time to Die

 

[Bob_McMillan]

To my deep aggravation, although it was my own fault, I have learned about

Spoiler

the twist ending to No Time to Die

Yup, same here. Goddamit you guys, label your spoiler tags! But really, totally my own fault. Although considering I would have had to wait for the digital release to watch the movie, I inevitably would have been spoiled anyway.

 

[Gordon_4]

Yup, same here. Goddamit you guys, label your spoiler tags! But really, totally my own fault. Although considering I would have had to wait for the digital release to watch the movie, I inevitably would have been spoiled anyway.

Mine has a cinema release in about a month. And that assumes some idiot/group of idiots doesn't cause another lockdown in the meantime.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Mine has a cinema release in about a month. And that assumes some idiot/group of idiots doesn't cause another lockdown in the meantime.

Hope you're able to watch it. I'm afraid it'll be next year before we can even consider theaters here.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I learned Ken Jeong is a Licensed Doctor. Which is cool, but I noticed him from watching Community(which I'm still working through) and seeing him play Ben Chang is a weird disconnect between the actor being a doctor. It's one of those "Actor is not the character" moments I didn't really consider before, though honestly I would really fucking hope he was nothing like his character on community.

Yep, he's a general practitioner. It was hard for me to wrap my head around that fact and that he's also Mr. Chow, the drugged-out and offensively stereotypical Asian kingpin in The Hangover films. Not sure if he has an active practice or not, though; I imagine it'd be difficult to manage a medical practice AND demanding acting schedules.

EDIT: just checked; it appears he "used to" have a practice, so yeah, acting and comedy are his bread and butter now.

 

[Ezekiel]

I learned that Peter Jackson is out of his fucking mind. You'd have to be to think so much grain-reduction and sharpening looks good.

Like a digital painting. Get Back is an easy pass for me now. Not the first time either. His Lord of the Rings 4K masters have less detail in a lot of the softened shots.

 

[09philj]

Due to a warped understanding of military tactics by Enver Hoxha there are about 173,371 military bunkers in Albania, with little overall tactical value.

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

I learned that Peter Jackson is out of his fucking mind. You'd have to be to think so much grain-reduction and sharpening looks good.

I'm reminded of the utterly horrible job of colorizing old black-and-white films Ted Turner did early on, when techniques were really not up to the job. Just look what he would've done to Citizen Kane:

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

There's a character in Star Wars called "Therm Scissorpunch".

 

[Dalisclock]

I learned that Peter Jackson is out of his fucking mind. You'd have to be to think so much grain-reduction and sharpening looks good.

Like a digital painting. Get Back is an easy pass for me now. Not the first time either. His Lord of the Rings 4K masters have less detail in a lot of the softened shots.

WTF am I even looking at?

The bottom shots look really fucking fakey and just wierdly uncanny.

 

[Dalisclock]

Yep, he's a general practitioner. It was hard for me to wrap my head around that fact and that he's also Mr. Chow, the drugged-out and offensively stereotypical Asian kingpin in The Hangover films. Not sure if he has an active practice or not, though; I imagine it'd be difficult to manage a medical practice AND demanding acting schedules.

EDIT: just checked; it appears he "used to" have a practice, so yeah, acting and comedy are his bread and butter now.

I'm gonna admit I barely remember the Hangover films. I saw the original once and enjoyed it well enough. Watched the sequel and realized I wanted someone to throttle Alan. The only part of the 2nd film I actually enjoyed was Ed Helms singing his own take on Allentown(also because I like that song for some reason). Didn't bother with number 3. I vaguely remember an Asian guy but honestly not much more then that.