The Screening Room

Napoleon Wilson

12:30 AM

O_O

Memor-X

12:58 AM

> Meanwhile, @USATODAY is putting out super awkward headlines/subs

Movie Reel

1:40 AM

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Q: In Underground 6, why is there text that says "RADING_BR" during this scene?

During the flashback scene in which 1 is volunteering at a field hospital, there's a gas attack on the camp. The camera pans while 1 is running to rescue a child, and during one of the cuts, the text "RADING_BR" appears to the left of the screen. What is this supposed to mean? At first I thoug...

Ankit Sharma

2:20 AM

Is this whole blob of text just a joker review ? @M.A.R.

@Memor-X like seriously 🙄

Movie Reel

2:41 AM

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Q: Why was Wunch not aware of Holt being gay?

In Brooklyn Nine-Nine series 2 episode 2, Holt explains that his enmity with Wunch started in 1989, allegedly when he didn't respond to her sexual advance by saying he was gay. However, in series 1 episode 2, Holt says he's been an openly gay policeman since 1987. Why would Wunch try such a thin...

brooklyn-nine-nine

Memor-X

@AnkitSharma i assumes Star Wars because of the XKCD page before it

@AnkitSharma i know. shame on the director of The Dark Knight for not bring Heath's Coffin with him

Nog Shine

3:17 AM

Donald Trump is impeached by the US House

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Nog Shine

4:15 AM

Should I post a question what happens in the next process of impeachment? I want to know but it seems trivial for politics.se

Memor-X

@NogShine got a video for that

What Is Impeachment and How Does It Work?

►

4 minute video

Nog Shine

@Memor-X Thanks

Movie Reel

6:46 AM

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Q: How exactly did Willy Wonka make his things work?

I know it's a fantasy story, but even in their universe, everything is quite normal. The people live a normal life, they don't use magic, even Loompaland doesn't exist for everyone, except Willy Wonka. He makes a Room out of sweets (credible), a chewing gum that blows up a girl and turning her bl...

willy-wonka-and-chocolate-factory charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory

ankii

8:34 AM

@M.A.R. on a counter example: Policemen who in "self-defence" killed four "accused" rapists and murderers in Hyderabad were praised all over the country. The superintendent there led a same encounter a decade ago. So when people lose trust in the system they take shelter under, murder seems appropriate and applaudable.

@NogShine some wikipedia articles would suffice, Do read about Mitch McConnell's history as Senate majority leader. Also, what he has to say about trial.

I know they can be very long, but a informative as compared to this little para published by TOI

and @M.A.R. now I will watch the movie, partially to refute some opinions placed here. ;p

Ankit Sharma

@Memor-X I read joker in first line

Nog Shine

8:57 AM

My question on Islam.SE gave me Silencium hat. I was expecting Mother of Dragons.

self promotion for 1657th time for hat.

@ankii Actually that paragraph didn't give much detail. That is why I want to know more.

ankii

@NogShine ancient Indian Queens covered themselves with jewellery, but Islamic Queens were rich too, so well clearly I cannot answer that question.

@NogShine Wikipedia is lovely to read Politics.

Nog Shine

@ankii Aha.. a Wikipedia fan after a long time. :)

ankii

:)

Nog Shine

9:13 AM

Got Mother of Dragons. But Tyrion is still a Lannister and not a Targaryen.

Ankit Sharma

9:23 AM

@NogShine I got none

Nog Shine

Which site have you chosen?

Ankit Sharma

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Q: How to reply to a compeletly unrelated job offer mail?

I was thinking to switch jobs and by coincident, I am getting some mail about job requirements too. One such mail is about a Senior Software Engineer while I am Database Engineer and they do seems to have a hand on my details (As they mentioned my working year experience and company). First I...

job-offer

Memor-X

12:00 PM

@MovieReel while not a full answer, one episode of Heston's Fantastical Feasts has Heston Blumenthal makes meals and snacks inspired by Willy Wonka. while the Unmixing Chocolate Waterfall is not like what Wonka had Heston did create an approximate of the Lickable Wallpaper, though it was using our level of technology

Wonka, being a genius could have approximates of our technology as some of his inventions to make candy

Movie Reel

12:51 PM

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Q: How to be ready for The Rise of Skywalker?

The next Star Wars film is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker and I want to watch it sooner. But I have seen only Episode I to VII, not Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, Solo: A Star Wars Story and Episode VIII – The Last Jedi. I have not seen any of the series either. So before watching Star Wars: Th...

Napoleon Wilson

@MovieReel Meh.

Ankit Sharma

@NapoleonWilson I save you one week of meh, will be missing mostly for next 10 days :D

M.A.R.

@NogShine Oh my God!

@ankii three vague albeit rich nobody's are a little bit different from accused rapists and murderers

Apples and oranges

@AnkitSharma hey I was posing for an imaginary camera, alright

Everyone needs to feel like Ebert at one time or another

@AnkitSharma also, no fair, half of it is the xkcd

So, @Nap, what do you think of what I think about Joker?

Ankit Sharma

1:06 PM

Bye guys, will sneak around whenever get time

M.A.R.

I mean, again, I loved the movie, but definitely don't get that people are comparing it to Ledger's joker. If you set the bar low, quite a few jokers are done so well as to be indistinguishable. Now if we distance ourselves from the mere concepts of a mad clown or dark themes, what's left should bring out the winner

@AnkitSharma o/

Napoleon Wilson

@M.A.R. I didn't read a single bit of it.

M.A.R.

@NapoleonWilson fair enough, I don't either

Napoleon Wilson

@NogShine The next step is the senate voting against impeachment, which relativates your clickbait news to quite some degree. ;-)

M.A.R.

I didn't believe they'd pull it off, impeaching Trump

At this point it achieves nothing more than election votes

Nog Shine

1:18 PM

@M.A.R. Same here. I thought he will pass.

Napoleon Wilson

And he will. You do understand that this has to, and likely won't, go through the senate to produce any result, right?

Nog Shine

Yeah

M.A.R.

In other news, I just finished Breaking Bad Season 3.

Napoleon Wilson

Congratulations, that's an excellent choice.

M.A.R.

Well I've been taking my time, about an episode a day

Napoleon Wilson

1:22 PM

So that's why you're having a Heisenberg avatar for months now.

M.A.R.

Months? You're making me feel old

Napoleon Wilson

> An episode a day keeps the boredom away.

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Nog Shine

@NapoleonWilson lol

M.A.R.

But I love that I understand and feel way more than I ever had. What was I thinking? Kids these days. Why do kids like me assume we understand art when we clearly don't?

@NapoleonWilson yep, I was going for that

Nog Shine

In that sense, I am using Tyrion Lannister avatar hoping Game of Thrones would finish well. Poor me

M.A.R.

1:26 PM

At least, I hope I keep growing, not be content with 'adulthood'

There's another way to look at the shame you will looking back at what you did and think when you were younger. That you've progressed.

It seems kinda reassuring all of a sudden, if you know what I mean

Napoleon Wilson

Not sure how we got there from Breaking Bad, but...yeah, totally. ;-)

Nog Shine

2:27 PM

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Q: Why did the grandmother in Tumbbad need to be fed everyday?

In the Indian Hindi-language horror film Tumbbad(2018), the cursed grandmother who is chained and locked in a room needs to be fed everyday in order to keep her sleeping. But if she is not fed on time, she wakes up. Also she could be put to sleep easily by saying, "Sleep otherwise Hastar wi...

plot-explanation tumbbad

@AnkitSharma Are you going to answer it?

Movie Reel

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Q: What Dr. Elliott doing in this scene?

When Dr. Elliott was shot by the female police officer, as SHE tried to kill Liz, we hear from Murino and Dr. Levy that Dr. Elliott is sent to Insane Asylum. Then after sometime this appears, we can see that a nurse is taking care of mentally disabled people who were sleeping and when she tries t...

dressed-to-kill

Ankit Sharma

2:52 PM

@NogShine I could have but now not sure

DForck42

3:11 PM

mornin

DForck42

3:40 PM

@AnkitSharma i'm now second in hats on movies with 9

@AJ is slacking this year

DForck42

4:12 PM

@AnkitSharma finally watching star wars?

or jsut asking for rep? ;-)

ankii

@M.A.R. Oh didn't I mention it ?! ;) I haven't seen it.

@M.A.R. isn't that great! having the orange man (sorry, the only personal attack) outta office!

DForck42

@M.A.R. he's already impeached, the third us president ever. however, it has to go to our senate to actually remove him. the house is going to sit on the impeachment, probably until after the 2020 elections (there's no restrictions on them doing this) and hope that the senate swing blue or hope he doesn't get reelected

ankii

@NapoleonWilson being very very optimistic, Pelosi holds articles (for negotiation with Senate, as documented in nytimes) , people hold rallies, the new witnesses like Pompeyo, Mulvaney etc. are brought in, Rep voters try to get off twitter, Fox etc., and actually read the testimony summaries at least and force some rep senators to defect.

@DForck42 given their arguments of "constitutional emergency" and why they didnt wait for courts to rule, I think they aren't going to sit for an year

DForck42

@ankii imho, rep senators defecting is VERY unlikely. they hitched their train to this mad house a long time ago, to get off now, for them, would be career suicide anyway. the BEST option, moving forward for the us, is to get enough people out to vote them out

ankii

@DForck42 one rep senator is doing anti campaigning

let me dig up his name

lincolnProject.us

oh wait

A J

4:29 PM

@DForck42 not participating this year... Just too busy at work and personal life

ankii

ofcourse

;p

DForck42

@AJ HOW DARE YOU!!!!1

ankii

@DForck42 twitter.com/SenMcCollister this guy

how nice I didnt even have to link an article, Twitter feed is news at times (very rare times in realty, very often in news channels)

I wish I was in the US, would have a good platform for politics

twitter.com/senmccollister/status/1159112464757379072 hahaha

Sen Collins of Maine is also notable here.

not enough for 67, but good for 51 for simple rules to pass.

Ankit Sharma

@DForck42 because current movies mods are lazy 😂 @AJ Ex.mods are more cool 😂

@DForck42 I might watch after my trip

@DForck42 I don't care for rep

Napoleon Wilson

4:46 PM

Only hats.

Ankit Sharma

Hats are life

Even when they are lame recycled with no good vision

Napoleon Wilson

And they can earn LEGO.

DForck42

@AnkitSharma where ya goin?

Ankit Sharma

@DForck42 Delhi (hometown, India ) and then Thailand

DForck42

nice!

Ankit Sharma

4:57 PM

🤗

Napoleon Wilson

What's that?

Knight

5:24 PM

How disturbing Dressed to Kill was to you?

Napoleon Wilson

Not too much. It's a nice film, though.

Knight

@NapoleonWilson I don't why but it disturbed me a lot, I just see Bobbi when I'm alone

Napoleon Wilson

Well, I guess Michael Caine in drag is kinda scary. ;-)

Knight

@NapoleonWilson Matter is that film implied killing brutally and today I found a pigeon on my terrace with his head severed.

@NapoleonWilson It's not about fear or what but rather it's about reality of this world

@NapoleonWilson Will you tell me what you inferred from the movie?

Napoleon Wilson

Infer in which way? About our real world?

Knight

5:31 PM

Yes

Napoleon Wilson

For that it might employ a little too much vest pocket psychology. Its treatment of transsexuality might be seen a little...crude nowadays.

Knight

Beacuse it doens't seem too much to beleiev that people like Dr. Elliott can exist

I think sex was used too much in the movie only as a medium to express a deep thought

Napoleon Wilson

But it's generally not a stretch that supressed sexual issues can surface as violence or shizophrenia. In the human psyche pretty much anything is generally possible.

But for an accurate treatment of these issues, the film might be too much of a suspenseful Hitchcock homage.

Knight

Yeah, it more about psyche than psychology

Which movie of Hitchcock is about psyche? I only know one of his movie that is To Kill a Mocking Bird

Oh sorry it's not directed by him

@NapoleonWilson Can you tell me a little more about psyche?

Napoleon Wilson

@Knight I don't think To Kill a Mocking Bird is from Hitchcock.

But to answer your question, many of his films are ultimate about the human psyche.

@Knight What do you mean?

You might have something else in mind with the word "psyche"? I'm talking about the human mind in general.

Knight

5:40 PM

I mean how someone can think that filthy? I mean the writer of Dressed To Kill is De Palma only, how is it possible to have such a filthy thoughts and not to act according to it.

Napoleon Wilson

Filthy how? You mean how De Palma can have such thoughts? I don't think he does. But I also don't quite understand what you mean with "filthy".

Knight

[Quote]I don't think he does[/Quote] why? doesn't that dual personality seems filthy

>I don't think he does

Napoleon Wilson

I'm not sure "filthy" is the right word here, or what it's trying to imply. It certainly is an interesting idea worth discussing in a film, even just a suspense thriller.

Knight

What's the idea?

What he tried to convey? (according to you)

M.A.R.

Erm, by that logic Tolkien believed in orcs and wizards, and Rowling believes you can sit on a stick to fly?

Knight

5:44 PM

(By the way you are too kind, not like other SE users)

M.A.R.

I'm trying to understand your line of reasoning

Napoleon Wilson

@Knight Well, the whole thing about supressing your sexuality to manifest as a violent dual personality.

M.A.R.

What would you have said about Sin city?

Knight

@NapoleonWilson I never understood what aroused Bobbi from Elliott? Was it jealousy for other women?

M.A.R.

OK maybe Frank Miller is a bit weird

Napoleon Wilson

5:45 PM

@Knight I don't know what he tried to convey, or that he necessarily wanted to send a specific message. He probably just wanted to make a suspenseful Psycho homage based on an interesting premise.

Knight

@NapoleonWilson Why Bobbi wanted to kill those women who aroused Dr. Elliott?

M.A.R.

@ankii Wow, if that is a personal attack you should apologize for I need to wash my mouth in a bowl of chi

Or was that chi water

Napoleon Wilson

@Knight I don't remember it specifically. But I think the general idea was that Bobbi manifested as Dr. Elliott's supressed female side and set out to kill whoever sexually aroused him, in order to punish them for "reminding" him of his masculinity. Something like that.

Knight

@NapoleonWilson What was the biological genital of Dr. Elliott? Did he have male genitals and female hormones?

Napoleon Wilson

I thought he was just biological man who supressed a possible female identity. And that's why it manifested in a split personality. Or at least that's how I remember it, I haven't seen it for some time.

Knight

5:51 PM

@NapoleonWilson What is meant by a female identity? Means he was a man like us but had something paranoid inside him?

Napoleon Wilson

@Knight I wouldn't say "paranoid". He was a man who had a significant female side in him and chose to supress it, which made it manifest in a split violent personality.

So you could say the message of the film is "don't supress it like that". But as said, the film's treatment of this rather sensitive issue could be seen as a little crude nowadays.

ankii

too engrossed it a chat that I cannot really participate in ? didn't watch the film under discussion

Knight

@NapoleonWilson Sir, how can it ever happen? And why that female side was much more powerful than the actual male side?

Napoleon Wilson

Well, I'm not a psychologist nor too well-versed in the intricacies of modern gender issues, so I might not be the best person to discuss the film's accuracy to real-life. But human sexuality and gender is a complicated field where many things are possible. It's also kind of a sensitive and difficult topic shifting into public focus more and more lately.

I wouldn't try to make too much out of a 70s DePalma thriller with regards to these issues' real-life implications, though.

Knight

@NapoleonWilson Thank you for this much information.

Napoleon Wilson

6:05 PM

No problem. It's a nice film, especially as a classic DePalma thriller.

Ankit Sharma

6:46 PM

:52975416??

Movie Reel

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Q: I can describe a movie that i saw a long time ago. Please give me its name if you can

Its a science fiction comedy, that i don't think a lot of people have seen . It starts with a guy who went out in the morning and when he comes back his house is being bulldozed for some reason . Then we meet his friend who looks like a human but from a different planet. He does not know how to s...

science-fiction

Movie Reel

7:36 PM

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Q: To identify the titles of 2 westerns made possibly in the late 50's and in the 60's

I viewed two westerns when I was a little boy in the 60's and need help in identifying the titles. 1) In this western, a cowboy runs into a rock tunnel to escape from 2 Indians. At the other end, the cowboy takes refuge on a narrow piece of ledge that was just above the cave entrance. The two In...

western

Movie Reel

7:56 PM

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Q: How would giving money to the Catholic Church benefit Michael in Godfather 3?

He gives them $600m so that he controls the board, how would that benefit him vs. just spending the money elsewhere? He doesn't get the Church's shares, just their vote.

the-godfather-3

Ankit Sharma

8:57 PM

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Napoleon Wilson

9:32 PM

I haven't seen the film yet, but I really appreciate Stuckmann's review for things like

> We need to stop looking for people to blame. You can make a good movie, you can make a bad movie, it happens, filmmakers make mistakes. Sometimes Star Wars is not gonna be great, sometimes it's just gonna be bad. It's so popular, there's gonna be more and we have to just come to terms with that. We need to stop looking for people or corporations to blame for why something isn't the same way that it was for us when we were younger, because it's never going to be that way.

> People's opinions change on Star Wars rapidly...I can't even predict what the Star Wars fanbase wants anymore, it's rather pointless for me to even try.

Which very much echoes Florentin Will's statement that "the fans have to accept that Star Wars just isn't anything special anymore".

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M.A.R.

@NapoleonWilson I thought you were talking about Dressed to Kill up until "Star Wars"

. . . Ouch.

Finally, I can watch an empire be blown to dust MWAHAHAHHA nah not really.

One habit old-timers in every field and niche need to let go of is getting hung up on every new thing as if this abomination is going to ruin a legacy or destroy cinema or whatever

Coincidentally, I'm going to be giving a presentation on language and the good ol' descriptivist–prescriptivist food fight

And I see how it's the same everywhere

Napoleon Wilson

9:49 PM

@M.A.R. Is the sentence right above that message part of this presentation? ;-)

Oh wait, now I got it.

M.A.R.

Latching on to arbitrary standards, a lifelong memory, or something so abstract or vague as to exist only in the aristocrat's mind

Until every new thing is an impurity, a tumor

@NapoleonWilson Hey, I'm being profound-ish today! Y U MEAN KEEP BURSTIGN MY BOBBLE

But yeah the reason I'm being such an Aristotle is . . . wait, I don't really know why.

@NapoleonWilson I'm not looking back on my messages so it's entirely possible that I get a decent amount of prepositions and generally just grammar wrong

I dunno, pre-final exam conditions maybe

Checks vitals . . . Oh yeah, I'm dead

Napoleon Wilson

@M.A.R. No, on seconds read it seems to make sense.

M.A.R.

@NapoleonWilson Nice try, bubbles already burst

I'm definitely telling @Steeler

If she ever shows up anyway :/

Memor-X

not oneboxing, dam it

M.A.R.

@Memor that SFW?