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Hill says the dealership's initial proposed solution was to sell him another vehicle similar to his Challenger at MSRP. According to his Facebook post, the dealership presented the offer as a concession because it would not apply a $25,000 markup.

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fricking $25k markup. No wonder car prices are so outrageous nowadays. Good Lord.

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And it's not as if the first one was a cinematic masterpiece, it was a popcorn flick.

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To this day I've never seen DoT. Is it any good? I remember when it came out I just had zero interest in seeing it. I never liked NASCAR (still don't), and it just never appealed to me as something I'd be interested in seeing.

Care to give us any sort of sliver of a synopsis other than it being Korean, or are we just supposed to trust you?

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Is An All Out Gender War Inevitable?

And I don't mean just some sort of cultural gender war. I mean a genuine all out conflict between Men and Women.

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Of course not.

Are you retarded?

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If this is 2 pm it’s the middle of the day.

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It launched 2 and half hours ago

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I wondered about that.

The boosters coming back down and landing perfectly never get old to me. shite is absolutely incredible.

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Big ole Texas grin!

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And how can a hat bill grin?

Found this thread after just finishing up watching Barbarian tonight.

I echo a lot of sentiment in here about how stupid this movie is. But weirdly though, I didn’t hate it. It was relatively entertaining and sort of fun, it just isn’t very good at all really.

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I feel sorry for people who need to have everything make sense and be perfectly logical in a horror movie.

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I mean, thats a pretty huge copout for the dumb shite in this movie. I don’t need things to be “perfectly logical” in most any movie, but the second half of this one was just one hilariously stupid thing after another.

The black bum’s explanation of what the monster is doesn’t even make sense. “He used to bring women down there. And then he started making babies with them. And babies with the babies. You make a copy of a copy of a copy, and you end up with something like that.” And he says that lady monster has lived there “some 40 years now.” But the flashback to the serial killer dude appears to be in the 70s era. That’s not enough time to get women pregnant and make babies with babies with babies. Even if you’re raping early teens that isn’t enough time to create a 40s year old monster lady.

And don’t even get me started about how this lady who is basically imprisoned inside and underground her whole life has literal superhuman strength. She rips arms off, climbs vertical walls in half a second while dragging a grown man, literally rips someone’s head in half, gets hit by a car and pinned against a house and walks away unharmed, etc. I mean, I guess it works if you view it as a superhero movie and she is the hero.

But on top of that, the movie is just stupid decision after stupid decision. I realize a lot of horror movies don’t exist without stupid characters. But holy shite, this one went past the point of pure insanity. Tess not peacing the frick out immediately after finding the murder/rape room in the basement was top tier stupidity. There were multiple times when she could have left or even later killed the monster and she didn’t. Same with Justin Long.

The first 40 minutes or so of the movie are REALLY good. Like legit excellent horror and had me on the edge of my seat at times. And despite the movie being chock full of cheesy tropes, I didn’t mind it. And Skarsgard plays such a great “teetering on the edge” good guy/psycho. And I liked that they played him just creepy enough to think he was luring Tess down into the tunnels on purpose as a bad guy, only to then turn it and have him killed off. It was freaky as shite when he was crawling toward her in the dark.

But even him going that far down there alone was just plain stupid. And Tess going alone AGAIN was also stupid. And after her interview she should have gotten the director to drive with her back to get her shite and GTFO as fast as possible (and left Keith a note to do the same).

The second half with Justin Long was just….almost too weird and quirky. I liked that it brought some levity to an otherwise serious movie. But it definitely took away from the horror aspect a bit too much for me.

The whole side plot of JL’s rape accusation felt unnecessary. But with the explanations in the thread about basically male toxicity, I guess it makes sense. And it does go to show that he's sort of a piece of shite who actually DID rape that chick. And that’s also sort of confirmed at the end with he tosses Tess off the water tower.

I agree with the people who said there is no way previous renters wouldn’t have found the rape tunnel and reported it.

And I get that Detroit has lots of crime and the house was in an abandoned neighborhood and all, but the behavior and actions (and inactions) of the cops were possibly the most ridiculous thing in the movie. That was just so overly stupid and unbelievable.

Which brings me to by far the worst part: the ending. So he tosses Tess off the tower and the monster dives head first after her……and somehow lands before Tess does? Both of them are likely dead after that fall, but not only are they not, they are both fine. The monster is still perfectly fine and Tess has a slight limp despite seemingly landing on her back from 30+ feet high. That’s it. Just absolute and pure stupidity, plain and simple.

All that to say, I didn’t hate it. I didn’t particularly like it either, but it wasn’t too bad. Had the ending been better I may have liked it more than I did.

Also, after this and Jeepers Creepers, Justin Long seems to like starring in horror movies with excellent first halves and “completely absurd to the point that it devolves into a silly, incoherent comedy” second halves. :lol:

Crazy it’s been that long already.

Makes me think about how BR has never been the same since Katrina as well (and not for the better).

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Jennifer Aniston. She's ok-looking, but that's about it. And I mean that about her back in the 90's, too.

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Serious question: how old were you in the 90s? Because she was fairly universally considered peak hotness back then. Like the “even if she isn’t your cup of tea, she’s still hot” type.

I find that I normally think chicks are hot that most don’t. Like Kristen Stewart, since I saw her mentioned. Same with Miley Cyrus back in the day (although she was trashy hot to me instead of normal hot, if that makes sense).

I’ll second Kate Upton though. She is by no means ugly or whatever, but the OT was obsessed with her for years when she basically just had huge boobs and not really much else going for her. She was always very meh for me, in terms of the attention she got.

For a newer one: I think Sydney Sweeney is hot, and yet still somehow overrated these days. Something is off about her face/eyes to me. But bless her for being so willing to show off her body over and over though. :lol:

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This one kind of gets a bad rap

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I've argued for decades on here that Alien 3 is arguably the second best of the franchise (arguably, not definitively). But I'm a total homer for A3 though, and I like it way more than most. But even if I concede that it isn't as good as Aliens (and I love Aliens and obviously understand why I'm in the minority on that), it's fricking excellent for a third installment of a franchise.

I also always say that had the marketing for A3 been different, it would have been more popular.

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"In 1979, we discovered in space, no one can hear you scream. In 1992, we will discover, on Earth, everyone can hear you scream."

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That was such a bullshite and disingenuous marketing ploy, and people had a right to be pissed that the movie takes place on a prison ship and nowhere near Earth.

But that doesn't mean it isn't good though. I just liked the bleakness and David Fincher-ness of it, as well as the whole cat-and-mouse angle with the xenomorph. I thought that was really cool. It was also a decent story close for Ripley (even though they kept SW in 4 as well :lol:).