#semper fi movie

[terrence-silver]

How would Terry react if his actress!beloved won an Oscar for the first time

He's as proud as the cat who got the cream, naturally --- but beloved probably holds a speech where they mention how 'Their main inspiration and support is their loving husband' how 'They're thankful for the troops. Semper Fi!' and how 'This whole event was sponsored by Dynatox and Cobra Kai; the leading enterprise for conserving nature and the number one community for kids who want to learn the values of stability, self-fulfillment and discipline' all while Terry himself, ever the propagandist and the one who put the words into their mouth is in the crowd, first row, dressed to the nines, the big screen projectors focusing on him while he's clapping and smiling like this:

Wouldn't surprise me if he joined beloved on stage too.

In fact, it is inevitable he does so he can personally take the mic and tell everyone that beloved's just about the greatest thing since silver screen movie celluloid was invented.

[anxiousdreamcore]

Got inspired by @veramitar ‘s fanart of the Semper Fi fanfic and spiralled until I made up a small post-movie AU where, at the end, Spider leaves with Quaritch out of guilt and to take responsibility for the action of saving him, as to ensure he doesn’t hurt anyone else.

The need to hide had brought them into the frozen lands of Pandorian north, where even the sky people have rarely treaded, and thanks to that, the two newcomers are, out of pity, allowed into the clan (with the promise of learning fast and pulling their weight of course). The toughest part is that Spider’s rightful resentment hasn’t gone anywhere.

He still remembered the raids, still remembers the poor Tulkun mother and her calf murdered for a bottle of age-stopping serum and still remembers Neteyam’s stilled, disturbingly calm face.

The father and son are therefore forced to navigate their messy relationship as they try to survive Pandora together. Will they succeed? Will Quaritch ever truly understand and make up for the pain he had brought upon his child…?…

Idk 🤷 haven’t written the one-shot yet and honestly I don’t know if I will, but here’s the art ig! Drew these designs based partly off of my culture✨ the anatomy is wonky but that’s because these sketches were never meant to be posted lol

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(Please don’t repost my work on any other platform, with or without credit. I do NOT give my consent to do so and I will find it🥰)

[postoctobrist]

Dear Alice, A very tragic funny thing happened and it made me think of you so I figured I'd share it. So, my uncle just died. He was a very sad navy mechanic who loved horror movies, working on cars, not sharing his feelings, and baby talking to cats and crying. he died just a few days shy of a year since his dad, my grandad. With this background out of the way: On that saturday, just before it happened, I decided to do a self care. I took 2 20mg edibles and drank a belt of our moonshine, hopped into the shower with a nice beer and some candles and luxuriated. right as I was becoming debilitatingly high, my mother screamed and thats how I found out he had been picked up by the paramedics cos his heart had failed suddenly. my ma tore ass to the hospital and I had to drive myself, high as fuck, through a snowstorm. Alice, I was never in the service. I come from hippie stock. and yet, whenever I get high I catch myself marching and stiffly saluting. when given my grandmothers cane to hold at the hospital, it became a swagger stick. I was the only one coherent enough to negotiate with organ donation, I made the arrangements for the DNR. I watched the eyes of the man as he passed and it was like time had collapsed in on itself. I kept standing at parade rest, I told my mother "we'll get through this trooper." No one seemed to notice how much of a freak I was being. Thankfully, I was able to get things finalized. Anyway, I was sitting in the parking garage at the end of it all at about 2 AM and remembered you saying something about "condition yellow motherfucker" and chuckled. I did manage to get my knife back from the ER security guy as well. Anyway, not looking for condolences and whatnot, just felt the need to tell you this. Hope things are well for you. stay healthy.

I’m sorry but I am weeping laughing. Where did you get the weed that makes you tactical? How do I get some? Always remember, you did your country, your family and the traditions of the service proud. Lt. Col Cooper is proud of you. I am proud of you. Stay frosty. Semper fi or whatever

[chromadrop]

So the avatar universe has had me on a chokehold since the second movie came out, and I hadn't gotten around to drawing anything related to it yet, theeen I read @ochomonos 's awesome fanfic called 'Semper Fi' and um AAAAAAAA--

Needless to say I enjoyed it a lot and read it in one sitting, I love how this redemption arc for Quaritch is playing out so far! But also, also-- sNow nA'vi. Idk why but the concept of this new tribe excited my little lore-hungry brain so much lmao. So you get ice na'vi-inspired doodles of huntress and a warrior >:)

They've only existed since yesterday but I think I love them

[bluecoolr]

But what if Darrell and Bright Eyes (Bartholomew Evan?) were twins? 

One of them is taller, and jokes about hogging up the womb make regular appearances in conversation. Also, them pulling the "I should have absorbed you in the womb, you ugly fuck!" on occasion. 

Bright Eyes is 6'0" and Darrell is 6'3" but B is noticeably heavier. 

B is a lot more physically conditioned than Darrell. You look at him and immediately know he's in the army.

Darrell doesn't have tattoos. He has his ears pierced and all but he's not the type of guy to get tattoos on a whim. He is the sort of sap ♥︎ to get something that represents his partner, though. Either their name or some imagery or both, but never portrait tats.

B is tatted up. Lots of death imagery there. He probably has a grim reaper tattoo somewhere and a stereotypical "Semper Fi" or "USMC". He definitely has a cute lil flash she-devil pinup. 8 ball. Horror movie characters (Leatherface or maybe even the Predator). Throw in a casual "Creeping Death" in there. 

He has Darrell's name tattooed. Maybe a lily to represent Susannah. Maybe even 5 lilies to represent all his siblings. 

Definitely has a black sheep tattoo. 

I also see B being really into scarification. Darrell tells him not to get any because they're both keloid-formers, and it's difficult to predict how they might heal up. Didn't stop B from getting Y-shaped autopsy scars, though.

B is loud only when Darr is around. If his twin is out of sight, you're not getting a word out of him. Very moody. Sometimes he's up for laughs, but when his social battery drains he's not responding. 

Both absolutely love corn muffins. Will fight for the last muffin.

While Darrell loves chicken, B is a big sea food guy. Will 10 times out of 10 eat with his hands. (Watch him lick his finger clean go ahead). 

Always fucks up his blood pressure after eating sea food and Darrell has to nurse him. 

They have similar music tastes.

Darrell likes straightforward metal bands like Slayer and Sepultura. B likes shock rock theatrics like Rob Zombie’s and Alice Cooper’s.

Darrell prefers boxers over briefs.

B prefers briefs over boxers.

B is a dog guy.

Darrell is a cat guy.

Both are bisexual. Guess who leans more to which. 

B has a higher alcohol tolerance and is the designated driver after a bar trip. He likes to see Darrell struggle while walking. Many bruises have been sustained on the long walk from the driveway to the porch. 

B would love analog horror so fucking much I swear to God. The goddamn freakazoid.

I honestly can’t decide who would have longer hair. 

tagging some moots that might wanna see this (if not i'm so sorryyyy) @the-pinstriped-hood @vincent-sinclair-deserved-better @solmints-messyocdiary @rottent33th @slaasherslut @probably-a-plant-thing @goldrose-star

[rjjameshiii]

RJ's Platinum Collection #14: The Dark Pictures: House of Ashes

Achieved on 11/12/2022 at 6:36 PM

I had actually played the first game in the Dark Pictures series, Man of Medan, when it first came out, and found it to be a very middle-of-the-pack game. So I didn't really bother playing Little Hope. However, House of Ashes caught my eye due to having Ashley Tisdale as the lead character, and when I looked up the trailer and some gameplay, I decided to give this game a spin!

House of Ashes sees you take the role of five soldiers - Rachel, Eric, Nick, and Jason from the U.S. military, and Salim from the Iraqi military - during the 2003 invasion of Iraq. An attack on a suspected weapons silo ends up leaving the five characters trapped in an underground maze from hell filled with horrific monsters seeking to rip them all apart, forcing them to all work together if they want to survive - and for you to try your hardest if you want all five characters to survive too!

I went into the game blind and, to my own shock, managed to get the best ending in my initial playthrough. Not only did I get all five characters to survive, I also found all of the White and Black pictures, which are collectibles that give you hints on future choices you can make in the game, earning me 15 trophies.

1/31: The Sword and the Shield - Kurum and Balathu chose to fight together.

2/31: Illuminating Evidence - Eric discovered the unexpected effects of the UV wand.

3/31: Chekhov's Gun - Rachel used the machine gun.

4/31: Portents - Found all of the White Framed Pictures.

5/31: Casualties Of War - Found all of the Black Framed Pictures.

6/31: The Statement of Randolph Hodgson - Found every page of Randolph's journal.

7/31: Vision Of The Past - Rachel witnessed the origin of the creatures.

8/31: The Thing - Eric helped Rachel purge the infection.

9/31: Heart to Heart - Nick killed the ancient warrior using a stake.

10/31: Slayer - Salim killed five creatures using his spear.

11/31: Semper Fi - Jason went back for Salim and they both made it to the elevator.

12/31: Climbing Out Of Hell - Rachel survived after rejecting both of her lovers.

13/31: Golden Path - Five characters survived the finale.

14/31: Into The Sunset - Salim returned home to his son.

15/31: There Is Always Hope - Completed the Solo Story.

After beating the game, I looked up what collectibles I was missing and discovered I was missing literally only ONE of the fifty secrets. So I quickly reloaded the chapter where I could find it and grabbed it for the trophy.

16/31: Scratching At The Past - Found all of the Secrets.

I then spent some time using chapter select to go back and replay some chapters in order to get some trophies I had missed in my first playthrough, as well as finishing the Prologue in the Movie Night mode.

17/31: Six Minutes Of Night - Everyone died in the finale.

18/31: Double Tap - Eric and Rachel both died in the same explosion.

19/31: Final Girl - Only one character survived the finale.

20/31: Old Dog - Balathu made two kills with his spear.

21/31: We Are Not Alone - Finished the Prologue in Movie Night.

From this point, I needed to do a few re-playthroughs of the game in order to get certain trophies. First, I replayed from the point where the characters all fall into the caves in order to get the trophies for having Merwin survive long enough to fix the radio, and for Clarice killing Eric in the Sacrificial Chamber after turning into one of the creatures.

22/31: So You're My Technician - Merwin fixed the radio.

23/31: Full Clearance - Clarice killed Eric after becoming infected.

Next I had to do almost an entire new playthrough simply to make sure that none of the characters were injured by the time you escape the monster nest, or as they call it in the game the "Vault". I decided to also have Rachel get infected and placed in the cocoon, then I got the men up to the surface and massacred for a second trophy.

24/31: Ain't Got Time to Bleed - Escaped the Vault without any lingering injuries.

25/31: Lost In Time - Rachel was not rescued from her cocoon.

NEXT, I had to do, once again, do almost an entire new playthrough so I could make it so that all three characters who can use the UV wand on the creatures - this being Eric, Rachel, and Nick - were able to do so. This trophy is very annoying because Nick only gets the UV wand if Nick and Eric have a good relationship.

26/31: Let Me Have A Go! - Three characters used the UV wand to attack the creatures.

Speaking of Eric and Nick, I loathe these two because it is SO HARD to get Eric and Nick on good enough terms for Eric to give Nick the UV wand, but there is also another trophy where you need Eric and Nick to be on good terms, but ALSO have them be the only ones to survive to the elevator out of the nest. I thought I could just go back a few chapters to kill the others off, but somehow even though I got Eric to give Nick the UV wand, they did not share a good moment in the elevator and fought. So I didn't get the trophy.

Which meant that I had to do ANOTHER ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH.

27/31: Oorah - Eric and Nick shared a moment in the elevator.

I decided to just go ahead and finish that playthrough entirely, but I ended up automatically getting another trophy simply because, since Nick and Eric were the only characters left alive, Infected Rachel was killed without any need for quick-time events, so I basically got a free trophy for my hard work.

28/31: Until Death Do Us Part - Rachel became infected and killed Eric, or Eric killed her.

But now I realized I had to do ANOTHER ENTIRE PLAYTHROUGH to do the exact OPPOSITE of what I just did, which was have Eric hate Nick enough to ignore his radio signal for help in the nest. It was at this point that I was getting very tired of playing the same 5-hour experience over and over.

29/31: Ghost Signal - Eric ignored Nick's radio signal.

But alas I had to do yet another E N T I R E playthrough of the game to get the last trophy for the Platinum, which was the trophy for only making Head decisions (all dialogue options are represented as Head or Heart decisions) for the entire game. I grinded it out, and I was able to successfully complete the playthrough and earn the Platinum trophy.

30/31: Start Thinking Like A Marine - Chose only Head decisions.

31/31: Full House! - Collect all trophies.

I think House of Ashes has a fantastic story with good characters, and I still love to watch videos of the game. However, the fact that I had to basically replay the entire game seven whole times made this Platinum kinda painful to get, as I got bored with replaying the same chapters over and over again VERY quickly.

Rating: 7/10

[katnissdoesnotfollowback]

What do you think happened at those Career District Academy?

How do they volunteer being in the life/death games?

Do you think this is parallel in real life?

Thank you,

@curiousnonny

I have thoughts on this one, @curiousnonny...

So despite what I've written in a fic about the Career Academies in Districts 1 and 2, I don't think they actually exist as a formal academy. I believe it's only the movies that talk about a "special academy."

Here's the book explanation for the Careers:

"The exceptions are the kids from the wealthier districts, the volunteers, the ones who have been fed and trained throughout their lives for this moment. The tributes from 1, 2, and 4 traditionally have this look about them. It’s technically against the rules to train tributes before they reach the Capitol but it happens every year. In District 12, we call them the Career Tributes, or just the Careers. And like as not, the winner will be one of them." The Hunger Games Chapter 7.

Since it's technically illegal but everyone knows about it, I actually picture the training to be more individualized. In my head, what happens is that a child wanting to vie for a chance to become Victor from a Career district starts to train at home by imitating what they see on television, maybe sign up for some kind of martial arts training or team at school. D12 has wrestling, so it's not that far off that D1, 2, and 4 might offer a hand-to-hand martial arts team, even for much younger school students. Any kids showing aptitude might then seek out one of the already crowned Victors from their district to start hard core training them around the time they're about eleven or twelve. I do think that as they get closer to 18, there might be more formailized or group training to make sure that whichever kids wind up in the Games, they'll be able to work fairly well together as an alliance...but not TOO well. Can't have them coming to deeply care for one another, after all.

And there's this too:

"Rue’s pack holds my sleeping bag, her nearly empty water skin, a handful of nuts and roots, a bit of rabbit, her extra socks, and her slingshot. The boy from District 1 has several knives, two spare spearheads, a flashlight, a small leather pouch, a first-aid kit, a full bottle of water, and a pack of dried fruit. A pack of dried fruit! Out of all he might have chosen from. To me, this is a sign of extreme arrogance. Why bother to carry food when you have such a bounty back at camp? When you will kill your enemies so quickly you’ll be home before you’re hungry? I can only hope the other Careers traveled so lightly when it came to food and now find themselves with nothing." The Hunger Games Chapter 18.

Whatever they train for, it doesn't appear to be long term survival. The training seems to be focused on tactics, weaponry, and physical fitness. Katniss isn't surprised that the Careers basically take over the Cornucopia area and stock pile the supplies for them to live off of, which suggests that it's a fairly common strategy. Which also points to a focus more on how to kill quickly and efficiently, rather than on how to survive. What surprises her here is their lack of preparation for contingencies. Marvel has packed light for speed and agility. His goal is to win by killing other tributes, not outlast them.

As for how and why they might volunteer, I think we actually don't have to look much farther than tactics that certain militaries use to recruit. In particular, the US Marine Corps. If you sell the idea of honor, glory, and riches hard enough, if you frame the Victors from your District as a kind of elite brotherhood (Semper Fi Do Or Die; Once a Marine, Always a Marine), enough people will buy into it to fill your ranks. For years and years and years, the US Marine Corps had zero problems recruiting people into their ranks, and they did it using an ideology similar to what is sold to the Career Districts.

And since the Career Districts are more willing than the others to tow the Capitol line and reinforce the system, it turns into a cycle of reciprocity between them and the Capitol. The Career Districts uphold the idea of the Games for the Capitol and in return, their districts are far better taken care of. They do better in the Games in part because they are better taken care of, which brings more money and resources into their districts via the monthly gifts to the Victor's home districts and the amount of wealth the Victor's themselves are then able to pour into their home economy. Why shouldn't they view the Games as beneficial to them when the visible result when they compare themselves to a district like 12 is that they literally are better off and better for it. The Games benefit them.

Of course they've lost lots of tributes along the way, but this brings in another one of my headcanons for the Career Districts. I actually think that they'd have something like a reverse "widows and orphans" fund where there's a pool of money from the winning Victors that is used to take care of any family of tributes that died "honorably" in the Games. That would make it even harder to uproot the Capitol's hold on those Districts.

Now District 4... they rebel fairly early on and they are a Career District in the books. Why exactly that happens is one of the things I've always been extremely curious about. My best guess is that they haven't been part of the Career Districts as long as the other two, so the ideology isn't as deeply entrenched. Also it's possible that an awareness of or at least suspicion about what happens to Finnick after he's crowned, plus what happens to Annie, serves as a model to the people of D4 that actually... being a Victor sucks. Even in a Career District.

[hellodarjeeling]

@emmynominatedmullet and I recently had a Bruce Boxleitner movie night where we unexpectedly and serendipitously chose two movies with similar themes. Enter Double Mommy (2016) and Diplomatic Immunity (1991).

Double Mommy, terrible and dumb title aside, was a very entertaining but bad Lifetime movie where Bruce plays a rich asshole with a rapist son. There’s really no other way to put it. The movie deals with some heavy topics, but overall the whole vibe is very… sanitized and felt almost like a Pure Flix special feature. Was this movie good? Again, no but I had lots of fun suspending my belief that these twenty-somethings were fresh-faced high schoolers and the scene of Bruce throwing a glass into a pool only for it to miraculously float on the water is amazing. Spoiler alert: Bruce dies in the end, killed by his own POS son.

Diplomatic Immunity sees Bruce as a Cool Marine Dad (both SCUBA and Semper Fi). We first see him and his daughter on a beach, where we meet her foreign boyfriend who whisks her away to a pre-murder night at the art gallery. We’re then treated to a convincing bit of acting later when Bruce cry-vomits into a toilet after identifying his daughter at the morgue. Get ready for Action Bruce™ because there’s a lot of him kicking figurative and literal ass in this movie. Ramming an airport security gate, chaining a bad guy to a St. Andrew’s cross, and riding around in a fabulous tinsel-decorated car. His Bowie lookalike buddy sadly does not make it to Fiji, but an exploding camera gives Bruce the closure he needs to finally avenge his daughter. Spoiler alert: Bruce’s hair is subjected to a poor spray dye job of Old Man Gray.

[imdonnalynn]

A little bit about me…

Far as online is concerned, I would be recognized as a muse-stricken fanfiction writer. I started writing fan fiction 23 years ago on fanfiction.net. The first work posted online was Party with the Old Fly-Boys, fandom was JAG and the ship was Harm/Mac, that was September of 2000. And it went from there… Over time, I wrote 100 pieces of work for 26 fandoms ranging from books, television and movies and 27 different ships’. Since, my works have been purged (found only on my inactive LiveJournal) because they no longer reflect me as a writer. For years I’ve been trying to get back on the saddle, but my muse only goes as far as the ideas. Soon as I try to transcribe to paper or type it, I draw a major blank. Writer’s block for the last two decades has been disheartening. I still try, leaving things in my drafts and such but I usually just end up deleting it all and starting completely over. Amazing how one can feel like they’re on top of the moon writing to not being able to muster even a drabble.

Outside of writing? I’m a full-time mom to 2 autistic sons. Wife to a marine veteran, Semper Fi and thank a veteran or active member for their service they will appreciate it. And to top that already full plate I am a full-time daughter to my mothers. If I’m not taking care of something to do with them then I’m dealing with the horde of animals, we have. 9 dogs and 18 cats we have strays coming in all the time. I basically run a rescue all on my own and with my own money (but not a legit rescue just FEELS like I’m running a rescue).

What do I love?

Yellowstone I don't know that I will finish watching this series after all the behind-the-scenes drama with Sheridan and Costner. I just don't think they can pull off a decent ending to a train wreck without Costner coming back. 1923 I can’t wait for season 2, I’m beginning to lean toward Spencer and Alex being the grandparents of John Dutton III in Yellowstone. Shame this series has the been the best of the Yellowstone Universe thus far. Outlander I'm going to finish the series out however it finishes but I'm drained with it. The way they have structured their last three or four seasons has been a rollercoaster, slow then rushed and it's took a lot of the joy out of watching. Reacher Season 3 still has Neagley coming back to do her usual bonding with Reacher so I will continue to tune in every season. Though I will say I liked the writing and pace in season 1 better than season 2. The Terminal List Looking forward to where this goes next season and I'm definitely looking forward to the spin-off for Taylor Kitsch. Stranger Things I resisted watching this show simply because everyone loved it and I didn't want to admit it was good. It is good, it's great even and I can't wait for the final chapter of this awesome constructed series. Reminds me how well the Babylon 5 series was. Marvel Cinematic Universe I have been a fan of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since The Avengers. Since that moment I have been an avid MCU fan. I am not a comic fan or expert, the extent of my comic knowledge comes from the many other experts I have watched online talking about these incredible complex stories.

Who do I love?

Beth Dutton from Yellowstone. I relate to her in so many ways, like her no bullshit attitude and utter dying devotion to family. Where we differ, I don’t smoke cigarettes, I don’t drink alcohol anymore, and I would LOVE to own Yellowstone Dutton Ranch GLADLY. She hates it and would have no qualm selling it once her father passes but while he is alive, she will defend it to her last breath. Beth doesn’t let anyone scare her, she won’t let anyone get that satisfaction from her ever again since her mother died and since she lost the ability to have children. (side note: Beth has a shit ton of trauma from her childhood that contributes to her erratic often childish behavior when she lashes out, but I still love her it's what makes her the most human of them.)

Wanda Maximoff from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Most particularly in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, and before you say anything let me explain. I have two sons, like Wanda did, and a husband, like Wanda did. And I imagine what it would be like to lose my husband and my children...the grief that would consume me would no doubt turn me evil, and I'm not using the word lightly. If I were in Wanda's position in Multiverse of Madness with that grief and guilt and the Darkhold in my possession anyone who stood in my way would be fucked, like the Illuminati. The only thing that would be able to stop me would be my boys, just like Wanda. And like Wanda, when she realized what she had become and how her own boys perceived her...it was enough to turn her away from the dark path and truly LOVE her sons...which is what I would hope I would do because I would only hope their love would be enough to bring me back from that place.

I CAN'T WAIT TO SEE WANDA AND HER FULL REDEMPTION ARC COME TO PASS!!

SHE IS NOT DEAD.

SHE WILL GET HER OWN SOLO MOVIE BET IT WILL BE ANNOUNCED AT SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON! (update 8/6/24 - there was no announcement of anything related to Scarlet Witch at San Diego Comic-Con)

Why did I write and post this?

I managed to actually write it out fairly quick, so you damn right I’m posting it! May not be a story but its about me so I guess in a way it is a story.

Requests for stories and Asks welcome!

[amazing-spiderling]

for the least favorite ask game: episode of DD? matt murdock fanon headcanon or joke? marvel movie or show? fic trope? book you had to read at school as a kid ? place you went to for fun (doesn't have to be a whole vacation destination)? meal you've had multiple times but cant say no to because its what was being served?

Least Favorite:

episode of DD?

Probably "Semper Fidelis" from season 2. I think this is one of those episodes that is just rife with all the things that made that season not work for me. The Punisher trial could have been so interesting and it gets kneecapped because Elektra is impatient. Matt makes bad decisions for no real reason and his and Elektra's stuff is treated like it's SO time sensitive, but it's really not, it's just there to throw a wrench in the works. It sticks out like a sore thumb, and I just hate when I'm watching a show and I'm yelling, "Get back to the GOOD part!"

matt murdock fanon headcanon or joke?

If I never have to hear the "What to Daredevil and Scarlet Witch have in common" joke again, that would be great. Thanks. I'll be minding my own beeswax on instagram and then a random Turkish comic meme blog will show up in my feed and I can't read the language but I *KNOW* what it says and it wasn't even that funny the first time, guys. Let it go.

marvel movie or show?

Eternals was pretty darn boring for all the people in it that I wanted to like. I got a kick out of the Bollywood bit and then... the rest just didn't hold up to even its own internal logic. It's pretty bad when the fanbase is *begging* for the movie to be quietly erased from canon.

fic trope?

Probably "Dark!" versions of characters. I realize this sounds counterintuitive, given my love of Murderdock, but I think when I've given these fics a chance, they just tend to be, "Hey if your blorbo killed 10 guys with a rock and then kissed his love interest would that be fucked up or what" and there's not a lot of... *there* there. Or else they tend to read like someone is trying to convince me how dark and edgy they are and it's just... too difficult for me to get emotionally invested. Sorry, gang. I'm a hypocrite.

book you had to read at school as a kid?

The Witch of Blackbird Pond. I was assigned this book two years in a row and was bored to tears both times. I still have no clue what it was about because I could not focus on anything, I just remember being annoyed by the protagonist. I just tried to look up a summary and my brain still rejected it. :/

place you went to for fun (doesn't have to be a whole vacation destination)?

I'm just really not a beach person. I've been to Miami and stuff and I'm like. Yep. There's water next to some sand. Can we go home now? (I prefer the atmosphere of rocky beaches. There is Alaska in my bones.)

meal you've had multiple times but cant say no to because its what was being served?

My dad was one of like 11 kids, which meant I had a lot of aunts and uncles and countless cousins and for *years* the Thanksgiving tradition was to drive two hours to my grandmother's house where dozens of people would collect for a potluck. Being a dorky sci-fi and comic book reading nerd in a family of football enthusiasts aside, this meant that Thanksgiving dinner tended to be giant aluminum pans of dry turkey, gravy with mysterious bits one person in the family liked and overdone brown-and-serve rolls. It was often the worst meal of the year for me. Eventually when I was in high school, my older sisters decided enough was enough and we had Thanksgiving at home and it turns out, I actually like turkey when it wasn't cooked 10 hours before I get to eat it.

[explainedfilms]

Semper Fi Movie Ending Explained (In Detail)

Spoilers Alert: The action drama hit the USA SEMPER FI to mixed reviews. And the weaknesses of this star-studded moral study can actually be identified quite clearly. It doesn’t make it a bad film. Just someone who has a lot of potential. We reveal more about this in our review. Different laws apply in war… “Semper Fi” is, first and foremost, a film about consequences. First of all, it’s about…

[zooterchet]

Protecting Suboxone (Respiradone)

In the 1960s, waves of a new revolution were sweeping over Los Angeles.

The 1950s saw the takeover of Los Angeles, by the Foreign Office, MI-6, on the diamond bet between Hughes and Nimitz, Charlebois and MacArthur.

A straight Marine, "Gay Ray", and a gay general, "General Doug".

It was either the Yakuza's Japan, an entire nation of textbooks voting for Adolf Hitler, or a movie fan audience under DARE, gateway drug theory.

Hiroshima happened, Home Depot and the Hayes family came, and now the chiseler wrench, was the screw wrench.

Ray won, with his sword tattoo on a globe, reading "Avid Lamsa", Greedy Fly. Not "Semper Fi", China Town.

An elite RTS counselor, Charles Manson, had been force requisitioned through the Los Angeles Police Department, for MI-6; the architect of the Vietnam War, for Senator Kennedy.

They took his cock and balls, while he was trying to free Sharon Tate from Jewish psychiatric ardour; taken off the streets, for smoking a beedy, a cigarette in rolling paper, not marijuana, and having been induced to suck off Roman Polanski in his sleep, hypoxia; a conversion to Islam, invented by Aisha, the Jewess.

An underage girl, tormenting a marijuana dealer, Muhammad, into obscene rages, at why everyone thought he was living with an underage girl whose parents had given her marijuana.

But Charles Manson, had lost his erection, to modern pharmaceuticals.

Even Charlie and Sharon working together, to print "Frank Zappa", her lyrics, and his comic writing, "Batman 1966", based on Superman's logic, could not save the pair, at love at longest sight.

The Los Angeles Police Department was cracking down, so they sent Kennedy's elite soldier, ZODIAC, "Willie the Pimp" in Frank Zappa's music; "Bobby McGee", of Janis Joplin fame, Steve Charlebois, the special monitor on the situation deployed by "Gay Ray", his father.

Steven Charlebois had to suck the Sheriff's dick, John Wayne Gacy Jr., coming back home.

But little victories are rare, in law enforcement; however, in intelligence, they are guaranteed.

The Saud Malay connection, under USMC terms, had been severed, defeating Adolf Hitler forever, leading to decades of detention slips and military intelligence soldiers, Adolf Hitler swiftly kicked on his boot on his car, from America and his "wheel", the Ace Five straight.

In 2003, Megan Dalee, a Hopkinton Highschool graduate, had developed "Suboxone"; a cover, as Fentanyl or heroin poisoning as a recovery, actually "Respiradone"; rumored to be chemical castration.

Emancipated from her parents, with the new invention, a potato needle, the erection and semen were sustained, however amphetamines damage to the male fixation was undone, and the same product staple through her patents degree, remained on the product.

But that's the new story, of "Chet".

Where did "Mini-Peebo" go, your old friend, "Quinton Reed"?

We had to scramble dozens of MI-6 Mossad operatives, hunting Megan Dalee, emancipated from her parents for the service contract for Respiradone.

Hunkered down, inside her little Orchard Hill dormitory room, at UMass-Amherst, with Jewish patent thieves out of England and the Anglicans, trying to seize her, for a prostitution's debt, to control the patent outside her law degree.

Naturally, David Charlebois, had to take action.

"Affirmative Blacktion".

David Charlebois, a Nazi, knew when the white man had betrayed him; it was time to take his secret weapon out, "Gay Niggers From Outer Space".

It was time to elect Barack Obama, and eliminate Scott Peterson's police selection, and the Coen Brothers, the Nutsies, Adolf Hitler.

And so it he did, with Rich Coughlin, Jenna Williamson, Brian Monaghan, Daniel Cheeseman, Joshua Moen, Andrew Donson, Ryan Cunningham, Chris Sweeney, Justin Walsh, Ivan Tomasic, Matthew Lennox, Allison Haimes, and Nicholas Maynard, wiped off the ground.

When he got his Medal of Honor, he was ordered to report the proper condition of any American spy, "paranoid schizophrenia".

He had seen a house wife, on time share, "a Nun".

And as for "The Beans", the cigarettes, he wanted to get back home for them regularly. If the Medal of Honor, got diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, an American spy (hospital, not corrections), it would all be reversed, and pot bust pimping would return.

The Yakuza.

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My ★★★ review of Doom on Letterboxd

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📸 Another shot of Finn Wittrock by Alexi Lubomirski for Man About Town - Issue: Man About Town: 2019, Chapter II

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Jai and Nat's interview for Forbes

“We had planned to build a boot camp situation and get to know each other slowly and hang out. We wanted to build and find that trust in those relationships,” Jai Courtney explained as he discussed the reality of making indie drama, Semper Fi. “Through the nature of independent filmmaking and everyone’s schedules, we ended up having to meet on a Saturday and started filming on the following Tuesday. We had a couple of nights to figure it out, but that was pretty lean, to say the least.”

The 33-year-old plays Callahan, a police officer and serving member in the Marine Corps Reserves. He’s faced with a big dilemma, helping his brother who is behind bars. His brother, Oyster, is played by Nat Wolff.

“The crazy part was Jai and I met one time in Los Angeles,” Wolff added. “We went out bowling, because our characters bowl, we got drunk, and we started saying things to each other in that conversation that we hadn’t even said to some of our closest friends. There was something about my connection with Jai. We talked about things in our upbringings, in our families, and in our lives that made it like it was meant to be for us to play brothers. I still have that brotherly connection with him.”

Both actors have similar approaches to their careers, and both have worked across indie and big-budget productions.  

Wolff explained: “For me, it’s really about where I’m finding the projects that I’m enjoying the most. I’ve never been a good predictor of the business or what’s going to be the best trajectory career-wise, and, honestly, if I start thinking that way, it makes me not want to be in this business anymore.”

“I read a lot of scripts, and frankly, I’m bored by most of them. I have to say that most scripts are full of tropes, they’re set up to make money, and that’s not me being cynical, that’s just being realistic. Finding interesting writing with a good team assembled can be a bit of a miracle; having the experience of the project live up to the image of it that you had in your head. Semper Fi is one of those rare examples. I think it’s also harder to market a movie that doesn’t tell you exactly what it is. A lot of people who have seen it said to me that from the trailer, they didn’t know what kind of movie it was going to be, but people are being moved by it. I don’t know if I’ve experienced anything like it since The Fault in Our Stars, something that created tears and emotions, that had people feeling this personal connection to it.”

“The last couple of years have been mostly smaller stuff, but for me, it is more about the role, the project, and the people I’m working with,” explained Courtney.” I don’t have an aversion to either end of the spectrum. The pace is usually what I notice the most. Sometimes I enjoy it more working with less because you have to think on your feet, there’s less time absorbed by the things that you have to create like colossal action set pieces or whatever. That said, it’s also awesome to break up the rhythm and come and do something like The Suicide Squad, where it’s a project with a huge budget, and you’re doing crazy outlandish, preposterous stuff that is a ton of fun.”

Both Wolff and Courtney have worked across the small and big screen, embracing a wide range of projects across wildly varying budget levels.

“Sometimes the more interesting stuff might be less commercial, so you take more financial risks, but it’s harder for those things to get seen, to find a home. The way that TV is shaping up, and how streaming platforms have shifted things, it’s a positive,” Courtney enthused. “It’s not something I’d be afraid of at all. Working in that medium could sometimes give you a chance to develop a character in a way that you can’t in cinema, and that can be a really exciting thing for an actor. I mean working long-form, getting to stay within a world for longer, and keep exploring it is exciting to me, and audiences are responding to that too. It’s not a case of one or the other. We can have both.”

Semper Fi is the latest movie to follow an increasingly popular trend of being released theatrically and on VOD on the same day.

Courtney mused: “There’s so much content being made, and we’re constantly exploring new ideas and approaches for pushing that out to audiences. I think it’s a really exciting time. It’s crazy because I think that it’s a tough time for the film industry. There are certain types of films that people are going to see en masse. For a movie like Semper Fi, it’s an interesting time. This is a classic throwback kind of story. It’ll find an audience.” 

“All the people that like this kind of movie will seek it out and love it, but there’s a generation of people who are probably not so attached to this kind of storytelling. They’re a little more attracted to movies that have a lot of moving pieces. It’s a hard time to get a film like this made, but I’m glad we did it, and I’m proud of it. I hope we continue to see stories like this get made.”

Courtney was on the phone from the set of The Suicide Squad, the sequel (also considered a soft reboot) to the maligned 2016 movie, Suicide Squad. He’s reprising the role of George “Digger” Harkness, aka Captain Boomerang. The original film cost $175 million to make and grossed $746.8 million at the worldwide box office. It also won an Oscar.

“We’re in our second week of shooting now. I think it’s going to be fantastic. I know it will,” Courtney confirmed. “It’s great. It’s different now, obviously, but it’s a lot of fun. It’s awesome to see some old friends and familiar faces, but I’m looking forward to seeing a whole dimension unfold, which includes the introduction of a bunch of new people. It’s one of those things that we’ve waited for, and we weren’t even sure it was going to happen at a certain point. So, if anything, it’s just great to be back, and it’s good to put the gold tooth back in.”

Meanwhile, Wolff has recently been announced as being cast in a new TV adaptation of Stephen King’s classic, The Stand.

“If my first real foray into horror is Stephen King, then it doesn’t get much better than that. The Stand is epic. There is no better horror book,” he enthused.

But what, bearing in mind his accomplished and diverse resume of work so far, hasn’t the musician and actor managed to do yet that he wants to?

“I really want to play Paul Westerberg. Josh Boone, who directed The Fault in Our Stars, has Trouble Boys, the book about The Replacements, and he has me attached to that. To play Westerberg would be a dream of mine,” he concluded. “I’ve been working on that movie, and I am excited for it to come to fruition, but maybe that’s bad luck saying that out loud? I don’t know. Hopefully, it will happen soon. I’m very excited about that.”

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Have you seen Semper Fi yet? What did you think? I know you husband is a Marine so you have a different viewpoint lol. I thought Jai was good in it but it wasn’t a great movie.

Oh boy...Yes, I have seen it. 

You guys do me a solid next time Jai or anyone has a military movie coming out: Remind me NOT to watch it with my husband. He’s been an active duty Marine for almost 20 years, and certain things tend to piss him off when spotting inaccuracies. He then ruins the film for me by pointing them out. But I digress. 

The Good: Jai was FAN-FUCKING-TASTIC in this role. He had ample screen time, and really showed his range with this character. He brilliantly captured what many military men and women experience when going through harrowing experiences which are simply part of their job description. 

Jai flawlessly portrayed what it’s like to have to make a choice between acting morally vs. lawfully. He realistically showed what it’s like to do what you have to do to survive, but then be tortured by the memory of not only what you’ve done, but know that in any other circumstance, he’d be occupying a cell next to his brother. 

The cast had amazing chemistry, and that really came through onscreen. Nat and Jai were perfect as brothers. 

The Bad: I feel the talents of Jai and the rest of the cast were wasted in the ludicrous plot. I’m sorry but it starts off okay then gets absolutely absurd, to the point of not being able to take it seriously. I know it’s just a movie, but there are a few things they (not the cast, they were the saving grace) definitely could’ve done differently and better. 

One shining moment, I thought, was when Milk refused to go at the last minute, having a lightbulb moment: “What the fuck am I doing? I have a wife and children, I can’t go to prison for this!”  That made me feel better lol. 

Anyway, that’s my two cents: The cast, amazing....the actual movie, not so much (through no fault of the cast, if that makes sense).