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Paul Smedley (141 KP) created a poll

May 31, 2018  
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Out of this list and besides Darth Vader, who is the greatest bad guy of the Star Wars universe?

Darth Maul
Palpatine/ The Emperor
Sebulba

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Count Dooku

0 votes

General Grievous

0 votes

Jabba the Hutt

0 votes

Snoke

0 votes

Kylo Ren
Boba Fett
Moff Tarkin
General Hux

0 votes

Orson Krennic

0 votes

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Keegan McHargue recommended Crumb (1994) in Movies (curated)

 
Crumb (1994)
Crumb (1994)
1994 | Documentary
6.0 (1 Ratings)
Movie Favorite

"What can I say? Crumb had to go on my list, if for no other reason than I really appreciate seeing an uncompromising maverick get his well-deserved props. You might be thinking to yourself, Man, Robert Crumb is a weird guy—and then you meet his brothers!"

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Taylor Swift recommended Downton Abbey - Season 1 in TV (curated)

 
Downton Abbey  - Season 1
Downton Abbey - Season 1
2011 | Drama

"When it comes to her favorite TV shows, Swift doesn’t hesitate to list what she currently loves. In fact, there are so many right now that she had to stop herself before she went on too long. Swift named Downton Abbey, Killing Eve, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy among her top favorites"

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Taylor Swift recommended Killing Eve in TV (curated)

 
Killing Eve
Killing Eve
2018 | Crime, Drama, Thriller

"When it comes to her favorite TV shows, Swift doesn’t hesitate to list what she currently loves. In fact, there are so many right now that she had to stop herself before she went on too long. Swift named Downton Abbey, Killing Eve, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy among her top favorites"

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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
Queer Eye for the Straight Guy
2003 |
(0 Ratings)
TV Show Favorite

"When it comes to her favorite TV shows, Swift doesn’t hesitate to list what she currently loves. In fact, there are so many right now that she had to stop herself before she went on too long. Swift named Downton Abbey, Killing Eve, and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy among her top favorites"

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The Joe Rogan Experience
The Joe Rogan Experience
Comedy
9
7.8 (33 Ratings)
Podcast Rating
Interesting Content (2 more)
Differing Views
Multiple Topics
Some topics won't be relevant to everyone (0 more)
The Best Podcast I've Listened To
Joe is a regular guy with an open mind. He has a long list of celebrities that jump at the chance to be on the show and reach his audience. There is something for everybody, and he has multiple podcasts a week.
  
American Psycho (2000)
American Psycho (2000)
2000 | Comedy, Drama, Horror
Never looked at business cards the same again.
American Psycho is one of the best Psychological Thrillers, Black Comedies, and Horror movies to date. Christian Bale plays Patrick Bateman so well that even though he is a psychopath you just can't help but like the guy even though you kind of want to punch him in the face at the same time.

Definitely, add this to your need to watch list.
  
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
Lone Wolf McQuade (1983)
1983 | Action, Drama
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6.6 (7 Ratings)
Movie Rating
Classic 80s cheesy action flick (0 more)
The plot, the dialogue, the suspension of disbelief one has to maintain while watching (0 more)
L is for Lethal
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Lone Wolf McQuade (P. 2/9/08)

As my ex-husband and his co-workers once discussed, this 1983 Chuck Norris classic contains an inexhaustible list of “man movie” elements. I shall enumerate just a few of the highlights here (spoiler warning):

Turbo-charged truck that hasn’t been washed in 20 years…check.
Multiple cut-away scenes containing only foul language…check.
Good guy silhouetted on cliff…check.
Too-tight pants…check.
Too-hairy chest…check.
Good guy lives in filthy, ramshackle bachelor pad…check.
Good guy assigned a partner that he doesn’t want…check.
Feds interfering with good guy’s investigation…check.
Evil, maniacally laughing, midget villain in a wheelchair…check.
Bad guys attempting to kill good guy’s daughter…check.
Same daughter later gets abducted by bad guys…check.
Good guy has disproportionately hot girlfriend…check.
Same girlfriend wears nothing but good-guy’s shirt, post coital…check.
Good guy hanging off hood of moving vehicle…check.
Good guys outnumbered by bad guys in every fight scene…check.
Single, long-range gunshot or arrow from crossbow causing car explosion…check.
Bad guy using a contrived mechanism to kill good guy, instead of simply shooting him in the head…check.
Beer, beer, and more beer, which magically revitalizes the good guy…check.
Strategically placed blood…check.
Flaming barrels…check.
Women totally incapable of defending themselves…check.
Good guy and bad guy putting down their weapons and facing off in physical fight…check.
Hot girlfriend dying in good guy’s arms, while professing her guilt and undying love…check.
More flaming barrels…check.

I could go on and on.

Among many other cheesy elements in this movie, I especially enjoyed the moments of obvious symbolism. The opening shot contains a psychedelic-looking, lone wolf accompanied by nothing but whistling. Later, when the bad guys attempt to kill Lone Wolf McQuade, they first assassinate his pet wolf. Foreshadowing, anyone? Another blatant symbol appears when Captain Tyler lectures McQuade about the public image of a ranger. The Captain holds a ruler in his hand, presumably because McQuade doesn’t “measure up” to his expectations. Ha!

In the most entertaining scene of the movie, Lone Wolf has been buried alive in his truck by the bad guy. Beaten and broken, he opens a can of beer found on the front seat, pours it over his effusively sweaty self, takes a sip, and then finds the strength to go on. With his eyes closed, and his head thrown back, he alternately opens and clenches his jaw while emitting a prolonged man-grunt. He then steps dramatically on the accelerator of his super-charged vehicle and is able to drive out of his own grave.
 
With the ridiculous costuming, cliché dialogue, subpar acting, and utterly horrible score, this film would have worked far better as a comedy. If you plan to watch it, expect to be incredulous, and try to avoid staring directly at Chuck’s hairy chest.
  
The Gentlemen (2020)
The Gentlemen (2020)
2020 | Action, Crime
Guy Ritchie back to his best
I'll start by saying that I am huge Guy Ritchie fan so am probably a bit biased but I am definitely not blinkered though. I realise that he's made a couple of stinkers, a few average films and a couple of excellent films. I think we can now add the gentleman to the list of excellent films! This is by far the best film Ritchie has made post Matthew vaughan. It's a fast paced film with even faster dialogue, Ritchie hasn't had a cast of characters this interesting since snatch with the highlights being fletcher (Hugh grant), coach (Colin Farrell) and Ray (Charlie hunnam). I personally would love to see a spin off movie about Ray and coach. Overall I would give this a 9/10 excellent film.
  
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Danny Boyle recommended Eureka (1983) in Movies (curated)

 
Eureka (1983)
Eureka (1983)
1983 | Drama, Thriller

"I can guarantee you this film isn’t on anyone else’s list. It stars Gene Hackman and it’s made by my favorite British film director, even more than Nick Park. He’s a guy named Nick Roeg, and he’s most famous, probably, for Don’t Look Now. Eureka is the film that probably ended his American career. I think it was a disaster when it was released. The first half of this movie is as good as you’ll ever get in a movie. It’s about a guy who discovers, literally, liquid gold. He becomes the richest man in the world and the man who has everything and the man who has nothing. The second half of the film is a trial and takes place in a courtroom and that part doesn’t work as well, which is what probably led to it being a flop, but the first half is as good as it gets. And I love Nick Roeg. He’s idiosyncratic, highly individual and yet for a ten year period he was working in the studio system with big stars like Gene Hackman. Hackman’s never been better. People say “Hackman” and think of The Conversation but he’s never better than he is in Eureka. If you can imagine a man who has everything and he (Hackman) just plays it as a guy who has nothing."

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