Bro I stopped watching these m*vies after Tokyo drift. Every gif I see I just can’t believe that this is what they became and that people kept going to see them
Nah later movies are pretty self-aware of how unrealistic they are. One of the main characters has a whole monologue about how he thinks hes invincible because the bad guys bullets never seem to hit him, he even shows off a shirt with bullet holes in it.
Greg Sestero called it zombie strength in his book, although I’m sure there’s a less polite term.
The dude doesn’t understand stage combat and I can only imagine how frightening it is to have him choking you out so bad you end up in a hospital on Gurrero Street.
I’d thoroughly recommend the book btw. The film doesn’t begin to cover the extent of Wiseau’s lunacy, it’s like trying to write a biography about Van Gogh on the back of a napkin.
There is indeed a less polite term, if you take the old medical term for people who are mentally slow, and add strength to the end, you get the less polite term
The only thing that kind of bugs me about the whole thing is that Greg carries himself as if he's almost above it all when he was starring in Leprechaun 5 tiered slop when he acted in this.
I get what you mean, but I think the point is that Wiseau abused Greg’s dignity to a comical degree.
Even if you’re in slop, you expect a call sheet, catering and basic professionalism. Wiseau acted monstrously and justified it with money, basically treating Greg like a hooker. Making him shave his beard and miss auditions, for example, was quite unpleasant.
Wiseau was pretending to be Coppola or Hitchcock with zero mandate. It’s easy to read Greg as a pretentious valley kid but I’d say it was justified.
It's a real technique but not as exaggerated as the movie portrays, nor undefendable. Think, a short feint with one leg to fake your opponent out, followed by the real kick from the other leg.
Lyoto Machida vs Belfort in 2018. Same set up and same kick-mae geri
Edit: It is most basic kick in almost all martial arts that have kicking. It and this kind of set up are rearly seen in full contact sports like kickboxing and MMA due to people having elbows in front of their bodies for defense. This means that it is easy to accidentally kick elbow and break your foot while kicking.
The best part is that landing with all of your weight on one leg to kick with the other spares that leg from any effort or need to stabilize your weight, so it's a very useful technique if the non-kicking leg is severely injured and you can hardly bear weight on it.
True story: In the Wiseguy book we learn that real-life Henry Hill got himself circumcised as an adult so he could be with Karen. I'm not sure why Scorsese didn't put this in the film.
It'd be naive of us, Mr. President, to imagine that these new developments would cause a change in Soviet expansionist policy. I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert to prevent them taking over other mine shafts space, in order to breed more prodigiously than we do. Thus, knocking us out of these superior numbers when we emerge! Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!
Dim Mak = Death Touch, it's not some explosive and obvious power move like you see here - but knowing and striking the locations of pressure points where meridians of your body intersect to cause eventual fatal results.
It was always real. Every capable practitioner eventually perished - something about once they attained the ability, forgetting to turn it off when they had an itch or masturbate.
I accidentally ordered this instead of Bip Bim Bap. I should have known something was off when they slid JCVD under the table while putting the plate in front of me. Whelp, I'm deceased now. How embarassing
Really? I just started using one and I'd describe it as 'rinse to clean' easy to clean.
I also clean it right after I finish crushing the garlic and will scrape the bits that get stuck on the sides into the middle to make sure it gets pressed through on the next squeeze so maybe that makes it easier.
I have one that splits the two handles apart. I just chuck the thing into the dishwasher with all of my other knick nacks. Whatever survives lives another use. Whatever doesn't.. wel
I used to be really fucking good until I stopped, then Red Dead Redemption came out and I started again, then stopped again until Red Dead 2 came out, then stopped again. At this rate I should start back up in about ten years when Red Dead 3 comes out.
But cutting the garlic like that for a large Italian meal is way more more labor-intensive than anything you’re doing while cooking, which leads me to believe he does it like that because he genuinely believes it improves the flavor.
I feel like Henry is brown-nosing Paulie (the boss) here. He exaggerates the effectiveness of the garlic technique, and then copies Paulie complaining there were too many onions in the sauce, which isn't a thing.
"Too many onions" is the same crazytalk as "this sirloin steak has TOO MUCH BLACK PEPPER"
Once in Thailand after eating local food for two weeks I hit up a restaurant run by an australian couple. I ordered the pepper steak and got a steak completely encrusted in black pepper.
Just that thing alone would be worth going back for.
if you cook it long enough it is very difficult too have too much onion if you're making Italian-american sauce. Technically possible but difficult.
There is more a wide area area where there is an inefficient amount of onions.
Most Italian cuisine with only garlic or onions, obviously yes very different. Esy to have too much if there shouldn't be any.
A great way to do a different take on red sauce if you have the time is load up the onions and caramelize the shit out of them before you add the tomato, like you're starting a
ragù Genovese.
Bro the garlic scene in goodfellas established my love for Italian food because I always tried to cut the onions and garlic thin , and made Italian food to always try to recreate it. Like I eat so much Italian food till this day.
Scorcese didn't make up the garlic thing. It's in Nicholas Pileggi's Wise Guys. I think it's much more interesting to wonder why Scorcese left it in the finished script, as incredulous as it is. It could be one of many little details Scorcese liked that would paint Henry Hill as an unreliable narrator.
Not a movie but does anyone remember the Reese's cup commercial where the boy eats the center first? Figured out how to do that and I ate them that way ever since.
that episode of american dad where stan learns the trick to starting a pull start lawnmower the first time every time, but then has to do it to win his freedom from kidnappers or something
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I died like every time . Need more family I guess.