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For this Wednesday Super Slop Night, 8PM EST, we are fulfilling two long-standing requests. First up is Shaolin Soccer (2001), a Hong Kong kung-fu/sports hybrid from martial-arts maestro Stephen Chow, who is better-known for Kung Fu Hustle (2004), which we previously watched. A group of brothers, all Shaolin monks, decide to form a soccer team after discovering that their martial-arts skills could give them an advantage. Hilarity ensues. Yep, that’s the whole premise. A lot of people like this one, though, so let’s watch.

Next up is Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (2010), a horror-comedy about the titular pair of rednecks, who a group of college kids suspect of being murderers, only to discover that no, a zombie outbreak is underway, and the duo is the best chance they have to even the odds. A whole lot of gore and dismemberment follows from there. This is by far the best-known and best-regarded film of director Eli Craig, who is not known for much of anything otherwise.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Shaolin Soccer: https://letterboxd.com/film/shaolin-soccer/
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: https://letterboxd.com/film/tucker-and-dale-vs-evil/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Shaolin Soccer: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/20644
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/12445

CWs for Shaolin Soccer:

• Drug use.
• Broken bones.
• Spitting.
• Fat jokes.

CWs for Tucker and Dale vs. Evil:

• Drug use.
• Alcohol abuse.
• Bugs.
• Mention of sexual assault.
• Sexual assault: a drunk man kisses a sober woman after she wants him to stop.
• Someone’s mouth is covered.
• Shaving.
• Cutting of flesh.
• Blood and gore.
• Dismemberment.
• Hand damage.
• Throat mutilation.
• Someone struggles to breathe.
• Someone is burned alive.
• Amputation.
• Hanging.
• Unconsciousness.
• Finger mutilation.
• Torture.
• Someone falls to their death.
• Stabbing.
• Death of child.
• Kidnapping.
• Jump scares.
• Natural bodies of water.
• Spitting.
• Audio gore.
• Hospital scene.
• Violent mentally-ill person.
• Suicide.
• Sudden loud noises.
• Screaming.
• Obscene language.
• Someone is watched without their knowledge.
• Nudity.
• Objectification of female characters.
• Car crash.
• Honking horns.
• Gun violence.

Links to movies:

• Shaolin Soccer: https://tankie.tube/w/38kDua8fQjDhkQ1YFmpW6p
• Tucker and Dale vs. Evil: https://tankie.tube/w/sViPESvmW4PK52oGahZDPG

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The Sopranos is a show about Tony Soprano, his family, and his other family - it is based off a Simpsons intro. Running on Empty is a movie from the director of 12 Angry Men and The Hill about the child of a fugitive couple, perpetually on the run after dodging the draft and sabotaging a US arms factory, wanting a different life.

9 pm est

content warnings:

Sopranos:

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/13786?index1=-1&index2=-1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0141842/parentalguide

• Panic attacks
• Profanity
• Sexism
• Homophobic slurs and homophobia
• Racist slurs and racism
• Nudity and sex
• Violence
• Depression
• Suicide
• Gun violence
• Domestic violence
• Abusive parents
• Drugs, alcohol, and addiction
• Hospital scenes and medical procedures
• Depictions of distress
• Transphobia
• Ableism
• Weight shaming ;

https://tankie.tube/w/ozUqxv8TuGvpcX8ZwqWXSs - 5

https://tankie.tube/w/nKvsfBGFHSTPbXeAt6R7oG - 6

Running on Empty:

https://letterboxd.com/film/running-on-empty-1988/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096018/parentalguide/?ref_=tt_ql_stry_4

• Kissing.
• Implied sex between teenagers.
• Fistfighting.
• Drunkenness.
• Profanity.
• Alcohol.

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https://tankie.tube/w/ndRSbFWqFQyjewQ8a4o43S

9 pm est

Budget $45 million

Box office $38,852

Hillbilly Elegy was released in select cinemas on November 11, 2020, before its streaming release on November 24, 2020, by Netflix, to a mostly negative reception. It received three nominations at the Golden Raspberry Awards: Worst Director for Howard, Worst Screenplay for Taylor, and Worst Supporting Actress for Close

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Critical response to Hillbilly Elegy was "fairly negative", but the performances of its cast received some praise. On Rotten Tomatoes, 25% of 251 critics gave the film a positive review, with an average rating of 4.6/10. The website's critics consensus reads, "With the form of an awards-season hopeful but the soul of a bland melodrama, Hillbilly Elegy strands some very fine actors in the not-so-deep South." According to Metacritic, which calculated a weighted average score of 38 out of 100 based on 43 critics, the film received "generally unfavorable reviews".However, it had quite favorable reviews from the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score having an 82% from 2500+ ratings.

The Independent reported that the film was widely criticized for "perpetuating stereotypes about the poor". Katie Rife of The A.V. Club called it "bootstrapping poverty porn" and said that it "reinforces the stereotypes it's meant to be illuminating."

Assuming the election was already lost after the death of their original nominee, the Democrats decided to pick a likable but unwinnable minority candidate to improve their chances in the following presidential election.

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The visual cuisine for this Monday night is the season finale of The Boys season 4 followed by the early "season 0" of Battlebots due to popular demand.

The Boys is a show based off of a comic that satirized mainstream superhero comics, it has frequent shock/gross-out humor with bombastic, graphic violence. The first few minutes of the first episode of season 1 will give you a general idea of what the show is about. It's essentially superheroes but with capitalism coupled with contemporary political satire.

Battlebots is a show about people making robots that fight in an arena, it is based off the season 2 My Life as a Teenage Robot episode "Robot Riot."

8 pm est

content warnings:

Boys:

This episode has references to SA from the previous episodes.

This episode has multiple instances of graphic violence and a few scenes involving body horror.

Characters spouse bigoted right wing talking points in this episode and season.

https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/720923

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1190634/parentalguide

https://tankie.tube/w/xgHGuNyvYQWoVKVnh7tVgg

• Frequent graphic violence and excessive gore
• Child abuse
• Multiple mentions of SA, a primary character was assaulted at work in season 1 and the abuser is a recurring character
• Stalking
• Domestic violence
• Gaslighting
• Drugs, alcohol, addiction, and overdose
• Needles
• Death of animals and animal abuse
• A character is implied to have been a pedophile
• Explicit nudity
• Sex
• Objectification of women
• Racism
• Homophobia
• Transphobia
• Slurs
• Body dysmorphia
• Nazi imagery, a superhero was outed as an actual nazi and has supporters in the show
• Antisemitism
• There is a character in this season that spouts bigoted conspiracy theories
• Suicide
• Depictions of ptsd
• Anxiety attacks
• Body horror
• Torture
• Death
• Car crashes
• Gun violence
• Masturbation
• Death of a parent

Battlebots:

I couldn't find a specific content warning list for the early Battlebot episodes, however it doesn't seem like there's anything extreme in them.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4816364/parentalguide

https://tankie.tube/w/t7TiP6t3Qcp44RhnRpKNFS

• Makeshift robots fight each other in an arena
• Mild profanity
• Reference to alcohol

8 pm est

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For this Sunday Kino Night, first up is Voyage to Cythera (1984), a Greek drama about an old communist who returns home after spending 32 years in the Soviet Union. He wanders around listlessly thinking, “wtf is this shit?” Did Greece really get this bad in his absence? Apparently so. God Damn the West: The Movie. This is one of the best-regarded films of Greece’s most renowned filmmaker, Theo Angelopoulos. He is his country’s version of, say, Wim Wenders; many reviews compare this film to Paris, Texas (1984) in its depiction of a directionless old man, out of place in the modern world. Expect a lot of long takes and quiet contemplation. Excellent reviews for this one, so we’ll give it a watch.

Next is Saving Face (2004), a rom-com centered around an Asian-American woman, who is secretly a lesbian, and her mother, who is secretly having an extramarital affair. Will their secrets be revealed to each other? Probably. Hilarity ensues along the way, along with identity struggles and attempts to meet family expectations, and so on. This is the best-regarded film of director Alice Wu, and it has an extremely high rating on Letterboxd, so let’s check it out.

We’ll start at 8PM EST on Hextube, right here:

https://live.hexbear.net/c/movies

Be there, comrades!

Letterboxd:

• Voyage to Cythera: https://letterboxd.com/film/voyage-to-cythera/
• Saving Face: https://letterboxd.com/film/saving-face/

Doesthedogdie.com links:

• Voyage to Cythera: Sorry, nothing on DTDD or IMDB.
• Saving Face: https://www.doesthedogdie.com/media/15209

CWs for Voyage to Cythera:

• Capitalism.
• Depression.
• Homelessness.
• Sad ending.

CWs for Saving Face:

• Carnism.
• Death of parent.
• Needles.
• Hospital scene.
• Discussion of abortion.
• Fat jokes.
• Homophobia.
• Racist parent.
• “Sexual content”. Seems pretty mild to me, though.

Links to movies:

• Voyage to Cythera: https://tankie.tube/w/rs88AiXFAHTY4YwrNoCbPo
• Saving Face: https://tankie.tube/w/88wWnZhvM7cnmZCxB3qbH6

perfect marketing, no notes. when I stepped out of the theater after seeing Jurassic World in 2015, I remember saying to myself, "oh boy I can't wait to see what those guys produce next!"

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