For context, this is from terminator 2 where the protagonist is saved by his best friend in the first 30 min of the film by lying to a terminator cyborg from the future posing as a cop.
If I see someone shop lifting food, no I didn’t. If I see someone shoot down a ceo in manhattan no I didn’t.
I’m genuinely curious If any of you didn’t immediately know the context from this screenshot.
there must be someone, but it’s such an iconic movie that I’m curious if there is anyone who recognize it immediately.
Of course some people didn’t? It’s over thirty years old.
Edit: to put it into perspective, the movie’s release is closer to the breakup of the Beatles than to the present day.
I saw it in the theatres and didn’t get the context because it has been literal decades since I last watched it.
I mean it’s a movie from the 90s. My wife hasn’t seen die hard… yet. That’s gonna change this holiday.
Your wife might prefer The Long Kiss Goodnight. Peak Geena Davis as an amnesiac assassin teamed up with ex-cop Sam Jackson.
Plus some people don’t watch movies, much less blockbuster acfion movies.
That’s one of the biggest problems with the internet. People think that because they’ve seen something three of four times the entire world knows about it. Probably everyone on lemmy has seen that movie, but there are plenty of people who don’t like science fiction or Arnold or action movies.
If you go by lemmy, Linux is more popular than Adele.
I haven’t seen it, I’m younger than the movie and nobody really talked about it in any significant capacity
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Here are a few old movies that, imho, are well worth a watch. No particular order
The Dirty Dozen
The Magnificent 7
Body Heat
The Three Musketeers [Oliver Reed]
Altered States
enjoy
It’s one of those movies that has had a cultural impact for decades after release. If you did watch it today you’d probably be surprised how many scenes you’re familiar with from various media it’s influenced and been parodied in since release.
Or maybe not. Cultural landscape has changed so much there isn’t really a monoculture that can refer back to previous highlights/milestones within itself.
If you didn’t catch the end of that time it may all be lost to you. Which doesn’t matter, but the first two terminator movies are really good if you’re into that kind of rhing. James Cameron before Titanic and Avatar.
I did, but then my family had this movie on VHS when I was younger and I’ve probably watched it like 100 times. It came on TV once when I was on the phone with my friend and I quoted all the lines just ahead of the TV. I bet that annoyed the shit out of her.
Here’s something we should all consider.
Back in the day, the Irish Republican Army was one of the most feared terrorist groups in the world.
At their height they only had about fifty full time assassins.
But every assassin had a massive ‘rear echelon.’
When the shooter came to town, he’d have a choice of three or four safe houses, a dozen drivers, and at least two doctors to go to if he was injured.
So you are saying the IRA assassins have a better healthcare plan than most Americans?
Yeah, on all platforms I’ve been to I’ve seen nothing but bitter jokes and snarky comments about the situation. Imagine being such a massive shitbag that nobody gives a damn when you are literally murdered in public and in broad daylight.
If your legacy is feeding off people’s misfortune and suffering then I’d say this outcome is part of the risk you took. What goes around, comes around. I don’t expect the leeches to learn from that tho.
These people run real death panels. You know the thing the GOP warned us about if the ACA was passed.
The number of times the GOP have done the exact thing they warned us that the Dems would do is too damn high.
