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[pobrecisco]

[ Cisco sits back from turning the video feed on, his garage/workshop visible in the background, and goes back to fiddling with a project on his workbench while he talks. ]

So, what kind of movies do you guys like? Back home, I mean. I know stuff is weird here and some movies don't exist, and they have stuff some of us don't have back home, so if there's any good universe-local movies I'm missing out on that only exist here, I could use some recs, too. Bonus points if there's any really good alternate universe versions of stuff I'd know from home. Negative points if it's propaganda crap, because there's enough of that on TV as it is.

[ He props up the thing he's working on to get at the bottom of it, and it looks like a projector. Wonder what that could be for! ]

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[hands4healing]

...Is that a projector?

[pobrecisco]

Yeah. [ He holds it up so she can see better. ]

I needed a break from my actual project, so I bought it to play around with. So I'm trying to see if there's anything I can do to make it a better projector. I wanna rig up a big screen to watch movies on.

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[foreshadower]

I was always more a fan of the Lugosi films, back in my day.

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[pobrecisco]

Of course you were. But hey, Dracula's a classic for a reason!

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[bloodpressured]

OH SHIT.

IF YOU WANT SOME GOOD MOVIES, SOME OF THE CLASSICS FROM HOME WOULD DETONATE YOUR THINK SPONGE INTO AN INFINITE ARRAY OF SOFT, MINISCULE AWE PARTICLES. THEY'RE JUST SO GOOD. BUT NOTHING LIKE THAT IS AVAILABLE HERE.

I'VE CAUGHT A FEW FILMS ON TELEVISION, THOUGH. THEY'RE OKAY. YOUR EARTH ROMCOMS ARE PRETTY GOOD.

he's sticking to VIDEO because it keeps his hands free for working

[pobrecisco]

Wow, okay, you sound like you're pretty seriously into movies, opinions on our romcoms aside. So what's your favorite movie back home?

[maglevflash]

You know, you could always go see Operation Inconceivable. There's a whole series.

[pobrecisco]

...Is that supposed to be a Mission Impossible knock off.

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[orions_shadow]

Unlike everyone else, I didn't grow up with a TV.

Propaganda was a problem back home too.

[pobrecisco]

[ Cisco has learned that abruptly commenting on less than human appearances isn't always well-received, but his first thought is clearly "holy shit it's a lionman." ]

You're missing out, dude. I hope you're making up for it here, propaganda aside.

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[timeframes]

Dude, I need you to listen to me because this is really important: completely disregard any opinion that puts Dane Cook in a favorable light.

Obviously the only good shit is the classics, and I'm not talking that trash that everybody likes to pretend they've seen for pretentious douchebag bonus points, but the real down and dirty quality movies that endure. Transcend generations and all that shit. Back to the Future. Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure. Groundhog Day. Terminator, but not anything after Rise of the Machines. [do these have a theme??]

[pobrecisco]

Obviously, dude, Dane Cook movies are an affront to filmmaking.

And I'm getting the feeling we're from similar worlds, because those are all in my top ten. Except I didn't love Rise of the Machines as much as Judgement Day or The Terminator, but I mean, did anybody? Those two were Schwarzenegger at his peak.

[resipiscent]

I... got shown a bunch of stuff recently that was like, featuring people I know.

[A beat.]

It was very weird. Have you ever seen Fantasia? My friend is in it.

[pobrecisco]

Wait, like Fantasia the Disney movie?

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[countdone]

I know some good documentaries I could recommend you.

[He's joking but it's because he figures Cisco doesn't want to watch those. He watches those. Like a nerd.]

[pobrecisco]

[ He does a visible double take at the ID that comes up when Piper's video feed starts. That... is not what he was expecting alternate universe Hartley Rathaway to look like at all. ]

...Depends on the documentary. I mean, I'd still take fiction over nonfiction any day, but I'm not above the occasional Netflix documentary binge.

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[khajidont]

Me and a bunch of friends went on a cowboy-movie binge last summer. If you're looking for movies that're the good kind of bad, I'd start there.

[pobrecisco]

I am all about movies that are the good kind of bad. What was the best-slash-worst one?

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[airshow]

Space Jam is a masterpiece!

[pobrecisco]

If you're being sarcastic, I'm genuinely insulted. That movie is everything my childhood didn't know it wanted.

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[hsalf]

Let me know what you get as recommendations and I can help you screen them.

[A slightly coy way of asking if they can keep watching films together? Yes, but he does miss those weekly nights of theirs. He's just betting on the chance that Cisco misses them too.]

[pobrecisco]

[ It takes him a minute to respond, but eventually the fact that he does really miss movie night wins out and he switches his feed back on. ]

Sure. Gogo suggested Operation Implausible, which sounds like the best name for the worst alternate universe version of Mission Impossible I can think of. Maybe not as good as our usual classics, but I'm down if you are?

Also, did you really just send me a voice message when I'm just out in the garage? Come on, I know you're home, I heard your car pull in.

[ He grins a little, hoping some endearing teasing will take the awkward out of the hesitance in his response. ]

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[calibrating]

Ever hear of a little something called Fleet and Flotilla?

Turian cinema at its best. No human vid's compared to it so far.

[pobrecisco]

I haven't, but if by some miracle, you have a copy on you? I am totally down for the classics of cinema from another species.

[driftsintobuffetline]

Is there going to be some kind of free movie-night thing? Because I could totally get behind that and okay, so you want to know favorite movies? ANY big monster movie--Mothra, Gamera--but especially Godzilla; I mean the original--didn't care for the remake. [And he means the 1998 one. The 2014 one would have probably been in post-production, but cancelled because it would have been bad for business to release a Godzilla movie after 2013 had a real-life Godzilla attack]. Dinosaurs are also a plus. For the sake of more options: my buddy probably could get behind any good--and by good, I mean really good, he has exceptionally high standards--sci-fi thing. He especially likes spacey shit like--I don't know--original Star Trek and Contact (Sagan's one of his heroes, ok--but I'm just assuming he's into this), 2001, that kind of thing, and might even be fussed to watch something with good use of AI or robotics. He's critical of science in fiction, though, so he's going to be a tough sell.

But me, I'm easy. Like I said, monster movies.

[pobrecisco]

I'm thinking about hosting one, yeah. Just in my back yard, though, nothing fancy.

Hey, excellent taste, though. Which monster's your favorite? For the record, picking Godzilla is a weak cop-out. And no, dude, totally, the remakes are all objectively terrible. They're not even bad enough to be funny.

And okay, your friend has good taste too, but high standards and scifi movies really just shouldn't go hand in hand. You've gotta be able to laugh the ridiculous off. I mean, I'm an engineer, I know how unscientific half the movies I like are, but you gotta suspend disbelief a little.

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[notyourfathersosborn]

I'm stunned no one's mentioned Indiana Jones yet. Sure, you've probably seen them, but it's a classic for a reason.

Though that's not exactly what you were asking for, were you? I really enjoyed Fatal Termination, which was a weird cross between the Terminator and Love Actually that somehow worked. Let Fate Decide was pretty good too, it's about a former government agent whose family was kidnapped, and she takes out everyone between her and them. That one's a little propaganda-y, since it's the Russians who take her family and all, but it's not too in your face about it.

And now if you enjoy awful B-movies, this place has them in spades. Red Riding Hood and Paul Bunyan go to Pluto, She was a teenaged Medusa, The Horrible Love of Santa Claus, Snow White versus Marie Curie, and I was a Supermodel for the KGB were my favorites.

[pobrecisco]

As long as we're not counting Crystal Skull, because that will never be classic. Or even Indiana Jones canon, as far as I'm concerned. I don't care if that makes me a snob, but Harrison Ford really sold out on that one.

Okay, I don't know how you'd combine Love Actually and The Terminator, but now I have to see it. I'm not huge on most non-scifi action movies, but I'll give Let Fate Decide a shot, too, why not.

Also those all sound amazing, oh my god.

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[cupio]

Robots.

[ Pulling a thinking face. ]

Also anything where the cheerleader dies first. They're always the best because they're so bad.

[pobrecisco]

Robots, as in the kids' movie called "Robots", or you like movies about robots? You really have to specify there, because one of those I'm one hundred percent behind, but not so much the other.

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[glowsferatu]

1983's The Hunger. Tony Scott directing Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie, and Susan Sarandon.

Feel free to thank me later.

[pobrecisco]

[ Oh look, it's another kid with horns. Neat.. ]

Huh. I think I've heard of that, but somehow I've never seen it. If I can find the nearest equivalent in this world, I'll check it out.

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[shuckit]

No idea. Someone said Godzilla is good?

[ guess who hasn't actually seen any movies ever? this guy. ]

[pobrecisco]

Godzilla is great. But only the classics, not the remakes.

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[tardily]

Are you going to turn our place into a mini theater?

[ barry, popcorn and slushees do not a mini theater make. ]

[pobrecisco]

Only the back yard, and only sometimes!

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[enucleation]

I used to be fond of thrillers, back home. I haven't searched for any in this world, though.

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[pobrecisco]

Thrillers are good! What's your favorite?