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[Sweatlord_STG]

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[Randorama]

GP:

Pasta, olive oil and a bit of cheese is Italy's typical ultra-simple dish for a troubled stomach or a fast meal. 80 minutes should suffice to digest it (and 15 minutes to cook), so it is perfect if you're busy and need a quick meal. With tuna you also have proteins, even. Integralist Warning: Italians would never eat tuna, cheese and olive oil together. There is a good reason: one of the ingredients can easily cover the flavour of the other two. I doubt 99.9% of naysayers understand this: I do, and get the balance right (but you like Pecorino? Colour me impressed!).

I dislike acidic olive oil, but as a rule of thumb "acidic"=southern mediterranean regions (Greece, most of Spain, most of Portugal, Southern Italy, Turkey), "mellow"=central mediterranean regions (Northern Spain & Portugal, Southern France, Central Italy, Balkan countries). Rest is a butter/animal fat netherworld with awful taste in just about everything; "nuke from orbit, it's the only way to be sure", to quote Ripley from Aliens. I probably come from East of your sweet half, so anything acidic feels like an attack to the taste buds.

"Cacio e e Pepe" tells me that your sweet half is probably though not necessarily from Rome or its region, Lazio. If yes, you can ask her about Gricia and Carbonara (and Porchetta, which is a pulled pork sandwich). If she is from Rome, at some point you should visit the capital, watch Alberto Sordi's movies, and try to eat "cucina giudea", i.e. sephardi (Jewish) dishes that have become common staple in the city (e.g. filled artichokes and eggplants). Sergio Leone was a great lover of Roman traditional (and very low class) dishes, his family being originally of humble origins, but his parents becoming well-respected professionals in Cinecitta' (=Rome's studios).

...I am almost tempted to commit another sin and watch the new The Naked Gun movie. The idea of Liam Neeson playing an absolutely serious violent cop in a silly comedy sounds almost appealing. Almost.

[Sweatlord_STG]

GP:

Pasta, olive oil and a bit of cheese is Italy's typical ultra-simple dish for a troubled stomach or a fast meal. 80 minutes should suffice to digest it (and 15 minutes to cook), so it is perfect if you're busy and need a quick meal. With tuna you also have proteins, even. Integralist Warning: Italians would never eat tuna, cheese and olive oil together. There is a good reason: one of the ingredients can easily cover the flavour of the other two. I doubt 99.9% of naysayers understand this: I do, and get the balance right (but you like Pecorino? Colour me impressed!).

I dislike acidic olive oil, but as a rule of thumb "acidic"=southern mediterranean regions (Greece, most of Spain, most of Portugal, Southern Italy, Turkey), "mellow"=central mediterranean regions (Northern Spain & Portugal, Southern France, Central Italy, Balkan countries). Rest is a butter/animal fat netherworld with awful taste in just about everything; "nuke from orbit, it's the only way to be sure", to quote Ripley from Aliens. I probably come from East of your sweet half, so anything acidic feels like an attack to the taste buds.

"Cacio e e Pepe" tells me that your sweet half is probably though not necessarily from Rome or its region, Lazio. If yes, you can ask her about Gricia and Carbonara (and Porchetta, which is a pulled pork sandwich). If she is from Rome, at some point you should visit the capital, watch Alberto Sordi's movies, and try to eat "cucina giudea", i.e. sephardi (Jewish) dishes that have become common staple in the city (e.g. filled artichokes and eggplants). Sergio Leone was a great lover of Roman traditional (and very low class) dishes, his family being originally of humble origins, but his parents becoming well-respected professionals in Cinecitta' (=Rome's studios).

...I am almost tempted to commit another sin and watch the new The Naked Gun movie. The idea of Liam Neeson playing an absolutely serious violent cop in a silly comedy sounds almost appealing. Almost.

Wait what?

[Ixmucane2]

Four Flies on Grey Velvet

An unidentified adversary persecutes a remarkably harmless rock drummer.
While he tries, quite ineffectively, to figure out what deranged psycho hates him (and, even more difficult, why), other characters manage to know too much and are brutally killed; a final revelation and confrontation resolves the mistery.
Not a story about animals: flies are present in the first scene, as a tease, but the four important ones that the title promises appear late and suddenly and, as they reveal the identity of the killer, are explained even more suddenly.

A stepping stone towards Deep Red, with a simpler and very silly plot, a similar chaotic attitude (anything can and will happen, including gratuitous special effects at the very end), and even more comedy (including several witty friends, a coffin trade show and unjustified violence between the protagonist and the postman).

[Mortificator]

Jacobs Ladder 1984 - Wasn't in the mood for this, got 42 minutes in. Its quite a depressing movie and its appeal is lost on me. I didn't care about the characters or the psychological reasoning behind its weird and strange flips from reality to whatever it was he was going into. I looked at the timeline it was way too long for me to bear. I Won't score this because Its not my thing to score and I didn't finish it.

A lot of Jacob's Ladder is strangely comforting to me. The protagonist's apartment and girlfriend (much more my taste than his old house and wife). His chiropractor. His post office. They're messy, but GOOD messy, you know?

[Lord British]

Jacob's Ladder 1984?

[Mortificator]

Well, this is as embarrassing as the time I though I was watching the Halloween Season of the Witch when it was actually the Romero Season of the Witch