#honor and glory

[contac]

[daenerysoftarth]

oh god what if when Brienne and Jaime ride to Lady Stoneheart they take Honor and Glory (brienne on honor and jaime on glory), and Brienne betrays Lady Stoneheart to save Jaime and somehow in the process she kills Honor thereby sacrificing her honor both metaphorically and literally

[outofcontextrifftrax]

"We are reconciled now through the cleansing power of violence!"

Bill Corbett, Honor and Glory

[watching-pictures-move]

Movie Review | Honor and Glory (Ho, 1993)

“What tape? Who the hell are you? What are you talking about?” This is a line from a supporting character in the last act of the movie, and he might as well be speaking for the audience. I realize that most of the Godfrey Ho movies I’ve seen have not been the cut and paste efforts he Frankensteined together from existing movies and new ninja footage, but all new original movies purely by his hand. And let me tell ya, for the most part the plots do not seem to hang together any better.

This one has something to do with an evil finance bro who embezzled a billion dollars from his own company and is now trying to get ahold of a nuclear trigger stolen from the Soviets, despite this being made in 1993 after the collapse of the Soviet Union. If you’re wondering how the particulars tie together into the plot, they don’t. So don’t worry your pretty little heads about it. What you do need to know is that there are a lot of scenes where the finance bro, played by an extremely hammy John Miller, deals with his business troubles, and its pretty funny how much Ho commits to this despite it barely hanging together.

Anyway, Miller is terrible, but he has a lot of scenes with Chuck Jeffreys, who is probably the best thing about this. In part, it’s because he looks better as an actor thanks to Miller hamming it up, but it’s also because he has the closest thing to an arc here, thanks to his regrets about being a hired goon for Miller and eventually turning against him. He also has some pretty good chemistry with Donna Jason, who plays a reporter, not that her profession has any bearing on the plot. Jeffreys kinda looks like Eddie Murphy and Jason kinda looks like Rene Russo, so you can pretend you’re watching them instead if you get bored.

You also have Cynthia Rothrock as an FBI agent and Robin Shou as her Hong Kong cop boyfriend (?), and maybe the four of them should go on a double date. Despite Rothrock being on the poster, she’s not in this for that much and disappears for large chunks of the movie. If you’re looking for a Ho-directed Rothrock showcase, Undefeatable is probably a better bet. It’s the sleazier A-side to this one’s goofier B-side, and has a positive anti-gang message to boot.

Anyway, it sounds like I’m ragging on the movie pretty hard, but despite its impossible to follow plot, it hits the spot if you’re hankering to watch people punch and kick each other. That happens with great frequency and with the smallest provocation, and is performed and captured with a reasonable level of skill. (Exhibit A: Jason gets interrupted during a news report by a woman angry that Jason ruined the reputation of her senator father. They fight, and despite the woman pulling out a knife, Jason bests her easily. The woman is never seen again.) At its best, this presents a utopian vision where every single person you run into knows martial arts, and a fight can break out at any moment.

[caretta-caretta]

“Horses are just men extenders”-ken

immediately when I read jaime’s line in affc i was like FLYNN RIDER??

[splatteronmywalls]

[rosaluxembae]

I was reading last night and was too tired to work it out. Is Honor the Palfrey and Glory the Destrier? That way round feels more intuitive to me.

[kisnin]

So I'm torn between anger and respect

I was play Hoi4 Old World Blues, and was fighting Lonetree (a tribal faction in the Utah/Colorado area). I basically wasted the lives of 7k people trying to cross a river because the Lonetree decided to role-play the 300 led by Gandalf and officered by Kriegsmen. I only managed to cross the river after everyone else around them declared war and hut them in the rear. And even then, only after they had technically capitulated did I manage to cross.

Part of me us REALLY pissed, because that 7k was extremely difficult to scrape up. I have like 500 people left in reserve.

The other part of me wants to kneel and thank them for such a GLORIOUS battle. Their defense was nothing short of perfect. They held the line to the last man and woman and only faltered after the war technically ended.

This is what happens when the gamer side and the battle seeking side of me clash.

I may be screwed in this run, but I'm wildly impressed and jealous that I couldn't have such glory.

[azucarera-art]

when u, a queen, come across another king, & u discuss how best to maximize ur joint slay 💅🏽✨

[dailyfigures]

Doria ; Honor of Kings ☆ Myethos

[contac]

The Pepsi logo censored itself in self-defense.

[dilf-in-peril]

ROH Glory By Honor II

[condemnhim]

Tally Hall fans when they're sentenced to the electric chair (it's a tally hall reference)

[lunar-years]

I think an interesting Hunger Games book would be one about being in the Career system in districts one or two. Because imagine being pressured by your parents or your peers or what have you when you’re a little kid to attend an academy designed to train you to murder other kids in the Hunger Games, with the expectation that you’ll one day volunteer to do just that. It’s spending your entire childhood in a brainwashing pressure cooker to turn you into a killing machine like….

[mundaniel]

look i have no idea how much actual skill it takes to play an otamatone but tbh the hardest part seems like it would be playing it in tune and dan just??? kills it??? every time??

[titanic-honor-and-glory]

112 Years Ago: Titanic was dressed in her signal flags to greet the people of Southampton on her first day in port. This occasion is often assumed to be a celebration of Good Friday but has since been confirmed as taking place on Thursday, April the 4th.

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