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Grendels Dad posted:This Orson Welles quote is still the best: haha savage I feel called out from beyond the grave by the big man (he's right)
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fr0id posted:The krypton part of MoS still sucks though. This post makes me think about the North Atlantic ocean heat chart, Krypton is barely fiction
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"Jesse, what the gently caress is a multiverse?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi5_cqYMxxM La Louve Rouge posted:This post makes me think about the North Atlantic ocean heat chart, Krypton is barely fiction Assepoester fucked around with this message at 15:17 on Jul 26, 2023 |
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fr0id posted:I tuned in to see how people felt about the caring about Snyder skin to patriarchy joke and yeah gently caress that. It’s ironic that Snyder’s first superhero film was watchmen, because he did far more interesting deconstructions of heroes given the much “straighter” material of Superman and Batman movies. The krypton part of MoS still sucks though. I still don’t understand this complaint. Was it too long? Too focused on action? Didn’t serve the plot? It just feels weird to complain about a sci-fi movie having classic sci-fi tropes.
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How do you not dig Jor-El's flying horse alien, that's my other question
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You mean H'raka? I love H'raka. Big H'raka guy over here.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:Armond White’s claim to fame is that he was the only reviewer listed on Rotten Tomatoes Dot Com to rank Toy Story 3 as ‘rotten’ (i.e. below 60%). Doing so denied the film a ‘perfect score’ and, in the hype surrounding the Disney-Pixar movie where WOODY AND BUZZ LIGHTYEAR (almost) DIE AT THE END, fans were infuriated and other outlets were reporting breathlessly on the bizarre deviation. As White himself later recounts it, it was simply a critique of consumerist ideology: Couldn't help but think about this post seeing this news lol https://twitter.com/popbase/status/1684254204091564039?s=46&t=W7FVnypR7n4wir0kfXw7_w
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Roth posted:Couldn't help but think about this post seeing this news lol Make Uno like Would You Rather  Also, cast Jeffrey Combs
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Jul 27, 2023 01:37
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Roth posted:Couldn't help but think about this post seeing this news lol But UNO the movie already exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-bvbdUc8E&t=5s
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HT725bI1LMcRBA Starblade posted:But UNO the movie already exists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA8ncpPKFTw
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Lol. Happy they got their Superman finally, I guess. I guess Snyder's Superman was holding him hostage or something.
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teagone posted:Lol. Happy they got their Superman finally, I guess. I guess Snyder's Superman was holding him hostage or something. 
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Jul 27, 2023 02:12
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Snyder just laughing like a madman as he holds matches and a can of gasoline over all of the Superman comics. "You won't get to adapt this character, see! If I can't no one will! Such is the Ayn Rand way!"
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teagone posted:Lol. Happy they got their Superman finally, I guess. I guess Snyder's Superman was holding him hostage or something. Supermanime
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teagone posted:Lol. Happy they got their Superman finally, I guess. I guess Snyder's Superman was holding him hostage or something. What's he gunna cry and beat up now
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Jul 27, 2023 02:42
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Only Kindness posted:[sudden moment of realisation] It won't end as long as grifters can use Snyder for clicks Milkfred E. Moore posted:Apologies if I'm wrong but, I mean, isn't the entire pathos of that film built around Dr Horrible getting inducted into the league of evil and everything he ever wanted, but it only cost him the love of his life? Like, it's practically transparent. Like Darko says, it's typical nice guy mentality. He got everything he wanted and it only cost him a penny. See, that's Whedon being "clever"
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Equeen posted:I still don’t understand this complaint. Was it too long? Too focused on action? Didn’t serve the plot? It just feels weird to complain about a sci-fi movie having classic sci-fi tropes. It just felt like a ton of special effects flying at the screen with very little that I felt any emotional connection to. Russel Crowe and Michael Shannon it felt like had barely any time to act between big CGI set pieces and scifi jargon dialogue. It felt way too focused on action and special effects, yes, and given that I felt no real connection to it, felt boring. Like, I already know what’s going to happen. I guess if I had to make a comparison it would be like if a Spider-Man movie started with a 10 minute scene of Uncle Ben fighting with muggers and getting in a car chase, yet was somehow not ridiculous enough to be entertaining.
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I get the complaint, at least for a first viewing it's a lot to take in and the storytelling goes by a little too fast. But on subsequent watches, once you have more insight into the relationship between zod and jor el that's spelled out by the rest of the movie, it owns and I wish they spent longer in this crazy sci-fi world and its incredible production design
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fr0id posted:It just felt like a ton of special effects flying at the screen with very little that I felt any emotional connection to. This made it almost a strength for me and was why I liked it. It evoked this like very simple Flash Gordon esque adventure serial to me but with the extra layer of the environmental message, the phallic escape ships, etc. Like a suitable pulpy beginning for a long past Superman-adjacent adventure. But then it also weighs more heavily with how what went down with Krypton is weaved into how things play out in the rest of the movie. At the same time I get why it's polarizing. I think almost anyone I talk to about Man of Steel either loves or hates that opening with little in between.
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I didn't care for it just because I think the Krypton stuff is all inherently very silly. It did a good job of conveying the motivation for everything but trying to put a super serious coat of paint on something that conceptually still feels pretty campy just took me out of it. The earth stuff was consistently more interesting.
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shoeberto posted:trying to put a super serious coat of paint on something that conceptually still feels pretty campy yeah it owns
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shoeberto posted:I didn't care for it just because I think the Krypton stuff is all inherently very silly. It did a good job of conveying the motivation for everything but trying to put a super serious coat of paint on something that conceptually still feels pretty campy just took me out of it. The earth stuff was consistently more interesting. For us the audience it’s a silly concept, but it makes complete sense for the characters within the narrative to take their planet’s imminent demise very seriously.
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The ocean is hitting triple digits, it doesn't seem that silly to me. It's all context.
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Equeen posted:For us the audience it’s a silly concept, but it makes complete sense for the characters within the narrative to take their planet’s imminent demise very seriously. That's why I can't say I hated it, but I was really really ready for it to be over.
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:The ocean is hitting triple digits, it doesn't seem that silly to me. It's all context. Earth’s been the hottest since like 120,000 years ago. We are all toast. Literally.
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Krypton is Earth, down to endlessly relitigating questions about reproduction and societal control beyond the point where there would be a society for children to grow into
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RBA Starblade posted:And the many dead space colonies Earth is known for We've got one, that's enough.
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teagone posted:Lol. Happy they got their Superman finally, I guess. I guess Snyder's Superman was holding him hostage or something.
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La Louve Rouge posted:Krypton is Earth, down to endlessly relitigating questions about reproduction and societal control beyond the point where there would be a society for children to grow into Pretty much this. Politicians ignore science as inconvenient, groups of armed thugs are forming to protect "pure" bloodlines, and it feels like we're running out of options. People hate MoS because it holds a mirror up to the world and asks, "How can just one man save our world? He can't do it alone. Not unless we join him in the sun."
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Bogus Adventure posted:Pretty much this. Politicians ignore science as inconvenient, groups of armed thugs are forming to protect "pure" bloodlines, and it feels like we're running out of options. We need less sun though the planet's too hot
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Bogus Adventure posted:. Do you sincerely believe that?
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I love the krypton sequence to bits because its such economic storytelling. In the span of 15 minutes it shows us everything we could possibly want to know about Krypton, its society, Zod and Jor-El. Note I said show, not tell. It's an amazing introduction where even the sets and architecture help tell a story about what kind of a society the kryptonians were. It's great!
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RBA Starblade posted:We need less sun though the planet's too hot Yes but if enough people go into the sun it will block it out right. Just need more people first.
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