[Pamp Culture] oh is there a rapsball happening?

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galagazombie: Oct 31, 2011; A silly little mouse!

nonathlon posted:

CinemaSins suffers from the inevitable fate of any mocking format: you start out making fun of genuinely stupid or ridiculous things, then eventually you mine out your source material entirely, have nothing left but your outrage, and so just have to make things up. See any number of mock threads on these forums.

Yeah I used to like Cinema Sins when it was new because each was just a short little video making fun of a well known dumb and bad movie. But there are only so many movies that are both 1: Exceptionally dumb or bad in a notable way, and 2: Also fairly well known so people will actually click on the video. Sure there are infinite bad movies out there, but no one�s going to click on a video mocking some random some low budget direct to vhs film no one knew existed. So the quest for driving up user clicks eventually steers you to just doing every big release that just came out, because your out of material otherwise and that drives the most clicks.

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# ? Jun 2, 2024 10:14

Grevling: Dec 18, 2016

Grillers of the Flour Moon was good, felt as long as it was though. Really wrenched my gut from the middle on. Didn't care all that much for how Scorsese decided to end it.
It looked very nice and the music was cool.

# ? Oct 31, 2023 11:28

RandolphCarter: Jul 30, 2005

happy Halloween. I am partway through my annual relisten/catch-up of the knifepoint horror podcast. the episode lockbox is a good one if you want to check it out.

# ? Oct 31, 2023 12:41

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

Tagra posted:

We watched Christine (1983) tonight.

You are being chased by a possessed car. Do you:

A: Stand in the middle of the road
B: Stand literally anywhere else at all

We've been watching a lot of old movies for Halloween and it's been making me do a lot of reading on the special effects.

In Christine, they filmed the car regenerating by fabricating rubber bits then using hydraulics and vacuum to crumple it, then reversed the film.

Little Shop of Horrors has absolutely amazing puppetry, filmed at low framerate then sped up to be more realistic. Rick Moranis acted a bunch of the scenes in slow motion to match the speed.

In Arachnophobia, they used real spiders from New Zealand, all chosen for their friendliness. The cast loved them so much they adopted a bunch of them, which sounds exactly like something the PR department would make them say for this film. "The spiders were so friendly and we didn't hurt any of them and we took them home as pets afterward!"
The spiders hate lemon pledge, so they sprayed lines of pledge to act as walls and then sprayed air at the spiders to make them scurry along set paths.

The loving bees scene from Candyman!

Really making me think about how all of these movies would use CGI nowadays, and they'd probably go over the top with the "OOGILY BOOGILY"s when animating and it's simply not as interesting.

Christine kicks rear end. i cannot help but think the Marxist themes were deliberate.

mawarannahr posted:

Christine is more interesting than I thought. it�s covering commodity fetishism, identification with and alienation from the product of your labor, and how there are roads loving everywhere so you can have a hard time running away from cars.

wasp bourgeois ideals making it an embarrassment for the nerd to take shop class

fear if the machine coming alive. the dead labor embodied within, hinted at in the beginning with the assembly line scene, coming back to haunt you.

e: the solution really is:

mawarannahr has issued a correction as of 12:59 on Oct 31, 2023

# ? Oct 31, 2023 12:57

busalover: Sep 12, 2020

I watched Predator 2 yesterday. Best movie about LA.

# ? Oct 31, 2023 12:58

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

my favorite part of Christine is when Henry Dean Stanton shows up as the detective at the end and is like "classic case of haunted car, nothing more to see here"

# ? Oct 31, 2023 13:19

Open Source Idiom: Jan 4, 2013

The killer car dude in Christine is super hot and that doesn't get talked about enough.

# ? Oct 31, 2023 13:28

War and Pieces: Apr 24, 2022; DID NOT VOTE FOR FETTERMAN

Riot Bimbo posted:

I don't like mr. beast's gimmick at all, but he seems alright.

until it comes out the nicer side of his gimmick is pure facade and he's some kind of actual demon

what even is his gimmick?

# ? Oct 31, 2023 13:41

Tagra: Apr 7, 2006; If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

indigi posted:

wasn't there an interview about Christine where the actor asked the director why he'd be running in the street instead of running into the woods and the director replied "because it's a movie"

I noticed this on Wikipedia:

quote:

According to Carpenter, Christine was not a film he had planned on directing, saying that he directed the film as "a job" as opposed to a "personal project." He had previously directed The Thing, which had done poorly at the box office and led to critical backlash. In retrospect, Carpenter stated that upon reading Christine, he felt that "It just wasn't very frightening. But it was something I needed to do at that time for my career."

So he might have been phoning it in, somewhat.

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

my favorite part of Christine is when Henry Dean Stanton shows up as the detective at the end and is like "classic case of haunted car, nothing more to see here"

lol yeah

We also watched Carrie and drat, John Travola is ridiculous in that. And the greaser dude in Christine was basically the same character except not John Travola this time.

[edit] My favourite part of Carrie was when they spent five minutes zooming in on the bucket and the rope leading the bucket as if the audience wouldn't realize the bucket is there or what it was for after we had just spent like half the movie watching them set up the bucket.

Tagra has issued a correction as of 14:26 on Oct 31, 2023

# ? Oct 31, 2023 14:04

Open Source Idiom: Jan 4, 2013

Tagra posted:

My favourite part of Carrie was when they spent five minutes zooming in on the bucket and the rope leading the bucket as if the audience wouldn't realize the bucket is there or what it was for after we had just spent like half the movie watching them set up the bucket.

That's the best part of the film though!

# ? Oct 31, 2023 14:52

insane clown pussy: Jun 20, 2023

your periodic reminder that freaked is on youtube ad free in hd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbFfhcDmFJY

# ? Oct 31, 2023 16:14

Eric Cantonese: Dec 21, 2004; You should hear my accent.

Tagra posted:

I noticed this on Wikipedia:

So he might have been phoning it in, somewhat.

lol yeah

We also watched Carrie and drat, John Travola is ridiculous in that. And the greaser dude in Christine was basically the same character except not John Travola this time.

[edit] My favourite part of Carrie was when they spent five minutes zooming in on the bucket and the rope leading the bucket as if the audience wouldn't realize the bucket is there or what it was for after we had just spent like half the movie watching them set up the bucket.

Stephen King must have had some bad run-ins with greasers during his childhood because evil greasers are a theme throughout his body of work.

Carrie's a good movie. Brian De Palma might not be a consistent director, but he has a lot of good moments in his filmography.

# ? Oct 31, 2023 16:26

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

C-Euro posted:

What's Ninja up to these days, that's the only other A-list streamer who I can remember.

hes making more money than lebron

# ? Oct 31, 2023 16:39

mawarannahr: May 21, 2019

is Christine "rockabilly?"

# ? Oct 31, 2023 16:50

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Christine is a cautionary tale about the dangers of Rockabillyism and car culture

# ? Oct 31, 2023 16:51

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

AnimeIsTrash posted:

hes making more money than lebron

LeBron makes 100m a year just from Nike

# ? Oct 31, 2023 16:58

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

C-Euro posted:

What's Ninja up to these days, that's the only other A-list streamer who I can remember.

Playing and posting about fortnite

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:00

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

indigi posted:

LeBron makes 100m a year just from Nike

Ninja makes more than that

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:01

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Mr Hootington posted:

Ninja makes more than that

unlikely but that's still only ~half of lebron's publicized income

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:03

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

indigi posted:

unlikely but that's still only ~half of lebron's publicized income

Prove it

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:03

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

mawarannahr posted:

is Christine "rockabilly?"

it's a psychobilly freakout

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:09

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

Mr Hootington posted:

Prove it

as far as I can tell the most ninja made in a year was 75mil in 2019, so no. LeBron beats that with just his NBA and endorsement deals

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:11

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

indigi posted:

as far as I can tell the most ninja made in a year was 75mil in 2019, so no. LeBron beats that with just his NBA and endorsement deals

Citation?

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:13

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

Mr Hootington posted:

Citation?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...sh=7971f3bbee31

a simple search reveals the nba part isnt even right @_@

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:14

ArmedZombie: Jun 6, 2004

why is the burden of proof on indigi

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:14

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

google.com/what+did+ninja+earn+most+highest

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:14

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...sh=7971f3bbee31

a simple search reveals the nba part isnt even right @_@

There we go. Irrefutable proof.

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:16

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

AnimeIsTrash posted:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/paulta...sh=7971f3bbee31

a simple search reveals the nba part isnt even right @_@

you missed the "and" operator. NBA + annual endorsement earnings ~103/yr @_@

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:18

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

indigi posted:

you missed the "and" operator. NBA + annual endorsement earnings ~103/yr @_@

its okay to be wrong man

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:20

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

it is?? gently caress

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:22

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

More like LeBroke

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:22

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

More like LeBroke

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:22

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

lebroke crying some mickey mouse tears while making less money than ninja

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:22

indigi: Jul 20, 2004; ^{how can we not talk about family

when family's all that we got?}

no wonder his vanity project elementary school is a shambles. he's out of money to pay the teachers

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:23

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

More like LeBroke

AnimeIsTrash posted:

lebroke crying some mickey mouse tears while making less money than ninja

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:24

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

He was really banking on Space Jam 2 having a bigger box office return but somehow managed to be less charismatic than Michael Jordan in the first one

# ? Oct 31, 2023 17:26