Second Hand Meat Mouth posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA9J6lgoI-Q

MonsieurChoc posted:

I do not know who Viper is.

mawarannahr posted:

Some will be welcoming the year of the dragon but this is really gonna be the year of the viper
https://twitter.com/RapperViper/status/1743071642031366558

Helluva posted:

Viper Black Jesus or Viper - Black Jesus?

Nichael posted:

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gradenko_2000 posted:

You'll Cowards Won't Even Solo Mid

galagazombie posted:

Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.

my bony fealty posted:

There's this trend of vague anti-wealthy, eat the rich, wow aren't rich people hosed up, horror movies and they all suck loving rear end and have nothing to say. Pure vapid nonsense. Infinity Pool, The Menu, Glass Onion, etc. Western cinema is trying to ape Parasite and failing miserably at it.

galagazombie posted:

Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.

Whirling posted:

wrong, fool

galagazombie posted:

Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.

nonathlon posted:

I was thinking today about the English equivalent: a group of down on their luck but authentic types need money so they band together to do a quirky and usually incongruously sexy activity. See: Full Monty, Kinky Boots, Brassed Off, Calendar Girls ...

galagazombie posted:

Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.

Horseshoe theory posted:

Gordon Gecko is unironically viewed as a role model by a ton of people, OP.

gradenko_2000 posted:

You'll Cowards Won't Even Solo Mid

dr_rat posted:

And with the massive budgets you'd think cutting a 2 and a half hour movie to a one and a half one, they'd save a poo poo load of money that you know, would mean the movie could more easily turn a profit.

I think it comes down to movie producers seeming to be some of the dumbest fuckers on the planet. If one movie is successful, just copy it exactly till that format stop making money.

Durf posted:

I think it was mostly that people hated yuppies. Whether country club types or the stereotypical Manhattan/California rich. And ya there’s crossover with landlords and developers.

Even if they’re not selling the orphanage they operate contrary to small town values, think they know better than everyone, and stick out like a sore thumb. See Clark’s neighbours in Christmas Vacation, Lydia’s parents in Beetlejuice, etc.

galagazombie posted:

Was the whole “rich jerk buys the park/apartment/rec center/library we have to stop him!” plot that was so omnipresent in the 80’s and early 90’s an expression of the death of the American urban area? Usually you think about white flight, such as exemplified by the “Urban Crimepocolypse” genre but the “evils of real estate development” movies portray it more like people were unwillingly exiled from the cities.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Isn't the joke in Beetlejuice that the ghost couple are the 'ordinary' suburbanites while Lydia's parents are weird goths who bought the house specifically because it was said to be haunted? Beetlejuice even has to teach them how to be scary ghosts because they're so comically mild-mannered.

Also makes the ending fitting and funnier when it's basically Lydia, her parents and the ghosts all agreeing to get along and cohabitate because it beats having to deal with Beetlejuice.

josh04 posted:

accidentally watched pokemon concierge and i would in fact kill for psyduck

FirstnameLastname posted:

oh for sure

i found his number on reddit, my ex called him at like 10pm in the middle of the week and he immediately invited her to be a 'millionaire running his real estate company', mentioned that his 'fridge was always full' on the phone, that he has a spare bedroom (bed in livingroom of 1bdr apt) and made a point about how Houston has 'tons of movie theaters' (idk lol)
it was like 15 unbroken minutes of him talking

no signs of creepy behavior there

a little after that i met a guy who was making a viper docu and had lived with him himself for about 3 months, confirmed he made those kinds of offers all the time to literally anyone who would stop to listen, and stopped the docu after he ended up getting chased thru third ward at night by a shermhead w a knife trying to rob him for his bag with $15k in camera equipment, idk if he ever put any of it out

MonsieurChoc posted:

I do not know who Viper is.

Some Guy TT posted:

the trope has serious black guy dies first vibes in terms of can anyone think of any movies where this actually happened

Some Guy TT posted:

this story somehow contained more useful information about the op and the company they keep than it did explaining anything about this viper person

nonathlon posted:

Agreed. One perceptive review of Saltburn noted that it's a film by a rich person on how rich people are kinda hosed up but it's not their fault.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Movie producers basically consider movies to be assemblages of parts and don't understand the idea that they can be considered 'good' or 'bad' rather than just being assembled with the incorrect parts to unlock audiences spending billions of dollars to see them.

Isn't the joke in Beetlejuice that the ghost couple are the 'ordinary' suburbanites while Lydia's parents are weird goths who bought the house specifically because it was said to be haunted? Beetlejuice even has to teach them how to be scary ghosts because they're so comically mild-mannered.

Also makes the ending fitting and funnier when it's basically Lydia, her parents and the ghosts all agreeing to get along and cohabitate because it beats having to deal with Beetlejuice.

nonathlon posted:

Agreed. One perceptive review of Saltburn noted that it's a film by a rich person on how rich people are kinda hosed up but it's not their fault.

Eric Cantonese posted:

And the villain is ultimately the poorer outsider who is coming to take all the rich family's stuff, right?

nonathlon posted:

Exactly. Which is a strange angle to take, like an apprentice thief stealing from established thieves, and the outrage is about seniority.

Glass Onion and the like didn't go that way, but their critique - if any - is that the rich are just stupid asked oblivious. Which isn't much of a criticism but then Glass Onion isn't that deep.

nonathlon posted:

Exactly. Which is a strange angle to take, like an apprentice thief stealing from established thieves, and the outrage is about seniority.

Glass Onion and the like didn't go that way, but their critique - if any - is that the rich are just stupid asked oblivious. Which isn't much of a criticism but then Glass Onion isn't that deep.

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Star Wars and Star Trek both operate under the logic that a planet is the size of a small town at most.

War and Pieces posted:

which works perfectly for Star Wars since it's a medieval fantasy