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...of SCIENCE! posted:It slays me to see people bitch about superhero movies being dumb and then in the next sentence miss basic loving plot points like this, to say nothing of all the people who hated Iron Man 3 because all the stuff with the suits was "unrealistic" even though the symbolism and thematic importance was literally spelled out for you multiple times. Because I take bait: A middle part with a connect the dots mystery and a kid? They made it out like it was a major struggle with him in the snow and living in a barn and there was really no weight to it considering his whole fleet was operational. Also there was a dumb kid. The character arc was the same as Iron man 2: I need things (drugs, self pity, powerful robots)! Oh not really I just need you underwritten mildly supporting character pepper pots. Maybe I'm wrong I dunno superheroes seems dumb to me. Having said all this I know what its like when someone on the internet shits on things i like and gently caress those guys.
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Fooz posted:Because I take bait: They cut to his house like 4 times showing the huge amount of rubble that's being removed from his armory's doors.
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Wow, I can't believe how thoroughly you missed the point of that movie.Rapey Joe Stalin posted:Dark Knight Rises was a good film with an abhorrent message. TDKR is at best competent but it has some of the worst, most confused thematic work I've ever seen. I have no idea what the writers thought the thesis of that movie was, especially in relation to its prequels, which it seems to go out of its way to contradict in message. And what little manages to slip through is just atrocious; for as much as CineD likes to circlejerk about how fascist The Avengers is (and it's really not), The Dark Knight Rises is a thousand times worse and more overt. It also manages to ruin its central villain, by far the most interesting thing about the entire movie, through a really stupid plot twist. Arist fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Fooz posted:Do people have no limit to the amount of superhero content they're willing to consume? Three Iron Mans, two thors, two captain I don't have a limit.
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My limit is your mom. In TV news, I've started watching Da Vinci's Daemons. Only two episodes in so far but it's watchable enough. Lovely Joe Stalin fucked around with this message at 01:42 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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I always try to push it to the limit. I walk along the razor's edge, but I don't look down, I just keep my head. Or i'd be finished.
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Fooz posted:Because I take bait: You're definitely wrong about Iron Man 3 which is not only good but is an actual legitimate movie (not just a superhero commercial or whatever) with a great script by Shane Black.
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achillesforever6 posted:Really if we are going by Greek Mythology, it would be Heracles, Jason and the Argonauts was also the first superhero crossover event which then led to the Seven Against Thebes (which had a sequel in the lost epic the Epigoni War) and then that led to the Trojan Cycle I don't know how I forgot about Heracles. muscles like this? posted:Gilgamesh was basically a superhero. I'd say Gilgamesh was more of an anti-hero. He'd rape women, when he wasn't sucking Enkidu's dick.
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So the creators of the SHIELD tv show made 17 hours of boring, mediocre, uninspired television on purpose because it was all a lead up to the second Captain America movie. That's some long-term planning right there.
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Seams posted:So the creators of the SHIELD tv show made 17 hours of boring, mediocre, uninspired television on purpose because it was all a lead up to the second Captain America movie. That's some long-term planning right there. Not only that, but they also completely failed to foreshadow important plot twists despite knowing well in advance where the story would go.
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But remember, we're not allowed to complain about that stuff because we're just whiny nerds. So sayeth the lead on SHIELD.
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MrAristocrates posted:for as much as CineD likes to circlejerk about how fascist The Avengers is (and it's really not) TVIV does the same thing with Agents of SHIELD and how it kept pushing the idea that what SHIELD was doing was all correct and right. All of this of course has built up to Winter Soldier. Edit: Just got to the posts above mine. I didn't think the whole show was boring, and I think some points could maybe be foreshadowing on a second watch? I mean opinions are opinions but the whole show wasn't a waste up to this point. Olibu fucked around with this message at 04:38 on Apr 10, 2014 |
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Mo0 posted:But remember, we're not allowed to complain about that stuff because we're just whiny nerds. So sayeth the lead on SHIELD. To be fair, he didn't say you weren't allowed to complain, he just called you losers for complaining.
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You are losers for complaining, because you chose to invest your time in the show that was obviously terrible from episode 1.
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DivisionPost posted:Well, I don't know what any of that has to do with the actress who plays Shae on GoT (that's who they were arguing about, right?), but I guess if you need to make a statement... Oh right quoting this from several pages back but Wolf Among Us is good especially with the most recent episode but The Walking Dead season 2 has been high loving art. No joke I really wish I could make a Telltale thread here because I have some poo poo I wanna say about the themes present in TWD season 2
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Also just want to point this out: Book barn has the bad thread TVIV has the GoT thread which is basically bad thread: whiny spergs edition Whenever telltale comes out with their got game season Games is gonna have bad thread: angry console warrior douche edition 3 separate subforums that will have their own version of a bad thread, simultaneously God I hope there's a GoT movie so we can have bad thread: wordy pretentious rear end in a top hat edition
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Apr 10, 2014 05:47
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No version could be worse than a CD version
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You all know you want SMG to weigh in heavily on Game of Thrones.
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SMG is far from the worst poster in Cinema Discusso.
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True, but he also lights a flame under everyone else's rear end.
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scary ghost dog posted:Not his fault the posters there are flash paper. SMG is one of the most-blocked users on the forum because he writes funny movie reviews.
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Oh good, SMG chat is leaking into other forums. I love reading SMG posts, but if everyone else could just get over the fact that a guy on the internet has different opinions about movies, that would be swell.
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Aphrodite posted:They're not his real opinions. Wouldn't that make what he posts matter even less?
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CPFortest posted:Wouldn't that make what he posts matter even less? You'd think so, but the fact they're manufactured makes them feel the need to argue harder.
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Aphrodite posted:You'd think so, but the fact they're manufactured makes them feel the need to argue harder. Gotta love the internet At any rate, as much as I love talking about Something Awful posting culture, I feel it's more interesting to talk about the fact that Michael Chiklis is going to be on American Horror Story next year and how loving funny that is.
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CPFortest posted:Gotta love the internet Man if there ever was a more American horror story it'd be the shield I really wish there was an emoticon that combined  and  for posts like that one
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Caught the rerun of The Middle with Keegan-Michael Key from Key and Peele as a minister. It was great.Postal Parcel posted:
Joramun posted:One of the best TV dramas of all time (Person of Interest) airs on Tuesdays. If at this point you're still not watching that, you have only yourself to blame. Fooz posted:No way to catch up! PittTheElder posted:Exactly how I feel. Work took us to Iron Man 3, and the only thing I remember is people turning into melty fire guys, and then having a fight with lots of Iron Mans. And that the President was also in an Iron Man suit at one point. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE_T4eAzuA4&t=21s Aphrodite posted:Cap 2 didn't do anything to direct people to Agents of SHIELD, so I'm not surprised there wasn't a bump. VDay posted:Not too surprising to see the ratings continue to sink considering that the show went off the air for like a month just to line up with TWS, only to not really have any kind of marketing push for it once TWS actually came out. The last couple of episodes have been really good, but the show still has to prove that it can carry the TWS momentum by itself before I actually recommend it to people. I mean, even the episodes right before these last two were preeeeetty dumb I thought, so it's not like there's been a steady improvement since Day 1 or anything like that. And it still doesn't excuse the fact that this show has been on the air for like 7 months and is just now getting interesting.
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Austrian mook posted:I wish Avengers came out when I was 8. It's all about suspending the cynicism and embracing the shininess and the pew-pew. Let fun poo poo be fun, gently caress it!
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Don't you really mean you wish you were eight years old?
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So how much are people loosing their poo poo about the Game of Thrones spoiler in the FYAD header?
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scary ghost dog posted:Don't you really mean you wish you were eight years old? Probably? Being 8 was a good time, no bills to pay, no romance to fret about, no job. 
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PriorMarcus posted:So how much are people loosing their poo poo about the Game of Thrones spoiler in the FYAD header? Probably nobody, because everyone was already spoiled by the two dozen other ways that stuff was already posted in some way on SA. Read the books, don't get hit by ambush-spoilers then and bitch with us for years how lovely GRRM is and how much we hate him until we buy his next book and read it in less than a day.
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