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I'm not sure if this was already answered, but is the World War Z Unrated version worth it over WWZ:decaf? I haven't seen it at all.
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Kruller posted:I'm not sure if this was already answered, but is the World War Z Unrated version worth it over WWZ:decaf? I haven't seen it at all. Only 6 more minutes, negligible differences. I would call the unrated version a PG 13 movie still tbh. See the shorter one if you need to see it.
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Jesus there isn't enough to talk about zombies over an hour so they are talking about zombie porn. I didn't know the zombie fandom was as insufferable as the ones in the brony documentary. Is there a sonic doc incoming? Also there is a short circuit 2?! Gonna have to mail my 10 year old self.
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Jun 20, 2014 05:22
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I would kill someone for a Sonic fans doc. I'm assuming a kickstarter to make or not make a sonic documentary would make millions
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I would kill someone for a Sonic fans doc. I think the fact that there's a Brony doc and there's like 2 ICP fandom docs (one by ICP and one by someone who is not even a Juggalo) shows what a difference being hated by large amounts of people can make in a fandom. Like Sonic Fandom is huge and has been around forever, but I think most people just sort of accept it and let those people be so there's no real need by the fans to shove their fandom in others faces.
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axleblaze posted:I think the fact that there's a Brony doc and there's like 2 ICP fandom docs (one by ICP and one by someone who is not even a Juggalo) shows what a difference being hated by large amounts of people can make in a fandom. Like Sonic Fandom is huge and has been around forever, but I think most people just sort of accept it and let those people be so there's no real need by the fans to shove their fandom in others faces. A certain level of Sonic fandom can even be understood, since Sonic was a thing kids played with that is still around, and still fun to play with even when you're an adult. That doesn't excuse how far it's taken, however. Are there any good, obscure action/adventure flicks up currently? I've watched basically the first 3 rows of the action section sorted by rating, as well as the foreign action section. I just want to watch some people kick rear end. Edit: Correction, first 5 rows sorted by highest rated. I dislike Westerns, if that helps.
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Junkie Disease posted:I wanted to reach into the screen and punch the guy who called Wall-E a zombie movie in Doc of the Dead. Also Kirkmans kill count process is as lovely as I expected. Could you explain the Kirkman kill count? No way I'm watching this, especially when I saw the "from the people who brought you 'The People vs George Lucas'".
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Thank you for the nightmare fuel, Netflix.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I would kill someone for a Sonic fans doc. Some film students shot a load of footage of Sonic fan and internet superstar ulillillia. As far as I know they never got round to editing it together. e: It was 75% complete over a year ago! http://www.theplatformmaster.com/news.html
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Well as a card carrying member of the Zombie Research Society I can tell you that the humans depicted in Wall-E do indeed fit several key criteria required tofffffarttttttttttt I'm paraphrasing from poor memory but "it's not realistic in a zombie apoc unless people keep dying so if it's been a few comic or so and no ones died I'm going to kill someone I this issue then!- something like that.
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Party Boat posted:Some film students shot a load of footage of Sonic fan and internet superstar ulillillia. As far as I know they never got round to editing it together. Uli isn't really a Sonic fan in the sense of the fandom. He just likes to play around in debug mode and drown tails alot. Hell, I don't think he's played a Sonic game past Sonic and Knuckles. Also, The Platform Master will probably never get released because these guys don't know poo poo about making a good doc and from what I understand every fest they submitted it to rejected them. All you really had to do was look at the trailer to see that these guys weren't going to end up making anything that was watchable to anyone but the most dedicated Uli fan.
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I like laughing at people as much as the next guy but a Ulillia documentary would just be sad.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:I would kill someone for a Sonic fans doc. I don't think you could really make a coherent documentary about Sonic fans since there really isn't an organized fandom on the scale of bronies, juggaloes, or even the movie Troll 2 (Best Worst Movie). As far as I know, there aren't any large scale conventions or meetings for Sonic fans outside of promotional events held by SEGA. It seems like there's just a bunch of isolated weirdos on the internet who really like Sonic, but the weird Sonic fan phenomenon doesn't really bleed into real life/the general public consciousness. As to why there are so many weird Sonic fans on the internet, I have no clue.
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You could do a decent I Think We're Alone Now about Sonicophiles.
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Out of curiosity, do you think the practice of looking for "patient zero" when tracking a disease vector was invented for this movie?
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Yea patient zero is a legit term and zeke is the name for them from the book, not really trying to be cute there.
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And then Brad Pitt rides in on his zebra that escaped from the zoo popping zantac pills like some burnt out junkie
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GORDON posted:Out of curiosity, do you think the practice of looking for "patient zero" when tracking a disease vector was invented for this movie? It was coined by epidemiologists researching the spread of AIDS inside the United States because of their method for keeping track of sex partners of known patients by assigning them each numbers. Outside of that it is just pop culture vocabulary vaguely related to epidemics.
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The 30 for 30: Soccer Stories series is up. I watched the one about the Hillsborough disaster. It's great and horrible and gut-wrenching and infuriating and you should all watch it.
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RightClickSaveAs posted:Well as a card carrying member of the Zombie Research Society I can tell you that the humans depicted in Wall-E do indeed fit several key criteria required tofffffarttttttttttt On the subject of Zombies, though, would 'body snatchers' be on the opposite end of the zombie spectrum? Both of them are characterized by the idea of humans losing their humanity to an extent. One being more about humans becoming some recognizable inhuman other, the other being something inhuman becoming indistinguishable from humans. Really, I sort of wish body snatchers would become a thing in place of zombies for a while. A Body Snatchers series where the world has lost a war it didn't even know it was fighting with a really depressing state of stagnation and calm gradually overcoming the Earth over several dozen episodes could be more terrifying than gory zombies at every turn.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:You could do a decent I Think We're Alone Now about Sonicophiles. Yikes, I don't think I could stand to watch a feature length Chris Chan doc. Speaking of fandom docs I'd like to see one about Homestuck, since I legitimately have no clue what that whole thing is even about. JediTalentAgent posted:On the subject of Zombies, though, would 'body snatchers' be on the opposite end of the zombie spectrum? Both of them are characterized by the idea of humans losing their humanity to an extent. One being more about humans becoming some recognizable inhuman other, the other being something inhuman becoming indistinguishable from humans. I think the reason there aren't many films about body snatchers, dopple gangers, etc. nowadays is because a lot those stories were fueled by Cold War paranoia about espionage and the fear that 'the enemy is among us'. You'd have to find a creative way to reframe it to make it seem more relevant to today's socio-political climate. Also it'd probably be more psychological thriller than horror. Meanwhile zombies remain popular because people like to fantasize about being able to kill a bunch of other people and not feel bad about it.
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I guess you could frame it in and feed off of the social media aspect of things making people more distant from one another where we wouldn't notice a change so much in texts and emails. I could see a lot of room to move with that to an extent with the modern extreme political polarization, globalist conspiracy, tea party, Fox News, etc., for better or worse. At some level, though, I'd be sort of scared that it'd be co-opted as an actual platform for some of those groups. People going around promoting a Rick Sanchez philosophy of, "It's okay to shoot them, they're just pod people!"
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I can see "The Dark Knight Returns: Part 2", but not part 1. Is it just me? edit: wait a minute, I'm on the Swedish site for some reason. Still, why no part 1?
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:The 30 for 30: Soccer Stories series is up. I watched the one about the Hillsborough disaster. It's great and horrible and gut-wrenching and infuriating and you should all watch it. Thanks for that, watched it before the Argentina/Iran game. Holy poo poo was that infuriating. It was also a well done documentary. Gonna watch the others later.
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GORDON posted:Out of curiosity, do you think the practice of looking for "patient zero" when tracking a disease vector was invented for this movie? No, but I'm pretty sure it was on the author's mind when he wrote the book. The fact that zeke came from the book doesn't really mean much to me either. In the end it's all a pile of poo poo that's an affront to the genre in general. Yeah the military would totally refer to zombies not by an actual code name like they would in real life, they'd simply take the first letter of a word invented by pop culture then use the nato alphabet to spare them the harrowing task of using a word with more than one syllable when referring to the enemy. It's an awful movie ~about an awful book. NeoSeeker fucked around with this message at 19:36 on Jun 21, 2014 |
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NeoSeeker posted:Yeah the military would totally refer to zombies not by an actual code name like they would in real life, they'd simply take the first letter of a word invented by pop culture then use the nato alphabet to spare them the harrowing task of using a word with more than one syllable when referring to the enemy. It's an awful movie ~about an awful book. I don't give a gently caress about zombies and I've never seen this movie, but this is a super weird hill you're choosing to die on here. "Zeke" makes immediate sense to the reader/viewer and seems reasonable enough for the army to be using as slang/shorthand.
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Not for nothing were the North Vietnamese called "Charlie".
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When nothing else is reasonable that makes somewhat reasonable things okay?
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NeoSeeker posted:When nothing else is reasonable that makes somewhat reasonable things okay? Military slang is actually like that, though. See also: Tango for Target/Terrorist. The aforementioned "November Victor Charlie".
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NeoSeeker posted:When nothing else is reasonable that makes somewhat reasonable things okay? It's like the only thing you've mentioned.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Not for nothing were the North Vietnamese called "Charlie". And British and American troops in WW2 often called German troops "Jerry." There's a long, proud history of naming your enemy, and bonus points if it the name can be shouted in a hurry. "Zeke" may not be all that clever, but there's precedence to it at least.
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Sounds better and clearer in radio chatter. There's so many more legitimate gripes for that book and movie.
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And am I losing my mind or is it loving Zack in the book?
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Junkie Disease posted:I'm paraphrasing from poor memory but "it's not realistic in a zombie apoc unless people keep dying so if it's been a few comic or so and no ones died I'm going to kill someone I this issue then!- something like that.
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Watched Johnny Mnemonic last night. Haven't seen it since it came out and I was a lot younger. Holy lol is that movie bad. The casting is hilarious though with Henry Rollins, Ice-T, and others. I forgot about the dolphin at the end and it was so, so terrible.
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mod sassinator posted:Watched Johnny Mnemonic last night. Haven't seen it since it came out and I was a lot younger. Holy lol is that movie bad. The casting is hilarious though with Henry Rollins, Ice-T, and others. I forgot about the dolphin at the end and it was so, so terrible. My favorite thing about Johnny Mnemonic is the complete and blatant sexism with the translation of the Molly Millions analogue, who went from "psychotic future assassin with razor blade hands, superhuman reflexes and surgically implanted AR shades" to "has seizures at plot convenient moments"
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Anthony Bourdains Parts Unknown is excellent. Just finished watching the very melancholy Libya episode, but Myanmar is my favorite so far. As you can imagine the food is just an entry point to explore societies in transition. The editing is more documentary than reality, Bourdain is the perfect open-minded listener that travels well, and there's a beautiful optimism in each episode. Highly recommended.
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