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Jonathan Fisk posted:There are like two living heroes in dcu right now, and neither would be inclined to be a hit squad to cover up a government plan to create a safeguard against themselves. Are you the same person who keeps mocking me for taking fictional universes seriously? You're invoking an in-universe explanation for a storytelling choice. They introduced a bunch of villains in the movie. No reason that couldn't be good guys instead.
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the only superhero movies that really work for me are those that embrace another genre as a whole, with the boyfights element as a backdrop. of course i love to see strong sweet boys in nice outfights wrestle to see who is strongest, but it doesn't hold my attention when that's all that's at play.
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Pinterest Mom posted:Are you the same person who keeps mocking me for taking fictional universes seriously? You're invoking an in-universe explanation for a storytelling choice. No, I mock you applying real life political expectations to a world where the head of the military is a crazy immortal goblin man who wants to invade Asgard
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Oct 7, 2016 19:26
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Further, the fact that there aren't enough human heroes to protect against alien threat on record serves as the primary motivation for assembling whoever exists even if they're crazy villains
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Oct 7, 2016 19:28
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BottleKnight posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMNFaAUs2mo Is that chick wearing fake glasses?
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Pinterest Mom posted:They introduced a bunch of villains in the movie. No reason that couldn't be good guys instead.  Mr. F! posted:Is that chick wearing fake glasses? Probably? edit: EccoRaven posted:the bob says that the extended cut of BvS is actually really good. I'm actually sad I got the regular blu-ray of the ultimate edition now that I have a 4k blu-ray player. But there's no way I'm paying 30$ for the same movie again.
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Oct 7, 2016 19:50
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Again, it's explicitly stated in the movie why that isn't the case, even beyond the common sense aspect
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Oct 7, 2016 19:56
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Suicide Squad was bad mainly because there was a horrible sepia filter over everything.
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BottleKnight posted:Probably? Millennials  smh
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Oct 7, 2016 20:16
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Mafia opinion question: What is the dividing line between 'mini' games and 'large' games? (I was looking at the completed game list earlier and trying to figure out where a 15-player game would fit in.)
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Oct 7, 2016 20:21
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Dumb action films should really stick to a very simple premise if they want to be successful. If characters need to explain things for more than like, 10 seconds then someone on the writing team hosed up. Snow Piercer was iffy in terms of quality, but at least the premise was easy to grasp. John Wick was super duper stupid but "Man gets revenge for jerks killing his puppy" is pretty easy to follow as well. Same with The Raid. Cops get to top of tower. End of story.
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Oct 7, 2016 20:25
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Max posted:Dumb action films should really stick to a very simple premise if they want to be successful. If characters need to explain things for more than like, 10 seconds then someone on the writing team hosed up. Die hard is one of the best action movies ever and it's very simple
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Podima posted:Mafia opinion question: What is the dividing line between 'mini' games and 'large' games? (I was looking at the completed game list earlier and trying to figure out where a 15-player game would fit in.) 13 and below is mini, 15 and above is large. 14 is an undefined, in-between, lawless region of chaos.
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Oct 7, 2016 20:33
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14 is generally not a good number to run a game with.
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Mr. F! posted:Die hard is one of the best action movies ever and it's very simple Yes it's quite good.
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BottleKnight posted:13 and below is mini, 15 and above is large. 14 is an undefined, in-between, lawless region of chaos. 13 and below is mini, above 15 is large, 14 and 15 are usually considered mini. it doesn't matter anymore, though, since the queue died.
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EccoRaven posted:13 and below is mini, above 15 is large, 14 and 15 are usually considered mini. #TeamQueue
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Oct 7, 2016 20:52
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Jonathan Fisk posted:It's a light, entertaining ensemble action flick that suffers from trying to do too much. A lot more forgivable than say bvs or age of ultron we can agree on this
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Oct 7, 2016 21:11
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suicide squad shows that sometimes the most radical thing you can do is to follow the rules
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Oct 7, 2016 22:05
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Wtf the panthers are so stupid. Why am I a fan of theirs
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TMMadman posted:Age of Ultron was bad? Yeah it's pretty bad. Like I mean it's still entertaining and poo poo if you like superheroes, it's just not a good movie, Most Marvel movies are shot really poorly. Even as "comic book movies" they tend to fail in fully utilizing the superhero iconography and imagery. There are some exceptions like a few of the iron man movies and the first two Captain America ones. But like I like watching these guys i like fight bad guys I also like. so whatever
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Oct 7, 2016 23:30
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Age of Ultron also has way more other issues that don't pop up in the other ones. That movie is a mess.
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Is there a term you for things you think are bad in form and fail as a piece of work in that media, but you still think succeeds as entertainment and doesn't fall into guilty pleasure territory? Because I feel like that for a lot of things.
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Snooze Cruise posted:Is there a term you for things you think are bad in form and fail as a piece of work in that media, but you still think succeeds as entertainment and doesn't fall into guilty pleasure territory? Snooze Cruises
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Snooze Cruise posted:Is there a term you for things you think are bad in form and fail as a piece of work in that media, but you still think succeeds as entertainment and doesn't fall into guilty pleasure territory? "Entertainment"
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Retro Futurist posted:"Entertainment" Wanna co-mod a wifoa with me?
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Retro Futurist posted:"Entertainment" that is too chunky and can refer to sports and activities, try again
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Snooze Cruise posted:Is there a term you for things you think are bad in form and fail as a piece of work in that media, but you still think succeeds as entertainment and doesn't fall into guilty pleasure territory? "I am utterly anhedonic"
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because I like things I don't actually like things, make sense
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Mafia thread, I own the shirt Zeke wears on Survivor. Not like, the actual shirt, but I guess we have the same fashion sense.
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Snooze Cruise posted:because I like things I don't actually like things, make sense You're right, it was a cheap and illogical crack. I just think you're overthinking it. It doesn't fail as a piece of media if it succeeds as entertainment. The point of media and entertainment is to be critically acclaimed only as a means to get viewers to get money. So your definition doesn't make sense, because you can't fail as media but succeed as entertainment.
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What I'm saying is that it fails the form of media, not being media itself though? Does that make sense
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Snooze Cruise posted:What I'm saying is that it fails the form of media, not being media itself though? Does that make sense You mean things that are objectively bad but are entertaining anyways?
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Mr. F! posted:You mean things that are objectively bad but are entertaining anyways? That's a guilty pleasure, which she said she isn't talking about. So I don't know what niche is being identified here!
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I dunno I might be crazy
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I got good news today. My gma woke up in the hospital. Really really surprising.
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Oct 8, 2016 00:22
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I think she means things that are bad at being a specific kind of entertainment by whatever definitions you have of that form of media, but are still entertaining so you don't really call them bad. Arguably walking simulators may fall into this category.
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Mr. F! posted:I got good news today. My gma woke up in the hospital. Really really surprising. Great! I'm glad to hear it.
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I feel like there are just things I enjoy that don't fall into guilty pleasure but still gently caress up a lot of things and I wouldn't call it a good movie or whatever, just a good thing.
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