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This explains the origins, but the question of how they become so pervasive and penetrated so deeply is still unanswered!
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Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:This explains the origins, but the question of how they become so pervasive and penetrated so deeply is still unanswered! You remember that episode of South Park where people from the future came back in time in order to get jobs? The future people were a weird shade of orange/brown and their language was some unholy mish-mash of all other languages because all culture and race had become homogenized by that point. The minions come form that future where everything is blended. They arrive as unoffensive, gender-less, bright colored blobs, effectively blank slates. And since they are blank slates, you can have them do or say anything and you absolutely believe it. Minion as a pirate? Sure. Superhero? Sure. Country Music Star. Soldier. Gang Banger. President. Cold War Era Russian Sleeper Agent. Ballerina. Klansman. You had no trouble picturing a minion dressed up as any of those things I bet. And if it looks the part, that's enough. You may not be able to picture Bart Simpson or Mickey Mouse in a turban shouting "Death to the Infidels" on a t-shirt or a facebook wall, but you can sure picture a minion doing it. Now throw that cute little guy in a firefighter costume and slap some text behind him about how 9/11 was an inside job, and you have something. I have not seen the minions movie, nor the originals they spun off from. All I know is that they are yellow, speak a mostly gibberish language and act kind of goofy. Though I think I just described a racist caricature of a Chinese person from the 50's
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Apr 24, 2017 19:30
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That's how we kill minions. Side by side comparison to old Asian stereotype propaganda in meme form. It'll put off most of the demographic, I think(hope).
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Apr 24, 2017 19:35
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They're something like that and something like old golliwog figurines. They're a racist caricature without a race, so you can have all the schadenfreude of feeling superior to a lesser people without any of the guilt that doing so might be immoral.
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Apr 24, 2017 19:42
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Big Mean Jerk posted:I just want to know how overused BABY GROOT is in the movie. Are we going to see a Minions-level oversaturation here? Yeah, also what is the Baby Groot to Drax ratio we're looking at here.
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Apr 24, 2017 20:13
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Some of the Baby Groot stuff is a little much, but it's only in it as much as anyone else is once the movie gets underway.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:07
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The "don't push the button" gag in the trailer looks exactly like a Minion gag (and about a dozen other versions of that gag). Is it actually during an important action scene or part of the opening action scene establishing the gang as still doing their thing?
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Apr 24, 2017 21:10
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I feel like I have no idea what a Minion Gag is supposed to be at this point.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:17
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ImpAtom posted:I feel like I have no idea what a Minion Gag is supposed to be at this point. meh your basic looney tunes gag i guess. jokes u see in a kid's movie with nonsense language/communication?
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Apr 24, 2017 21:20
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MacheteZombie posted:The "don't push the button" gag in the trailer looks exactly like a Minion gag (and about a dozen other versions of that gag). Is it actually during an important action scene or part of the opening action scene establishing the gang as still doing their thing? It's part of an important action scene. There's another joke like it too which I don't think they've shown which goes for way too long, if you don't like that kind of thing.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:21
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Dan Didio posted:It's part of an important action scene. There's another joke like it too which I don't think they've shown which goes for way too long, if you don't like that kind of thing. Yeah that joke in the trailer is not my thing really. Was hoping it's right before the opening title card or something.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:23
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Apr 24, 2017 21:29
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pubic works project posted:
Minions the characters in the Despicable Me franchise or Minions the weird, inexplicable Facebook meme? Because at this point, there's really not much commonality.
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Apr 24, 2017 21:31
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Aren't minions just yellow Rabbids?
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Phylodox posted:Minions the characters in the Despicable Me franchise or Minions the weird, inexplicable Facebook meme? Because at this point, there's really not much commonality. Minions the characters. My wife loves Disney/kid movies so we watch most of them. The Despicable Me/Minions movies are just so stupid and funny. They just make me laugh at how dumb they are.
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pubic works project posted:
I liked the Despicable Me movies (I haven't seen Minions) and I liked the Minions in them, but much like the Mogwai, once their population or, in this instance, saturation gets out of hand there must be culling.
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Apr 24, 2017 22:27
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ImpAtom posted:I feel like I have no idea what a Minion Gag is supposed to be at this point. Crudely drawn fanart of minions doing something uncomfortably adult and/or sexual.
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MacheteZombie posted:meh your basic looney tunes gag i guess. jokes u see in a kid's movie with nonsense language/communication? Yo you can say what you want about minions but if you badmouth Looney Tunes we're going to have some problems here
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Apr 24, 2017 22:43
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ImpAtom posted:I feel like I have no idea what a Minion Gag is supposed to be at this point. It's code for "thing I don't like", like hipster.
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Apr 25, 2017 00:02
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Jesus, by the time Phase 3 ends, Marvel will have done 22 movies.
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MacheteZombie posted:The "don't push the button" gag in the trailer looks exactly like a Minion gag (and about a dozen other versions of that gag). Is it actually during an important action scene or part of the opening action scene establishing the gang as still doing their thing? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3Igz5SfBCE&t=78s
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Apr 25, 2017 03:17
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The Kingsman sequel has a trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Nxc-3WpMbg
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Apr 25, 2017 11:07
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I don't like it that much. Lots of really rapid cuts. It made it tough for me to really hang on to anything. Still, I liked the first one a lot, so I expect I'll enjoy the sequel.
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Apr 25, 2017 12:29
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My takeaway from that is that Matthew Vaughn has something against amputees. Did someone beat him with a prosthetic arm when he was young?
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Apr 25, 2017 12:47
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twistedmentat posted:Jesus, by the time Phase 3 ends, Marvel will have done 22 movies. Are we still in phase 3? Didn't that start like 3 or 4 years ago?
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Apr 25, 2017 12:51
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Kingtheninja posted:Are we still in phase 3? Didn't that start like 3 or 4 years ago? Phase 1 was up to Avengers, Phase 2 was up to Avengers 2 (and Ant-Man), and we're in Phase 3. Although it's a completely meaningless and arbitrary naming scheme.
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Apr 25, 2017 12:54
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Yeah I think Phase 3 was supposed to end with Infinity War Parts 1&2 but now that it's just Infinity War and Untitled Avengers Film who knows.
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Apr 25, 2017 12:59
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The Russos said the movie is currently untitled because the movies aren't just part 1 and 2 so they want 2 to have its own name, Feige said the name is a secret because it's a spoiler, and Zoe Saldana referred to it as 'Gauntlet' in an interview.Phylodox posted:My takeaway from that is that Matthew Vaughn has something against amputees. Did someone beat him with a prosthetic arm when he was young? The amputee in the first movie is the coolest character.
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Apr 25, 2017 13:31
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Phylodox posted:My takeaway from that is that Matthew Vaughn has something against amputees. Did someone beat him with a prosthetic arm when he was young? Boarding school hazing is complicated okay?
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Apr 25, 2017 13:35
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Will it involve The Beyonder
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parallelodad posted:Will it involve The Beyonder
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Apr 25, 2017 13:46
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Best part is Spider-Man is around to teach him to poop. Who's disco enough to play the Beyonder though?
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Apr 25, 2017 14:46
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Mike Meyers in Austin Powers makeup. Now I know what you're thinking, he's from the 60s. But it's been almost 20 years, he'd be in the 70s by now.
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Aphrodite posted:The amputee in the first movie is the coolest character. She's in that Mummy remake this year. I wonder if that'll be any good. Probably not. We'll see. "Universal Monsters Cinematic Universe" initially fills me with optimism, which is sapped when you add "but it's set in the present day" and "and its version of Kevin Feige is Roberto Orci".
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Apr 25, 2017 19:41
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It does have sprinting Tom Cruise though
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Apr 25, 2017 19:44
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I think the last new Tom Cruise movie I saw was Knight and Day, which was a fun spy movie with Cruise playing a deranged secret agent in the first half and a boring spy movie with Cruise playing a generic secret agent in the second half.
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Apr 25, 2017 19:45
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You've missed some good poo poo
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The new Mummy looks like more of a horror jumpscare movie from the trailer I saw.
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parallelodad posted:You've missed some good poo poo I imagine I have. I'm just looking at stuff he's been in since Knight and Day came out (2010) and the main ones seem to be Rock of Ages (not really keen on hair metal), two Mission Impossibles (never really got into the series though I've heard they're good), two Jack Reachers (my dad likes the novels but I've never been into them) and Edge of Tomorrow (which I haven't seen). Aphrodite posted:The new Mummy looks like more of a horror jumpscare movie from the trailer I saw. I must have seen a different trailer, because it looked like a big action movie to me.
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You can skip Rock of Ages but the others range from pretty good to great. Especially the mission impossibles.
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