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SpacePig posted:I saw Warner Brothers property The Iron GiantTM and the DMCTM DeLoreanTM from the hit Spielberg-produced film Back to the FutureTM, both of which I am a fan of. Therefore, I will like the film Ready Player One. Will Wheaton could, and did. I made the grave error of starting the audiobook knowing nothing at all about the book other than a bunch of recommendations starting a road trip. I didn't make it very long. I don't even hate Will Wheaton or anything but he references his own loving self because the book is that awful and I'm sure someone thought that was like poetry. Him and some other nerd icon are president of the world or something.
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Entropic posted:I'll buy a drat Justice League DVD if there's a special feature that's just the whole movie but Henry Cavill has a mustache. They'll probably put a piece of green tape over it to make it easier to CG out
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Jul 25, 2017 02:59
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Age of Ultron has some serious problems but Civil War was worse, i think. All of the cramming in of MCU bullshit was really egregious in that movie. Why is Antman in the movie? Why is Spiderman in the movie? i actually liked the MCU as it was starting out. A few movies werent good but the ones I liked I really liked: the first Iron Man, the first captain america, the first Avengers, Iron Man 3, Winter Soldier, and Guardians of the Galaxy were all good. But then in 2015 it started going downhill for me. Age of Ultron was okay but I didnt enjoy it as much as the first Avengers, AntMan had some funny stuff but I dont care to see it ever again. Then in 2016 Civil War came out and wow, that was a serious drop in quality. Then Doctor strange comes out and I didnt even bother to see it and still havent. I saw Guardians of the galaxy volume 2 and liked it, and Thor Ragnarok looks like pulpy Kirbyish fun, so there's hope that Marvel can turn this around. They just got to let their individual movies be their own thing. Stop cramming in all these superheroes that dont belong.
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Jul 25, 2017 03:06
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I'm mystified by the people who say Winter Soldier is the best Captain America movie and even more mystified by the people who say Civil War was. I forgot Civil War was even supposed to be a Captain America movie half-way through watching it, I think I just defaulted to thinking it was an Avengers movie.
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Jul 25, 2017 03:09
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a bone to pick posted:drat just finished Hellboy II and I've never seen it before. It's almost like a proto-Guardians of the Galaxy, really good, they should let Guillermo do the next GotG. Hellboy II is loving awesome. Turning Jeffrey Tambor into the whipping boy instead of a bossy authority figure is great, and Seth McFarlane's turn as Klaus is one of his best comedic roles. It's pretty much what every urban fantasy aspires to be. I recently rewatched The Mask of Zorro. I miss good swashbuckler films after the Pirates movies drove the genre off the deep end.
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Jul 25, 2017 03:19
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Captain Propaganda 2: The Winter Join The Army
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Jul 25, 2017 03:50
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PostNouveau posted:I dunno why you'd do that when you can write "I watched The Goonies and I liked it!" and hey look, Steven Spielberg is here to direct it. Truly, Cline is the author that this generation deserves. 
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Jul 25, 2017 03:55
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I don't know what it is but I find Ready Player One more offensive than something like Fifty Shades of Grey, which is weird because that book is actively harmful to public perceptions of fetish lifestyles, while RP1 is just pathetic.
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khwarezm posted:One of my favorite bits of HitB is when the point out that the titular Age of Ultron is like one weekend. Thanks for making me remember what a good episode that is. Mike: Now, this is a trick question - How man infinity stones are there? Rich: Six. Mike and Jay :O :O
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Arcsquad12 posted:I don't know what it is but I find Ready Player One more offensive than something like Fifty Shades of Grey, which is weird because that book is actively harmful to public perceptions of fetish lifestyles, while RP1 is just pathetic. I haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey, but I have to imagine it doesn't have a page-long summary of all of the various pornos Christian Grey has watched, which genres he's most well versed in, and which pornstars from which era he'd most like to gently caress.
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Jul 25, 2017 04:08
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Captain America Winter soldier is definitely the best Cap movie except for maybe the ending with Bucky because he is written terribly. Refield just comes in and steals the movie whenever he shows up. The last season of Agents of Shield makes Avengers 2 suck even more poo poo. Civil War is even worse as it doesn't have any sort of cohesive message and I just found the airport fight a pointless unexciting drag.
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Jul 25, 2017 04:39
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SpacePig posted:I haven't read Fifty Shades of Grey, but I have to imagine it doesn't have a page-long summary of all of the various pornos Christian Grey has watched, which genres he's most well versed in, and which pornstars from which era he'd most like to gently caress. It has pages and pages of contracts and email chains instead. With full headers and subject line and everything.
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Jul 25, 2017 06:21
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsJU5Ebka44 hut hut hut hut hut hut hut!
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My favorite Ready Player One/Ernest Cline anecdote is during the ET Atari documentary, the film diverges from he main topic to include him for some reason. He shows up in a DeLorean and his whole take on the thing is "this is like if Indiana Jones teamed up with Doc Brown to go on a treasure hunt in Westeros". He cannot turn it off. He is an absurd troper robot and he cannot turn it off.
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Jul 25, 2017 07:21
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Jonas Albrecht posted:My favorite Ready Player One/Ernest Cline anecdote is during the ET Atari documentary, the film diverges from he main topic to include him for some reason. He shows up in a DeLorean and his whole take on the thing is "this is like if Indiana Jones teamed up with Doc Brown to go on a treasure hunt in Westeros". So we finally have the answer to "What if a TV Troper actually wrote something?"
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Jul 25, 2017 07:24
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Jonas Albrecht posted:My favorite Ready Player One/Ernest Cline anecdote is during the ET Atari documentary, the film diverges from he main topic to include him for some reason. He shows up in a DeLorean and his whole take on the thing is "this is like if Indiana Jones teamed up with Doc Brown to go on a treasure hunt in Westeros". Not to mention that he was big on how the game was actually some kind of "lost classic" instead of a nearly-unplayable piece of poo poo. Then there's the absolute hell that is his first film: Fanboys. Watch the clip on the film's IMDB page, ye mighty, and despair.
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Jul 25, 2017 07:28
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LanceHunter posted:Not to mention that he was big on how the game was actually some kind of "lost classic" instead of a nearly-unplayable piece of poo poo. I thought that was the worst part of the doc. Trying to rehabilitate the image of the video game so bad it was returned in droves.
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Jul 25, 2017 07:30
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LanceHunter posted:Not to mention that he was big on how the game was actually some kind of "lost classic" instead of a nearly-unplayable piece of poo poo. Oh goddammit http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0489049/videoplayer/vi1462960921?ref_=tt_ov_vi
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Jul 25, 2017 07:31
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Arcsquad12 posted:that book is actively harmful to public perceptions of fetish lifestyles
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fet bros kinks make me sack a barf
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LanceHunter posted:Not to mention that he was big on how the game was actually some kind of "lost classic" instead of a nearly-unplayable piece of poo poo. There should be a CineD for video games. You see, 2-bit tiny pixel ET actually represents our subconscious insecurities of being the outsider and 
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Jul 25, 2017 09:18
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50 Shades of Grey did make me want to physically harm people who are into BDSM, but I know not to give the the pleasure.
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Entropic posted:I'm mystified by the people who say Winter Soldier is the best Captain America movie and even more mystified by the people who say Civil War was. I forgot Civil War was even supposed to be a Captain America movie half-way through watching it, I think I just defaulted to thinking it was an Avengers movie.
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khwarezm posted:One of my favorite bits of HitB is when the point out that the titular Age of Ultron is like one weekend. Rewatching this now because why not, and I never noticed how ropey the greenscreen at the start was 
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Jul 25, 2017 13:08
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I can't believe I've never heard of how terrible that Ready Player One book is until now. I was looking through the selected quotes on goodreads and my nose started bleeding.quote:“You’re evil, you know that?” I said. quote:“Dilettantes,’ Art3mis said. ‘It’s their own fault for not knowing all the Schoolhouse Rock! lyrics by heart.” quote:“Widespread famine, poverty, and disease. Half a dozen wars. You know: “dogs and cats living together … mass hysteria!” It's like a fedora that got struck by lightning wrote a book.
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Old Story posted:RP1 is the worst nerd crime against literature since John Dies at the End Does it maybe end with the protagonist realizing he's wasting his life wallowing in worthless garbage and committing to actually doing something meaningful irl?
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Jul 25, 2017 15:14
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Where the hell are my Star Wars references? I WANT STAR WARS! I loving LOVE STAR WARS!
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Jul 25, 2017 15:16
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joedevola posted:It's like a fedora that got struck by lightning wrote a book.
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if my dad made movies like batman vs superman i'd kill myself too
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PostNouveau posted:Oh goddammit I kind of forgot about the year or so that Dan Fogler was a poverty Jack Black, right before the entire Jack Black market collapsed.
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joedevola posted:It's like a fedora that got struck by lightning wrote a book. It's like Bill Simmons if his dad didn't make him watch sports.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:23
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It's as if Captain Harriman made a porn comic about Lyta Alexander.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:27
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Paladinus posted:Where the hell are my Star Wars references? I WANT STAR WARS! I loving LOVE STAR WARS! Star Wars references cost a lot of money. Cheaper just to reference Sony and WB things.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:27
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LanceHunter posted:Truly, Cline is the author that this generation deserves. For years I have been saying we need to bring back bullying nerds. Now it's too late. Now we have to start killing them.
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Jul 25, 2017 15:36
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A GLISTENING HODOR posted:For years I have been saying we need to bring back bullying nerds. Please don't kill all nerds. I am a nerd and even I am disgusted by Ernest Cline. #notallnerds
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Jul 25, 2017 15:44
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all nerds must die
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but first their favorite childhood movies must be remade into films whose marketing schemes showcase hot topic social issues
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Hell Yeah posted:all nerds must die  
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General Dog posted:I kind of forgot about the year or so that Dan Fogler was a poverty Jack Black, right before the entire Jack Black market collapsed. The Jack Black market didn't collapse, he's still in stuff, he's in the upcoming Jumanji remake.
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