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well why not posted:jokes aside, I can't wait to see what Taika Waititi does next. If Ragnarok is nearly as good as it looks in the promo materials, dude should have a blank cheque for his next project. I'm excited for one of these movies to actually be funny too. I was so ready to walk away from the Thor movies for good, the first was forgettable at best and the second was boring garbage. They're ugly as hell to watch too. So of course they had to hire Taika to direct just to drag me back in.
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Gatts posted:The MGS series was already like movies. Adapt them into stage shows on Broadway. Now that'd be entertaining. poo poo, you could take "Who Am I" from Les Miserables, switch just a few of the lyrics and apply it to the ending twist of The Phantom Pain. There's your Act 1 closing number.
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Snowman_McK posted:I'll save you the suspense. It won't. It'll be fine, servicable even. And will provoke a positive shrug. It isn't like the promo materials are making it look like an oscar winner...
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Electromax posted:It isn't like the promo materials are making it look like an oscar winner... No, it looks much better than Suicide Squad.
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Rick posted:I'm more interested in seeing a MGS movie than another Star Wars movie, which isn't a diss Star Wars, it's just that it's been done. Adapting Kojima to film is something I'd really like to see. MGS is also far more revelevant to our terrible 2017 reality. Kojima called out meme society, information control, America as a war economy, etc a decade before it all went mainstream. Good luck keeping any of that intact and not repeating a bland Ghost in the Shell missed opportunity though.
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At least characters like Snake are canonically white so he theoretically can't be white washed.
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Thundercracker posted:MGS is also far more revelevant to our terrible 2017 reality. Kojima called out meme society, information control, America as a war economy, etc a decade before it all went mainstream. This for sure. Even MGS4 was outdated when it was new because it was just "what if instead of armies governments hired.mercenaries who gave no fucks because they work for uncaring corporations and there was a war economy?" I know the games take time to make but this was in 2008. To me the best Metal Gear movie would be something like The Raid or Dredd. Like just combine the major characters/story of Metal Gear and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake into one badass action movie where Snake sneaks and battles through a small number of locations as he's lead on, betrayed by, and then hunts down and kills Big Boss. Neo Rasa fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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I have this image of Solid Snake with a spotlight on him as he sings a monologue about his existence and nature of love and war and there's a cardboard box next to him ....
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Sep 6, 2017 18:17
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It'll be like Bronson except with sneaking instead of incarceration.
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Al Borland Corp. posted:At least characters like Snake are canonically white so he theoretically can't be white washed. Dude was born from a Japanese mother though poo poo wait no, he was born from EVA who was nebulously either Chinese made to look western or just a western Chinese spy but like they implanted a Japanese lady egg in her and the game made sure to let you know about that
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Calaveron posted:Dude was born from a Japanese mother though Surrogate mother, she shares no dna with him. He's a clone of an American Korean war vet.
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Thundercracker posted:MGS is also far more revelevant to our terrible 2017 reality. Kojima called out meme society, information control, America as a war economy, etc a decade before it all went mainstream.
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Neo Rasa posted:
This is actually what I wanted from Ghost in the Shell. Instead of trying to recapture the glory of the original, just tell a discreet story. The second animated movie basically did that. It would've been unrealistic to ask, but I would've loved if they adapted Stand Along Complex season 2. Which was all about bad agents in the govt manipulating a burgeoning refugee crisis to destabilize the country and seize power. Ending in a loose nuclear weapon standoff sucking in other world powers into the conflict. Just play that straight with no origin story on the major. It would even work as a "24" style one single crazy day plot. Thundercracker fucked around with this message at 19:14 on Sep 6, 2017 |
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well why not posted:jokes aside, I can't wait to see what Taika Waititi does next. It's the We're Wolves sequel to What We Do in the Shadows, isn't it?
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Chairman Capone posted:It's the We're Wolves sequel to What We Do in the Shadows, isn't it? 
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Neo Rasa posted:This for sure. Even MGS4 was outdated when it was new because it was just "what if instead of armies governments hired.mercenaries who gave no fucks because they work for uncaring corporations and there was a war economy?" I know the games take time to make but this was in 2008. Agreed, with a remix of the original theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpIjT-LhNwg
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Chairman Capone posted:It's the We're Wolves sequel to What We Do in the Shadows, isn't it? Last I heard he and Jermaine Clement were going to do a series about the cops from What We Do in the Shadows.
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Neo Rasa posted:This is idiotic but a massive improvement for Disney, who gave us a Prince of Persia movie where basically the entire cast was white except for Ben Kingsley who is half Indian. Still too idiotic for me to ever see the movie though. How dare they cast white people to play white people, this shall not stand.
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Byzantine posted:How dare they cast white people to play white people, this shall not stand. aside from a small subset of American Persians who are basically weird crypto-fascists, most Persians get insanely pissed whenever someone refers to them as white.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:aside from a small subset of American Persians who are basically weird crypto-fascists, most Persians get insanely pissed whenever someone refers to them as white. Or Arabs.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:aside from a small subset of American Persians who are basically weird crypto-fascists, most Persians get insanely pissed whenever someone refers to them as white. Well I mean they aren't white so yeah I would be insulted too
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How the hell are they not white, just look at them. They're as white as the Greeks.
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Irish weren't considered white until pretty recently.
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Just got out of a 70mm showing of Vertigo, man I wish they still made movies like that. Phenomenal.
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Byzantine posted:How the hell are they not white, just look at them. They're as white as the Greeks. Greeks aren't white. "white" doesn't actually exist except as a tactic of social control
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I'd love to tell some Golden Dawn idiots that I don't consider them white.
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Byzantine posted:How the hell are they not white, just look at them. They're as white as the Greeks. got any sevens posted:Just got out of a 70mm showing of Vertigo, man I wish they still made movies like that. Phenomenal. I'm jealous! I saw a digital print in the theater but it was on a smaller screen (although still amazing).
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Greeks aren't white. Da, tovarishch.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:aside from a small subset of American Persians who are basically weird crypto-fascists, most Persians get insanely pissed whenever someone refers to them as white. Specifically in the U.S., historically, middle eastern peoples - particularly Persians, Pakistanis, and Egyptians - identified themselves as white in order to work around the country's racist socioeconomic system. Many non-white European peoples participated in roughly the same cultural and political movements, but the key difference being that for them, the investment in whiteness and its socioeconomic benefits was permanent; whereas second- and third-generation Persians et al. now find themselves in the predicament of facing anti-Arab/Muslim hostility and not being able to claim legal minority status or specific protections for it. Added to that, if you're a Muslim, you have an entrenched orthodoxy which rejects both concepts of race and government dependence. Hisham Aidi gets into it in Rebel Music, which is where I first learned of it, but I'm sure other literature goes over it at a much more comprehensive level.
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got any sevens posted:Just got out of a 70mm showing of Vertigo, man I wish they still made movies like that. Phenomenal.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That's oddly vague. As someone who watched Kimba the White Lion a lot on TV as kid, it was supremely odd to see The Lion King in cinema, which was very similar in many parts, only with a lot more songs, simplified story and a crappier main character. My first encounter with the Hollywood adaption process. But to be honest, outside from the premise (orphan Lion cub as main protagonist trying to lead) and several scenes that are basically 1:1 taken from the Anime it wasn't very similar at all. Kimba grew up around humans and humans play a major role in the series.
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Coaaab posted:Saw it a few years ago, the thing I'm gonna remember from that showing was the grain and glossiness of the wooden furniture in Elster's home. What i'll remember most is the audience laughing at the dated misogynistic scenes, like when Scotty is ordering women around
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fatherboxx posted:https://twitter.com/TaikaWaititi/status/905245458209038336 Taika loving rules, I'll fight you
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Detective No. 27 posted:Irish weren't considered white until pretty recently. Not even loving addressing this dumb poo poo.
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Detective No. 27 posted:Irish weren't considered white until pretty recently. According to Richard Spencer, it all hinged on the McGregor/Mayweather fight. So, sadly for the Irish, they're still not white, according to noted moral and cultural compass Richard 'got punched in the face and it was awesome' Spencer raditts posted:Taika loving rules, I'll fight you Hey, serfs can do great things. Didn't you see Braveheart? Snowman_McK fucked around with this message at 09:35 on Sep 7, 2017 |
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Skwirl posted:Not even loving addressing this dumb poo poo. The Irish in America held a very similar position in the hierarchy as Latinos do now. They were the scary papists who were obviously all a bunch of violent thieves, lazy drunks, and short tempered troublemakers that should just move back home if they hate America so much. In British texta from the 17th century they were frequently compared to "Wild Injuns" and "Mad Arabs" and one theory was that they were Phoenicians or Scythians ("orientals") that had traveled to Ireland in antiquity and killed all the British natives living there and thus had no claim to the land. They were also thought to literally worship the moon and have dog-like tails.
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White people are a social construct invented to justify the horrors of colonialism. Who is or isn't white is completely arbitrary.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The Irish in America held a very similar position in the hierarchy as Latinos do now. They were the scary papists who were obviously all a bunch of violent thieves, lazy drunks, and short tempered troublemakers that should just move back home if they hate America so much. Thats just typical Catholic behavior.
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