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Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

Victory Position posted:

look, the guy can eat like eight dozen eggs, cut him some slack

gaston was so weird in that movie its like they wanted to make him a sympathetic character but then kept half assing it because they didnt want to change his overall role in the story

meanwhile beast is a total douchebag who literally negs belle but somehow the movie is feminist because they added in a scene where some evil man says girls dont deserve to read and also emma watson nobly refused to wear a corset

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01011001
Dec 26, 2012

Shear Modulus posted:

the han solo movie did embarassingly bad

i didnt see it but the trailers looked like it would suck and the release was so perfunctory you think disney realized they had a turd

there were stories coming out of it that the guy playing han basically had to be taught to act and it had to get re-edited or re-directed or some poo poo

they knew they had a turd for sure

Nanomashoes
Aug 18, 2012

Solo was this but not a joke:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YAclFXGGpM

Some Guy TT
Aug 30, 2011

whoa there smart guys if solos so bad how come rotten tomatoes gave it a seventy percent fresh rating and describes it as a flawed yet fun and fast paced space adventure

i remember seeing the solo poster in theaters and finding it funny how it made it look like donald glover was the main character because he's front and center with a smug impression and a gaudy costume while everyone else is doing their best to look generic and boring

Brother Entropy
Dec 27, 2009

01011001 posted:

there were stories coming out of it that the guy playing han basically had to be taught to act and it had to get re-edited or re-directed or some poo poo

they knew they had a turd for sure

those stories were very blatantly disney trying to do damage control, blaming the actors and lord & miller and basically anyone except the studio itself for mishandling the whole situation

watch hail casear sometime, the actor they got for young solo was definitely not the problem there

The Cameo
Jan 20, 2005


01011001 posted:

there were stories coming out of it that the guy playing han basically had to be taught to act and it had to get re-edited or re-directed or some poo poo

they knew they had a turd for sure

The series of events was such:
    Disney/Lucasfilm hire Lord & Miller, comedy-action/animation directors who were coming off of 22 Jump Street and The LEGO Movie, to make SOLO off a Lawrence Kasdan co-written script (I think with his kid? Not the one who did Orange County, the other one)
    L&M start making the movie
    Kasdan gets very angry when after several check-ins on set (as an executive producer), they're doing a riff-heavy, sillier take on the material.
    Kasdan goes to Kathleen Kennedy and the Lucasfilm board, complains very thoroughly that they're somehow going to ruin the character by it coming out in their style
    Kennedy fires L&M off of this
    Lucasfilm tries to find replacements, almost no one will sign on because what the gently caress
    Ron Howard signs on
    Disney disseminates the "Lord & Miller have been fired" stories into the trades, filled chock-a-block with a lot of character assassination, including for no apparent reason, the star of the motion picture
    Disney makes the movie they want, realizes it's about as mediocre as you can get and doomed because all anyone remembers about the movie is "Disney got very fussy about it and fired the directors", and makes it the quietest Star Wars release since that animated Clone Wars thing that came out in like 2009.

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeK10F6iA8E

KillerQueen
Jul 13, 2010

> C-SPAM: it means "central spam" > woke #brands: i dont have enough hands to hold all these STAR WARS

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder
frame 1: *princess leia* aren't you a little short for a storm trooper?
frame 2: *ben shapiro in germany army uniform*

Themage
Jul 21, 2010

by Nyc_Tattoo
the prequels own

super sweet best pal
Nov 18, 2009

Themage posted:

the prequels own

No but they're more interesting to talk about than the sequels.

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon

super sweet best pal posted:

No but they're more interesting to talk about than the sequels.

Agreed

Kurtofan
Feb 16, 2011

hon hon hon
Speaking of dumd disney mivies, lol at dumbo

Toplowtech
Aug 31, 2004

Kurtofan posted:

Speaking of dumd disney mivies, lol at dumbo
Can't wait for the Aristocat remake. :shobon:

Terror Sweat
Mar 15, 2009


Making everyone think a bad actor is actually a good actor just pretending to be a bad actor is a hilarious prank by the Coens

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend
Remember A Wrinkle in Time lol

Time: Why the A Wrinkle in Time Movie Will Change Hollywood

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde

R. Guyovich posted:

list of interesting things set up in tfa:

1.

c-3po's red arm

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

c-3po's red arm

he was marked as a class traitor during the robot uprising

the robot uprising is not discussed because the sequels follow bougie aristocrats and ancap/rightlibts fighting reactionary fascists for scraps in their remote former colonial holdings while the robot socialist utopia reigns peacefully in the rest of the galaxy

also why r2d2 turned himself off because he couldnt live with knowing what a murderous collaborator he was

DONT THREAD ON ME
Oct 1, 2002

by Nyc_Tattoo
Floss Finder

jesus

H.P. Hovercraft
Jan 12, 2004

one thing a computer can do that most humans can't is be sealed up in a cardboard box and sit in a warehouse
Slippery Tilde
more in woke star wars

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/941808561453010944

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/941809620036722688

https://twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/813701654327410689

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004


otoh this seemed at the time like drumpf level dumb woke finger wagging

otoh the prequels are just as plainly all about why the jedi are faux-progressive feckless ineffectual leaders who blindly believe in their elite wisdom and bray about balance and order while in reality being dumb pawns of economic interests and blind to just about every injustice in the galaxy, and progress can only come by them and the entire apparatus of their existence being ruthlessly slaughtered

Maximo Roboto
Feb 4, 2012


if it had done well Oprah would be Democratic frontrunner now

Equeen
Oct 29, 2011

Pole dance~

i remember film critics reluctantly giving it bad reviews because it was a disney movie directed by a black woman

edit: it ticked all of the boxes of a genuinely progressive movie except good execution lol

General Dog
Apr 26, 2008

Everybody's working for the weekend

Equeen posted:

i remember film critics reluctantly giving it bad reviews because it was a disney movie directed by a black woman

edit: it ticked all of the boxes of a genuinely progressive movie except good execution lol

Yeah I never saw it, but it seems like it would have to have been really bad not to get the benefit of the doubt.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

quote:

How could an individual in this freezing weather, the tweet suggested, be drinking an iced coffee? It’s obvious, people responded: He’s gay.

https://www.gq.com/story/iced-coffee-gay-rights

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

quote:

One of the earliest examples of the gay community’s deep relationship with iced coffee comes from a 2001 episode of Will & Grace.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

quote:

Indeed, according to former BuzzFeed writer Sam Stryker, who once wrote a post for the site titled “This Post Will Only Make Sense If You're Gay And Love Iced Coffee,” there’s a countercultural element to iced coffee’s popularity with the gays.

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

quote:

For Sam, iced versus hot coffee is the perfect symbolism between queer and straight culture. Essentially, iced coffee has become a queer avatar, and a way for gay people to signpost themselves against the uniformity of heterosexuality.

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004


lol

larper
Apr 9, 2019

lmfao

larper
Apr 9, 2019
Signposting myself against unfiorm outgroups via my beverage choices

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

quote:

That these drinks hold a higher price tag certainly fits in with Dr. Bengry’s assertion that extravagance is considered feminine. But more importantly, they are quite literally weaker than normal coffee. Of course, as we know strength, be it muscular or in this case caffeinated, is closely associated with masculinity, while weakness of any kind is inherently feminine. These patriarchal binaries are pervasive, infecting every aspect of society. It makes sense, then, that iced coffee, with its lackluster caffeine content, would be the antithesis to the strength and virility of normal, heterosexual coffee.

Breakfast All Day
Oct 21, 2004

my local coffee shop has the iced coffee carafe on a separate, smaller counter and im going to tell them this jim crow fountain segregation wont stand

also that im gay now apparently

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

aaaaAAAAAAAAAAaaaa

an actual dog
Nov 18, 2014

quote:

However, there were a lot of people that said that there was an oral fixation surrounding the straw, with one person even saying that it was “the slurping noise” that made it gay. And indeed, there is something suggestive about sucking on a straw and the sounds that makes. Even the shape your mouth makes when slurping through a straw has a sensuality to it, a flirtatiousness that sipping from a cup just doesn’t provide. Also, as we know, the gays love nothing more than a good suck.

Control Volume
Dec 31, 2008

One day Im going to sink socal into the sea and we can be free of this nonsense forever

MizPiz
May 29, 2013

by Athanatos

It's cool that the conclusion to this article about gay rights is "gay people are mincing pansies who want something phallic in their mouths"

BENGHAZI 2
Oct 13, 2007

by Cyrano4747

H.P. Hovercraft posted:

c-3po's red arm

They answer this in a comic, it's stupid as poo poo

Heath
Apr 30, 2008

🍂🎃🏞️💦
Where does iced coffee land on the Kinsey scale

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Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001
when i watched endgame I kept thinking about GamemasterAnthony's prophetic words

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