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Iirc at some later point sim suggests (in a from the writer spiel, not in an issue) that the US shouldn't have a female president bc she might get her period during a crisis
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Fleetwood posted:About ten years ago I read a Mamet book about making movies. Maybe he was being facetious, but there was a section where he talks about there being so many Jews in Hollywood because they have bigger brains than everyone else thanks to centuries of rigorous religious study ive seen hollywood jews talk like this before but this is the first time ive heard of one being dumb enough to commit it to print instead of just leaving it as a bad interpersonal anecdote you tell at parties it wouldnt surprise me to learn that every right wing loon out of hollywood that goes into crazy antisemite mode heard that story so many times they decided it was the awful truth and not just a tasteless joke
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ca4bvOTcI yeaaaaaa boiiiiiiiii
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how could anyone possibly have been persuaded to give a poo poo about watchmen when the boys already existed were they being paid off
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Ghost Leviathan posted:IIRC the misogyny turn comes after the author got divorced? There are a lot of cases where a seemingly or even genuinely woke author is understanding and insightful until suddenly he has a relationship go sour and runs screaming into the comforting embrace of misogyny rather than face his own mistakes. I dunno if it's like this in the phone books, but it looks like the site where I'm reading has scans of the individual issues, which have the opening editorials (first from his co-publisher, then from his wife, currently from him or Gerhard if he's too busy), the letters section, and, fior the lst few years at least, a pictorial travelogue, showing where he's at and what he's been up to, which I'm trying to use to build an idea of factors that could go into this break. I can definitely see where the divorce is inevitable at this point; he's almost always traveling around the world now, playing the rockstar role, almost no photos of his wife anymore. sebmojo posted:Iirc at some later point sim suggests (in a from the writer spiel, not in an issue) that the US shouldn't have a female president bc she might get her period during a crisis lol
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the entirety of Hamilton I kept thinking how the rapping reminded me of another, better artist and I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Then I figured it out and I'm thinking about it constantly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1fdw0tJds Someone help I think I'm going insane.
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Jul 9, 2020 15:33
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DTWGmcEY4Q John Cena's Hamilton would unironically be 100% better.
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Jul 9, 2020 17:27
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Some Guy TT posted:how could anyone possibly have been persuaded to give a poo poo about watchmen when the boys already existed not too hard to like em both, and they’re pretty different shows despite both being cape poo poo for nerds
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Jul 9, 2020 17:31
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double negative posted:not too hard to like em both, and they’re pretty different shows despite both being cape poo poo for nerds the boys is absolutely not cape poo poo for nerds, it hates cape poo poo and ridicules it every step of the way watchmen on the other hand started out interested and then immediately reverted to stupid cape poo poo
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Jul 9, 2020 20:25
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Taintrunner posted:the boys is absolutely not cape poo poo for nerds, it hates cape poo poo and ridicules it every step of the way i don't say it as a knock, but just because it's loving with the genre doesn't mean it's outside of it, it just recognizes the audience is jaded with it. i prefer the satirical stuff - the only comic i really hosed with as a kid was x-statix, but both are still trading in and based on your familiarity with the genre. the best and saddest thing about watchmen was how many people it made realize the tulsa massacre was a thing, including all the people who adamantaly initially refused to accept that the depiction in the opening could be anything but pure fiction. unfortunately lindelof had a great cast and only about 2 or 3 cool ideas. i liked enough of it to stick it out, and i'll give dude credit for knowing when to call it quits, because there certainly wasn't a second season there
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Jul 9, 2020 21:40
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the boys is better than watchmen hbo bc watchmen hbo was made by morons and the boys has the homelander
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i just want to say the new perry mason suck rear end
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homelander carries the show. what a freak.
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Jul 10, 2020 02:11
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Get this for your antifa crush if you want to be more than just another simp to her
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Taintrunner posted:the boys is absolutely not cape poo poo for nerds, it hates cape poo poo and ridicules it every step of the way hating cape poo poo and ridiculing it is basically an entire genre of cape poo poo with exactly the same audience
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Ghost Leviathan posted:hating cape poo poo and ridiculing it is basically an entire genre of cape poo poo with exactly the same audience Harsh but fair
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Jul 10, 2020 04:26
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Ghost Leviathan posted:hating cape poo poo and ridiculing it is basically an entire genre of cape poo poo with exactly the same audience It's like the sub genre of anti-war movies that have plainly visible erections in the fray.
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Jul 10, 2020 04:34
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Comic book movies are for loving children and deciding they were for adults too is top five worst things American culture has done in the last 30 years
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Jul 10, 2020 04:56
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It's cool when the joker does crimes
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Ghost Leviathan posted:hating cape poo poo and ridiculing it is basically an entire genre of cape poo poo with exactly the same audience Exactly. The Boys (TV) is a vast improvement on The Boys (the comic), but at the end of the day, it's central gimmick is "what if superheros, but BAD" and just harps on that idea without having much to say about it.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:hating cape poo poo and ridiculing it is basically an entire genre of cape poo poo with exactly the same audience no but see I like the sophisticated superhero show where they say "gently caress" and has lots of gore so that makes me very mature, unlike the children who like superman
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Jul 10, 2020 16:33
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The Boys comic was originally pitched to DC (?) using their existing characters
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Fleetwood posted:The Boys comic was originally pitched to DC (?) using their existing characters That explains why the Seven are all clearly DC parodies. Do they get a Batman later?
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The Boys comic books are a juvenile retread of marshal law (where the "nuke me slowly" in my av is from) The boys show is a more cowardly rendention of the comic book series. A pathetic copy of a retread of the genuine article. Marshal Law takes manhattan is maybe the best anti-cape comic book of all time
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Jul 10, 2020 17:40
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Reminder that one of the competitors in the tenth season MasterChef was literally a former torturist.
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skooma512 posted:That explains why the Seven are all clearly DC parodies. Black Noir is supposed to be the Batman
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Taintrunner posted:the boys is absolutely not cape poo poo for nerds, it hates cape poo poo and ridicules it every step of the way It's kinda sad that "superheroes, kinda dumb innit?" is seen as groundbreaking commentary.
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Jul 10, 2020 18:55
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the boys is pretty good but lets not pretend its higher art than marvel poo poo, other than the aforementioned "is pretty good"
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MizPiz posted:Black Noir is supposed to be the Batman Oh ok, I understand that. I guess it's because he's mute and I couldn't ever get a good look at him (i.e  ). If anything I thought he was a Black Panther spoof because the costume felt closer to that than a batsuit.
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was just rereading The Boys and hey, look what I found. No wonder HBO Watchmen sucked.
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Here are some panels from marshal law, the first three are from marshal law takes manhattan where the punisher facsimile "the persecutor" is attempting to seek sanctuary in a mental hospital for criminally insane super heroes where parodies of the avengers rule the roost in the lore, the US invented super heroes to fight a vietnam style conflict that devastated central america, the persecutor was a school of the americas ghoul that taught torture tactics to americans in "the zone"    
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Very cool, very incisive
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Alhazred posted:It's kinda sad that "superheroes, kinda dumb innit?" is seen as groundbreaking commentary. you clearly didn’t watch the show, because it’s a lot more than that.
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General Dog posted:Very cool, very incisive 
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Jul 10, 2020 23:25
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the new unsolved mysteries sucks theres no robert stack and they took the percussion out of the theme song
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Stairmaster posted:the new unsolved mysteries sucks theres no robert stack and they took the percussion out of the theme song it's just a generic crime documentary p much now so it's firmly in the solid B range nothing could come up to Robert Stack's power but at least it's not the regrettable Dennis Farina era
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Boomer detected. I would not know of the Jane Fonda workout video if it weren't for my boomer mom.
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