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Serf posted:i recently rewatched dawn of the dead (1978) and its hilarious now how that movie opens with a tv station manager refusing to take down a list of overrun rescue centers because ratings will go down yeah man, that all is true as hell I watched the classic romeros around halloween Day of the Dead is so loving good real upper level doomsday mindset content https://i.imgur.com/b2AIYyX.mp4
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Just finished up the Francis Ford Coppola directed film "The Conversation" starring Gene Hackman with Harrison Ford, John Cazale, Cindy Williams and Robert Duval. I enjoyed this film and would recommend it to others. The slow, quiet pace of the film leading to the climax and ending was interesting. I think in our society of being under surveillance 24/7 it is a really interesting movie.
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Dr. Killjoy posted:love that the biker gang were portrayed as insane freaks for wanting to kill zombies for the sake of killing zombies, and in gorier ways than had been done in zombie films up to that point, and now that's just the entirety of the genre yeah they literally engage in clownery, spraying them with seltzer and hitting them in the face with pies. using swords and hammers for no good reason at all. tom savini stabs a zombie in the neck just for the fun of it. also the lead biker raider has a loving ss symbol on his helmet. its very interesting how we see roger and peter participating in what is essentially ethnic cleansing in the city, but out in the countryside the cops and military and boozing it up with the white militias, hunting zombies for fun Egg Moron posted:yeah man, that all is true as hell i'm gonna rewatch day this week sometime. i even have fond memories of land, which is basically the class war metaphor with no attempt to disguise it. i do also want to watch diary and survival. i don't remember liking them, but i'll give them another shot i also rewatched snyder's 2004 dawn remake, which has a killer opening and then just sorta devolves from there. its amazing how empty that film is compared to the 1978 original. there's some attempt made with ty burrell's character being a rich rear end in a top hat, but that never really takes shape like it does in romero's version. some choice lines from the 1878 dawn: "the only person who could miss with this gun would be the sucker with the bread to buy it" "they will never run out of food as long as we're still alive" (pretty mtw line imo)
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Nov 24, 2020 05:14
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Two episodes in to His Dark Materials and I'm getting strong Epstein vibes from it so far...
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Nov 24, 2020 06:17
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I saw Day and Land recently; Day is pretty good and also just unpleasant to watch, Land is going for an interesting metaphor and doesn't quite make it but manages to be entertaining at least
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Nov 24, 2020 06:31
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wow, chapter 1 of the grapes of wrathquote:In the morning the dust hung like fog, and the sun was as red as ripe new blood. All day the dust sifted down from the sky, and the next day it sifted down. An even blanket covered the earth. It settled on the corn, piled up on the tops of the fence posts, piled up on the wires; it settled on roofs, blanketed the weeds and trees. i didn't read this book in high school so i'm only now reading it in adulthood and wow
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Nov 24, 2020 08:41
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Aglet56 posted:wow, chapter 1 of the grapes of wrath wait til you get to chapter 25, still loving destroys me every time The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees....
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Nov 24, 2020 09:09
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quote:The owners of the land came onto the land, or more often a spokesman for the owners came. They came in closed cars, and they felt the dry earth with their fingers, and sometimes they drove big earth augers into the ground for soil tests. The tenants, from their sun-beaten dooryards, watched uneasily when the closed cars drove along the fields. And at last the owner men drove into the dooryards and sat in their cars to talk out of the windows. The tenant men stood beside the cars for a while, and then squatted on their hams and found sticks with which to mark the dust. ive always hated this passage because it inspires way way too much sympathy for capitalists they know exactly what theyre doing steinbeck dont be a dipshit and assume they mean well just because they dont have the balls to cop to it
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Nov 24, 2020 13:02
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in more frivolous cspam pop culture thread discussion https://twitter.com/willystaley/status/1330929736407797761 gonna go with the crows from dumbo so jokerfied they believe an elephant can fly and it does
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Nov 24, 2020 13:07
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Home Alone 2 was distributed by 20th Century Fox, which is a subsidiary of Walt Disney Studios, which is a division of The Walt Disney Company. so a Disney character who would have voted for Trump would be: 
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Land is a decent watch in the sense that it has big budget b movie vibes and it is not as bad as people tend to say. I like the cast. Dennis Hopper was great on screen in all his roles. Even waterworld. Diary and survival I just couldn't get into My favorite Romero films though are The Crazies and Martin The Crazies is a great outbreak romp. It got remade sometime in the last 15 year's but i never saw the remake Martin is so loving good. It's about a kid whose old world grandpa is convinced the boy is a vampire and it is about the bumbling attempts this kid makes to actualize that vision. And with a night of the living dead caliber ending
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Nov 24, 2020 13:34
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StashAugustine posted:I saw Day and Land recently; Day is pretty good and also just unpleasant to watch, Watching Day of the Dead to me is like giving a baby a warm bottle. There is just something so soothing about it. The obviousness of the futility of the actions of the survivors who are maniacally attempting to keep working toward a goal that is more and more absurd in the face of the increasingly dire circumstances. The end is truly uplifting. Yes, poo poo is hosed, disengage and attempt to find peace. Very cool.
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Nov 24, 2020 13:44
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Some Guy TT posted:ive always hated this passage because it inspires way way too much sympathy for capitalists I don't read sympathy there at all, it's just stating that the owners are all coping with the fact that they're monsters without ever stopping to think about whether they should stop being monsters. The "nice" ones are being just as much monsters as the banks they serve, and the fact that they hate themselves for it drives home their complicity. I don't see anything implying they mean well.
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Nov 24, 2020 13:55
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the idea that theyre coping at all is inherently sympathetic you see the same idea at play in cop shows and war movies where police and soldiers will express remorse about killing innocent people and this self awareness is used to suggest that they are not awful people in reality people with these kinds of professions all develop learned sociopathy and yes i am aware the steinbeck passage also acknowledges such people exist but it acts like theyre just one competing faction not that they make up the vast majority
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Nov 24, 2020 14:13
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Donald duck would have voted for Trump. His core traits are impatience, anger and jeliousness. And he is vain enough to want the president to bear his name.
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Nov 24, 2020 14:36
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Some Guy TT posted:in more frivolous cspam pop culture thread discussion this is scrooge mcduck erasure
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Nov 24, 2020 15:42
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huey, dewey, and louie are now alt-right youtube personalities
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vyelkin posted:huey, dewey, and louie are now alt-right youtube personalities Mr. McDuck, a notable eccentric billionaire published an article in the McDuck owned Quackington Post lamenting that his platform was being erased.
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Nov 24, 2020 15:47
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Coming up at the top of the hour, Mr. McDuck, the wealthiest duck alive, tells us how the proposed legislation that would raise his taxes by 1% is socialism
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Nov 24, 2020 15:50
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There's no way Donald Duck would make it to a voting booth without terminal shenanigans Pete is 100% a trump voter though. Quiet about it if necessary, but definitely voted.
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Nov 24, 2020 15:51
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i watched Still Walking last night by kore-eda who made last year’s (? 2018?) Shoplifters, and it was a wonderfully soothing little family drama in the vein of Ozu. some nice warm escapism during these times separated from family, even if the dad in it is a crank and the mom’s a lowkey savage. we don’t get many movies like these in the US i feel, or if we do they are awful saccharine schmaltz. check it out on Criterion if you have it or download it or whatever if that interests you
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Nov 24, 2020 18:50
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Dr. Killjoy posted:excellent film scoring by Dario Argento and Goblin! The first few romero dead films can be read as commentaries on zombie movies pretty easily, dont let a little thing like "they basically invented the genre" get in the way
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Nov 24, 2020 21:58
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Baudolino posted:Donald duck would have voted for Trump. His core traits are impatience, anger and jeliousness. And he is vain enough to want the president to bear his name. donald duck is a veteran and he would not approve of draft dodging
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Nov 25, 2020 02:07
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McDuck would probably be a Yang voter or something. He's that mythical being that exists only in fiction: a good capitalist.
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Nov 25, 2020 02:11
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Eox posted:donald duck is a veteran and he would not approve of draft dodging then hes in for some bad news when he learns about joe bidens deferment record
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scrooge mcduck is a soverign citizen goldbug with horrendous social views but is incredibly reasonable on foreign policy
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Donald would definitely scream on Facebook a lot, but he wouldn’t have any strong political affiliations. You might confuse him for a Trump supporter, because of his intermittent explosive disorder and affection for image macros about how cute it is that you think anyone should care about your feelings, but really he’s just mad god didn’t kill him off the Kuwaiti coast like he was supposed to, and his deadbeat sister left him with three awful, lead poisoned, children to raise when rust belt mega diabetes crashed over her like a fat wave. Forming a cogent ideology, or even voting, would indicate he ever calmed down enough to act rather than react. He might vote if he fell victim to a modern equivalent of cooping gangs, but more likely he’d receive a severe beating when he belligerently refused to comply.
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Nov 25, 2020 03:58
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Some Guy TT posted:the idea that theyre coping at all is inherently sympathetic john steinbeck btfo
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Finally got around to watching The Boys. I thought the first season kept a good momentum- bouncing deftly between scenes of cartoonish violence, serious plot/character development, & humor- but four episodes into season two and I’m stalling. Compared to season one, season two biases heavily toward characters talking the story forward, and man it draaaaags.
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Nov 25, 2020 04:29
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mysterious frankie posted:Finally got around to watching The Boys. I thought the first season kept a good momentum- bouncing deftly between scenes of cartoonish violence, serious plot/character development, & humor- but four episodes into season two and I’m stalling. Compared to season one, season two biases heavily toward characters talking the story forward, and man it draaaaags. that gets way better really fast in terms of the season two problems it's really frontloaded with that poo poo and then it breaks wide open
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mysterious frankie posted:Forming a cogent ideology, or even voting, would indicate he ever calmed down enough to act rather than react. how could such a person ever be a reactionary??!
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Egg Moron posted:that gets way better really fast in terms of the season two problems Nice! I’ll pick it up again tomorrow. Hodgepodge posted:how could such a person ever be a reactionary??! In my depressing cartoon nightmare scenario the manduck is prone to reaction, but is not a participating reactionist, due mainly to disorganized thinking leaving him trapped in a senseless ouroboric knot of juddering rage. Donald’s disastrous psyche prevents him from conceiving of a good old day which society could reclaim. Also he is friends with Bojack Horseman and they split rent on a bungalow located in a webcomic about cutting. mysterious frankie has issued a correction as of 05:33 on Nov 25, 2020 |
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i can strongly recommend 99 homes as a movie that seriously tackles evictor logic the whole movie is just andrew garfield slowly realizing that feeling bad about evicting people doesnt make him any less monstrous for continuing to do so solely for personal gain the cops in that movie are legit evil precisely because theyre so nice after a certain point its painfully obvious that theyre making a strategic decision to minimize resistance and that they dont actually care about the people whose lives theyre destroying hell they dont even care about the law even though thats their entire rationalization the climax hinges around an obviously forged document that no authority figure cares about because the rules dont actually matter
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mysterious frankie posted:Donald would definitely scream on Facebook a lot, but he wouldn’t have any strong political affiliations. You might confuse him for a Trump supporter, because of his intermittent explosive disorder and affection for image macros about how cute it is that you think anyone should care about your feelings, but really he’s just mad god didn’t kill him off the Kuwaiti coast like he was supposed to, and his deadbeat sister left him with three awful, lead poisoned, children to raise when rust belt mega diabetes crashed over her like a fat wave. Forming a cogent ideology, or even voting, would indicate he ever calmed down enough to act rather than react. He might vote if he fell victim to a modern equivalent of cooping gangs, but more likely he’d receive a severe beating when he belligerently refused to comply. Fun thing is this is almost canon in the new show, but he actually gets anger management, also his terminal adrenaline junkie sister got lost in space and he beats the poo poo out of Beagle Boys ten times his size (and he actually takes on Gizmoduck and won off-screen)
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Watched Three Days of the Condor. The gender politics are atrocious but its otherwise pretty decent; the plot concerning a conspiracy to secure oil makes all the establishing shots of the WTC hilarious in retrospect
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Scrooge would never vote Trump and here's why: The kindest reading of Scrooge hates frauds and panhandlers. So he would open a trapdoor beneath Trump, hit him with a boxing glove trap or threaten him with a cannon, just to get him out of his money bin. Trump's aggressive rhetoric towards other countries would also make it harder for Scrooge to fly around the world and loot lost cultural treasures, his true passion. The least kind (and most American) reading of Scrooge, tells us that he's well aware that the entire political apparatus is working for people like him and that won't change anytime soon. He would vote democrat to justify making his nephew work for a dime/hr. The triplets works for free of course, because they're kids and have to learn that hard work is its own reward. However, Scrooge would vote for any candidate that actually came from a low-income home and worked their way up the system, no matter how awful their political postitions are.
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Scrooge votes based on obscure grudges with the ancestors of candidates that no one else who isn't 150 years old remembers.
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Scrooge voted libertarian
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