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"Instead of this universally loved thing that everybody likes, they should have used this obscure niche thing that only I care about and, if I'm being honest, I don't even like that much." Is like the noumenal version of a goon take on any piece of media.
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Megillah Gorilla posted:There were literally people complaining about R2-D2 showing up, smdh. In fairness, it was dumb as hell that R2 left the X-Wing, rolled down the hall, and took the elevator just to have a staring contest with Grogu.
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Dec 20, 2020 04:57
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My iimm from the end of the last episode of The Mandalorian season 2 was that as the elevator closed it didn't instantly cut to the original Star Wars theme with a starry background, with the name of the director in neon blue text. It felt more Star Wars than anything else in the series up to that point.
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Dec 20, 2020 05:04
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VinylonUnderground posted:Boba Fett I think I would have been fine if they left it where they did with the one episode on Tattooine, where Timothy Olyphant shows up wearing Boba Fett's armor but it doesn't fit at all and then at the end there's a shot of a beat up scarred guy played by Temuera Morrison and you can infer who it is. The really egregious poo poo is Dark Troopers.
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Dec 20, 2020 05:34
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The whole 'incel nerd love the joker' thing is even dumber than that, it came from the Gang Weed memes meant to make fun of incels and alt-righters, that somehow convinced people that the Joker must be an actual alt-right icon and a movie that happens to be about alienation and mental illness would obviously cause them to start shooting people... for some reason. I thought that Gotham's take on the Joker (AKA Jerome and Jeremiah Valesca) was entertaining partially because of the strength of the actor they got to play him but also they did every version of him basically all at once - Jerome was the "no plans just chaos" type of classic joker, then when he drove his brother Jeremiah insane Jeremiah became the super-sane variant, pure plan with no emotion holding him back as he planned on turning the city into a labyrinth with controlled demolitions. Then between those, Jerome broadcasts a raid on the GCPD and basically preaches his philosophy creating the Phenomenon variant in the Cult of Joker (which was very Batman of the Future) out of people who felt trapped in bad situations who felt a kind of freedom and kinship is just letting go and stopping giving a poo poo about things they couldn't control, like a child who was watching at the time while his parents were fighting in the next room - His parents were uncaring assholes who neglected him and abused each other, and he found a kind of escape in finding it funny instead. Then Jerome dies and gets resurrected by said cult, who cut his face off thinking he's dead to turn it into a mask and so you get the New-52 Garbage Edgy Joker but with a less stupid and more fun reason for having his face stapled to his head. That's four different versions of the same idea played by the same actor and he was having SO much fun in the role.
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Dec 20, 2020 07:51
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I went to see Joker at like 2PM during a workday shortly after it opened. I was already a handle into the day so I'm sure I was a sweaty sexy mess. Anyway, a dude followed me into the theater. I thought that was really funny. He was wearing sun glasses, like a '70s hat and a trench coat that was a '70s shade of brown. I assumed the world's worst private security dude had followed my messy self in. He started cranking it pretty soon into the movie. My pattern-forming brain thought there was a bad spy-cop following me in but it was just a random pervert. God bless America.
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Dec 20, 2020 09:16
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VinylonUnderground posted:I went to see Joker at like 2PM during a workday shortly after it opened. I was already a handle into the day so I'm sure I was a sweaty sexy mess. Anyway, a dude followed me into the theater. I thought that was really funny. He was wearing sun glasses, like a '70s hat and a trench coat that was a '70s shade of brown. I assumed the world's worst private security dude had followed my messy self in. If you wanna catch the Joker you have to think like the Joker,
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Dec 20, 2020 09:40
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rydiafan posted:In fairness, it was dumb as hell that R2 left the X-Wing, rolled down the hall, and took the elevator just to have a staring contest with Grogu. Yes, that 's definitely something that character, known for wandering off, getting poo poo done and having adventures would do. R2 always stays by the ship like a good droid. He certainly couldn't possibly come in handy on an Imperial vessel in case something needed to be hacked. I mean, when has R2 even shown that he has an array of useful skills? Certainly not every single time he's appeared in film or TV. But, I'm sure we can all agree it's ludicrous that a cameo by the single biggest name in the Star Wars universe might be accompanied by his most loyal companion. That makes no sense at all. "Stay by the ship." loving lol.
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Dec 20, 2020 12:57
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Yeah, there are a poo poo load of really weird takes about the latest series. I mean, this is the irrationally irritating moments thread, and that is pretty irrational. (also it looked pretty likely that Grogu recognised him, or at least had some affinity to him, so him being there made sense story wise as well). Who cares, the series is fun as hell. All the bits of fan service dont go too far - if you know about them its great, if you dont its no big deal at all.
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Dec 20, 2020 13:14
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Baron von Eevl posted:The really egregious poo poo is Dark Troopers. What about Dark Troopers requires so much power that they can't just be ready at all times? It's not foot rockets - poo poo just levitates with no source of external power in the Star Wars universe. It's not their blasters. They are strong, but so was that smart aleck robot from Rogue One and he didn't need to be hooked up to fuel tubes like a Y-Wing getting ready for take-off. Best I could tell is they have really good armor that stands up to everything except a dirty look from a light saber.
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Dec 20, 2020 13:17
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Memento posted:My iimm from the end of the last episode of The Mandalorian season 2 was Mando didn't pull the control knob ball from his pocket and hold it up for baby yoda to fast force grab down the corridor just before the elevator doors shut; BY is confident enough to show his powers in front of people, Luke and Mando both smile, elevator door shuts, theme music.
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Dec 20, 2020 14:08
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Megillah Gorilla posted:Yes, that 's definitely something that character, known for wandering off, getting poo poo done and having adventures would do. Its impossible not to read this in the Comic Book Guy voice.
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Dec 20, 2020 15:52
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In Raised By Wolves the kid has a different accent than his parental figures despite being isolated with them his whole life.
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Dec 20, 2020 16:04
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Henchman of Santa posted:Its impossible not to read this in the Comic Book Guy voice. It is possible because I totally read it in the Henchman 21 voice.
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Dec 20, 2020 16:06
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Alhazred posted:In Raised By Wolves the kid has a different accent than his parental figures despite being isolated with them his whole life. This is pretty common with child actors in general. Child labour laws and the practicalities of it with having to have kids living near where they're filming.
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Dec 20, 2020 16:15
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In The Queen's Gambit the child version of Beth had a vaguely British sounding accent and there were zero characters that sounded like they were from anywhere near Kentucky.
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Dec 20, 2020 16:19
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My IIMM for the Mandolorian, it should have been Kal Kestis goddamn it
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Dec 20, 2020 19:08
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Greenland: OK, I get that there wasn't too much time to plan, but could they really not come up with a better system than the EAM and wristband system? Basically all of Gerard's problems were caused by them somehow not realizing that having those wristbands on made them huge targets. Also how could the government have missed the kid having diabeetus? He has an insulin pump on, that definitely should have showed up on the records search. and going back to the early part - why wasn't Gerard more insistent about them getting to the base after the phonecall? The wife is like "probably just a test" but the thing literally said "this is not a test". Cancel the party and GTFO. also don't stop for the neighbors when you know you can't take them. It just makes it awkward. It's not going to make them feel any better to hear "nope, text said I can't, sorry". You driving around them and getting out conveys the same message without wasting valuable time. also why didn't they just fly a drill up to the thing and bruce willis it
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Dec 21, 2020 01:25
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Whenever we see text in Star Wars properties, its in an alphabet made up for the series that does not resemble the Roman alphabet at all. But they have ships called X-Wing and Y-Wing because theyre shaped like our letters X and Y. I just looked up the Star Wars alphabet and incidentally it does have a character that looks like Y. It represents V sounds.
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Dec 25, 2020 14:37
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Didnt they cover half the alphabet by the end of the first trilogy? I know there were also A-wings and B-wings.
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Dec 25, 2020 14:44
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Didnt they cover half the alphabet by the end of the first trilogy? I know there were also A-wings and B-wings. Theres even an Alphabet Squadron book that came out last year! Apparently the Star Wars alphabet first appeared on screen in Return of the Jedi, and then Aurebesh was invented for an RPG in 1993 and thats what we see in modern properties.
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Dec 25, 2020 14:48
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If there are two suns on Tatooine, which one does the planet orbit?
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Dec 25, 2020 14:56
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Pope Corky the IX posted:If there are two suns on Tatooine, which one does the planet orbit? Probably the bigger one, but there are planets known to orbit both (circumbinary planets).
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Dec 25, 2020 14:58
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Didnt they cover half the alphabet by the end of the first trilogy? I know there were also A-wings and B-wings. At the very least the buttons on a SNES controller! I'm surprised there was never a Star Wars official shmup.
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Dec 25, 2020 14:58
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Probably the bigger one, but there are planets known to orbit both (circumbinary planets). In Star Wars or in reality?
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Dec 25, 2020 15:00
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Pope Corky the IX posted:In Star Wars or in reality? In reality. Maybe in star war the force makes it orbit neither or something who knows.
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Dec 25, 2020 15:01
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I did not know that, thank you small duck.
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Dec 25, 2020 15:02
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Henchman of Santa posted:There’s even an Alphabet Squadron book that came out last year! Weird, I thought I remembered weird letter squiggles when Luke was keying in the poo poo for the dagobah system in esb. Always reminded me of the predator countdown gauntlet.
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Dec 25, 2020 16:24
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Didnt they cover half the alphabet by the end of the first trilogy? I know there were also A-wings and B-wings. Nah, there were just four.
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Dec 25, 2020 18:27
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Some of the EU stuff went into additional Rebellion ship types. E-wings I think were particularly lovely and antiquated. One of the funnier ideas is 'Uglies', ships thrown together from bits and pieces of old ones, with the X-Tie (an X-Wing's central cockpit with a TIE fighter's aerofoil thingies) being considered a marriage of old enemies with the worst of both.
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Dec 25, 2020 18:41
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Pope Corky the IX posted:If there are two suns on Tatooine, which one does the planet orbit? Seems more likely the planet would orbit the central point around which both stars orbit, which potentially makes for some wacky situations like having a night only a couple degrees wide. The other way, like a centauri situation, can lead to a star casting light on all parts of the planet, meaning no night at all. Science is cool.
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Dec 25, 2020 19:08
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The X, A, B, Y wing fighters dont require the Roman alphabet just a Star Wars Super Nintendo system.
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Dec 25, 2020 19:49
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I'm really liking the Mandalorian, but I think it's time to impose a moratorium on the seven samurai plot.
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Dec 25, 2020 19:56
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To be fair the Mandalorian also does Yojimbo, Lone Wolf and Cub and like every other possible lone wanderer/samurai/gunfighter film as often as possible. It's great.
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Dec 25, 2020 21:11
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On Star Trek, if translators are used to communicate with alien species, why does their lip sync match up with dialogue?
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Dec 25, 2020 21:35
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Hardcordion posted:On Star Trek, if translators are used to communicate with alien species, why does their lip sync match up with dialogue? Holograms
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Dec 25, 2020 21:41
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The translators defaults to being set up to be accessible for lipreading as well. The sign language mode looks wild.
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Dec 25, 2020 21:44
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TGG posted:To be fair the Mandalorian also does Yojimbo, Lone Wolf and Cub and like every other possible lone wanderer/samurai/gunfighter film as often as possible. It's great. Yeah, but the seven samurai has been done to death and no one seems capable of doing something new to it.
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Watched Soul today. For a Pixar film, was about as good as....Brave, maybe? I mean, not every movie can be as good as The Incredibles or Monsters Inc. Cute premise, fun animation, predictable twist, but I was really waiting for some extra in the credits. Some little postcards or something appearing in Joe's little memory thing of all the new poo poo he did besides jazz, like, I don't know, skygliding or talking to that girl or starting his own band, something else! Or at least some poo poo of where 22 ended up. Nope. All open to the viewer.
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i probably mentioned it before, but in Love, Actually its pretty hosed up how most of the relationships are male boss/female employee (prime minister/catering girl, author/maid, boss/secretary, etc) and the subplot with the dude who's in love with his buddy's new wife, which fine, it happens, but like a total rear end in a top hat he tells her that he will love her until they grow old (that scene where he has caroling music and does a bob dylan written card thing). what a cock. she didnt need to know that at all. also that guy is rick from walking dead which is pretty lol
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