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Twitch posted:There's also a wrestling thread in GBS, it's one of those threads where the OP wanted to mock something but everyone just came in to talk about how much they love wrestling instead. I mostly just like hearing about wrestling secondhand from fans online. This podcast is pretty good for people that don't want to actually watch the wrestling, but still find it interesting to hear about : https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV_qemO0oatiNhgaf6PWzyxYRcP8f4jB1
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jackofarcades posted:This also sounds like Shea Serrano, a writer for the ringer who wrote Movies and Other Things. It was very funny when he said that and a bunch of people got mad because they thought he was a professional film critic and not a goofball who writes about basketball and Van Damme movies.
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Thinky Whale posted:A joke so bafflingly lame that I ended up laughing at it, so I guess the joke's on me. Sounds like someone needs to forget gumwaa
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Thinky Whale posted:
Nothing in this sector of jokes will ever be as horrifyingly tortured as that one about the Catholic priest who comes running into the seminary in horror yelling "There's an R! There's an R! It's celibrate"
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kirbysuperstar posted:He also wrote ("wrote") for Breitbart and if I remember right was very very vocal about gamergate despite having self proclaimed no interest in video games or video game journalism at all. Not only that, didn't he have a history of mocking gamers for being losers, etc, before becoming their champion?
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wizzardstaff posted:Not only that, didn't he have a history of mocking gamers for being losers, etc, before becoming their champion? I feel like there's some hefty redundancy here, but i'm not sure the exact point it happens.
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At least this one is no longer IOSM, but good lord. Anti-Mask Disney Princess Page Targeted At Kids Abruptly Shuts Down quote:This is a place for children to interact with their favourite characters and learn about the government’s restrictions of our freedoms that threaten the prosperity of our lives in a fun way 
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Feb 17, 2021 17:31
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Loving that phrasing, god drat
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Data Graham posted:Loving that phrasing, god drat I think every dog within a 10 mile area just went deaf.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:35
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I mean mostly I was laughing at "that threaten the prosperity of our lives in a fun way" but yeah
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letthereberock posted:It just occurred to me that Blazing Saddles came out in 1974. The Great Race. Some Like It Hot. Both still completely accessible. Thesis: Comedies can age better than serious drama, if their jokes aren't racist/sexist/whatever?
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I watched Roman Holiday with my kids a few weeks ago and they loved it.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Great Race. Some Like It Hot. Both still completely accessible. It depends on how willing you are to laugh at jokes you've already heard a bunch, a lot of the great comedies get ripped off so much younger audiences may have heard half the material a dozen times or so. Which also happens to the great dramas I guess. The only thing that ages Casablanca is nearly every scene in it has been referenced a couple dozen times by later works.
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It depends on the comedy, I think. The more rooted it is to a particular time and place the worse it's going to age as we move from that. I took a class about the history of comedy in theatre once and one of the things that we learned was about this idea of the "ladder" of comedy where you have this distinction between low comedy and high comedy. IIRC starting from the bottom it goes -Obscentiy (toilet humor for example) - Physical mishap (slapstick) -Plot Device (mistaken identity, contrived situations) - Verbal wit (puns and such) - Inconsistency of Character (Basically a character acting in a way that violates their normal behavior. Can't think of a good example off the top of my head but Fraiser probably uses this a lot) - Comedy of Ideas (satire is found here. This is comedy rooted in the norms and ideals of society) Of course just because a form of humor is lower on the ladder doesn't mean it's worse. The idea is just that as you move farther up the ladder the comedy becomes more rooted in a particular context. Verbal humor doesn't really work if you don't know the language, and satire doesn't really land if you're not familiar with what's being satirized. On the other hand you don't really need a lot of cultural context for the Three Stooges or Buster Keaton.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:The Great Race. Some Like It Hot. Both still completely accessible. I just watched Some Like It Hot like a week ago. That's a funny fuckin' movie, and not even just "for the time" It's all drag humor too and not much of it is even reprehensible by today's standards
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Feb 17, 2021 20:02
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Humans are actually donuts, checkmate abortionailures.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:04
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Fister Roboto posted:Humans are actually donuts, checkmate abortionailures. His head is so far up his rear end this is technically correct.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:20
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Have the Rush defenders started their bullshit? Either audience, really.
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Have the Rush defenders started their bullshit? Either audience, really. Check out Fox News' homepage and you'll see more of it than you want to.
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Feb 17, 2021 20:43
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Yeah go ask some frozen people now who haven't had power or had pipes burst and see how well that goes over.
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Silly Burrito posted:Yeah go ask some frozen people now who haven't had power or had pipes burst and see how well that goes over. Haven't you heard, if they don't have power it's due to their poor upbringing and they need to just man up.
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The sheer effort of pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps should provide enough warmth for you.
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Six-Of-Hearts posted:Have the Rush defenders started their bullshit? Either audience, really. The "you have to be respectful when someone dies" crowd is out in full force whining about how awful it is that anyone would be happy about it
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Picnic Princess posted:The "you have to be respectful when someone dies" crowd is out in full force whining about how awful it is that anyone would be happy about it Ask them if George Floyd deserved what he got.
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christmas boots posted:I suppose one of the big things you could point to is how older movies tended towards an acting style that was more theatrical as opposed to a naturalistic one, but I'm still not sure I'd put Jaws as the dividing line and certainly The Godfather would make the cut in any event. It's the editing. Spielberg basically changed how action was shot, and invented modern cinema in the process. It clearly set the template for future action movies, but it impacted every genre; there's a reason the Godfather is 3hrs long while Goodfellas is only 2. Editing got tighter and more story-focused, and films got shorter. So people are right when they say that movies before that point feel different; they are different. But that difference is mostly just slower, stodgier, and more boring rather than drawing from an entirely different visual language incomprehensible to a modern viewer. If you think Citizen Cane is like movie hieroglyphics then an actual staged play would leave you sobbing in confusion. "I don't like how the story never addresses the characters who wear all black and move the furniture around in the dark."
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Fister Roboto posted:Humans are actually donuts, checkmate abortionailures. donuts have 1 through hole, humans have 7 i think.
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3, if you count each nostril as one. Mouth to anus, and then the sinus cavity, everything else dead ends into an organ.
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there wolf posted:"I don't like how the story never addresses the characters who wear all black and move the furniture around in the dark." Those are Ninjas, duh Edit: yes I’m aware letthereberock has a new favorite as of 21:57 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:3, if you count each nostril as one. Mouth to anus, and then the sinus cavity, everything else dead ends into an organ. Assuming no piercings.
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letthereberock posted:Those are Ninjas, duh You might be deliberately referencing this but that's actually exactly where the idea of ninjas dressing in all black actually comes from.
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Gats Akimbo posted:Assuming no piercings. I don't think you're supposed to pierce your sinuses.
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Byzantine posted:I don't think you're supposed to pierce your sinuses. Whatever you say, square
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christmas boots posted:You might be deliberately referencing this but that's actually exactly where the idea of ninjas dressing in all black actually comes from. It would really spice up a lot of those talky plays if a stagehand came out and stabbed one of the principal actors with a prop knife. Or a real one. W/e
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PhazonLink posted:donuts have 1 through hole, humans have 7 i think.
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there wolf posted:So people are right when they say that movies before that point feel different; they are different. But that difference is mostly just slower, stodgier, and more boring rather than drawing from an entirely different visual language incomprehensible to a modern viewer. Get a load of the guy who's never seen The Manchurian Candidate, Seconds, The French Connection, or any of Alfred Hitchcock's films.
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I'd actually argue that modern films are slower than older films, in terms of editing and writing. Lots of movies from the 30s-60s had lightning-quick editing, crisp dialogue, complex camera movements, and not a lot of dead air. Compare that to "serious" films from the late 90s to today, with long takes, zero camera movement, deadpan actors, long serious silences. Not that I'm its biggest fan,but Citizen Kane has so much going on, constantly draws the eye in. Compared to any of the heavy, plodding work by modern filmmakers like Aronofsky, Mendes, Fincher, or Nolan? It's practically electric. Dynastocles has a new favorite as of 23:05 on Feb 17, 2021 |
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Dynastocles posted:I'd actually argue that modern films are slower than older films, in terms of editing and writing. Lots of movies from the 30s-60s had lightning-quick editing, crisp dialogue, complex camera movements, and not a lot of dead air. Compare that to "serious" films from the late 90s to today, with long takes, zero camera movement, deadpan actors, long serious silences. That's definitely the exception and not the rule
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