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Memento
Aug 25, 2009


Bleak Gremlin
https://twitter.com/cmpriest/status/1397731591581962240

whomst indeed

(the cougar was fine)

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repiv
Aug 13, 2009

https://twitter.com/clayzulah/status/1397720608704708610

ultrafilter
Aug 23, 2007

It's okay if you have any questions.


https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1397158313092075525

https://twitter.com/MaartenvSmeden/status/1397074209520689152

https://twitter.com/OnlineXtians/status/1396596803840192512

https://twitter.com/Alex__1789/status/1304773263999021057

Zetsubou-san
Jan 28, 2015

Cruel Bifaunidas demanded that you [stand]🧍 I require only that you [kneel]🧎

:drat:

El Gallinero Gros
Mar 17, 2010
https://mobile.twitter.com/blainecapatch/status/1396968650012184579

https://mobile.twitter.com/badsandwich/status/1395193238982742021

Gravitas Shortfall
Jul 17, 2007

Utility is seven-eighths Proximity.


https://twitter.com/ondrejhudecek/status/1397927428744310791?s=20

It's incredible
https://olympics.com/en/films/watch/the-nagano-tapes-five-rings-films

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

https://twitter.com/drunkdrvngobama/status/1397323433474727937

Ah, a gentleman.

Warbird
May 23, 2012

America's Favorite Dumbass


Boy that sure hits the joke and doubles the gently caress down on it. Don’t sleep on this.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

I'm incredibly stupid. Can someone give me a hint on the JJ tweet?

Bobby Digital
Sep 4, 2009
https://twitter.com/coolmathgame_/status/1397670044843212801?s=21

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

A little further down the thread.

https://twitter.com/drunkdrvngobama/status/1397569607775490048?s=20

repiv
Aug 13, 2009

Cocaine Bear posted:

I'm incredibly stupid. Can someone give me a hint on the JJ tweet?

JJs company Bad Robot produced Lost

Hiro Protagonist
Oct 25, 2010

Last of the freelance hackers and
Greatest swordfighter in the world

This video was like seeing your friend from high school that you haven't kept up with in a documentary about Thailand's fishing economy. So jarring that all you can do is cheer.

HopperUK
Apr 29, 2007

Why would an ambulance be leaving the hospital?

I wonder what kind of work he's imagining she's doing while he gets on with that. Peeling potatoes?

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013


Aw, it was on Valentine's Day, too.

TinTower
Apr 21, 2010

You don't have to 8e a good person to 8e a hero.

Seriously, watch this, you really have no idea what''s coming.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

repiv posted:

JJs company Bad Robot produced Lost

Thanks! Never seen lost so I assume it's going to take several hundred follow up questions to get the joke so I'll stick with context and move on. Cheers!

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

HopperUK posted:

I wonder what kind of work he's imagining she's doing while he gets on with that.

Writing columns about having 10 kids while being a communist Catholic tradwife.

boofhead
Feb 18, 2021

Cocaine Bear posted:

Thanks! Never seen lost so I assume it's going to take several hundred follow up questions to get the joke so I'll stick with context and move on. Cheers!

I stopped after a few seasons but I remember following up on the wikipedia summary years later and, in short: have you ever thought of an awesome setup to a story that will make everyone say "wow, I want to see where this goes!!" and then been completely at a loss for how to continue/finish it? Well now imagine that you were a big fancy director who decided "well, it doesn't matter, what's important is that people will watch it anyway and I still get my paycheque"

That's Lost

wizzardstaff
Apr 6, 2018

Zorch! Splat! Pow!

Cocaine Bear posted:

Thanks! Never seen lost so I assume it's going to take several hundred follow up questions to get the joke so I'll stick with context and move on. Cheers!

There's not much more to it, other than Lost had a reputation for offering up dozens of tantalizing mysteries and plot threads which ultimately went unanswered or were handwaved away in an unsatisfying conclusion.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.
The JJ Abrams cycle is what happens when you have access to all the art resources in the world and absolutely nothing to say. Just a bag of first-season/first movie tricks that go absolutely nowhere.

Cocaine Bear
Nov 4, 2011

ACAB

Lol, seems like a good troll to me.

Dick Trauma
Nov 30, 2007

God damn it, you've got to be kind.
Can someone explain the Olympics title sequence thing to me? I'm not familiar with anime. Is it like the titles from a famous anime?

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I mean that wasn’t how it was supposed to go

ghosthorse
Dec 15, 2011

...you forget so easily...
also Abrams just revealed in an interview that they didn't plan the star wars sequels out or knew what they were going to do before they made each one

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Dick Trauma posted:

Can someone explain the Olympics title sequence thing to me? I'm not familiar with anime. Is it like the titles from a famous anime?

Yes

Lemniscate Blue
Apr 21, 2006

Here we go again.

Dick Trauma posted:

Can someone explain the Olympics title sequence thing to me? I'm not familiar with anime. Is it like the titles from a famous anime?

Asking this also. I have no clue.

Conrad_Birdie
Jul 10, 2009

I WAS THERE
WHEN CODY RHODES
FINISHED THE STORY
LOST is great and answers a ton of questions and most actual fans of the show think it concluded brilliantly and JJ had little to do with the show other than producing it after the first season and it’s wild that it’s still a lazy internet joke! YES this IS one of my sore subjects, how can you tell? Reading a Wikipedia page that sums up a hundred episodes of character and plot will really not give you a good idea what the show is like!!!

Benagain
Oct 10, 2007

Can you see that I am serious?
Fun Shoe
it's the evangelion theme

I know this not from ever having watched that show but from being shown a million videos from other shows redubbed with that theme

this was pretty well done tho

DACK FAYDEN
Feb 25, 2013

Bear Witness

Lemniscate Blue posted:

Asking this also. I have no clue.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nU21rCWkuJw

It's the anime intro song

(I was going to link the yu-gi-oh abridged version where they pretended the lyrics were "young man play some card games" but I decided not to)

Elman
Oct 26, 2009

Conrad_Birdie posted:

LOST is great and answers a ton of questions and most actual fans of the show think it concluded brilliantly and JJ had little to do with the show other than producing it after the first season and it’s wild that it’s still a lazy internet joke! YES this IS one of my sore subjects, how can you tell? Reading a Wikipedia page that sums up a hundred episodes of character and plot will really not give you a good idea what the show is like!!!

I watched the whole show and absolutely loved the first four seasons but by s5 and 6 I was 100% watching the show just to laugh at it. The drop in quality was astounding.

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

thank you for clearing that up, what anime?

edit: answered above, sorry.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!
I have never seen anyone praise Losts end wrap up even people who really liked it as it was airing, so these true fans must amount to a hand ful of people.

CharlestheHammer
Jun 26, 2011

YOU SAY MY POSTS ARE THE RAVINGS OF THE DUMBEST PERSON ON GOD'S GREEN EARTH BUT YOU YOURSELF ARE READING THEM. CURIOUS!

Captain Monkey posted:

thank you for clearing that up, what anime?

Cowboy bee bop think

zoux
Apr 28, 2006

Captain Monkey posted:

thank you for clearing that up, what anime?

edit: answered above, sorry.

Listen pal I don't know one dang thing about anime!

Yngwie Mangosteen
Aug 23, 2007

zoux posted:

Listen pal I don't know one dang thing about anime!

And yet you answered the question above. Curious. Perhaps the truth is in the middle, zoux.

rodbeard
Jul 21, 2005

Gone Fishin' remains my favorite J.J. Abrams movie.

TheScott2K
Oct 26, 2003

I'm just saying, there's a nonzero chance Trump has a really toad penis.

ghosthorse posted:

also Abrams just revealed in an interview that they didn't plan the star wars sequels out or knew what they were going to do before they made each one

It's actually fine that there wasn't a plan. You don't really need a plan. If you make 3 good things that sorta go together people will just assume you had all that figured out with some big whiteboard covered in postits and string even if you didn't. Just look at the original Star Wars trilogy.

The real problem with the Star Wars sequels is they followed up a fine first one and interesting second one with a third one that was just a massive pile of rear end.

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

ghosthorse posted:

also Abrams just revealed in an interview that they didn't plan the star wars sequels out or knew what they were going to do before they made each one

He didn't reveal it per se, that was known from how he built The Force Awakens where none of it was about plot detail, just the edict "is it delightful?"

After the last Star Wars movie (so genuinely forgettable I can't remember the name) the guy who used to gimmick post as "Film Crit Hulk" did a dynamite essay on exactly why Abrams sucks as a storyteller:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/emperor-only-has-32504876

And while it boils down to the same old stuff, it's still worth a read:

quote:

This about J.J. Abrams. A person who in real life, may be kindness and generosity incarnate, a person who I wish more than well, but still a person whose cinematic identity is that of one who only moves with charm and surface, a placating instinct for iconography and a seductive kiss before its out the door. This Emperor only has groove. A way of being, an essence, a bestowal of a certain exhilarating feeling that only wants you to move alongside him. Come on. Join the fun. You practically hear this Emperor offering of a quick and easy path, “It doesn’t matter. You just run alongside me, I’ll do it as fast and earnestly and urgently as possible, and no one is gonna care.” And in the end, it leaves you feeling hollow.

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Splicer
Oct 16, 2006

from hell's heart I cast at thee
🧙🐀🧹🌙🪄🐸

Conrad_Birdie posted:

LOST is great and answers a ton of questions and most actual fans of the show think it concluded brilliantly and JJ had little to do with the show other than producing it after the first season and it’s wild that it’s still a lazy internet joke! YES this IS one of my sore subjects, how can you tell? Reading a Wikipedia page that sums up a hundred episodes of character and plot will really not give you a good idea what the show is like!!!
https://youtu.be/iXIOA_sgZoo

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