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genericnick posted:Lmao at Chiang Kai-Shek. He got canceled to Taiwan.
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giving the "retired" military guy smuggling weapons to your proxy the cover of a fertilizer salesman is really on the nose
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Atrocious Joe posted:was Taibbi ever chased out of a country like Dolan or Ames. not exactly, although the way ames tells of his exit from russia is pretty funny, quote:Shortly after Ames returned to Moscow, in early 2002, Taibbi left for Buffalo, New York, to start a new paper, The Buffalo Beast. Ames says Taibbi made it clear he didn’t want Ames’s help. According to some, it was Taibbi’s plan all along to parlay the Exile buzz into Stateside success. “[The Exile] gave him the Western platform he always wanted,” says Andrew Meier. Ames agrees. “I never thought I’d get anything of mine read. Matt never suffered from that worry. It was his birthright to be read,” he says. “He wasn’t ever comfortable with his own anger. Matt’s fate all along was to end up in a privileged space. He knew that and realized that if he could take an unconventional route there it would make him much more interesting once he arrived.” Ames claims that while he was gone Taibbi mismanaged The Exile, running it into debt and embroiling it in a libel lawsuit with Russian hockey star Pavel Bure after Taibbi ran a prank story claiming Bure’s then girlfriend, tennis player Anna Kournikova, had two vaginas. Ames says Taibbi pushed him to take on Bure, a hero among some of Moscow’s less humor-inclined underworld figures, knowing that it might endanger The Exile and Ames’s safety, even his life. “He wanted out of The Exile and he wanted out of my shadow. He was pretty clear that he wanted The Exile to go down,” Ames says.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:Like many other gen xers tabbi's brain got broken by the concept of cancel culture. Mark Ames posted:It was his birthright to be read,
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when mark and yasha poo poo on greenwald, which side does the glenn thread take?
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glad that Mark has good opinions  really hope they get Eileen on for the Dune episode https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1455595283811819521
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that review is kind of similar (not in a plagiarizing way just in the way that they both address some of the movies weaknesses) on the sports website defector, which basically said that dune wasn't very good because it was faithful to the plot but plot is like the least interesting thing about dune. comparequote:But even the original Dune novel is weird. It is a story about a group of space nuns who use eugenics to produce a boy who does so many drugs that he can see the future and ride a big worm and become the ruler of the universe. When you spell it all out like that, you get closer to seeing how Frank Herbert fits in the sci-fi tradition. He’s easy to miscategorize half a century on, because the visuals of Dune are what linger in popular imagination, since they are so often singular. But Herbert was less a successor to the grandeur of Clarke or the wonder of Bradbury or the almost erotic warmaking paeans of Heinlein, and more a contemporary of the outré, psychedelic—as John Semley so aptly puts it—pulp of a Philip K. Dick. Things didn’t always make sense because making sense wasn’t the point; you were supposed to be entertained, you were supposed to feel things, and you were supposed to come away altered in some way. Herbert’s Dune is not space Shakespeare, as so many of Villeneuve’s actors seem keen to play it; it is space opera, for all the low-rent and grimy and tawdry connotations that once-pejorative genre name implies. It is a battered paperback, not a prestige hardcover. with quote:Given all this dullness, I was really looking forward to the sandworms. Sadly, it’s very telling that, in this film, the sandworms are dull too. They tunnel along in a very literal way, creating long sand tubes like gophers in cartoons, only gigantic. And when one finally appears, the most that can be said for it is, it’s quite large. Yep. A large, staid, dignified-looking sandworm comes up out of the sand, looming over Paul and his dull mother, Lady Jessica (Rebecca Ferguson). It then holds its pose photogenically, like a head of state getting one of those enormous magisterial portraits done to hang in the marble hall. they're right! i still liked dune though.
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Nov 2, 2021 19:45
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Eileen sums up the new Dune precisely: "...one of these slow, bloated, ponderous, solemn, handsomely shot, Hans Zimmered epics that other people seem to like for reasons that escape me"
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The score was the most Hans Zimmer score possible, and not really in a good way; but I thought the movie worked overall. Personally I think the unrelenting grimness fit for a story about a decaying feudal empire run by several competing bands of psychos which is only going to be upended by unimaginable bloodshed
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I liked it, but I agree with Mark and Eileen that movies were more enjoyable when they took themselves less seriously. We need to bring back some of the goofiness that sci-fi had in the 80s.
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a major movie now costs a hundred gajillion billion dollars to make so that's not likely to happen any time soon
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Joementum posted:I liked it, but I agree with Mark and Eileen that movies were more enjoyable when they took themselves less seriously. We need to bring back some of the goofiness that sci-fi had in the 80s. Those movies still exist, they're just lke "free guy" or w/e.
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I could listen to Carl Zha all day
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:I could listen to Carl Zha all day You'll have to if you want him to get to the point on his podcast.
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StashAugustine posted:The score was the most Hans Zimmer score possible, and not really in a good way; but I thought the movie worked overall. Personally I think the unrelenting grimness fit for a story about a decaying feudal empire run by several competing bands of psychos which is only going to be upended by unimaginable bloodshed That was my thought exactly. This is a story about an ancient institution composed of similarly gerontocratic factions who are all merely going through the motions of history. The fact that even Paul ends up being a mere instrument rather than a subject of history despite being a psychic God is a pretty effective attack on Great Man theory. The Greatest Man in the universe can't even control his own people, who see him as a God, because the historical buildup of millenia are sweeping it along a path to the jihad. The new Dune's Baron Harkonnen is emblematic of this change. He's extremely anhedonic about being a decadent fat piece of poo poo. He's only rising to meet the duty of his obligations. But Eileen is right that it's dull. As much as I liked it and the take it has on the book I was still nodding off a lot after the 1:30 point. I'm hoping Part 2 is way more colorful and psychedelic in contrast. Pener Kropoopkin has issued a correction as of 04:59 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:when mark and yasha poo poo on greenwald, which side does the glenn thread take? give you three guesses
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StashAugustine posted:The score was the most Hans Zimmer score possible, and not really in a good way; but I thought the movie worked overall. Personally I think the unrelenting grimness fit for a story about a decaying feudal empire run by several competing bands of psychos which is only going to be upended by unimaginable bloodshed i like this epic stuff. he's breaking the fourth wall, but he's not winking at the camera. and i'm making moves in the audience along with my favorite dune character, gurney halleck. he slices one of the harkonnens in half. me: "yeah! gently caress you!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngemyVhDmpM BrutalistMcDonalds has issued a correction as of 10:44 on Nov 4, 2021 |
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In the books the Atreides homeworld is supposed to be a verdant paradise where the common people have leisurely lives of luxury. So making it a dull wet rock that looked like the Orkneys was a clever choice. Makes it really clear that there's no real life in House Atreides, they're just going through the motions as much as anyone else.
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I really hope in the Taiwan series with Carl Zha they get to a "China war scenarios" episode, similar to what John outlined both on RWN and on a guest appearance on Chapo w/r/t Iran.
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:That was my thought exactly. This is a story about an ancient institution composed of similarly gerontocratic factions who are all merely going through the motions of history. The fact that even Paul ends up being a mere instrument rather than a subject of history despite being a psychic God is a pretty effective attack on Great Man theory. The Greatest Man in the universe can't even control his own people, who see him as a God, because the historical buildup of millenia are sweeping it along a path to the jihad. Yeah agreed on all of it- I do think it's hard to separate the fact that it bleeds its momentum in the third act from the decision to end the movie where it did. Though BR2049 had a similar problem with its third act so maybe it's more than that.
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Nov 4, 2021 19:14
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the only movie from the last decade with a good third act is malignant
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i say swears online posted:the only movie from the last decade with a good third act is malignant Probably because movies these days are about selling sequels and cinematic universes, so the third act can't bring catharsis because that's always for the next movie, which will do the same thing.
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BrutalistMcDonalds posted:i like this epic stuff. he's breaking the fourth wall, but he's not winking at the camera. and i'm making moves in the audience along with my favorite dune character, gurney halleck. he slices one of the harkonnens in half. me: "yeah! gently caress you!" my inner war nerd gets annoyed when battles are two groups of infantry sprinting at each other in a field. they should have ripped off the forever war and had the Houses fight with (physical) shield walls and pikes because of the energy shields
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Atrocious Joe posted:my inner war nerd gets annoyed when battles are two groups of infantry sprinting at each other in a field. I had the same thought when I read Dune for the first time and it occurred again while watching the new one
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I still want a Russian civil war series.
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i want a russian civil war series and i want a life and times of mao series mao has got to be one of the most insane stories of all time. came from a moderately privileged but really quite modest background, survived all kinds of improbable poo poo and became supreme leader of china. we should all be so lucky
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obv not the same but i believe mike duncan said he'll be covering the russian civil war this season
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Nov 8, 2021 19:46
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getting really sick of Revolutions' twenty minute episodes
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Nov 8, 2021 19:48
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i say swears online posted:getting really sick of Revolutions' twenty minute episodes Love the harris razor though
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did you know he wrote a book
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i say swears online posted:did you know he wrote a book I'llneedtolistentoitonaudible
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It finally happened to me. In what I hope will become a war nerd tradition, I was momentarily locked in the bathroom at work today
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Larouchism with Chinese Characteristics
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Larouchism with Chinese Characteristics lol
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The deep state at work yet again
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net work error posted:The deep state at work yet again probably challenged the wrong person to a sword duel
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