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The United States posted:Skyfall: clearly the women in charge are incompetent failures, time to put the men in charge hey, this is also what happened in national politics
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StashAugustine posted:The GBS thread did have one guy who complained it wasn't formulaic enough in his experience as a scriptwriter (had several rejected scripts for american dad) just incredible energy
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indigi posted:fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckin hell lol at the idea that getting baptized and converting was good enough to save a jew from the nazis
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I don't know who created Kingo, but I want to figure out how to get them to have Kingo to the polls!
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josh04 posted:hey, this is also what happened in national politics uh we never put the women in charge so actually we dont know
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Some Guy TT posted:Choose your own adventure holocaust book gently caress, there are multiple books made by that guy. https://www.amazon.com/Kenneth-Roseman/e/B001JRUJSQ/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1
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it looks like the author was literally a rabbi and I think that was meant to be a Bad ending https://www.smu.edu/libraries/digitalcollections/kdr
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StashAugustine posted:The GBS thread did have one guy who complained it wasn't formulaic enough in his experience as a scriptwriter (had several rejected scripts for american dad) I was there for that live, they tried to cite "Save the Cat" to support their arguments for more formulaic plot beats in Dune lmao.
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for those of you who are unaware of what that means, save the cat is a book on writing and is pretty much the mark of bad/inexperienced writers. it's held up as the bible of writing fiction but it just teaches you to write utterly formulaic stuff. if you want to learn to write better stories, then read better stories and learn from the writers you admire -- that's the secret. but save the cat is held up by so many people as the only book you ever need because it was written by none other by Hollywood screenwriter blake snyder. who is blake snyder i hear you ask? well, blake snyder is the guy behind the infamously bad films stop! or my mom will shoot! and blank check. of the former, stallone infamously said that an earthworm could've written a better story. save the cat is just one of the many books that promise to turn you into an amazing writer. the thing is, if you need a book to tell you the kind of beginner-level advice on writing they usually offer (remember to engage all the reader's senses, and give the protagonist an arc!) then you probably aren't ready to write a story. i happen to know a pretty decent writer who swore by save the cat but really began to blossom once he threw the book aside and wished he'd done it earlier. if you want good writing advice, source it from authors you admire or are critical/commercial successes. don't source it from some guy who wrote two movies that are an average of 10% on rotten tomatoes and have mouth-watering descriptors like "witless" "contrived" "numbingly awful" and "unfunny." if you want to be really cynical about it, you can always wonder: why would someone sell you the secrets to writing well instead of using the secret formula themselves? it's basically a grift. not too far removed from any other kind of scheme that promises you the secret to making money off your art. the real secret to making money off your art is this: you probably won't. the trick of it all is accepting that and doing it anyway. Horizon Burning has issued a correction as of 06:12 on Nov 3, 2021 |
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Atrocious Joe posted:it looks like the author was literally a rabbi and I think that was meant to be a Bad ending it’s still a deeply weird portrayal of One Weird Tip To Avoid Auschwitz (the ss HATES this!!)
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Xaris posted:is the new james bond good? it seems pretty bad and lib Great action scenes.
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uber_stoat posted:-story spans 7000 years Will there be a butthole cut of Eternals??
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Xaris posted:is the new james bond good? it seems pretty bad and lib my wife and I loved it. fun, which has been missing from bond for a long while. the ending is amazing too. I'd definitely say it's worth the watch.
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Finally watched DUNC last night: Movie was 2.5 hours and still felt missing so much. Very pretty though, but spent a little too much time rubbing my face in it.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Will there be a butthole cut of Eternals?? Kingo Kango Kongo I don't want to see his butthole, oh no no no.
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uber_stoat posted:Kingo Kango Kongo I don't want to see his butthole, oh no no no. They made things like the Atom Bomb Phastos said "god what have I done?" Marvel's Eternals! Is very dense!
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:They made things like the Atom Bomb a goon making a lyrical joke that actually scans? well I never
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I watched DUNC over the weekend. I've never actually read the original - I was familiar with the universe, the Fremen, the Houses, Shai-Hulud, the Landsraad, the CHOAM League, the Butlerian Jihad, even the Orange Catholic Bible, but that was because I read the Kevin J Anderson prequels since it was the only ones that our school library had and not Frank Herbert's works. Nevertheless, between that and the video games and general nerd osmosis I was able to follow along well enough. I liked it! I look forward to the next one. My only complaint was that a lot of the dialogue was mumbly especially from Lady Jessica and I wish we had subtitles (my :files: copy didn't have one lol!)
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gradenko_2000 posted:I read the Kevin J Anderson prequels since it was the only ones that our school library had and not Frank Herbert's works. that is traumatic. that’s worse than getting only the Star Wars prequels
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gradenko_2000 posted:I watched DUNC over the weekend. sound mixing is such loving dogshit these days in movies that all of them should have subtitles by default. learn to make dialogue audible again you idiots
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gradenko_2000 posted:My only complaint was that a lot of the dialogue was mumbly especially from Lady Jessica and I wish we had subtitles (my :files: copy didn't have one lol!) im relieved to see someone else say this because i was worried about my hearing.
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i was very glad DUNC released on HBO Max where I can turn on subtitles, especially because while I've absorbed a lot of the unique names and words through osmosis over the years, my wife was going in with no prior knowledge whatsoever and even just keeping names straight would have been really tricky without them
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going to see dune on the big screen, catching covid, now able to do the sardaurkar chant when i speak
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Serf posted:sound mixing is such loving dogshit these days in movies that all of them should have subtitles by default. learn to make dialogue audible again you idiots I love having to constantly adjust my volume, so the last decade has been good for me.
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Yeah I had to set my volume to where the action scenes were tolerably loud, which made most of the dialogue mumbly and inaudible, luckily I'm usually watching with subtitles anyway. DUNC was pretty good. Too bad the only character with real personal charisma ended up dying leaving us with people who can only speak with one emotion (gravitas)
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Too bad about it being a game of thrones ripoff though. Leto Atreides is an obvious Ned Stark expy
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I have to be honest with the exception of two scenes in Tenet I’ve never had trouble hearing or understanding dialogue in any of these movies and my hearing isn’t good. I wonder what that’s about
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i watched it at home with subtitles and am going to see it in imax today before eternals bumps it out
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indigi posted:I have to be honest with the exception of two scenes in Tenet I’ve never had trouble hearing or understanding dialogue in any of these movies and my hearing isn’t good. I wonder what that’s about some people are gifted in a special way.
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i will give christopher nolan this, if you tried to get around the inaudible dialogue in tenet your reward was subtitles that said "inaudible" rarely have i wanted to choke a film director to death but he sure came close
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Judakel posted:some people are gifted in a special way. it’s the most useless gift. I’d like to return it
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indigi posted:I have to be honest with the exception of two scenes in Tenet I’ve never had trouble hearing or understanding dialogue in any of these movies and my hearing isn’t good. I wonder what that’s about unfortunately this means you are the kwisatz haderach
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vyelkin posted:unfortunately this means you are the kwisatz haderach well I’m already a giant volcel worm so this tracks
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i didn't really have an issue hearing the dialogue in tenet, it was just that the sound mix pulled everything to the forefront so you'd get ancillary stuff like breaking glass, screeching metal, rustling leaves, the flutter of a bird's wings, the whisper of an unseen child, pushed to your ears all at the same level
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My favorite fact about Save the Cat is that the author had an axe to grind with Memento because it was a successful movie that didn't fit into his formula.
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