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I thought the CEO guy was supposed to be a composite of Tim Apple and Musk but maybe it's a lens of whichever dunning-kruger ghoul with way too much political influence you want to see. My favorite character was the Chris Evans cameo as the centrist celebrity. I liked the movie but thought it was a little too long.
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i watched benedetta for christmas. pretty good! loved the breasts. verhoevens still got it
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this wheel of time series is..........kinda bad? uneven performances that go from serviceable to video game FMV, goofy rear end cheap CGI, cheap-looking armor it's like a modern 90s sci fi channel series
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Some Guy TT posted:i honestly dont get why people have such ire for flat earthers as cranks go theyre pretty harmless and im having a hard time imagining what kind of apocalyptic changes they could inflict if they somehow gained any kind of meaningful political power Everybody is an insane online nerd now and nerds can only pick on people lower down the food chain.
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Farm Frenzy posted:i watched benedetta for christmas. pretty good! loved the breasts. verhoevens still got it it rules + it's funny as hell when it wants to be
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Dec 26, 2021 01:39
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Dec 26, 2021 01:42
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Good soup! posted:this wheel of time series is..........kinda bad? uneven performances that go from serviceable to video game FMV, goofy rear end cheap CGI, cheap-looking armor the finale made me so sad I hope they slow things down in season 2 because it was all rushed and dumb. lil snippets of great potential weren't good enough
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wow the Wheel of Time finale sucked dirty balls from the back
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Don't Look Up was good but could have had a little more humour. I thought the brontoroc joke was exceptional
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indigi posted:wow the Wheel of Time finale sucked dirty balls from the back so you liked it?
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Don't look up was depressing and funny in equal measure. And yes, the brontoroc joke was funny
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The end of don't look up seemed pretty spot on. After doing all they could to "raise awareness" and when the end was nigh, all that was left to do was pretend everything was normal until the end came.
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I'll probably go back and forth on whether or not I liked Don't Look Up. If you already have a Netflix subscription, it's not the worse use of it if you want some sort of ambitious attempt at satire of the Trump/Biden era. I'm unsure if Leonardo DiCaprio is meant to be a Bernie Sanders or Dr. Fauci analogue. (The latter would make the movie worse.) It's definitely a Left Liberal movie. I'm unsure how much of the two main protagonists' actions and viewpoints the audience is still supposed to agree with by the end of the movie. The obsession with the general who took the money for the snacks was a funny recurring gag.
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Echo Chamber posted:I'll probably go back and forth on whether or not I liked Don't Look Up. If you already have a Netflix subscription, it's not the worse use of it if you want some sort of ambitious attempt at satire of the Trump/Biden era. I'm unsure if Leonardo DiCaprio is meant to be a Bernie Sanders or Dr. Fauci analogue. (The latter would make the movie worse.) It's definitely a Left Liberal movie. I'm unsure how much of the two main protagonists' actions and viewpoints the audience is still supposed to agree with by the end of the movie. but yeah mcckay and sirota are pretty left-lib, perhaps heavily more on the lefter-side than most media-adjacent people out there, so it's about what you'd expect e: to add, I didn't see DeCapiro as either a Sanders or Fauci analogue. I would put him more just as general IPCC-esque scientist analogue. Perhaps some Fauci-ian elements given some obvious parallel jokes with covid, but also not really. Xaris has issued a correction as of 07:41 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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Xaris posted:eh, i'm pretty sure "cherish the friends and family you have and make something with them in the coming end times because individuals have no power" is generally the take away of the protagonists actions at the end that i think people are more supposed to agree with are we? i know that was their only option at the end (and arguably, at the beginning as well), but to me it looked like they hosed up for "letting" humanity get wiped out. i thought the movie made it very clear that leo was a useless lib with no fire in his belly to do what needs to be done until it's too late. he was at the mercy of forces far more powerful than him, unequipped to deal with it i say swears online has issued a correction as of 07:50 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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i say swears online posted:i thought the movie made it very clear that leo was a useless lib with no fire in his belly to do what needs to be done until it's too late, at the mercy of forces far more powerful than him, with him unequipped to deal with them the only thing he could have done differently that may have worked was run straight to china day 1 before america realized they could/needed to do the thing.
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Xaris posted:i mean yeah he was a useless lib, but that last part kinda contradicts "doing what needed to be done" because within the superstructure of intertwined death-drive capitalism and americana political system there wasn't really anything to be done. yeah the movie showed that the US sat on it, then told other countries we had a plan, then aborted the plan without telling anyone. it's shown that the rest of the world fields an attempt that fails but it's implied they were scrambling with limited time may the movie didn't offer an answer, i guess. it's a pretty doomer reading, but hey what are we gonna do about it? it's christmas and it's shorts weather
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i say swears online posted:implied they were scrambling with limited time edit2: I talked to a tank nerd who actually was able to id the tank as likely a russian BMP-3 so i was wrong there that they were US tanks, but i still felt it was implied that it was sabotage. i also think its funnier/more realistic that it would be so i'll just stick with it, but for accuracy no they don't explicitly say it Xaris has issued a correction as of 08:12 on Dec 26, 2021 |
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Dec 26, 2021 07:50
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Jonah Hill as a simultaneous Ivanka/DonJr analog is p good
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i watched rivers edge for the first time in like 20 years still rules feels more poignant today Crispin glover is a prolific scenery chewer
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New matrix was pretty dece, I was hoping it would be weird and polarising and it is It was basically a provocative sequel smashed together with a standard sequel and lots of stuff to trigger chuds The action was bad but I liked the look of the film In this years ranking I'd put it ahead of Dune but behind Malignant, thank you your honour
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Communist Thoughts posted:New matrix was pretty dece, I was hoping it would be weird and polarising and it is Did it retrace a lot of plot beats from the original Matrix? The trailers gave me the distinct impression that it was just a soft reboot. Neo finds out about the Matrix again and learns kung-fu. Is it necessary to re-watch the Matrix 2 and 3? Because I literally remember nothing from those films except some white guys with dreadlocks were there. As for don’t look up, I guess it was overall pretty good. The plot beats were predictable because I have c-spam brain, but the little throwaway gags like the Silicon Valley guy sniffing her hair during the briefing and Ron Perlman shooting guns at the comet, as well as the reoccurring joke about getting charged for snacks has me dying. It was at least partially written by David Sirota, so it is obviously about how neoliberalism will fail (failed) to stop global warming. Though there were obvious re-writes and moments of Trumpism/Covid denialism thrown into the mix. For those who haven’t seen “The Wandering Earth” on Netflix, I recommend it as a chaser. It’s not a great movie, but it avoids the capitalist realism of “Don’t look up” because the plot is literally “Commmunism saves the world.”
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yeah at least that movie had (big, dumb) solutions
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The Atomic Man-Boy posted:It was at least partially written by David Sirota, so it is obviously about how neoliberalism will fail (failed) to stop global warming. Though there were obvious re-writes and moments of Trumpism/Covid denialism thrown into the mix. im definitely getting the impression that this stuff was tossed in to make the movie more palatable to liberal film critics but that they have rather paradoxically responded by saying that trumpism and covid denialism arent actually relevant anymore which is a fairly baffling take given that the democrats writ large are refusing to shut up about either of these things
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Some Guy TT posted:im definitely getting the impression that this stuff was tossed in to make the movie more palatable to liberal film critics but that they have rather paradoxically responded by saying that trumpism and covid denialism arent actually relevant anymore which is a fairly baffling take given that the democrats writ large are refusing to shut up about either of these things if they admit it’s relevant they’d have to acknowledge that Biden’s admin is engaging in covid denialism more effectively than Trump did, the secret is admitting it exists while denying any mitigating actions or policies you could implement
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500 good dogs posted:the movie is funny and good if you have even the most mild case of cspam brain and you should watch it Ya i was surprised, worth it for meryl's trump and jonah hill's don jr alone imo
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meryl streep was exactly as she is in every other movie, real boring and overacted.
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mawarannahr posted:meryl streep was exactly as she is in every other movie, real boring and overacted. Agreed, for this specific movie, I don't think she always overacts. DLD was good and true. There's no salvation, folks, we're loving dead.
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mawarannahr posted:meryl streep was exactly as she is in every other movie, real boring and overacted. shes a treasure....
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mawarannahr posted:meryl streep was exactly as she is in every other movie, real boring and overacted. they keep calling her the greatest that poo poo is so bad
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Fuligin posted:shes a treasure.... they should bury her
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Judakel posted:they keep calling her the greatest that poo poo is so bad she has one role she can play and she does it the same every time and I don't think she's a good actor
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