[Pamp Culture] oh is there a rapsball happening?

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RandolphCarter: Jul 30, 2005

Atrocious Joe posted:

Joe Pera Talks With You is good

not only is the show funny and a little heart warming, but it is stuffed with wonderful b roll of winter time Massachusetts

I bought joe pera�s bathroom book for people, not pooping or or peeing but, using the bathroom as an escape. it�s nice

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Kill All Cops: Apr 11, 2007; Pacheco de Chocobo; Hell Gem

double negative posted:

between severance and peacemaker, the bar for opening credits is getting extremely high

yeah, those two are the only ones i don't immediately skip and play through all the way

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:27

double negative: Jul 7, 2003

here�s severance�s for the curious

https://youtu.be/NmS3m0OG-Ug

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:31

Some Guy TT: Aug 30, 2011

also watching season one ds9 on cable and i dont get why people think the early seasons of this show are bad they make really good use of the premise to have the crew act reactively rather than proactively resulting in completely different stories than the tng style that still have a similar tone

the only really bad episode in the first season is the q episode and thats mainly because he doesnt work with the premise also qs a garbage character in general he only ever really works in the picard flashback stabbing episode and thats just because he serves as a plausible set up for the framing device

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:31

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Still watching through Letterkenny, and it's good

What We Do In The Shadows was supposed to be next on the list, but I'm intrigued by Our Flag Means Death despite it being basically the same idea but for pirates instead of vampires

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:31

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

loquacius posted:

Still watching through Letterkenny, and it's good

What We Do In The Shadows was supposed to be next on the list, but I'm intrigued by Our Flag Means Death despite it being basically the same idea but for pirates instead of vampires

Add Wellington Paranormal to that list too

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:32

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

i haven't watched anything new at all lately i'm mostly just waiting for the final manga arc of bleach to get animated and hoping against hope that it will be popular enough to warrant an adaptation of can't fear your own world

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:32

double negative: Jul 7, 2003

loquacius posted:

What We Do In The Shadows was supposed to be next on the list, but I'm intrigued by Our Flag Means Death despite it being basically the same idea but for pirates instead of vampires

it�s something entirely different tbh

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:34

DoombatINC: Apr 20, 2003; Here's the thing, I'm a feminist.

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Someone should post a movie/show they just watched and say if it's good or not.

I just watched The Hollywood Strangler Meets the Skid Row Slasher (1979), and even with low expectations I was pretty disappointed. I was hoping for more interplay between the two titular characters - a guy that takes photos of nude models and then chokes them, and a lady that stabs drunk guys in alleys - but the movie just alternates between them each time they kill someone, with almost nothing else actually happening in the movie, and then in the last minutes they meet, kill each other, the end. The only real upside of the movie is that front-to-back it's steeped in that authentic seventies exploitation grime so if you need some ambient filthy trash on a screen it sets a mood nicely, but I wouldn't go so far as to recommend actually watching it for any amount of time.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:34

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

loquacius posted:

Still watching through Letterkenny, and it's good

What We Do In The Shadows was supposed to be next on the list, but I'm intrigued by Our Flag Means Death despite it being basically the same idea but for pirates instead of vampires

I really liked What We Do In The Shadows but honestly the Mockumentary format is a crutch and Our Flag Means Death is better for having ditched it

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:35

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

loquacius posted:

Still watching through Letterkenny, and it's good

What We Do In The Shadows was supposed to be next on the list, but I'm intrigued by Our Flag Means Death despite it being basically the same idea but for pirates instead of vampires

What We Do in the Shadows is the funnier and better show, but Our Flag Means Death is good. It's hard to compete when you have Matt Berry in your cast.

Some Guy TT posted:

also watching season one ds9 on cable and i dont get why people think the early seasons of this show are bad they make really good use of the premise to have the crew act reactively rather than proactively resulting in completely different stories than the tng style that still have a similar tone

the only really bad episode in the first season is the q episode and thats mainly because he doesnt work with the premise also qs a garbage character in general he only ever really works in the picard flashback stabbing episode and thats just because he serves as a plausible set up for the framing device

I struggled to get through early DS9, but I think it steadily got better. It's the best Star Trek and it still had episodes like the terrible (and offensive) trans Quark one late in the run.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:35

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

Some Guy TT posted:

also watching season one ds9 on cable and i dont get why people think the early seasons of this show are bad they make really good use of the premise to have the crew act reactively rather than proactively resulting in completely different stories than the tng style that still have a similar tone

the only really bad episode in the first season is the q episode and thats mainly because he doesnt work with the premise also qs a garbage character in general he only ever really works in the picard flashback stabbing episode and thats just because he serves as a plausible set up for the framing device

move along home

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:35

Tricky D: Apr 1, 2005; I love um!

^^ Move Along Home is probably the single worst episode of the series

Some Guy TT posted:

also watching season one ds9 on cable and i dont get why people think the early seasons of this show are bad they make really good use of the premise to have the crew act reactively rather than proactively resulting in completely different stories than the tng style that still have a similar tone

the only really bad episode in the first season is the q episode and thats mainly because he doesnt work with the premise also qs a garbage character in general he only ever really works in the picard flashback stabbing episode and thats just because he serves as a plausible set up for the framing device

"You hit me, Picard never hit me" rules and makes the entire episode worth it.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:35

Mr Hootington: Jul 24, 2008; I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

i hate our dumb baby culture

https://twitter.com/TheDailyShow/status/1508067060126941185

Sorry ivory tower liberals.

He is right.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:36

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Nichael posted:

What We Do in the Shadows is the funnier and better show, but Our Flag Means Death is good. It's hard to compete when you have Matt Berry in your cast.

He's so loving good, and his shtick will never not be funny to me

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:37

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

bleach is kinda socialist until kubo drops that ichigo descends from a powerful line of shinigami and is a failson who got all his power from mommy and daddy. for the entire first arc it's like "random nobodies invaded from the poor district and are loving up bourgie captains and lieutenants and loving up the whole social order of the prideful noble kuchiki family"

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:37

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Lib and let die posted:

The one our sins created.

my own line used against me

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

He's so loving good, and his shtick will never not be funny to me

WHISKEY!

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:37

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

Tricky D posted:

^^ Move Along Home is probably the single worst episode of the series

"You hit me, Picard never hit me" rules and makes the entire episode worth it.

yea Q sucks but having Sisko just be sick of his poo poo instantly and smacking him genuinely shocking Q was a really good payoff at least

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:38

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

I can't do impressions, except I can say the word "pleasure" like Matt Berry.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:38

Mantis42: Jul 26, 2010

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Someone should post a movie/show they just watched and say if it's good or not.

I've been grinding out Letterboxd stat lists, here's stuff I've consumed this week:

Autumn Sonata - Ingrid Bergman's adult daughter is an ingrate. 8/10
Fanny and Alexander - The Bishop's stepchildren are ingrateful brats. 8/10
0 De Conduite - These schoolchildren are ingrateful brats 5/10
Eyes Without A Face - This faceless broad? Yep you guessed it. 7/10

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:38

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

Lib and let die posted:

bleach is kinda socialist until kubo drops that ichigo descends from a powerful line of shinigami and is a failson who got all his power from mommy and daddy. for the entire first arc it's like "random nobodies invaded from the poor district and are loving up bourgie captains and lieutenants and loving up the whole social order of the prideful noble kuchiki family"

I watched a bit of bleach a long time ago and all I remember is that they call people "quincey" a lot for some reason

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:38

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

sexpig by night posted:

yea Q sucks but having Sisko just be sick of his poo poo instantly and smacking him genuinely shocking Q was a really good payoff at least

also Q never returns to DS9, leaving it alone to become the best star trek

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:38

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

I watched a bit of bleach a long time ago and all I remember is that they call people "quincey" a lot for some reason

quincies are the humans that fight ghosts, shinigami are the ghosts that fight other ghosts

quincy use bows, shinigami use magic swords (than can do projectile attacks like bows if they're the right kind of magic transforming sword)

it's best viewed as a series of anime music videos tbh the lore is just...nonsense.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:40

Wraith of J.O.I.: Jan 25, 2012

AnimeIsTrash posted:

Someone should post a movie/show they just watched and say if it's good or not.

rewatched mad max fury road for the first time since it came out after listening to a podcast with a guy who wrote a book on the making of it. still absolutely rules and is incredible it got made, 5 stars. hope the furiosa prequel movie their making is anywhere near this.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:41

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

Yea What We Do In The Shadows is objectively the better show even discounting the fact that Matt Berry is one of the funniest people on earth, but Our Flag Means Death is also really good so yea just decide if you feel like vampire or pirate based humor because there's no wrong choice there.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:41

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i watched fast 9 on a plane the other day, it was okay

ds9 first two seasons are really fun imo, also interesting to watch them spend the budget in real time

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:42

empty whippet box: Jun 9, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

Some Guy TT posted:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Robert_E_Kelly/status/1509880764003143684

you have to be MAGA to be against groomers??????

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:43

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

Lib and let die posted:

it's best viewed as a series of anime music videos tbh the lore is just...nonsense.

it's a series of like fifty music videos made for a single song

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:44

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

sexpig by night posted:

Yea What We Do In The Shadows is objectively the better show even discounting the fact that Matt Berry is one of the funniest people on earth, but Our Flag Means Death is also really good so yea just decide if you feel like vampire or pirate based humor because there's no wrong choice there.

The set-up and payoff over the season of the Bloody Cat Flag being unfurled as evidence and the pirates responding "Yeah, it's loving badass!" is such a good, silly joke.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:45

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

haven't watched a bleach since sophomore year of college and "iiiif you wanna seeeee some action" is still crystal clear in my memory

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:45

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

it's some hot bullshit garbage they took TNG off of netflix, by the way

I'm not paying for paramount+ stop trying to make these + services happen

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:46

loquacius: Oct 21, 2008

sexpig by night posted:

Yea What We Do In The Shadows is objectively the better show even discounting the fact that Matt Berry is one of the funniest people on earth, but Our Flag Means Death is also really good so yea just decide if you feel like vampire or pirate based humor because there's no wrong choice there.

TBH the only reason my wife and I haven't watched any What We Do In The Shadows yet is that we wanna watch the movie first and getting our hands on the spare time and energy to watch an entire movie with a kid under 2 is easier said than done so we've been putting it off for like two months

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:47

AnimeIsTrash: Jun 30, 2018

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

it's some hot bullshit garbage they took TNG off of netflix, by the way

I'm not paying for paramount+ stop trying to make these + services happen

It's still on there for me.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:47

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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

rewatched mad max fury road for the first time since it came out after listening to a podcast with a guy who wrote a book on the making of it. still absolutely rules and is incredible it got made, 5 stars. hope the furiosa prequel movie their making is anywhere near this.

I rewatched it last year and yeah it rules still. absolutely perfect movie

also Freddie is right

quote:

�Hey, you�ve seen Mad Max: Fury Road. Modern classic, right? Isn�t it crazy how Furiosa totally replaces Max in a Mad Max movie? He doesn�t even do anything!� A very common interpretation of a great movie! Even the Honest Trailer of the film plays up the �Marginalized Max� angle. Too bad this vision of how the movie functions is just flat out, no doubt about it, objectively wrong. Not even close to right. Just inexplicably, inexcusably incorrect on its face.

In much the same way that �Indiana Jones doesn�t affect the plot in Raiders of the Lost Ark!� has become a standard-issue internet blowhard�s contrarian analysis of a great movie, the idea that Max doesn�t do anything in Fury Road is inescapable online - and unlike with Indy, this disrespect towards Max didn�t take decades to emerge but was part of the initial wave of reaction towards the film. Which is just weird! Without Max, Furiosa and the Five Wives don�t survive the initial flight from Immortan Joe and his War Boys. Max kills plenty of the latter, as well as many Rock Riders. There are three named evil sub-bosses in the movie: Rictus Erectus, the Bullet Farmer, and the People Eater; Max kills the latter two. He saves the lives of Furiosa and the wives time and again. He drives and fixes the War Rig. He saves Furiosa�s life literally with his own blood! And, in the single most important decision in the film - both narratively and thematically - he is the driving force, convincing the others not to attempt to flee to a better world that probably doesn�t exist but to turn around and fight for the current one. That is both the turning point of the movie�s story and the single most direct encapsulation of its message, and it�s all Max. It is totally unjustifiable to say that Max isn�t important in Fury Road, and yet it�s one of the most common things people �know� about the movie.

I suspect that so many people believing this rather than paying attention to what happens onscreen just demonstrates the power of people stating opinions with the right mix of confidence, insiderism, and against-the-grain posturing.

This bizarre plot misinterpretation wouldn�t both me so much if it didn�t also make such a hash of the film�s most essential themes. People saying that Furiosa replaces Max not only contradicts basic story moments but thoroughly confuses them about the movie�s message. It�s important to understand that Furiosa doesn�t replace Max because the entire movie demonstrates the failure of dictatorship and the superiority of communal leadership. It�s not about men being erased in deference to women; it would be totally bizarre for a movie with that intent to place so much agency in its male characters. (Nux�s sacrifice saves the lives of the remaining characters, to pick an obvious example.) It�s about the superiority of democracy and shared governance and diversity over the the whims of an individual autocrat - yes, a white and male autocrat, and not coincidentally. In his place we are shown a multigender, multiethnic community of equals, which is what progressive politics once aspired to, not Empress Furiosa. To say �Furiosa replaces Max� is to suggest that what the world needed was a different dictator, a more �diverse� dictator. But the movie rejects the idea of a female dictator. In what world is the female lead requiring the male lead to literally share his blood to save her life a portrait of matriarchal ascendance?

When Max has the rifle and gives it up to Furiosa because he knows she�s the better shot, this isn�t some sort of act of ritual suicide for masculinity. It�s the recognition that the next masculinity, the new masculinity, is unthreatened by the strengths and abilities of others. They are working together. She literally leans on him to shoot!

Feminism is not about women replacing men in an equally stratified and undemocratic structure as the patriarchy that preceded it; that�s a parody of feminism. Feminism is about equality, diversity, communalism, and radical democracy. Indeed, the movie models consensus and communal deliberation for us. When they stop and discuss whether to continue on the salt flats or turn back for the Citadel, Max and Furiosa do most of the talking, but everyone weighs in and is heard. Furiosa doesn�t lead by fiat. She listens and becomes convinced, as do the rest, and they all make a plan together. Max isn�t erased; he�s a valued and essential part of the whole, just as white men will be in the new world of democracy and equality we are building. �Dur dur dur Max is sidelined in his own movie lmao� is a perspective that stems from thinking that the world of Immortan Joes is the real world, the inevitable world - that white patriarchy is so constant and deeply entrenched that there is no alternative. But there is an alternative. Fury Road shows us that alternative: men and women working together as equals with shared goals and shared sacrifice to rebuild the world. That so many people have so badly misread such a vital and brilliant movie - and one that is so direct and uncomplicated in its essential themes - proves once again that the internet is a machine for making smart people believe stupid things.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:47

Lib and let die: Aug 26, 2004

loquacius posted:

haven't watched a bleach since sophomore year of college and "iiiif you wanna seeeee some action" is still crystal clear in my memory

here, let me help replace it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78WIYzX_m98

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:48

Good Soldier Svejk: Jul 5, 2010

AnimeIsTrash posted:

It's still on there for me.

Right, today is the "last day to watch" for it, or so it says on the episode list

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:49

Pepe Silvia Browne: Jan 1, 2007

Oh and speaking of vampires, I've been rewatching True Blood with my wife - it's very dumb! But a lot of fun!

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:50

Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Oh and speaking of vampires, I've been rewatching True Blood with my wife - it's very dumb! But a lot of fun!

It's one of my favorite shows, and I probably would've watched it for another ten, progressively shittier seasons.

# ? Apr 1, 2022 18:52

sexpig by night: Sep 8, 2011; by Azathoth

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Oh and speaking of vampires, I've been rewatching True Blood with my wife - it's very dumb! But a lot of fun!

it's easily one of my favorite garbage shows, I really should rewatch it.

It's so loving stupid right from the start, and then it evolves into a DIFFERENT kind of stupid show like four distinct times.

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Nichael: Mar 30, 2011

The bit with the sheriff calling a literal fairy bar, a "fairy bar" then getting called out for homophobia is so god drat stupid and funny.

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