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*Points to harry potter.* loquacius posted:I still don't think culture has absolutely no effect on young starry-eyed people just having their political awakenings but this doesn't have to be a death hill v *Points to harry potter.* (Kind of see more like ping pong effect. Politics alter art. Art alters the way people see politics. Politics alters art.) loquacius posted:I think the gun-control measure is that the wizard police can tell if you cast the gun spell and then they're coming for you It's probably a complex honour system like rich people have, and monarchist had.
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The more one knows about art, then the more a person knows about politics. When a person finds out enough about music, then a person will end up learning a ton about the record industry and the bad practices that go into making music. Then a person can take those practices and see variations of it in other parts of life, like in central governments. My friend's interest in being a toy collector made him very aware of oil production, more so than anybody who drives a car. Now, the politics of art, is that some random person can make a living off a single song getting popular on youtube or spotify. Making art, and having conversations about art where politics can be separated is easier now, and will probably become easier in the future. But also having conversations about politics in art, becomes easier because we can be whatever about art. There was some metalcore singer, who sexually assaulted a person, and one twitter comment was like "gently caress him, there are a hundred metalcore bands, they're not important."
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AnimeIsTrash posted:how about we get back to posting about shows/movies we watched and if they were good or not I watched The Astrologer (1975) last night (aka Suicide Cult and not to be confused with The Astrologer (1976) which is about a renegade psychic) and it was truly bizarre, but it had that moreish quality of a movie where you've got no idea what's going to happen next. It centers on the life of a government researcher who works to determine people's "zodiacal potential" - their capacity for good and evil, their destinies, and the strength of those destinies, gleaned from the time and place of their birth - whose on the hunt for a man born in India that has the greatest capacity for evil of any human ever born while protecting his own wife who has the same zodiacal potential as the Virgin Mary. It operates in its own logical bubble so deeply that most of the movie is just spent exploring the rules they're working under, and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't weirdly gripped by it. It'd make a great double feature with Exorcist 2, and there's not a lot of movies that fit that bill. A "seeing is believing" kind of recommend for fans of experimental horror.
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God Hole posted:Albus Severus Potter: dad I'm scared what if I get sorted into the Nazi house? "ok i actually knew a second good nazi. he also had a decades-long fixation with your grandmother but he gave me drugs"
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skooma512 posted:I saw Wild Wild West the other day. yea I'm glad we're past acting like Wild Wild West is THE WORST MOVIE EVER. It's really lovely but it's also pretty fun and has genuinely funny moments. Plus yea, Gatling gun confederates, how can you not give it a couple points just for that?
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Doing my last 10 movies, jumping on the bandwagon as the third poster to do it, which is exactly as many posters a gimmick can sustain before it's no longer cool. Sucker Punch: even in our dreams, we can't escape the patriarchy. Not socialist, but nice try Zack. Whiplash: It's satisfying to watch JK Simmons abuse a bunch of bougie white kids at the fancy music school. I show this movie to people to explain that I'm not toxic, I just want them to be their best selves. Not socialist. EEAAO: Main characters are literally petite bourgeois business owners trying to commit tax fraud. Treats anal play as a punchline. Not socialist, also guillotine. A Touch of Zen: Every Pu Songling story is just "what if a bureaucrat got pussy?" Socialist Yes, Madam!: China cop but made in British Hong Kong. Villain is a businessman, but I'm still saying not socialist. Sweet Girl: Aquaman vs Big Pharma and their Washington running dogs. Socialist. The Power of the Dog: not actually about a dog. Not socialist + guillotine. Harakiri: Bushido, more like bullshito. Kobayashi films are always socialist. The Adam Project: When the revolution comes, Ryan Reynolds will be the first against the wall. Not socialist. Johnson Family Vacation: bow wow really commits to the pee acting. not socialist
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Because it came up in the CineD Action Movies thread and because EEAO.
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double negative posted:anyone else watch snowfall? about a kid from south central who gets caught up selling coke for an especially hosed up cia officer funding the contras. co-created by singleton, but fell off a bit after he died, still generally a good watch. 5 seasons deep and getting kinda goofy now, but damson idris is really good. Anyway, Idris definitely sells the character, the character being a giant capitalist piece of poo poo who happens to come from a far more sympathetic background than most of them.
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pogi posted:the 10 duel commandments vs. the 10 crack commandments jesus gently caress that is so lame). I've never engaged in anything hammilton and this 10 duel commandments feels like it was written by a 15 year old white kid who heard his older brother listening to the biggy track the biggy track is more legible and the rhymes are actually complex. It also has narrative perspective like someone telling you their advice based on experience. I mean if someone did the homework for you at least copy it "I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal It's rules to this poo poo, I wrote me a manual A step-by-step booklet for you to get Your game on track, not your wig pushed back" is such a sick rhyme scheme and also the final line, after the staccato feeling of "for you to get", being the consequences of following the 10 commandments vs not listening lands hard. it's pure form "Number one The challenge, demand satisfaction If they apologize, no need for further action" doesn't even take on the perspective of the person undertaking a duel. Who wants "no further action"? I want to humiliate my opponent or wound them. it's factually bad writing. he could have stolen the wig pushed back line and recontextualized it. just do something wtf Antonymous has issued a correction as of 21:12 on Apr 15, 2022 |
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idk who that speaks to. who likes this stuff? who is it for?? its like "I get it, it rhymes" and then?
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Zokari posted:this in the same book where she establishes that literally every single nazi house member refuses to fight alongside the rest of the school against voldemort What's the old saying, scratch a liberal and a nazi bleeds?
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A Buttery Pastry posted:I feel like "caught up" undersells his agency a bit. He doesn't innocently fall into the life, he looks at the society he lives in and decides that his best shot at achieving his ambitions is crime. don't disagree with that at all, he's almost as much of a monster as teddy, and the show and the character make it clear a. he'll do anything to maintain his wealth and power and b. he could easily be incredibly successful doing poo poo other than collaborating with the cia to destroy his community and fund an anti-leftist war at least in talking to people i know about it, kinda feels reminiscent of breaking bad where people conflate the protagonist with the good guy. and damson might be the best performance, but jerome is my favorite character
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AnimeIsTrash posted:how about we get back to posting about shows/movies we watched and if they were good or not the das boot tv show is pretty great but it sucks that streaming rights are in some weird rear end purgatory where you can watch season one on hulu but i guess you need the disney hulu espn bundle for any of the other ones??? because yeah if im into world war two submarine drama thats definitely the other services i want are disney and espn is it socialist? well uhhh its obviously antinazi and antisubmarine and anticop and antiamericafirster and anticorporation and antimilitary and antiholocaust and sometimes antifrenchresistance but mostly because those guys are totally incompetent the only things anyone seems to have a sincerely positive opinion on are jazz music and loving
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double negative posted:at least in talking to people i know about it, kinda feels reminiscent of breaking bad where people conflate the protagonist with the good guy. and damson might be the best performance, but jerome is my favorite character And yes, obviously Jeremo is the best character, just look at his hair.
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Some Guy TT posted:the only things anyone seems to have a sincerely positive opinion on are jazz music and loving  reasonable tbh
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Antonymous posted:idk who that speaks to. who likes this stuff? who is it for?? hip-hip no hop
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TeenageArchipelago posted:There's a super wand in harry potter that can change allegiances, but it magically knows who it currently is allied to. Dumbledore has the super wand in most of the series, but then snape kills dumbledore, so voldomort thinks that the wand is tied to snape and murders him after a bit of light grave robbing and steeling the wand off of dumbledores corpse. But, right before snape killed dumbledore draco malfoy, harry's side-character rival, had stolen the super wand from dumbledore, and then somewhere along the line harry beat up draco and robbed him and the wand magically knew that, so it knew that harry owned it, and so it couldn't own harry you cant make a billion dollar franchise off a silly side story, they had to tie in the larger universe somehow. the problem is the larger universe sucks and everything they could draw from was vague poo poo that wasnt meant to be closely examinated. of course the real solution would be for rowling to continue the story somehow, but everyone knows recapturing that lightning is impossible. so really there were never any good options and the whole venture was doomed from the start
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on saying if what we just watched was socialist or not news, i watched the adam project on netflix. dogshit movie, not socialist at all.
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man parrishlyNonsense posted:hip-hip no hop please stop please stop
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babypolis posted:you cant make a billion dollar franchise off a silly side story, they had to tie in the larger universe somehow. the problem is the larger universe sucks and everything they could draw from was vague poo poo that wasnt meant to be closely examinated. of course the real solution would be for rowling to continue the story somehow, but everyone knows recapturing that lightning is impossible. so really there were never any good options and the whole venture was doomed from the start Other than Tolkien did any author successfully make the leap from kids books to bigger more expansive series about the same world? Sanderson kind of did it going from mistborn to the newer books but not really
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I watched Stephen Merchant’s latest bbc jawn Outlaws. it was a decent way to kill 6 hours, had a very well constructed interconnecting-gears type plot but it just wasn’t that interesting, unfortunately, or funny, which is kind of what I expect from the goggle eyed freak. watch it if you need something for the treadmill or lunch breaks, not a hearty recommendation. I bring that up cause I wanted to mention that Chris Walken is in that, too, and is fuckin wonderful in it. two tv series in a year, kind of a weird career turn for a legendary 80 year old actor but *SNL producer voice* I gotta have more Walken!! him and Steve were the best characters and actors in the show, I hope the next season is just them
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mastershakeman posted:Other than Tolkien did any author successfully make the leap from kids books to bigger more expansive series about the same world? Sanderson kind of did it going from mistborn to the newer books but not really arguably dragonball-> dbz
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Mantis42 posted:Doing my last 10 movies, jumping on the bandwagon as the third poster to do it, which is exactly as many posters a gimmick can sustain before it's no longer cool. 1. In the Shadow of the Moon - neat concept, definitely anti-right wing but not socialist 2. Moonfall - Emmerich disaster movie, not socialist 3. The Bubble - could have been more interesting but it's at least half an hour too long, has a bit of collective action but not socialist 4. Self/less - Ryan Reynolds in a rare role where he's not just playing Ryan Reynolds, is kind of opposed to the horrors of capitalism but from the perspective of someone that already Won At Capitalism, maybe a tiny bit socialist 5. Beyond White Space - Moby Dick in space! not socialist 6. Cosmic Sin - one of Bruce Willis' last movies (wow he's in a whole bunch of poo poo in the less than two years since, though, he really churned out a whole bunch of dreck before retiring) "the warcrime planet-killer super nukes are good, actually", not socialist 7. Venom 2 - barely memorable beyond the broad strokes, not socialist 8. Jackass Forever - more fun on the second watch with friends, very surprising amount of dong hung, good to see Steve-O healthy, not socialist 9. No Time to Die - well he did anyway so it's got that going for it, not socialist 10. Ghostbusters: Afterlife - eh, i liked it well enough, doesn't have the anti-EPA message Dan Akroyd forced into the originals, not socialist
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I will never acknowledge Puerto Rico, they disrespect Mexico my friend.
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God I don't remember what my last ten movies were. I have a toddler. About half of these are toddler movies. Pig -- Nic Cage gives up fame and fortune to seek fulfillment but his wife's still dead. Y'know what? Socialist. What We Do In The Shadows -- this movie could easily exist in about the same state under socialism but it's not really socialist. Moana -- my daughter is obsessed with this movie. Not socialist. Encanto -- my daughter is obsessed with this movie too. It's essentially about a petty noble family's dysfunction, therefore extremely not socialist. Tangled -- my wife wanted to show this to our daughter because there's a horse in it; she had forgotten that it is a cop horse. The movie has a song about how even criminals have dreams and are worth something as people, which is good, but it's not socialist due to, y'know, all the monarchism. Frozen -- I'm lucky that my daughter isn't as obsessed with this as kids of ten years ago were; it's still monarchist. Not socialist. Dune -- part 2 might be socialist??? but part 1 is all noble intrigue. Not socialist. Coda -- this movie had a subplot about a deaf fisherman founding a co-op to escape being hosed over by businessmen, basically seizing the means, but the film is mostly about his daughter trying to get formal schooling in singing for some reason which honestly sounds kinda bourg to me. I'll call it socdem on balance. Avatar -- my dad wanted to rewatch this. Doesn't hold up. The extremely present noble-savage and white-savior tropes undercut the ostensible anti-imperialist theme. Not socialist. Captain Fantastic -- I don't actually think an ending where Viggo Mortensen decides to live In Society rather than keep being a survivalist is necessarily anti-socialist, but the movie ended up kinder to the rich father-in-law than I would have liked. But, Viggo Mortensen hangs dong. I'll call this one socdem too.
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loquacius posted:Pig -- Nic Cage gives up fame and fortune to seek fulfillment but his wife's still dead. Y'know what? Socialist. Pig was good, possibly even socialist, more anprim tho
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I think I would've enjoyed Pig better if my expectations weren't set by people saying it was like John Wick, but with Nick Cage and a pig it was extremely not John Wick with Nick Cage and a pig
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:I think I would've enjoyed Pig better if my expectations weren't set by people saying it was like John Wick, but with Nick Cage and a pig Lol that was me Mostly a joke -- both characters left behind a life of renown as a legendary figure in an insular community when their wife died, to instead live in quiet seclusion with an animal sidekick who is the only remaining memento of said dead wife. This animal is then taken away from them, and they react in very different ways because John Wick is an assassin and the Pig guy is a chef. It's a similar character put into a similar situation; the resulting movies are quite different because one of them is the greatest killer on earth and the other one is really good at cooking French food loquacius has issued a correction as of 00:40 on Apr 16, 2022 |
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i watched the 1999 film the 13th floor because i vaguely remembered seeing the box at the rental places (???) as a small child and i was surprised to find that its yet another movie that came out in 1999 that has pretty much the same premise as the matrix. how many of those movies did they make?? this is like the fifth now that i can think of off the top of my head without going broad enough to include poo poo like fight club as well
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Good soup! posted:how badly has The Lawnmower Man aged https://i.imgur.com/5Tckt6V.mp4 still without flaw
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Farm Frenzy posted:i watched the 1999 film the 13th floor because i vaguely remembered seeing the box at the rental places (???) as a small child and i was surprised to find that its yet another movie that came out in 1999 that has pretty much the same premise as the matrix. how many of those movies did they make?? this is like the fifth now that i can think of off the top of my head without going broad enough to include poo poo like fight club as well If you’re going to watch a matrix analogue with trailers/box art that probably seemed cool as a kid watch Dark City imo. It actually came out before the matrix too!
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matrix, dark city, existenz, truman show, 13th floor. what am i missing
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Farm Frenzy posted:i watched the 1999 film the 13th floor because i vaguely remembered seeing the box at the rental places (???) as a small child and i was surprised to find that its yet another movie that came out in 1999 that has pretty much the same premise as the matrix. how many of those movies did they make?? this is like the fifth now that i can think of off the top of my head without going broad enough to include poo poo like fight club as well Farm Frenzy posted:matrix, dark city, existenz, truman show, 13th floor. what am i missing Bowfinger, sort of. It crosses over with the premise of someone's life being recorded for other people to watch, like The Truman Show, 1999's EDtv and the 1996 Michael Lindsay-Hogg film Guy. I haven't seen The 13th Floor but I did see the World on a Wire, the 1973 Fassbinder adaptation of the same 1964 book, Simulacron-3, which apparently invented the whole idea of intelligent programs in a virtual reality.
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Equilibrium didn't have the "your life is fake" premise but it absolutely had the Matrix-lite aesthetic going on. A lot of action movies of that era did
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