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man that vader v inquisitor fight is so close to being good, its infuriating. The concept is there, but the guy in the suit moves too fast, and Vader is too reactive instead of just tanking through it all, and the camera gets just a little too lazy. also Vader doing the little force gestures just looks goofy
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remember how cool it was when magneto sucked the iron out of that prison guard in x-men 2 the force could be that cool but it's never used well
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i say swears online posted:remember how cool it was when magneto sucked the iron out of that prison guard in x-men 2 that’s too OP
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One More Fat Nerd posted:
one of my earliest forum memories is of an OG reg date goon complaining about the inexplicable goon lust for Shelley Duvall when I said I found her attractive
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Jul 13, 2022 05:43
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John Wick would loving destroy the most powerful Jedi easy.
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DoombatINC posted:now I'm watching Ernest Goes to Jail (which is still very good and harmless and precious and I'm having a lot of big laughs) and I sincerely don't remember the prison guard uniforms being this out of control That is some good youtube video lighting.
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mazzi Chart Czar posted:That is some good youtube video lighting. hey Vern, it's straight to video know what I mean
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Mantis42 posted:John Wick would loving destroy the most powerful Jedi easy. It seems like guns with bullets would really gently caress up a jedi. You could just light obiwan up with an assault rifle
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Communist Thoughts posted:It seems like guns with bullets would really gently caress up a jedi. You could just light obiwan up with an assault rifle At least some EU stuff outright has people who expect to fight Jedi specifically using shotguns (aka 'slugthrowers') as they're weapons that Jedi aren't used to and aren't easily deflected by lightsabers. IIRC, the specific reason Mandalorians pack flamethrowers is to counter Jedi, the close-range deterrent that gives them some breathing space. Incidentally, I'm still disappointed that they had Mando meet a Jedi and didn't discuss backstory and how the Mandalorians and Jedi ironically have a lot in common at that point.
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I'm a bit more confused by what vaccines and trans rights have to do with The System Do right-wingers think RATM are libertarians or what
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(not so) eagerly awaiting the first #girlboss travis bickle with brain turned to mush from too much true crime podcasts who decides to take matters into her own hands. kinda like a liberal comet ping pong
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loquacius posted:I'm a bit more confused by what vaccines and trans rights have to do with The System conservatism is the real punk rock counter culture, dontcha know?
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Blood Boils posted:hey Vern, it's straight to video know what I mean It was released in theaters
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Casey Finnigan posted:growing up I straight up never met a single person who was like, a real fan of star wars drat thats crazy, there were a bunch of star wars fans at school and on my hockey teams growing up I remember being psyched for the Phantom Menace and then it came out and having my kid brain all  over it, only beyond some merchandising here and there I noticed at the time that it didn't have the same impact - I didn't see any of my friends with Jar Jar or Naboo stuff, except the occasional Darth Maul toys/masks/halloween costumes and that rad lightsaber staff he used
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The double bladed lightsaber is one of those things where George's laziness accidentally finds the shortest path to something really cool
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I read that Rolling Stone article and its crazy. Like the author lays out "heres the girl and her mom at several beauty pageants, here's their talent agency where they advertise as family influencers, heres this and this. Nevertheless, Tiktokers are convinced in the thousands that this girl is either a kidnapped child or an adult that has been shrunk with some sort of powerful ray. They believe this because the bedroom they film in has a lock on it, and there are speakers in the corners." Plus the comments on all their vids are like "wear a green hat if you're a trafficking victim <3"
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projecthalaxy posted:I read that Rolling Stone article and its crazy. Like the author lays out "heres the girl and her mom at several beauty pageants, here's their talent agency where they advertise as family influencers, heres this and this. Nevertheless, Tiktokers are convinced in the thousands that this girl is either a kidnapped child or an adult that has been shrunk with some sort of powerful ray. They believe this because the bedroom they film in has a lock on it, and there are speakers in the corners." the internet has driven everyone insane
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Here's a pull quote from youtuber DramaKween, who is one of the big accounts pushing the abduction theory: You’ve got a mother and child doing TikToks together on a set. We don’t know where they live. We don’t know the verifiable age of the child. So many of these weird things that come together — why is there a door in this set, why are there speakers in the corner of this bedroom? There are so many unanswered questions, which is why it’s so interesting to me. [In extremely "if the glove don't fit, you must acquit" voice] "if there's speakers in the corner, this girl is a different girl who went missing in seattle and got both aged up 3-4 years and turned white by mysterious methods"
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projecthalaxy posted:why is there a door in this set, Pepe Silvia Browne posted:the internet has driven everyone insane
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TheSlutPit posted:The main issue imo was the tonal shift, it felt a bit campy for a sequence that was intercut with ostensibly serious scenes. The whole trope of "million year old sensei sighs while unsheathing his sword and proceeds to kick rear end" is extremely good though. Y'know a movie that handles this exact trope really well? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). At the end of the film, Shredder hasn't exactly won, but he's forced a draw. His organization and plan are wrecked, but he's proven that the turtles can't stop him, personally. He beat them all and only took one minor wound. He can just walk away and rebuild. Splinter shows up, Shredder can't get over his need for revenge, and ends up throwing himself into the garbage. It establishes the wise old master as a badass, with one move he defeats the enemy who beat all the turtles, but without just making him "just like the turtles, but faster and more acrobatic". He is on a different level and fights in a different way. The villain is defeated by exploiting his previously established character traits. This is thematically satisfying. Lucas clearly just wanted frenetic visual spectacle, which I guess is ok, but like, huge chunks of the rest of the movie are frenetic visual spectacle. loquacius posted:I'm a bit more confused by what vaccines and trans rights have to do with The System A whole shitload of conservatives are adults with Oppositional Defiant Disorder who think "The System" is when mom made them take their diarrhea medicine.
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Yeah. Also it is funny to me that DramaKween was first involved in this human right/mad science issue because she searched "creepy tiktok family" to get content for an off week where she still needed to get a vid out. I love the honesty.
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The child trafficking poo poo is so especially weird, desperate and projecting. Also a lot of blood libel vibes.
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I was a shithead libertarian when I was a teenager too and I still understood that RATM were communists
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The child trafficking poo poo is so especially weird, desperate and projecting. I think the MeToo movement and then Epstein entering into the public consciousness cracked open something in a lot of people's brains that was not able to be neatly put away. Like there's an awareness that stuff like child trafficking and sex abuse by the elites is happening, but also that they cannot really be held accountable for any of it. So I think they're trying to find another path to resolve the feeling that something needs to be done about this terrible thing, and their brains land on "my 'neighbor' (in this case some other random tiktoker) is also doing child trafficking and I will hold THEM accountable for it."
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:The double bladed lightsaber is one of those things where George's laziness accidentally finds the shortest path to something really cool i go back and forth on whether including that in the trailer was a good idea. it's a pretty fun moment in the movie, and i feel like it should have been saved, but at the same time it is extremely hype to see in the trailer and it probably sold untold millions of dollars in cheap plastic toys really trailers just loving suck these days. that michael bay movie ambulance is basically entirely in the trailer, i feel like i've basically seen the film already
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quote:why is there a door in this set finally someone’s asking the hard-hitting questions
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Ghost Leviathan posted:The child trafficking poo poo is so especially weird, desperate and projecting. it’s especially upsetting cause child trafficking is a big deal. like a huge deal, and one of the most evil practices on Earth and the only people taking it seriously in a public, demonstrative way are loving imbeciles
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:I think the MeToo movement and then Epstein entering into the public consciousness cracked open something in a lot of people's brains that was not able to be neatly put away. Like there's an awareness that stuff like child trafficking and sex abuse by the elites is happening, but also that they cannot really be held accountable for any of it. I think it's pretty common and a big part of culture wars and conspiracy theories to realise on some level the people doing awful poo poo are unapproachably powerful, and instead finding and inventing reasons to scapegoat people who are perceived as easier targets. I suppose it always ends up coming down to antisemitism, doesn't it? Serf posted:i go back and forth on whether including that in the trailer was a good idea. it's a pretty fun moment in the movie, and i feel like it should have been saved, but at the same time it is extremely hype to see in the trailer and it probably sold untold millions of dollars in cheap plastic toys Movie marketing has been like this forever, a lot of old B-movies and such have marketing materials that give away almost everything.
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Shudder shows old trailers between streamed movies and teah, a bunch of B-horror trailers from the 60's through 80's are just "every important scene, in sequence". Sometimes with a narrator spelling out the entire plot.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Shudder shows old trailers between streamed movies and teah, a bunch of B-horror trailers from the 60's through 80's are just "every important scene, in sequence". Sometimes with a narrator spelling out the entire plot. we need to find the happy medium between this and random shots from the movie with the inception BWAH horn over and over or like a soft piano cover of an old pop song
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Ideal trailer is that the director gets a ten second talking head to give you the elevator pitch of the plot, and then just shows you some 50 seconds of some shots to let you know what the movie looks like.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Y'know a movie that handles this exact trope really well? Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990). Turtle power!
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One More Fat Nerd posted:Shudder shows old trailers between streamed movies and teah, a bunch of B-horror trailers from the 60's through 80's are just "every important scene, in sequence". Sometimes with a narrator spelling out the entire plot. Reminded of some theory about the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode where the boys are playing Space Outlaws in a junkyard based on Ed's understanding of a movie they haven't seen, and Ed knows so much of the plot probably because of this kind of thing. I mostly like the idea because it explains how in the end the boys have to drag Ed off when they get tired of it and want to do something else; Ed doesn't know how to conclude it because he hasn't seen the ending.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Reminded of some theory about the Ed, Edd n Eddy episode where the boys are playing Space Outlaws in a junkyard based on Ed's understanding of a movie they haven't seen, and Ed knows so much of the plot probably because of this kind of thing. I kind of want a future episode that shows each of the kids as they are as grownups except they're all senators. Double d who is somehow still an intern.
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One More Fat Nerd posted:A whole shitload of conservatives are adults with Oppositional Defiant Disorder who think "The System" is when mom made them take their diarrhea medicine. watched the first ep of "the anarchists" on hbo and it looks like the "machine" to conservatives is literally just "taxes" that's it. it's all rich people who get mad because their big paycheck is slightly less big because of the government, therefore any government is the enemy. well, it's MOSTLY rich people pissed about taxes, there's also a libertarian stoner couple who joined the mexico anarchist community because they got busted with weed and it's lol that they're way more into libertarian philosophy than the rest of the folks there and start calling everyone out for being not hardcore enough
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Cpt_Obvious posted:Turtle power! Is someone giving out "Big Tiddy GGGILF Pelosi" avs and what thread do I need to avoid to avoid that, cause I think yours is the third or fourth I've seen.
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I remember going back and watching the first TMNT movie years ago, the first time I had seen it since I was a kid, no less, and I was genuinely surprised that it was far better than it had any right to be Good movie!
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I love the depiction of the Foot Clan's hangout spot/honeypot. Free cola! One half pipe! Arcade games with skulls in them! And at the end, the option to join a samurai death cult!
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Cpt_Obvious posted:I kind of want a future episode that shows each of the kids as they are as grownups except they're all senators. the cul-de-sac was purgatory 
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