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there's a weird hollywood phenomenon where you hear "so and so is a really good blank" danny is a really great writer, pierre is a really amazing actor but actually when you look them up they are just in things with a lot of money behind them. Neil Gaiman - is he a good writer?
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marvel cinematic universe is the only long-term project America has successfully pulled off in this century and it's already starting to shake apart
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Neil Gaiman sucks poo poo
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Antonymous posted:there's a weird hollywood phenomenon where you hear "so and so is a really good blank" danny is a really great writer, pierre is a really amazing actor he is a very good broad-strokes plots guy. idk if that makes him a good writer per se. he’s an awful comics writer, but the stories are decent with very good art so people ignore it at least put up with the fact that they’re poorly told with awful pacing e: I did like the Good Omens Amazon show which is based off a novel I think he wrote but idk how faithful it is to the original prose. but again the overall plot is very fun
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Antonymous posted:there's a weird hollywood phenomenon where you hear "so and so is a really good blank" danny is a really great writer, pierre is a really amazing actor i mean, there's a lot of qualifications for what makes someone a good (fiction) writer. i think gaiman counts because he's very good at creating good prose and has okay to good storytelling. you could do like ranking writers from 1-10 in a bunch of categories and i think gaiman would rank highly in at least a few. contrast to like, tolkien who is very good at worldbuilding and storytelling but his prose is dry as poo poo.
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good omens suffered for how much original prose got jammed in there, the book has lots of casual gags that got translated into voiceover narration when all people want to see is michael sheen and david tennant being catty with each other for six hours. gaiman's an interesting character, i don't think he's a bad writer but much of his success has come from being more commercially savvy than his peers. american gods is a proper novel though.
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American gods sucked, what the gently caress A protagonist named SHADOW the twist being that loki went by low-key - what a tweest
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Basically, Neil Gaiman is the kind of thing you think is the coolest poo poo between the ages of 15-18 but should move on from by the time you leave college
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that's true for a lot of genre fiction even for cspam favorites like terry pratchett
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Horizon Burning posted:American gods sucked, what the gently caress the plot is kinda whatever, it's like saying watchmen is a book about a guy using a squid to kill people. it's all the stuff about american spirituality and mythmaking that's worthwhile.
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Mantis42 posted:fantasy is a baby genre ahem, 'magical realism'
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indigi posted:e: I did like the Good Omens Amazon show which is based off a novel I think he wrote but idk how faithful it is to the original prose. but again the overall plot is very fun Good Omens was about 90% Pratchett. extremely good book tho josh04 posted:good omens suffered for how much original prose got jammed in there, the book has lots of casual gags that got translated into voiceover narration when all people want to see is michael sheen and david tennant being catty with each other for six hours. i don't think gaiman is bad-bad but I also don't think he's very good either. i think a lot of his fame is a little unwarranted but it's like one of those things that being in the right-place-at-right-time that gets you critical mas fame then keeps propelling you way above your weight: like there's a shitton of artists people will never heard of and make way more interesting work than say a pollock or a rothko will be $9999 million and this will sell for $1000. same for writers or anytthing else, ive read some extremely good Tor books that probably sold like 1000 copies that were much more interestingly written than a gaiman. and hey that's okay, that's life Xaris has issued a correction as of 09:18 on Jul 15, 2022 |
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i tried watching one episode of good omens and just couldnt stand it i thought both of the leads were obnoxious assholes for completely different reasons but this somehow wasnt the joke
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Horizon Burning posted:Basically, Neil Gaiman is the kind of thing you think is the coolest poo poo between the ages of 15-18 but should move on from by the time you leave college at age 15 I was reading MArx
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good omens was p. good but i heard there's gonna be a season 2 now? lmao
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Filthy Hans posted:I finally saw Year of the Rabbit yesterday i only know Matt Berry from Darkplace, never seen anything else he's been in
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Clip-On Fedora posted:Lance Reddick, right? yeah
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gaiman is very good at short stories and also sandman is a very good comic, but a lot of what makes sandman work is the visuals and the way it plays with the medium of sequential art, and otherwise gaiman’s novels/longform writings are pretty much all mid at best. pratchett is very good aside from the one weirdly racist discworld book about fantasy china
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Aglet56 posted:lots of parents just let their toddlers go crazy on their tablets and watch hours of youtubers or whatever the gently caress, but i think most millennial parents feel at least a little bit guilty about nonstop screen time and feel more comfortable letting their kid watch "curated" content like an MCU movie. once zoomers become parents, every child in america will be raised on 18 hours of twitch streams a day and it'll finally sweep away Ftfy
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Fitzy Fitz posted:Not that I care, but Marvel seems like it really needs a reboot. They've lost too many of the actors that carried the first films. The story after Thanos is a slog because you can't not acknowledge the universe-wide genocide. The numbers are getting high enough (Thor 4) that it just sounds old. Sorry, capitalism means they need to keep putting these out for constant growth forever. Even if it would be in the interest of the long-term health of the Marvel properties to put a pause on them and give it a rest for a few years.
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HootTheOwl posted:Sorry, capitalism means they need to keep putting these out for constant growth forever. Even if it would be in the interest of the long-term health of the Marvel properties to put a pause on them and give it a rest for a few years. they can’t stop because every marvel show or movie is an ad for the next if they pause there’s nothing to push
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Aglet56 posted:lots of parents just let their toddlers go crazy on their tablets and watch hours of youtubers or whatever the gently caress, but i think most millennial parents feel at least a little bit guilty about nonstop screen time and feel more comfortable letting their kid watch "curated" content like an MCU movie. this was true until covid hit at which point everyone who worked from home just gave their kids tablets and logged into outlook or whatever
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Capcom must be pretty lenient about licensing their stuff for film I'm still morbidly curious to see the Monster Hunter movie. Remulak posted:they can’t stop Exactly this. A buddy of mine said that Disney has moved from making entertainment to making content. Just gotta keep people engaged above all else. That being said I have seen like 95% of the MCU and Star Wars stuff cranked out over the last decade or so  Didn't watch Agents of Shield, haven't seen all of the Marvel TV stuff that was on Netflix (is that even MCU?), but I think I've checked off everything else.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Tangentially related: I know a guy who blew up his marriage and career to be an extra in Troma's "Poultrygeist" lol king poo poo
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Oh boy I love 2030 where we get marvel phase 10 finally the release of black panther 2
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Maya Fey posted:i only know Matt Berry from Darkplace, never seen anything else he's been in You should check out Snuff Box with him and Rich Fulcher. I should watch that again, it's like a funny fever dream. Oh cool: https://archive.org/details/snuff-box.s-01e-01.-dvdrip.-xvid
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Tangentially related: I know a guy who blew up his marriage and career to be an extra in Troma's "Poultrygeist" lol 
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CaptainBeefart posted:You should check out Snuff Box with him and Rich Fulcher. I should watch that again, it's like a funny fever dream. It's an amazing show. WHISKEY!
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Finished Everything Everywhere All at Once. I didn’t expect it to live up to the hype, but it did. An intelligent, genuinely fun movie with heart. 100% recommend.
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Most nerds are really terrible at telling what is "good" rather than what works for them, so if they see big projects that lots of other people enjoy but doesn't appeal to them specifically, they'll come to the conclusion that there's some kind of conspiracy of dunces throwing money to trick people into liking it (or graciously say it's "ok but overrated"). When pressed on an example of what they think is good, you'll find something of similar quality that just appeals to their tastes and hasn't become a bigger project because it's intended audience is too narrow. ("New Star Wars is stupid garbage, I wish they would make shows/movies from these excellent EU books or give another franchise like the Sci-Military Fetish Warrior series a chance instead") A lot of it's trash, some people probably don't think there's enough substance to critically examine it, so discussions tend to be personal preference and drive-by-making GBS threads ("I haven't read Watchmen but I hear this blue guy has his dick out constantly?")
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hell yeah the blue guy has his dick out, it owns
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Swanging that thang
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Dysthymia posted:Finished Everything Everywhere All at Once. I didn’t expect it to live up to the hype, but it did. An intelligent, genuinely fun movie with heart. 100% recommend. I knew literally nothing about that movie going into it, hadn’t even seen a trailer, I’d assumed based on the title that it was one of those schmaltzy “teenager dating a girl with cancer” Oscar bait movies or something like that. it kicked rear end, really glad my sister got me to see it
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quote is not editGhost Leviathan posted:hell yeah the blue guy has his dick out, it owns Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Swanging that thang
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Augus posted:I knew literally nothing about that movie going into it, hadn’t even seen a trailer, I’d assumed based on the title that it was one of those schmaltzy “teenager dating a girl with cancer” Oscar bait movies or something like that. lol what
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the name does sound vaguely YA-fiction-y but I can't put my finger on it either (Augus was probably referencing The Fault In Our Stars)
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Augus posted:I knew literally nothing about that movie going into it, hadn’t even seen a trailer, I’d assumed based on the title that it was one of those schmaltzy “teenager dating a girl with cancer” Oscar bait movies or something like that. First fifteen minutes had me thinking “bland drama about a middle-aged owner of a failing small business.” Glad I stuck it out.
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Call Me by Your Name Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close Everywhere All At Once
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