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ArmZ posted:billions does the same thing and is better nah billions is a load of fun, but doesnt actually paint the hyperwealthy as inhuman in the same way. like the scene where in succession where they decide to leave the summer estate, so they force the staff to throw out all the food. we get a montage of all this beautiful food being trashed, all the extra work that caused etc. in billions that wouldnt have been shown at all. billions is breath of the wild as succession is to elden ring.
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Bro Dad posted:succession is the only show about rich people that depicts them as the inhuman beings they are. like doug married into the family, acts like a psychopathic freak, yet still has a moral compass despite himself. meanwhile cousin greg does from clueless oaf to servile sociopath within a like a month of hanging out with the family again its incredibly funny that the gerri and roman thing felt like one of the most genuine and human relationships in the show
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:ewan is a feckless wealthy msnbc watching lib who's gonna donate his immense fortunate to fuckin greenpeace lmao I know he's awesome, dude calls his brother worse than hitler and still defends him because he's ~family~
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Trabisnikof posted:
how'd you do on the SAT?
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ArmZ posted:billions does the same thing and is better billions is a story about unlikeable people you're supposed to like, succession is a story about unlikeable people you're supposed to dislike
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you're supposed to watch billions and think the characters are based, you're supposed to watch succession and think the characters are pathetic little worms
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Blood Boils posted:He's right (blade 3 sucks) Wish I could find it but I remember seeing a longer breakdown of that movie's troubled production and it seemed like the entire cast knew the script sucked from the beginning and that the director didn't know what he was doing. Snipes just made things worst by acting out.
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Antonymous posted:how'd you do on the SAT? He just took the ACT, the BotW of tests.
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Mantis42 posted:Wish I could find it but I remember seeing a longer breakdown of that movie's troubled production and it seemed like the entire cast knew the script sucked from the beginning and that the director didn't know what he was doing. Snipes just made things worst by acting out. He turned a bad movie into a bad movie with one funny anecdote.
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Doktor Avalanche posted:billions is a story about unlikeable people you're supposed to like, succession is a story about unlikeable people you're supposed to dislike you aren't supposed to like them hth it's not mad Men ffs
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ArmZ posted:you aren't supposed to like them hth ever billions character is "wow look at this badasssss!!!" all the time, it's pretty clear you're supposed to see them as cool meanwhile ken is making GBS threads himself in his sleep in the bed of his family's arch-enemies' billion dollar mansion caus ehe's too drugged/drunk to keep his literal poo poo in his bowels his brother (BIG S3 SPOILER) sent a dick pic to their dad Doktor Avalanche has issued a correction as of 02:58 on Jan 28, 2023 |
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Trabisnikof posted:like the scene where in succession where they decide to leave the summer estate, so they force the staff to throw out all the food. we get a montage of all this beautiful food being trashed, all the extra work that caused etc. in billions that wouldnt have been shown at all. oh so they didn’t waste a ton of food for real? yeah that's a worse artistic decision
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Doktor Avalanche posted:ever billions character is "wow look at this badasssss!!!" all the time, it's pretty clear you're supposed to see them as cool lol you're projecting your own anxieties
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Mr Hootington posted:Started watching Peacock's new mystery show Poker Face. It isn't bad so far. i've got this primed in the pump
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indigi posted:oh so they didn’t waste a ton of food for real? yeah that's a worse artistic decision when you think about it, it’s all media is a waste
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Frosted Flake posted:My problem with The Last of Us, like any zombie fiction I guess, is that it's trivially easy to kill unarmed, foot-mobile targets. In a crisis that was considered existential, with the amount of ordnance that could be thrown around, and for something as fragile as a fungi, there's no reason CBRN weapons wouldn't be employed. It would still be bad, and I realize there's no plot if national militaries just flatten population centres during the first week, but the genre always makes it out like it's an unsurmountable problem when I'd expect a result about on par with Omdurman, even if the first day was more similar to Khartoum.
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the show addresses that in the second ep also the funghi is deep in the ground and everywhere, you'd basically be glassing all organic life on the planet. i like how they're really leaning into the mycelia network and other aspects of funghi more than the game (unless it was in lore you find)
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Succession is great just for this scene https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk3lcEeoEy8
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Blade 2 is great you nerds wouldn't know culture if it dropped you into a big vat of blood to defeat you
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Laterite posted:one time i started blade 2 after hearing endlessly about how it's actually an underrated gem and the opening scene cgi and camera work was so 2002-era cheap bad that i couldn't continue Blade 2 was a testbed for some new CGI techniques which were impressive at the time but didn't age well at all, and they ate up an enormous amount of the budget it features Ron Perlman playing an rear end in a top hat vampire which is worth the price of admission alone, and a young Norman Reedus who's nothing special in the role but it's interesting to see how different he's cast now than he was back then Blade 2 doesn't do much differently from the first one and the super vampires plotline stinks in this movie (and every other monster movie sequel that does this that I can think of) but it's still good enough to watch Blade Trinity is garbage though, I won't defend that one at all Trabisnikof posted:nah billions is a load of fun, but doesnt actually paint the hyperwealthy as inhuman in the same way. you're right, also Billions clearly fetishizes elements of the wealth even as it ridicules them, and the product placements by car companies, watch companies etc. are shamelessly blatant it's a fun soap opera but isn't in the same genre as Succession and I don't view them as in competition with each other
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Buck Wildman posted:"some motherfuckers always gotta iceskate uphill" still ranks as the best one liner in cinematic history imo Pead posted:Story goes that Snipes said it in a conversation and the director overheard and insisted it get put into the movie. It's so out of place and bad that it absolutely rules Snipes was stunningly good in his early career and it's a real shame his colossal ego got the better of him, amongst his many acting virtues was impeccable comic timing
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The blade 2 commentary with snipes and giullermo is an all timer. snipes spends every scene telling you exactly what kind of karate he just did on screen. guillermo spends the whole movie being horny (all these doors look like pussies, it's because my set designers aren't having enough sex) and talking about how they wanted to have a sex scene but weren't allowed it so blade 3 is gonna be called Blade Gets Laid. I wish they had made that one
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Filthy Hans posted:Snipes was stunningly good in his early career and it's a real shame his colossal ego got the better of him, amongst his many acting virtues was impeccable comic timing Snipes steals every scene he's in in Dolemite is my Name
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ArmZ posted:lol you're projecting your own anxieties no, you're just wrong
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Substandard posted:He only started the book club because he has a crush on Carol Danvers and is trying to bang her, but then Captain America overheard their discussion about starting a book club and wanted to join and it expanded from there to include the PC and Wolverine as well. It's dumb as hell. XCommunity
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Doktor Avalanche posted:no, you're just wrong no you
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Filthy Hans posted:Snipes was stunningly good in his early career and it's a real shame his colossal ego got the better of him, amongst his many acting virtues was impeccable comic timing I disagree it's cool when actors burn out early rather than shamble on for decades and decades
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