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Tighclops posted:That makes sense I guess, but they didn't show him entering another wormhole or anything like that so it just seems like he condemns himself to a pointlessly slow death lmao Who says Western audiences can't deal with ambiguous endings without closure? Not Nolan! Cooper made the ultimate sacrifice for Catwoman.
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:19 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Hot take: Ken did nothing wrong There was definitely a (tongue-in-cheek) take thread about how Ken is the underclass and Barbies are the bourgeoisie but I have not seen this movie (nor do I plan to) so I couldn't speak to how accurate it was
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:22 |
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Seriously though these both seem like perfectly fine movies to see, I just can't do theaters (2-month-old)
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:23 |
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Frosted Flake posted:Hot take: Ken did nothing wrong i mean the movie does imply the kens are as oppressed in barbieland as women are in the real world —— are they just supposed to take it?
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:24 |
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:i mean the movie does imply the kens are as oppressed in barbieland as women are in the real world —— are they just supposed to take it? The Kens were happy in their servitude before they were corrupted by male Feminism
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:27 |
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Best part of interstellar was when they leave that guy on the ship by himself for like twenty years and then Matt Damon blows him up. That guy really got the poo poo end of the stick. Man I might rewatch interstellar tonight.
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:29 |
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it's crazy that they're on a reconnaissance ship and can't point a telescope at water planet and see the old one had loving crashed
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:31 |
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"we're getting the beacon signal loud and clear but despite the fact that there's no visible land anywhere on a planet with two prominent mountains of water we're still gonna go down to check if we can move humanity to here"
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:33 |
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Ya it didn't make much sense but Chris Nolan needed his big bombastic tidal wave scene and it owns. edit: vvvv yeah they left their crewmate alone in the ship while all that was going on. For them it was only a few hours maybe but for him it was a few decades lmfao netizen has issued a correction as of 23:48 on Jul 23, 2023 |
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Am I remembering wrong or did they give up decades of time based on that decision too
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# ? Jul 23, 2023 23:41 |
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netizen posted:Ya it didn't make much sense but Chris Nolan needed his big bombastic tidal wave scene and it owns. have the planet surrounded by thick radar-impenetrable clouds. cake had + eaten e: they don't even have to be radar-impenetrable, radar wouldn't help in that situation (the pings would still be subject to time dilation so at best it'd be months-years of waiting for a map to resolve) it just needs to be cloudy indigi has issued a correction as of 00:10 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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also I forget do they explain how does wormhole tech provide food or do we assume 99.9% of humanity starved to death e: to be clear I think it's a good movie anyway though
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:08 |
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All the best and brightest survived so that's all that really matters. Humanity shall persevere!
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:28 |
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netizen posted:Best part of interstellar was when they leave that guy on the ship by himself for like twenty years and then Matt Damon blows him up. That guy really got the poo poo end of the stick. His name was Mann as well. We suck. He was meant to be the best of us, and he's a loving coward, to quote Cooper.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:30 |
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indigi posted:have the planet surrounded by thick radar-impenetrable clouds. cake had + eaten The only thing wrong with that whole chapter is Wes Bentley not being able to hop into an open hatch to save his life. That, and the loving trailers ruining that whole tidal wave. Zimmer's score is great for this too, since every tick in the metronome like track is a whole day going by back on Earth. I had Kipp Thorne's book that tied in with the film and the time dilation of that water world really got to me. The fact that the previous mission basically landed just before them boggles my tiny ape brain.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:32 |
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Guess the publicationquote:The women in Taylor Sheridan projects tend to be lone wolves. They also tend to fit into specific, narrow archetypes: the vulnerable naif (Kate Macer in “Sicario”; Jane Banner in “Wind River”); the ferocious badass (Beth Dutton in “Yellowstone”; Hannah Faber in “Those Who Wish Me Dead”); the steely matriarch (Beth’s ancestors Margaret and Cara, who anchor the “Yellowstone” prequel series “1883” and “1923”). The screenwriter is himself a lone wolf, posing for magazine covers in a cowboy hat while denigrating the use of writers’ rooms, and rose to the top of Hollywood’s hierarchy in part through a shameless embrace of genre tropes. when did Variety start criticizing support for US imperialism
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:43 |
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yeah the scene fuckin ruled they just could of done a bit of narrative cleanup since the highly trained astronaut/physicist would immediately realize the implications so you gotta give them a reason to check it out despite that. I read Kip Thorne's book Black Holes & Time Warps as a nerdy little 8th grader and the thought experiments in that continue to blow my mind
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:44 |
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there's an anecdote in that book where he's hanging out with a Soviet physicist and they're talking about some characteristic of x-rays and Kip is like "drat someone should do some experiments to figure this out" and the Soviet guy says something like "don't worry, our governments have it figured out" and Kip realizes it's a key component of controlling fission
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:46 |
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indigi posted:there's an anecdote in that book where he's hanging out with a Soviet physicist and they're talking about some characteristic of x-rays and Kip is like "drat someone should do some experiments to figure this out" and the Soviet guy says something like "don't worry, our governments have it figured out" and Kip realizes it's a key component of controlling fission Gonna rewatch Oppenheimer and figure it out for Kip.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 00:52 |
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tristeham posted:shes right she's right but she's also wrong
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 01:08 |
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indigi posted:it's crazy that they're on a reconnaissance ship and can't point a telescope at water planet and see the old one had loving crashed the accountants truth netizen posted:Ya it didn't make much sense but Chris Nolan needed his big bombastic tidal wave scene and it owns. this guy gets it
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 01:10 |
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taylor sheridan is a poor man's craig zahler
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 01:33 |
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Skaffen-Amtiskaw posted:Given they basically unified physics by getting the data they needed from inside Gargantua, I expect they have mastered wormholes given the new version of the Ranger he steals is smaller and nowhere near able to do anything but a short hop in space. this whole conversation is just making me realize how silly it is that the movie dismisses the importance of studying farming as a dead end since it seems like the odds of someone pulling off an amazing miracle cure out of their rear end are about as likely as they actually end up doing with the spaceships given that their original plan was stupid and doomed and is only redeemed by ridiculous wormhole bullshit no one could have reasonably foreseen
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insane clown pussy posted:taylor sheridan is a poor man's craig zahler yep
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Some Guy TT posted:this whole conversation is just making me realize how silly it is that the movie dismisses the importance of studying farming as a dead end since it seems like the odds of someone pulling off an amazing miracle cure out of their rear end are about as likely as they actually end up doing with the spaceships given that their original plan was stupid and doomed and is only redeemed by ridiculous wormhole bullshit no one could have reasonably foreseen Agreed... BUT... also there's an out. The whole film, like Tenet, is essentially a closed time-like curve. The events that lead to the mission happening are a paradox, so it was always ordained that things would play out this way, because we already basically did what we needed to do. Though, yes, the "I'm gonna adventure man and science this poo poo" take is not the smart way to deal with biosphere collapse that is already way too far gone. I guess it's the equivalent of ignoring palliative care and expecting an rear end pull miracle cure when you have stage four pancreatic cancer. It becomes a totally different film experience then.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 02:00 |
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speaking of Nolans, my partner and I just finished watchng the 1970s Westworld movie for the first time. I've seen the TV show, she had not. so it was kinda interesting to bounce off it a few thoughts: - it actually looks pretty good for it's time. - michael crichton was such a hack that he basically wrote Jurassic Park twice. seriously this movie was basically just 1993 Jurassic Park but filmed in the 70s - it's interesting some of the technology concerns that they had in the 70s was not about sentience, infact, it's not mentioned once. I kept waiting for the movie to go into robot sentience or feelings or whatever, but no it's just not there. - rather the concern at the time was The Other disobeying humankind. or rather breakdown of humans to control The Other. contrast this to the TV show which was more into "are robots people?" -> "does it matter?" - the materialist ideal that millionaires going to the theme park to abuse "humans" isn't really mentioned or even considered. the guy who lives at the end isn't even like a good guy or anything nor even contrasted to the others who did die. infact it does zero to explore psychopathy of rich except maybe some things at the start advertisement for delos - it was kinda interesting that the TV show apes so much about the movie too though, like the people coming into clean up and fix up robots, drive lovely buggies around at night, and lot of "behind the scenes" stuff i didn't expect it to have but it did. which was pretty cool - 70s computers kick rear end. we should bring back mainframes - papa brolin looks almost exactly like josh brolin - it was interesting that the one things they couldn't get right was the 'hands' considering even "AI" stable diffusion garbage today struggles with hands too. narratively though it was basically not used at all, which was kinda weird - the third act, while kinda neat, went on for too long imo then just sort of ends abruptly. i'll rarely complain about movies being too short but seriously it felt like there should have been a 4th act to wrap it up. while it wasn't great, I actually think i enjoyed some of the movie more than the Nolan Mystery Box Man in Black maze labyrinth garbage the TV show went ham on, if only because I'm sick of Mystery Box, but it was definitely much narratively weaker and kinda not well-paced. kinda a shame season 2-3 was so loving bad because they could have done something a lot better with the show than... whatever the gently caress that was. I never watched the last season although maybe i should just for completeness Xaris has issued a correction as of 04:19 on Jul 24, 2023 |
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They Cloned Tyrone is fun. I don't know if its quite worth reupping your Netflix sub for exclusively, but its a solid, well-made movie that doesn't get bogged down in its message but doesn't forget about it either. Third act is a little wobbly as these kinds of movies tend towards, but nothing crippling.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 05:23 |
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I'm catapulting into this thread to say that Los Alamos was Oppenheimer's Barbieland
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I just realized something: Oppenheimer is a brand movie.
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Oppen Heimer style is this anything
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late. very late.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 09:19 |
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Saw M:I last night, it was very fun and I'm glad Hayley Atwell looks to have graduated away from the MCU into a proper blockbuster - my main issue though is, with all the emphasis they put on these crazy real stunts, I wish there wasn't so much post processing with all the motion blurring, lens flaring etc, it ends up looking not too dissimilar from CGI anyway.
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 10:19 |
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shocked to hear that michael crichton might be a hack writerindigi posted:there's an anecdote in that book where he's hanging out with a Soviet physicist and they're talking about some characteristic of x-rays and Kip is like "drat someone should do some experiments to figure this out" and the Soviet guy says something like "don't worry, our governments have it figured out" and Kip realizes it's a key component of controlling fission i just read 'trinity', the biography of (one of the) manhatten project guys who gave nuclear secrets to the soviets, and there's a bunch of details about early hydrogen bomb experiments that were taken by the soviets and have been declassified in the soviet archives but are still state secrets in the us
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 10:21 |
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josh04 posted:shocked to hear that michael crichton might be a hack writer
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 10:33 |
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Oppenheimer pretty alright tbh. Barbie good but completely thematically incoherent. Movies are fun. That's my take this morning I read an article in the Rolling Stone that people on the bird site were lauding as amazing writing about the Barbenheimer experience but it doesn't get very far past "wow movies that make you think about life and death sure are weird". I only know of Miles Klee in passing as a Twitter personality but as competently written as it is, sometimes I think wow, creative nonfiction sure can be a huge waste of time
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 13:32 |
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https://twitter.com/MCU_Direct/status/1683193352672428036?t=cq1ART4bOIA2nSghwe52Kw&s=19 They are selling an empty box containing no physical media and people will buy it
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# ? Jul 24, 2023 14:02 |
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Yep
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I thought Barbie was way too on the nose toward the end when the characters started monologuing and explaining all of the movie's metaphors, but I'm seeing a lot of praise online for how those monologues were powerful, so I guess people can still appreciate terrible delivery if they like what it's saying.
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1stGear posted:They Cloned Tyrone is fun. I don't know if its quite worth reupping your Netflix sub for exclusively, but its a solid, well-made movie that doesn't get bogged down in its message but doesn't forget about it either. Third act is a little wobbly as these kinds of movies tend towards, but nothing crippling. AV Club had an angry review that conceded that the film was good but insisted that actually drug dealers, pimps and prostitutes are not holding African American communities back but are a charming part of the community. It was real weird.
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Doc Fission posted:Duly shaken by this story, and the recognition that I was born into its aftermath, I had trouble coming back to my senses. A bustling mall did not make for the easiest reentry into linear consciousness, either. Thankfully, a quick lunch at Panda Express proved suitably mundane to bring me down to earth, and afterward, I met up at a bar with my friend Anna, who would join me for that afternoon’s screening of Barbie and, like dozens milling around the area, was wearing pink for the occasion. Over beers, I gave her a poor synopsis of what had transpired that morning, lingering on the hyped sex scenes — was Oppenheimer really such a fuckboy?
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