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Cowslips Warren posted:Can anyone explain to me how the gently caress Earwig and the Witch got green-lit at all? It seriously looks worse than any Dollar Store Pixar knockoff. There are times I think it looks good, individual shots that aren't in motion and backgrounds and stuff, but the characters move in a very awkward way and it's not a particularly engaging story.
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I have no idea, but I appreciate that the name is close enough to Hedwig and the Angry Inch that somebody might watch that by accident.
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rydiafan posted:Somebody saw it was by a Miyazaki and got confused.
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El Fideo posted:I have no idea, but I appreciate that the name is close enough to Hedwig and the Angry Inch that somebody might watch that by accident. It almost breaks the rule of not referencing something better in itself.
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Sep 23, 2023 20:49
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I don't suppose anybody ITT bought the blu-ray out of some misguided sense of completionism? I have a lot of Ghibli blu-rays now and Miyazaki can be downright dickish when they interview him (and others talking about him) in the special features. Real curious to see if he's in the special features of Earwig just going off on it. I myself have not seen it, sometimes morbid curiosity makes me want to though.
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BiggerBoat posted:Yeah, I remembered that and mentioned the Bane fight where we're shown that all the ninja poo poo is useless against him. But the fact that Bruce's body is all hosed and broken would lead him to lean even heavier into the stealth route, I would think, as opposed to giant crowd fights and face to face combat. I guess I just really liked how Nolan set all that "creature of the shadows" stuff up in Batman Begins and the loading dock takedown(s) was one of my favorite scenes, but I don't think we ever even got a callback to the main lesson of "mind your environment", did we? Thats a good point. I kinda feel that way about pretty much all of the Spider-Man movies. The two constants in the comics are that hes a joking, dorky, goofball in costume, and that he should never be sitting in chairs or just standing on the ground.
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Sep 24, 2023 02:20
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Diet Poison posted:I don't suppose anybody ITT bought the blu-ray out of some misguided sense of completionism? I have a lot of Ghibli blu-rays now and Miyazaki can be downright dickish when they interview him (and others talking about him) in the special features. Real curious to see if he's in the special features of Earwig just going off on it. I myself have not seen it, sometimes morbid curiosity makes me want to though. if you didn't know it was Ghibli, you would think it was just a really really bad film made by illumination dropouts. just the first few minutes of the beginning, how weird the motions are, makes you think film student with a million dollar budget.
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Kwanzaa Quickie posted:That’s a good point. I kinda feel that way about pretty much all of the Spider-Man movies. The two constants in the comics are that he’s a joking, dorky, goofball in costume, and that he should never be sitting in chairs or just standing on the ground. Garfield is really the only Spider-man we've had that nails the goofy wisecracking side of things. Like, I don't mind Holland's take but he's a lot more in awe of everything around him instead of just making fun of it all constantly.
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Also Garfield had the amazing SNL sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6NUQeb5noM
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I can't remember exactly what I thought the Clone Wars might be like back when I was young but I can confidently state I never would have guessed "A endlessly-xeroxed Jake the Muss fights an army of slapstick three stooges robots" CONJECTURE: Bill Watterson would make a better movie director than George Lucas because Bill understands the importance of leaving some stuff up to the imagination of his audience.
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Diet Poison posted:I don't suppose anybody ITT bought the blu-ray out of some misguided sense of completionism? I have a lot of Ghibli blu-rays now and Miyazaki can be downright dickish when they interview him (and others talking about him) in the special features. Real curious to see if he's in the special features of Earwig just going off on it. I myself have not seen it, sometimes morbid curiosity makes me want to though. I hope not. Goro Miyazaki (the Earwig director) is Hayao Miyazaki's son, and they've had a difficult relationship.
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Phy posted:I hope not. Goro Miyazaki (the Earwig director) is Hayao Miyazaki's son, and they've had a difficult relationship. "Difficult relationship" is one way of putting it. I said I have a lot of these blu-rays, and he is absolutely fuckin' mean at times to Goro in the behind the scenes stuff of Poppy Hill, which is Goro's good movie! They do not at all try to hide that Miyazaki's a dick. Which is... I mean, one might say that's better than covering it up. I don't think there's a single interview with him I've seen that he hasn't said something that made me think why the hell would you say that on camera?!
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I remember him saying, when he saw his son's directorial debut, something to the effect of "I realize now my son is still a child."
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Of course Miyazaki is a dick, thats why the Souls games are so hard
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oldpainless posted:Of course Miyazaki is a dick, thats why the Souls games are so hard I think you mean GRRM GRRM is why Elden Ring is so cruel
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Sep 26, 2023 09:09
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Yeah Miyazaki makes some amazing films but does not sound like someone I'd want to know.
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Lots of folks post that image macro wherein Miyazaki is saying that all anime is trash, not realizing that he was being completely serious. Guy went full No True Scotsman. In that interview, he's talking about how anime has been overrun by Western artists and otaku, and because of that true Japanese anime artists have become misanthropic and don't look at real people to make their work. Ironic. CJacobs has a new favorite as of 18:39 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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My partner is watching Grey's Anatomy again and I'm still irrationally irritated by surgeon Christina Yang singing Like A Virgin https://youtu.be/notKtAgfwDA?si=HFixuSAJ-62ySWNU The song is RIGHT THERE
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Diet Poison posted:"Difficult relationship" is one way of putting it. I said I have a lot of these blu-rays, and he is absolutely fuckin' mean at times to Goro in the behind the scenes stuff of Poppy Hill, which is Goro's good movie! They do not at all try to hide that Miyazaki's a dick. Which is... I mean, one might say that's better than covering it up. I don't think there's a single interview with him I've seen that he hasn't said something that made me think why the hell would you say that on camera?! Yeesh, worse than I thought! And sorry for being Mister Explainy at you, I must have skipped over the bit where you said you had the Blu-rays. There really is something to that whole Miyazaki vs Junji Ito thing, huh. Phy has a new favorite as of 04:25 on Sep 27, 2023 |
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Len posted:My partner is watching Grey's Anatomy again and I'm still irrationally irritated by surgeon Christina Yang singing Like A Virgin I'm irrationally irritated by them using How To Save A Life for a surgery even though the lyrics are about failing to connect with a troubled teen and don't fit that kind of life-saving at all.
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Grendels Dad posted:That opening was really good for exactly that kind of acerbic humour, which kinda decreased as the movie went along. My totally rational irritation is how loving boring the ending was, considering it included RoboCop busting into a fascility guarded by the aforementioned giant deathbots. At least make their failure funny and not generically CGI-actiony! My IMM is that I thought they were going to have the killbots malfunction horribly because they forgot the firmware update that day and the people with the 'don't kill me' transponders get murked. Or maybe suffering some fatal stack overflow issue from having killed 256 terrorists. Then they roll out the Robocop project to reassure the public that killbots are safe.
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aardwolf posted:A endlessly-xeroxed Jake the Muss fights an army of slapstick three stooges robots" When I was in college in the long ago, a package arrived at my door I hadnt ordered. It was the soundtrack to Once Were Warriors, a movie Id never heard of at that point. So I listened to the soundtrack and thought it was killer so I watched the movie. Long story short I now also have a promo screener copy of Once Were Warriors on VHS, and a copy of the movie on laserdisc. So thanks random package delivery fuckup for introducing me to one of my favorite movies of all time. I have no IIMM with Once Were Warriors.
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Lottery of Babylon posted:I'm irrationally irritated by them using How To Save A Life for a surgery even though the lyrics are about failing to connect with a troubled teen and don't fit that kind of life-saving at all.
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Imperador do Brasil posted:When I was in college in the long ago, a package arrived at my door I hadn’t ordered. It was the soundtrack to Once Were Warriors, a movie I’d never heard of at that point. So I listened to the soundtrack and thought it was killer so I watched the movie. My IIMM with Once Were Warriors is that Cliff Curtis doesn't get nearly enough roles, dude is great.
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Fil5000 posted:Garfield is really the only Spider-man we've had that nails the goofy wisecracking side of things. Like, I don't mind Holland's take but he's a lot more in awe of everything around him instead of just making fun of it all constantly.
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Zero_Grade posted:I really liked Andrew Garfield's version of Spiderman as well (would have been interesting to see that one in the main-line MCU movies!), and didn't think The Amazing Spider-Man was that bad. Shame about the second one though... I loved how the worked the responsibility thing in as you never see Uncle Ben angry, so that was as cool moment where Garfield gets home late and he's like "Because of your irresponsibility, MY WIFE had to walk home on her own in the middle of the night."
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One of the more irritating bits of Spider-Lore is treating "With great power comes great responsibility" as some quaint saying Uncle Ben would give Peter all the time, when in the original comic origin story, it's simply the lesson Peter learned from Ben's death, and only appears in the narration.
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Keromaru5 posted:One of the more irritating bits of Spider-Lore is treating "With great power comes great responsibility" as some quaint saying Uncle Ben would give Peter all the time, when in the original comic origin story, it's simply the lesson Peter learned from Ben's death, and only appears in the narration. "With great power comes great ricesponsibility" - Uncle Ben's
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I always thought "With great power comes great responsibility" and "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them" were both from the same Spider-Man issue.
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Expend4bles was...bad Like, not just a dumb action movie like I was expecting but actively bad like if you tried to make it bad It makes actual dumb action movie Meg2 earlier this year look like a screenwriting and directing masterclass by comparison But the real imm is just straight up murdering people for laughs. Not mission relevant combat body count, just.. murder
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I liked the first two movies for the most part but the third was loving garbage and I have zero expectations for this one.
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maybealabia posted:But the real imm is just straight up murdering people for laughs. Not mission relevant combat body count, just.. murder Every James gunn movie
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Grendels Dad posted:My IIMM with Once Were Warriors is that Cliff Curtis doesn't get nearly enough roles, dude is great. This but Rena Owen, she was great recently on The Orville.
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Naruto Shippuden Episode 107: Kabuto: I diagnose you with dead. The three guys: Ok I believe you. Not Irrational as they are clearly established as dorks who are mostly helpless without someone leading them, but still funny. Also, how did Narari maintain his makeup and shaved eyebrows inside the death prison?
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Keromaru5 posted:One of the more irritating bits of Spider-Lore is treating "With great power comes great responsibility" as some quaint saying Uncle Ben would give Peter all the time, when in the original comic origin story, it's simply the lesson Peter learned from Ben's death, and only appears in the narration. On the other hand, I thought the way they spun (lol) this for No Way Home was incredible. It was already a great decision to forego Spidey's origin when we've seen it so many times already, and the lack of The Line was something that didn't really even register until they dropped it in the hardest way possible.
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aardwolf posted:I can't remember exactly what I thought the Clone Wars might be like back when I was young but I can confidently state I never would have guessed "A endlessly-xeroxed Jake the Muss fights an army of slapstick three stooges robots" i was so stoked for Temuera Morrison to be Jango Fett based on Once Were Warriors... then i saw the prequels and they were... well... the prequels... still glad to see Morrison getting more work. give him all the roles. but i guess my IIMM is I will forever have my DVD of Once Were Warriors on my shelf gathering dust and i will never rewatch it because the initial watch was grim enough. put it up there with Graveyard of the Fireflies in that regard...
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Baron von Eevl posted:I liked the first two movies for the most part but the third was loving garbage and I have zero expectations for this one. Chuck Norris ruined three with his dumb bullshit before it was even filmed
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So many Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments with Meg 2: The Trench. There's apparently amphibious dinosaurs living in the deep sea. Nobody involved in the making of this movie knows how underwater pressure works. In real life finding a giant octopus would be big, loving deal, but in this movie it's just another thing to blow up. And worst of all: There's actually not that much meg action going on in the movie.
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Alhazred posted:And worst of all: There's actually not that much meg action going on in the movie. 100% the biggest sin.
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Alhazred posted:So many Irrationally Irritating Movie Moments with Meg 2: The Trench. There's apparently amphibious dinosaurs living in the deep sea. Nobody involved in the making of this movie knows how underwater pressure works. In real life finding a giant octopus would be big, loving deal, but in this movie it's just another thing to blow up. And worst of all: There's actually not that much meg action going on in the movie. that ghost squid made the news for a while when they first identified it & still does once in a blue moon. idk if that counts as a big deal tho
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