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deoju posted:The central motivation of the protagonist is never resolved; All the dude wanted was his rug back. The rug was a stand-in for the meaning of life
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Dec 26, 2023 11:38
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Dawn of the Dead, 300, and Watchmen were good overindulgent nights at the movies. Snyder is fine when he’s working from someone else’s material but hoo boy don’t let him near a screenplay program.
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Dec 26, 2023 11:57
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Watchmen is a decently fun movie but its a bad adaptation of the comic. The fact that he got rid of the squid is just miserable.
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Dec 26, 2023 12:01
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Caesar Saladin posted:Watchmen is a decently fun movie but its a bad adaptation of the comic. The fact that he got rid of the squid is just miserable. Lol just went ahead and got rid of the whole loving point of the story
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Dec 26, 2023 12:12
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Gordon Ramsey made a loving grilled cheese sandwich with hard, crusty bread, olive oil, two hard cheeses that don't melt, and loving kimchi on it. gently caress that poo poo! I'm sorry I'm very angry that he thought that sandwich was good enough to share with the world. That sounds delicious, tbh.
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Dec 26, 2023 14:38
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It didn't look good at all, the cheese still looked cold in the middle of a sandwich which looked kinda burned
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Caesar Saladin posted:Watchmen is a decently fun movie but its a bad adaptation of the comic. The fact that he got rid of the squid is just miserable. Watchmen is a lovely comic because it is awful to look at. It essentially throws every advantage of a visual medium in the loving garbage in favor of rigid, claustrophobic paneling, talking heads, and laughably dense walls of text. There's an incredible story in there, but jfc just write a novel you dick.
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Dec 26, 2023 14:56
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That's pretty much all of Alan Moore's writing except The Killing Joke
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Watchmen is a lovely comic because it is awful to look at. It essentially throws every advantage of a visual medium in the loving garbage in favor of rigid, claustrophobic paneling, talking heads, and laughably dense walls of text. There's an incredible story in there, but jfc just write a novel you dick. I don't recall if it had a point, but every time that pirate "story within a story" came up, I was like, BORING!
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Dec 26, 2023 15:17
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Montague Tigg posted:That's pretty much all of Alan Moore's writing except The Killing Joke Probably explains why I bounced off V for Vendetta, too. Look at this gently caress ugly layout:  Who can even attempt to parse that poo poo without getting a headache? And for some reason like every page is the same 9 panel layout. Barf.
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Dec 26, 2023 16:41
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Hate is a strong word but I find the world and characters from the main Critical Role campaigns to be bland and unoriginal. The cartoon is just godawful, just one perverted or sassy one-liner after another, worse than most marvel movies. I have enjoyed watching the players/dms when they've been guests on other D&D shows, clearly very creative and talented people. I just think they are held back by the limitations of CR.
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Dec 26, 2023 17:44
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Probably explains why I bounced off V for Vendetta, too. Look at this gently caress ugly layout: The UK in the 80's under thatcher just had a loving ugly layout like that. THis is just reflecting reality!
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Dec 27, 2023 00:45
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Modal Auxiliary posted:Watchmen is a lovely comic because it is awful to look at. It essentially throws every advantage of a visual medium in the loving garbage in favor of rigid, claustrophobic paneling, talking heads, and laughably dense walls of text. There's an incredible story in there, but jfc just write a novel you dick. Hard agree. No notes.
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I'm going to go back in time to a very long ago 'hate' that everyone loved film that I eventually softened on the last time I saw some of it... Ang Lee's Hulk. That movie came out and it seemed like everyone in comics fandom was treating it like it was great. It was the best comic book ever made, it was the smartest and most adult comic book movie ever made. You had to LOVE that movie or things could get ugly. Then, like 5 years later once the MCU started rolling, all that did a 180 where I kind of liked bits of the Lee Hulk but everyone else hated it.
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JediTalentAgent posted:I'm going to go back in time to a very long ago 'hate' that everyone loved film that I eventually softened on the last time I saw some of it... I do NOT remember this being the reaction. The overwhelming opinion that I remember would at best be described as “tepid”. Very few people talking about it being terrible, which was definitely a step up from most superhero movies, but nobody was gushing about it being great or anything.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:33
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Doom Rooster posted:I do NOT remember this being the reaction. I'll admit it was polarizing to the point that I think Universal actually rode that into part of their ad campaign as the 'most talked about movie of the Summer', but it really felt like every comic fan I knew and so many critics were gushing about it. I knew people who were seeing multiple times, in groups, wanting to go back and see it AGAIN right afterwards. Maybe it was regional or specific demographic thing, but it felt like I was really an outsider at the time for not liking it.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:42
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The only thing I remember about that movie is a scene where a bad guy got caught in an explosion and it turned into a comic frame for a second.
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Dec 27, 2023 02:51
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JediTalentAgent posted:I'll admit it was polarizing to the point that I think Universal actually rode that into part of their ad campaign as the 'most talked about movie of the Summer', but it really felt like every comic fan I knew and so many critics were gushing about it.
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Dec 27, 2023 03:12
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I remember the giant Hulk Poodle
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JediTalentAgent posted:I'll admit it was polarizing to the point that I think Universal actually rode that into part of their ad campaign as the 'most talked about movie of the Summer', but it really felt like every comic fan I knew and so many critics were gushing about it. I didn't know anyone who liked it, myself included. The monster poodle was pretty funny though.
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Dec 27, 2023 03:25
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The princess bride. Put the pitchforks down and let me explain being forced to watch something even something great 500+ times as a kid when I’d literally rather be doing anything else makes you not like a thing whatever it is. I can tell it’s good hell I can tell it’s great but by god gently caress that movie and the babysitter that just wanted to watch that and nothing else.
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Dec 27, 2023 03:30
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Haruharuharuko posted:The princess bride. Have fun storming the castle!
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Ehhh, no need to apologize. Princess Bride is a slog.
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*sighs and unsheaths my six-fingered rapier*
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Cyril Sneer posted:Ehhh, no need to apologize. Princess Bride is a slog. Yup never understood the love  Unfortunately I only see the creepy rapist from Kiss the Girls too, that doesn't help
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Haruharuharuko posted:The princess bride. watched this for the first time this year at 39 years old after hearing people my age sing its praises basically my whole life it's a dumb baby movie for babies that's not good at all. idk what i was expecting, really. something a little less cheesy or with a little more imagination or something. but yeah i thought it was pretty trash. i could see it being different if it was one of the 8 movies i had on vhs as a kid and forced to develop a relationship with it somehow. but for me that was robocop and total recall so probably still wouldn't have worked for me, anyway.
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I didn't see The Princess Bride until I was in my twenties. It's fine. It's a movie I might rewatch if enough years elapse that I mostly forget all the details. But it isn't something I go out of my way for. There's a lot of individual parts of the movie I enjoy, but in totality it's just a decent to good movie, nothing else. Edit: maybe toxic nostalgia and constant attempts to reconstruct childhoods bad maybe possibly who knows?
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Princess Bride was a movie I watched for the first time in my late teens and discovered that this is where all the clever quotes I'd heard a bunch of times came from. To me at least the movie is a delight, everyone involved is clearly having fun with it, and I think your inner child has to be dead to not at least appreciate the dueling scene or the battle of wits.
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Dec 27, 2023 06:57
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People love media they consumed as a child, more at 11
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only gonna allow my kid to watch Fata Morgana and Aguirre the Wrath of God when he hits 7, just to be sure
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Haruharuharuko posted:The princess bride. Yeah can appreciate small parts of it but never understood people losing their minds for it. Especially learning during filming some actors were bruising ribs laughing so hard at Billy Crystal… doing a voice? Huh? At least the dueling scene is cool. HenryJLittlefinger posted:People love media they consumed as a child, more at 11 Yeah same thing with Goonies, heard about it for years then when I sat down to watch kept waiting for it to get good. Also, Robocop is one of my favorites & finally got around to the sequel this year. Turned it off after 15 minutes, was painfully trying to mimic the original without understanding the humor or characters.
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Dec 27, 2023 08:00
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The Goonies is just a bad movie, I made it 45 minutes in and decided I didn't want to waste the remaining runtime on watching the movie. Just don't understand what makes people go insane about it. Everyone I've talked to who seems to love it also seemed to live a very idealistic childhood tbh.
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Hyrax Attack! posted:laughing so hard at Billy Crystal… doing a voice? Huh? This sums up about 85% of Billy Crystal’s career.
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syntaxfunction posted:Everyone I've talked to who seems to love it also seemed to live a very idealistic childhood tbh. My childhood sucked. Goonies is great. 
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Dec 27, 2023 08:51
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Okay a lot of people had idealistic childhoods, others are just wrong, there ya go.
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I hate those overly saccharine and manipulative pixar movies designed to try and make people cry. Stop trying to make movies that are just a huge bummer with cloying music with a mother dying or whatever.
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I like the idea of Goonies, but I hated it even as a kid, because the kids in the film just never stop screaming and yelling at each other.
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Dec 27, 2023 09:09
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A little late, but I do not like Alan Moore's work altogether. It's very edgy teen boy, I hate the way he writes women, and I extra hate that he has become the gold standard of Western "adult" comics.
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I didn’t see The Princess Bride until my 20s and I thought it was great; now that everything is quite edgy and ironic I was taken aback by how sincere it was— so it felt very fresh to me, like someone had come along with this new wholesome way of making movies
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