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AnimeIsTrash posted:sad to report the new napoleon is angloid propaganda yeah it sucks
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Only thing I can come up with is that it makes it a lot harder for your opponent to do a counterforce strike against your nuclear arsenal. Of course that's what nuclear submarines are for, so you need those to be somehow under threat of getting neutralized too. when were nuclear submarines invented the idea that we might have just never bothered inventing nuclear submarines because all the funding is going to the space race is a very potentially funny one its making me imagine a kelly comic where innocent hardworking naval engineers are staring despondently at the new budget as GREEDY ASTRONAUTS have hypnotized lawmakers into giving giant bags of money to nasa while a crying lady liberty looks on
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i should also note for historical realism purposes wanting to put nuclear missiles on the moon for no actual benefit except to antagonize the soviets is pretty on brand for cold war era thinking im just grateful weve moved past that kind of petty foreign policy dickwaving now if youll excuse me im needed elsewhere in the forums to post in support of ukraines struggle against russia a cause that our country is supporting for entirely noble reasons
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Some Guy TT posted:when were nuclear submarines invented the idea that we might have just never bothered inventing nuclear submarines because all the funding is going to the space race is a very potentially funny one its making me imagine a kelly comic where innocent hardworking naval engineers are staring despondently at the new budget as GREEDY ASTRONAUTS have hypnotized lawmakers into giving giant bags of money to nasa while a crying lady liberty looks on The first ballistic missile submarine was the Soviet Zulu IV sub from 1955-1956, and the first American ballistic missile submarine was the USS George Washington from 1959
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docbeard posted:So is For All Mankind like an Expanse prequel or something? you could read it as a prequel to pretty much anything tbh as fun as it is to rag on for all mankind its got a pretty solid concept as contemporaneous alt history depicting all the intermediate steps that are necessary for any other interstellar scifi setting that most actual interstellar stories just skip over (even including the feature film interstellar amusingly enough)
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Dec 27, 2023 23:31
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the concept was great and i loved the pilot, which is rare. it's just that season 2 was lovely so i don't want to watch it anymore
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Dec 27, 2023 23:33
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For All Mankind is still my favorite show still active, but yeah the quality drops off after Season 2. Season 4 must have had its budget slashed because gone are the days of most of the episodes happening in space suits and we just bop from Mars set to Earth set with maybe one scene in actual space, exterior shots.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:35
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skooma512 posted:For All Mankind is still my favorite show still active, but yeah the quality drops off after Season 2. yeah the budget in s1 really was legit impressive
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Some Guy TT posted:i should also note for historical realism purposes wanting to put nuclear missiles on the moon for no actual benefit except to antagonize the soviets is pretty on brand for cold war era thinking Agreed, I'm just glad at least one character in the show acknowledged it was stupid as hell.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:sad to report the new napoleon is angloid propaganda has riddley scott lost his mojo last duel was so good, moty
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Dec 27, 2023 23:38
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Xaris posted:has riddley scott lost his mojo really does seem like a mood split between the two movies
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docbeard posted:It was originally the 1990s but time travelers keep loving up the timeline and pushing it back. love engineer carol kane
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i say swears online posted:the concept was great and i loved the pilot, which is rare. it's just that season 2 was lovely so i don't want to watch it anymore yeah i know, there just wasn't enough danny in season 2 or 3
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AnimeIsTrash posted:sad to report the new napoleon is angloid propaganda napoleon movies seem pointless since Waterloo exists
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WampaLord posted:Yeah, I guess. It's just a weird oversight for a show that understands that space travel takes a long time. The real answer is that you nuke the moon so hard it either fractures or alters the trajectory so that it slams into the earth, destroying the planet. You are a supervillain from the 60s
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Grapplejack posted:The real answer is that you nuke the moon so hard it either fractures or alters the trajectory so that it slams into the earth, destroying the planet. You are a supervillain from the 60s Now that would be a sick twist. Margo stumbles upon secret plans for Operation Kill All Commies Moonfall, America's dastardly plan to crash the moon into Russia. Honestly the funniest thing about the show is that Russia is always hyped up as this big bad guy but doesn't actually seem to be doing anything evil (ok I guess shooting down a commercial airliner was bad) it's almost always the Americans jumping to conclusions, like with the translation card.
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WampaLord posted:Now that would be a sick twist. Margo stumbles upon secret plans for Operation Kill All Commies Moonfall, America's dastardly plan to crash the moon into Russia. the later seasons get worse with this to the point it starts to feel like self parody the kgb is basically just running around shooting and torturing people at random as if the showrunners are worried we might start thinking communism isnt so bad if theyre not constantly doing explicitly bad stuff on screen this might at least partially be a psychological necessity because the later seasons also deal with all the economic bad stuff of the nineties still happening and all the economic bad stuff of the twenties happening twenty years earlier the former in spite of and the latter because of all the accelerated space tech and if a significant chunk of the thesis in your alt history cold war setting is "capitalism bad" the question is naturally begged "so communism...good???"
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Nichael posted:yeah i know, there just wasn't enough danny in season 2 or 3 whenever dannys not on screen all the other characters should be asking wheres danny
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Dec 28, 2023 03:33
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Noped outta Rebel Moon when the first fight scene had no blood or broken bones. Also gave Foundation season 2 a try and that at least knew to start with a nude Lee Pace fuckin people up. Give the people what they want!
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Xaris posted:has riddley scott lost his mojo Ridley Scott is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. He'll put out some dogshit like The Counselor and Exodus: Gods and Kings and then turn around make some bangers like The Martian and The Last Duel. I really hope the right Ridley Scott shows up for Gladiator 2 next year.
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Gresh posted:Ridley Scott is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get. I heard The Counselor was going through a reappraisal period, have you seen it since it came out? I've never seen it, but I heard Cormac McCarthy worked on the script for it as well so it's always been on my radar despite its reputation.
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Durf posted:Noped outta Rebel Moon when the first fight scene had no blood or broken bones.
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contemporary action movies have always been bloodless so they can be rated PG and have as many eyeballs on it as possible capeshit gets around this by having the mooks be non-humans so the lack of blood is "expected", but it's obvious as heck when it's humans fighting humans
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gradenko_2000 posted:contemporary action movies have always been bloodless so they can be rated PG and have as many eyeballs on it as possible those were mostly around punching and blunt weapons; rebel moon had scenes where it felt like the impact should have had meat and bone fly out. if that's what they wanted great, but it seems like a happy middle that satisfies nobody (as per my review of Spirited, which is both too adult and juvenile and appeals to neither demo)
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https://x.com/TheAtlantic/status/1740213511022608715?s=20quote:One afternoon, I joined Snyder in the office where he was editing Rebel Moon. In the center of the table where we sat were statuettes of Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. Feeling, perhaps, the rush of his new project nearing completion, Snyder wondered whether the movie industry’s obsession with strip-mining old source material might be approaching an end. “I mean, like, how much IP is there?” he said.
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honestly a lovely Q: Steampunk Youth Story would make a big return imo
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honestly even teh worst babby origin story snyder rehash can;t be any worse than neil purvis & wade and barbara broccolini garbage i say let him go for it
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the fourth season of for all mankind makes a lot of effort to redeem itself by killing off the worst character and turning the second and third worst characters into class traitors but i dunno if thats really enough to make amends for all the prior existing bullshit
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i have a fun thought experiment on rotten tomatoes the new season of rick and morty has notably lower ratings both from critics and users compared to previous seasons what theory do we have for what caused this theory the first the evil manchildren are reviewbombing it for firing justin roiland their hero and idol theory the second people who have been negative on rick and morty for awhile but reluctant to admit it found the whole roiland affair to be a convenient excuse to rationalize the shows been terrible for years now theory the third a combination of both perhaps one for regular users and another for official reviewers since these two groups often disagree quite strongly on whether or not a show is good theory the fourth the seventh season is objectively worse than the sixth one definitely not this one i really dont see how anyone can seriously argue the sixth season was better than the seventh one lol
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haven't seen the new season yet but rick and morty has been on a downward trajectory since season 3.
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AnimeIsTrash posted:sad to report the new napoleon is angloid propaganda quote:Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English filmmaker. 
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closing in on the final stretch of three body and am finding it deeply ironically funny that the story is framing rebellion against communism in the context of deeply cynical antihuman nihilism that has far less to do with anything communism has done specifically and more the borderline comical cultlike belief that an alien race about which we know basically nothing will represent an improvement just because humans suck so much i think anybody who reads the cultural revolution parts of the story as being meaningfully critical of the communist state is at best unaware of the prexi cultural context when the story was written and at worst so effectively trained by western propaganda to have a knee jerk negative response to the very phrase cultural revolution that they dont actually understand that the historical setting is a deliberate contrast a similar american story would basically be about hippies summoning aliens to stop the vietnam war
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Open Source Idiom posted:I heard The Counselor was going through a reappraisal period, have you seen it since it came out? I saw the Counselor in the cinema when it came out and loved it, I rewatch it a lot, it might be one of my favourite films. Never understood the bad rep.
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Some Guy TT posted:i have a fun thought experiment on rotten tomatoes the new season of rick and morty has notably lower ratings both from critics and users compared to previous seasons what theory do we have for what caused this Critical rotten tomatoes scores are all based on the number of screeners they received prior to the debut of the season, yeah? IIRC they were rqting the season based on the first two episodes.
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Mantis42 posted:haven't seen the new season yet but rick and morty has been on a downward trajectory since season 3.
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docbeard posted:It was originally the 1990s but time travelers keep loving up the timeline and pushing it back. She gets typecast so hard
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