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That show is comically bad. The first episode is mostly ok, but it all trends downhill. The third/final episode is so loving dumb. Just incredibly stupid. If you have an appreciation for dumb poo poo, watch it. Just don't expect it to be good.
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I was told that the first episode was very good, and they made the baffling decision to set the whole 2nd part of a 3-part series on the Demeter, which I'm told was boring.
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Mar 14, 2024 17:30
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Now I don't remember if it was that episode I heard was good, or the entirely separate movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). I still think it was the former tho idk?
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Mar 14, 2024 17:33
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All episodes are very bad, the first is bad in a mostly normal way, the second is bad in a different, fresh kind of way, and the third episode is one of the most bafflingly stupid things I've ever seen so it's definitely worth sitting through 4.5 lousy hours of poo poo dracula to see with your own eyes, to really understand dumbness.
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Mar 14, 2024 17:55
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Halloween Jack posted:I just saw L&T as another Marvel movie where the villain has a good point, but he goes too far, so the hero needs to kill him and restore the status quo where people eat at McDonald's and chat about that time half the global population died for a few years. Except that with this one, there is basically no reason why the hero should disagree with the villain. The villain says basically everything Thor is thinking the whole time, and even the whole "killing the gods then" thing isn't a bridge too far because Thor totally gets pissed and kills a God halfway through this one, for basically the same reason and he's not too upset about it. They are both God-Killers. (Don't worry, the god Thor kills get better by the after-credits though.) So the disagreement is even worse than normal. I also watched Next Goal Wins hoping that maybe a smaller movie might be more in Taika's wheelhouse and get me back on the Taika train, and noooope I think that guy might just suck poo poo now. Next Goal is a completely cynical piece of garbage, trying to see how weak of a movie you can make with the scrappy-sports-underdog formula and still pull it off. The whole thing is flat, the jokes don't land, everyone just seems a little bored. There's no direction or visual flair to speak of, Taika just doesn't direct, it's like he wasn't even on set. Fassbender gives the worst performance of his life, and it doesn't help that literally every other character around him would make for a more interesting lead. One supporting character is a trans woman, meaning that Waititi gets to enjoy his "progressive ally on Tumblr" status, but it's complete poo poo, she does nothing but serve as a point to have Fassbender grow and change around. There's a dramatic moment around him deadnaming her, but they both say "sorry" and move on by the next scene, and the movie is incapable of exploring any further after that. Honestly, this should be her movie! The actual person was the first trans person in FIFA! I really liked Hunt for the Wilderpeople, but holy poo poo the guy who made that is long gone, Waititi is a lazy hack now.
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Mar 14, 2024 19:44
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Failed Imagineer posted:Now I don't remember if it was that episode I heard was good, or the entirely separate movie The Last Voyage of the Demeter (2023). I still think it was the former tho idk? Baron von Eevl posted:the third episode is one of the most bafflingly stupid things I've ever seen
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Mar 14, 2024 21:05
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Takes it in spades? Schrader himself is a scumbag! TAFS is the perfect place for a man who’s been kicked out of at least one celebrity poker room for being too creepy to the women involved.
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Mar 14, 2024 21:55
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X-Ray Pecs posted:TAFS is the perfect place for a man who’s been kicked out of at least one celebrity poker room for being too creepy to the women involved. A guy who by his own admission sees Taylor Swift like Travis Bickle saw Betsy.
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Mar 14, 2024 22:03
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I love Schrader so much.
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Mar 14, 2024 22:07
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X-Ray Pecs posted:TAFS is the perfect place for a man who’s been kicked out of at least one celebrity poker room for being too creepy to the women involved. Lol I was looking for this tweet again on google, and the original poster has now protected his posts, but the second result was this thread a year ago when I posted it last.
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Mar 14, 2024 22:48
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Which epistolary novels, other than Dracula, have ever been adapted for the silver screen? Turning an epistolary novel into a movie sounds like hell, honestly.
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Mar 14, 2024 22:48
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Welp didn’t post let’s try again
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Which epistolary novels, other than Dracula, have ever been adapted for the silver screen? Turning an epistolary novel into a movie sounds like hell, honestly. Frankenstein, technically?
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Mar 14, 2024 22:56
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I was going to say the Screwtape Letters because surely some must’ve done a movie of it at some point but I checked and it turns out there’s never been a film adaptation of the Screwtape Letters. What the heck?
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Mar 14, 2024 23:01
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Technically not an epistolary novel but kind of the same vibe or challenge with World War Z
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Which epistolary novels, other than Dracula, have ever been adapted for the silver screen? Turning an epistolary novel into a movie sounds like hell, honestly. Kinda sorta Carrie.
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Mar 14, 2024 23:19
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I thought of one: the TV show Chapelwaite, sort of. I said movie though.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Which epistolary novels, other than Dracula, have ever been adapted for the silver screen? Turning an epistolary novel into a movie sounds like hell, honestly. I just googled “epistolary novels” and the list that was generated has yielded a lot of movies. https://www.google.com/search?q=epi...le-gws-wiz-serp Also https://reedsy.com/discovery/blog/epistolary-novels
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Mar 15, 2024 00:11
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Which epistolary novels, other than Dracula, have ever been adapted for the silver screen? Turning an epistolary novel into a movie sounds like hell, honestly. Poor Things and The Prestige spring to mind
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Mutant War is alright. The effects seem a little better than in Battle for the Lost Planet, but there are a lot less of them. Overall there’s a lot less stuff in it. It’s still reasonably fun as a low budget sci-fi adventure, but it lacks the manic energy of its predecessor. It does have Cameron Mitchell tho
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Mar 15, 2024 01:52
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Not many can say they fought their uncle in a volcano. I can. I'm pretty sure this happened in Avatar at least once.
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Mar 15, 2024 02:28
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Looks like Civil War might actually be great. From one of my favorite critics. https://x.com/mangiotto/status/1768445903453483072?s=46
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I certainly hope the movie isn't successful, we wouldn't want people to get the idea that it's good to do a civil war.
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Mar 15, 2024 03:14
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Where the gently caress is Spider-Man? If it doesn't have Spider-Man, that poo poo ain't Civil War!
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Mar 15, 2024 03:16
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The amount of head bobbing George Clooney does in The Peacemaker is breathtaking.
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therattle posted:I just googled “epistolary novels” and the list that was generated has yielded a lot of movies.
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Civil War being good would take an absolute miracle.
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theblackw0lf posted:Looks like Civil War might actually be great. From one of my favorite critics. I don't understand the sentiment on this forum that it's going to be bad. Trailer looks sick.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:They already made Violent Night, which is basically Die Hard with Santa Claus. I wanted to like it but it's not very good, absolute waste of that cast
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Mar 15, 2024 06:29
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CelestialScribe posted:I don't understand the sentiment on this forum that it's going to be bad. Trailer looks sick. it could well be bad anyway, but the idea that the director of Men and Annihilation is going to be completely unaware of the political valences of a film about an american civil war and not making intentional decisions about which ones to play up to is kinda implausible distortion park fucked around with this message at 09:31 on Mar 15, 2024 |
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Yeah, I think the trailer is cut to give it more of a Michael Bay vibe (given A24s recent VC cash infusion and more mainstream swing), but I'm confident the movie itself will have a lot more nuance/weirdness
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It may be hard to tell given it may simply be tuned to activate the correct kind of political brainworms and be insane nonsense to everyone else.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It may be hard to tell given it may simply be tuned to activate the correct kind of political brainworms and be insane nonsense to everyone else. I hope it absolutely infuriates chuds, yeah
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah, I think the trailer is cut to give it more of a Michael Bay vibe (given A24s recent VC cash infusion and more mainstream swing), but I'm confident the movie itself will have a lot more nuance/weirdness I feel like the trailer shows that nuance fairly well. It was pretty obvious to me this isn’t going to be just a piece of mindless entertainment.
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Failed Imagineer posted:I hope it absolutely infuriates chuds, yeah I'd be surprised if they bother to acknowledge it at all. At best I imagine it'll be a topic of the day incorporated into the culture war narrative then immediately forgotten.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I'd be surprised if they bother to acknowledge it at all. At best I imagine it'll be a topic of the day incorporated into the culture war narrative then immediately forgotten. They're getting burned out on the dopamine hit of outrage pretty quick lately, they need at least 3 new demonic scandals per day
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Two professional violinists review Bradley Cooper’s conducting https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vcitUfPx8jU&pp=ygUTVHdvc2V0dmlpbGluIGNvb3Blcg%3D%3D About 8 minutes in they try playing their violins to it
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They were surprisingly fair to him, that was interesting. Movie was awful though. Watched The Beekeeper last night, great stupid fun but idk why Statham seemed to be trying some kind of Americanisation of his accent at points, they already wrote Brit into the script why bother
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Failed Imagineer posted:I think Claes Bang is definitely on my must-watch actors list, dude is diverse and charismatic as hell. He's the rear end in a top hat central figure in Bad Sisters, my GOD he is hateable
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