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Magic Hate Ball posted:August: Osage County getting botched might be the biggest cinematic crime of the last decade. In terms of plays turned movies, I think the colossal misfire that was Les Miserables has to take that prize (I generally liked August: Osage County, but John Wells' inexperience with a camera really shows with the blocking).
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gently caress Whitey posted:I have like half a thesis about comics as cultural snapshots and Archie is that writ large Archie and Mad Magazine together tell you almost everything you need to know about the mid-to-late 20th century.
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Timby posted:In terms of plays turned movies, I think the colossal misfire that was Les Miserables has to take that prize (I generally liked August: Osage County, but John Wells' inexperience with a camera really shows with the blocking). I found the film of Les Mis literally unwatchable. That said, I didn't even give the film of August... a shot.
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Are there any Pinter adaptations people would recommend? I've read some of his plays but reading a play is a bit like listening to a dance.
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therattle posted:I found the film of Les Mis literally unwatchable. My wife breaks out the Blu-ray every few months and I'm at the point that I just have to go down to the basement or to my office upstairs; between Russell Crowe "singing" like a bear defending its young, Amanda Seyfried's warbling, the incomprehensible decision to record all the singing on-set and oh my God the close-ups, that movie is going to give me an aneurysm one of these days.
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Skwirl posted:Are there any Pinter adaptations people would recommend? I've read some of his plays but reading a play is a bit like listening to a dance. Betrayal is essential watching. Jeremy Irons kills it.
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Skwirl posted:Are there any Pinter adaptations people would recommend? I've read some of his plays but reading a play is a bit like listening to a dance. Yep: Friedkin's The Birthday Party.
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Ayo I'm feeling way too nauseous to make it to the protests at JFK today, so I'mma instead help the cause in that most upper-middle-class of ways: money!! So far I'm planning to donate to Make the Road and CAIR today, but if anyone has any other organizations to call out for doing good work against Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim policies, please send those my way and they're gonna get some bills as well...
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Jan 28, 2017 20:14
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ACLU's a good one, they just filed lawsuits this morning.
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See, here's where a government shutdown and general strike would do some good.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:See, here's where a government shutdown and general strike would do some good. When they go low, we tweet pictures of the statue of liberty crying
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:When they go low, we tweet pictures of the statue of liberty crying That or just turn on a dime.
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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Archie's been dope for years, I'm glad people are finally realizing it. Archie's been dope for 71 years.
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feedmyleg posted:Archie's been dope for 71 years. There's that weird period where the characters were licensed to some right wing Christians that produced some horrible poo poo.
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Jenny Angel posted:Ayo I'm feeling way too nauseous to make it to the protests at JFK today, so I'mma instead help the cause in that most upper-middle-class of ways: money!! So far I'm planning to donate to Make the Road and CAIR today, but if anyone has any other organizations to call out for doing good work against Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim policies, please send those my way and they're gonna get some bills as well... I've been giving my wife's money to PP, ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center for awhile now but I might have to divert some to CAIR I think they're really gunna need it.
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Skwirl posted:There's that weird period where the characters were licensed to some right wing Christians that produced some horrible poo poo. The collision of over-the-top religious hucksterism with bordering-on-pop-art psychedelic comic mayhem is kind of sublime. edit: i mean, this is is great. I'd buy this as a poster: 
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Magic Hate Ball posted:The collision of over-the-top religious hucksterism with bordering-on-pop-art psychedelic comic mayhem is kind of sublime. The politics behind a lot of it is some loving disgusting poo poo though 
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Skwirl posted:There's that weird period where the characters were licensed to some right wing Christians that produced some horrible poo poo. No they only did like two of those. Most of that was done at Archie because the writer got born again. They licensed the characters to him and agreed to publish some stuff for him to get him off the book
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Jenny Angel posted:Ayo I'm feeling way too nauseous to make it to the protests at JFK today, so I'mma instead help the cause in that most upper-middle-class of ways: money!! So far I'm planning to donate to Make the Road and CAIR today, but if anyone has any other organizations to call out for doing good work against Trump's anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim policies, please send those my way and they're gonna get some bills as well... Donate to the help dickeye get an apartment fund
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Lurdiak posted:It doesn't, of course, but Hbomb is wondering how SMG "arrived at his conclusion" and it makes it sound like there's a process involved that I'm not discerning. That Sonic and the characters in Star Wars 7 are unthreatening isn't the conclusion; it's one point in the broader ideological critique. Like, you can establish a contrast with how Rogue One (the better-made film with, not coincidentally, more progressive themes) received a lot of nerd criticism because the (sex-having, adult) characters were deemed 'dour' and 'unlikeable', the whole film dismissed as 'grimdark' - despite there being not much of an overall difference. A point of contention with H.Bomberguy: the new Mario game isn't contrasting Mario with 'reality'. It's drawing some trickier associations between Mario and Grand Theft Auto. The point seems to be that Mario is the Tommy Vercetti of his particular universe - so, when you trade their places, it's both a radical alien intrusion and ultimately a joke that not much has changed. Item blocks are now (revealed to be?) street signs, turtles are taxi-cabs, etc. At a certain level, it's just a palette swap. And that has the counter-effect of defanging GTA. It's somewhere between a homage and a dis, if you think about it. SuperMechagodzilla fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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CelticPredator posted:K here. Had to be kinda quite due to p thin walls.
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Called it.
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That Sonic and the characters in Star Wars 7 are unthreatening isn't the conclusion; it's one point in the broader ideological critique. if you think about it, i hate you
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gently caress Whitey posted:if you think about it, i hate you Then I have good news.
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K. Waste posted:Called it. we really should have figured this out sooner, imho
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:That Sonic and the characters in Star Wars 7 are unthreatening isn't the conclusion; it's one point in the broader ideological critique. lmao
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corn in the bible posted:we really should have figured this out sooner, imho Wait, if we locate the long lost heir of Czar Nicholas II can we depose Putin?
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Banning Iranians is just weird, they haven't done anything terroristy directly to the Americans in a whileeeeeeeeeeeeee. Now Iran is banning America. Where are you going to get your Fesenjoon and Kabob now?!
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Death By The Blues posted:Banning Iranians is just weird, they haven't done anything terroristy directly to the Americans in a whileeeeeeeeeeeeee. Our country is being run by a mad man, there's no loving logic to anything. His nominee for Secretary of Education thinks we need guns in schools to protect children from bears.
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Bears, I knew it was them! Even when it was the immigrants, I knew it was them.
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Skwirl posted:Our country is being run by a mad man, there's no loving logic to anything. His nominee for Secretary of Education thinks we need guns in schools to protect children from bears. I mean I know she said that but I don't think she actually thinks that. You can't take these people at their word.
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FishBulb posted:I mean I know she said that but I don't think she actually thinks that. Betsy Devos is so dumb she can't even take herself at her word.
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FishBulb posted:I mean I know she said that but I don't think she actually thinks that. You're right, I should have written "His nominee for Secretary of Education says we need guns in schools to protect children from bears." The fact that she thought that was an acceptable answer to loving congress even if she knows it's ridiculous highlights the god damned insanity of the entire situation. Ben Carson is going to be the head of Housing and Urban Development, I guess because he's a neurosurgeon and HUD kinda looks likes HEAD.
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I know it has to be loving Bannon who's picking all of these people, not Trump. I sincerely doubt Trump has any idea who these people even are or what they're being put in charge of. The appointments are basically a perfect storm of agency opponents and idiots. I am also convinced that Mattis was picked solely off of his nickname. I think it goes without saying, but the Muslim ban is wholly unconscionable. It blows my mind that it can just be done through an executive action. I have a feeling it won't be held up in court, but I can't be sure of anything like that right now. The government is completely hosed and Republicans infest every level like parasites. There is every possibility some rear end in a top hat judge somewhere would uphold it and it takes a lot of time to make it to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, there have already been repercussions. There are already people that have been trapped overseas or even sent back to their home countries only to be detained. I just... I just can't understand what the gently caress's happening anymore. 
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I still don't know what the gently caress Toni Erdmann is about but I really want to see it.
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Hat Thoughts posted:cant stop watching the shia livestream The trump people getting close to camera are the worst because they always try to be funny & then a liberal person will argue with them which is just motivation for them to double down on the "humor" & it causes me personal discomfort.
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Death By The Blues posted:Banning Iranians is just weird, they haven't done anything terroristy directly to the Americans in a whileeeeeeeeeeeeee. From memory, the current ban would have prevented 0 of the 9/11 hijackers and neither of the San Bern shooters from entering the US. That's not the point, yet, but if they do get the balls to expand and include Saudi, I hope you like standing in line for gas.
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this is an old reddit link from the chapo thread in cspam: guy does an ama for his WWII vet grandpa (but grandpa was in the waffen-ss (reddit just about tramples each other thanking him for his service and anyone going WAIT NO HE WAS LITERALLy A NAZI gets downvoted to hell))
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