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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i don't think anyone's really fantasizing here. the worldview exhibited by his books is a really genuinely awful one that he's voiced support for in nonfictional contexts. A world where people live in literal high rise trailer parks, corporations blow up hundreds of people if you refuse to work for them, and the only thing making it bearable is a video game: a utopia, according to famed philosopher LORD OF BOOTY.
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Jedit posted:A world where people live in literal high rise trailer parks, corporations blow up hundreds of people if you refuse to work for them, and the only thing making it bearable is a video game: a utopia, according to famed philosopher LORD OF BOOTY. I dunno, the techno-utopian angle of the Oasis is fairly in line with how progressives from silicon valley view the internet as a haven apart from the corruption of the real world. You know, except for the fact that the internet is legit owned by large natsec and corporate actors, so... Technocratic utopian ideologies are profoundly naive, almost dogmatic, not unlike progressivism itself with its relationship to the concept of providence.
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Jedit posted:A world where people live in literal high rise trailer parks, corporations blow up hundreds of people if you refuse to work for them, and the only thing making it bearable is a video game: a utopia, according to famed philosopher LORD OF BOOTY. It's less the state of the "real world" in the book, more about the idea that devoting your entire life to escapism isn't a problem, but instead cool and good
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Arstotzka welcomes you. Papers Please https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mhuh6ojc0I
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Jedit posted:A world where people live in literal high rise trailer parks, corporations blow up hundreds of people if you refuse to work for them, and the only thing making it bearable is a video game: a utopia, according to famed philosopher LORD OF BOOTY. i... think you misunderstood me a little. i think that sounds staggeringly loving awful. the tone Ready Player One takes towards its world indicates that Ernest Cline thinks this sounds loving awesome. this is why I think Ernest Cline is probably an actual bad person and not just a bad writer: because his idea of a really nice world to live in sounds insanely horrible to me or any thinking person.
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Machio sucked at Karate in the original movies. Just how bad is he going to be as a 56 year old?
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:i... think you misunderstood me a little. i think that sounds staggeringly loving awful. the tone Ready Player One takes towards its world indicates that Ernest Cline thinks this sounds loving awesome. this is why I think Ernest Cline is probably an actual bad person and not just a bad writer: because his idea of a really nice world to live in sounds insanely horrible to me or any thinking person. I didn't get that impression at all, though. He thinks the Oasis would be a wonderful place to live, but yeah, it's your fantasy so why wouldn't you think that? I never thought he felt that the real world he described would be fine no matter what because it had the Oasis to escape into.
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Jedit posted:I didn't get that impression at all, though. He thinks the Oasis would be a wonderful place to live, but yeah, it's your fantasy so why wouldn't you think that? I never thought he felt that the real world he described would be fine no matter what because it had the Oasis to escape into. It's an almost profound degree of imaginative impotence. The fantasy isn't living in a better world, the fantasy is having a more encompassing tool of escapism.
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This is fairly antiseptic, down to the logo
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I liked the reboot with Joey from FRIENDS better
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Taintrunner posted:I liked the reboot with Joey from FRIENDS better It had Gary Oldman. And it's own sort of bad movie charm.
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There had to be at least one review out there that included "Oh the pain, the pain" when talking about watching the movie and if not what are we even doing here
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Probably that gently caress Doug Walker
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I cannot wait to see Parker Posey as Dr. Smith. That's some brilliant casting.
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None of this is real. Except my love for Aubrey Plaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9UcfgkU8hk
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Intergalactic white flight is an insane idea that I wanna watch
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Yardie, directed by Idris Elba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ee24QB3o16o
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As an American I will never see that word without thinking quote:Sol: You are a bad-boy yardie, and bad-boy yardies are supposed to know how to get rid of bodies. Bad Boy Lincoln: I create the bodies. I don't erase the bodies.
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The MSJ posted:None of this is real. Except my love for Aubrey Plaza. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaQ59yNSbKs
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GonSmithe posted:Yardie, directed by Idris Elba Heard it was so-so but I'm excited that Elba's getting into directing. He's amazing.
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kiimo posted:As an American I will never see that word without thinking Snatch is the movie that made me get into video, its amazing
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The MSJ posted:None of this is real. Except my love for Aubrey Plaza. I've just started watching the first season and I was disappointed to find out the "Skip this part" line wasn't referring to the Bollywood dance number like the trailer implied.
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Gnome de plume posted:I've just started watching the first season and I was disappointed to find out the "Skip this part" line wasn't referring to the Bollywood dance number like the trailer implied. Why would you want to skip that?
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I don't, that's what the guy David's telling his flashback says in the middle of it. It was just kind of funny to think we was going to that much detail.
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Not a movie, but still has me asking why: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8B5dqjsZUs
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Ah, the legendary Reboot Reboot. I guess Bob did find out if Users live outside the system.
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GrandpaPants posted:Not a movie, but still has me asking why: God I hate Netflix.
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Taintrunner posted:God I hate Netflix.  But they've greenlit some interesting movie projects at least.
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Taintrunner posted:God I hate Netflix. They're obviously throwing poo poo at the wall but I'm okay with it as long as they're funding mid-budget movies cause even if the films arent always amazing, sometimes they're at least decent & anyway they're p much the only place that give a poo poo about indies atm.
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Krankenstyle posted:& anyway they're p much the only place that give a poo poo about indies atm. I'm not sure what this means, because despite the fact that huge blockbuster cinema has swallowed 90%+ of the marketshare, the specialty box office is incredibly healthy and varied at the moment, and Netflix is not a part of that AT ALL. Where Amazon Studios at least does some type of limited theatrical showing for its smaller titles (say 1 or 2 show premiers at a 500 seat auditorium) Netflix isn't interested at all in engaging with that space. Regardless of their financing of a few interesting movie projects here and there (some of which are scraping the bottom of the barrel) Netflix has spent the last 8 years culling support for film from their platform in favor of television shows. So yeah, they don't outright suck, but they are pretty loving bad and I do not care for their service.
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Just what it seemed like to me, as a total outsider. I don't often go to the cinema (it's insanely expensive so I save it for stuff where I really want that experience). It does seem like there are more mid-budget movies recently though. Idk who caused it then but it's a good thing.
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Taintrunner posted:God I hate Netflix. AFAIK they don't have anything to do with the production of this, they're just distributing it. You would think this would be something from someone who just bought the name and didn't actually have anything to do with the original but nope, this is still the same company.
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I'm not sure what this means, because despite the fact that huge blockbuster cinema has swallowed 90%+ of the marketshare, the specialty box office is incredibly healthy and varied at the moment, and Netflix is not a part of that AT ALL. Where Amazon Studios at least does some type of limited theatrical showing for its smaller titles (say 1 or 2 show premiers at a 500 seat auditorium) Netflix isn't interested at all in engaging with that space. Regardless of their financing of a few interesting movie projects here and there (some of which are scraping the bottom of the barrel) Netflix has spent the last 8 years culling support for film from their platform in favor of television shows. 95% of America doesn't have access to "Specialty Box Offices" but do have access to Netflix.
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I wish this was Rochelle Rochelle.
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BonoMan posted:95% of America doesn't have access to "Specialty Box Offices" but do have access to Netflix. I'm aware that the industry has consolidated, though Netflix isn't actually helping the proliferation of independent art cinema so 
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muscles like this! posted:AFAIK they don't have anything to do with the production of this, they're just distributing it. You would think this would be something from someone who just bought the name and didn't actually have anything to do with the original but nope, this is still the same company. The original creators aren't on board, it's basically a different company who bought the old company's name.
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