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I see. I studied all that stuff in university but largely lost interest after I graduated (found new hobbies other than politics etc.), so it's interesting to go back and look at it again from time to time.
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I think most people would like a dictator provided said dictator is on "their" side, though that might just be very cynical of me.
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Jan 10, 2018 17:07
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Darth Walrus posted:I dunno, there’s an obvious disadvantage in that it’s a system with a single point of failure. If this one guy who runs everything is no longer capable of running everything, you’re boned. Politicians in democracies end up with all these cults of personality around them anyway. People project so much onto politicians and it's disturbing to me. Nobody has all the answers and nobody can solve every problem, but we want to believe there is: X will win the election and fix everything.
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Jan 10, 2018 17:22
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RareAcumen posted:I left RR out because I doubt you'd get all those characters in the same movie again. Even with everyone trying to create an expanded cinematic universe all the time. It's from the era when Steven Spielberg was able to decide, "I want to do this," and it would be done. See also: Animaniacs, Young Indiana Jones, Jurassic Park etc. In the case of Roger Rabbit, I've heard that getting Warner Bros. and Disney characters on screen together was largely down to him.
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Jan 11, 2018 10:05
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I remember Spoony used to have pledges amounting to $5000 per month on Patreon and I believe he's down to about $500 now.
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Jan 22, 2018 13:58
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Doctor Spaceman posted:There are a bunch of articles mocking Renowned Author Dan Brown (that get additional sequels whenever he writes a new book) Renowned author Dan Brown read Doctor Spaceman's post with his two eyes, which flashed with anger like the sizzle of a lion's claw. He prepared to type a response by operating the keyboard on his expensive Dell laptop with the hands on the ends of his two arms. "I will respond to this critic," thought the 53-year old male bestselling novelist superfluously.
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Jan 23, 2018 10:28
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corn in the bible posted:Sonic the hedgehog may present himself as the savior of the people but in truth his motivations are not "way past cool" at all, but rather, symptomatic of the deep obsession with marxist-leninist dialecticism that plagues post-post-war America. The player is told that Robotnik (note the Jewish name, a case of clear anti-Semitism) is capturing animals to encase in robots, but is this really true? Perhaps he is offering gainful employment, which is accepted as the communist doctrine espoused by Sonic provides nothing at all. Sonic himself is given all the goods he wants (hot dogs, shoes, even scarfs in some interpretations) but the "liberated animals" are clothed in nothing... or are they clothed in new, robotic clothing bought via the free market? One might argue that Sonic is a game for children, and unlikely to contain these ideas. However, that is exactly the point: much like socialism, it is merely a fantasy, an impossible dream only children could accept. Also the graphics are pretty good and the controls are smooth, 8/10 Sonic's arms are not red.
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Jan 28, 2018 19:33
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I saw Ready Player One in an airport bookshop today; it had a movie tie-in cover (i.e. photograph of the star) but confusingly, it was in the children's section. Obviously the movie will be a big Spielberg action effects spectacle and kids love that kind of thing, but would anyone who isn't older than 35 or isn't into pop culture nostalgia have any appreciation for loving descriptions of how the hero Kevin Smithed his Bluesmobile with a KITT mainframe until it went faster than a Ghostbusted DeLorean or whatever it is?
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Feb 3, 2018 23:09
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Augus posted:Listen 80's dads really want their kids to like the exact same things they did okay? I've never stopped to wonder what my dad would think of RPO, seeing as he's a bit of an 80s dad (i.e. he was the age I am now in the late 80s). He probably wouldn't like it because he only likes Bernard Cornwell and Wilbur Smith and the guy who writes the Dirk Pitt novels.
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Feb 4, 2018 00:01
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I haven't read RPO but none of the excerpts I've seen from it make me want to. It's too bad because I normally have a lot of fun with those "everything crossed over with everything" stories like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Anno Dracula. I guess in those cases, Alan Moore and Kim Newman have a reasonably good sense of what makes all the stuff they're referencing or alluding to work and they've put a but of thought into how to integrate it all together, whereas everything I've seen from RPO looks like the author had a checklist of everything he wanted to mention (see: that "and obviously Kevin Smith" list that makes the rounds). Moore and Newman also seem to have much larger reference pools than Ernest Cline.
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Feb 4, 2018 01:19
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FreezingInferno posted:Maybe whoever's adapting this thing will actually add tension/the illusion of tension to all the Easter egg hunting scenes, rather than the book's resolution to all of them which was "I had to do [80's thing] to win but luckily I'd seen/played [80's thing] 40 dozen times and had it memorized perfectly, and I did [80's thing] 100% flawlessly and won." Steven Spielberg.
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Feb 5, 2018 14:26
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RareAcumen posted:Or in a less gross example, it'll probably be no more damaging to movies long term as Sausage Party and the Emoji movie were. They both came and went. You should have mentioned the FAILING Last Jedi. 
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Feb 5, 2018 15:12
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The conflict in "Sub Rosa" is resolved when Geordie and Data sneak out into a churchyard in the dead of night and dig up an old lady's grave.
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Feb 8, 2018 11:43
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The guy who played the sex ghost also played Zorro in the early 90s syndicated Zorro TV series (which I think was Disney?) which is a show often overshadowed by Highlander, Hercules and Xena despite managing to get about five seasons or so.
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Feb 8, 2018 12:34
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Baka-nin posted:
Well, I wasn't too far off. That's not a bad run.
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Feb 9, 2018 00:35
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sexpig by night posted:I actually don't know how RT does that stuff, do reviewers tell it if their review is positive or negative or is there an algorithm? Well, I think that ordinarily it depends on whether or not the BRIBE cheque from DISNEY has cleared yet.
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Feb 10, 2018 01:47
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business hammocks posted:Its true meaning is that Arnofsky is going to start getting the Shyamalan treatment soon. What a twist!
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Feb 10, 2018 21:10
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Spark That Bled posted:Same thing happened with The Dark Knight and Toy Story 3, though. Any highly regarded Hollywood movie invariably gets a dissenting opinion, it's only natural. People had actually seen those movies, though. Karloff posted:It seems odd that Renegade Cut's feature length critical look at the DCEU is probably gonna encourage more furious backlash and complaint than his feature length critical look at a series of films beloved by right-wing American Christians, but these are strange times we live in. I think the people who would ordinarily get upset over videos critiquing right-wing American Christian movies probably aren't watching them, whereas people who enjoy comic book movies probably are.
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Feb 11, 2018 14:09
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Has anybody made a video (or even written an article) about all the abortive cinematic universes Hollywood studios have attempted over the past five years or so?
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Feb 11, 2018 14:47
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Mraagvpeine posted:How many are there besides DCEU, Universal's Dark Universe, and Sony's Spider-Manless Spider-Man movies? Maybe it's not even cinematic universes so much as it's really obvious attempts to start franchises rather than focusing on making a good movie. For example, Ghostbusters 2016 was supposed to establish a "Ghost Corps" franchise. The most recent Transformers movie was trying to do something similar, as was the Guy Ritchie King Arthur movie, the Dark Tower movie and even the Power Rangers movie (someone at Lionsgate was saying "we have plans for the next five or six movies" before the first one even came out) from last year. There's been talk of some kind of Robin Hood shared universe for a while (and there's that naff-looking one with Taron Egerton out later this year). More recently, you arguably have Cloverfield as well. The one that seems to have done best so far is that Kongzilla one and it only has two movies so far. Dark Universe even has two false starts you can talk about (potentially three; I'm not sure if the underrated Wolfman remake with Benicio Del Toro was supposed to start something). The one I'm most disappointed never happened actually goes all the way back to 1997, when MGM wanted to produce a spin-off from Tomorrow Never Dies which was going to focus on Colonel Wai Lin and was going to be a big Hollywood vehicle for Michelle Yeoh.
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Feb 11, 2018 16:54
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Karloff posted:Darkman is the greatest piece of art ever created, but is not a comic book film officially, Raimi couldn't get the rights to The Shadow I gather and so was like "gently caress you, I'll make my own". The apotheosis of Darkman. quote:I'm gonna agree with everyone else that Dark Universe is probably the funniest failure, why they hired Alex Kurtzman to kick that thing off is baffling. Why they think turning horror films into super-hero films is a good idea is also strange, I swear they can make a whole bunch of films about their Monster Back-Catalogue for a tenth of a blockbuster budget and reap a tidy profit, but maybe that's not so impressive to shareholders. How about the "cast photo" with Crowe, Cruise, Depp, Bardem and Boutella which it later turned out was mostly assembled via Photoshop and they were never actually all together (I'm pretty sure Bardem for one was never actually officially signed on with them). Kibayasu posted:MGM said the same thing about Halle Berry in Die Another Day. I doubt any of it was actually serious. I think they were more serious with Halle Berry, since they introduced the seeds of a supporting cast for her (Michael Madsen as DAMIAN FALCO) but she either declined to proceed with it because she wanted to do Catwoman, or it was called off because she did Catwoman.
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Feb 11, 2018 19:14
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Remember the Van Helsing movie?
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Feb 11, 2018 19:44
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I have never seen it, but I really distinctly remember thinking that it was meant to be a sequel to the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie for a long time. 
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Feb 11, 2018 19:47
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How about Abar: The First Black Superman?
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Feb 11, 2018 20:22
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Sarcopenia posted:I didn't know I needed this in my life. You know that one woman at the start who says, "GET YOUR BLACK HANDS OFF OF ME!!!!1"? Well, at the end, it is revealed that she is black and has been passing as white this entire time; apparently, it is because she has sickle cell anaemia, which seems medically less-than-accurate to me.
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Feb 11, 2018 20:33
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business hammocks posted:They could make a really good psychological thriller with Tom Cruise about why he's afraid to age. Like he could play a successful doctor or accountant or something who is relentlessly pursued by a 55-year-old man who takes care of himself but looks age-appropriate for a man born during the Eisenhower administration. M. Night Shyamalan should make that; it'd be a great addition to his Unbreakable Shared Cinematic Universe.
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Feb 11, 2018 21:57
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MonsieurChoc posted:He goes for all the easy references, with no understanding of what made the media interesting in the first place or it's themes or inspirations or legacy or anything really. It's a checklist with no awareness of any of the things on it. He's no Kim Newman.
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MonsieurChoc posted:Oh man, the Anno Dracula series is such a better example! And it's quite fun too. Newman does sometimes get over-invested in his references; for instance, his most recent book features a sailor with superhuman strength named Popejoy with a disfigured face and one eye, nicknamed "Hawkeye", who is eventually turned into a vampire by a specific breed of Japanese plant-based vampire, and instead of blood he can only subsist on iron-rich vegetable matter, a problem resolved when he starts consuming large amounts of spinach. I thought that was funny, but it's definitely a bit on-the-nose. That said, at least Newman makes a better effort to make them part of the story and make them feel like they belong there than most of what I've seen of RPO, and the fact that he's often working around copyrights means he has to be a little bit more creative.
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