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I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

BigRed0427 posted:


1) What the gently caress is the Dwayne Johnson movie going to be?

2) How did we survive as a species before internet porn?

1) Zac Efron running in slow motion
2) zines

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Jul 2, 2012

CelticPredator posted:

It's actually Jay. Jay is a really cool dude.

Jay and Jack are pretty great, they're most of why I suffer through Rich's garbage.

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Jul 2, 2012

Testekill posted:

I've never seen Return of the Joker but Mask of the Phantasm is easily the best Batman film

That would mean it's better than Batman Returns, which just isn't true.

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Jul 2, 2012

DStecks posted:

I've completely run out of patience for people who think that story is the be-all and end-all of what makes a game good. If I took my phone and recorded a high school drama class's adaptation of Hamlet, and the phone only ever had a view of stage right, and at no point in time was the camera in focus, I would not create a great piece of cinema.

I mean when a game itself has a heavy focus on story, as with many JRPGs, it makes sense to focus heavily on story when criticizing it.

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Jul 2, 2012

I'd heard a lot about Night Mind but I finally tried it last night and holy poo poo his voice is pitch perfect for the material, this sort of radio voice that just isn't quite right. Also it's a really bad idea to watch those videos at night, even though the channel is called Night Mind. Isn't it ironic? Don't you think?

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Jul 2, 2012

Puppy Time posted:

Night Mind is decent as a sort of sumup show, but once the dude gets started on his personal theories it's like "Jeez, man, you're reaching so hard you're gonna snap in half!"

I'd say he's pretty convincing with his reads on the Alan Reznick stuff, though I haven't looked into much of his analytical stuff outside of that.

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Jul 2, 2012

Augus posted:

"When the West was great, our children were raised with stories and sagas, folk tales and common prayer. Today, they are raised by corporate franchises, worship skeleton superheroes, and experience reality through a screen. We must resist and turn to older, better ways. But in The Current Year, all too often the best many parents can do is find some movie that’s not completely pozzed they can take their children to.

That movie has emerged. It’s time to redpill your children. It’s time to take them to see The Angry Birds Movie."



Holy gently caress.

Poz my neg film daddy

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Jul 2, 2012

ZeeBoi posted:

Oh good a shrill rear end in a top hat being "serious". I ain't watching that, especially because since watching that dumb "waa waa I'm not going to go see a movie" video by Rolfe, I'm bombarded with angry SJW/feminism/whatever bullshit in my recommendations. Again.

I need to watch these in incognito mode on my computer if I'm so damned curious. :argh:

I think you might be in the market for the Hbomb censorship add-on for Chrome

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Jul 2, 2012

Infamous Sphere posted:

Oh wait, SIN CITY is probably the one you're thinking of, where the poor christian gets bashed up by the evil gays and then charged with a hate crime and then there's a gay priest who looks like Recent Boy George and so on and so on.

I don't remember that Frank Miller comic.

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Jul 2, 2012

prahanormal posted:

I wonder what Aurini thought of Green Room.

Patrick Stewart didn't carry around a toy skull so he thought it was inaccurate.

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Jul 2, 2012

Leal posted:

I don't remember the name of it, but I'm sure it wasn't OR, where the host was car repo man but he would pay off the whatever that demands the repo if the owner can pass a quiz. One episode has the guy driving up and the owner of the vehicle running out of the house with a rifle and pointing it directly at the head of the host... and this dramatic music plays and the camera man shakes his camera to add drama to the shot.

TruTV got bad, I loved the forensic files and watching COPs for 5 straight hours then it was all repo shows for some reason :smith:

Well it makes sense to do repo shows, they're guaranteed to be dramatic. The life of a repo man is always intense.

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Jul 2, 2012

Archer666 posted:

Also Sterling still remains difficult to look at directly. Like a greasy, blobby sun.

I don't see why he feels the need to dress like a Frank Miller neo-nazi.

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Jul 2, 2012

TheMaestroso posted:

This kinda sounds like rumor mill crap. Just for reference, I made this chart.

Released to date:

1995 - Toy Story
1998 - A Bug's Life
1999 - Toy Story 2*
2001 - Monsters, Inc.
2003 - Finding Nemo
2004 - The Incredibles
2006 - Cars
2007 - Ratatouille
2008 - WALL-E
2009 - Up
2010 - Toy Story 3*
2011 - Cars 2*
October 5th, 2011 - Steve Jobs dies
2012 - Brave
2013 - Monsters University**
2015 - Inside Out
2015 - The Good Dinosaur
2016 - Finding Dory*

Announced:

2017 - Cars 3*
2017 - Coco
2018 - Toy Story 4*
2019 - Incredibles 2*

*sequels
**prequels

Please don't die, Kevin Bacon.

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Jul 2, 2012

Arcsquad12 posted:

HBomb's video is a good companion piece to Every Frame a Painting's look at Jackie Chan films. You should totally check them out as well.

Also EFAP's video on visual comedy. They even use the same Django clip, funny enough.

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Jul 2, 2012

The Vosgian Beast posted:

In the one corner we have Moviebob. In the other corner we have Glenn Greenwald with a handicap of a bunch of twitter dudes who call everyone, regardless of gender "bitch" or "sweetie" and constantly tweet gifs of a crudely rendered cgi Wolverine showing his dick, and pictures of Elliot Rodger at people who displease them.

It's a real toss-up. Thankfully everyone can lose.

Except for Wolverine. Penis Wolverine can never lose.

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Jul 2, 2012

Infamous Sphere posted:

I think I didn't know that it was sampled by Eminem when I was writing the script, but in hindsight it's kinda funny.

Eminem did include Pet Shop Boys in a diss track called Canibitch, but it's such a quick line and doesn't make much sense out of context so I wasn't really able to include it in the video. It's a very bad diss track in case you're wondering, it's basically just [gay joke] [homophobic slur] [more homophobia] and the brief mention of PSB implies that Eminem and Dr Dre ran over them in a car.

Sounds like that song is...

Canibutt

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Jul 2, 2012

Jsor posted:

Season 1 of Marble Hornets is probably better than EMH, but as an entire series, I'd say EMH easily beats what MH became. I also don't get why some people think Night Mind's narration sounds weird, I find it kinda relaxing. :shrug:


It's just off enough that it's charming, like a dubbed survival horror game from the early 2000s.

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Jul 2, 2012

Jack Gladney posted:

Seems like he's reading a narrative into performance art there. She's a hyper version of empty pop personalities because the character is a hyperbolic recreation of them, not because there's an ARG about MK ULTRA and the Illuminati underneath the surface.

Why can't it be both?

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Jul 2, 2012

Annointed posted:

Wait huh? I never seen him reference them in anything. Plus I really don't see how his stuff is bending what happens in stuff like Alan Tutorial and This House Has People in It.

Plus he already said in his video that poppy was a parody of pop culture and didn't say it was an MK ultra ARG.

I mean he did have that bit at the end about how she might have hypnosis trigger words that could act as the lead in to an ARG type thing but that was just speculation.

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Jul 2, 2012

A Gnarlacious Bro posted:

He should do a metal video and talk about all the spooky subliminal messages and symbols they are trying to slip past you.

I'd listen to him read a crazy satanic panic tract from the 70s, sure

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Jul 2, 2012

https://youtu.be/t5FNBXK4BRw

Night Mind had a really interesting somewhat-Marxist analysis of Inside, a video game about bodies and science.

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Jul 2, 2012

While man of steel talk is interesting and has made me more interested in rewatching it, this is not the place.

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Jul 2, 2012

Sarcopenia posted:

I don't know what you're on about. I for one have always wanted to see a movie filmed entirely like a giant Piss Christ.

Enemy already existed, though. And that's actually good.

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Jul 2, 2012


What a dweeb.

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Jul 2, 2012


https://twitter.com/PissPigGranddad/status/758356340989308928

America The Beautiful.

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Jul 2, 2012

echopapa posted:

I’m watching I Am Here…. Now by Neil Breen. I’m not going to review it because it’s not free, but my short reaction is that I’ve spent the last hour saying WHAT and NO and sometimes trying to say both at the same time.

Of all the movies where Jesus comes back to murder capitalism via desert crucifixion, that is one of them.

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Jul 2, 2012

DStecks posted:

Superheros are not inherently vigilantes, though. Pre-Frank Miller Batman worked with the full cooperation of the Gotham Police Department. You can have a Batman story where Batman is basically Sherlock Holmes, the guy the cops call in when they can't solve the case, or when there's a supercriminal they just aren't equipped to beat. And if you're still going to call that Objectivist, then you're basically arguing that the very concept of a hero is Objectivist.

A superhero working with the government's explicit endorsement is probably more fascist than when it's just implicit endorsement.

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Jul 2, 2012

DStecks posted:

This makes literally zero sense unless you're operating from the idea that superheroes can possibly be are people who dress up in costumes and beat up muggers. I'm not talking about Batman-as-The-Purge, I'm talking about Batman-as-Sherlock-Holmes. Unless you'd like to explain to me how the character of Sherlock Holmes is fascist, in which case, have loving at it my friend.

I'm operating from the idea that cops are inherently fascist.

For evidence: the entirety of American history.

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Jul 2, 2012

CelticPredator posted:

I'd agree that it is. Pixles would've been a pretty forgettable dull movie if it weren't for the blatant narcism from Sandler. Ghostbusters not having it, does give it a slightly higher edge.

Oh poo poo, he's a snitch?

I Before E
Jul 2, 2012

The Civil War was actually about ethics in gaming journalism

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Jul 2, 2012

BigRed0427 posted:

I just came back from this. I actually liked this movie. It's just fun. If you go at it as just an action movie its good

I thought the action scenes were the lowest points, and the movie plays better as a showcase for the cast, who play off each other really well.

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Jul 2, 2012

Alaois posted:

Jai Courtney, who plays Boomerang in next month's Suicide Squad movie, has revealed the extreme actions he took to prepare for the role.

Speaking to Empire (and reported by Yahoo), Courtney revealed that he once took mushrooms before a Skype call with director David Ayer and proceeded to self harm using a cigarette.

"I would listen to Slipknot. On repeat. At a dangerously high volume," Jai Courtney confided to Entertainment Weekly. "I went to some pretty dark places for the role."

This and the Jared Leto stories really seem like a modern version of those William Castle gimmicks about giving your family a free car if you have a heart attack during the Grasping Maw In Spectrovision, in theaters now!

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Jul 2, 2012

Hbomberguy posted:

America would never elect a war crimi- oh gently caress I'm doing social commentary arent I

BatmanBros are about to destroy your mentions

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Jul 2, 2012

Yvonmukluk posted:

Personally I don't, because I'm fairly certain that never entered into their brains. And by the way, the idea of the Avengers being a government-formed superteam? That came from Millar's Ultimates series, so I doubt that the writers of Suicide Squad (the comic) were making a critique of a comic that hadn't even been written yet.

To be fair, the avengers in the late 70s and early 80s did have a government liason in Henry Peter Gyrich, who acted as an outside constraint in much the same way Waller does(limiting their membership, conscripting The Falcon, threatening to take away their equipment), so it's not that much of a stretch that Ostrander and Yale may have developed their team idea by modifying that dynamic, making hbomb's argument accidentally true. Or perhaps he's talking about the more recent comics written post-Ultimates, he wasn't that clear.

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Jul 2, 2012

Yardbomb posted:

While some just sound funny or stupid, Joel Kinnaman (Rick Flag duder) claims they showed him videos of cartel murders and this and that, which is pretty :stonk: enough.

I bet he just saw The Counselor and thought he could get in on the Leto kayfabe.

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Jul 2, 2012

kaleidolia posted:

Also, Ghostbusters probably sucked (that trailer was dire), but the idea that there was some conspiracy about it is pretty absurd. You really don't need to make up right-wing dorks hating on women, as Hbomberguy shows pretty well. Then again, they obviously saw the chance to make it not another forgettable 80s franchise update, and seized on the opportunity to market the thing written and originated by men as feminist.

Yeah, it's like 9/11, the Bush administration didn't knock down the towers using thermite or whatever, but they certainly capitalized on it to sell a war.

Also I still can't believe people actually got worked by the dude from matchbox twenty or whatever playing a William Castle gimmick straight out of the 60s but putting a "method actor" spin on it.

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Jul 2, 2012

MrSlam posted:

IMO It's a problem with the Burton/Schumaker series. Penguin was the Joker, Two-Face was the Joker, Riddler was the Joker, and Poison Ivy and Mr Freeze were theme related Jokers.

If you define "being the Joker" as operating in a very camp mode, then sure, but that's so broad that anything moderately theatrical could qualify.

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Jul 2, 2012

The Vosgian Beast posted:

The 60s Batman show should have been called Too Many Jokers!

Y'all Jokers Must Be Crazy starring Will Smith

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Jul 2, 2012

WickedHate posted:

Sorry, this is from ages ago, but what? The government thing for the Avengers comes from Mark Miller's Ultimates, from the early 2000s. The Avengers were always independent before that.

It's been mentioned already but Henry Gyrich fits the Amanda Waller role and he was introduced in the late 70s, before the original Suicide Squad comics.

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Jul 2, 2012

WickedHate posted:

Sure, he sort of "had control" over the team, but he wasn't their handler or anything. The US didn't own them, they just pressured the Avengers to listening to work with them as the country realistically would(isn't the other argument thrown around that superheroes are all objectivist ubermenschs who don't answer to any authority?). He was a lesion who leveraged the government's interests against the team and he mostly butted heads with them. Even if you equate him to Waller, who's relationship with the team is half antagonistic in similar ways, that's not a "critique" or any kind of response to the concept.

He imposed the government's will on them (controlling their access to tech, forcing Falcon onto the team) so it's not unthinkable that that level of government control could have been extrapolated into a more direct influence, the threat of dismemberment, by Ostrander and Yale.

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