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Coohoolin posted:Dredd didn't manage to piss off MRAs as much as Mad Max did and is therefore the inferior film. I liked force awakens better than Mad Max. Probably because I didn't get to see Mad Max in the cinema. And TFA is an awesome way to see how many people secretly believe women can't do what men can do.
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Helen Highwater posted:What the gently caress is this? There's only 2 in Windsor (well, 0 in Windsor, 2 in Eton) and none in Maidenhead. You'd think that "Clean for the Queen" would actually try to do something actually NEAR the Queen!
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Mar 1, 2016 19:09
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She has people for that.
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I might see if I can get one going in West Belfast. 
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Mar 1, 2016 19:15
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Didn't Willie the Third try that?
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StoneOfShame posted:Wasn't that largely because the MRAs weren't as vocally active then, they've always been about but the noise they generate has shot up over the last year. I do remember there some MRAs getting pissed off about Dredd. I don't know, I was being tongue in cheek and couldn't be arsed finding the right emoticon to express that. I suspect that Tesseraction is correct though and Dredd came out before gamergate, IIRC.
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Coohoolin posted:I don't know, I was being tongue in cheek and couldn't be arsed finding the right emoticon to express that. I suspect that Tesseraction is correct though and Dredd came out before gamergate, IIRC. Dredd's much much more obscure. Unsurprisingly that's important. Taear posted:I liked force awakens better than Mad Max. Probably because I didn't get to see Mad Max in the cinema. 
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Mad Max was great and The Force Awakens was great. I'm a huge Star Wars geek though so if you ask me to pick one I'll have to go with my nostalgia values.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Nah it's because you like a bad film better than a great one Didn't have enough rowing. More rowing.
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Taear posted:Didn't have enough rowing. More rowing. What an odd thing to want in a Mad Max film, but there's no accounting for taste.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Dredd 2: Balls? By modern standards it's incredibly analog; which I love.
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ookiimarukochan posted:There's only 2 in Windsor (well, 0 in Windsor, 2 in Eton) and none in Maidenhead. You'd think that "Clean for the Queen" would actually try to do something actually NEAR the Queen! "Clean for the Queen" actually means "clean your own streets, plebs, we're cutting local funding" and I'm pretty sure the closer you get to Windsor the less that applies Taear posted:Didn't have enough rowing. More rowing. It was all rowing?? 
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Ben Hur had good rowing.
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Renaissance Robot posted:What on earth is there in Dredd for MRAs to get mad about? Anderson isn't dominated by her attempted rapist, then psychically beats him up and also at one point saves Dredd's life. As a woman she was not supposed to do any of this. Also leader of the block gang is a woman who doesn't tolerate men being fuckshits even if she is a criminal.
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Taear posted:I liked force awakens better than Mad Max. Probably because I didn't get to see Mad Max in the cinema. Its really interesting that its impossible to discuss the pink elephant about star wars without it causing a massive argument.
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Mar 1, 2016 20:03
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Is the pink elephant about star wars that it is really bad?
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Regarde Aduck posted:Anderson isn't dominated by her attempted rapist, then psychically beats him up and also at one point saves Dredd's life. As a woman she was not supposed to do any of this. Also leader of the block gang is a woman who doesn't tolerate men being fuckshits even if she is a criminal. Yeah, that and the stuff in the link keg posted all faded into the background for me, which is really good I guess? Because those things shouldn't be controversial at all, and it's great that there's at least one more film that just gets on with being Correct without trying to make a big deal out of it.
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serious gaylord posted:pink elephant about star wars what
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Dredd 2: Balls? As opposed to all the wordy exposition in Dredd? StoneOfShame posted:Lol at the comments on the article Keg posted, 'Dredd is egalitarian not feminist as it doesn't put one sex over the other.'  For what it's worth I think both Dredd and Mad Max are great films that treat male and female characters with respect (when they aren't being burned alive or blown into chunks, obv). I can't really see how either could be said to artificially push an agenda in doing so, it's just correct thinking that doesn't jar in either. Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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Guavanaut posted:Is the pink elephant about star wars that it is really bad? I didn't think was controversial to say that star wars is unabashed pulp scifi, and is only regarded as classic because it did a lot of things first?
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It kept doing them though. It might have been a lot easier to enjoy it decades later on in the fashion of Flash Gordon if it had stopped after one. Which was IV because reasons.
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Kegluneq posted:As opposed to all the wordy exposition in Dredd? Well, yeah, in comparison.
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Guavanaut posted:Is the pink elephant about star wars that it is really bad? Sadly, very few people criticised TFA without resorting to the phrase "little white cuckball".
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Well yeah, in any discussion about why the franchise is bad, one of the reasons has to be the badness of the fandom.
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TinTower posted:Sadly, very few people criticised TFA without resorting to the phrase "little white cuckball". I did. It was about an hour too long and full of tedious "what is this pointless former hero doing with their twilight years" tedium and hugely unsubtle and groanworthy nods to previous films for the fans. There was a half decent space and lasers film in there somewhere, but I think it needed to not be A Star Wars Film for it to get out. e: I mean I get it, Disney paid a lot of money for the rights to a franchise that is driven almost entirely by nostalgia so they were obviously going to cater to their horrible fanbase. And it is probably the best film in the series, for what that's worth. But it felt pretty disappointing to me because it could have been considerably better. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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I think the new Star Wars is a bad film, just like the old Star Wars which are all bad films.
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I liked the bit where the storm trooper had an electric tonfa. That was pretty cool.
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Who's worse - Trump or Cameron?
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shrike82 posted:Who's worse - Drumpf or Cameron? Your posting.
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I was gonna post that but then you posted. And it's your posting.
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Looks like Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor is facing further delays, likely at least a year. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-35689784 And also on the FT (paywall so not linking also phone posting) Some of the directors (who are also part of some of the unions) are objecting to going ahead. Looks like it's a mixture of worries about debt levels (and potential credit rating downgrades) and several projects using the same design already overrunning and over budget. Edf is trying to get extra partners involved with the financing. At this point EdF have bugger all credibility on this.
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ThomasPaine posted:I think the new Star Wars is a bad film, just like the old Star Wars which are all bad films. None of them are great, really, but the first film is a serious case of "you had to be there, man".
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big scary monsters posted:I did. It was about an hour too long and full of tedious "what is this pointless former hero doing with their twilight years" tedium and hugely unsubtle and groanworthy nods to previous films for the fans. There was a half decent space and lasers film in there somewhere, but I think it needed to not be A Star Wars Film for it to get out. It was a  film, but it did the job of removing the bad taste the prequals left for most fans.It's cleared the ground for the ones that are being made next
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Renfield posted:It was a So the Jeremy Corbyn of the series then.
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Renfield posted:It was a The prequels were bad, but they were bad trying to tell a different story. Admittedly most fans just want the same ideas regurgitated again and again (see: the books and the myriad superweapons) but a Star Wars film every year for the next millennium is not likely to produce anything than mediocre pap.
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Milotic posted:So the Jeremy Corbyn of the series then. Corbyn is gonna be pm
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I seem to be very much in a minority at SA for thinking that Mad Max was "okay, I guess". Dredd was great, though. 
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Payndz posted:I seem to be very much in a minority at SA In general, it was exceptionally well received.
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Just rediscovered this wee gem. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K13m3HlFwjw quote:Who’ll take the ball from Maggie Thatcher? Kick it in another goal!
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TheHoodedClaw posted:None of them are great, really, but the first film is a serious case of "you had to be there, man". I can imagine the special effects being mindblowing in the 70s, but really when it comes to the plot, the universe, the characters etc there's just very little to like. The story is boring oversimplified good vs evil bullcrap, and the characters just had zero depth or were just caricatures, especially the antagonists. 'I'm the emperor. I'm evil! Why? Because I just am don't ask! Watch me shoot lightning!'. Some people talk about how great the world building is but it always seemed fairly shallow to me but I never bothered with the extended universe stuff so maybe it's all in that. In any case I seriously don't understand grown rear end 40 year old fanboys who obsess over the franchise and buy expensive collectibles and all that, and I am a massive, massive nerd for other things.
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