reignofevil posted:

Hey now. Glistening Hodor's cred is still good here so long as I am still a respected member of this thread!

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Bad news hodor.

MrSlam posted:

It'd be so jarring to see a fast-paced sci-fi adventure flick that emphasized the violence. Like Starship Troopers but market it as a Star Wars kind of movie. There's a joke about the trash compactor in TFA, but in my hypothetical movie Han Solo would watch her being crushed by tons of metal and blood and gore start spraying out of the armor, and he'd start cheering it on and really getting into it. KILL HER! YEAH!

Maybe we've all gotten so desensitized to violence that run-of-the-mill murder activates the same part of our brain as physical comedy does. A long time ago I went to a Jurassic Park sequel in the theater and there was a scene were a T-Rex pops out of nowhere and chomps and eats a smaller dinosaur that was put the background for whimsy. A little girl in the audience thought it was the most hilarious thing she ever saw and the rest of the audience started chuckling at this psychopathic little kid.

But these days, I think we're all that little girl.

8 track betamax posted:

Actually cineD is entertaining to read because they come up with interesting ideas and interact with the movies on a level beyond "this movie was boring" or "epic spider man cameo gave me a nerdgasm"

C-SPAN Caller posted:

I hope we get a new Game of Thrones thread here next season so I can avoid tv iv posting and be chill about it.

poo poo even child cartoon analysis about gay space rocks gets weird there when people over invest in characters in their dumb "head canon" poo poo in other show threads and put their pride and shallow identities behind it.

dreezy posted:

6.

Trunko posted:

Are there really posters....ITT... who don't watch the RLM videos exclusively on their website. And also have the RLM website set as their homepage?

dreezy posted:

I loving hate copyright and what it's done to media criticism and analysis. those montages at the end of the clones and sith reviews flawlessly juxtaposed the emotion and magic of the original trilogy with the utter soullessness of the prequels. they're easily the best editing rlm has ever done, exemplars of the film essay format. thank gently caress the moneygrubbing capitalist pigdogs didn't remove the force theme from the end of the ep2 montage and neuter it like they did to ep3. it's absolutely fair use and youtube can suck the poo poo out of my b-hole.

Libelous Slander posted:

im v. upset about youtube upload date accuracy.

Trunko posted:

Jay is 5'2"

a cyberpunk goose posted:

Can we talk about the pictures for sad children kickstarter and the dead hornets?

Gammatron 64 posted:

Because he's a villain and not the protagonist.

It works thematically because he's a Darth Vader wannabe, except he fails to be like Darth Vader when Vader was cool, but ironically is more like Vader when he sucked.

I'm kind of torn on Kylo Ren though, because while I think his characterization is interesting and clever, he's also really, really pathetic and doesn't feel even remotely threatening or dangerous. A big part of what made Darth Vader and the Empire so great is that they seemed practically unstoppable, so you root for desperate underdogs going up against impossible odds. Rey pretty much humiliated Kylo Ren at every chance she got. The stakes don't feel so high when your hero totally punks the bad guy with no training or effort.

Baronjutter posted:

I think that's less to do with Kylo being a weak villain and more to do with Rey being a ridiculous Mary Sue.

Pinch Me Im Meming posted:

TFA had too many old people in it. ANH had one it was more than enough.

Vegg220 posted:

Thanks for the kind words. If you think rey is a Mary sue it's almost certainly because you're mad about a female protagonist in a film who doesn't take her shirt off.

Guy Goodbody posted:

I don't think there's anything inherently sexist about a woman being a mom

Zzulu posted:

Sorry but the first movie didn't set any of this up so if their plan is for a role reversal they did gone done a bad job of it

Schweinhund posted:

Keep believing she is bad because a guy with a my little pony haircut said so.

Clawtopsy posted:

which is the episode where mike goes on the fantastic slow haunted house ride

dreezy posted:

episode 40: sinister and paranormal activity 4 at 31 minutes.

thoughts and prayers posted:

Nitrousoxide posted:

Don't forget the sandpeople too.

Sephiroth_IRA posted:

This is possibly one of the worst films I've ever seen. A absolute glorification of wanton violence and typical hollywood values.

70 Million people died during World War 2. The only thin that prevented Global Warming from coming sooner and made progressivism and socialism potential policies on the world stage. If that had not happened we would not know global warming exists. Because the very idea of discussing such a prospect would be banned.

Sometimes people have to die for the better good. This is seen constantly in every phase of world history. And I'm supposed to see this fellow who just happens to be black willing to actually do something as a villain and the ever so pomp properly victorian British characters as heroes?

They're no better than the villain. If anything they are worse. While the Villain wears on his heart on his sleeve and fully recognizes what must done to save the world they're twiddling around shoving their thumb up their asses doing not a drat bit about it. And the world will suffer a lot more thanks to their actions.

This film reminds me of a much better film: Snowpiercer. In the world of that film the Kingsman prove to be the perfect images of the Conductor. A group so entrenched on maintaining the status quo no matter how many continuos horrible atrocities are required to do so. Valentine meanwhile is the perfect image of Namgoong, a man who realizes that for in order for any kind of real progress to be made and for future generations to live in a better world sacrifices must be made. Even if that means the death of the vast majority of mankind. A man willing to commit one last atrocity to bring about true freedom for the world and humanity.

What a piece of poo poo film. And what do I get at the end Anal Sex? gently caress off like the first thing I cared about when facing the reality of the horrid dark fate of humanity is sex. What a simple minded and droll piece of poo poo character.

a bone to pick posted:

Man just shut up, if everyone thought like this idiot movies like Demolition Man and Super wouldn't exist.

Pinch Me Im Meming posted:

Superhero movies are dumb and people who enjoy them are dumb.

Libelous Slander posted:

RyokoTK posted:

lol some nimrod itt is actually trying to say demolition man is bad

a bone to pick posted:

No actually, it seems like majority of people who watch these movies, whether they are a fan of the comics or not, really enjoy them. It only seems that really anal, un-humorous people dislike them, hth.

a bone to pick posted:

Like I said, very anal, un-humorous people dislike the movies.