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Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Children's movies lie best in nostalgia

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Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

gently caress that noise

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

That comic is pretty on point. Ebert's populist streak made him iconic but his critiques are generally middling. His "Is there will be blood a great movie, or a movie we call great" is one of the all time worst failures to read intention and meaning in a film.

His harshness on Zabriske Point is also bullshit.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Aramek posted:

I never saw There Will be Blood because it didn't look like a comedy.

It is a very funny movie. DDL is massively underrated as a comedic actor and PTA knows how to bring it out of him

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Fun fact DDL is the one who came up with the name Reynolds Woodcock for Phantom Thread.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Nameless Pete posted:

It's a 158-minute movie where exactly one interesting thing occurs at the absolute very end. You will notice this is the only scene that anyone ever talks about because they've forgotten the rest of it except for a general good feeling about Daniel Day-Lewis and the thunderous force of his ACTING!!!

Insane take. The Derrick explosion, Dano humiliating DDL in the church, the opening, killing his brother, the "I have a competition in me" soliloquy. Absolute stacked movie

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

credburn posted:

Didn't one of the books end with the mom becoming a zombie or something? That wasn't in the show.

Yeah, Catelyn becomes a zombie animated by the Red Priests and spends her time trying to extinguish the Lannister bloodline. Like a lot of later Asoiaf it sounds cooler than it is.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

I hope it sinks Panera somehow. poo poo hole company

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Anyone getting hung up on authenticity is ridiculous

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Neither Illinois nor eastern MN are in the midwest

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

eachother is one word, not two

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Dry heat summers are fine. Wet heat summers are for the deranged.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Deep Glove Bruno posted:

It's incredible to me that grown adults are having that argument. The US military has 10,000 nuclear bombs, enough to kill everybody everywhere, therefore... what? You wanna be proud about that? Is that good?

based

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

There are multiple politics sub-forums and you still got suckered into this poo poo, you have only yourselves to blame.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Muscle Tracer posted:

When people "mess up" idioms, they are almost universally improving the idiom in a way that is uncomfortable to people who built their identity around getting 100% on tests.

Someone who is "reigning in" their enthusiasm is exerting sovereign power over themselves. A "mute" point is one not worth saying or hearing any more. Something that happens "on queue" is happening in a preordained sequence. People who are "taken for granite" are common, mundane, but essential. A person waiting with "baited" breath is poised for the moment, like a trap ready to be sprung. Someone "unphased" hasn't had their state changed by the event. Someone "buttoning" down the hatches is securing them.

All of those make sense syntactically, they just aren't how people usually say them. And they are especially better when they don't rely on otherwise-extinct words like "moot" or "bated" or "faze" or "batten".

Cope for never having rode a horse

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

oldpainless posted:

Although my grandparents owned a big red horse when I was growing up. They named her dodie. And she would neigh at you when she saw you.


It was the call of dodie, big red one.

Those fleeting moments seeing her, it must've been your finest hour

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Runa posted:

American high schools should make shop class and home ec mandatory again but do so for all students regardless of gender.

This is how it was in my school and I'm not sure why it's different elsewhere.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

hawowanlawow posted:

didn't he try to spit some game at a non talking meowth and get rebuffed at one point

He learned to talk to get pussy but it didn't work

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Having beaten 90% of the RE franchise in the last month I can say with confidence that the series is pretty fun. Also frequently funny.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

The only nice-sounding romance language is France french

Occitan

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

They're a pale imitation of Trolli Gummi Rocks

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

All plastic packaging should be eliminated

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

It should be made illegal to advertise tv in front of films. Inferior art should never be given a platform by the superior.
Also ban all advertising.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Taco/Mexican pizza is pretty underrated but seems to be getting harder to find.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Stick is the best part of fun dip

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Gripweed posted:

I've been watching the Australian version of Taskmaster, and it's pretty bad. That got me thinking, I can't think of a single funny Australian. America, England, Scotland, Canada, New Zealand, every other country in the anglosphere has produced tons of funny people. But not Australia. I'm starting to think there's something unique about Australia that retards comedic development.

Kangaroo Jack

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Anyone who voted for Stone should be forcibly removed from the academy and preferably this planet.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Performances are long and it's almost impossible to have the stamina to go without without damaging your voice or losing steam.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Powered Descent posted:

See, I had no idea that it was easier to sing with a deep vibrato than to sing the note straight. (See my "uncultured, uneducated philistine" note above.) But wouldn't that make it all the more impressive to be able to sing a constant note?

It's incredibly controversial through history
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato#In_opera

Opera fans are incredibly opinionated and as someone who enjoys it, but is no means an expert I find a lot of the more knives out discourse to be bewildering and contradictory.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Robobot posted:

Operas are just old musicals. Imagine South Pacific but everyone is singing in Italian.

The quality of music is significantly better in Opera. As in it's actually enjoyable to listen to.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Gripweed posted:

“Woods porn” was nowhere near the widespread common childhood experience people act like it was.

Oh it totally was. You just weren't in the right woods.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

One of the sups I used to work with used to be way into them. I thought it always sounded terrible, but we were also listening to it on a blown out old speaker in a restaurant filled with fryers and timers going off. Listening to them now it seems alright, but also like the kind of band that only really hits when you're there in person.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

doverhog posted:

Nightwish has a pretty wide array of songs, so would be interested in hearing what you sampled.

Amaranth which was alright, nothing that interesting. Nemo which I preferred. And because it seems appropriate I listened to Phantom of the Opera which I liked a lot. Of the vocalists she was my favorite and if I'm listening to more it will probably be her era although I'm not sure when it ends.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Shinkai is getting his own collection on criterion next month

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

I think it'd be very funny if someone lifted all the inner monologue from the novel and narrated it over the film.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

I love it adding Watch later and You Might Like. Why would I want to find a video on what I searched for when I could get some Algo slop

It's actually impressive how bad Google is at getting anything relevant to me, search and youtube.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

MCU ain't ever coming back thank God. What we need is for Sony to stop being brain dead and give us Raimi Spiderman 4 and more Spider verse animation. gently caress it, give Garfield another film too

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

And it's in completion with Coogler's new film.

Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

The complete dismantling of Drake's empire, career, and life is going to be studied by future historians, never before has one artist so quickly cut through another's BS so systematically and effectively laying bare their complete disgrace for all to see . This is some Frazier vs Ali levels of enmity coming out and I'm glad to be alive to witness it.

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Gaius Marius
Oct 9, 2012

Ommin posted:

Would you care to expand on this? I have no idea what is going on but I enjoy the downfall of famous people.

I'd give a summary but Drake just released a song fifteen minutes ago claiming that KDot is coming at him because he was molested as a child. This poo poo isn't ending anytime soon.

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