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Last movie of 2016: La La Land First movie of 2016: Green Room Green Room is siiiiiick.
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Anonymous Robot posted:Yo what are the best movies featuring telekinesis? Besides Akira, obviously Matilda. Second-best Roald Dahl adaptation, Danny Devito pulls awesome double duty as director and supporting player.
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Jan 5, 2017 00:59
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Egbert Souse posted:The only notable thing I've contributed to the Internet is making this GIF about ten years ago: I mean, this is one of the best gifs ever, so that's not nothing. It's basically what I see in my head every time I hear a Florida story now.
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Jan 6, 2017 01:03
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corn in the bible posted:I would redo Passengers and butcher the script into a horror film Passengers except the Chris Pratt character is a lot more like John Goodman in 10 Cloverfield Lane.
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Jan 8, 2017 23:49
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I could only take Film Critic Hulk's gimmick for so long before ragequitting. Really, I've been missing a good movie site to follow since The Dissolve died. I mostly just read AV Club and Vox because it's easy and the writing's comfortably middlebrow. but it's sort of like an ice cream sandwich made with the best cookies and the most delicious ice cream. It's still an ice cream sandwich. I binge read a bunch of recent Armond White reviews recently, and say what you will about the man, but he's his own person, and that's kind of refreshing. A lot of critics make gestures at developing their own unique perspective, but in the end they get dragged back to normalcy because to do otherwise would make them unemployable. White is only employed because the National Review clearly enjoys how often White insults liberals. 'cause White is one of those communists that think liberals are the real enemy. I've had days where I feel like that's true.
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Jan 12, 2017 20:03
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"An insufferable "cultural critic" and an aspiring screenwriter are stuck together in close quarters for hours" is a good premise. You could seriously just copy-paste some of the discussions here, and that would save a lot of work. the climax of the plot is when the critic cites Zizek for the 18th time to explain why the writer's screenplay sucks, and the writer, patient up to this point, explodes, and says "gently caress ZIZEK!". not sure whether they kill each other at the end, or kiss. Either works.
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Jan 12, 2017 21:37
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Snak posted:Yeah, I went in prepared to dislike it for political reasons, but it was pretty dang good. If you've read anything about CIA bureaucrats, their incompetence should be a given. If the Cold War was decided based on the relative competence of the KGB and the CIA, the Soviets would've kicked our asses within five years. CIA was, and remains full of privileged idiots in administrative positions.
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Jan 15, 2017 22:54
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WENTZ WAGON NUI posted:I was just gonna post it here, cool if I do that? It's not a script (lol I am too lazy to write anything, ever) or even a page outline just a drawing of my comic's heroine, PUNCH MAIDEN. This is awesome and there's definitely some streamlining you could do with that costume, especially considering you'll have to draw it a lot for action scenes, probably. Also because streamlined designs are inherently more visually appealing, imo. but the concept is great. maybe her archnemesis could be an ironic racist supervillain?
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Jan 21, 2017 20:22
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Egbert Souse posted:It's not. We're better than that. Our weapons are ideas, reason, and truth. When our opponents are literal Nazis, I'm not sure this is particularly useful. Peaceful protest only works on people that can be made to care. Nearly half the country wants to make the lives of the other half miserable. What does reason have to say against that?
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Jan 23, 2017 02:11
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Jenny Angel posted:I was half-joking about it in that "movies you hate that everyone else loves" thread, but now I legit think I'mma get my hands on every Shyamalan and do a thread where I revisit all the early and late ones that I like or love and watch all the middle period stuff for the first time and see how it stacks up against the mockery. This is gonna be fun I liked After Earth quite a bit, to the point that the outright contempt people had for it mystified me.
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Jan 27, 2017 02:48
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K. Waste posted:Yeah, that was another inane emotional point for me. Like, I understood its significance narratively and metaphorically, but on a visceral level I just can't abide destroying a library... :[ It was a symbolic destruction of patriarchal ownership of Lady Hideko's body. also the most appropriate revenge against that monster. and I just generally liked that The Handmaiden had a happy ending, and that a period film about two women falling in love can have a happy ending in these times. 
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Jan 27, 2017 18:55
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Lobok posted:Honestly even the greatest poutine is still just poutine. It's a dish based on fries. When I was in Montreal I was way more impressed by the city's love of Portuguese chicken places. So delicious. I wonder if poutine but with tater tots instead of fries would work.
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Feb 1, 2017 06:02
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Death By The Blues posted:At this point Americas policies are being shadow run by a member of a Christian doomsday cult. I am so mad at the many people throughout my life that have told me not to worry about the theocratic nutjobs, because they'll never have real power. I wasn't being paranoid, and they were being idiots. 
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Feb 3, 2017 05:21
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U2 is my designated "band I irrationally hate". I don't like any of their songs, I don't like their sound, I don't like Bono in the slightest, I don't even like their album names. Or the band name in general. They are terrible.
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Feb 7, 2017 18:32
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I thought I hated pineapple on pizza, but my conclusion now is that it just clashes with tomato sauce for me, badly. And also it shouldn't be canned poo poo. imma try making some kinda Thai curry pizza, with fresh pineapple on it, someday. I will use naan or something because I'm a lazy bum who can't be arsed to make my own pizza crust.
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Feb 11, 2017 03:31
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corn in the bible posted:remember when hannibal was able to manipulate will by exploiting his brain disease that nobody knew about because i guess he just never went to a doctor ever in his life Hannibal is abstract crazy nonsense. I love it, but there's no shame in disliking it. but ya got to give it up for Mads Mikkelsen's performance. Hopkins played Lecter as high camp, but Mikkelsen goes for "aspiring to be actually Satan".
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Feb 20, 2017 23:38
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I actually really like Justin Timberlake's acting. He was perfectly cast in The Social Network. He was pretty solid in Inside Llewyn Davis, and had a great meta supporting role in Popstar. It helps that Timberlake is just generally a charismatic performer. and that when he's cast in movies, it's not generally in a self-aggrandizing way. He works with the movie. you'd think having him in a movie would be distracting, but he's not as much of a glory hog as some much worse musician-turned-actors. He's okay being a supporting player.
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Feb 21, 2017 19:51
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Dissapointed Owl posted:Following US politics has me saying, "Wait, that's legal?" on a daily basis. Handpicking which news outlets get to attend White House press conferences. How is there nothing in place to prevent such an absurdly obvious miscarriage of press freedom? I had an argument today with a coworker during lunch where I tried to explain to her that the Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in this matter because it was a "rule" rather than a "law". It's rough sometimes talking politics with well-intentioned liberals that don't really understand laws and government. we were able to agree that it was "a dick move", and that, if it was under Congress' purview (which I argued it COULD be), nothing would happen to stop Trump from excluding whatever outlets he didn't want. on this subject, I think it's only a matter of time before the Trump administration is doing press only with sympathetic conservative outlets, and refuses to even talk to the media. Which, ironically, will make the leak problem worse. the upside of all this is that it's going to be insanely hard, for the time being, for the Republicans to pass much. Trump's first 100 days are probably going to be among the least effectual ever for a new president. The destruction of Obamacare is fouled up because a number of the morons finally connected the dots between "Obamacare" and their medical coverage, and because some Republicans are naive enough to think their party could muster up any sort of replacement plan, AND because the House Freedom Caucus is asking for too much at once, and the current proposal ties in Planned Parenthood defunding, meaning Murkowski and Collins at least would vote no. Republican voters wanted someone who didn't know how to do even the most basic aspects of presidenting, AND THEY GOT HIM.
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Feb 25, 2017 05:04
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Lurdiak posted:There's a bunch of people who use Bernie being "cheated" as a tactic to divide, demoralize and delegitimize the left by painting the derms as super corrupt evil cabalists who conspired to keep the "one good one" out of the election. They're feeding on Perez's election and the disappointment it caused by trying to make him out as the mastermind of the Great Bernie Betrayal. If Bernie had actually gotten the nom they would no doubt be painting him as some kind of evil muslim-loving traitor. It's an effective tactic because a lot of the Democratic establishment ARE corrupt evil cabalists. the fact that they're less moronic than the Republican corrupt evil cabalists and more socially progressive isn't particularly persuasive to Generation Woke (I AM SO SORRY). Sometimes the best weapon villains have is the truth.
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Feb 25, 2017 22:57
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DeimosRising posted:The thing Dems fear most is a left tea party. Ed Rendell outright said as much, that mounting primary challenges to "centrist" incumbents even in safe districts was "too far to the left". Too far for what? It's not electoral viability - the republican tea party already proved "moderate" party loyalists will vote for anyone with the right letter by their name, no matter how unpleasant or ideologically heterodox. They already showed that their strategy works to move a party the way you want. And in fact, it's precisely the strategy Clinton and the DLC used to destroy the New Deal Democrats in the 80s and 90s. No wonder they're scared - they know it works cause they did it. They're afraid of reaping what they've sown. They fear it, and their fear leads them to actions that further alienate the grassroots. Ellison wasn't THAT leftist, and if they wanted someone that would be a good compromise between the grassroots and the establishment, there was Buttigieg. But it's alarmingly clear that the establishment still has active contempt for the grassroots, and somehow, either thinks their best electoral path is appealing to mythical centrists, or would rather lose everything than see the Democratic Party budge one inch to the left. I'm terrified for the country not because the Republicans or Trump's people are so good at electioneering, but because the Democratic Party is broken in a fundamental way. They're irrelevant in Congress, and by choosing Perez (although granted that Perez himself is pretty liberal compared to DWS or Howard Dean), they signaled that they want the Sanders supporters to shut up and go away.
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Feb 26, 2017 04:18
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CelticPredator posted:Woah. This showing of Get Out is filling up! Rad! I was at a nearly sold out showing of Get Out last night, and had to sit in the front row. It's unreal how popular this movie is.
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Mar 6, 2017 01:20
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So remember when former CineD mod Vargo stepped into a shitstorm on Twitter? Vox posted an article from him and his coworker explaining the experiment they did better, and it really seems like people were jumping down his throat for no adequate reason. http://www.vox.com/first-person/2017/3/17/14950296/sexism-name-switch-tweets I mean, Vargo is a goober, but piling on guys for realizing how bad lowkey sexism is, is aggressively counterproductive when so many dudes are in willful denial. Or actively proud of it, even. I don't hold much truck with the people obsessed with the evils of the SJWs, but there's definitely a loud, active contingent of feminists that don't seem to think feminism even needs male allies.
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Mar 20, 2017 16:46
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K. Waste posted:Across 110th Street is mad good. I really should give Trick Baby another view, it's the only '72 blaxploitation et al. movie I haven't liked, and it seems like that was a pretty critical year for the cycle. You had that, Yaphet Kotto also starring in Larry Cohen's Bone, Blacula, Shaft's Big Score, Super Fly, and The Harder They Come. I randomly ended up watching this because it was mentioned glowingly in a Films of the 70s book, and I saw it on the shelf of the library. It's startlingly good. Just raw, cynical, angry, and it feels like it really captures what things were like. It's weird that it's billed as blaxploitation, when it's more a social realist crime film. either way, super good. and of course it spawned the song that was then used memorably in Jackie Brown.
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Mar 28, 2017 06:35
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natural born killers is a great fuckin' movie. for better or worse it's the movie Oliver Stone was born to make. it's all been downhill since.
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Mar 29, 2017 04:35
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 A while back, a friend of mine bought me a ticket to see Neil Gaiman speak. The event is happening tomorrow. but....something happened Thursday night (unclear what, apparently at one point she said someone may have slipped something in her drink), and now she's in the ICU , and probably will be for several days. but...what do I do with the ticket? Do I go by myself? I don't know if I can contact her, because apparently she's not lucid right now and only direct family can see her. and I also feel awful because I haven't talked to her in over a month.
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Apr 2, 2017 05:55
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Spatula City posted:
update: I lost the loving ticket. I don't know where I put it other than "place I would easily be able to find it" which I was clearly wrong about. but I feel like I didn't try hard enough to keep track of it. I feel like the worst friend ever. like I can't even be a friend because I will always let people down. gently caress autism, gently caress life, gently caress everything.
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Apr 2, 2017 23:02
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I would be very surprised if the FBI isn't wiretapping some of the most prominent BLM people.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:57
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DC Murderverse posted:we're so famous that vice wrote an article about us! It's a eulogy for SA's cultural relevance, for sure. I think the last time SA really mattered was the concerted effort to get Reddit to ban kiddie porn subreddits. But there's still a lot of active posters here, and as long as Lowtax continues to care enough to keep the server running, SA will continue.
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Apr 7, 2017 00:54
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LEGO Genetics posted:I cannot believe you would tell somebody not to watch Peter Weller and John Lithgow hamming it up to eleven. worth noting Jeff Goldblum and Christopher Lloyd are also in it.
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Apr 10, 2017 05:34
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found footage of Jared Kushner.
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Apr 12, 2017 06:35
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to be fair that trailer is very underwhelming. I was kinda hoping the trailer was something worth watching in and of itself. both TFA and Rogue One had way better first trailers, because they stood on their own in a way while also selling the film. This doesn't? I feel no compelling desire to watch it again.
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Apr 15, 2017 02:57
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I think maybe there's a lot of people who hate Muslims and immigrants far more than black people. Like, black people? They're AMERICANS. but dem dirty foreigners?! whatever else the Democrats did, they doubled down on supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants and defended Muslims in this country at every turn. It was the right thing to do, but it was easy for Trump to exploit that. Disliking diversity doesn't necessarily mean only racism towards black people. It's also worth noting that Obama didn't really have to deal with whether or not to support BLM. Clinton had to respond one way or the other, and while in that regard, she made the right choice, it alienated these people that are disinclined to think the police are bad in any way ever. The "Blue Lives Matter" sentiment is scary strong in parts of the country. Immigration, terrorism, and policing issues were tremendously important to the sort of people that flipped the Rust Belt states red. because they are scaredy cat baby people.
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Apr 16, 2017 23:16
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glam rock hamhock posted:As I said, one of the things that amused me greatly about the interview was there was clearly things the interviewer wanted to hear from Atwood or wanted Atwood to say and Atwood refused to play along with any preconceived notions about her or beliefs and the interviewer was audibly aggravated. I mean even at the end Atwood said that she doesn't really care if her books stand the test of time or if she's even remembered at all because she'll be dead and therefore incapable of caring. Margaret Atwood is very cool and good, and the art of good interviewing is almost dead. Interviewers come into these interviews with celebrities hoping to extract certain things, and then either they do, or they provoke hostility, or the celebrity actively trolls them. and if they don't get what they want, they write a hit piece on them, or take their words out of context so their outlet can get some sweet, sweet clickbait. Talking about whether a piece of media is feminist or not is kinda stupid unless you use precise terminology and really know what you're talking about. And also what KIND of feminism it is, because "feminist" is about as specific as "existentialist". like, aggravatingly, people often use "feminism" when they mean a pretty narrow, upper class white version of feminism. Lena Dunham Feminism, if you will.
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Apr 23, 2017 00:12
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gonna see a movie tomorrow. It's been a while, and there's a few good things again. Should I see Free Fire or Colossal?
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Apr 23, 2017 06:58
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what the gently caress. BBC America is airing a dubbed version of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. 
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Apr 23, 2017 19:34
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Hat Thoughts posted:Should I see a matinee of Your Name or Colossal? Your Name is more tempting because its on the bigger screen & both show like 0 tickets sold on the theater website so either way probably a mostly empty theater I haven't seen Your Name, but Colossal is dope if you're into an effective takedown of nice guys, and appreciate Anne Hathaway being a dork.
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Apr 29, 2017 21:29
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Kingsman is immature, offensive, and confusing. but it's also got visceral pleasures that outmatch Spectre's, considerably. Spectre looks gorgeous, but the cinematography clashes with the film. it's at odds with itself. The script is a mess, too, and the villain really, really sucks. I think for me it's pretty easy, because as much as I dislike aspects of what Kingsman may or may not be saying, it is saying things. Spectre is braindead even by Bond standards, and worse, it's dressed up as if it isn't.
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May 28, 2017 01:22
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weekly font posted:The hot ones in the purple bag? Do they make others? Either way they're dope. they do make several other flavors, like a guacamole one, a habanero one, a milder spicy one, a blue one, a spicy cheese one, and I think there's a Halloween flavor called Zombie that is habanero and cucumber, and is black-colored. but the purple bag is the slightly lime flavored one which is also the hottest, designed as FUEGO. do not eat very many in one sitting. Your mouth will be punished. but it's a good pain. a delicious pain.
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Jun 3, 2017 21:59
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The "but you see Muslims are huge sexists" thing is such obnoxious concern trolling from conservatives. Everyone knows it's insincere, given how little conservatives care about women's rights, and especially global women's rights issues.
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Magic Hate Ball posted:Hal Ashby was a hack. If you're gonna say Being There is a bad movie, well. It's a free country, you have that right. but you would mark yourself as a person of poor taste.
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