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Taintrunner posted:The Boys is fuckin' great and extremely C-SPAM. Homelander is just incredible as Psychotic Jingoistic Superman im really impressed with the show. i've read the comic a BUNCH and i was kinda cautious about the show, because i was expecting a straight adaptation. they've done some really good stuff with updating the show for a different cultural and media landscape, and changing the plot so that existing fans dont know literally anything thats coming, without losing the core themes of the comic
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Calibanibal posted:fast and furious are a better and more authentic superhero franchise than Marvel this but unironically, furious six is when those movies became the avengers but everyone's power is they're a god as long as they're near a car, and with an actually good cast
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Jul 30, 2019 22:25
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Koishi Komeiji posted:I keep hearing this show is good but it also sounds like it's trying to be edgelord as gently caress. Is it worth a watch if you loving hate superhero poo poo? yes absolutely its a show where the central conflict, the real core of the issue, is that Disney owns all the superheros and wnats to get defense contracts to use them, and the deep state is loving terrified of that also superheros are rear end in a top hat celebrities who do awful poo poo and get away with it because it gets covered up
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Jul 30, 2019 22:26
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next season is probably going to have a fuckin epstein plane subplot
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Jul 30, 2019 22:27
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Taintrunner posted:THEY loving SOLD OUT justin lin is doing 9 though, praise be
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Six is the second best one
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Jul 30, 2019 22:33
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Calibanibal posted:2 and 3 are by far the worst out of the 8 released 3 is perfect actually
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Jul 30, 2019 22:40
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Who gives a poo poo about that though https://twitter.com/VinegarSyndrome/status/1156248793899315201?s=19 I'm so loving excited, this movie is bonkers and terrible. It's by the director of Mac and Me, and stars young Denise Richards and Paul Walker
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Jul 30, 2019 22:41
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3 is incredible because Lin took the script for an 80s ski movie and replaced skis with cars It's a movie about the new kid in town learning to beat the rich popular guy while hanging out with the misfits, and it ends with a winner gets the girl loser leaves town race down a mountain Also, Sonny Chiba!
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Jul 30, 2019 23:03
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Koishi Komeiji posted:A big goon thank you to Taintrunner, BENGHAZI 2,and StashAugustine for recommending me The Boys. I don't normally watch tv but I saw the first episode and it was really good. I'm just surprised that such an anti-authoritarian show is being produced by Amazon of all people. I genuinely love the comic but it is mega divisive and way more puerile than the show
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Aug 1, 2019 00:36
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Sheng-Ji Yang posted:only a few eps in but the boys is some pretty openly anti-capitalist poo poo In the comic vought is kinda generic weapons manufacturer who does comics because it's a good way to do propaganda The shows "what if Disney had defense contracts" is so fuckin good
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Aug 1, 2019 00:37
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Feranon posted:anyone who likes stuff like The Boys should check read Supergod if they haven't already Isn't this that one Warren Ellis book Don't tell people to read that
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Aug 1, 2019 00:38
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Raskolnikov38 posted:dickeye has there ever been a comic series about superheroes just having a string of absolute fuckups that eventually resolves into nothing? because that would be the perfect post-2008 movie Punisher Max is a series about how Frank Castle, a Hard Man making Hard Choices, is ultimately fighting a futile battle because he's a violent sociopath who has just picked this as his theoretically justifiable way to do murders, and nothing he does will ever matter in the end The Boys (spoiler for the comic) ends with Homelander being defeated but Vought just picks up and starts over and rebrands bc lol capital
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Aug 1, 2019 00:46
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jfood posted:the comic is bad, like taco shits bad. the show is a taco in this metaphor, tacos are good. Parts of the comic are dumb and bad like all Garth Ennis things, but the actual plotting is fantastic and the big twist is incredible and I'm super glad the show hasnt made that twist not possible yet
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Aug 1, 2019 00:47
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My pat answer for books about gently caress ups where nothing ever matters is Dredd, a comic about a century of bad decisions that never actually helped anything, usually made it worse, and yet the world kept trucking along the same as ever* *Until Russia took their revenge and those bad decisions killed 87% of the Eastern seaboard. But everything kept going after that, just really lovely and even less functional than before Kinda like life in America
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Koishi Komeiji posted:I was hesitant to watch the boys at first because I looked up the comic on wikipedia to see what it was about and it sounded like some angry marilyn manson teenager poo poo but what I've seen of the show so far has been really smart and well written so I guess they changed a lot about it. It's way more gross dick joke than gross edgelord ARE YOU OFFENDED poo poo, with like, two exceptions that make sense later in terms of the plot The actual plot of it is great, though, the big twist is one of my favorite reveals in comics because it's simultaneously out of nowhere and then also foreshadowed perfectly in hindsight Fake edit preacher is much more of an edgelord ARE YOU OFFENDED book and the plot is way worse structurally BENGHAZI 2 has issued a correction as of 01:36 on Aug 1, 2019 |
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