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F Stop Fitzgerald posted:even when they explicitly try to, it ends up the same by the end, like that universal-style werewolf thing even wandavision (which i liked) abandons its premise like 3 episodes in for more avengers lore and colored beam shooting
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it really seems like a no brainer to pick 10 promising genre directors, make any B or C list character from the DC/Marvel universe available, give them $30m to do whatever they want, and get a couple home runs that'll cover any strikeouts
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In Training posted:They should also let the public vote on the Oscars instead of a dumb committee. Restrict it to people who work on movies so that decent wages and treatment come out of the pr budget. Most pr budgets cost about as much as it does to make the entire movie
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indigi posted:it really seems like a no brainer to pick 10 promising genre directors, make any B or C list character from the DC/Marvel universe available, give them $30m to do whatever they want, and get a couple home runs that'll cover any strikeouts that would require them to stop the empty studio suits from meddling, which would solve their problems in the first place.
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Mar 27, 2024 22:26
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In Training posted:They should also let the public vote on the Oscars instead of a dumb committee. They did this and Snyder won everything lol
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indigi posted:it really seems like a no brainer to pick 10 promising genre directors, make any B or C list character from the DC/Marvel universe available, give them $30m to do whatever they want, and get a couple home runs that'll cover any strikeouts No, see with the use of focus testing and algorithms and AI and a bunch of other bullshit we're not gonna have to have ANY strikeouts anymore! Every movie will be for everyone, doesn't that sound great!
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I just watched the first five episodes of the Body Problem, I think this was the first show where I clickly switched to 2x playback speed and left it at that. With subtitles no problem, quite enjoyable.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I remember when people were pretending they weren't just the same movie over and over again Snopes rates this "Mostly true" Knight has issued a correction as of 22:43 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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Guardians of the Galaxy is fundamentally different in that it isn't an OK movie following the MCU formula; rather, it's a banger soundtrack with an ok movie following the MCU formula used as bedding to add ambiance
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Maybe the movies we make to sell children's toys shouldn't be the same movies we expect to move us as adults
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Mar 27, 2024 22:54
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Maybe the movies we make to sell children's toys shouldn't be the same movies we expect to move us as adults Wrong.
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Nichael posted:wait, the only thing keeping a baby from living on the streets was another unrelated baby? someone hasnt been reading enough poor things discourse
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Mar 27, 2024 22:57
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Are there adult action figure play groups?
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This Saturday we will be playing with our superhero toys. DO NOT BRING TRANSFORMERS
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Are there adult action figure play groups? Yeah it's called Warhammer
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Like so many others, I first watched him speak on the night of the 2004 Democratic convention, the year John Kerry became the nominee. He was still a state senator then, his face unlined, his head full of dark-brown hair. He humbly told the audience that his presence there was “pretty unlikely.” His Kenyan father had grown up herding goats; his paternal grandfather cooked for a British soldier. In a Baptist cadence, he quoted from the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson’s words are stirring on their own, but when a certain kind of orator gets hold of them, the effect can feel like thunder, or the Spirit. The country had tumbled into a new century after a contested election and the start of a war in Iraq. Barack Obama spun a convincing vision of the nation as “one people,” in which our ethnic, religious, and ideological differences mattered little. When I think about what Obama meant to me at the time, my eyes pool with water. I was fresh out of college, taken by the force of his intellect and the way his ideas seemed to cohere and hum. His ear for language was evident in his oratory and in his prose. Dreams From My Father, his first memoir, drew from a humanist tradition of American autobiography laid down by Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Malcolm X, and James Baldwin. Toni Morrison’s eulogy of Baldwin in 1987 seemed to foreshadow what many would feel about Obama in 2008: “You made American English honest … You exposed its secrets and reshaped it until it was truly modern dialogic, representative, humane.” And yet, it wasn’t enough; the reverie wouldn’t, couldn’t last. In Great Expectations, Vinson Cunningham’s debut novel, the New Yorker writer and critic assesses the hope and disillusionment of the Obama years in a thinly veiled political satire-cum-bildungsroman featuring an Obama-like junior senator as “the candidate,” as well as a multifarious cast of supporting characters who employ their savvy, money, and connections to get him elected as president. Cunningham takes the reader back to a time when many thought Obama had an answer for every American ailment: He would usher the country into a post-race era, offering white people grace and absolution while assuring Black people that they would hereafter get a fair shake. The novel is a keen look back at the failed promise of those early years, during which the country’s lofty expectations left little room for the candidate’s human fallibility—and obscured the reality of American politics. In this country, progress has usually happened in complicated, nonlinear ways: Hard-won advances are generally followed by forceful backlash and heartbreaking setbacks. Advances in civil rights, economic equality, health-care access, or environmental policy have often triggered reactionary codas; since at least the end of Reconstruction, momentum toward multiracial democracy has inflamed particularly vitriolic responses. Ultimately, Cunningham’s novel reminds the reader that simple solutions—the passage of one just law, the election of a single great leader—are seldom a match for American problems. The narrator—based on the author himself, who worked on Obama’s 2008 campaign and in his White House—is David Hammond, a 22-year-old single father from uptown Manhattan. Floundering after dropping out of college, he joins the campaign as a fundraising assistant on the recommendation of the well-heeled mother of a teen boy he tutors. As the novel roves from Manhattan to Manchester, New Hampshire; from Los Angeles to Chicago, David, whose true ambition is to be a writer, uses his new role to sharpen his ear and eye. He’s middling at the minutiae of the job but great at interacting with people. He makes friends with his co-workers and stumbles into a tender love affair with another staffer named Regina. Along the way, he loses slivers of his innocence as he sees what lies beneath the campaign’s shimmering exterior: the candidate’s aloofness when he is offstage, the financial improprieties of a few wealthy patrons. Eventually, the blind allegiance of the candidate’s supporters—their belief that the campaign is a “move of God”—begins to feel foreboding. David often invokes the ecstatic mysticism of religious devotion as a metaphor for the candidate’s hold on his supporters. The senator “reminded me of my pastor,” David says early on, his regal posture bringing to mind a “talismanic maneuver meant to send forth subliminal messages about confidence and power.” One night, on the trail in New Hampshire, David tells Regina about a magic trick he’d witnessed as a teenager: While waiting outside of church with his friends, he’d watched as a magician performed a standard sleight of hand, then levitated a few inches off the city pavement. “Everybody screamed. It was mayhem,” David remembers. “Black people love magic,” Regina rejoins, through laughter. It is a detour in a novel of detours and roundabouts, and also a parable that smartly explains how the candidate’s fervent admirers could be so awed by his charisma that they missed the signs of trouble to come. Sometimes David allows himself to get carried away like everyone else. He thinks about how the candidate and his family had begun to embody some kind of national fantasy of a Black Camelot. “Maybe there was the hope that black, that portentous designation, could finally be subsumed into the mainstream in the way that Kennedy had helped Irish to be. That some long passage of travel was almost done,” he thinks at one point. In that same stream of thought, David suggests that the public’s belief in the candidate’s ability to dismantle the racial hierarchy is largely thanks to his symbolic appeal: It was, he observes, “mostly the look” of the candidate and his glamorous family—an elegant wife and two small daughters—that made supporters believe he could overcome racism. Who wouldn’t want to accept them? Privy to the campaign’s disappointments and its weaknesses, David is clear-eyed where others are credulous. With the benefit of hindsight, the reader knows his skepticism would eventually be validated. In the years since Obama’s election, America has seen the birtherism movement, the rise of the Tea Party, Trump’s presidency, and the dismantling of cornerstone civil-rights victories, including key portions of the Voting Rights Act. Then, of course, there were Obama’s own shortcomings during his presidency, namely his capitulation to forces opposed to his most idealistic visions. He would pass a new health-care bill, but fall short of the goal of universal coverage he campaigned on. He would withdraw troops from Afghanistan but begin a series of what the political scientist Michael J. Boyle called “shadow wars,” which were “fought by Special Forces, proxy armies, drones, and other covert means.” According to the Council on Foreign Relations, drone strikes authorized by President Obama led to the deaths of nearly 4,000 people in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia; more than 300 of them were civilians. When Cunningham’s novel closes on that fateful night in November, the night of the candidate’s victory, it’s an ending for David, a graduation, even. The book implies that he will go on to work for the new president, but unlike everyone else in that ecstatic moment, he looks to the coming years soberly, acknowledging that the campaign had spoken “a language of signs,” wherein the symbolism of the moment overwhelmed all else. Already, he seems to know that the country will see no grand, lasting transformation. For many Americans, who felt on a similar, actual night, that the world seemed on the precipice of change, the lessons would take much longer to learn.
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I need to go back and start with the sprawl trilogy because I'm pretty sure William Gibson got body snatched (rich) at some point. Trying to figure out when that was.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Are there adult action figure play groups? this made me wonder if "normal" rc airplane hobbyists still exist outside of the crazy poo poo on youtube
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the milk machine posted:this made me wonder if "normal" rc airplane hobbyists still exist outside of the crazy poo poo on youtube yeah it's usually old guys who pooled their money for a little rc runway in a semi-rural area
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brugroffil posted:https://acoup.blog/ Oh poo poo I read his Sparta stuff ages ago. Thanks for the reminder.
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Bro Dad posted:yeah it's usually old guys who pooled their money for a little rc runway in a semi-rural area that's cool. that seems like a good old guy hobby. maybe if i get old i could get into it
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Al! posted:even wandavision (which i liked) abandons its premise like 3 episodes in for more avengers lore and colored beam shooting Lol got mad at this all the buddies swore up and down that this is different, it's doing something really different you gotta check it out. And like, cool couple episodes but then mfs started punching each other
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Loki and Wandavision have been my favorite marvel stuff in a while since the TV format allowed for more room and experiments but yeah, in the end they both turn into the same gray goo
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i say swears online posted:quit watching the tencent 3bp because it was super boring. about to start episode 3 of bodies of thrones and I'm afraid I'm making the same mistake theres always the minecraft version
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:OKJA and AMBULANCE are 2 other recent(ish) quality gyllenhaal performances i didnt like most of the english performances in okja because they were all acting like cartoon characters and it was really jarring since the korean half of the story was an almost entirely sincere story about a girl trying to rescue her pet pig i do give gyllenhaal credit for at least having an excuse for being cartoonish because his character seems to be suffering a mental breakdown from having to act like a cartoon character for public relations purposes all the time
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Gumball Gumption posted:Loki and Wandavision have been my favorite marvel stuff in a while since the TV format allowed for more room and experiments but yeah, in the end they both turn into the same gray goo yeah the first two-three eps of wandavision were the only fun mcu stuff i've ever seen
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Bro Dad posted:yeah it's usually old guys who pooled their money for a little rc runway in a semi-rural area we have one of these in town and it is DIRECTLY adjacent to the landfill, and they do their stinky little air shows on the weekends when it's nice. i should get out there sometime.
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https://x.com/anothercohen/status/1769204420997194060?s=46&t=CkxUTFewBhsxPVoqA_wgtQ
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Way late but I'm still insanely upset I didn't make it to see Ambulance in theaters. I have it on my computer but have never watched it, I keep waiting for some magic event for them to bring it back to the big screen 
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Cael posted:Way late but I'm still insanely upset I didn't make it to see Ambulance in theaters. I have it on my computer but have never watched it, I keep waiting for some magic event for them to bring it back to the big screen It’s great in the big screen, but you should deffo watch it and tell us when you get to the “Sailing” scene.
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Pepe Silvia Browne posted:Are there adult action figure play groups? the debate & discussion forum 
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What will be the "You want the good girl, but you need the bad pussy." equivalent in The 3 Body Problem?
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docbeard posted:As alien invasion stories go, I really liked Gordon Dickson's "Way of the Pilgrim" when I was younger, though I have no idea how/if it holds up. A guy working for the aliens who'd enslaved humanity invents a resistance movement out of whole cloth to impress a girl, and then ends up accidentally fomenting revolution against the aliens for real. dudes rock
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i dunno why but it's funny to me that hbo has Citizen Kane available to stream.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:They did this and Snyder won everything lol So what you’re saying is the system worked
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DR FRASIER KRANG posted:i dunno why but it's funny to me that hbo has Citizen Kane available to stream. that movie has the best fireplace I've ever seen.
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...just give Bakshi a ton of money instead jesus christ. at least he had an undying love of the subjects
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