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WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

id say we need a crying ebert icon but what possible context could it ever be used in aside from this one

a movie that teases showing breasts but fails to deliver

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WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Peanut President posted:

It's been years and years since I've seen it but I'd imagine the twinkie thing is just the old urban legend that they last forever.

Woody Harrelson's character specifically calls that out and says that his quest is more urgent because they do, in fact, expire.

Shuan of the Dead was the better rom zom com.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Echo Chamber posted:

I'm on Team "Sarah Silverman sucks".

I pretty much hate most comedians who simultaneously whine about the PC police and brand themselves members of the McResistance.

Remember her yelling at the Bernie people at the DNC in 2016?

I sure do

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Echo Chamber posted:

I do like the "Millennial Socialism" reading of Spider-Man: Homecoming.

Tony Stark is a billionaire technocrat wizard driven by ego, might have vaguely altruistic motivations but has huge blind spots towards to the collateral damage he causes. Sort of like Zuckerberg or Gates or Oprah or Bloomberg or Musk or coastal shitlibs.

Vulture is essentially a upper-middle-class Trumper or Brexiteer who styles himself as working class and a victim of neoliberalism; but is really a tyrannical boss who lives comfortably as a rich weapons dealer, and profits off the same capitalist system as Stark.

And Peter Parker is the millennial who grew up with liberal aspirations and emulated people like Tony Stark; but undergoes a rift with liberalism by being more intimately exposed to the blind spots that Stark ignored while interacting with normal people. The film ends with him voluntarily rejecting membership to the Avengers to carve his own path and build socialism locally in his neighborhood.

Of course, Iron Man is a hero; so for this metaphor to work, we would have ignore the fact that Stark's real life counterparts are pretty much evil. Also, Peter Parker's broader arc in the MCU kind of fucks up this reading too.

I enjoy this.

Serf posted:

the vulture is the hero of homecoming, as he's the only one willing to call stark out for what he truly is. and mcu spider-man is basically a pinkerton but he does it for fun

Vulture is not actually a working class hero, look at his loving house! "I have a family to support" goes out the window when you're spending millions on having the nicest home in the nicest suburb.

Yes he correctly calls out Stark but that doesn't excuse becoming an alien weapons dealer and killing people.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

The best musical is Reefer Madness and it's not even close

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

i wonder how many idiot parents are going to take their kids to see joker because they consider superhero movies to inherently be tame family friendly depictions of violent murder

well lets be fair i could write that sentence about pretty much any superhero movie couldnt i

see also: watchmen

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

What's this from tho

Serf posted:

some stream where he was in the chat saying some dumb poo poo

He said the only reason RLM didn't like the prequels was that they were "Not Their Star Wars" and not due to any flaws inherent in the films

That classic gif is Jack's response.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

thanks to the mod who listened to my feedback regarding the thread title

:tipshat:

working hard! thank you!

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Atrocious Joe posted:

Jarhead is probably the closest? It got advertised as an action movie even though it wasn't.

Yeah, Jarhead shows the military experience much closer to what it actually is, wait around in the desert a bunch, get bored, go home, and find out their girlfriends left them for Jody.

The scene where they all gather around to watch a VHS of The Deer Hunter they got sent but it's actually a sex tape of one of the dude's wives loving Jody is :discourse:

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WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Grevling posted:

I want to go see Cats as part of the irony watcher demographic, the public deserves more films like this.

:same:

https://twitter.com/snowboiiii/status/1208418880919613447

I must see this movie

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

so i finally got around to the mandalorian and my big pedantic nerd nitpick is that baby yoda loving ain't baby yoda!

It's just a baby of the yoda species

this is all just because lucas intentionally wouldn't reveal the name of yoda's species, so they have no other word to call him. If it was a baby wookie, no one would be calling it baby chewie

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Tiberius Christ posted:

Baby yoda has very mysterious origins it could be a clone of regular yoda which is why hes so force sensitive

yooda

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Freaking Crumbum posted:

my wife hates previews with a passion and now that youtube exists and they're entirely superfluous, we know we can show up 15-30 minutes late for any given movie and miss nothing.

not sure if this is happening everywhere, but all the theaters here also show pre-preview-previews now, before the actual previews, where you get some mishmash of local advertising, almost-previews for different movies via brief cast interviews, and ads from coca-cola about empowering youth filmmakers or some bullshit.

yes and it's awful

i went to a 1:30 am showing of rise of skywalker and the actual movie didn't start until 2 am because there were so many previews/pre-preview ads

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

StashAugustine posted:

I came to this from the opposite perspective where I got super into all the bullshit when I was a kid and am thus OK mentally writing out the huge chunks of it that suck

:same:

Been doing it since 99, it's second nature now.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

My favorite CineD memory was SMG stating that Battleship (the movie based on the board game) was an objectively better movie than The Avengers and multiple acolytes of his immediately agreeing.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Jenny Agutter posted:

he’s right

Please tell me the objectively good qualities of Battleship.

Even if you think Avengers is poo poo, that doesn't make a different lovely movie better.

E: VVV I'm not saying Avengers is high cinema, I'm saying Battleship does not even rise to Avengers level mediocrity.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Sorry my other favorite CineD memory is SMG obviously not watching any movie he bloviates about for pages and pages of posts.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Jenny Agutter posted:

it looks far better than avengers for one. the part where they literally play battleship is very funny. implicit criticism of military when they start an interplanetary war by being stupidly aggressive, undermining the hilariously overwrought uss Missouri veterans montage later in the film. the killer wheels were really cool. the opening was funnier than all of the quips in the entire runtime of avengers

all of that is subjective

that's my whole point, saying one movie is "objectively" better than another is stupid (particularly when they're both popcorn blockbuster poo poo and not "cinema")

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Jenny Agutter posted:

gently caress off. if your beef is the word he used then say that, don’t ask for clarification you never wanted in the first place

I did say that!

WampaLord posted:

My favorite CineD memory was SMG stating that Battleship (the movie based on the board game) was an objectively better movie than The Avengers and multiple acolytes of his immediately agreeing.

anyway, i'm halfway through Netflix Witcher and the toss a coin remix is stuck in my head forever now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g4jaIwcS4Q

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Probably Magic posted:

I don't really hate disingenuous posters like SMG, but it's weird that people would be acolytes of him, it'd be like if a bunch of people followed around Kawalimus in TFF and insisted along with him that the Ravens are Actually poo poo this year.

Then again, I follow getfiscal on Twitter, so I shouldn't judge.

the difference is that i believe Kawalimus is being sincere, he just is pessimistic as gently caress

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Serf posted:

the witcher felt like an attempt to recapture the feel of xena, and it succeeded. there's this dark fantasy world but everything feels the right amount of cheesy for it to be fun instead of overserious

cavill is great, he's too pretty for the role but he clearly understands what makes the character fun and plays to it very well

:agreed:

the way his default reaction is "Hrm" is perfectly on character

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Ghost Leviathan posted:

Like, BvS has Superman and Lois gently caress in a bathtub and no one ever brings it up.

Because all they do is kiss? That's actually a perfect example of how the superheroes movies are sexless.

I think the only actual sex in any of these was with Tony and the reporter in Iron Man 1. Sure, it's not a "sex scene" but it's clear that they hosed.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Some Guy TT posted:

i did indeed find this part of thor ragnarok to be kind of weird were just supposed to take it for granted that cate blanchett is evil and must be stopped when she doesnt seem to really want to do anything except just run the planet

she also wanted to take them back to their conquering ways and start launching wars on the other realms, she was basically a Make Asgard Great Again type

indigi posted:

she kills a bunch of people and rounds up children

and also this

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Son of Thunderbeast posted:

The new suicide squad owns

I'm watching it right now and really enjoying it.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

indigi posted:

within a few years companies are gonna start gating standard services behind logging into meta, the way they do with customer service via web chat and poo poo now

oh yeah, for sure

ever hear of this thing called the Segway? they say it's going to revolutionize human travel, we're gonna redesign cities around it!!!

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Farm Frenzy posted:

i really liked station 11 because its very character driven but it still had a weird amount of padding and fake tension with the cult leader plotline. the prestige bingable tv series format just makes good stories worse imo

amen. where every episode is meant to cliffhanger you into continuing to watch. and all of the actual plot action happens in the final 2 episodes.

not a fan.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

To be clear - that is not how Station Eleven is structured.
Just in case folks are reading who haven't seen it.
It eschews that trend in favor of basically the most direct adaption of novel plotting I've seen put to film
Each episode has a variable length that fits the story, follows a single plot/perspective, and then ends pretty naturally for that chunk of story.

yeah i was more ranting about generic streaming format stuff, not that show which i haven't seen. it sounds cool.

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Koirhor posted:

last movie I saw in theater was Rise of Skywalker

:metis:

this was gonna be mine too but then I went to see F9 during hot vaxx summer and I'm glad that got to be my last theater movie because it was a lot more fun than RoS

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

RandolphCarter posted:

movies need to bring intermissions back. let me piss you monsters.

gods and generals is the only recent movie i can think of that had an actual intermission

it was 4 hours long

alternatively, i think there's some app out there that tells you when's a good time to take a piss break for movies, don't remember what it's called

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Lugubrious posted:

It's called RunPee, it vibrates your phone when it's a good time for a pee and gives you a quick rundown of what happened during the allotted break

ain't technology grand?

the future. no flying cars, but apps will tell you when is best to pee

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Good soup! posted:

Let Kojima remake Lego Island

god yes, what a fever dream of a game

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nikQY7Q_lj4

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Random rear end in a top hat posted:

And this is different from Second Life... how?

you have to buy a $300 helmet and can't focus on anything else going on while you're doing it

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

empty whippet box posted:

if it wasn't staged then why isn't he getting arrested?

chris rock declined to press charges

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/...2b4f8d1bb663f84

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

ho fan posted:

it was a live international television broadcast, I’m not sure a victim statement is going to make or break this case

if you are the person assaulted and you don't press charges, that's it, there is no case

quote:

A full statement from the Los Angeles Police Department reads: “LAPD investigative entities are aware of an incident between two individuals during the Academy Awards program. The incident involved one individual slapping another. The individual involved has declined to file a police report. If the involved party desires a police report at a later date, LAPD will be available to complete an investigative report.”

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

When we're all sick of this in a week or so, just remember how magical these first few hours afterwards were

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

at the end of each year's In Memoriam, they should take the oldest living SAG member and let the Best Actor slap them to death

on even years, Best Actor, on odd years, Best Actress

let's keep it inclusive

WampaLord has issued a correction as of 20:19 on Mar 28, 2022

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

Alright sure, ok, everyone gets a chance. let's keep up this woke madness, it's fine. just don't come crying to me when Emma Stone's on her 40th slap and Liza Minnelli's still not dead.

Vegas can set odds on the over/under time for those kinds of situations

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

https://twitter.com/kathygriffin/status/1508280182146154500?s=20&t=8kulbfkhzPUIneVi4DCmhQ

lmao at the D listers attempting to gain relevance

WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

i say swears online posted:

I read a plot synopsis when that was posted and good god

https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/bonus-this-is-sus-4-the-slap

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WampaLord
Jan 14, 2010

https://twitter.com/ben_rosen/status/1508546875946795011?s=20&t=1368g5KSt3WPop9Gyl5QfQ

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