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indigi posted:well then who the loving hell cares?? why would you even watch a pizar movie close enough to notice that The other videos on his channel make it clear it's a meme. You're not meant to take the video seriously. He's probably randomly read the material online somewhere and reverse engineered the video from that as an easy hustle for clout.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I really want something to be positivity languid. Not in the GoT late-series "just make some people talk until the next battle" sense but some real hold the shot, let people emote for minutes at a time kinda stuff Have you checked out Barry Jenkins' The Underground Railroad, or Refn's Too Old To Die Young? I think they might be what you're looking for.
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indigi posted:what the gently caress is it then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6666_Ranch And it's owned by Taylor Sheridan, the colon through which all these ideas flow.
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theflyingexecutive posted:they were mentioned but there were no trans men characters. There's a handful, but they're in very minor roles. I think the most prominent is the lead in a late series one-off story about a pair of artists making a film version of the main story arc.
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It's just another variation on "I don't want to eat my vegetables", except they're saying that maybe if you pour some sugar the vegetables and then blend it up into slop they'll be able to consoom. The laughable part is that the thing they think are vegetables are actually just fantasy adventure shows for adults, rather than literal children.
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i say swears online posted:I didn't even know westworld got a third season. did they do "eastworld" like in the preview on the wall in the S1 finale They go to a world based on the Shogunate and another based on the British Raj, and together they comprise of maybe seventy minutes of screentime. Neither turns up again beyond Season Two. Nichael posted:why this and not raised by wolves 3 Discovery Warner are focusing on DC properties now. They want that Disney life.
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May 10, 2022 17:00
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i say swears online posted:I'm watching the sandra bullock / channing tatum himbo rom-com The Lost City and it's actually hilarious Should have kept the name as The Lost City Of D.
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May 19, 2022 08:17
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RandolphCarter posted:man I forgot how nuts the season one finale of ash vs evil dead is Easily the highpoint of the show (not that there isn't good stuff later on, it's just the most sustained period of "great" the show did). Also the first thing I ever saw Samara Weaving in. (not socialist)
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May 30, 2022 09:29
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Arivia posted:also there is a REALLY gross implication in the last like five minutes that I hope part 2 clears up/denies I've seen the season, but I'm not following your point. But maybe I'm being dumb here?
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May 31, 2022 17:21
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Arivia posted:dr. brenner started his project to make more psychics after things with 001 didn't work out. the show draws an explicit link from that to eleven, and says that brenner did something to make sure he got psychics out of the process. is 001 eleven's biological father? apparently a piece of spinoff media says it was the boyfriend of her mother, but that's spinoff media and that's never stopped franchises before Oh, gently caress, and the next episode's called "Papa". Yeah I think you're right.
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May 31, 2022 18:42
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Arivia posted:what, i have no idea what that's referring to at all lmao the actor just did a loving mealy mouthed the character's sexuality is up to the viewer interview. What utter crap.
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May 31, 2022 19:42
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To the goon who recommended Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway. This loving rocked. It's like Inception, except good and if it were made by the Danger 5 people. Apparently it had a budget of half a million dollars, but they really made that money stretch as far as they could. Some of it feels influenced by what Lynch was doing with the third season of Twin Peaks (but without the "tragedy" of fading Reganism). Also I'm pretty sure the ending credits need to come with an epilepsy warning, but they're loving awesome. I'm gonna have to track down the film these guys made before this, Crumbs, sounds equally amazing. Just a really cool film.
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papa horny michael posted:I've thought the boys to be pretty homophobic personally lol I wouldn't say homophobic, but it's certainly anti-kink and therefore inherently queerphobic IMO. Edit: maybe that needs unpacking, so okay. In the activist circles I used to run in, before I got too sick to continue doing that kind of stuff, it was always understood that the queer community wasn't just about LGBT rights, but also taking a stand for other forms of sexual marginalisation. The Boys is very ready to make statements about how capital will co-opt anything in order to sell more stuff and make number go up, but the show is still operating within the overton window of what capital considers acceptable to sell to. This season's had four sex scenes, all of them involving villains and some kind of kink -- sounding and size play, quasi-beastality (honestly something closer to furry content tbh, it's a difficult one to pigeon-hole), some light BDSM, and some mother fetishism -- and they're all about how depraved the characters are. One scene cuts immediately from three characters having sex to another character throwing up. It's not great, and honestly makes the show a little hypocritical. Even Frenchie's sexuality is treated as a bit of a joke, like "he's so crazy, he was in a thruple and bottoms". Sure. Open Source Idiom has issued a correction as of 07:53 on Jun 7, 2022 |
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I think I read somewhere that scifi looks into the relative future, while fantasy looks into the relative past, which has stuck with me. It doesn't really work (I'm playing through a remake of the first Shadowrun campaign that's been adapted and expanded for the Hong Kong release, and it'd be sci-fi by the above definition even though I'm playing an Orc) but it stuck with me. Its all academic though. Genre boundaries are slippery and full of holes, much like your mum.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Anyone who complains about the accents in Mary Poppins is wrong. You think the accents are the unrealistic part in the movie about the loving NANNY WHO FLIES?? THAT is what took you out of the whole thing? I think criticising the lack of craft when it comes to the accents is fine. If the flying looked like arse, it'd be fair to criticise it too, rather than just saying "that's how physics/ reality / whatever" works in this universe.
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Jun 13, 2022 03:39
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Maya Fey posted:watched Jurassic Park III (2001) which i fully expected to be a huge piece of crap based on the haters & losers consensus and turns out its very funny and cool and possibly the 2nd best movie in the franchise. i have been lied to for 20 years The Alexander Payne co-writing credit probably helped a lot. Say what you will about Election, but the guy knew how to write a joke.
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Xaris posted:well, it was what it was. farscape was even cancelled. Apparently the story behind this is that even though the show was pulling in more viewers than any other show on the channel, the new management at the company just decided they didn't like the look of the thing and cancelled it, even though it had already been renewed for a fifth season. Also the Farscape comics, which continue the show and develop some of the planned Season 5 plots, apparently feature Aeryn leading a socialist revolution within the Peacekeepers. The show was already in that territory (as was Blake's 7, the show it's very aggressively riffing off of -- the villains in that show, the "Federation" use the Star Trek logo but rotated to a different angle, it's loving great), though ~*mysteriously*~ the scene where the aliens explicitly talk about how dumb humans are for not being socialist was left on the cutting room floor. Xaris posted:is the new orville season good? i hear mixed things, but speaking on the scifi thing i also think its the last season No, but I didn't think the show was ever good. Here's a hilariously terrible interview with Seth McFarlane that describes the show as "left-leaning" though, despite never experiencing any pushback from Fox. https://deadline.com/2022/06/seth-macfarlane-on-fox-incredibly-complicated-relationship-1235043651/ Note: interview does not ask about how he keeps casting the young women he's loving as regulars (and how he fired the first one after they broke up). Open Source Idiom has issued a correction as of 06:11 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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The best sci-fi cop procedural is Continuum. The show starts out by portraying them as abusive, and the main character is an inherently compromised operative working undercover within their organisation. By the end of the show they've been bought out by a tech conglomerate who plans on vivisecting their prison population, and the main character -- despite listening and understanding the seriousness of the situation -- is punished for her wishy washy politics and refusal to listen to basic logic, even though she ultimately saves the world in the process. The way the show goes from being a generic cop procedural to expressly condemning the structures implicit to the genre is really loving great. Also it's a riff on Terminator, as told from the Terminator's perspective. It owns.
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Xaris posted:speaking of mid 2000s frat pack, whatever happened to judd apatow and the zillion of mediocre-yet-insanely popular comedy genre? He's less popular, but he's been regularly turning out increasingly unfunny crap. He did that Pete Davidson vehicle a few years back, and he just teamed up with Netflix to release The Bubble, a very boring film about a bunch of actors who are stuck making tedious Jurassic Park type film during the pandemic. It has about four fully choreographed dance numbers and a similar number of jokes. Daisy Ridley's surprisingly funny in it though.
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campion bondloquacius posted:Just finished Terry Pratchett's Mort (not socialist, not sci-fi) and at this point the majority of Pratchett romance subplots I've read can be summed up as "mission-oriented main character suddenly realizes that the most significant female character (a lonely shut-in) has Had Feelings For Him All Along, and isn't particularly interested but settles for marrying her anyway because it's not like he has a whole lot going on either" The romance in Wyrd Sisters isn't too bad. It's a rare female-led romance, and they're both equally as useless as each other but essentially sweet natured and low-key very horny. A lot of Pratchett's main arcs are fairly repetitive and don't really come to a climax, and even though the Witches novels all feature a recurring gimmick -- they're all adaptations of plays or other performed works -- the romance has an actual arc and progresses through a few books before concluding. Open Source Idiom has issued a correction as of 15:34 on Jun 14, 2022 |
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DarkLich posted:In light of Raised by Wolves being canceled, I thought I would ask: if I disliked RBW Season 1, is it worthwhile to watch Season 2? Or just cut my losses? A lot of the show's second season works to justify and explain the choices made at the end of Season 1. I thought the second season brought a lot of issues to a head, and had some strong thematic work at the end that made it clear how everything was locking together. There are a handful of elements that don't get concluded, but more in the sense that they were clearly planning on pushing those elements further in the show's third season. My friend pointed out that the second season seemingly had a mandate to do three insane things every episode, and it definitely went above and beyond with that with the last few episodes. It's an experience.
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Some Guy TT posted:at what point did hbo become obsessed with franchises i could have sworn at some point they were like all about prestige television or some bullshit like that but these days theyre just disney with dumber brand names Warner post-Snyder pivoted towards that direction more aggressively (though they were always floating around in that direction) and this filtered down to HBO Max (which isn't HBO). The Discovery merger, however, solidified that direction, and they've been winding down original content and pushing towards guaranteed franchising. e.g. The Batman, which came packaged with two spin-offs, one a Gotham PD show and the other a Penguin show starring Farrell. It's, IMO, why the Farrell material feels grafted on to the movie. It's a backdoor pilot. You can see it on other levels too -- e.g. going forward we're going to see more things like this upcoming Kite Man spin off of the Harley Quinn show, or the Velma reboot cartoon, over stuff like the Elon Musk satire Fired On Mars. And there was a leak that Discovery Warner has already decided to cancel Iannucci's Avenue 5 before the upcoming season has aired an episode.
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Knight posted:Did they finally do Herogasm? Yeah, though given the way the show was hyping the concept I was expecting something closer to Eyes Wide Shut, or perhaps just the True Detective Season 2 version of Eyes Wide Shut. It was honestly pretty tame compared to the raunch the show's conveyed even in previous episodes this season. Honestly, the entire thing looked like a bust rodd anecdote reads, and then moralising bloodshed descended.
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indigi posted:also like on some level I do empathize with women who complain about film bros, like I’m sure even if it’s only happened in a college film class it’s annoying to be condescendingly told by a man that men have created the greatest works of art in a male dominated industry and the things women have been socialized to value and enjoy all suck poo poo. it’s just that unfortunately most of those things do suck poo poo and men have created most of the best films (due to systemic sexism, but nonetheless) Yeah, I suspect a lot of this is the conflation of some anti-intellectual sentiment with various different forms of male condescension / pretension. I remember one film class where another student took me to task for enjoying Jupiter Ascending -- just straight up five minutes into the first class, publicly slagging me off and being really condescending about my opinion. And I've certainly been to parties where once the resident film friend hears you also like film they decide to purity test you to see if you're worth their time -- had one guy quiz me about what I thought about Spring Breakers, and another particularly drunk guy go on about True Detective, Nolan and test me on my knowledge of film vs digital cameras. I could imagine someone experiencing enough of those interactions and just swearing off "men who like films" entirely.
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loquacius posted:I can hear the ringing cleansing laughter as the first film exec is settled into the guillotine ah yes, a nanny state
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Some Guy TT posted:im more astonished that not only did someone discuss jupiter ascending in casual conversation they actually liked it It was a film class icebreaker. We were asked to talk about what film we'd last seen and what we thought. I said Jupiter Ascending, and that it was a very camp film that made me laugh a lot -- a minor villain has an entire four story, space facing state room set aside just for holding weddings -- and Eddie Redmayne was really great. I still stand by that, FWIW, and have a poster of the film. It's very, very dumb, but I love big, dumb, expensive, potentially corporation shuttering, spectacle driven boondoggle films. Open Source Idiom has issued a correction as of 15:53 on Jun 29, 2022 |
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indigi posted:does paramount have anything beside start trek Evil is very good, and I like The Good Fight. They're both, in the thread's terms, "catnip for liberals", but they're funny and weird. It's interesting to see the people behind The Good Fight become more and more left as they go along (though not, you know, considerably so). But yeah, Evil is my recommendation -- it's kind of like the way people talk about Strange New Worlds, in the sense that the show is made up of a bunch of standalones tied to an evolving plot and character development, though IMO unlike SNW it's actually quite good. The lead's a loving smokeshow, and the cast is great. It's popcorn, but it's the good stuff.
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Dysthymia posted:I’m not looking for recommendations, I’m just curious as to whether I’m the only one who feels this way. You're not. I feel like a lot of mainstream films are completely -- if I'm using the term correctly -- alienated from resembling the real world. I get the move towards mainstream escapism is a natural reaction towards increased lovely working conditions for middle class Americans (etc.) but I feel like the emotional arcs just don't resemble real world characters, or feel ridiculously fiddly and precious rather than honest to the shittiness inherent to human nature. To say nothing of the complete failure to address the real, universal issues of today in our popular, big budgeted imaginations (the complete absence of corona from pretty much anything is, IMO, kinda embarrassing -- like the entire human race is just sticking their head in the sandpit with their Buzz Lightyear and Spiderman toys). I've been telling myself that I've just grown out of these films, and that they're for a new generation that's learning a whole bunch of lessons that I've already metabolised, but I don't know if a lot of the blockbusters right now (Turning Red, Multiverse Of Madness, Encanto) hold a candle to the films I watched when I was a small kid (Mulan, Lilo and Stich, Jumanji). Though perhaps I'm not picking enough good recent family blockbusters, I dunno. Jumanji spends a whole half an hour talking about the collapse of small town economies before it gets to the fun, and the film loving rules. I've not seen the new ones, but I can't imagine they're remotely interested in anything similar.
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Isn't it actually some other guy's show,? Waititi just championed it into existence and took a role on it (otherwise it wouldn't have been made). Same thing happened with Reservation Dogs, only without the acting part. They're not actually "his" shows.
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In The Flesh was an odd little British show that never got a lot of screen time but I liked it. It was a post apocalyptic zombie show about a community that was trying to reintegrate cured living dead, told in this British soapy style. The second season shifted the focus to talk about the reintegrated zombies as an emerging second class, which the British government would naturally seek to tax and exploit for free labour. It was pretty good, the lead dates a terrorist and there's a really well done love subplot involving the hero's best friend and a petty bureaucrat she fucks the authoritarianism out of.
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Good soup! posted:DAVID WARNER, YOU ARE UNDER ARREST BY ORDER OF DAVID WARNER I wish I understood this. Warner was one of my favourite actors, no cap. One of those old school, hyper professional, no small parts type guys. Amazing voice. I'm rewatching Time Bandits and what a guy.
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Son of Thunderbeast posted:lol wtf I completely missed this era of looney tunes oh hey, i've seen this episode of stranger things.
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spacemang_spliff posted:Rick and Morty is okay although goddamn I hate the backstory episodes just do more dimensional tv. It sucks that they keep killing off good shows for no reason. Most of these are probably going -- Warner's under new management and they're cancelling / selling off a lot of their shows. Rick and Morty will stick around, but Bird Girl, Primal, Tuca and Bertie, etc. etc. are probably all very dead.
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TheSlutPit posted:I really wish people would go back to disliking other people and things for normal reasons instead of trying to contextualize it in the language of abuse and bigotry. Agreed, though a) I don't think this was ever not the case (see, for example, the Bible) and b) in the case of one of those twitter comments I get the sense the account holder just has some mental health issues themselves and are projecting them onto Fielder. I always find it funny when works designed to be provocative get ridiculous rises out of people -- like all those people complaining about von Trier or Noé's work being sexist because it makes them uncomfortable.
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Pulcinella posted:It really is trash. Just shy of 100 minutes but feels like 3 hours. Nothing interesting in terms of cinematography; might as well be a made-for-TV movie. You’re basically watching a racist, cranky old person be racist and cranky for an hour-and-a-half. I'm kinda glad Driving Miss Daisy exists because it rendered unto us the Be Kind Rewind version, which accurately captures how poo poo the film is, and is only thirty seconds long to boot. Still not worth watching the original though, that film loving sucks.
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Oglethorpe posted:The Wilds? I think they mean Snowflake Mountain, and yeah it did.
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Good soup! posted:Sam Raimi didn't do a great job He wouldn't have been allowed to. He got to direct two action scenes in the entire thing, that's the level of control Disney's exercising over their directors.
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Xaris posted:that's true, it's basically just an easy paycheck and he was signed on to convicne a bunch of dumb film dork nerds to go pay $$ to watch it because they love evil dead or w/e Yeah, I figure the Mouse also likes to use these directors as figureheads for brownie points / scapegoats.
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Xaris posted:i think that's probably the biggest problem with SNW is it virtually has no original thought in the show. Listening to the way some fans talk, I get the sense that's the central appeal.
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