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The crazy thing is that Astro Boy probably had everything beat Funny thing reading old Astro Boy aside from it being a bit all over the place (and ranging from having some very outdated racist stereotypes to some incredibly progressive details and storylines given it was the goddamn 50s) is that they deal with a lot of stuff about robot rights and treatment while also that robots aren't human and don't act or think like humans even when they can pass as human- and when given the opportunity, don't necessarily want to once they understand the full implications. Also, there's a bit where Astro meets a Japanese-American man who flat out says that he experienced racism from white Americans, and after that faded he noticed how badly they treated black Americans, and then when robots came along they basically just transferred the exact same behaviour towards them. Seems especially poignant since that storyline ends with him revealed to having been slowly turned into a robot to survive a terminal disease after Astro leaves, and goes to apply to be treated as a human, but is literally torn apart by a lynch mob on the front steps of the government office)
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R2 and 3PO iirc are based on a peasant duo in The Hidden Fortress and are basically coded as servants, as are nearly all droids basically the underclasses. Droids owned by royalty are shiny and well-maintained while droids owned by slaves themselves are naked and gaunt, and a wealthy oligarch's palace has a torture chamber for misbehaving and poorly performing droids when they aren't just shot.
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Nov 19, 2019 14:30
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The classic EU is a never ending source of amazingly dumb poo poo in between endless pap that's basically literally just redoing random bits from the OT over and over and over and over again with original character do not steal
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Nov 19, 2019 16:43
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Though this is Jar Jar they're talking about
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Nov 19, 2019 17:30
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Farm Frenzy posted:piss looks better than vomit I dunno, vomit can be interesting depending on what you've eaten
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Some Guy TT posted:i dont see anybody discuss the lotr movies at all anymore which i think is probably the most damning criticism anyone can make of a franchise that was once considered hot poo poo by nerds and critics alike I mean it's been how long? And it's not exactly deep material, or new. I figure people have mostly had all the discussion they're going to get out of it.
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Nov 20, 2019 12:35
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Atrocious Joe posted:they should have made Poe a series of clones Duncan Idapoe
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Nov 21, 2019 10:29
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Farm Frenzy posted:tghey should make all the star wars writers read all the tie in books but only so they feel embarrassed when they try to pull the same contrived poo poo I'm p sure that's cruel and unusual punishment
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Nov 21, 2019 12:12
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Somehow the end result of all this comes off as something thrown together at the last minute
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Nov 21, 2019 12:44
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Panzeh posted:Pretty much every post-TFA movie feels like two movies kind of stitched together to varying degrees- i get the sense that disney hires these directors and writers with some vision, then brings in a script doctor to re-shoot the movies really late in production to be more 'star wars' The point is having an idea and sticking with it is better than trying to make Corporate Product For Mass Consumption (C)
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Nov 21, 2019 13:50
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we live in a kingdom princesses rise up
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Nov 25, 2019 14:28
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The prequels at the very least had Lucas clearly watch a shitload of old pulp stories for ideas, while the sequels just watched Star Wars.
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Forceholy posted:A new hope is a Sci Fi version of Kurosawa's the Hidden Fortress. I heard that wasn't the original intention but a friend of Kurosawa read the screenplay and thought it was a take on King Lear, and Kurosawa read the play and decided to make the movie more like it, including some direct quotes.
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Some Guy TT posted:hollywood does this in general i dont think they actually know how to make movie stars anymore because its hard to come up with any other reason why they keep pretending like liam neeson is an action hero I mean the last time they tried that was Shia LeBouf
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i'm like 6 monthd late to the party but i just saw the last avenfers movie and lmfao it is so bad. the infinity stones are magic mcguffins that can perform any wish the owner can imagine, except it can't return two very specific people to life because the rest of the avengers just decide "nope it's impossible" but nobody even notices that the vision doesn't get brought back. also you have to sacrifice what you love most to get the soul stone which makes sense w/ thanos & gamorra but makes no sense for jeremy & widow b/c neither one of them love the other and in fact they're both enthusiastically suicidal soooo . . . ? oh an apparently the hulk can wish everyone back to life AND impart in them the knowledge of the last 5 years BUT he can't also throw in a rider to just nuke thanos where ever he currently is? and octogenarian cap at the end implies nothing in the main timeline changes despite the fact that now he obviously won't exist to be cap in the early 2000s While the movie is dumb a lot of those are kinda dumb points; kind of the point is Widow and Hawkeye DO love each other as comrades in arms and literally fight over who gets to be the sacrifice and all, and the Hulk didn't tell them what had happened in the last 5 years so much as the wizards probably filled them in on 'Hey, the war's over here now', and Cap p clearly sent himself back to about when he was originally frozen so there's two Caps in the timeline, same deal as the cap-on-cap violence earlier. The Infinity Stones are basically Dragon Balls for all intents and purposes
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I'm just gonna assume it has no dialogue and is just fett and baby yoda doing shenanigans, crimes and shenanigan crimes
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Dec 2, 2019 06:09
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Huh, the protag of Lone Wolf and Cub is actually kind of a bastard as well (I remember there's a bit where he watches his target rape a woman to death and doesn't intervene because it's not opportune) so maybe fitting.
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Dec 2, 2019 06:24
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I mean after the sequels have been a recycled-piss-drinking incoherent retelling of Star Wars being Star Wars it seems fitting to actually go to back to the well of cowboy and samurai stories I gotta admit I'm a sucker for retro sci-fi stuff like hand-loaded disintegrator rifles. It feels like forever since any new sci-fi has had a consistent visual theme and language for its technology; Star Trek was pretty good at it too, with distinct aesthetics for different cultures and factions.
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Rogue One is def a case where the first 2/3 of the movie was hacked to pieces in the cutting room and it's real lucky the finale is crazy good.BENGHAZI 2 posted:In general, just do other genre stuff in that setting! Branch out and do something that isn't A Star Wars in the same setting as star wars That's basically what Star Wars (and Star Trek for that matter) is for. Hell, most good sci-fi is basically riffs on other stuff but with aliens and robots. Originality is mashing random genre trappings together around a formula until you get something that looks new.
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Dec 2, 2019 09:14
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Should say something that the best part of Rogue One was when everyone died The best thing to come out of Disney buying Star Wars is still the first thing: the Phineas and Ferb crossover
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Dec 2, 2019 09:34
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The funny thing is how the death star plans were stolen has like a dozen mutually exclusive Expanded Universe takes It's the first mission of Dark Forces (Doom but Star Wars) iirc
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Dec 2, 2019 12:47
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Freaking Crumbum posted:the least plausible part of the entire movie, for me, was the last few minutes at the end where they're having tony's funeral and his 5 year old daughter is slightly glum but otherwise disinterested about the whole thing. i've seen kids have the ugliest meltdowns imaginable over "the milk in my cereal is too wet"; there's no way an actual child has to learn that one of their parents is dead and they just stoically accept the news Spider-man's actor iirc didn't know it was a funeral scene and thought it was a wedding
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Death of Superman is one of those comic things that's actually super mediocre even at the time and adaptations tend to be better by rightly cutting the incredible amounts of chaff. Was actually a theme in the 90s of 'Hero dies/gets taken out of action and replaced by a dark edgy antihero', even Wonder Woman had Artemis, and Knightfall ended up being a stealth pisstake of sorts, since Azrael is pretty unstable from the word go, though also interesting since he has his own thing going on as a mystical religious fanatic. While Reign of the Superman mixes things up with a bunch of different Supermen with different styles and motivations, including Steel who actually goes full on shining hero as much as he can.
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Dec 3, 2019 14:35
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lawl that the new hipster thing is to act like you're a downtrodden righteous minority for stanning a multibillion dollar utterly mainstream blockbuster franchise for supposed societal relevance in the face of films that openly tackle class struggle
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The sequels are bad in slightly different ways to the prequels
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Fandoms are the world class champions at completely missing the point of what they claim to be obsessed with
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:I recently bumble dicked my way into reading some of Alan Moore's earliest comics in 2000ad and it's really funny reading these short (but good) tales from the crypt rear end twist ending stories and going and in like six years he's writing watchmen Doesn't Watchmen have an episode of The Outer Limits in the background which is basically the same twist as the plot?
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Dec 12, 2019 12:10
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Now everybody's gonna be making GBS threads on Marvel movies!
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There was a whole thing with a character who has a show now that he wears a jetpack It's like people in the real world being surprised when soldiers are riding in helicopters
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Iron Man being the breakout Marvel superhero should have been a warning sign, since military-industrial complex apologia is literally what he was made for.
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Some Guy TT posted:did anyone in watchmen have an actual goal or was everybody just so hell bent on gaining godly powers they didnt even stop to ask why they wanted them This actually sounds like a pretty good premise for a comic book Supergod is basically 'Every nation on Earth tries to make their own Dr Manhattan, each goes catastrophically wrong in different ways'. It ain't great but it's interesting.
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i say swears online posted:it's probably symptomatic of a larger problem that theres been virtually zero media involving Afghanistan the last 18 years Weirdly enough the only thing I can think of is MGSV. And even that's a period piece.
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Peters middle name is also Benjamin, loser Spidey is our Spidey Peter B Parker was basically Ditko era Spidey; luckless, aloof and selfish. I watched a video that pointed out Spider-verse is basically the first time Miles Morales has gotten a significant personality and spotlight, since his original comics debut was kind of a mess and the MCU basically ripped everything original about his life for their version of Peter Parker, so Spider-verse had to play up different elements of the character to have him stand out from the various Peters. Having him be more creative and social than geeky Parker makes for a new perspective, as well as his family already being involved on both sides of the law and giving him an existing connection to the superhero/villain world.
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Just make Goku vs Superman already
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Stairmaster posted:dont do this it'd be really bad The last opponent of Dragon Ball Super was basically a Superman analogue and was pretty good, plus Dragon Ball is still secretly a gag manga with more than enough thematic flexibility. I suppose you just want to stop DC from loving it up too much.
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MonsieurChoc posted:When you think about it, Goku is just superman raised by a martial artists instead of american farmers. But also Homer Simpson.
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tlj really loving hates that you remember anything but also desperately wants to sell you poo poo based on nostalgia
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Everyone's forgotten the context star wars was made in to the point of all the guns being modded ww2 guns as props
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lol that disney managed to ruin star wars worse than lucas
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Star Wars is gonna make a shitton of money and be completely forgotten in a week while Cats is going to be a meme factory, I'd bet.
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