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Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

gradenko_2000 posted:

https://twitter.com/startrekcbs/status/1216477275660488705

Setting aside Wil Wheaton getting completely owned on twitter and leaving and never coming back because of his ties to Chris Hardwick, what was the thing that set off this style of show where you have a show immediately after the show that just aired, just to "explain" it and talk about it?

Because it seems like the most braindead thing imaginable, next to the youtube videos that already do that for you.

They are super cheap to make. That's the reason.

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Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

T-man posted:

It's when you draw she-ra like a human instead of a blow up doll

It's when you draw she-ra as a baloon animal instead of a blow up doll.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

StashAugustine posted:

My favorite movie of his is In Bruges so I'm amused at the thought of him turning into Brendan Gleeson

More like Richard Kind, tbh.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

The biggest problem with DFW is that he's the poster boy for the "I can roll my eyes harder than you" method of literary ctiticism.

I've never read an internet argument about his work that got above the level of a string of people saying "GUH! c'mon you guys he suuuucks."

At this point you all might as well be arguing about marvel movies or star wars.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Wheeee posted:

i'm convinced that everything in star trek is actually quietly run behind the scenes by AI and that all the federation officers standing around consoles with colorful screens full of giant icons are just pressing buttons like the workers in idiocracy and that all their inane technobabble bullshit really is just bullshit and nobody knows what they're doing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0

So basically Banks's Culture novels?

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Hodgepodge posted:

the thick of it was pretty brutally honest about what was driving the blairites iirc

Armando Iannucci had a pretty clear vision of how the blairites work, but he still sided with them during the whole Jeremy Corbyn saga.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Some Guy TT posted:

who is the most unreadable classic author of the english canon joyce or pynchon

Joyce.

Except for his fart fetish letters.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

vyelkin posted:

he was elected president with a huge majority in 1848 but had to deal with a conservative parliament that stymied attempts at reform, and he was term-limited and couldn't run again so instead he staged a coup and declared himself emperor

You're trying to rehabilitate Louis Bonaparte in C-SPAM?

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Let's be honest - the people complaning would gently caress either of those rabbits given the chance.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

There are people who sit through entire movies instead of just reading the plot summary on wikipediea? What the actual gently caress?!?

Everyone knows the only thing worth investing your time in is reading the forums and charting how its membership dwindles down to a tiny group of twitchy old people with victorian levels of obsession over manners and sexual morality.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Grevling posted:

That's bullshit, I want Disney Ataturk.

Maybe not a Disney one, but an Ataturk biopic could be pretty interesting.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

indigi posted:

I am not gay. what the gently caress. what is this

Sorry chief, you're gay. If it were just summer baby then maybe it could be wrong, but molly too?

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

i say swears online posted:

rip pennsylvania



Pittsburgh and Phlly are in the right places. Both of their accents sound like somone trying to make fun of the other city's accent.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

insane clown pussy posted:

it's pretty cool that joyless evangelical psychos have latched onto trauma discourse

Getting increasingly upset about sex in movies is almost universal in the US.

For some reason, spending their entire youth being told that sex is evil and inevitably leads to hell, incurable diseases, and rape has left the last couple of generations a little prudish.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:

No actually zoomers are scary. Up until this exactly moment in time the USA was normal about sex

Oh, it's far from just zoomers doing this.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

MeatwadIsGod posted:

Haven't people already come around on Showgirls? Anyway it owns and is unironically good

I was in college when Showgirls came out and one of the edgier campus clubs put on a showing of it.

The showing was packed with horny students looking for porn and angry activists looking for something to yell at. I don't think either group left feeling like they got exactly what they wanted.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

YaketySass posted:

Halfway through the movie they get turned to paste in an instant and the remaining runtime is dedicated to talking heads saying there's still hope.

That's not a terrible idea - why haven't we had a modern remake of Ace in the Hole. It's not like the media has gotten any better since the 50s?

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

galagazombie posted:

What are they even trying to do with this terrible Harley Quinn redesign (yes I’m aware it’s like 10 years old now). Her costume was perfect! Her name is harlequin so she dressed as a jester. And it was y’know, a costume. And It had that cool alternating red/black thing.
Now she’s just “Woman holding baseball bat”. She’s supposed to be a jester themed supervillain, it’s literally her name. She doesn’t even wear a costume it’s just shorts and a tank top! What do baseball bats even have to do with clowns?

Punk manic pixie dream girl tests as more fuckable than lady jester, I guess.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

indigi posted:

the fact that Loki who tried to genocide not only Earth but Asgard as well is just fully presented as a good guy now is kinda insane. like they had a few lines of dialogue reference it in the Loki show but then everyone just moved on, like he didn’t kill tens of thousands of humans, several gods, and willingly give Thanos the first piece of the weapon he would use to kill half of everyone

Wandavision did a version of this too. The message seems to be that what you did is unimportant so long as you feel bad. Not even bad about what you did - just bad about something.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Pepe Silvia Browne posted:

is he cleaning his patio to put a drumkit out there for a party??

I haven't heard or thought anything about Todd Glass in at least four years and that is the very first thing my mind went to when I read his name.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

BUUNNI posted:

Did they make the blonde one teh leader of the group

I want the first hour of the movie to be the three women doing a detailed analysis of their ethnicities and personal lives to determine who is the most marginalized and therefore gets precidence in the progressive stack.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Xaris posted:

it's fine, certainly influential, but i also think largely tainted by nostalgia of seeing it as a child. i personally don't care that much for the aykroyd/murray. it has some good bits though and big cultural cachet

it wouldn't land in my top 25, but probably somewhere in a top 100 list

i also don't really care that much for Back To The Future either, it's.. ok, not bad, better thjan most 2010s+ movies, but its another one I think is overrated by nostalgia

You know what movie really sufferes from the "liked it as a kid" effect? Spaceballs.

It's almost unwatchable if you're an adult but everyone I know who saw it when they were 12 can quote half the movie.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

McCloud posted:

What else was there to the squid show except the anti-capitalist allegory?

Physical and psychological torture.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Grapplejack posted:

Do they do a dramatic pan down to show the letter where he tells his wife not to bathe for a week before he gets home

No, but it would not have been out of place.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

loquacius posted:

I'm not reading the spoiler, but, it's like, the lesson Mizu needs to learn is that it's ok to be (part) white, but I dunno how I feel about watching a show whose theme is that it's ok to be white

e: and also it's not like an actual IRL mixed-race couple is gonna make a show that implies that making a child mixed-race is a cruel thing to do to them, so Mizu is probably inevitably going to learn that lesson. I guess I'll just have to see how they handle it. The show has certainly grabbed my attention

Congratulations on finding a show that satisifies your need for promoting racial purity but not, you know, not tooooo much.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

So everyone was ready to pitch in on Blue Eye Samurai's position on RAHOWA, but not one of you could take the time to prepare me for Kenneth Brannagh's perfect Brian Cox impression.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

I liked the 18th Brumaire scene but Napoleon did get to be a slog once you get done admiring the costumes.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Uncle Boogeyman posted:

i watched a few episodes of Scavenger's Reign and it was pretty cool but would be 1000x better with no dialogue.

I've developed a real hatred for scripts that sound like they were written to narrate the action to people listening in while reading something else on another screen. Scavenger's didn't trigger that, so I rate its dialog content as "fine."

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Nichael posted:

https://x.com/DEADLINE/status/1731473892148175182?s=20
i can't believe there's one less bob burger in this world

At least we still have Rick and Morty and Star Trek Rick and Morty.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Grimnarsson posted:

Like how that call of duty game presented the Highway of Death as having been done by the bad guys, so does For All Mankind present an engineering error due to different measurement standard resulting in disaster having been a communist error because of their lovely society. While in real life that's why a NASA shuttle blew up! Spoilers! It's a pretty good show though!

That was the Mars Climate Orbiter that crashed due to mismatched units.

The destroyed space shuttles were from launching during cold weather and from ignoring an ice strike on the leading edge of the orbiter's wing during launch.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

How is Tar on that list? It came out in 22.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Wraith of J.O.I. posted:

prob 2022 in the uk

Oh yeah - I've seen these Sight and Sound lists before, but I never noticed that they were put out by a magazine published by the BFI.

Weembles has issued a correction as of 00:00 on Dec 9, 2023

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

veepfake posted:

yes the beatles were famously all about dominating other cultures and making fools of them

Cultural race mixing is a class 1b Problematic.

Please refer to your genetic passport to determine if you are allowed to be friends with Ravi Shankar.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

ArmedZombie posted:

it's OK to mix cultures but not to steal them

As if there was a difference between the two besides "when I do it" vs "when you do it".

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

ArmedZombie posted:

there's a difference but you're just too dumb to understand it.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/beatles-5-boldest-rip-offs-54145/

Sorry, no time to read. Too busy stealing culture.

Where will I put it all!

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Trabisnikof posted:

please tell us more about how the Beatles stole the culture of Humphrey Lyttelton

Ringo is on record as claiming to have invented Mornington Cresent.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Poor Things was the better girlboss movie this year by a mile.

But it had sex in it, so millennials will never admit to watching it.

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

In Training posted:

Remember 2018's Oscar Winning Best Film Green Book. Lol

The end credits song was pretty good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_96bgvIDlM

Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

Xaris posted:

poor things was the movie ive seen in years

then again im pretty down on most 2023 as a whole on movies, i think it was a weak year but that's just me

Poor Things had a lot of issues, but let's compare GB levels:

Baribe:

She gets a vagina.

Poor Things:

She destroys everyone who opposes her and makes those who don't her concubines or servants. She might have well ended the film sitting on a throne of skulls.

Also, I liked Poor Things' production design.

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Weembles
Apr 19, 2004

A Buttery Pastry posted:

no evidence they didn't gently caress other non-elf people

There are enough half-elven characters in the mythos that you kinda have to assume that they did screw around.

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