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Xaris posted:we were doing a ghibli kick the past couple of months. it was pretty good though certainly their 2005+ movies haven't been nearly as good. i mean, ponyo specifically is a weird one since it is clearly made for the very young (without pixar wink-at-the-adult nonsense), so it is hard to judge as an adult.
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infernal machines posted:it's not bad, it's just not very good either. the writing is flat and there aren't that many laugh out loud jokes i really like it, but i want to toss another complaint on the pile: the incidental music is full of weird choices. like setting action sequences to kind of meandering medieval percussion-less strings. still, looking forward to more episodes.
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Schadenboner posted:Finished The Sad-Brained Horse Show. the entire point of the final episode is that the second-to-final is an incredibly dumb trope where bojack has his bad actions catch up with him, and the audience has the relief of feeling sympathy with him because it is safe and allowed now that his comeuppance had arrived. this is entirely contrary to the theme of the show however, where bojack is an incredibly real hollywood monster who will never face permanent consequences and who will continue to inflict suffering on himself and everyone else forever. the final episode is vital. e: should spoiler that a bit i guess. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Oct 13, 2020 |
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every era of people thought they had a grasp of the direction of the world and the future of technology, and every previous era they were incredibly wrong in everything substantial. we're right now though, for sure, the matrix it is. for some reason.
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TOOT BOOT posted:The decline of community institutions would probably shock many people. and might have shocked all of us every day if we were able to reflect on such things while fully immersed in them.
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Schadenboner posted:On a forward-going basis please consider the use of the word "Suffragist" rather than "Suffragette" as this was an intentionally diminutive/pejorative term coined by the opponents of universal enfranchisement? suffragette was the adopted term in britain (they liked to write it suffraGETte, for getting the vote), and this being about egypt in 1912 it is presumably a british perspective. the primary reason the us movement avoided the term was that the self-proclaimed suffragettes were pretty militant, setting bombs, doing petty vandalism, and spitting at the police. the us suffragists meanwhile went the honest-debate route and tried to not associate themselves with the rowdier side. in short the suffragettes were cooler.
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well this sure sounds like a really funny movie.
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the main point of happy gilmore is that golf is a dumb and bad sport e: if you make a movie about high-level chess though you absolutely should also spend a good fraction of the runtime making sure the audience know how stupidly important and monumentally boring opening theory is.
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Nov 16, 2020 13:44
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indigi posted:I can’t stop thinking about a Verhoeven Ready Player One yeah, this is an absolutely delightful thought. heinleins starship troopers is similar to ready player one in how it how it idealizes a real dumbshit idea about human achievement in a thin sci-fi wrapper, and the same kind of treatment would go a long way.
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not bothered watching any batman movies since the heath ledger joker one, as it pretty perfectly captured the idea of two mentally ill people extra-legally warring with each other. no idea how many of the good themes in that movie were intended, but they all worked really well regardless.
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Nov 28, 2020 00:09
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Schadenboner posted:I know this is some "Don't wake alcoholic daddy" poo poo but animutalkin is what got the last thread killed off. please don't pretend that you care about posting quality or what mods want out of posting.
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mediaphage posted:lmao there’s a matrix four?? what?? kind of looking forward to it, the trilogy gets too much poo poo by far, and while they only have one wachowski sister that is enough to make me cautiously optimistic.
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Sweevo posted:canonically every single event in the galaxy is related somehow to the skywalker clan, and the only delivery driver anyone knows of is han solo actual world building on a galactic scale is mostly nonsense, and the canon parts of star wars have largely never bothered.
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Jonny 290 posted:how is "you have to show feet and probably let me suck on them, on film, if you want this role" different from "you have to have sex with me if you want this role" filmmakers strong-arming women into scenes which sexualize them for the titillation of the audience and director certainly is a disturbing development.
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indigi posted:what exactly do you think your point is here that the movie industry is godawful and being outraged at quentin tarantino is missing the forest for the trees.
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PCjr sidecar posted:it turns out the Disney machine is very good at extracting Content from IP but not great at generating new IP mostly just good at the kind of nostalgia/fandom/recapturing media from ones youth thing. making money on new ip is a risky short-term thing, which they only do to the extent they do to have it eventually transform into nostalgic ip.
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Dec 27, 2020 19:27
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colour of magic is easily the worst discworld book as well, so it is just a poor choice. all the components of the style is there, but it hasn't found its form yet.
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Jan 3, 2021 16:39
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oh yeah, sourcery is a good place to start if one likes wizards but want to skip the awkward first ones. absolutely nothing is lost doing so either, one can come back to the first two down the line if one wants.
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if the review is right it does sound like disenchantment part 3 is doubling down on the wrong bit (large-scale storylines) yeah, i quite liked it, but mostly for the smaller stuff in dreamland (e.g. drunken escapades).
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Jan 13, 2021 11:45
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ghostbusters and robocop remakes were both incredibly dumb because they remade movies which were both built on extremely weak/derivative central ideas, but were by absolute genius or unlikely accident made into fantastic films. pretty much reused the worst aspect of the originals.
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haveblue posted:matrix 1: "the main character has become an invincible god" this is like the best bit of how the trilogy continued. he becomes unimaginably powerful but it turns out to be in a context fully created and controlled by the opposition. making it not quite worthless, but kind of inconsequential since your actual goal involves dissolving that power structure.
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psycho goreman was a lot of fun in the right state of mind. not least is has exactly the right kind of bad acting (including from the kids) that is called for in this kind of movie.
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indigi posted:nothing anyone has posted about psycho goreman makes it sound worth watching. so far all I know about it is that there’s bad acting, random body horror, a dumb story, bad effects, and child actors (who virtually always suck). and i'd say that is fair. if you're looking to watch a good movie, this is not the one (though i honestly think you can scratch the "body horror", slotting in bad effects instead). but i still very much appreciate it. Cybernetic Vermin fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Jan 23, 2021 |
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the thing to understand about movies is that the most good one has already been made, in james camerons avatar. but as we, as a population, have rejected that truth we now need to dredge the realms of bad movies for a new path to follow. also good schlock is hard to come by in 2021. in 2002 i paid $5 for a ticket that let me see then-pretty-new movies ichi the killer, tattoo (a german movie about a serial killer skinning people for their tattoos made by famous artists), and battle royale in one night. those kinds of offers are now pretty rare (and only partially because corona means cinemas don't exist).
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i suspect the reviewers disliking disenchantment part 3 just liked part 2 more than i did. again a bunch of story beats that go nowhere, but, idk, it was pretty fun.
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i certainly won't argue that too much, but i largely enjoyed it. if anything think they did a better job of making loose episodes vaguely guided by a story this season. they need to stop doing the futurama thing where they have a bunch of secret plot points that they refuse to have play out before cancellation though, all the major story moments just pass by without resolving or clarifying anything.
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indigi posted:Patty Jenkins cannot direct action to save her life and fares only marginally better with acting, her Star Wars movie will be bad oh no, not a star wars movie with bad action scenes and dubious acting
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Feb 5, 2021 22:28
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Powerful Two-Hander posted:I think the basic problem with star wars is that the core plot of "jedi good, sith bad" is functionally identical to "rebels good, empire bad" and neither is ever advanced beyond the superficial level. fully sufficient for a trilogy of light action sci-fi movies.
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mystes posted:Same but the new star wars movies. same but the old star wars movies.
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SmokaDustbowl posted:evil dead 2 is the best shrooms movie seems like cheating to make the best movie the best shrooms movie
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The Fool posted:trailer is tonally consistent with the last 3 games all true. adds up really cheesy anyway of course, just without insulting the audience by looking into the camera and winking about it.
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yeah, but it wasn't 11:30am anywhere in the world when the post was made. a bit fail really. actually, now that we all tell time using devices with gps functionality we should abolish time zones and make the time shift continuous along longitude change.
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rjmccall posted:their complaint is that a bunch of professional soldiers who’ve showered together hundreds of times aren’t constantly playing slap-as this is a dumb surface level take which the article is already taken as a given is understood. the movie is obviously commenting on precisely this, where the service is by the fascistic society is used to replace and redirect natural drives. the point of the article is that this kind of commentary is no longer done.
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man, starship troopers is such a good movie.
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haveblue posted:this part isn't really a spoiler any more: most of the show is structured as a series of sitcom parodies, starting at the very beginning with an I love lucy/dick van dyke episode and later doing bewitched, brady bunch, malcolm in the middle, etc. the A-plots are standard sitcom stuff but with tinges of weirdness that slowly break apart the world this all sounds like it'd be real good if it wasn't dumb superhero poo poo.
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yeah, almost certainly. might be real funny viewed through the correct lens of time, but that is hard to do if it surfaces now.
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NevergirlsOFFICIAL posted:I just wanna say I’m glad echinopsis is banned gonna say that i disagree, but i suspect i am dumb to expect him to just loving shape up on the obviously stupid bits he was on about.
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Endless Mike posted:i don't see the problem, it's exactly as dull as tolkein's writing the hobbit and farmer giles are good, and deserve lovingly illustrated covers  
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Jonny 290 posted:i know. i saw it in the theater. should have paid attention in the theatre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQCWV4vuzGo
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was going to say, attempting to be true to the source material is an obvious mistake for making a superman film. or comic for that matter.
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