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Why the gently caress did my parents insist I try when I coulda failured my way to riches?
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Bar Crow posted:White supremacy is the foundation of capitalism. *Karl Marx Frowning.jpg*
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:*Karl Marx Frowning.jpg* Ok, let’s just say disrupting class solidarity so only the bourgeoisie can benefit from it is a structural requirement. White supremacy, with its ever shifting definition of white, is the tool used by the current order and its logic is inescapable within that framework.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:55
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Bar Crow posted:Ok, let’s just say disrupting class solidarity so only the bourgeoisie can benefit from it is a structural requirement. White supremacy, with its ever shifting definition of white, is the tool used by the current order and its logic is inescapable within that framework. *Karl Marx Thumbs Up.png*
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Mar 28, 2024 17:56
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Turning a big dial that says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at Karl Marx for approval like a contestant on The Price is Right.
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Mar 28, 2024 18:52
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Found a much better quality version of the track: https://soundcloud.com/drafthousefilms/against-the-ninja
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Mar 28, 2024 20:19
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Oh my god https://twitter.com/tdcpresents/status/1773160918475555173?s=20
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Mar 29, 2024 00:29
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The fight sequences are causing huge Nick Arcade memories to resurface.
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Mar 29, 2024 01:22
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I watched it a few weeks ago and it’s easily his worst film. It’s almost impressive watching a filmmaker get progressively worse with each movie. I would even hazard to say that it’s almost not even worth watching in a so-bad-it’s-good way. The static camera and constant green screen make watching it a real loving chore.
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Mar 29, 2024 01:42
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FlamingLiberal posted:It looks like a nightmare And they didn’t even include the scene where one Breen twin is begging the other Breen twin to kill him with a foam sword for having ravioli stuck to his face https://youtu.be/26NhfP4K3z8?si=fx0FtP058JLObqxG or his tiger fight https://youtu.be/3ZOh1WPP93I?si=4n2ziv9KDDTRtqkF or his version of the black lodge dance https://youtu.be/UEQ9eivETrI?si=PMcFBc8j9qv-Kahi
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Mar 29, 2024 02:21
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My favorite scene was when there were people trapped in a car, pounding on the windows to get out. Except the windows were rolled down and they were just miming hitting them.
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Mar 29, 2024 02:35
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I like how Neil tried really hard to make “We need to make this an even fight!” his catchphrase by using it in every fight scene.
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Mar 29, 2024 02:43
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I just don’t understand how someone so weird can handle the day to day of surviving. His work is weird and interesting but I don’t see how he interacts with humans.
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Mar 29, 2024 05:39
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i saw a street babbler once buy food from a grocery store you know how they did it? shutting up momentarily
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Mar 29, 2024 05:46
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Mar 29, 2024 06:20
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duz posted:My favorite scene was when there were people trapped in a car, pounding on the windows to get out. Except the windows were rolled down and they were just miming hitting them. Is that in Cade? Because there's almost the same scene(s) in Pass Thru, where alternately male and female immigrants are screaming and protesting as they're being locked into a truck by an actor who's taking his sweet time actually closing the door.
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Mar 29, 2024 12:45
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Reading the plot of that Breen movie makes me worried that he’s gotten into QAnon lore. That could be a dangerously potent mix.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:35
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It's not just the backgrounds, the sound design, it really does feel like you're playing like Juggernaut or one of those other style adventure games, almost Kowloon's Gate level energy at points. It's not just all stock photos though, he uses some footage as well similar to the looping FMV background elements in some of those games like Fear Effect. The sound mix in this movie is completely loving insane though. Like between the at times very low quality audio, the freeze framed people imposed on footage while other characters are walking around and talking, the often decrepit setting, the droning ominous music loops and the repeated scream that's played any time a particular character grabs someone, almost more than how it looks this is what really puts it into curses 90s adventure game territory for me. Especially the sound/visual of when he does more intense stuff with his powers where it's just a freeze frame of his face with like a vaguely hell background as one of his eyes slowly starts glowing and stuff. There's this one shot where it's like a pan from left to right across flat static silhouettes of business people in a boardroom and then when it stops the principle character walk out of two of the silhouettes that's legit good and surprising coming from Breen. Every other shot and action in the movie is brainbustingly hilarious in its own way.
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Mar 29, 2024 14:42
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So what we have here is someone who looked at Tommy Wiseau and thought "That could be me!" Fake edit: looked at some of his other stuff on YouTube and it's all on the level of Doom House. I half expected Lowtax to cameo.
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Mar 29, 2024 15:08
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Small Strange Bird posted:So what we have here is someone who looked at Tommy Wiseau and thought "That could be me!" Something I actually really love about his movies is that he's done six flicks now: Double Down I Am Here.... Now Fateful Findings Pass Thru Twisted Pair Cade: The Tortured Crossing If you watch them in order, it's fascinating because the budget is clearly lower or/and the movie is more cheaply made each time from Fateful Findings on.
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Mar 29, 2024 15:51
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Neo Rasa posted:Something I actually really love about his movies is that he's done six flicks now: - Double Down is cheap and lovely and uses a ton of stock footage, but it’s honestly close to being kind of a real movie. He’s actually filming outside in real locations and there’s an attempt at ”ACTIIIING!” - I am Here…. Now I remember being kinda bland for Neil, and he basically remade the messianic alien chunks of it in Pass Thru. He’s almost effectively scrubbed this one from the internet for some reason. - Fateful Findings is genuinely interesting to watch, like if David Lynch had no budget and an undiagnosed concussion. - Pass Thru is the beginning of Neil’s downfall. He’s still filming in real locations but he also definitely want you to know he bought a drone and started experimenting with the green-screen backgrounds and it ends with a genuinely horrifying libertarian rant about “cleansing the earth” of basically every profession and institution that ever wronged - Twisted Pair and Cade are just godawful because of his reliance on green-screen and still frames for scenes and effects. He’s become convinced he can do anything with them and they have literally never been done well in any of his movies. I think he’s saying something about AI and the medical industry in these but the plots are so incoherent and threadbare, even by his standards, that you’re left with 90-100 minutes of something that looks like a Tim & Eric skit earnestly played deadly serious without jokes.
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I'm not even sure if he's running out of money, it almost comes across like he discovered some neat new trick that he thinks is gonna revolutionize the industry. "This Shutterstock site is amazing, I can make anything with this now!"
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Mar 29, 2024 16:23
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He has George Lucas Syndrome but the tech is all obsolete garbage
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Neo Rasa posted:Something I actually really love about his movies is that he's done six flicks now: Some of my fav clips a surprising number of them are nominally about suicides https://youtu.be/dOV3xTJ9UgE?si=mJQ1CNHJ7j0Dw46C https://youtu.be/Gz1xPx_K6Do?si=5cU9WMvfljpamK_- https://youtu.be/rEVW4AY4nJI?si=-KOZIRkDdZkjDzfu https://youtu.be/dKohD_RLnFw?si=68QNHCzCKhiILDDD
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Big Mean Jerk posted:- Double Down is cheap and lovely and uses a ton of stock footage, but it’s honestly close to being kind of a real movie. He’s actually filming outside in real locations and there’s an attempt at ”ACTIIIING!” Cade definitely has intentionally mean to be funny bits like when he gets hit by the (stock footage imposed) car early on and "drat! I better use my powers to turn this into a fair fight!" and all the Double Down "homage" in it lol Pass Thru is definitely my least favorite movie of his, I'd say it's less the beginning of his downfall and just by far his worst movie. I always felt like Fateful Findings was the closest one to being a real movie just because Double Down has those massive stretches of nothing and also the extensive scenes of him running around/gingerly navigating the rocky terrain. Did he ever give a reason for why I Am Here.... Now is somehow not worthy to be seen anymore or/and why he can't release it? Cade does have one shot where it's like a pan from left to right across flat static silhouettes of business people in a boardroom and then when it stops the principle character walk out of two of the silhouettes that combined with the sound is legit good and surprising coming from Breen. Every other shot and action in the movie is brainbustingly hilarious in its own way though.
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MechanicalTomPetty posted:I'm not even sure if he's running out of money, it almost comes across like he discovered some neat new trick that he thinks is gonna revolutionize the industry. "This Shutterstock site is amazing, I can make anything with this now!" Legit surprised he hasn't gotten into AI yet.
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He already uses AI because he thinks he’s an AI
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Neo Rasa posted:Did he ever give a reason for why I Am Here.... Now is somehow not worthy to be seen anymore or/and why he can't release it? Not to my knowledge. I just know that he’s always gone out of his way to issue takedowns of clips from that movie in particular. And if you try to navigate his arcane method of ordering a DVD-R directly from him and select IAHN, he always says he isn’t distributing it anymore. Could just be some kind of rights issue from his “guerilla filmmaking” around Vegas or some piece of stock footage. I doubt he’s self-aware enough to be particularly embarrassed about that one.
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Small Strange Bird posted:So what we have here is someone who looked at Tommy Wiseau and thought "That could be me!" Honestly, much as I sincerely love The Room, I have a lot more respect for Breen as a filmmaker (which is an insane thing to write on multiple levels) because while I think The Room did come from a very genuine place, within a few years Tommy abandoned all aspects of genuineness in favor of chasing the deliberately "so-bad-it's-good" dragon and diving headlong into his performative weird persona in the midnight circuit. Just compare The Neighbors to The Room and you'll see what I mean. Breen meanwhile has just kept chugging along, making things that clearly make sense to him and reflects things that he is passionate about, however inscrutable those might be to actual humans. That being said, I haven't seen Big Shark yet, and I am curious how Tommy's return to movie-making goes, especially since it seems like it's his take on Birdemic/Asylum movies. Tommy trying to do a genuine parody of other actually bad movies might have a spark to it.
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Young Freud posted:Legit surprised he hasn't gotten into AI yet. Neil does seem slow to catch up with actual modern technology. I wonder if him using machine learning tools would ruin everything he touches, or become the first valid use of the tool.
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Young Freud posted:Legit surprised he hasn't gotten into AI yet. If he ever chooses to I'm giving him a pass on it. I have decided Breen can be trusted with the technology.
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This is a man who had his very first movie hero character threaten to literally poison the water supply of a city, you should not give him a pass on anything
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FlamingLiberal posted:It's also the fact that you had a lot of auteur directors in the 1970s, and there were a bunch of films made during that period that went way over budget or were just total production fiascos. This drove the execs insane. By like the 1990s, a lot of those directors got shuffled away from bigger projects and to smaller ones where it didn't matter as much if they made a mess. Now, studios/execs want as much cost-certainty as possible and have taken a lot of the control away from directors. Marvel in particular has done a lot of this, where they are just bringing in a lot of cheaper directors but the studio itself has already done a lot of the work even before the directors are hired. Speaking of Auteur directors and troubled productions. The movie Francis Ford Coppola sold a huge chunk of his wine empire to make has had it's first screenings. https://twitter.com/nick_field90/status/1773548658157306342
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Big Mean Jerk posted:This is a man who had his very first movie hero character threaten to literally poison the water supply of a city, you should not give him a pass on anything It's okay when he does it.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Speaking of Auteur directors and troubled productions. The movie Francis Ford Coppola sold a huge chunk of his wine empire to make has had it's first screenings. drat, pretty hyped for this now
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Apparently it was a very set heavy production that made extensive use of LED screen backdrops, so it seems like we're getting the highly stylised every-image-micromanaged-to-the-nth-degree Copolla of One From the Heart and Dracula. I can't wait.
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High Warlord Zog posted:Apparently it was a very set heavy production that made extensive use of LED screen backdrops, so it seems like we're getting the highly stylised every-image-micromanaged-to-the-nth-degree Copolla of One From the Heart and Dracula. I can't wait. One From The Heart is insane and dumb but I have to say it looks extremely cool so yeah more of that mad semi-genius please
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