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Zack Snyder is one of the most interesting pop directors working today, and by reliable accounts a stand-up guy. I like his work and I'm looking forward to Rebel Moon. But I probably wouldn't be nearly so enthusiastic had I not seen so many demented haters over the years.
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Snyder is the blueprint.
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May 10, 2023 20:23
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Dracula is old, but newly come; he is powerful, but he cannot act without aid; he is not just wealthy but noble, with the arrogance that implies; he is above all foreign. That's why Dracula is Jor-El or Zod, and Superman is Alucard, still tied to the dark world of his birth although he is a mighty opponent to it. Batman is Van Helsing, the man with the plan, who has through extraordinary effort come to a deeper understanding of the scope of the evil he has taken it upon himself to battle. Meanwhile, that makes the Flash Simon Belmont: heir to a long and continuing legacy of utterly clowning on monsters.
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Jun 9, 2023 23:01
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Cyborg is Franken Berry because he was brought back with alchemy but isn't too pleased about it; The Flash is Boo Berry because of the "Barry" pun.
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Jun 9, 2023 23:10
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Aquaman is both Jonah and the Whale, and Wonder Woman is a gelatinous cube.
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Jun 9, 2023 23:11
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Latent within every adaptation is the possibility of a good result. In recent years, the neo studio system has grown rancid and onanistic, especially in the superhero genre, but the flip side of WB's chaotic response to its hosed up and probably terminal business situation is that they might surprise us.
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Jun 26, 2023 15:34
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The first thing to understand is that Jack Kirby hated nazis very much. The character of Darkseid embodies and revels in all evils, to a degree that even his most ardent followers (most of whom were nazi-like in one way or another) struggle to comprehend because it's mystical. But his most favorite kind of evil is for others to be subject to his will - in thought as well as deed. It pleases him to see people being evil, because he is evil, and that's his will manifesting in them; it pleases him to see people despairing, because he is despair; and so forth. So he seeks any means to expand his domination. His ultimate victory is identical to his discovery of "the Anti-Life Equation," which is a description of a means to obliterate free will. Subsequent authors have interpreted it as a mathematical proof of the futility of hope, or some such thing. In order to facilitate comic book adventures, it's described as a fact which can be discovered or deduced by observation, with clues that may be strewn across the universe. But that's interpreting it as a plot device, rather than as a symbol. Consider instead the end result: Anti-Life is the ultimate version of the process which turns free people into the enthusiastically obedient slaves of hateful tyrants, the perfected horror at the core of the waking nightmare of witnessing populations embrace dictators. It's fascism amplified to an absolute, divine degree.
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Jun 28, 2023 22:34
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Pop culture misremembers its own history as a matter of course. If you get baited into internet fights over it, where does it end?
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Jul 22, 2023 06:34
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Roth posted:It is so loving annoying trying to find his actual review to read because searching "Armond White Toy Story 3 review" brings up a billion articles about how Armond White ruined Toy Story 3's 100% rating That's because Rotten Tomatoes itself doesn't link to the actual review. The destination of the link appears to have been replaced with a redirect to an article about the article. However, the Wayback Machine has your back.
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Jul 23, 2023 08:58
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Toy Story is a series about religion. Woody is a priest, who must learn that he is called to rejoice not in the privileges of his position but in the service of his gods. He employs his esoteric knowledge of the human realm to navigate through various hells that imperil his body and his soul, and understand the meaning of the service that toys provide for children. By Toy Story 4, he embarks upon the path of the bodhisattva.
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Jul 23, 2023 09:03
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Kirk Drift is an article I find more relevant with each passing year. Pop culture actively misremembers itself as part of the process of redirecting ideas that are inconvenient to capitalism.
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Jul 30, 2023 02:40
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The cuts that made BvS theatrical were so deep they hit bone. They shortened or removed shots that establish details of setting and characterization, making the whole things a bit more of a puzzle than planned. The information is still there, of course, because the settings and characters are still there, but it has a disorienting and, yes, dreamlike effect on the end result. That effect is pretty interesting and unexpected in the absence of, or as a point of comparison to, the Ultimate cut, but I wouldn't recommend it over the longer version.
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Aug 1, 2023 16:25
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Both walking zombies and running zombies capture various aspects of the fear of one's fellow humans. Uniform hostility to outsiders, insensibility to harm, unsurpassable tenacity, the ability to make you conform against your will... there's a lot there.
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Aug 3, 2023 15:59
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Hobbit trilogy has good scenes that don't add up to good films.
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Aug 5, 2023 18:33
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"Don't quote me on that," said man quoted on that.
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Aug 25, 2023 13:47
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Call it "The Death of Superman"
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Sep 10, 2023 00:06
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Though comes to mind Ursula Le Guin's whole essay about how genre snobbery means that critics get some really stupid reads on media- like Harry Potter being thought of as original and groundbreaking when it really wasn't, and critics come off as incredibly juvenile and silly when they're surprised by what are standard genre tropes to people who actually read those books. It basically comes off as 'guy who's only seen Boss Baby'. Got a link to that essay?
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Sep 22, 2023 16:55
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Thanks.
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Sep 22, 2023 19:38
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Buttered toast is much better than Harry Potter, however.
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Sep 23, 2023 07:25
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"Destination Moon" also.
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Dec 9, 2023 07:16
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Seems like Rebel Moon is trying to do to Star Wars what Star Wars did to Flash Gordon. "Derivative" sounds like a good thing to me in that context.
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Dec 13, 2023 01:57
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popehunk, which is if Zack Snyder makes a movie about Catholic politics
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Dec 14, 2023 22:23
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I think about BvS theatrical for a simple example of that. In order to reduce the runtime, the cuts included basic structural things like establishing shots. The purpose of an establishing shot is to indicate that the following scene takes place in a different location than the preceding one, rather than a different-looking part of the same location. Without announcing that information, "where is this scene taking place?" becomes a sort of riddle. It's not a difficult riddle, especially for an attentive viewer, but there's no point in it being a riddle in the first place. It's just not an interesting question. So normally it's not even asked.
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Dec 21, 2023 22:49
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Split the difference: real sport with exactly the modern rules, but in a fantastical setting.
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Feb 13, 2024 03:48
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Snyder's Superman doesn't like that he killed that one guy, and Snyder's Batman is a villain who's gone to a very dark place. Seeing how the characters relate to those moral extremes is interesting.
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I'm simply a pervert, who finds it fun to defend art things that have become the target of a disproportionate hatedom.
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