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Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Leon Trotsky 2012 posted:

His point is that the bad guys killed billions of people in Star Wars and nobody got upset, so it is hypocritical to get mad that he decided the good guys should kill a few thousand people in his movie.

It is a bad point, but that is his point.

Superman only kills one person

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Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Slugworth posted:

I saw Worlds End with a friend of mine who is essentially Sean Pegg's character, and my hand to God, he showed up to the theater in a Sisters Of Mercy shirt. It really made the whole experience so much better.

A very serious alcoholic friend of mine was begging my group of friends to sit down and watch this and when we finally did it was just a really uncomfortable like hour and a half of "hes literally gary king" looks being shared amongst everyone. Im half convinced it was a cry for help.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Man sucks about his daughter but at least my movies are gonna be good now!!!!

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


New Trailer:



Old Trailer:




Digging the old look better. Wonder Woman stands out way more for me after she takes out the 2 parademons. The new look just feels like a mess to look at.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Man that clip is really upsetting.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


viral spiral posted:

If Zack Snyder isn't fired from DC after this inevitable disaster JL drops then just lol

Are you for real lol

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


John Brown posted:

Why can’t you guys just be excited about a film we’ve waited a decade for?

because it looks like poo poo.

Someone on my feed posted this shot talking about how excited the trailer made him and im having trouble seeing what exactly im supposed to be excited about here:



Bunch of peoples running in a CGI jungle. Cool???? It's only now that im noticing falcon is even there because in the trailer he just blends into the background and War Machine nearly gets lost in all that poo poo too. It looks really bad.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


CelticPredator posted:

Seeing Cap, Bucky and hulk with Black Panther going to battle together is neat.

That's the part that gets people jazzed about the MCU. It's always been that way.

Thats no excuse for it looking like poo poo.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Rough Lobster posted:

Yes, this is very cool.

Infinity War trailer is dope and I'm appreciative that for now at least they're holding back a bit.


also: it's incredibly obvious that Thanos is rolling casually and will dramatically armor up when poo poo gets serious. Like, super obvious people. What's the complaint? They're not showing you everything up front?

Can you tell me what’s cool about it without using the reason “they’re all on the screen at the same time.”?

Genuinely curious.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


So it’s cool because it’s bad.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


teagone posted:

For me it's the escalation and build up of the films leading up to this point. It's a decades worth of loosely interconnected comic book movies converging into a single film. I think that's pretty cool. If only all post Captain America 1 MCU films didn't look bland as gently caress visually, I'd be way more excited. Infinity War will probably be like other post phase 1 MCU films: generic but enjoyable entertainment.

That’s just in the same realm of “they’re all on the same screen at once.” I understand being excited about the idea of that but that shot in particular (and most of the trailer tbh) looks like dogshit. So I’m genuinely looking for any reason why that shot is cool or good that isn’t just “we’ve been marketing this to you for ten years now”.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Zzulu posted:

I hope the CGI character murders everyone and then has a 55 minute long sex scene with the personification of Death

That's what im looking for when I want a cool scene.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


bushisms.txt posted:

I need a some kind of primer on what bad is on the internet, because I've seen that movie many times, and the editing has never been an issue. It's fantastic in many cases. The action choreography in the first half of the movie is the worst from Snyder, but that's with in the scene itself and isn't presented badly other than the need to do a one take. The end is cgi standard fair, but even then it's still directed competently and with intent beyond justslamming things together.

The movie is not at all hard to follow it's just a lot of criticism of it has basically become a meme at this point. I literally had someone link me the "Man of Steel...but in color" video once and when I explained to them that the creators purposefully made the actual movie darker they just hit me with the "Yeah but its still dark!!!". A friend of mine who liked the movie even linked me that video once because the poo poo is so prevalent that he got tricked into remembering the movie being darker than it was.

Same goes for that video where the guy says BvS "has no establishing shots". People who already didn't like the movie love to regurgitate poo poo like that like it's some sort of cutting edge criticism and have no idea that dude has no idea what he's talking about.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Yeah I didn't see your post before I made mine and wanted to say I wasn't referring to you in particular haha.

That's totally fair. I was mostly trying to touch on how I've seen it on facebook and elsewhere. The editing thing is the biggest culprit because I feel like a big talking point before the movie came out was that it made no sense and people went into the movie already deciding it didn't.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


The only MRA outrage I recall about Wonder Woman was a bunch of them freaking out that a theater was doing a women-only screening for the movie.

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


It's not really any kind of direct reference. The similarities begin and end at "Girl experimented on by government has psychic powers."

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Halloween Jack posted:

Which is enough of a subsubsubgenre in itself that Nickelodeon did it in the 90s.

You just reminded me of one of my favorite clips which is Alex Mack being defeated by a vacuum cleaner.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8W_gfpkbgtQ&t=91s

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


Al Borland Corp. posted:

People seem to have the belief that he's a republican because of an offhand joke he made over a decade ago


Rough Lobster posted:

How can you possibly put Charles Barkley in the same category as Stacey Dash, you loon?







:whitewater:

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Barkley#Politics

I'll quote it for ya

quote:

Commenting on the Ferguson unrest, Barkley called the Ferguson looters "scumbags", praised the police officers who work in black neighborhoods, and said that he supports the decision made by the grand jury not to indict officer Darren Wilson in the Michael Brown shooting.[86] Previously, in 2013, Barkley expressed his agreement with the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin shooting.[86]

In 2014, when Barkley was asked about the rumor that Seattle Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was being accused for not being "black enough" on the radio show Afternoons with Anthony and Rob Ellis, he said:

Unfortunately, as I tell my white friends, we as black people, we're never going to be successful, not because of you white people, but because of other black people. When you're black, you have to deal with so much crap in your life from other black people. It's a dirty, dark secret; I'm glad it's coming out. One of the reasons we're never going to be successful as a whole, because of other black people. And for some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you're not a thug or an idiot, you're not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don't break the law, you're not a good black person. And it's a dirty, dark secret. There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don't have success. It's best to knock a successful black person down because they're intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they're successful... We're the only ethnic group who say, 'Hey, if you go to jail, it gives you street cred.' It's just typical BS that goes on when you're black, man.[87]

Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


The Cameo posted:

I thought the story of Charles Barkley that he wasn't very political all the way through his college career - like paid absolutely zero attention to it - and when he got to the NBA, his agent was like "register to vote, it's an election year and you'll get asked about it and you don't want people reporting you're not even registered". Barkley asked what he should register as, his agent told him "Republican, they work towards you keeping your money", and so he did.

Later he researched what else the Republican platform was, discovered how badly it hosed over poor people and black people, and has strived to push back against conservatism ever since.

That’s a story that may have been true at some point but he’s clearly internalized the really racist aspects of his party. A lot of his opinions about black people are about how they need to get their poo poo together and be “more white”.

As a latinx person I see that poo poo all the time with republican latinx people who think immigrants need to get their poo poo together and do immigration the “right way”.

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Ghosthotel
Dec 27, 2008


I should've known what to expect but was still amused to see that the every cover for that series is as pornographic as you can get without having to hide it in the back of the shop.

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