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Slugworth posted:I was going through a break up with a girl that looked remarkably similar to Rosario Dawson when Clerks 2 came out. I remember the movie depressing the poo poo out of me, and thinking 'Why the gently caress is she with Dante? He's horrible, he doesn't deserve her!' throughout the whole movie. Like, the unlikeliness of their relationship really bothered me. I dunno, the guy who plays Dante (I'm trying to remember what his name is) is a decent-looking dude and the movie's about him getting his poo poo together. I'm not gonna defend Clerks 2 too hard, but I feel like the people who see it as a movie about deliberately not growing up are misreading it. The point is that, while Dante's current situation at Mooby's blows, "traditional" success doesn't really interest him at all; by buying out and reopening the Quik-Stop and RST Video at the end, he's made himself successful on his own terms, doing something he generally likes with people he likes instead of sacrificing his well-being for people who couldn't give less of a poo poo about him. He has, in other words, seized the means of production. Jay and Silent Bob funding it is a bit of a deus-ex-machina, but given that it's a callback to ... Strike Back, I'm alright with it. Honestly, it seems like a metaphor for Smith's own career. Smith is a director who willfully stays in his comfort zone because it's what he enjoys making, and everything that's been significantly outside his lane has blown up in his face to some extent or another.
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If this metaphor holds together, in Clerks 3 Dante will have a daughter named Poison Ivy who he'll make the face of the business and ruin it.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I dunno, the guy who plays Dante (I'm trying to remember what his name is) is a decent-looking dude and the movie's about him getting his poo poo together.
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Slugworth posted:Well yeah, but that doesn't even begin to scratch the surface of why my thought process at the time was so strange. The moral of the story wasn't that a frumpy loser shouldn't get to date a pretty woman. The moral is that I was broke brained at the time, and that Rosario Dawson is great. Ah, okay, I was thinking you had beef with the "schlubby dude gets attractive woman" trope in general and I was pointing out that C2 was a waaaay milder example of that than most.
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I mean, portraying minority women as being irresistibly attracted to white men is par for the course and borders on propaganda in this country. This poo poo's been going on since Pocahontas.
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It was best done in Mutiny on the Bounty and then again on The Bounty.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Why is their gun blue? Weird when the rest of the colors on the poster are so accurate.
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Dissapointed Owl posted:They're making another Pirates porno? Well, at least I'm not the only one who had that as my first thought. Really though, that's some weird-rear end costuming.
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Mr. Squishy posted:Why is their gun blue? I actually think it looks cool. It fits in, composition-wise
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Mondo is dropping a lovely Tyler Stout Civil War poster tomorrow so if you want to try to get a poster you can sell for 10x more than you buy it, the 10 seconds it's up before it's sold out is your chance.
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Snowcow posted:Rogue One's Amazon/iTunes/DVD boxart rear end highlight.
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Who would have thought that the other side of the Death Star is Darth Vader's giant loving head
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Snowcow posted:Rogue One's Amazon/iTunes/DVD boxart
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Snowcow posted:Rogue One's Amazon/iTunes/DVD boxart My favorite Christian rock band!
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When it comes to Rogue One posters, beaches were a mistake.
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Palpek posted:Good that they released it in such a high resolution that we can really appreciate the hack photoshop job. Look at their feet - by the time they pasted Riz Ahmed in they already gave up. "And I'm his friend Jesus!"
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God I loving hate the aesthetic of so much of that PR movie but somehow love the retooling they did of the premise. They should have gone more The Guyver with the suits and less Bayformers. Also where the gently caress is K2 in that R1 poster?!?
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Palpek posted:Look at their feet - Oh god I missed the feet at first. Jesus if they couldn't pull off feet they could of at least had the decency to Liefeld them.
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Snowcow posted:Rogue One's Amazon/iTunes/DVD boxart robot racism in full force here
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Darth Vader identifies as half robot you bigot
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Lucas should have given a HAL9000-like AI to Death Star. Then they could have added a scream each time they blew it up.
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Snowcow posted:Rogue One's Amazon/iTunes/DVD boxart There's a lot to love here, but I keep coming back to Cassio's tiny misaligned legs.
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Palpek posted:Lucas should have given a HAL9000-like AI to Death Star. Then they could have added a scream each time they blew it up. There was a Star Wars EU story where the droid bounty hunter IG-88 uploads his AI into the Death Star II and taunts Emperor Palpatine by opening and closing the doors to his throne room at random. Unfortunately, it's no longer canon.
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I remember a Star Wars EU book I read back in middle school where Jabba the Hutt's cousin commissioned the designer of the original Death Star to build another one that didn't require living space, just a floating super weapon. It ended up looking like a giant lightsaber, so it was christened "Darksaber" which I think was also the name of the book. How many EU stories were about a new Death Star or a bigger Star Destroyer?
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Pope Corky the IX posted:How many EU stories were about a new Death Star or a bigger Star Destroyer?
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I don't know if it was this one or Double Agent 73, but in one of them Chesty Morgan acutally picks up a titty and throws it at a villain, knocking him out entirely. Also of interest is director Doris Wishman (and Roger Ebert!) being interviewed by Conan O'Brien: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-LCPd1ThsI
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Palpek posted:And how many actual movie Star Wars stories weren't? Six out of eight? Not sure what you're getting at
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I'm saying there's already a lot of Death Stars in real Star Wars so in the EU where every Mos Eisley cantina patron shown for half a second has an epic story involving a number of main Star Wars characters you can probably quadruple the number. Also it's 4 out of 8.
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Palpek posted:I'm saying there's already a lot of Death Stars in real Star Wars so in the EU where every Mos Eisley cantina patron shown for half a second has an epic story involving a number of main Star Wars characters you can probably quadruple the number. Okay, I thought it was a way of you saying "Let's get back to movie talk" And really? Four out of eight? There was a Death Star in IV and VI, but what else? Disclaimer: I lost interest in Star Wars real fast after I & II. I've never seen III, VII, or Rogue One.
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Pope Corky the IX posted:I remember a Star Wars EU book I read back in middle school where Jabba the Hutt's cousin commissioned the designer of the original Death Star to build another one that didn't require living space, just a floating super weapon. It ended up looking like a giant lightsaber, so it was christened "Darksaber" which I think was also the name of the book. The only good thing about the Darksaber was that it exploded itself the first time they tried firing it. gently caress, the EU was such garbage.
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