i say swears online posted:

holy cow his dark materials is way better than golden compass

gradenko_2000 posted:

the wikipedia page for this is hilarious - the synopsis reads like it was a book report

an actual dog posted:

I've been following the terrible YA controversy but I didn't know someone #metooed that's incredible. so much good poo poo

Dr. Killjoy posted:

In her backstory, Mclean and her father have moved three times in the last two years because of her dad's new job at EAT, Inc. With each of the moves, Mclean decides to take on different personas. Lakeview is their fourth move. Mclean is quizzed as to which persona she would pick—whether it would be "the perky rah-rah girl, black-clad drama queen, or student government joiner". But as she begins school, she forgets about all those personas and starts to be herself and attracts new friends, plus a new romance. Gus is trying to rebuild a restaurant called the Luna Blu, which is described as a "Contemporary Italian and old-fashioned good"

I do enjoy eating up some good ol’ fashioned good at the Italian restaurant run by some cucked Mick

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

Sorry who got #metooed? I can't parse any context from this.

Some Guy TT posted:

so i figure were far away enough from peak hype now that i could try watching breaking bad and see if it was as good as everyone says it is i was a little surprised to find that the first two seasons were really solid typically enough because theyd defied the vague pop culture descriptions id heard up until now far from being a badass walter white is kind of an idiot who almost never thinks his very impractical plans through and i couldnt help but find it hilarious that by the end of season two saul had to be introduced for the sole purpose of providing walter with a way to actually spend his money but even a scummy lawyer isnt enough to solve all of walters outrageously impossible problems

but i just got halfway through season three and uh is it just me or is this show very subtly and uncomfortably racist season two closes with the token black guy on the chamber of commerce being revealed to an uber powerful fifth columnist drug lord and season three opens with the wonder twins trumpian murderers who kill all the presumably good people in the truck and ultimately hold murder negotiations with gustavo where he openly gives them permission to murder the white dude once his contract his up

then episode seven transitions to full on cop propaganda as hank is very cruelly provoked into breaking into a known criminals house and beating the poo poo out of him an offense taken quite seriously by his fellow officers and its only his naive misguided wife who suggests that hank just make up a story about how jessie was gonna club him with a pipe or something because as we all knows cops would never lie to protect their careers i mean yikes that plot point aged about as well as a pizza on the roof jessie bigs speech about putting hank out of the job permanently and getting paid personal injury checks for the rest of their lives was another giant opposite of reality moment

i mean there were definite shades of this when likable big dick hank joins up with the task force and is immediately a poor culture fit because of his racist jokes and confrontational attitude then they all get exploded by a turtle and uh its still not clear to me why they would fire hank from the task force for that i assumed that he just quit because he only survived due to sheer dumb luck and he was obviously having a lovely time there even before his big ptsd moment

Serf posted:

sometimes i think about that lady who got her book deal pulled because the book contained slavery, which it said was evil. just the fact that slavery existed was all it took

BENGHAZI 2 posted:

My favorite is the one that people were.mad about without reading because someone said it had racism in it

Which it did

Because it was about a sheltered white girl going to fantasy college and meeting the subhumans and slowly realizing everything she was taught was a lie before joining with their rebellion to over throw the demon cracker race

You know, like what actually happens in the real world minis that last bit probably

Some Guy TT posted:

was making vietnam a state in the comic book too its such a broadly ignorant idea the only defense i can come up with for its existence is that moore wrote it as a throwaway line not really knowing or caring about the history of vietnam as a country or how the war fit into capitalist propaganda

etalian posted:

Some Guy TT posted:

was making vietnam a state in the comic book too its such a broadly ignorant idea the only defense i can come up with for its existence is that moore wrote it as a throwaway line not really knowing or caring about the history of vietnam as a country or how the war fit into capitalist propaganda

i say swears online posted:

finally watched buster scruggs

four of the six vignettes were masterpieces

I'm not a western movie person but y'all I love the cohens

Some Guy TT posted:

was making vietnam a state in the comic book too its such a broadly ignorant idea the only defense i can come up with for its existence is that moore wrote it as a throwaway line not really knowing or caring about the history of vietnam as a country or how the war fit into capitalist propaganda

Serf posted:

i started watching the mandalorian and, uh, this is what they were hyping up so much? even disney money can't make tv look good apparently. just endless expanses of desert and the costumes look cheap. then the story is largely incoherent. the end of the first episode is a decent hook, it adds an interesting wrinkle that i liked. then the second episode went and squandered the whole thing and now it seems like its gonna just be rote bullshit again

the only really good thing i can say about it is that pascal is acting the hell outta that helmet and i feel a little bad for him

Serf posted:

i started watching the mandalorian and, uh, this is what they were hyping up so much? even disney money can't make tv look good apparently. just endless expanses of desert and the costumes look cheap. then the story is largely incoherent. the end of the first episode is a decent hook, it adds an interesting wrinkle that i liked. then the second episode went and squandered the whole thing and now it seems like its gonna just be rote bullshit again

the only really good thing i can say about it is that pascal is acting the hell outta that helmet and i feel a little bad for him

Pener Kropoopkin posted:

https://twitter.com/kinematografi/status/1195846624267919361?s=20

A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:

the only weak buster scruggs vignette was the liam neeson one. i want a full on tex avery/tim blake neslon/singing cowboy feature

ikanreed posted:

It's supposed to reflect how badly abused Dr Manhattan was used for state power. That total conquest and expansionalism of America's past were only ended in the real world because of MAD.

Taintrunner posted:

Yeah, precisely. I mean gently caress, the dude is a being of infinite power, why the gently caress wouldn't the U.S. government use that to enrich private interests? People don't give Moore enough credit, and you really see it come through in just how loving bad every attempt at prequeling, adapting, or sequeling Watchmen has ever went. Like jesus fuckin hell they just don't get it.

Atrocious Joe posted:

Disney is antifa
https://twitter.com/the_moviebob/status/1195870971741310981?s=20

Serf posted:

i can't see the tweet this is replying to, they're locked

when they showed the baby tridactyl i was like oh cool its a yoda, the man with a baby he has to take care of is a classic storyline, that could be interesting. but then they went and made it magic, because of course the slackjawed audience desire to be comforted must come first. therefore the tridactyl must be magic because yoda was magic. zero original thought