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Arrival is a great introduction to the fun of linguistics, but it's a very neoliberal film.
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Post in the star war forum, imo
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yeah like I'm going to trust a smuggler
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Jan 22, 2020 07:25
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Still can't believe Michael Sheen impregnated Kate Beckinsale.
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Stink Billyums posted:yeah like I'm going to trust a smuggler Dash Rendar is quite the interesting fellow. https://lparchive.org/Star-Wars-Shadows-of-the-Empire/ quote:Hold on, what is Shadows Of The Empire? There is also a thing about him being fraud but I can't find it.
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Inception is the only great Nolan movie to me. I like to learn about the difference betwern human languages, even watched a couple college lectures about languages. The way Arrival script tried to add a layer of power on language make no sense. Its dumber than the plot in Interstaller.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Inception is the only great Nolan movie to me. You don't like Memento? To me, much like Interstellar, Inception has some great scenes and visuals, but ultimately most of it lands flat.
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Rinkles posted:You don't like Memento? I didn't like Memento as much when I watched it the 2nd time. I might have to watch it again to properly describe why the script felt too cute to me. Inception to me is a masterfully crafted piece of clockwork in movie form.
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I was interested enough in Arrival to read the short story first. It was ok. The movie was ok. IIRC, the movie had a much stronger emotional impact of her decision about her daughter in the end, though it used a pretty dumb device. In the story, her understanding of the alien language gives her predictive knowledge of the future, but she can't change any of it, likening herself to an actor on a stage restricted to saying her lines. Her daughter dies in a car crash. In the movie, it's clear she chooses to conceive this daughter, who she already "knows" from having memories of her, and she already knows will die very young, presumably out of a love of this person who doesn't exist yet, or some fealty to the sacredness of life. This daughter dies from a rare incurable At least, that's what I remember, and I'm not reading the story or watching the movie again to confirm. I also remember in the movie the alien straight up saying "You can see the future," spelled out, right there, for those in the audience who had fallen asleep. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 07:53 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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Jan 22, 2020 07:51
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Inception was just kind of there. Mostly very dull characters If a movie has bad or uninteresting characters it just won't grab me
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Fartbox posted:Inception was just kind of there. Mostly very dull characters Mcconaughey was Interstellar's saving grace.
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Jan 22, 2020 07:54
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MMMMMUUUUURRRRRPPPPHHHHHHHH CASE and TARS are amazing characters. God I love TARS. They even had a cute TARS twitter or something like that.
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oohhboy posted:There is also a thing about him being fraud but I can't find it. that's a blast from the past. sound quality is kinda rough in the first couple vids, but i got it sorted out around the Asteroid Field. the "fraud"thing i kinda baked it into the LP. the comic, novel, and some other media all corroborate each other rather well. it's the video game where it all kinda falls apart--and that's the only part of the media franchise where Dash is the POV character. like, say, in the Battle of Hoth he downs on AT-AT. impressive enough considering only a few other pilots accomplished that (ie Wedge and Luke), but in the game he downs not one, but THREE AT-ATs. there's also the fighting off Boba Fett one-on-one when in reality he ran away without landing on Gall, boarding the Suprosa ship to single-handedly kill every Imperial troop and grab the Death Star plans instead of a group of Bothans, and the fact that Xixor specifically calls out Rendar as being a thorn in his side in the game and sending a giant mecha bot to kill him when in every other EU bit Xixor never met Dash. in short: Dash is a hack fraud.
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A lot of it is "Because video game" so it's pretty safe to say that narrative is largely unintentional. Dash being a Hack Fraud is endlessly amusing and more interesting than telling the story straight. Especially so since it was such a large project. Would have been ballsy af.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Inception is the only great Nolan movie to me. Interesting way to spell "The Prestige". I rewatched Inception a couple months back and while I liked it a lot better the second time around, and it's a very well crafted film, ultimately it's just kind of there. I thought Cillian Murphy's character arc was the most compelling & satisfying.
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Does anyone have any good directors commentary recommendations? I recently listened to a few John Carpenter ones and they were a really fun listen and I wouldn't mind hearing a few more. I know the Conan movies have great ones and I heard the Ben Affleck track on Armageddon is amazing.
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Laterite posted:Interesting way to spell "The Prestige".
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doctorfrog posted:IIRC, the movie had a much stronger emotional impact of her decision about her daughter in the end, though it used a pretty dumb device. In the story, her understanding of the alien language gives her predictive knowledge of the future, but she can't change any of it, likening herself to an actor on a stage restricted to saying her lines. Her daughter dies in a car crash. In the movie, it's clear she chooses to conceive this daughter, who she already "knows" from having memories of her, and she already knows will die very young, presumably out of a love of this person who doesn't exist yet, or some fealty to the sacredness of life. This daughter dies from a rare incurable In the original story the daughter dies in a climbing accident. Also Louise chooses to conceive her daughter knowing ahead of time what her life and death will be in both versions. I think it has more impact in the movie because the daughter is sick and suffering rather than dying suddenly. Overall the movie is a stronger narrative than the original story, which tends to get bogged down in technical and linguistic lessons. In the story it's never explained why the aliens visited or what they wanted. Even their language has no practical use because the future cannot be changed. Ted Chiang is an interesting writer (his story "Tower of Babylon" is great) and I wish he would write more. I think in 30 years he's only written 15 things.
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The Prestige was loving dumb. Hmm the wizard Nikola Tesla gave me a magic replicator that can create anything including people, what's the dumbest possible application for such a device?
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Yeah I actually thought it was really silly that the crux of the movie was that Tesla had invented cloning somehow and that it was used as the explanation for the tricks Like What?  Thats literally c-movie schlock plotting
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bitterandtwisted posted:The Prestige was loving dumb. Josh's great great grandfather
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A HORNY SWEARENGEN posted:Do you think Anakin's mom had a huge bush or did Sheev smash shaved slave Shmee? 
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Raskolnikov38 posted:at the exit of the avatar theme park a native american should just beat the poo poo out of you
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Are we allowed to post about Star Citizen in the Star Wars subPaladinus posted:Uh-oh, look who's 'back'. did anyone catch any comments before they got turned off
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bitterandtwisted posted:The Prestige was loving dumb. It also has unrealistic portrait of female character, more so than other bad Nolan women.
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lmao https://twitter.com/JennyENicholson/status/1219850690681376773?s=20
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Who buys that crap?
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Somebody will kickstart an execuvation party to dig it up from a landfill.
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PerniciousKnid posted:Then the "is he still dreaming?" is tacked on to the end to make everything seem more profound than it is. This scene is less about "is he still dreaming?" (I'm not spoiling that, the movie's been out for a decade) and more about showing Leo's character has ditched his obsession with figuring out whether he's in the real world, instead opting to say "gently caress it" and be reunited with his kids. He has accepted that this reality in which he has achieved his primary goal might not be reality at all, and has chosen to embrace it . The audience isn't meant to know if he's still dreaming because he doesn't know, or more importantly he doesn't care. It's sort of like the end of Annihilation in that the discussion ends up being about the literal events on screen and what they imply about the story rather than what they imply about the characters themselves.
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stephenthinkpad posted:Somebody will kickstart an execuvation party to dig it up from a landfill. Angry Video Game Nerd: "Look at this piece of gently caress abandoned plotline"
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Inception sucked big time. Nolan films got worse and worse as he goes on. Begins/Prestige are the last great ones. TDK is good. Rises sucks balls along with Interstellar and the rest
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I'm curious on his new one coming out. No clue what it is about tho
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Dunkirk was fine. Wouldn't bother watching it again though. Insomnia was OK. Those are my two favourite Nolan movies.
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luchajones posted:I'm curious on his new one coming out. No clue what it is about tho Inception except things go backwards
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luchajones posted:I'm curious on his new one coming out. No clue what it is about tho It looks like a big scifi movie with a big reverse time gimmick/twist. It's movie adoptation of that Burnout Crash game with the rewind button. stephenthinkpad fucked around with this message at 13:15 on Jan 22, 2020 |
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lmfao AGH is a mod of the new star wars forum WHAT?!
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stephenthinkpad posted:It looks like a big scifi movie with a big reverse time gimmick/twist. It's movie adoptation of that Burnout Crash game with the rewind button. it's actually a Blinx the Time Sweeper movie 
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oohhboy posted:MMMMMUUUUURRRRRPPPPHHHHHHHH ye TARS is probably one of the best sci fi robots of all time. Such a great design and fuctionality
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thx jeny this is interesting
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