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Ghost Leviathan posted:I was thinking Black Adam you're thinking of adam friedland's son, adam jr e: this is a lovely snype, uhhh okay https://twitter.com/THR/status/1225592529913028610?s=20 this annoyed me earlier. not only is the plot simple to follow, gerwig uses totally different lighting and color palettes to denote the different time periods
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El Pollo Blanco posted:lotr was also complete loving garbage wtf
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vyelkin posted:7 sucked rear end because half the book was spent camping while the main characters occasionally heard rumours that interesting things were happening elsewhere, and then out of nowhere there's a giant battle and it's over The 7th (or 8th) movie gave us one of the most interesting scenes, the wizard equivalent of a gunfight in the closed bakery or whatever it was. The juxtaposition of the normal real-world environment with wizards casting spells and blowing poo poo up was a complete shift from the out and out fantasy setting of the rest of the series. That said I've never watched the 7th and 8th movies entirely or read the 7th book even though I was the perfect age when the series started, I just stopped giving a poo poo after they started killing off a ton of characters within 50 pages of the book starting.
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I remember reading the bit where the loving owl dies when I was a teenager and thinking "jk rowling thinks it makes her a better writer if she kills more characters off" which was confirmed when one of the twins died
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Since thread is going all in on READ ANOTHER BOOK, I'll just say my Harry Potter experience is limited to only half of the movies, osmosis, and JK Rowling's lovely politics. I remember watching the first movie as a young teen at the cinema during its initial run, and being unsatisfied with the lack of any explanation as to why the magical world has to be hidden from the "muggle" world. Like, were we supposed to infer that it's an X-Men or Men in Black thing where humans are naturally irrational and prejudiced? Because X-Men and MiB at least explained that; but there wasn't any lines about it at all in the HP movies. Like, this was a foundational aspect of how the universe works, and it's not one of those things, even in hindsight, felt like it was better off not explained. Because I saw a world where some people hoard cool magic powers and poo poo, and act like greedy assholes for not letting the rest of the world in on their secret. Keep in mind, high school me was one of those mediocre kids with intense but stupid opinions, and I may have envied all those honors kids who had their own in-jokes and smug subculture in our liberal suburban public school. College me kind of pushed back on this mindset, because I came to the conclusion that I was indeed mediocre. And it took me many years after college; seeing those classmates evolve into millennial lanyard shitlibs, (coinciding with JK Rowling removing her progressive mask) that maybe high school me was onto something. Echo Chamber has issued a correction as of 08:52 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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DoubleDonut posted:I remember reading the bit where the loving owl dies when I was a teenager and thinking "jk rowling thinks it makes her a better writer if she kills more characters off" which was confirmed when one of the twins died This is all very much in in the old YA lit tradition she grew up with mind; the dog/best friend/title character always dies at the end to win the Newbury Medal.
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I've read a few of the books but most of what I know about Harry Potter comes from the Lego video games.
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Yeah, me too. The LOTR movies really are the very best possible adaptations of the books, with some necessary tweaks to make the dry parts of the plot move along and not be overly long-winded. The cast is amazing, the attention to detail in the props and sets is obsessive and impressive, the filming locations are absurdly gorgeous and the insistence on using practical effects for a lot of things that would just be done lazily with CGI now was a good choice. The Hobbit movies on the other hand...
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hear me out this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTeY_Rlyn2U was the best movie of the last decade
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KozmoNaut posted:Yeah, me too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5_xb522jEo
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I really like the lotr cartoon from the 70s but I have always really liked rotoscoping more than most folks I know so I dunno it's really weird
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I re watched Promare last night, and it's basically an action-packed pro-gay rights, pro-refugee mecha movie. It also had a dash of "the billionaires won't save us from climate change" messaging. I really enjoyed it, but I think it's big retread Hiroyuki Imaishi's past works, mainly Gurren Lagann and Kill la Kill.
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Echo Chamber posted:I remember watching the first movie as a young teen at the cinema during its initial run, and being unsatisfied with the lack of any explanation as to why the magical world has to be hidden from the "muggle" world. rowling has confirmed after the fact that its because technology is outright better than magic. i.e. if a man with a gun and a wizard try to kill each other, the man with a gun will win 100% of the time it's one of two things she's added that actually rule, the other being that wizards poo poo themselves freely
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Eox posted:rowling has confirmed after the fact that its because technology is outright better than magic. i.e. if a man with a gun and a wizard try to kill each other, the man with a gun will win 100% of the time So how did tge wizards enslave humans in the latter books
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steinrokkan posted:So how did tge wizards enslave humans in the latter books you have now put more thought into the world of harry potter than she did
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steinrokkan posted:So how did tge wizards enslave humans in the latter books no guns in britain #2ndamendmentisbest
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Percelus posted:hear me out yes although parasite makes a very strong case right at the decade's end
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steinrokkan posted:So how did tge wizards enslave humans in the latter books they have a magic spell that makes the other person do whatever you tell them to forever, and since non-wizards don't know wizards exist it's very easy for them to use that spell whenever they want
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Eox posted:rowling has confirmed after the fact that its because technology is outright better than magic. i.e. if a man with a gun and a wizard try to kill each other, the man with a gun will win 100% of the time
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it would go feral just like that car did
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my harry potter hot (?) take is that ALL the wizards in the HP universe — who see the plight of muggles who need food and clothing and shelter and basic needs, and then do nothing about it when they could solve so many problems with their magic and alleviate so much suffering — are evil
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the only smart character in the HP universe is uncle vernon, who bought a gun at the first hint of wizard poo poo. the only reason it didn't work is because they sent someone who is legally barred from practicing magic.
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wasn't there a harry potter book that ended with centaurs gang raping the antagonist
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Percelus posted:hear me out it's up there at the very least
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Percelus posted:wasn't there a harry potter book that ended with centaurs gang raping the antagonist yes but it was ok because she's racist
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Echo Chamber posted:then why doesn't the wizard carry a gun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cZqRzHnI8s
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so on the threads advice i finally started watching the boys no fox news clark kent but fundie superman is a nice consolation prize im not in general a big fan of writing that looks down on evangelicals since it tends to be smug self insert weinstein style liberal patronizing but i thought it worked really well here because in addition to the shows obvious awareness of metoo theres the subtext of how these are basically bush era fundies and a lot of societal tropes regarding political alignments probably got baked in hard once supes showed up at about that same time frame and started picking sides homelander and ezekial being portrayed as weirdo sexual deviants didnt even bother me as much as usual because while in general thats a super lazy attack just saying that antigay people are secretly super gay in this particular case weve already been exposed to the idea of the supes as being inherently broke brained weirdos and of all the evil stuff weve seen supes doing ezekial using his stretchy powers to have kinky threesomes is pretty low on the list even by fundie standards
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This is all very much in in the old YA lit tradition she grew up with mind; the dog/best friend/title character always dies at the end to win the Newbury Medal. Nobody (who did not die in real life) died in "The Watson's Go to Birmingham, 1964". 
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KiteAuraan posted:Nobody (who did not die in real life) died in "The Watson's Go to Birmingham, 1964". I mean more there's the well known tradition of the children's equivalent of oscar bait being a coming-of-age story where the dog/best friend/kid dies out of nowhere at the end in a remarkably unsubtle 'end of innocence' marker that kids mostly just find jarring and confusing. And somebody copypaste the one 4chan post that basically explains Harry Potter's political lens as through empty centrist liberalism that thinks hitler could have been defeated if people pointed out he didn't read the fine print
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Birds of Prey was a fun, violent romp with actually interesting female characters, and I wished it was doing better in the box office. 
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Equeen posted:Birds of Prey was a fun, violent romp with actually interesting female characters, and I wished it was doing better in the box office. apparently people are not informed about what the movie is because when i went there was a woman there with her two children. she promptly went to sleep lol
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birds of prey is boring lamestream woke fem garbage and all the characters were one note
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wow a comic book movie is shallow garbage whuda thunk it
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https://twitter.com/lukeisamazing/status/1226570371354234880?s=20
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I still have plenty of memories of watching DVD extras from 2000-2005, and I take it for granted that many people who came of age after that time haven't seen those materials. Stuff like "Christopher Lee killed a nazi."
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