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The Force Awakens was exciting just because it was another Star Wars again The Last Jedi was mostly good and genuinely enjoyable what with actually exploring more of the universe without falling into as many of the derivative tropes that TFA did (as best as I can recall) The Rise of Skywalker was a complete letdown
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Some Guy TT posted:why what did grimdark picard do this time Not that in specific, just the general trend of writing from STD, and the jokers they're putting in charge of various projects.
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vyelkin posted:to me the new star wars films seemed to be kind of like game of thrones in that even if you were excited for the first few iterations of it, the last one was so obviously bad that we all collectively got amnesia about the whole thing is there any franchise or piece of media at all that has staying power anymore now that there’s 10 billion things to watch? I can’t name a thing that came out in the last five years that people still discuss despite its popularity at the time
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Jul 30, 2020 15:06
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https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/1288611555530113024 put here because the source is apparently netflix can be surprisingly tough to figure out which funny tweets to post in which threads sometimes
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Jul 30, 2020 15:15
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theflyingexecutive posted:is there any franchise or piece of media at all that has staying power anymore now that there’s 10 billion things to watch? I can’t name a thing that came out in the last five years that people still discuss despite its popularity at the time Depends on where and what you mean by discussion, there's always plenty of that going on somewhere Does feel weird that Game of Thrones and Star Wars were inescapable for a while and then just loving evaporated with their finales
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Jul 30, 2020 15:29
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game of thrones remains unescapable in south korea because that drat browser game is everywhere i dont think ive ever seen anyone actually play it but the ads are all over the place
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Jul 30, 2020 15:41
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disney pushed all their hopes on giving carrie fisher a giant send off and while also killing her by making her lose an unhealthy amount of weight jj and kennedy deserve the disaster they caused
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Jul 30, 2020 15:46
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I'm glad the last season of GoT was so bad because it destroyed the two creators future. Otherwise we'd be in the middle of a Lost Causer discourse.
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Jul 30, 2020 16:47
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Peanut President posted:I'm glad the last season of GoT was so bad because it destroyed the two creators future. Otherwise we'd be in the middle of a Lost Causer discourse. the discourse around all the stupidest people on the internet lionizing danny as their yas slay kween and having absolute conniptions that she ended up bad was some of the funniest poo poo
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Jul 30, 2020 18:02
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I'll be totally okay with no more pop culture.
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Jul 30, 2020 18:07
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Zvahl posted:the discourse around all the stupidest people on the internet lionizing danny as their yas slay kween and having absolute conniptions that she ended up bad was some of the funniest poo poo she did precisely what she said she was gonna do lmao
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Jul 30, 2020 18:08
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watched Killing Them Softly last night, which was fine and maybe a bit overhyped by the things i recently heard about it but brad pitt's little monologue at the end in response to obama's inauguration speech is perfect, probably read incredibly cynical at the time (which, i mean, it is) but has been borne out as more accurate than probably any other filmic sentiments from around the same time, greatly elevated the movie imo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V6GHnxEJjg
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Jul 30, 2020 18:20
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Zvahl posted:the discourse around all the stupidest people on the internet lionizing danny as their yas slay kween and having absolute conniptions that she ended up bad was some of the funniest poo poo the white walker ending was so much worse than the one Danny got. Danny's end made thematic sense and fit with the wider plot, even if it was handled badly. the existential threat of the white walkers was ended with a lovely Boss fight. I think gurm has a negotiated settlement in mind for the white walker invasion, because it would be a subversion of those types of demonic/alien invasion plots. but it'd be a sort of optimistic subversion that would require exposition, so there was no way the HBO series would do it.
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Jul 30, 2020 18:30
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the last jedi felt like a group effort mad lib where someone sees what the earlier entries were going for and was like 'gently caress that i'm taking this in the complete opposite direction'
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Jul 30, 2020 18:43
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StratGoatCom posted:Given the ideological leanings of trek, I am increasingly beginning to wonder if it's being deliberately mismanaged by the suits. Mismanagement is a Star Trek tradition. The only reason DS9 was good was because CBS didn't care about it at all and didn't bother to even meddle.
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Jul 30, 2020 18:57
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Zvahl posted:it's been SO loving RELIEVING That is the one thing I'm liking about COVID. It's shuffling the deck on so many things we accepted as immutable. Employers had to allow work from home, my psychiatrist had to get his rear end on e-prescribe, Disney's cheerios emphatically pissed all over.
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Jul 30, 2020 19:00
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StratGoatCom posted:Given the ideological leanings of trek, I am increasingly beginning to wonder if it's being deliberately mismanaged by the suits. Whether it is deliberate or just a consequence of capitalism that any media that is even slightly subversive to the status quo eventually gets that quality whittled out of it in the name of profit is immaterial since the result is the same Something something the cancellation of the future something something complete
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if you haven't already and really want to get mad about star trek renegade cut's video on rick berman is a hoot and a half https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeSz2gW8IsE it made me mad for days it's great
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i watched that the hunt movie, it was deeply stupid and offensive. its a movie about rich ppl hunting the poor but directly focused on culture war bullshit and cancel culture. so you have incredibly dumb poo poo like the rich fuckers saying "climate change is real!" as they kill some redneck or the rich white people arguing wether its racist or not to hunt a black guy. absolute dreck, dunno who fleeced emma roberts and hillary swank (and glenn howerton!) into being in it it has some decent action scenes and the main lady is fun to watch i guess
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Jul 30, 2020 22:56
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After the Goya beans thing and the "Find something else" thing, is SNL basically obsolete? Like, the Trump admin does far better satire than they ever did.
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skooma512 posted:After the Goya beans thing and the "Find something else" thing, is SNL basically obsolete? Like, the Trump admin does far better satire than they ever did. trump killed comedy, lmao
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Atrocious Joe posted:the white walker ending was so much worse than the one Danny got. Danny's end made thematic sense and fit with the wider plot, even if it was handled badly. Can't remember if it was the TVIV or GBS thread where someone documented the gradual word count drop in the scripts after they surpassed Gurm's material.
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Jul 31, 2020 01:51
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Taintrunner posted:trump killed comedy, lmao i don't see what possible relation that has to snl the last time it was funny trump was filming home alone 2
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Jul 31, 2020 04:03
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Zvahl posted:i don't see what possible relation that has to snl i watched a re-run from 1993 recently, and despite the loaded cast and Bill Murray hosting (he was promoting Groundhog Day), it was just loving dire.
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Jul 31, 2020 05:55
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Remember that episode of 30 Rock where Kennith organizes a strike just to get Jack to sign a document saying that he's a liar? That's the American left in a nutshell
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Jul 31, 2020 11:25
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So I was bored and ended up watching Freddy Got Fingered. Tom Green crawled so that Eric Andre could run. Red Letter Media is totally right about this movie. If you grew up with '90s raunchy comedies, you are in on the joke (as well as knowing or realizing that the film is essentially Tom Green giving a 90 minute long middle finger to movie execs). If this were on Netflix, it would be a cult classic with Zoomers.
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Jul 31, 2020 14:34
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Shin Godzilla blu ray is $5 on Amazon, and is a very good political satire even with the weird nationalist-militarist overtones that creep in towards the end
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Forceholy posted:So I was bored and ended up watching Freddy Got Fingered. It's been on Netflix. I think it may be a Disney property now lol
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It is very funny though.
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didn't click on the trailer, but does that guy fully turn his head to the camera and break the 4th wall edit: it's a documentary lol
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Aug 1, 2020 02:38
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into the groove & dress you up are back to back on like a virgin and work incredibly well together but did you know that into the groove was recorded separately for the film Desperately Seeking Susan and was only later added on to the 1985 reissue of like a virgin?
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anyway in todays edition of some guy itt was watching cable anybody else find it kind of weird that randall in monsters inc is identified as being the bad guy basically because hes kind of a dick for most of the movie mike and sully just think he was trying to cheat in their completely meaningless leaderboard competition contrast this with sully knowingly breaking a safety regulation and then proceeding to put the lives of literally every single person he meets in danger by dragging a walking uncontrollable emt weapon with him everywhere while he tries to figure out a way to get rid of it without getting in trouble with the cops then by the time we get back to randall and learn his real motivation its literally a trolley problem style ethical dilemma for which hes treated as being completely evil for being on the wrong side and the disastrous consequences of preventing the experiment on boo are totally papered over by having sully pull a bullshit magical solution out of his rear end although i suppose the most cspammish objection i could make to the movie is that the cops are depicted as the good guys doing a long term sting on the orphan powered electricity machine which seems fantastically improbable given that you know theyre loving cops i dont get why people like inc more than university see university is a shockingly relatable portrayal of how actually college can really loving suck because cliques still exist your life can be ruined if you cant figure out how to study right and the only way to get ahead is by working your rear end off and exploiting technical loopholes thats the message our kids should be learning not that government regulations are made up bullshit and that cops actually care about the rules
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That take isn't even lukewarm. It is so obvious that you would have to be unconscious not to catch on to it.
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Alhazred posted:That take isn't even lukewarm. It is so obvious that you would have to be unconscious not to catch on to it. I think the joke is that he hasn't seen how the first season ends
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Peanut President posted:I think the joke is that he hasn't seen how the first season ends ... with political norms not protecting him...?
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The norms still basically function as intended, his family and allies predictably start a big war when he’s killed. He mainly just underestimates they stupidity of his enemies.
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sebmojo posted:... with political norms not protecting him...? i mean seeing something like that as a deep insight is pretty smart if you've never seen what happens next. IDK when I first started watching I kept waiting for the swerve to save Ned Stark that never comes.
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