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There was that bit about Jaimy Foxx's Electro being brought back as well, which no offense to Foxx, fits the op a lot better.
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Dec 8, 2020 23:31
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This looks like a scene from one of Takashi Miike's childrens movies.
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Dec 8, 2020 23:32
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Gripweed posted:This looks like a scene from one of Takashi Miike's childrens movies. I actually though it was quite Monty Pythonesque (and amazing)
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Dec 8, 2020 23:34
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Avatar almost singlehandedly (it and Iron Man) ended the era of grimdark post-9/11 blockbuster filmmaking, though unfortunately the style that came after it was even worse.
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Dec 8, 2020 23:36
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Maxwell Lord posted:Yeah Titanic was at the top of the box office for months and swept the Oscars and there was some inevitable backlash just because it was that drat huge. But even I was kinda sick of it getting all the awards but I still never thought of it as a not-good film. It really is drat good. I mean, Triumph of the Will is a good film, that doesn’t mean I want to watch it.
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Dec 8, 2020 23:37
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Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:I’ve never seen Titanic
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Dec 8, 2020 23:38
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Awesome. Now set it on fire like a flaming wheel of eyes and light
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Dec 8, 2020 23:45
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Trying to figure out how Spider-Man 2 is “ashamed to be a comic book movie” and coming up with nothing.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:03
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You don't have to watch twenty of it to catch the whole plot.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:15
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A++ (lemme know if you want someone to make them blink in After Effects!!!)
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Dec 9, 2020 00:18
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SuperMechagodzilla posted:The film is somewhat anti-imperialist, but the actual SMG take is that: 1) it's simultaneously anti-immigration and 2) the planet is effectively an elaborate simulation of nature produced by the Massive Alien Brain-Trees to feed off of peoples' minds. hell yeah therattle posted:Hey! You’re back! Hi. wasssssup, i fell so far behind in the thread that i was able to justify just jumping to the current page. and im glad i did cause FS’s Angel is amazing. btw, i am so close to finally getting to read Against the Day and Age of Extremes
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I dunno if I'd go so far as to call Titanic a masterpiece, but it is a genuinely great movie.Franchescanado posted:I don't care much about Avatar, but as far as I remember, its biggest crimes are that it's too similar to Ferngully and Disney's Pocahontas, and it's a white savior film. It's even more blatant than those Avatar is like, imagine Dances-with-Wolves but instead of becoming a respected member of the tribe he becomes King Arthur to all the indigenous nations of the plains I'm all for criticism of capitalism but the racist fantasy undercuts the anti-imperialist message big time imo
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Dec 9, 2020 00:23
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Pirate Jet posted:Trying to figure out how Spider-Man 2 is “ashamed to be a comic book movie” and coming up with nothing. and i'd start with the jesus allegory which is the most obvious tell.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:24
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Lil Mama Im Sorry posted:hell yeah  I really enjoyed Against The Day; it wasn’t a chore at all. I took it on honeymoon with me
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Dec 9, 2020 00:26
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America is in really bad shape, you guys! https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1336427393272176647?s=20
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Dec 9, 2020 00:28
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spider-man 2 has a goofy montage set to raindrops keep falling on my head, I don’t think it’s ashamed of anything
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I don't like to dismiss people's takes out of hand but if there ever was a take to dismiss out of hand, "The Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies, especially 2, are bad, but the Snarky Northrup Grumman Intern Spiderman movies are good" is it. The sheer idea that Sam Raimi was ashamed to be making a genre movie is ridiculous.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:41
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Avatar is fine but it's also James Cameron's worst film by a mile. I only ever saw it in 3D and, like Gravity, I can't imagine watching it just as a normal movie -- so much of it is all about showing off the technology.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:47
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I Before E posted:I don't like to dismiss people's takes out of hand but if there ever was a take to dismiss out of hand, "The Tobey Maguire Spiderman movies, especially 2, are bad, but the Snarky Northrup Grumman Intern Spiderman movies are good" is it. so: here we are.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:48
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I think the politics of Marvel movies are completely worth criticizing, but "snarky" is not really a legitimate criticism of a depiction of Spider-Man. Spider-Man is always snarky.
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Dec 9, 2020 00:59
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This is amazing! Great work
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InsertPotPun posted:you could ask? I have terrible news for you about comic books and Jesus allegories.
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Dec 9, 2020 01:10
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I hated Avatar when I saw it in theater, but then I saw some of the footage Cameron shot on his undersea adventures. He talked about how it's like exploring a different planet, and wanted to bring that experience to the average person who can't afford all the tech. Gave it a second shot and it's not bad! I'll definitely be checking out that CTH episode. Edit: my favorite part is when Sigourney Weaver refers to a paraplegic as "numb nuts"
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I mean, I assume MCU Spider-Man 3 will suck too, but thinking it'll suck because it'll be too much like the Raimi movies is a wild take.
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Dec 9, 2020 01:15
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InsertPotPun posted:you could ask? Why on earth does that make it ashamed to be a comic book movie?
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Dec 9, 2020 01:29
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feedmyleg posted:A++ If it isn't too much of a bother. I even have a cleaner version where the angel is totally still which probably makes blinking easier.
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Dec 9, 2020 01:38
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I Before E posted:The sheer idea that Sam Raimi was ashamed to be making a genre movie is ridiculous. I cant even believe this is a discussion about the man who is responsible for this 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm1nZaGGUE0&t=99s
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Flying Zamboni posted:Why on earth does that make it ashamed to be a comic book movie? and why do you want your character to have the gravitas of jesus the christ of nezerath? because you want to impart that to your movie because "it's not just a comic book movie!!" pointing out that a lot of comic book movies does this doesn't really...disprove my point. it was clear in the xmen movies the studio didn't like making them ("yellow spandex *SCOFF*), and the third blade film was... also the way the series went, the studio itself crashing the films into the ground because they wanted them "darker", the studio dictating that kind of thing, causing raimi to leave, is precisely because they wanted to make "real" films i'm not even arguing that those movies are poo poo (they are) i'm just saying that it was pretty drat clear there was someone around going "oh...that children's movie?" *I...suppose c: it's a movie about jesus
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I’m not a comic book expert by any means, but I thought part of the appeal of comics is larger-than-life characters and melodrama, and comparing your hero to Jesus is pretty drat melodramatic. Keep in mind, we are talking about a movie where Doc Ock hurls a burlap sack full of gold coins at Spider-Man, who webslings it back to Doc Ock while quipping “keep the change!” It’s a pretty comic booky movie that knows when to play serious and when to play silly.
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Dec 9, 2020 03:04
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gently caress everyone talkin poo poo about my GODDAMN BOY
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Dec 9, 2020 03:10
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Ridley Scott initially wanted to make Jesus an Engineer/descended from Engineers in Prometheus but either decided against it or was talked out of it.
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X-Ray Pecs posted:I’m not a comic book expert by any means, but I thought part of the appeal of comics is larger-than-life characters and melodrama, and comparing your hero to Jesus is pretty drat melodramatic. Yeah, and the one bit that uses any kind of Jesus comparison is clearly using it as a visual shorthand for "self-sacrificing hero" during the big train scene. It's not like the whole movie is constantly calling Spiderman Jesus, and even if it was, it's not unusual in superhero comics to draw religious parallels to certain characters depending on the story. It's a super campy movie for a lot of it and talking about Raimi of all people like he's embarrassed by it is an argument I just don't understand. I don't know how you could see the Doc Ock surgery scene and not think that Raimi was having a blast making it.
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Dec 9, 2020 03:51
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Some people think The Golden Arm wasn’t supposed to be tongue in cheek and silly as hell.
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Dec 9, 2020 03:54
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Jesus allegories? In MY comic books? 
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Dec 9, 2020 04:04
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like...yeah...that's why they did that: to bring an artificial gravitas. that's my entire point. it was lazy then, it's lazy now. they took a very well trod and unoriginal path. wow. you sure showed me that the trod was VERY well trod and SUPER unoriginal! guys: the acting was cheesy, please counter with other examples of cheesy acting to really show me? also the main defense of the movies, aside from not understanding me, is that you like sam raimi? ok. cool. that's not a defense of the movies. i like raimi when he fits but he doesn't always fit. that's like saying i can't critique john wayne as ghengis khan because you liked him as rooster cogburn. InsertPotPun fucked around with this message at 04:20 on Dec 9, 2020 |
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InsertPotPun posted:like...yeah...that's why they did that: to bring an artificial gravitas. that's my entire point. it was lazy then, it's lazy now. they took a very well trod and unoriginal path. wow. you sure showed me that the trod was VERY well trod and SUPER unoriginal! guys: the acting was cheesy, please counter with other examples of cheesy acting to really show me? So is the film bad for being ashamed of being a comic book movie or is the film bad for being a comic book movie shamelessly?
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