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babypolis posted:i guess the first purge is now on netflix, which is news to me. so we got around to watching it and drat, the previous movies werent exactly subtle but this one throws subtlety out of the window, puts a couple dozen bullets into it, and then buries it in the woods The First Purge is great, and the best of two Superfly movies to come out that year
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Lindsay Ellis has a great three part series on what a huge fuckup the Hobbit movies were behind the scenes. My favourite bit is the lead actress stressing that there was no love triangle followed up by reshoots to insert a love triangle.
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gradenko_2000 posted:it's already been mentioned that that child rescue scene is an inversion and revision of history given that that was filmed at the same beach where the IDF murdered Palestinian children in real life, but then also there's: lol this existence loving sucks. good thing nothing matters anymore.
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There’s always the Rankin/Bass The Hobbit. One movie and no unnecessary extra characters or plot. And it’s good.
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"Where there's a whip there's a way" from the Rankin/Bass Return of the King by itself makes those movies better than Peter Jackson's.
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I mean hell, it's the most sympathetic characterisation the Orcs get in most versions.
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Zerilan posted:"Where there's a whip there's a way" from the Rankin/Bass Return of the King by itself makes those movies better than Peter Jackson's. mention of rankin bass making me miss venture bros real bad rn because i saw this for the first time the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbldnSRTM3Q kinda amazing tbh
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gradenko_2000 posted:it's already been mentioned that that child rescue scene is an inversion and revision of history given that that was filmed at the same beach where the IDF murdered Palestinian children in real life, but then also there's: Did Netanyahu produce this movie
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Judge Dredd Scott posted:mention of rankin bass making me miss venture bros real bad rn because i saw this for the first time the other day This is amazing and knowing that Dragoon/Red Mantle are actually The Big Bopper and Buddy Holly in the VB setting makes it even better.
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Bootleg Trunks posted:Did Netanyahu produce this movie In many ways.
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Loveshaft posted:The person who did this video edit deserves an award. Haven't seen the movie. What is supposed to be happening in this scene? Edit: Oh, saw the original clip on youtube. That's the dumbest thing I've seen for awhile now. Phobos Anomaly has issued a correction as of 13:21 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Phobos Anomaly posted:Haven't seen the movie. What is supposed to be happening in this scene? The convoy that Wonder Woman is chasing is about to run over those two kids playing on the road. She can't fly (yet), so she uses her Lasso of Truth to leap like Spiderman slingshotting himself with his webs. Except they're in the middle of the desert, so there's no tall buildings for her to grab onto. So she asks her sidekick to fire off an RPG into the air so that it'll shoot forward way ahead of the oncoming convoy, and then she lassos herself to the rocket so that she's dragged along with it, then she tosses the rocket aside, lands ahead of the convoy, grabs the kids and pulls them to safety. The edit just has the rocket blow up the kids, because... well, that's what Israel actually did.
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gradenko_2000 posted:The convoy that Wonder Woman is chasing is about to run over those two kids playing on the road. She can't fly (yet), so she uses her Lasso of Truth to leap like Spiderman slingshotting himself with his webs. Except they're in the middle of the desert, so there's no tall buildings for her to grab onto. So she asks her sidekick to fire off an RPG into the air so that it'll shoot forward way ahead of the oncoming convoy, and then she lassos herself to the rocket so that she's dragged along with it, then she tosses the rocket aside, lands ahead of the convoy, grabs the kids and pulls them to safety. Apparently the scene still wasn't dumb enough.
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gradenko_2000 posted:it's already been mentioned that that child rescue scene is an inversion and revision of history given that that was filmed at the same beach where the IDF murdered Palestinian children in real life, but then also there's: The New American Gothic: DoD using literal toy movies to brainwash adults into neocons and historical revisionists.
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reminder that in one of the Call of Duty games they claim that the Highway of Death was perpetrated by the Russians
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i had this as a kid. it ruled. hollywood shits on everything.
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gradenko_2000 posted:
ignoring the fact the ussr was surrounded by hostile nuclear powers on all sides, the ussr achieved a quantative advantage in nuclear arms in the mid 70s.
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Peanut President posted:reminder that in one of the Call of Duty games they claim that the Highway of Death was perpetrated by the Russians not really, this is just repeating an exaggeration you heard from Twitter. the nation and factions in the middle eastern sections of the game are entirely fictionalized, at no point do they try to claim its historical in any way.
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Taintrunner posted:not really, this is just repeating an exaggeration you heard from Twitter. the nation and factions in the middle eastern sections of the game are entirely fictionalized, at no point do they try to claim its historical in any way. they're counting on the fact the majority of people playing the game aren't old enough to even know what the gulf war was.
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Stairmaster posted:they're counting on the fact the majority of people playing the game aren't old enough to even know what the gulf war was. they’re counting on the fact that it’s not real and the majority of people know it’s all made up, I.e. Law & Order “ripped from the headlines” whatever.
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i honestly think its more likely the people making the game were so grotesquely historically and creatively ignorant that they came up with highway of death by complete coincidence not realizing it was already a name for a real life war crime
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Also you can be non binary and Ronald Reagan will respect your pronouns
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For those not really into Greek/Egyptian/Macedonian etc. history, Cleopatra VII Philopator was a member of the Ptolemaic dynasty. When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, his three best Macedonian buds carved up his empire, and his librarian friend Ptolemy I Soter ended up dictator of Egypt. His descendants ruled Egypt until about 300 years later, when Cleopatra sold the country to the Roman Empire and offed herself. The Ptolemies were famously incestuous and inbred, to the point where scientific papers have been written about the effects this had on their bodies: https://thorax.bmj.com/content/58/3/281.3 So, for those who have put two and two together, it's a perfect casting choice for a patriotic Israeli woman to play the white inbred dictator of a conquered indigenous people
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Some Guy TT posted:i honestly think its more likely the people making the game were so grotesquely historically and creatively ignorant that they came up with highway of death by complete coincidence not realizing it was already a name for a real life war crime it’s just a blender of a bunch of random poo poo from real life smashed together for a 6-7 hour FPS roller coaster. you have the highway of death, the Russian occupation of Afghanistan, the YPG, and the Syrian Civil War, the bin Laden compound raid, and some other poo poo all rammed together into a single storyline without rhyme or reason or even really a message, it’s just spectacle for spectacle’s sake. tasteless, sure, but it’s hard to take seriously the accusation “they’re blaming the Russians for American war crimes!!!” when that’s clearly not the case, the country you’re fighting in is entirely fictional as well as the factions, you’re not coming out the other end thinking the Russians are ravenous bloodthirsty dogs or whatever. MSNBC, on the other hand...
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:Lindsay Ellis has a great three part series on what a huge fuckup the Hobbit movies were behind the scenes. the repetition of "why does it hurt" "because it was real" to sum up the movies works well
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Taintrunner posted:not really, this is just repeating an exaggeration you heard from Twitter. the nation and factions in the middle eastern sections of the game are entirely fictionalized, at no point do they try to claim its historical in any way. and nothing in wonder woman is historical but people are still posting about it
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I will take the L however and counter that Activision had Ollie North as an advisor at one time
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Peanut President posted:I will take the L however and counter that Activision had Ollie North as an advisor at one time yeah COD has cycled through developers and treyarch (who did black ops Cold War, the most recent one) has always been the most right wing lunatic out of all of them, while infinity ward has been relatively liberal
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Wonder Woman versus The Power of Positive Thinking is a great idea. Self help culture is a sort of unofficial religious current in the US, with it's influence crossing traditional political and cultural boundaries. Liberals talk about self-care and conservatives have prosperity theology. So having the mythologically flavored superhero fight a personification of it is a really fun idea. The actual follow thru was ridiculous, and since it's a Hollywood film the message ended up being really reactionary. Wonder Woman 84 really reminds me of Rise of Skywalker. A giant mess of a film with weird themes, but sort of fun to complain about.
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More DoD propaganda on its way, folks! https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1343258833309691904?s=20
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Atrocious Joe posted:Wonder Woman versus The Power of Positive Thinking is a great idea. Self help culture is a sort of unofficial religious current in the US, with it's influence crossing traditional political and cultural boundaries. Liberals talk about self-care and conservatives have prosperity theology. So having the mythologically flavored superhero fight a personification of it is a really fun idea. Rise of Skywalker was a director’s petty grudge towards what he didn’t like of the previous movie and bloated it with fan service. WW84 is straight up military propaganda poo poo in the form of a superhero movie. It’s more painful.
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Loveshaft posted:More DoD propaganda on its way, folks! who tf are the people excited about this
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grate deceiver posted:who tf are the people excited about this The people who voted for Clinton in '16 and then Biden in '20.
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Loveshaft posted:More DoD propaganda on its way, folks! 
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i like how this basically confirms box office doesnt actually matter their streaming revenue must be gangbusters if theyre confirming another sequel after the sudden hostility spike once people could actually see the movie
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https://twitter.com/Rasmussen_Poll/status/1343296426051325953?s=19 one of the boosters for Trump coup talking points is a dude who wrote a Dungeons & Dragons knock-off game, ran gaming website The Escapist, and managed Milo Yiannopoulous's brand (before his destruction at the hands of The Reagan Battalion).
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https://twitter.com/Brandon_Bird/status/1342716929069305856 digging how this was apparently supposed to be seen as a compliment and not a burn
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