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Uncle Boogeyman posted:Semi-sequel it looks like? What I got from watching the trailer with the sound off is it's a Las Vegas heist movie taking place post-zombie apocalypse. Which I'm pretty into. Is money actually worth anything in a post Dawn of the Dead world?
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Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:My favorite thing about the ZSJL saga has been informing people that open matte is a thing that exists, and that by extension all their dads were right about widescreen “having less of the movie” That bit with Batman leading a horse across a mountain convinced me more movies should be shot in 4:3.
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Skwirl posted:Is money actually worth anything in a post Dawn of the Dead world? It was worth something in Land.
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Iirc Army isn’t set in a post apocalypse, there are zombies but the outbreak is contained to Nevada at the start of the movie and the scheme is to get rich by stealing all the money that was left in the casinos during the evacuation, before the government nukes Vegas to the ground to cleanse the infection.
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Lurdiak posted:There's a genuine hateful and toxic section of Snyder fans, ones who've attached themselves to his work as some kind of antidote to the MCU, largely reacionaries who see his work lacking the "wokeness" they perceive in Disney's output. They're the ones he just pissed off, so it's very easy to check that they do, in fact, exist. I'm not saying they control all Snyder discourse but they are definitely part of why it's such a vitriolic topic, and they're not "the lovely part of every fandom" either, they're an outsized section of it. I mean, but this is true of other fandoms and you can check in the exact same way. The people loudly pissed at Brie Larson or "woke" Star Wars casting aren't people who hated Marvel or Star Wars or Disney already and found an excuse to be mad, they are long term fans of these IPs who are lashing out at perceived slights in the exact way the "Geeks and Gamers" or whatever are. You can say Snyder fans perceive something in his work that speaks to them, but I think you can say the same thing about e.g. Tony Stark or guys who dress up like Storm Troopers.
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Skwirl posted:Is money actually worth anything in a post Dawn of the Dead world? Everybody needs money, that's why they call it money.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Unfortunately, the internet of full of people who categorically did not understand it lol that's the other thing, nobody can agree on what his movies are actually about. there are good arguments you can make for just about any reading you want (this is a function of his films being poorly executed and muddled in their message, imho)). that said, all signs point to him being a genuinely nice guy and not an abuser or rapist or shithead, so at least he's got that going for him.
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Guy A. Person posted:I mean, but this is true of other fandoms and you can check in the exact same way. The people loudly pissed at Brie Larson or "woke" Star Wars casting aren't people who hated Marvel or Star Wars or Disney already and found an excuse to be mad, they are long term fans of these IPs who are lashing out at perceived slights in the exact way the "Geeks and Gamers" or whatever are. You can say Snyder fans perceive something in his work that speaks to them, but I think you can say the same thing about e.g. Tony Stark or guys who dress up like Storm Troopers. I actually don't assign blame to Snyder's work for those guys, I'm just saying they've been a loud part of the Snyder discourse these past few years. I'm sure one could go through various media properties and try to make a case for which ones appeal the most to awful reactionaries but at the end of the day it's pretty arbitrary which things they decide are "on their side" and which ones are "get woke go broke". The MCU takes a lot of flack on these boards for its military propaganda aspects, and for the most part that's justified, but these guys still think it's "too woke" because Brie Larson mentioned race and gender in an interview once. And seemingly all it took for them to trun on Snyder was for him to say "love not hate" once.
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Finally watched Minari, as I try to catch up on the best picture nominees. I found it kinda disappointing, in that the movie was the high end of 'good' but short of 'very good'. I think it ends up kinda limited by the auto-biographical element, which means that some of the sharpest ideas don't get sufficiently explored. Examples: (1) Like, the parents work as chicken sexers. The first time David visits, he asks what the smokestack is. Dad comments that it's for the male chicks, who are considered unproductive. So the movie starts with the very sharp idea it's not just you have to be productive or perish, but you have to be valuable to certain people or they will dispose of you. And that's definitely the central tension in the movie, but I feel like they never really push it very far. (2) You have a tension between 'success' and 'family' which isn't resolved, and while the non-resolution is genuine it feels like it isn't really... robust enough if that's the right term. (3) Then there's the fact that the farm's employee is a Korean war vet. Like they do some stuff with it, but I really feel like they needed to do more.
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FreudianSlippers posted:The light of day has revealed that this is a tiny punk rear end erruption that wouldn't harm a fly. Also the place it's in is Geldingadalur, literally "The valley of the castrated". Fitting for how lame it turned out after all that buildup.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Also the place it's in is Geldingadalur, literally "The valley of the castrated". Fitting for how lame it turned out after all that buildup. You have a place called The Valley of the Castrated in your country?
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Lurdiak posted:I actually don't assign blame to Snyder's work for those guys, I'm just saying they've been a loud part of the Snyder discourse these past few years. I'm sure one could go through various media properties and try to make a case for which ones appeal the most to awful reactionaries but at the end of the day it's pretty arbitrary which things they decide are "on their side" and which ones are "get woke go broke". The MCU takes a lot of flack on these boards for its military propaganda aspects, and for the most part that's justified, but these guys still think it's "too woke" because Brie Larson mentioned race and gender in an interview once. I agree with all of this but also feel there's the caveat that you can't trust what a lot of these groups say they believe anyway (i.e. "it's about ethics in games journalism") or what they claim they'll boycott. I wasn't pointing out the MCU/SW/Disney fans as a way to try and sift through which brand has the worst fans which I agree is totally arbitrary, but just that the reason they are passionate about these "betrayals" is that they are (or at least were) fans. Stuff like the dumb videos where they try to show that Don Cheadle and Mark Ruffalo have thinly disguised disgust for Larson isn't just because they want Larson to be hated, they basically want to give themselves permission to still watch Endgame or whatever because they can tell themselves "all the guys I like hate this woke poo poo anyway, they just have to tolerate it because of the sheep"
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Skwirl posted:You have a place called The Valley of the Castrated in your country? iceland seems like living in a much more boring version of dark souls.
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One of the most toxic fanbases of all time was formed around a children's cartoon about ponies. I really don't see any value in criticizing these kinds of things like they're anything anyone can control. When the alternative to people being mean online is a director who erases women and people of color in his work and abuses nearly every woman he works with, the argument becomes about random disordered toxicity versus the institutional kind. Considering releasing the Snyder Cut has been an act that actively attacked the latter, it’s hard for me not to see it as a net benefit. Pirate Jet fucked around with this message at 20:42 on Mar 20, 2021 |
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ruddiger posted:Yeah I’m a CHRISTIAN SCIENTIST ✝️
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Icelandic placenames that include "evil", "death", "kill", or "ghost"
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The Klowner posted:that's the other thing, nobody can agree on what his movies are actually about. there are good arguments you can make for just about any reading you want (this is a function of his films being poorly executed and muddled in their message, imho)). I mean, you can make an argument for just about any reading you want for any work. Some arguments are better supported by the text than others, though. There's 'bad conveyance' and there's 'refusing to watch the movie', the difference is usually pretty stark.
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Laughing Zealot posted:Not in any danger I imagine. It looks like it's gonna be tiny and in a rather remote area so the only ones in danger are the idiots that just to need to see it up close. That's what she said.
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I’m being harassed into posting here again, so maybe I’ll do that. I’ve been trying to take advantage of my Shudder subscription but also haven’t felt like watching anything too traumatizing lately, so I’ve been leaning on bad British stuff from the 70’s. Well, not entirely true. I watched Ganja & Hess a few weeks ago and can’t stop thinking about it. But then I watched Psychomania, which made no goddamn sense but the motorcycle gang’s aesthetic was so good I was rooting for them (even though the film didn’t want me to) and The Vampyres, which was 90 minutes of soft porn that was so boring it felt like it was Snyder Cut length. I guess I’m saying that not even boobs can make a bad British horror movie from the 70’s interesting.
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Psychomania owns bones. The soundtrack is ace and it has a goofy montage of teenagers committing suicide in increasingly far fetched ways.
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The pink lettering on their jackets ruled. Their helmets ruled. Sure, running over the baby was a bit much, but for the most part I had a hard time not thinking I was supposed to be rooting for them.
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Geekboy posted:The pink lettering on their jackets ruled. Their helmets ruled. Sure, running over the baby was a bit much, but for the most part I had a hard time not thinking I was supposed to be rooting for them. Hi!
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Geekboy posted:I’m being harassed into posting here again, so maybe I’ll do that. 
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Pirate Jet posted:One of the most toxic fanbases of all time was formed around a children's cartoon about ponies. I really don't see any value in criticizing these kinds of things like they're anything anyone can control. Still reckon a lot of it is people overcompensating for idolising a director who turned out to be a piece of poo poo on just about every measurable metric as well as bad at his job, while pretty much everyone who's worked with Snyder seems eager to say they'd take a bullet for the guy, Babysitter Super Sleuth posted:Iirc Army isn’t set in a post apocalypse, there are zombies but the outbreak is contained to Nevada at the start of the movie and the scheme is to get rich by stealing all the money that was left in the casinos during the evacuation, before the government nukes Vegas to the ground to cleanse the infection. It's hard to imagine it hasn't been influenced by Dead Rising, it even has a timer.
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When my ma was pregnant with my sister in 1973 she had a proper volcanic erruption drat near in her backyard.   ]Her entire village of 5000+ people had to be evacuated but somehow only one dude died.
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CPL593H posted:I like living in a place that isn't in danger of exploding. Where’s that
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CPL593H posted:I like living in a place that isn't in danger of exploding. The moon?
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Hey man, they're just movies.
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DeimosRising posted:Where’s that Fine. I like living in a place that's not in danger of exploding NATURALLY.
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The Klowner posted:The moon?
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Safety Factor posted:Not if I have my way. Never going to turn down an excuse to post this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTJ3LIA5LmA
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It's wild to me that Bob Odenkirk is now a well known celebrity.
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CPL593H posted:It's wild to me that Bob Odenkirk is now a well known celebrity. I'm super excited about his John Wick movie.
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I said this in the discord but I live in Bob Odenkirk’s son’s condo building and didn’t realize till he (Bob that is) walked onto screen on our condo association zoom meeting lol
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Skwirl posted:I'm super excited about his John Wick movie. John Wick 4: It's Insane, This Guy's Taint Guy A. Person posted:I said this in the discord but I live in Bob Odenkirk’s son’s condo building and didn’t realize till he (Bob that is) walked onto screen on our condo association zoom meeting lol That's pretty wacky and I don't think I would have been able to keep a straight face.
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CPL593H posted:That's pretty wacky and I don't think I would have been able to keep a straight face. I didn’t even have much time to react, I probably put on a confused face and then I spent the last two minutes of the meeting frantically googling his wife and sons name to make sure I wasn’t just imagining things
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Geekboy posted:I’m being harassed into posting here again, so maybe I’ll do that. The Horror Thread could probably give you a lot of great suggestions. La Casa Lobo, The Strange Colour of Your Body's Tears, Knife+Heart, One Cut of the Dead, and Stranger by the Lake are all great, non-traumatic, and on Shudder right now. They also have Asylum if you want to stay
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CPL593H posted:It's wild to me that Bob Odenkirk is now a well known celebrity. It legitimately makes me really happy. It was cool go see in the making of episode of W/ Bob & David that he's still a pretty sharp writer too (he takes a pretty standard David Cross concept and gives it a really funny twist). Odenkirk rules. It's also funny to me when my mom tells me she saw a tv show or movie "with Saul in it".
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