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zoux posted:No! Richard Chamberlain is the only John Blackthorne!!!! I'm certainly not the right person to judge, but I read them over the course of the last few years and only Whirlwind came across as particularly racist which might have something to do with it being written so close to the Iranian revolution so the wounds were still pretty fresh. In Noble House, where you get the most comparisons between Western and Eastern behavior, class and wealth are the much starker behavior demarcations than race. There's plenty of petty, greedy Chinese in the book but it comes off more as the situations they're in requires them to hard scrabble to survive. Both the rich Westerners and Easterners act just as petty and greedy at times but their wealth and power allow them to hide behind a veneer of civility.
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Chubby Henparty posted:Not well connected, but made me think to ask: Did Strange Angel (birth of american rocketry/crowley sex cult show) go anywhere interesting? Which seems like a strange question given the setup but after a few episodes didn't really seem to be making the most of it. I liked it well enough. It's too bad that they won't get to explore the guy that showed up in the very last scene (L Ron Hubbard), and I think there'd also be more drama and intrigue to mine from German scientists coming to the US and the Cold War kicking off in earnest I actually like the fact that the occult wasn't really something that they dug into really deeply, and more treated as a somewhat faddish thing that people projected their own drama on. Interest in the occult came and went and had its own trends, and attracted people who were curious and willing to believe in lots of different stuff. Jack Parsons sounds like one of those people. Very curious, willing to dip into whatever well of ideas presented itself to him from rocketry to pacifism and Crowley to zionism. And I'm sure he was convinced of his true belief in all of them, and that his sex cult stuff had great occult value
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zoux posted:No! Richard Chamberlain is the only John Blackthorne!!!! I don't know about racist, but Shogun was written in a way where the Europeans came off as savage, dirty, unwashed barbarians, and by the mid point Blackthorne has become so enamored with Japanese culture he sees himself as one of them and his old crew as a bunch of dirty monkeys. In Noble House one of the "antagonists" is the American with the big wallet who wants to come over and swing his dick around, making promises he has no intention of keeping which is a huge faux pas in Hong Kong. In general the books treat outsiders to the culture with contempt and sort of fawn over the complex web of customs and rituals that make up the Asian society in question. pentyne fucked around with this message at 23:26 on May 25, 2021 |
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EricBauman posted:I liked it well enough. It's too bad that they won't get to explore the guy that showed up in the very last scene (L Ron Hubbard), and I think there'd also be more drama and intrigue to mine from German scientists coming to the US and the Cold War kicking off in earnest If that interests you, I'd recommend the book The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott. It has a few plots at once but one of them is the 1930s West Coast sci-fi scene with Parsons, Heinlein, and Hubbard, and another storyline involves Crowley and Ian Fleming, and it covers stuff like the Contactees, Posadists, Jonestown eventually, Cuban Revolution, UFO coverups... really great 20th century conspiracy/occult/sci-fi book.
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May 25, 2021 23:26
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So, according to CW CEO the reason they passed on the Powerpuff Girls pilot was that it was "too campy." Which, come on, its the Powerpuff Girls.
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May 25, 2021 23:59
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Wait, they canceled Strange Angel right after L Ron Hubbard showed up? 
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muscles like this! posted:So, according to CW CEO the reason they passed on the Powerpuff Girls pilot was that it was "too campy." Which, come on, its the Powerpuff Girls. "Too campy" coming from the network that produces Riverdale https://twitter.com/karazorlls/status/1397010155766796291
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Euphoriaphone posted:"Too campy" coming from the network that produces Riverdale Oh wow that's bad lol
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May 26, 2021 00:28
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Euphoriaphone posted:"Too campy" coming from the network that produces Riverdale Tbh I don't see the problem with writing a villain that way.
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May 26, 2021 00:43
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There are other screencapped pages floating around, and they are awful
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May 26, 2021 00:45
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Why are they even trying to make a live-action version?
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May 26, 2021 00:56
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Because the concept is stupid enough to get people talking about it which is the main way to generate interest nowadays i guess
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May 26, 2021 01:01
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Latest episode of Mythic Quest was awesome. This season is great. It's really cool that they haven't fallen into the trap of Flanderising the characters and they're instead unpacking them more and making them more human. I loved the "I'm giving you that opportunity now" scene
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I feel like "live action Powerpuff Girls" is an idea no one really thought out that much and then when they made it they got exactly what would come from that but it was either a mess or a nightmare. I hope we get a chance to see it, whatever it is.
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May 26, 2021 01:03
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Mr Inbetween S3 starts tonight
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May 26, 2021 01:03
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gently caress yeah
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May 26, 2021 01:16
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Me, a white male writer in Hollywood, you know what would be a great vehicle to burst the lib woke atmosphere smothering Hollywood, the Powerpuff Girls
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May 26, 2021 01:25
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look, no offense, there are many talented actressi in the world but none of them have anywhere near large enough heads to ever successfully portray a powerpuff girl in any convincing or worthwhile capacity.
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May 26, 2021 01:35
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Any live action Powerpuff Girls that doesn't cast Lisa Kudrow, Courtney Cox and Jennifer Aniston is a failure on its face
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May 26, 2021 03:05
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Anyone else watching In Treatment? The first three seasons are some of my favorite TV -- just some of the best acting I've seen from some of the plotlines. The fourth season replaces Gabriel Byrne with Uzo Aduba and it very consciously takes place during May 2021. It's pretty good! The patients this season each seem interesting (and well acted as always, looking forward to seeing what they do with John Benjamin Hickey) and the writing can be a little strained but isn't bad.
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May 26, 2021 03:20
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I guess it was probably known but Evil Season 2 is going to be Paramount+ exclusive which really bums the Mrs. and me out. We binged the first season over quarantine and it became such a guilty pleasure show full of 'what the gently caress was that!' moments.
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Shageletic posted:Me, a white male writer in Hollywood, you know what would be a great vehicle to burst the lib woke atmosphere smothering Hollywood, the Powerpuff Girls Wasn't it written by Diablo Cody?
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Open Source Idiom posted:Wasn't it written by Diablo Cody? Oof, no wonder it was bad
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Sorting Algorithms posted:Ali G was created in 1998, he's so old that bringing him back now would be like if somebody made a Bob & Doug Mackenzie or Mr Bill revival the same year that Ali G In Da House came out. He's such a specific type of chav caricature, I can't really see it working in 2021 the same way especially when almost 20 years ago that character was at their peak and they still couldn't get a movie to work. Ignoring how problematic the comedy character of an ethnically ambiguous man talking about being in a gang and going "West Side" and "keep it real" with a patois is, that caricature is now two generations out of date and even old people have moved on from being mad about gangster rap to being outraged about Lil Nas X doing tepid satanic imagery and borrowing marketing gimmicks from KISS so there's no real satirical edge to Ali G. yeah it'd be like making another bill & ted or jurassic park or bringing bruno back idk man
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Toxic Fart Syndrome posted:yeah it'd be like making another bill & ted or jurassic park or bringing bruno back idk man Two bad movies and a movie that was entirely about the main characters being old and out of touch, sounds like we're in agreement then.
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May 26, 2021 05:35
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Ali G 100% would not work today lmao
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Chairman Capone posted:If that interests you, I'd recommend the book The House of Rumour by Jake Arnott. It has a few plots at once but one of them is the 1930s West Coast sci-fi scene with Parsons, Heinlein, and Hubbard, and another storyline involves Crowley and Ian Fleming, and it covers stuff like the Contactees, Posadists, Jonestown eventually, Cuban Revolution, UFO coverups... really great 20th century conspiracy/occult/sci-fi book. That sounds interesting, thanks!
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oh my GOD the Chad finale  bahahahaha gently caress me
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Simone Magus posted:Oof, no wonder it was bad Nah. JUNO is whatever but TULLY, YOUNG ADULT and JENNIFER'S BODY are good. The problem is that she's a 40-something woman writing pop-culture savvy 20-somethings and it doesn't work. Not to mention trying to make a rapid-fire cartoon work in live action is a fool's errand. It would be like trying to do a live action ANIMANIACS or something.
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Juno is good outside of those two awful scenes (the Rainn Wilson one and the first Olivia Thirlby one) but because they’re both super early on in the movie it’s kind of come to be defined by them. Everything with Bateman and Garner, and with Juno’s parents, is excellent
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Ive never seen a movie be so immensely popular and well regarded to 6 months later being despised than Juno.
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Looten Plunder posted:Ive never seen a movie be so immensely popular and well regarded to 6 months later being despised than Juno. I'm largely indifferent to it, but it was one of those movies where there's one major criticism and it was just endlessly repeated.
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May 26, 2021 11:50
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School forced us to watch it. Also Twilight.
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sparksbloom posted:Anyone else watching In Treatment? The first three seasons are some of my favorite TV -- just some of the best acting I've seen from some of the plotlines. The fourth season replaces Gabriel Byrne with Uzo Aduba and it very consciously takes place during May 2021. It's pretty good! The patients this season each seem interesting (and well acted as always, looking forward to seeing what they do with John Benjamin Hickey) and the writing can be a little strained but isn't bad. Absolutely loved it when it first came on and currently restarted watching it from the beginning. I lost interest in the 2nd season just due to the number of eps originally but I def wanna get to the reboot? Is that whats happening? Theres a splash of a new actor on the series page on Max.
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Yeah it’s basically a reboot. I want to watch it too but it is a LOT of episodes
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MiddleOne posted:School forced us to watch it. Also Twilight. Did they even discuss abortions in that movie? It felt weirdly conservative
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May 26, 2021 13:17
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Yeah she gets freaked out by the idea that it has fingernails
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Shageletic posted:Did they even discuss abortions in that movie? It felt weirdly conservative It's written by a devout Mormon and its sexual politics are horrifyingly regressive. That being said, those movies are alright if you can out that aside and deal with a good amount of soapiness.
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Lol I was talking about Juno but thanks for the info about Twilight makes sense.
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