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The Star Wars prequels are just a poor man's Metal Gear prequels.
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Aug 5, 2017 07:14
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Vicissitude posted:Back when I still got stoned and watched MTV, I always wondered about all those rappers and hip hoppers who had tons of Scarface memorabilia and posters hanging up in their places as if he was someone to idolize. I mean, yeah, he came from nothing and made it to the top, but did they completely forget the entire last third of the movie? It does not end well for Mr Montana :s The tragedy is all part of the power fantasy, that being able to live the high life for a bit before it all inevitably comes crashing down is the best a lot of people can hope for, and they know it. (Doesn't help that tends to follow with a lot of African-American history; as soon as people notice you're successful, particularly white people, they're going to try to take it away)
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Aug 14, 2017 07:10
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That made me picture Miles O'Brien.
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Aug 20, 2017 08:07
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Nth Doctor posted:Oh my god. That opening is familiar as hell to me but I have absolutely zero recollection of ever watching this show. What the poo poo, brain? The plots were mostly pretty forgettable. And they changed up nearly the entire supporting cast between the two seasons. (And apparently season 2 was actually made first)
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Aug 30, 2017 19:19
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synthetik posted:If they got the cross licensing in Wreck It Ralph, anything is possible. Anything that can wrangle Disney, Nintendo and Capcom... (Sega, obviously, will put Sonic in anything)
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Aug 30, 2017 19:34
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That was weirdly specific and passive-aggressive, though I can somehow imagine the animators were totally down for it. And it makes sense to have the main and secondary company mascots playing off each other in the only opportunity to do so. Apparently, Betty Boop's appearance in that movie caused a resurgence in her popularity to some extent, as a symbol if not her cartoons themselves.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:16
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CzarChasm posted:IIRC in some of the behind the scenes stuff on Wreck it Ralph Capcom and Nintendo had a back and forth like this during the early Villains meeting. The dailies would come back and Bowser would be a little bigger than M. Bison so Capcom wanted Bison bigger. Then Nintendo wanted Bowser bigger again. It went back and forth a few times. Extra amusing given Bowser's never been the same size twice. And often changes size within games.
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Sep 1, 2017 06:25
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Clown illiteracy is not a laughing matter, I think we all should know this.
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Sep 13, 2017 13:58
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Rev. Bleech_ posted:if only Obi-Wan had seen Raiders of the Lost Ark he'd know how to handle this sort of poo poo He did figure it out eventually.
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Oct 2, 2017 05:22
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Sounds like Lucas missed his calling in animation.
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Oct 2, 2017 07:46
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I recall some of the expanded BTTF stuff has him come from a rich family, and inherited a mansion, which was either burnt down for insurance or sold off for money. In either case he's obviously not lacking for funds for his experiments, and preferring to live relatively simply in a suburban house probably helps.
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Oct 2, 2017 14:30
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To be fair, killing Batman is like, the Nobel Prize of assassination.
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Oct 4, 2017 09:14
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I still like the idea that Yoda's actually a 900 year old human.
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Oct 4, 2017 12:19
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They're obviously beam katanas.
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Oct 5, 2017 12:26
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Luminous flamberges are we.
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Oct 5, 2017 15:47
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I remember that dust storm in Adelaide. It was like the end of the world.
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Oct 7, 2017 11:21
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Sometimes he does a difference voice, like Johnny Blaze as Carney Elvis.
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Oct 30, 2017 06:15
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Maybe if we travelled back in time we'd find out that cavemen did sound exactly like Nicholas Cage.
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Oct 31, 2017 10:14
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Well, Zod was basically in murderous/suicidal rage at that point, and was even less familiar with his powers than Superman. In other versions it depends. Back in the Silver Age he literally trained with Muhammed Ali, and sometimes he uses boxing techniques- makes sense, as it'd be the martial art he'd be most familiar with. Others have him usually learning from experience, and sometimes taking lessons with the martial arts master and skilled warrior who happen to be his friends on the Justice League. It's not often he actually fights people on his power level, most of the time Superman's faced with problems and dilemmas that he has to use his powers and skills intelligently and creatively to overcome. While he's not at Silver Age levels of make-poo poo-up anymore, his heat vision and super-speed tend to be go-tos for precision power use.
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Nov 1, 2017 08:35
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Aleph Null posted:I have often wondered what this phrase means when it isn't code for racism. Like what constitutes "perfect"? Pretty sure the idea outside of racist propaganda is more basically post-serum Steve Rogers from birth instead of vaguely alchemical drugs; zero genetic deformities, disabilities or predisposition to illness, easily developed muscle and resistance to injury and illness; just the healthiest motherfucker that ever did walk the earth. And that's before you get into the yellow sun basically literally supercharging everything. (Wondering if they've ever had Superman not really need to eat because he gets all he needs from yellow sun radiation) (a little ironic given Man of Steel kinda makes a plot point that almost all Kryptonians at that point were genetically engineered for single purposes in society, while Kal-El was conceived and born the traditional way as a middle finger to that convention. But then again, being the children of genetically engineered scientists is still probably gonna be pretty good genes)
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Nov 2, 2017 06:56
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Krispy Wafer posted:I wonder what kind of shits you'd get from only eating yellow sun radiation. The sun literally shines out his rear end in a top hat. Alternatively: what do you think heat vision is?
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Nov 2, 2017 14:26
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Well, there's also his cousin. And for a while in the Silver Age, a friggin' mermaid.
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Nov 3, 2017 17:07
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Sunswipe posted:Batman's committment to saving lives would compel him to bottom if Clark had to gently caress or die. I go into great detail on this in my 57 part fanfiction epic "Batman to Buttman." Star Trek did it first.
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Nov 4, 2017 08:25
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Because it's a King Arthur reference.
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Nov 19, 2017 12:22
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All I've seen of her solo comic is really awful art.
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Nov 21, 2017 17:14
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Antivehicular posted:Isn't it a major point in Inglorious Basterds that, other than Hans Lande, the Nazis are all given nuanced, "heroic"-style characterization (and several fall into distinct war-movie-hero tropes, like the noble self-sacrificing commander and the scared young guy with a wife and baby at home) and that the Basterds themselves are all given broad, crude characterization of the sort used for villains and thugs? At least, I always assumed that was a deliberate choice on Tarantino's part. Oh, absolutely. Hans Landa is basically Nazi Sherlock Holmes and practically the star of the movie.
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Dec 2, 2017 09:36
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Perestroika posted:Dredd was also pretty great about this. Even the randos that just get shot in the face within a second tend to have some pretty unique look to them. There's that fat guy who scarred his own face to look more like Ma-Ma, polo shirt guy who looked as helpless as he was, that dude with the jacket who go thrown down the building, and of course this guy: It's very true to the comics, where even one-off antagonists and many background characters are often colourful people with their own names, outfits and quirks. (kind of a point that everyone in Mega-City 1 is bored to the point of madness and desperate for novelty, often adopting personas and lifestyles just to be different) Schneider Inside Her posted:I liked that about Rogue One. When they get to Scarif the Imperial forces there are really lax and undisciplined. Like old mate has to command them to spur them into action. And it makes sense because the Imperial base on Scarif is a tropical island, so of course everyone there is indulging in too much R & R. It makes sense too, being an isolated heavily guarded top-secret intel facility. The tropical location probably helps the staff not go crazy from boredom. Also funny that the villain of Rogue One clearly tries to have his own supervillain act, with his stand-out white science officer outfit, his own personal elite guard, custom ship and weapon, and spends most of the movie getting clowned on by everyone up to Darth Vader making a dad joke. Seems to be a theme with that and the sequels about how a lot of fascists are just clownish power-grabbers, and that makes them no less dangerous.
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Dec 2, 2017 17:42
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jabby posted:It's an interesting contrast that at the start Landa talks about how much he loves his nickname 'The Jew Hunter'. Then later when talking to Aldo he dismisses the name and implies he only works for the Nazis because they're the only game in town. It makes it impossible to work out his true feelings, other than being a ruthless self-serving pragmatist who'll say whatever he thinks will serve his purposes best. The second time does happen after a timeskip to later in the war where things aren't going as great for the Nazis IIRC (even before we get alternate history), so it might indicate him trying to distance himself from what's likely to soon become a bad reputation to say the least.
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Dec 4, 2017 12:54
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Baron von Eevl posted:I think Landa needs to feel like he's winning, and everything, every interaction, every conversion he needs to be beating someone or outsmarting them or manipulating them in some way. He revels in hunting humans, and he revels in toying with them before he kills them. The fun part is we've all known people like this, and they are absolutely insufferable. Now imagine one with a license to kill.
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Dec 5, 2017 11:48
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Landa's basically a case of not realising what kind of movie he's in. Or how much people have come to really, really hate the Nazis. He thinks his daring adversaries will respect his chutzpah and... well, forgets he's a Nazi.
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Dec 5, 2017 15:38
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jabby posted:Landa is also fundamentally a game theorist. He relies on putting people in positions where the only logical course of action is to give him what he wants. Unfortunately for him Aldo is more than happy to suffer negative consequences himself in order to see Landa get what's coming to him. Which is exactly where game theory falls apart. I mean, the whole point of the Basterds is that they're expendable and off the grid to the point of willing to be suicide bombers and their entire shtick is war crimes to terrorise and brutalise the Nazis. It's a kind of warfare that's as old as time but established states still can never quite wrap their heads around, and the Nazis are all about their rules and decorum.
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Dec 6, 2017 07:03
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I think the whole point of that scene was the ambiguity, the paranoia, and how terrifying a powerful Nazi is for someone who knows she'll be executed if he does remember her. He flaunts his power over people, and the end is him being on the receiving end of someone who has power over him and doesn't care about the consequences of their actions.
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Dec 8, 2017 08:54
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Aleph Null posted:Isn't that her canon name from the comics and cartoons? She wasn't in the comics or cartoons. IIRC, Mona Lisa was created for the live-action series, and very unpopular. They've recycled the name for use on characters unrelated to the turtles, in the most recent cartoon an alien lizard lady who Raphael is smitten with but can't pronounce the name of, so he decides to call her the name of a woman famous for her beauty. Like, I think Eastman and Laird, before they sold the rights, had promised they would never use Mona Lisa again.
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Dec 21, 2017 06:15
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I keep mixing names up, but yeah, Venus de Milo is the Scrappy Doo of TMNT. Oddly enough the latest cartoon actually has April O'Neil end up playing a similar role and actually fits it much better.
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Dec 23, 2017 06:12
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Cu Chulainn posted:Close, but Lanipator is the voice of abridged Vegeta. Kaiser is one of their writers/editors KaiserNeko got to use his Nappa voice for a custom character voice in one of the recent DBZ games, right?
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Jan 17, 2018 00:30
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I have to wonder how he hosed up The Last Airbender so badly. I'm guessing it was more cases of 'My ideas are better than the silly cartoon's ideas'.
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Jan 21, 2018 07:28
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Rocko's Modern Life is basically a brutal social satire of modern capitalism in the guise of a children's cartoon. The fishing episode gave me existential dread as a child.
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Jan 21, 2018 14:42
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Sorry, was being obvious. In retrospect it's right there; the episode where Ed Bighead ends up rocketing through the corporate ladder out of sheer luck because he takes advice from a magic meatball (like a magic 8-ball, but... meat) where hard work and competence failed, and loses it just as quickly when left to this own devices. Or the Spring Cleaning episode where everyone makes an effort to clean up their own space, but it's pointless with how Conglom-O is polluting the town and owns the government, and it takes Rocko's idealistic activism to get them to cut down and make the town liveable again. Even the episode where Rocko's home videos, including one where he's naked getting a midnight snack, are turned into a commercial art film without his knowledge or informed consent, and he has to deal with his private life being made public for entertainment. drat, that show has aged terrifyingly well.
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I keep mixing up Mel Gibson and Russel Crowe in my head.
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Jan 27, 2018 08:50
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