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I had watched Firefly over ten years ago and after seeing Cowboy Bebop, and Firefly always felt rough and uneven. I liked where I thought they were trying to go with it, but it never really came together. I still enjoyed the show, but I liked the movie much more. I recently rewatched a couple of episodes and found them boring. Also, I recently saw several Buffy episodes and the entirety of Angel. While Angel is much better than Buffy, I still found it mostly uninteresting. I kind of want to rewatch Cabin in the Woods, which I liked in the theater, but I'm hesitant now with my poor reception to all his other stuff.
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Koalas March posted:Unironically love loving Blade. I liked Spawn a lot as a kid too (not a lot of black heroes back then, although Will Smith in MIB was a big one for me) but Spawn definitely does not hold up omg Blade 1 and 2 are great movies. I wish Snipes would have paid his taxes. I watched Spawn and it was terrible. I then completely forgot I watched the movie, liked Michael Jai White in other things, and watched Spawn, again. It was still terrible.
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OutOfPrint posted:The best western is a lovely motel. I appreciated this, thanks
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purple death ray posted:The problem with an Archie Bunker type character is that if the show gets popular and runs long enough, the audience likes them, they inevitably become the good guys. Then the characters who are trying to make him less hateful become strawmen and punching bags for him to dunk on while the studio audience gives him a standing ovation. poo poo look at Cartman on South Park, the obnoxious nazi who then gets put on t-shirts and gets to say all the funny lines, and everyone forgets that he's supposed to be a shithead barely tolerated by his friends. Then screaming about killing Jews becomes this wacky thing that's just kids being kids. Pop Culture Detective did a good episode that covered part of this (the whole thing is good, the "normalizing" part starts around 7:00) https://youtu.be/1r3FkR5rziY Basically, if a main character is consistently written with bad traits (even if we are supposed to initially see them as wrong), then the fact that they do not grow or change, face no real consequences, and still have their friends who will vouch for how they are good despite those traits all serves to normalize these bad traits.
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Beachcomber posted:It's always fascinating how these false impressions get stuck in the collective consciousness. "Play it again, Sam"
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Antifa Turkeesian posted:His performative liberal feminism is getting weaker. Now he’s making a movie about how suffrage is good and how women should be allowed formal education. Probably with at least one shower scene and eight minutes of feet. I thought feet was Tarantino. Is that a Whedon thing too?
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Toshimo posted:Hell yeah. I know it's a comic book so there are no actual rules, but I assume fast superheroes can survive the massive acceleration because of magic, but do they also have the ability to share this magic with everything that they touch? Sometimes they do a lot of damage to people because they are punching them at the speed of sound, but other times they rescue someone by moving them at super speeds and that person doesn't die of internal bleeding.
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Promoted Pawn posted:I mean the whole concept of the superpower starts with throwing out fundamental laws of physics so it’s probably correct to just get weird with it and explain as little as possible. Which I get, it's that they will also bring in the laws of physics as it suits them. So someone throwing a punch at super speed does huge damage because kinetic energy equals mass times velocity squared. Or in Ant-Man (which I did enjoy) where they go out of their way to say the number of atoms is the same, they are only reducing the space in between. Which means the guy is carrying around the mass of a tank on his keychain.
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Apr 14, 2020 19:42
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hard counter posted:excuse me, KE equals half the mass times velocity squared  I was going to write "proportional to velocity squared", because that's all that matters in this case, but then figured I should write the whole thing out. Turns out I haven't used that equation in a long time.
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Apr 14, 2020 22:09
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Jedit posted:There is a long standing story that VHS beat out Betamax and Blu-Ray beat HD-DVD because the adult film industry preferred those formats. I haven't heard the Blu-ray one before, but I was under the impression that the VHS one is a myth Wikipedia posted:While it has been claimed that VHS won over Betamax due to the greater availability of pornographic movies on the format, the evidence on hand suggests that pornographic availability did not have a major influence.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:The marching dudes aren't throwing that tiny rock. They raise a wall to block a lovely little slow flame blast - they're just dancing around for no reason. The little rock is some guy off screen preparing a throw. The throw is also lovely, little, and slow. It's just impossible to follow because the camera is lazily bobbing backwards, so you see the rocks before you see the person bending them. Is this what set the template for modern superhero movies? This is a really bad and boring fight scene that seems to rely completely on the CGI wow-factor.
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May 28, 2020 13:21
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Krispy Wafer posted:That's what I look for in a doctor, an rear end in a top hat whose correct at least 51% of the time. I've only seen bits and pieces of House years ago and my impression was that he was the smart rear end in a top hat trope. I had no interest in seeing more of it as I'm generally against things that endorse the belief that it's ok to be terrible to people as long as you
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May 28, 2020 21:24
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Len posted:I watched Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter for the first time in over a decade and man did a lot of the humor in that not age well It's been about fifteen years since I watched it. I remember it as the title being the best part of the movie, so I can believe that it has aged poorly.
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muscles like this! posted:The latest Rambo movie is him murdering a bunch of cartel guys who rape and kill a female character that was introduced in this movie to give motivation to the male character. So no.
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Cage posted:I admit I still kept reading the wiki summary after it listed the 2nd character as a sex slave robot that gets the crew out of trouble with "good in bed" but then the 3rd character was this: You made it further than me. The general setting summary sounded fine, then the name of the first character was "Chode McBlob" and the second character was a sex slave and I stopped.
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The 99 Percent Invisible podcast just did a recent episode talking about the history of movie theaters and the effects it had on the types of movies being made. They also publish it as an article on the webpage, if you want to read it and not listen to it https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-megaplex/
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Apr 20, 2021 15:47
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I tried Farscape a few years ago and dropped it after a few episodes. I've been thinking about trying it again and a guide like this does seem helpful. I'm not quite sure about the priorities of the writer though. quote:we see Aeryn almost naked
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What the hell is this? I remember it being a show when I was a kid, but nothing specific. This is terrible.
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May 12, 2021 19:00
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Pop Culture Detective had a decent YouTube video on this topic, including Barney as an example.
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Cleretic posted:I took a class on Shakespeare and adaptations of it at university, and one of the few things I remember is that Taming of the Shrew is so weirdly sexist even for Shakespeare (who wasn't great with female characters, but usually better than that) that there's legitimate theory that maybe it was just extremely sarcastic, similar to the theory that Romeo and Juliet might've been intended as a comedy about lovely teens that we've been accidentally reading seriously. I'm not familiar with Taming of the Shrew, other than recognizing the name. I had always assumed "shrew" referred to the animal. Wikipedia posted:The main plot depicts the courtship of Petruchio and Katherina, the headstrong, obdurate shrew. Initially, Katherina is an unwilling participant in the relationship; however, Petruchio "tames" her with various psychological torments, such as keeping her from eating and drinking, until she becomes a desirable, compliant, and obedient bride. That sounds terrible.
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Kruller posted:I had that same thing with The Monster Squad. I had to turn it off after 5 minutes because people had been called fags or homos multiple times. I just watched (possibly rewatched) this a few days ago. Lots of casual homophobia thrown around. Also, the group of kids took photographs of one of their sisters undressing and they use those photos to blackmail her into helping them.
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The biggest problem is that Joker is an aggressively uninteresting villain but for some reason the games don't know this.
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Martman posted:Actually Arkham Knight finds a goofy, but still very comic booky reason to have the Joker around as a pretty good version of himself! He gets to spend a lot of time, you know, actually telling jokes and annoying Batman, instead of just being the worst version of the Joker, "guy who commits brutal violence while laughing very loudly" I played Asylum and City and then tapped out partway through Origins (partly because I was getting tired of the same game type and partly because Joker was starting to become a big part of that game too). I had bought Knight too when it they were all on sale, so maybe I'll have to try it sometime when I feel that type of game again knowing that it's not the same Joker shtick.
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duck trucker posted:I have nothing major to add other than to reiterate that the Harley Quinn show is as good as everyone is saying. They even make you love a character named Kite Man by the end. Agreed. I never would have thought to watch it if it wasn't for this forum, and it was great. Also, them showing the Joker as a sad and annoying rear end in a top hat is one of the best depictions of Joker that I have seen. jjack229 has a new favorite as of 15:30 on Nov 18, 2021 |
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HopperUK posted:ME2 originally had a lot of really irritating male-gaze camera work around the character of Miranda. I think they altered it a bit in the recent remasters, though I haven't gotten around to playing those yet. Is Mass Effect the one that has the female character in a bikini, but it's for story reasons because she breathes (or drinks?) through her skin? Or is that the other series that I always confuse with Mass Effect?
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Burkion posted:to explain for those who genuinely don't know, any time the camera can shove itself directly into her crevice, it absolutely does so. In ME3, you have an entire shot reverse shot conversation with her, but the reverse shot is the low rear end angle, so literally she is talking out of her own rear end. How come no one told me that Mass Effect was just Ace Ventura The Video Game?
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Torquemada posted:ScreenRant brand which exists only to make z-tier jokes about celebrities and those 25 THINGS YOU MISSED IN SPIDERMAN NO WAY HOME clickbait things. I thought that was all ScreenRant was. I didn't realize they had any good content.
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My partner wanted to re-read the Dresden Files, which I had never heard of, so we listened to a few to them together. They are hot garbage. Every time a new female character is introduced the narrator/main character spends a long time describing her physical appearance and how much he would like to gently caress them. One of the books has the narrator say the following: quote:She looked up at me with a polite smile, her dark hair long and appealing, her shirt cut just low enough to make you notice, but not so low as to make you think less of her.
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LIVE AMMO COSPLAY posted:It's still in service of showing how hard war is on our boys instead of the people getting bombed I see that a lot in Vietnam War stories. That the US soldiers were also a victim of the war is true, but they often veer into the US soldiers were the real victims of the war, which is absurd.
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Tiggum posted:I gave up on this one after, I think, the third time it took all my weapons away just as I was starting to have fun? Also the flying robot enemies were annoying as gently caress. I enjoyed the game, but it did feel like they had multiple different groups design it and to avoid continuity issues with what weapons were or were not available, they just defaulted to take away everything.
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Absurd Alhazred posted:Ajax is the one that follows through with it the most, but I think others stated and acted on similar sentiments. I mean, Swan uses it as a threat with Mercy, if memory serves. I just rewatched it recently, and it was still fun, but more rapey than I remembered. At one point the group was walking through the park and Ajax wanted to rape the woman who was sitting alone. The other members objected, not on moral grounds, but because they didn't have enough time in their schedule. They didn't stop Ajax, they just left him behind. "Warriors, come out to play" still rocks though.
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Ravenfood posted:I rewatched Ghostbusters for the first time in 20 years or so last night and Jesus christ that movie aged like absolute rear end. Bill Murray's character is a huge loving creep who Signourney Weaver inexplicably likes despite catching on to his creepiness immediately, there is a weird ghost blow job scene, the jokes are almost all flat, terrible, or both, and everything is just all around uncomfortable. We rewatched it earlier this year before watching the new one. There are still buts and pieces that I like of the first two, but there are tons of rough spots, including how much of a creep Murray's character is.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:I really like John Dies at the End's take on demons. I remember enjoying the first book well enough when I read it years ago. Does it hold up and are the sequels any good?
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Thomamelas posted:The first time I saw him was Newsradio and he killed it. But that show was stacked with talented people. Also it had Andy Dick and Joe Rogan. We just finished with the last season of Barry and he did a great job in that role, but I still called him "Jimmy James" whenever I couldn't remember the character's name.
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Like just compare Arnie and Patrick in T2 to how most other people play Terminators - they come across as actual inhuman machines, while most actors just come across bored or stoic. Nailing that performance is actually really difficult. Robert Patrick really nailed that role. I had watched T2 many times before seeing the Westworld movie. I read somewhere that Patrick based his approach off Yul Brynner's, and I can believe; they both had great performances.
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BOOTY-ADE posted:Maybe the opposite of "media that didn't age well" but I figured I'd share anyways: Bill Cosby. I was just talking about this with someone the other day. I grew up listening to him as my parents had a few of his albums in vinyl records. It was some of the funniest standup. I had meant to listen to them again as an adult, but once the info about him came out, there was no going back to that.
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