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CRINDY posted:Every time Elf Parkour happened I burst out laughing. Orcs have a STR bonus while elves have a DEX bonus. It’s just science. I liked how low-key animalistic the elves were, actually. The movie kind of implies that they have orc-like senses of smell and they’re always pouncing and clinging to walls and stuff.
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Dec 26, 2017 19:25
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It seems like being a Bright means NOT having magic of your own but just being able to survive/control any of the extremely rare examples of magic which you might run into out in the world. That’s why Tikka seemed convinced she could do something with that pool of water (teleport?) and probably why Leilah could summon the wand to her hands or regenerate while close enough to it. Or maybe the regeneration was some kind of contingency she put on herself before lending out the wand. I think the movie did a pretty good job of making it look like there were rules, but nobody who wasn’t a weirdo elf arcanist knew them. So we see people openly fantasizing about unlimited wish fulfillment but then in practice the wand has some kind of internal cooldown, Tikka starts dying from the strain of using it too dramatically, etc.
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Dec 26, 2017 19:51
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Magic doesn’t low key hypnotize people. It’s just extremely rare, arcane (in the sense of secret and esoteric), dangerous, and contingent on external sources of leverage. There’s still hospitals and farms and things because actual sources of magical power are few, far between, and closely guarded, and also because magic has limitations and costs that most people don’t understand.
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Dec 26, 2017 20:02
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Jesus was an elven sorcerer who tried to use his dark power to seize control of the mortal world. Bright posits an alternate history in which someone stopped him.
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Dec 27, 2017 20:37
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Under the vegetable posted:It's much smarter than Crash and I've yet to be convinced that anyone who sees this movie as racist is correct, rather than having racism so deeply ingrained into them that they see everything colored through their own stereotyping The thing is, David Ayer is like an otaku but for MS-13.
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Dec 28, 2017 06:32
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Alhazred posted:Bright is not one of those movies though. We have no idea why the elves are the bad guys or why one elf decided to leave the evil gang for example. Yes we do. There's a cult of elvish dark lord worshipers, but a member of the cult fell in with a competing, opposed cult instead.
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Dec 28, 2017 20:37
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Landis's original script where you can just sit down and learn magic if you do enough homework sounds way lamer than the movie we got.
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Dec 28, 2017 20:39
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We also never learn why the blue haired Magic Fed didn't become a line cook or how that centaur got his job.
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Dec 29, 2017 20:49
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There’s like 0% chance that somebody who positions themselves around “worldbuilding mistakes” actually has anything to say. It’s invariably some “PLOT HOLE: Despite being designed to be servants by scientists, replicants are disobedient” poo poo.BrianWilly posted:I feel like a wee bit of this is a wee bit too nitpicky because...well, even though the worldbuilding is in fact kinda weird and makes no sense, this is really only a noticeable problem because the rest of the film isn't compelling or well-written enough to distract from that sort of thing. By which I mean, no one would really give a crap about out-of-place Shrek jokes if only the story surrounding that joke was less balls. Hell, he might be slaughtering a person for all we know.
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Feb 4, 2018 16:29
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My suspicion is that the Dark Lord was actually Christlike and the members of the grand alliance of nine races that stopped him or her were the baddies.
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Feb 4, 2018 20:29
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porfiria posted:Obviously, the implication is that Jesus WAS the Dark Lord, leading the oppressed races (Orcs/Germanic tribes) against the Romans/Elves. Noomi is trying to bring him back because she's a Jew for Jesus and...I'm bored now I'm gonna go eat some Chipotle. She’s trying to bring him back for the same reason that American evangelicals are attempting to resummon Jesus IRL.
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Orcs aren’t stand-ins for black people. They’re a hypothetical ethnic group even lower on the American racial totem pole than black people are.
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