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Really that thing is an alien, it isn't even a mammal, so it's a mistake to assume that that substance was milk.
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Jan 6, 2018 00:09
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I don't hate them, but I watched the Star Wars prequel reviews, realized that I could've watched 2-3 actual movies during that time and just formed my own opinions about the prequels, and I became Enlightened.
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Jan 10, 2018 17:57
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Hunting is in a weird place in America where it is strongly associated with the right wing and the gun lobby, but also is actually necessary in a lot of cases to cull animal populations whose predators we have depleted over the past few hundred years, or which were never native to the US to begin with. In addition, hunters tend to go out in the woods and experience nature and see animals and death up close in a way most people don't anymore, which leads to them caring more about wilderness preservation. There are a lot of dumb redneck rear end in a top hat hunters who sit in deer stands with beer and shoot animals drawn to the bait they laid out, but there are also serious woodsmen who hunt for reasons that are noble and ultimately hard to understand for people like me, who have never killed anything bigger than a large cockroach. Ultimately you get this dichotomy that's really weird to us, but probably wouldn't have been 150 years ago. Teddy Roosevelt was a huge proponent of conservation and he probably killed more things than the plague.
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Feb 25, 2018 20:59
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My theory about Ready Player One is that you like or dislike it based mostly on how exposed to the internet you are. I think regular people who are not actively part of big internet communities mostly see pop culture callbacks once a week on Big Bang Theory or the occasional facebook meme. They don't get exposed to all the extremely awful nostalgia trash we do because people in real life don't talk about their favorite Skeletor memes. They're still innocent enough to enjoy occasional callbacks to their youth because they aren't getting a constant flow of that from the internet. The rest of us know who GamemasterAnthony is and we've seen pictures from Tumblr conventions and we were sick of nostalgia callbacks ten years ago. More and more people are going to get to that point as movies continue to be saturated with remakes and reboots of 80s-90s properties and more and more Big Bang Theory spin-offs get made. Like, there are people out there who are deeply attached to the lore of Rainbow Bright and the places they go to talk about it are online. If you don't know those people and don't go to those places, you don't develop the instant reflexive disgust that wanton nostalgia fanfic induces in people like me, and you still get the little "I recognize that!" moment when someone brings up a thing you used to like. If the movie can keep that fire stoked for two hours you will love it. Cool Dad fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Mar 17, 2018 |
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Mar 17, 2018 01:55
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feedmyleg posted:Nah, it was because the concept was a guy who gets sucked into the world of the Monopoly board game and that sounds dumb as hell Isn't the world of Monopoly just Atlantic City?
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Mar 26, 2018 18:03
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JBP posted:What is the popular American take on Full Metal Jacket? About twenty years ago I worked with a guy who was an extremely ooh-rah former marine drill instructor. I mentioned Full Metal Jacket as a good movie, and his response was "That's not a good movie, it's a lie." so make of that what you will.
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Apr 16, 2018 03:16
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BravestOfTheLamps posted:"Deadpool fans" is a funny concept, because that basically encompasses normal people. Deadpool is super-mainstream. Normal people like the Deadpool movies. "Deadpool fans" are something else entirely.
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May 28, 2018 00:38
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I never really considered that 300 might be satirical, though I only saw it once shortly after it came out. I think it's because it isn't at any point presented as tongue-in-cheek. Like, Starship Troopers has WWII style propaganda videos of kids stomping on cockroaches. There isn't anything like that in 300. Maybe I'm just a dumbo and I needed someone to wink at the camera but presenting the Spartans as perfect bronze warriors and the Persians as twisted decadent monsters seemed pretty straightforward to me.
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May 30, 2018 23:48
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Jun 18, 2018 22:59
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That's what I do, I've had Moviepass twice, once before everyone knew about it and again when it dropped to ten dollars. Both times I realized there aren't usually two movies a month I want to see in a theater. It turns out that two hours of my time is too much to pay for most movies. Also, theaters are a hassle and there wasn't a fancy comfortable one that Moviepass worked with here.
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Jul 29, 2018 04:10
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In a surprise twist, Lin Manuel Miranda plays Linda Hamilton
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Aug 1, 2018 22:42
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If these are the sort of "Western anime" thing that Castlevania is they could be really good. Castlevania was great. I say this as an anime hater.
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Nov 8, 2018 15:21
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CharlestheHammer posted:Castlevania was pretty standard anime so you may actually like anime friend By all means, show me some anime that is like Castlevania and I'll check it out. I would love to enjoy anime as much as other nerds do. However if it has weirdly sexualized girls who look and sound like children or obnoxious "cute" sidekicks or characters who talk like they've been huffing helium I'm going to hate it.
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Nov 8, 2018 16:30
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I guess we're just assuming that casting an Indian dude to portray an Indian character in a non-offensive way is out of the question, huh 
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Nov 8, 2018 22:33
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There's loads of awful, problematic poo poo in western comics and literature, and I try to avoid it there too. I'm sure that there's probably really good stuff in anime, although I am really skeptical that any of it has what I would consider good English dialog. Every single bit of Japanese anything I've ever seen translated has dialog that's stiff and unnatural, at best. I assume it's a lot better in Japanese and just doesn't translate smoothly to English. Here, I'm going to try to analyze my reaction to anime and post a bunch of words, probably ignore the rest of this post. From my outside perspective, all anime comes in two visual styles: "cute" and "detailed" let's call them. I'm sure that anime fans will tell me that there are lots of styles and that they have actual names but I don't really care, this is entirely my subjective experience. "Cute" anime are the ones I see gross steam sex games made out of. It seems to mostly be scantily clad girls with weirdly infantilized features and it's the visual equivalent of nails on a chalkboard for me. I've seen bits of One Piece, which seems to be in some version of that style, and it literally causes me physical discomfort for reasons I can't really pinpoint. Especially that one guy who's mouth opens way too wide. Or do all of them do that? I dunno. The other style can be pretty and I would assume if I like anything, it will be in there because it isn't totally repulsive to me. Usually these seem cool, have decent animation and interesting designs, and then there's a female character with giant eyes and an ultrasonic voice and it takes me completely out of the show. I think it may just be a cultural thing that I'll never grasp, I don't know. I just can't take it seriously, even if it isn't cheesecake. I watched that trailer for Vampire Hunter D and it looked kind of neat, but then there's this weird deformed girl on the screen and I found it unpleasant. I really liked Castlevania, but I didn't watch it until I found out Warren Ellis wrote it (I like Ellis, gently caress the haters). The female characters in that don't fall into the anime stereotypes, and I really enjoyed it. I also really liked Spirited Away, which also didn't do any of that stuff. I haven't seen other Studio Ghibli stuff, but I think I'd probably like that too if I ever get around to it. I'd really love to understand my distaste for anime in general because I try to be very open to new things and other cultures, but sometimes it seems like anime touched me inappropriately when I was a child.
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Nov 9, 2018 00:35
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I think the pedophilia thing stands out not because there's so much of it, but that what there is is so blatant. American media for the most part has a pretty zero tolerance policy about that, it's one of our strictest taboos as a culture, but when it shows up in some lovely hentai it's right there, front and center. There's enough hentai child porn that there's a word for it. Add to that that a lot of anime seems to be about teenage girls and big eyes are a feature Americans associate with children and it all starts to get clumped together. As far as I know, western media has no equivalent of loli.
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Nov 9, 2018 21:14
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1roy4o4tqQM This is weird as gently caress and it's going to make a billion dollars
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Nov 12, 2018 18:34
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AceOfFlames posted:James Gunn is producing Brightburn, which seems to be another "What if Superman turned out to be evil" movie: What are other Evil Superman movies? I mean sure comics do it all the time, but I can't think of a movie doing it off the top of my head.
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Dec 9, 2018 17:54
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Just think about how those eyes are going to look when they're moving around
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Dec 13, 2018 16:55
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Forrest Gump was a movie I saw when I was a teenager, enjoyed reasonably, and didn't think too hard about. I did notice as a teen that actors seem get a lot of praise for playing mentally disabled people and I still find that uncomfortable and weird and maybe kind of gross.
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Dec 21, 2018 17:48
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I saw him at a convention once, and that's when I realized dude really has no legs.
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Dec 21, 2018 19:11
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feedmyleg posted:The Rock would creatively tank a Shane Black movie by imposing his family-friendly, four-quadrant brand on it. I vote for "Greenlighterized"
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