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Pennywise is a representation of the casual cruelty that goes on in middle-class suburbia. The whole joke of It is that adults largely don’t care about children being monsters to each other, hence the bullying epidemics that are only just now getting even half-hearted attention - so King ratchets up the violence and says that adults wouldn’t even care if a human-eating alien clown started devouring children. Given that Derry is largely a white middle-upper-class town, it makes sense they’d treat gays and blacks with the same kind of disregard for humanity. Sorry folks, Pennywise is definitely a bigot.
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neil labute was in the great documentary cleanflix though i only remembered it was him from that picture.
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Patrick Spens posted:I like what I've heard of hers, but I also like e.g. Nickleback. I dislike Nickelback but I do enjoy a few tracks off of Who Killed Amanda Palmer, though I think a lot of my appreciation is due to Ben Folds' production.
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Amanda Palmer had some really excellent material with Dresden Dolls and her first solo album, then started buying into her own hype and made some of the worst social media posts known to humanity instead of writing good music.
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Sep 15, 2019 14:07
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I always thought it was funny that right after he married Amanda Palmer, Gaiman wrote The Ocean at the End of the Lane, which has a plot where the children of a family are helpless to stop their father being seduced by an evil woman intruding on their family.
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Sep 15, 2019 14:16
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Bogus Adventure posted:Is this the real life? It was written by and for a queer audience in Out magazine, I don't think "hey if you're sensitive to homophobia maybe pass on the movie where Pennywise calls a kid slurs and the opening is a re-enactment of a real-life hate crime" in that context written by a single outlet is anywhere near the travesty people are painting it as. exquisite tea posted:Amanda Palmer had some really excellent material with Dresden Dolls and her first solo album, then started buying into her own hype and made some of the worst social media posts known to humanity instead of writing good music. Realtalk is there any way you people could just make a catchall celebrity gossip thread somewhere else so people who want to discuss actual media and not social media can do so in peace.
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Sleeveless posted:Realtalk is there any way you people could just make a catchall celebrity gossip thread somewhere else so people who want to discuss actual media and not social media can do so in peace. you could just ignore the posts.
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Patrick Spens posted:I like what I've heard of hers, but I also like e.g. Nickleback. I don't know how hating Nickelback became a thing. Paralyzer is a real fun tune.
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Schwarzwald posted:I don't know how hating Nickelback became a thing. Paralyzer is a real fun tune. That's Finger Eleven, not Nickelback, and if you like "Paralyzer" it's probably because it reminds you of Rod Stewart's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?".
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Schwarzwald posted:I don't know how hating Nickelback became a thing. Paralyzer is a real fun tune. they're bad at music.
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I’m gonna say that was a joke.
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Nickleback’s biggest crimes are that they’re mindnumbingly boring and recycle poo poo all the time.
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Groovelord Neato posted:you could just ignore the posts. And you could just as well not make them. We've found ourselves in a sort of conundrum.
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It’s not really a conundrum unless you assume anyone but that one weirdo cares
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drat we are starved for content the goldfinch bombed much like the bomb that goes off in the movie which is literally all i know about it
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It Chapter 2 is really good, IMHO. I feel like the pacing in Chapter 1 is better because it doesn't have to worry about jumping back and forth in time because of flashbacks, but it's still incredibly entertaining.
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Alan Smithee posted:drat we are starved for content The book was stupid so I'm glad.
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imagine a black guy taking a painting from the museum they'd still be finding new ways to kill him
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Alan Smithee posted:drat we are starved for content I was about to post "The what?" and then I just looked it up myself and that sounds terrible.
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Jesus I didn’t even know they made it into a movie. The book has its moments but it’s not great. Why is The Secret History not a movie is my question that thing is begging to be filmed.
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The book apparently won a Pulitzer prize. Is it just bad source material or a poor adaptation? Also reading the Wiki summary of the (movie's) plot makes it sound as self-important as Collateral Beauty, but, y'know, without the wtfness of that beautiful disaster.
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Sep 16, 2019 04:45
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Bad source material.
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If you're a regular in the political cartoon thread you'd have a good idea of just the kind of absolute poo poo that can win pulitzers.
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Gaunab posted:The book was stupid so I'm glad. I liked it ok. I really can't see it being made into a movie though.
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porfiria posted:Jesus I didn’t even know they made it into a movie. The book has its moments but it’s not great. Why is The Secret History not a movie is my question that thing is begging to be filmed. ...by Procopius?
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GrandpaPants posted:The book apparently won a Pulitzer prize. Is it just bad source material or a poor adaptation? The book is fine (though if you want to read Donna Tart, I would recommend “The Secret History” instead). It mainly operates as a character study and a meditation on the long shadow of trauma. Without the benefit of Tart’s narration or the focus on Theo’s relationships with others, I can see how the contrivances of the plot might quickly devolve into the absurd. QuoProQuid fucked around with this message at 12:00 on Sep 16, 2019 |
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QuoProQuid posted:The book is fine (though if you want to read Donna Tart, I would recommend “The Secret History” instead). It mainly operates as a character study and a meditation on the long shadow of trauma. Without the benefit of Tart’s narration or the focus on Theo’s relationships with others, I can see how the contrivances of the plot might quickly devolve into the absurd. The AVClub recently put out an article describing exactly that: https://film.avclub.com/without-the-book-s-passionate-relationships-the-goldfi-1838009749
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Sep 16, 2019 12:18
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We deserve this https://twitter.com/nibellion/status/1173642199457771520?s=21
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Sep 16, 2019 18:08
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Funko Pop Jesus Wept.
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And I thought the poster for the CGI Addams Family movie was the worst thing I would see this week...
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That movie will come out just as the Funko Pop craze dies out like all of those other kids movies about toys and games
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Bogus Adventure posted:And I thought the poster for the CGI Addams Family movie was the worst thing I would see this week... I can imagine the Funko Pop thing working if they play up how generic the moulds are, like to do different things all the characters need to do is get repainted and that automatically retrains them to the new role. Like "We need to build this skyscraper... Joker, Batman, Aang! We need you to be repainted as Bob the Buider, stat!"
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They Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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Lobok posted:They Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
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That ~Generic Entertainment Product~ that is vaguely reminiscent of that taste you used to like may get some representation soon.
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AlBorlantern Corps posted:It's a date It's not, we're just friends. the fact that I feel the need to assert this to a stranger on the internet is not representative of anything
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BioEnchanted posted:I can imagine the Funko Pop thing working if they play up how generic the moulds are, like to do different things all the characters need to do is get repainted and that automatically retrains them to the new role. Like "We need to build this skyscraper... Joker, Batman, Aang! We need you to be repainted as Bob the Buider, stat!" I hate these things because they feel like the perfect example symptom of late stage capitalism. They have no use or purpose other than to get you to buy them and set them on a shelf, and they are legion because anything and everything related to entertainment can be slapped onto its generic model. They loving suck.
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Bogus Adventure posted:I hate these things because they feel like the perfect example symptom of late stage capitalism. They have no use or purpose other than to get you to buy them and set them on a shelf, and they are legion because anything and everything related to entertainment can be slapped onto its generic model. They loving suck. I think initially they were meant as like a nice little cheap gift you could get a co-worker or something if you know they like movie/t.v. show X, but then of course nerds have to take everything to the extreme so this entire collectors market emerged and FUNKO totally embraced it with rare exclusive variants and similar nonsense. I don't know that FUNKO expected it to turn into like, the successor to Beanie Babies but then when it did they saw the chance at huge money and ran with it.
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I mean trinkets you buy just to exist have always been a thing. Your grandma probably had a few precious memories figures
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean trinkets you buy just to exist have always been a thing. Passing my prized funko pops to my grandchildren.
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