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Watching this Norsemen show on Netflix and it's moderately funny but holy poo poo is it fashy and problematic. The villain is a closeted gay man who makes the village disarm themselves in the name of art and culture. Just 4 episodes in so far but yeeeeesh.
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I thought he was coded as a pretentious guy, not necessarily gay, while the rest of the show is Norwegian office politics but with vikings. It probably doesn't translate as well as it should. I still agree it's just moderately funny though. I've started watching The X-Files on a whim and as a non-American I find it very interesting when you consider all the Q stuff, the mole children and government agencies competing in byzantine power struggles some of which has a basis in reality. It's interesting to see this current of suspicion of the government, grand conspiracies woven in with the supernatural in American culture.
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Jul 27, 2020 08:51
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Grevling posted:I thought he was coded as a pretentious guy, not necessarily gay, while the rest of the show is Norwegian office politics but with vikings. It probably doesn't translate as well as it should. I still agree it's just moderately funny though. Seemed to be pretty highly gay coded to me, as is the bigger-baddie Jarl. Then all the jokes about rape on top of it. If they're going for Its Always Sunny in Norway, there needs to be a bit more leaning into acknowledgement that the characters are all terrible people, not just the gay ones.
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Jul 27, 2020 11:03
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Grevling posted:I thought he was coded as a pretentious guy, not necessarily gay, while the rest of the show is Norwegian office politics but with vikings. It probably doesn't translate as well as it should. I still agree it's just moderately funny though. I've been thinking a lot lately about Richard Hoftstadter's "The Paranoid Style in American Politics". It's like a playbook for the current moment: I've had friends who seem to default to assuming anything that comes out of authority or government is untrue and that the opposite is probably true: the earth is warming, it's cooling; the virus is fake *and* masks make the fake illness better; Trump is benignly irrelevant, there are darker, malevolent forces afoot in the Democrats, antifa, BLM ...
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Jul 27, 2020 11:30
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Organic Lube User posted:Seemed to be pretty highly gay coded to me, as is the bigger-baddie Jarl. Then all the jokes about rape on top of it. If they're going for Its Always Sunny in Norway, there needs to be a bit more leaning into acknowledgement that the characters are all terrible people, not just the gay ones. It's been a while since I watched it but as far as I can remember none of the characters were good people or likable. Not saying it isn't Fascist in accordance with the famous and correct Phil Greaves tweet.
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Jul 27, 2020 14:02
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Jul 27, 2020 19:13
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It's a road trip movie with some zoomers trying to figure out where to enlist for the Venezuelan Army.
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Jul 27, 2020 20:09
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Grevling posted:I thought he was coded as a pretentious guy, not necessarily gay, while the rest of the show is Norwegian office politics but with vikings. He peeps on men sitting on toilets, he keeps gay porn, enjoyed being raped by another man and is awkward around his wife. He isn't coded gay, he's explicitly written as gay in big letters.
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Jul 27, 2020 20:10
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Alhazred posted:He peeps on men sitting on toilets, he keeps gay porn, enjoyed being raped by another man and is awkward around his wife. He isn't coded gay, he's explicitly written as gay in big letters. Yeah, gross enough that I'm gonna stop watching it now. Don't wanna help boost any numbers at Nutflicks.
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Jul 27, 2020 20:12
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Ok, that's clear then. Guess I didn't watch that far or just forgot.
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Jul 28, 2020 03:25
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Venezuela invading the US is at least slightly less ridiculous than North Korea?
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Jul 28, 2020 06:24
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Venezuela invading the US is at least slightly less ridiculous than North Korea? Resurrect Peter Sellers and give him power armor.
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Jul 28, 2020 06:28
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Venezuela invading the US is at least slightly less ridiculous than North Korea? They even made a Call of Duty about it, which was bad, but not as bad a Homefront, so the theory is solid
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Jul 28, 2020 06:32
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Jul 28, 2020 06:56
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I watched The Old Guard, and perhaps the most unintentionally funny moment of that movie was the CIA guy having a record of Andy being on the opposite side of every historical incident the CIA has ever been involved in, and that that was a good thing that improved the world.
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Jul 28, 2020 09:56
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Covid has demonstrated that our society is so precarious that any disruption of our maladaptive routines is catastrophic to the stability of the system and a red dawn scenario is far more plausible than I have historically imagined
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Jul 28, 2020 12:05
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The original two parts of Money Heist (originally released with the non-dumb name House of Paper) own bones. Fun heist action and drama, correctly recognizes that the crooks are the good guys, goes full-throated ACAB by the end. Are the two extra Netflix seasons as pointless and extraneous as they sound? Parts 1 and 2 told a complete story, so any extension feels like a pointless cash-in.
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Jul 28, 2020 16:57
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Big Mad Drongo posted:The original two parts of Money Heist (originally released with the non-dumb name House of Paper) own bones. Fun heist action and drama, correctly recognizes that the crooks are the good guys, goes full-throated ACAB by the end. I didn't think that part 4 (or the second part of part 2) was out yet, but based on part 3, there's definitely diminishing returns but I still enjoyed it.
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Jul 28, 2020 20:31
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do not click just read the url https://deadline.com/2020/07/quibi-pulls-out-10-emmy-nominations-in-much-needed-bright-spot-for-startup-1202997617/
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Farm Frenzy posted:do not click just read the url https://deadline.com/2020/07/quibi-pulls-out-10-emmy-nominations-in-much-needed-bright-spot-for-startup-1202997617/ culture is dead.
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Jul 29, 2020 11:12
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If quibi content is eligable for Emmy nominations, so should posts that contain an audiovisual component
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Jul 29, 2020 11:28
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if quibi qualifies for an Emmy then every best of the worst skit redlettermedia has ever done should as well
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Jul 29, 2020 11:33
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And the emmy goes to "Mike schemes to have Jay and Mr plinkett get gay married"
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Jul 29, 2020 11:40
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i know full well why but I want someone at the emmys to break it down for me how Quibi is eligible for an emmy but a youtube show isn't.
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Jul 29, 2020 23:06
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in other nonsensical qualification news apparently american factory is eligible for emmys because its a tv show even though the oscars already said its actually a movie
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Jul 30, 2020 03:10
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Egg Moron posted:And the emmy goes to "Mike schemes to have Jay and Mr plinkett get gay married" the video where they melt down all the star wars toys is Art...
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Jul 30, 2020 03:17
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Some Guy TT posted:in other nonsensical qualification news apparently american factory is eligible for emmys because its a tv show even though the oscars already said its actually a movie make that EGOT, obama!!!
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Jul 30, 2020 03:17
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it's been a while since i saw the original but the 2013 japanese remake of Unforgiven with ken wantabe is really good
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Jul 30, 2020 04:20
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Rollerball was a documentary.
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Jul 30, 2020 06:54
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Trabisnikof posted:Rollerball was a documentary. Yes, absolutely. 100% Rollerball nails the arbitrary viciousness and freedom-through-consumption of the corporatist society. Similarly dystopian films like deathrace 2000 often leave the viewer wondering how we get there from here but Rollerball warps the tendencies of our ruling class just enough to connect the dots. At work the other day, we were talking about how we were on the covid front lines but our boss has been working remotely since March and I found myself saying "there are no rules at all" to everyone's nodding approval.
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Jul 30, 2020 11:46
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gradenko_2000 posted:make that EGOT, obama!!! you jest but its pretty clear at this point that obama sets his mind to achieving arbitrary real world achievements the same way most of us would become obsessed with arbitrary xbox achievements theres a thirty rock scene that doesnt seem to have been youtubed where tracy jordan asks whoopi goldberg for advice on how to get an egot and its really weird how whoopis advice comes off as completely sincere even though jordan obviously only wants the egot for selfish vanity reasons and doesnt give the slightest poo poo about art as i recall that particular episode ends with jordan taking down his depressing oscar bait for some homeless shelter screening to replace it with a terrible eddie murphy pastiche because which the homeless people love because lol stupid poor people only liking obvious garbage am i right scenes like that in tv shows and movies that talk down to the perceived taste of lesser humans always come off as weird and funny as all hell in retrospect because the examples they pick are always genre movies which seemed popular at the time but that died out within a few years because they were so terrible that nobody wanted to watch them anymore on a related note im not sure ive ever seen anyone do that gag with superhero movies even though were on like the second decade of them and its starting to seem like they might honest to god never go away
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Jul 30, 2020 12:01
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The greatest gift COVID has given to our society is stemming the tide of super hero films
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Some Guy TT posted:on a related note im not sure ive ever seen anyone do that gag with superhero movies even though were on like the second decade of them and its starting to seem like they might honest to god never go away It's because they jack off wealthy liberals in particular The only parodies you see are of Nolan/Snyder too dark and edgy films that take themselves too seriously
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Jul 30, 2020 12:33
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Some Guy TT posted:On a related note im not sure ive ever seen anyone do that gag with superhero movies even though were on like the second decade of them and its starting to seem like they might honest to god never go away I figure, perhaps optimistically, that much as the Western died and came back several times, superhero films will eventually die. But while you can tell a whole lot of different stories with the Western, we only seem to be able to tell one story with Superheroes.
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Jul 30, 2020 13:18
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Egg Moron posted:The greatest gift COVID has given to our society is stemming the tide of super hero films it's been SO loving RELIEVING the only movie discourse I've had to loving listen to this entire year is about Cats and Sonic and it's loving wonderful no goddamn star wars no uninteresting superhero movies none of the nonstop disney garbage that all entertainment has become it's a shame it won't last but I'm so happy not hearing about it for now
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Jul 30, 2020 13:30
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Egg Moron posted:The greatest gift COVID has given to our society is stemming the tide of super hero films lol the Black Widow movie got completely owned
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Jul 30, 2020 13:37
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how soon we forget about star wars which is really an accomplishment when you think about it youll still get people stanning the last jedi every so often but rise of skywalker came and went by so fast its like it never actually happened come to think of it im not sure we ever even talked about in this thread but hell im not going back to check if there was discussion of a movie i didnt even watch
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Jul 30, 2020 13:57
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to me the new star wars films seemed to be kind of like game of thrones in that even if you were excited for the first few iterations of it, the last one was so obviously bad that we all collectively got amnesia about the whole thing
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Jul 30, 2020 14:29
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Given the ideological leanings of trek, I am increasingly beginning to wonder if it's being deliberately mismanaged by the suits.
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why what did grimdark picard do this time
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