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Star Wars, starring Dixie Flatline
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Dec 14, 2019 17:23
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Ghost Leviathan posted:There was a whole thing with a character who has a show now that he wears a jetpack Viet Cong: THEY CAN FLY NOW!?
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Dec 14, 2019 18:10
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:Viet Cong: THEY CAN FLY NOW!? lmfao
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Dec 14, 2019 18:11
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Expanse season 4 is good except for all the "Space Hillary did what had to be done" stuff
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Dec 14, 2019 19:19
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Bro Dad posted:Expanse season 4 is good and except for all the "Space Hillary did what had to be done" stuff She still ate poo poo though and was wrong. The worst thing about the season is that none of the plotlines intersect with each other in a meaningful way and it ends on a big cliffhanger. It's nice that they're confident in producing another season but there needs to be some kind of genuine emotional climax. Miller's goop ghost really wanted to die, so his death doesn't really have the tragic resonance the other seasons had. Plus there's always a chance he could come back anyway so it doesn't really feel final. It seemed like characters are being retired or killed because the actors are old and they want to move on.
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Dec 14, 2019 19:26
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etalian posted:It's amazing how bad the Mandalorian is despite all the hype about the production and the acting! no i like it
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Dec 14, 2019 19:38
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Three and a bit episodes into the new Expanse season and I am officially a bit bored of protomolecule poo poo but am there for space politics and space East India Company and I would honestly watch a show that was just Ashford and Drummer discussing the space issues of the space day.
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Dec 14, 2019 20:52
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Has there ever been a work of fiction that was about a existential alien/supernatural threat looming over political conflicts where the threat was more interesting than the politics
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Dec 14, 2019 21:13
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A Fire Upon The Deep, maybe.
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Dec 14, 2019 21:28
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docbeard posted:Three and a bit episodes into the new Expanse season and I am officially a bit bored of protomolecule poo poo but am there for space politics and space East India Company and I would honestly watch a show that was just Ashford and Drummer discussing the space issues of the space day. The first half of the season is way better because it's got a very frontier western vibe going on, and then it reaches a crisis point and it's all protomolecule stuff. Protomolecule stuff is fine but it doesn't work on its own when it's a complete sideshow to solar politics. Ashford & Drummer and the Bobby stuff was all great, and it sucks that it just ends up being a cliffhanger.
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Dec 14, 2019 21:38
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StashAugustine posted:Has there ever been a work of fiction that was about a existential alien/supernatural threat looming over political conflicts where the threat was more interesting than the politics The one in my head I never wrote. Because the existential alien threat is also political, turns out.
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Dec 14, 2019 23:13
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StashAugustine posted:Has there ever been a work of fiction that was about a existential alien/supernatural threat looming over political conflicts where the threat was more interesting than the politics the three-body problem series maybe?
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Dec 14, 2019 23:44
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I have't watched the new season of the expanse yet but I know the book it is based on is considered one of the weaker ones in the series the next 2 books own however and largely focus on the political situation in sol
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Dec 15, 2019 02:52
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oscarthewilde posted:the three-body problem series maybe? In the third book maybe? Yeah it's a tough question.
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Dec 15, 2019 03:08
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Freaking Crumbum posted:i can 100% believe brands would love to be able to explicitly advertise in all of the various evangelist events and concerts and etc. and it's only contemporary public sentiment that's giving them any hesitation at all lol that's a little naive, the only reason capital isn't all in selling to evangelists is because they're a dying bloc and a large chunk of evangelicals are on fixed incomes. not a lot of money there beyond extremely short term blips and scamming them through reverse mortgages or part d plans. millenials didn't hate gays as much as boomers, and religion went all in hating gays and non-whites so there wasn't much pickup, on top of the reluctance for americans to become religious in the first place the future is non-whites and white women for advertisers, just look at twitter every time any time there's a tweetstorm from people in sunglasses avatars. they aren't much of a growth industry if white men are too busy committing suicide/being addicted to heroin/drinking themselves to death
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Dec 15, 2019 03:20
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thanks to the mod who listened to my feedback regarding the thread title
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Some Guy TT posted:thanks to the mod who listened to my feedback regarding the thread title  working hard! thank you!
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Dec 15, 2019 04:29
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Only two episodes into the new season of expanse and its pretty good so far
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Dec 15, 2019 05:17
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and man it was p obvious before but mars is fash as gently caress
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Dec 15, 2019 06:30
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StashAugustine posted:and man it was p obvious before but mars is fash as gently caress eco flash ultimately, so they’re sort of cool? sort of like phil collins in the peter gabriel era of genesis
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Dec 15, 2019 06:51
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What happens to Mars is the most interesting bit this season. From like, a C-SPAM perspective anyway.
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Dec 15, 2019 06:52
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:She still ate poo poo though and was wrong. The worst thing about the season is that none of the plotlines intersect with each other in a meaningful way and it ends on a big cliffhanger. It's nice that they're confident in producing another season but there needs to be some kind of genuine emotional climax. Miller's goop ghost really wanted to die, so his death doesn't really have the tragic resonance the other seasons had. Plus there's always a chance he could come back anyway so it doesn't really feel final. It seemed like characters are being retired or killed because the actors are old and they want to move on. i liked ashford but that was definitely an actor wanting out way to die season was pretty good, glad theyre done with the protomolecule forever... hopefully? burning the final bit in the ship seemed like a definite end. cliffhanger ending sucked, wanted to see billions be obliterated
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Dec 15, 2019 07:44
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I haven't read the books but apparently it's all space geopolitics from this point out
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Dec 15, 2019 09:02
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Holy gently caress they got the guy who played Chappelle in 24 to be a minor villain in Expanse S4. loving rad, he's amazing at playing a slimy fuckin' weasel.
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Dec 15, 2019 10:19
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Some Guy TT posted:internally i cant help but find it hilarious that literally everything mysterio says about tony stark being a capricious rear end in a top hat who rips people off for no reason and arbitrarily decides to give a godlike superweapon to a gullible teenager is completely on point and true so the movie immediately makes him double down on doing pointlessly evil deeds just to keep us from thinking that maybe he has a point Since Iron Man 2, Marvel has put all the legit criticisms of their heroes into the mouths of cartoonish villains in order to preemptively disarm criticism
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Dec 15, 2019 15:24
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Yeah they really hosed up with Killmonger, who was cool.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:06
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Atrocious Joe posted:Since Iron Man 2, Marvel has put all the legit criticisms of their heroes into the mouths of cartoonish villains in order to preemptively disarm criticism I would go so far as to say disarming and coopting those criticisms of America and capital are the primary function of those movies.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:16
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Iron Man being the breakout Marvel superhero should have been a warning sign, since military-industrial complex apologia is literally what he was made for.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:21
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The pre-Disney films, Iron Man and Incredible Hulk, did have enemies who were just manifestations of the military industrial complex. Iron Man had "greedier Tony Stark" and Hulk had "Hulk but an operator." It wasn't really progressive, but the villains were definitely more reactionary versions of the heroes. This was in keeping with the "Ultimate" comics line that Marvel had created a few years earlier, seemingly with the intention of using for film material. Disney really seems to have started the trend of making many of the villains radicals who had gone too far.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:26
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I watched Aliens for the first time in over a decade a few nights ago and it was really striking how differently the military was portrayed back in the 1980s Sci Fi compared to now. The leadership is inexperienced and totally outmatched by the reality of the situation, even the sympathetic military characters are arrogant and clueless, they lose all their overwhelming firepower due to clumsy mistakes and their supposedly elite training is mostly useless. You can really feel the shadow of Vietnam hanging over Aliens. More recent films tend to portray military actions with an aura of grim efficiency and competence even in situations where the military's hardware proves inadequate. When American soldiers are confronted by a monster or alien that is beyond their ability to defeat they tend to fight bravely and heroically. You don't typically get scenes like the first combat moment in Aliens where American soldiers are shown running around in terror with no coordination whatsoever, shouting in panic as they are picked off one by one. I'm curious if anyone can think of counter examples here because I don't watch as many of these films as I used to, but I'm struggling to think of any big budget examples from the last decade or more where the American military was presented as incompetent and poorly lead. High ranking generals or civilian leaders might be presented in a negative light but it seems like showing regular fighting men and women in anything except a glowingly positive light has become something of a taboo.
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Dec 15, 2019 16:49
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I don't think they exist at all post 9/11. The last one I can think of is Small Soldiers lmao
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Dec 15, 2019 16:55
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Jarhead is probably the closest? It got advertised as an action movie even though it wasn't.
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Atrocious Joe posted:Jarhead is probably the closest? It got advertised as an action movie even though it wasn't. Yeah, Jarhead shows the military experience much closer to what it actually is, wait around in the desert a bunch, get bored, go home, and find out their girlfriends left them for Jody. The scene where they all gather around to watch a VHS of The Deer Hunter they got sent but it's actually a sex tape of one of the dude's wives loving Jody is 
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Dec 15, 2019 17:46
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generation kill is close, but, it was somewhat non-fictional and not a big budget movie
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Dec 15, 2019 17:48
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it's probably symptomatic of a larger problem that theres been virtually zero media involving Afghanistan the last 18 years
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Dec 15, 2019 18:52
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hallebarrysoetoro posted:generation kill is close, but, it was somewhat non-fictional and not a big budget movie I like how the Marine Corps refused to.have anything to do with it until they realized it was really popular with the troops
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Dec 15, 2019 19:15
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Bro Dad posted:I haven't read the books but apparently it's all space geopolitics from this point out Not entirely, the 5th and 6th books are very much that, but the books after that have plot very much related to the Protomolecule and the tech developed from it.
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Dec 15, 2019 22:34
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Me and the boys when we capture a rape yacht https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dscebvM3XPc
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MizPiz posted:Me and the boys when we capture a rape yacht I wonder if "turdburglar" is a direct translation
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