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Cubone posted:what's the best New Years Eve movie? I liked 200 Cigarettes but it's very 90s
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PostNouveau posted:lol there's a loving insane blind item on Reddit claiming that Disney deliberately hosed up the editing of TROS to make JJ look bad so that Warner Brothers/D.C. wouldn't pick him up to revive the D.C. movie franchises, because Disney sees that as the biggest threat to their actual cash cow: the MCU. I'm sure JJ didn't get the cut he wanted. But like the edited-in last comment says, it seems like Disney decided to be more hands off for TLJ and to trust the creative people, but then realized they made a mistake. It's an over correction, although if JJ thought that force ghosts of the past showing up and protecting Rey was a good idea, I can't trust that his judgement would have been an improvement.
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Jan 2, 2020 22:07
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Quantum of Phallus posted:https://collider.com/collider-video-changes/ "Shilling for star wars isn't going to get any clicks if there's no new content for months on end - better gut everything and gently caress the people who worked for us!" It's genuinely the right business call though. Their deepfake stuff is innovative and fun to watch, they just need to send the impersonators to an improve class. Nerd round tables are an over saturated market and the ones that will survive have the charisma to subsist on a meager patreon and a small indie operation.
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Jan 2, 2020 23:06
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Sydney Bottocks posted:I had an argument with a friend back in 1999, shortly after The Phantom Menace came out, where said friend trotted out the "it's a kid's movie, you liked the original movies when you were a kid, but you're not a kid any more and that's why you don't like TPM" argument when I said it was a bad movie. Anyone arguing that Plinkett was somehow responsible for people hating the prequels (and thus fueling the current disdain for the sequel trilogy) is being completely disingenuous. I was 10 when I saw TPM and thought it was pretty good, but it didn't blow me away like the OT did during the re-release two years before. Even at 13 I could tell episode II was garbage. Being a kid smoothed over the worst parts of TPM in my mind, but I could still tell then that it wasn't as good as I'd thought it would be.
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Jan 3, 2020 06:34
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Arcsquad12 posted:She jerked him off while he was held down on a Yuuzhan Vong torture table. Then she murdered his Einsatzgruppen Best Friend in front of him. The wookieepedia just says Jacen Solo used time travel to give her a final kiss to anakin, not to go back and gently caress him, and that she used "seduction" as an interrogation technique that he resisted. Did she literally jerk him off, are you reading into subtext that it happened, or are you exaggerating to make the series seem worse than it was?
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Jan 3, 2020 23:35
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Arcsquad12 posted:She is specifically quoted as putting her hand beneath his waistband and squeezing. Well gently caress, leave it to fanboys to gloss over something like that in a summary.
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Jan 3, 2020 23:44
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I just discovered a patreon metric site: https://graphtreon.com/creator/redlettermedia I was wondering what cased the jump and then I saw that it corresponded with their patreon promo video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uwt7GpAWfMQ Shilling works kids
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eric ciaramella posted:Mando finale was great. excited for season 2 and excited to see how they ruin it in season 3. In his search for the Child's people, he learns that the so called "hero of the republic" Luke Skywalker has powers like the Child and seeks him out. Cue a de-aged Mark Hamill telling Mando he knows where the hidden yoda people are. It will be either that or he'll be searching through old Jedi planets and have to fight force witches. I'm 100% sure they're going to ratchet up the force usage in the show by a lot next season.
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Jan 7, 2020 07:18
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I can see a seed of a good idea in George's crazy Whills plot. If the sequels had had a running plot that had something to do with how the nature of the force includes life on the micro level and that collective entity can effect things on the larger scale, then maybe it could have worked in that boomer, hippie "all life is connected maaaaan" sort of way. The way he describes it is even worse though. It would have been god awful.
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Jan 7, 2020 23:34
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Arcsquad12 posted:Then Ludwig Göransson comes along and makes a killer Star Wars score for Mandalorian by mixing Ennio Morricone western tracks with Rocky Balboa and it loving rips. I didn't like the theme at first, but I have to admit that it really grew on me. I also had no idea that Rey had a theme. There are tracks with a full orchestra and the movie is expecting me to notice a song that's mostly flute?
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Jan 8, 2020 20:30
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I know you're kidding but https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/great-jeopardy-greatest-time-tv-233342406.html An AI would see a fluke that that and just assume the general public will love any new game show without considering its history or the context of why that special is doing so well. The same principle would carry over to any analysis of the movie market place. Lister fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Baronjutter posted:Why do comics keep using the same loving characters for 50+ years? It's more pathetic than star wars constantly trotting the same poo poo out over and over. Do you really not get it by now? People are more willing to buy something connected to things they find familiar than taking a gamble and spending money on something they don't know they'll like. Comics introduce tons of new characters all the time and they almost always flop.
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Jan 10, 2020 07:18
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That's so far out on the "weird poo poo to be excited/proud about" scale that I don't even know how to respond.
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PostNouveau posted:Continuing the saga of those loving idiots with the terrible idea I always imagined their star wars trilogy would be a sequel series but in a timeline where the empire won, just so they could still do the "what if the bad guys won the civil war" plot.
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Jan 16, 2020 19:47
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violent sex idiot posted:he said before the thing was announced as canceled that he told the story he wanted to and if it was going to continue someone else had to come up with something because he didnt want to do more yeah, that's what I remember reading. I don't know a whole lot about ownership in show business, but I think HBO technically has the rights to the show even though it was lindelof that created it. So HBO could have kept it going and it's a big news story because they aren't going for the cash grab with somebody else as the showrunner.
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Jan 17, 2020 02:45
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I kind of want to watch picard like I did with the discovery pilot and drink every time I hate it and feel bad about what I'm seeing. But I don't want to have to watch it a second time the next day because I blacked out half way through and couldn't remember what happened.
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Picard was alright. I'm definitely not happy with the canon being poo poo on and important events in the history being glossed over. Maybe it will be good enough, but yeah, when Rich said that he thinks they're lying when the producers said that it's not going to be about action and exploding planets, he was 100% right. Everything with Picard himself was good, but everything else was pretty weak. The entire driving force of the plot is that "synthetic" lifeforms (who are only explained to have been developed at Daystrom, but not expanded on beyond that in terms of their sentience, role in society, or even appearance) either were hacked, went crazy, or they just "went rogue" and decided to hack the Mars defense system and conduct an attack on Romulan refugees and destroyed the whole surface of the planet. This lead to the federation and other governments to outlaw them completely and undo any rights that had been earned to robot people over the course of the series. But then holographic life still seems to be around and is never mentioned and those are synthetic lifeforms too, so that's totally ignored. Bottom line is that after this, Picard sees that Starfleet has lost its way. The reporter at the start of the episode frames the questions as anti-Romulan (in regards to the Romulan evacuation: "many believed there were better uses of our resources than aiding the Federation's oldest enemy" you know - in a post-scarcity society that values individual life more than most other things) and asks questions she agreed not to, so I guess that shows the average person is a dick now too. The conservative anti-people-different-from-us allegory is laid on really thick. The franchise has made is clear time and again that the individual can not be confused with the group that they come from and that is all completely undone here. Afterwards, a young woman who is a robot that can occasionally tap into Jason Borne and hackerman powers has a vision that Picard can help her after she's attacked. They talk - it turns out she's Data's daughter! - she's attacked again and dies - the people attacking her are Romulan! - Picard goes to Daystrom and the scientist is like "yeah everything from Data that went into B4 was lost but this one guy was like 'hey we can take a single neuron from Data and effectively make a second generation but you can only do it in pairs' and then the guy disappeared - the dead girl robot has a sister! - Picard decides to find the second girl because he feels bad that robots are illegal and to respect Data's sacrifice Lister fucked around with this message at 21:38 on Jan 23, 2020 |
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Raskolnikov38 posted:so who do you think is working with the borg for the big twist? the romulans or androids 2.0 My theory after the first trailer was that the Tal Shiar or Romulan remnant were making super soldiers with Borg tech to strike at the Federation for the same reasons Nero was in 2009. Now I guess they're doing it because they want revenge for the synth attack which is so obviously a false flag. Like come the gently caress on, of course it is No Mods No Masters posted:A week ago free discussion of jenny and star trek would have been unimaginable under the tyranny of star wars chat. Banishing it to its own forums prison is looking better by the second Star wars is dead and we need something to feed the endless hunger of hating science fiction pop culture.
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stephenthinkpad posted:So I am not familiar with Trek outside of the cultural osmosis and JJTrek movies. There's a short trek that I didn't see that takes place as the attack is happening but I don't think it actually tells you anything. This is where it's being introduced, so there's nothing else to know about it. There was never any indication that the federation was even able to make any robots in any of the series besides Data. Even the creation of synthetic humanoids by the federation is new to the canon. Who they are, what they do, what they want, where they went - these are all unanswered questions that I guess the series will reveal with time. Or they'll be ignored.
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Jan 24, 2020 03:17
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Raskolnikov38 posted:has JJ directed anything that's stood the test of time There was a Felicity reference in the latest episode of Modern Family, but the joke was kind of that it was a 90s relic.
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Let's not forget that these critic reviews are based on the first three episodes which are confirmed to just be Picard getting the crew together. They don't actually start the main action of the season until episode four. There's no doubt that it was designed this way, so expect a major downturn in quality at that point and probably a lot less Patrick Stewart in general. He's the one keeping the show above water, but once characters no one gives a poo poo about are introduced, they're going to be having more and more scenes together without Picard and that will drag down the show.
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Jan 27, 2020 19:41
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The FNN thing that bothered me the most was stating some people that resources would be better expended elsewhere. What are you talking about? You're in a post-scarcity society. At worst some ships running experiments would have to pause what they're doing. This argument only works in the present day, forcing it in here is pure contrivance.
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Holy poo poo, I just realized that in disco season 1, Ash/Voq was a secret Klingon until he was "activated" by a code word. Here, Daj is "activated" by a threat and becomes a killing machine because she's a secret synthetic. These hacks are repeating the exact same plot the series ran through two years ago.
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Jan 27, 2020 20:03
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PostNouveau posted:A rogue AI was the bad guy in Season 2 of Discovery, and really how different is that from the "synths" who went nuts on Mars in Picard? Part of the problem is that we really have no context for what the synths are. How many are there, where did they come from, what do they look like, what were their functions - all of these are important questions that inform why they could have gone rogue and how they might have been able to conduct a large scale attack on Mars. I doubt we'll get any of this context since the normies won't care and we need to get to the adventuring and nostalgia. Let's also not forget that the rogue AI bad guy was piss poor and only introduced as the real bad guy behind all the bad poo poo that season about half way through. stephenthinkpad posted:Are these ideas rip off from Battlestar Galactica? I don't remember much from BG except the curses. The whole manchurian candidate thing has been a troupe for a while, but to do it back-to-back is just creatively bankrupt.
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Groovelord Neato posted:This is why the idea of a right-wing media is so ludicrous. Fox News exists so that the ultrarich can use racist scare-mongering on economically comfortable white suburbanites to ensure the ultrahigh get what they want. That doesn't work when class (and racism) don't exist anymore. I'll be like Rich and give the smallest benefit of the doubt and assume that the prevailing attitude of the Federation right now believes that if they'd been isolationist and not helped the Romulans, that the synth attack on Mars wouldn't have happened.
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You'd think Picard would have some friends in high places that still like him. Or maybe some younger officers that he helped out over the years that would owe him a favor now that they're in lofty positions. But nah, I guess it's just this one bitch with a stick up her rear end.
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PostNouveau posted:She presumably was a younger officer he helped out because she was his helmsman at one point. I was talking to the old admiral lady. You'd think he would go to someone he was sure liked him first.
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You guys making GBS threads on Hamilton have no idea what an actually awful broadway musical is like. On the nose lyrics explaining what people are thinking or doing are par for the course. The Groundhog Day musical had a ballad by the woman Phil fucks in the first part of the movie about how people only use for her looks, so she feels bad that she's just played the pretty girl role her whole life (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ilLle_xXR0). Most of the other songs from that one aren't much better. You can pick any song from the Spiderman or American Psycho musicals and they're all terrible. I mean, just what the gently caress is this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhJKsZ_5LG8
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Gutcruncher posted:I’d like to think that of Roddenberry were still alive in this era of streaming no-rules tv shows, we would finally get the pornographic official Star Trek series we deserve. I like to imagine Gene going to heaven and sitting down to watch all of the Star Trek series and movies that have come out after his death and him slowly realizing he's in hell.
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Let's get an episode where the boys flame people who give them money every month
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Baronjutter posted:I'm glad they're going to do another Picard review, maybe every 2 episodes put out a video until they totally give up on the show. I had already given up but I guess I'll watch episode 3 now so I can better enjoy what the boys think of it. It's the push and pull of the market. They are running a business and the videos on current shows from big IPs like Picard or Mandalorian bring in more views than watching video tape flotsam. I have no doubt that they'll continue disliking it and still have to bring themselves to watch it and the new discovery because it's just too lucrative not to. Lister fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Feb 8, 2020 |
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luchajones posted:Which is worse? Picard or STD? Discovery hands down. The twists and turns of that series are mind bogglingly bad. And that's just the camera work! Keep in mind, three episodes into Discovery season one, it seemed like it might have turned out ok.
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mallratcal posted:
it's almost like you can do something else and check who the winners are as soon as they win and then watch highlights of the good speeches, monologue, and sketches all within an hour of it happening live
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revwinnebago posted:The wrong pile of Junka tapes won that last episode. Frauds. I really did want to see how to build a haunted house.
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PostNouveau posted:The new episode was a lot better than the first three. They actually went somewhere! They picked up a weird Romulan sword dude who Picard abandoned with some warrior nuns and was like "I'll help you find him a home" but then when the federation gave up on the rescue Picard never visited or called again. The nuns are Bene Gesserit. The robot scientist is funny-awkward exactly like Tilly. The young warrior is samurai-Legolas. Next week they're going to the Canto Bight casino planet. Star Trek is creatively bankrupt.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Uncut Gems and Parasite each deserved their own episode so they do a Doctor Sleep/Parasite ep??? HACK FRAUDS. Am I the only one who thought Adam Sandler did a good job but that it wasn't oscar worthy by far? Now that I've seen the movie, I'd say it's fair that he didn't even get nominated.
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LabyaMynora posted:I was looking to see if any theaters near me were playing Parasite, and yes, one is, BUT I found I can rent the movie from Amazon. $3.99 to watch the movie in the comfort of my own home and pause it when I need to piss, versus paying ~$10 each for my wife and me to go watch it in a theater where we might catch coronavirus, and I have to squat over a popcorn bucket like an animal if I need to poo poo, but don't want to miss anything. gently caress MOVIES!
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luchajones posted:Season 2 of The Orville good? I liked the first season. Season 2 is a marked improvement over the first and I only liked the first season in a "this isn't very good but I'll give it more of a chance" kind of way
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Moola posted:I really hope they dont somehow gently caress up Q Just wait until the throwaway line where Q says that all the Q have godlike powers because they evolved a connection to the mycelial network.
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