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FilthyImp posted:The bits with doc hunting droids was sci-fi bloodborne I was real on the fence when I sat down to watch it but the Doc character got me to commit the necessary buy in for what ended up being a good movie. The film was reeeaally fortunate to have what's his name elevating every scene he's in. He's not at all the only good thing in the movie but he's absolutely the reassurance you need if you show leery about watching an adaptation of an anime.
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I was going to ask if bathos was bro pathos, but google says it's a real thing with a cool and useful definition. Huh.
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Jan 10, 2020 20:42
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Are we talking about this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzMFoNZeZm0 Worth pointing out that the author contends that Blazing Saddles destroys the "wholesome west" depicted in 50s and 60s tv, like Bounty Law from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; he acknowledges that the films that came before Blazing Saadles often had more nuance.
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Basebf555 posted:The wholesome west is what we're talking about though. During that time the vast majority of Westerns were of that type, and stuff like The Searchers and The Wild Bunch were the exception. Nobody's saying there weren't exceptions or that Blazing Saddles was the first Western to ever take on the tropes of the traditional Western. I think John Ford is a different kind or degree of moral simplicity as, I dunno, Bonanza. Edit: Regarding seeing them, I rewatched Stage Coach last weekend and it's absolutely not where Blazing Saddles is aiming its satire. Jack B Nimble fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Jan 15, 2020 |
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happyhippy posted:Though could you say the same with war movies? I don't think I'm qualified to give a great answer about this, I don't have some deep knowledge of war movie tropes to be deconstructed. But thinking about it for a second I guess my response would be: 1) I'm not sure we (by which I mean, Americans including myself) are sufficiently disillusioned with war for the same thing to have occurred. 2A) Saving Private Ryan? It's not a satire but there's certainly a before and after for War Movies though I did recently re-watch Dr. Strange Love and was struck by how "modern", ie: Post SPR, the small infantry battle was. 2B) Maybe in a world where everyone saw, believed, and internalized Netflix's adaptation of Catch-22? But that's not so much a deconstruction of a genre as it is a condemnation of war itself? Actually, no, if there’s some brilliant satire that sends up the War Picture I don’t know about it, and while that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist, that does mean it hasn’t destroyed the genre to the extent that Blazing Saddles did.
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Jan 15, 2020 23:32
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I'm really curious to see how these "lets edit some footage we already have" type re-releases go. There's more than one film said to have been killed by committee on the cutting room floor, and now the money is actually being out where the mouth was
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Jul 7, 2020 21:00
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It's a con-baby, in a flashback we see it don a different diaper and then slip into the carriage. Edit: the other baby is shown on a changing shelf in a bathroom, tied but unharmed.
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Jul 7, 2020 21:44
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I liked that comic run, Gotham Central, but that was a loooong time ago in terms of police in the USA. Should make No Man's Land instead.
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Jul 10, 2020 18:16
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The trailer makes it look like the streamer works for the moderator. A good game like this would slowly reveal it's a stream for a quasi porn site and you, the moderator, are really the handler for what is increasingly obviously sex slavery. I mean not a pleasant game, but there's not going to be a good way out of "she's the streamer but you're the one that's in control, why would that be?"
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Jul 18, 2020 00:37
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How many times more expensive would that the tickets have to be? You don't get many people per room and the building is weird.
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Jul 21, 2020 03:22
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Are all the annoying pretentious culture snobs, of all generations, actually right? And we're all just on our own personal journey to join them? Is it the Allegory of the Cave but Quibi?
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Jul 23, 2020 13:44
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I'm torn because I don't generally find the time to watch schlock, and the RLM RE clips look insanely bad, but otoh I really like that she gets to keep starring in leading roles as she ages, which you really don't see in action movies for women like you do for men. Really, if it was the kind of B movie I normally watch, like martial arts or shoot em up, I'd probably be thrilled.
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Jul 27, 2020 20:19
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Witcher 3 had a "story mode" difficulty and the ability to turn off the mini map. I beat that game with most of the UI, including the mini map, off, and while the game will let you do it, and I'm grateful they did, its absolutely not designed for it; I failed more than one quest by wandering outside of the "mission area" that was only defined on the mini map. Every recent Ubisoft openworld game has the same UI toggles and the same problems with disabling most of the UI; the visual design assumes a UI and doesn't convey enough by itself.
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Nov 2, 2020 19:11
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Sorry for the dumb question, but I just rewatched Hovus Pocus and now really want to see a sequel; I don't have any experience reading between the lines on articles I could Google about film production, so can anyone tell me how that's going? Is (was) it being filmed? Or is it still theoretical?
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Nov 5, 2020 22:04
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It looks cool and I'm going to see it; as was said they don't talk and the movie looks well made, loving sold.
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Nov 17, 2020 19:21
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I watched the first three just last month after beginning the Aubrey Maturin books; from that perspective I greatly preferred the first film for being more grounded. Compared to its two direct sequels the first film is an an intimate slow burn grounded firmly in reality. I also strongly agree that it's difficult to remember just how good Sparrow is in the first movie, and how obviously aware of it they are starting with 2.
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Nov 27, 2020 21:40
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:It's not a movie about Apollo 1.  Never knew Bruce Willis was a big jerk, that sucks.
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Nov 29, 2020 20:51
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Is the "first" film the whole first book or are talking some Final Fantasy 7 remake shenanigans?
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Dec 22, 2020 22:45
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OH ok I need to really tune my expectations down, great.
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Dec 22, 2020 22:51
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Some people may have been mad about a woman being the lead, and I'm not being dismissive of that I just don't follow that kind of news, and there may have been some very talented people working hard on those movies, but yeah that whole series is just bankrupt, throw it out.
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Jan 29, 2021 15:10
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I guess I meant less that they should make any effort to invalidate the works than that they should make the next effort something different. Cannon, who cares? The movies can't stop existing.
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Jan 29, 2021 15:16
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The mad magazine superman bit is so great. Shazam decides to switch to crime and explains himself to superman: "So I was punching my way through a mountain the other day when I realized, I should get paid for this. After all, not everyone can punch their way through a mountain, and with their face no less!"
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Feb 24, 2021 22:35
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It was the student who was trying to erase it, before the teacher saw it? And not the teacher trying to erase it afterwards?
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Mar 18, 2021 16:46
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Iron Crowned posted:Student, we were in the "remedial" chemistry class, but even my little band of misfits spotted him pull out a permanent marker instead of a dry erase Yesssss, that's the schadenfreude I wanted.
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Mar 18, 2021 17:10
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Lid posted:Only now am i realising i cannot name the big bads of both GTA 4 or GTA 5. Although i still argue GTA4 has the best story of any GTAs gently caress is 5 a failure in so many ways and its still loving going. That's because the point wasn't who Niko was fighting, the point was his own personal failings, he went through a parade of people he couldn't seem to get out from under but the through line was Niko himself.
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Mar 22, 2021 18:22
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Grendels Dad posted:Studios don't care enough about soundtracks these days to even make that kind of effort. I would be shocked if anybody important realized just how amazing The Crow's soundtrack is. It's a bit of a cop out since it's a collection but I still think it's my single favorite album; in fact it makes me a little curious who curated it and if they've curated anything else.
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Mar 23, 2021 12:22
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Is catwoman normally portrayed as having a comparable grapnel launcher? If so does she 1) have another one that's somehow as good 2) have a worse one or none at all but keep competitive in rooftop hopping anyway, implying she's better at it than Batman or 3) have a stolen bat grapnel? Bevause of the nature of comics I'm guessing the answer is, variously, all of them + "dont over think it man it's just for fun don't be lame" a huuge bong hit.
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Mar 24, 2021 15:30
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:One of my favorite things about Suicide Squad is that Batman is explicitly a piece of poo poo in it. He even reenacts his own origin story as the villain! Holy poo poo he dooooes. I think I recall being a little uncomfortable in the theater but I completely forgot about this!
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Mar 24, 2021 16:17
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Thundercracker posted:That sounds mighty white of them. This is something I've only ever heard said by overtly racist people I happen to hold a door open for or something. I think, not having seen the show, that you're saying OP's friends were expressing a limited perspective, right?Sorry, I don't mean to just come out of left field demanding an explanation, but this turn of phrase really jumped out at me.
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Mar 26, 2021 15:21
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I've only ever heard it used the way I described, but it clearly has a different usage in other places, so it was my mistake, sorry about that.
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Mar 26, 2021 15:28
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There's a whole generation of audience members who grew up with the prequels and generally remember them much more favorably than me, and they are primed to eat up a competent treatment with returning cast members.
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Mar 29, 2021 15:32
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So it's good that this is the uncut gems director? 
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Mar 29, 2021 16:16
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What's a bridge film, please?
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Apr 5, 2021 18:21
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Wrong thread, Robocop might be a bit ahead of its time, politically.
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Apr 6, 2021 14:44
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Baron von Eevl posted:My understanding is that the actual knight isn't described as some kind of tree golem in the poem, so I think they may be getting a little more interpretive with this version. IIRC he's just got lots of pagan symbolism like leaves in his hair and junk. So no not literally a Tolkien Treant.
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May 12, 2021 21:32
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You're all teaching me that A24 is associated with a lot of movies I like.
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May 17, 2021 21:56
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The person with DOG written in their avatar says vampires, the person that has a dog as their avatar says cats, and it's pussy island? This is all a conspiracy orchestrated by Big Dog.
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Jun 16, 2021 12:09
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If it really does involve Roman Reigns in a phantom of the opera mask, we'll know who to call:
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Jun 16, 2021 13:19
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Wait yeah aren't we sharing that because it's really good??
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:Cruella 2 is just 101 dalmatians?? They're going to archer's paradox themselves between the prequel and the original until it stops making them money. Or, more interestingly, maybe they'll actually revisit the events of the first in an alternate version that makes her the hero? Like, she's the only one that can stop these one hundred and one bad dogs?
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