Nobody Greedlightninged 2020 is back! But for how long??

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wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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Policenaut posted:

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1215007789547999235

https://twitter.com/ADACTIVITY/status/1215017926455103488

# ¿ Jan 9, 2020 02:23

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 10:53

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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Can't wait to see Duncirc.

# ¿ Jan 30, 2020 20:43

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smug jeebus posted:

How did they spend $150m making a dog movie

https://twitter.com/vfxblog/status/1231979600743452677

# ¿ Feb 27, 2020 02:30

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Lovely Joe Stalin posted:

Joss Whedon's never been quite this specifically gross. As in, I've never had the impression he is repeatedly putting his own rape fantasies on screen.

Buddy, he made Dollhouse.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2020 09:34

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My Twitter Account posted:

I mean, it was fun? It was cute? I don't know much about the production aspect but I got the feeling while watching it that it was originally supposed to be more over-the-top violent (like the scene where Harley shoots a bunch of cops) but they toned it down somewhere along the line because they thought that would make it more appealing to a young, female audience.

I really don't think it was toned down, I mean because one, that scene the highlight of the film as is, and two, it's still full of poo poo like Harley jumping on that guys legs in the club. :gonk:

But yeah, BoP was the last film I saw in theaters, and I'm fine with that.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2020 23:18

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Doctor Zaius posted:

e2: This I think treats media as a sort of immaculate, sovereign object. Media cannot fail, it can only be failed by bad interpretation. If something seems bad on initial viewing, then you simply haven't been creative enough with your reading of it, because bad media is an oxymoron.

I mean, yeah?
If you simply say "This movie failed to do this, or did this on accident" you might as well be waving a gun around and screaming about plot holes.
"What does this film say?" is always the more interesting option, because it's actually a discussion.

Also yeah, your understanding of satire is about on this level.
https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1230874850035716097

"The late-capitalist hellscapes that The Outer Worlds and Journey to the Savage Planet try to ridicule are not hypothetical situations lurking in the future. They exist today. As a result this satire just bounces harmlessly off its targets; it no longer has bite, and therefore, it isn't funny." :yikes:

# ¿ May 25, 2020 01:37

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mycot posted:

Wasn't a pretty common complaint about Outer Worlds was that it was technically satire but didn't really seem to get why corporations and rampant capitalism are bad other than them being annoying?

Nah, like, as an offshoot of that article, probably the most interesting thing about Outer Worlds is it's the most depressing game I've ever played. I honestly can't believe anyone that actually played the game would come away with "companies are annoying"

Barudak posted:

I mean the first thing it tasks you to solve involves the company forcing survivors to have their wages garnished for suicides and that its feeding them food thats slowly poisoning them because their eventual slow deaths are cheaper than paying for real food. If you in another mission try to go for the "compromise" ending that other games love touting as the best solution between the rebels and the corporations things end up markedly worse than if you help the rebels just murder all the corporate people.

Im not sure how you play the game and think its critique is that corporations are just "annoying" unless you actively choose to disengage with the work.

Pretty much, people would complain about the game being "reactionary" but then it would turn out they chose that option because they personally thought it would be best.
Like gently caress that man, I lead a bloody coup and actually gave the colony a future.
People also acting like it's some flaw of the game that it lets you join up with the corporations if you want, and what, doesn't scold you? I don't get it.

Pirate Jet posted:

Yeah, it's Elizabeth Warren the Game. The final position it takes is that there's nothing wrong with capitalism as long as you keep those darn corporations from being too pushy in their marketing.

Ah yes, the game where the government is planning on freezing the majority of the lower class rather than feeding them is about how annoying ads are. Great work there champ.

# ¿ May 25, 2020 01:59

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Doctor Zaius posted:

But then the actual media becomes secondary - you can come up with a 'this is satire, actually' take for anything you care to name, the actual media doesn't matter.

e: Birth of a Nation is an excellent piece of satire.

You need to actually back it up with a reading.
Why are you so concerned about what someone might hypothetically "say", especially when you're the one already arguing in bad faith.

Xarbala posted:

The Outer Worlds had some horrendously laughable writing in trying to inorganically force shades of gray in a setting where they made corporations unambiguously and cartoonishly evil.

And if you were hoping for some kind of emotional stakes, any emotional stakes in that game, well tough luck bud. Disco Elysium it ain't.

I mean, IRL corporations are cartoonishly evil, yet you still have people touting Elon Musk as a genius boy working for the common good. Whatever your problems with the game may be, the believably of that situation ain't one of them.

I haven't played Disco Elysium but I know that it will call you out if you keep talking big leftist points but then choose the centrist options. So apparently yes, people do need the game to directly scold them for it to be "good"

wyoming fucked around with this message at 02:53 on May 25, 2020

# ¿ May 25, 2020 02:48

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Doctor Zaius posted:

Yes, and you can put together a 'this is brilliant satire' type read on anything that has ever been made, like say, a lukewarm RPG. It's just a creative writing exercise at that point.

If you can back it up with the text, what is your issue here? You're the one making outrageous claims of nonsense. Like, what is a "Lukewarm RPG" and, why can't it say anything? What makes it especially devoid of meaning.
Are you really that mad people discussing film in cinema discusso?

# ¿ May 25, 2020 03:04

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Pirate Jet posted:

How am I supposed to respond to this base-level snark without starting a flamewar? Sorry I got you so mad with my opinion on a video game.

And yet, you still responded??? I don't really care if you liked it or not, but ignoring the text to make up random insults is weird.

Doctor Zaius posted:

The issue is that it becomes a masturbatory exercise that accomplishes dick all.

e: Like if the goal isn't to establish some sort of 'goodness' or 'badness' of a film (which I'll concede is a pretty meaningless thing as well), and it's not to persuade people to some position or another, then what *is* the point beyond 'talking about film for the sake of talking about film. (which even then isn't really talking *about* the flim)

So we shouldn't talk about movies at all? Like, I don't understand why you think there should be something to accomplish, you read art, you can share your reading, people can agree or disagree. That's art. I really don't get your point.

mycot posted:

Tbh that doesn't really argue that the game is funny, even if it's right/accurate.

The post I quoted was about it being believable, not funny. Like yeah, it's not a super funny game.
Well Martin is hilarious, but still, in a very sad way.

# ¿ May 25, 2020 03:27

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Tars Tarkas posted:

Here's a cool article about how they did the effects for Casper with real time hand drawn animation

https://beforesandafters.com/2020/05/28/the-real-time-hand-drawn-animatics-process-that-made-casper-possible/

#releasetheamigacut

# ¿ May 28, 2020 23:00

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Pope Corky the IX posted:

I am confusion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-1RNJf9e0E

# ¿ May 31, 2020 22:09

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Pope Corky the IX posted:

Hey, a creeping man! For my film The Creeping Man!

The best part of this joke is Eddie Izzard eventually got it to happen.
That's 100% his role in The Avengers.

# ¿ Jun 30, 2020 10:47

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Grendels Dad posted:

Wtf Jason, stealing roles from professional wrestlers now?

Michael Keaton was a wrestler?

# ¿ Jul 2, 2020 11:23

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Taintrunner posted:

Odd. The comics came out in 2012. Huh.

it actually came out 2007-2008, maybe prufock451 has been doing some wiki-vandalism.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2020 14:29

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Gatts posted:

To this day the best game Square has ever put out is Vagrant Story. Still my favorite game of all time.

I just bought it earlier this year because of a twitter thread that was going on about how gorgeous and expressive the art is.
And it absolutely is and I love it, however, gently caress that combat system. Like, goddamn.

https://twitter.com/dreamboum/status/1226610123000467457

# ¿ Aug 4, 2020 03:52

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AceOfFlames posted:

https://twitter.com/andrewjlavigne/status/1297428664108318721?s=20

"All the ways you wish you could be, that's me. I look like you want to look, I gently caress like you want to gently caress. I am smart, capable, and most importantly, I am free in all the ways your are not."

# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 00:35

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Maxwell Lord posted:

Suddenly there was no Steven Seagal.

No, John. You are the Seagal.

# ¿ Aug 24, 2020 01:50

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Who Goes There? was a brilliant little story, but from what I've heard Frozen Hell just has more backstory, and that, does not sound super interesting.
Like yeah, sure, The Thing but we spend an hour showing why MacReady is ready to kill all these other assholes before the alien shows up.

SuperMechagodzilla posted:

So I really love the Thing prequel scene where they uncover the Thing�s �creator�, and it�s literally an incomprehensible pillar of shifting voxels.

Yeah, it's far more interesting than the predator but with eyesballs.
The tetris pilot is by far the most memorable visual in the film, and it's funny that when confronted with an unknowable horror, people long for a Cthulhu plushie.

# ¿ Aug 26, 2020 08:49

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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Continue to give Gore Verbinski all of the money I say.

# ¿ Nov 28, 2020 19:00

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Alan Smithee posted:

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1337886581517152256?s=20

# ¿ Dec 14, 2020 01:08

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I've been saying for years that Junkie XL should adapt this song for Batman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjFieQVvudY

# ¿ Dec 15, 2020 12:20

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Hedrigall posted:

My favourite part about avatar is how millions of internet nerds read that one �biggest movie with no cultural impact� article and all parrot it like it makes them some media analyst

I also like how character names is apparently the one measure of a movie�s memorability

I couldn�t tell you a single character from Pulp Fiction apart from Vincent Vega but that movie is memorable as gently caress, I can picture every scene

I've only seen Avatar once and for whatever reason 'Jake Sully' is forever burned into my brain.

# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 23:19

wyoming: Jun 7, 2010; Like a television
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I just find it wild that they cast Oscar Isaac as Gomez in an animated movie. Like, what the hell.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 19:00

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Stop the Game: I Want to Get Off

# ¿ Feb 1, 2021 08:10

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Kaiju Cage Match posted:

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1359200854721630212

🤔

# ¿ Feb 10, 2021 19:51

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Jose Oquendo posted:

He did the Grandpa Munster bit all the way until the end. He even hosted a TBS movie program doing it.

Also these:

I still have a copy of The Living Head somewhere.

# ¿ Mar 12, 2021 21:55

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Urdnot Fire posted:

Trash dated crap, you say?

https://twitter.com/topherflorence/status/1373035682046873607

Honestly a stranger bit of propaganda than whatever the hell this is:
https://twitter.com/ev4ngeIion/status/1290801671182983169?s=19

# ¿ Mar 20, 2021 06:29

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Stink Billyums posted:

RE2 did have a tyrant in a coat chasing you around, he just wasn't breaking through walls to surprise you.

No, he absolutely breaks through a wall, and considering it was prerendered or whatever, it is by far the biggest and most unexpected scare in the game.

Gatts posted:

Would RE1+2 have Wesker or was he a later addition?

He was in the first game. Pretty sure he just dies in it, and they brought him back later.

I'm talking about the original games, they've long been retconned.

wyoming fucked around with this message at 00:24 on Mar 22, 2021

# ¿ Mar 22, 2021 00:15