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atomic blonde is one of my favorite recent action movies, it has that non-stop feeling like john wick but without all the gun porn and harry potter secret assassin world poo poo plus shitloads of yamaha DX7 on the soundtrackDoom Mathematic posted:I miss Iain M. Banks. qirex fucked around with this message at 15:13 on Sep 14, 2020 |
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nobody seems to have a midlife crisis on star trek or is it because human lifespan is so much longer that the whole "become an insufferable ambassador and travel the galaxy annoying young people" is the equivalent?
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let's be honest it would basically be the mandalorian but with a drone instead of baby yoda
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rotor posted:I'm sorry but I must insist that my joke be recognized. I recognize this joke
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Sep 19, 2020 06:00
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face/off is a good bad movie broken arrow is a bad good movie mission impossible 2 is a bad bad movie
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y'all know that before the qirex fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Sep 21, 2020 |
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Sep 21, 2020 20:07
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haveblue posted:didn't protestantism only happen because henry viii wanted to divorce his wife
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Sep 21, 2020 20:10
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anyway most scifi authors suck at religion, the ancillary/radtch books probably get it close where there's a strict set of cultural norms but nearly everyone breaks them in small ways, continuously
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Sep 21, 2020 20:13
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I watched redline, it is insane and it has that weird primary color ugly late 90s sega arcade game vibe you can't stop looking at, reminded me of space dandy, in part because the main characters are basically the same guy worth a viewing
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Sep 26, 2020 08:08
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the legal rights of ghosts not being established I guess running nuclear equipment in an area not zoned for it was clearly illegal and actionable
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Sep 26, 2020 15:45
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indigi posted:so was Tenet any good? I haven't heard anyone talking about it anywhere basically the only comment I read about it was "pretty good"
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Sep 28, 2020 22:25
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I haven't seen wolf of wall street but the message a lot of the worst people got from it was "being an alpha bro finance douche is totally awesome [the bad stuff won't happen to me because I'm smart though]"
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Sep 29, 2020 07:41
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I enjoyed the ancillary books but the scale of the first one doesn't match up with the next two, it's like "oh poo poo there's a galactic scale civil war, ok I'm going to chill over here in one system and solve a murder mystery, also are smart computers people?"
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Oct 1, 2020 22:21
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indigi posted:idk, Tenet got released and just about broke even if you include marketing, it wouldn't be surprising if they tried to force a few more through just through sheer stubbornness its nolan's worst box office result since momento, I guess it did well overseas because rotten tomatoes says $36 mil
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Oct 5, 2020 20:43
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Schadenboner posted:Just finished Embassytown and it makes no loving sense. What was at least an interesting problem (the absurd) washed away by MAGICAL VIRAL SEMIOTICS? yeah that book was a waste of a really good premise, like mieville was so in love with the idea he got distracted from writing an actual story iirc the "savages" had to speak english though because the bad guy was loving up their native language so bad
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Oct 7, 2020 17:28
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tony is the villain of the sopranos
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Oct 8, 2020 19:43
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Uptime Sinclair posted:i 100% agree except the final episode wasn’t good it was peak navelgazing jomny sun nonsense the entire genre of the wacky sadbrain self hating rich person who selfishly abuses everyone around them is regressive and should go away imo
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Oct 13, 2020 17:37
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wealth is a hell of a drug also I have watched the first two episodes of raised by wolves and it seems pretty stupid? looks nice but the writing is baaad
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Oct 14, 2020 22:25
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the pilot of lost is one of the best pieces of tv ever, too bad about the rest of the show I recently watched dexter and I couldn’t get over how bad the cops are at their jobs
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Oct 14, 2020 23:36
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karl urban is good. see also: dredd, almost human
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Oct 15, 2020 03:11
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still hatewatching raised by wolves, it’s just more and more random crap. someone on twitter said they suspected it was written by gpt3 and that makes more sense than a human writing this story on purpose
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Oct 16, 2020 22:32
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ok I finished raised by wolves and I feel like it basically boils down to “what if humans [and robots] had religious experiences?” no character truly had agency, they spent the whole time getting brainfucked by voices in their heads and reacting to magical-seeming things happening to them instead of choosing to do much of anything the fact that the creator is a lapsed catholic kind of explains the story maybe?
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Oct 16, 2020 23:43
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Carthag Tuek posted:tbh i only finitshed it cause i was waiting for the reveal nah they straight up said the skull the creature mother killed was holding in the last episode was neanderthal and they revealed the robot skull inside the extremely familiar looking space helmet in the room with the torture dodecahedron where she gave birth to the flying leech snake man that looks like word salad. the show gave me the same feeling
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Oct 16, 2020 23:58
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I'm halfway through s1 of lovecraft country and it's entertaining which is more than I can say about westworld or raised by wolves. it feels a little ham-fisted at times but it's fun
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Oct 20, 2020 16:37
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he definitely has a custom plate but I bet it is ECTO 1
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Oct 26, 2020 02:48
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lady snowblood and lady snowblood: love song of vengeance are both on hbo max now but you should probably only watch the first one like 15% of kill bill vol 1 was lifted directly from it
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Oct 31, 2020 07:12
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:trois mom is definitely the best character. she’s the most horny and therefore the most star trek of all of them. starfleet's so drat square, everyone's all in ten forward listening to chamber music for fun
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sub rosa is a landmark of bad television
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Schadenboner posted:So Tony Soprano is Stringer Bell without the charisma, intelligence, or the natty taste in office furniture right? he's america's rotten failson [who also has a rotten failson], he's not supposed to succeed stringer bell was smart and selfmade but made some bad mistakes that led to his downfall, tony used up his whole organization just to stay where he was
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Nov 3, 2020 15:43
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I don't regret watching the sopranos [I mean I was unemployed at the time, why not] but I know I'll never watch it again and I remember the things I hated about it a lot more than the stuff I liked
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raised by wolves isn’t science fiction, it’s religious fiction that happens to take place in space
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I’ve been rewatching the original bourne trilogy and it’s hilarious how nobody bothers thinking “maybe we shouldn’t have a brainwashing-based superassassin program?” until the end of the third movie and even then only because it’s revealed that they’ve been ordered to kill americans I’d love a remake film faithful to the book especially being set in the 1970s before computers made all spy poo poo boring
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Kenny Logins posted:joey pants’s character is not really written or directed very well so far imo which is disappointing. the butt cut is pretty lol at least
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Nov 12, 2020 15:35
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mediaphage posted:I’m not really into cop shows but man Bosch is so good. all the actors are excellent, the writing is pretty good, the cinematography is outstanding. everything is good and I didn’t realize another season dropped back in April so I’ve been watching that. I tried a couple episodes when it first came out but thought "oh look yet another gritty rear end in a top hat alcoholic detective but actually he's brilliant show" and dropped it. if it manages to transcend that maybe I'll give it another shot also I'm watching gundam unicorn and the plot is convoluted garbage but it has some of the best giant robot pew pew action I've ever seen
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Nov 13, 2020 15:25
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Jonny 290 posted:Oh for sure. there's a bit of value in looking back at that. It's like Adbusters, kinda. Super tame and a little cringe in 2020, but 20-25 years ago? fuckin straight up subversive who else remembers schwa 
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Nov 13, 2020 21:19
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Schadenboner posted:Was this the one where the stick figures fought each-other, like a hybrid of The Matrix (Wachowski/Wachowski, 1999) and Spy vs. Spy (Prohías et. al., 1961-Present)? no it was a book/zine/sticker thing in the 90s with lots of aliens and people being mind controlled and the like. I think I still have one of the books floating around stick figures were not invented in 2002
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I rewatched johnny mnemonic last night, it’s amazing how bad of a screenwriter gibson is
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Nov 16, 2020 04:31
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it was super fun watching it with someone who had no idea what jones was
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I love gibson’s books but the best parts of them are in how he creates imagery which there’s no way to do well in film when you’re supposed to show and not tell. you’d need a director and production designer who were super careful and detailed with the look it’s weird because the structure of most of his books is very movie-like, in how you have multiple people/groups who weave in and out of one narrative but if you look at that movie and his 2 xfiles episodes his dialog is awful
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