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SlimGoodbody posted:I thought Peele confirmed NOPE is an acronym for Not Of Planet Earth The one time I saw him address that, he was being sarcastic like "haha yes I definitely intended that, I'm very smart." Edit: TheBizzness posted:He did in fact confirm it. Yeah there it is. Very obviously joking here. Scissorfighter fucked around with this message at 00:53 on Sep 12, 2022 |
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TIP posted:that looks a lot like the future robots in AI And the «interdimensional beings” in Indy 4 Spielberg has always used the long thin greys look.
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Scissorfighter posted:The one time I saw him address that, he was being sarcastic like "haha yes I definitely intended that, I'm very smart." That’s not how I took it but I suppose that reading is there. My apologies if I’m in the wrong on this one. I remember someone posting it was confirmed many many pages ago and that’s the only thing I could find.
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F4rt5 posted:And the «interdimensional beings” in Indy 4 Well, more specific than that, long thin and translucent. Kinda surprised that the Indy 4 alien became completely solid, seems like crystal skull to crystal alien was an obvious move.
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TheBizzness posted:He did in fact confirm it. Oh. My bad.
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God Hole posted:simplest explanation is usually the correct one: it's indigenous to earth and has been cohabitating with humanity all along. no need to address the space travel dilemma! yeah like tremors the monster just shows up
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Nessus posted:Interstellar bilge water from the Roswell UFO. I did like the theory earlier itt that Roswell was a smaller member of the species, and the 'aliens' were partly digested human corpses. ...or even a younger Jean Jacket, there's your prequel.
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Scissorfighter posted:The one time I saw him address that, he was being sarcastic like "haha yes I definitely intended that, I'm very smart." He confirmed it on the smartless podcast a few weeks ago. I think begrudgingly, so people would shut up about it.
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The Jupiter's Claim website is still a laugh, the way the hats move in the little coin minigame... what does the prize do? I presume it's a photo thing, but I have no interest in Facebook or Instagram.
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You can take little Instagram pics. Not super worth it
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I did like the theory earlier itt that Roswell was a smaller member of the species, and the 'aliens' were partly digested human corpses.
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Timeless Appeal posted:In some ways, Jean Jacket literally is a weather balloon. Yup, a balloon that decides weather or not to eat you depending on eye contact.
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CelticPredator posted:This one always skeeved me out as a kid and the actual puppet is even freakier  Oh God. You can see through it's skin. Why can you see through it's skin!?I hate it, but I also love it.
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:
If you’re traveling hundreds of years between stars and don’t get any light other than your monitor you don’t need melanin anymore
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Nop.
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I really couldn't get over how incredibly tasteless it was for Jordan Peele (we're talking beyond Takashi Miike or Gaspar Noe level tbh) to have his Signs riff have a subplot based on the Travis chimpanzee attack with a character appear on screen directly based on the woman who got her faced ripped off. How was nobody there to tell him maybe that wasn't the best idea. I guess it's okay hahaha!!! She doesn't have eyes anymore so she can't see your mid sci-fi movie hahaha! Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 01:59 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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wait until you hear about world war two
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I really couldn't get over how incredibly tasteless it was for Jordan Peele (we're talking beyond Takashi Miike or Gaspar Noe level tbh) to have his Signs riff have a subplot based on the Travis chimpanzee attack with a character appear on screen directly based on the woman who got her faced ripped off. How was nobody there to tell him maybe that wasn't the best idea. 
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Punkin Spunkin posted:I really couldn't get over how incredibly tasteless it was for Jordan Peele (we're talking beyond Takashi Miike or Gaspar Noe level tbh) to have his Signs riff have a subplot based on the Travis chimpanzee attack with a character appear on screen directly based on the woman who got her faced ripped off. How was nobody there to tell him maybe that wasn't the best idea. Did you actually watch the movie or is this some avant garde Logan Paul review performance posting
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Sorry maybe I'm totally off-base, it's just such an incredible and disturbing specific story and felt like such a bizarre choice to take inspiration from. I'm not trying to say the film was like, "problematic" or bad, it's just that having read up on that attack that choice just seemed sick as gently caress. It's not like, any other film inspired by a generalized traumatic event. It's really not the same as making a film about WW2. I get that there were thematic justifications, it still didn't stop me from thinking about how horrific of a choice it was. I guess it's really just me. vvvvv Punkin Spunkin fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Almost as if a big point of the movie is about how humans treat animals for entertainment and fail to understand both their needs and the hazards they present with tragic consequences. vvv: Maybe you should try reading the thread. It's not that long and there's lots of topics discussed! Ghost Leviathan fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Sep 20, 2022 |
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Reading up though, apparently it's just based on Jordan Peele having a horrible nightmare about a chimp attack...so maybe it's just a case of horrific synchronicity.
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It's not like Peele was endorsing chimp attacks. He based a scene in his horror movie on a real life horrific incident, which seems pretty common.
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Jordan Peele canceled for exploiting something weird like a chimp attack story, and not something normal, like The Holocaust,
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Also I’m pretty sure that’s not the only story of a chimp going berserk and mutilating someone
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"Person mauled by a chimp" is specific in that there aren't that many stories about it happening, but on the other hand the similarities end at "person mauled by a chimp." The setting, circumstances, victim, and results are completely different. This isn't like that story of a guy maybe being forced to wear a bomb around his neck and rob banks being turned into a comedy. Also yer post is borderline incoherent so maybe work on your presentation a bit
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It sounds like you're rolling in trying to cancel Jordan Peele or something and haven't really thought out how it goes aside from everyone standing up and clapping.
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Maxwell Lord posted:Also I’m pretty sure that’s not the only story of a chimp going berserk and mutilating someone It's not uncommon but Nope is clearly referencing the Travis the chimp attack.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:It sounds like you're rolling in trying to cancel Jordan Peele or something and haven't really thought out how it goes aside from everyone standing up and clapping. Given their rap sheet it's probably more like "I'm going to roll into this thread and gently caress it up with some rear end in a top hat poo poo." I do think there's an interesting conversation to be had about whether Peele's exploiting a tragedy himself though so tough noogies
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Maxwell Lord posted:Also I’m pretty sure that’s not the only story of a chimp going berserk and mutilating someone This is an important point, I feel. The Travis story is one of the most recent and horrific ones (especially because it doesn't happen to the chimp's owner, but a friend of theirs), but I've read, heard and seen other pet chimp mutilation stories before it, that have made me resolute that if I ever get a chance to meet a live chimp face to face, I'll politely bow out (so I get to keep my face).
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Yeah, it came up before- that reddit thread with the marine biologist come to mind- that chimps are terrifying when they fight, and do poo poo that makes Mortal Kombat look merciful and restrained. Their literally instinctive fighting style consists pretty much entirely of war crimes, and goes after the weakest available targets, both body parts and individuals, to cause permanent if not fatal damage, and survivors of chimp attacks tend to end up permanently mutilated and crippled. The movie is entirely accurate there. Comparisons to the Travis tragedy came up, but also Siegfried and Roy, and the incident that Blackfish was written about- all things that the movie evokes with both Gordy and Jean Jacket. (Harambe was mentioned as being an exception for various reasons)
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Baron von Eevl posted:I do think there's an interesting conversation to be had about whether Peele's exploiting a tragedy himself though I think this is a valid criticism for sure, and I'd love to hear him answer this question.
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Send it to the family of Travis’ victim and let us know if they get the reference
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I think this is a valid criticism for sure, and I'd love to hear him answer this question. Why do you think it's valid? Criticism? I'm going to say the film was as effective because of the exploitation.
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ruddiger posted:Send it to the family of Travis’ victim and let us know if they get the reference That doesn't seem very likely? Event Horizon has been somewhat unfairly overlooked in my experience.
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I really hated when Tobe Hooper exploited Ed Gein’s victims.
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forest spirit posted:Why do you think it's valid? I love Nope but it's also important to examine media, especially one where of the themes is exploitation of tragedy. Here's Charla Nash, the mutilated survivor of the real life horrific chimp attack  And here's Mary Jo, the survivor of the horrible chimp attack in Nope.  I think the question "is it appropriate to draw such obvious parallels to a real person's situation for the purposes of entertainment" worth asking, especially when the film is making points about exploitation. Nash's story has been sucked up and spit out in a new form. I don't have an answer apart from "it's complicated", and I think tbh I think the only opinion that really matters here would be Nash's.
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