friend for a funeral

not liking Concubine into Fault and Fracture is still a crime

such an ugly movie

Xenomorphs are embodiments of rape, but nobody is more illiterate than these internet weirdos so 🤷🏼‍♂️

Even better in black and white

@trashage Hasn’t clicked for decades

@greatdevastator It'll click one day trust me.

Tropic Rot is their best album, with YCBY as a close second. 🤷

@moke_season It’s a bad mix lol

leave it to chronically online metalcore fans that know NOTHING about producing music to immediately shit on a band’s new INCREDIBLE mix because it doesn’t sound exactly like the last mix they heard GET UP AND GET A JOB BUDDY.

@Norm905 Being right doesn’t make friends

@greatdevastator Everything after you come before you was not my thing but this new one is actually pretty good. Just because you don’t like anything after Tears doesn’t mean the rest is bad or “ a bore”

let's not pretend that every Poison the Well album after Tear from the Red wasn't a complete bore. time has not been kind, it seems.

@JimFlames It’s not

@greatdevastator You Come Before You is actually their best album

@Soulpunx93 You’re the only person that feels this way

@greatdevastator You’re tripping! I enjoy YCBY, versions, and the tropic riot over OODSOS and tears from the red….

hear me out: compare "Wax Mask" to "The Weeping Vessel": the latter just sounds so colossal, so feral, such driving groove. it's heavy and mean and desolate. granted, Zao has always had the stronger discography, but PTW did do TOOD and TFTR, and that's a A LOT.

not every classic metalcore band can have a great comeback. it's a passionate style that youth gets, and "mature sounds" are often just jaded stabs at relevance. Zao's comeback album was incredible, for example, but this new PTW bores me. There's no momentum, it plods.

@pogmeat you are not

i'm probably the only person on the planet who would passionately defend both Dune 2 and Attack of the Clones

Dune: Part Three (2026)

@king_seraphine Thought this was a machop

Link would wear this in Gerudo Town

band has been an absolute trainwreck since Lucker passed

@hicksinferno But it’s modern suicide silence lol

DUDE SHUT THE FUCK UP

@HMBohemond me when i don't realize Dune is an inversion of the hero's journey

What Herbert and Villeneuve intended with their work is irrelevant because that's not what their work said. Authorial intent has limits when the text is finally presented. Don't write a hero then say, "Actually he's the villain." It doesn't work that way.

@MatthewB236716 @BoltTheWord Emperors are bad

To me, Villeneuve's focus on Paul's use of Bene Gesserit religious rhetoric to come to power, was the change that lost me in the movie. I always saw the first Dune book as a heroic story where the Paul overcomes all odds to become the Emperor, not a cautionary tale of what type of power to use.

"Dune 2 is amazing!" Chani's character is COMPLETELY changed from what she is like in the books. As is Paul by the halfway point of the movie. Their only similarities basically being their names. The ending of the movie is also altered from the book a full 180 degrees. It's missing certain characters showing up, the houses accepting Paul's claim to be emperor (In the movie they reject it for some reason), and Chani stays with Paul understanding that he loves her, but for political reasons he must "Marry" the princess. Basically it's SUPPOSED to mirror the relationship that Leto and Lady Jessica had, but the movie completely rejects this and has Chani leave Paul rather than being a Ride or Die true love. The film completely omits that Paul and Chani had an infant son and said child was murdered by the Harkonen's in an attck on the Fremen, which solidifies Chani's resolve in bringing them down alongside Paul. The two different sects of the Fremen, the radical fundamentalist sect, and the "normal" ones we see in the first film, and the first half of the second film, don't even exist in the book. The entire Fremen population is largely ideologically the same in the book. This change to there being two different types of Fremen culture on opposite sides of the planet does literally NOTHING to "improve" the source material or add any new depth. The visionquest stuff is different, though that's less of an issue in the grand scheme since this is one of the few changes that can be understood given the medium change, but it's still handled rather poorly in terms of passage of time he's on said visionquest. I can keep going. Point is, nearly all the changes made radically alter the overall story, characters, foreshadowing, and message, and people who haven't read the books don't realize how much of a slap in the face to the fans of the book, and how these Hollywood idiots stand on the shoulders of giants only to use the work of others, then take credit for "improving" it as it's marketed towards people who don't know any better. It's truly insulting. But people will lap this shit up because "It's so pretty to look at!"