Furby Smith

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Furby Smith

Furby Smith

@FurbySmith

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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@MemeOfSteel_ @Kamalfalilat If you want to make an argument for time obligation, Zendayas role required her to travel to all the locations over the course of months for a bunch of short scenes, whereas Hathaway’s scenes were mostly in one location and likely shot all together
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MemeOfSteel@MemeOfSteel_·
@Kamalfalilat Market value is one factor, but so are screen time and contribution. Anne Hathaway is also a major Hollywood star, not a newcomer.
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@WolfofAnnwn @bencsmoke His excuse is he doesn’t care, his validation is that it’s breaking records at the Greek box office
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Brian Álfarún
Brian Álfarún@WolfofAnnwn·
@bencsmoke You aren't paying attention. We are specifically decrying the lack of Greeks. We are even pointing out that, for Apocalypto, Mel Gibson had an all Indigenous cast AND local dialect for that film. Nolan has no excuse.
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@seuIgifilm Idk it didn’t feel different from any other Nolan movie. When has he ever written a static dialogue scene longer than 3 pages?
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danielle
danielle@seuIgifilm·
also the whole actors can only speak for 3 minutes imax thing for the odyssey is so obvious and makes for choppy editing and Honestly rlly undercuts a lot of the grandeur/weight of the film character wise
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@MagaAlphaMale @BadRonen $200m+ blockbuster fail every year. Supergirl, the Mandalorian, Snow White, etc. what are you talking about?
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🇺🇸 Stanley 🇺🇸
🇺🇸 Stanley 🇺🇸@MagaAlphaMale·
@BadRonen A film that cost 250 million to make and 150 million to promote is there any chance that it's not gonna do well? Coca-Cola makes fizz water flavored sugar and caramel, and spends millions on promotion and they make billions
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.@BadRonen·
Hollywood is so desperate for the Odyssey to be a success that the studio is buying tickets to fake tickets sales, and rotten tomatoes is snubbing bad reviews, It’s like they refuse to allow Nolan to have a flop, and refuse to admit this was a failure.
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@WerwulfFan Its fascinating how this movie has revealed a bunch of conservatives to be every bit as performativevly dogmatic and easily offended as the conservative movement accuses identify politics liberals as being. Or is it all just rage bait?
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Ironwood🦝
Ironwood🦝@WerwulfFan·
Nolan portraying the Greek Gods as hallucinations rather than having them make tangible physical appearances is incredibly insulting, both to ancient Greek culture and to Homer himself, who was a deeply religious man. The 1997 adaptation of The Odyssey is far superior.
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@sb_wight @lonelypenguin22 @RebelKels @GiancarloSopo I’d argue Aragorn and Frodo are pretty similarly different— the writers invented a more internal arc to Aragorn accepting the crown, and Frodo is young and sensitive. Then you have Faramir, Denethor, Boromir, and Arwen whose personalities are completely changed from the books
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SB Wight
SB Wight@sb_wight·
Different, as it arguably must be when changing mediums, but entirely recognizable. I'm not some puritan that requires that every word, every scene, must be exactly faithful. Faithful, to me, means that the soul, the spirit, of the work remains and is materially similar to the original. Jackson did this reasonably well. Nolan did not. I have my issues with Jackson's trilogy, but at the same time I can understand why he took liberties where he did. I cannot in good faith say the same for Nolan's Odyssey. Odysseus isn't even the same man when you compare Homer's version and Nolan's, and the changes in him entirely undermine the story. That is objectively a bad thing.
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Giancarlo Sopo
Giancarlo Sopo@GiancarloSopo·
I hate to break it to you guys, but a literal adaptation of The Odyssey would look more like a 24-part art-house miniseries than a movie. The morality would be jarring to modern viewers, and it would contain a lot more sex than social conservatives are accustomed to.
Trad West@trad_west_

Imagine an Odyssey: >Spoken in ancient greek >Recorded with historically accurate armor >With greeks cast in it >No cringe rap videos >Actually loyal to the source material Elon Musk might make this a reality by funding Gibson

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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@theymergirl It was intended to be seen in multiple formats. If Nolan didn’t like the 2.39:1 compositions, he wouldn’t have chosen for that to be the version playing in the vast majority of theaters
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@jden1035 @DAKKADAKKA1 It’s hard to think of a nude scene more obvious in its intention than those in Oppenheimer. Why do you even watch movies?
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James
James@jden1035·
@DAKKADAKKA1 Never understood why he thought those scenes needed to be in the movie
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@hehimta The films leaned into antisemitic stereotypes more than any physical description in the books, where they’re described like generic fantasy goblins. They doubled down on these features in the theme park (2014), fantastic beasts (2016) and the game (2023). They don’t seem to care
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Simon John
Simon John@hehimta·
Here is a paradox the show can’t design its way out of: the bank goblins. Keep them screen-accurate and you re-commit deliberately, in a high-budget "faithful adaptation" executive produced by her, to a visual design widely criticised for years as an antisemitic caricature. Redesign them, and you make the concession. The moment headlines read "HBO Redesigns Harry Potter Goblins," the implicit admission has been made that JK Rowling's original characters are harmful antisemitic tropes. Got my popcorn ready. 🍿
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Simon John@hehimta

The show won't work. It'll collapse, or be cancelled. Essiedu (Snape) is already receiving death threats before a single episode has aired. An Italian actress has been cast as Parvati Patil, a canonically Indian character. Stanton's parents had to disable all of their daughter's social media within an hour of her casting announcement due to racism and, again, death threats. She is eleven years old and already articles dissecting her skin colour have since been written. The cast is already fracturing. Lithgow nearly quit over Rowling. Nick Frost publicly distanced himself from her views. Essiedu signed an open letter supporting trans people, while playing a character in a show exec produced by Britain's most prominent anti-trans voice. The show is also biannual, not annual. Season one arrives Christmas 2026. Deathly Hallows, if they get there, lands around 2040. John Lithgow will be 95, almost guaranteeing he'll die during filming, much like Richard Harris died aged 72 after just two films. The story itself is a now a logistical trap. A Black Snape being hung upside down by the Marauders, spending years fighting for blood purity, then dying for the cause of a white woman he loved. Those scenes cannot be written cleanly anymore. Every choice will generate a fresh brand new controversy from absolutely every angle and political sphere. This franchise requires a sustained decade of audience goodwill to function. That goodwill simply does not exist anymore, as her base is now the most vitriolic, toxic abusers, a narrative at some point (if not already, seemingly) HBO Max will have to adresss. The three child leads have not signed long-term contracts. What happens when they're 18, 19, 20, with fully formed opinions about the woman whose name is on the tin? The magic is a dead horse.

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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@THEunrealsauce Latter. His movies always look very good, but sometimes I find his narrative and stylistic choices a bit uninspired. I guess I just feel Nolan’s personality more in his movies, even when a scene isn’t great it’s interesting, and I prefer that
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Han
Han@THEunrealsauce·
@FurbySmith @notsotroubled youre saying this based on the technical aspect or based on wether it connected with you or not? because if youre saying the latter i can say that its acceptable
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normal guy
normal guy@notsotroubled·
The Odyssey kinda put the whole Nolan vs. Villeneuve comparisons to bed for me. Denis is clearly the better director/writer and I think Dune 3 might be the nail in the coffin
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@THEunrealsauce @notsotroubled Will just have to agree to disagree. I’ve always wished I felt about his movies that other people seem to, but they’ve always just seemed “good” to me
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Han
Han@THEunrealsauce·
@FurbySmith @notsotroubled slightly bland movies!???🤣 im sorry but that just a fuckin absurd statements lmaoo🤣 im sorry but im pretty sure you never seen any of his movie lol, let alone incendies. nolan in the last director i wil say thats evolving with his style lol
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@THEunrealsauce @notsotroubled I guess I just don’t find Villeneuve to be that distinctive. He’s very competent, and made very good if slightly bland movies. Nolan, in spite of or perhaps because of his weaknesses, has a unique style that’s evolved, as has his pov on the themes he’s always been obsessed with
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Han
Han@THEunrealsauce·
@FurbySmith @notsotroubled oppenheimer were great, its my top 3 of nolan's bcs its the movie where nolan's weaknesses as a director were so hardly spotted. but not even nolan's best were ever beating incendies im so sorry. yes imo nolan are the better blockbuster maker, but better filmmaker? dont think so
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@THEunrealsauce @notsotroubled I like Incendies. It’s better Prisoners and Sicario imo. Hard to compare with his more blockbuster stuff. I probably just like Oppenheimer more than you
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Han
Han@THEunrealsauce·
@FurbySmith @notsotroubled i'll take you never seen incendies lol. nothing that nolan make will touch that type of filmmaking lol
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@chrisisclueless But lots of people try hard to perform traditional masculinity/femininity and fail at it, while they are capable of performing other gender expressions
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🖤@chrisisclueless·
I think that all gender is performative tbh. There is no such thing as innate femininity or masculinity. It’s just a series of choices we make to project the our desire for specific roles in society at large
tyler dean v.@tylerdeanv

I feel like a lot of fem gays are really invested in the idea that masc gays are in some sense performing that, or defying a natural femininity that’s otherwise endemic to gay men particularly. Bc a lot of them have highkey gender essentialist ideas about being a gay male.

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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@CrimsonFireStrm @Grummz Creating a wedding cake was a service they provided for straight couples but not gay couples. That was the discrimination argument that prevailed at the Supreme Court. One cannot make a discrimination argument on the basis of political beliefs because that’s not a projected class
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CrimsonFirestorm
CrimsonFirestorm@CrimsonFireStrm·
@FurbySmith @Grummz The baker refused service because the customers requested a cake with LGBT imagery, not because they were gay. The owner was more than happy to provide them a generic cake for their event. Declining on sexuality is illegal, doing it because of the product's message is legal.
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@hoodienanami IMO Ready player one, for all its faults, is just as much if not more introspective and ambivalent about Spielberg’s cultural impact than Jurassic park
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hoodie
hoodie@hoodienanami·
if you want to project regret for theme park movies onto a famous director, spielberg is right there. as far back as jurassic park he was grapling with being the john hammond of cinema. but he decided hes mostly fine with it. he ended up making ready player one after all
the thicc husband & father@lukeisamazing

I really don’t think Christopher Nolan blames himself or even really cares about starting the superhero movie rush, that’s something people online want him to apologize for. he treated Oppenheimer like a superhero in that movie with a suiting up scene and everything

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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@ImBatman75028 @RedNYReborn That’s just not true. A 70% drop off considered bad, not normal. And Nolan movies are historically leggier than the average blockbuster; if the odyssey drops 70 percent next weekend it would be seen as a huge disappointment
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Schizo
Schizo@ImBatman75028·
@RedNYReborn Box office falls off by at least 70% on every movie after the first weekend, if you don’t match your budget immediately it’s likely to never make it
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Furby Smith
Furby Smith@FurbySmith·
@CoGs61963545669 I would think the best way to avoid internet culture war bias is to survey random viewers, because they’re less likely to be aware of internet discourse
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CoGs⚙️⚙️
CoGs⚙️⚙️@CoGs61963545669·
@FurbySmith Also, by admitting that there is an opposite culture war bias you would have to admit that those same biased watchers skew the push ratings to that bias.
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CoGs⚙️⚙️
CoGs⚙️⚙️@CoGs61963545669·
How to get legit rotten tomatoes scores.
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