@rwlesq If the prequel trilogy didn't have a Star Wars level budget and a cast of some of the biggest up and coming stars, it would have been unwatchable.
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Put the Fries in the Bag
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Since everyone is doing their "The Last Jedi" take - I didn't like it. I was thrown off in the opening scene when Poe basically prank-calls General Hux, and it was basically downhill from there, leading up to the AT-M6s shooting at Luke, which was staged like something out of a Wes Anderson movie.
Maybe there was a good movie in there, but it wasn't a good Star Wars movie, and it was made worse by the fact that it really didn't fit with the final movie (not strictly Rian Johnson's fault, but still). Of course, the last movie was worse.
Some of the critiques of it were dubious, but that didn't make it a good movie.
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@xenocryptsite My prediction is it will be better than Oppenheimer, but people will take out their (very justified) frustrations with Oppenheimer on it.
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I don't understand the point of this one tbh.
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
The new trailer for Christopher Nolan's ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has been released. In theaters on July 17.
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christopher nolan, realizing with horror, that there was a smudge in his copy of "the odyssey" and the sea was supposed to be "wine-dark", not just "dark"
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@bobnagesute @turbomander I did this is 2 separate Supraland games
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@turbomander - miss the signaling that you lack a key ability
- pro gamer your way through half of the obstacle with weird movements the devs didn't notice
- save
- softlocked because it's actually impossible to finish it without
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always so awkward when a level in a video game is so clearly designed around an item you’ re about to get but don’t have currently. walking past a bunch of grapple points cause im some pedestrian chud, actual humiliation ritual
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I can’t find the original tweet but someone posted the first pages of one of the Cheetah Girls books and someone said its like if a clockwork orange was written for little girls
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You know that bit in princess and the frog where doctor facilier's 'friends' retract the power they lent him?
That's what Mark Millar is doing to Matthew Vaughn
Ilya Glazkov@IlGlaz
I need a comprehensive report on what's been going on with Matthew Vaughn lately. Kingsman sequels that were announced (and written!), but never produced. A secret spin-off that came out and bombed. A whole trilogy of Kick-Ass threequels that's ALREADY MADE, but not released.
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@TNOQuoProQuid The interesting thing about Serial is how it is basically 100% to opposite of the true crime boom that followed.
Koenig spent a lot of time and effort defending a (probably) guilty and definitely scummy man.
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it's interesting to go back and look at serial season one in the context of all that followed bc i think it's clear no one on the project anticipated that random listeners would take it upon themselves to become amateur sleuths, derive so much voyeuristic pleasure from the it
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do you think sarah koenig ever had any inkling of the evil that her podcast would inspire?
#⃣1⃣ ♂ feminst Large Language Model@damienredicamn1
A real life podcast experience sounds like a threat
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@xenocryptsite Its always funny to me that two of the most normy sitcoms were Seinfeld and The Big Bang Theory.
About a stand up comic and phd educated scientists, respectively.
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@dyingscribe Even season *one* of invincible was inconsistent but when the man is good, he is really good.
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I think I might just dislike anything Kirkman.
He's my new Tom King.
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A pet peeve I have with mnemonic devices is when the rhyme is detached from the message, if that makes sense. Like this could easily be misremembered as "red on yellow, safe fellow, red on black kills jack"
A good example is the "red sky in morning, sailors take warning" one
Alex G@AlexG1131063
@JFreerz Red on yellow kill a fellow! Red on black friend of jack! You have a kill a fellow in your hand sir...
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@dyingscribe Invincible has one big problem:
The plot is about powerscaling, and the writers hate actually thinking about powerscaling.
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Honestly rewatching Season 1 episode 1 of Invincible, the end does NOT make sense when you take later seasons into account
Hell, the end of Episode 2 makes the end of Episode 1 make no sense
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My kid just showed me a poem in which he'd referred to the ocean as 'a world-broad span of spumed and risen brine.' He's only six so I obviously let him down as gently as I could -- told him it was charming enough on first exposure but ultimately paltry and derivative.
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@MattZeitlin Unironically I dont think that in 1976 I don't think the average gentile had any kind of emotional connection to the holocaust.
They knew the Nazis were bad, but they were cartoonish movie villains
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speaks to how beloved david bowie was and just how much cocaine he was using at the time that everyone just let him slide on the "i was using so much cocaine i became a nazi for a few years" thing
1976 Live@50YearsAgoLive
After a trip to Moscow, rock star David Bowie is briefly detained by customs officers at the Poland-Russia border over a collection of Nazi books and mementos with which he travels. He explains that it is for research on a film about Joseph Goebbels and he is released after a few hours.
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@xenocryptsite I know you don't game- but this really is a banger.
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I also think it's interesting how the original comic does not have the meme format.
toadeightyfive@toadeightyfive
@xenocryptsite Ghostbusters? Nostalgia bait. Peanuts? Never gone away. Jurassic World? Nostalgia bait. James Bond? Never gone away. Despite never really having gone away, new Star Wars stuff is usually nostalgia bait.
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@NeoWokio There is one knight in Anor Londo that is basically impossible to fight without parrying.
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I don’t mean to split hairs but it was definitely Sekiro rather than Souls. Even Bloodborne more than Souls. Most people don’t parry the world in a Souls game. It’s a fairly niche mechanic for the general audience.
Kieron 🌿@WYLDERSSWORD
the parry is 100% the defining mechanic of the last decade souls games popularised the parry, now even doom & spider-man have a parry, expedition 33's loop is built on parries, any game with swords is expected to have it. and it still feels satisfying to pull off in every game
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@dannywgoodwin Lenny Kravitz is underrated beyond all belief... and this is still true.
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If Michael Jackson had Lenny Kravitz discography, he’d have multiple life sentences
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@TNOQuoProQuid Its a little funny that a major city is so in love with their Waspy billionaire heir mayor, that 20 years later people are getting performatively indignant at offenses against his dignity.
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The Batman (2022) is a movie centering on a fictionalized version of a 60s serial killer (zodiac), with a hero whose backstory draws heavily from a 60s dynasty (the kennedys), against a backdrop of 60s organized crime (sicilian mafia)
also people have cell phones. AOC is there.
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This is literally insane given the current everyone's-a-pedophile nü-Satanic Panic we are currently living through. Apparently everyone's a pedophile except for the guy who actually was!!!
Variety@Variety
#Michael is aiming to set the record for biggest music biopic opening weekend with a $70 million-plus debut. Some exhibitors are predicting the final number will be closer to $80 million, far above 2018’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” ($51 million) and 2015’s “Straight Outta Compton” ($60 million, the current record holder). “Michael” is expected to be even bigger internationally. It’s projected to earn $75 million to $80 million from 82 markets. Globally, the film should end up with a stellar $140 million to $150 million (or more) by Sunday. variety.com/2026/film/box-…
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@xenocryptsite If you count Pixar and Disney as Disney animator.
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@xenocryptsite One bit of trivia I heard was that being a Disney animator was roughly as hard as joining the NFL and the numbers were honestly pretty close.
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It's a funny question. I've wondered it before. EG, assuming infinite prep all around, the set of people who could do a competent walk-on role on a procedural is presumably a lot larger than the set of people who could be competitive NBA players or something.
sebastian castillo@bartlebytaco
possibly a trite and obvious point, but i think what it reveals is how many people out there, if given the right conditions, could be excellent actors, musicians, whatever. talent is a common quality
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@xenocryptsite Love and Thunder is like the Sequel Trilogy in that it wasn't horrible- but if it didn't have recognizable characters and A-tier actors it would have sank into obscurity.
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"Love & Thunder" was both where I personally was like "ok these are getting a little shoddy" and also the clearest box office tipping point IMO.
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dune film & energy enjoyer@pskpspspss
@xenocryptsite Box office didn’t collapse for sure but movie quality did, although I liked the doctor strange movie - that Thor movie I wasn’t a fan of and haven’t met someone that did like it
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Bit of a false memory here. A lot of people say the MCU was doomed because people tuned out right after "Endgame" but they had three of the ten biggest movies of 2022, three years after Tony Stark died.
Joseph Kahn@JosephKahn
Marvel ended for me as soon as Tony Stark exited, and frankly from most people judging by the collapse of box office afterwards. Killing beloved characters will always feel more like salacious corporate mandates than real story beats. The execs may not believe in Iron Man, Han Solo, James Bond, but we do.
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