Ted...Dude! 2

@SpacewaySurf "Any meaningful way" dawg just shut up

the slop king

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Can't get this fucking song out of my head. My brain is rotting.

@TheDougFiles It rocks

Ppl have tried to tell me this is good. Maybe I should check it out?

Elvis (2022) in the style of the Superman (2025) Teaser Trailer

@NebsGoodTakes Fully sincerely absolutely adore this movie and prefer it to the original.

this design is actually kinda crazy

@NebsGoodTakes @brndxix Whenever I explain to people that a movie with one 1/10 rating and two 6/10 ratings and a movie with one 5/10 rating and two 10/10 ratings will have the same score they always become utterly confused.

@brndxix nobody knows how the site works, the scores aren't an average like metacritic, it's the percentage of how many critics liked the movie if 100 critics saw a movie and they all gave it exactly 7/10, it'd still have 100% on rotten tomatoes

I know people don’t want to hear this but rotten tomato scores are actually a pretty good indication of a movies quality

@NebsGoodTakes A small price to pay

have to skip daredevil tonight to go see speed racer in imax

@NebsGoodTakes Holy shit bro I love this movie.

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@NebsGoodTakes You had two options. Either keep her around and let her become a truer Taskmaster, or kill her and replace her with Tony Masters. You can't do a secret third option!

fuck you

@theericjacobus @kickassvargas I need to watch Special ID

It seems like crowd control choreo (CCC?) is a particular obsession with guys who have lived in America for a long time, like Bruce Lee and Donnie Yen. Hong Kong natives have toyed with it, but the choreographer has to legitimately ask himself, "How would I riot?" It seems this is more of an open question in modern America, which was founded on a series of riots, which has been in the business of putting down other riots that challenge its authority. Riot-culture is huge in America. Both sides of the political aisle treasure it, though it comes in waves from different sides. In the 70s riot-culture was mostly directed against the war machine, and then in the 90s first against police and then against globalism (this latter one, interestingly, came from both sides of the aisle). After 9/11, a new kind of riot-culture emerged, the tactical range. These were specifically marketed toward civilians, and their success is predicated on how useful they are. Riot culture has really escalated in the US since around 2011, again from both sides of the aisle, against perceived racial policing and against perceived overreaching bureaucratism. I'm not aware of any such phenomena in Hong Kong. Quite the opposite: riots against the CCP were quashed pretty thoroughly. Riots in Thailand, same. Riot culture in America, however, hardly ever ends conclusively. Nobody has ever really settled since Tea Party, Occupy, BLM, anti-masking, Jan 6... all of these continue to pay dividends to their adherents who keep writing about the evils of capitalism, communism, racism, bureaucracy, etc. There is a lengthy history of gang warfare of groups against groups in Hong Kong. Triad choreo is a different animal, of course, but it seems to almost entirely ignore the option of firearms. That's a mistake many people make in America. They assume, "Since this guy doesn't have a gun, I can beat him senseless and humiliate him" without considering that he might have a gun at home, or his buddy nearby might have one. It's interesting to contrast US rioting with Great Britain rioting, which is even more ritualized (often around football) and since firearms are illegal there, the rioters are incentivized to close the gap. So the tactics are totally different. So British riot-thinking hits a wall as soon as firearms are introduced, which are as hard to avoid in the cinematic universe as smartphones. There are a handful of geniuses who have crossed this threshold, like Gareth Evans in The Raid and Gangs of London Season 1, and again, it paid dividends. In America, everyone, at some point, thinks about what they might do in a riot, given the potential presence of firearms. It's hard not to. It makes the choreographer's job infinitely more difficult. I tried it in Death Grip, starting with the more Hong Kong-y style in "Kenny Vision" (HT: to Pete Lee for the idea), and then contrasting it with crowd-control style in longer takes. But I didn't dare introduce firearms into this, but neither did Donnie Yen. Rioting with firearms is absolute mayhem. Again, Gareth seems to have figured this out. So you tend to set up safe spaces where firearms are out of the picture. But even then, without firearms, you will tend to think more like the rioters, who all have more agency than an orderly stream of lemmings in a Shaw film. In Special ID, I think Donnie hit a great sweet spot with his crowd control choreo. The moves themselves aren't all that interesting. It's easy to get enamored with the Dragon Tiger Gate kicks instead. But the way he uses the space to his advantage, and even takes opportunities to just make the guys mad (giving them the finger), which makes it even harder for them to all squeeze through doorways at the same time. It's pretty inspired stuff. One of my favorite scenes he's ever done.

Getting a lot of replies from people going "Flash Point isn't a great movie, but the action [...]/Dragon Tiger Gate's story isn't much, but the action [...]" and such and I'd just like to say they're weak.

Donnie Yen might actually be the best action choreographer, he puts the entire world into those fights. He's lowkey becoming my favorite martial arts action star. Holy God he's insane. Every single action beat is the craziest shit I've ever seen.

42-year-old Donnie Yen with that hair is so funny, and then he'll whip out some reality-bending whoop-ass

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@another_ted_2 You left out the best part of that scene, the suplex

Instantly one of my favorite action movies of all time, might seriously have my favorite action choreography in any movie. I thought the stuff Wilson Yip and Donnie Yen were doing in Ip Man was insane, but this movie actually makes me lift off the ground.

@theericjacobus They're on the watchlist, I'll have to check those out.

Donnie Yen innovated on Bruce's "crowd control" choreo from Enter the Dragon. Dragon Tiger Gate was a good take, but the Special ID club fight innovated on this by using more tools, and the crowd control in Raging Fire used more tools and was even cooler.

@NebsGoodTakes I love this movie so much, them moving up the staircase is constantly in my head.

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@WukongReborn Alright man

@another_ted_2 if you’re just figuring that out , you’re a total tourist .

@WukongReborn Or I just like Donnie Yen a lot.

@another_ted_2 “He's lowkey becoming my favorite martial arts action star.” You’re either v Indian or 15 years old or both.

@ProfofEvil @RedBoulderPunch The kid thing was in the DLC? I don't even remember that. What the hell. Whenever I've heard people mention it I've just thought it had to be from the tie-in comic book or something.

@RedBoulderPunch I think the initial stuff with Black Cat coming back into Peter's life when he's getting a handle with being back with MJ is lowkey good. Very classic Spidey writing. The back-and-forth on her having a kid kind of sucks.

I can't say I'm sad about Spider-Man 2's DLC getting cancelled when the DLC for the first game is so dogshit

@ProfofEvil @RedBoulderPunch The fact that Spider-Man literally has a mob villain who gets cybernetic parts in Silvermane and they still went with Hammerhead... Just, what?

@RedBoulderPunch It should've been a Silvermane coming back to take what's his after Fisk went into prison. But it should also be him failing to relive the glory days when costumed crimes and super-villain gangs become the norm. Oh, and he hires Scorpion or Electro or something.