western-series

[modern lichen]

superman and lois is a new show

[limber urchin]

waaaait

[modern lichen]

it ended like last year

[limber urchin]

that doesn't sound right.

one sec

[modern lichen]

maybe you're thinking of something else

[limber urchin]

shit i was thinking about this

[modern lichen]

batman the animated series || https://fixupx.com/CoolComicArt/status/1088615211479719936 ||

Cool Comic Art (@CoolComicArt)

Batman : The Animated Series opening, storyboard art by Bruce Timm

**💬 24 🔁 1.3K ❤️ 3.8K **

FixupX · Jan 25, 2019, 1:51 AM

[limber urchin]

wow those boards are super clean for US productions

I have a number of storboard friends and they rarely ever get to do boards that tight

[arctic flax]

all those shows are good except smallville

get that soap opera trash outta there lol

[modern lichen]

smallville is awesome

[arctic flax]

it got too much filler

arrow was more enjoyable

for a similar type show

i need to get around to finishing doom patrol. i left off at s4 part 1 due to the long hiatus between season. but ill prob need to restart s4 lol.

[modern lichen]

smallville easily is better than arrow because it understood what makes superman tick despite its CW production requirements, it also looks so much better than a lot of modern day TV, arrow devolved into stupid histrionics after season 2

but anyway

the boys truly devolved into stupid bullshit with the second season itself

the first season was like lightning in a bottle

[arctic flax]

it might be but i wont know lol (I didnt get far with it and don't plan to as it got so many episodes). arrow is a really uneven show but its best seasons are rly fucking good and stuck with me

with the limited time i have,im reluctant to watch long series now

agents of shield is the only consistently good network tv superhero show

i was surprised how good it was after a weak s1

[limber urchin]

i'm happy with lightning in a bottle, sounds like heroes season 1 in that regards and i still love it

[arctic flax]

has some of the best mcu stuff

[modern lichen]

heroes also became trash after the first season yeah

[arctic flax]

it covered so many classic marvel plotlines and concepts very well

did a better secret invasion like story than the show, god secret invasion is so dogshit

heroes been on my watchlist since 2020 but i never got around to it

[hazy radish]

Grew up with Lois and Clark, it’s a classic

Superman and Lois is interesting, similar name but very diffrent

[limber urchin]

The Boys S1 Ep1 ||Wow, that was a phenomenal introduction to a new series. And shockingly brutal at points. Loved it. No complaints.||

[white smelt]

I am definitely in the minority but I think season 1 was very meh. It was enjoyable for the most part but it felt like it could’ve been condensed drastically. First two episodes were good then it meandered for the rest of the season.

[sand cypress]

perhaps first law trilogy soon

[sage remnant]

Just a fair warning
It's more of a one book divided into three than trilogy of books

[sand cypress]

good to know!

[white smelt]

https://x.com/CultureCrave/status/1915463245277831653

Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) on X

Josh Allen says his fiancé Hailee Steinfeld was excellent in her new movie #Sinners

“It was a different world—a very cool experience ... It’s a fantastic movie; so go watch it”

X · Apr 24, 2025, 5:49 PM

https://tenor.com/view/speed-dad-laughing-speed-dad-crying-speed-speed-ksi-speed-trying-not-to-laugh-gif-1466628274697419264

[modern lichen]

The lines she has in the movie… goddamn

https://x.com/filmupdates/status/1915089934693581000?s=46

Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) on X

Dominic Sessa will play Anthony Bourdain in a new biopic ‘TONY’ from A24.

Co-starring Antonio Banderas, it will take place in 1976 when a young Bourdain has a life changing experience working in Provincetown, Mass.

(https://t.co/ZSOyf1VqtR)

X · Apr 23, 2025, 5:06 PM

@wooden swift

[mild seal]

Woah that's the dude from the leftovers

[modern lichen]

Yeah, from The Holdovers

[mild seal]

Yeah that

Brainfart

[young compass]

ugh

[tawny parcel]

Michael B Jordan must be stopped

[arctic flax]

excited to watch it after finals

[main lion]

probs gonna try to find the motivation to watch it solo on saturday lol

[raw gate]

Going to the theater alone is the best

[main lion]

gonna buy my ticket last second to find a seat that isnt directly next to someone

[raw gate]

You’ve never held hands with a stranger at the films before?

[main lion]

not a stranger at that point...

[leaden depot]

For a second I thought he was wearing a Star Trek: The Next Generation uniform 😭

[modern lichen]

rewatched prince of egypt

what a film

[leaden depot]

Peak animation

[modern lichen]

prince of egypt ||that fuckin passover sequence is just etched in my mind||

[dim hedge]

Sinners round 2 either monday or Tuesday

After that i hope it lasts in Imax for a potential round 3 in imax

[raw gate]

Poggies

[near echo]

Prince of Egypt is great

Got my nitpicks about it and I haven't seen Ten Commandments yet so I don't have a point of reference but its probably my favorite DreamWorks movie after HTTYD

[limber urchin]

Ten Commandments is a great epic

[modern lichen]

I prefer Prince of Egypt but The Ten Commandments goes hard too

[near echo]

Prince of Egypt ||I think what irks me about the middle of that film is the sections where it tries to feel more like a Disney film? The cartoonish fraud magicians tricking the Egyptian court into thinking parlor tricks are the work of the gods, Moses and Ramsès' in their childhood

It's a bit of tonal whiplash that I don't think suits the scope and stakes of the story. And kinda makes Egypt look foolish.

But also I get this is a version of the story trying to be presentable to kids without feeling like a PSA so I guess those are small sacrifices to make||

[raw gate]

I like It and Misery a lot, Bob

LOL

Not fixing that

[near echo]

😔

[raw gate]

Autocorrect

Dude this fucking guy

Has written so much shit

[near echo]

He gets so high he doesn't even remember writing some books

[raw gate]

No way. that’s based

I like him a bit more now

[sage remnant]

11/22/63 be his best

[raw gate]

Haven’t gotten around to it

[near echo]

I've only seen parts of the old Tim Curry It

[raw gate]

The Green Mile was the last book of his that I read

And, surprise surprise, I disliked it

[mild seal]

I had to read a book of his for an English class and it was pretty interesting

It's called on writing and it's about how he got started as a writer and the writing process

[sage remnant]

Yeah it's like very celebrated book in writing communities

[modern lichen]

on writing is considered to be a bonafide resource for writers, its quite helpful

[modern lichen]

prince of egypt ||oh yeah, those two fuckin priests and that dance number was cringe but it was anchored so well just a few seconds later by the scenes between moses and rameses i can forgive the film for that||

[tawny parcel]

Adwd

[limber urchin]

love these chapters, some of my favorites

[modern lichen]

https://fxtwitter.com/MarvelStudios/status/1551009643698106368?t=7ewIE1fM_WJfmiZvkD8lnw&s=19

Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios)

Just announced in Hall H:
︀︀
︀︀Marvel Studios' Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, in theaters May 2, 2025. #SDCC2022

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FxTwitter · Jul 24, 2022, 1:01 AM

what the fuck

[tawny parcel]

What in the world is going on LOL

That’s in a week

[tawny parcel]

Wait i thought this was saying like a whole ass movie that was canceled was coming out in a week this post is like 2 years old bro

What are we saying what the fuck to

[tawny parcel]

Adwd ||george on his way to write another child murder that you will be happy about what is wrong with this man ||

Adwd ||but yeah theons chapters are a standout in this book, and it seems like this last leg of dance is getting really good||

Oh shr

[limber urchin]

ADWD ||George does what Oda won't.||

[knotty fox]

https://x.com/MarvelStudios/status/1551009643698106368

Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) on X

Just announced in Hall H:

Marvel Studios' Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, in theaters May 2, 2025. #SDCC2022

X · Jul 24, 2022, 1:01 AM

[young compass]

is there like

some troll post going around somewhere

this tweet is two years old

[tawny parcel]

I know right lmfao

[mild seal]

NGL I was looking forward to Kang

[main lion]

Minecraft Movie || https://vxtwitter.com/jack840a/status/1915309727472640406?s=46&t=6hYY-27jdsmUDoUi-OiUWQ || @wooden swift

Jack Yakuza (Yakuza spoilers ahead) (@[e-mail])

Here is Koichi Yamadera singing "Steve's Lava Chicken" song in the Minecraft Movie Japanese dub. (Akiyama VA from Yakuza/Prolific VA)

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 24, 2025, 7:39 AM

[arctic flax]

late april fools?

isnt thunderbolts releasing like the same week lmao

nvm saw the date

why would yall even share that lol

[limber urchin]

I had a killer time with season 1 of The Boys. I'll see how the rest holds up.

[mild seal]

spoiler tag that

@fickle furnace

[limber harbor]

Sinners movie thoughts || Hailey steinfield is really hot, like seriously, could barely think of anything else and I don’t even particularly find woman attractive much. ||

Ok but really

Sinners || the movie is just ok, it’s not good and it’s not bad. It’s ok. It has a rather obvious political agenda that’s not really subtle, which is whatever, the characters are ok, Michael B Jordan is starting to make me feel the same way I feel when watching the rock, that is to say I’ll never watch a movie he stars in again. I think the first act was amazing and I was really hooked into it, and then it started fizzling out and when the Asian lady let the vampires and then forth. The brothers relationship felt very real and I loved it. Everything else was very meh, kinda almost felt like the story didn’t exactly know where it was going somewhere in the middle. The scene at the end with Michael B Jordan and just killing all the clan members was whatever I guess, didn’t feel much from it, the scene where he got to see his dead child and girl was heartwarming. By the end I was rooting for the white vampire villain guy to kill everyone. That’s kinda funny. The kid almost mc I forgot that fuckers name really was almost just kinda there, oh right preacher boy. I thought he’d do more. Anyway the lesson of the movie did seem to be that church is bad and follow your dreams or something like that. || 5/10

The large drinks were 10 dollars too what the fuck

11 dollar bucket of tasteless popcorn

[knotty fox]

Nah people are joking about how it was meant to come out next week had they stick with the original plan

[modern lichen]

i shared it because its a joke

also, in ridicule

they fumbled it so bad

[mild seal]

they pivoted really well though

[vast imp]

Bruh what do you anything about history

[vast imp]

Let me get my review brb

[modern lichen]

😭

[vast imp]

He has be trolling

Ain't no way he says it has a political agenda

One piece is legit woke

[modern lichen]

it is a political film

[vast imp]

Same for one piece

[modern lichen]

what does this have to do with one piece

[vast imp]

He complains about the agenda One Piece has one

[modern lichen]

one piece doesn't have anything to do with this though so i dont see the point of this argument

[sage remnant]

The point of the argument is their username

[modern lichen]

i mean, i dont agree with ilya's point at all but your argument is just very weak in what its trying to illustrate

[mild seal]

https://tenor.com/6wvg.gif

[brave orbit]

@sage remnant did you watch the new Who ep???

@modern lichen @undone junco @glacial jetty too

[undone junco]

Not yet

[brave orbit]

fair

Hope it's going ok there

Stay safe

[modern lichen]

nothing's gonna happen

but yeah i havent checked out the new season yet

[brave orbit]

Yea i figured but you never know currently

[limber harbor]

Quick show me where I complained about that

[raw gate]

I think there’s supposed to be a period somewhere in that statement

“Illya critiqued the political agenda in Sinners. One Piece also has a political agenda (?) but Illya enjoys it.”

[modern lichen]

pretty bad counter, yeah

[limber harbor]

If he actually read what I said I didn’t actually critique the political agenda of sinners I was just indifferent to it

[modern lichen]

sinners is a great film because it balances the political and the epic narrative pretty well for me

[limber harbor]

Oh is that harsh

[modern lichen]

yeah

good to see you back

[white smelt]

https://vxtwitter.com/dannyonfilm/status/1320779919656452097

daniel☁️ (@[e-mail])

this new wave of talent in the MCU is insane

vxTwitter / fixvx · Oct 26, 2020, 5:30 PM

[copper phoenix]

rip blade movie

[magic bloom]

Crazy how this aged like milk

1. show cancelled
2. shows ass
3. cancelled role
4. he’s just ass

[modern lichen]

Simu Liu was good in Shang Chi, fight me

[magic bloom]

https://tenor.com/view/george-lopez-confused-unsure-eh-meh-gif-9297878

[modern lichen]

Come on man

The biggest fumbles there are Blade and Jonathan Major, one was a Marvel fumble, the other one is a personal fumble (for being a massive cunt)

I’m glad Simu is getting a chance to do more with the newer Avengers, as much as I’m not fucking interested in that series

[jolly heath]

conclave end || cool movie, cinematography was great, but i think the ending was a bit weak with some very on the nose stuff. I think The Two Popes did the papacy election thing a lot better||

[modern lichen]

Conclave ending || what did you think of the philosophical discussion of what faith means in the movie ||

Conclave ending || especially with the events going on irl with the pope’s death, it forms a very interesting digression on the nature of holding onto faith in times where faith becomes a secondary aspect of existence even for the people who profess to be the most faithful, especially in an institution like the Catholic Church ||

Conclave movie || I fucking loved how comedic yet horrifying the vaping cardinal was, bro embodied that role well ||

[magic bloom]

I just like punching down on Simu Liu

[modern lichen]

Dang

[magic bloom]

But on a serious note, it’s a bit sad to see that movie not get a follow up. It’s been 4 years since the film came out

Marvel is getting its footing now I really enjoyed the new Captain America movie and I’m really looking forward to thunderbolts next week and F4 after that

[modern lichen]

Lmao I hated the new cap movie

I’m looking forward to Thunderbolts and FF though, those two look so good

[arctic flax]

mcu has way too many unresolved shit( there are still post cred scenes from phase 1-3 still with no follow up)

[magic bloom]

Why did you dislike the new cap movie?

Captain America 4 || aside from the brainiac design being well.. pretty dogshit by all means ||

[arctic flax]

i didnt care to watch it after hearing the reactions tho might watch it when it comes to streaming

[modern lichen]

New Cap movie || Very boring conspiracy thriller pastiche, I found the side characters absolutely boring to follow, Harrison Ford gets woefully misused (the maker should’ve been written better) and I hate the ending ||

[arctic flax]

thunderbolts has me interested after recent trailers

they might cook with this one

[white smelt]

He is??

[modern lichen]

Yeah

He’s in the new Avengers

[white smelt]

What’s the new avengers

[modern lichen]

Doomsday

lol

The most iconic villain and it has no fucking buildup I’m crying

[arctic flax]

movie about to be a cameo fest

they still focusing on the fox stuff lol, let it go

[modern lichen]

They’re integrating the X-Men into the films

[jolly heath]

conclave ending || i think watching it after the pope's death irl was definitely more interesting cause you kinda mirror it with the current real life events, and yeah its interesting to see how even a religious instituation is treated like a business and people have their own personal gain at the back of their minds, its kinda why i liked the idea of Lawrence not wanting to be pope (which i assumed he was going to become since he was the most "worthy" of it and with both the mexican guy's belif in him + the late Pope's machinations it was looking like he set up all of it so that Lawrence would win + it was repeated a few times in the movie that those who want it are the most dangerous/least worthy kinda thing) so when he decided to write his name down in that penultimate ballot and the window explodes like an act of god striking him down i was like "Cmon man", then followed by 1 speech from the mexican dude and suddenly everyone comes to their senses and votes for him + the "twist" at the end was just a very weak callback to Lawrence's own initial speech of the Church upholding values of diveristy and tolerance, and i think it kinda goes against part of the speech too with Lawrence hoping for a pope who has sinned but asks for forgiveness and carries on to be elected. I was initially expecting the mexican guy to deny the papacy even after elected and then tell Lawrence that he should still be the pope since he had always believed in him + if the guy everyone voted in says Lawrence should be the pope everyone else would probably follow suit (and after Lawrence gave in to sin and wrote his name down||

||in the final ballot he most likely voted for the mexican guy just like everyone else, and to me that would have represented him fully being ready to become the pope after sinning and then fully letting go of that desire to be pope that he caved in to out of circumstance/pressure), another thing i was expecting was that the mexican guy's health condition was something that would make him have a shorter life which would keep in with that other english priest's comment about how they are flawed servants who uphold an ideal yet they can never be ideal and in that case the "ideal" candidate was chosen but his flaw would have been that he could not remain on earth to see the papacy through but instead it ends with the mexican guy being presented as basically the perfect man at the perfect time which also ticks all the boxes for the church upholding its liberal values which Lawrence and Belini wanted. also as an extra note Tedesco was painted as this bad evil conservative dude but he had such little time on screen compared to the other cardinals he really felt like a nobody ||

[arctic flax]

holy wall of text 😂

[arctic flax]

they not starting them from scratch

[modern lichen]

I’ll respond to this a bit later but fair enough, Marc

[arctic flax]

everything ive heard bout conclave has me intrigued. will try to watch it summer break

[jolly heath]

i would recommend The Two Popes first

[modern lichen]

The Two Popes is based on real life Popes

[jolly heath]

yee

[modern lichen]

Conclave is based on a book that’s fictional

I like both of them tho

[raw gate]

Marc post

I haven’t seen conclave yet tho

I don’t keep up with marvel

Is that what it is

[raw gate]

There’s my answer

Lol

Right above my head

[jolly heath]

[magic bloom]

New cap movie || Harrison ford acting is for sure the strongest part of the movie. I didn’t care much for the thriller/mystery aspect but what I liked more was the build up for red-hulk coming out. We haven’t seen a hulk like this since Thor 3 so it’s a breath of fresh air from professor hulk

For me what I liked the most is just the film being “grounded.” Quotations because it still has fantastic elements, but overall it’s at least not dealing with the multiverse

Giancarlo is just typecasted again but he still does a pretty good job, and I like Anthony Mackie too. He’s growing into his role ||

[arctic flax]

dont blame u. as someone who used to watch everything mcu, i stopped keeping up after quantumania. now i only watch the stuff im interested in or has good reviews

[white smelt]

Bro harsh

Twitter is frying me

[raw gate]

Imagine not being private and never engaging with other users outside of retweets and likes

[raw gate]

It got to a point in the chronology where I just hadn’t seen enough of the films to have a coherent understanding of how it all connected and I simply never worked myself up to the challenge of going back and watching them all

Especially considering I wasn’t really a big fan of what I had seen

[modern lichen]

These days it’s been a bit too aggressively bad lmao

[raw gate]

Oh, frying as in making him laugh

I thought he meant he was getting roasted lol

[modern lichen]

New Andor has been so good

[arctic flax]

wanted to watch it one ep a week but they decided to dump all 3 at once so ill prob start after my sem ends

[shrewd sigil]

mistborn era 1 and stormlight oathbringer+ ||buddy is not odium 💔||

[atomic galleon]

Seconding this! Probably the best Star Wars thing currently made since the original trilogy. It's very well written.

[modern lichen]

absolutely agree

i cant stop thinking about it

[arctic flax]

andor an extremely rare disney star wars W

[modern lichen]

disney star wars has more hits than people think

[arctic flax]

i havent outright hated any of the stuff i watched. most of them were enjoyable first watch but forgettable/mid (boba fett,kenobi,mando s3,etc)

andor would prob be up there with the best tv series all time if s2 ends strong

[modern lichen]

clone wars season 5, 6, 7, the mandalorian (especially season 1), rebels, bad batch, visions, tales of the jedi, rogue one, andor, ahsoka, skeleton crew (i havent watched that yet but heard good things), kenobi (i dont like it but it was a hit amongst most audiences)

[arctic flax]

dude, clone wars is my favorite star wars media. got so many good lore,great fights,worldbuilding

rebels was great too. it was a surprise hit for me. i thought i wouldnt like it based on the animation style

[modern lichen]

i love clone wars but andor is the best thing to come from the franchise since empire strikes back

and i think rogue one is mediocre, andor is far and above my favorite star wars property

[arctic flax]

my top 3 non movies SW media: clone wars, andor, mando s1-2

rebels prob 4th

filoni rly good at the animated SW stuff

[shrewd sigil]

@sage remnant 16 chapters left

should be finishing the book at like 3 or 4 am

[sage remnant]

For Mistborn?

[shrewd sigil]

yeah

[sage remnant]

Finally Wind and Truth then?

[shrewd sigil]

yes after I finish rereading the first 4 books

maybe I should've waited till I was about to finish rhythm of war to give you a progress update

[sage remnant]

[brave orbit]

The latest DW ep is so goated

[primal mason]

Watching Gremlins 2

[primal mason]

Gremlins 2 was fun. || It was crazy and wacky like the first movie, but even more chaotic. Kinda wish Gizmo did more badass things than just shooting an arrow at the evil creatures, but otherwise I enjoyed it. That ending was even more terrifying than the first with multiple evil minions decomposing from the lighting. It's frightening imagery.||

[dim hedge]

Any horror movie suggestion boys

😅

[tired sluice]

/mangawhere!

[unborn crag]

so many of the little gray people in my gallery

[modern lichen]

Avengers Endgame

[sage remnant]

Eh

People be hating just to hate nowadays

[modern lichen]

yeah most people still love grey sludge

sadge

infinity war clears

[near echo]

Is that film only 6 years old

Feels like it's been longer

[mild seal]

man this is why I love watching RLM, they have some great recommendations

[sage remnant]

RLM

[mild seal]

RLM

[modern lichen]

red letter media

[mild seal]

they were talking about a movie called psycho therapy and I was hooked from just the premise lol

[modern lichen]

where that new andor batch

https://tenor.com/view/dave-chappelle-need-gif-21451408

[main lion]

has season 2 been as good as season 1?

I havent watched season 1 but still curious

[modern lichen]

the first 3 episodes have been out and they're great

but the season's structure is different

the release schedule is like arcane

[sage remnant]

Didn't know you have watched Star Wars

[main lion]

Im a 29 year old that lives in america. You'd be hard pressed to find anyone here that hasnt watched star wars lol

my dad got me on it when I was young

I dont like star wars

but I have watched it

I did excitedly watch star wars episode 3 with him in 3rd grade

in theaters

[sage remnant]

Ah yeah makes sense

[modern lichen]

revenge of the sith's 20th anniversary is this year btw

old ass

[main lion]

😔

[modern lichen]

i remember watching the dark knight in imax

back when my city had the only 70mm imax screen in the country.....

[sage remnant]

I hadn't even gone to theatres till like 2017

:kekhands:

[modern lichen]

i remember watching prisoner of azkaban in imax too when i was a kid

god

[sage remnant]

Watched it the classic way. Renting pirated DVD

[main lion]

I think Ive only seen one movie in imax before

and its readily available for me

but I just go to the local theater

we used to have a really cozy theater here when I was a kid

only had 4 auditoriums

it shut down 20 years ago but it was nice

actually star wars episode 3 mightve been one of the last things I watched there

I think the simpsons movie was THE last thing I watched there

[sage remnant]

Good movies haven't released in theatres near me, or have been released when I couldn't go to it.
The last movie I watched there was Deadpool Wolverine

[main lion]

so yeah still no good movies it seems

[sage remnant]

Yea

Could not get to watch Nosferatu there...

[main lion]

get excited for avengers!!

[sage remnant]

Hopefully now my irl friends have also fallen out of MCU hype

So won't have to go...

[main lion]

they just stopped inviting me to see the marvel stuff cause I never like it lol

but its also the only movies they really watch

[modern lichen]

hated watching nosferatu in the cinema because people are so fucking stupid inside the hall

[main lion]

cant hear the hall in most theaters we have here

[tawny parcel]

Rlm is a blast lol

[sage remnant]

Book of the New sun
@modern lichen ...and can't find Archer

[modern lichen]

archer prob left again

awesome sketches

[sage remnant]

@modern lichen

Andor s2

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FxTwitter · Apr 23, 2025, 2:00 PM

This was the context

[modern lichen]

i blocked this account

rebel moon looks like ass, man goddamn

[brave orbit]

Ive read this

[outer tulip]

Omg Andor season 2 is out?

What episode is it on?

[sage remnant]

!?

⁉️

[brave orbit]

The first 6 pages that is

[sage remnant]

There it is

[modern lichen]

3 episodes every week

[brave orbit]

Im too stupid for it ngl

[modern lichen]

for 4 weeks

[sage remnant]

You could read till some part and then reread from start

And do that way

You haven't even read a cosmere novel since RoW

[brave orbit]

Ive read the first 80 pages of book 5...

[white smelt]

https://x.com/KINGV0NBURNER/status/1916236389160571324

John Baione (@KINGV0NBURNER) on X

X · Apr 26, 2025, 9:02 PM

[modern lichen]

Killing me bro lmao, bro even replied with a clip that’s like an explainer and people are still cooking him

[open cobalt]

Sinners was such a good movie, oh. my. fucking. god.

i wanna go see it again

best horror movie i've seen in a while

not since hereditary or Us

Omg I should watch Hereditary again too

well i know what i'm about to do

[arctic flax]

i dont rly watch the horror genre but im interested nonetheless

liked all of cooglers works ive seen

[primal mason]

I'll be watching Blue Velvet next

[proud fiber]

lmao have fun

[near echo]

Watch this release

[tawny parcel]

Holy

After like 7 months

I’ll finally be done with a song of ice and fire

[sweet badge]

I'm starting got

[copper phoenix]

now you can keep waiting like everyone else

not me tho I just gave up

[glacial jetty]

Oh my fucking god

I watched it last night

Dr Who latest episode || my heart fucking jumped when they named the planet ||

[limber urchin]

how close are you?

[glacial jetty]

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-12869046600151364058

[tawny parcel]

Adwd all i have left

Adwd end|| i have been spoiled on the epilogue tho :( ||

[tawny parcel]

Books or show

[primal mason]

Finished Blue Velvet ||Lynch can definitely write an unstable and unpredictable psycho, that's for sure. The antagonist's behavior, victims, and the case surrounding him kept me on my toes on what was gonna happen next. I liked this. I was spooked. ||

[tawny parcel]

And right after i finish adwd im starting stormlight archive

Nah, but I do have the first book owned and plan to start it sometime in the future

[primal mason]

Tomorrow I'll see Ratcatcher

[brave orbit]

https://tenor.com/view/one-piece-crying-wonderful-rayleigh-rayleigh-crying-gif-13145809230477230802

Did you like it

@glacial jetty

Doctor who latest ||Also the ending||

[outer tulip]

I've already seen it twice, opening night and last Thursday

I already knew it was going to be good

[limber urchin]

damn. well enjoy what you have until then. screw whoever spoiled you.

[blissful obsidian]

Man, I miss the pre-Disney Star Wars

I grew up on that shit & fell in love with that universe for a good long while

The sequel trilogy sapped that love out of me tbh

[tawny parcel]

Just accidentally stumbled on it

[glacial jetty]

straight peak

[open cobalt]

I'm probably gonna go see it again on tuesday

i need to

i been listening to the soundtrack on Spotify and every damn song is a bop

[sage remnant]

Mid archives

Read "I have No Mouth and I must Scream" Wombat

[primal mason]

I'm gonna watch Speed (1994)

[mild seal]

is there a new speed?

[primal mason]

This movie's OST is truly Metal Gear like

[tawny parcel]

I know essentially the whole plot but i know its hella short so ill give it a chance

I have uh

House of leaves on my to read list

[primal mason]

This movie knows to be so tense man

[sage remnant]

Asoiaf to house of leaves...

[tawny parcel]

Is this a good or bad thing lol

And I’m not reading it right away

After a couple other books

[near echo]

I tried to take that out of the library but it had so many holds I only had like 2 weeks to read it and the book was such a fuckin tome id rather just buy it

Took out The Last Unicorn the other day instead

[primal mason]

Speed 1994 ||was a really intense movie that had me on edge for a large chunk of the movie. Fun action thriller. ❤️‍🔥Very impressed how a director can make a movie mostly set in a bus so interesting. Good ending too, I too would probably kiss the woman that I saved and contributed to an intense rescue, if I was in Jack's shoes. I probably would have aged quickly and have silver hair in the aftermath tho. 😂 ||

[mild seal]

spoiler tag

[modern lichen]

@brave orbit watched the latest doctor who episode

[brave orbit]

Yoooo

[modern lichen]

doctor who latest episode/series 4 ||nice return for midnight in this episode but i think the tension of the first part was just next level compared to this one||

[brave orbit]

Yea for sure

[modern lichen]

still a very entertaining episode

[brave orbit]

Doctor who latest ||This could have been 2 parts easily tbh||

[modern lichen]

doctor who latest ||i'm liking how they're making belinda interact a whole lot more with the doctor and staying on them, in response to the criticism that they "intended" rather than show ruby and the doctor's bond strengthen, the dynamic with belinda is far more entertaining too for me||

[brave orbit]

Doctor who latest ||Did you like the ending?||

[modern lichen]

doctor who latest ||i enjoyed the episode throughout||

[brave orbit]

Nice

[dim hedge]

Saw Sinners a second time, just as good on a second viewing

I’m sad theres gonna be a day i can’t rewatch this in theatres whenever i want

[modern lichen]

Andor S1 || https://youtu.be/aoJILDr94qc?feature=shared || this show is something special

[limber urchin]

I watched the hell out of the VHS for this as a child. I have no idea how well it holds up to adult me though. And I was super excited as a kid when Speed 2 came out - I think I watched it a ton on HBO or something when it released there.

[limber harbor]

Anyone that’s watched Sinners I have a question

Sinners movie || the subcontext in the movie was that Mary was one of Stack’s hoes right? My friend is treating me like I’m crazy ||

I need validation

[modern lichen]

sinners ||stack and marie were in love||

sinners ||its not subtext, its clearly stated in the text itself, mary was stack's ex-girlfriend||

[limber harbor]

Sinners ||no doubt they loved each other, but I never quite saw it as them being ex-girlfriend/boyfriend, at least I don’t remember it being said. They grew up with each other and with the way their relationship sounded and tapered off, as well as Smoke mentioning earlier that him and Stack were in the prostitution business, Pimps that is, and during the conversation at the party his line where he’s like “I taught you how to fight and taught you how to walk away when the money’s up” I saw it as a pimp/prostitute love story. Maybe I’m looking at it wrong idk. ||

[modern lichen]

sinners ||mary's mother almost raised stack and smoke, no way it was a prostitution thing||

sinners ||just because he taught her to defend herself, i dont see as something that comes with prostitution, the twins left and stack left behind mary when he went with smoke to WW1||

[limber harbor]

Sinners ||I wasn’t just thinking of the “taught you how to fight” it was more in conjunction with the “I taught you how to leave when the money is up” and her “let me go get this money for us” as well as Stack “finding her a husband to marry” as well as Stack being a former pimp, though as I’m saying it now it does sound a little silly. Maybe I’m thinking too deeply into it||

[foggy mirage]

Sinners || i heavily doubt she was a prostitute when they both knew her mom and she only died after they left.||

[modern lichen]

sinners ||she was married to a white man because she could pass as white, there is a gap here but i dont think there was any type of allusion to it being related to prostitution rather than it being something related to being black in that area and at that time and passing as white like she did, she is biracial after all but identified more with her black heritage ||

[limber urchin]

i should see Sinners I'm guessing. the trailer already intrigued me. guess I'll bite the bullet.

[foggy mirage]

Should have seen it yesterday

[limber urchin]

yeah, i think i know what I'm doing this weekend

[rich meadow]

I was gonna watch sinners today but forgot I had to get my wisdom teeth removed

https://tenor.com/view/jinbe-one-piece-crying-jinbei-jimbei-gif-11207778170576834907

[limber urchin]

did you know you get dumber after they're removed?

it was nice knowing the current you, Evan.

[tawny parcel]

@limber urchin adwd|| that prose when quentyn is trying to kidnap the dragons and how george describes and writes the dragons is so damn good my lord. Standout chapter for that alone||

[limber urchin]

ADWD ||Just want to be clear, how does this chapter end?||

[tawny parcel]

Adwd ||with quentyn being burned alive lol||

I finished the books

It is done

All 5 (no fire and blood included) a song of ice and fire books finished

I will read fire and blood when winds release date gets announced

Adwd end ||i knew that varys was gonna kill Kevan but i didnt know he would kill pycelle ||

[limber urchin]

ok then yeah that's what I thought it was. love that moment.

Congrats Wombat. I still have not read the side books myself even though I own Fire and Blood.

I hear the Dunk and Egg novellas are solid though.

[tawny parcel]

Adwd end just|| the way he wrote it made the whole scene so menacing like it was almost out of a horror book or something lol ||

This is the first book series i have read since like sophmore year and i only read the scythe books then and I cant remember the last books i read before that

But now I’m ready to start reading more i want to

Its a cool feeling

I finished these and i want to start another book

[limber urchin]

i'm not the best at recommending books since it's a medium i haven't spend as much time on as others

[tawny parcel]

I already have a bunch of books lined up lol

I tried to pick all over the place

[limber urchin]

i'm reading The Name of the Wind myself at nights right now

and then it will probably be Frakenstein afterwards. I still need to read China Rich Girlfriend one day

[tawny parcel]

The Gambler by Fyodor Dostoevsky next

[young compass]

have you read anything else of his

if you're not a fanatic im surprised you're even bothering reading that one

[outer tulip]

Sinners || I don’t take her as white passing, to me she was just white. I think they said she her grandfather was half black right? Well the movie takes place during Jim Crow era which means her grandfathers was likely conceived by a white man and a black woman (who was probably his slave, just a guess). If that child then married a white women, then the family is living in a white society. And then had another child (either her mom or dad) then married another white again. That’s still living in a white society and being perceived as white. So I don’t understand why people see her as black passing as white, when she looks white and her family has been living a white society. Perhaps she is white passing as black, but I don’t understand why people are saying she white passing. ||

And I say this cause I know you’ve seen Passing || where the woman is black but light enough to pass as white ||

[tawny parcel]

I have not read anything Dostoevsky before i just saw it in half priced books and saw it was about gambling lol

And so i got it

Because gambling is awesome!!!!!!!

And a book that uses the device of gambling could be awesome!!!!!

I didn’t even know he made crime and punishment until after I got the book lol

It will be like a 2 day read at most so even if its boring it cant be that bad

Hella short

[young compass]

it's not boring, you just might be confused

[tawny parcel]

How so

[young compass]

the gambler ||it's kind of like a condensed dostoevsky story, where all the marquee elements of his style are there but everything else is stripped pretty bare. so if you're not used to it, it might be overwhelming at first with all the random crazy ass characters. youll be fine probably||

[tawny parcel]

Alrighty lol

I’ll be fine

Hopefully

[wintry lagoon]

watched both infinity war and endgame for the first time, fucking fun as hell

[proud fiber]

what would be your read order

just chronological?

[white smelt]

Dostoevsky verse

[dim hedge]

Infinity war was better in my opinion though what did you think?

[sage remnant]

I think starting from any novel should work

And I disagree with Juba there. I don't think it would be overwhelming or confusinf

[young compass]

just to read brothers karamazov which is also his best, then go into the rest of his works

I find him hit or miss mostly for me

[hybrid perch]

i mean yeah i guess

[sage remnant]

C&P a miss?

[young compass]

yes

[sage remnant]

Damn

[young compass]

so is demons

[sage remnant]

Notes from Underground m

?*

[proud fiber]

oh wow

i mean i was just curious

i actually tried to start with brothers k but i couldnt get very far since it was just massive

and then i read crime and punishment and loved it, then went back and finished brothers k

[young compass]

is brothers k that much longer?

i dont recall lol

remembered them being similar lenghts

[proud fiber]

verrry

to me it was anyway

well, a little more than 2x as long

[young compass]

i guess it depends on the translation you read

the one i read of tbk was 936

crime and punishment 720

[urban iron]

Yo where do y'all read your manga

[young compass]

I don't care for his ideology for the most part

i didnt even finish that book and i recall it being rather light

[sage remnant]

Ah

Fair

[near echo]

Not Just a Goof continues the recent Disney trend of actually making pretty interesting behind the scenes documentaries that can't help but kiss the studios ass for 15 minutes near the end just so all the funny production stories don't ruin the perfect Disney brand magic

Enjoyed watching it but god get over yourself for a minute anyone watching this has already poured money into it

[near echo]

How the fuck was Jeffrey Katzenberg of all people the hero of this production

[wintry lagoon]

both are pretty good

though I like endgame more because the wounds of the civil war finally healed

[sweet badge]

The show

[sage remnant]

https://youtu.be/wSCDyYOQgQA?si=yIR7BQlcItvQZm9c

we winning

[modern lichen]

The Smashing Machine trailer || https://youtu.be/uF3oMaN-MUQ?feature=shared || gotta be honest, this does look good

[sage remnant]

It does

But he's sure to fumble it

[modern lichen]

By doing what

[copper phoenix]

the rock redemption arc

its time

[rich meadow]

Going to see Sinners in IMAX later

[modern lichen]

70mm?

or regular IMAX?

[limber urchin]

Still having a great time with The Boys deep into season 2

[sage remnant]

The quality does decrease but I still has a great time till the latest seasom

[limber urchin]

btw you can't fucking choose an episode list on PC with Amazon Prime. What fucking MORON forgot to design that into the UI. I use Edge, but apparently it's that way with Chrome, as well. Multi-billion dollar company btw.

[sage remnant]

Piracy wins yay

[limber urchin]

i will happily torrent it just out of spite, but my wife pays for Prime so I just chose that by default

[burnt lake]

As per usual

[limber urchin]

The Boys season 2 question ||Is Stormfront supposed to be an on-the-nose metaphor for the alt-right and/or neo-nazi Stormfront website?||

[sage remnant]

Where are you at in s2

The Boys s2 || The short answer is yes. ||

[modern lichen]

the boys season 2 ||stormfront is a straight up nazi||

[limber urchin]

episode 7. can i read these?

[sage remnant]

Mine yes.
Harsh's I am not sure

I am not sure whether the part he says has already come up or not

[limber urchin]

ok i can see that they're trying to do a The Boys season 2 ||very obvious Donald Trump and Steve Banon thing with Stormfront and Homelander. I still like it despite how heavy handed it is. They make good villains, though Stormfront is almost comically racist.||

[sage remnant]

Quicksilver 70% || Man if only this book has the level of writing it has during smut part with other stuff... ||

[modern lichen]

read good books

[sage remnant]

Buffy has already read from OB to WaT and even 2 seasons of The Boys
And I still can't finish this shit

It's so boring

😭

[sage remnant]

I have monk and robot book 2 after this so that's nice

[limber urchin]

I'm also almost 300 pages into The Name of the Wind.

[sage remnant]

Liking it?

[limber urchin]

It's OK.

[modern lichen]

the name of the wind has great prose but ||kvothe is such an annoying piece of shit||

[limber urchin]

I'm curious what made it so famous so fast. 'Cause so far, it's kind of a slow drag. But I also don't hate it. I still want to finish it.

[sage remnant]

It's more so the prose and the world and magic system that got it famous

The MC is very hit or miss

I did enjoy him but I am not sure I would do that now

[limber urchin]

OK. So far, the world just feels like any generic fantasy world. And the prose is decent. The MC I'm cool with. And I guess I have yet to get to the magic system. I'm guessing the fantasy world gets more exciting later.

[sage remnant]

Yeah it gets more exciting soon

|| The most impressive thing about the prose is how intentional it feels. It feels like almost every single word is incredibly deliberate and carries far more meaning than just its apparent function in that specific sentence or scene, almost everything loops back in on itself and the most seemingly innocuous passages that just seem to exist to be functional for a scene often end up having lots of layered meanings. ||

Name of the Wind general

It's compared to Bradbury a lot, but I think that isn't a really apt comparison

[limber urchin]

OK I'll keep a very careful watch on the prose going forward.

[sage remnant]

|| For magic and world and etc, it gets really good once you get to University || name of the wind

[limber urchin]

ok yeah i'm definitely not there yet, but the current chapters are hinting at it

[sage remnant]

It will probably not be finished as the overarching story hasn't progressed to the extent that everything can be finished in a third book

Unless it's like a 2000+ page book

It's so irritating cuz this trilogy was advertised as having already been written when the first book was being released

[limber urchin]

does he just not write, or is he doing other stuff and wrote a series too complex like GRRM?

[sage remnant]

The last book was released before the last entry of Asoiaf btw

[sage remnant]

I think he wrote a short novella in that world after it. I don't remember when the novella was released. But he does DnD streams regularly I think

[limber urchin]

lol

i'm sure he gets shit for that

[sage remnant]

I think he just doesn't want to accept the story can't be finished in one book

[limber urchin]

Did he make enough money to where it naturally made him too lazy to want to continue?

[sage remnant]

He has been part of well some real controversies

But he does get shit for that too lol

He had told he would release a chapter of the third book as a part of charity campaign

[limber urchin]

jesus

[sage remnant]

And well didn't deliver it

[limber urchin]

well, he's a lesson every can learn from

[sage remnant]

@limber urchin did you check out Murderbot trailer

I forgot

[modern lichen]

https://vxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1917251057563902242

DiscussingFilm (@[e-mail])

‘THUNDERBOLTS*’ debuts with 95% on Rotten Tomatoes, the second-highest score for a MCU movie ever.

Read our review: http://bit.ly/ThunderDF https://t.co/tGYqfxrscN

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 29, 2025, 4:14 PM

[limber urchin]

yeah you sent it to me, it was very fun

[burnt lake]

https://tenor.com/view/drew-scanlon-blonde-guy-blinking-eyes-blinking-meme-surprised-gif-7852244

Oh uh

Ok I didn't expect that ig

[sage remnant]

oh nice

https://youtu.be/wSCDyYOQgQA?si=yIR7BQlcItvQZm9c @sand cypress

[copper phoenix]

I mean yea the show is not really being subtle about any of their agenda

[modern lichen]

Thunderbolts actually had a good creative team so this is not a surprise to me anymore

[copper phoenix]

funnily enough I think in s3 or something there was some outrage when some fans actually caught up

like they watched 2 whole seaons and only now they realize they being made fun of

[sage remnant]

the amount of people who missed the point The Boys was making when it was so blatant in its telling

😭

[burnt lake]

Yeah it's literally in the text

😭

[modern lichen]

Kripke had to make it extra clear so that the idiots could understand the show was calling them idiots

[sage remnant]

The Devils. Great passage lol

prolly gonna be another trilogy

[limber urchin]

Yeah, for sure, I think this one just stood out like a sore thumb among the rest.

[limber urchin]

Media literacy is dead

fuck you don't even really need media literacy for this show. it's not exactly subtle lol

[burnt lake]

Yeah lmao

[limber urchin]

but holy shit season 2 episode 7 The Boys ||The head explosions in the courtroom were wild||

[sage remnant]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/dev-patel-to-direct-star-in-the-peasant-1236202431/

woahh

The Peasant fifth season
This sounds rad

@modern lichen

[modern lichen]

yeah i saw it

i fucking love it

[winter moss]

You season 5

[modern lichen]

https://vxtwitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1917207344674443591 we're so back

DiscussingFilm (@[e-mail])

The first trailer for Zach Cregger’s ‘WEAPONS’ has been released.

The film follows a classroom of children who get out of their beds and disappear one night without a trace.

In theaters on August 8. https://t.co/OE3KK6eFno

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 29, 2025, 1:20 PM

[sage remnant]

getting Brolin in his second movie is insane

[dim hedge]

Ehhhh I see but I like infinity war because of intensity of battle

[mild seal]

@dim hedge spoiler tags are needed in here

[dim hedge]

Sorry, Boss.

💙

[mild seal]

Np

[mild seal]

So many good movies this year

[limber harbor]

Don’t be sorry, be better

[tawny parcel]

Picked up house of leaves at half priced books

[limber urchin]

The Boys, season 2 episode 8 ||The fact Homelander was scratching his head once Stormfront just spelled out "white genocide" was pretty fucking funny. ||

[arctic flax]

i had a feeling itd do well. test screening was good

WOM will prevent it from flopping at box office

[tawny parcel]

This movie is lowkey being set up to look like a success story for marvel and I’m surprised its the Thunderbolts of all things lol

I’m going to see it with my girl this week

[copper phoenix]

peak

https://tenor.com/view/its-peak-peak-fiction-one-piece-gif-26139262

[rich meadow]

Sinners ||Yeah definitely a really good movie. I’m starting to become a sucker for any movie that has a lot of soul and theatricality to it because they’re the only thing standing between slop and art. And I really loved how the vampire aesthetic is more of a background element to create atmosphere and the core of the movie is more to do with culture and music. Very good film||

[limber urchin]

The Boys season 3 episode 1 ||That has to be one of the most ridiculous and brutal openings I've seen in anything ever. Like the studio is just trying to see what they can get away with.||

[foggy mirage]

Sinners ||the vampires are also tied directly to cultural appropriation and the themes of the story when you considering ramik had a similar experience to people in the south. It's very interesting once he threw that line about his father's land being taken. And all he wants is to see his family again.||

Sinners|| but also just a both Irish and African American cultures using music to cope with hardships.||

[foggy mirage]

Beef writers saved it

Literally the goats

Them and everyone who cared

Those early dogshit trailers

😭

[shrewd sigil]

https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/1917330957469900897?t=wR5Z_iZO_1eFTwQxCUvTnQ&s=19

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) on X

Some Oscar voters have said they just press play on their screeners app to satisfy the viewing requirements and then mute the audio or switch tabs.

“The app only needs to see that you watched it. It doesn’t know if you’re sitting there.”

(Source: https://t.co/pxXR37FDJ1)

X · Apr 29, 2025, 9:31 PM

brother

[foggy mirage]

Peak minimum amount of effort

[copper phoenix]

these fuckers behaving like middle schoolers in online classes

oscars is a joke

[rustic ice]

watching thunderbolts* tonight

[near echo]

I dont get it

watching a movie is so easy

you sit there for a fuckin hour and a half

its not some week long commitment

[young compass]

there's like 10k oscar voters

[near echo]

god forbid youre bored, sit there with your phone

[young compass]

i bet you at least 500-1000 are people who like

knew someone and got it

and are so invested in the holywood social climbing environment that "being an oscar voter" is an insignificant status point

so they just don't care

[rich meadow]

Sinners ||Yeah very interesting. Not surprising that my two favorite scenes from the film were the musical sequences that epitomised this aspect the most (the cross-generational Black music sequence and then the Irish song from the vampires). Also the cinematography in this movie was insane. Especially the lighting||

[foggy mirage]

Sinners||the film actually felt like event honestly. The first half really is an excellent period piece and the 2nd a great vampire story that ties into what the first half sets up. They fuse perfectly together like both those musical set pieces. The editing is absolutely on point. When everything seems to be going well ramik abruptly appears mid edit burning into frame. I will say I'm a little partial to the vampire song because it was so haunting. But I loved the ending too and the final stand.||

[modern lichen]

Sinners || https://x.com/khwany_kawawii/status/1917136898193297884?s=46 ||

kawaKHwan | WISHLIST Shepherd's Plan (@Khwany_kawawii) on X

#Sinners

X · Apr 29, 2025, 8:40 AM

[near echo]

I wanna watch this film so badly

Not sure I'll be able to catch it

[mild seal]

there's only 1 theater near me that shows it with the 70mm film version

and its completely sold out today and tomorrow

[near echo]

my dad told me to hold off to see it with him cuz hes interested in it but hes been sick so we havent been able to go

scared that once hes better itll be removed for more minecraft showings

we missed Mickey 17 too

[trim crown]

Sinner ||the only sin was watching this movie. 2/5 just cuz Michael b Jordan was there||

[white smelt]

Guess I’m just lucky living in California but I can go like 4 months post premier and still catch a movie

[modern lichen]

andor 2x4 ||this show is playing at so many different layers of intensity, its insane, from the effects of PTSD to the dissolution of democratic thinking in an authoritarian dictatorship due to fear and threat, amazing stuff written so fucking well||

[tawny parcel]

oh shit

that rock movie

looks good

wtf

[foggy mirage]

@south hatch I'm telling you rn I'm a firm hater of prometheus and alien covenant

[south hatch]

alien covenant I can okay

but nah Prometheus is peak

[foggy mirage]

Prometheus fucked around with the lore

[south hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/nah-naw-no-jay-z-gold-chain-gif-4671776

[foggy mirage]

Way too much

[south hatch]

but the conceptuality of it all and the whole intro had me like YES

[foggy mirage]

Thankfully romulus ||dumpster what prometheus was trying to set up.|| alien romulus spoilers

[foggy mirage]

Intro is a funny meme

I'm just a big fan of actual alien

Never forgiving lindelof for that Sabotage job

[south hatch]

Spoilers for Romulus, yeah that was a whole pack of ass ||what Prometheus was tryna setup did not fruition at all lol, mfs went the old direction with aliens inside spaceship tweakin and killin kinda mid||

[foggy mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/xenomorph-dead-by-daylight-dbd-alien-character-select-gif-1928895075267717344

[south hatch]

original Alien series just TOOO peak even AVP, the Predator franchise movies.

[foggy mirage]

||I'm happy romulus made it clear. The xenomorph is the origin of the black goo and it came before the engineers.|| alien romulus

Thank fuck ridley Scott dint get his way

[foggy mirage]

Predator and alien are healthy again

[south hatch]

opposite

[foggy mirage]

Thanks to prey and romulus

[foggy mirage]

Nah movie says otherwise

[south hatch]

😭

Thanks ? idk about that cause to me Romulus was not that peak, had they ||gone the route of the early movies that would have been okay.||

[foggy mirage]

Its healthy to do hathor

||its keeps the xenomorphs as a unknown again instead of explained as some weapon.|| alien romulus

[south hatch]

Nah ||the black goo is what the ENGINEERS used to make a few variants - protomorphs, neomorphs and later on Xenomorph which I think u posted before in that gif||

[foggy mirage]

||the movie says the black goo is made from the xenomorphs not that the xenos were made from it.|| alien romulus

They weren't ||bioengineered.||

||the reason everything evolves back into something xenomorph related is because that's the original form.|| alien romulus spoilers

[south hatch]

I see what you tryna gas yeah that direction would be good as well ||but afaik even in Prometheus they did uncover that the black goo and the alien variants it produces are nothing more than creations for the sake of destroying a civilization ykwim they were finna launch it all to Earth just exactly a weapon, doesn't necessarily mean the origin is still know (it might have more lore to it) I might have to check Romulus again ig only thing I remember is stuff about the hybrid creature - Offspring and no alterations about what the black goo is from what was established back in prometheus|| Prometheus, Romulus spoiler

btw u have watched Alien Covenant too right ?

[foggy mirage]

Yeah no ||ash makes it clear that the black goo comes directly from the xenomorph. That's why they perfectly replicated it for romulus. What David did was try to reverse engineer a temu version. But the black goo is just how they reproduce with a host and they just basically weaponized it for their own porpuses.|| alien romulus and prometheus

[foggy mirage]

Its mentioned during the ||vial scene in romulus.|| alien romulus spoiler.

[foggy mirage]

I had to watch it to hate it

😭

It makes sense why they ||worship the perfect organism that can adapt to anything and try to extract its DNA for religious reasons.|| prometheus and alien romulus spoilers.

[south hatch]

NAH tbf ||Ash was obsessed with this whole thing of the perfect organism - Xenomorph made her tweak a whole lot abt that stuff, imo what we see in Prometheus is more accurate that the Engineers (like literally the creator and their people) must have been the ones to *engineer * the black goo to form the aliens that I mentioned earlier including yes "perfect organism" as weapons or could also be for other unknown purposes maybe they wanna have these go on destroy a civilization then evolve on their own or something idk. I might peep the originals once more just to get back to you lmao.||

[south hatch]

alien, prometheus, romulus ||word exactly this obsession. Tryna project it into something it is not.||

[foggy mirage]

I gotta heavily disagree.||it doesn't make sense they'd worship man made weapons as gods. It comes to reason they encountered them naturally and it's not suprising when. To me the xenomorph is an ancient alien. The ultimate surviver and killer of the galaxy that will still be around long after humans. And trying to explain it as some alien made creation dimishes it for me tbh. It's cosmic horror and shouldn't be explained as made by something. Ash and the rest are just lenses to show how insane it is that a being like this exists tldr i dont think the big gray dudes made the black goo when its naturally produced and can be used to perfectly make more. Its just a process they can do naturally|| alien romulus spoilers

[south hatch]

this one so easy ||think of primordial gods LMAO - what do they worship ? fire, lightning, sea etc .. ? (in some cultures even Lion, Elephant animals etc) why cause they worship calamities and what they fear. Would make perfect sense why they would start worshipping these Xenomorph creatures as the perfect lifeform that can survive anything and consume them. Also cause of what you said except it's made by the Engineers😭 blud they are Aliens too fyi. Just think of them as predecessors tbh cause they do infuse their own DNA into these creatures. Worship in a lot of cultures is simply meant as appeasement towards whatever deity they are worshipping, for example when they worshipped the God Zeus in Anceint Greece it was simply to appease him to not have it rain and thunder and rage and to calm him down and save their crops and harvest. || alien, romulus

[modern lichen]

done with andor's recent batch

yeah this show is one of the best shows of all time already

[main lion]

Ive never seen someone have so much to say about alien

[modern lichen]

Alien do be good fr

[raw gate]

I’m gonna have a lot to say about Godzilla once I’m done rewatching the entire Toho franchise

[south hatch]

https://tenor.com/view/zucking-zuckering-mark-zuckerberg-stairing-zuck-looking-zuck-gif-12496739009272054031

[sage remnant]

Bruh

[raw gate]

I’m starting tonight

[limber urchin]

OK so season 2 just as good as season 1 then?

[near echo]

You need to watch EVERY single movie that cameos in Destroy All Monsters or you're a fraud

Go big or go home

[sage remnant]

Real

[raw gate]

So Rodan, Ghidorah, Angurius, and Minilla?

Ez

[modern lichen]

Yes

Half of the season is done and the quality is just so high in everything, its one of the best TV shows ever made in general imo

[limber urchin]

good good i will need to be watching this for sure

[near echo]

Frankenstein Conquers the World, Atragon, and King Kong Escapes too

[sage remnant]

Btw watch Monarch too

[raw gate]

I’ll make a comprehensive list

Preferably in chronological order, relative to release

So cool

[modern lichen]

Monarch lowkey better than every Monsterverse movie

[sage remnant]

Eh

Original Godzilla, Shin and Minus One all clear

[limber urchin]

1998 Godzilla>

[modern lichen]

I’m talking about the English monsterverse

Which Monarch belongs to

[sage remnant]

Then ye

[modern lichen]

Starting from 2014 Godzilla

[sage remnant]

The movies have been shittier and shittier

[modern lichen]

Godzilla and Kong was fucking hilarious

[sage remnant]

Godzilla X Kong (or w/e the last one was called) was so disappointing

[limber urchin]

I thoroughly enjoyed King of the Monsters and Godzilla vs Kong. 2014 and the latest one, however, not so much. Though I still have to admit the 2014 halo jump trailer is still my favorite trailer of most things I've seen.

[limber urchin]

The Boys season 3 question ||Did the actress playing Starlight get plastic surgery? She looks different or something, or am I crazy?||

[modern lichen]

2014 is my favorite of the bunch followed by king of monsters

[south hatch]

She did

[limber urchin]

OK so my eyes did not deceive me. Old age has not won yet.

[mild seal]

Yeah she looks real bad

[limber urchin]

Man, the amount of plastic surgery I see out here is not super high, but it's noticeable enough to make you question the people you're surrounded by. I assume it's that way in the Bay Area too?

[mild seal]

IDK I don't go out

You're also in the entertainment industry so you prob see it more

[limber urchin]

not anymore since i'm work from home. these are just everyday people I'm thinking about. mostly the generic 30-50 year old house mom stereotype.

[copper phoenix]

people cooked tf out of her in social media it was bad

she was kinda bummed for a bit feels like they went too far

[modern lichen]

some personal problems apparently

i'm not one to judge someone based on their appearance like that anyway

[rustic ice]

just watched thunderbolts*

[modern lichen]

watching it in a few days

[mild seal]

I'll probably watch it this weekend

I got a gift card for amc theaters

[sage remnant]

damn that's some poster

[foggy mirage]

Best horror film of the year

[limber urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/wtf-wtf-tom-delonge-wtf-blink183-wtf-hayat-gif-16782731

[foggy mirage]

Were just at may

Buddy counting his chickens before they hatch

[coarse flower]

Whoa ShANKS!!!

[primal mason]

I'm going to watch Hundreds of Beavers

[mild seal]

oh its the dude from stargate

[limber urchin]

without context, this is pretty funny.

[primal mason]

[limber urchin]

https://tenor.com/view/beaver-gif-1789357026983496524

[primal mason]

I'm gonna watch your mom

[limber urchin]

She's nice. You'll like her.

[primal mason]

This really is live action looney tunes

[primal mason]

Saw Hundreds of Beavers

[copper phoenix]

- gynecologist after a week of tireless work

[sage remnant]

[haughty ruin]

is anyone here watching étoile

i’m contractually obligated to recommend it to people

[modern lichen]

looked it up, reviews are saying its a cringey mess

[tawny parcel]

Don’t know if i like lost in translation or not lol

Leaning towards not

[modern lichen]

Leave the good films to be liked by actual cool people

[tawny parcel]

???

I’m hella cool

Thank you very much

It was a pretty movie

Lost in translation ||also i mean im not Japanese but this felt like, lowkey racist??? 😭 ||

[white smelt]

Young wombat

You are correct it does suck

[tawny parcel]

WTF

SCARLETT JOHANSON IS 17 IN THAT MOVIE?

LOST IN TRANSLATION ||THAT IS SO MUCH WORSE ||

[modern lichen]

?????

https://x.com/DaveMcNamee3000/status/1917793378173092320

7/11 Truther (@DaveMcNamee3000) on X

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and The Rizzler

X · May 1, 2025, 4:09 AM

https://vxtwitter.com/FilmUpdates/status/1917635771567333604

Film Updates (@[e-mail])

‘AMERICAN PYSCHO’ will reportedly be Luca Guadagnino’s next film in production.

Talks have already begun with actors for the lead roles. https://t.co/26hgbn9plF

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 30, 2025, 5:42 PM

[jolly heath]

starring tom holland as patrick bateman

[modern lichen]

probably not

[tawny parcel]

Lost in translation|| bill Murray spends like half the movie rolling his eyes at japanese people tryna speak english idk bro and i get theres a level of communication that will be hard its just like a bit much lol||

Even without this point

Its still a boring movie

[modern lichen]

Star Wars/Andor || https://x.com/ethiobirds/status/1917710466249277604?s=46 ||

з (@ethiobirds) on X

mon mothma

X · Apr 30, 2025, 10:39 PM

[white smelt]

Isn’t that first tidbit a spoiler

Cool to see Zach working though

[foggy mirage]

Cooking in the kitchen

Id spoilers this just incase

Just gonna delete incase

But next time just || the link

If it's got plot details like that

Better save than sorry

[main lion]

with series name outside too

[sage remnant]

Finished Quicksilver finally !!

Was a mostly shitty book

[primal mason]

I will be watching the Mission Impossible movies in close proximity to Mission Impossible 8. I've wanted to check this movie series out for a while and I heard it was concluding soon, so I'm interesting.

[sage remnant]

damn didn't know it was concluding with 8 part 2

[sage remnant]

https://x.com/NolanAnalyst/status/1917514764701557239

Christopher Nolan Art & Updates (@NolanAnalyst) on X

Christopher Nolan’s ‘THE ODYSSEY’ has just finished filming in Italy, wrapping two weeks ahead of schedule.

Production is expected to continue in either Iceland or Scotland.

X · Apr 30, 2025, 9:42 AM

@modern lichen

[sage sleet]

beautiful lesbian couple

[modern lichen]

gonna watch thunderbolts later this weekend

[brave orbit]

Sicily

Historically accurate

Based Nolan

[south hatch]

same

esp cause I liked Black Widow 2021 and the dynamics show in it.

[modern lichen]

I thought Black Widow was hot ass

But I am looking forward to this one

[sage remnant]

Have only been seeing people shitting on it on reddit lol

[modern lichen]

It’s really bad

[sage remnant]

I mean thunderbolts

[modern lichen]

Oh I heard that is cool

I don’t look at movie discussions on Reddit

[sage remnant]

have you checked out The Tainted Cup harsh

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/150247395

[modern lichen]

Oh I haven’t

It sounds interesting

[sage remnant]

Yeah a Holmes-watson style dyanamic and mystery set in a fantasy world

[modern lichen]

Oh sweet I’ll add it to my book list

[sage remnant]

It got a sequel this year

[modern lichen]

Nice

Books 2025 (10/20):

1. The Lowland - Jhumpa Lahiri
2. Cromwell trilogy - Hilary Mantel
3. ~~The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt ~~ (partial reread)
4. The Passenger/Stella Maris - Cormac McCarthy
5. ~~ Agent Running in the Field - John le Carre ~~
6. ~~ The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro ~~
7. ~~ Intermezzo - Sally Rooney ~~
8. ~~The Overstory - Richard Powers ~~ -
9. ~~ The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern~~ (Did not finish)
10. ~~ Orbital - Samantha Harvey ~~
11. ~~ The Bright Sword - Lev Grossman ~~
12. Rhythm of War - Brandon Sanderson
13. Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson
14. ~~ The Magicians trilogy - Lev Grossman (3/3) ~~
15. The Tainted Cup - Robert Jackson Bennett (currently reading)

this is how it looks

currently

the bright sword is still my favorite of the year, grossman is such an awesome writer

[sage remnant]

I have finished two, Quicksilver and Big four

halfway through Blood sweat and pixels

oh wait had finished King In Yellow too

so 3 and half

gonna do either Hyperion or the Ishiguro one next

[modern lichen]

I read Blood Sweat and Pixels years ago

Was a very fun read

[sage remnant]

https://vxtwitter.com/Variety/status/1917646396150157705?t=_jAz7jZijrxRQgxqOtviXQ&s=19

Variety (@[e-mail])

Kieran Culkin could make awards history.

Having just earned an Emmy for his turn in #Succession and an Oscar for his performance in “A Real Pain,” Culkin is now generating Tony buzz for his Broadway debut — and could be on track to complete the elusive Triple Crown of Acting (Emmy, Oscar, and Tony) in just 18 months.

If he pulls it off, Culkin would break the record previously held by Paul Scofield, who achieved the feat over a span of seven years. https://t.co/jwBWLLN7lh

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 30, 2025, 6:25 PM

[modern lichen]

@sage remnant this is what my list looks like so far, pretty concrete i think for now

includes all the ones i finished

[sage remnant]

nicee

[modern lichen]

the starless sea is the worst of the lot and the bright sword is the best

so far

[sage remnant]

RJB has some older series that I want to check out, which I think you would probably like too

Foundryside being the one in priority

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/37173847-foundryside

What sold me on this was || Magic system being essentially programming || Foundryside

and sando giving it a 5/5

[modern lichen]

i've heard of foundryside

[sage remnant]

Loving the focus on classic mystery stories coming to fantasy tho

Tainted cup
Murder on Spindle Manor

[modern lichen]

need more whodunnits

always need more whodunnits

[sage remnant]

Yeah murder at spindle Manor is whodunnit in a fantasy setting

[modern lichen]

they're the joy of life

[sage remnant]

need to get to that

I so hate writing reviews.
Writing one for Quicksilver and it's already 3000 words

I can't write concise reviews :kekhands:

[modern lichen]

why are you writing reviews for hot garbage

[sage remnant]

I read it for bingo in another server, and like they require reviews

I think it was a minimal of 300 words one, but I quickly went way past that before realizing and now I would rather finish writing a proper one

[shrewd sigil]

https://x.com/Da_Rizzler419/status/1917758986352484489?t=-WlI5L--rnxx1hinws2K9g&s=19

The Rizzler (@Da_Rizzler419) on X

The Thunderbolts movie is Rizz Approved‼️⚡️🤫🤔

X · May 1, 2025, 1:52 AM

they have my attention now..

[strange burrow]

Zhahahahah

[winter moss]

You season 5 || the tim cheese song in season 5 was hilarious ||

[wintry lagoon]

Die Hard is still the best christmas Movie

[near echo]

Never seen it

Santa hates me

[slim cloud]

just finished watching thunderbolts

thunderbolts movie ||genuinely a great film, I was little worried they'd mess up sentry/bob but they did a pretty good job with it. Lewis pullman pulled off the role really well||

[slim cloud]

thunderbolts movie ||I was surprised to see them spoil the end of the fantastic four movie that blatantly in the post credit but it was kinda what i expected when i saw theyd be in doomsday||

[real plank]

||yeah and I feel like they needed something like this to build general audience hype||

[copper phoenix]

whats the post credit I aint watching that shit ass movie

[slim cloud]

thunderbolts movie ||fantastic four's ship shows up above earth||

[copper phoenix]

that it?

[slim cloud]

yep

thunderbolts movie ||my theatre still popped off for it though lol||

[copper phoenix]

chicken jockey

[real plank]

Also post cred scene ||new avengers 14 months after the end of thunderbolts. There’s an issue with them having the name vs captain America’s group having the name||

I think it’s that part that’s equally exciting

[slim cloud]

thunderbolts movie post cred ||I kinda expected itd be a new avengers twist with the asterisk but im interested to see where they go with the two conflicting groups||

thunderbolts movie ||my only real complaints are that I wish we got to see a bit more of the bob/sentry/void dynamic, and the other group members not getting their own flashbacks in the void||

[real plank]

thunderbolts ||yeah the asterisk new avengers and taskmaster death were kinda evident in the marketing, but i like they handled it in the movie. taskmaster getting suddenly headshot by ghost was sick and the surprise from val at the end was a nice callback to earlier projects||

[rustic ice]

thunderbolts post credit ||so i assume their universe is destroyed?||

also thunderbolts post credit ||seems like its civil war all over again with buckys team working under the government and sam's team refusing. Maybe we will also get another team with spidey young avengers||

[wintry lagoon]

I wish they did the Baron Zemo Thunderbolts

[wintry lagoon]

its an action movie released in 1988 starring Bruce Willis

[tawny parcel]

Watching thunderbolts tonight at 11:30 in IMAX tonight because all they had was 8:30 and 11:30 lol

[main lion]

watching an indie film in imax? uh wtf...

[tawny parcel]

Fax

[primal mason]

Don’t question Wombat

[tawny parcel]

So glad to support an indie studio

[mild seal]

You're watching it tonight in IMAX tonight?

[tawny parcel]

Yes

Tonight in IMAX tonight

[slim cloud]

the screening of it i saw yesterday was the first imax movie i'd ever seen

though its been so long since ive been to a cinema i cant tell if there was a noticeable improvement lol

[modern lichen]

regular imax?

the imax image should be bigger and more crisp

[slim cloud]

i think my theatre used laser imax? but the visuals were definitely pretty nice

[modern lichen]

normal screens are much smaller than imax screens

different aspect ratios

[rustic ice]

thunderbolts ||the opening goes hard||

[white smelt]

Sinners || https://x.com/rocco_botte/status/1916977290980036742 ||

Rocco Botte (@rocco_botte) on X

Wish i could enjoy SINNERS, but the excess talk about “ Pussy eating” (and literally showing it) put me off completely. In the words of Batman: heroes don’t do that. First Coogler L

-ROC

X · Apr 28, 2025, 10:06 PM

[main lion]

booked my ticket now

[fluid merlin]

Sinners ||My friend went on a date and watched this film, he is a little bit conservative snd said he didnt like it at all, now I understand why lmao||

[tawny parcel]

Lowkey once you go imax you can’t go back

Thunderbolts was good

Man when that superman trailer played beforehand

Pumped for that

Looks so damn good

[tawny parcel]

If fantastic four ends up being good we may be back

And i believe it will be

FANNNNTASSSTIC FOURRRRR

Thunderbolts ||so nice to have what just feels like a solid good marvel movie, and even though the message is as on nose as it literally ever possibly could be, I’m so glad it was sincere and it rarely undercut itself||

[mild seal]

I guess I should look at tickets for this weekend'

[frank rivet]

finally caught up to the rookie
The Rookie Latest - ||wtf that was. whole packed episode with seth back and he gets his leg shot off on the same episode...crazy stuff ||

[real plank]

MCU is back baby

[modern lichen]

Theres a similar tweet like this to Andor, dude lmao

[south hatch]

how

[real plank]

thunderbolts

[south hatch]

oh yeah

[copper phoenix]

more like thunderbore

[tawny parcel]

Man i cant stop thinking about that superman trailer in theaters

That score dude

[modern lichen]

yeah it played when i went to watch sinners

magical

[tawny parcel]

Superman trailer ||the two shots of him saving the kid and the other kid raising the flag ||

[sage remnant]

That score is really wonderful

[tawny parcel]

So good

[modern lichen]

superman teaser ||the chants for superman building up after the kid raises the flag HOPE HAS RETURNED||

[tawny parcel]

Thunderbolts ff4 and Superman super hero movies may be back

[outer tulip]

Seeing thunderbolts today and I’ve never been happier!

[tawny parcel]

Superman cinema

And it feels so good to just have like

[modern lichen]

what a shot

RAAAAAH

[tawny parcel]

Full faith in the movie

Because of james gunn

It just already feels like a slam dunk lol

I’m curious how ff4 and superman will do against one another

Same month

[modern lichen]

i'm sure they'll be a joy to witness back to back

FF looks great too

[indigo basin]

you know, Johnny bravo really reminds me of Sanji

[modern lichen]

lmao

[tawny parcel]

Happiest I’ve felt about superhero movies in a long time

Like I said

We could be back

Although marvel will really have to stay locked in post ff

[modern lichen]

keep your expectations in check for things beyond these three films after this year

you never know

[tawny parcel]

Yeah thats what i was thinking about lol

Well, with james gunn at the head of dc i have faith in it

The guardians trilogy overall the best trilogy in the mcu

Even for its flaws

[real plank]

It’s pretty easy when the only movie after is doomsday lol

A year of tv shows may be rough tho

I’m looking forward to Fan4, and cautiously optimistic bout Superman. It just hasn’t rly gripped me yet

And I’m not as big a Gunn fan as most ppl. Think he’s a bit overhyped

[modern lichen]

i'm not that big a fan of the second guardians movie

but i love the suicide squad and guardians 1 and 3

[real plank]

That’s funny haha, gotg2 is my favorite

2, 1, then 3

Didn’t care for suicide squad but I did enjoy peacemaker

[copper phoenix]

the suicide squad reboot was lit

[modern lichen]

sometimes (especially in guardians 3) his style of storytelling can feel a bit emotionally contrived and manipulative but its just so good most of the time

[main lion]

idk why they'd choose ff4 instead of ff7 for a movie

[copper phoenix]

its insane how much does jared leto bring a movie down

[modern lichen]

its not just leto

dude is barely in the film

[real plank]

Oh the og Suicide squad lol, I feel Leto’s joker was fine

[modern lichen]

the first suicide squad is fundamentally structurally bad

[real plank]

It’s a fun take, def not the best, but very of the modern era for it’s time

[main lion]

I basically only have interest in these new DC movies now as far as superhero shit goes lol

[modern lichen]

the editing and performances are horrendous and it looks like grey slop

[main lion]

Batman was the shit and Superman seems promising

idc about the "DCU" ones

though

those suck too

[modern lichen]

superman is a DCU film

[real plank]

Yeah lol