#Media (General)

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cobalt onyx
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Does ST actually count as a TV series?

winged mountain
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let's say yes

cobalt onyx
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Probably Samalamadingdong and that's it then

ionic lily
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Last season of Gamechanger had an ARG leading to a secret episode

topaz oyster
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My ideal Mistborn era 1 adaptation is a "15" episode miniseries with five episodes / book and then a secret unadvertised 16th episode for Secret History

winged mountain
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I know the Adult Swim series Aqua Teen Hunger Force did it

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(and then they did a revival movie & season anyway)

steep bramble
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The acting in PJO is soooo good

burnt shale
topaz oyster
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I should put "unadvertised" in scare quotes too because there should be hints, maybe like an ARG, the number "15" is always shown set in metal, etc etc etc

tight dove
# topaz oyster I should put "unadvertised" in scare quotes too because there *should* be hints,...

It would be so cool if each episode started with the excerpts like the books do with the chapters
Mistborn era 1 all ||solely because I can picture like ep 14 ending with Sazed getting back to the letter and checking the bottom and going “oh my god” but not showing it, and then the next episode starts with the “he must not be allowed to free what is trapped there” or w/e the line is||

buoyant scroll
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||Well in Kon's plan ep 15 would be the end of Hero of Ages and ep 14 right before it||

burnt shale
topaz oyster
burnt shale
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||Then Secret history should have a post credit where they suprised drop fake tv shows with Kelsier. Cooking with Kelsier, Survivor, etc || Mistborn general

oak ivy
burnt shale
tight dove
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Cosmere all ||i assume he’ll be relevent again in Ghostbloods||

celest mango
celest mango
burnt shale
oak ivy
lone canyon
muted solar
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ST S5E7 || The video about how half the dialogue is the same keeps hitting LUL

Also kids are dumb and people are scary ||

muted solar
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I hate how right this video is. Multiple times in S5 E7…

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The show really has become little more than white noise at this point LUL

muted solar
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ST S5E7 || Oh yeah Mike exists LUL ||

acoustic pewter
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I'm not getting the Stranger Things hate, tbh

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I thought season 5 was great, just like all the other seasons except kind of season 3. Same general level of quality.

topaz oyster
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Season 1 was really something exceptional

crystal brook
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I think season 1 was great

topaz oyster
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People wanted it to be that good again and it just never got there

acoustic pewter
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I will agree that Season 1 was the best

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I never really expected them to top it, but I thought the quality was pretty consistent all the way through save for a couple occasional dips.

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I think seasons 2 and 4 were my personal favorites. 2 felt to me like a natural continuation of 1 and that the story could have ended there, and I think 4 had some of the best individual scenes in the show.

turbid narwhal
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It’s kind of like how season one of true detective set the bar so high that everything after just looked meh in comparison

acoustic pewter
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Most notably, S4 E4 ||That "Running Up That Hill" sequence made the song popular for a reason. I truly think that's the greatest scene in the entire show. Narrative tension at its finest. That was when ST really peaked, imo. Was never better than that before or after.||

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If I were to rank the seasons, 5 would be fourth place, but I don't dislike any of them. Even if 3 was generally my least favorite, I still really liked it for the most part.

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I just think it's a good show and I like it shrug

minor ledge
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the themes just arent there

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and the aesthetic and VFX are by far the worst in the whole show

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also nothing happeneing with s4s ending and it just getting ignored is such a baffling decision

dusk hound
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||Krypto isn’t the only one that’s gonna be barking in the theater||

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lone canyon
dusk hound
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No she’s just hungover

frail mulch
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I feel like that venn diagram could also be a circle

dusk hound
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She’s a mess but she’s my mess

tight dove
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she can make me worse

dusk hound
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The very opposite of “I can fix her” she can make me worse LUL

stoic falcon
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For me with stranger things, s1 was great, s2 was alright, and then s3 felt like it had veered away from what I enjoyed about s1 and got too much into body horror and so I dnfed it

burnt shale
dusk hound
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Too late Gneiss

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It’s already been done

full wolf
dusk hound
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Yes

ripe stag
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Really got it bad, huh?

dusk hound
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I’m just in a lot of servers and I forget what I post and where I post it

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And my memory sucks LUL

full wolf
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You can always check your post history in a given channel to see if you're unsure

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The media tab is also a nice at-a-glance if it was a photo or video

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cold sequoia
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||clearly concept art but yeah I think that confirms who Stan is playing||

turbid narwhal
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Great casting

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His last couple of movies have been so good

dusk hound
oak ivy
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I LOVE IT

dusk hound
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Batman Part 2 casting ||Scarlett Johansson is gonna be in it too||

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Batman part 2 speculation ||I wonder what villain they’re doing?? I actually don’t think they’re doing Harvey as Two-Face in this and he’ll just be a good guy DA for the whole, I hope they adapt Court of Owls||

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Batman 2 ||Scarlett is gonna be playing Harvey’s wife/partner in the movie and there’s been speculation that she’s playing a villain role so maybe she’s on the Court??||

cold sequoia
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||I don't remember her having anything to do with the Court of Owls||

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||they could always combine stuff ||

minor ledge
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||almost as an original idea as a batman movie taking inspiration from year one||

dusk hound
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||Reeves said they’re doing a villain that hasn’t been done before, so I’m interested in that||

distant birch
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||tbh I'm taking that with a grain of salt||

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||iirc he said "hasn't really been done before" and even without that I see a lot of wiggle room with that||

dusk hound
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Close enough, welcome back Johnlock conspiracy

oak ivy
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Great now they will do this for some other show

frank quail
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they wouldn't have gotten any ad money for this crash

turbid narwhal
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The crash is part of the conspiracy, the episode is coming

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I haven’t watched stranger things since season 2 but how bad of an ending does it have to be for millions to think the ending was fake

topaz oyster
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Not bad

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Just mid, and therefore disappointing

turbid narwhal
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So it’s an overreaction to a mid ending

topaz oyster
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Yes

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This is kind of just what happens when you peak in your first season I guess

buoyant scroll
minor ledge
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and the show set up looking for incosistencies as an illusion

keen flax
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Me: man I cant wait for Primal to come back, im sure its a few months out so I'll check

Adult Swim: no sweetie this comes out Sunday, have fun!

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Peak is finally returning (ignoring s2's end)

hushed moss
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The title for episode six of Percy Jackson is great ||”Nobody gets the Fleece” though I am not sure if the Nobody gambit will work here as Polythemeis seems to be a lot smarter here than in the book.||

distant birch
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Is PJ s2 coming out??

wise epoch
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It started last month

hushed moss
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Episode 6 of season 2 came out today.

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Just started watching it.

distant birch
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Oh dang

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I did not realise

hushed moss
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PJ S2E6 ||I am finding show Polythemis much more interesting than the book version.||

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||Ooo Pan gave the Fleece to Poly||

oak ivy
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just watching singin in the rain

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what a banger

hushed moss
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Something I am really liking about S2 is that it is able to surprise me, despite or perhaps because I have read the books so many times.

timid zodiac
hushed moss
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PJ S2E6 ||Percy gave Luke the Fleece, it is his fatal flaw, sacrificing everything to save those he loves.||

oak ivy
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For my New Year's Resolution I wanted to watch 10 movies i would not otherwise watch. Here is what i watched and my ranking

The Truman Show - actually incredible
Starship Troopers - somehow VERY RELEVANT
Singin in the Rain - no one told me musicals could be good
Sing Sing - more movies should try and be like this
rocky horror - needed more meatoaf
Fargo - he was funny lookin yaaa
Before Sunrise - i wish romance was real
Hundreds of Beavers - it should have been like 40 mins shorter
the green knight - juice is not worth the squeeze
SW Ep 8 - somehow it really is that bad

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tagging my favorite cinephile @dim fog , kino and all that

lucid haven
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Starship troopers is always relevent

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Its so good

oak ivy
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starship troopers is one of those yeah, we are never getting another film like that movies

hushed moss
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The Truman Show is one of my favorites

oak ivy
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partially bc it made no money

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truman show is probably my second favorite movie ever

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easy 10/10

lucid haven
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Also love how good of an actor he is in Truman show. Ppl sometimes forget just how good of an actor he is when he takes things semi seriously. Especially because of his nature to just be a crazy silly goofball

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Haven't actually heard about Jim in a few years

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Wonder how hes going

hushed moss
oak ivy
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the thing is, i dont like jim carey as an actor

lucid haven
oak ivy
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but he absolutely destroys that movie

oak ivy
lucid haven
minor ledge
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better than the movie

oak ivy
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ngl i am not a crime fiction enjoyer

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although people do keep saying the movie is good

minor ledge
gritty sierra
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pleased to have your top three already on lock

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i will check out more for sure though

oak ivy
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i would def recommend Sing Sing to everyone

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everything below Fargo is dubious

gritty sierra
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i mean i'm not watching TLJ again by my choice

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i am gonna try the green knight no matter what

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that one seems very individual

oak ivy
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i didnt like the green knight but i certainly see someone liking it

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TLJ i have no such hopes

novel bear
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hundreds of beavers is a masterpiece btw

oak ivy
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its way too long ill say it

minor ledge
dusk hound
minor ledge
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im gonna get shot for my take on TLJ

ivory night
oak ivy
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It is a bad movie

ionic lily
distant birch
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I tried watching rocky horror last year and didn't (and don't want to) finish it

ionic lily
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It’s best watched with a shadow cast

oak ivy
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Rocky horror isnt really a movie at this point

buoyant scroll
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It was originally a stageplay then adapted into a film

distant birch
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I had complicated feelings about some of the characters that made it just not something I could really comfortably enjoy

dusk hound
lucid haven
oak ivy
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Ep 3 really drags up the GPA there

minor ledge
lucid haven
ionic lily
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Jet Lag 16.4 ||Ben got absolutely screwed.||

steep bramble
steep bramble
steep bramble
west escarp
west escarp
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Was just on the Wikipedia page for one of the heated rival leads

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This show was so indie he didn’t have acting representation until after the show started airing?????

stoic falcon
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(Though 9 is definitely very close to being below 1)

celest mango
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My hot take is my entire ranking (3>4>2>6>9>5>1>8>7 as of my last full rewatch, a bit out of date though I should plan another one)

winged mountain
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I'd just say that the prequels and sequels have dramatically different strengths and weaknesses

west escarp
minor ledge
dim fog
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Good takes

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Starship Troopers was very good

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I went and watched Robocop immediately afterward

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which was even better

oak ivy
dim fog
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Playtime
F for Fake (I think this is one of the most important films ever, especially in the AI era)
Uncut Gems
Black Dynamite
Memories of Murder
No Country for Old Men
12 Angry Men
Sicario (Also relevant)
Do The Right Thing
Perfect Blue
In the Mood for Love
The Thing
Casablanca
Paperman

keen flax
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Black Dynamite mention??? 🤩

turbid narwhal
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I rewatched sicario the other day and it was even better than I remembered

crystal brook
oak ivy
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Uncut gems is my favorite fargo sequel

crystal brook
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Iirc I was trying to find a version online with the original colour grade, instead of a remastered version? 🤔

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Or something like that

dim fog
oak ivy
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I will take some number of these movies for my 10

midnight compass
oak ivy
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There are others that are locked in

dim fog
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Paperman is a short film so just slap that harmony in there and watch on youtube

oak ivy
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I think i have already decided on

The Big Red One
Moonlight
Bladerunner
Shawshank Redemption
The Good, The Bad, And the Ugly

dim fog
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Bladerunner/TGTBTU almost made my rec list 🫡

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great films

oak ivy
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Also im surprised you listed perfect blue. Werent you a black swan truther or was that someone else?

dim fog
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Truther?

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Black Swan is in my Top 4

oak ivy
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As in BS > PB

dim fog
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They're both pefect

oak ivy
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Although if PB is also a favorite this loses meaning

dim fog
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I prefer black swan though

turbid narwhal
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Moonlight is a great film

dim fog
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last year was not a great movie year for me

ionic lily
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

dim fog
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i got too much on my watchlist 😭

oak ivy
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Were there any banger films that released last year?

dim fog
dim fog
oak ivy
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Bruh

dim fog
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last year was like

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one of the best movie years

ionic lily
dim fog
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Sinners, Marty Supreme, One Battle After Another, Wake Up Dead Man

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Weapons

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Fire and Ash

oak ivy
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I should add sinners to my list

oak ivy
dim fog
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Bugonia

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actually found out its not in my top 4 anymore, sicario bumped it

oak ivy
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Ok how does letterboxd work with likes

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Does that just mean you like a movie? Is there any other reason to click it?

dim fog
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Yeah, and no haha

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But I do because sometimes I rate a 2/5 liked

oak ivy
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Also based of you for not giving into the hivemind and giving LotR a 5

dim fog
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my bottom rated films filtered by likes

oak ivy
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Shes out of my league is so funny bc the main ugly dude looks like this

dim fog
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i do not remember why i liked that film lol

ionic lily
oak ivy
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How many of thor’s 2 stars is Natalie Portman

dim fog
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sorry i don't like marvel 🤭

dusk hound
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Ant-Man and the Wasp over Spider-Man 1???

oak ivy
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Spider man 1 does not hold up

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Also how did you “like” the last jedi

dim fog
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i don't update my reviews and i was coping pretty hard walking out lol

forest wigeon
dim fog
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Curiously no SW9 review in my log thinksmart

ionic lily
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Edge of Tomorrow, Kill Bill, and Tron Legacy being low is criminal

crystal brook
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Cant remember how to change favorites on letterboxd

oak ivy
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SW 9 kills children’s joy

dim fog
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tron legacy is legit a 1 star film without a daft punk soundtrack

oak ivy
winged mountain
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sure but it does have the daft punk soundtrack

ionic lily
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10/10 visuals, 10/10 soundtrack, 5/10 story, 5/10 acting

keen flax
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Alpaca I have to say, you have great movie taste

topaz oyster
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(I do not and have never liked any of the Raimi Spider-man movies)

keen flax
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Everyone should see soul btw, top 3 Pixar movie

oak ivy
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Kon are we best friends now????

crystal brook
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But my 4 would be EEAAO, Sing Sing, Bladerunner and Look Back

winged mountain
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I never watched the Garfield spidey films, I watched the Garfield ones 25 years ago or whatever and not since

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err the Raimi ones

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what's tobey's name again

dusk hound
novel bear
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tobey

keen flax
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But kon! It's pizza time wwhw

winged mountain
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that's unironically how my brain asked that question, I need help

forest wigeon
ionic lily
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Also just saw you out Gravity at 5* and I’m officially confused

oak ivy
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More people should watch Sing Sing it is essential viewing 7/10

winged mountain
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I still haven't watched spider-man homecoming despite having seen the two sequels to it

dim fog
winged mountain
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I never cared much for 'watching it in order' for movies I guess

topaz oyster
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I'm convinced the Raimi Spider-man movies benefitted in the public mind from the same Star Wars prequel memeification of that era of the internet

ionic lily
winged mountain
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I watched Strange 2 without WandaVision despite all warnings to the contrary

dusk hound
ionic lily
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I did see it in IMAX

oak ivy
dim fog
ionic lily
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It was so unrealistic it destroyed my suspension of disbelief. Don’t name it gravity then not obey the laws of gravity

dim fog
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my page 2 of ranings

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dusk hound
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The fact that Ursula is the only girl that was even remotely nice to Peter in the Raimi movies

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Should have left MJ for her smh

topaz oyster
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All Is Lost is the same movie as Gravity (except at sea instead of in space) and stars Robert Redford and is executed way better imo

oak ivy
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No way solo is good

dim fog
oak ivy
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Oof

dusk hound
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GOTG films being rated low is killing me

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But I will survive

topaz oyster
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The first one is the only one that's actually good

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The third is outright bad

dusk hound
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????????????????

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The third is genuinely one of the best MCU movies ever

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And one of the best movies of that phase

topaz oyster
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I left the theater so sad

dusk hound
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Oh wait I actually do remember you saying something a while ago about how you didn’t like it

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Now I remember

topaz oyster
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One of the most self indulgent pieces of filmmaking I've ever seen

oak ivy
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I think third has a really good storlyine (rocket) and a bunch of bad dialogue pretending to be deep

dim fog
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i just do not have any emotional attachment to marvel

dusk hound
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Agree to disagree

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It’s just plain amazing to me

turbid narwhal
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These were my 4 favourites the last time I used the app

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dim fog
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Phantom Thread?

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dusk hound
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Film bro final boss

novel bear
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that is not final boss

dim fog
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> doesn't have come and see in top 4

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not a true cinephile

turbid narwhal
cold sequoia
turbid narwhal
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I feel like those are 4 films a normal film watcher would watch, it’s nothing crazy

keen flax
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Oooo I wanna watch more movies this year

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Or I could watch sinners again, that could be fun

dim fog
dusk hound
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Here’s my top 5, you can laugh at me don’t worry

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turbid narwhal
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Now method acting is everyone laughing at Jeremy strong smh

dusk hound
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Or top 4

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I can’t count

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I’m not even gonna edit that, I’ll just leave it there in shame

keen flax
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I dont think I have a top 4 movies ngl

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A lot of it is Disney admittedly

oak ivy
dusk hound
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Literally changed animated films forever

oak ivy
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Also most @molten jetty coded top 4 in history

dusk hound
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And it’s the greatest comic book movie of all time period

cold sequoia
molten jetty
oak ivy
forest wigeon
dusk hound
# oak ivy Wrong. Spiderverse 2.

Funny enough they’re actually very interchangeable to me, you can honestly just count that spot as the two Spider-Verse movies

oak ivy
celest mango
dusk hound
oak ivy
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You know what ryan? Fair.

celest mango
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I'd have ROTS and ATSV and idk what else

forest wigeon
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RotS is my favorite Star Wars movie, but I don't know if it would rank very high overall lmao

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Iron Man and ITSV are definitely up there

empty locust
dusk hound
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I do need to watch way more movies

forest wigeon
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When I do watch things, they're usually shows

dusk hound
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Same

ionic lily
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My top 4 are Princess Bride, Stardust, EEAAO, A New Hope

terse crystal
buoyant scroll
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Behold, the song of my people
https://www.tumblr.com/fiollaigean/774159242320068608/kidnapping-stalking-insanity-sleepwalking

you're only a cut of the vagabond

🔁 fiollaigean

"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

fiollaigean

kidnapping stalking insanity sleepwalking cannibalism and teeth, gaslighting gun violence pipe murder and silence and medical trauma and meat. bugs in your body and poisoned black coffee and self-mutilation and lies, police brutality breaks from reality suicide spiders and eyes. paaaaaranoia degloving the uncanny valley and running like prey to survive, agonies torture and drowning and falling and then being buried alive.

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minor ledge
dusk hound
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Dead Poets Society is amazing

forest wigeon
thin ridge
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Would you believe I'm working on it right now

small quarry
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no

thin ridge
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Well I am. And I'm debating exactly how over the top to go with it

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Im feeling whimsical

ionic lily
thin ridge
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I have stupid ideas

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Also keep in mind I've never listened to the magnus archives so I'm going purely based on vibes here

forest wigeon
sonic trench
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Watched it for the first time last summer

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Assuming you mean playtime directed by Jacques Tati and not a different movie

thin ridge
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I spent way too long on this yall

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I'm so sorry the last note is off-key but my feet were freezing because that was like the fifth take

civic trellis
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omg that's amazing LUL

terse crystal
# terse crystal

Three thoughts:

  1. My God, It really is just a different flavored Way of Water
  2. My God, these sudden inexplicable changes in the frame rate are jarring
  3. My God, Varang absolutely steals the movie from everyone else. So much fun to watch
stark crag
thin ridge
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Thanks LUL
I thought the cloak and the bare feet in the snow added a lot of aura

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And can you maybe tell I was a choir kid?

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Oh also I didn't memorize the lyrics

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I printed them out on a sheet of paper and taped it to the side of the house

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Oh and I had a karaoke version of the song playing on an earbud so I stayed on time, and I started that by having my computer mouse in my pocket while my computer was inside the house

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Felt very Rube-Goldberg but I'm happy with the results

terse crystal
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Pitt Season 2 Time!

dusk hound
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So I’m hearing some more stuff about Man of Tomorrow

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||Wonder Woman is gonna be in it, Gunn already met with some actresses for the role before the holidays, so I expect a shortlist at the end of this month, casting next month||

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||Batman won’t be in Man of Tomorrow but there will apparently be a reference to him||

dusk hound
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Again all this is pure speculation

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I’m in a DCLeaks server and they all tend to get scoops

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But sometimes they’re wrong

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So take it with a grain of salt

oak ivy
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People we meet on vacation movie tomorrow? Lets go.

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Finally a good romance movie

agile drift
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I watched Train Dreams tonight and was thinking about how much I like the Joel Miller archetype but then was thinking that he's probably not the first, right? Does anyone know what earlier iterations of the character there are?

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I.e gruff old man with a heart of gold deep down inside him, brought out by his connection to family/friends

thin ridge
stark crag
merry heath
topaz oyster
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The Witcher is also sort of that

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Wolverine is commonly that way with X-23 and I'm pretty sure that kind of depiction predates The Last of Us

main dew
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NEW PROTOMEN DROPPED TODAY????

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17 years since the last album????

buoyant scroll
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oh hell that was today?

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they announced the preorder back in october

minor ledge
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incredible

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transphobic wojack fit 😭

muted solar
west escarp
dire moss
cold sequoia
lone canyon
keen flax
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Lowkey... its giving the same energy as snowflake and safe space but not THAT bad 😭

oak ivy
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what are comics

lone canyon
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Especially the thigh high socks

west escarp
oak ivy
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what is the general reaction to this character

cold sequoia
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I saw one post about her when she was introduced and people seemed to find the costume funny

dim fog
dim fog
wet quest
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Binging JJ McCullough videos to try and steal his accent for my next DnD character

lone canyon
west escarp
keen flax
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Unironically I 10000% agree

dusk hound
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Definition of “she don’t want you bro”

west escarp
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This is starting to become restraining order territory

frail mulch
lone canyon
west escarp
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Characters marvel should bring back

winged mountain
cold sequoia
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their argument is about fiduciary responsibility I think

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if the offer is lucrative enough to shareholders then the board is legally required to accept it

winged mountain
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I suppose, but I've seen the board's counterarguments and they seem stronger? Paramount is paying a bit more but also getting more (they also want the Discovery side of the business), and Netflix would have to be paid a back-out fee at this point

burnt shale
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yeah but that can equally be turned on its head. They would say the more they are getting includes the properties that are negative on their books

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but the back out fee is a bigger issue and one i think may not hold up to scutiny id have to look more into it

sacred slate
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Paramount's offer is more money on paper but requires debt equal to something like 6x the market cap of the company. The reasons WB has given as to why it's bad are pretty compelling.

winged mountain
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the point that's being raised is that shareholders theoretically aren't supposed to care about what happens to a company after they sell it, all a board is supposed to consider is how to make the most money. The board argues that rejecting the offer is the way to make the most money, because that's the argument they have to make

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(at least as long as they're not getting a share of the new company or something)

sacred slate
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Yes but the issue is that all the debt, even if they potentially get more money for stakeholders, makes it less likely that the sale actually goes through.

keen flax
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Watching Ethel & Ernest and its so good so far!

dusk hound
wise epoch
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Or was that just the main villain

cold sequoia
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it would have a villain who hasn't really been done before

dusk hound
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He’s just gonna be Harvey Dent

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The DA

minor ledge
agile drift
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Bane has been done before

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In a big movie

topaz oyster
verbal lintel
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I want to see the Penny Plunderer in an ultra-serious threat villain kinda way LUL

ionic lily
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I want to see Calendar Man

west escarp
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Penny Plunderer is now the ultimate obsolete villain since we are no longe making pennies

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Or maybe that’s why he’s out again, he’s trying to force the penny back to relevance

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Hey DC comics, I have a pitch for you!!!!

cobalt onyx
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Well you see, because pennies aren't being minted, their value can only go up!

ionic lily
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Well, technically theyve always been worth less than their scrap value

dusk hound
crimson kelp
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something something price of copper something something?

wise epoch
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And then it becomes a buddy cop movie with Batman and the Legally Distinct President of the United States™

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And of course, he's portrayed by a very famous former actor. A well known Republican and a man who ran for office and succeeded. Yes, he is portrayed by the one, the only

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

dusk hound
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Godzilla minus 2

keen flax
#

2 days before my birthday is kinda hype ngl

civic trellis
#

if you substract 0 from godzilla, it's just godzilla 🤔

keen flax
#

Wow godzilla is gonna be in the movie?? I love that guy

dusk hound
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He has some very nice legs

turbid laurel
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Godzilla -(-1) comes next, right?

dusk hound
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Wouldn’t that make Godzilla +1

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I’m good at math

west escarp
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Godzilla +/- one

dusk hound
#

So here’s my theory on Batman Part II

||I think the character that ScarJo is gonna be playing is Gilda Dent, Harvey’s partner/GF/wife whatever, but she’s also gonna be Phantasm (if any of you have seen Mask of the Phantasm you know what I’m talking about, if you have not, drop everything you’re doing and go watch it now), I think ScarJo’s Gilda is gonna be an old flame/GF of Bruce’s and suddenly she resurfaces in Gotham with Harvey, big twist of the movie is that she’s the villain||

winged mountain
west escarp
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Anything but another joker movie

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Bring back Eggman from the tv show. Make an Eggman movie before another joker movie

wise epoch
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Since they said the villain was gonna be lesser known

west escarp
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Thank you Matt reeves

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Eggman movie seeming more and more likely

wise epoch
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Which is surprising since Joker was teased at the end of the first movie

winged mountain
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I guess the main villains who have been done in a major live action movie are Joker, Riddler, Penguin, Two Face, Freeze, Scarecrow, Ra’s, Bane, Ivy, I’m sure I’m missing some but not immediately coming to mind

wise epoch
#

I was gonna say Sinister Six led by Joker but then I remembered that was a Spider-Man group

winged mountain
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Joker will probably be in it but not necessarily the focus, I’d assume?

wise epoch
#

Joker commands focus

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If he's in this movie it's gonna be another post credits stinger

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He can't be a side villain

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If Joker is in a movie then he is the main course

buoyant scroll
#

Mad Hatter would be a fun lesser known villain but who bloody knows
The Bat has so many lesser known villains

cold sequoia
#

my pick for a lesser known villain who has a good chance at showing up in a Reeves movie is Professor Pyg

west escarp
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Let’s do a killer moth movie

buoyant scroll
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classic mutilation serial killer

cold sequoia
acoustic pewter
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I've been wishing for a more realistic take on Mr. Freeze. I also think Hush would be perfect for these new Reeve Batman movies.

cold sequoia
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Hush just isn't a good story (imo)

acoustic pewter
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Batman 2022 ||There are some hints that Hush was already in the movie, hidden in the background.||

cold sequoia
wise epoch
#

Yeah my friend thinks Hush

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And the. I made the joke

acoustic pewter
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Batman 2022 ||There's someone with a username going by "Hush" or something like it on the Riddler's forums. Plus the name of the reporter Falcone killed is the same as that character's father, right?||

west escarp
#

They better not do Court of the Owls

wise epoch
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"Everyone thinks it's Hush, but me, an intellectual, sees the truth. It's obviously a Joe Chill movie."

west escarp
#

That would functionally be a repeat of movie 1

acoustic pewter
#

Yeah

west escarp
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Also I just hate them

frank quail
crystal brook
winged mountain
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It’s a good one

crystal brook
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Oh its only 76 mins

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Its 2:15am, hmmmm

winged mountain
#

Yeah the animated movies usually aren’t terribly long… usually

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I remember watching TDKR a few months back

forest wigeon
west escarp
#

I also have a pitch for an episode of the Jimmy Olsen tv show

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I love when modern comics reference idiot silver age plotlines. They should adapt this comic

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Here’s the original story btw

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oak ivy
#

actual romance movie just dropped yall this is not a drill

minor ledge
#

that joker didnt seem nearly goofy and funny enough from what we saw

oak ivy
#

the messed up alex's casting he is too handsome

minor ledge
#

but i hope they go with someone other than joker tbh

minor isle
#

The Batman 2 doesn't have joker tho

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like as main antag

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Reeves confirmed it's gonna be a villaiin which hasn't been in adaptation right?

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or am I remembering wrong

gritty sierra
#

okayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy s2 of the pitt already gripping me, i'm so !!!!!!!! at them ending the episode there

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i suppose i am hooked!

minor ledge
gritty sierra
#

and unlike s1 i'm not starting with a huge backlog of episodes to binge at once :(

minor isle
#

I am gonna wait for it to end and watch it the way it is recorded
binging an entire ER session

gritty sierra
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haha

minor isle
minor ledge
#

which means i think the Batman and robin villains are open

oak ivy
#

how is there a season 2 is the emergency still happening

gritty sierra
minor isle
gritty sierra
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the july 4th weekend day shift, some months after the first season shift

wise epoch
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Cuz they said the villain was gonna be someone not focused on in a movie before, and the Joker can't be a side character in a story, he has to be the main baddie or a cameo

minor ledge
minor ledge
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joker can absolutely be a side character

minor ledge
#

What the hell is mubi

image.png
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Poob has it for you

muted solar
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I have yet to watch the Pitt season 1

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But I’m pretty sure I’ve heard it’s one of the better representations of what it’s like working at the hospitals

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To the extent that I believe my gf told me some of the people at the hospital just can’t watch the show because it just feels like being right back at work

main dew
minor isle
#

also got Noah Wyle in an interview

minor isle
#

-# I know I am gonna be the biggest fan if it nails the sequel

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but it didn't need onoe

minor ledge
#

incredible work DC

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just

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incredible

empty locust
#

The Legend of the Blue Sea is such a good k-drama!

dusk hound
#

Round of applause

minor ledge
dusk hound
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Chill on Greg Rucka, he made peak Wonder Woman

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He’s just kind of washed now

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And that’s ok

minor ledge
#

Hey its an al ghul were lucky its just a transphobia stereotype and not a racist one too

dusk hound
#

I think whenever a new writer writes for the Al Ghuls they flip a coin to decide if they should be written normally or should be a racist stereotype

placid river
placid river
minor ledge
buoyant scroll
placid river
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Not sure what Rucka’s intent was but he’s normally not a weirdo as far as I know

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Still, someone should have realized that it doesn’t look great especially for a trans character

cold sequoia
merry heath
#

TMA + TMP all ||So I saw an interesting theory that TMP we are serving the web and eith all the electronic devices kinda makes sense which really makes me wonder what's the spiders end goal seeing as she wanted to spread and spread a larger web||

frank quail
#

Watching avatar 3 with my freshly working ears.

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But I forgot how thumpy the IMAX speakers are, and that it takes a little while to get used to having ears again
Bwoom bwoom bwoom ShallanOhNo LUL

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-# don't worry, it's still the trailers, I'm not messaging during the actual movie

empty locust
#

2 hours left huh

buoyant scroll
placid river
#

Imo it’s not great but also not a big deal

buoyant scroll
#

Calling her a pedophile over it is such an extreme jump and mischaracterization

west escarp
#

Also the character is like 19 or 20 and Klarion is 17

keen flax
#

Ive seen worse iterations of that line tbf

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Girl Meets World ||Maya is 14 and Rileys cousin (a freshman in COLLEGE) tells her that he'll wait for her to get older before they date and it was presented as romantic. To a show targeted towards little girls. 😭||

placid river
#

Get ready for a whole bunch of people that don’t read comics to see that panel on Twitter and freak out

frank quail
minor ledge
buoyant scroll
#

I dont find it that weird or gross, and even if I did that still wouldnt make her a damn pedophile

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i need people to be bloody serious for once like come on

minor ledge
#

its just really unnesecary too its very bayverse tranformers 4

buoyant scroll
#

I mean the character from what i've seen is a very thinly written walking stereotype, I think there's more fundamental issues underlying her

small quarry
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Like i hate the character but i dont think you need to call her that to complain that they did a terrible job

buoyant scroll
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Im desperate for people criticize things for the actual issues they have instead of manufacturing and exaggerating targets into existence.

minor ledge
buoyant scroll
#

Not mainline Klarion

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Mainline Klarion is (until they change things) a teenager from Limbo Town, the descendants of the colonists of Roanoke after they got lost in another dimension and became witches.

minor ledge
#

didnt even retcon it to be less racist when they did retcon it lmao

west escarp
#

Comic book fans actually read comics challenge

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Challenge level: difficult

buoyant scroll
#

how...is Klarion racist??

minor ledge
#

most of the american mythologizing of roanoke has roots in racism

dusk hound
buoyant scroll
#

misunderstood a thing about Limbo Town, it's not in another dimension, it's just literallly underground
When Klario was first introduced into comics he was from another dimension, got those confused

west escarp
#

See Virginia Dare, the first English child born in the US (at Roanoke) and how her shift life was mythologized ever since

midnight compass
west escarp
#

Cmon, lock in

midnight compass
minor ledge
midnight compass
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Unless there is actually racism on how this happened like some kind of Native American magic BS but that doesn't sound like what happened from Mori's reaction

midnight compass
west escarp
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They didn’t disappear without a trace, they carved the name of a local tribe into a tree. A few generations later, members of that tribe had blue eyes

minor ledge
buoyant scroll
#

Like, the simple answer is they just moved to Croatoan Island, but no one was able to investigate to find out, so that's why it's a mystery

midnight compass
#

Oh right I forgot about that

west escarp
#

Also the English later asked Powhatan what happened to them, and he said that he had them killed, but that was likely a lie

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But it does prove that even 30 years later, they were still being looked for

minor ledge
midnight compass
#

Sure but like....was there a reason to bring this up?

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It sounds like you just wanted to complain and so pivoted to a new complaint after the first was refuted

west escarp
#

Mystery solved

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lucid haven
#

Is it also an issue where calling everything racist becomes a bad way to discuss media critically and logically

midnight compass
#

And again the original thing is stupid and I honestly thought that was a parody and not an actual thing DC printed but we should complain about the actual reasons it's dumb and not make up more just because

lucid haven
#

What is the original thing here and what are the issues with it

midnight compass
lucid haven
#

Ahh okay yes that is a bit too much of a caricature of a trans woman

buoyant scroll
#

I then mentioned the character Klarion, from DC comics, is in mainline continuity a descendent of colonists from Roanoke after they went somewhere else and became witches. And apparently doing anything involving the mystery of Roanoke has "unquestioned racist assumptions"

lucid haven
midnight compass
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And then stuff about her potentially being in a relationship with that character thus why he came up

minor ledge
lucid haven
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Ty for catching me up

lucid haven
midnight compass
buoyant scroll
#

She also needs to be a furry and a super hacker

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...she might be a hacker i don't actually know

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ah no, she's just strong and tough

minor ledge
lucid haven
#

I dont know what soyjack means

midnight compass
#

Well to be a furry she'd have to be a programmer with considerable disposable income

buoyant scroll
#

There is something deeply funny about the granddaughter of Ra's al Ghul being a walking trans stereotype whose only powers are being kinda tough and strong.

midnight compass
midnight compass
#

Why would they connect her to that guy?

buoyant scroll
#

Yeah she's Nyssa's daughter

midnight compass
#

I only know Talia from the Batman animated show so that doesn't help me, but still that's hilarious

minor ledge
buoyant scroll
#

...huh
Seems they've just...casually retconned Nyssa's infertility

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I wasn't aware that was a thing till now. Hilariously inconsequential.

west escarp
#

Comic book writes also do not read comic books

buoyant scroll
#

...That uh. Reading up on Nyssa more and that sure was an early 2000s origin story they gave her, oof

west escarp
#

I think the only people who regularly do are children and comic book shopkeepers

buoyant scroll
#

im honestly now very suspicious it's going to be revealed that Alya isn't Nyssa's daughter cause that sounds like the kind of pointless twist they'd do

small quarry
#

cant wait till it is revealed she is a cis woman in the body of a trans one or something like that😌

buoyant scroll
frank quail
#

Avatar 3 ||So Varang ran away, and we never saw Quaritch's body, right?||

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buoyant scroll
#

I like the idea of a smaller person with absurd superstrength being named Featherweight, that's clever
Everything else about her is...sure

frank quail
#

||Also, I can't believe they had the air nation be nomad (traders)||

buoyant scroll
#

Read an article that pointed out Ra's now has enough grandkids you could probably form a team out of them and honestly that could be fun and funny

lucid haven
muted solar
#

This is why I’m glad I just am able to turn my brain off during movies and TV. It’s more fun that way. My gf and I watched the avatar movies and saw the third in theaters and we had a fun enough time with it.

Like I think I just enjoyed seeing a fantasy/alien world on screen that was pretty to look at basically. Story has plenty of faults of course but meh, that’s fine I guess.

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I feel like TV and movies thrive on characters making dumb choices and doing dumb things. It feels like it’s so rare you see characters in TV shows or movies making good choices

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But I will admit I watch less and less TV and movies these days and just read more books instead

lucid haven
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My statement was more on the noooo they got away with it again !!! Kinda thing less actually annoyed

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I love the avatar movies for the spectacle of it

muted solar
#

Yeah I do wish I had seen it in imax and 3D. I imagine it would have been a cool experience at least

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Considered going and seeing it that way but I don’t really feel like spending another 3 and a half hours on it when I could be doing other stuff lol

winged mountain
#

I saw the second avatar in 3D and just was meh on the whole thing, I just don't think 3D is for me

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I felt like I enjoyed the movie less for it, just because I don't think it really works for me? Like it does, a little, but it makes things more blurry than cool, and I don't think my eyesight is bad

muted solar
lucid haven
#

I hate 3d movies

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Just makes my brain unhappy

muted solar
#

Huh I thought that they did stuff with avatar 2 to fix that

lucid haven
#

I've not tried 3d movies in recent years

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So they might have fixed it

civic trellis
#

having to put 3D glasses over my normal glasses killed the 3D movie experience for me

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Like, my choices are either spend the whole movie with my nose itching and my ears aching from the second set of glasses I have to wear, or forego the corrective glasses and have a blurry 3D visuals

winged mountain
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well, not everyone necessarily has the same problems with it, they might improve it for one set of people without improving it for everyone

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I'd expect nothing less than for the technology to improve, part of the reason I gave Avatar 2's 3D a chance was that I heard great things about it in the first movie but skipped the 3D back then

minor ledge
#

its a rather niche technology

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and i dont expect that to change anytime soon

winged mountain
#

every now and then, the industry makes an effort at making it mainstream, I remember my 2014-ish TV had some 3D stuff built in

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I'm sure they'll try again one day

muted solar
#

Maybe. Though it feels like other than avatar it’s finally well and truly dead

minor ledge
#

yall see that a dog won some award shows award for best horror actor

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one of the less relevant ones but its still funny

minor ledge
turbid narwhal
#

Reddit pilled

minor ledge
oak ivy
#

how many points should i deduct from a film for a taylor swift soundtrack

minor isle
#

Up by 20

oak ivy
#

@rugged hound this movie has the same problem you talked about with the book where there really is no reason for them not to get together

rugged hound
#

What movie

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What book

hushed moss
cold sequoia
cold sequoia
oak ivy
rugged hound
#

Oh yeah. You need some tension!!!

oak ivy
#

ok but the tension is that they are not together

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but they want to be

rugged hound
#

But why arent they together

oak ivy
#

Well they were dating other people in the book

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But like

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Come on

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Also there was a long distance thing

lone canyon
#

I don’t think the Al ghul family drama is compelling in general (||never forget Talia sleeping with her baby daddy’s recently lobotomized son)|| but the design for featherweight genuinely looks like it was made by a transphobic person 😭

dusk hound
#

“We will be PERFECT in every aspect of writing DCU Wonder Woman, you write the Zeus origin you run a mile, you pair her up with Superman you run a mile, you let Tom King near that script?? And I will break my foot off in your John Brown hindparts and then you will run a mile. PERFECTION”

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minor ledge
#

man this year is gonna be so ass for movies

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project hail mary is prob gonan be good though

minor isle
#

we got new dune

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brand new day

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project hail mary

agile drift
#

28 years later 2 seems good

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supergirl

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historicality aside the odyssey will likely be impressive at the very least

distant birch
#

I'm so excited for dune and supergirl

minor isle
#

epic the musical was great and it's not that proper historically either

distant birch
#

I think the difference right now is that it's more obvious what epic gets out of being less historically accurate

agile drift
#

anne hathaway as penelope is all i need tbh

minor isle
#

yeah hence I think the doomposting for odyssey is also just nolan hate

distant birch
#

EPIC trades historical (and at times mythological) accuracy for some of the vibes, scenes, character exploration, etc. Whereas right now we don't now enough about the Nolodyssey to know what/if they gain anything from it

minor isle
#

I agree

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so like I don't think why we are skeptic of it when it's a tried and tested film director and it's a gambit which has been successful for Eipc

muted solar
#

Disclosure day also looks like an interesting movie coming out later this year

distant birch
#

I feel like you can sorta point at the "original"/changed bits of EPIC and see what their function is, stylistically or narratively, but we don't really have anything beyond a few shots of the Odyssey so it's hard to do that right now

agile drift
#

i also want to see the bride. and idk if it'll be any good but primate looks amusing as well

distant birch
#

At the moment I'm hesitantly interested in the Nolan odyssey. A lot of what we've seen hasn't quite hit some of the vibes I'd want from an odyssey movie, but I'm willing to change my mind if I see it

topaz oyster
#

I'm not going into that expecting The Odyssey at all

dusk hound
#

You guys know

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Who lowkey

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Should play

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DCU

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Wonder Woman

distant birch
#

Who?

dusk hound
topaz oyster
#

Something more akin to like Oh Brother, Where Art Thou in that it is Odyssey inspired but also A Nolan Film (TM)

dusk hound
#

Courtney Eaton

minor isle
#

who

dusk hound
#

Fairly unknown but she has the height

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And the acting ability

minor isle
#

what did she act in

dusk hound
#

Yellowjackets

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She was in Mad Max

ivory night
dusk hound
#

Some indie film called Parachute

topaz oyster
#

Courtney Eaton for Wonder Woman is not a hot take

dusk hound
#

I know

topaz oyster
#

The media bots that mostly kind of just make stuff up about casting decisions have been pushing her for months

dusk hound
#

I should play DCU Wonder Woman

minor isle
dusk hound
#

Lowkey, if Amanda from Smosh could act she could play Wonder Woman

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But I don’t know if she can

minor ledge
#

new dune im not expecting the best

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and im nolans #1 hater so im not excited to odyssety

minor ledge
muted solar
#

I think the PHM comment is the first comment I’ve personally seen where you’ve spoken positively about any piece of media 😂 (I’m sure there are others of course, I’m not reading every comment on this platform)

keen flax
#

I cant wait to read it next month

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Just in time for the movie! sylheart

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Ive avoided all the trailers, news, plot, everything

turbid laurel
#

I listen to the soundtrack all the time

west escarp
topaz oyster
muted solar
hushed moss
#

It is my most anticipated movie for this year.

muted solar
#

PHM?

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I’m curious about it and will absolutely go see it if it’s any good, but I don’t really get excited about adaptations generally

#

I would get hyped about an adaptation of the last 3 expanse books though

winged mountain
#

the nice thing about The Expanse is that there doesn't have to be a hurry to do it

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I think that, just from a business perspective, they would want to write it in a way that people who didn't watch the first series or read the books could still plausibly enjoy it

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but I think that's doable

lone canyon
novel bear
#

It's just an instinctive response from you huh

small quarry
#

pavlov

frank quail
heavy anchor
#

Dune: hype
PHM: hype
Godzilla 0: hype
Given that I basically didn't go to the theaters near at all last year I'm excited to have some movies I genuinely do want to see in theaters

crystal brook
small quarry
#

just really uncomfy

keen flax
#

I need to watch dune 2

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Its soooooooo long though 😭

heavy anchor
#

It's worth the watch

acoustic pewter
#

Once you've watched Lord of the Rings, no movie is too long

dusk hound
#

SAY IT LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACKKKKKK

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keen flax
crimson kelp
#

it's the same reason every movie is the spiderman origin story all over again

west escarp
#

If I have to see uncle Ben die again I’m killing the old man myself

civic trellis
#

The comment reminds me of Patrick H Willems's video about how modern Batman movies are afraid of adding Robin

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Still one of my favourite essays of his

dusk hound
#

Only a 20 minute video

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But it’s so good

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It doesn’t argue AGAINST realistic Batman but it argues that Batman as a character needs to branch out more in adaptations

civic trellis
#

This is the one I'm thinking about - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yabUYM5uN0

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west escarp
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Because of this film

civic trellis
#

that is brought up in the video, yes LUL

oak ivy
#

Batman movies tend to be overstuffed as is

dusk hound
#

The thing is

west escarp
#

And yet the LEGO Batman movie managed it just fine

dusk hound
#

Robin is such an integral part of Batman’s history and character

west escarp
oak ivy
dusk hound
#

Batman had only 11 comic issues where he was solo until Robin got introduced, I’d argue that Robin is as integral to Batman lore as Batman is himself

west escarp
#

Boo hiss tomatoes

topaz oyster
#

LEGO movie can just do it, live action it would demand explanation

#

The suspension of disbelief is different

turbid narwhal
#

Joseph Gordon levitt Robin movie right?

oak ivy
#

You would also need to write in an arc for robin in a live action

topaz oyster
#

Presumably the two would dovetail together at least in a first film

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Almost ideally the whole film would be about Robin and why Batman thinks it makes sense to take on a Robin

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Which like

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That sounds like a good movie and I would watch it

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But Robin hasn't exactly hit well in live action in the various incarnations and I think it'd be a hard sell to WB to say "I wanna deliberately and pointedly make a movie about what is historically one of the weaker parts of the live action franchise"

dusk hound
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I mean

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To be fair

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They really haven’t given Robin another chance since the Schumacher movies

verbal lintel
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easy way to sell it, make it Dad of Boy but Batman

topaz oyster
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That'd be a fantastic movie but also you'd have to skip straight to Damien and I'm not sure that's a great idea LUL

verbal lintel
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That or it’s a custom timeline where we just don’t have Nightwing

topaz oyster
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If you wanted to do a Dick Grayson movie, I think it'd go down more Witcher (books) / The Last of Us style where Bruce saves him from the circus almost incidentally at the beginning of some other operation and has to keep an eye on him but doesn't want him interfering with The Real Reason He's Here and Dick just keeps following along and making himself useful

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oh thats hype

heavy anchor
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Yes it was announced recently for the fall

turbid narwhal
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the new tom cruise movie looks like it'll be fun

minor ledge
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godzilla minus one is great if you pretend that it takes place after a fictional war and not WW2

cold sequoia
turbid narwhal
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I don't think so, just that and the little teaser clip

heavy anchor
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Sure the Japanese government did some terrible things during WW2, but Godzilla minus one doesn't care about the government at all
It's all about the civilians, and ignoring their suffering is... Not right

minor ledge
heavy anchor
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Why?

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He's just a kid

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Most of the soldiers WERE just kids

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Just because an individual was on the opposite side of the war doesn't mean they weren't human
That's the whole damn point

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Bros entire character arc is built on his not fulfilling societies expectations of him

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heavy anchor
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I feel like that says more about your point of view than the movies point of view
Because I had no problem sympathizing with him. It's not like he really wanted to be there

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civic trellis
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Kris, quite frankly, I don't think these two are equivalent at all.

ivory night
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I uh don’t think they’re that far off

minor ledge
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Do you know what imperial japan did to china???

civic trellis
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Obviously I am aware of what Imperial Japan did to China

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But I feel like there is a difference between a conscript and a volunteer, and one of them will have much easier time gaining my sympathy than the other.

heavy anchor
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Not only that

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But he's fairly clearly just a normal kid drafted at the very end of the war

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He isn't some hardened killer, nor some die hard patriot
If he were he wouldn't have the character arc he does

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He wasn't involved in what happened in China whatsoever
I doubt he even shot a single american

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Saying every Japanese soldier is equally responsible for what happened is stupid

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And ignores literally all nuance and complexity in the situation

oak ivy
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I assume an SS agent had a far higher level of opt in than some random grunt

topaz oyster
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Being given a rifle and then told to dig a foxhole and try not to eat artillery for breakfast is one of the most harrowing experiences a human can have sort of regardless of country of origin, and it happened on every side of that war

oak ivy
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Historically most soldiers do not enlist for ideological reasons as far as I am aware

topaz oyster
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Any conscript in that experience is worthy of some amount of empathy

oak ivy
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More economic than anything

topaz oyster
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Economic is the mercenary reason

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There's also "run at them and shoot them and they might shoot you but stay here and I definitely will" sort of conscript and there's been a lot of those over the centuries

oak ivy
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By the late stages of WWII it was basically by force

heavy anchor
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Particularly in Japan in WW2, there was a lot of that

topaz oyster
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But also military history rapidly gets very weird because prior to like the 1300s-ish people were literally just making up numbers for army sizes

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So its hard to get numbers that would be useful for that kind of conversation

oak ivy
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“Yeah we fought like, i dont know, a million people it was crazy”

cold sequoia
topaz oyster
ivory night
cold sequoia
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but yeah in this case I don't think that it makes any sense to conflate a child conscript to a (presumably volunteer) member of the political wing of the military

topaz oyster
cold sequoia
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as in even today it's an open question that you can't quantify

topaz oyster
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EG Julius Caesar's soldiers were loyal to Caesar and not to Rome itself, and no real polling exists to say if they were loyal to him because of his money or because they liked him or because they believed what he believed

cold sequoia
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I don't think polling would have actually answered the question but also this is pretty removed from the movie discussion now

lucid haven
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I also think that as a globe we are lacking in a few key qualities right now and mabey we should have more empathy and more nuaunce in all kinds of discussions

civic trellis
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Here's a movie premise for you: a time traveller going to like 50 BC to poll Roman soldiers under Caesar's command and see who they're loyal to

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Shenanigans occur as this purely academic research gets misinterpreted as the time traveller being an agent for one of the Roman senators that oppose Caesar

topaz oyster
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Shakespeare's Julius Caesar Meets Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court

lucid haven
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I even had someone yesterday tell me that "i would argue empathy is the death of true justice" which is so wild

heavy anchor
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That... Conflicts with my fundamental beliefs

minor ledge
heavy anchor
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No

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One can have empathy and still have justice

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In fact I'd argue a lack of empathy will more often than not get in the way of justice

minor ledge
# minor ledge I mean yeah?

In terms of pure legal justice theres a few people whove gotten out of jail that shouldnt have because of empathy

heavy anchor
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A few

cold sequoia
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#academia would be the place for this discussion

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as long as it stays civil

lucid haven
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On the topic of godzilla minus one. I think they specifically designed the character to make us able to empathize with them

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It felt like we were ment to be able to empathize with them and connect with their struggles

heavy anchor
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Not only that, but I think they did a good job depicting how the populace suffered, which of course is what Godzilla has always been tied to (when he's in his more serious incarnations)

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Which is why I am deeply curious as to how they handle a sequel

lucid haven
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I need to rewatch

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Its been a while

hushed moss
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I saw it recommended here so I’m watching Mask of the Phantasm.

dusk hound
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YES

west escarp
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Yess!!!!

dusk hound
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It’s a short movie too so not that much of a commitment

hushed moss
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LUL This line by Alfred is great ||”You are the very model of sanity. By the way I washed your tights and put away your exploding gas balls”||

winged mountain
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I haven't watched it in probably 15 years but I do remember enjoying it

turbid narwhal
verbal lintel
ivory night
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I’m now imagining him doing the mail song and we need this

west escarp
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https://youtu.be/gJxzhUAGBDw?si=ZuKMXZqkhjkC6dGO

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Here he is on Sesame Street

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Mask of the Phantasm was great, ||but boy does it make me feel bad for Bruce.||

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||I also wonder what happened to the Joker, given what I know about the BTAS, Andreas could have killed him, but I don’t see why she wouldn’t have.||

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I sure do love that organ music

minor ledge
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my totally controversial definetly not generic tf movie ranking

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minor ledge
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oh golden globes happened

agile drift
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Shardcast snubbed for best podcast

minor ledge
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rhea seehorn got one which is nice because she got snubbed so hard when it comes to BCS

hearty matrix
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Read through all of Sleepless Domain today, had a blast. Excited for when the author starts updating again.
Also is this a good spot for that because I wasn’t sure where to put something about a webcomic

turbid narwhal
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Sucks that the secret agent isn’t coming to the UK until late February because I’ve heard so many good things about it

west escarp
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Yet another reason to cancel Hal Jordan

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For context

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Additional context is that Dex-Starr the cat was eating the corpse of a sentient being

distant birch
dusk hound
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This is no longer in restraining order territory but “creepy ex who won’t leave you alone” territory https://x.com/DiscussingFilm/status/2010723819439473089?s=20

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

Paramount has filed a lawsuit against Warner Bros to get them to disclose greater financial information about the Netflix deal.

They also plan to nominate Paramount-friendly directors to Warner Bros’ board who they believe would vote against the deal with Netflix.

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crimson kelp
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what in the corporate hell is this

molten jetty
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I clicked the wrong link to share 😭

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Okay there we go

cold sequoia
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see: twitter

crimson kelp
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I prefer not to see twitter 😛

molten jetty
crystal brook
minor ledge
cold sequoia
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what?

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twitter famously had a long and protracted trial over the offer before elon bought it

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lower profile buyouts like EA being bought still have lawsuits but they are token things

minor ledge
novel bear
terse crystal
dusk hound
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The king

velvet oriole
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It's time! (okay I am super late because I've been feeling bad, but it's time!)

https://youtu.be/Ts6SW099X08

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agile drift
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I watched the first episode of batman TAS, it's pretty good. I am curious though, does it generally get better as it goes on or kinda stay stagnant? I know it's reputation is very good but I'm just trying to get a vibe

buoyant scroll
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Its highest highs definitely build over time

thin ridge
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Watching Wake Up Dead Man
It's very good

thin ridge
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Finished
Excellent movie

cosmic dock
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How is PJO season 2?

steep bramble
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Amazing

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S1 was good, S2 is even better

cosmic dock
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If it's better than S1, then I'll make sure to watch it when I can

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# west escarp
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keen flax
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Ive got a couple movies on the list this week!

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Memoirs of a Gehisha today, and Dreamgirls tommrow!

fair dirge
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New official trailer

winged mountain
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is that the last one or are there more coming?

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I mean, obviously there are more trailers coming eventually

fair dirge
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We'll know today if it "leaks" again.

winged mountain
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Wakanda Forever is in that pile of MCU movies that maybe I should watch sometime

fair dirge
# winged mountain is that the last one or are there more coming?

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lol

placid river
fair dirge
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i wonder if they gonna be live until december

crimson kelp
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they're really advertising this thing for 12 months, lotta eggs in that basket

terse crystal
fair dirge
west escarp
fair dirge
civic trellis
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Infinity War and Endgame managed to cross that 2 billion dollars box office barrier, but I somehow can't see Doomsday doing the same

fair dirge
civic trellis
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ShallanOhNo yeah, I can't see them reaching that

minor isle
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they are going all in on the fanservice

fair dirge
crimson kelp
stoic falcon
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Honestly, I do like the concept still. It's just the execution lately has been going downhill greatly

civic trellis
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I think the last Marvel anything I've watched was Wakanda forever 🤔 I've completely lost track of whatever the story is supposed to be now

fair dirge
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So they're going to ignore almost everything that happened afterward, only taking into account the good things

minor ledge
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im still currious how there gonna integrate the foXmen

fair dirge
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But that was more of a FOX thing

cold sequoia
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I don't think Marvel will care at all about any fox xmen timeline

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they will pick and choose what they want to incorporate into the mcu

minor ledge
civic trellis
fair dirge
civic trellis
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Still, it does rather beg the question of, what was the point