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naive mica
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They're closely related, but distinct.

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lucid haven
stark crag
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does it though lul

lucid haven
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sorry this is the best reference image

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just one of the two of those instead of both

dusky flint
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i do think the first 2 seasons handle its darkness relatively well compared to the latter seasons where htye go too much into shock value

acoustic pewter
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If anyone sees the weapon images and wonders what the topic is...

Don't ask.

lucid haven
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brings a new meaning to || balls of steel|| lol

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look i really do enjoy this show for all the sillyness of it as well

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like this scene im talking about was objectivly silly

small quarry
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okay but like

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saying it imitates real life and the grimminess of it next to that is like

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sure a shock šŸ˜­

lucid haven
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it is a show that containes multitudes?

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everything dosent need to always be one thing ?

dusky flint
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the silliness is also meant to contrast against the darkness of it too

ionic lily
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Boys ||That wasnā€™t even the first time theyā€™ve shown a superhero who uses their genitals are a weapon to bludgeon people||

lucid haven
wet quest
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This whole conversation feels like when my wife leaned over to see what I was reading and I was on the page in Children of Dune where ||Paul and Chani possess their kids and make out|| and she goes, "what in the world are you reading?" and I tried to explain but no amount of context made it better and when she asked if the whole book was like that I couldn't honestly say no

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That specific scene though is the sole reason I'll never wonder why Denis Villeneuve is stopping with Messiah. Get out before the books get too crazy

lucid haven
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i personally think messiah gets the point accross as well

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i think going deeper is fine but its a different vibe

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messiah shows you the whole point of things in an unambigous way. Even if i think its clear from before messiah the point of it all

dusky flint
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messiah im not a big fan of

lucid haven
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why ?

dusky flint
lucid haven
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i mean yes?

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thats the whole point of that book because poeple didnt get the message and he wanted as many humans as possible to understand and not missconstrude the message

dusky flint
lucid haven
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idk if i will ever really put that in as a negative, sometimes you gotta be up front with ppl

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and just put it in their face so they understand

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i would rather a peice of entertainment be understood fully by as many as possible rather than being kept away from ppl because they miss understood it

dusky flint
lucid haven
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why is it good that lets say he left it before writing messiah and never wrote it

tight dove
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Rope dart

winged mountain
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I think there's art in subtlety and leaving the door open for multiple interpretations

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I don't think the best art has the artist telling you how you're supposed to feel about it

lucid haven
dusky flint
wet quest
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A wise philosopher once said, "art is not meant to give you answers, but to give you questions to think upon" or something like that

dusky flint
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i think the best art is art that lets you come to your own interpretations of it and doesnt just spell it out for you like messiah does

lucid haven
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idk im all for that sometimes but with the specific themes and the timeing of things and everything i would rather this specific issue was clear

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because what we are talking about is specificly relevent to even todays world

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where poeple are looking at one thing and seeing 2 different realities and it causes issues

winged mountain
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I would say that's a bigger problem in news than it is in art

lucid haven
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its still an issue here because poeple walk away confirming their evil and destructive world views because it wasnt as clear as it could be

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"hes just like me"

dusky flint
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thats there issue

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you cant solve that

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thats not the artists job

lucid haven
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im not saying it is

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im just saying its not a bad thing to be clear in this specific situaiton

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in my opinion?

dusky flint
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eh the existence of messiah doesn't really do any harm upon the world so

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im nto saying like burn it

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but its not very good

lucid haven
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and thats where we dissagree i think its fine and its not bad

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i think its pretty good actually

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its just a matter of taste here

dusky flint
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oh yeah i can see why someone would like it

lucid haven
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i also like it specifically in part because its clearer to those who misunderstood things pre messiah

wet quest
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My favorite thing about my mythology class was seeing the subtlety present in ancient plays. Oedipus Rex is a play about a ||guy who kills a guy on the side of the road, not knowing that it's his father and the king of a nearby city. He then goes to the city, saves it from bandits, and marries the queen (his mother) and inherits the throne. He learns that the previous king went missing and vows to the entire city to get to the bottom of what happened and bring those guilty to justice.||
To me it's rather clear that the author of the play was satirizing politicians, claiming that they are the people responsible for the problems that they pretend to want to solve and they're so full of themselves that they've never stopped to ask if they could be the ones at fault. The fact that this is an interpretation that I have rather than something that someone clearly spells out in the text enhances the story imo

lucid haven
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im not talking about the broad world of this, mostly just in this situation with this specific issue i like that it is spelled out more because waves hands around

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like i love that some art is up for interpretation

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and a large % of ppl i think dont even make it to messiah

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im just glad that in this one specific instance we have a very clear position being made. Like i kinda hate how obvious and in your face narnia is on this kinda thing

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as an adult i cant read narnia because of how in your face all the religion and religious stuff is

acoustic pewter
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I was fine with just reading the first Dune book. I only read Messiah because I was gifted it. After that, I made sure to ask for no more Dune books.

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naive mica
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Someone named Kurosawa making a banger Samurai film?

topaz oyster
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Many such cases

crystal brook
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I think ive heard of his film Cure before, doesnt he do crazy psychological thrillers?

forest wigeon
steep bramble
west escarp
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šŸ‘€

placid river
muted solar
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Las484swM&t=1s

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winged mountain
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I imagine it would be weird for fans of the original to watch this version with the characters in their 30s

muted solar
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Are you just meming on the puberty? Or am I missing something

winged mountain
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I don't understand what part of what I said was confusing

muted solar
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Are any of the actors in their 30s?

winged mountain
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maybe all the makeup in the image makes them look older than they are, idk

muted solar
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Pretty sure theyā€™re all in their teens or early 20s maybe?

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Aang - 17
Katara - 20
Sokka - 24
Zuko - 25
Azula - 24
Top - 19

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Assuming I can do math

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And I think they filmed seasons 2 and 3 at the same time

winged mountain
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I think it was Sokka who really caught my eye and just thought 'he looks old'

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like not old for life, just compared to the cartoon character

muted solar
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Thatā€™s fair lol. I think my focus when I watched the trailer was on how tired I am of Netflixā€™s cheap CGI

winged mountain
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but also when I first watched the original cartoon the characters were portrayed as younger than I expected, so it evens out

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muted solar
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Given how the memes were around the stills of him in some S2 previews in the last month or two

lone canyon
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they should've cast brodie sangster as aang

verbal lintel
cobalt onyx
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ATLA general ||Nah, he'll be the Aang that Zuko was expecting to find||

muted solar
naive mica
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||I'm sure they're gonna very promptly feature 'That's rough buddy' in the trailer for S3||

muted solar
runic pollen
frail mulch
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oooh (Avatar S2 trailer, ATLA S2E10) ||Wan Shi Tong|| looks good

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wide stag
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Was Katara in like... 2 seconds total?

buoyant scroll
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Avatar All ||Are we including the shot of her as the Painted Lady cause what in the world is that doing in this season???||

wide stag
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||Was that in the trailer? šŸ˜… ||

buoyant scroll
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||Just a real brief shot it's so confusing xD||

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muted solar
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Adult Aang movies drops on Paramount+ in October. Just a few more months

wet quest
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Seeing people in the comments for the trailer that seem surprised that the TV show adaptation of a TV show is including all of the storylines from the TV show instead of cutting them
I don't know why anyone would think they'd get cut

muted solar
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Oh yeah how do we still have no adult Aang movie trailer

cobalt onyx
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We got one, it released via twitter DMs and sketchy websites and is roughly 1 Avatar Movie long

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oak ivy
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Tbf there are also stuff from s1 in there

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Assuming that is atla all ||the blue spirit||

buoyant scroll
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They did that in s1 also

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||Zuko has a Blue Spirit stint in books 1 and 2 both, though...not in the way the trailer is presenting it.
why the hell is Katara there as the Painted Lady????||

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||Though based on casting announcements they ripped Jeong Jeong out of s1 to cram into s2...and are also cramming Painted Lady from book 3 in there...||

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i dont understand what they're doing

muted solar
buoyant scroll
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Like it's so weird cause it just removes these elements and plots from their whole context

oak ivy
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Well now im just confused

muted solar
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Time will tell I suppose

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Will be interesting

steep bramble
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So I reread Red White and Royal Blue the other day and that reminded me I needed to watch The West Wing. I donā€™t want to get into the politics of it, but the show is great. Even if itā€™s weird to see all the hallmarks of this show being 26 years old.

dusky flint
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trhis looks so good

placid river
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Finally got around to watching The Glassworker finally

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Incredible film with beautiful animation. Go Pakistan!šŸ‡µšŸ‡°

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Glassworker ||the ending left me scratching my head, but now that Iā€™ve read some people explaining it, the theory that Alliz died in the raid makes the most sense to me. Tragic ending if thatā€™s the case, but still good||

minor isle
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Is it on Netflix

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been wanting to see that since forever

placid river
lucid haven
feral flower
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Takes the time to perfectly line up a shot
completely misses
ā€œGod dammit!ā€
Alright, tone for Resident Evil absolutely nailed.

dusk hound
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Ummm yeah

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Obsession was crazy good

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Also very unsettling

terse crystal
turbid narwhal
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Only takeaway Iā€™ve had from the Cannes stuff is that I should watch paper tiger when it comes out

wraith sand
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Does anyone remember a movie where a group of people go down into a cave system and the encounter some sort of humanoids that hunt most of them down?

terse crystal
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Descent?

wraith sand
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Thatā€™s the one I think.

lone canyon
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I just watched mortal combat 2

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One of the movies of all time

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Mc2 ||the fight scene with fire guy and hat guy was quite good||

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||i also liked the fight scene with shah khan and the descendent of scorpio + the fight between katana and the white guy||

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No clue what the plot was

sage finch
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It's Kombat bruh

lone canyon
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Overall I give it a 7/10, it was overall enjoyable because the fight scenes were good and the dialogue and plot did not piss me off enough to detract from the fight scenes

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Except for the white woman who was actually really annoying and delivered all her lines badly

oak ivy
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||kitana was baller. sonya blade phoned everything in||

lone canyon
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||oh her name isnā€™t katana?||

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||I was really triggered when they first said her name cause I remembered that line from suicide squad||

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Oh also the guy who plays Johnny Cage is the same guy in the Boys

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And heā€™s really funny

oak ivy
# lone canyon ||oh her name isnā€™t katana?||

||https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitana frustratingly no||

Kitana

Kitana ( ki-TAH-nə) is a fictional character in the Mortal Kombat media franchise. She debuted in Mortal Kombat II (1993) as a player character and a royal from the fictional realm of Edenia. She uses steel fans as her primary weapon. Kitana is originally depicted as being the daughter of Shao Kahn, the ruler of Outworld, but is later revealed ...

oak ivy
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cold sequoia
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I saw that movie in theater for a friends birthday, I think it was the first time I saw a movie in theaters and thought during the movie "this movie sucks"

oak ivy
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@lone canyon MK1 is also really bad

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just warning

lone canyon
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I didnā€™t know there as a mk1

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I thought it was called mk2 because it was based off the game mk2

oak ivy
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no it exists

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it really doesnt make any sense at all as a film

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terse crystal
lone canyon
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Oh wait for a 3/10 movie I would say fantastic beasts 2

oak ivy
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i would give fantastic beasts a 1 but that is splitting hairs

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FB 2||mind controlling male mc to be in love for jokes and making it about ww2 were both terrible ideas||

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||and explaining the baby swap stuff is maybe the worst scene i have ever seen||

lone canyon
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Not only was the acting bad, not only was the plot bad, not only was the plot bad, not only was ||there was a random holocaust scene and wizard Hitler was trying to prevent the Holocaust|| but I actually could not tell what was going on for half the movie

molten jetty
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Hardly anything rates that low for me

dusk hound
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Please give all awards to Inde Navarette

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She deserves her flowers

west escarp
novel bear
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watched the bourne identity

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pretty good

acoustic pewter
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Fun fact: that movie took me three tries to watch because I fell asleep in the middle of it the first few times

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Not sure why. It wasn't a boring movie; watching it just made me feel tired. Maybe it was the shaky camera.

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I just remember drifting off during a quiet scene, then something loud and violent happened and I thought "Huh, sounds interesting" and fell asleep.

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Still a pretty good movie

minor isle
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The shaky cam in it are the worst

empty locust
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3 thousand years of longing

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a beautiful movie

trail cloak
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Looks nice huh

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Bvs batmobile

spring barn
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how funny/fun is Mother compared to other BJH films?

empty locust
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I loved the Boys finale

minor isle
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I liked the character conclusions

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It could be shot and choreographed better

lucid haven
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Yaa as a story conclusion I love how it bookends things kinda where we begin as well

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It was so sweet at the end and I kinda teared up a bit

dusky flint
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the rest of the season sucsk

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but the finale was great

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I think Boys finale ||Killing butcher|| was unearened compared to the comic

verbal lintel
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More Elden Ring Movie film sites spotted. The even got the npc henchmen marching about the same way šŸ˜­ LUL

sage finch
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I'm not expecting much from this movie lol

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More than likely more commercialized slop like the borderlands flick

heavy anchor
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Idk, at bare minimum they've put a lot more effort into the costumes than borderlands bothered to

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Not that that's very hard
I don't get judging it early though, we know so little about it that it could turn out pretty much any quality and I wouldn't be surprised
But the likelihood of it being as bad as borderlands is low
You have to try to be that bad

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blech

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I did a watchalong for a bad movie night of that one, and I regretted it
wasn't even fun bad, just boring bad

sacred slate
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Borderlands suffered from production interference and being shot during COVID and it's a real shame.

I'd love to see the original script by Craig Maizin (writer and exec producer on Chernobyl, writer on Mythic Quest, co-creater of the Last of us Adaptation)

sage finch
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Craig maizin tanked tlou lol, Niel left cuz craig wouldn't listen and turned Ellie into a joke

buoyant scroll
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that's...a reasoning and description of reality you've made up

sage finch
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It's well known

buoyant scroll
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Both seasons of TLoU did well critically and ratings wise, and "well known" doesnt mean anything if there isnt any actual source besides people deciding it must be true

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Cause Neil didnt leave

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He still works on the show as an executive producer, he just isnt writing or directing for season 3
He's just busy with his normal video game job

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lone canyon
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I never bait

west escarp
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Whereā€™s the option for ā€œthese both suckā€

novel bear
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og star wars is better than og naruto

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i'm not sure about current star wars vs. boruto

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that's a hard one

minor isle
minor isle
crystal brook
minor isle
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Boruto doesn't even have a single good panel

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can't be worse than that

crystal brook
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Lmao

minor isle
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Naruto manga is probably in my top 20 stories of all time so obviously much much higher than Star Wars

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But current star wars vs Boruto is easily SW low diff

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minor isle
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I am still thinking if Boruto has any single good panel or moment

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-# for me obv. in my humble subjective opinion

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atleast recent star wars look pretty at times

minor isle
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that's really it LUL

minor isle
oak ivy
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But current star wars still clears

minor isle
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Bio!?

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oh you mean Boo!

oak ivy
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My about me

minor isle
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Oh!

oak ivy
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It has been surprisingly useful

minor isle
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in a vaccum or w/e?

cobalt onyx
lone canyon
oak ivy
minor isle
oak ivy
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I will get around to it at some point

minor isle
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I was honestly expecting a better reason so disappointed LUL

oak ivy
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I do have more in depth thoughts

small quarry
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x to doubt

oak ivy
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Mia you are a hater LUL

small quarry
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am i a hater

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i have never hated anyone

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minor isle
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eh

oak ivy
minor isle
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that page is also just idk okay

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it's not much of an interesting composition

lone canyon
small quarry
minor isle
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|| it's a cool design ig, with those byakugan/jougan or w/e of Shikai but it's held back through ikemoto's boring artstyle and lackluster composition ||

lone canyon
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What is shading

minor isle
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šŸ’€

lone canyon
# lone canyon
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Which is better

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Star Wars

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Seppuku šŸ’”

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minor isle
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hope s2 ends up being good

molten jetty
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Both are fire

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molten jetty
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OG Star Wars clears Naruto easy tho

topaz oyster
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More specifically, my biggest question is, is it 2077-oriented or Orion-oriented

tight dove
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it would be interesting if its between 77 and orion

minor isle
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s1 was super fast to its negative for me

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edgerunners s1 || Maine's death had 0 impact for me when I was watching, but it should have. It did so many things right on paper but just didn't manage to bring out any emotion from me||

lone canyon
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SW does have Maul

west escarp
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My friend I watch bad movies with has suggested Dracula 3000 for tonight

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This is promising

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Turn about is fair play because last time I picked a film called ā€œCaptain Faggotron Saves the Universeā€, which is so indie you can only watch it by paying the filmmakers $5 on Vimeo

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It wasā€¦. Ok

spring barn
west escarp
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The film lives up to it

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https://youtu.be/xwfkmd-OR4w?si=AhR6IjwwGIhDYffC

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Language, nudity & sexual content warning

west escarp
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Coolio is in Dracula 3000?????

west escarp
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Coolio is here to smoke a hookah before Orlok shows up and makes him a vampire

west escarp
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Ok donā€™t watch that movie. Youā€™ll never get those 85 minutes of your life back

naive mica
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What a beautiful progression of comments

celest mango
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Thereā€™s gonna be a screening of Sinners at my uni tonight

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Iā€™m excited, I havenā€™t gotten around to seeing it yet

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minor isle
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šŸ˜Ž

runic pollen
minor isle
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I disagree with your disagreement

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It's in my bottom 5

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and I have read plenty of cremmy manga

runic pollen
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I don't remember my bottom 5 mangas. I do wonder what those are though

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2 of the Bottom 5:-

Real Account

I know there could be more trash that I could add in the list but I haven't read enough of it to really make that call. This one I had read a lot and an sour on the time I gave to it.

Usagi Drop

Might have been in my top 100 manga or even top 50 if I did not know about a certain 'betrayal' that would happen in the future chapters that I did not bother reading through.

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"I am my Wife" I did not like the premise

"Kichikujimma"

Yeah same problems as Real Account. A lot of edgy stuff that also suffers from some very dumb plot.

minor isle
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Grashros, jagaaaaaaan, boruto, csm and I forgot one rn

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Oh yea juujika

runic pollen
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I am just typing the nominees right now. I don't know what else I would find that I dislike

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Yeah it is really hard to find some really bad stuff from my memory that I had read enough that I can make a judgement on it.

It seems most are either average and unremarkable (so I stop reading) but the most offenders of being in my bottom tiers tend to be either Ecchi or Ecchi + Edgy with graphic imagery.

They tends to lose substance and I sometimes tend to read them more than I nor ally should because I have hopes that maybe it would be good or something but it isn't most times.

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There are plethora of terrible Isekai that would have made my list if it wasn't for the fact that I don't read them for more than a few chapters

runic pollen
# minor isle Grashros, jagaaaaaaan, boruto, csm and I forgot one rn

CSM and Boruto is something I have read a lot and I don't feel the same.

Meanwhile Jagaaan and Juujika I have read upto the point where I don't really feel hatred/dislike for it. It is also the edgy show that has the potential of being terrible and sourcing my mood.

But it hasn't for the 5 chapters of Jagaaaan and many chapters of Juujika I have read.

Grashos I haven't read at all

smoky root
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Today would have been Peter Cushing's birthday ; Tomorrow would have been Christopher Lee's birthday

turbid narwhal
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Iā€™ve been watching 30 rock since itā€™s on Netflix now and Iā€™ve been getting distracted by Scott Adsitā€™s character because all I can hear is clay from Moral Orel

molten jetty
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Magnus Archives 10 || the ā€œvampire hunterā€ is killing me lolol||

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||this is the first guy I think is crazy and not having real things happen||

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||probably some other demon or eldritch being and not vampires lol||

stark crag
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vibrates in TMA

molten jetty
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TMA 11 ||waitā€¦ Graham???||

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||šŸ‘€ šŸ‘€ šŸ‘€ ||

wraith sand
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Really funny comment I saw in a video on Project Hail Mary. ||Grace likes his personal space. Rocky also likes Graceā€™s personal space.|| LUL

celest mango
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After it ended I overheard someone saying they thought it was some sort of blues heritage film and were shocked by how it actually went LUL

muted solar
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Hell yeah! Speaking of Sinners, I ordered this last night and itā€™s here. So itā€™s time to see if 4k blu rays are notably better than streaming for me.

Funny thing - I brought my PS5 home from my gfā€™s place to test this. But I forgot to bring a controller back home ShallanOhNo

Luckily I have no shortage of keyboards

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wide stag
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mangus arc

muted solar
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Idk what that quite means. But just ran a few minutes streamed on HBO Max. Moving on to the blu-ray

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The temptation to watch this movie again tonight is so real now lol

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It appears the keyboard cannot pause the movie. But I can at least pull up a menu to back out

muted solar
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Alright so it seems like I can spot a difference between the movie streamed on HBO max and the 4K blu ray. Though itā€™s not all that substantial, it is definitely a bit better

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I do wonder if I chose the wrong movie to test this lol

ivory night
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Apple TV is making a cape fear tv seriesā€¦.

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With Javier Bardem!

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Why though

spring barn
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Wandering Earth is so absurdly good

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how is it so low rated

spring barn
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ok it did turn a bit generic at the end

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but it's still good!

runic pollen
wide stag
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I've been on a short animated indie film kick lately, and this one was fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATxzM0pjPYE

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https://www.tumblr.com/lifes-pinata/817514615540973568/grace-retroactively-freaking-out-about-doing-a

*Finger Guns*

Grace: *Retroactively freaking out about Doing A Misogynyā„¢*

Rocky: Me and the bestie!!! :)

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# runic pollen What table?

TMA ||So Graham was a weird people watcher taking notes (iirc they all said smth like ā€œWATCH WATCH WATCHā€) and eating them. He also had a weird table that was mesmerizing. ||

runic pollen
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How far in did you get, Farstrider?

runic pollen
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All of it

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I am just waiting for some new Protocol to drop

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I remember even finding few souls here to discuss with new Protocol episodes. A rare thing since I don't see those discussions in any other server.

We might have even talked about it back then

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TMA All ||Graham owned the spider-web table that the NotThem was bound to (he gets replaced in that statement), and was the ex-boyfriend of the guy who had dreams about people's deaths and went on to become an avatar of The End who visits John while in his coma.

Episode 11 is the statement about the guy's dreams||

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||It's kinda crazy how interconnected Jonny managed to make everything without it feeling overloaded||

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distant birch
turbid narwhal
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had no idea this existed but i'm seated

fair dirge
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so peter jackson is trying to buy the Silmarillion?

winged mountain
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that's the word on the street, and with Christopher gone he at least has a chance

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too bad they didn't wait to make Rings of Power until they could do this, although I'm not sure that would have made people like it

fair dirge
winged mountain
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not exactly? They still didn't have the Silmarillion and are prohibited from adapting anything that isn't in LOTR

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Christopher was around for the process of listening to pitches for the series and appeared to like Amazon's pitch

fair dirge
winged mountain
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yes, that's a part of LOTR

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if it's in the four novels and not the appendix it's also fair game

fair dirge
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Umm, I think the sale will go through, and I believe a Cinematic Universe will be

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It's like adapting the Bible; you have to do it in several movies or series

winged mountain
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entirely possible. They're already working on at least two films within the context of LOTR

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I don't think it'll be a 'the silmarillion' movie or series at all, they'll just pick storylines from the book that they think will make good movies and do those

fair dirge
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And since there are main characters from their own stories that intersect in others, I think a shared universe could be more feasible

winged mountain
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perhaps, but it only took 3 years from Lucasfilm's sale to Disney to release TFA

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and I think the 'shared universe' as a concept is starting to prove more trouble than it's worth

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the problem is you release one bad movie and it poisons your brand to an extent that's difficult to recover from

fair dirge
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only if you do it wrongargent

winged mountain
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nobody's perfect

fair dirge
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Now that I think about it, if this happens, the Silmarillion adaptations would be released at the same time as the Cosmere one

naive mica
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But considering the Hobbit and RoP.....yeah my hopes are literally in the gutter

fair dirge
winged mountain
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I don't think they'll rush it, if only because Serkis has a Gollum movie, and then Colbert has a Bombadil movie, it's not like there's a hunger for Tolkein content that makes them consider rushing

small quarry
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Can't wait for the gollum movie based on the critically acclaimed videogame

naive mica
fair dirge
naive mica
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Please don't ping me for every reply.

fair dirge
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Furthermore, if I receive adaptations of Middle-earth in addition to those of the Cosmere, I will be happy

small quarry
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I don't really trust on Amazon to deliver good movies tbh

fair dirge
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I don't think they're selling the rights to Amazon if Peter Jackson is involved

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This conversation has reminded me that the Pope made a reference to the Lord of the Rings

dusk hound
cobalt onyx
topaz oyster
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Between The Hobbit and the deleted scenes of LotR, I'm given to think that PJ's original ideas for LotR are generally not much better than anyone else's

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The genius of LotR is that there's virtually nothing new textually. Stuff is regularly scrambled between characters, but almost never do you have him putting entirely new words in characters' mouths

oak ivy
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Also the plotting is tight enough they didnt have to mess with events too much

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People really show their writing chops when they need to solve plot issues

topaz oyster
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More than that, it is long enough that even in three four and a half hour movies they still had to cut a good deal

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The Hobbit in three similarly sized movies ended up exploring new ground and every time it does it gets worse

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The first movie is mostly source material and as a result it is far and away the best of the three Hobbit films

oak ivy
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hobbit trilogy ||it makes sense to show the battle of the five armies. why the hell was it an entire movie||

terse crystal
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https://fxtwitter.com/discussingfilm/status/2059620988514435334?s=46&t=7rq3rvjQ6sGnDFilqY768Q

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First trailer for ā€˜PRIMETIMEā€™, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen.
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runic pollen
oak ivy
minor isle
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should have been 1

winged mountain
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I think 2 would have been perfectly valid, I think 1 could have been a little rushed

oak ivy
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Im being realistic lmao

minor isle
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I don't remember the book having as much content for 2 long movies

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it has like what sub 100000 word count

oak ivy
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hobbit ||showing the battles and building out the cast adds sufficient time i think||

minor isle
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and Tolkien was one who would indulge in more descriptions and worldbuilding stuff than the general fans' "plot"

runic pollen
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Fair

molten jetty
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Hobbit ||The Hobbit movies are guilty pleasure movies and I like them, but movies 2 and 3 could have been one movie. Movie 1 is fine as is||

topaz oyster
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On the latter, Tolkien is somewhat unusual because Helm's Deep, for example, is like two paragraphs long and they made it the B plot for the second half of The Two Towers

winged mountain
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I understand there are fan edits of the movies to condense them but I wonder what kind of demand there would be for such a version as an official release, with Jackson's supervision

dusk hound
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Spider-Noir is great

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Just so yall know

sacred slate
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I will just live with the GDT Hobbit movie in my head cannon.

minor isle
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šŸ˜­

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I would have been able to watch it

runic pollen
minor isle
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every ep released

oak ivy
hushed moss
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It is TIME https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mfUtseK27pc&ra=m

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I WAS JUSY THINKING ABOUT THIS I MANIFESTED IT GRAHHHHHH šŸ¤©šŸ¤©šŸ¤©

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I was like "damn I keep yelling at my bf to watch xmen 97, but maybe he should wait until the second season drops"

The xmen, hearing my prayer: dont worry queen we got you šŸ˜Œ

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https://vxtwitter.com/variety/status/2059667215637520595?s=46

Variety (@Variety)

Stan Lee will return.

ElevenLabs has struck an expansive deal with Stan Lee Universe to add the late Marvel Comics writerā€™s voice and likeness to its Iconic Marketplace, a collection of celebrity personality voices and likenesses that companies can license for commercial use.

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gross

terse crystal
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Content Warning: General Language and Crassness
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Three wise men from Wisconsin fumble their way through a hare-brained, ill-prepared episode of BOTW. Remembering a time when Mike and Jay watched a laughed a lot at Zardoz, they watch it again but with different results. This time they realize it's 1000000x better than any movie made today. They can't possibly talk about Zardoz! So following the...

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let the dead rest

terse crystal
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RLM does Zardoz

topaz oyster
wide stag
lucid haven
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Im so ready for that seasonn

hushed moss
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And it is only a little more than a month away.

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July 1st

runic pollen
wide stag
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Yeah, I think I am just super used to trailers being like "coming soon... in 9-15 months"

runic pollen
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Same with Wonder Man. I did binge WM but I would have wished that it released weekly

molten jetty
west escarp
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New trailer!!! Going to drag my brother to this

oak ivy
sacred slate
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There is a horror(well for them I would enjoy it) film to be made about all these dead people coming back for vengeance on their AI imitators.

I would actually go out to the theater to see that.

paper hull
#

Notorious Alpha Centauri based institution ElevenLabs doing their thing again.

muted solar
#

More avatar in concert sylheart

Iā€™ve been thinking recently about how Iā€™d love to see ATLA in concert a third time and idk when/if theyā€™ll come back around. So this I will happily take

fair dirge
#

Hey, I just saw a video about the possible cancellation of the Percy Jackson seriesšŸ˜­

steep bramble
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What?

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S2 was so successful though?

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What are the sources?

fair dirge
steep bramble
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I need comparisons to other shows. But those numbers sound crazy to me.

fair dirge
#

and Because they haven't announced that they're filming season 4, when they were already doing so 6 months before the premiere of the next season

steep bramble
#

Shows do decline in viewership a lot these days, butā€¦

fair dirge
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Now that I think about it, nobody mentioned season 2, even though I have a section of my library dedicated to Rick Riordan

steep bramble
winged mountain
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WoT was something where I think fans could tell that the show was on the bubble after a lukewarm reaction to season 2, Amazon clearly pumped the brakes on marketing

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so if that's happening with any show, the network isn't really pushing it, I'd be concerned

hushed moss
molten jetty
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TMA 16 || Going from a really scary cave diving episode and seeing an episode called ā€œArachnophobiaā€ when you have arachnophobiaā€¦ oh no no noā€¦||

ripe stag
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I think that was one of the few episodes I saved to listen to at another time, instead of when I was walking home in the dark...

molten jetty
ripe stag
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No, the other one you mentioned.

wide stag
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Phobia: The Podcast

muted solar
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RoP had a second season?

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I only ever started the first episode of season 1 but tbh it had me curious. Life just did life things. But I thought season 2 was just taking a really long time to come out so I wasnā€™t really in a rush

winged mountain
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For some reason I thought they already had a season 3

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Havenā€™t been following it too closely

dusk hound
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Peter Palmer

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The famous Peter Palmer

fair dirge
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I find it incredible that the same company that made Rings of Power has made Spider Noir

distant birch
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Sold me a lot more than the first trailer

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I might have to see this...

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Xmen 97 looks really fun as well

oak ivy
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i just watched mamma mia!

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it was meh

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really hard to enjoy a musical when the main actors are not singers

green fjord
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Getting caught up on Wonder Man, four episodes in. Really interesting. I like how it makes me forget it's a Marvel show and just seems to be about a show about what it's like to be an actor.

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That being said, Wonder Man Ep 4 ||Of all the weird things I'd expect from this show, a nightclub remix of "In Summer" from Frozen would never have crossed my mind. That's wack. šŸ˜† ||

distant birch
#

Backrooms'ing today

runic pollen
wet quest
molten jetty
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mama mia ||I think Christine Baranski was the only full Broadway singer? (The Does Your Mother Know That Youā€™re Out lady)||

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Anyway I think movies far too often cast regular actors in place of Broadway actors in musical movies and it is noticable

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Like just cast people who regularly sing Broadway PLEASE

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I think Mama Mia is better off for it than Les Mis tho because Mama Mia has some aspect of campiness that the bad singing can feel okay about

oak ivy
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It is quite distracting

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I appreciate mamma mia as a fun campy feminine movie, but it still falls flat in a lot of ways

turbid narwhal
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Ansel Elgort in west side story vibes

distant birch
#

Backrooms was good šŸ‘

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Few things I'm a bit iffy on but overall told the sort of shorter contained story I enjoy + worked really well technically and in terms of horror for me

frail mulch
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molten jetty
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My mom loves that show

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Itā€™s a good show

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Gotta love casting all the Broadway divas as New York elites LUL

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9/10 actors in that show have been on Broadway lol

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Also Denee Benton (who I LOVE) is a lead so WWWWW

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And ofc Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell getting scenes together is fire

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Donna Murphy is fun too

molten jetty
#

Awful casting there

ionic lily
lone canyon
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Ohhh I want to watch gilded age

lone canyon
turbid narwhal
lone canyon
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He came off as stilted but I think some of that was intentional

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Most of their interactions were sold by Rachel Zegler who did a fantastic job tho

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Tbh the romance part of wss is also the weakest by far, especially because Maria behaves in truly inexplicable ways

turbid narwhal
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I just thought he sucked in the movie overall, there was a lot of heavy lifting in his scenes by zegler and Faist

lone canyon
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Faist was fantastic

spring barn
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they finally get colour grading right for a show and it's one meant to be seen in black and white

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verbal lintel
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Harsh differences to make color grading translate to Black and White is a whole art

What would have been funny is if the Color version was in classicā„¢ black and white stage colors (seen here)

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spring barn
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also I didn't know it was from Prime instead of D+ going inn

buoyant scroll
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Learning Nic Cage actually pushed for the color version so younger audiences would be more willing to watch it, and then check out the black and white one out of curiosity to hopefully make them interested in getting into older films has definitely helped sell me on the two version

ionic lily
spring barn
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so I was very relieved when I saw it was in 1.85:1 aspect ratio instead of 2.39

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2.39:1 for TV shows is such BS

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I hate the aspect ratio so much

spring barn
dusk hound
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Backrooms tickets secured for Monday afternoon

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šŸ™

forest wigeon
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I don't think you'll be able to get back out of there

dusk hound
#

Iā€™ll find a way

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Hey guys, just got out of the Backrooms

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Color me yellow disturbed

acoustic pewter
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I expected to be disturbed, and instead was disturbed in a way different from what I expected, so it was still a disturbing experience. Still kind of processing it.

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Gonna watch another episode of Wonder Man to offset it.

frail mulch
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Doing Spider Noir in BW as intended

And I know it's not the point but between this and Sinners we've got Li Jun Li rocking the 1930s

acoustic pewter
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Wonder Man Ep 5 was barely 20 minutes? Disney+ doing Disney stuff, I guess.

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I really want to see Spider-Noir, but it would feel unfair to not finish Wonder Man first.

frail mulch
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Wonder Man is very good! I would finish it

acoustic pewter
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Been waiting for a Spider-Man Noir movie (close enough) ever since I first played the Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions game.

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Oh, I'll definitely finish Wonder Man, this show got me hooked.

frail mulch
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I'm still in the first episode but Spider Noir is very stylish, Cage is definitely having fun

dusky flint
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Wonder Man Ep 6 ||Simon! Stop screwing yourself over gahhh! Stop overthinking! Stop relying on other scripts! Not in front of Von Kovak! I'm feeling secondhand pain for this.||

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Wonder Man Ep 6 ||Gosh, that nightmare jumpscare was wack AF. Had me really freaked out for a bit.||

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Same tags ||"I can't imagine anyone else in the role." YAAAS!||

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||I know it's all gonna go to hell pretty soon, because these things always do, but it still feels good in the moment.||

dusk hound
#

Caught up to Absolute Batman (falling behind with the last 5 issues)

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This is genuinely the best comic on shelves rn

dusky flint
dusk hound
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Absolute Batman and Absolute Wonder Woman are the ones worth reading the most IMO

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All of the Absolute titles are great in their own way but those top the list for me

dusky flint
distant birch
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I've really enjoyed all the Absolutes

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MM is really good, definitely worthwhile

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Absolute GL is one of my favourites honestly, but I imagine it's not for everyone

runic pollen
placid river
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He also did Ultimates for Marvel which was the standout in the new Ultimate Universe

terse crystal
turbid narwhal
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The casting for the mad king stage play is out and JonCon Brosā€¦. Itā€™s bleak

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But I like the casting even though some of them look a bit old for who theyā€™re playing

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# terse crystal

Caught that one yesterday. Had to see it in theaters alone because it didn't feel right to bring anyone else to it. That film left me feeling profoundly disturbed. I went into this movie in the know of this particular Backrooms series and thought I knew what to expect from it, but it managed to keep disturbing me anyway.

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#

ok this show is so so trash but
Suits S2E8 ||OMG I can't believe how they have Louis eating out of Hardman's hand when he was being set up by Hardman as as the fall guy way back when the embezzlement happened. Can't wait for that shoe to drop||

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S2E9 ||Oh hey, there's the shoe||

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||I've seen cooked spaghetti that's harder to bend than Louis Litt||

ivory night
willow fjord
#

Anyone watch The Backroom movie?

spring barn
#

man

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they're playing all my fav HK flicks at my fav theatre here in Manchester...the week after I leave for home

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

buoyant scroll
dusk hound
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IS THAT RED HAIR I SEE???

distant birch
dusky flint
gray orbit
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Gonna watch Mary and Max by Adam Elliot

keen flax
#

Watching the og Toy Story and it looks both great and awful omg šŸ¤£

dusk hound
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Like half of what made the first movie great is because of her

terse crystal
west escarp
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When he dies they should make sure to put ā€œformer husband of Maria Lucas nee Griffinā€ prominently in the headline

willow fjord
distant birch
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I had a very good time

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Would recommend

runic pollen
#

Sam's face still looks weird to me

minor isle
dusky flint
runic pollen
#

I like how I got a Sony Bravia Technicolor TV ad just before watching the first episode of the BW version of Spider-Noir

sage finch
#

Those who watched House of Dynamite (2025)
what'd you think of it

odd fable
#

saw The Backrooms

it's fine

cold sequoia
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The Midrooms?

buoyant scroll
runic pollen
dusk hound
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You guys ever wonder how the guy who made the original Backrooms thread on 4Chan feels rn

minor isle
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The Unsung heroes

buoyant scroll
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i saw someone mention he said he's really happy for Kane

verbal lintel
#

The have discovered an endless mine of material to extract and adapt

I say the next 4Chan thing to adapt is Mystery Flesh Pit National Park

buoyant scroll
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For the funnier response was the guy who posted the original photo the 4chan guy used

dusky flint
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Wait

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that was the wrong image

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THIS ONE THIS IAMGE NOT THE OTHER IMAGE I POSTEd

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dusk hound
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The funny thing is

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Iā€™m pretty sure somebody posted the initial photo

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And then a commenter added on to the photo

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With the lore

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Wonder Man Ep 7 ||We get barely a glimpse at Simon's dad, but Sanford is already such a great character. Great dad, love him.||

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||Also, happy for Simon getting the role, but a bit worried about him letting it get to his head.||

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||Dang it Simon, don't mess this up! Don't try to change the costume, don't try to change the dialogue, stop regressing to the old bad habits!||

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||Forget the Damage Control stakes, at this point I'm just invested in Simon not screwing up his role.||

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||Trevor saving the day by just being himself again.||

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||This is a show about people getting in over their heads and messing things up on their own. I'm not even thinking of "Damage Control A-hole" guy as the villain anymore, the villain is "getting in your own way".||

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||Or maybe it's Kathy Friedman.||

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||Why are they being so weird around her, it's icing their game.||

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||Severance reference in a Marvel show? Modern.||

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||I don't think I realized this sooner, but Simon's just... always awkward. It's like, his default state.||

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(Still Wonder Man 7, btw)

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WM 7 ||Oh no, oh no. She's a dear to Simon but now she's tearing into Trevor. But the focus was so much on Simon we weren't ready for that. Daaaaang.||

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acoustic pewter
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WM 7 ||Ohhhh no, Simon knows Trevor's secret now. šŸ˜¢ It's falling apart now. šŸ˜­ ||

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WM 7 end ||Frick. I was gonna stop at this episode, but that's a darn cliffhanger there.||

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Funny thing about Wonder Man is that the episode descriptions seem nonsensical but only really makes sense after you've watched the episode. Usually, those descriptions give a description of what you're going to see, not the other way around.

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Wonder Man 8 ||What I'm wondering now is, are we ever gonna find out how he got these powers, or will this go unanswered?||

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Yooooo! I didn't see this!
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#

#tagged-spoilers-only message

I think I can never imagine how Star Plus shoes do this multi-generational story where the characters have the grandkids become MC and still keep core audience.

The two times this happened in Zee TV, I feel like they started to lose their core audience.

Both with Kukum Bhagya and Pavitra Rishta

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minor isle
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It's soft reset so that their failing show and TRP can be saved by shoving in new faces

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And the good/bad part is, she knows how bad of an idea that is. In the movie C KKompany, her brother is a main character and she gets a guest appearance making fun of this type of trope

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https://fxtwitter.com/globalboxoffice/status/2061184813113966692?s=46&t=vdqjPx5weRH00Bv9wMU8Wg

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Finally!

winged mountain
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very much hope Hollywood learns the right lessons from this weekend

sage finch
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I watched purge election year against my will

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Frank grillo doesn't have the sauce he thinks he does lolz

dusky flint
terse crystal
oak ivy
#

nice

gray orbit
gray orbit
# terse crystal

Thatā€™s just like the iron lung thing. Wonder if theyā€™ll block it from the charts (they wonā€™t)

gray orbit
forest wigeon
#

oof

winged mountain
#

I know this was meant to be a small, low stakes project but it seems to be doing worse than imagined

#

I thought the low end was ā€˜barely missing Soloā€™ but it could miss the mark by like 25%

lone canyon
#

release a SW blockbuster in June

its third in box office after two horror films

minor isle
#

Eh

#

Talk about qualities asidr

#

horror films have been the most successful at Box Office post Covid

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Every year

verbal lintel
distant birch
#

Hopefully its a wake-up call for Disney

minor isle
#

A fresh non-baggage film vs a film that requires years of content knowledge and the fact its a declining franchise

west escarp
distant birch
#

Will be very interestnig to see how Doomsday performs

winged mountain
#

I think both franchises are both just sort of ready to be done? They still have their fans but they've sort of done everything they can do

west escarp
#

Probably not very good, even with the family Christmas slot

distant birch
#

I would say that the weight of the MCU and Avengers would pull a lot but given star wars, thunderbolts, f4, etc.... I dunno anymore

winged mountain
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I think Doomsday will do Avatar 3 numbers

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Secret Wars could do more or less depending on whether people actually like Doomsday

lone canyon
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Side note I started watching The Boys with my brother

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Itā€™s crazy how good s1 is actually

winged mountain
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I watched a few episodes and yeah it was really well done, I never felt driven to finish it though

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Wonder Man Finale ||TREVOR NO WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOOOOO||

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||He can't do it again. Why would he do it again. I get he's trying to protect Simon, but aaagh there's no coming back from that. šŸ˜¢ ||

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||Crazy how seeing "The Mandarin" appear again would be confusing and maybe terrifying in another setting if the MCU had gone in a different direction, but this time it's just... really bittersweet.||

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||But you gotta hand it to Trevor, for writing his own script for the Mandarin act this time around, he did a pretty darn good job of it. Especially considering he pulled it all off in barely a day. Putting his acting skill to one final epic use... all to protect a friend. šŸ˜­||

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||Damage Control A-hole getting on my nerves as usual. "Yeah, I had my suspicions from the start."||

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||Von Kovak once again showing why he's the "visionary" director. "Use these emotions to inform your character, but also imagine you had a dream that your mother cooked you a hedgehog for dinner and see what that inspires."||

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Wonder Man Finale still ||Simon looks so legit in the Wonder Man suit, but dang they really just... cut straight to the premiere of the finished movie after that? That's a lost of time-skipping going on there. And gosh dang it, Barnaby was played by Joe Pantoliano? What a cruel irony for Trevor.||

runic pollen
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I am loving these reactions

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||Nice to see Eric not being a jerk still. Nice to see the brothers making up.||

acoustic pewter
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Plus I need to vent somewhere because this finale do be making me feel things

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Wonder Man finale ||Hmm. All of a sudden, we switch things up halfway into the episode and it's got me feeling dubious cuz there's barely 15 minutes left of it. What's Simon up to, eh?||

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||Yeah, I'm so confused by these new scenes right now. My theory is... Simon is shadowing this rando in Yucca Valley to study how to act the part of keeping a low profile and blending in as an everyman so he can... discreetly bust Trevor out of prison? I don't know, I'm having trouble making sense of it. Is the guy a security guard at that prison? I'm just throwing out theories with 10 minutes left of the episode to go, haha.||

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||Hmm, this Chuck guy does seem to be a cop or a security guard based on the dialogue. Chuck seems like a great guy and he's already an interesting enough character, but why are we just getting introduced to him so late? Anyway, feeling confident about this whole infiltration/prison break theory.||

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||It's Damage Control! I frickin' knew it!||

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(Still the Wonder Man finale) ||Using his acting skills to jailbreak his best friend. Oh, whoa whoa whoa, and not just that, but his powers too? He's gotten control of them, honed them to a fine degree. Ooooh.||

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||Doing a solid for Chuck's family and their financial problems on top that is the real hero move. Don't let him be liable and help a brother out? Dang Simon, you really have become less self-centered. End of the last episode, and we see Wonder Man doing some real superhero stuff. Love to see it.||

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||"Simon Williams is an extraordinary threat... or asset." Dang it, Damage Control A-hole, I knew I still hated you.||

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||Okay, but how did Simon get his ionic energy powers? This never gets answered!||

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||He flies now, Trevor is freed, Damage Control A-hole guy is screwed, and... Season 2 please?||

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Okay, finished the series. Hot dang, that was really, really good.

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Next on the queue: Spider-Noir. That and Season 5 of The Chosen.

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Oh right, I forgot how big my Disney Plus watchlist is. It includes stuff ranging from Firefly to Sister Act 2 to Frankenweenie. Wack.

sacred slate
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Spider Noir has been great 4, episodes in.

Watching it in black and white and they've done soluchna good job with it.

hushed moss
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Poster or trailer?

hushed moss
# hushed moss ||The big theory is that he is a mutant.||

Wonder Man/Ms. Marvel/Spider-Man BND ||The is a theory going around that the DODC is transforming into an anti mutant task force. Considering the way they are targeting enhanced individuals (And Kamala was revealed to be a mutant at the end of her show) plus and anti-mutant X-men villain is rumored to be the head of the DODC in BND, and the next saga being the Mutant saga. I think it is a safe bet.||

lucid haven
fair dirge
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The advertising campaign for this film should be studied

winged mountain
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are there any speculated but not confirmed characters yet?

dusk hound
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Iā€™m sorry

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What

fair dirge
dusky flint
minor isle
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šŸ¤”

dusk hound
dusky flint
minor isle
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yea

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It's just the phrasing of it

dusky flint
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It happened in real life with woodrow wilson

dusk hound
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GUYS

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GUYS

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OH MY GOD

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RAHHHH

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RAHHHHHHHHHH

minor isle
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oh damn

forest wigeon
lucid haven
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Taking them literally does go against the spirit of the sentiment as well

minor isle
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hmm

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fair

dusk hound
forest wigeon
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LESGO

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I wonder how maneuverable it is then

cosmic dock
west escarp
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That said, this is the same production announced in 2021 so all this really says is thatā€™s not stuck in development hell right now

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Iā€™ll believe it when I see a trailer

placid river
dusk hound
hushed moss
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The groan I let out when I read Lexiglas.

fair dirge
lucid haven
fair dirge
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because I thought they were going to reveal the trailer at San Diego Comic Con

dusk hound
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Backrooms was crazy good

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4.5/5 stars IMO

winged mountain
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I've been thinking about going to see one of those two movies, backrooms or obsession, not sure which

dusk hound
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Pacing was a little off at some points but itā€™s just unsettling and creepy enough to keep you on your toes

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Backrooms movie ||Would definitely love to see a sequel with Phil and the Async people exploring more of the Backrooms||

dusk hound
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https://youtu.be/kSmqiQW3iDA?si=JAKSNxuyZDC87R-j

So this looks... interesting.

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Yeah, grass didn't evolve until after the dinosaurs went extinct, to name just one example.

burnt shale
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Thatā€™s actually I believe been contested in the last 3 years

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But yeah that would still be massive

crystal brook
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Actually, yeah, I just checked, and technically grasses did exist long before the Dinosaurs went extinct. But apparently they just didn't become super widespread like they are today until afterward.

burnt shale
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I believe thatā€™s a more modern development in our understanding like I think we found that out on my way out of school

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Science is so cool

wraith sand
burnt shale
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Grass being c3 results in some of the coolest things in science

wraith sand
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c3?

crystal brook
wraith sand
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And honestly, I kind of have a hard time seeing an actual T-rex putting any effort into going after a human, or at least expending any real effort. We're quite literally just a mouthful for something that big

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That and we could probably outrun them, or at least out-manoever them

burnt shale
# wraith sand c3?

C3 and c4 are types of carbon fixations grasses can be either c3 or c4 which you can track using the different weights of carbon becuase you are what you eat

dusk hound
wraith sand
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Ah

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such a good movie

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great performance

sonic trench
wraith sand
# crimson kelp great performance

Fun fact, apparently Charlie's reaction to being yelled at was genuine, because no one told him that Wonka would be yelling. And also the unease of the characters during the tunnel scene; they apparently thought that Wilder actually WAS cracking up. lol.

dusk hound
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Hearing that Man of Tomorrow is shooting outside scenes in Atlanta tonight and tomorrow

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So uh

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Stay tuned for any set leaks

heavy anchor
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Heh it makes me laugh that star wars' return to theaters after many years is being out shown at the box office by two low budget YouTuber produced horror movies LUL

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Suck a fat one disney

dusk hound
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I think Disney will be just fine LUL

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Theyā€™ve got Toy Story coming out this month

heavy anchor
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Disney always seems to be fine, unfortunately
But it sure must sting

runic pollen
gray orbit
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Need obsession to refresh the tickets so I can get me and my brother some to my first regal next week!

runic pollen
runic pollen
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Curry Barker

runic pollen
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YouTubers using their actual names for their skits must have worked well because turns out it does leave an impression in the mind.

gray orbit
runic pollen
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Yeah they have some really funny clips and their general skit video setup does feel more suited for horror or mystery thriller vibe than a comedy skit

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Sam with 2b2bhd

gray orbit
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And thatā€™s a free found footage horror movie on YouTube

runic pollen
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Oh cool!

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Might check that out sometime

gray orbit
# runic pollen Might check that out sometime

https://youtu.be/pbzGQ1lszv4?si=gDHHJa8fUFbVYmsg

Right here

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that's a bad idea
MILK & SERIAL (FOUND FOOTAGE HORROR FILM DIRECTED BY CURRY BARKER)

When a surprise birthday prank goes terribly wrong, two social media influencers must face the devastating consequences that come after...

Written, Directed & Edited by Curry Barker
Produced by Cooper Tomlinson, Curry Barker
Original Score by Curry Barker
Cinematography by Curry Barker, Cooper Tomlinson
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Also a short film called chair that got a producer to produce and fund obsession thanks to film festivals

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Read this all the way wrong and thought Steph curry was making a horror movie šŸ˜­

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placid river
fair dirge
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Guys, if you wanted to buy tickets for a very hype movie, would you do it online or by going to the nearest cinema and do it physically?

west escarp
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If youā€™re worried about it selling out, do it online

hushed moss
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I tend to buy all my tickets online.

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Only exception is the little local theater which doesnā€™t do online sales.

fair dirge
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And since there are 5 of us, and getting 1 is already difficult

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Iā€™d get them online then

fair dirge
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Wow, the last time I went to the movies as a family was with Avengers Endgame

fair dirge
# west escarp Iā€™d get them online then

It is a good option because "I have them at hand"
But also the last time I wanted to buy them like this was in spiderman nwh and I didn't succeed because the page was falling all the time

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The bad thing about going to the cinema is that I don't know how many hours I would lose until it opens

placid river
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I do online, through the theater's own website if possible to avoid Fandango fees

dusk hound
west escarp
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Wrong answers only (Superman) ||what is he carrying in this clip?||

distant birch
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Same ||Lex||

oak ivy
west escarp
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Happy Pride!

dusk hound
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Notice how pride month starts and James Gunn immediately posts a Lex Luthor pic

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#sus

west escarp
dusky flint
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Its all over

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terrible news

west escarp
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@studios stop employing Zack Snyder

dusk hound
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The concept of Henry Cavill being casted as Snake is now a real possibility

dusky flint
keen flax
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He needs to make twilight of the gods season 2

distant birch
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Mmmmmmmmmmm how did I get Zack Snyder Twilight out of that

keen flax
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Actual genuine nightmare scenario šŸ˜­

dusky flint
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I think zack snyder for an escape from new york reboot is the wost possible option

fair dirge
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Because Mistborn is "dark" and there are references to religion LUL

minor isle
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Then we will have a better Mistborn movie???

ionic lily
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Worse

minor isle
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Better šŸ˜Ž

forest wigeon
hushed moss
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Vote for worst director for Mistborn.

lucid haven
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M night shayamalan

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Or David lynch

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Even if Mr Lynch is dead as of last year

distant birch
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Well I imagine he would have trouble directing well then

ivory night
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SMH lynch got that dawg in him. The grave canā€™t stop him

fair dirge
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I can already see Snyder making his 3-hour cut of Mistborn to emulate what LOTR did

minor isle
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I mean

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a good adaptation of Mistborn would need to be that long

fair dirge
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although I have the impression that most would be in slow motion

minor isle
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Fellowship of the Ring book is shorter than Final Empire

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And a bunch of content in it are cut

fair dirge
minor isle
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|| bombadil chapters ||

minor isle
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it has more content than LoTR books

fair dirge
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If you look at the way "mistborn" is written, BS did it to make it easy to bring to the big screen

minor isle
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He's gonna cut all the stiff I like to make the movie 2 hours

fair dirge
minor isle
minor isle
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Mistborn has more content

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More stuff happens in first 50% of TFE than whole of Fellowship

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So 3 hours Snyder cut isn't a proper meme

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It's better adaptation šŸƒā€ā™‚ļø

distant birch
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Thats assuming the 3 hours is all content

minor isle
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True

distant birch
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From half-watching a good chunk of ZS:JL I imagine a lot of it would just be from slowed down sequences

minor isle
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he would out do himself

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in Rebel Moon he added slow motion in 6 min slow mo scene

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Now he's gonna go deeper

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Slow mo inside slow mo inside slow mo

fair dirge
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Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think the Mistborn adaptation has themes open to interpretation deep enough to justify a 3-hour runtime. To be honest, it's been a while since I reread it, but I think a good portion of it is dedicated to explaining the magic system

[Mistborn Screenplay] ||I seem to recall Brandon mentioning that he even found it easy to combine scenes Like when Kelsier robs Straff's mansion and BS said he'd combine it with Vin's training||

distant birch
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I think you probably could make a 3 hour cut. I think you could probably also make it work in less time, with just more condensing of sequences

minor isle
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I am more of a character reader. With 3 hour run time || Crew interactions, Vin infiltrating balls and etc stuff that I like, would have to be cut ||

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Idc about main plot. Never the reason the stories really hit for me

fair dirge
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I like to analyze the way books are written, but if I had to say something, it's that a good adaptation only takes what the plot advances
LOTR is a very special book, it's like you're reading mythology

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And that brings several variables in its adaptation

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Then there is mistborn, which has its most modern style (it does not mean inferior), and being more direct it would not be so complicated to get from a point A to B

minor isle
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That's the difference for me. The "plot urgency" is the thing I hate in books

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let the characters have quiet moments with each other. Let me be in the characters shoes and see how events are affecting them

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Take it slow and let me be there in the world (a lot of TWOK chapters are this)

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There's no rule in art. I can only say what my preference is and what makes smth good with that.

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Mistborn being sub 3 hours is gonna remove moments I like

fair dirge
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oh, I would like to too, but I think that several companies in the industry are already focusing their rhythm on something similar to tik tok

minor isle
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And its not even a book I like that much

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Nice we kinda overlap in this

dusk hound
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You guys wanna know something funny

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So

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When I was little

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Like Iā€™m talking 5 or 6 years old

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I always thought movie directors were a one man crew

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Like the director did EVERYTHING

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From holding the camera to lighting everything

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So I would always get confused when me and my dad would watch a movie and the director would be acting in a scene

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Cause you know sometimes directors put themselves in their movies

dusky flint
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How would you be that young and know its the director

dusk hound
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Well my dad would tell me

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I probably was like 10

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Idk

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And I would be confused as to how the director could hold the camera AND star in the movie

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Because like GENUINELY for like the first 12 years of my life I thought directors were ACTUALLY the ones holding the camera

fair dirge
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I believed as a kid that actors should act in the film again, but in another language for the rest of the world

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winged mountain
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no sign of a trailer today

dusk hound
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Better photos of David Corenswet as Superman on the set of Man of Tomorrow, spoilering since these are technically set leaks but no major or minor spoilers

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minor isle
dusk hound
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Oh

dusky flint
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Welp the industry is over

winged mountain
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is he even still making movies?

dusk hound
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Yeah

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His last one released in 2023

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And heā€™s doing What Happens At Night

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ORxw68y3lyw&pp=0gcJCSgLAYcqIYzv this looks fun

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forest wigeon
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I'm inclined to overlook someone saying something dumb in their 80s, personally, but it is a sign that maybe stop listening to them

turbid narwhal
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decades?

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that feels pretty revisionist

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Shutter Island, Wolf of Wallstreet, Killers of the Flower Moon, and The Departed were all within the last 20 years

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and I feel like lots of people have come around to his comments on marvel movies, he was just ahead of the curve

turbid narwhal
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His only recent miss was the Irishman

cold sequoia
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youtube video essays about how marvel's process of making movies is bad are a dime a dozen nowadays

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and I think more "serious" authorities on movies probably had similar thoughts to Scorsese at the time but didn't want to rock the boat

cold sequoia
topaz oyster
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No his movies have been (mostly) fine

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But he's basically always spouted off in the most elitist way about True Cinema

turbid narwhal
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This isnā€™t really a Scorsese issue, thereā€™s been a recent shift going on with people in Hollywood coming out and saying that they accept AI

cold sequoia
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I'm only really familiar with his take on marvel movies but in that case I wouldn't even call it elitist

lone canyon
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some authors saying they're okay with AI use too

winged mountain
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it is sort of weird to see an 'elitist' embrace AI slop, I'd think the two should be mutually exclusive and that you'd be more likely to see AI embraced in the genres where they can theoretically throw Harrison Ford on some guy on the next Solo film

topaz oyster
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Can't be a luddite

novel bear
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I don't really view the world through a true cinema vs. not framework, I personally think it's not a useful distinction, but I understand what someone like Scorcese means by it and think that there is a meaningful and important statement being made about stuff like Marvel through it, that isn't just pure elitism and nothing else

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He's clearly a washed old man now though if he's pro-AI

cold sequoia
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looks like he's now using it (or at least is marketing it) for preproduction

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the video is basically him generating mood boards to show his production designers and whatnot

lone canyon
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tbh i have a hard time of thinking of scorcese (or other hugely important, influential figures) as washed, and I do think their voices hold some importance

novel bear
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"AI is revolutionary it'll democratize the creation of art and revolutionize the process" and it's some very minor step in the pipeline being made mildly faster while lower quality, at the cost of all those data centers

dusky flint
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im just shocked its scorsese of all people

cold sequoia
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he's already used what I think most people would call AI

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very prominently in fact

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wait no, Irishman wasn't deepfake nvm

turbid narwhal
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just that really bad de-aging CGI

lone canyon
cold sequoia
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yeah I guess it would have looked better if it were deepfaked

lone canyon
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Tbh my take is that calling on a consumer boycott of AI is gonna fail, as all consumer boycotts inevitably do

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The biggest sticking point for AI is the building of data centers, with the latest expansion being particularly unsustainable rn tbh

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That will probably ultimately be what kills the AI hype (first time NIMBYs are on the right side of history lol)

winged mountain
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if you genuinely get to the point where AI is so expensive you might as well pay humans to do it instead, then sure

lone canyon
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I mean, AI to some extent will always be here to stay and can genuinely be really useful but the free apps + general overuse probably isnā€™t sustainable

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Think about how much people freak about nuclear plants 100 km away

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Saying ā€œweā€™re gonna come into your neighbourhood and build a giant plant that generates noise and heat and uses all your waterā€ is gonna go down like a bag of rocks

frank quail
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Oh they're not building nuclear (yet)
They're building gas plants on the scale of state/country power plants

lone canyon
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Okay well most of them time nimbys are wrong and also stupid

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But if itā€™s NIMBYs vs Big AI, I think the NIMBYs will probs win in the end lol

frank quail
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But don't worry bros, once the desperate need for chat bots is fulfilled, they'll turn the remaining resources to solving climate change and making free energy for all

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The NIMBYs are also not happy with the gas plants

lone canyon
frank quail
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Which is why they're doing things like applying for licenses that only fit 1/10th of the eventual built capacity, or building them on trailers so they're "temporary" and don't need permits

lone canyon
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Okay NIMBYs donā€™t always win but they do win a lot

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Gas plants also for better or worse create jobs

cold sequoia
lone canyon
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A data center is literally a box that takes in water and generates noise

frank quail
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I had a PBS video about this thrown at me today, can you tell? LUL

oak ivy
frank quail
cold sequoia
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I have not seen this video, but generally if the municipality organizes it can block these things either by lobbying or by replacing officials

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organizing is of course not trivial

lone canyon
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My point is, telling consumers ā€œthis movie uses the bad and evil tech, donā€™t watch it!ā€ is never gonna work, whereas ā€œdo you want a data center in your neighbourhood Y/Nā€ is gonna be an overwhelming no

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https://youtu.be/5p426fSlYH4?si=AQeCRRhOrPxv-27k
I didn't realise we were in #1364954411582885899 . Let's discuss this media

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We Saw What AI Data Centers Don't Want You to See

We investigated one of the worldā€™s largest AI data centers, using thermal drone footage to reveal the hidden pollution powering the AI boom. As companies race to build the future of artificial intelligence, residents and experts warn that fossil fuels, secrecy, and weak regulation may be putting communities at risk.

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Definitely some bias in the video, but I think it's generally on point

novel bear
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Most boycotts are built on trying to act upon something that isn't really in the public eye, for which getting people to care enough to change their behaviors is inherently hard, but AI does in fact have a very large swath of people who are viscerally (and correctly) against it for what it is on the face of it. A very large number of people will simply see things that use AI and avoid them because of that on the face of it. Yeah, sure, a lot of people are also happy to mindlessly consume it, but the starting number of people against it here is way higher than it is for most issues that incite boycotts.

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It's more just overall culture and trends of consumer behavior at scale not liking AI, than the typical boycott where a small interest group tries to motivate a larger number to care

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It's a more extreme example of it, but NFTs didn't need a boycott to fail, they just weren't good in the first place + acceptance was not the default

winged mountain
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I think there's a distinction in the sense that there are going to be some technologies that are, in essence, AI, that use the same underlying technologies, that are likely to be accepted (or at least tolerated), and some aspects of it that won't. And I think you'll find more people than you might think who claim to hate AI say, 'oh well it's not that bad if it's doing this one limited thing'. The low hanging fruit of an example, oh, it's not that bad if it's finding cancer that doctors previously couldn't identify

lone canyon
# novel bear I think most boycotts struggle heavily because getting people to actively care e...

i think that the anti-AI movement is very much a boycott, especially when it comes to people trying to raise awareness of what games/movies/etc contain AI and shaming creators or companies for using it. they're not really wrong for doing so but its an attitude hugely prevalent in online places and much less prevalent irl. the best comparison i have is the HP video game, which saw huge online opposition which had almost no impact on irl success

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in both cases, i think it's an attempt to "moral-ify" consumer culture, which fundamentally does not work. if it did, everyone would be cycling vegans who upcycle their clothes.

novel bear