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I don’t know if the Before trilogy will mean as much if I watch all three one after another, instead of waiting a decade or so for the next one.
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Last movie seen — Page 566
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I don’t know if the Before trilogy will mean as much if I watch all three one after another, instead of waiting a decade or so for the next one.
All time blurs together for me so I’m safe there.
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Death of Stalin
Hilarious. Best new comedy I’ve seen in years.
I would put this in my sig if I weren’t so lazy.
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Your rating for Spirited Away makes me happy.
Have you seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind?
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Have you seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind?
Not yet.
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The Devil’s Rain - William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Ida Lupino, and others take part in a movie partially helmed by the High Priest of Satanism. It is a mess. But it’s still fun. Also John Travolta’s first screen role!
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Have you seen Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind?
Not yet.
Oh man, get on that! It’s one of Miyazaki’s best if you ask me.
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Ugh, the Babadook was such a disappointment for me.
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Ugh, the Babadook was such a disappointment for me.
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Ugh, the Babadook was such a disappointment for me.
Everybody’s wrong about something
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Early in the film they mention that she used to make children’s books and it shows how her son is slowly chipping away at her sanity.
But do they do anything with that? No. It’s a real creature and she traps it in her basement like a weird pet. LAME.
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Sorry Tobar, you’re wrong. It’s a good movie and you need to leave the thread with your head hung in shame.
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I’m more disturbed by Batman Forever getting a 5/10. Granted, that is a solid F, but I don’t understand why anyone finds much redeeming quality in it.
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I’m more disturbed by Batman Forever getting a 5/10. Granted, that is a solid F, but I don’t understand why anyone finds much redeeming quality in it.
I don’t think stars and letter grades should be considered equivalent. There’s nothing lower than F, so I don’t think it makes sense to give a 1/10 and a 5/10 the same weight.
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I’m more disturbed by Batman Forever getting a 5/10. Granted, that is a solid F, but I don’t understand why anyone finds much redeeming quality in it.
I don’t think stars and letter grades should be considered equivalent. There’s nothing lower than F, so I don’t think it makes sense to give a 1/10 and a 5/10 the same weight.
Sure, but that’s more an indictment on our terrible grading system in the education system.
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If we’re interpreting the star ratings that way, then that puts Batman Forever at about a C, I guess? I find that frightening.
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5/10 for me is “competent, but I don’t like it,” so I pretty well disagree as well.
Letter grades, at least in the US (can’t speak for others) are total bullshit.
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5/10 for me is “competent, but I don’t like it,” so I pretty well disagree as well.
Letter grades, at least in the US (can’t speak for others) are total bullshit.
This!
I cannot stand our letter grade system where everyone feels the need to have all A’s in classes which means you AT LEAST need to get 90% or above on all your tests and quizzes. Most of my classes it is 93 % or above.
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Sorry Tobar, you’re wrong. It’s a good movie and you need to leave the thread with your head hung in shame.
No thanks, I think I’ll walk out with my head held high and my desire for better storytelling intact.
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Youre desire is stupid and youre stupid and you smell like whichever kind of fish is the stupidist.
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Essentially everything bad about Lynch’s Dune is a direct result of studio mandates to condense the story into a 136-minute runtime. Except for the depiction of the baron. That’s 100% Lynch’s fault.
Backing up to this for a minute, I think that even as a 4 hour movie Lynch’s effort would have fallen short. The reason for this is because the movie seems incapable of doing more than one thing with each scene - characters enter a room, spout exposition about X thing (often with mental narration), then leave.
Take for example gom jabbar. In the book, Paul is tested to see if he is ‘truly human’, but he sees through the Reverend Mother’s facade to understand that the Bene Gesserit’s primary goal is not such tests but rather political power. He then becomes mistrustful of their order. In the movie he apparently approves of the reasoning behind the test and doesn’t inquire further as to their true intentions. Yet in the final scene of the movie he acts as if the Bene Gesserit is an enemy, without the setup from the book.
And this is just one example. Such things happen constantly, always taking a surface reading of a scene and treating it as if it were the entire purpose the scene. The Voice is now just a magical power rather than an understanding of which words will command specific personality types. The Sadukar are now just faceless brutes, and no reason is given for the Emperor’s fear of Paul beyond his power over Spice. The whole point of Dune is that every situation has wheels within wheels, and there are ways of illustrating this subconsciously or in the background without resorting to clunky exposition.
You probably don’t recognize me because of the red arm.
Episode 9 Rewrite, The Starlight Project (Released!) and ANH Technicolor Project (Released!)
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Also it’s David Lynch.
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Speaking of Dune again, does anybody here know where I could find the Third Stage fanedit? The faneditinfo links are down (it’s all Frinks doing! 😉) and nobody responded in that thread.
Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
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Speaking of Dune again, does anybody here know where I could find the Third Stage fanedit? The faneditinfo links are down (it’s all Frinks doing! 😉) and nobody responded in that thread.
I might somewhere, but it’s more likely that I have the Alternative Edition Redux. I’ll try to remember to check when I get home from work tonight, but you might wanna shoot me a PM to remind me.