suspiciouscoffee

joefavs said:

Adopting a star system, because after another OT/ST watch-through I’ve decided I have too many ties for a straight list to be practical. No surprises here if you’ve paid any attention to my other posts; I haven’t radically shaken up my opinion on anything. I just think this reflects my feelings better than a proper ranking.

★★★★★
Star Wars
The Empire Strikes Back

★★★★
The Force Awakens
The Last Jedi

★★★
Return of the Jedi
Rogue One

★★
The Phantom Menace

★
Attack of the Clones
Revenge of the Sith

Almost exactly mine, but I include half-stars, putting TLJ at 4.5 and thusly above TFA, and both ROTJ and R1 at 3.5, but the rest are spot on.

Maybe, but there’s always Pascal’s Wager to be afraid of.

I’d like to thank the random bump of this thread for inspiring my new stupid joke sig.

I plan to burn as few bridges as possible. I still firmly believe they mean well, they just make things rough.

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regularjoe said:

Possessed said:

ray_afraid said:

I’m really loving everything I’ve seen from this movie so far.
Crazy how much I’ve been won over. Really lookin’ forward to this.

Samezies

Count me in, too.
I love it that it looks silly and goofy and just fun…
…and the s***storm of people complaining about that is going to be ten times worse than the fan division created by TLJ.

I was gonna say that I doubt that, but then again, I guess it could.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Yeah, so this one is technically backwards, with the clasp rather than the spine facing out. But that’s the beauty of the slip cover.

You could flip the cover, where the spine would be out, the cover would just be backward, but it’s not like the spine or clasp are visable anyway.

I have Rey, just because I have all my movies facing the same direction and she happened to be on the side for that.

I do too, but I do sometimes consider removing them just for space-saving reasons. It may not seem like much of a difference, but they do add up.

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moviefreakedmind said:

Dek Rollins said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I’ve seen many people list Bride of Frankenstein as their favorite movie. You gave one of my favorite movies a 3 star rating, Lord of the Flies,

I gave the exact reasons for the missing star. The namesake of the picture is brushed over in a ten second shot that had no purpose.

It’s a beautiful shot that communicates the scene from the book without words. See? This is why arguing disagreements over art is so pointless. Ultimately, as far as I’m concerned I’m right and you’re wrong. And as far as you’re concerned, I’m wrong and you’re right.

The solution, of course, is to dub over that shot with Pumbaa from The Lion King.

Slipcovers: extraneous paper that wastes space, or important for the aesthetic?

Discuss.

Dek Rollins said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Dek Rollins said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Dek Rollins said:

It wasn’t perfect. A bit better than the first, though. Funny, Dune is the one I was considering giving four stars,

Unless you’ve somehow seen Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune, or maybe Jodorowsky’s unmade one, I don’t understand.

I don’t understand why people hate Lynch’s film so much. The production looks great, the art design looks great, the music is great, the performances are great, the plot is great, and there are very few moments that it becomes hard to follow in. If I were to check out the workprint fanedit that’s out there somewhere, it would probably be even better.

I mean, I don’t hate it, it just dumbs down the book. It can kinda be summed up by the part where, in the book, Paul says “My name has become a killing word” because he has an army of jihadists killing in his name, but the movie takes that moment and makes it thuddingly literal. I love the production design, the music, the cast, but the movie just doesn’t work for me.

I felt that the exchange in the movie spoke exactly that which you say is meant in the book. There is literal context added in the movie, but the underlying meaning is the same. At least that’s how I, as someone who hasn’t read the book, took it.

And that’s correct, the meaning was still there, but the book didn’t have the added “IF I SCREAM MY NAME IT MAKES A BOOM” since the Weirding Way is more of a martial art than whatever it was in the movie. The movie took what was already obvious and CHAK-SAA’d me in the head with it.

moviefreakedmind said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Church is usually alienating for me, but today was painfully so and I’m sinking into existential despair. There was a guest band selling CDs in the lobby, ignoring that Jesus would flip their table. Then there was a guest speaker (did the typical staff get lazy?) that preached that good people watch Fox News, don’t pay attention to “fake research,” though didn’t cite sources for his own “research,” and rambled about “true disciples” vs. “converts and cultural Christians whose kids and grandkids are going to hell.” The worst part is that my parents got super emotional listening to this man, and I feel like they’re about to take another sharp right turn if you know what I mean. I feel horribly trapped and scared.

Once you’re an adult

Well, legally, I am, but semantics. 😛

you’ll rarely have to get roped into going to church again.

I know, but I’m terrified of completely breaking my parents hearts. With the way my dad texts me long messages every morning filled not only with Bible verses, but Jesus fanfic, I know for a fact he’s going to constrantly ask me if I’m attending regularly, and probably expect me to be active in Baptist campus ministry or whatever, and probably hound me about that too.

You’re a writer, a for now write a story about hypocritical church goers. Make it a comedy, or a horror, or something like that. Then you can enjoy church on the level of looking for something to write about.

I’ve tried, and try again often, but I always write myself into corners and abandon stories frequently.

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Dek Rollins said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Dek Rollins said:

It wasn’t perfect. A bit better than the first, though. Funny, Dune is the one I was considering giving four stars,

Unless you’ve somehow seen Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune, or maybe Jodorowsky’s unmade one, I don’t understand.

I don’t understand why people hate Lynch’s film so much. The production looks great, the art design looks great, the music is great, the performances are great, the plot is great, and there are very few moments that it becomes hard to follow in. If I were to check out the workprint fanedit that’s out there somewhere, it would probably be even better.

I mean, I don’t hate it, it just dumbs down the book. It can kinda be summed up by the part where, in the book, Paul says “My name has become a killing word” because he has an army of jihadists killing in his name, but the movie takes that moment and makes it thuddingly literal. I love the production design, the music, the cast, but the movie just doesn’t work for me.

Dek Rollins said:

It wasn’t perfect. A bit better than the first, though. Funny, Dune is the one I was considering giving four stars,

Unless you’ve somehow seen Denis Villeneuve’s upcoming Dune, or maybe Jodorowsky’s unmade one, I don’t understand.

Because they’re loud, annoying, and have cult followings. The bogeymen are hard to miss.

Any and all votes by anyone that isn’t white, I’d wager.

Also, this is tragically hilarious.

In the spring of 2017, the newly elected president met with members of the Congressional Black Caucus. During that meeting, one of the members mentioned to Trump that welfare reform would be detrimental to her constituents— adding, “Not all of whom are black,” according to NBC News.

The president was incredulous. “Really? Then what are they?”

I read the occasional EU work, but mostly I find it pretty easy to fill in gaps in political information of the galaxy in my head.

I added a Bat, though his pose might be too Spidey-ish.

Superman work in progress sketch. I fucked up the hands, and the face, and the perspective, and… everything else really, but dare I say this is my best drawing ever, and I’m rather proud of it. I plan to draw other League members around him soon, but methinks I’ll take a break right now.

pittrek said:

Most disappointing

• way too similar story-wise to the original trilogy
• The Last Jedi completely negates many story points from the previous movie(s)
• chaos behind the scenes (dumping George as the “executive consultant” and ignoring his planned stories, constant dumping of directors, even if they shot already the almost complete movie etc.)
• no explanations (after 2 movies I have no clue who the resistance is and who the new order are)
• no likeable new characters, in TFA I really liked Rey and Finn, but I honestly don’t like them in TLJ.

Disagree on all counts.

Most satisfying

• the look. After seeing a trilogy filled with green screen footage poorly composited over CGI backgrounds it was a PLEASURE to watch real sets, real locations, real props etc.
• a nice combination of practical and CGI effects - I was pleasantly surprised by the fact they used a puppet Yoda
• cinematography - TLJ is IMHO the most beautiful looking Star Wars movie

Hard agree on all counts, especially the last one there.

The prequels really do suck tho lmao.

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