DuracellEnergizer said:

chyron8472 said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Methinks you’re evaluating what is essentially a (then) modern mythological cautionary tale in a wholly wrong light.

No, it broke my suspension of disbelief.

Also, Dr. Frankenstein is basically a douche, so when he’s in terror for his life or well being I wasn’t sympathetic. Much of the book takes place from his perspective.

The monster’s the one we’re supposed to sympathize with.

Stop being a dumb lib’ral

chyron8472 said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

My favorite class-required read. I’m tempted to steal this class copy.

I listened to Frankenstein recently, and I wasn’t very keen on it. For one thing the monster seemed so very eloquent with his speech, which broke my immersion because a being who had no understanding of language at all not so long ago (and who said he learned language simply from spying on a particular family) should have language skills that are rudimentary at best. This among other issues. The story just didn’t captivate me.

Dracula, on the other hand, was fantastic.

I’d rather read “I ought to be thy Adam, but I am thy fallen angel,” than “eeeeuuurrgghhhhh.”

suspiciouscoffee said:

The Stranger by Albert Camus (English translation, as I unfortunately don’t know French)

I read it as an assignment for my AP Literature class. I went ahead and read the whole thing tonight because it’s short, and found it occasionally amusing, but philisophically worthless.

This was a monumentally stupid take. Way to go me-from-last-fall.

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

My favorite class-required read. I’m tempted to steal this class copy.

Tyrphanax said:

0 animes on my list.

+1

Wait, no, I mean, like, me too.

Eat the rich.

Yep.

TV’s Frink said:

I like Canto Bight but the horses suck. PT garbage.

I seem to vaguely recall liking one or two sequences from the second movie, but the rest is super lame and forgettable.

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

Yeah…it’s really not bad, and it’s better than II. But women, amirite?

The funny is that having women play the Ghostbusters is actually the only thing that makes the remake more than just a simple regurgitation of the original. It’s really the only strength that the entire production had. Now they’re remaking Lord of the Flies with girls instead of boys, and some idiots were complaining but ultimately we already have one fantastic adaptation of it from 1963 and a pretty good one from the 90s. If they didn’t make any changes it’d just be another reimagining of Lord of the Flies which was perfectly adapted almost word for word over five decades ago.

Lord of the Flies with girls sounds great if they abandon everything else about the novel and just make it a Wonder Woman prequel where the girls make a cool society of island hunter/warriors and generally get along.

TV’s Frink said:

Yeah…it’s really not bad, and it’s better than II. But women, amirite?

It’s been so many years since I’ve seen II, I remember next to nothing about it, but I’ll take your word for it.

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Speaking of Ghostbusters, I’m watching the remake right now. It’s not terrible. It’d be a lot better if it was much shorter and was a TV pilot imo. I like the cast, I’d follow a weekly series of 20-30 minute episodes about these characters for a little while, but as a feature length movie, it’s barely holding my attention.

This is the movie that people were up in arms about two years ago?

I sorta get that about TFA and R1, but TLJ seemed to me to be a very personal work by Rian Johnson. I don’t know what Disney’s Shadow Filmmaking Cabal would have put in it.

So you want all the murder, but none of the frowns?

I think digital cameras were the least of AOTCs problems.

O. My bad.

I saw someone somewhere saying they got a zip folder of their Facebook data and it included record of every phone call with their partner’s mother of the last several years, but didn’t seem to list many other calls.

Mrebo said:

Aside from his desire to bomb all the countries, okay. My hope is that he won’t be taken seriously.

The Shape of Water

*ahem*

I LOVE MOVIES!!!

DuracellEnergizer said:

His willingness to go against traditionalist, legalistic religion has a large part to do with it.

Which is especially ironic and amusing given the state of His church.

LuckyGungan2001 said:

My hair’s dirty

dahmage said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

pop tarts are ravioli

no

yes

DuracellEnergizer said:

paja said:

Dammit.

If Daredevil wasn’t worth watching, this reaction would make much more sense.

But teh Punisher is cooler 'cuz he kills more and doesn’t have that lame conscience or religious convikshuns bothering him and he just shooty shoot

pop tarts are ravioli