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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 31, 2021 0:36:15 GMT
A person who works in Hollywood leans left politically, also...Water is wet. I don't know, the right-wing side of the geek community tried really hard to claim him which was a big part of why The Snyder Cut took off. Even after he got on Geeks + Gamers and accused them of murdering Asian people, they were coping hard saying WB had a gun to his head or something. Now that Zack hass finally got his version out and doesn't need right-wing support, dude is talking about turning the 300 series into Brokeback Mountain and shit. If I were a conservative, I'd be feeling pretty cucked right now. I had no idea about the Geeks + Gamers thing. Damn, my respect for Snyder just skyrocketed. Those people are literally pieces of s**t. |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 31, 2021 0:31:46 GMT
Bunch of articles speculating that Barry Keoghan's character Druig is the real villain. The impression I got when I was reading about the characters was that he would turn in his own people. |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 31, 2021 0:30:27 GMT
Yes but the Power Broker existed before he was incarcerated. Sharon was working for SHIELD at that point. She couldn’t have been The Power Broker at that stage. Perhaps there was a different Power Broker who she overthrew, becoming the new Power Broker. |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 30, 2021 21:40:45 GMT
The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm by Nancy Farmer  |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 30, 2021 19:40:15 GMT
 A Quiet Place II (2021) |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 30, 2021 19:07:05 GMT
Ebbe Roe Smith wrote the fantastic 1993 film Falling Down. He then wrote the 1994...well, I hesitate to use the term "film", Car 54, Where Are You? After that, he has no writing credits.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 28, 2021 20:46:37 GMT
It's probably my favorite Malick movie. I've neve seen the alternate cut.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 28, 2021 20:18:20 GMT
Accriding to IMDb, my highest rationg for a movie wirth less than 1k votes is for a 2009 movie called Little Girl (a.k.a. La pivellina). I gave it a 9/10.
As for the OP's choice, I gave Ladybug, Ladybug an 8/10.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 28, 2021 19:38:18 GMT
 Cruella (2021) |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2021 17:05:34 GMT
I hear so many people saying that Lucasfilm should have fully planned out the ST before they started shooting. I personally disagree. First of all, the assertion that a trilogy SHOULD be planned out beforehand ignores the fact that a majority of trilogies in film history have not been planned out, with each movie being tackled individually or (as in the case of Back to the Future) the second and third movies being planned out after the success of the first movie. So, while am argument can be made for planning am entire trilogy from the start can be made, it's certainly not a "failure" if a studio decides not to.
Now, about the ST. I really don't care that the trilogy was planned out. However, I do believe that, if you are not going to plan it out, you should at least have an ironclad rule that each installment must recognize those that came before it and work within the frame that has been set up. As much as I love the ST, I do have one big complaint: both J.J. and Rian seemed to feel little need to keep to things that the other established. The first sign of this was when we saw from the trailers of TLJ that Kylo's facial scar was in a different spot. I remember not too many people caring, but that really bugged me. But then there were other, bigger things that Rian just didn't seem to care about sticking to. When J.J. came back for TRoS, he seemed to feel the same way. That helmet Kylo shattered in TLJ? He has it fixed. That Rose character who seemed poised to become a part of the main crew? Ah, we'll just sideline her.
So, while I don't think they should have planned the whole thing out ahead of time, I do wish J.J. and Rian had tried to build off of each other rather than pretend each other's movies didn't really count.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2021 13:47:36 GMT
If you can’t tel the difference between the approach of movies today and back then, I don’t know what to say The difference is that back then, the message was mostly things like "communism is bad, and we should be glad we were born in the land of the free" or a general "the government doesn't care about us man, so let's rebel". Even when race and gender were addressed, the message was usually delivered by and through a white dude. This was less threatening the white, male America. When the message changed from "commies hate freedom" to "hey, minorities and women haven't been treated so good", and the message started being delivered through minorities and women, then white, male America decided they were being personally attacked. |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2021 5:38:27 GMT
I remember seeing the trailer for that movie and thinking it looked badass. IIRC, it came out around the time of Hard Rain, which I also thought was badass. I never did end up watching the Howie Long movie, and when I saw Hard Rain years later, it...well, it didn't quite hold up.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2021 5:36:54 GMT
Fragile white dudes: "Movies didn't used to be political!"
Literally the entire history of cinema: Politics was a big part of movies both implicitly and explicitly. In Star Wars, the Empire were human-supremacist Nazis who fought against a ragtag group of partisans and insurgents comprised of various species cooperating with each other. (In Return of the Jedi, the Ewoks were the Viet Cong, and were the good guys.) The 50s and 60s were filled with red scare propaganda. The "body snatchers"? They were the commies. (In the 80s the red scare films mostly turned into "can't we all just get along?" storylines. Well, maybe not in Red Dawn.) If To Kill a Mockingbird were released today, you'd have a million doughy white dudes complaining about "that SJW movie!!!".
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 27, 2021 5:19:32 GMT
Obama figured as much, and I like them anyway.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 26, 2021 23:52:27 GMT
Both Stephen King and Dean Koontz have had a very large output over many years. Unlike many popular authors like Tom Clancy, who are/were generally satisfied with writing no more than a book a year, both SK and DK have published multiple books in the same year on many occasions. I decided to compare their respective largest output in a single year. (Page counts were taken from the authors' bibliography pages on Wikipedia or, when page counts were unavailable there, from Goodreads.)
Books published in a single year...
* Stephen King: 3 (published three books in a single year on four occasions - 1983, 1984, 1987, and 2004)
* Dean Koontz: 9 (in 1972, five under his own name and four under pen names)
Pages published in a single year...
* Stephen King: 1,709 (in 2004 - two novels and one non-fiction book)
* Dean Koontz: 2,005 (in 2005 - one standalone novel, two novels in the Frankenstein series, and one novel in the Odd Thomas series)
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 26, 2021 23:27:46 GMT
I have written five novels but i have never tried to publish them, as i don`t think any of them are good enough to be published. I've written four. Much like you, I never tried to publish them. Wrote them for fun.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 26, 2021 22:31:54 GMT
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 26, 2021 5:37:59 GMT
She's robbin' the nursing home.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 26, 2021 5:27:50 GMT
* does double-take *
Certainly not that Michael Damian:
Oh God.
I forgot that sing existed. I never knew who sang it, but I remember hearing it on the radio. |
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Post by CrepedCrusader on May 26, 2021 5:25:27 GMT
She legit looks like she's a 50-something Real Housewife whose had a lot of work done.
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