Donomark
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Chainsaw Man is as fun as it's long been hyped up to be. Very dark and twisted with animation so good it's almost over-animated. Like, shots of Makima's iris' so close up you can look right through them. But the show has got style, man.
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Ultimately we all agreed that the best Spidey films require an appearance by Willem Dafoe.
ALSO: I neglect to actually say what my least favorite Spider-Man scene from the franchise is, so here you go...
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58 minutes ago, Missy said:
Loving the show, guys. I've got a little more to go, but I wanted to add one thing about Spider-Verse. One of the gems of the movie is the way it plays with animation. Before he becomes comfortable with is powers, Miles moves at 12 FPS -- which is way he's always so herky jerky and awkward. Once he learns to believe in himself and catches up with the other Spiders ("Hello, Danger"), Miles is in sync with everyone else at the standard 24 FPS. It's a brilliant attention to detail and a masterful way to use the form of film making to tell Miles' story.
Oh yeah! I think I knew about that, there's a great commentary for the movie's DVD, but that totally blipped from my brain.
I love Spider-Verse, I feel I shortchanged it somewhat with my thoughts, but I was burning to gush about some films, defend others and rag on my bottom pick. Spider-Verse needed little else from me. Thanks for listening!
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WHY IS THIS FRANCHISE ALWAYS HORNY
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Yeahhh...you hate to say it because of how it sounds (and in some ways is), but this was the most invested I've been in a WHO episode since the Capaldi era. I loved it. For one thing the plot was clear, easy to understand and uncomplicated. I completely lost track of what was going on in Flux. This was a simple bad guy story. The Master might've been the most OTT since Anthony Ainley, but I still think Sasha Dawan does a killer performance. Loved EVERYTHING with the...JNT era characters, I'll say.
The only thing I wish is that they closed the door on Yaz's feelings for the Doctor, which the last episode made a point to bring up. Maybe her meeting Teagan and Ace changed her mind about it.
But Jodie's regen was sad and beautiful, and as a Tennant simp I got *SO* excited to see what happens next.
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So how 'bout that final 13 Regeneration story?
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Man this was so funny. I haven't heard Pandy this spicy since he took a spiked bat to Halloween 1978 and pumpkin'd it all over that episode of HAA!
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Hahaha he's good in that movie though!
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Oooh...okay. That's a good one.
Last time I watched Blade, I marveled with adult eyes at just the sheer confidence and mastery of vision at the whole thing. I don't think that film has any weaknesses. But Men in Black is also a classic. I think what comes to mind the soonest is the CGI, which strained even at the time because of the scope it was working to achieve.
I think I'll say Blade, but this might come down to mood. MiB is a comedy, Blade is an action film. Both feature their lead actors at the top of their games respectively, but maybe with Blade the humor is generally unintentional and thus holds more value to me (Wesley Snipes breaking character and swearing at the cops who shoot him, Batmanning in back of the familiar cop when he's threatening Karen, Donal Logue as Quinn).
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Batman Forever. Sleeping Beauty bored me as a kid.
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Super congrats Ian!!
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8 hours ago, S-T said:
I believe She-Hulk is described as a "comedy" series.
And that, in a nutshell, is the biggest problem with the MCU. Way, way too much comedy. If the writers don't care, and the characters don't care, why should I care? Is Marvel/Disney capable of writing anything that takes the subject matter seriously?
The worst example I remember is Korg cracking jokes as Asgard was being obliterated by Surtur, something I complained about before. The Asgardian refugees should have erupted in anger, jumped on Korg and ripped him apart.
Look, I am not saying that everything should be "Grimdark." Comedy has its place, and the MCU wouldn't be what it is without comedy. But cracking jokes while genocide is happening is not the time or the place.
Forreal a franchise low point.
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On 9/9/2022 at 11:49 AM, Dread said:
Thor: Love and Thunder: loud, colorful (until it isn't) and beautifully shot. Stupid and fun. Best Marvel villain by a huge margin. I don't get the backlash, but this is top tier MCU.
It is loud, there are colors, and Christian Bale is good.
QuoteI've got no compunction saying that Sucker Punch was stunningly bad, and the worst movie I've seen all year. Holy crap, gotdamn.
Scratch that, My Son Hunter is the worst film I've seen all year.
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On 9/5/2022 at 8:47 AM, slothian said:
I forget who it was at the time, but one podcaster I was following at the time shat all over Sucker Punch when it came out (which was pretty much the majority opinion). I haven't seen it myself.
Suggested pick for the day HAA! does a Jenna Malone month.
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300 and Sucker Punch: Directed by Zack Snyder
Re-watched 300 and watched Sucker Punch for the first time for this week's episode of Questions: We Don't Have Answers. We get way into them for about an hour each, but I've got no compunction saying that Sucker Punch was stunningly bad, and the worst movie I've seen all year. Holy crap, gotdamn.
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I would agree with Ian's line of thinking, especially how he broke all that down. Not taking any of those point on Gilliam and dismissing them, but I'm also loathe to just write someone off because "they did things we don't like", because you can distinguish the point of a discussion between endorsement of a person and discussion of a work. I was listening to a podcast ripping apart The Departed last week, and I agreed with pretty much everything but the hosts were also more than happy to just throw out "Oh, we don't like Leo because he dates college aged women, and didn't Jack Nicholson host a Roman Polanski party? And Matt Damon dismissed racism that one time", that kind of behavior is plainly unhelpful, because it isn't saying much beyond "we disapprove of these things" in a broad way that betrays a disinterest of nuance.
Not to bury the lead for the next POYW podcast, but Christian and I don't spend every sentence going "Well this thing in Peter Pan is pretty interesting, but the movie did a racism. And this gave me a reaction...but racism". We don't dismiss the film out of hand...but best believe we get into the racism at the same time because my God, how could we not.
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1 hour ago, You Know Who said:
-He blasted Black Panther not just for reasons similar to Coppola and Scorsese, but also for some pretty racist-sounding comments about Africa.
Quote“I hated ‘Black Panther.’ It makes me crazy. It gives young black kids the idea that this is something to believe in. But I just I hated that movie, partly because the media were going on about the importance of bulls—.”
Gave Ben Shapiro a run for his money, but that last bolded part made me laugh out loud.
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Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero
Brainless movie title aside, this is healthily the second best DB movie since the franchise renewed itself with Battle of Gods. While I tapped out of the Super series itself years ago, I loved Super Broly, in part because the time it took to re-establish the lore and history of its universe was really cool. This does similar, with the first ten minutes focusing on the villains who have one of the coolest villain plots in the series' history, with the Z-Fighters and Bulma perceived as part of a massive conspiracy to take over the world. It sounds funny, and is, but the way they reach that conclusion is a genius bit of writing, and requires a thorough knowledge of the DB history as far back as the Red Ribbon Army Saga.
Additionally, this movie is 2/3rds a Piccolo film and 1/3rd Gohan. There's a loud conversation in this one about bringing Gohan back to the Goblin-Mode God-Tier status he was circa the Cell Games, and there's also not-so-subtle visual cues hearkening back to that era, him wearing Piccolo's outfit like he did in the Cell Games for instance. It's interesting, because there's a notable interview back in the 90s where Toriyama admitted that he made Gohan the main hero for the Buu Saga, but felt it didn't work, so he benched him and brought back Goku. There have been interviews in anticipation for this film where Toriyama express regret and is interested in Gohan as a character again. I feel that the concern expressed by Piccolo might be a touch overdone, but for fans of the character including myself, this is the movie to see your boy get his shine back.
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A ton of legends are passing on this year. She was nearly 90, but nevertheless a homegrown star has faded off from our orbit into farther, grander reaches of the galaxy.
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Uh, The Dark Knight.
I love the Shining, it's my favorite horror movie, but The Dark Knight is more exciting and watches quicker, even though it's longer than The Shining by six minutes.
When comparing the two, The Shining has a far moodier, creepy atmosphere and a bravura center performance in Jack Nicholson. It's also effectively frightening with proper jump scares and a killer score.
But The Dark Knight has Batman, it's thematically a Batman story that to this day people overlook, every performance is great, there's less reported misogynist torture compared to The Shining and less uses of the N-word.
Which doesn't exactly drag it down as a film for me, personally, but between the two - this is kind of a "come the fuck on" scenario. Both are mood movies, you can't just throw them in, but this doesn't take a lot of thinking effort on my part.
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I've been casually re-watching Seinfeld in the past few months and consistently enjoy it. There's some definitely dated humor regarding gender politics and the show's kind of hobby obsession with racial stereotypes, specifically Asian people, but overall it's more clever than I knew when I watched it as a younger kid. Jason Alexander and Julia Louis Dreyfuss are just top level talents. Clearly supremely intelligent, intuitive performers who just crush every single script. They're pleasures to listen to in interviews as well.
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I enjoyed this! From the eclectic cast to the sleazy subject matter, and Steel and Lace elicited some big laughs from me. Any upcoming list of movies or tentative schedule to look out for?
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RIP he was an angel of an actor...
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Episode 66 - Loud as a Whisper and The Schizoid Man
in The Edge of Forever
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I hadn't seen this episode yet, the line "I thought you didn't like people..?" "WOMEN AREN'T PEOPLE" absolutely destroyed me. I couldn't stop laughing, that sounds made up from a joke tweet.