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2 hours ago, johnny said:

kill bill is definitely two movies idc what he fuckin thinks

The existence of this would seem to disagree with you:

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) - IMDb

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4h 7m | Not Rated

32 minutes ago, Phaseknox said:

I don’t have regressive gender values, and I’m not sexist. Quite the opposite actually, because sexists refuse to play as female characters in games regardless of what they look like. I just happened to develop what I consider to be a mental condition where I primarily desire to play as female characters in games now as opposed to male ones, and I think that part of it is due to me playing as so many male characters over the years. I got tired of playing as them all the time, and I was also starting to find them less appealing as main characters as well. I tend to prefer the attitudes, personalities and voice actors of female characters. As for what they look like, I just like the characters that I play as in games in general to be what I consider appealing, attractive and cool looking regardless of their gender.

We've had this conversation numerous times in the past, others have had this conversation with you numerous times in the past, which is why I didn't bother this time. You have others now, again, having this conversation with you and you're still not getting it. You've rationalized and justified it to yourself for so long that what I just quoted sounds normal to you. You sound pathological to me. You post rage clickbait videos full of BS. You're somewhat down a bad rabbit hole, but you don't want to see it. I'm not gonna continue to bother myself, but here we are again with this.

I would seriously catch up on at least some basic fourth generation feminism reading/videos and then re-read the things you've written in this thread. You won't, but it'd help. 

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

Easy to have a flawless record if you just say the duds don't count.

To be fair, Quentin Tarantino's screenplay for the film is out there and it is pretty different and I'm sure if he directed it, it would have been directed significantly different. Though I like Stone's version of Natural Born Killers, so not sure I'd call it a dud. It's certainly divisive though. Critics were certainly offended by parts of the movie when it came out, but looking at the audience score on RT and the IMDb score, time has been kind to the film.

Glad to hear the game is good! I'm definitely interested in it broadly. And no surprise PhaseKnox's regressive gender values spring up yet again with no self awareness that he's spouting soft sexism with poor, seemingly non-sexist arguments. Frankly the fact this is all going over their head isn't surprising.

21 minutes ago, skillzdadirecta said:

This showed up in my feed today.

 

Perfect series to watch while I wait for Kengan Asura Season 2 Part 2 and the Kengan/ Baki Crossover.

This is one that's definitely on my radar but since it hasn't started yet I left it off my list since I'm unsure if it'll be as good as Kengan Ashura or Baki with no reviews or word of mouth yet but it looks good. Definitely has potential I think.

10 minutes ago, Ghost_MH said:

I have such a soft spot for tsundere leads in action series. We really don't get them all that often. Haruka being a try hard cupcake that can actually kick some serious ass is a lot of fun. I'll definitely keep up with your one and then maybe even pick up the manga afterwards. I already have the manga bookmarked in the Kodansha's app.

 

Should note. This is based on my impression after 3 episodes. It could certainly fall off from here, but Cloverworks has a damn good track record.

Yeah, CloverWorks' involvement definitely helped in noting this show above others. And a dub! Tsundere leads make for frequently crazy ass times so that helps build the hype meter. Keep me posted but if it's strong 3 episodes in that's a good sign.

1 hour ago, Mercury33 said:

Haven’t watched the finale yet. But as a non book reader I can say I wasn’t/am not expecting a large battle of any kind. That would actually be pretty disappointing if there was one haha. The political and social maneuvering is what makes the story great and that’s how I’m hoping it finishes its story. 

That's promising to hear! I hope most people who didn't read the book "get" that what happened in episode 9 was the battle. Obviously all of these characters are based on real historical people (just the names have been changed and how things went down embellished) so of course there were battles in real life but that's not how it works for this specific story (the Battle of Sekigahara being very famous, as one example).

As primarily a dub viewer (though I watch plenty of shows subbed since many don't get a dub, but I have to wait to find that out), I usually wait until the dub for the entire season of a show is out before watching (which is usually a season or two after the original airing), but I do keep up with what could be good each season as things come out so I know what to keep an eye out for to watch later. A lot of stuff @Ghost_MH mentioned were also shows I definitely noted as having potential as well. I'm not sure which anime I'll be watching next, probably the first season of the reboot of Rurouni Kenshin (dubbed), but there's plenty I'm interested in. I'll definitely be watching My Hero Academia season 7, but probably after the entire dub for the season is out so I can binge it. These were the anime I noted from this spring season (so far):

-Kaiju No. 8: I'm definitely interested in watching this, it's already getting great reviews

-Wind Breaker: looks fun and a bit different than the slew of isekai and romance anime we get inundated with, has potential but could be bad

-Go! Go! Loser Ranger!: not really my kind of show (I think) but it's getting great reviews already so it may be worth noting

-Mysterious Disappearances: a mystery/supernatural show that looks different from the norm; has potential but not enough out there yet

-Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night: not really my kind of show but it's getting a lot of praise for stellar animation even if it is a girl music group show

-Viral Hit: looks very different than what we usually get in this genre and I'm always down for good action and fight scenes; has potential

-Train to the End of the World: if this is more like Sonny Boy and less like what we typically get in the adventure genre, this could be a sleeper hit

-The Fable: I have no idea if this will be good but a story of a hitman who is ordered not to kill for awhile with an entirely adult cast is potentially refreshing

-Yatagarasu: The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master: historical fantasy from Studio Pierrot, who brought us The Twelve Kingdoms? Could be good

-Tonari no Yokai-san: this is already getting good reviews for a slice of life show that sounds like it could be a gentler version of Kino's Journey or Mushishi

-The Grimm Variations: this ONA adapting the Brothers Grimm stories by Wit Studio sounds like it has a lot of potential, so probably worth keeping an eye on

And that's it for the most part. Everything else this season looked pretty typical and cliche, again with an absolute flood of isekai or game or romance/ecchi/comedy/school shows. Still, a lot of potentially good stuff this season.

I'm sure TV show fans were surprised by how much more of a denoument this final episode is, expecting there to be some big final battle instead, but that's not really what the book is about. I really enjoyed the finale, wrapping things up and really closing out the characters' journeys. It did feel a tad rushed in the last 10 minutes or so, but they nailed the individual scenes and concepts. What a miniseries - loved it. I'm sad they didn't keep/show the very final line of the book, but I imagine they felt that was too much of a downer ending. What they went with was good though instead.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

Hush money isn't illegal, it's 'democracy,' Trump lawyer says in defiant trial opening statements

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Opening statements in Donald Trump's hush-money trial began Monday. A prosecutor said the case is about a "criminal conspiracy and a coverup."

 

@Greatoneshere two sustained objections in his opening statements

I do wonder how low the floor is on how much of a shit show this will become. 

The weekend recap (this is from the past two weekends combined; note that the Dragon Ball Z movies are being ranked on a bit of a curve on whether they are a  good DBZ movie or not to some degree since they are only 45 minutes to an hour each):

-American Fiction (2023; dir. Cord Jefferson): 7.5/10

-Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014; dirs. Robert Rodriguez/Frank Miller): 5.5/10

-Shortcomings (2023; dir. Randall Park): 7/10

-Ambulance (2022; dir. Michael Bay): 7/10

-Burn After Reading (2008; dirs. Joel and Ethan Coen): 8.5/10

-American Made (2017; dir. Doug Liman): 7/10

-The Taste of Things (2023; dir. Anh Hung Tran): 7.5/10

-Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023; dir. James Wan): 5.5/10

-The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare (2024; dir. Guy Ritchie): 6.5/10

-Dragon Ball Z: Movie 2 - The World's Strongest (1990; dir. Daisuke Nishio): 7.5/10

-Dragon Ball Z: Movie 3 - The Tree of Might (1990; dir. Daisuke Nishio): 7/10

-Dragon Ball Z: Movie 4 - Lord Slug (1991; dir. Mitsuo Hashimoto): 6.5/10

3 hours ago, Derek said:

Can someone explain episode 'The Trap' to me. I was starting to drift off and didn't quite get...

 

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Why they were experimenting on humans, in vault 4, and why it wasn't a 'bad' thing. Also, what was up with the Flame Mother chant?

From what I understand:

8 minutes ago, johnny said:

snyder hasn’t made a good movie in a loooooooooong time 

I know everyone will find this debatable but I found Zack Snyder's cut of Justice League (while overlong) to be a really fun, well done comic book movie for the most part. There's a reason it has a 72% all critics score on RottenTomatoes (with a 6.7/10 rating, pretty high) and has a 93% audience score on RT (with a 4.6/5 after 25,000+ votes). The film also has a 7.9/10 (super high) after 430,000 votes on IMDb. Going by all of those metrics, I'm going to count that as a good movie and that came out 3 years ago in 2021. So that's not really a long time. 

Now, Batman v Superman was really bad, so yeah, I'm with everyone there. But I really liked Man of Steel, which came out all the way back in 2013, so yes, 11 years ago is a long time. Of the last 5 movies he's made since Man of Steel, only one has been good (Justice League) but lots of directors go on bad streaks for various reasons (as I explained, Snyder switching DP's and composers has not helped him since Man of Steel). Michael Bay shot 4 Transformers sequels that were all uniformly terrible (I genuinely still like the first film) but he's done the excellent Pain & Gain and Ambulance as well during that same period (and 13 Hours was also surprisingly solid). Shyamalan made 4 bad movies in a row (Lady in the Water, The Happening, After Earth, The Last Airbender) before The Visit and Split then happened, which were good. So Snyder can always turn it around, potentially.

19 minutes ago, johnny said:

why would you all waste your time watching snyder movies 10 times every time he wants to release a new cut. you know it’s gonna suck! move on and watch something else 

Which is why I'm intentionally waiting for the director's cuts. I haven't seen the theatrical cuts, I'm just going off of what others have said about the cinematography in the PG-13 cuts is all. Snyder's made some bad movies, but he's made some good ones too, like M. Night Shyamalan. From the looks of things it sounds like both Rebel Moon films are straight up bad and I doubt the director's cuts can salvage them since it seems critics and regular audiences are in agreement about these that they're that bad. But I'll check them out to find out when they're released.

46 minutes ago, MarSolo said:

The only good thing Zack Snyder does with comic book movies is his ability to storyboard them by using the actual comic book panels.

 

And that’s it.

Well, Zack Snyder comes from a fine arts painting background, so while having the actual panels for something like 300 and Watchmen helped him a ton on those films, he does draw a lot of his own storyboards for the rest of his films which is pretty impressive. I think a mistake he's made is he's begun to be the actual cinematographer on his films. Not using his long-time collaborator Larry Fong, who shot his films 300, Watchmen, Sucker Punch and Batman v Superman, has hurt the visual quality of his productions, which was one of Snyder's big selling points. Snyder is a great visualist, but it seems he's better at showing and describing it to the DP rather than doing it himself (Amir Mokri did great work for Snyder on Man of Steel as did Fabian Wagner on Snyder's cut of Justice League). I haven't seen Rebel Moon yet (waiting on the director's cuts) but Army of the Dead, while not poorly shot, didn't have the depth of colors and long, beautifully composed shots of his previous films, going for something grittier and more handheld instead, which doesn't look nearly as good. 

Army of the Dead doesn't have a director's cut, so there's no excuse there, but I'm hoping the shoddy editing to force these R-rated movies to be PG-13 is why Rebel Moon looks rough, and it will look less rough in the director's cuts. Sometimes that is the case, sometimes not and it still looks bad. He shot them himself like he did Army of the Dead, so we'll see. I also think Snyder switching composers from Tyler Bates (who did all of Snyder's films until Man of Steel) to Junkie XL (who has done all of Snyder's films since Man of Steel) was also a mistake as I think Tyler Bates and Larry Fong really helped Snyder out in those departments. Junkie XL doesn't seem to be doing nearly as well on Snyder's films.

The Watchmen TV show was excellent, those people be crazy.

1 hour ago, stepee said:

I actually did see one of these on the street and it’s even more ridiculous in person. It’s hard to imagine any normal person actually purchasing it and using it as their primary vehicle.

I also saw someone driving a cybertruck in person recently and it looked dumb as shit. 

On 4/19/2024 at 1:43 PM, Kal-El814 said:

Making Justice League 4 hours long and turning Wonder Woman into a murderer did not make it better.

No, but lots of other aspects of his cut did. The Wonder Woman scene was tonally off, no question, but not sure why we harp on that when Ant-Man's daughter is walking around barely acknowledging as millions of microscopic sentient creatures die around her in Ant-Man 3 or that John Cena joyously murders faceless thugs in cars while basically high fiving his 8-year old nephew (who is also excited and enjoying himself) in Fast X or when Blue Beetle's grandmother is mowing down people as a joke at the end of Blue Beetle, etc.

I don't watch trailers, but given this is its own thing unconnected to any other Transformers material, and is getting a theatrical release, I hope this movie does for Transformers what Spider-Verse did for Spider-Man and what Mutant Mayhem did for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, if we're lucky. It's directed by Josh Cooley, who directed Toy Story 4 (he also co-wrote Inside Out), so I'm pretty hopeful.

If they stick to eight episodes per season like they have with the first three seasons so far, I'm not sure how exactly they are going to adapt three books in just two seasons when it took them three seasons just to adapt four books when two of those books were just a bunch of short stories (and they skipped four short stories from those two books). Either way, probably good to set an end date now.

4 minutes ago, SaysWho? said:

Both versions or just the series?

Both versions unfortunately. 

1 hour ago, Spork3245 said:

Finished the series last night. My biggest disappointment with the show was/is:

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no super mutants. 

  

 

Well, not yet. 

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3 hours ago, Kamusha said:

His whole retiring after 10 movies thing is dumb. Also I'm not sure if he's counting both volumes of Kill Bill as one movie* or not counting Death Proof as a movie, because otherwise he has already released 10 movies.

I think "it can only be 10 movies" is dumb too, but Tarantino counts the Kill Bill films as one film, and he does count Death Proof as a film (the unrated, extended cut of Death Proof is definitely its own movie), which means he's currently at 9 films written/directed by that measure. His reasoning is he wants a perfect filmography and not one which starts to get rote or bad as a director gets too old or makes too many films.

The two written works Tarantino counts as being written by him (that he did not direct), True Romance (Tony Scott) and From Dusk till Dawn (Robert Rodriguez), do not count as part of the 10 films. Tarantino pretty much hates Natural Born Killers since Oliver Stone changed his screenplay so much, so that's never counted for anything. Obviously the episode he directed for ER and his two-parter for CSI don't count either. His guest directed scene for Sin City doesn't count either nor does his written/directed short that is part of the Four Rooms four short film anthology. His experimental unofficial first film, My Best Friend's Birthday, has been long lost to time and went unfinished so that also doesn't count. That covers everything.

4 hours ago, TheLeon said:

He wasn’t above working in TV when he directed episodes of ER and CSI, although maybe he saw those more like gimmicks (what’s “stunt casting” for TV directors?) and not really working in TV. But it would be an easy workaround if he really wants to stop at 10 movies but keep working. 

I believe Tarantino is far more open to working in TV today than he used to be, but I believe he did those episodes of ER and CSI because he said he was a fan of the shows when each was airing. It seemed at one point he might make a DiCaprio as Rick Dalton TV series, but I don't think that will materialize now, but he seemed open to it if DiCaprio would ever do it. He did also release The Hateful Eight: Extended Edition on Netflix, which was a four-episode miniseries version of the theatrical release which feels like him dipping his toes into TV waters (if people recall Tarantino did release a "roadshow" version of The Hateful Eight in theaters as well which was 187 minutes, but the extended version is 210 minutes, even longer) . Just as a side note, it will be leaving Netflix on April 24th (both versions of the film).

9 minutes ago, Keyser_Soze said:

I think [Guy who's full of shit (according to some)] Jeff Grubb had the right idea. Riding off the high from BG3 it seems likely they would do some original thing so more people who are familiar with them from BG3 can start fresh with a new thing they can build off of and bring new people in.

I understand the thinking with this but you can pretty much jump into Divinity without prior knowledge. I started with Divinity: Original Sin 1 and Larian had already made four prior Divinity games yet I didn't feel lost at all playing that one or Divinity: Original Sin 2. That being said, if what Grubb says is true I doubt they meant Divinity: Original Sin 3 then.

They may not but I hope Larian does Divinity: Original Sin 3 next personally. 

Finally caught the first episode (of what looks like will be seven total episodes). This was a really strong start to a show I had very little idea what it was about going in but I come away wanting to watch more. Some of the broad comedy feels tonally misplaced but overall I really enjoyed an area of the Vietnam War that isn't often covered. Hard to believe it'll be 50 years next April since the Fall of Saigon. Chan-wook Park, who not only directs the first three episodes but co-writes all seven, brings all of his incredible skills to bear on the episode, so it is really well made and directed. Everyone should really check this out alongside other recent TV winners like The Gentlemen, Fallout, Tokyo Vice (season 2), Shogun, 3 Body Problem and Invincible (season 2) just to name some really recent stuff. The A.V. Club really enjoyed the first episode as well.

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