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I'm still amazed that Trump is making fun of someone for being angry. She's angry that leaders for decades have failed to adequately address a global crisis. Trump gets angry when Rosie O'Donnell makes fun of his hair.

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/12/12/ghost-of-tsushima-launches-on-ps4-summer-2020/

The only thing that promo really says is that he's influenced Ben all along, not that he had anything to do with Snoke. Also, they've really been keeping the Emperor's looks hidden despite seeing him in every trilogy. I've been quite curious how a Sequel Trilogy Emperor is going to look since he's not 1:1 from Episode 3 to Episode 6. I keep thinking he's going to be in a jar a la Futurama.

Yup, and it's not someone doing a boring shtick and nitpicking. Who would have thought?! The whole point of the biggest accomplishment being throwing down his light saber in defiance of the Emperor is exactly what I've been talking about for ages!

This is a great example of everything wrong with RLM; they're clueless and serve only to get laughs and be edgy, with their, "Haha, get it? There's a woman tied in the basement," shtick but they genuinely don't know much. I just finished watching this video, which was made by someone who was lukewarm at best to TLJ but has seen how rich and fantastic it is the more they watch it. I timestamped the part where he takes on RLM (30:42 if it doesn't come up): RLM also had some funny jokes about Phantom Menace but completely misses the point of Lucas' reaction to the first rough cut of the film. Plinkett talks about how everyone is stunned with the bad work on the screen, shows Lucas pulling out his hair and admitting, "I may have gone too far in a few places." You can think Phantom Menace isn't that good a film, and it really isn't, but that scene is not revelatory. I work in news and have constructed stories that were 2 - 3 minutes long. In the span of that story, you can create a sequence that works very well, and another, and another, but then you watch the whole thing and the pacing is off, there are too many good sequences that work better alone than together, and you have to cut it down. Take that 2 - 3 minutes and extend it to 2 and a half fucking hours. Yes, there is some tonal inconsistency, but of course there could be even if the film was great. The guy doesn't understand what happens when you take a long movie and look at how it works together as a sum of its parts. But he does a funny voice and makes a joke that he kidnaps women, so he's edgy and hard to impress, which makes him good. BORING! I've no idea who this guy was as early as this morning, but a more measured take is far better than the, "It has no worth," takes that things like RLM and CinemaSins pretend some movies are. Not many things are 100% terrible, and TLJ ain't one of those things, sorry.

This is REALLY late, and I didn't want to make a new thread, but this is a great write-up of the voting surge in 2018 and what voter turnout looked like.

ESB did get pushback at the time, too, which is interesting! It was even brought up when the prequels released, but the difference there was that the prequels weren't great films. Also, after Episode 9 releases, can you list what parts of the "spoilers" you read were accurate and which weren't? I've read nothing, so I'm actually curious how many leaks line up with the finished product, and how many were guesses or flat-out wrong.

Yes, this exactly. Nothing personal to him or what he thinks or how he enjoys the movie. I'm smarter than they are, yes, but I literally gave you reasons in that post. I've nothing against you, dude. I'm glad that you went to therapy; some people think it's not for them or it can't help, but it's a courageous and appropriate thing to do.

I'm giving this a laugh react at first glance, but I hope this doesn't mean no motivation in life.

South Carolina GOP can cancel its 2020 primary, judge says It is true, though, that no one has a right to vote in a primary. Your right to vote is for the general elections, local elections, etc. but primaries are done by the party itself, which is why you're not required to have a Libertarian Party primary, for example.

Okay: Half this board, including me, are smarter and better than anybody you follow on Youtube and actually can speak about set-ups and payoffs and themes of a film. None of RLM's observations are really that good or insightful. Some of it is a basic misunderstanding of how a film or show or even news story are made (ex: Lucas' reactions watching a rough cut of The Phantom Menace). RLM didn't even know much about Rian Johnson, which is embarrassing considering how many smaller directors end up making big movies and embarrassing for anyone who sets up a primarily film-based website, and CinemaSins is not respected by any filmmaker that I know of (but has been shit on by some of them), all of whom make better films than, "Lemme harp on this small thing or get something fundamentally wrong about the film we're supposed to shit on," CinemaSins. Channels like them degrade criticism and discourse and feed into this entire culture of, "I can't talk about a movie without using hyperbole." And judging by your response to my light speed explanation which made you fly off the handle, your response is exactly the kind of thing CinemaSins has helped do to poison how we talk about shows or movies.

I don't know what's up in your life, but you are one angry motherfucker and none of this makes any sense. So I'll bow out and wish you well.

I love how not only was I a day late, but the titles are nearly identical.

I AM the FGC.

Most of the criticism is no better than Cinema Sins. You're the one who mentioned millions of views, so Sins was the first thing I thought of. Youtube criticism from 20-somethings is worse because they don't offer anything better than what I can get from Skillz or sblfilms or Kal. They consistently offer significantly worse "analysis." And many videos will pick out some camera shot here or some line there and extrapolate something that's not even there in the scene, which is where the 15-minute videos come in. Lengthening the "critiques" to two hours, like a really bad RedLetterMedia video (where everyone lost their shit because the guy knew what a shot/reverse shot was and thought he was a film scholar), doesn't make the video more worth watching. So yeah, my time is better spent watching a great film like TLJ than some random 20-something guy who doesn't know what he's talking about for an hour. There aren't really many people on Youtube worth watching, and I've watched enough of these mystical videos to know. What do you want to hear? For example, you asked about the light speed. I told you exactly why the scene is what it is and how it relates to the themes explored in the movie. Maybe you didn't like that answer, but that's your answer. People like to shit on movies in videos, but once their critique is critiqued, they lose their mind.

An incorrect assessment and a fundamental misunderstanding of what made all episodes with Anakin bad.

It's not the first time because it consistently happens. YouTube videos? Lols Most YouTube videos about movies are done by 20 year old film students who just learned something about cameras and need to make a 15 minute video of something they saw. They're blogs. CinemaSins gets millions of views, and they're the shittiest form of "criticism" I can think of.

Sf5 is fun as hell

I really can't. Too many games to limit it to 10, especially with how frequently my opinions will change. My list of games will just be a list of great games and therefore not that illuminating.

tbh, I feel like Capcom became great again (not a political reference lol) this gen after seemingly falling off during the HD transition. What I'm really impressed with is, I never could get into RE. I couldn't handle the tank controls, and then during the PS3/360 generation, the change in direction hurt its reputation among many fans. But this resurgence, starting with RE7, has gotten me into Resident Evil for the first time in my life. I'm now one of those who can't wait for their next Resident Evil announcement because they've done such a splendid job. Kudos to Capcom!

Because it happened on Fox NEWS Jesus, do I have to teach you people everything?

When you're sitting there and people start running at you, it's freaky, man. Cool game, though!

No, dude, I'm saying there's not much to talk about if you didn't like some characters and someone else did. But the rest is mostly fan complaints. This is a movie critique: "Attack of the Clones suffers from bad dialogue because we never get to see relationships develop. We're told about things that happened to Anakin and Obi-Wan, but for the most part, the dialogue serves to tell you things that happened, things that are happening, and things that will happen, and the dialogue turns into exposition instead of a way to get to know the characters." This is a fan service complaint: "I waited 30 years to see Luke kick ass as a Jedi Master and I didn't get to see it and he died in the movie so I can't see it happen now." A character dying isn't a critique of the movie because someone had these scenes play out in their head and then didn't have it happen. And the consistent theme to TLJ criticisms is they aren't ever about the quality of the film but about what someone wished would happen, pickiness about the science of outer space, and wondering why good guys in a movie don't kamikaze on a regular basis to make things easier. The last one always gets me because it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the theme of sacrifice and how a film builds its story from those themes. Poe recklessly went to destroy a dreadnought, which led to many "heroes" dying instead of fighting for another day. He's scolded for this; there was no reason to rush in there to be the hero at that moment. Holdo's plan wasn't trying to be a hero; it was to get the Resistance to safety so they could regroup and live to fight another day. Her plan was already to stay behind. She sacrificed herself last minute not to be a hero, but to save the fleeing Resistance from being destroyed. These themes are revisited when Rose saves Finn and when Luke distracts Kylo and the First Order so everyone could escape. Hell, it's what Luke did in ROTJ. The badass thing to do wasn't killing Vader; it was throwing down his light saber in defiance of the Emperor.

Yeah, it all falls under the same umbrella, with most of it about how Luke didn't act like Obi-Wan. Didn't like Poe, didn't like Rose, but there's not much to really say about that. I liked them a lot. *shrug* And the light speed jump has been talked about so often that I think people want to find something to hate: it was a last-minute thing she did to sacrifice herself, and sacrifice is a staple of epics. Nobody has ever done kamikaze right off the bat for the Republic, Rebellion, or Resistance in any of the movies I can think of.