fuckle85

Anyone try one topped with mashed potatoes and gravy yet?

Not one of my favorites but I love how at heart the satire centers on it being the Good, the Bad and the Ugly with less good and the bad and the ugly amped up significantly. Can't think of many films better at lampooning the heroic cowboy myth popularized by filmmakers like John Wayne and John Ford, etc decades ago. That, the performances (everyone acted their ass off or at least made plenty of effort to chew the scenery), the set design and super wide format help make it an interesting film to scrutinize every once in a while. Haven't watched the extended version.

13 hours ago, 2user1cup said:

Engrish?

????  Are you making fun of how bad my writing is sometimes lol? How dare you!

39 minutes ago, 2user1cup said:

I really enjoy @2user1cups opinions, they really resonate with me. 

They do for the most part!  The imagery your username references/brings to mind sometimes? Not as much, to be completely honest! 

Almost as much as the show I'm looking forward to the critiques from users on this board.  @Greatoneshere @TwinIon @skillzdadirecta @Anathema-  @sblfilms and anyone else I forgot who's usually got passion for posting the insights and sometimes reviews here, know that your takes are not going unappreciated!

How dare they!

Welp that seals it, gotta check this out as soon as I read or rewatch the first one again.  

On 10/25/2019 at 9:58 AM, skillzdadirecta said:

Well Lost had a great pilot too and we saw where that went 

This was a great start though and hopefully they'll be able to maintain the quality.

 

Another note, that Black Marshall that was the movie character in the beginning of the episode was also based on a real guy

Bass Reeves who Tarantino based Sam Jackson's character on in The Hateful Eight. Some say he was also the inspiration for The Lone Ranger.

It's kinda funny how much Warren is considered by lots of viewers...

Changing Bilbo in the opening flashback scene to Martin Freeman's portrayal should probably be considered at least.

1 hour ago, Jason said:

 

Does this look like a guy who wanted to win?

 

 

Trump and Bannon had auditions for Trump's planned news network the day before the election. You don't do that if you're planning on winning. He wanted to lose and then spend the next 4 years whining on television about Crooked Hillary stealing the election from him.

"shit did my wedding ring slip off when grabbing that waitress by the pussy in trump tower or was it the one in mar a lago?"

On 10/9/2019 at 12:50 AM, Jason said:

He didn't want to win but now holding onto power is his only way to stay out of state prison. 

Wanting to win at any cost for the sake of winning seems like a clear motive he has. 

On 10/9/2019 at 10:56 AM, ort said:

We're just seeing the boiled frog parable in action.

 

It's funny, because we had always assumed that like 75% of the Republican agenda was just complete and total horseshit, but now we see it all played out in front of us, as the entire party has chained themselves to Trump and is being drug down into the mud with him. The more they line up with him, the more they parrot his talking points, the clearer it becomes that this is all nothing but a game to them. They don't actually believe in anything at all. It's all a lie. They have been exposed. No rational thinking person can stand behind Trump. I don't give a fuck what your politics are. Republicans can't pretend anymore to believe all of the shit they say they do. It's antithetical to them supporting this unhinged clown. They believe nothing. They're just playing a game and Trump has exposed them for what they truly are. I don't understand how more people can't see this.

 

I know all of politics is a sick game, but the players usually do a much better job of hiding. The masks are off and anyone who is even remotely intelligent or observant cannot listen to a single god damned motherfucking thing Trump says and take him seriously for even a single second. The fucking emperor has no clothes. We all know it. Everyone pretending he is wearing clothes is an enemy of rational thought and has exposed themselves as the charlatan they are. Frauds. All of them.

 

They are all too deep in this game. They've been defending and rationalizing him this entire time as he has been descending into madness, and now they can't suddenly stop or they will look like idiots. They have to dig in and he's going to drag them all down with it and they will deserve it. Fuck them all. Now and forever. FUCK THEM.

He could still get attention with a TV series without the whole trying to take over the world thing.  If there's any positive side to his grift it might be how it could end up delegitimizing the platform of the GOP more than anyone's done in recent history.   Whatever happens, there will probably be debates for a while about the extent of how responsible he is for the culty behaviors and crimes committed in reaction to his influence.

Is this gonna be a PS5 release now?

What motivates Trump?  It's not the money, since the gig pays less than before and it harms the businesses he already had.  It's not to be loved, since the stuff he says could only be appreciated by haters.  Judging from the giant skyscrapers with his name in gold letters you'd thing a guy like him would care about legacy yet he does pretty much everything imaginable to burn it to the ground.  The man is so stupid yet I cannot fully understand what his grift is.  What was he hoping to gain out of it?  Is it an act, and if so, for what reason? How is trolling and dogwhistling for the luls worth it when it empowers disenfranchised creeps to shatter records for the amount of mass shootings per year? The more you try to understand any of it the more elusive it gets.  People that evil rarely exist outside of cartoons.

To who's watched it, is it substantially more than an acting reel for Phoenix + comic book movie?  Does it pull no punches like Taxi Driver and Fight Club in being a character study of a fucked up person via having a lot to say about its subject, or does it feel like the character study stuff is there mainly to add edge and depth to a Joker origin story if that makes sense?  

As I'm playing through this unspoiled and reading files about...

now I'm wondering if the story might be revealed to be a Quantum Break sequel or prequel.

Just now, Mercury33 said:

 

Carrot Top

I rest my case. 

3 hours ago, RedSoxFan9 said:

I think he stopped being funny when he got jacked. Comedians can’t be good looking and rich. 

3 hours ago, skillzdadirecta said:

I wouldn't go so far to call the dude "good looking" 

It's not that he's attractive now - looking swole DOES make comedians a bit less funny though.  Joe Rogan for example was never that funny, but his early days back when he was thin and scrappy were his best as a stand-up because he didn't look like an aggressive bouncer who'd break your neck with ease.  An unspoken rule of comedy: the more intimidating and powerful a guy looks, the less funny they're likely to be because the human brain can't feel comfortable enough to laugh while feeling intimidated at the same time.  

I mean a main theme of the special is satirizing comedy that punches down, isn't it?  And sometimes he tells jokes that apply to some of his own flaws (he's not exactly the most progressive voice on LGBTQ issues lol),  making his own ignorance on those subjects the target.   I laughed at some of it, cringed sometimes too (mostly it was the intended reaction, I think). Not as good as his earlier stuff, but it was worth a watch. Rightwing haters seem to be loving it for all the wrong reasons as usual and you can't help but wonder to what extent the angrier voices on the left raging over it would find a webcomic like this to be genuinely funny or insightful:

Ultimately the new Chappelle seems to be making fun of insensitive humor and those who actually perpetuate it, while also poking fun at anyone who doesn't understand that's what he's trying to do.  I have a few critiques about some bits which feel are a bit hacky/antiquated to me, but for the most part I liked it.

1 hour ago, sexy_shapiro said:

So yeah, to anyone who thinks I’m unstable, please read the post above. I’m fully aware I’m unstable. It reflects my current environment.

 

I’m Komusha, btw. I have no reason to hide who I am anymore, even though some of you have already caught on. 

If this question is too personal or if for any reason you're not comfortable answering it no worries, but what happened for your situation to result in you being forced to stay with your homophobic family members?  

56 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

That’s fine, but you singled out OOT as being particularly bad about this, and that’s just not true when compared to the other 3D zeldas. 

Because it always got the most hype, and did for a long time. Also I'm not just talking about the intentional tutorial sections, but all the moments where the game overexplains the story and quests to you, tells you where to go, what to do, etc. Though I'd agree that most classic 3D zeldas are pretty bad about this.

40 minutes ago, Paperclyp said:

There’s not a ton of that in OOT. 

there is for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Was a bit harsh in my previous post, but the amount that classic 3D zeldas, especially OOT, try to guide you to do this and that is too much for me and always felt like a tutorial section that would never end.  BOTW removed all of that and expanded on what did work and the series is better for it imho.

There's some talk of deplatforming going on but laughing at footage of these events is much more therapeutic (goodness I'm such a bully!), so keep 'em coming, straights!