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  1. eugene
    i hate to sound like a predictable parody of myself, but there's just no other way - it was trash. the script is extremely mechanical and lifeless. there's no flow, it's really just a bunch of scenes where the characters explain the state of things to the viewer. nothing felt like a real dialogue. and to add insult to injury, there are two or three in-film flashbacks with those reverb-y line readings that "assist" the explanation of the plot even further, god forbid someone might have misunderstood what was so painfully obvious and predictable. it's all just a bunch of sci fi tropes, there's nothing magical or mysterious about this, not even the corny poetry of the original ala "tears in the rain". there was an attempt to pull something like that with that jared leto character, but it's a fucking jared leto, so how could that even work? yes the visuals and the environments are impressive and backed with those vangelis motives do provoke the feels from time to time, but that's clearly not enough.
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    wtf, i can't stand villeneuve and i never pay for movies, but i just bought a ticket for a showing that's in an hour and a half.
  3. eugene
    22, u?
  4. eugene
    just can't snap out of it, huh?
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    but you seem to be crossing the line from this above to clown-nationalism where you take pride in what is essentially a completely random event of you being born in a particular region.
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    flol, this is some balkan level shit. don't recall such levels of clown-nationalism being exposed here ever (that is besides my own posts about israel from 7-10 years ago, lol).
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    pretty much. it's really a misuse of sci-fi as a see it, they only use some (pretty exhausted by now) sci-fi-ish' concepts as a package to deliver some trite emotional punches. pretty much identical feel and structure for the first 3 episodes despite them having very different settings. is that pk dicks guy even good and it's the tv people's fault or is it another intra-watmm ultra overrated thing? i'm really beginning to hate that idea of anthology series that seems to be picking up right now, still can't quite formulate properly why, but there's definitely something brewing.
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    if the concert attendees had shoulder-fired, laser guided, missile launchers none of that would happen and they could swiftly deal with the attacker shooting at them from above.
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    lol
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    lol
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    yep, it's gonna be even worse than S1.
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    with this alt-right/this is too pc/too sjw circle jerk i'm seeing i actually hope the whole cast will be replaced by black actors, including that robot. and the soundtrack should be replaced by 70's funk and r & b.
  13. eugene
    farted really loud during a work related, cross national, 3-way video conference today. i was sure that the not so great audio quality of the transmission would garble it enough to make it sound unrecognizable, as a random interference of sorts, and so i didn't bother doing any effort to conceal it. but it's possible that this was a mistake as there was a short but pronounced pause in the talk of one of the colleagues after i broadcasted the fart.
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    whaddayaknow - i actually enjoyed it. i found the the ultra pc and respectable manner of speaking and acting constrained by the military hierarchy quite amusing. it's refreshingly different from the recent star trek films where literally everyone is a bratty and colorful character that's all about outsmarting everyone and breaking the rules. obviously it happens here too, but it's different, the magnitude of chain of command, the importance of the mission and rules feels much more significant. the pacing is good. the visuals and the music too. the walking dead girl is actually watchable. the parallel and the back and forth between klingtons and the feds was well conceived. it touches the cliches often but doesn't really succumb to them due to good pacing. only the commando raid at the end seemed really stupid. plus it gets bonus points from me for seemingly pissing all of the star trek nerds.
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    totally, the upcoming war with north korea will do wonders to marvel franchise i feel, it's getting a bit stale and uninspired recently.
  16. eugene
    if people made the best decisions we would probably have IDM jetpacked nanobots hovering around stuffing food right into people's mouths by now. and they wouldn't even ask for tips!
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    the little hours - at first it seems like its lame gimmick (horny and bratty medieval nuns and other actors (trash) talk in a very much contemporary lingo of indie sundance dramedies) is all it's got going for. but quickly enough it becomes very endearing, sweet, light and just funny. it doesn't generate a lot of flols and doesn't let the funny go over the top and overshadow everything, but it constantly makes you chuckle. it feels like this internal restrain and the eye and love for small humor is what sets it apart from typical contemporary indie comedies. the score is very much rooted in medieval times and is just gorgeous, and so are the locations, production design and cinematography. it's a very peculiar contrast to the contemporary speak. the cast is all really good and colorful (alison brie more than others) with the exceptions of that actress with a small face that goes a bit over the top. the film sags towards the end but overall i thought was really good and fresh. recently i've been noticing that this 60-70 metacritic score range is quite interesting, i think this is where you find those slightly off kilter and original films that are made with care but don't get the normie critics approval or attention.
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    holy fuck it just hit me, trump really is a u.s. president, isn't he? unreal.
  19. eugene

    DANK MEMES

    eugene replied to colunga's topic in General Banter

    lol
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    strong island - this docu is about a black guy who got killed by a white man in some kind of unclear altercation and whom the white grand jury quickly accused of being guilty in own death due whitey's alleged self defense, which prevented the start of an actual trial. i sort of expected an in depth exploration of institutional racism in american judicial system but got pretty much none of that. instead we get an overly emotional (often spiced up with cringeworthy theatrics) account of the family members about how the guy who got killed was a really, really good guy and how his death deeply affected them. something really rubs me wrong about this kind of setup. instead of establishing and investigating the role of institutional racism in this case this docu takes it for granted from pretty much for the start and tries to get your identification with the victim and his family by drowning you in tears and snot and implicit anger. it's quite a bit of a misuse of the idea of a documentary film i think. if you wanted an exploration of an american black family experience then denzel's recent "feces" was solid enough and much better presented and less manipulative than this one. as for actual documentary of american racism, i guess i'll try "i am not your negro".
  21. eugene
    it's actually better than that. the actress who played her was apparently really stupid and thought that paint is somehow damaging her health and skin and so she quit, they had to kill her off in the script.
  22. eugene
    if i had more social balls i would also never tip. this service tipping practice is just incredibly sleazy and obnoxious to me. the typical work arrangement in this industry where the actual wage is low and the tips are the bulk of your income forces the service provider to form some kind of fake short-term personal connection with the service receiver and to pretend to go out of the way for him to try to get a better tip instead of simply doing the job, and it's always extremely obvious and disguising. it's even worse with hotel services where the service providers will bluntly transmit all kinds signals to indicate that they want you to tip. makes me vomit at the thought of being at that position. so basically it was chris who was doing you a great service. he was showing disregard for this awful tipping practice and by doing that he was trying to normalize non-tipping and proper working practices, and secondly, he was emphasizing to you that you've made very poor life choices to have ended up with such a job.
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    Business Smalls
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    no it wasn't. this is the boom operator btw: nice.
  25. eugene
    i actually do want this to be good. with the exception of farscape, firefly and maybe the more recent expanse if we're stretching it, existing tv space operas are either too dated, too corny, too shit or some kind of a mix of that. so there's enough room to do something cool within this genre and it looks like it's got the necessary budget at least. that lead actress is indeed pretty terrible and probably like 30% of the running time it'll be busy ticking all the start trek references boxes and staying "true to star trek roots" for reddit to wank over. but whatever, i thought it's scheduled for 2022 or something, but it's out in a few days so there's no point in preemptively shitting on it i guess. CANT WAIT TILL THEY REVEAL THE NAME OF THE BOOM OPERATOR FOR THE PILOT ANYWAY.
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