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slunken 06-23-2022 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Disco King (Post 4595731)
I have lost the argument. Instead of saying sprinkles, I should have said adult shit.

thank you for being kind. this log-in shit is really pissing me off.

just switched to another browser and now my identity and credit card info will be stolen because of this godforsaken website.

slunken 06-23-2022 05:42 PM

but yet i MUST post

slunken 06-23-2022 05:43 PM

I MUST spread truth and beauty and honesty

topleybird 06-23-2022 05:56 PM

You made a thread about not being able to stay logged in back in March and you're still dealing with this? No wonder you're acting out so much lately

Don't know if it'll make any difference for anyone else, but I was having this problem for a few weeks, and finally I clicked the "Remember Me" box when logging in, and I've been fine since

teh b0lly!!1 06-23-2022 06:01 PM

yea and clear your cookies

teh b0lly!!1 06-23-2022 06:04 PM


slunken 06-23-2022 06:19 PM

i tried another browser - still have to re-login after every post i make

what i'm not allowed to browse incognito anymore?

i will not accept this!

also i'm not acting out i'm spreading truth and beauty

slunken 06-23-2022 06:19 PM

i had to login 3 times to post that ^

slunken 06-23-2022 06:23 PM

here's the dumb method now:

make a post. a very cool accurate post that cuts to the core.

copy it.

try to post. get logged out. re-log in.

sometimes the post will have posted but if it didn't i have the very important texts on my clipboard.

paste those. hit submit.

repeat (usually)

slunken 06-23-2022 06:24 PM

i'm using a completely new browser there are no cookies to clear

slunken 06-23-2022 06:24 PM

i'm using a completely new browser there are no cookies to clear

slunken 06-23-2022 06:25 PM

i just saw a fat guy jogging down the street it's literally 100 degrees outside

teh b0lly!!1 06-26-2022 07:36 AM

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Originally Posted by slunken (Post 4595787)
i'm using a completely new browser there are no cookies to clear

Quote:

Originally Posted by slunken (Post 4595788)
i'm using a completely new browser there are no cookies to clear

love it

have you tried sending it back and asking for a new one?

cork_soaker 06-26-2022 11:09 AM

seems to me, this guy needs a sound card upgrade

slunken 06-26-2022 05:51 PM

i kind of fixed it

thanks, turds

teh b0lly!!1 06-27-2022 10:21 AM

Finally got around to watching The Many Saints of Newark. Being a huge Sopranos fan, I was apprehensive about this. It's very challenging to have a whole new cast play a whole universe of characters so fully inhabited and developed by the original cast. Almost every character on the Sopranos is very round and there are a lot of callbacks to the show here, some more obvious and some less. Sometimes it also ends up feeling a little bit forced but I guess that's to be expected from a feature like this.

More than anything else I see this as David Chase's farewell tour to all these characters that are obviously still in his flesh and blood. He's a special writer imo. The characters are mostly very consistent with who they were on the show. This feels like a particularly dense, double length Sopranos episode. Alan Taylor also directed some episodes for the show and I thought he did a decent job overall of keeping the show's tone but also being a slightly more cinematically romanticized and glam-y version of it, especially seeing as the film takes place in the 60s\70s.

In the original show I always got this sense like David Chase deeply loved James Gandolfini somehow. Their work together, the writing and acting and direction combined created one of the greatest antiheroes ever, imho. Simultaneously beautiful and ugly in equal measures, as weak as he is strong, you can't look away from him making every wrong choice. James Gandolfini’s presence and amazing acting made that entire show possible, because he was so in tune with the character, Chase could really go places in his writing, and trust that it will all fall into place around Gandolfini.

In that sense, his son’s presence in the film as young Tony justifies the existence this film in a similar way. He just has the same blue moon in his eyes. It’s pretty wild. It really does just seem like Tony Soprano as a young kid. The type of de-aging you cannot fake. An authentic cinematic pleasure that occurs very rarely. Seeing his face and eyes react to things, it’s like, it lines up perfectly with the Tony we’ve watched for 6 seasons. It’s simply there. He's not the finest actor, but it works just because it's him.

There’s some nice little touches, like how Tony’s mother Livia looked a lot like Carmela when she was young (actually Livia has always been one of the most well written characters on the show, and she's written just as well here). Corrado’s arc. Or how Tony does the same things as a teenager as AJ and gets told off in the same undeterring ways. Many parallels and I'm very sure this will reward multiple viewings.

You can't really call this a perfect A+ movie, it's not that, and some characters sometimes feel a little like a caricature of themselves. The acting can be hit and miss. But I still loved it. In a world full of endless bullshit, this film comes across to me as a true labor of love, a real passion project. A passing of the torch, and honoring that prolific friendship with a lot of respect and gratitude. I love David Chase more than any other modern day showrunner and I wish there were more people like him around.

BlissedandGone2 06-29-2022 05:23 PM

Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - B-
Not a movie, but felt like one, The Bear - A

Joey Goldberg 06-29-2022 05:58 PM

yeah, Bear was great! wonder if they're even thinking of a 2nd season or if it was meant to be one of those "beginning is really the ending" type of things

BlissedandGone2 06-29-2022 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Joey Goldberg (Post 4596126)
yeah, Bear was great! wonder if they're even thinking of a 2nd season or if it was meant to be one of those "beginning is really the ending" type of things

yeah i'm back and forth on whether a second season would be worth the risk of tainting the show. it was such a good end-to-end season of tv, as much as i immediately wished there was more of those characters to watch when i finished, i kinda think learning too much more about them and where they end up might ruin the vibe.

topleybird 08-10-2022 09:42 AM



Prey (Comanche dub): A fucking plus. Never seen a Predator film in its entirety before (seen enough to recognize a couple homages here) but I think it'd be tough to beat this one. Amber Midthunder (r) and Coco (l) whip ass and would happily put an arrow through any anti-woke incel's cranium

MyOneAndOnly 08-10-2022 12:07 PM

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Originally Posted by topleybird (Post 4598907)


Prey (Comanche dub): A fucking plus. Never seen a Predator film in its entirety before (seen enough to recognize a couple homages here) but I think it'd be tough to beat this one. Amber Midthunder (r) and Coco (l) whip ass and would happily put an arrow through any anti-woke incel's cranium

It was very good. Better than I expected from the previous films.



I think they dubbed scenes that were shot in English into Comanche with native Comanche speakers, since Midthunder (I think) is Sioux and doesn't speak the language. I'd like to hear how it sounded to people who speak Comanche. One of the criticisms i read of the new show Dark Winds was that most of the actors were not Diné and their dialogue made that obvious.

Squish Squash 08-10-2022 01:01 PM

Tbh I’ve never seen any predator film but I do enjoy the fact that Prey is making conservatives mad.

The last movie I watched was the Death of Stalin which I watched with my dad last night. It’s not really my style of humor so I think a lot of the jokes were lost on me. My dad thought it was very funny though.

topleybird 08-10-2022 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by MyOneAndOnly (Post 4598913)
I think they dubbed scenes that were shot in English into Comanche with native Comanche speakers, since Midthunder (I think) is Sioux and doesn't speak the language. I'd like to hear how it sounded to people who speak Comanche.

Of the eight folks listed on the credits for the dub, only one character (Wasape) was not dubbed by the original actor; everyone else, Midthunder included, did their own lines.

One of the producers is Comanche/Blackfeet and was brought on to make sure everything was authentic, so I was figuring the language was pretty spot-on, but yeah, I guess I'd be curious as well, particularly if someone like Midthunder got the accent/pronunciation passably good. I've seen some people complain the French dialogue was not great, so...?

MyOneAndOnly 08-10-2022 03:25 PM

Fuck the French!

topleybird 08-10-2022 04:33 PM

Finally, a Predator film that accurately depicts the French and the level of respect they deserve

yo soy el mejor 08-10-2022 09:49 PM

Nope

3/5

some parts were good n the perfect amount of scary. other times, the acting was distracting and elements of the story seemed just like filler and offered nothing to the story. which, in the beginning especially made it tough to know where it was going.

i got to see it with tommy and our friend though and hang out afterward at early dinner and then a bar so it was all good in that context.

teh b0lly!!1 08-16-2022 05:37 AM

Watched Vanilla Sky the other night.

Just seems so very appropriate to watch a film about life turning out to be a nightmare?

This movie was grilled so hard at the time. I quite enjoyed it. I think the way Tom Cruise was utilized on this, especially in an era of his life where he was approaching his peak insanity, works incredibly well. Kurt Russell is great on it too. Cameron diaz and Penelope Cruz too. The whole cast works particularly well.

It's interesting how Cameron Crowe, aka the Rolling Stone guy who directed Almost Famous, used music in this film in a way that feels extremely dated to a very particular period in early 2000s. In that way, it makes the film seem like much more of a heavy pop product now, even though at the time it was made those songs weren't so overplayed yet. But it's kinda cool because it adds a dissociative, out of contex layer.

I just love surreal nightmarish films with psychedelic ideas and they were going for it in a big, lovely way. Bizarre displacements, jarring little things, a lot of work going into small details. I read a quote of Cameron Crowe saying, "as deep as you wanted to look into the movie, I wanted it to be able to meet you there", and I really love that. Definitely need to watch this a few more times.

I think it's incredible to think that Tom Cruise has done Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, and Vanilla Sky all in the span of 2 years only. Between those three films, I think we get to see the real him. Which is, kinda, no one.

buzzard 08-16-2022 09:50 PM

Did you also see Abre los Ojos?

Ah-bray losh ohosh... Ah-bray losh ohosh... Ah-bray losh ohosh...

MyOneAndOnly 08-17-2022 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1 (Post 4599224)

I think it's incredible to think that Tom Cruise has done Magnolia, Eyes Wide Shut, and Vanilla Sky all in the span of 2 years only. Between those three films, I think we get to see the real him. Which is, kinda, no one.

He is mesiah of Scientology. I don't think any of his films show his real self.

Joey Goldberg 08-17-2022 12:47 AM

Constantine

kinda dated but not quite as much as other stuff from around that time particularly in the action/anything-comic-or-graphic-novel-related mid-00s

uh

it was fun to watch

and i didn't fall asleep

good grade?


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