That Hobbit trailer is the most Lord of the Rings-y one we've had yet which I think is a good thing
Peter Jackson does big sweeping epic battles and heroic defiance and so on better than he does interpersonal drama
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the lack of much interpersonal anything is a large part of what's made the hobbit movies so bleh for me
So, someone made a sequel to Jarhead ... and it's an action movie this time instead of being a social commentary ... and it's got Cole Hauser in it and the dickhead general from Avatar.
I think the rough equivalent here is making a sequel to Brokeback Mountain but making sure it's a modernized western and the two main characters peck on the cheek once.
What a supremely bad idea this was, I cannot believe this shit was funded and actually got off the ground; did no one stop and say 'hey, let's take stock of this situation before we go full-on-head-up-ass?'
just watching the trailer for the hobbit is reminding me how I feel no connection to any of the somber faces it's flashing on screen even after almost 6 hours
Everything Kevin Smith has said about his wife unintentionally makes her out to be a thoroughly unpleasant person
He tried to watch The Avengers with her and within 5 minutes of it starting she laughed uproariously and declared it the dumbest movie she's ever seen and left
And now on the latest SModcast he talks about trying to watch Game of Thrones with her and the very first time there was a sex scene she declared the entire show sexist trash and left
It makes me really uncomfortable because he's acting like he's just telling funny stories and it just sounds like the description of a relationship where the two people have nothing in common
So, someone made a sequel to Jarhead ... and it's an action movie this time instead of being a social commentary ... and it's got Cole Hauser in it and the dickhead general from Avatar.
I think the rough equivalent here is making a sequel to Brokeback Mountain but making sure it's a modernized western and the two main characters peck on the cheek once.
What a supremely bad idea this was, I cannot believe this shit was funded and actually got off the ground; did no one stop and say 'hey, let's take stock of this situation before we go full-on-head-up-ass?'
Oh hey, Jarhead. That's a movie I should watch again.
I am currently watching Ghost Ship, a film from 2002 with Karl Urban and Gabriel Byrne that I had never heard of before now. About 20 minutes in and its shaping up pretty B movie.
So, someone made a sequel to Jarhead ... and it's an action movie this time instead of being a social commentary ... and it's got Cole Hauser in it and the dickhead general from Avatar.
I think the rough equivalent here is making a sequel to Brokeback Mountain but making sure it's a modernized western and the two main characters peck on the cheek once.
What a supremely bad idea this was, I cannot believe this shit was funded and actually got off the ground; did no one stop and say 'hey, let's take stock of this situation before we go full-on-head-up-ass?'
Oh hey, Jarhead. That's a movie I should watch again.
I am currently watching Ghost Ship, a film from 2002 with Karl Urban and Gabriel Byrne that I had never heard of before now. About 20 minutes in and its shaping up pretty B movie.
Was this the movie with the cruise liner on the poster that also had a giant skull on it?
So, someone made a sequel to Jarhead ... and it's an action movie this time instead of being a social commentary ... and it's got Cole Hauser in it and the dickhead general from Avatar.
I think the rough equivalent here is making a sequel to Brokeback Mountain but making sure it's a modernized western and the two main characters peck on the cheek once.
What a supremely bad idea this was, I cannot believe this shit was funded and actually got off the ground; did no one stop and say 'hey, let's take stock of this situation before we go full-on-head-up-ass?'
Oh hey, Jarhead. That's a movie I should watch again.
I am currently watching Ghost Ship, a film from 2002 with Karl Urban and Gabriel Byrne that I had never heard of before now. About 20 minutes in and its shaping up pretty B movie.
Was this the movie with the cruise liner on the poster that also had a giant skull on it?
Yep. Sucks how the best scene (in my opinion) was the opening scene though.
Everything Kevin Smith has said about his wife unintentionally makes her out to be a thoroughly unpleasant person
He tried to watch The Avengers with her and within 5 minutes of it starting she laughed uproariously and declared it the dumbest movie she's ever seen and left
And now on the latest SModcast he talks about trying to watch Game of Thrones with her and the very first time there was a sex scene she declared the entire show sexist trash and left
It makes me really uncomfortable because he's acting like he's just telling funny stories and it just sounds like the description of a relationship where the two people have nothing in common
I know a lot of people who love comic book films like TDK and Blade but find most Marvel studios offerings totally stupid and boring, so the first part isn't a stretch. The second is dumb though.
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
GoT has a lot of good female characters (some of the best on TV currently IMO) that interact with/are affected by the sexism in their world in vastly different ways.
There are also a lot of naked women randomly in the background.
For me the former definitely outweighs the latter, but I see how someone could feel differently.
Game of Thrones the book series is an interesting exploration of the idea that in a properly faux-medieval fantasy world, women would be property, war would swallow up and chew out the best of a generation, being poor is awful and people regularly die of horrible diseases, starvation and brutal oppression. The exploitation, violence and general unpleasantness of the world is kind of the point of the deconstruction.
Game of Thrones the tv series is that by association but I feel it is more caught up in the heady heights of it's own blood and tits based success, though it does have moments of "haha yeah boobies in the brothel! Oh look that one girl got shot to death by a sadist with a crossbow and nobody gives a shit because she's a prostitute!" which kind of drive home the point a bit.
So yeah Game of Thrones is horrible but as long as it shows that all this is actually vile then I am okay with that.
Well Game of Thrones is kind of sexist. Or at least... sexploitative.
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
GoT has a lot of good female characters (some of the best on TV currently IMO) that interact with/are affected by the sexism in their world in vastly different ways.
There are also a lot of naked women randomly in the background.
For me the former definitely outweighs the latter, but I see how someone could feel differently.
Both are fairly true to the medieval period, which the series is heavily inspired from.
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Not laughing at how bad it was, or anything, either. It was glorious start to finish.
Peter Jackson does big sweeping epic battles and heroic defiance and so on better than he does interpersonal drama
doesn't need to be a trilogy, Pete
Blame New Line, they made him stretch it out.
Here is the trailer for Kevin Smith's horror movie about a mad scientist who turns a man into a walrus
100% of those words were accurate
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I think the rough equivalent here is making a sequel to Brokeback Mountain but making sure it's a modernized western and the two main characters peck on the cheek once.
What a supremely bad idea this was, I cannot believe this shit was funded and actually got off the ground; did no one stop and say 'hey, let's take stock of this situation before we go full-on-head-up-ass?'
that makes no sense
its owns or pwns
what are you doing kevin
I think it was a trick because without that I wouldn't have paused to decipher what the fuck it meant and I wouldn't now know what I know
He tried to watch The Avengers with her and within 5 minutes of it starting she laughed uproariously and declared it the dumbest movie she's ever seen and left
And now on the latest SModcast he talks about trying to watch Game of Thrones with her and the very first time there was a sex scene she declared the entire show sexist trash and left
It makes me really uncomfortable because he's acting like he's just telling funny stories and it just sounds like the description of a relationship where the two people have nothing in common
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Oh hey, Jarhead. That's a movie I should watch again.
I am currently watching Ghost Ship, a film from 2002 with Karl Urban and Gabriel Byrne that I had never heard of before now. About 20 minutes in and its shaping up pretty B movie.
It was from 2009. You could have forgot about it by now or just thought we all already saw it!
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i also could have never registered here in the first place but we all have to live with my bad decisions now
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Was this the movie with the cruise liner on the poster that also had a giant skull on it?
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Yep. Sucks how the best scene (in my opinion) was the opening scene though.
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Wasn't the last movie supposed to be There and Back Again?
I know a lot of people who love comic book films like TDK and Blade but find most Marvel studios offerings totally stupid and boring, so the first part isn't a stretch. The second is dumb though.
Yes, which was much better
Now it's Battle of the Five Armies which is dumb
How is it either? It still has far more violence than sex, and even if it didn't, we live in a culture that glorifies violence and sees it as more acceptable than sex. GoT is bucking the trend, and that's pretty awesome in my book.
I guess I don't wanna start that discussion!
(I still think it's a well-produced show and a series of well-written books behind it.)
No, but being completely unable to even tolerate something that's essentially the person you're married to's childhood dream coming true kinda does
It's just something that's kinda been built up over years of listen to some of Kevin Smith's various shows and needs context for
She doesn't enjoy anything he enjoys and is super rude about it when she doesn't like it
GoT has a lot of good female characters (some of the best on TV currently IMO) that interact with/are affected by the sexism in their world in vastly different ways.
There are also a lot of naked women randomly in the background.
For me the former definitely outweighs the latter, but I see how someone could feel differently.
Game of Thrones the tv series is that by association but I feel it is more caught up in the heady heights of it's own blood and tits based success, though it does have moments of "haha yeah boobies in the brothel! Oh look that one girl got shot to death by a sadist with a crossbow and nobody gives a shit because she's a prostitute!" which kind of drive home the point a bit.
So yeah Game of Thrones is horrible but as long as it shows that all this is actually vile then I am okay with that.
Both are fairly true to the medieval period, which the series is heavily inspired from.