Wasn't the Angry Birds movie controversial because it had a racist message that was effectively "Build the Wall"?
One day, a boat docks at the island's shore, destroying Red's house. The birds are greeted by green-colored pigs and their captain Leonard, who claim to be peaceful explorers bringing offerings of friendship. The pigs ingratiate themselves with the birds, introducing them to various innovations, notably a giant slingshot, but begin to overwhelm the island with their numbers. Red becomes suspicious.
Red recruits Chuck and Bomb to find Mighty Eagle, the only flying bird and the island's protector, who has not been seen for many years. They find Mighty Eagle on top of Bird Mountain, but he is overweight, self-absorbed, leads the life of a slacker, and refuses to help them. Red discovers the pigs planting dynamite around the island while the other birds are distracted with a rave party, but they arrive too late to sound a warning; the pigs escape with the eggs and activate the dynamite, destroying the village. The other birds apologize to Red for not believing him and, under his leadership, they organize an army and construct a boat from the rubble to follow the pigs to Piggy Island.
The birds discover the pigs living in a walled city ruled by Leonard, whose true name is "King Mudbeard". Deducing the eggs are in the castle at the center of the city, the birds use the slingshot to attack by launching themselves over the walls and into the city's buildings, destroying them. Red, Chuck, and Bomb discover the eggs inside a net being lowered into a giant pot; the pigs are planning to cook and eat them. Mighty Eagle arrives to retrieve Red's group and the eggs, having had a change of heart after witnessing their efforts. One egg falls out of the net and Red battles King Mudbeard for it, but learns to control his anger and distracts him long enough to retrieve the egg. An explosion from Bomb ignites the pigs' reserve of dynamite, but the pot collapses and falls over top of Red, shielding him and the egg from the blast as the city is destroyed.
It seems pretty clearly intended as anti-colonialism to me, but I'm sure you could interpret it in many ways if you needed to write a thinkpiece
I finished up season 2 of American Vandal. It is really, really quite good. I was a little lukewarm on the season halfway through, at least relative to the first, because it seemed like they were repeating the same kind of story as the first go. But they went to some dark and real places in the final episodes. It was as effective as the first season in pleasantly surprising me with what this crew is capable of.
Just finished Season 1 of Riverdale. My friend and I were only gonna watch like four more episodes, but it got its teeth into us hard so her and I binged the rest of it.
I really liked it. One narrative thing I liked, is that continually, as I started to question a plot hook or potential plot hole in a story, the show would bring it up and address it. It was much more thought out than I thought it would be.
Also, general season 1 spoilers:
I just wanted to give Jughead a big ole hug through the entire season. Kid has it fucking rough, in a cast of characters that has it rough.
I could not get through the final episode of Cheers with a dry eye.
Between the closing lines ("I'm the luckiest son of a bitch on Earth... sorry, we're closed"), the true love story of Cheers being Sam and his bar, and Sam fixing the portrait that was in Coach's dressing room when he died, I ended the series a blubbering wreck.
Onward to Frasier! I expect to end Frasier a blubbering wreck as well.
The cum fondue party episode, the all out of cum crisis episode, the milk the cum out of Eddie episode
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MalReynoldsThe Hunter S Thompson of incredibly mild medicinesRegistered Userregular
edited October 2018
You see, to get the 'scrambled eggs' you must first 'toss' the 'salad'
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I can’t tell if you’ve all gone mad or if I have
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Two episodes in to haunting of hill house and it's pretty good so far.
Would you say it's more creepy, more scary, more thriller, or more dramatic? I'm most interested in the first and third options but none of them are bad.
Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game, Ripper Street) will play Alfred Pennyworth in Pennyworth, a 10-episode prequel series on Epix about the butler. Not a Gotham prequel
Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game, Ripper Street) will play Alfred Pennyworth in Pennyworth, a 10-episode prequel series on Epix about the butler. Not a Gotham prequel
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i love epix original programming and it is a reasonable expectation that i would have definitely gone out of my way to catch that content
Jack Bannon (The Imitation Game, Ripper Street) will play Alfred Pennyworth in Pennyworth, a 10-episode prequel series on Epix about the butler. Not a Gotham prequel
Two episodes in to haunting of hill house and it's pretty good so far.
Would you say it's more creepy, more scary, more thriller, or more dramatic? I'm most interested in the first and third options but none of them are bad.
Its is really, really, really, really good.
Most of the show is the family years later dealing with the emotional fallout of what happened at Hill House in their own ways and then it all blowing up in confrontation when they are forced back together. Throughout the show we get bits and pieces of life at Hill House in flashbacks. It is definitely a ghost story and it is scary. I don't really want to say anything about it because spoiling anything about this show should be an arrestable offense.
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StraightziHere we may reign secure, and in my choice,To reign is worth ambition though in HellRegistered Userregular
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I watched the first episode of Hill House last night, and while I overall enjoyed, its relationship to the book is really weird
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My roommate was screaming a lot in the living room while he watched it. So I’m intrigued
Two episodes in to haunting of hill house and it's pretty good so far.
Would you say it's more creepy, more scary, more thriller, or more dramatic? I'm most interested in the first and third options but none of them are bad.
I'd say creepy leaning into scary. As Viskod noted, it's about how the family deals with the trauma and each other. Thus far, it's been messed up in a good way. I agree with basically everything he said though, and feel like watching and learning how it goes is a lot of the fun, do I'll leave it at that.
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There's also a bit where the characters swim in and drink a ton of pee. So that was odd (and in the trailer!)
I really liked it. One narrative thing I liked, is that continually, as I started to question a plot hook or potential plot hole in a story, the show would bring it up and address it. It was much more thought out than I thought it would be.
Also, general season 1 spoilers:
Between the closing lines ("I'm the luckiest son of a bitch on Earth... sorry, we're closed"), the true love story of Cheers being Sam and his bar, and Sam fixing the portrait that was in Coach's dressing room when he died, I ended the series a blubbering wreck.
Onward to Frasier! I expect to end Frasier a blubbering wreck as well.
Uh, what?
I mean it's a quotation obviously but yeah. Hell of a moment.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
Would you say that you hear the blues acallin'
real eleanor is sabine wren?! What the hecker!
Start the presses back up
Would you say it's more creepy, more scary, more thriller, or more dramatic? I'm most interested in the first and third options but none of them are bad.
Steam
Hard pass
How many times has Hank yelled "bwaaahh!" already?
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Its is really, really, really, really good.
Most of the show is the family years later dealing with the emotional fallout of what happened at Hill House in their own ways and then it all blowing up in confrontation when they are forced back together. Throughout the show we get bits and pieces of life at Hill House in flashbacks. It is definitely a ghost story and it is scary. I don't really want to say anything about it because spoiling anything about this show should be an arrestable offense.
I'd say creepy leaning into scary. As Viskod noted, it's about how the family deals with the trauma and each other. Thus far, it's been messed up in a good way. I agree with basically everything he said though, and feel like watching and learning how it goes is a lot of the fun, do I'll leave it at that.
White Base is out of cum
Did that crate seriously have fucking Miskatonic University on it
Are you for real right now
Yes. For real.
Somebody didnt watch Archies weird mysteries
Wait what?