Now I’m watching all of Bong Joon-hoo’s catalogue. I love in these movies that when people lash out in anger, they never just throw a punch, it’s always a full-on flying kick to the chest
memories of murder is my other favorite but it is blllllleak
Because I went to high school in a town with a single movie theater, which only had two screens, I saw Adam Sandler's god-awful animated Chanukah movie Eight Crazy Nights like three or four fuckin' times
I didn't like it the first time, but when you're 16 and friends wanna go to the movies, you go to the fuckin' movies
Do we even want to know what they had on the other screen that was worse?
The Santa Clause 2
Which I believe I saw twice
how the FUCK did you get into writing?
Developed a massive crush on a painter and wanted to impress her with art, but I'm colorblind and bad at art. So I thought, "I like to talk a lot, maybe I can write." I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed, but I had fun and stuck with it. Writing is a good hobby when you are broke, because words are free.
Wrote prose for a while, hated having to write the word "said" so much. Got into screenplays because I liked the formatting. They just have name, dialogue, no muss no fuss.
These are both deeply stupid motivations, but they absolutely delight producers and executives because they are simple and honest. You can only hear, "I was practically raised by TV" so many times in one staffing season.
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PiptheFairFrequently not in boats.Registered Userregular
That is refreshingly honest and stupid. God bless
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
"I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed"
Stick that on a shirt and sell it.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Because I went to high school in a town with a single movie theater, which only had two screens, I saw Adam Sandler's god-awful animated Chanukah movie Eight Crazy Nights like three or four fuckin' times
I didn't like it the first time, but when you're 16 and friends wanna go to the movies, you go to the fuckin' movies
Do we even want to know what they had on the other screen that was worse?
The Santa Clause 2
Which I believe I saw twice
how the FUCK did you get into writing?
Developed a massive crush on a painter and wanted to impress her with art, but I'm colorblind and bad at art. So I thought, "I like to talk a lot, maybe I can write." I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed, but I had fun and stuck with it. Writing is a good hobby when you are broke, because words are free.
Wrote prose for a while, hated having to write the word "said" so much. Got into screenplays because I liked the formatting. They just have name, dialogue, no muss no fuss.
These are both deeply stupid motivations, but they absolutely delight producers and executives because they are simple and honest. You can only hear, "I was practically raised by TV" so many times in one staffing season.
I'll be honest, that has definitely been an appeal of screenplays to me.
I've dabbled in creative writing from time to time (even got my second B.A. in it for some dumb reason), and boy do I have a hard time writing literally anything that isn't dialogue.
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Because I went to high school in a town with a single movie theater, which only had two screens, I saw Adam Sandler's god-awful animated Chanukah movie Eight Crazy Nights like three or four fuckin' times
I didn't like it the first time, but when you're 16 and friends wanna go to the movies, you go to the fuckin' movies
Do we even want to know what they had on the other screen that was worse?
The Santa Clause 2
Which I believe I saw twice
how the FUCK did you get into writing?
Developed a massive crush on a painter and wanted to impress her with art, but I'm colorblind and bad at art. So I thought, "I like to talk a lot, maybe I can write." I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed, but I had fun and stuck with it. Writing is a good hobby when you are broke, because words are free.
Wrote prose for a while, hated having to write the word "said" so much. Got into screenplays because I liked the formatting. They just have name, dialogue, no muss no fuss.
These are both deeply stupid motivations, but they absolutely delight producers and executives because they are simple and honest. You can only hear, "I was practically raised by TV" so many times in one staffing season.
I'll be honest, that has definitely been an appeal of screenplays to me.
I've dabbled in creative writing from time to time (even got my second B.A. in it for some dumb reason), and boy do I have a hard time writing literally anything that isn't dialogue.
it is extremely common for writers to either love or hate dialogue
Developed a massive crush on a painter and wanted to impress her with art, but I'm colorblind and bad at art. So I thought, "I like to talk a lot, maybe I can write." I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed, but I had fun and stuck with it. Writing is a good hobby when you are broke, because words are free.
Wrote prose for a while, hated having to write the word "said" so much. Got into screenplays because I liked the formatting. They just have name, dialogue, no muss no fuss.
These are both deeply stupid motivations, but they absolutely delight producers and executives because they are simple and honest. You can only hear, "I was practically raised by TV" so many times in one staffing season.
I'll be honest, that has definitely been an appeal of screenplays to me.
I've dabbled in creative writing from time to time (even got my second B.A. in it for some dumb reason), and boy do I have a hard time writing literally anything that isn't dialogue.
That was me for a good long while. I learned to get around it by trying to make my prose more conversational. It's grammatically "incorrect," a lot of the time, but I didn't go to college so who gives a shit.
I like a block of action that's, like, Denny doesn't want to hear this shit. Can't. He doesn't mean to pick up the knife, but he's not surprised to see it in his hand. And he remembers what knives are for, yeah.
Put quotation marks around that and it could be some grizzled stickup artist telling a ghost story to a green wheelman over cups of stale coffee. The difference between "dialogue" and "action" can get pretty blurry, if you need it to be.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
I mean, stage directions are prose.
Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but dies in the process.
Developed a massive crush on a painter and wanted to impress her with art, but I'm colorblind and bad at art. So I thought, "I like to talk a lot, maybe I can write." I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed, but I had fun and stuck with it. Writing is a good hobby when you are broke, because words are free.
Wrote prose for a while, hated having to write the word "said" so much. Got into screenplays because I liked the formatting. They just have name, dialogue, no muss no fuss.
These are both deeply stupid motivations, but they absolutely delight producers and executives because they are simple and honest. You can only hear, "I was practically raised by TV" so many times in one staffing season.
I'll be honest, that has definitely been an appeal of screenplays to me.
I've dabbled in creative writing from time to time (even got my second B.A. in it for some dumb reason), and boy do I have a hard time writing literally anything that isn't dialogue.
That was me for a good long while. I learned to get around it by trying to make my prose more conversational. It's grammatically "incorrect," a lot of the time, but I didn't go to college so who gives a shit.
I like a block of action that's, like, Denny doesn't want to hear this shit. Can't. He doesn't mean to pick up the knife, but he's not surprised to see it in his hand. And he remembers what knives are for, yeah.
Put quotation marks around that and it could be some grizzled stickup artist telling a ghost story to a green wheelman over cups of stale coffee. The difference between "dialogue" and "action" can get pretty blurry, if you need it to be.
I did go to college - got a degree in this stuff - and I can absolutely tell you, one, most people don't talk using proper grammar; and two, if you're a writer and not a journalist, then your writing style will often not follow proper grammar either.
That said, IMO, it's good to know what the rules are before you start breaking them, so you know where and when and how to do so.
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miscellaneousinsanitygrass grows, birds fly, sun shines,and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered Userregular
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marvel why you putting up trailers in the middle of the night
To discuss how I feel about those accents, I wanted to reference Allison Brie's Russian wrestling persona in GLOW. I thought I remembered it, but I did a quick Google to doublecheck.
Turns out, there's a very popular fleshlight varietal with the same name as that persona! And it also turns out, there's a really robust fleshlight review ecosystem! Learn something new and vaguely upsetting every day.
Really cool to finally see Taskmaster in the MCU, shame it's in that show. Or maybe not, maybe that show ends up good.
That's a movie.
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Okay then explain why I thought it was a TV show, smartypantses?!
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Okay then explain why I thought it was a TV show, smartypantses?!
You’re from the Bearenstein universe.
Isn't everyone?
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
To discuss how I feel about those accents, I wanted to reference Allison Brie's Russian wrestling persona in GLOW. I thought I remembered it, but I did a quick Google to doublecheck.
Turns out, there's a very popular fleshlight varietal with the same name as that persona! And it also turns out, there's a really robust fleshlight review ecosystem! Learn something new and vaguely upsetting every day.
In Soviet Russia, working man come together to review fleshlight as one!
To discuss how I feel about those accents, I wanted to reference Allison Brie's Russian wrestling persona in GLOW. I thought I remembered it, but I did a quick Google to doublecheck.
Turns out, there's a very popular fleshlight varietal with the same name as that persona! And it also turns out, there's a really robust fleshlight review ecosystem! Learn something new and vaguely upsetting every day.
In Soviet Russia, working man come together to review fleshlight as one!
A better Black Widow movie would be set after her death. Don’t tell me that doesn’t work. Comic books people!
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Today I'm watching Iron Man 3 for the first time. I never bothered with it before because I didn't like 2, but since I started listening to the Blank Check MCU episodes I've been rewatching the Marvel films I like and catching up on ones I've missed.
It's pretty good, much better than 2. Ben Kingsley is brilliant.
Probably going to watch Age of Ultron next because I'm ill and want something to fall asleep to.
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Blake TDo you have enemies then?Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered Userregular
Iron man 3 is better than two, but still feels a bit bloated and it was a big part in me starting to not care about the mcu.
Brovid Hasselsmof[Growling historic on the fury road]Registered Userregular
The whole "rewatching all my favourite MCU films" has made me realise how many of them I don't actually care about. It's basically Iron Man, Ragnarok, Homecoming, and the actual Avengers films. Maybe Black Panther, I still need to watch it a second time.
The best Black Widow movie is two movies, one pre-Avengers that's aping Mission Impossible and one post-Winter Soldier that's aping Jason Bourne.
Anyway it's hilarious how much that trailer highlights ScarJo's refusal to ever do an accent
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Munkus BeaverYou don't have to attend every argument you are invited to.Philosophy: Stoicism. Politics: Democratic SocialistRegistered User, ClubPAregular
Oh I dunno I bet listening to ol tree boat wrap her gums around a truly gruesome caricature of a Russian accent could be a certain sort of fun
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I think Endgame broke me and I just don't really care about more MCU movies, and this is coming from me, the person who genuinely liked the rest of the MCU. I mean I'll still probably go see it mainly for David Harbour and Taskmaster?
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memories of murder is my other favorite but it is blllllleak
(every frame a painting has a couple other bong joon ho focused videos but they're spoilery)
Developed a massive crush on a painter and wanted to impress her with art, but I'm colorblind and bad at art. So I thought, "I like to talk a lot, maybe I can write." I couldn't, and she wasn't impressed, but I had fun and stuck with it. Writing is a good hobby when you are broke, because words are free.
Wrote prose for a while, hated having to write the word "said" so much. Got into screenplays because I liked the formatting. They just have name, dialogue, no muss no fuss.
These are both deeply stupid motivations, but they absolutely delight producers and executives because they are simple and honest. You can only hear, "I was practically raised by TV" so many times in one staffing season.
Stick that on a shirt and sell it.
I'll be honest, that has definitely been an appeal of screenplays to me.
I've dabbled in creative writing from time to time (even got my second B.A. in it for some dumb reason), and boy do I have a hard time writing literally anything that isn't dialogue.
Someday...
it is extremely common for writers to either love or hate dialogue
That was me for a good long while. I learned to get around it by trying to make my prose more conversational. It's grammatically "incorrect," a lot of the time, but I didn't go to college so who gives a shit.
I like a block of action that's, like, Denny doesn't want to hear this shit. Can't. He doesn't mean to pick up the knife, but he's not surprised to see it in his hand. And he remembers what knives are for, yeah.
Put quotation marks around that and it could be some grizzled stickup artist telling a ghost story to a green wheelman over cups of stale coffee. The difference between "dialogue" and "action" can get pretty blurry, if you need it to be.
Yeah, which is why an aversion to action needs to be overcome in most mediums
Or you could write a book like Kiss of the Spider Woman, which absolutely kicks ass
I did go to college - got a degree in this stuff - and I can absolutely tell you, one, most people don't talk using proper grammar; and two, if you're a writer and not a journalist, then your writing style will often not follow proper grammar either.
That said, IMO, it's good to know what the rules are before you start breaking them, so you know where and when and how to do so.
Turns out, there's a very popular fleshlight varietal with the same name as that persona! And it also turns out, there's a really robust fleshlight review ecosystem! Learn something new and vaguely upsetting every day.
That's a movie.
That’s a movie Pinfeldorf.
You’re from the Bearenstein universe.
Isn't everyone?
Most of us here are from and in the Bearenstain universe
In Soviet Russia, working man come together to review fleshlight as one!
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A better Black Widow movie would be set after her death. Don’t tell me that doesn’t work. Comic books people!
It's pretty good, much better than 2. Ben Kingsley is brilliant.
Probably going to watch Age of Ultron next because I'm ill and want something to fall asleep to.
Satans..... hints.....
Anyway it's hilarious how much that trailer highlights ScarJo's refusal to ever do an accent