Coods

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    I saw that movie about the video games yesterday. Honestly was not expecting the love and care that clearly went into it, thought it was going to be a lot of cheap unresearched Video game name dropping. While that stuff is in there, most of it is just really clever and true to whatever they're pulling from. Also a blend of adult and child comedy that works so impressively together. I learned that they're making a sequel, and I am now excited for it.

     

    So yeah wreck it ralph was really good.

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    Every Frame A Painting is a channel that makes great video essays about film form. Probably my number one pick.

     

    Matt Zoller Seitz's full filmography series about Wes Anderson is absolutely killer. Here is the one for Rushmore.

     

    You also can't go wrong with Art of the Title, even though it's not on youtube, and not exclusive to movies.

     

    Film criticism on youtube is probably a lot more practically difficult than written criticism, I can understand how complementing a thought-out spoken essay with visuals can be super challenging and why few good channels exist. It's just unfortunate that the compromise between thinking about film and being appealing to an internet-level attention span is these trivial scene by scene critiques of story points. These videos get so many views, I really hope that people don't go into films thinking that being hypercritical of these things is a proper way to interpret the quality of a movie.

     

    They may also just be harmless entertaining videos, i hope.

     

    edit: I also realize that all of the things I linked may not be exactly what you were looking for in terms of, channels that actually review movies that come out in a thoughtful way. WOOPS!

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    Funniest thing I realized while watching this episode: for all the idiosyncrasies and different things that make True Detective unique, it still conforms to the most classic cop trope of all time: the cops get taken off the force halfway through, and then have to take matters into their own hands  :P

     

    I also agree that McAdams character moments are kinda flat. Are these sexism scenes doing anything for anyone? I find them so 2 dimensional and half-assed. I mean, A for effort, but its not interesting for a guy to literally be the typical "it was a compliment!" guy and then for her to fluster them with her sexuality. It's cool that thats part of her story at work, but i really dont like how its been handled.

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    Hopefully this continues to it's logical conclusion and the show continues to mirror the structure of the first season, because that would means the next episode is a time jump 17 years into the future. The rest of the series takes place in a dystopian cyberpunk 2032.  Vinci is a corporate free-commerce zone fully independent from the United States.  Everyone's smoking ecigs and "robot dick" is no longer just an expression -- it was foreshadowing.  

     

    The American Sniper poster is also still up on that billboard.

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    The 5 emotions to a person concept came off as oversimplified and limiting to me, but when i saw the movie it was super impressive how the dialogue between the characters represented the complexity of certain emotional responses. Like Zeus said, it was well executed.

     

    In the realm of pixar movies with the most from-scratch world building (monsters inc, wall-e, cars?), certain parts of this world seem far-fetched to me, but is apparently backed by some kind of actual research, so whatever.

     

    The part where Disgust and Anger try to emulate Joy at the dinner table is great.

     

    I also hope that this universe contains Osmosis Jones in it.

  20. Posted

    The feminist read wasn't my initial reaction to the movie either, but it makes the most sense after the fact. I think the super creepy sexbot closet was justified to an extent if you see the movie as gender-centric. The whole closet reveal is Nathan's worst offense (or at least the tipping point into "what the hell man" territory) because it explicitly makes him a male objectifying a female.

     

    I'm with Danielle in the back of my mind though, and really hope that she finds an apartment somewhere nice with a quirky empathetic roommate, and gets picked up for 8 episodes by Netflix.

  21. Posted

    I'm willing to bet that the possibility of Jordan going to Dallas was reason enough for chris paul to squash the beef for a moment. Who knows if it'll continue when they actually play again. Seems like they capitalized on him getting cold feet as best they could.

     

    Really the whole thing was just super immature, i might be laughing if i didn't live here  :violin:

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    ugh.

     

    worst offseason ever. 

     

    Worst thing is that Dirk is probably gonna end his incredible career on such a low note. dude deserved at least one more legit shot with a good team

  23. Posted

    I find the corruption / murder mystery really hard to follow at times, to an extent that I sometimes feel forced to pause the episode to check stuff like "Who the fuck is this dead guy Stan?" I hope things get a bit more clear in future episodes.

     

     

    I think the only reason I had an acceptable grasp on the case in season 1 was because of how memorable McConaughey saying "Reggie Ledoux" is.

  25. Posted

    i liked how the guys talked about that American Sniper poster on the podcast. It got a laugh out of me when I first saw it but it also works in the same way as the recurring e-cig joke. The second season seems to explicitly mention that this takes place in the present day and it places the story in a unique light. I wonder if that means there won't be any flashback jankery in this season, and why everyone has to annoyingly announce their past in dialogue  :P

     

    Contrast that with the first season, which takes place in two stories 15 years apart. While the second half of the story is declared to be 2012, the story didn't rely on that fact in any meaningful way. It was more inline with Rust's own thesis about how time is really circular, and these events aren't temporally contiguous but are still important to one another.