babyhueypnewton posted:E: it's also notable that this is how we interact with all media today, wrestling was the model for the "cinematic universes" which are entirely self-referential and rise or fall based on their affective resonance with the "fans." supermechagodzilla has years of fucking with people over on SA about this, I defer to him about cinema.
You shouldn’t because he’s absolutely wrong, the “shared universe” of Disney superhero movies comes directly from the successful marketing gimmick of the comic book company they bought, a gimmick that dates to the early 1940s.
SUPERMECHAGODZILA
Which reading is true? Which reading is true? WHICH READING IS TRUE!?
KOOS
The words are used specifically for their literal intention, the events are straightforward so as to be easily understood by an audience of children.
The beating begins again, with a furious vigour, until SUPERMECHAGODZILLA can barely stand. He rests one hand against a dirty wall, sweat marring his 1993 Nebraska Film Festival hypercolor t-shirt.
SUPERMECHAGODZILA
The opposite reading is true… The opposite reading is true. I’ve been to college.
KOOS straightens his posture, his pride and dignity unscathed by the days long assault of a fat, stupid man.
KOOS
Any perceived allusions to facism in A Goofy Movie are a wholesale invention of a misguided viewer.
SUPERMECHAGODZILLA adopts the look of a man who has been defeated. Wearily, he grabs a shotgun that had been resting in the corner, and cocks it loudly.
KOOS
Goofy simply wishes to bond with his son through fishing, a traditional pastime, as he had done with his own father. It is neither parable nor allegory. Neither dog was molested, the material does not support this.
littlegreenpills posted:marianne williamson is everyones woo woo crystal aunt and they all love her. she's probably an asset like gritty
I've been saying the Democrats should've run Hillary like this because she's into New Age stuff and UFOs. Promise full disclosure of alien visitation and crank up the Enya during the convention. I didn't watch the debates.
trakfactri posted:Her floatiness is hard for me to dislike though if I imagine myself being jolted awake at night only to find myself behind a podium with Rachel Maddow staring at me under hot stage lights. What would you do? "Mr. Trak, what is your policy on the Sino-Russian threat?" Well, the best I could probably do is stammer for a minute about how no one in the room can hurt me, Republicans employ ex-Arrow Cross henchmen and that we need to come to a reasonable bargain with China and Russia to establish a globally harmonious command economy.
I think it's reasonable to expect a higher level of self-destruction from yourself, something like, "it's very good"
ialdabaoth posted:hertz per hour. all that is solid melts into air
i'm an accelerationist
Petrol posted:
it sucks
psychicdriver posted:lol why did you subject yourself to that
“Well, you're right. I'm a Freak."
"Huh?"
"I love being bullied. Being hit and kicked by others gets me totally excited. That's what kind of freak I am.
Sorry if that bothers you.”
― Yuna Kagesaki, AiON Volume 1
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littlegreenpills posted:british accents are trash
I challenge you to make it through all nine minutes, 47 seconds of this
aerdil posted:i could only make a quarter of the way into death of stalin for similar reasons
oh man i love armando but i have been too scared/sad to even try watching that
Anyways I took my dad to see it and he "liked Khrushchev." He is presented as a dweeby guy who gets pushed around a lot but uses his smarts and concealed ruthlessness to become the top dog. Dad also likes Pete Buttigieg so uh
If I was trying to attack Stalin, the last thing I would do is show masses of people supporting him or mourning his death and showing them doing that on their own and in a way that's at odds with the bureaucracy! This also relates to how images of ordinary Koreans in the DPRK going about their day is presented in this typical way: "well, they're all actors." Even when I didn't consider myself a socialist that just seemed absurd and never made much sense to me but people will absolutely swear that it's all a big Truman Show, but I think that's why people need to believe that, and if there are masses milling about someone else has to be lurking off screen with a cocked pistol. Ideally you don't show any ordinary people at all and boil it down to the Politburo as scenery-chewing Bond villains in rotating chairs, but if you do that you get the boomers' kids building internet personas off this kitsch with usernames like Rotating Soviet Chair Poster:
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thirdplace posted:it did at least frame Beria as the real villain
toyotathon posted:
ialdabaoth posted:i have a lot of angrey feelings about that
the hand of tpaine reaches out from beyond the grave.
cars posted:the hand of tpaine reaches out from beyond the grave.
It just isn't the same without him...
cars posted:I think a lot of kids and young-at-heart just want something to replace clowns, people with a clown-like quality where the thoroughness of the performance suggests a certain underlying weird earnestness, so they get excited irony-style
I'm thinking the CPUSA needs to get on this while the getting is good because I ran into one of their tables recently and they tried to sell me on the party. They deduced I knew a few things so they dropped the usual pitch to tell me the party had recently purged some right-deviationists which improved my impression of them. "Join now: Recently purged!"
They also had this: