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Still waiting for him to do a piece on Thor Ragnarok so i can hear his opinions about kiwi toilets
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i want to see a movie where the ending scene involves the white house being shelled into rubble but its actually good, involving some cheesy uplifting music. i dont really care about the plotline
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if all Zizek did was write about movies like he used to he'd still be wrong but he'd be 1000 times less embarrassing
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I don’t think I saw a single Oscar nommed movie outside of Get Out. *blink 182 voice* guess this is growing up
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rolaids posted:

Oscar nommed movie


oh, the oscars are EATING movies now? typical degenerate hollywood culture

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rolaids posted:

I don’t think I saw a single Oscar nommed movie outside of Get Out. *blink 182 voice* guess this is growing up


lady bird and three billboards were good. now that it won im kind of tempted to see the one about the woman who fucks a fish

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As you all know by now i take pleasure in watching the most terrible garbage and so it is that i have started watching The Looming Tower, the hulu melodrama about how petty rivalry between FBI and CIA led to 9/11. Partway through episode 2 now and i doubt the series will top this moment, when slow motion footage of a al qaeda guy escaping a bombing, a fbi agent on the streets of london, and another fbi guy fucking his mistress are cut to a dubstep track with extremely generic arabic samples
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swampman are you planning on doing a review of this piece of crap so i never have to see it


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Dont Mess With Sucess
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No, I thought In the Loop was too violent and i dont like it when Bruce WIllis is the bad guy.
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Petrol posted:

slow motion footage of a al qaeda guy escaping a bombing, a fbi agent on the streets of london, and another fbi guy fucking his mistress are cut to a dubstep track with extremely generic arabic samples



hypernormalisation wasn't my favorite

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hahahaha
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I'm gonna see Death of Stalin soon but it's already starting behind the 8 ball because casting Tambor as Beria would've been a nobrainer
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UNUSUALY COOL
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my review of Death of Stalin:


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this is some good propaganda
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i watched death of stalin... it starts off with a title card that says something like 'the year is 1953... stalin's great purge enters its 20th year'

honestly the best thing about the movie is the irony of how they had to remove tambor's image from the poster and all the marketing materials. nothing really laugh-out-loud funny, i was a little disappointed
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I liked it well enough but I'm an Iannucci stan. it was so over the top ahistorical I wasn't even mad at all the wild propaganda or inaccuracies. They might has well have done the "stalin kept Mao's turds" bit
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i've only seen this scene, seemed like something i'd keep watching

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rolaids posted:

I'm an Iannucci stan


same but thats why i dont want to see it. just want to pretend it doesnt exist, like lynch's dune or any cure album from about the early 90s on

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gay_swimmer posted:

i watched death of stalin... it starts off with a title card that says something like 'the year is 1953... stalin's great purge enters its 20th year'


thats awfully impressive, what kind of laxatives was he on

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Constantignoble posted:

i've only seen this scene, seemed like something i'd keep watching



This was probably the best scene, plus any scene with Jason Isaacs as Zhukov. Looking back on it I'm trying to remember some real zingers and I'm coming up short. So yeah a bit disappointing. I read one review that pointed out that the British actors all seemed to have read up on their characters whereas Buscemi and Tambor just played themselves, but I see that as a positive. Honestly go see Annihilation if you only can get to one movie.

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When I watched it I felt pretty similar to this

getfiscal posted:

i watched la chinoise for the first time probably in 2007 or so when i was learning about maoism. to be honest i was surprised when i found out people said it was satire. that was not my response to it. the cell is clearly preposterous but i didn't hold that against them. capitalist society is preposterous, it is stupid, responding to it in a clownish way is somewhat appropriate.

the train sequence made me think the professor was stupid. in any case, he was proven wrong by events. it was the extreme left shutting down the universities a year later that sparked a general strike. the 'adventurist' youth won the support of millions of workers. this caused a general crisis in society which required a raft of concessions and brutality just to keep things bottled.

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ya la chinoise is ftw.

re: death of stalin, i havent seen it but this is pretty funny:

More worryingly, the deaths of about 1,500 people in crushes around Stalin’s funeral are casually attributed to trigger-happy NKVD officers in order to make a point about the rivalry between Beria and Khrushchev, an unnecessary, even callous addendum.



Director Iannucci stated that he "chose to tone down real-life absurdity" to make the work more believable.

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Anyone wanna do a book race thru Hegel’s Science of Logic
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Watching 'No Stone Unturned', a recent doco about the murder of 6 innocent people by UVF terrorists in 1994 and the subsequent coverup. Much better than I expected from a yank effort https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_YfQiqjjkA
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theres a documentary series on netflix called dirty money and they take examples of the worst excesses of capitalism (the first three are volkswagen's diesel recall, clk management $2bn payday loan scandal, and valeant pharmaceuticals) and give a middle-of-the-road explanation of how they occurred. they dont do anything close to a critique of how the industries these despicable actions took place in are basically bankrupt in any moral or ethical framework but rather how these are examples of how some folks stepped outside the bounds of decency (read: did something blatantly illegal). there is some tepid criticism, as they show one of the victims of the payday loan company talking about how millions of lives were wrecked by it, but they barely touch on how the entire practice is predatory against some of the most vulnerable members of our society and should be abolished. like, the pharma one is a great example: it opens with a brief look into martin shkreli and his conviction for ripping off rich people, not the totally legal practice of forcing sick people to choose between dying or going bankrupt

anyway, ive only watched the first three but they are a plus, would recommend to anyone who wants to get righteously indignant (at the filmmakers who miss the point entirely or are unwilling to challenge the status quo)
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It's so frustrating that basically every episode ends with 'some people got fined a bit but the practices continue to this day, pretty fucked up eh?'

The writers probably know that they can't include any systematoc critique without being painted as reds and then they can say goodbye to season 2 I guess
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yeah it's really too much to expect a trenchant analysis or insightful social critique. i just remember seeing the loan paperwork that says 650% apr and thinking, how does that get glossed over?? usury is one of the oldest crimes in the history of humanity
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TG posted:

i just remember seeing the loan paperwork that says 650% apr and thinking, how does that get glossed over?? usury is one of the oldest crimes in the history of humanity


i watch a bit of UK tv via internet magic and i noticed that not only are most of the ads for online casinos and payday lenders, but the small print for the latter mentions APR upwards of 1300%. more than one company does this. i had to rub my eyes and do an exaggerated double take like in a 1950s cartoon