Fabricant451

Cinema General

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I was expecting a cute quirky comedy that had roots in realism

@Bee

There's your first mistake, especially given that it's Boots Riley. The sudden turn, if we want to call it that, felt totally in line with an already surreal picture and a movie where 'white guy voice' is literal overdubbing with David Cross and Patton Oswalt and where the backbone of the movie is a world where slavery is effectively legalized via corporate contracting.

Cinema General

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it absolutely is.

spoilers

how do you go from a perfect satire about companies like amazon or google to something as crude and horrible as equisapiens? i get that it's still a part of the commentary but there are hundreds of thousands of better ways to go about it than sending the movie into an entirely different realm.

@Bee

This ain't it, chief.

Hider

I don't get how you understand the horse part of the commentary and not see the metaphor contained therein. In a whole movie that's full of anticorporate messages about as subtle as a brick to the face, the fact that the company literally sees its workers (workhorses, get it?) as a means to get a more efficient labor source fits right in, down to the part where government sides with the moneymaking entity even with evidence of employee abuse. The whole point isn't that equisapiens are a thing, but that a CEO seeing that as an ideal method of cheap and easy labor isn't exactly much of a stretch. It's allegory in the same way the main character being named Cash Green is.

Have you never seen a surrealist film before.

Cinema General

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1/3.

the answers!

tully: charm
annhilation: fucking awesome
sorry to bother you: abysmal (solely because of the third act. if i had stopped watching before that it would easily be a great movie)

@Bee

This ain't it, chief.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

@GingerBoi123 If Diablo 3's disaster of a launch six years ago didn't kill anticipation for a sequel, a mobile game won't either.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

I just think people don't wanna see an IP they love be mixed in with the bad rep of a mobile game. Also, when you have to say "Do you guys not have phones?" As your follow up to the poor reaction, you know you're in for a bad time

@GingerBoi123

While this is a valid point, many gamers are unable to see anything other than the immediate so the idea that something like Diablo: Immortal even exists says to them "Diablo 4 is not happening ever, the franchise is dead" rather than the more sensible idea of "This game isn't for me, I still have Diablo 2/3 and know that they're probably still working on a Diablo 4."

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread

Heckling vaudeville shows in the cowboy game is a pleasure I didn't know I needed.

Also the gold bar dupe has yet to be patched so I've ruined the economy in that game for myself but whatever, being able to be the most fanciful ass outlaw is my aesthetic.

whats with people being so upset about minor shit

@Burger

Hello and welcome to the internet, dear friend.

Cinema General

Sorry to Bother You: Charm
Annihilation: Fucking Awesome
Tully: Abysmal

The Queen's Hand

Meep morp

Rodent's Arguing Thread: The Controversial Topic of Sandwiches

I don't fucking know. I'm tapping out because this is pointless. I know it when I see it.