Cinema General

[Fabricant451]

I want to make a quick rec to everyone here and reading this thread!

Give HBO's The Wire and/or AMC's Breaking Bad a shot if you haven't already. Fantastic shows. Absolute pinnacles of television dramas.

@Hey Im Jordan

I can't tell if you're being serious and that scares me.

[BrokenPromise]

I want to make a quick rec to everyone here and reading this thread!

Give HBO's The Wire and/or AMC's Breaking Bad a shot if you haven't already. Fantastic shows. Absolute pinnacles of television dramas.

@Hey Im Jordan

Breaking Bad is that show everyone knows about, and it's good.

The wire is that show nobody knows about, and it's good.

^{Aside from some stuff during the last season but W/E}

[mickilennial]

In what universe is The Wire obscure?

[Fabricant451]

If your show gets parodied on iCarly then your show is not obscure.

[SleepingSilence]

Yeah, maybe less people have actually *seen* any of The Wire. And some people may have not watched Breaking Bad. But not knowing they exist? Eh. Both are pretty culturally known, especially by the people who'd be interested enough to watch them in the first place...

[Heat]

Extremly relevant.

[Bee]

i just saw annihilation, sorry to bother you, and tully

one had a lot of charm, one was fucking awesome, and one was abysmal.

i'll let you guess which one was which.

[Fabricant451]

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

[Hey Im Jordan]

i always get annihilation mixed up with extinction

[Bee]

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

@Fabricant451

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)

[Fabricant451]

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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.

[Bee]

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This ain't it, chief.

@Fabricant451

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.

[Fabricant451]

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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.

[Bee]

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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.

@Fabricant451

hider

I wasnt saying I didnt understand the metaphor I just didn't agree with how they did it. I get the message that they were trying to convey with the equisapiens but the thing is that I felt that it was way too over the line and incredibly jarring when compared with the rest of the film. I felt it was out of pocket when it got to that point. I would've preferred it if they had a much different way. I was expecting a cute quirky comedy that had roots in realism but once they revealed the equisapiens I was appalled at how stupid the decision to present the message in that manner was.

[Fabricant451]

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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.

[Dolerman]

Boots Riley the type of nigga to carve a holiday turkey with a hammer and sickle.

[PrinceAlexus]

Can say this much. The latest outlander serris is definitely not quite the same as original. It seems more like what drama and trouble can befall them this week.

It does not quite feel like it has a solid direction anymore.

(TV serris to makw that fully clear. Not the movie of the same exact name of vikings vs aliens)

[Majoraa]

Any thoughts?

[Fabricant451]

I have a couple.

I like Janelle Monae.

That's a really bad trailer.

None of those dolls are ugly so the name of the movie is wrong.

[Hey Im Jordan]

I have a couple.

I like Janelle Monae.

That's a really bad trailer.

None of those dolls are ugly so the name of the movie is wrong.

@Fabricant451

I like Janelle Monae too. Wanna be friends?