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- Comment on Was a TV show you like ever ruined by the addition of a particular character to the point that you had to quit, or nearly quit? 3 days ago:
Cheers wasn’t the same after Kirstie Alley’s Rebecca replaced Diane…
- Comment on Online Wars Aside, 'Snow White' Simply Isn't Getting Moviegoers to Buy In 1 week ago:
Disney doesn’t even care to make a movie that is good enough to make money.
It’s about exercising their IP of “Snow White movie” so that their copyright doesn’t expire, so that others can’t make their own “Snow White movie” even though the German fairytale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm is in the public domain.
Well, they can but they can’t use Disney Snow White’s iconic dress, and anything resembling the dwarves, for example, or anything that could possibly resemble anything that happens in the Disney movies.
- Comment on Official Discussion - Snow White [SPOILERS] 1 week ago:
I was completely bored, shifting restlessly in my seat from about 20 minutes in.
There’s no emotional depth to the characters and the happy little kingdom setting. They’re supposed to be who they are because that’s who they say they are.
The apple pie thing…
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seemed a bit Marie Antoinette “let them eat cake”
There’s no wordplay around “fair” having separate meanings of both “beautiful” and “just”, but both meanings are used in a jumble. As if the writers started to put some wordplay in, but abandoned the project halfway through.
The dwarves looked creepy, particularly Dopey who doesn’t look like the other dwarves at all, and also falls into that uncanny valley who is not quite unbelievable enough looking to avoid looking creepy, if that makes sense.
There is a cool subplot that I did like…
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…around Dopey being revealed as the narrator.
Gal Godot hamming it up as the Evil Queen didn’t quite work for me. Some actors just can’t do evil. A friend who watched this with me thought that she was okay though.
I did notice a long list of “greens” credits, i.e. plant handling. Maybe Disney should have spent some of that money on writers instead.
- Comment on Question: 2 hiphop groups in the 90s that came up with almost the same song? 1 week ago:
YES! THAT’S IT!!! THANK YOU!!!
- Submitted 1 week ago to hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz | 2 comments
- Comment on Dunning-Kruger 1 week ago:
Wouldn’t that be a logic probe?
- Comment on ‘This Is Spinal Tap’ Sequel Lands at Bleecker Street for September Release 2 weeks ago:
This feels like one of those half hearted productions just to renew the copyright, i.e. to prevent Spinal Tap from going into the public domain, the rights-owning entity has to use the IP every few decades in order to maintain private ownership.
- Comment on Amazon paid more than $1bn to take creative control of James Bond 5 weeks ago:
Dr. Evil: “One billion dollars!”
Everyone else: “Haha, nobody’s going to pay that much for… Oh wait…”
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 5 weeks ago:
As a follow up, possible Iranian malware be damned, this turned out to be the smoothest running version of the game that I tried.
BitDefender didn’t find anything, but of course that doesn’t mean anything after you have the app installed.
Others that I tried had Chinese stuff on bootup, and stuttered when running.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 month ago:
The most recent James Bond movie No Time To Die (2021).
The plot was like a Bond fanfic. Okay, great you got to do all the stuff to Bond that wouldn’t fly in previous runs:
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Bond finally spawns a kid after all that sex, actually loves some gal instead of using her, makes a mistake in judgement, and he maybe even dies, although no body is offered as proof.
Now what? That pretty much ends the franchise, and there’s pretty much nowhere to go without a reboot.
- Comment on What movies have you watched this week? 1 month ago:
Re: Nosferatu
I also liked the Transylvania bits, the crumbling castle especially.
I enjoyed the physicality of Lily-Rose Depp’s performance as not-Mina, although her overacting got on my nerves a bit.
- Comment on What’s gone wrong with James Bond? No star, no script, no plan 1 month ago:
Basically none of the parties with any power: Bezos, the Broccoli family, are desperate to make another Bond movie
- Hundreds gather at (Bob's Big Boy in Burbank, CA) to honor legendary filmmaker David Lynchwww.sfgate.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 0 comments
- Comment on Leonardo DiCaprio To Star In 'Devil In White City' For Martin Scorsese 2 months ago:
Does anyone else think that DiCaprio, and De Niro for that matter, were the worst things in Killers Of The Flower Moon?
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 2 months ago:
I did find an APK, and installed it, but it had something something about Iran, so I probably now have Iranian malware on my phone. 😓
- Comment on Best version of Pandemic boardgame on Android? 2 months ago:
Plague Inc. comes in at the top of a search in the Play Store for “pandemic” but I understand that it’s kind of a reverse concept of the Pandemic boardgame: You try to wipe out those pesky humans by developing an incurable virus.
I might be inclined to give it a try if I can’t find a decent implementation of Pandemic.
- Submitted 2 months ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 8 comments
- Comment on The $125 million Roy mansion from Succession, once the priciest home in Pacific Palisades, reduced to ashes in devastating wildfires. - Luxurylaunches 2 months ago:
That was generally happening in the fire area.
I’m sure there are/were a lot of ridiculous homes.
- The $125 million Roy mansion from Succession, once the priciest home in Pacific Palisades, reduced to ashes in devastating wildfires. - Luxurylaunchesluxurylaunches.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to movies@lemm.ee | 2 comments
- Comment on LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate. 4 months ago:
What Jeri announcement?
- Comment on LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate. 5 months ago:
But don’t take LeVar’s word for it!
- LeVar Burton was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his impact as an actor and literacy advocate.popculture.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 6 comments
- Comment on What is the food eaten in Close Encounters during the infamous mashed potato scene? 5 months ago:
It looks like there are 2 kinds of brown things.
One type that is a lighter brown looks spheroid, possibly potatoes or dinner rolls.
Another type is a darker brown, looks like fat cylinders, possibly deep fried breaded fish/salmon/crab cakes, as others have said.
The lighter brown ones could also be fish/salmon/crab cakes, but from a different manufacturer, or just shaped differently.
- Comment on Agatha All Along, the only marvel show I'll probably give a try this year 5 months ago:
- Comment on Hellboy: The Crooked Man gets a digital release in October (8th) 5 months ago:
I guess they can’t use the disparaging phrase “straight to video” anymore.
- Submitted 6 months ago to startrek@startrek.website | 2 comments
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- Comment on Rotten Tomatoes Introduces a New Audience Rating for People Who Actually Bought a Ticket 7 months ago:
Waitaminit, wouldn’t this rating be subject to effort bias, i.e. One thinks more highly of things that one has paid money for?
- Comment on Weekend Box Office: Deadpool & Wolverine hangs on to the top spot; Borderland a disaster 7 months ago:
The first Mortal Kombat movie was a classic!
- Comment on [Discussion thread] Deadpool and Wolverine 7 months ago:
You’re right. Got them confused with Spiderman. It’s hard to keep track…