moakley
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- Comment on nature is music 4 days ago:
Good for it. Those are both fantastic songs.
Even 30 years later, Black Hole Sun blows my mind. Chris Cornell’s voice walks this impossible line between sounding so full of emotion that it’s about to burst, and sounding somehow soothing and precise.
That’s not even a line that exists to walk; he creates a line that cannot logically exist, just so his voice can walk it.
- Comment on Are most people here left-wing? 1 week ago:
Last time I took the political compass test, I was center-right, firmly in the libertarian quadrant, exactly in the sub-section labeled “libertarian”.
That means my political stances align 100% against the Republican party and authoritarianism in general.
- Comment on This is unfair! 1 week ago:
- Comment on At least Quark had some integrity. 2 weeks ago:
“Female” is fine as an adjective. It’s when it’s used as a noun that it becomes a problem. But that’s not a new rule or anything.
Consider when someone says “Black people” vs “the Blacks”.
- Comment on What are some lesser-known obscure TV series that went under the radar, that you would recommend? 2 weeks ago:
Agents of SHIELD. That counts.
- Comment on Val Kilmer, Actor Renowned for Receding Into His Roles, Dies at 65 2 weeks ago:
He used to comment occasionally on reddit. I interacted with him there once. He seemed very gracious and down-to-earth.
- Comment on Ty Burrell recalls being told he's 'not funny' after 'Modern Family' audition 2 weeks ago:
But he’s really terrible at it. He constantly quotes comedians out of context in ways that are categorically unfunny to the people around him. Like when he calls Dwight an “ignorant slut” or says “and don’t call me Shirley” when no one has said the word “surely”. He copies the punchlines but forgets the setups.
He envies comedians because he wants to be able to make people laugh, but he has a very poor understanding of comedy itself.
- Comment on What are some of the most well-acted, engaging, complex or interesting antagonists or villains you've watched in TV? 2 weeks ago:
Kingpin in Daredevil.
Vincent D’Onofrio walks a fine line between being believable and over the top.
- Comment on What are some of the most well-acted, engaging, complex or interesting antagonists or villains you've watched in TV? 2 weeks ago:
The first half of the first season of Heroes was so good.
- Comment on 'vegetative electron microscopy' 3 weeks ago:
*your
- Comment on Skill issue 3 weeks ago:
This is definitely an objective opinion based on facts and universal experiences: the best multiplayer experience was Halo 1, when we ran ethernet cables between our dorm rooms. I’d wake up to someone slamming on my door telling me to turn my Xbox on, and I’d jump right into a death match.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 3 weeks ago:
You can color with a candle.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 3 weeks ago:
Wait until you realize that number 8 is actually teal blue! Gotcha!
The lesson here is not to peel off the labels.
- Comment on Definitely wasn't late to work making this 3 weeks ago:
True, but it’s a restaurant crayon, so it’s a little scratchy.
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- Comment on 3's grip looks the most comfy 3 weeks ago:
2, and it’s not close.
- Comment on Why aren't there mass protests in the USA? 3 weeks ago:
Because protests don’t do shit. There were mass protests over police brutality in 2020.
I get why you feel that way, but it’s just not true.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 4 weeks ago:
It is extremely clear to me that you’re the one who isn’t getting it. Nice discussing it with you though.
- Comment on Musk shares post that Hitler didn’t kill millions, public workers did. Union rages 4 weeks ago:
shouldn’t
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 4 weeks ago:
See I think Dark Knight might be his worst movie.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 4 weeks ago:
Even Shang-Chi?
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 4 weeks ago:
That’s the worst climax ever.
It’s supposed to be the turning point of the story, where the conflict is resolved.
You’re saying the actual story is this old man who’s barely in the movie realizing that life sucks. And this point in the story, where literally nothing happens on screen, is the resolution of the conflict of him not exactly realizing that life sucks.
Ugh. That’s not complex or deep. It’s oblique and pretentious.
The definition of a climax is “the most intense, exciting, or important point of something; a culmination or apex.”
That scene is obviously not intense or exciting. It’s only the most important part of this hidden plotline that’s even more off-screen than Llewelyn’s death since it only takes place in the mind of a character who’s barely in the movie, who has no agency and no part of the actual events shown on screen.
It’s insufferable. The things you’re saying (which I was already aware of, to be clear) make the movie worse, not better.
Even if I was super into this extremely boring theme, it doesn’t preclude the rest of the movie from containing a well-told story. And even if I went into the movie convinced that the Coens are geniuses and ready to forgive every other thing, voiceover exposition talking about symbolism-laden dreams is always going to be lazy writing.
I won’t watch it again. I’m not trying to reevaluate it. I didn’t miss anything. I just don’t think it’s any good.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 weeks ago:
If it follows a standard story structure, then what was the climax?
I think I’m very open-minded about movies. For example in the mid-aughts I dragged my girlfriend to like five different Coen Brothers movies before I decided that I really just don’t like them. For another example, I even like mainstream movies.
Isn’t it possible I do understand it, and I just don’t like it? I’ve put enough thought into it. I see the themes. I don’t think those things outweigh the poor plot structure.
You can say No Country has a coherent plot, but it doesn’t in the sense I’m talking about.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 weeks ago:
That’s probably a good point, but yeah, I don’t need to read a book to try to salvage a movie I didn’t like. There’s just no time for that.
- Comment on Scarlett Johansson Wants Marvel Fans to Let Black Widow Go: ‘Let Her Have Her Hero Moment’ 5 weeks ago:
Larson did the vocals in the movie version of the song. Sounds just like Emily Haines.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 weeks ago:
You really never rooted for Walt? You didn’t hope that he’d make the right decision? You didn’t find a little guilty pleasure in the satisfaction of a bad deed done well?
If not, then why did you even watch the show?
I’m fine with rooting for a bad guy. But no, I don’t enjoy stories that only have irredeemable characters that I can’t root for.
Besides, Javier Bardem won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, which doesn’t usually go to main characters.
But ok, even if Llewelyn wasn’t the main character, he’s the central character of the plot. His death resolves the main storyline in the movie, and it happens off screen. That’s not good storytelling.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I’ve heard that before, about how Llewelyn isn’t the main character. Not trying to be rude to you, but that sounds like bullshit. He’s the character I’m rooting for. If the main character isn’t the character I’m rooting for, then that doesn’t sound like an enjoyable movie.
If you’re saying Chigurh is the main character: he doesn’t grow either.
If you’re saying Tommy Lee Jones is the main character (which I’ve heard before), then I’m going to strain my eyes from rolling them so hard. He doesn’t at any point interact with the plot. That’s not good writing.
I get the Coens are doing it differently. They’re not following the rules for how stories should be told. But different isn’t the same as good, and the way they told the story was needlessly confusing and pretentious.
I always find it useful to use food as a metaphor to describe how I feel about movies. If No Country For Old Men were a meal, it would be expertly seasoned and cooked, with one extra ingredient that doesn’t belong there and detracts from the whole thing, like if you made a perfect steak and drenched it in liquorice sauce.
And it would be served on a scrap of driftwood, or in a fishbowl, or in literally anything other than a plate. Everyone around me would be raving about the side dishes while I’m wondering why my meat tastes like shit.
You can include themes in a movie and still tell a coherent story. Try this: remove the theme. Is the movie any good? Is the plot entertaining, and does it make sense? No, it’d be really awful, and the inclusion of a theme doesn’t excuse that.
- Comment on What’s a movie nobody can convince you is good? 5 weeks ago:
No Country For Old Men.
I was actually really enjoying the whole cat and mouse thing until the main fucking character died off-screen.
How does nobody ever talk about how shitty that “plot twist” is? It’s not clever. It’s not entertaining. It’s just bad storytelling. They don’t even show you a good shot of him to convey what actually happened. My girlfriend and I had to rewind it twice because it was so fucking stupid and made so little sense.
That’s actually how I feel about most of the Coen Brothers’ movies. The classical narrative structure exists for a reason. It’s a good framework for telling a story that makes sense.
Sometimes there’s a good artistic reason for diverting from that and telling the story in an unconventional way. Other times it’s just pretentious auteur garbage.
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumors Surface; No Devkits Available to Developers Yet (aiming for 2027) 5 weeks ago:
The elite controller has customizable back buttons, which are awesome.
- Comment on Next Xbox Rumors Surface; No Devkits Available to Developers Yet (aiming for 2027) 5 weeks ago:
PS5 had Spider-Man 2.
For Xbox Series X there’s Starfield.
For the generation as a whole, it was worth upgrading for Baldur’s Gate 3.
