Autism personified
I definitely need to check out Woo's other heroic bloodshed films. Ip Man is kickass I watch those films for the action only. Very disappointed to find out that like Chan, Donnie has a position in Communist China's political office but it is what it is. Thanks for the recommendations
Drinker probably has but the problem is when people watch HK films, they watch only John woo or wong kar wai. Not to sound too faggy but I feel like if you are closer to the surface on the popular movie iceberg, that's just a pretense unless there's genuity which in the case of online personalities like the drinker I don't think there is. If you see like Wu-Tang clan they're corporate sellouts but they're at least genuine in their admiration of media properties, to online personalities media is just a vehicle to parade them around, not the opposite.
One of the biggest problems with online media criticism is trend chasing which I guess is an occupational hazard at this point. People carve out niches for themselves but they tend to chase trends really hard, even if they present themselves as supposed dissidents. The only people I have seen who dont do this is thealmightyloli and probably weekend warrior. EFAGs don't just fall into the same trap, they actively embrace it as part of their brand like most people do which is weird when they present themselves as dissidents. So they're just the other side of the moviebob coin, they're just equal and opposite, equally consoomer equally incompetent equally unknowledgeable and equally stupid. As insulting as this is, even Jack saint and Eric Taxxon have better knowledge of the media landscape than any of the core EFAGs even if their assertions and conclusions are ridiculously stupid. I doubt Mauler and Rags know anything outside their little echochamber of hip consoomer shit, Rags will say Duellists and Kingdom once or twice but that doesn't mean shit. It sucks a lot more when you realise that foreign cinema has better acting blocking presentation and storytelling than anything from the US and UK, the latter are just good at flashy effects and dialogue.
Speaking of Donnie Yen, both Flash Point and Kill Zone are some "newer" (I think early 2000s) Hong Kong action films that I enjoyed.
Should just turn this into a film recommendation thread given that EFAG is so utterly dull that yesterday's (the day before that?) stream hasn't even been posted here to be ignored and not discussed. God knows that they aren't making any worthwhile movie recommendations.
I was thinking it'd be funny if it was like the yms highlights and some furfag ran it and then I read the next message and it turns out it is, at least this one doesn't shove their big titted fursona into the videos
Funny thing is, I had just become a new fan of Red Letter Media. It's like RLM is the yin to EFAP's yang.
As the token movie recommender for my friends and family, I can tell you that its a difficult thing cause you never know what people like except through association. I stopped looking into movies that much after I started working 2 years ago but the way I always recommended to normies was to ask for a required release date, region and genre to be a bit of an absolutist. I cannot recommend based on similarity unless its a video game, Im sick of people telling me "give me something like Joker or The Avengers", movies just dont work that way. Joker is not the same as Taxi Driver or Death Wish, Point Break is not like Three Days of the Condor or All the Presidents Men, no two movies are similar beyond aesthetics unless theyre remakes or based on the same source material.
And also it has 12 musical tracks and you'll hear all of them every 3 episodes, that music that plays everytime Lu Bu and Diaochan are being sappy at each other is now burnt into my brain.
I don't think that any of them are adventurous enough to actually watch interesting films unless they're things that everybody else in their general sphere has already seen. Mauler somehow hadn't even seen an episode of Star Trek until a year ago, what makes you think that he'll watch a film that needs subtitles?
Ok That is actually fucking insane. How do you talk about Star Trek's writing without having seen it for yourself? Unbelievable.
He never really talked about Star Trek until recently, it being missing from the EFAP recommendation list had me assuming that he never watched it and I was right on the money.
The theme is pretty great though, I can sing it from memory at this point (I cannot speak Mandarin). Eastern Asians really love their generic musical stings, even in their theatre they do it. That said it is worth it if you are a Cao Cao respecter.
Not even TNG or DS9, just nothing! I think that was the point where I realized that this fucking guy and his hanger ons are a bunch of frauds. I will reiterate: he still hasn't played KotOR, and has the temerity to talk about Star Wars "growing up" or whatever, not even getting into the Thrawn Trilogy, Tales of the Jedi comics, or the greatest Star Wars story even: KotOR 2.
This is why I find Drinker's recommendation of Godzilla Minus One as part of this trend chasing. The Godzilla IP has a rich history along with the filmography of Ishirō Honda, but he chooses the most recent Godzilla entry from Japan because it was getting high praise. Also, looking at the "Recommends" playlist, I saw Drinker includes Everything Everywhere All At Once, which was Hollywood pandering to the Asian market
When you talk about Godzilla online, you have to mention two things, Tokusatsu and Kaiju. Without these two things, anybody who talks about Godzilla is just a trend chaser. Drinker is just a failed ChannelAwesome type who failed upwards unlike moviebob who crashed and burned (this is true btw, he auditioned for ChannelAwesome in 2010 as a drunk angry film reviewer, his audition tapes are available on his patreon. Imagine what that kind of world that wouldve been).This is why I find Drinker's recommendation of Godzilla Minus One as part of this trend chasing. The Godzilla IP has a rich history along with the filmography of Ishirō Honda, but he chooses the most recent Godzilla entry from Japan because it was getting high praise. Also, looking at the "Recommends" playlist, I saw Drinker includes Everything Everywhere All At Once, which was Hollywood pandering to the Asian market
except it won't work because it's too wacky, too crude and has the writing quality of a steel sock.
Hearing Vee screech at Rags like that was very embarassing, however everything he said was on point. Rags is fucking insufferable, and I hate how he's never called out for his obnoxious smugness on EFAP. He's such a fucking faggot it makes me sick.
He considers that to be writing for the characters and doing the job for the writers; and that coming up with explanations that aren't explicitly stated in the film is grasping at straws to defend the movie.
