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Bob Chipman is making me like Peter Coffin and I am filled with disasters.
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Bob Chipman is making me like Peter Coffin and I am filled with disasters.
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"I'm not a wimp" says the guy who blocks people on Twitter to get the final word in, and backpedals like mad when someone asks for basic facts to Bobs story about how the Nazis killed someone he allegedly knew.
This is just pathetic. How can one be this much of a slave to a dead corporation? Were Chris's days at Blockbuster really his halcyon days because he could sit on his ass all day and have no responsibilities whatsoever?
Oh boy I can't wait. What Pop Culture franchise will Bob mash together with Gremlins and how will he make the white working class the true villains of the film?
I have only the vaguest idea of what Scorsese said about Capeshit, only that he isn't very fond of it. All I know is there's a fat man in a Boston basement who is screaming at his phone and trying his darnedest to not go into a multi-Tweet rage at a famous Director because said director called out the corporate drivel Bob obsesses over.
This is your brain on Pop-Culture. You see cute animals and immediately think of meaningless references so your smoothbrain can consoom them.
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Which is more embarrassing - Bob's Mario fetish, or Chris's Blockbuster fetish?
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Yes.
But if I had to think on it, Bob by a mile. Mainly because he unironically worships Mario but is too embarrassed to upfront admit that capeshit and pop culture is his god.
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The Zack Snyder King Arthur movie will probably be based off of Le Morte D'Arthur (The Death of Arthur).
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The Wanssee conference protocols had a sizable postscript devoted on what to do with Czechs, since they were Heydrich's responsibility at the time. It basically created four categories based on race and ideology.
Good race+good ideology: Will be Germanised.
Bad race+good idealogy: Will be allowed to resettle in the East.
Good race+bad ideology: Especially dangerous, eliminate as fast as possible.
Bad race+bad ideology: Work to death as slave labor.
So even for the group that was deemed to sit in the middle of rightfully German land, the plan wasn't a wholesale genocide Bob would like.
The post Bob replies to is somehow even more irritating and stupid than Bob which is just typical Bob stupidity.
No, the majority of sources for the King Arthur myth aren't French. There are continental sources, yes, Chrétien de Troyes and Eschenbach's Parzifal for one, but the origin of the myth is definitely in the British Isles: the oral stories that ended up compiled as the Mabinogion, the Irish Fenian cycle was an influence and Geoffrey of Monmouth who was one of de Troyes' sources. There is a reason why these stories form 'The Matter of Britain' as opposed to the 'The Matter of France' which deals with Charlemagne and his knights.
And the last (and I'd say definitive) medieval retelling of those stories was Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur (which I assume that commenter thinks was written in French because of the title). The continental influences were big: Lancelot was added by de Troyes as the French knight who is better at everything than the British knights and the Holy Grail idea came from the continent. (Though de Troyes worked at the time of Angevin Empire and his patroness was Marie de France, daughter of Eleanor of Aquitaine, the Queen of England.) However, by the time of Malory the continental influences were fully absorbed and developed by him. (The whole part about Lancelot's affair of Guenevere? Malory wrote the Morte while imprisoned for 'raping' his neighbor's wife. Raping is in quotes because it happened multiple times over a period of years and likely with the woman's full consent and the accusation was most likely the husband's attempt to save face.)
So while Bob's reply is just the usual Bob stupidity and kneejerk hatred of everything Snyder while trying to sound smart, the original is just smug 'Teehee, these silly people who think their national mythology is something that's theirs.' and is wrong on almost every level. And highlighting the times Bob is somehow the smarter part of the conversation should happen, just because it's so rare.
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This says a lot about our society.
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Because WWII also fundamentally made that kind of war obsolete. You'll never see a total mobilization of whole continents against each other that will rack up a bigger price tag in both capital expended and destroyed short of WWIII nuclear anihiliation.
So, with the days of huge standing armies slugging it out for campaigns that last months and wars that last years, consuming so much that the home front is rationing meat and rubber over, the idea that war is a freebie, a luxury if you will, that the superpowers may dish out as they see fit, was an easy one to set in the minds of anyone who wasn't of draft age in 1945..... an ever-dwindling section of the population. Wars that actually bankrupt your nation like the constant campaigns of the English monarchy against France? (The Magna Carta and the War of the Roses arguably were both fallout of successive reigning monarchs continually hitting the "tax" button so they could go to war for glory until even the subservient peasantry itself stood up and said "no") , or war that is pushed past any measure of reason for the sake of national pride consuming an entire generation? And I mean literally consuming, leaving women with no men to marry and families with no adult male heirs? As in post WWI France and to a lesser extent, the UK? Who decided losing half a MILLION men in a day was worth it to move the front line in another country five feet? Those are something for the history books Bob - types claim to love, but don't' actually THINK about.
Modern armchair warriors don't know the costs of war because they've never been involved in one, even by proxy, that affected them. Sure, they're dimly aware that lives are lost and money spent, but, like the head of a global multicorp, that's just a line-item in the budget. They know the Eastern European office exists and it's costing them more money than it makes, but, overall the company is solvent, so why not keep it going to benefit a few franchisees in the region you know? It certainly doesn't affect you when you go home to your mansion in a gated community one way or the other.
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Scorsese compared them to theme park rides, and said he didn't consider them "cinema." Which is a fair consideration, I think, when you think about the levels of film making. This was discussed way back on a thread at Ace of Spades HQ:
So in Scorsese's mind, the Marvel movies and most other comic book movies are basically on the level of flick or movie. Now there are some in my opinion that do aim to reach above that level though - Captain America: Winter Soldier and Civil War are in my view movies that try to reach the level of film, and on the DC side of things, The Dark Knight Trilogy and Joker are films that try to reach the level of cinema. But overall, I agree with Scorsese's assessment - at the end of the day these are popcorn movies. That doesn't make them bad movies, nor does it make it wrong for you to really enjoy them or try to analyze them. But you need keep perspective on them with regards to other films and film-making as an art form. Which means that, no, Black Panther does not deserve to be considered Best Picture material.
What was really notable about Scorsese's comments were that they drew a lot of criticism from Disney and Marvel Studios - with Bob Iger wanting to hold some kind of conference with Scorsese as if he was some fucking head of state trying to sway the opinion of a foreign dignitary, and a number of the directors, producers, and actors criticizing Scorsese. The only two people on the Disney/Marvel side that actually acted like adults were Robert Downey Jr. and Scarlett Johansson, probably because they started their careers working in more artistic films of the likes that Scorsese produces.
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I come at it from a similar angle myself.
Where I differ is that I'd go a step further. I'd say that on some level, they feel embarrassed to enjoy nerd/geek-oriented media, and the only way they can truly enjoy it is if it is constantly taking the piss out of itself with self-effacing displays of camp that signal to them "You're not a geek! You're not a geek! You're not a geek!". In other words, they feel uncomfortable with this type of media displaying any kind of gravitas or sincerity because it makes them feel self-conscious about their own nerdiness.
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Did not know about Lancelot was a latter addition to the Myth, since he was always such a important and pivotal character, I assumed he was just part of the Geoffrey of Monmouth's records.
I love the Arthurian legends, but I've only really read the Thomas Malory's books, and the T. H. White books, which is probably where most people now take the modern image of the Arthurian legends (the first book was also made into the classic Disney Animation).
But now looking back, yeah, I guess it makes sense for Lancelot being the most badass and most everything of the knights, fuck, even Arthur was kind of a cuck for Lancelot, not so much in the Malory books, where Arthur just resigned to the fate the crimes of both Lancelot and Guinevere led, but in the T.H White books, Arthur wanted to for Lancelot to rescue his wife and take her away. Might make a good read for the NRT degenerates out there.
Still, fuck Lancelot, never liked him anyway, sir Gawain for life!
Anyway, gonna repost this:
What the fuck does being faithful to "mythic neoclassicalism" even mean? I know Neoclassical art is all about being the esplendor and being larger than life, which you could say that Snyder translates that as "look at how awesome this shot is!!!", and that is fine for what it is, I don't hate Snyder or anything like that. But is that it? Mythic Neoclassicalism is just "cool shit"? Because Zack Snyder did a movie with just "cool shit", it was named Sucker Punch, and it sucked.
So is that Robert wants for a King Arthur movie? Some cool shots made in a green screen of Arthur pulling Excalibur? And then some animu fights of Arthur cleaving mountains in half with his magic sword in between slow mo shots? Fuck, if that is the case, just have Zack Snyder adapat that crappy Seven Deadly Sins anime and leave King Arthur alone.
Also, John Boorman Excalibur is kinda shit. But i do like Merlin in that movie.
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Would six even be enough to lift Bob's coffin?
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If you hired body builders.
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the only thing this retard piece of shit is going to murder are some big macs
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Chris's by a landslide. Mario has been innovative for its entire existence. Like it or not, that series has advanced gaming ahead numerous times, especially during the awkward early years of 3D gaming. It will still be relevant as long as gaming is a popular medium.
Blockbuster...it was fun for its era, but it bit the dust because it couldn't keep up with the times. Put it this way, the next generation will know who Mario is. They'll look at Chris's Blockbuster collection and say "the fuck is that?"
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I really don't know what the fuck Swallow-well was thinking when he said that, but he was either autistically writing checks his body can't cash, or he thinks there's actually a way to nuke noncompliant gun owners without severe damage to the surrounding area that would make it uninhabitable for CENTURIES, or he's blustering to scare the gun owners because he thinks they're stupid enough to believe he'd actually do it?
I mean, is Bob even that exceptional?
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Six what, cranes?
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I think that was basically the plot of the Inhumans TV series.
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Ugh. Not another attempt to make a King Arthur movie. King Arthur is a bit like Superman in that modern moviemakers have no idea what to do with the character since he represents a paragon of humanity whose major conflict is that his power and goodness can't solve every problem he comes across. But filmmakers today are so into things like deconstruction and subversion, that they can't have a main character without giving him 12 layers of angst and making the setting all dark and broody. I'll give Boorman's Excalibur one thing: it knew when to be dark and when to be brilliant and shiny. It was earnest in its storytelling, portrayed humans as passionate creatures filled with lust and regret, and the setting had a mystical and wistful feel to it, as if an era of magic and paganism was ending and an era of Christianity and lawfulness was being ushered in. I don't have much faith that Snyder will create a film that functions on that level thematically, beyond Arthur posing with Excalibur and being revered by the rest of the cast. And in this era of #MeTooism, all of the earthiness and non-PC passion that made Boorman's movie memorable will be stripped out and the cast will act and think just like 21st Century Progressives.
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All I'm rooting for is something like this in Zack Synder's King Arthur but I think the smooth brains like Flim Robert would hate this type of scene as it has no quips or special/sassy black girl to save the day
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