Man. Those guys reeeeeally loved saying the r-word huh.
It’s kinda fucked up how acceptable it was even ten years ago.
Also these nerds unapologetically really liked the dark knight rises lol.
Yeah being abelist really wasn't something people considered in the late-aughts. Generally their material is pretty good and spot-on, I like re:view the best.
Watching comedies from that time period is jarring just on the insane amount of homophobia alone
You have to understand, in the Midwest, until like 2015 outside of academia, qu**r and the r-word were common parlance among every single group of people to the degree that you wouldn't care if you used them in front of your grandma. Never been comfortable with either myself, but that is really unsurprising.
Hasn't queer been pretty much reclaimed by the LGBTQ community? I've heard it used mostly positively since like 2013, but maybe that's a regional thing.
Yeah the only pushback would be like, oh that's not nice to say about that person - at most
the r word wasn’t widely socially unacceptable until like 4 years ago lol
you should check out their series "Best of the Worst"
imo, it's a much better starting point to their group dynamic than Half-in-the-bag, and I think they're at their best when reviewing dumb b-movie crap and making jokes than doing actual film criticism. That or their show re-view where they talk about stuff they like. In general, starting half in the bag from the beginning doesn't really seem worth it to me.
I am once again asking you to go watch Best of the Worst: Black Spine Edition #3.
@23:18 in the geriatric workout video:
To monitor your work of breathing, we will use the BORG perceived exertion scale
:picard-direct-action: The WHAT scale!?
watch all the best of the worstss, write down the movies that look fun bad or otherwise hilarious, then watch them drunk with friends, grand old time
Edit: my personal favorite has probably got to be Beware: Children At Play
I synced it up so the start of the climax would happen at exactly midnight and watched it with friends for new years, 10/10 would recommend
Man i loved the whole Nolan Trilogy. How are you going to dog on it?
Really those and Joker as well as the Raimi Spiderman Trilogy are the only super hero movies i consider great.
like all Nolan, I really liked it on first watch and less and less on each subsequent watch. Tenet was the first I didnt care about on first watch and it felt like finally being over a breakup.
The third one is just bad. Has the some of the dumbest looking scenes and nothing interesting even happens in it. And obviously the intense copaganda.
The middle movie's emotional climax is about how people are basically good, even if they're criminals. The Joker's whole perspective is that he embraces the monster he thinks everyone in society is, and Batman's deal is that he defends people because he knows they're not.
IMO the greatest crime of the third film was that Christopher Nolan kinda forgot what he had written for the second.
If Ledger would have lived we would have gotten a different movie.
He's something from graber you might like to read.
https://thenewinquiry.com/super-position
Jay liked TDKR because he's into dystopias, I think Mike mostly thought it was :shrug-outta-hecks: (which is his opinion on most big budget Hollywood movies).
I see you're really working your way from the ground up, the TDKR review was still firmly in the Amish Hobbit Jay era
It’s kinda fucked up how acceptable it was even ten years ago.
:yea: Makes me think of when I decided to revisit the early South Park seasons because I remember liking them as a kid. Almost impossible to watch now.
God I used to love South Park. There are probably a few episodes that would still be funny but I have no desire to go back and watch
I mean, I honestly think we're on a path towards it becoming acceptable again. There's an edgy to woke to edgy cycle in terms of what's culturally okay. I think it's trending back towards edgy again.
Interesting thought. Do you have any examples of words that have become popular again due to th swing back towards edginess?
Historically? Its hard to say. But I've definitely heard the r word a lot more recently. I also think you can definitely look at the stuff around Columbine, the efforts to ban violent video games, etc around the Clinton administration as a more woke period followed by a more edgy period post 9/11 that didn't really end until the 2016 election.
Don't forget they also gave rise to the far-right "consume product" meme
I'm really fucking mad that it got co-opted. It's a valid and good criticism
I haven’t watched much of their other stuff, but those Star Wars prequel reviews are sooooo fucking funny
They liked the Dark Knight Rises?
I only tuned in years later but now I retroactively hate them. :rage-cry:
