Blatant Tony Soprano erasure but yeah
If you sell the movie rights to your comic book, you better include an "if you let Zac Snyder anywhere near this, i'll fucking kill you" clause in the contract.
I've said it once, I'll say it again and again. How does one copy the comic panel-for-panel save the ending and still fuck up the adaptation?
Honestly I don't know. I watched the movie in theaters and was blown away by how it looked exactly like the graphic novel yet had none of the substance. It was like watching a child lift an empty cup to a doll's mouth and pretending they were sipping tea.
I have mixed feelings on that movie.
Pros: The MCR cover of Desolation Row kinda slapped.
Cons: Everything else
Does anyone else remember when everyone thought Don Draper was the pinnacle of cool and there were a million magazine articles about how to be like Don Draper? Like, how do you misunderstand a show so badly.
Cool is when you're emotionally crippled by your personal history and you cover it up by day drinking and smoking unfiltered cigarettes by the carton.
This is clearly making fun of the "you're wrong to be idolizing them starter pack" pics.
I'll bite. Fight club gets more hate than it deserves. It is basically right, apart from the misogyny, and people only hate it because bros didn't understand it.
I see the "fight club is satire of toxic masculinity" take much more frequently than fight club hate.
I'm coming around to the idea that Fight Club is bad on an ideological level because it's intended as a satire of toxic masculinity. Durden's social criticism, radicalism, and organizing end up being symptoms of his toxicity instead of decent parts of an otherwise shitty individual, and the ultimate takeaway is that fighting to change society through non-electoral means is just as bad as misogyny and doing bareknuckle boxing instead of going to therapy.
Thing is, Fight Club isn't a straight up satire of toxic masculinity. Both the film and the book have a more complex relationship with it than just "look at the dudes being stupid assholes lmao". Tyler is supposed to be cool, this isn't a misreading of the movie.
Here for sure, but this place is better than the rest of thr internet.
I saw that take a lot on r/movies circlejerk but that's sub is full of chapo refugees.
Ya, fight club is one of the best depictions of a masculinity so brittle its proponents have to push its sisyphusean boulder up the hill constantly. I think it has merit as a commentary on consumerism and the emptiness it creates but it tends to be too hamfisted with the former and too stingy with the latter.
I dunno who's the more annoying "model minority" that wants to be oppressed in the USA, italian-american or irish-american chuds. Both are vile racist reactionaries that love to remind people that ummm actually the first, and only real, slaves in the USA were irish 😤
the worst part of scarface is how unbearably dull it is, the film plays like hearing a drug addict talk about how great drugs are
The me around senior year of high school starter pack.
I just started Mad Men last night (late getting to it I know). I'm pretty into it so far, about five episodes in, but does it go anywhere? It feels like it could be one of those all setup no payoff shows right now it's hard to tell with the Netflix model of stringing you along and you don't know if it's going to be good until it's over.
I'm way more into the setting and really don't give a shit about Don Draper. I think I kinda want the show to be something it almost is. Like I like the ensemble drama of how crappy the 60s actually was angle but the character study angle does nothing for me cause I literally only care about the women in the show.
