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What are examples in any form of media where a "brilliant song/painting/play/etc" within the story is actually as good as the characters act like it is?
Note: NOT the same as just "I liked it". It needs to actually fully match its fictional reputation
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This shot from Empire Strikes Back is 42 years old and blows both of these completely out of the water
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Realizing that most of the critiques of Villeneuve's visual and tonal approach to Dune are from people that have not read the book and have a wildly incorrect idea of what it's like
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@Thatoneguy64
The Iron Man movies got so much less cool when his suit-up sequence changed from a bunch of machines slapping metal onto him into just pressing the CGI button on his wrist
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@LinguistReborn
It’s not even subtext in the movie at all, people should just watch a thing before critiquing it like this lol. Not to mention the story’s been around for 60 years already
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@theboghog
Oh I know, but the characters aren’t meant to have written it in the movie either. It’s their performance that makes it a sensation
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Dune is about humanity taken to its maximum possible limits, but still nonetheless trapped within those limits and problems; hampered by petty vindictiveness and religious fanaticism. It's often more about how much we *haven't* changed in 20,000 years, and how tragic that is.
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@EPM106
He also really messed up by loudly reciting a poem about how evil he was when he made the One Ring, things might've worked out otherwise lol
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Also Villeneuve very often ADDS extremely bizarre weird concepts that are nowhere in the book. The Harkonnens were pretty standard hedonistic royalty originally, and he turned them into BDSM psychos living on an infrared nightmare planet.
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@Thatoneguy64
It honestly seems like they planned on doing an anthology series with different stories each season and then changed their minds when the first one blew up as much as it did
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This show genuinely has some of the worst camera work I’ve ever seen. It’s like the DP was drunk or something
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@BrynFD
Such a great choice to not have any long-winded explanations for stuff like this, all you need is that impossible visual to get the idea across perfectly
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@LackingSaint
Anyone who played The Last of Us and thought Joel was a virtuous hero did not deserve a sequel.
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First time I’ve noticed the significance of Paul wearing the Signet ring on his index finger while his father wore it on his middle; symbolizing Paul’s more ambitious drive for domination in contrast to Leto’s contentment with his current position and power.
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@ldrinkh20
And the fact that Luke saves the Resistance in The Last Jedi without hurting a single person shows how well Rian Johnson understood Star Wars.
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@JohnnySobczak
I love the implications that almost every single person in Harkonnen society is just living in constant terrified servitude of these three freaks
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@realerjoetalley
@GrahamB47
They also nailed how people actually talk to themselves in both of those games
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@HeerJeet
serious question....is there any important character in a Scorsese film that is a good person?
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@TheEpicDept
@ldrinkh20
It’s very funny that Snyder took a moment of Rorschach clearly just being homophobic and then completely validated it
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@LackingSaint
He literally admits to having been part of groups of people who would ambush and kill innocent survivors for food and supplies. I mean, come on. Also, there’s the whole dooming humanity thing.
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@tharkibo
@gm_elli
Yeah, that's definitely in there.
"You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it. You wanna sell it."
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@Thatoneguy64
An acoustic version of that song is played by a character in the second game, so I get where they’re coming from with that choice, but it doesn’t fit a trailer like this
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@Thatoneguy64
I do think it’s fun seeing how complex Gus and Mike’s operation is knowing that in a few years a random chemistry teacher’s gonna show up and destroy all of it lol. But the Jimmy McGill stuff is absolutely the best part of the show.
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Adding that of course Villeneuve is making a conscious choice to make his Dune more stripped back and brutalist, it’s not like that’s the only possible interpretation of the book. I just object to the idea that that visual language is *contrary* to what the book presents.
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*record scratch* “Yep, that’s me. You’re probably wondering why I just passionately kissed my uncle.”
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@PunishedLobster
Very funny how nonsensical all these comments are lol. Capitalism plays practically zero part in Villeneuve's movie, if anything he reduced its presence compared to the book.
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@PunishedLobster
This is embarassing lmao. It’s not even like a dense Tarkovsky film or something, it’s about Batman!
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@CristianVzq
@alvvayssunny
@alwayssunny
@theofficenbc
You’re right, The Office is in a much lower league
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@pixstruggletwt
I’m 100% positive that this person hates The Last of Us Part II and thinks he knows these characters better than Neil Druckmann
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@Srirachachau
Yeah, you can’t really blame him for getting pissed off that a representation of his hope for redemption despite his mistakes was turned into the most evil character ever
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@MauLer93
Dude, just wait until you watch the original Star Wars movies. The Stormtroopers are even less competent. But seriously, what kind of a complaint is this? This is what Star Wars has always been like. It’s fine.
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Great interview with Todd Field that also happens to totally put to rest the criticisms people had that Tár's ending was ridiculing video games or their fans. The tragedy has nothing to do with the medium she's working within, but the removal of her agency to interpret the music.
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@dropoutninja
Yeah, like most of the most famous classic folk and country songs we don’t even know who originally wrote them lol
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@tedcruz
One of the enduring images of the Great Depression in the US, a result of unrestricted capitalism, is people lining up for bread
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@fiendformojitos
Absolutely love how the score is going fucking crazy for every otherwise normal dialogue scene. Great movie
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@shaun_vids
I get that America is still terrified of socialism, but “progressive” seems like such an unambiguously positive word.
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@CosmonautMarcus
You know, it's weird how people never care this much about the workout logistics of the thousands of ludicrously buff men in video games. I wonder why they care so much about this character. Very interesting...
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@fellawhomstdve
I feel like the Clones are so ingrained now that people often overlook how unimaginably dumb it is that George apparently thought, “Huh, people really liked Boba Fett. Let’s give em a million Boba Fetts!”
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@PrimiSecundi
If the last thing you want watching the movie is for Paul to succeed, then they’re doing things right
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@sopranime
Nah, it’s actually sung by a country singer named Dan Tyminski, and they dubbed that over Clooney’s performance
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@shaun_vids
He would have done an absolutely phenomenal job with it. The Last Jedi is arguably the best Star Wars movie since Return of the Jedi or maybe even The Empire Strikes Back. He really understood the themes and characters that matter to the story and he would have done a great job.
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@GuanoLad
It's fantastic. Love that the rising massive popularity of this throwaway song they did is in the background of the whole movie and then gets paid off so well at the end.
"Hot damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!"
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@Rlehr_Media
@postingtwink
It was actually more like a few humans got really paranoid and decided to genocide computers, along with anyone that used them, and the results of that stuck around for the next 10,000 years
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@Srirachachau
Lots of young actors get extremely popular for almost no reason, but I really haven't seen Chalamet ever give a bad performance. He's great
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@Swordfish978
@coopercooperco
At least with Cal Kestis, the Bad Batch, or the characters in Rebels, they have some room to do new things since they’re original characters. With Obi-Wan, they have very strict parameters to work around.
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@fiendformojitos
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The movie honestly does not make sense without the resolution of Bruce learning that he needs to be a symbol of hope rather than fear, and he can only understand that by going too far and seeing what his current outlook will lead to.
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@chethanxasmr
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“Yeah guys, so thanks for liking and subscribing and being a part of this community”
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This scene is so fantastic. I’m enjoying the show but nothing can compare to how heartbreaking Annie Wersching and Troy Baker are here. Just incredible performances, her especially. Really sad about the news today.
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@MarkQuestioning
100%. That movie might’ve been cool but it certainly wouldn’t have been anything like Dune
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@Swordfish978
I looked back at the Empire scene and also when Kershner does cut to a wide shot, it’s an ultra-wide of the entire room for maximum contrast from that close-up. Just way more exciting all around.
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@ldrinkh20
This is absolutely right. I really enjoyed the books when I read them as a kid, but I never thought they were anything incredibly special. There's kids books I like a lot more.
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@Domilego4
@bambooney
I fucking despise people like this. Someone mentions how they can relate to a protagonist as a result of their character design, demonstrating how valuable it is, and then someone just insults them for it.
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@fox__tails
@connieglynn
A lot of Tumblr discourse even goes further to the point of, “If you put villains who do bad things in your story, you clearly believe those things are good and are therefore a bad person.” It’s ridiculous.
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@TheAlexSylvian
@suspiraserhead
It’s so funny to me that most people seem to think that these numbers come from a specific group of people that work for Rotten Tomatoes
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This is very dumb but also really reductive of Tolkien’s work. His First Age material is full of complex nuanced characters on the edge of good and evil and struggling with desires for revenge and violence. Túrin and Fëanor are two of his best characters because of that.
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I like where the series has gone since then, but there's something so special about how claustrophobic and tense this entire first movie feels. None of the other club scenes are like this and it's still the best one
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@Srirachachau
Gandalf catching his sword as he’s diving through the air is just the most awesome visual to ever exist
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@Black24Boi
The whole narrative about weighing the cost of a land invasion and making a “tough decision” is complete bullshit. A lot of people who were in military leadership positions at the time even said that they thought Japan was very close to surrendering already.
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@yannichc
@Kaimandante
@nytimes
He strolled towards a police blockade holding an assault rifle after killing two people while the police repeatedly told him to stop and they did NOTHING to him. If he wasn't white, I think we know how that would have gone down.
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@adamtotscomix
John Carpenter directed ten fantastic movies in a row from Assault on Precinct 13 to They Live
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@haramcart
Interstellar is fine, but it's pretty simple from a thematic standpoint. It's just about love bringing people together. Just cause there's black holes doesn't mean it's super complicated.
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@coopercooperco
@9_volt_
@dyniceqiao
You know, I thought having a character like Ellie be nuanced and complex and strong-willed was the priority, but apparently this 19 year old girl (who was 14 in the last game) needs to be as sexy as possible.
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@FAWil4
Yeah, people say this all the time but I really don’t think there’s anything in the book to support it. It hardly has any visual descriptors of most things at all. A really trippy colorful look isn’t wrong, but it’s not any more faithful than Villeneuve’s brutalist look.
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@bob_noss
@Thatoneguy64
Yeah, it just really sucks because it would be way more interesting as an anthology. Even the title of the whole show suggests that with how malleable it is
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@QuantumMemeMan
@CinnamonGhoul
In what world was The Last of Us forgotten about within a couple months? People have been talking about it pretty consistently since it came out seven years ago.
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@drmistercody
It is literally incomprehensible to me that they didn’t make that Finn’s story in Episode IX. It would complete his arc as a character and it was clearly what the previous two films were leading towards. Instead, he just doesn’t do anything whatsoever.
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@ashronaut15
Why are people constantly repeating this false statement all over the internet? Is there some alternate edition of Dune I’m not aware of where Chakobsa is literally just Arabic?
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@Club_Star_Wars
@rianjohnson
Huh, it's almost like Luke would be so ashamed of his mistake that he isolated himself on a planet in the middle of nowhere for six years. Shame that wasn't in the movie or anything.
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@pixelatedboat
@alexqarbuckle
If there’s anyone that would wear a t-shirt and jeans in the fancy cyberpunk future, it’s Harrison Ford.
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@Java_jigga
Wait a minute, are you telling me the cop who spends the whole movie indiscriminately murdering people might not be a good dude??
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Every single part of the Silmarillion completely destroys this notion of Tolkien’s ideas. It’s largely about somewhat good people making horrible mistakes and constantly failing to stop awful things from happening.
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@Tectosaurus
@GermanStrands
Idk, I empathized with him for a lot of it since Kratos is a pretty awful father tbh. There's one section where he's really annoying but that was intentional to show how his power could be corrupting
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It's incredible how unbelievably immature and unimaginative most gamers are. They cannot even conceive of the fact that a game making you feel bad or uncomfortable in any way besides sadness could be a valid artistic choice with meaning behind it.
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@drmistercody
I just chalked that up to another of the multitude of incomprehensible things in that movie
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@headfallsoff
Something I appreciated about Death Stranding is that you can, and I did, go the entire massive length of the game without killing a single person. That’s not really a thing you see in most action games.
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@ianofa
@patriciastrohm7
@dog_feelings
What about elevenses? Luncheon? Afternoon tea? Dinner? Supper? He knows about them, doesn’t he?
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@jasonschreier
It was an absolutely phenomenal achievement that they made me not want to win those "boss" fights *both* times. What an amazing game.
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@jasonschreier
Can't wait to see all the people that spent years whining about Naughty Dog to completely justify and ignore this. Maybe it wasn't the workers that they actually cared about after all.
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Insane how much better the scene in the game is. I don’t know why they decided to remove basically every single amazing music cue, it’s like half of what gives it its tone and impact
Incredible how much one poor music choice diminishes one of the most heartbreaking scenes in the story
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@fiendformojitos
I truly don’t understand the perspective that it drags or is unnecessary in any way. It contains the thematic core of the whole story!!
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