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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Now make a meme with the text:

"Audiophiles" when someone listens to high-energy goa trance through a moderately expensive monitor headphone and audio interface from a digital source, while coding; instead of listening to Vivaldi though overpriced headphones and a tube headphone amplifier, from vinyl, using cables with magical properties, while doing nothing and "getting immersed into the music".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

I think it'd be more accurate if you replace vinyl with something like, "10GB lossless .flac files".

[–] [email protected] 80 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Subversive. By mocking an extreme, you want to avoid the main issue here: Marvel is a toxic shithole normalized by aggressive marketing.

[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Let the 5-year-old watch Shrek or sth.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Or a proper vigilante movie like Kick Ass

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago (1 children)

beginning with a masturbation joke?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I as a kid thought Kick-Ass was good, so years later my dad asked what would be good for his new girlfriend's children and I recommended it. I was later reminded that it has swearing about a few minutes in lol

Poor judgement on my part, but also, stigmatising everyday life and language is kinda problematic

Side note they were absolutely too young for a masturbation joke, but remember, that just means they wouldn't understand it. Millions of family movies are designed to make adult jokes the kids don't get, to keep the adults entertained.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It took me a moment to realize that “Gritty Black” and “White Polish” weren’t movie titles.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Yeah, what the heck is this capitalization about?

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I dunno man that sounds pretty lit

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Absolutely. Where can I watch this

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Not a Polish film, but Hard to be a God (2013) is that.

It's a 3hr B&W Russian film about futuristic scientists who are living on a medieval planet to study it. Everything is disgusting, claustrophobic, and filthy (the main character is a germophobe). As he watches a fascist theocracy take control of the kingdom, the protaginist wrestles with whether or not to get involved.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago

Yea, I'm down for the watch party lol

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unfortunately what is considered the world's first movie is A Trip to the Moon from 1902, so there exists no movie from 1873

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I think the creator meant set in 1873

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Honestly yeah would watch

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Yeah it feels like the MCU ran over everyone's dog or something. I get the arguments where people say it's not real art or that studios put out shlock because they're trying to copy the MCU. I don't know if I necessarily agree.

However, what about the meme about just letting people enjoy things?

Let me clear. Last MCU movie I watched was like Shang Chi and I lost interest after Loki and Wandavision (great shows). So like, I'm not a fan anymore and I ain't watching any of their movies any time soon.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Wandavision was really good the first time, but it honestly has no rewatch value whatsoever. Loki is great, though.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

I think some of it is a misplaced sense of frustration with the way that most big commercial films are franchises/cinematic universes, which focus on plot over everything else. See spoiler culture - where plot details are so key to the point of the movie that revealing them could somehow “ruin” it.

Weirdos like me who would rather watch shit like Au Hasard Balthazar often aren’t eating good at the box office. I’ll watch Marvel movies with friends and turn off my movie critic brain but I’m not enjoying the movie, just the company. I’ll go watch Venom with my younger brother or something, but very rarely have I been able to find friends to go watch like Lancelot du Lac with.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

IMO the issue is the frequency of releases (and I say this as a former Marvel fanboy, up to ~Endgame).

People don't go to the movies often, only a couple of times per year. Without these big franchises, they distribute over the available movies, giving unknown properties the chance to get recognized. But all this goes away when people have a safe choice they already kinda know.

Now we've had a huge franchise with multiple yearly releases that keeps on going. This drained a lot of random audiences away from other movies, who in turn Marvel-ized themselves (with the quippy humor etc., you know what I'm talking about) in an attempt to still garner some support.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I haven't watched the movies since about the same point, but we did that Agatha show and enjoyed it (i think it was what's her face from that show and the aggressive homosexuality that got us to watch)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

That movie was a train wreck, I also gave up after that one

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Eraserhead doesn't make sense. It just fills you with a sense of unease.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's about the dude's fear of committing to a relationship with a girl he's been dating.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Specifically about becoming a father

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I know I’ve watched Eraserhead like 4 or 5 times, but it’s either something about the film or being extremely high when watching it - I have absolutely no idea what happens in that movie.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Marvel movies often have a subtle SUBTLE undertone cliticizing the Kaiser and praising a bohemian view of agriculture. It’s understandable but not forgivable that this is so often missed.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I would also like to cliticize someone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Just be SUBTLE about it!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The quality of a work lies not in how it makes you feel, but in how many polysyllabic words it allows you to use when talking about it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Adult Star Wars fans when kids try to enjoy the movie with dog people, living teddy bears and elite troopers that can't shoot straight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

That was the original trilogy, which pretty much everyone agrees was good.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Five year old, right. Not a millennial at all.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Nah, one marvel movie is enough to know them all.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

CGI Budget: Infinite

Casting Budget: Infinite

Writing Budget: $3.50

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

I've seen all the marvels movie and am ready to never see another one.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

Reminds me of the movie critics on breakfast TV here. When they recommend a movie, we'll take it as a warning. When they condemn it, we consider it a recommendation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

"au hazard balthasar" more like cogitohazard balthazar