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Jay Are
| Favorite team: | New Orleans Pelicans  |
| Location: | Baton Rouge |
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| Number of Posts: | 6133 |
| Registered on: | 11/17/2014 |
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re: Thoughts on Mandalorian and Grogu
Posted by Jay Are on 5/24/26 at 2:11 am to pelsfan8976
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So glad to see a movie where I dont have to watch some weirdo give their personal dissertation on what happened in the movie on youtube.
Why would you need to do that for any movie?
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There’s nothing more annoying and shitty than grifter “influencers”
They really are the worst of the worst. Even their reactions look fake.
True. Nothing worse than these grifter Twitter influencers convincing idiots to act outraged over an obvious promotional photo op.
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Jay Are is lighting up his cigaratte and sighing deeply somewhere as he prepares to go once more into the breach
Yep. 30-something responses complaining about who would greenlight this and Hollywood is out of touch. 30-something responses from people who didn't read, or let themselves be misled by one tweet from a known click-bait artist.
Paramount acquired the film rights to novel that will publish in 2027. That AP article is about a book, not a movie. Maybe it gets ordered to script if the book is a phenomenon. More likely, Paramount owns the rights for a Godfather-related novel they either never do anything with or loosely adapt into something they can do with Pacino (the legacy contebt they actually want), that also prevents another studio from capitalizing on IP they control.
Stop getting mad about nothing news. You are giving shitty people money from your clicks.
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If searching "The Odyssey" on AI brings up that Achilles is "a figure of myth who has has many faces depending on what story you are reading."
Searching The Odyssey on AI isn't going to bring up anything about Achilles, because he's barely in The Odyssey. You're bloviating.
And adapting The Iliad and depicting Achilles as all manner of different races and genders (to the extent that this dozens of times, which, come on) doesn't dilute the character, because what makes Achilles important is his freaking heel, and that he is a petulant bitch who spends most of the story actively refusing to fight. Everyone has heels, even trans people, and everyone is capable of being a petulant bitch who refuses to fight.
This board is yelling about Achilles as though the Brad Pitt version in Troy is the "classic" version of that character. That version has almost nothing to do with the Achilles in The Iliad. Our modern ideal of heroism has nothing to do with and is not present in the Homer poems. Achilles is a character in an ancient myth that you have now romanticized based on a rumored casting in a movie; he does not carry inherent cultural value.
Also, there is no stretch whatsoever with gay.
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always boils down to “why do you care
It's more that you definitely don't care about this character.
Somewhere not pretending to care about a comic strip character who has absolutely zero cultural currency or relevance in the past 50 years. 50 is probably an understatement.
If you feel very strongly that Betty Boop is somehow part of your cultural legacy, then I feel very bad for you.
If you feel very strongly that Betty Boop is somehow part of your cultural legacy, then I feel very bad for you.
re: Is it True Ellen Page will be Achilles in the new Odyssey?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/18/26 at 4:11 pm to imjustafatkid
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The main scholarly complaint I can find is related to her decision to go with a modern poetic style.
She doesn't do a modern poetic style so much as she translates in favor of maintaining the original amount and length of lines, as she says in the intros of both her Iliad and The Odyssey.
I'm currently rereading the Iliad with her translation, and I'll do The Odyssey next.
Can we all agree to ignore Madking being a fukking idiot about this? Hard to imagine she downplays Odysseus's heroism, given that there isn't a popular translation that depicts him as a modern selfless hero. That translation would be unfaithful to the character. He uses his brain and guile to outsmart and trick antagonists. He's selfish and arrogant.
And if you read The Oddyssey in high school decades ago, this is what you were taught/talked about then as well. Or your teacher sucked. Or, most likely, you didn't read it and are now pretending to care.
re: Mortal Kombat II
Posted by Jay Are on 5/18/26 at 12:33 am to Laugh More
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feel like 80-90% of movie watchers want exactly this. Why is this so hard to understand?
Mediocre nostalgia-bait? Definitely.
Michael, MKII, and Devil Wears Prada 2 all out at the same time.
Helen and Clytemnestra have always been sisters. Born at the same time, though she is not Zeus's daughter.
This is not new.
This is not new.
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Not sure why it’s not more talked about
It barely got a release in the US. It's body horror is tougher to take than those previous films with the incredibly serious tone, and has widely been considered less successful because than those films.
I probably liked it more than Titane, but it veers pretty hard into suffering porn for my tastes.
re: Variety: Online onslaught against the diverse cast of “The Odyssey.”
Posted by Jay Are on 5/13/26 at 9:58 pm to hawgfaninc
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For anyone who’s a fan of “The Iliad,” as Musk has purported to be, it’s almost impossible to like “Troy,” which bastardizes Homer’s tale beyond belief.
Correct, though Troy is garbage for more reasons than being a lame adaptation.
Championing this piece of shite because you don't like the casting of two minor characters in the adaptation of a different literary work is dumb.
re: Lupita Nyong is a great Helen of Troy
Posted by Jay Are on 5/12/26 at 8:25 pm to This GUN for HIRE
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3000 yr old Greek mythology
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"the face that launched a thousand ships"
Christopher Marlowe isn't that old, nor is he Greek.
re: Jokes about Charlie Kirk and wishing someone would get k!lled at Kevin harts roast
Posted by Jay Are on 5/11/26 at 8:37 pm to RogerTheShrubber
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see you cant dispute what I said. Go make a joke about MLK assassination and see what happens.
Roast or no roast, you arent walking out of there. Youre running.
Yes. From the cops. They called the cops, because, in this very retarded scenario, you're a white adult who walked onto a school campus uninvited to tell race jokes to minors.
re: Is it True Ellen Page will be Achilles in the new Odyssey?
Posted by Jay Are on 5/11/26 at 8:09 pm to SouthEasternKaiju
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Widespread reports of those 2 being cast as stated by MANY, not mere X accounts.
There are not. And Copilot finding the same rumor threads as you doesn't make that true. For instance, the sourcing, SFFGazette.com, is an article headlined "Is Elliot Page Playing Achilles in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey?" And then quotes a bunch of people asking that same question on Twitter.
re: The Odyssey Trailer #2
Posted by Jay Are on 5/9/26 at 11:27 pm to fr33manator
No.
Those are AI images of Elliot Page and a black person who looks nothing like Lupita Nyongo. Page and Nyongo are both in the cast of of The Odyssey, though no one outside of the production of the film knows which characters they are portraying.
People here will happily make themselves look retarded posting a slop memes based on Twitter rumors. No one forces them to humiliate themselves this way.
Those are AI images of Elliot Page and a black person who looks nothing like Lupita Nyongo. Page and Nyongo are both in the cast of of The Odyssey, though no one outside of the production of the film knows which characters they are portraying.
People here will happily make themselves look retarded posting a slop memes based on Twitter rumors. No one forces them to humiliate themselves this way.
COPY AND PASTE VERSION *NO POLLS THE REST OF THE TOURNAMENT*
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3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
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3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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3. A Nightmare on Elm Street
1. The Shining
3. Texas Chainsaw Massacre
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these will be the most expensive diapers in the world. You easily could have partnered with local churches to provide this
No. You could not have.
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They somehow sapped all the fun from the franchise and turned it into an absolute soulless shite show.
This was true of the last one.
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There is a well established niche for "they won't embarrass you saying lines and they will get nekkid" actress in Hollywood. She's right in there.
Has she gotten naked before this?
She was definitely nominated for an Oscar, for a very good performance in a very good movie, before this.
re: The Odyssey Trailer #2
Posted by Jay Are on 5/6/26 at 4:03 pm to SlowFlowPro
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The British accent has been the accepted "international" accent for decades
And everyone loves Nolan movies based on how closely they stick to very old, very dumb traditions.
The embargo doesn't lift until late next week, so that's the review of a guy who's about to lose his preview access to everything disney makes, or he's functioning as an influencer.
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