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re: Scandinavian Prisons

Posted by Jay Are on 6/14/24 at 1:49 am
[quote]Why do law-abiding Scandinavians tolerate their weak arse prisons[/quote] A better question might be why do law abiding US citizens tolerate our ineffective, extremely expensive prisons? We incarcerate exponentially more people, spend out the goddamn wazoo, see poor results in terms of ...
[quote]Not saying it isn't, but where does one get this info?[/quote] They make it up. At this point, the only numbers the public has are the numbers disney has released. Neilson streaming numbers are on a 4 week delay, and those are dependent on the data that a streaming service provides. Di...
[quote]What’s crazy about The Acolyte is while it was purchased for multiple seasons there are reports that it’s only going to get the 1. If that happens it’ll be the biggest flop this side of Rings of Power.[/quote] You just made every part of this up....
[quote]The message is so hacks at places like pink.news and Mary sue can write cringe articles about how women can have children without a man.[/quote] Wait, the message of this show is that the force power in star wars is a real thing?...

re: Are great rom coms completely dead?

Posted by Jay Are on 6/12/24 at 11:30 pm
[quote]Audiences don't really agree you on that since it managed to become the highest grossing movie based on a Shakespeare play making $220m on just a $25m budget.[/quote] I'm pretty sure both Lion King films did quite a bit more than that. ...
[quote]Of course Hollywood sees this[/quote] It's annoying how many of you are talking about Hollywood and not George Miller. Miller made the film he wanted to, a film he had planned out with Charlize Theron before Fury Road was filmed. Hollywood agreed to fund Miller's vision because Fury Road d...
[quote]Homelander is clearly Trump,[/quote] If all you're seeing in that character is Trump than it's clear that you want to be seeing Trump....
[quote]Ignore any ranking or critique that can be bought[/quote] Then you should also ignore the audience score. And the rotten tomatoes score for any movie released before 2005ish. You're pulling from a select few contemporaneous reviews archived online (I don't know that it's fair to criti...
[quote]Dragged way too much at points, no action, and underwhelming leads.[/quote] I don't get these complaints. The film is constantly shifting whats going on, making it hard to pin down what could possibly happen, which is the opposit of dragging. It's not an [i]action[/i] movie, but again, thi...
Someone posted the Convoy song from Convoy the other day. I'd say that fits the topic description. ...
[quote]I thought it was pretty apparent he was talking about an ejection seat.[/quote] I did too, which made the expository flashback unnecessary. I like that he ejected and lived; I didn't like how the film handled the explanation of it. ...
[quote]all of these things right wing and fascist -wanting a monogamous relationship and children - enjoying the outdoors - workin out or generally wanting to be healthy - aversion of drugs alcohol or porn. This includes the position that only overindulging is bad - collection of classic lite...

re: My Star Wars Prediction

Posted by Jay Are on 6/6/24 at 5:19 pm
[quote]I don’t know but logic is out the window. Why else are they purposefully pissing the majority of fans off instead instead of trying to make as much product and money as possible?[/quote] I don't know, but if your best defense of a nonsensical prediction is "I don't know but logic is out th...
Three under-seen classics that deserve mention with all the big guns already named here: Day of the Outlaw The Naked Spur The Big Country My favorite western from this century is the Tommy Lee Jones-directed The Homesman. It's absolutely brutal....
[quote]I actually agree that the tugboat thing was the only stupid part of the movie.[/quote] I thought the human element of the ending was incredibly stupid, but I did really like the movie, and would put this as the best godzilla movie behind the original. You're going to give me a twist wit...
[quote]They're delusional. They think Max had a huge hit on their hands but cancelled it because it was too gay. Because that's what struggling media companies do all the time.[/quote] Of they actually believe it was canceled because it had gay characters they're wrong, but they're not wrong abou...
We're told later that the island was never attacked by the Americans because it was only used for that plane repair station....
[quote]Do you think movies would be more successful if there was more "fan service"?[/quote] This is another term for pandering. This board frequently gets very angry at the idea of pandering....

re: Cure (1997)

Posted by Jay Are on 6/2/24 at 1:43 pm
[quote]Jhorror almost always has some plot element that just ruins it for me.[/quote] I think that's fair. I also think Kurosawa visually elevates Pulse to the point that I don't mind what would otherwise seem ridiculous. I recommend both Charisma and Doppelganger. Both are technically thrille...

re: Cure (1997)

Posted by Jay Are on 6/1/24 at 2:10 pm
[quote]One thing that really threw me watching this movie was how shitty Tokyo looks. It looks like a post-industrial wasteland.[/quote] I always assumed this is very intentional location scouting. I like in Pulse how Kurosawa also makes incredibly dense Tokyo feel almost empty....