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Friends is terrible

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So, there's been an announcement that YTV is rebooting...well...ReBoot into a live action rip off of Tron/VR troopers: http://www.polygon.com/tv/2017/3/29/15105720/reboot-live-action-reboot" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; Rip off is probably a strong word, but from the descr...

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Saban's Power Rangers (2017]- It's actually watchable. The characters are actually pretty compelling, but the dialogue can be pretty bad. They also don't spend very little time in costume. And the scripture script had a real hard on for Krispy Kreme. And Rita felt like she was from a completely diff...

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I'm too tired to rank them but Belle has always been my favourite princess. Moana is now very high up there and I have a lot of time for Jasmine and Mulan. I will not hear seditious anti-Jasmine sentiment and I certainly won't hear anything against Rajah. Jasmine is great when you include her TV ap...

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Never heard of Kiara. Did you mean Kida from Atlantis? She's neither part of the official lineup or part of a musical (Merida fulfills the first quote Elsa, Moana, and Anna fulfill the second). That said, using my 7 criteria, she would be ranked between Ariel and Pocahontas [Edit]I see. Kiara is a D...

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^Haha, that was way too much criteria for me to absorb - I would have needed to make an excel sheet and apply percentages and weightages for each criteria. So I just did it in the way that would take me the least amount of time. [laugh] I did use a spreadsheet. I didn't bother to use weights. I jus...

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1. Belle 2. Ariel 3. Pocahontas 4. Mulan 5. Aurora* 6. Cinderella 7. Elsa 8. Snow White 9. Anna 10. Rapunzel 11. Jasmine 12. Tiana I've ranked them on the basis of how memorable I thought they were as characters as well as the overall quality of the movie they were in. Top 3 are interchangeable, re...

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So, Screen Junkies a couple weeks back had a ranking of Disney princesses. They included the official 11 members of the Disney Princess franchise as well as Elsa and Moana. Why they excluded Anna is beyond me. Here are their rankings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SGOCVFP6Uk I decided to do my ow...

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Islandmur wrote:
Unvoiced_Apollo wrote:Split - About as good & ridiculous as The Visit.
First off I like Night's movies even the weird ones like Lady in the water.
I disliked the visit.. did not understand how kids wouldn't know what their grandparents would look like

split which i just saw... was... hUgh?

Hugh?

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Gendo wrote:Doug Walker's take on Beauty and the Beast. About what I expected, and I'm pretty sure I would feel the same as him (and Rob):

I saw it. Didn't earn any goodwill with the intro no matter how much I might agree with them.

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Beauty & The Beast (2017) - The acting and singing are serviceable, but that's about it. The movie is an almost beat for beat remake of the original. Very few changes are made, and out of the ones that are, most of them aren't explored enough or they don't make sense. Also, the original did a mu...

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So, there was some weird children's show about a guy in a castle that I vaguely remember watching as a kid. I've been trying to find that shit for years but it's as if it never existed. I think he might have been a vampire, or maybe he just had bats flying around the castle? I don't think there was...

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Update: This review is no longer a reflection of my thoughts on the movie. There will be an updated review posted soon Beauty & The Beast (2017) - AKA "Why didn't they just re-release a another special edition?" All kidding aside, this is an almost beat for beat re-telling of the anima...

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Can someone explain what the unpaid internship has to do with anything? I actually have no idea if it's saying that not having an unpaid internship is privilege because you actually get paid for the work you do instead, or if it's saying that having an unpaid internship is privilege because those t...

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79. Bow to your social better, Azaezel. Some of those questions are silly anyway.... to I buy new clothes at least once a month? Um, no. I could certainly afford to if I really wanted, but why would I waste my money like that? That's got nothing to do with privilege. Why didn't it say "could y...

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IATs are worthless. They're a bit more scientific than Buzzfeed polls, but not much. I think we may have discussed them here before, but I don't remember. Go on? I've seen criticisms of the validity of IATs but nothing quite so definitive. Since DA provided the scientific source, I'll provide an an...

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Wow, really been slacking. Get Out - It's a satire of the black experience in the form of the suspense/thriller genre. The satire aspect as better than the suspense. 3.5 out 5. Still recommend seeing it. Logan - Good send off for Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. Patrick Stewart was good too. All the bruta...

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Based on Disney's Tangled and taking place between the movie and the Tangled Ever After, not a bad lead in for the upcoming television series. Her hair grows back and there's an added twist. They introduce a new villain who was affected by the policies the king enacted after Rapunzel's kidnapping, e...

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No they're not. In fact they're called "bangers" because that's the fat spitting out of them and sometimes making the skins split. They should be oozing with porky-fatty-goodness. It's probably a texture thing because they weren't as dry as I'm making them out to be. Another thing is Amer...

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Or did the American restairant cook them wrong? Or am I just used to the fattier American version of sausage?

*awaits double entendres while also awaiting serious answers*

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aels wrote: oh

WARM AND MOTHERLY

Stills not so bad. It's when they talk.

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In Beauty and the Beast, the animated Disney version at least, humanity is defined in terms of love and empathy toward others. Beast was at his most monsterish when he was a pale skinned white dude being shitty to poor people. Similarly, Gaston is also an asshole despite being presented as handsome...

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Well, it looks like the movie is getting good early reviews. Kind of surprised really. But apparently they do a good job of keeping an almost beat for beat adaptation while adding a few new elements to update it to a degree. Hm. Not sure about good, but decent and on par with expectations. Metacrit...

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Anakin McFly wrote:
Emma Watson is 90% eyebrows
if Emma Watson is 90% eyebrows then what is Zachary Quinto

95%

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It worked significantly better as a social commentary than as a horror movie. It brilliantly skewered... well, mostly people like me, and liberals who don't think they're racist but actually are. As opposed to mocking stereotypical "overt" racists and other easy targets which serve as con...

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Well, it looks like the movie is getting good early reviews. Kind of surprised really. But apparently they do a good job of keeping an almost beat for beat adaptation while adding a few new elements to update it to a degree.

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According to some people, anyway. There's some big controversy because apparently one of the male characters has a man-crush on Gaston. Now all these parents are talking about how they aren't going to be taking their kids to see such things. I hate everyone. I thought this was readily apparent in t...

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Diegetic?

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Just read only part of White's review. The opinions are utterly insane and makes me think he was a victim of that suburb.

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Derived Absurdity wrote:I will never get what the big deal is with that stupid show.

That's because you're a hipster.

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Emma Stone says she was holding her card at the time. So I think it was staged. They have duplicates. Staging the incident would discredit the Academy to a terrible degree. I just heard that there's a conspiracy theory out there that Marisa Tomei didn't actually win Best Supporting Actress for My C...

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JaredMithrandir wrote:Emma Stone says she was holding her card at the time.

So I think it was staged.

They have duplicates. Staging the incident would discredit the Academy to a terrible degree.

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Yeah, saw the clip on Youtube. Funny, but kind of feel bad for the La La Land producers giving heartfelt speeches then getting the award ripped away. Then again, we got to hear the speeches we never would have heard had it not been for that mistake. Hopefully this will teach the Academy & other ...

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Why? What happened during the Best Picture Announcement?

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Just saw it. 7 out of 10. It's a satire of the black experience in the form of the suspense/thriller genre. Anyone with an ounce of wit wouldn't take the ending literally and understand it's more like mocking appropriation of black culture by white people. Why not an 8 or 9? Mainly because I just fe...

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Derived Absurdity wrote:Isn't 80% really good for an audience rating?

Yes, but read a few of the reviews making up the other 20%.

It's one thing to not like the movie based on quality. But a lot of reviews are upset at the content and theme in regards to the racial element of the movie.

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Anakin McFly wrote:John Wick 2 was awesome. Someone called it Harry Potter for assassins, which I think is entirely accurate.
I liked how he didn't name this dog because he didn't want to get emotionally attached after what happened the last time.

I'm not actually getting the Harry Potter analogy

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Let's get back to Trollhunters.

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However, this time around, the amulet decided to get cheeky and choose a human as the Trollhunter for the first time. It's Avatar/Dances With Wolves all over again. Actually, no. You think that Del Toro would be so simplistic? They give a pretty good reason a few episodes in why the amulet may have...

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Pretty good cartoon on netflix from none other than Guillermo Del Toro. It's about two worlds existing, Trolls and Humans, but only a certain group of trolls are bad and are enemies to both humans and trolls. The good trolls have a protector known as a "Trollhunter", in which an amulet cho...

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It's not so much about Jackson always being serious, and I do agree there are more moments of levity in the Hobbit films; it's more about his making it into another LOTR epic in terms of length and scope. He tried to turn it into a LOTR-esque epic and it just... isn't. Brevity is the soul of wit , ...

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John Wick 2 - Great follow up to the original. The action was really good and I could even follow the scenes in the dark. This movie knows how to use shaky cam and avoid quick cuts. They do a good job of expanding on the lore and worldbuilding without getting lost in it. My only negative is it doesn...

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I've seen a the trailer for this quite a bit & really curious. If it gets good reviews I may go see it. If not, I'll redbox it.

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Melissa McCarthy is back as Sean Spicer

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The Lego Movie - Too frenetic with too many jokes that it annoyed me more than anything else. By the time of the reveal, it was too little too late.

Honorable mention:
Deadpool - I actually did enjoy this movie, but not nearly as much as others. It has the same issue as the above for me.

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Islandmur wrote:Is The Visit the one about kids going to see their grandparents?

Yes.

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The Lego Batman Movie - I must be weird because I think The Lego Movie was a better movie but I liked this one more. It's definitely the best theatrically released spoof movie since The Lego Movie, but that's not really hard to do considering all the terrible parodies out there. I definitely think t...

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the_dork_lord wrote:Since I'm not around much, you may have forgotten.

We haven't forgotten. We just don't care.

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I would like to know who at imdb thinks discussions on twitter or facebook are more positive.

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Oh dear god, that format is terribly organized.

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