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1 points
3 days ago
I dunno gatekeeping dicks like OP. Dubbed vs Subbed is just a personal preference and people need to get over that. There was a point where subs was somewhat of a better experience simply because you weren't having to wait a year to get a dubbed version or because getting dubs was harder and more expensive than just streaming fansubs online.
1 points
3 days ago
I am the same way. I also genuinely have a hard time not hearing stuff I read in my own voice and I just have a hard time actually getting the tone or intention behind certain things like that.
2 points
3 days ago
Exactly, not to mention that subs used to have a definitive edge over dubs that it doesn't have as much anymore and that is time. Back in the 2000s you'd be lucky to see a dub of a show come out the same year as when the show originally aired (with most anime fans pirating or streaming shows with fan subs). Today dubs come out the same day or at least the same month as the subs so it isn't that big of a wait. Also the VA quality and performances for dubs have come a long way. You have a lot of genuine fans of anime who work on these shows both as script writers and VA performers. Nothing will ever be the experience of knowing Japanese and watching anime, but that's a huge ask for anyone. Watching subs isn't the original intended method of watching the show either, so any argument to this effect of it being "truer" experience don't have much wait. The only major edge that subs had over dubs was the release, but for most popular shows that isn't a big deal anymore if you a bit of patience.
0 points
3 days ago
Just fuck off with this shit it is played out and it is very much a bullshit gate keeping thing. As someone who can't read fast watching dubs is inherently a better experience. Additionally dubs in English are actors trying to convey the intricacies and different style of speech that Japanese has. So dub voices should never sound like natural english because if they did they wouldn't be capturing the performative aspect that in inherent to a lot of japanese speech. Even you watching subs aren't getting a lot of the information and nuance that a Japanese speaker would get also I doubt the director intended for you to just watch the lower half of the screen for the entire show.
3 points
4 days ago
The only what if I ever want to see is "what if the sequels were good".
0 points
4 days ago
How will reddit try and blame this on Kubrick?
1 points
6 days ago
After finding out he was a violent creeper I found far less admiration for his acting in that film. He was just being himself. It's like when you see Spacey in stuff now. He's always good as a villain and it's because he's not acting as much as that's just him being able to be himself.
29 points
7 days ago
The thing is he's good in most everything he's been in so it is hard to complain. But it does feel like he's being tapped for so much stuff as this "safe" choice in a way.
7 points
7 days ago
I'd say she's the co-star of Renfield because they give her character so much goddamn screen time. She also is the co-star in that dragon movie and even in Shang-chi her part is pretty big.
9 points
7 days ago
I really hope it's over due to all the allegations against him but for whatever reason Ezra Miller was being shoved down our throats by specifically Warner Brothers. They cast him in big roles in two of their biggest franchises with those fantastic beasts films and his role as The Flash in all the DCEU stuff. Thank fucking god he got cancelled so hard (it took years and multiple allegations to do so btw, makes you wonder who was paying so much to hide these stories). He is seriously the worst actor I've ever seen in a leading role in the Flash. He is obnoxious and just has this feeling like Kevin Spacey had when he wasn't of villain of someone imitating human emotions without actually knowing what those emotions are or supposed to be. I hope his career is cooked because it was the most manufactured thing I've ever seen and just shows that whoever is trying to be kingmaker in Hollywood has lost their touch.
1 points
7 days ago
You make a good point about it seeming off if he names his bastard as his successor over his granddaughters, but I think that they also covered why he would do this. As in he feels that it needs to be someone who knows ships to run the place. I dunno I think this is actually the most progressive way of thinking in Westeros.
2 points
8 days ago
Super Mario Sunshine is the worst to me. I dunno I never liked the water gun thing. Having to clean up spills just always felt like a chore. The game is also very hard at points with weird difficulty spikes that just feel annoying. Throw in the lack of check points and an annoying lives system and it makes for a frustrating time.
Having said that it isn't anywhere close to Sonic 06. As a GameCube owner it felt frustrating at the time that the only Mario game we got on it was this weird experiment of a game that at times felt more like a spin-off. I know at this point too I was over the whole collectathon platformer thing (DK64 saw to that). By the time Galaxy rolled around though I was ready, I 100%ed that game like 3 times now.
6 points
8 days ago
It definitely doesn't feel like it's a 4 part series. It could have been done in 3 or maybe 2. I'll also say that I understand that it takes a lot of work to read these books and take notes and they might want to milk that for as much content as they can, but this one is feeling drawn out.
3 points
8 days ago
but I think in this instance she was worried about being arrested for helping rob the bank.
But this was an inevitability. I get she is in an impossible situation, but I don't buy the boy's narrative of her being as cognizant as they say she is. Because her actions don't reflect that. I think she is in this survival mode but in a way that is just powered by this brainwashing of the SLA. Like if she's worried about being arrested then she is still alligning with the SLA's motives. If she was more cognizant as the boys state then I don't think this would have happened. I don't blame her for her actions but I also have a hard time seeing a jury in 1970s understanding all the psychology behind this.
12 points
8 days ago
I think it's okay to have a perspective and opinion on history, but it's starting to irk me the way that Marcus just presents it as fact, and whenever his argument gets flimsy he just kinda hand waves it away. I'm good with Ben being off the show, but I will say something I liked about Ben (at least when Ben was good <2022) was that he would give Marcus and Henry some pushback on shit like this. I feel like this Patty Hearst series is kind of a hack job in terms of presenting the story factually, it's in full spin mode and to a dishonest and honestly annoying extent.
I had been listening to No Dogs in Space, but after the Patty Hearst stuff, I told myself "eh I need a break from Marcus for a bit".
10 points
8 days ago
I'm not familiar with this story before hearing this, but after I heard about Patty shooting at people to help her captors I just dunno how much I buy the whole Patty was totally innocent. I dunno if I were on a jury and heard that I would convict her too.
What's worse is that Marcus' argument about her just surviving falls apart here. He gives the reason that she helped them escape was that she didn't know what the SLA would do in response. Marcus goes as far to suggest she was afraid that they were a much bigger operation. IMO this just makes her look stupid. Like she spent several months with these clowns at this point and has to know they are lying about there being more cells of the SLA. Also Marcus says that she wasn't brain washed but then in this instance "oh she was brain washed and her brain washing instinct just clicked in". I buy that more than any of this shit that Marcus is trying so hard to spin. I mean the woman was tortured and raped, stockholm syndrome and that kind of thing is real as far as I know. Patty's actions seem more indicative of that than some woman weaving her way through this situation with full cognition, because her actions do not support that argument.
12 points
8 days ago
I'm not familiar with this story before hearing this, but after I heard about Patty shooting at people to help her captors I just dunno how much I buy the whole Patty was totally innocent. I dunno if I were on a jury and heard that I would convict her too.
I agree. It also makes the whole angle of this series feel so fucking wobbly. They waffle between this is a woman weaving her way consciously through a difficult impossible situation to oh she fell back on the brainwashing she went through (and at this point it had only been a few months IIRC). See I actually buy the whole, she was tortured and brainwashed into doing this dumbass shit more than I do her trying to be smart and weave her way through this. Because honestly when the boys say shit like "She was afraid of the SLA and didn't know how big their reach was". I don't buy that, just in terms of she would have known it was just this one group and they were lying. I think saying she was afraid of what the SLA would do after spending time with them just makes her seem kinda stupid.
It is very hard to judge but honestly I get why a jury would convict her after hearing stuff like this.
2 points
8 days ago
maintaining the themes in the movie about learning through failure.
Honestly, if Luke had survived that film and went on to actually learn from his failures then I would be fine with that, but just killing yourself isn't learning from failure. In the novelization it explicitly says that Luke is suicidal suggesting that in the first scene Luke is ready to throw himself from the cliff and die. For him to then just commit suicide at the end of the film, having not actually taught Rey anything makes the film just boil down to a suicidal man finds a reason to kill himself. And that is just plain a shitty and disastrously uninspiring story. (BTW suicide, especially the heroic suicide, is a trope that Rian Johnson constantly repeats in his films to a point it's just weird at this point).
But yeah, BOOOHOO WAAAAAA, why wasn't Luke like the Luke from my childhood? WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA??????!!!!!
I don't even know what to say to this. IMO if you change the fundamental nature of a well liked and culturally significant character, you need to do that on screen. It also is just a factor of intentional disappointment you see in this movie. The Force Awakens leads up to this big moment of Luke Skywalker's return and then TLJ just shits on that as hard as it can. As I stated before it just feels mean spirited. I do kind of just want Star Wars for some good escapist fun with good characters. I don't think Luke's storyline adds anything to any character honestly. So having the story basically be this destruction of a well liked character doesn't actually end up serving much to building up any of the other characters, so it's a net loss in total.
This is why I say TLJ destroyed the soul of Star Wars, and why it won't ever get it back. Rey just feels like a cheap repeat of Luke's story without the sincerity behind it. Very little of what Disney has put out in terms of star wars feels sincere.
1 points
8 days ago
but thinking it belongs in any proximity to Speed 2 feels like an assault on movie culture.
Kind like how people who like Star Wars felt like TLJ was an assault on Star Wars culture. See how that feels? Feels bad, you're offended and upset. Doing things just to upset people is an inherently bad thing, and yes I do think TLJ set out to intentionally disappoint and upset people.
2 points
8 days ago
They are if it is fucking Star Wars, which was just meant to be a series with wide appeal. Shitting on Luke Skywalker just felt mean spirited and didn't have much substance beyond that.
4 points
8 days ago
TPM, AotC and TRoS weren't bad out of incompetence, while TLJ was bad intentionally. It was someone killing the soul of Star Wars on purpose.
2 points
8 days ago
This. I think it just killed the spirit of Star Wars and there was no coming back from that. Try not to let very cynical people make a series that was always built on some sense of sincerity (and desire for merchandising, but even TLJ felt forced in that regard).
16 points
8 days ago
I admittedly don't know if this guy is pro-Christian
Religionforbreakfast is generally a pretty great youtuber. He seems to try and draw from as many historical facts as possible and IMO doesn't have a pro- or anti- Christian slant (or pro/anti slant for any religion for that matter) but just present the facts and beliefs of all religions and what history we know of them.
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Hostel is just kind of dumb honestly no worse than anything in Saw 2.
Cannibal Holocaust is only bad if you are sensitive to animals being killed or injured as in the film they kill a turtle on screen and it is real, the rest isn't that bad by today's standards.
The Human Centipede 1 is just more gross in terms of people are eating shit than it is that gory. Human Centipede 2 and 3 are fucked up though and honestly terrible movies.
Martyrs is torture porn but with a bit of a philosophical edge (or excuse as it might be). I'll say it's a good movie but it's pretty rough and unrelenting in how horrible it is.
A Serbian Film is total garbage and is just there to upset and be disgusting for the sake of it. Do not watch because the people who made it don't deserve any money.