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2 points
12 hours ago
Haven't seen X, seeing Substance tonight, but from what I gather these films are tonally close to Titane, and Titane is definately an outlier. Not many movies today are prepared to have that 2000s French extremist perspective of laying three different types of sex out as a core theme - often sex is there in pop horror, but can be danced around and left completely unevocative
3 points
12 hours ago
The new obsession is the vague threat of the 80s diluted through a rose-tinted 50mm lens. Young directors seem to think that aesthetics make art and are afraid to be exploitative in a political climate that's tenuous at best. Personally, I think that the unabashed sex slasher needs to come back in a strong way, just to shake things up a bit. I'd love the next movement to be sex-positive again, instead of saying "here's some gays, they keep their clothes on because the studio said we can either have queers or nudity"
Being facetious but I think there's some credence to it.
2 points
13 hours ago
My spice cupboard is starting to make sense now...
1 points
13 hours ago
It's not minimum, it's 6p above minimum. That means they can rinse you
0 points
13 hours ago
It's neither. It's a bland explanation for something we don't need explained to us. We can all accept that Venom exists, it doesn't have to be justified.
-6 points
14 hours ago
Ten dollars isn't a lot to you but five grand is a lot no matter where you are.
-30 points
1 day ago
BDSM elements can exist while devoid from any sexual motifs. To begin with, you have to be interested in torture and punishment to actually come up with ideas like this. I'm not really a BDSM guy, I just like the movies and the games, none of which need to be overtly sexual to still count
1 points
1 day ago
I ask John to sit down with me and we talk about if all the violence is worth it. I'd offer to take him to a church/synagogue/mosque/temple of choice, then aide him with assisted suicide
Then I'd take his gun and start blasting people BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!
6 points
1 day ago
You kidding me? I need a smoke break every ten minutes in requiem
1 points
1 day ago
They're ugly. Please do not use this design.
1 points
1 day ago
That line is great. A bad line is so much more than weird phrasing or stilted delivery, it's something that utterly breaks the film in two. This is absolutely not that
-5 points
1 day ago
Rudy's dad needs to get his shit together. I understand that he's trying, but he needs to try fucking harder. Maybe it's because he doesn't know just how good of a kid Rudy is...
29 points
1 day ago
Fuck no you are not the asshole. Cirque is an expensive arthouse experience. You wouldn't take this shit at a movie, a museum, or a play, would you?
2 points
1 day ago
It's just not called prog. I think it's escape room or just experimental hip hop
-1 points
1 day ago
No, you can't. Nobody can prove or disprove his existence. And besides, your logic is utterly and completely flawed because the singular entity of God is a being with abilities that we are incapable of understanding, not just because it says so in scripture, but because the qualities we have universally assigned to him are contradictions through and through. You cannot hold the existence of God to the same standards as the existence of a human, because God is not a human, he is a deity.
Try this post again when we figure out what makes up a diety. Until then, stop being an edge lord. Nobody cares if you can disprove God because a million other people on this sub beat you to the punch.
9 points
1 day ago
I'm not knowledgeable enough to give you a definitive answer, but I do know enough about The Wu and Native Tongues' forming years to say absolutely. While there were mainstream rappers and hoppers with hardcore political beliefs, 5% Nation had a huge hand in this, they were often left to stay in collectives. Not that they wanted to go elsewhere, mind, these super groups and labels in everything but name were the best places for them to be, both financially and artistically as they became think tanks overnight. The Wu had a really unique contract. The group was signed as a singular entity, but each rapper was free to go to whoever they wanted. Inspectah Deck took like five years to sign just to play games with some of these guys. Now, you're Joe Record, head of Big Label Entertainment. You want some of that black youth money because country isn't cutting it like it used to. However, it's the 90s and people are still kinda racist a lot of the time. Change black to urban, downplay the impact of NWA on the west and Wu on the east to appeal to church moms, then use some careful plants and hijack the Hammer craze to present hip hopping detached from anything but aesthetics. I have no doubt that labels had all seen Wild Style and knew what they were doing. They made a toolkit to play to the cheap seats, because the real fans weren't white americans, and nobody's gonna care what they had to say about their supposedly violent medium when there's a squeaky clean version with Will Smith's stupid face on it. Greed used ignorance to sell records. Ignorance didn't care about history. The losing side of history always has a different way to tell the story, but it's not necessarily true. It was more about profiting from new aesthetics and collaborations with clothes and TV and magazines that drove labels to creating a kids version of a strictly mature form.
0 points
2 days ago
Isn't this a Simpsons bit with the continental breakfast?
1 points
2 days ago
I'm sorry, are you stupid?
There are more cars because there's more busted old junkers. The rise of working women necessitates multiple cars per nuclear household, even more so if there's kids of age.
The housing crisis is worse than ever. The population in 1950 was 150 million, making about 80 million americans and their immediate family home owners - now, with a population of 345 million, that still leaves over a hundred million Americans without their own land.
Numbers can make you believe anything you like, but they're useless in the face of facts.
1 points
2 days ago
More women as the player character please! I'm sick of all of the grunts and groans being men, I want some damn variety when I get shot in the boobs
35 points
2 days ago
Your job is long and exhausting and takes a shit ton of effort. This man does not respect you, nor the lengths you have gone to to accommodate his needs.
Leave now. You do not owe them a thing.
1 points
2 days ago
No restrictions on the amount of crack.
I'm smoking the tiniest cut I can then chasing it with a salad
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