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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Veggeta_MAX posted...

I don't like the narrative behind the Joker so it makes me bias against the movie. Same reason why I didn't like Fight Club either.

Just because you don't agree with the underlining message, that doesn't make it a bad movie. I try and catch It's a Wonderful Life every Christmas season.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Part II

It improved upon the original film with a better protagonist and better antagonist.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I am setting myself up.

<_<

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Why exactly should I commit to letting my party do the thinking for me?

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

creativerealms posted...

I wish you would apply this logic to Tifa yet you lost your mind over a sports bra.

Even if she wasn't wearing a sports bra, they want Aeris to be the beautiful one. There's no point in getting attached to her because we all know what's going to happen.

...unless Final Fantasy is planning a total role reversal between the two women. In which case, fuck the remake still.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I'm gonna be honest, I like this Jill better than the original.

It is worth noting that I left the series after the PS1 era so I can't speak for whether or not Jill was made sexier in later sequels. I can understand being mad about that if she became a hottie mowing down zombies with a shot gun. (Then again, that's kind of a give and take away scenario. If it wasn't a part of who she originally was, it is an expendable attribute.) Measured by her original look, I never saw her as a digital it girl.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Jill never came across to me as a "sexy" character. I'm in favor of her having a more muted appearance and presentation.

Her short hair and street clothes style was never my cup of tea. Ditto for her in full military garb. Maybe that's shitty on my part. Maybe it's a case of, "Fuck you, I got mine," because Ada Wong was still hot in the last game. But I've always felt Jill was more of a soldier/action star. If you have to make one of the female leads hot, I'd say make Claire sexier and let Jill be the STARS elite bad ass warrior.

That's not to say soldiers can't be sexy -- it works well for Samus and Cammy -- but it's also not necessary for Jill as a character. I don't remember any part of the story where her looks factor into her characterization.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I haven't seen 1917. Joker was better than Parasite though.

Parasite is fun and energetic, but nothing about it screamed Best Picture. Bong Joon-ho made a movie with social commentary on financial inequality and that's what the Oscar committee were looking for this year.

I will give them credit. Giving the Oscar to a foreign language film is probably the bravest thing they've ever done. They always go for what's "safe" (Crash over Brokeback Mountain, Driving Miss Daisy over Do The Right Thing). Compared to Joker, Parasite is still a safe choice. But they still took risks and faced some backlash for it. So I will compliment them for that.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Sofia has a better everything.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I want a spinoff with Furiosa by herself.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

He returned to Star Road.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Tim Burton did that when he wrote Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

DevsBro posted...

You know what, I take it back. I could see myself writing this sequel just to do a deconstruction of sequels.

Some punk who worked for the bad guy's underling's underling's underling learns where the Magical Creation Guffin that gave the bad guy his power is and goes to find it. He never does, but the good guys lose to him anyway. Since he never found it, he goes home and the whole thing might as well have not happened except the heroes are dead. Then, as he's leaving the ice cave where he was sure it was, we see it glowing under the ice right where he was standing and the screen says TO BE CONTINUED, except there are actually no plans to ever continue because this movie is gonna flop like a skinny kid on the blob at camp.

This is the screenplay you write when you don't actually want to make a sequel, but still want to collect a paycheck.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

This topic was inspired by American Ninja 2.

I watched it the other night and found it funny that there just happened to be a second group of evil ninja terrorists with no connection to the ones of the first movie.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Tell them you're immunocompromised and can't attend because of the coronavirus.

If that doesn't work, pretend to hold bigoted views toward the defendant.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Azarias posted...

The hero as the bad guy in the sequel, who may or not be being possessed by a different bad guy (who is the actual bad guy)

If I had enough foresight, I'd have made "the hero becomes the new bad guy" as one of the options.

I guess we'll just say the poll is limited to the hero returning in the same relative position.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I've seen them all work well enough in different contexts, but it's always a bit awkward starting from scratch when the first movie or video game leaves no bad guys alive to become recurring villains.

I'm curious what CE thinks on the subject.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

HylianFox posted...

everyone knows that normal=ugly

Yeah, but men almost never look normal. They're still 6'2" with handsome features and athletic builds. It's only the woman that peak at 7/10. Aside from the occasional ugly macho monster character like the Hulk or Kratos, men start at 8/10 in the looks department and go up from there.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Oh, wait. She's older in this sequel?

Never mind what I said about her being 14. Being disappointed that Ellie didn't grow up to be hot is still kinda weird though.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

We would wear masks if there weren't shortages.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I mean, the uglification of female characters in games is a problem right now.

But nobody should be getting mad that a 14 year old lesbian doesn't look like a pornstar ready to hop on a D.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Look, beauty isn't everything. Femininity isn't everything. We need characters who aren't fighting princesses or superheroes in skirts. But a one-size-fits-all approach is never the solution. Making every woman blah is just as bad as making every woman pink. Variety is everything.

If you like something and I don't like it, you should be allowed to like it.
If I like something and you don't like it, I should be allowed to like it.

Right now, standard procedure is to do whatever offends conservatives or whatever allows progressives to pat one another on the back for doing a good job. I'm not a conservative. I'm not an enemy to be fought. I'm also not a dog to be trained. I don't like this sit-and-roll-over approach to progressive values.

I agree with the baseline values of stronger, more rounded female representation. I think it's great that female action heroes are action heroes and no longer treated as a novelty like they were twenty years ago. I think it's fantastic that female supporting characters are getting their due and their own plotlines away from male protagonists.

But I'm not about dropping hundreds of dollars on consoles and games where the women all look like shit.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I feel like she was wasted on that character. She should've played Poison Ivy.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Only lesbians are allowed to embrace femininity.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

OobyDooby posted...

I guess Gadget from Rescue Rangers made me feel a little something back in the day.

Damn straight.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Sorry. It's just starting to warm up. I'd prefer not to think of snow right now.

<_<

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

:(

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I mean, if you troll your way into the history books, that is a tweet which ages well.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

"Fight back, ya pussy."

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Well, great. You've erased Wii Shaker from existence.
I hope you're happy. :/

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Courtney had a prettier face. Jennifer better hair, a better figure, and a more inviting personality.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

:3

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I had a dog who was part chow, so she was basically a cat when it came to personality.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

MacadamianNut3 posted...

If you like Space Jam then the answer is yes

It was supposed to show at a local theater, but it got cancelled because of Coronavirus.

They cancelled bunny boobies.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

If we were, we'd never get anything done.

<_<;

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Batman has the best rogues gallery of any hero in any medium.

James Bond is a distant second place.

Third, and again a distant third, would probably be Spider-Man.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Good. It was a meme anyway.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

shockthemonkey posted...

Offensive to who?

To people who feel like projecting.

People would say that he literally demonizes whomever they feel that a character with a feminine attire and a high-pitched voice is meant to represent.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

She's cute.

She makes a cute cat too.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

It'll probably reuse props from older houses.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

That boss is pretty ridiculous.

The thing I hate about him is that it's virtually impossible to get a competitive fight out of him. Either you steamroll over him or he beats you.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Lost_All_Senses posted...

The last time I tried to use my dog to talk to a chick. He coughed a loogy onto her kids wagon. He's always a terrible wingman

"You had me neutered. You think I'm gonna help YOU get laid?"

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Lost_All_Senses posted...

Heh. I never noticed he doesn't have any horns.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

I haven't found anything about it on Universal's official site. Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places or maybe it hasn't been published yet. But a friend of a relative works for Universal Studios and, apparently, Billie Eilish is set to have a haunted house for Universal's Halloween Horror Nights.

It's not the first time they've done something like this. Rob Zombie had a scare zone last year. Billie Eilish is a bit random though. I'm not really familiar with her beyond her trademark hidden figure and blas facial expression. Is it going to be a house full of good girls meeting gruesome fates in Hell? Or is there more to her young career that can be exploited?

From the list that was forwarded to me, it looks like they're going for a Girl Power theme. Two of the licensed properties have female leads, two of them have strong female supporting characters, and one of them has a female antagonist.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

We were less than 200 two weeks ago.

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

TheGreatGeno6 posted...

They have a reason, albiet an incredibly stupid one. The reason is that by seeing LGBT representation in kids shows tells them that being LGBT is becoming more accepted by society as a whole, and this makes them very, VERY angry.

Interesting.
Is there a term for people like that?

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"I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason."
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)