Lurker > Delirious_Beard

What we learned from Diddy, Weinstein etc.

People that are famous arent their cause of talent, rather because they are supported by the system. And they get that support by supporting the system with their bodies. Beyonce wasnt even the best singer in Destiny's child, yet she was the leader and the breakout star.

Stars that dont play ball get exercised. Micheal Jackson was going against the record labels, all of a sudden they made up stories about him diddling children, even though he had support from many people defending him. Diddy has no defenders, cause he was definitely a diddler.

Ive been here so long (on main obviously) that I dont even know the lore about SMAL or how anyone knows when an alt is his on a random video game board like LOU lol. Wasnt the meme at some point everyone was SMAL or was that Vegy?

lol. lmao even

What did you dislike about it?

Remember, that the movie is 34 years old, and it crystalized a lot of tropes that you've seen in newer movies, so if it seems "tropey" that's only because it was the Grandfather of them.

"Honda is charging $27k for new Civics even though they were $14k 15 years ago!"
This is what people sound like complaining about this.

Serious question, what ISNT Blizzard fucking up? They've dropped the ball on all their IPs.

hey so TC I'm just gonna drop it to dump a bunch of examples as to why you're wrong

Fargo's first three seasons. It's an anthology and I haven't seen 4 or 5 but the look of the series is entirely of film quality that frequently makes stylized choices in its direction and presentation.

True Detective's first season obviously qualifies in terms of pretty much everything, but like with Fargo, it is very well-directed. Even the second season - a very divisive and often maligned piece of TV - has flaws that don't really register with anything that you're saying in this thread and has very good direction, arguably it's only consistently solid element.

In terms of pure anthology and despite fictionalized elements, both Chernobyl (grounded) and The Terror (supernatural albeit loosely based on real events in its first half) are astoundingly well directed with a constant emphasis on atmosphere.

Even earlier "golden age" television shows like The Sopranos and The Wire qualify here on style, either by the consistency and breadth of the setting in the latter in which novel-level detail is given to the entire cast and the environment feels almost documentary-esque.

With the former, the Sopranos has a very good grasp of filmmaking that seeps in critical ways that are necessary for the story and don't ever underdeliver. Dream sequences are incredibly surreally made and true to the absurdity of dreams without the people in the dreams acknowledging the oddities, and the show generally undergoes a stylistic transformation that can really be seen. For example; the colorful and dutch angled pizzeria scenes in early seasons contrast against the bleak, drab ways they are shot late in the series, reflecting the broad decay of the mafia, Tony's morality, and the dwindling numbers of his crew that are caused by both of the former.

(I shouldn't even need to point out that numerous scenes in the show are some of the most hyper-analyzed things I've seen in visual mediums; despite it being dialogue focused, the series is rich with visual storytelling both in environment and subtle acting cues.)

Breaking Bad, while more directly an action-oriented show (in terms of pacing and behavior and not "Action scenes") is also obviously well stylized as a neo-western that is filled to the brim with creative montage sequences. Even small pacing decisions like quick cuts in proper action scenes that serve to make time go faster but not obscure flaws can represent the emotional state of the character. This is not unique to Breaking Bad or TV, but it is not low rent by any definition.

I'm mostly listing very well known stuff, but hey, let's dip in with The Knick, a great medical drama that is harrowing and disturbing throughout with uncompromising surgical scenes and a realistic and infuriating tale of a doctor's physical and mental decay under drug abuse. His genius and arrogance works against him under the same synth toned and sterile scaled environments while you watch everyone's lives go to complete shit.

Hannibal is also insanely well made, even moreso since it is network television. Despite some early constraints it becomes largely serialized the more it continues, drenched in incredible lighting, set design, weird sequences - everything.

I assume we're not counting anime as TV here so I'll stop there I guess but the idea that the medium can be wholly judged as low rent is absurd, particularly based on a one minute clip of an Amazon tv series. Does it look bad? Yeah, the camerawork is shit. Does this condemn the medium? No, you'd have to be willfully ignorant to actually believe that.

Despite clearly being into cool stuff I gotta say you sound fundamentally uncurious about non-film to the point where you just look really ignorant and offer zero respect to something that can often be as good or better than film.

Okay but they're fundamentally all the same movie even if Goodfellas is cocaine-flavored and the others are a bit sadder

The game used to be fun back in the day. Now you just hit 'join queue' and wait for the popup.

scorsese being shut out on silence, irishman, and killers all in a row will confuse future cinephiles

zero wins for all 3 movies

Scorcese is a god IMO, but this is barely in his better half IMO

No, they won't. It has already dropped a little in estimation vs October. The flaws are becoming more obvious

I haven't seen Killers or Poor Things yet, so I can't make an opinion on this one

So who would you have picked?

Did they get Director wrong? Best Actor?

The Academy disagrees

So Robert Downey Jr won for just like a lifetime achievement thing right? Because if you cut him out of Oppenheimer nothing changes

Also a movie with the Justice League.

Isn't The Answer awful? I've not played it myself but I've heard it's not well regarded.