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mercurydude posted...

It's fair to the corporate big wigs.

It's not fair to the animators, actors, director, casting, writers, stunt people, set designers, wardrobe department, hair and makeup artists, editors, camera operators, etc., many of whom could have used this movie to get a job on other projects if it had been successful, which test audiences combined with all the media attention it's been getting seem to indicate it would be.

This, ultimately the biggest losers are the ones who made the movie.

I mean yeah. If you take them out of their natural habitat, you gotta treat them like royalty.

Yep, not even surprise people are calling this video "anti-semetic" on one of my feeds on facebook. And then there are even some people not even trying to hide it's an apartheid with "it's simply national security we have to do this. They gave us no choice!".

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Great, now you convince me this is some kind of twisted Pinky and the Brain scheme going on.

https://youtu.be/cF1mpV0sejs?si=Kqj8-DVAukH0Ml4O

Damn, I pulled out lol.

Felt it here in LA, very brief though.

Best thing the Star Wars universe has ever created imo. It's shocking just how good Andor was in comparison to the other Star Wars properties. It's crazy how a show was able to expand the Star War universe while giving a really good and investing story. My criticism of the show was that the first 3 episodes were really slow. The only people that won't like the show are the ones that only like Star Wars for the Jedi's and the Space fights.

Baha05 posted...

Why not direct to video release it?

Because uncertainty is scarier and riskier than getting a short term gain with a tax write off. They don't even know if this movie will even generate them any money.

BakonBitz posted...

Yeah I didn't have it pop up because I had the TC of it ignored.

Aw makes sense.

I don't want to be that person, but...

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/400-current-events/80692268

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AvP1 was pretty fun when it was literally the Alien vs the Predator. The human element to it sucked ass. AvP2 was hard to watch...I mean that both literally and figuratively. I couldn't see half of the shit in that movie because it was so damn dark.

The biggest reason is that it's uncertain if the movie will even generate any money. Releasing a high budget movie is always a massive risk and the uncertainty is scarier than just getting a short term benefit of a tax write off. I understand why Zaslav is doing what he is doing, but there's a reason financial advisors shouldn't be CEO's, because we are terrible when it comes to PR.

My biggest criticism of Prey was the CGI, it was really really bad especially when it was on the animals. Otherwise, the movie was really good and really badass. I enjoyed the hell out of it.

2024 is pretty wild when being anti-circumcision is somehow being woke/PC. You learn new things everyday I guess lol.

You become a fart in the wind.

Yep, walked into a Subway and saw that their 6 inch subs were basically $7's and their 1ft subs were around $11-$14's. There's almost no incentives to eat at fast food except to save a little bit of time from cooking. This is why it's important to do meal preps. Cheaper, healthier, and probably taste better than that greasy burger you'll get at a McDonalds.

Zikten posted...

That scene is actually not what it looks like. It's part of a weird mind trip. Nobody's head actually explodes

Yeah I watched it. It looks like a more atmosphere type of horror flick, which I actually do enjoy. This looks really good, I'm going to see if any theaters near me are going to show it or not. Thanks for the share.

That sucks, there are people in the movie watching community that said they saw a test screening for the movie and it was fucking hilarious. Now it's going to be lost media.

Why should we talk about something that nobody on CE could get?

Chuc mung nam moi!

Shout out to all the people born in the year of the Dragon!

That thumbnail, now I'm scared to even watch the trailer. Gore isn't really my thing when it comes to movies.

Dakimakura posted...

He isn't 50 yet? He looks old as hell.

All the 25 year old girlfriends sucked the life out of him.

ArkhamOrigins posted...

One of the teasers I watched literally says "a Kingsmans film" at the end of it

Oh shit, well I'll apologize if there was a trailer like that. The trailer I saw never mentioned it.

Did the reveal how his classic controls are going to work? In SFV, he didn't use any directional input.

But yeah I wish his alternate outfit was his main outfit, it's soo much better.

ArkhamOrigins posted...

They flat out tell you in the trailers

No they don't. All they say is that it's the same director as Kingsman, but it doesn't tell you it's the same universe. They only reveal that info in a mid credit scene.

R1masher posted...

Damn, Rockwell flat damn

TBF, my wife disagrees with my review of it. She loved the movie and thought both lead actors did a phenominal job. I just wasn't feeling it between the two.

NoxObscuras posted...

Pho King is still around too. I burst out laughing the first time I saw one of their trucks "It's Pho King good"

There was a small place in Canada called "Pho King Best Restaurant". Unfortunately, my friend told me it's not around anymore...

It isn't a 38% bad, but it's fairly mediocre. It could've been a decent spy flick if they didn't overdo it on the "plot twists". I get this movie is trying to be "meta" when it comes to the spy genre but sometimes too much is too much. This is also one of those movies where the two leads are suppose to have chemistry, but I never felt it. Bryce Dallas Howard and Sam Rockwell are amazing actors, but something about their performance just felt flat. The only performance I enjoyed was probably Bryan Cranston because he was giving it his all in this movie, but only he can do soo much with his character being one note.

With that said, the action scenes are really well done. Sure there are some CGI in there, but at least I can follow the action. From the choreography, to the set designs, to the production value it isn't bad. There was clearly love put into this movie, but even I felt exhausted by the end of the movie.

5.5/10

It taking place in the Kingsman universe was a really big surprise though. I understand why the marketing didn't reveal it other than itb being done by the same director.

Robot2600 posted...

To be devils advocate for a bit... it's not about Americans not "knowing hot to make the sound" as much as it is that the sound just isn't differentiated at all in English. it sounds the same to us because of how brains get wired. some aspects of a first language will NEVER go away, even with virtuosic fluency.

it's why a nature spanish speaker will often say "estudent" for "student" and a fracophone will say "ze" for "the"

it's not something most people will every really learn. some people can get rid of accents, some just can't, so you shouldn't expect that non native vietnamese speakers will ever be able to pronounce it correctly.

and that's true if you think about names translating between languages anyway. My name changes pronunciation in English, French, and Japanese. It would be unfair to say a Japanese speaker is pronouncing my name wrong when those sounds don't exist in Japanese.

all that said, it's not that hard to add a little "Hnng" sound at the beginning of "when", like "Gwen" but without any "g" sounds if you really want to show off. In linguistics that ng sound is called a voiced velar nasal. again this is all but impossible unless you have basic training in linguistics. To someone else it should SOUND like "when" but to you, the speaker, you should be able to feel that you are using your nasal passage to make the "ng" sound at the beginning.

also literally everyone should know to pronounce "Nguyen" as something like "When" or "win"

I'm not a linguist like you, so I'll admit I don't know more about languages than you but I only go for anecdotal evidence and from what I've seen anytime I try to have an English speaker try to pronounce the "ng" part correctly, it never really registers for them and I think because there's no English word that starts with a "Ng" which makes sense. The only time a "ng" is ever together is a "ing" ending at the end of a word. So I basically tell them that "nuh-win" or "win" works just fine.

But I do appareciate the word "Hnng" as a good word to use as reference to get people to say the word "correctly". I might try that on my coworker to see if that will help him say my last name "correctly". And I say "correctly" because even I get criticize for saying some Vietnamese words wrong because both my parents are from the North so they say Vietnamese words in an unpopular dialect way. Which is why I don't take issue if people can't say a word correctly, because I would be the biggest hypocrite of them all.

Most health benefit circumcision gives is practically null and void when you live in a first world country with easy access to water and hygiene. I will say, the only continent I know of that actually benefits from circumcision is probably the city areas of Africa where hygiene and water access is a luxury. For first world countries like the US, circumcision is primarily a cosmetic thing which should be a choice and not something to take bodily autonomy away from a person. And I say this as someone who is circumcised because my parents were first generations immigrants and had no idea what it meant other than the doctor telling them "it will make the baby cleaner and healthier".

I can fix him, so yes.

Even though I support their messaging, ultimately protests like these are meaningless and useless. They don't work.

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NoxObscuras posted...

But what about when it's used in a pun?

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/9/9b27e3ec.jpg

Dang, in our time it was Pho King lol

DrizztLink posted...

Do you have an example of someone saying it correctly and clearly?

I picked up the basic pronunciation but I doubt I know the proper one.

If you got the basic pronunciation, most Viets would actually applaud you for even getting that part correct. You're already step above the "nuh-guy-in" or "nuh-goo-yens"

With that said, I prefer to actually say it rather than type it because I don't know if I'll be able to do it justice typed out. The anglicized way to correctly say it would be "nu-win" but it's in one syllable (every vietnamese word is one syllable), with the "nu" part being more softer to make the "ng" sound, and the "win" part more emphasized to make the "uyen" part.

Now with that said, there's different pronunciations because of dialects as well, but I don't think we need to go there lol.

Bass posted...

I cringe every time I see your last name since I have no idea how you're really supposed to say it, lol. I honestly wouldn't attempt it since I wouldn't want to be insulting.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought even in Vietnamese there's some variation in how you can say it.

And that's fair, most of us expect other people in getting it "wrong" so when someone does say it correctly some of the first generations would laugh, clap, praise, or even ask you how you know how to say it correctly (most of the answer is because they married someone Viet or have friends/family of someone who is Viet with that last name).

But yeah, we follow the French rule in accents changing a word completely. So saying a vietnamese word a certain way is going to completely change the meaning of a word if you say it in a different accent, and different accents change the way the vowel of a word works like saying it in a higher pitch versus a low pitch. My cousins name is Vu, but if you say it in a incorrect accent you might accidently say it to mean a women's nipple for instance lol.

And then there's the whole dialect North vs South pronunciation that I won't even get into lol.

FolkenRawr posted...

Wait. Is that not just 'win'?

"Win" is what I tell Americans to say because they don't know how to make the "ng" sound. But the fact that you know to say "win" when you see "nguyen" already puts you above majority of other Americans I met.

Fast and Furious movies

Also the Bayformer movies.

I bet you if Trump was President and was 100% against Russia, Tucker Carlson wouldn't be doing this shit.

Not day 1, but I will eventually. I loved the first game.

I don't know. Xenoblade Chronicles X had a place inspired by "Los Angeles", and yet it got soo much wrong about it. They'll definately need really good consultant who knows the American area they're going to be basing off the setting in for it to work.

Yeah it's only common courtesy to do so.

Yeah, Chinese Fast Food places tend to pack a lot of food. I went to a place and it took my wife and I 2-3 nights to finish the leftovers.

Is this the same Destiny that debated Jontron?

Wil Wheaton needs to touch grass.

KFHEWUI posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXb7tWC2W5o

That ratio....

6.2K likes vs 76K dislikes

They picked the wrong Dreamworks IP to make into a low budget "direct to vhs/dvd" movie. I don't think anyone would've batted an eye if they picked Shark Tale, Trolls, or even Boss Baby for this decision.

There is such things as an offensive accent, so it's a case by case basis. As long as their intent isn't about being offensive, that's fine. If they're told that the way they say it is offensive and still continue doing it, then they're going into the "asshole" territory at that point. Let's just say, as a person who is more fluent in Vietnamese than English, I have more respect for an American that can correctly say my last name and even more respect if they can even pronounce the "Ng" sound in "Nguyen".

Now those same people are going cray cray over the Stanley Cups.

Bayonetta did this already