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I saw this before watching BvS, then I saw the movie, then I saw the extended edition. Months later, I'm working through Half in the Bag in order and re-watched the BvS review and I'm stumped. Their complaints are so vapid, smug, and self-satisfied that it comes across as a satire of YouTube movie reviewers rather than a genuine review.

>"They were worried this movie would be too smart for audiences. After seeing it, that was such a fucking joke."

Was it, Jay? Because it seems like it was too smart for you. I don't mean that in some condescending way, either, because BvS isn't some exalted art house film, but like, take their complaints about the kryptonite spear. "Why make a spear instead of bullets or brass knuckles?" Hey, maybe instead of watching the movie fixated on finding joke material, think about what you're seeing. Snyder very explicitly puts things in the film to create echoes from mythology that reverberate through the main characters. It's a spear because Christ wasn't stabbed in the ribs with brass knuckles, you fucking hacks. Honestly. "Why did she throw it in the water?" Why does the Lady of the Lake emerge from the water to present Arthur with Excalibur?

They watch movies. They're not dumb. This stuff shouldn't have flown over their heads, so I'm left in awe at how proud they seem to be of not understanding something this on the nose. In past reviews, they talk about decisions akin to making it a spear and justified it saying "it might not be realistic, but then it wouldn't be cinematic." Well? That little pass they've given to other movies basically dismantles 95% of their problems with BvS.

So, what the fuck was their problem?

https://youtu.be/VGsrMaxx8N4

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Finally, based John Oliver putting that fat snake oil salesman down. Oliver truly is /ourguy/.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGq6cjcc3Q

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>Cersei's done horrible things I could never even imagine myself doing. She's a monster
>*poisons young kid at his wedding where he dies violently in his mother's arms*
>*frames two innocent people and almost gets one executed for it*
This bitch had it coming

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Post your favorite movie and get judged fairly.

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RIP Jeanne Moreau

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-40774985

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>We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.
Holy fuck, Lads. I damn near cried in the theatre

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yes yes... well done Tolkien... well done Tolkien...

HOWEVER

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Will HBO go through with Confederate?

Or will they cave into pressure?

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One of the best movies of all time.

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Would it have been kino?

>In 1095 A.D., thief Hagen (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is caught stealing from an abbey, but avoids execution by faking a miracle and is recruited by the corrupt Pope Urban II (Christopher Macdonald) as a propaganda tool in the Crusades against the barbaric muslims who have besieged Jerusalem. Hagen's commanding officer is his psychopathic, sadistic half-brother, Count Emmerich of Bascarat (Gary Sinise). After Hagen disfigures Emmerich's face in retaliation for Emmerich raping an innocent young woman, Emmerich arranges for Hagen to be sold into slavery to the Saracens.

>By a stroke of fate, Hagen's old friend, con man Ari (John Turturro), turns out to be a distant relative of Prince Ibn Khaldun, and arranges for Hagen to instead become a soldier for the Saracens. Journeying to Jerusalem, where he intends to escape, Hagen instead finds a peaceful realm where Christians, Jewish and Muslim co-exist in peace and realizes the Crusaders are the enemy. He also falls in love with Khaldun's sister Mira (Jennifer Connelly) and rallies the people of Jerusalem to stand against Emmerich and his army in a bloodthirsty battle.

>Verhoeven's script is notorious for it's subversive approach, portraying the Saracens as noble warriors unfairly persecuted by the Latin Church, and it's dark tone and graphic violence, with scenes such as Hagen stumbling upon a pedophile rape orgy in a church; Hagen caving in Emmerich's face by bludgeoning his helmet, which later has to be sawed off alongside chunks of Emmerich's face; Emmerich raping teenage girls on a medieval bathtub filled with grapes in order to savor the tainted juice that the smashed grapes produced; Hagen being stitched to a live donkey and having to tear himself free; and Hagen having an orgy with Mira's maids for Mira's voyeuristic pleasure, among others.

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Why do young actresses agree to do nude scenes?

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Hullo Sansuh

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Would you betray Earth for your alien fetish?

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This show was incredible. I can't believe how overlooked it was.