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>>84361110
if you're a leftist you get a free pass

j.k. rowling is one

>>84361151
So then why didn't Joss Whedon get one?

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The question you should be asking is why didn't anyone complain about Harry Potter being one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises? Seriously, each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though r-right
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

>>84361093

The Voices

>>84361093
No

>>84361135
Tongue in cheek

>>84361067
GoT

Futurama.

>>84361067
S4 isn't on your picture so I'll agree, even if s3 was kinda crappy too

>>84360836

>Thomas Jane

Nah.

>>84360836
>neeeing to specify he's a filmmaker
>text only, no picture
>redditfying the quote
awful

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>movie is about Predators teaming up with humans and using human weapons

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Feels Good Man

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>>84360636
It's a racist, sexist comedy about our getto.

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Only danish movie I find enjoyable enough to watch more than once.

Actually only danish movie I find enjoyable.

>>84360540

have you ever actually looked at the box office for those movies?

>>84360540
Not at all.

Minions are a Europol psy op.

>>84360540
Where are you getting that rating from faggot?

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>>84360408
1st for jumping man

>>84360430
jumping man likes Manson or NIN?

I bet that place has shit coffee

>>84360370
Nice taste pleb

>>84360442
lol, they got you good

>>84360370
I've been saying this forever

IV is the only good star trek movie. 80s san fransisco is pure kino.

>>84360362
KHAAAAAAAAAAAN.

>>84360362
all TOS movies range from worth watching to classic. moton picture is a classic.

He's obviously been ascended to a higher form of consciousness

>>84360304
That was pretty straightforward. A better example for your case would have been the spiders in Enemy.

Absolutely
It's introduced this absolutely atrocious MO of movie characters never ever taking the events on screen seriously, often mocking the absurdity of whole. It's beyond being ironic, it's sarcastic filmmaking. When a character all but turns to the screen smirking and raising their hands saying "Gee, audience, can ya believe it? Men in tights fighting? Scifi? Ridiculous!"

It's trash. It disavows the filmmaker from making the audience care about what's happening on screen because NO ONE, not even the characters in the story, give a shit about what's happening.

But the most destructive force in film right now isn't just the style of writing, but the directors themselves. We've gone from people who have actually been educated on film, who developed a style or at least an interesting visual approach and replaced them with corporate yes-men TV directors who've spent their lives on television shooting faces and nothing but contrived plots. They don't know how to make a movie outside of bare sub-adequacy. They have NO style whatsoever and they're becoming the norm. Filmmaking needs someone with visual flair to come out and make huge profit for that to reverse itself, but these hacks are all but printing money right now with monster and comic book movies.

>>84360298
mhmmhmm

For me. It is the mcchicken sandwich

OF COURSH!

>>84360245
>running his fingers through his mouth

u wot

its funny how he initially was like rob schneider in his first movies but now he has a legit badass screen presence.

pest-posting was the last time an overly forced /tv/ meme was funny

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you know Quasimodo predicted all this

Therapy is a joke anyways 2bh. My company paid for it, and even though it was free it was a waste of time. I can't imagine paying for that bullshit out of my own pocket. Just read a book or something

Would rather kill myself than whine about my depression to some roastie whore pretending to care or understand

>>84360093
>What was the reason for this shows title?

Ever used google or practiced critical thinking? the boy ain't right

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Charcoal>propane

Hank's a fucking retard

>>84360243

THATHERTON!!

>>84360010
>I was thinking of trying it but if it's to liberal and preachy I'm not interested

it makes fun of everyone, especially preachy liberals, alec baldwin's character is like an ultra conservative but never feels like a parody

it has characters in blackface in at least 2 episodes that I can remember.

while that's not really important, it's worth mentioning before all the retards start screeching that it's all sjw, girl power, libtard etc. because a woman wrote it and they haven't seen it.

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>>84360010
Its a very smart show, whether that makes it liberal or conservative thats up to you.