Review by Jordy
VIP8Another Bond pastiche from Matthew Vaughn, and once again it’s worse than the last one. Here we have what is basically another Kingsman film, but this time it’s made for the wine moms who had found their new favorite film with The Lost City. The plot is quite bonkers, it's so dense and the amount of schlocky plot twists indicate that Vaughn’s at least somewhat aware of how tasteless it all is. Sometimes you can still find traces of the cleverness you’d expect from him, but generally it favours being loud and cringe. I understand that he’s targeting a different demographic here than with Kingsman, but the end result is so tame and commercial that it feels more like typical streaming filler (Red Notice, Ghosted). Some of the acting is atrocious. Obviously Rockwell puts in the best work, but it doesn’t make up for the stiff performances by Cavill, Howard and Lipa (though she gets a pass for being Dua Lipa). The directing is also noticeably a step down compared to Vaughn’s previous stuff. It doesn’t feel like he put much heart and soul in this, because besides some good stuntwork it looks like shit. There’s just so much plastic sheen (artificial bright lighting, tacky CGI, unnatural compositions and camera movement) that it becomes incredibly ugly to look at. You could pass that off as ‘well it’s meant to be cartoonish’, but I’m not going to make that leap when there’s this little artistry to it. Vaughn needs to stop making these, the whole thing feels predictable and played out.
2.5/10
loading replies
@jordyep If you don't like Matthew Vaughn, then don't watch his movies! This flick was definately watchable, and not the worst i've seen, it has it's faults, but you seem to not like any of the cast, so i'd say you have a jaundiced opinion!
5.5/10
Shout by Jordy
VIP8The Meg.
Alternative title: Everything wrong with contemporary Hollywood in 2 hours.
Alternative title II: This one’s for you, China.
Just shut up, Meg.2/10
loading replies
Why are you denying people the right to watch a movie and turn their brain off. These are action movies where people don’t want to think, they want to sit down on their couch and watch Jason Statham or the Rock or whoever else beat the shit out of a monster or whatever and just have a good time. It doesn’t have to be intelligent and it doesn’t try to be, and no one actually is asking it to be. Asking people to stop turning their brains off completely invalidates whole genres of cinema like horror, straight up action, and monster beatdowns like Godzilla. People want to be able to just see cool stuff happen and it doesn’t have to completely make sense.
Regarding the visuals, well that’s your own opinion, I don’t have anything against it.
Personally I love the movie, it’s a great popcorn movie, and I don’t want it to be anything more; but please stop asking people to do what they enjoy.
People complained that the queen in Bridgerton was black, but it is just a fiction.
But a black woman giving birth to white children makes it science fiction lol xDloading replies
@cancerman69 It could even happen when both parents are black. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/white-baby-shocks-black-parents-medically-possible/ So I don't see why half of 13 mixed children is such a stretch. All things are possible in human genetics.
People complained that the queen in Bridgerton was black, but it is just a fiction.
But a black woman giving birth to white children makes it science fiction lol xDloading replies
@cancerman69 honestlyyy...though, she is very lightskinned and her baby daddy is white, and as a fellow lightskinned woman, ik it is possible for the kids to come out looking completely white
People complained that the queen in Bridgerton was black, but it is just a fiction.
But a black woman giving birth to white children makes it science fiction lol xDloading replies
@cancerman69 Oh sweetie, the rest of the world has known that genetics can do crazy things for a long long time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIUK2KSbvvI
Shout by Elliot
VIP6Jeez, the snowflaky reactions of straight white men because not every single episode and narrative centres them - anything deviating from that priority is apparently "woke". Get over yourselves, you egomaniacal bigots.
Anyway, another great episode that nicely expanded Ellie's backstory - bonus points for the Mortal Kombat II appreciation, too :nerd:
loading replies
@jordyep I won't respond with as much condescension, but I'd again say I think you're late to the party. As I experienced, and with some research about the 60s through 90s you may find, battles were fought and won decades ago and minorities of all stripes became well-tolerated, represented and nearly universally accepted in western mainstream culture in all types of roles. My generation was blessed to witness an age of true liberalism that included a high degree of freedom, cultural exchange and acceptance. Sure, there were occasional challenges but we figured it out and intolerance was quickly relegated to the wayside and usually without protest or violence. Now, divisions are reimagined, pushed and amplified largely by privileged, straight, white liberals who view themselves as saviors. But is their compassion genuine and perpetuation of feelings of victimization helpful? We might consider the words of black civil rights leader Malcolm X, who warned:
"The white liberals, who have been posing as our friends, have failed us. The white liberal is the worst enemy to America and the worst enemy to the black man." ... "White liberals are those who have perfected the art of selling themselves to the black man as our 'friend' to get our sympathy, our allegiance and our minds. The white liberal attempts to use us politically against white conservatives, so that anything the black man does is never for his own good, never for his advancement, never for his own progress, he's only a pawn in the hands of the white liberal." ... "In America the history of white liberal has been nothing but a series of trickery designed to make us think that the white liberal was going to solve our problems. Our problems will never be solved by the white liberal. The only way that our problems will be solved is when the black man wakes up, cleans himself up, stands on his own two feet, stops begging the white liberal and takes immediate steps to do for ourselves the things that we have been waiting on the white liberal to do for us." ... "The Democrats are playing you for a political chump and if you vote for them, not only are you a chump, you are a traitor to your race." Malcolm X was assassinated 2 days after expressing the last quote.
It isn't just straight, white men with conservative values that are pushing back against a new age of division. Today in the west minorities have every equal opportunity and more to succeed, and it's impossible to deny many do extraordinarily well. The victim culture pushed by liberals, I believe, hinders rather than helps their progress, as Malcolm X found. We won't likely ever agree completely as we each have different experiences and evolutionary paths, and that's okay!
Shout by Elliot
VIP6Jeez, the snowflaky reactions of straight white men because not every single episode and narrative centres them - anything deviating from that priority is apparently "woke". Get over yourselves, you egomaniacal bigots.
Anyway, another great episode that nicely expanded Ellie's backstory - bonus points for the Mortal Kombat II appreciation, too :nerd:
loading replies
@jordyep I don't know about you but as a white Canadian born in 1980 nobody I know ever had a problem with black or gay people. I grew up loving black media i.e. musicians, comedians and movie stars, most from the American media. Comedy shows like In Living Color were the best of the best, and no stereotype was off limits. Cultural exchange was common and celebrated, and nobody cried "appropriation." A Canadian comedy show Kids In The Hall had a gay cast member that participated in skits that poked fun at gays, e.g. in one of their famous skits "Running F****t" which can be viewed on YouTube. Gay lobby groups praised the inclusion. Everyone had fun laughing at themselves and others and nobody had hate or fear or embraced victimhood for social advantage. Things are different now thanks to crazy "woke" liberals imagining and inserting division where it was almost completely eradicated. I truly wish you could have experienced it because it was a wonderful time.
Are we supposed to ignore the fact that Indiana Jones was 25/26 when he had an affair with Marion when she was 15/16? And she had a falling out with her dad afterwards?
She even says that in movie during her introduction scene in Nepal "I was a child, I was in love. It was wrong and you knew it"
And Jones doesn't even admit that he was WRONG for doing that. "I never meant to hurt you" and "YOU KNEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING" SERIOUSLY?! (After a little research, I actually found out there was a transcript between Lucas and Spielberg where they wanted her to be 12 and Jones 25. They changed her age to 15 later. Wow, so this was VERY intentional.)Indiana Jones is a creep, nothing more than that. I don't care if this movie is the best adventure, treasure hunter movie or whatever. He is a pedo and nothing is gonna fix that.
You don't believe me? I recommend reading this:
https://www.polygon.com/2015/8/3/9089181/indiana-jones-abusive-creeploading replies
By today’s standards sure, but if you’re gonna call every man a pedo who had relations with a 15-16 yo before the year 1930, I’m sure a couple of your great great grandparents would’ve been some.
Calling George Lucas a pedo pervert for making the character that old, sure especially if the 11 yo bit is true.
Amazon Prime making Stranger Things, but different enough to avoid a lawsuit.
loading replies
@rasungod0 It's based on a comic released before the show tho.
Amazon Prime making Stranger Things, but different enough to avoid a lawsuit.
loading replies
@rasungod0 the comic is from 2015. Stranger Things is from 2016.
Amazon Prime making Stranger Things, but different enough to avoid a lawsuit.
loading replies
@annaclararother And Philip K Dick wrote his stories before any episode of Black Mirror was written but everyone can see that Electric Dreams is just Amazon copying Black Mirror.
Amazon Prime making Stranger Things, but different enough to avoid a lawsuit.
loading replies
Nah, I've read the comics. This is way better than Stranger Things lol.
So every time they need something from the shop they just ride the horses and risk they lives to bring it..really?! Why not just drive a car for just one time and bring all the stuff in the shop and turn back!
loading replies
@alaa-ramadan There was a sign in the shop that said something about "Take what you need" so I'm assuming, given how Hershel's family all run, they take only what they need, and leave what they don't need in case other survivors actually need it
I find it absolutely hilarious that the big complaint about this episode is that a computer is experiencing emotions or thinks it is experiencing emotions and that's just too far for some people lol.
We live in a world where advanced AI is not outside of our reach. We have the beginnings of humanoid robots expressing emotion and AI programs trained to express themselves using human emotions. The idea that 1,000 years from now computers wouldn't be far better at this is absolutely absurd. It's no more 'impossible' than invisible shields or the magical walls in the brig that somehow maintain atmosphere and are near indestructible (or warp speed or a mycelium network lol this is all fiction.)
I think all in all this was decent for a filler episode. We checked in with how Book is doing after, well, the anomaly destroyed everything a few episodes ago. We touched bases with Gray (who, after not having a physical body for a long time) is now making friends with the computer. Those interactions seemed a little odd/forced to me.
The interactions between Stammets and Book were wholesome. After Stammets has been struggling with Tarka the past few episodes (and also with working well in a team) it seems he's trying to make extra efforts. Seeing some of this between Stammets and Book added another layer to the show and even though Book gave some skeptical expressions in response, this seems like the set up to what could potentially be a great friendship (collaboratively for Stammets and socially/emotionally for Book.) Especially after everything that he's lost, finding a home and a family on Discovery seems possible and I hope the show goes that way.
I was more than a little surprised that the other members of the crew didn't fight to stay with Michael when they were all facing imminent doom as the ship dissolved. This felt very out of character for some of the major supporting characters of the show (like Saru, Rhys, Owo, and Keyla.) AND ESPECIALLY BOOK?!?! What? They all refused to allow her to fly the Discovery into the future because they didn't want her to be alone so they went with her, knowing it could mean death, but a dissolving ship going through a plasma barrier (generating massive heat and basically turning the ship into an Easy Bake) is too much?
My only complaint is that it seems that whoever wrote this episode didn't know the characters they were writing about. It's very unlikely there was only one EVA suit but if that were the case then it should have been mentioned in the show at least.
loading replies
@namelesswitches ah sorry, I assumed you meant in universe level of AI (out of nowhere fully conscious AI), in that case I totally agree with you, it's hard to know the future in tech, and it's very likely going to happen eventually. I doubt it's ever going to be a fluke one day gaining consciousness like in the show, unless it's an AI that self-develops itself tho, which made me chuckle, but not something I hung up on indeed.
That line I quoted just sounded like an overstatement I usually hear from tech illiterates, who talk to a Facebook Chatbot and prepare for terminator's judgement day.
And it could have been my comprehension as well since English is not my first language, glad it was just a misunderstanding and that you were a good sport about it :)
I find it absolutely hilarious that the big complaint about this episode is that a computer is experiencing emotions or thinks it is experiencing emotions and that's just too far for some people lol.
We live in a world where advanced AI is not outside of our reach. We have the beginnings of humanoid robots expressing emotion and AI programs trained to express themselves using human emotions. The idea that 1,000 years from now computers wouldn't be far better at this is absolutely absurd. It's no more 'impossible' than invisible shields or the magical walls in the brig that somehow maintain atmosphere and are near indestructible (or warp speed or a mycelium network lol this is all fiction.)
I think all in all this was decent for a filler episode. We checked in with how Book is doing after, well, the anomaly destroyed everything a few episodes ago. We touched bases with Gray (who, after not having a physical body for a long time) is now making friends with the computer. Those interactions seemed a little odd/forced to me.
The interactions between Stammets and Book were wholesome. After Stammets has been struggling with Tarka the past few episodes (and also with working well in a team) it seems he's trying to make extra efforts. Seeing some of this between Stammets and Book added another layer to the show and even though Book gave some skeptical expressions in response, this seems like the set up to what could potentially be a great friendship (collaboratively for Stammets and socially/emotionally for Book.) Especially after everything that he's lost, finding a home and a family on Discovery seems possible and I hope the show goes that way.
I was more than a little surprised that the other members of the crew didn't fight to stay with Michael when they were all facing imminent doom as the ship dissolved. This felt very out of character for some of the major supporting characters of the show (like Saru, Rhys, Owo, and Keyla.) AND ESPECIALLY BOOK?!?! What? They all refused to allow her to fly the Discovery into the future because they didn't want her to be alone so they went with her, knowing it could mean death, but a dissolving ship going through a plasma barrier (generating massive heat and basically turning the ship into an Easy Bake) is too much?
My only complaint is that it seems that whoever wrote this episode didn't know the characters they were writing about. It's very unlikely there was only one EVA suit but if that were the case then it should have been mentioned in the show at least.
loading replies
@withadventure I don't really have anything to say about the episode yet, but
We live in a world where advanced AI is not outside of our reach. We have the beginnings of humanoid robots expressing emotion and AI programs trained to express themselves using human emotions.
Is where I have an issue with your post, we are certainly very far away from that. The main distinction being, we are good at "faking" it. AI does not think, not even trained ML AI, it just cross references datasets given to it beforehand, and references it. Even GPT3 which is the best we currently can do, can be easily messed around showing how weak it is in terms of intelligence, other than creating human readable sentences... again from the huge dataset it has access to.
I do think within a 1000 years it could be possible, but we are no closer to it now really than we were 40 years ago, we have more powerful hardware to process bigger datasets, but it's really not much different than using Google, just instead of relevant results you get back a humanized response. It's nothing like "thinking", "feeling" and complex systems alike.
For example, using GPT3, you can still get this:
My prompt:
My name is Dexter, and I'm very keen to meet you Jane. But to be clear, I'll tell you what my name is right now.
AI continuation:
I'm Dexter, and my name is Jane.
Clearly no "thinking" goes into the AI response, it's just trying to make you think there is more to it. Anytime you have a chatbot, asking it behavior-based question, or asking it to remember things, that would require some kind of thought process behind the scenes, can easily point out that nothing that exists on the market today is capable of anything like that, especially long term. And yes Google/Phone AI can remember your name, but it's a separated value in that case, specifically designed for that.
To be fair, it is huge advancements and leaps we are making in general, but it is nowhere near "thinking", mainly because to reproduce a human brain level of complex system we would need significantly stronger hardware than what is available now, especially in terms of a localized system like a space ship would be [eg: no "cloud" access]. And we don't even understand how our brain works exactly either, let alone replicate it in software.
Black vikings? Never seen that before
loading replies
@hoaxr I guess now you have :eyes: there were black people amongst the Vikings according to historical documents.
Black vikings? Never seen that before
loading replies
@hoaxr Think someone needs to read up on their history
Why has this film been given a rating already? As I type this comment, this film hasn't been released yet. I'll admit it does look like it could be good going by the trailer but c'mon to whoever has scored it already... at least wait til you've seen the film!
loading replies
I'm not sure what your running, but there are different ways to get movies earlier.
Do some homework, look at IPTV, but don't jump the gun, make sure you understand it first.
it won't take long if you do it right.
:heart:x0 (yes that's correct zero stars)
DO NOT WATCH!!
This is simply said - just an absolutely horrible piece of crap!!
First, it's trying to be a political and social satire - but it fails. But it somehow also tries to be a disaster movie - and again it fails.
It's like watching a couple of level-headed people dealing with an entire world of Trump clones.
This is nothing more than garbage.
DO NOT WATCH!!How I rate:
1-3 :heart: = seriously! don't waste your time
4-6 :heart: = you may or may not enjoy this
7-8 :heart: = I expect you will like this too
9-10 :heart: = movies and TV shows I really love!loading replies
@schmoogie You were so close to getting the point of the movie but it flew right by you. If you can't see the parallels between this and real life then you might just be part of the Don't Look Up movement.
I will definitely watch the pilot as I am really interested to see how they plan to "explore gender and race" when there is only one male left alive. Seems like a very one-sided exploration.
loading replies
@player8472 Seems to me that Yorick's exploration of gender and race matters just as much as any of the women's exploration of gender and race. Or are you saying that the man's story doesn't matter?
I will definitely watch the pilot as I am really interested to see how they plan to "explore gender and race" when there is only one male left alive. Seems like a very one-sided exploration.
loading replies
@player8472 Lighten up, buttercup. It's based on a 2002 Vertigo comic book.
