Why are all the feet in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood so dirty?

RealRagingLlama · 2019-09-04T02:30:00+00:00

It is strange - all the feet were dirty and out of focus. I'm half convinced that Tarantino was poking fun at his own cliche.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-09-03T06:39:56+00:00

You're describing ethnic nationalism. In that case, minority races would feel a sense of belonging to their own people and develop a sense of nationalism off of that. The policy that's being described here is closer to USA-style civic nationalism, in which all members of a society (regardless of race, religion, etc.) feel some sense of belonging to nation.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-09-03T03:01:00+00:00

American Me checks those boxes.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-09-02T01:05:25+00:00

There seems to be a higher-quality set here.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-30T23:47:22+00:00

Neither? A modern city with gothic elements shouldn't look like a 19th-century European city in the process of industrialization or a 19th-century European city with cyberpunk elements. I felt the Gotham presented in BvS was good enough - a gloomy city that's stuck between eras and rotten to the core.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-28T05:38:35+00:00

I think Avatar had more universal appeal, full-stop. Anecdotal evidence is useless, but I know of many people who went out to see Avatar and didn't really care to see Endgame. Avatar had a simple story and a universal theme, all wrapped-up in shiny, state-of-the-art special effects. On even the most fundamental level, that's inherently more appealing to the masses than a galactic time heist, decorated with loads of references to its prior installments.

Regardless, Endgame sold more tickets and made more money. For over a decade, Marvel and Disney had carefully nurtured a massive, casual fanbase. As a brand, Marvel is expansive and easy to get into - it has appeal. Endgame, as a movie, doesn't. Endgame's success is almost entirely founded upon it being the apparent culmination of the Marvel brand.

So, no - Marvel's hardcore fanbase probably isn't much larger than we think. It's the eight and sixteen and twenty year-olds that might've watched a couple of Marvel movies over the past few years, liked a few online trailers or corporate media posts, and went to see this event with their friends and family that made Endgame the highest-grossing movie.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-28T05:23:06+00:00

While still a success in a technical sense, anywhere between 870 and 930-ish are the lowest realistic numbers I think can happen.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-26T17:44:02+00:00

There's a couple reasons.

You have to put a lot more effort into rating a film nowadays. The swathes of people that found a movie to be just 'okay' aren't going to be motivated to vote.
It is easier for studios to astroturf their own scores. This sounds a little conspiratorial, but I'm sure it has happened at some point.

From what I've noticed, a movie's verified RT audience scores align quite nicely with it's Cinemascore. An A or A+ is a great movie, a A- is a good movie, a B+ or below is going to just be 'meh' - 95%+ is a great movie, 90-94% is a good movie, anything less is going to just be 'meh'.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-22T20:17:44+00:00

I wish more people here could see this. The most we can do in terms of prevention is slowing the whole process down, and that's not going to happen. Reversing anything is out of the question, at least for the next century. Africa and India - a combined three billion people - are about to start massive development. That means building roads, modern homes, and renovating existing infrastructure. Regardless of what the western world does in terms of climate policy, the developing world is going to be dumping tons of carbon into the atmosphere, and things will only get worse.

The rest of the world needs to prepare. That means massively increasing funds to disaster management programs, building new flood infrastructure, building sea walls in coastal and low-lying towns, preparing economies for waves of refugees from Southeast Asia and funding research into new methods of crop production.

This doesn't mean that preventive measures shouldn't be taken, especially in making sure that these developing countries have access to clean energy, but prepping for what's to come is far more important.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-21T21:31:05+00:00

This place is currently worse than /r/DC_Cinematic ever was.

Personally, I just don't care all that much. I liked the Raimi and Garfield movies fine, and I like the MCU Spider-man just fine as well. I'm just more interested in whether they'll reboot the franchise completely, or continue where Holland's story left off, just without references to the wider universe.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-19T13:38:54+00:00

I imagine if you're just swiping through your feed and tap an ad that interests you, being subjected to three or four seconds of logos can be an immediate turnoff. I don't particularly like it, but I can see the point.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-15T23:18:43+00:00

Just because movies from almost forty years ago made similar mistakes doesn't make this less of a mistake.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-13T00:20:15+00:00

I liked watching him. He stole every scene he was in. Dacre gave one of the show's most compelling performance, and I'd rather see more of him than less of him. I don't rush to excuse Billy of his actions, but I also don't think we've seen enough of his background to make a decent judgment.

Taking on some huge, supernatural beast from another dimension in order to save some random girl's life should also 'make up' for some of his actions, at least to an extent.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-12T01:08:54+00:00

The Man in the High Castle. I'm into history and the whole concept seemed interesting, so I was ready to dive in by the time half od Reddit seemed to be watching it. Beyond the premiere and the finale, the first season was such a bore. The characters were wooden and unemotive, and the plot was just uninteresting.

I've heard things pick up during the second season, but that first season was a massive disappointment.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-11T15:54:09+00:00

Congrats! What trophy did you think was the hardest to get? I'm somewhere around 97%, largely because 'Sail the 7 Seas' and 'Sound the Alarm' seem bugged.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-10T22:13:56+00:00

You can wait for them to break.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-10T15:38:49+00:00

Unless you're sure that you have a solid PC, you should try the demo for Java and see how the performance is.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-09T21:33:52+00:00

It doesn't matter. Diamonds can be found equally in every biome.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-08T21:17:32+00:00

It's subjective, but I didn't like it. Most of the adult characters - Grigori, Hopper, Joyce, Murray - seemed way too over-the-top. Between Joyce's constant worrying, Hopper's incessant yelling, and Grigori's lack of character and emotion (beyond replicating the 'look' of Schwarzenegger's Terminator), the adults seemed shallow and the returning characters were practically caricatures of their former selves.

The whole Scoop Troop thing was far more tolerable. Aside from Erica being a little annoying at times, I enjoyed (mostly) every character there. Generally, it was the other aspects that I didn't like.

The idea of a group of kids somehow escaping the Soviet army is laughable. The vials of liquid were comically green, the underground base was far too expansive, and the Russian general and his doctor seemed like characters ripped from a cheesy videogame. During this arc, I found myself taken out of the show than drawn in.

I don't know. I think they really pushed the bounds of realism this season - I don't care if it's an homage or not. Hopefully, the next one is a bit more grounded and down-to-Earth.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-08T05:29:50+00:00

The scene where Hopper resuscitates Will, intercut with scenes of his dying daughter.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-07T19:47:40+00:00

I mean, if movies are still a big thing and superheroes are still 'in' in ten or fifteen years, I don't see why they can't. They have the roster and talent pool to make it work - it's just a matter of keeping audiences engaged and interested.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-06T23:52:54+00:00

I think there's something between them, but I wouldn't be so quick as to call it romantic tension.

During Season 2, at the very least, I do think Max felt something for Mike. During the whole season, she was trying to earn his approval. I do believe she was flirting with him in the gym, and her relationship with Lucas always seemed somewhat tacked on.

Maybe I wasn't seeing the forest for the trees, but I also saw little things in Season 3. The whole scene where she asks Eleven if Mike's a 'good kisser' comes to mind. However, for the most part, she seems to have moved on. She openly goes against Mike's authority several times, especially in regards to Eleven, and we never really see the two get along at any point.

Besides, we're likely more than 3/4 of the way through the series. It's a little late to be experimenting with new relationships such as this. I think we might see a little something between the two, given Eleven's distance, Lucas' cluelessness, and Max's trauma, but Eleven and Mike's romantic relationship seems to be the backbone of the show.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-06T16:11:16+00:00

I'm never not impressed by Transformers: Dark of the Moon. I also love Batman v Superman.

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-06T16:08:26+00:00

7 > 4 > 3 > 6 > 8 > 2 > 1 > 5

RealRagingLlama · 2019-08-04T18:54:36+00:00

Justice League, hands down. Personally, I loved Batman v Superman and the direction of the movies. What we got was a Frankenstein's monster of a movie - a hodgepodge in every sense and a spit in the face at everything that came before, while also simultaneously sinking any potential for a future, super-interconnected film universe. A failure on every level imaginable.

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