Something I will say about the Family Guy Star Wars specials is they have some jokes clearly borne from growing up seeing these movies a million times.
My favourite example of this is there are people on stilts in the middle of the movie. They never get a close up, they just happen to intrude into the camera’s line or sight as it follows our characters. Why they are on stilts is unclear. It’s very good at implying a whole world
I think about the intuitive worldbuilding of fury road a lot. it puts crazy things in front of you and you're asked to glean meaning from context, just like you would as a visitor to a real alien culture. the doof warrior is a post apocalyptic carnyx, and the audience gets it.
You know I think it’s very healthy for superhero movies that the ones doing well at the box office are like, the good ones. People want to go see good movies, that’s a nice trend
People say Ben Kenobi did a bad job of hiding by wearing his Jedi robes and using basically his old name but rewatching Star Wars and I don’t think he cared. He whips out his lightsaber to solve bar fights and if you spot anything fishy he just uses a mind trick to say no
I am always kind of weirdly disappointed that the Simpsons made these other guys up because Homer being conversant on Iranian politics is funny in itself. Great bit though
This is the funniest part of the rollout of the film to me because in Toy Story, Buzz Lightyear is obviously a kind of Flash Gordon/Tom Corbett pulp sci-fi hero. He has an enemy called evil Emperor Zurg. But Pixar wants you to think he's like that world's Neil Armstrong instead.
“Lightyear” doesn’t follow Tim Allen’s famous action figure character. The 2022 film introduces the “real-life” human astronaut whose adventures inspired the toy line seen in the “Toy Story” franchise.
nobody is brave enough to make a "what's a 4chan post that's so embedded in your head that you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about" post, but this would be mine
This is why Abed not being tremendously talented was important to me on Community. He'd be obessively detail oriented and then turn out to not be at all good at making a movie, rigidly into running a D&D campaign and flaking on 'naming preset characters', he was not a genius
they say this sarcastically, but i cant recall a single show with an autistic character who isnt a "super genius" or has some sort of superhuman power and knowledge
I say this a lot but the special effect that wowed the most last decade was this scene. Just the liminal quality, how Koba pretends to be a regular old ape to get the guards to relax and then flipping on a dime and it all feels so natural.
The great irony of the book is that while Rorshach is absolutely warped by his far right thinking he is the only one to react decently to what Ozymandias has done, the rest of them ultimately accept brushing that atrocity under the rug and he would rather die than do that.
feels like a lack of imagination to think that rorschach can't be a pathetic fascist in snyder's film just bc his death is framed in a more empathetic way. Moore understood theyre awful but that you can also have them be recognizably human - the good friend scene is in the book!
Taika Waititi made a wonderful coming of age comedy called Boy, which was also about an adolescent’s difficult relationship with his negligent man-child father (played by Waititi himself.) Wonderful film. It’s sobering to me to see one of his movies talked about like this.
The Book of Boba Fett is finally delivering the fan favourite of Boba Fett being a guy who stands around in one or two scenes and maybe has a line or two
Entirely possible the writers never thought about that doing the joke - Homer is as smart or as stupid as would be the funniest in any given scene - but in this instance it gels nicely.
Noah Baumbach says he thought ‘BARBIE’ “was a terrible idea” when he was signed up for it
“I was like, ‘I don’t see how this is going to be good at all.’ Everytime [Greta would] bring it up, I’d be like, ‘You’ve gotta get us out of this.’”
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Honestly the Joker’s magic trick is the single best joke in any superhero film I have ever seen. So many of these films are frontloaddd with jokes and snark but none of them have made me laugh like the first time I saw that moment
Rorschach is absolutely a fascist and also the only Watchmen character to respond with any moral decency to what Ozymandias does in the last chapter of the book. I don’t think we’re meant to agree with Ozymandias or be cosmically apathetic like Doctor Manhattan there
In Fritz the Cat silhouettes of Mickey Mouse, Daisy Duck, and Donald Duck are shown cheering on the United States Air Force as it drops napalm on a black neighborhood during a riot.
You know around the mid-00s I was fascinated with the potentiality of fully CGI sets; when we saw a couple of films try this out. The prospect of doing truly strange and surreal or epic films hypothetically on much smaller budgets. I was pretty stoked about the whole thing
Peter loved the infamous cut scene from the original King Kong so much he gave it a big budget version here but he also made a retro version of it that was on the first DVD release of the 1933 movie
In the movie the Eternals they have the characters do jokes about the name ‘the Overmind,’ undercutting their own idea as soon as they introduce it but they also do it the scene after one of the Eternals died. Someone died and we have to fire up the Banter Machine
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C’mon guys. Xenu is the villain figure in Scientology, basically Chancellor Palpatine, corrupting the Galactic Confederacy through income tax. Cruise would never speak favourably of him
EGOT is a funny idea. Be successful on television, in music, on film, and on a theatre specifically local to New York. You can get the first three without ever visiting the US and you have to be in NYC for at least months to clinch it
'Filler episode' used to be a term to refer to when an anime ran out of manga to adapt and continued to make new episodes - even an entire arc - while waiting for more manga, story to be discarded later. Made sense there, but it doesn't at all when discussing say, the X-Files.
Sorry but none of the truly great shows have seasons that are 22 episodes long. You're all really just begging for the return of filler episodes? I don't get it. It's like advocating for pushing TV, as a medium of storytelling, backwards.
This is a great gag because it starts with the simple observation that Jack McBrayer is far too old to be playing a page by that point in the show and eventually becomes an extended riff on, specifically, LOST’s mythology (he even knows key figure in the show Jacob.)
Tired of people not liking pretentious movies because they’re pretentious. I like movies for being pretentious. Yeah let’s have a little sit down and someone starts talking about Chekhov or something I’m gonna clap my hands like when people see an old Spider-Man actor
Pauly Shore played one of Max’s friends in A Goofy Movie and he’s so obviously a stoner type but since it’s a kid’s movie he’s obsessed with cheese instead
Man he’s having a ball. Now thinking of Patrick Stewart talking about how when he played Gurney he only gradually learned that his co-star Sting was ‘a musician’
You know Roger Ebert bemoaned the loss of the cigarette in cinema because it was a great prop for actors, but he did so while understanding why it had gone and that smoking isn't good... he was onto something there
Generational thing. The millennial Breaking Bad memes must die so the zoomer Breaking Bad memes may live. Not unlike the recent resurgence in Sopranos content.
The interesting thing about Meryl Streep is she’s a canonically great actress but who’s been in so many like Just Okay Prestige Pictures. Giving career defining performances in… some kinda movie