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gwildors_gill_slits,

The Dark Knight has fucking terrible editing and a lot of bad, hammy acting. The opening bank heist is just bad, with really on-the-nose dialogue delivered pretty badly…even William Fichtner seems like he’s trying a little too hard, and he’s an otherwise good actor.

I know the editing has been covered in some YouTube essay that made the rounds a number of years ago so maybe that’s not such an unpopular opinion, but it really sticks out to me like a sore thumb.

Before anyone gets totally mad at me, I still enjoy the overall story, a lot of the action, and I think both Ledger and Bale (dumb batman voice aside) are great. Also, Morgan Freeman, Michal Caine and whatshisname who plays Harvey Dent are also very good too.

gwildors_gill_slits,

That’s the one

gwildors_gill_slits,

That’s fair

gwildors_gill_slits,

Another unpopular opinion I have is that spider-man 2 is pretty good, but not on the level people seem to put it on. The train fight is good, the overall plot is decent, Alfred Molina is a good choice as Doc Ok, but the whole split personality thing came across to me as kind of cheesy. At least Willem Dafoe’s scenery chewing in the first movie was highly entertaining.

gwildors_gill_slits,

NDT channeling Reddit and The Oatmeal ca. 2012

gwildors_gill_slits,

Let’s not forget the time they installed a piece of wood from home depot in a new car’s engine bay.

gwildors_gill_slits,

The description of Tutanota as an “online encryption service” is kind of weird, it’s an encrypted email service. I guess that’s splitting hairs though.

I use Tutanota myself but I’m in the process of moving off it, not because of security concerns but because the developers are aggressively full-on about security to the point where certain features (search, & interoperability with other clients primarily) are actually hamstrung. So the claim about them being part of some government intelligence apparatus seems somewhat unbelievable to me. But hey, if it’s true then I’m extra glad I’m moving off it.

gwildors_gill_slits,

Yeah, agreed. Although to me it all comes across like shoddy reporting of a dubious source, this is a pretty big blow to Tutanota’s rep whether it’s true or not. It’s hard to wash off the stink of something like this after it’s been disseminated to the public.

gwildors_gill_slits,

Saw a relatively popular (at the time, and in Australia) alternative hand called TISM, supported by a pretty new act called Regurgitator that later became something of an institution on the Aussie alternative scene.

gwildors_gill_slits,

Cobra assault cannon…state of the art bang-bang!

gwildors_gill_slits,

I feel this. I’m still in the first act and taking my time, but I’ve already lost Gale because I accidentally selected the option to not give him a magical item to consume after he asked a second time - I said I would, and then when I went into the selection menu I realized I couldn’t give him the item I intended, so I backed out and he said fuck you and left. So that’s great for me. Maybe he’ll come back later but then again maybe not. So that’s a whole character I don’t have any more because of an accident.

Oh, and I also never got Lazel because I never went to the area where she was captured until much later and she wasn’t there any more. I did find her (before that, funnily enough) as part of the cut scene with the Githyanki near the bridge but I didn’t know she was a playable character, plus she acted like an enemy and I was really low level and got destroyed so I had to reload. So that’s another character I don’t have and may never get, although I’ll have to go back now that I’m a higher level and see what happens.

My point is that it’s really easy to miss out on large parts of the game due to random or accidental decisions, so I do understand people who find the experience off-putting. Still, I’ve been lucky to have enough free time to be able to play through with my wife so I’ve been able to avoid a lot of the stuff I fucked up in my solo game, and I personally love the game despite the experiences I outlined above.

gwildors_gill_slits,

/r/movies has always had tons of those generic hidden/underrated gem/actor threads about huge blockbuster films that everyone has seen. It’s in no way a new phenomenon. The /r/moviescirclejerk subreddit has existed for years, and lives off those posts.

gwildors_gill_slits,

It’s always seemed kind of crazy to me that this was a spin off of Happy Days

gwildors_gill_slits,

Yup. And wait until you find out that Happy Days was itself a spin off (of a sort).

gwildors_gill_slits,

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZjlYFWLUDBQ&si=NhDz6BCqqToZedFt

gwildors_gill_slits,

I love that whenever a long lost obscure/novelty music video gets posted on the internet, more often than not it’s from Rage. What an institution. I’m so glad I grew up watching it till the wee hours of the morning.

gwildors_gill_slits,

I feel the same way. For the 30 or so dollars I spent as an early backer I’ve actually had some fun times in the game, and I don’t actually think it’s quite the total loss that people make it out to be, but it certainly should be far, far better than it is after a decade and 600m dollars invested in it.

gwildors_gill_slits,

There’s already a version of the switch that has an OLED screen

gwildors_gill_slits,

Ween - Gabrielle

gwildors_gill_slits,

Yes. 44, Australian, drove a manual until very recently actually.

In Australia (Queensland at least) you have to pass a manual driving test in order to be legally allowed to drive a manual vehicle. At the time I was getting my license (1995 - 96) manual vehicles were still extremely common, plus I like driving a manual so it made sense for me.

gwildors_gill_slits,

The Damned - Smash it Up (1979)

gwildors_gill_slits,

Probably the pong game that my neighbours had hooked up to their tv in the very early 80s

gwildors_gill_slits,

I would never claim that this is better than the original, but for me at least, Primal Scream’s version of the 13th floor elevators song Slip Inside This House is the perfect cover because it retains the psychedelic 60’s summer of love spirit of the original song while making it utterly contemporary (for the time it was released anyway, although to me it still sounds pretty fresh).

Original version: https://youtu.be/nwSA0Tckwbk?si=xGk5bIaVtU_ZVqHF

gwildors_gill_slits,

In general I agree with your point, but CGI blood is almost never invisible and generally looks like shit. Almost as bad as CGI fire.

gwildors_gill_slits,

It’s not college radio but 4zzz is a community radio station in my home town of Brisbane, Australia that’s effectively the same kind of thing and has an online stream:

https://4zzz.org.au/

gwildors_gill_slits,

Thanks, yeah I saw the post in this thread about the other pinned post. I’ll add this later when I have some more time to write it up in the format requested for that thread.

And thanks for the link to the brisbane thread, but I’m already subbed over there 😀

gwildors_gill_slits,

I don’t think it’s super obscure, but I home brew beer and it’s a hobby where you can really go deep into the technicalities of tweaking recipes, building equipment, and just the overall process in a way that would probably bore the average non-brewer to death.

gwildors_gill_slits,

I agree, and I have a lot of fun doing it. But I doubt that the average person would be interested in a discussion about yeast attenuation or which water profile to use for a particular style of beer.

gwildors_gill_slits,

I still think it’s worth watching from season 1 - there are a couple of pretty good episodes and it sets up some stuff that comes back later on, like building the park in the vacant lot. Plus, it’s only 6 episodes IIRC.

gwildors_gill_slits,

Regurgitator - ! (the song formerly known as)

gwildors_gill_slits,

My assumption was they were trying to shoehorn in the gang as a throwback to greaser hotrod culture (by way of mod scooter culture) since George Lucas was into that when he was a teenager, but it was so jarringly bad in an already bad series that it just came across as cringy and laughable. It didn’t help that those scenes were filmed incredibly clumsily and all the scooter gang characters were annoyingly tryhard.

gwildors_gill_slits,

Disagree about the Holdo maneuver but I will say it really should’ve been Leia. It would’ve made so much more sense for her to go out that way.

gwildors_gill_slits,

“You know, I could’ve joined the NSA… but they found out my parents were married.”

gwildors_gill_slits,

Yeah, from the movie Sneakers.

gwildors_gill_slits,

It does, it’s still a fun heist thriller with a great cast an excellent soundtrack.

gwildors_gill_slits,

Ammonia - Drugs

gwildors_gill_slits,

The Meanies - Ton of Bricks

gwildors_gill_slits,

The Kid Detective is great! The revelation at the end that significantly changes the tone works surprisingly well, IMO.

gwildors_gill_slits,

I mean, if you want recommendations for other movies like this then you should probably check out Shane Black’s very similar precursor called Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is a fractured mess and easily the worst of the series

Finally got round to seeing Guardians 3… What a waste of 2 1/2 hours that was. I enjoyed the first 2, but 3 was just terrible. The “story” is awful. Numerous, cheesy, cliché bits thrown together here and there. Nothing interesting or very cohesive. Nothing ever had a sense of consequence....

gwildors_gill_slits,

It wasn’t amazing but IMO the first 2 were also just ok, so I generally enjoyed the 3rd about the same.

gwildors_gill_slits,

A fun little fact is that this video was directed by Jarvis Cocker from Pulp.

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