Your pop culture gripes

[AngryOfTuebrook]

Easytoslip and Stronts.

 

[SasaS]

22 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

And yet somehow these people, who I never knew existed, mobilised themselves as the social media anti-Nazi resistance. 

 

We live in interesting times.

Remember when all American kids mobilized on social media and got very upset for a month about some African warlord they never heard of before and most people never heard from since?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

4 minutes ago, SasaS said:

Remember when all American kids mobilized on social media and got very upset for a month about some African warlord they never heard of before and most people never heard from since?

Yeah. The poor sod who organised that had a breakdown and ended up wandering the motorway bollocko.

[Section_31]

When I Google General Zod and get this arsehole.

 

There's a broader point here too. I don't know if it's something to do with CGI, or a broader disdain which modern film studios have for traditional pop culture fanbases. 

 

But there's zero subtlety left in a lot of these modern films now. 

 

Stamp's General Zod was basically the Daily Mail on legs, slowly irradiated and given magical powers. He was someone's father in law, like if you met a posh bird in the 80s and went back to her house in Kent in your Crown Paints Liverpool shirt, her dad would basically be Stamp's General Zod.

 

Action sequences involve him cracking people on the head and trying to blow up a wagon.

 

The new one is basically just a "baddie". In no way memorable, just a "baddie". His action sequence involve him lifting up a skyscraper and trying to hit Superman over the head with it, but nobody gives a fuck because they're both beige, bland, forgettable twats.

 

Producers are sat on the other side of the one way glass absolutely baffled looking at you because they thought you were some kind of programmable monkey. "We gave these people laser eyes and they still don't care, does not compute."

 

[Bjornebye]

2 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

When I google General Zod and get this arsehole.

 

There's a broader point here too. I don't know if it's something to do with CGI, or a broader disdain which modern film studios have for traditional pop culture fanbases. 

 

But there's zero subtlety left in a lot of these modern films now. 

 

Stamp's General Zod was basically the Daily Mail on legs, slowly irradiated and given magical powers. He was someone's father in law, like if you met a posh bird in the 80s and went back to her house in Kent in your Crown Paints Liverpool shirt, her dad would basically be Stamp's General Zod.

 

Action sequences involve him cracking people on the head and trying to blow up a wagon.

 

The new one is basically just a "baddie". In no way memorable, just a "baddie". His action sequence involve him lifting up a skyscraper and trying to hit Superman over the head with it, but nobody gives a fuck because they're both beige, bland, forgettable twats.

 

Producers are sat on the other side of the one way glass absolutely baffled looking at you because they were thought you were some kind of programmable monkey and it does not compute.

They don’t make baddies like they used too. 

[easytoslip]

28 minutes ago, AngryofTuebrook said:

Easytoslip and Stronts.

 

Haha. 

[Anubis]

6 hours ago, Mook said:

I bought the unfucked versions of the original trilogy on DVD so I can watch them with my lads when they're older.

I’ve got those for my nieces. Had to be done.

[Aventus]

2 hours ago, Paul said:

Middle aged white men who dismiss entire genres of black music while failing to recognise that pretty much everything they like musically had its roots in black music and culture. 

Grime music is shit. 

[Trumo]

59 minutes ago, Section_31 said:

When I Google General Zod and get this arsehole.

 

There's a broader point here too. I don't know if it's something to do with CGI, or a broader disdain which modern film studios have for traditional pop culture fanbases. 

 

But there's zero subtlety left in a lot of these modern films now. 

 

...

 

Action sequences involve him cracking people on the head and trying to blow up a wagon.

 

The new one is basically just a "baddie". In no way memorable, just a "baddie". His action sequence involve him lifting up a skyscraper and trying to hit Superman over the head with it, but nobody gives a fuck because they're both beige, bland, forgettable twats...

 

Action sequences in general. A lot of CGI and you end up with scenes like in The Avengers where entire cities are completely destroyed, and yet there's nothing to suggest that there was a human death toll despite the action taking place in areas that are obviously highly populated.

[TheHowieLama]

3 hours ago, Paul said:

Middle aged white men who dismiss entire genres of black music while failing to recognise that pretty much everything they like musically had its roots in black music and culture. 

Where the white women at?

[TheHowieLama]

Tik Tok.

[Section_31]

25 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

Where the white women at?

Crying about a daddy longlegs.

[littletedwest]

I remember when they re-released "Bridge over troubled water" for greenfell and had someone rapping on it. Who the fuck thought that was a good idea?

[littletedwest]

Cgi is shit. More and more spectacular action sequences lose their meaning and plotlines are a forgotten memory 

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

2 minutes ago, littletedwest said:

Cgi is shit. More and more spectacular action sequences lose their meaning and plotlines are a forgotten memory 

 

A lot of it ignores basic Newtonian physics so it just looks shit.

[TheHowieLama]

15 minutes ago, littletedwest said:

Cgi is shit. More and more spectacular action sequences lose their meaning and plotlines are a forgotten memory 

 

French Connection remains the greatest action sequence ever filmed.

[AngryOfTuebrook]

3 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

French Connection remains the greatest action sequence ever filmed.

The train chase in The Wrong Trousers is better executed and more plausible than most modern cgi.

[Section_31]

4 minutes ago, TheHowieLama said:

French Connection remains the greatest action sequence ever filmed.

Cyberdyne shootout for me Clive.

[Bobby Hundreds]

I think part of the charm of the mandolorian is the real effects, puppets and such and one of the many reasons why the hobbit film was dogshit.

[Juniper]

Not sure if this is one for the sign of getting older thread but I watched ‘Flight of the Navigator’ for the first time in probably decades last night.

 

A few things bugged the shit out of me.

 

Sarah Jesssica Parker breaking major terms in her NASA DPA/confidentiality agreement by giving secrets away to a little time travelling brat she’s only just met. 

 

Then travelling hundreds of miles no doubt within 20 minutes or so to spill to his parents and then getting caught in the process.

 

Also, NASA sending in a maintenance robot/driod into his room with an easily accessible and conveniently child sized compartment so he can easily escape his high security room - which basically just comprises of an automatic door that shuts faster than your average.

 

That kid should still, to this day, be locked up by NASA, cut up and tested on like your standard lab rat.

 

Not flying around with Aliens singing along to the fuckin’ Beach Boys.

 

Pure incompetence by NASA. It’s pissing me off again just typing this. 

[Bobby Hundreds]

Now you've highlighted those it is a bit far fetched.

[Bruce Spanner]

Drivers not watching the road and exaggerated steering.

 

Annoys the fuck out of me.

[Section_31]

12 minutes ago, Juniper said:

Not sure if this is one for the sign of getting older thread but I watched ‘Flight of the Navigator’ for the first time in probably decades last night.

 

A few things bugged the shit out of me.

 

Sarah Jesssica Parker breaking major terms in her NASA DPA/confidentiality agreement by giving secrets away to a little time travelling brat she’s only just met. 

 

Then travelling hundreds of miles no doubt within 20 minutes or so to spill to his parents and then getting caught in the process.

 

Also, NASA sending in a maintenance robot/driod into his room with an easily accessible and conveniently child sized compartment so he can easily escape his high security room - which basically just comprises of an automatic door that shuts faster than your average.

 

That kid should still, to this day, be locked up by NASA, cut up and tested on like your standard lab rat.

 

Not flying around with Aliens singing along to the fuckin’ Beach Boys.

 

Pure incompetence by NASA. It’s pissing me off again just typing this. 

If we're going down that route, didn't Matthew Broderick escape from NORAD, the most nuclear secure base in history, by short-circuiting a door with a drawing pin?

[Rushies tash]

 

[VladimirIlyich]

17 hours ago, Paul said:

Middle aged white men who dismiss entire genres of black music while failing to recognise that pretty much everything they like musically had its roots in black music and culture. 

I don't believe that's true,especially on here. Many recognise how inflential those African American,Afro-Caribbean and Black artists in general influenced the greatest artists in modern history such as The Beatles,The Rolling Stones and beyond. Unfortunately though,it often took white atists performing those songs previously done by Black artists before they got their dues.