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  1. Comment on Any obscure songs you'd like to share? in ~music

  2. Comment on Ariana Grande is ‘taking a step back from visibility’ after tour as public scrutiny intensifies in ~music

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    I wonder if this is how people felt with Karen Carpenter back in the day. A month ago when she released the music video for hate that i made you love me there was a lot of hubbub online about her...

    I wonder if this is how people felt with Karen Carpenter back in the day.

    A month ago when she released the music video for hate that i made you love me there was a lot of hubbub online about her appearance and how skeletal she looked. And now after the release of the music video for petal there was even bigger noise about it, especially since she included a “joke” about how “she could lose a few pounds” which is a common joke on ED online spaces like Twitter and Tumblr. There have been these comments about her being too skinny since 2024, but if you see how she looked back then compared to now it’s such a stark difference.

    She dropped out of a London play that she was supposed to do. She has a movie coming out in three months that I would be shocked if she’s doing press for that.

    It’s all very sad really.

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  4. Comment on ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ powers to amazing second-best global opening at box office with $927m worldwide (355m domestic / 572m international) in ~movies

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    They’re probably gonna do Black Cat rather than Gwen Stacy.

    They’re probably gonna do Black Cat rather than Gwen Stacy.

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  5. Comment on ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ powers to amazing second-best global opening at box office with $927m worldwide (355m domestic / 572m international) in ~movies

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    Nearly best Endgame DOM. Crazy opening weekend. Especially since the main appeal of the movie is that it’s a street level Spider-Man film. Although No Way Home having been so big and there being a...

    Nearly best Endgame DOM.

    Crazy opening weekend. Especially since the main appeal of the movie is that it’s a street level Spider-Man film. Although No Way Home having been so big and there being a five year gap since we last saw Spider-Man helped. That’s the same gap from Spider-Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man. We also went from seeing Holland as Spider-Man nearly every year from 2016 to 2021 to having to wait five years.

    ALSO, it helps that if you were a kid when Civil War and Homecoming came out you’re a young adult now. So you grew up with Holland as Spider-Man. He’s definitively the Spider-Man with how his movies have performed.

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  7. Comment on What have you been listening to this week? in ~music

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    Ariana Grande released petal. I was looking back at what I wrote for Harry Styles’s album this year. Because I ended up liking that more on subsequent listens compared to my first run through. I...

    Ariana Grande released petal.

    I was looking back at what I wrote for Harry Styles’s album this year. Because I ended up liking that more on subsequent listens compared to my first run through.

    I don’t see myself listening to this a lot, like I did with Style’s album. I listened to eternal sunshine and Positions A LOT. And there’s just no tracks here that are holding my interest outside of hate that I made you love me and the title track petal. With eternal sunshine I immediately grabbed onto yes, and?, we can’t be friends, i wish i hated you, bye and this boy is mine. Similar with Positions where I was drawn to 34+35, obvious, motive, shut up and my hair on my first listens.

    Most of the tracks here sound the same. It’s so hard to differentiate what I’m listening to. I don’t like most of the production, there’s a lot of overlaying vocals. The lyrics are bad most of the time. It’s a weird blend of her being a sad girl and also being hyper sexual. And none of it sits well considering her current condition. Not that R&B can’t be sad and introspective (SOS by SZA for example) but it doesn’t work here. The aesthetics are fighting against each other. She should have just done a sad guitar/piano girl thing. Stripped down. It’s her worst album, it’s the first album from her that I think is genuinely bad.

    On the other hand, Charli xcx released Music, Fashion, Film a week or two ago. And I really enjoyed that. It’s a departure from her usual sound, but it’s such a cool vibe. Charli has always been good at sustaining vibes on her albums, while giving each track its own personal identity. I don’t like it as much as Wuthering Heights but I love Card Declined, Wink Wink, Camera and Persona.

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  9. Comment on ‘X-Men’: Samara Weaving lands role of Emma Frost in upcoming Marvel Studios picture in ~movies

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    Probably too old too. She’s made it clear she doesn’t wanna do superhero movies anymore. They approached her for Sue Storm, and then last year they approached her for a role in Batman Part II. For...

    Probably too old too.

    She’s made it clear she doesn’t wanna do superhero movies anymore. They approached her for Sue Storm, and then last year they approached her for a role in Batman Part II. For both films she had a very high asking price, and I think she did that on purpose because she knew they wouldn’t be able to match it.

    Stone and Jennifer Lawrence often auditioned for the same roles early in their careers. So I wouldn’t be surprised if Stone auditioned for the part for X-Men: First Class.

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  10. Comment on ‘X-Men’: Samara Weaving lands role of Emma Frost in upcoming Marvel Studios picture in ~movies

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    Also apparently Inde Navarette (Obession) met with Marvel to play Mystique and Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus) met for Rogue.

    Also apparently Inde Navarette (Obession) met with Marvel to play Mystique and Cailee Spaeny (Alien: Romulus) met for Rogue.

    3 votes

  12. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    I think they have an issue with the morality aspect of it. It’s like having an emotional affair. Don’t know why that would make the movie better, it would make it more sanitized and less interesting.

    I think they have an issue with the morality aspect of it. It’s like having an emotional affair.

    Don’t know why that would make the movie better, it would make it more sanitized and less interesting.

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  14. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Spider-Man: Brand New Day I liked this. I’d probably put it below Homecoming for me. But, it’s good. This is the first time in the franchise that I think everyone involved went “we need to lock...

    Spider-Man: Brand New Day

    I liked this. I’d probably put it below Homecoming for me. But, it’s good.

    This is the first time in the franchise that I think everyone involved went “we need to lock in” and wanted to make their version of The Dark Knight.

    This is the darkest of the Holland films. It’s similar in tone to Raimi’s films. There’s a lot of visual homages to Raimi’s trilogy. Especially with the way he conveyed the Spidey senses.

    I could feel which scenes Justin Kuritzkes re-wrote. And the way I could tell is because the dialogue was a lot more sophisticated than in most Marvel films. Kuritzkes wrote Challengers and Queer neither of which I cared for. Challengers was a melodrama, and had a lot of soap opera tendencies, which he applied to his scenes here. I think that works. A lot of the comics I’ve read, that are acclaimed, are quite melodramatic. And because I think the genre tends to skew towards safe nostalgia, especially in recent years, injecting melodramatic moments elevates it.

    I respect the attempts made here to make it a real movie. The color, the actual locations, the actual sets, a reduction in the use of green screen, the CGI feeling like there’s more weight behind it. How the actions scenes move with more fluidity, how the camera is more dynamic. I don’t think it completely pulls off what it’s going for. But, that they put in so much effort is great. My biggest complaint would be that it’s long and it feels its length.

    I’d add it onto the pile of post-Endgame MCU films that are genuinely good which so far had just been Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and Thunderbolts. Definitely better than Destin Daniel Crettin’s previous Marvel film Shang-Chi, which suffered from weak leads, shoddy CGI, and bland cinematography.

    2 votes

  15. Comment on ‘The Walking Dead’ renewed by Netflix in five-year, $500m co-exclusive deal with AMC Global in ~tv

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    I stopped somewhere along season 3. I was in high school and my classmates were obsessed with it. The first season functions as a really good limited series. And everyone should stop watching...

    I stopped somewhere along season 3.

    I was in high school and my classmates were obsessed with it. The first season functions as a really good limited series. And everyone should stop watching there. I have no idea why it’s lasted this long with so many spin offs. I don’t even meet many normies that watch it.

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  17. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    That’s what I like about them. A lot of people still, and at the time, complain about how reliant Peter is on Stark technology. But I like that inclusion. It differentiates itself from the other...

    That’s what I like about them. A lot of people still, and at the time, complain about how reliant Peter is on Stark technology. But I like that inclusion. It differentiates itself from the other Spider-Man films by having him be a Stark Jr.

    Also, the entire purpose was to have Spider-Man be part of the MCU. I’m pretty sure it was a contractual thing that there had to be an MCU character in the films alongside him. Homecoming it’s Iron Man, Far From Home it’s Nick Fury, and No Way Home it’s Doctor Strange.

    I’m not a big comic reader but something that you see in comics is how connected they are to everything else. Frequent references to other superheroes and events. It makes sense to have that, otherwise you’re so isolated from everything you’d think Spider-Man is the only superhero alive. And they already did that for five movies.

    With the three films I think No Way Home is probably the worst one, it’s the worst one visually for sure. When Watt’s was hired in 2015 that was when we were still doing, hire an indie guy and bully him around for a big studio film thing that’s since gone out of style.

    I love Homecoming, I think that’s such a great script. The writers of that also wrote Game Night and the Dungeons and Dragons movie. I think they should have just been given directing duties.

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  18. Comment on Midweek Movie Free Talk in ~movies

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    Movie 43 built up quite a cult following since its release. Theres some sketches I like from it like the homeschool one and the basketball one.

    Movie 43 built up quite a cult following since its release. Theres some sketches I like from it like the homeschool one and the basketball one.

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  20. Comment on The Thomas Crown Affair | Official teaser trailer in ~movies

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    So Michael B Jordan directed this. Fun fact: Taylor Russell (Bones and All and also Harry Style’s ex) was originally cast in this. And she actually shot a decent amount of footage for the film....

    So Michael B Jordan directed this.

    Fun fact: Taylor Russell (Bones and All and also Harry Style’s ex) was originally cast in this. And she actually shot a decent amount of footage for the film. But as it turns out Michael B Jordan was fucking her and then they stopped and she couldn’t work with him anymore. So he replaced her with Adria Arjona. And I guess he didn’t have sex with her because then he’d have to deal with Jason Mamoa.

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