Recent content by Dazzle Novak

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    Why Shouldn't I Kill Myself?

    People always talk that bullshit about how much it devastates "the people who love you", but where the fuck are these funeral-chasing hypocrites when you're alive? The same people who won't call you for months...YEARS... all of a sudden are wracked with grief sobbing over your coffin? Fuck them...
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    A new Star Wars happened, and opinions are released upon us like nibbling hounds demanding biscuits

    Rose and Finn jack themselves off for freeing the rabbit-horses, but leave the children behind in child slavery. This while, as far as they knew at the moment, failing to accomplish their mission in service to the resistance's survival. That about sums up the moral depth of the film to me...
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    A new Star Wars happened, and opinions are released upon us like nibbling hounds demanding biscuits

    "I like him." These three words torch this plotline. Holdo and Leia ultimately treating Poe like some loveable cad renders the movie's hand-wringing over his recklessness hollow lip-service. Poe should have been court-martialed for his starting blunder then executed for the shit he pulls...
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    A new Star Wars happened, and opinions are released upon us like nibbling hounds demanding biscuits

    It still amazes me how people believe quarter-billion dollar, focus-grouped blockbusters are a medium in which to express a yen for unequivocal personal expression and radical social change. "Fight the power by giving us more of your money! Yeah, you're really sticking it to us 1% fat cats...
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    Star Wars needs a reboot. Reboot the Original Trilogy, Reboot the Prequel Story, Reboot everything.

    All of this is an exercise in figuratively subsisting on candy and insisting "Jolly Ranchers totally have, like, vitamins and stuff!" Is it possible that a quirky pastiche of Flash Gordon and samurai flicks wasn't a solid enough nucleus for the mythological importance that's been placed...
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    A new Star Wars happened, and opinions are released upon us like nibbling hounds demanding biscuits

    Mary Sue is a fanfiction term describing a new character's relation to an established work. It's kind of silly to judge classic characters or characters who've been in a work from jump this way whether they're over-powered wank fantasies or not. The way these new movies mush together the...
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    A new Star Wars happened, and opinions are released upon us like nibbling hounds demanding biscuits

    Watching this collective pivot away from TFA is maddening. Two years ago, I was the proverbial mad man in the town square constantly shushed down by "Don't worry, they still have two films to explain it! Rey might be part of the Super Space Jesus Clan or a secret Kenobi! Finn is probably...
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    A new Star Wars happened, and opinions are released upon us like nibbling hounds demanding biscuits

    To put my observation in D&D terms, this push for Jedi populism seems to be a bunch of people who want the space wizard powers without the restrictions of the class or need to bother with all that Jedi "religion" telling you you can't do the stuff you want to do without falling to the dark side...
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    So about all of this sexual assault...

    http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2017/11/16/report-sylvester-stallone-accused/ And another one... According to a Las Vegas police report, Stallone took her into a bedroom, where they had sex, while De Luca waited in the bathroom. Stallone then asked the victim if she had ever had a...
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    Blade Runner 2049 - what did everyone think? (Minor spoilers)

    Entertaining and visually-stunning, but as another poster said, the original Blade Runner has been jury-rigged from a simple noir story set in a dystopian future following an alcoholic detective discovering the measure of a human being as applied to himself and his targets into an origin story...
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    Can we talk about the apparent culture of sexual abuse in the american film industry?

    Don't forget the accusation of a "nonconsensual sexual relationship". If only we had a four-letter word for this...
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    Baby Driver ~ The lastest masterpiece from Edgar Wright

    Yeah, and The Martian was nominated for an Academy Award as a comedy. People can and will mislabel and I'm not denying someone in marketing earned their paycheck while some reviewers bought into hype as much as I may be accused of being a contrarian ass. Honestly, I'm more willing to accept...
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    Baby Driver ~ The lastest masterpiece from Edgar Wright

    Baby Driver is not a musical. It has a soundtrack.
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    Baby Driver ~ The lastest masterpiece from Edgar Wright

    I saw it Wednesday and it didn't come close to meeting expectations for me. Never mind that we just saw "hip protagonist is obsessed with dope tracks from his mommy" a couple months ago (yes, I know Wright conceived this decades before Guardians), clever PR has managed to convince people that...