It’s important to be clear here too: those strings have always made things worse for the locals. Always.
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I at least want to find out that he’d made sure to change his will to give something to Joyce. That seems like the practical kinda guy he was.
Alternatively, I am entirely correct in saying thus that there can be no happy endings in noir, based on my view of existentialism. There’s no such thing as happy endings, ever.
Honestly, I really liked this article, because I haven’t finished the season yet but it was a place to come engage with other fans and hopefully avoid spoilers.
I don’t really count “a good death” as anything better than bittersweet. There’s just no metric by which a character dying is anything but a negative, and nothing can do better than balance that out. That’s the thing; the best he could hope for in that universe is to die “heroically”, but even the thing his heroics…
The dialogue was AWFUL. It’s the single biggest problem with the movie, even worse than the mindnumbingly formulaic plot.
Wow, that distribution sounds like a nightmare. I’m sure that didn’t help it any, though I don’t think it was good enough to succeed even with a perfect distribution scheme.
I’d be interested to hear who you thought was badly cast in Fifth Element, and what dialogue was bad. I guess maybe Zorg’s henchman, but he wasn’t…
It does, but you need Veterans first and foremost, and Countess Ryad is plenty good enough to tell if you’ll like the ship. Vessery is amazing, but for a new player I recommend trying many things rather than going all in on something.
I’m not saying that 2049's added information makes Blade Runner’s ending unhappy, I’m saying that it was not terribly happy to begin with, so the revelation in 2049 is in keeping with the tone. If anything, I think 2049 almost makes it happier; you know that they did get to spend a little more time together, and had a…
YMMV, obviously, as illustrated by earlier responses; I don’t particularly like some of Snyder’s VFX choices (Kryptonian gofast-then-stop super speed in particular, but also the cape billowing at really weird angles) but he definitely knows how to compose a scene.
I think the difference for me is that Snyder’s choice…
The protagonist of 2049 is K though, who while maybe feeling a bit positive, very clearly dies, so it’s at best a mixed ending. Deckard and Ana have a happy ending in the immediate sense, but they’re still either trapped on Earth, hunted by multiple factions that want to use them, or fleeing Earth for the colonies,…
Ghost in the Shell flopped mainly because it was a terrible movie. It was a bastardized greatest hits album to the fans, a mediocre action movie to newcomers, wrapped in problematic casting issues. It was never going to overcome the immediately bad word of mouth.
Blade Runner’s problem is more that it was a long,…
There’d have to be a different final twist; noir stories don’t end happily ever after.
Agree to disagree.
Yeah, Rhodey getting paralyzed was a laugh riot. Ditto for Mary Poppins dying.
Empire is not my cup of tea, but Tie/Special Forces are pretty powerful and can be somewhat forgiving for new players. Tie Swarm is not as great as it used to be, but it’s a great way to learn how to fly; dealing with 6-8 ships at once is a lot harder than others. You will lose ships, and probably games, but if you…
Eh, the casting and dialogue was terrible, but holy shit was the artistic design out of this world. Kinda thing Luc Besson needs to let someone else write and edit the scripts and just focus on the visuals and cinematography.
Not that I expect him to get another crack at something that expensive.
Guns have always been bad. There’s an endless list of works on how the “Wild West” was a truly terrible place for many of the inhabitants, and how the use of violence, including gun violence, was a scourge upon society. Violence and murder rips families apart, ruins lives, and inflicts untold suffering. It’s never…
Gets that this is a ridiculous argument brought about by a radical reinterpretation of the 2nd Amendment that only came about in the 60's?