Top Poster of the Day:
911roofer
Current Registered Users: 27,776
rDrama's premiere hole for discussion and ideas around Television & Film
Rules
Women are the antithesis of kino
Absolutely no discord faggotry
Disagreeing with a janny is a bannable offence
Shit taste is allowed, but prepare to be bullied
Hole pins for 1k DC sent to
@KinoBushido
/h/kino SETTINGS /h/kino LOG /h/kino MODS /h/kino EXILEES /h/kino FOLLOWERS /h/kino BLOCKERS
Live commit: 6377678
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Counterpoint: Office Space is still hilarious and American Beauty was ALWAYS dumb as shit
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Office space was violently unfunny. It didn't get as much as a smile out of me, which I guess is because it was targeted at losers working office tech jobs.
The only good movie out of that list is Fight Club, and it's because it deals with the universal feeling of apathy, boredom and unimportance which everyone experienced at least once
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The thing about Office Space is that they got the shitty tech job down 100%. There are jobs that are exactly like what's shown in the movie, so for people who have worked a job like that, it has a really documentary feel to it.
Kinda like old Dilbert comics.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
dilbert guy was never ever an engineer, just randomly decided that that would be his niche. mike judge actually was.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Sure, but many of the Dilbert stories were more or less directly ripped from actual stuff people would send in.
For example, one plot involved the company paying the devs a bounty of $10 for each bug they fixed. But the same devs wrote the code in the first place, so the joke was that they'd intentionally add bugs to their code so they could fix them and get money.
Apparently he got the idea from someone telling him about an actual program like that at their job, except in the real program it was $20/bug. Scott thought that was just too ridiculous so he toned it down for Dilbert.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
I think Scott Adams worked in an "engineering" department at a phone company while he was just starting Dilbert. So even though he never had the degree he just gave Dilbert the job title he had at the time.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
Office Space is relatable if you've ever held a deep seated resentment for your job
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Office Space really illustrates the feeling of hating your job but being afraid of losing it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
If this doesn't get at least a smile out of someone idk what to say
Fight Club isn't bad, but it leaned into "I'm 14 and this is deep" a bit too hard. Which doesn't make it a poor film necessarily, it's just teenagers acting like it was the most brilliant thing ever and refusing to shut up about it for awhile got old fast. Solid ending though, I'll hand it that
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
fight club tries waaaaaaaaaaaay too hard. it's a movie edgy teens love and think is the deepest thing ever made.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
You're the second person to mention the perception of Fight Club as a criticism of the movie itseld, and I'd really like to know how exactly that ruins the viewing experience. Because from my perspective, unless you converse with the said edgy teens daily and hear the same shit over and over again, it would literally have no effect on the enjoyment I would get from watching it.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
For anyone who was a teen when it came out, or had to work or live with them when it came out, I assure you it was enough to taint enjoyment
Once you've had teens make you listens to them tell you all about the license/vet scene for the nth time it loses any charm it might have had
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
i rewatched fightclub with my cousin & her ultrazoomer lil brother. both of them fell asleep
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Unsurprising. Foids consistently rate good films poorly and poor films positively and obviously Fightclub can't compete with the fricking massive dopamine hits a fricking zoomer gets from split-screening skibidi potty best-ofs and minecraft fails tiktoks at the fricking same time.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
I walked out of the theater stunned at the beauty of what I'd seen. Not because the movie wasn't r-slurred, just because I think that's the first one I saw where they did digital postprocessing to adjust the colors or something. I dunno, I'm not a film guy but there's some technology they used that was just coming out then (you see it in Seven too) that gave it a very different look. The story was beyond stupid, it was offensive with an adult guy (Kevin Spacey of all people!!!) about to frick a teenager, but then he decides not to at the last moment. And that makes him the good guy because at least he's not right-wing.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
Color grading
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_grading
They abused it in the late 90s/early 2000s in a tacky heavily stylized way, cuz it was a new computer toy
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
The first time I saw it, it really blew me away. It was like the real world except suddenly everything was so much more real. It got old pretty fast tho.
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
I remember The Ring abused it
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context
lol yeah, the Kevin Spacey is only pretending to be a creep (what an actor!) bit aged worst of all, didn't it?
Jump in the discussion.
No email address required.
More options
Context
More options
Context
More options
Context