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James Earl Jones, the revered actor who voiced ‘Star Wars’ villain Darth Vader, starred in ‘Field Of Dreams’ and many other films and is an EGOT winner, died this morning at his home in Dutchess County, NY. He was 93.

Read about his life and legacy here: https://t.co/1W4hr3rLQ2 pic.twitter.com/a4NuRTR0P1

— Deadline (@DEADLINE) September 9, 2024

First, TRIGGER DISCIPLINE

Second, she fired the whole shell at the end.

If you're going to try and be woketard, at least don't be ignorant.

For Outstanding Emerging Media Program, the #Emmy goes to Fallout: Vault 33 (@falloutonprime/@PrimeVideo)! ✨ #76thEmmys #Emmys #TelevisionAcademy pic.twitter.com/reKx0nyXXP

— Television Academy (@TelevisionAcad) September 8, 2024

And he still had to do the Holocaust because that wasn't what he was sent back to change.

Oh boy.

I've been watching documentaries about Egypt. Did you know that Cleopatra lived closer to today than the construction of the pyramids? Fascinating stuff

What have you been watching lately !kino?

@Aevann please pin

Hadn't seen this afore just wanted to share.

Director Juzi Itami and actress Nobuko Miyamoto were husband & wife team who made several of the most successful yet also most artsy Japanese films in the 1980s-1990s, including The Funeral, Tampopo, A Taxing Woman, and A Taxing Woman Returns. Yakuza played a role in Japanese media much like black gangbangers did in America at the same time. They were lauded as romantic freedom fighters who dared to challenge an oppressive society, but at the same time in real life nobody would go near them except to buy drugs. Itami has a very different take, showing us that they're not just worthless parasites, they're also cowards who can be defeated if you know how to fight back.

You do not want to frick with Ms. Inouye.

Gangsters are shaking down a hotel, coming up with one plot after enough to defraud and extort them. The beginning of the movie shows us everything not to do, like show fear or hope that if you just act like they're normal people maybe everything will be okay this time. One dynamic they get down perfectly is where a criminal causes problems, and everyone bitches and complains and swears they're going to do something about it. But if anybody actually does confront them, they get blamed like they're the one who one who caused the trouble. Eventually they hire a lawyer who is an expert on extortion and she teaches them how to not be limp-peepeeed losers. There's a lot of really good advice in here that applies to all kinds of situations in any country where somebody is trying to illegally intimidate you into giving up what's yours.

Don't back down when the reddit jannies get aggressive like this.

The movie certainly touched a nerve. A week after it premiered, members of the Goto-gumi slashed him deep across his face. Five years later he committed suicide by jumping off a building and left a suicide note that basically said "This is totally suicide, for reasons that totally make sense. Nobody pushed me. Lol sorry, I can't keep a straight face. " So I don't think you can get much more street cred than that.

One possible motive is that he may have been working on a movie about connections between the Goto-gumi and the Sokka Gakkai cult, who I have my own beef with. Once a long time ago this attractive asian woman approaches me at the bus stop downtown and starts a conversation. She says something about how maybe I'm not in alignment with the universe and I laugh thinking "wow, she's pretty funny too". And then I realize she really meant it. She was just trying to recruit me. AWWWWWWWWWWWKWARD!!!

new aardman dropping

I absolutely love their art style

I like that you can watch a lot of the stuff you make with a 4 year old, a 14 year old, and your 80 year old grandparents and everyone is happy

My favorite Wallace and Grommit is "A Matter of Loaf and Death" which is the one with [MAJOR SPOILERS] the fat lady serial killer that kills bakers because she used to be a hot model for diet bread, but now she's fat and dating Wallace (he is a baker )

The action scenes were cool but the plot was lame.

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All directors have certainly hallmarks that characterize their films, whether it's a particular visual sensibility or a fondness for certain kinds of stories.

If I were a director, I would make a concerted effort to be the most versatile and unpredictable director of all time. For example, I would unleash the most horrifyingly graphic, disturbing film ever made, then I would immediately follow it up with a heartwarming, family-friendly animated film. With that said, there would undoubtedly be certain qualities that would characterize my work, including:

1. Incredibly complicated characters with multi-faceted personalities. There would never be any one-dimensional caricatures or "joke" characters. There would be no black-and-white morality, and nobody would ever be 100% good or 100% evil.

2. A completely detached, non-judgmental view of all characters and events. I would just observe things in an aloof manner and let the viewers decide for themselves. Even the most hideous characters (like child molesters and serial killers) would be portrayed in a neutral manner as three-dimensional human beings.

3. Extremely intimate and personal views of characters' lives.

4. Frequent use of very bizarre and unorthodox camera angles.

5. Very striking and visually stunning cinematography. The camera would go underwater, underground, inside molten lava, into outer space, into clouds, onto swings, and wherever else I wanted to take it. The camera would usually be constantly moving, but would be still and static when necessary.

6. Constant desire to do things that no filmmaker has ever done before, like shooting an entire movie with cameras attached to drones, filming with the fastest frame rate in cinema history, and filming a movie entirely in the made-up language of Lojban.

7. Extremely graphic, no-punches-pulled approach to unpleasant subject matter. There is absolutely nothing that I would not be willing to show on screen in unflinching detail. Nothing would ever be censored or cut away from, and everything would be portrayed as graphically as if you were seeing it in real life. I fully believe in showing evil as it really is, with absolutely no phony sugar coating of any sort. With that said, not all (or even most) of my films would feature any shocking, disturbing content in them.

8. S*x scenes would be extremely explicit, but shot in the most cold, clinical, detached, and un-erotic manner possible. In addition, my characters would usually have very weird attitudes about s*x, and "normal", healthy sexual behavior would be pretty much unheard-of in my films.

9. Shooting absolutely every single film in 3D. At the moment, 3D is universally seen as being only for mindless popcorn films and not for "serious" artistic films. I would do everything that I possibly could to change that.

10. Incredibly extensive use of licensed music, spanning every genre and era. With that said, the music would mostly appear in-universe (like on car stereos or in nightclubs within the film). However, some of my films would have no music at all.

11. Frequent use of music that clashes wildly with what's being portrayed on screen, like soft pop music playing during a brutal murder scene. At times, it would feel like the soundtrack was just chosen completely at random.

12. Extremely naturalistic dialogue, documentary-like in its realism. The dialogue would always feel like real people talking and never like a contrived movie script. In addition, there would often be highly frank, candid conversations about subjects very rarely discussed on screen.

13. Tendency to "leave the cameras rolling" long after most filmmakers would have cut away.

14. Tendency to show things not normally seen in movies, like characters farting (in a non-comedic context) and characters emptying their bowels and bladders after dying.

15. Tendency to cast singers, stage performers, and other non-screen actors in acting roles.

16. Tendency to give films highly ambiguous, enigmatic titles that seemingly have nothing to do with the actual film.

17. Frequent use of extreme close-ups.

18. A desire to give each film a wholly unique and memorable visual appearance.

19. Tendency to focus on very young, very strange (and sometimes outright disturbed) female protagonists. My protagonist would usually be a young girl, and my protagonist would never be a quote-unquote "normal" individual. A perfect example of my typical protagonist: a detached, emotionless, hyper-intelligent, and sexually abused 11-year-old albino girl from a family of Georgian immigrants who begins filming suicides and posting them on the internet. My protagonists would often be frighteningly amoral at times, but with a certain vulnerability that would make them at least somewhat sympathetic. You would view them the same way that you would view a troubled daughter.

20. Tendency to end films in the most chillingly sad, heartbreaking, and gut-wrenching manner imaginable.

21. Recurring themes and motifs: ladybugs; fireflies; butterflies; moths; dragonflies; the moon; visually dazzling photography of water, blood, lights, and sand; dreams; music; mute people; mental illness; physical disabilities, deformities, and abnormalities, especially albinism; deviant sexual behavior; alienation; circuses/carnivals, especially acrobats; and childhood (especially abusive childhoods). Ladybugs would be my most common motif, would appear in some form in every single one of my films, and would be used for all manner of symbolism. In addition, every film of mine would have at least one albino character and at least one mute character.

22. There would always be an underlying pathos and tenderness, even when delving into the darkest depths of human evil, cruelty, and depravity. The overall tone would never be mean-spirited or sadistic, even if many of the characters are.

23. Real-world events and pop culture would never be depicted or referenced. Any celebrities depicted or referenced would be entirely fictional.

24. Tendency to give characters unusual names (like Apollo, Scheherazade, Lumina, and Galaxy, to give some examples). In addition, characters would often have meaningful/symbolic names like Pandora and Thana.

25. My films would usually be heavily steeped in a particular culture and/or setting, as my characters would come from every single background imaginable. However, my protagonists would typically be completely indifferent - if not outright hostile - to their culture.

26. Tendency to eschew special effects in favor of "the real thing".

27. Fondness for silent-era visuals, especially those of avant-garde silent films and early special effects films like those of Georges Méliès.

28. Tendency to have multiple different plots running at the same time in the same movie, and the plots wouldn't always have any clear connection to each other.

29. The majority of my films would be animated. All voices would be done in a very naturalistic and realistic manner, and child characters would always be voiced by actual children (except in certain cases where it wouldn't be possible to protect child voice actors from extremely mature content).

30. Making films in multiple different languages (sometimes in the same film).

If you were a director, what would be your hallmarks? What would characterize your unique cinematic vision?

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Season 2 begins with a flashback. After Morgoth's defeat Sauron is running for President and delivers a low energy speech to the orcs. Adar starts an insurrection by stabbing the Dark Lord with his crown followed by the orcs killing him. Years later Sauron becomes a symbiote like goo feeding from maggots and mice until he crawls outside the Mountain, kills a woman and becomes "Halbrand". Then Halbrand boards a ship with an old man, a big fish destroys the ship and Saubrand steals the man's sigil, later he finds Galadriel and season 1 events ensue.

Now Saubrand goes back to Mordor where Adar tortures him, and later lets him go because he promises Adar to find Sauron. I hace no idea of what was the point of Saubrand in Mordor. Then he goes to Eregion to meet Celebrimbor and convinces him he's a messenger of the Valar, finally we have an Annatar reveal.

This should have been in season 2 and is probably the only scene so far I thought it was kind of cool, but is sad they casted an old man as Celebrimbor, the elves are ageless god Darnit! After that they resume their work.

The moronic and gullible she-elf Galadriel tells Gil-Galad and Elrond that Halbrand is Sauron. There's a ridiculous scene with Elrond stealing the 3 elvish rings. He takes to them to Cirdan but it turns out Cirdan doesn't want to destroy them, he puts the rings and gives the other two to Gil-Galad and Galadriel which leaves Elrond pissed.

The dwarves of Khazad Dum are worried about the mountain not responding to the dwarven kween's singing so Durin and Disa go to Eregion where Celebrimbor and Annatar begin forging the 7 rings.

There's the totally not-Gandalf wizard and fem-Frodo along fem-Sam wandering through the desert where they meet Tusken raiders sent by totally not-Saruman (I swear if the Dark Wizard is Saruman than they will outdumb every other dumb change made before)

Not-Gandalf has visions with a staff, he's looking for it. The Tusken Raiders attack him and he summons a dust-devil with a provisory staff, it doesn't work well as the Hobbits as taken away like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz.

The Numenor shit continues to be boring. Donald Trump Ar-Pharazon coups Kween Tar-Miriel by EXPOSING her as an elvish lover. Isildur's sister shows up at Miriel's coronation displaying the Palantir and calls out Miriel, then an Eagle shows up for a photo-op and Trump goes toward the Eagle and becomes King after the crowd shouts and goes bananas!

As a Tolkien adaptation this slop is 2/10, it is very loosely based on the Legendarium. As its own thing it's like 4/10, very mediocre show, boring with few interesting moments and dumb plotlines.

In the clever new Netflix series Kaos, the Greek Gods are a rich and powerful modern-day family. They're led by an impulsive and deeply insecure Zeus (Jeff Goldblum), who lives on Mount Olympus with his wife Hera (Janet McTeer). But there is a plan to overthrow Zeus that depends on a slew of gods, demigods and mortals working together, whether or not they are aware of the roles they each are playing.

Finished this yesterday. A moderately interesting premise, same with the world building, and I thought Goldblum was good and towards the end was quite menacing. Really everything involving the gods was pretty good while the humans felt like wheel spinning a lot of the time. There are some good Easter eggs for people who know about the Greek myths and they throw in some twists. Had the typical Netflix gay stuff in it.

Verdict: Ends with a pretty large cliff hanger so I would say don't bother watching unless a season 2 is announced.

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