https://www.tvinsider.com/1148742/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-season-2-galadriel-sauron/

"It's also a psychological thriller," Payne adds of the season's arc. Sauron is forced to take new form now that Galadriel has warned her allies not to trust Halbrand. He transforms into Annatar, the Lord of Gifts, to combat this, a guise Vickers says is specially designed to lure in Celebrimbor (Charles Edwards). Annatar manipulates the master craftsman into making rings for Dwarves and Men, an act that will make "Celebrimbor descend into madness and Eregion hurtle towards potential destruction," Payne reveals

Lmao, a "psychological thriller"

Galadriel and Sauron share the deepest connection to another being either of them has ever experienced, a fact that haunts them both in the new episodes. What they share "is greater than romance," Vickers explains. "Their connection runs far deeper than anything surface level."

WTF is this shit?

!ringbearers !bookworms Celecuck completely BTFO by chad Dark Lord.

https://old.reddit.com/r/LOTR_on_Prime/comments/1f39rtp/ign_reviews_the_rings_of_power_season_2_610/

6/10 in IGN

#just90sKids

Really makes me think. Sometimes I actually succeed and you tards laugh at me, and I'm no genius so must be stealing it from somewhere.

A lot of this is British but it's not the "oh, they're so dry" bullshit. "I'm proving I'm a hipster because I'm laughing at something that isn't funny." No they actually write good stuff. Like so many of my posts I point to the actual meaning of "virtue signalling". Taking a position that's so crazy that it identifies you with one side or the other.

Saki, Red Dwarf, Newsradio, Shakespeare. If anyone actually has any respect for me (I'm afraid this might be happening ) I'm just ripping off better people from earlier generations. If you're halfway decent at writing you can do it too, you just don't know it. Also a heck of a lot of middle school calling each other cute twinks until the teacher arrived.

Red Dwarf is a great place to start though because we can relate to it so well. Everyone loves curry. We're all worthless losers. And we're going through adventures in space.

Actual footage of me the last time I was nice enough to be a test pilot for BAE.

Smoke me a kipper f-slurs I'll be back in the morning.

The Latinx are great at explaining zoomer speak.

Chinese insist this version is better:

Of course it's not but it's still way better than Burger Starshit or Song of Butt & Balls or whatever the frick Europoors make (depressing Scandinavian dectective shows? IDK- who cares?)

From the casting director's website: https://www.jessicashermancasting.com/backpack

Synopsis: A groundbreaking film in which one of the two main storylines delves into the intricate bond of two very different sisters, their familial ties are put to the ultimate test as they pursue divergent paths and missions.

[THIA/TESSA] – This casting is for a dual character, and describes both characters. Character identifies as female or non-binary, open ethnicity, mid 20s – mid 40s. Thia has spent most of her life in a laboratory and is now embarking on her first big adventure in the world. She is incredibly smart, witty, enthusiastic, and unflappable. She has an innate disregard for danger, not because she's fearless, but simply because she's naive. Strong comedy chops required. // The other sister, Tessa, has a militant intensity when it comes to achieving her family's goals and mission objectives. She will not let anything get in her way, not even her twin sister.

Physical Requirements: Must be comfortable training for heavy action/combat, must also be comfortable wearing prosthetics/heavy makeup, and MUST be 5'8" or shorter. LEAD

Jenna Ortega reveals she auditioned to play Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s ‘DUNE’

(Source: https://t.co/2LbQzIYZGu) pic.twitter.com/99hU7MJPyh

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) August 26, 2024

Don't ever say ol' Redactor is against free speech. Force of Evil is one of my favorite movies even if it was made by commies. Director Abraham Polonsky was openly a card-carrying commie. John Garfield was probably a cryptocommie. In '48 that didn't mean you posted furry stuff and your pronouns on Twitter, it meant you were part of a global organization working to make Stalin ruler of the world. But I still don't want people like that blacklisted if they're making art that's supporting American values.

The line about "you're in it for $35 a week" really hit me hard. In my younger days I worked for a company that did business with another company that was basically a scam. I didn't choose for our company to work with them, but it wasn't up to me. I ended up working very closely with these people. I didn't have a lot of moral qualms about it at first. My coworkers, people I really respected, had been doing this for several years and they didn't seem to have a problem with it. Then at the end of the project they gave me a Hallmark greeting card thanking me for my hard work. How sweet. Inside it they left a "tip". I wasn't a f-ing waitress or something, this wasn't an industry where you get tips. (And way before this new thing of everyone even at fricking Subway asking for tips.) So I understood very well what they meant. They were telling me that if I continue to just go with the flow I'll keep getting a little more cash. I thought of that line in the movie and how people degrade themselves for small amounts of money and justify it because they're not directly committing the crime themself. And of course I kept the money anyway.

!pinoypride I imagine this is like when someone running for local office hands out campaign fliers and they've got a $5 bill stapled to the back. Also note that we had jueteng in America back then, we just called it "policy", "numbers", etc. It's totally different now tho. Each state has a lottery which is legal and sold openly in every store. They constantly show ads highlighting how the state's cut of the gambling money is used for rural infrastructure, green energy, kids with cancer, etc. to appeal to every segment of society. I sure am glad that we're so civilized now and gambling is actually a good thing now.

The one person here who actually was on the same page with me about the whole gambling issue was my neighbor Penny. I hope she's still around on an alt.

I like musicals and silly edgelord shit. I really want this movie to be good and it wouldn't take a lot for me to like it.

I guess it's kinda stylish visually, but most of the songs are either just rhythmic talk-singing or directionless sludge with no memorable melodies or lyrics. "Rock opera" is not an excuse to dodge writing decent songs. Neither is being a campy goth edgelord musical. You need something more than a premise!

I just watched the fricking last episode and I have no idea what it was fricking all about.

!zoomers !kino !r-slurs

takeshi kitano

!kino discuss

@Aevann @DWHITE___________DYNAMITE please pin

Look at it this way:

They keep adding women to media that men enjoy but that has done nothing to improve the sales of those media and more often that not has resulted in those media seeing losses in their popularity.

I am willing to bet if you did a gender flipped titanic about how much the man is loved by the woman it would still fail, because it would no longer be a movie catering to men or women.

Here are the movies more famous among women than they are among men

As you can see, none of these are movies that any man would have ever heard of. If you look at the movies rated the highest by women( as per IMDB)most of those movies are famous movies in general.

What we are seeing is pretty clear based on the data:

1. Movie industries know how to make male characters and male centered story lines that are attractive to both men and women.

2. Movie industries know how to make movies that are interesting to women only.

3. Movie industries don't know how to make movies that are women centered and are interesting to both men and women.

There are now two theories to go with this:

1. Movie industry sucks at making interesting female characters ( true )

2. There are no women centered stories out that that would be fun to both men and women because that's how big the divide between men and women is mentally. How women relate to other women is something that men cannot relate to at all, meanwhile how men relate to their environment is something both men and women can approve of.

If we go by theory one:

At some point there will come enough experience in the movie industry that they will figure out how to make great movies with female leads that are enjoyed by both men and women. It did not happen the first 129 years but any day now.

or if we go by theory two:

When you put a strong male character on screen men can relate to becoming that man and women can relate to having such a man around.

When you put a strong woman character on screen men cannot relate to becoming that woman and women cannot relate to becoming that woman.

When you put a woman character relatable to woman on screen woman can enjoy the idea of that woman being just like her or the attention and drama she gets, but men cannot relate to those experiences at all.

All in all, assuming if any of the two theories are true the conclusion becomes quite clear:

For the movie industry to thrive in a world where they need to make movies that are enjoyable that cater to both men and women and movies that have both male and female leads, they need to create a separate category of movies catering to women and a primary category catering to both men and women, similar to how every single sport out there has a women's category and an open category.

That's just how it is, and it is the only way to successfully build up cinema that caters to women, by isolating it and nurturing it separate from the rest of cinema.

This is why we need a separate streaming service that is just movies and shows recommended by and approved by women. ( This is a genius idea and whoever implements it should pay me a royalty fee. )

I stand with Israel.

Relationship between two kids in 1950s France, he gets drafted and sent to Algeria, he comes back, and things are different.

This is one of my dad's favorite movies. He found all the war stuff relatable. He was on La Rue Sans Joie in Vietnam where a lot of Algerians and French got killed so he kind of got it. This is stuff you cannot "trauma dump" on an adult foid because they just don't even have a frame of reference to begin thinking about it. (Note that I'm not saying girls can't be really fricking hardcore, my first gf... but that's a story for another time.)

I got half-crippled when I was young so that part I get really well. Girl is like "well, whatever, I still like you" and you're like "neighbor we aren't living on the same planet anymore". I got shit to do that I do not want you to be turning into your life.

If you're like me where you just have an American high school level (let's be honest I slept through most of those classes) knowledge of French this is great because they're singing so it's really slow. Not like real conversations. The French mumble. The Koreans (outside of k-dramas) talk really really fast. One time I was eavesdropping on Korean ajummas talking and I thought I recognized a word. I recognized it because it wasn't Korean. It was "North Plains", the name of a distant suburb of Portland.

!francais teach these f-slurs about Catherine DeNeuve

The cast for Alejandro G. Iñárritu's next movie has been revealed:

• Tom Cruise
• Riz Ahmed
• Sophie Wilde
• Sandra Hüller
• Jesse Plemons
• John Goodman
• Michael Stuhlbarg

The film follows the most powerful man in the world who tries to prove he is humanity’s savior… pic.twitter.com/jOqNQ9zDqn

— DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm) August 23, 2024

!kino

Meanwhile, /r/saltierthancrait takes another victory lap:

https://old.reddit.com/r/saltierthancrait/comments/1ey3h5a/all_merchandise_for_the_acolyte_has_been_removed/

All I heard about this movie is it made a billion dollars and that it was good, but I'm watching it and couldn't help but laugh at this actual checklist of racial diversity. I'm not even talking about chuds being mad about it, how are progressives not annoyed about how soulless this pandering is?

nah but seriously ive always found a flaw in batman's no kill rule: he specifically doesnt want to kill joker in order to stop him because he doesnt want to take a life that could be rehabilitated right? so killing is out of the question and letting others kill him also isnt. alright so why doesnt he just r*pe the joker? because the joker is motivated by a want to become a matyr or otherwise is okay with being beat up, but surely the trauma of a r*pe would rewire his brain to not wanting to be a criminal any more? either that or he's homosexual and enjoys it and will reform for the peepee

i've always thought about this and it's shocked me it's never come up before