#Gladiator2 trailer now has more dislikes than likes on YouTube pic.twitter.com/se1s3wuIIb

— Culture Crave 🍿 (@CultureCrave) July 11, 2024

Many angry slop enjoyers in the quotes

Why is this clip funny:

The deep ( Green suit ) and black noir ( black suit ) have just come back from a fight they lost. The deep is a confident r-slur who is mentoring black noir II into how to be a superhero. They are both bro'ing at each other and then the fat black foid passes them by. The deep asks her where she is going and she says Homelander ( leader of superheroes ) fired her. Black Noir tells her not to leave because he loves her. This is funny because so far in the show the deep has been sleeping with the black fat foid, and the only way she can sleep with him is by lobotomizing her brain ( it grows back ) so she is r-slurred enough to find the Deep attractive and worth making love to. The deep realizes that she is having s*x with black noir II too and asks him if she is having s*x with him too after giving herself a lobotomy. "What lobotomy." Asks black noir, which makes the situation funnier because it shows that unlike the Deep, the fat black foid does not need to r-slur herself to be able to have s*x with black noir.

It is the only legitimately funny moment in the entire show so far across 30 episodes.

https://letterboxd.com/darkestparadise/list/definition-of-girly-classics/

LA times published an article on Rhaneys's death last episode and interviews with the actress playing her and with showrunners Ryan Condal and Sarah Hess.

What Rhaenys represents is someone with absolute authority, power, wisdom, intelligence, expertise, political savvy and utter compassion — a constant awareness of [the need for] collaboration and making a choice for love, as opposed to destruction

Meanwhile season 1 Rhaenys

This scene was made up for the show by the way, in season 2 Daemon correctly calls out girlboss Rhaenys for not having burned all of the Greens when she got the chance but we're supposed to be on her side, never mind the fact she killed hundreds of peasants, might as well have killed her relatives who were going to war against them anyway. Also the reason Rhaenys and Corlys Velaryon are stuck with Rhaenyra is because their granddaughters are Daemon's daughters. For all they know Daemon and Rhaenyra murdered her son Laenor but they have no choice. However season 2 makes us believe Rhaenys actually likes Rhaenyra because of GIRL POWER!

Did you think about any real-world figures, whether historical or contemporary, in relation to this character? There have been a lot of Rhaenys-like women.

Absolutely, 100%, almost every single great woman you can think of [has] an element of [Rhaenys]. Sara Hess, who's one of the executive producers and the lead writers for the show, said to me on the first day, "There's so much of Hillary Clinton [in Rhaenys]." God knows you couldn't compare Viserys to the other one [former President Trump], but the similarities are very clear — to see that the person who is absolutely, hands down, best suited for the job is sidelined simply because she's a woman, and then has to somehow find her way.

https://old.reddit.com/r/asoiafcirclejerk/comments/1dzd239/what_was_your_reaction_when_rhaenyss_name/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HOTDGreens/comments/1dze51r/the_stanning_is_out_of_control_at_this_point/

So far the showrunners whitewashed Rhaenyra and the Black team hard while making the Greens villains. According to leaks they'll make Rhaenyra's son, Jace, kind of lock his mother with the help of Corlys as she's useless but they'll make it look like "MAN BAD AND PRONE TO VIOLENCE! WOMEN GOOD AND REASONABLE!"

Meanwhile on the blacks sub

https://old.reddit.com/r/HOTDBlacks/comments/1dzfuko/i_cant_waittt/

https://old.reddit.com/r/HOTDBlacks/comments/1dxukhb/rhaenys/

!kino !bookworms more ASOIAF assassination, and GRRM said on his blog yesterday he didn't want to meet with the HOTD writing staff meeting for season 3 lmao.

!neolibs as the comparison with Hillary arose, who was the most neoliberal Targaryen King?

At least victim blaming will never go out of style:

The Devil Wears Even More Prada:

Looks like its the first sequel Meryl has ever made so will be interesting:

Folks already don't like it:

Gaymerbros continue to take L's:

Good news. At least Lena Dunham has stopped developing a movie (probably to develop her 4th chin instead):

!fashion

!kino

The new Godzilla-Kong movie dropped on HBO Max, and there is an ASL version and it's the funniest shit I've seen all week.

It's basically just this black guy that pops up at the bottom of the screen acting like he's roaring like a gorilla. It feels vaguely racist, but then I thought, what if they DIDNT have a black man doing ASL as King Kong.

Here's a few links of pics/vids I found, for the poors who don't have HBO Max (the best streaming service).

https://tiktok.com/@drewrchrd/video/7387917947731315998

https://old.reddit.com/r/Monsterverse/comments/1dw3is6/godzilla_x_kong_has_an_asl_option_on_max/

I have no idea what the movie is about but the guy does ASL with so much soul.

Spoilers obviously

!kino this movie is absolutely phenomenal and goes far beyond the typical godzilla movie

Godzilla isn't on screen too much nor too little, he's impactful and memorable without overstaying his welcome, great shots of him brutally destroying cities and killing people

The main characters are empathetical and really make you care about them

I almost teared up at the end, it is powerful and emotional, particularly the part where the engineer forgives the main character for his earlier cowardice

Godzilla Minus One would very nearly be my favorite movie of all time IF

IF

it wasn't for the very very ending, the last five seconds of the movie fricking spoils the entire thing for me

(Last spoiler warning)

The movie made a huge deal about the main character's wife dying, and had to put in an enormous effort to bring her back, giving our movie a happy ending (a few minutes before this part the audience is preparing for a very sad ending). Why go to so much trouble to reveal your female protagonist isn't actually dead, why show that she's alive AND that the main character ejected his plane at the last second, why go to so much effort to transform a sad ending into a happy ending, just to reveal that she's alive but has super-cancer and is just gonna die soon anyway? What a fricking waste

Also Godzilla just immediately regenerating at the very end before it cuts to credits - I get that they have to set up for a sequel but everyone assumed there'd be a sequel anyway, but why not show that at the beginning of the sequel? Why not let this movie have a definite conclusion? By showing Godzilla regenerating at the end it a) undermines the enormous effort the main characters went through to kill him and b) leaves the movie on a cliffhanger and can't be enjoyed just on its own.

I'm frustrated because if you cut the last five seconds of the film: don't show the wife's black cancerous scar and don't show Godzilla regenerating, this would be my new favorite movie of all time. FRICK

Best gay love story since Brokebuck Mountain

Latest Marvelslop too:

House of the Dragon ep discussion in here too plz. Actually good ep. Daemon lurking around the castle is still the best part of the season. Rhaenys got a good death 👌👌.

Now that we got a few eps is The Boys new season worth watching? Seen lots of folk talking about it on Twitter but mixed reactions.

!kino

I was surprised to see The Wire down at #6 on the list of best shows of all time.

Guess it's time to watch Breaking Bad. pic.twitter.com/U6xMoSKpcL

— Nik (@NikMilanovic) July 6, 2024

!kino discuss

It retells the story of how bin Laden was hunted down and killed. I already knew all this stuff from watching the news when it was happening, but I guess it's interesting to see it all put together in one story.

Beyond that I'm not seeing why it got so much attention. It looks good, but it's 2024. Every movie looks good now. The story is stuff that's important to know but not terribly compelling. Beyond just recounting what really happened it has a fictional plot about a girlboss CIA analyst which is the weakest part of it. I really did not give a shit about her.

Just kidding. I'm not stupid. I know it got so much attention because anything Kathryn Bigelow makes is very important. Maybe I wasn't paying enough attention, but the only thing she did in this that I found notable was making about 1/4 of it torture. It's a weird choice to make. There was lots of different sources of intelligence that led them to bin Laden, but she makes it seem like they basically just tortured it out of one guy. It never shows a normal interrogation, implying that your choice is just to torture or do nothing. I don't know if he would have talked just as soon if they gave him some cigarettes instead. Nobody knows because they didn't try it. But for some reason Kathryn Bigelow is sure that torture and only torture works. Kinda makes me wonder if she's some kind of pervert.

!kino !bookworms !nooticers thoughts on show House Velaryon?

Curious if repeatedly firing a real gun loaded with blanks at multiple cast members wrong?

And then shooting GUNMURDERING someone??

Ooooh and lying during the investigation???

Stay tuned for as this will become very public and dramatic!