The 10 Least Deserving Wins in Oscar History.

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#10. Dances With Wolves - Best Picture (1991) over Goodfellas pic.twitter.com/adXfqHiHCH

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!kino discuss

very cool thriller

#HouseOfTheDragon showrunner Ryan Condal doesn't understand the 'super-fandom' around #Daemon

"He's not Ned Stark ... [he's] the antihero of the story ... if you’re looking for Han Solo, who’s always going to do the right thing in the end, you’re in the wrong franchise, folks" pic.twitter.com/eGF1Ieg6iJ

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It doesn't matter what you do as long as you're competent (and hot):

Yikes it's obvious you haven't had your daily glass of soymilk chud:

!kino

I hope they don't forget to add this Levantine guy with jewfro

And Yasuke

Also clerks need to be black

The antagonist need to be this American

The series is a live-action adaptation with an original story based on SEGA's global hit game franchise, Yakuza: Like a Dragon. Directed by the critically acclaimed Masaharu Take, the series will feature Ryoma Takeuchi as the lead character, Kazuma Kiryu. Like a Dragon: Yakuza is the latest addition to the Prime membership. Prime members in Japan enjoy savings, convenience, and entertainment, all in a single membership.

Released in 2005 by SEGA, the ‘Yakuza' game series was positioned as an entertaining game for adults, which found massive fanfare amongst its target audience. The series depicts the lives of fierce yet passionate gangsters and people living in a huge entertainment district, Kamurochō, a fictional district modeled after the violent Shinjuku ward's Kabukichō, that acts as the backdrop of the gameplay. Like a Dragon: Yakuza showcases modern Japan and the dramatic stories of these intense characters, such as the legendary Kazuma Kiryu, that games in the past have not been able to explore. The much-loved game has captured the attention and hearts of fans not only in Japan but also internationally and will now be adapted, developed, and streamed worldwide on Prime Video.

In 1995 and 2005, spanning across two time-periods, Like a Dragon: Yakuza, an original crime-suspense-action series, follows the life, childhood friends, and repercussions of the decisions of Kazuma Kiryu, a fearsome and peerless Yakuza warrior with a strong sense of justice, duty, and humanity.

Ryoma Takeuchi (Kazuma Kiryu actor): “I am truly honored to be given the opportunity to play the role of Kazuma Kiryu, a beloved character and the game series. I strongly felt that I was willing to put my life on the line. Audience will enjoy the show's human drama and conflict that unfolds around Kazuma Kiryu. Moreover, please take a look Kiryu's intense fighting scenes with the Dragon tattoo on his back.”

Masaharu Take (Director): “I have poured out my heart, soul, and the experience that I have garnered over 35 years into Like a Dragon: Yakuza. The unbridled passion, talent, and countless hours of efforts from the entire team have helped bring this spectacular story to life in the form of a riveting series that will be launched this year, the year of the dragon. Please look forward to Kazuma Kiryu, played by Ryoma Takeuchi.”

James Farrell (Head of International Originals, Amazon MGM Studios): “We are thrilled and extremely excited to announce the Amazon Original action-drama Like a Dragon: Yakuza, based on the popular Japanese game series. The unfettered appeal for Japanese content from within Japan and other parts of the world has been growing exponentially. While Prime Video Japan continues to offer a variety of content across genres, adapting an internationally popular game franchise that has such deep resonance and layered characters presents a unique charm and makes for an extremely compelling watch. We are committed to augmenting our content library and are confident that Like a Dragon: Yakuza will strike a chord with audiences all over the world.”

Masayoshi Yokoyama (Producer & Studio Head at Ryu Ga Gotoku Studio): “Since the day I first put pen to paper on the original Yakuza‘s script, I've never once thought about revisiting any of my work on the series. It's because I understand all too well the challenges and hardships that come with remaking a finished title. However, if I were ever sent to the past through some kind of cosmic joke, this is the experience I'd want to create. If I had to go through the wringer anyhow, I'd want to make the most engaging versions of Kamurochō and Kazuma Kiryu I could—and this show has it all. There is no question that Prime Video's Like a Dragon: Yakuza will become another landmark release for the Like a Dragon series. While the games let you experience their world through the subjective lens, this adaptation will be the ultimately objective way to enjoy the show. I have no doubt that fans of the series will be drawn to how it brings the games to life and adds new surprises. Newcomers, I'm sure will find themselves invested simply in the gritty realism of the show. If anything, I'd love to watch this version alongside audiences all around the world—experiencing all of its intensity and soaking in every single second.”

This guy will play protagonist:

Like no way

Cant wait to see how Morbius plays into all this

1st episode, 10 minutes into the vault scenes and every third sentence is some le epic secks xddd innuendo I'd expect to read in a reddit top comment chain.

Also the cowboy's daughter being a BIPOC lmao

Garbage

Mike and jay included some good clips of spicfights and capeshitter soygasms in this lol

A dark "comedy" (to use the term very loosely) about a band of plucky educated white liberals trying to save the world from an incoming comet and more importantly all the dumb rednecks surrounding them in America. I use "comedy" in quotation marks because there's a few jokes in it but really not any more than you'd have in a decent drama. What you're really in for is an emotional experience designed to reassure the intended audience that their beliefs are true and they're on the right side.

Hollywood has perhaps never gone this far up its own butt. our heroes come from the same background as everyone in Hollywood and share the same social norms and political beliefs. The villains are a female version of Trump and Elon Musk. While the movie is extremely heavy handed in making sure you know who they are, both characters are totally neutered, lacking the buffoonery that makes their real life counterparts repulsive to some and compelling to others. It turns out that when Trump is wrong about everything but doesn't act like a clown he's actually really boring. Musk's portrayal is even more bland as the last thing the writers could ever do is shame him for drug addiction and weird s*x stuff. The first duty of a Hollywood writer is to let people enjoy things, even at the expense of totally gutting their own movie. After all, they've already had our heroine smoke weed in the beginning in order to show us that she's one of the good guys.

The movie is incredibly dated to the point where it would be incomprehensible to anyone who didn't live through the few years between Trump's election and Covid breaking out. The main message against climate change deniers was already by then as this was not a major political issue in the Trump era. But it's an issue where the right wing was wrong and stupid in the past so the left will keep trying to refight that battle over and over again. But the pandemic casts an interesting light on our heroes' preachiness. Their basic message is that we should always listen to the experts and academia. I believe one of them when being interviewed on TV literally screams "Trust the science!" Having lived through a global catastrophe where we followed the strategy of "just listen to the science man on TV" we know where that leads. It ended up in chaos as the scientists were pressed to make decisions in fields they were completely unqualified in. As our scientific understanding of Covid changed they tried to keep up and change their instructions but this just led to confusion. It turns out that putting scientists in charge of everything makes about as much sense as Ayatollah Khomeini putting clerics in charge of everything. Hollywood isn't really interested in science except as a cudgel to beat its opponents with, the same way evangelical Christians use the bible.

Ultimately the villain isn't Trump or Musk or the comet. It's America. Every attempt to save the world is stymied by the American people, whether they're ignorant yokels following Trump, greedy working class people who hope Musk's plan offers them a better future, or just Americans in general. Just in case you think they're trying to make a point about human nature, they shoehorn in a couple unnecessary scenes to have China, Russia, and India band together to save the world (fricking LOL), only to be treacherously sabotaged by the Americans. These are not people who hate Trump because he's bad for democracy. These are people who hate Trump because they'd rather have Putin, Xi, and Modi running the world.

In the end our heroes pick up an evangelical Christian to join them, apparently to prove how open minded they are. But this really only shows just how narrow the range of people accepted by their culture is. You can be their token Christian but only if you give up all the parts of yourself that really matter. The "Christian" joins them because of his sexual interest in our quirky heroine, apparently really turned on by her awful haircut and nose ring. He never challenges anyone's beliefs and is really no different from them in any meaningful way. It's not a coincidence that this eunichized version of a Christian is played by Timothee Chalamet, the most effeminate twink in Hollywood. He's described in the script as a "evangelical shoplifting skater punk" and his hair was designed to make him look like a gay hillbilly. Jesus might accept you for who you are, but J-Law won't unless you look like a fairy.

Isn't he so cute and non-threatening?

The movie ends with our heroes sitting around the table for a family dinner as the world is destroyed. Given the content of the entire movie up until this point, it feels like a mockery of the American family. As the Satanic black mass ridicules the Catholic mass, this anti-American family dinner mirrors the forms of a real one. In the end Leonardo "R-sluro" DiCaprio observes that before the ignorant unwashed masses of America ruined everything, "We really did have everything, didn't we?" If you can say yes to that because you're a soulless upper middle class white who has never faced any hardships or aspired to do more than fit in with your peers then this is a movie for you. I wonder how many fans of this movie would actually be able to sit down with their own family and eat dinner.

good video by Quentin

Also lots of political allusions to [current things]. Everyone called Dirty Harry a fascist movie. Lots of annoying dirty hippies. A big societal reaction against weak DAs and crime

Love the editing with that soundtrack. Good stuff.

Astrid et Raphaëlle (Astrid)

Neurodivergent savant teams up with a détective neurotypique to solve crimes. I guess it's a little better than your average neurodivergent savant show.

You know what they call the girlfriend experience in France? Le girlfriend experience.

Profilage (The Paris Murders)

It's got all the usual American mystery show bullshit like profilers. Nothing really special about it except it's in Paris.

This guy's gf won't let him call her "mon couer". Bro, she's just not that into you.

I decided to add a poll to today's post:

What's your favorite post-apocalyptic TV Show?

!poll_voters

that movie works on the presumption that people have sympathy for journos

and what was that guy doing, roaming around with a notepad in active warzone, atleast others were clicking photos

r-slurred movie

First look at Rory Kinnear as Tom Bombadil in ‘LORD OF THE RINGS: THE RINGS OF POWER’ Season 2.

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