Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]

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Cake day: August 15th, 2020
  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMovies & TV@hexbear.net•Andor Season 2 Episode 9-12 FINALE Official megathreadEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I love AOTC, on paper. A hard-boiled detective story; Star-crossed lovers; A political thriller; All set across the epic backdrop of space in an age where a once great government is coming to its end. What’s not to love?

    In practice though if ROTS is a screw-up child, and TPM is like a kid who you thought was going to be president but then ended up as a working mid-tier stand-up comic like just enough to make a living but not enough to “make it”, then AOTC is a kid who grew up to be a serial killer.

    Also I’m pretty sure the novelization is by R.A. Salvatore. I’ve not read it but I have read some of his other novels and the man’s not a miracle worker like Stover.

    I love the version of AOTC that lives in my head, but every seven years or so when I convince myself to do a rewatch I find I just can’t enjoy it. Some really great ideas, but the execution of them is something else. I really think that with the right script doctor, some judicious editing, and maybe a second director who is just in charge of the actors, it could have been something really great. But what we’re left with is tough to love. But I respect you for doing what I can not.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMovies & TV@hexbear.net•Andor Season 2 Episode 9-12 FINALE Official megathreadEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Clearly it’s too late now, but I think the answer is to just jump into watching A New Hope.

    click here to read my proselytizing about the Rogue One novelization, which I do every time the film is mentioned

    I think the best way to experience Rogue One is to listen to the audiobook. The book papers over the worst parts of the movie and adds some much-needed dimensions to Jyn Erso, and I really like the audiobook narrator they got for it. But then I am biased because of course I saw the movie first. I had already experienced the performances. Do Saw Guerra and Orson Krennic really work on the page if you’ve never seen Forrest Whittaker and Ben Mendelsohn’s performances? I’ll never know. Then again we get some of Galen(Jyn’s father, the scientist)'s POV and I think the character is much stronger in the book than the film, ditto for nearly all the characters but Galen and Jyn especially, so maybe it all balances out.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMovies & TV@hexbear.net•Andor Season 2 Episode 9-12 FINALE Official megathreadEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Also I can’t believe we learn some of Luthen’s backstory. I just assumed he was someone a bit like Mon Mothma, using his real name and the real identity he had during the time of the Republic as an antiquities dealer as a cover for his rebel activities. Much more interesting to learn that he was an NCO with a penchant for artifacts who got fed up one day and made a choice of where to stand, just like the people he recruits. Interesting that it seems no one, not even Kleya, will ever know Luthen’s real name or who he really was before he rebelled.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.nettoMovies & TV@hexbear.net•Andor Season 2 Episode 9-12 FINALE Official megathreadEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Incredible that Tony Gilroy came along and just made the best thing Star Wars has put out since 1980. Why would he do that?

    My personal enjoyment of the operatic tragedy that is Revenge of the Sith might edge out Andor, slightly, but loving ROTS is what I imagine it must feel like to have a kid who’s a real screw-up. You love them and you see all the best parts of them, but you can’t deny the mistakes they’ve made. But unlike ROTS I don’t needs to qualify my enjoyment of Andor. It’s not like twenty years from now I’m going to say “oh I like Andor but have you read the novelization? It completely realizes what that show was trying to do,” like I do now with both ROTS and Rogue One.

    I think next paycheck I’m going to splurge and buy a lot of the old X-wing novel series if I can find one that’s not too high.

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.nettochapotraphouse@hexbear.net•Karl Marx - New General Megathread for the 5th-11th of May 2025English
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    11 days ago

    Disney must really be paying for a marketing blitz for their new marvel movie, because my twitter timeline is full of it.

    I don’t watch marvel movies, I don’t much like them, I don’t interact with posts about them. If I do, it’s usually accounts I follow making fun of whatever the latest Marvel slop is. The recent Captain America movie they did, Deadpool & Wolverine, Doctor Strange, etc. I really only see posts mocking these films. When a marvel movie is (comparatively) well-received I really don’t see much about it. I heard the latest Guardians of the Galaxy movie was well liked, I didn’t see a single post about that film. The last time I can remember there being serious activity on my TL is either when everyone was making fun of the Scarlet Witch show or when everyone was making fun of Eternals.

    But this new Thunderbolts movie, I swear every other post is about it. Not from accounts I follow, either. Not making fun of the movie, but excitedly buying into its marketing gimmicks. Every post is Taskermaster this, New Avengers that, Florence Pugh is slayying in this one queen. I hate it. I’m not interacting with this posts, I demand they go away.

    One more sign I should stop using social media, but do I ever learn?

  • Coca_Cola_but_Commie [he/him]@hexbear.nettoHistory@hexbear.net•Yuan Dynasty - New General Megathread for the 25th-27th of April 2025English
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    21 days ago

    I’m listening to the audiobook for Fairy Tale by Stephen King. It’s not bad so far, but it has been funny because it’s from the POV of a 16 year old boy in 2013, but it’s fairly clear it’s written by the then ~75 year old King. The only references to pop culture so far have been Cujo, the original Psycho, and a nonspecific mention that the main character’s favorite music is classic rock/heavy metal.

    The Cujo reference was pretty astounding because a character references it offhand as a pop culture totem, a thing everyone knows. It didn’t feel like a sly wink-wink-nod-nod “I wrote that” from King, it was totally natural.

    And while it’s not impossible that a 17 year old in 2013 could have seen the 1960 film Psycho, it still definitely feels like a very old man writing about his own youth, or maybe the times when his now-middle-aged sons were young. For the first ten minutes or so I just assumed this story was set in the late '50s like the first half of IT. It wasn’t until the narrator mentioned Amazon that I realized it was supposed to be more current.

    I’m sure plenty of 17 year olds in 2013 happened to share Stephen King’s love of baseball, but there’s been no reference to YouTube, or whatever TV was popular among teens that year, or celebrities, or video games. At the very least this guy should have an opinion of Justin Bieber. There’s no way the only things a 17 year old in 2013 likes are Psycho, baseball, and classic rock.