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Local Dog said:
Christopher Nolan is extremely overrated

He overcomplicates simple plots through non-sensical dialogue and through forcing non-linear narratives when they aren't needed. When you look through the overcomplications and through (admittedly) cool visuals of his movies, his work becomes rather bland movies with flat characters, films that lack emotions and don't really say anything. He also LOVES overusing music to dictate the emotions of a scene because he seems not confident enough in cinematography, acting and writing to convey to the viewers how a scene feels

I like The Dark Knight, parts of Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises and Oppenheimer. I haven't watched Dunkirk. The rest I really, really don't like. Mostly because I hate it when writers try hiding from criticisms through complicated plots, I find it very insincere, incompetent and frustrating
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I'll jump off the back of this and say that Oppenheimer is the biggest piece of dogshit to ever come out of Cinema, and you cannot change my mind. Blatant revisionism throughout, an attempt to make literally everyone unlikeable (and no, your 'based on a true story' defence ain't going to fly here), and remind me: isn't this movie like 3 hours, when what you said could have fit into about half that time? Oh, and what's that? You're bored? Here! Have a scene of Oppy' randomly shagging one of his (plural) mistresses, as his most iconic line ever spoken is put to visual and auditorial degradation!
 
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On the subject of films, I despise those comedies that just cram joke after joke after joke in, to the complete detriment of characters of story. I find them extremely boring because I just don’t care about what’s going on. A good comedy film, IMO, should still work even if you took out all the jokes. If all you want to do is tell jokes, do stand up or sketch comedy.
 
ChrystalFalchion said:
On the subject of films, I despise those comedies that just cram joke after joke after joke in, to the complete detriment of characters of story. I find them extremely boring because I just don’t care about what’s going on. A good comedy film, IMO, should still work even if you took out all the jokes. If all you want to do is tell jokes, do stand up or sketch comedy.
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Just like Marvel humo-

Not gonna lie, Marvel's humour is getting outdated like that shit was pretty funny in 2019 but not now
 
ChrystalFalchion said:
Marvel films (at least before Endgame) actually had solid characters and engaging stories (mostly) as well to balance it out, so I was still invested in what’s going on. Phase 4 MCU is guilty of this, but saying phase 4 MCU sucks is a take so cold you could play ice hockey on it.
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Damn
Agreeable

ChrystalFalchion said:
Marvel films (at least before Endgame) actually had solid characters and engaging stories (mostly) as well to balance it out, so I was still invested in what’s going on. Phase 4 MCU is guilty of this, but saying phase 4 MCU sucks is a take so cold you could play ice hockey on it.
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What is your opinion on my opinion that cars 2 is good?
 
Fusion Flare said:
lugia’s a fraud and is hard carried by ho-oh’s all-around supremacy as a box legendary.

you have the towers and the legendary beasts and how ho-oh searches for a pure-hearted trainer and that finding it is said to bring happiness. a solid story befitting a box legendary. and what does lugia do?

sits in a cave underwater because it cant control its own power. what a bum
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the problem with this is Ho-Oh is ugly

now lugia isnt not=ugly per se but it's not as bad
 
ChrystalFalchion said:
Never seen it. I didn’t think Cars 1 was that bad, wasn’t anything special but I’ve seen much worse.
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Cars 2 is a masterpiece of a movie that you should watch. It's a spy thriller about matter the tow truck uncovering a secret spy plan while in Europe with a secret British intelligence agency while also trying to be in touch with his friend who is in the grand prix

Also like, it's 10 pm in the night and a stool in our room is making weird noises...
 
Ok another hot take: I hate Marvel for making Avengers: Endgame. Like, they
oof half the avengers and retire or mid the other half
and expect to continue the MCU with the other characters is like wearing a diamond ring after throwing off the diamond. And honestly, after endgame i feel like Marvel is just milking it's past
 
damn you guys had a lot of fun here

anyways

if lugia sucks 10 flavors of ass i i think ho-oh sucks 9, that is to say i think it is extremely overrated

in general most of gen 2 is either bad or got powercrept to the moon, back, and then back again
 
"Dialga's Fight to the Finish" is a prime example of a good composition with an awful arrangement. That piccolo/ocarina/whatever playing the melody is far too high and mixes awfully with the rest. Maybe I'm just hypersensitive to these things but I cannot imagine casually listening to this theme and I don't get why people do.
 
Mathy said:
"Dialga's Fight to the Finish" is a prime example of a good composition with an awful arrangement. That piccolo/ocarina/whatever playing the melody is far too high and mixes awfully with the rest. Maybe I'm just hypersensitive to these things but I cannot imagine casually listening to this theme and I don't get why people do.
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Nope, the flute is part of why it sticks out to me as my favorite song of all-time.
 
seeing two diametrically opposed replies, loving the flute, and having zero exposure to the theme myself, i decided to give it a listen. my gut reaction is right along with mathy basically, great composition with poor arrangement. the tremendous pitch gap makes me feel like the melody and accompaniment struggle to cohere into a single track, as if the melody wants to run away and escape the base. i'm sure this effect could be used to success, but a purpose for it here doesnt' immediately jump out to me - it just feels like an execution failure. some of the flute notes feel actively grating, but i don't have anything more to say about that then just one person's reaction.
 
Mathy is kind of right to be honest. Dialga's Fight to the Finish is still one of my favorite tracks in the entire franchise but the pitch really hamstrings it and is definitely even more noticeable and jarring when you aren't listening to it through a pair of dollar-store earbuds connected to an aging NDS.

Don't you dare talk shit about the Treasure Town theme though, I will find you and fight you.
 
Adeleine said:
seeing two diametrically opposed replies, loving the flute, and having zero exposure to the theme myself, i decided to give it a listen. my gut reaction is right along with mathy basically, great composition with poor arrangement. the tremendous pitch gap makes me feel like the melody and accompaniment struggle to cohere into a single track, as if the melody wants to run away and escape the base. i'm sure this effect could be used to success, but a purpose for it here doesnt' immediately jump out to me - it just feels like an execution failure. some of the flute notes feel actively grating, but i don't have anything more to say about that then just one person's reaction.
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The flute is something I'll always remember playing the game blind.

Making it up through the final dungeon and preparing myself for the ending, and getting hit with a sound I rarely heard on the DS before: It was a flute, and it captivated me instantly.

The flute is a big part of why the song (in the original version, I love tons of remixes without it that go in different directions, such as piano or EDM) works. It's supposed to add this melancholic, almost other-worldly side to this final boss track. It's the final boss song! It's epic! Be amazed! And yet, the flute's side of the melody always sings a haunting side of the tune: And the game acts on it.

Whenever I hear the song, I am instantly transported back to the time I experienced the most impactful 20 minutes of any gaming... thing in my life. And the flute will always stick out to me as a defining feature.

I can't totally describe it. It just makes sense to me.

Amazing song. My favorite song ever. I had an entire playlist of 20+ different remixes of the song that I'd listen to all in a row. I know this song like the back of my hand and I am NOT tolerating slander.
 
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double-posting,

I'm not exaggerating btw this is something i'd listen to all the time for years when i still used soundcloud, should probably remake it on youtube now since i use that lol

you have just met the biggest DTTF fan of all-time, unfortunately (or fortunately?)
 
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