Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. "Would it kill these studios to release a traditionally-animated film for once?" Depends if they fired that team.
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  2. Am I the only one who couldn't recognize more than maybe one of those "famous YouTubers" she was talking with?
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  3.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  I don't think that force-choking the TV is a sign that he "loves" the series.
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  4. "Technology that lasts years, or even decades, after it should have failed" Like the mechanical traps in thee tombs that work after centuries?
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  5. She's a Disney princess. All that was missing was a musical number or two.
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  6.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  We enjoy the hilarious reviews dunking on these shows. This is why The Critical Drinker's viewership frequently exceeds the viewership of the shows he's reviewing. =) You get the occasional downer like this one -- at a certain point, you have to have a moment of silence for a once-great franchise -- but for people who love a good laugh, this channel is a tremendous amount of fun. =)
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  7.  @worldofborriemoto2026  Someone needs to do a clip compilation of these, showing his evolution. =D
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  8. I bet originally David Thewlis' character was supposed to be Friedrich Alfred "Fritz" Krupp, sole proprietor of the Krupp Steelworks, the heart of the German military-industrial complex. Look at Fritz' picture from Wikipedia, and tell me that wasn't who Thewlis is supposed to look like. But, you couldn't have a homosexual as a villain in a modern Hollywood movie, that would go against The Message(TM).
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  9. "We may find ourselves in a world where there's nothing left to protect" Ironically, the pirates may save Western Civilization.
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  10. Batman would make an awesome strategist in some HQ in a major battle scene, especially the battles where the CG gets so muddy the commands he's shouting out are the only way anyone knows what's going on, and the ability to change his voice-overs in post-production could add a great deal of ... flexibility ... to a script that has to go through fifty or sixty rewrites before release. Putting him in the Batwing, just hanging back from the action, would make a lot of sense.
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  11. They've said "It's like that one movie Rashomon, " which means they're going to show that scene several more times from someone else's point of view, changing it up each time.
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  12. WWI vs. WWII is an interesting object lesson. No one who studied the Somme could doubt that the pacifists had a point; no one who has studied the Munich and Wannsee conferences could doubt that the pacifists were ultimately wrong.
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  13. I disagree, somewhat. The point of The Downfall of Numenor (the part of the Silmarillion the show is based on) is that part of Middle Earth turned into Game of Thrones. At which point G*d promptly drowned the lot. They're trying to play the whole thing (~25 pages) out over five seasons though, which will probably make it worse than The Hobbit movies.
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  14.  @ninadiamant8937  In a desert, that makes a certain amount of sense. You know, someone could poke at this trope by making the real danger, the way these traps fell apart in unexpected ways after parts of their mechanisms decayed.
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  15. Spoiler alert The Amazon series is based on a 25-30 page chunk of the Silmarillion called "Akallabeth", or "The Downfall of Numenor". Plot summary: Sauron, when he was younger and hotter, convinced the kings of basically-Atlantis to start behaving like they were from Game of Thrones, at which point G*d quite sensibly drowned the lot of them. Only "Remember me?" Elendil, his son "Ooh, shiny ring!" Isildur, and his other son "Sir-not-appearing-in-this-film" Anarion, survived the wreck and sailed to Middle-Earth in time to help Agent Smith defeat Power Armor Sauron -- which brings us up to the prologue to the Lord of the Rings movies.
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  16.  @happymaskedguy1943  Of course it's fiction. They mention natural human reproduction, which is as anti-woke as you can get.
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  17.  @pathfinderlight7084  Someone needs to do an "Evolution of the Critical Drinker" clip compilation, with the evolution of his sign-offs. =D
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  18. And then she dies in his arms, which was probably a highlight of Dame Judi Dench's remarkable career, if she's honest.
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  19. Finally, someone else who's actually read it! I think what he's complaining about actually makes sense, when you realize that the portion of the book they're using is The Downfall of Numenor. I don't really trust Amazon not to miss the point entirely, though.
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  20.  @zimriel  Yup, the Silmarillion is extremely dark, most of the time. Not much boinking, though.
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  21. Actually, I bet that originally Ares was written as Friedrich Alfred ("Fritz") Krupp, sole proprietor of the Krupp steelworks, the most infamous member of the "military-industrial complex". Look at the character design for Sir Patrick Morgan (David Thewlis) and a picture of Fritz on Wikipedia, and tell me you can't see the resemblance. (Only, including a homosexual as the villain would go against The Message, so he got Anglicized in a really weird way...)
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  22.  @TH3F4LC0Nx  Actually, the Akallabeth is basically a story of how (under Sauron's influence) the Sea Kings of Middle-Earth basically turned into Game of Thrones, at which point G*d drowned the lot of them. I kind of expect Amazon to change the ending but leave the rest.
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  23. "What happens when the pendulum swings back the other way?" We get a Madame Web sequel. Starring only Sydney Sweeney. In a costume designed by a guy with Anime credits. And it will make BANK.
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  24. So when John Favreau (long-time comics fan) makes himself a self-insert character into the MCU, his big fantasy is to .... date Aunt May? Dude is weird.
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  25. "We know that that will never happen" I'm OK with getting more movies with Jennifer Connelly, or similar. Have you seen where the Top Gun gross is these days? Studios are taking notice.
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  26. When Luke said to Kylo "see you around", I expected him to show up repeatedly as a force ghost to heckle Kylo at various points.
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  27. "He was exiled from his homeland, and could have ended up literally anywhere... How did he expect this messenger to find him?" Easy, he hired the Courier from Skyrim.
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  28. Nope, he was originally supposed to be Friedrich Alfred "Fritz" Krupp, sole proprietor of Krupp Steelworks, "The Reich's Armorer", and grand-daddy of the whole Military-Industrial Complex. (Seriously, look him up on Wikipedia. The picture fits Thewlis to a "T"). But, he was also homosexual, so according to The Message(TM) can't be the villain of a modern Hollywood movie.
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  29. "It's not about good and evil, it's about power and who gets to use it." Headland wants to be the new Harvey.
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  30.  @ToddKeck98  Yeah, now watch YouTube change their comment system to cover for her.
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  31. Logical coherence is the only thing that allows stories to explore anything (even Mauler's favorite thing, "themes") with any meaningful way. Lose that coherence, and all you're exploring is a lack of coherence, and that's a kind of narrow thing to spend so much time on.
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  32. "I consider the game to be the more gripping piece of storytelling" And with that, TV died.
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  33.  @GeorgeMonet  Only the royal line was half-elven. (Fun fact! Arwen is Aragorn's first cousin, a few dozen times removed.) The rest of them were just the humans that sided with the Valar in the war against Morgoth.
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  34. These audiences are so modern, they don't actually exist yet. Whoa!
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  35. She's a scavenger. Has she ever seen a spacegoing vessel that was actually *functional*? You could put in some tense suspense by having her simply replace parts that "looked broken" with parts that "didn't look broken". Sometimes this works, sometimes it doesn't, sometimes BB8 has to fight her if she's doing something that would blow everyone up.
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  36. Just don't read the books, they're Woke sewage.
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  37. "What does [the existence of replicants who are very humanlike] actually say about what it means to be human?" It's worse than that. Reading one of his novels dealing with Replicants, the main character was neurodivergent, and seemed to feel that these replicants had a better handle on what it meant to be human (and a better claim on humanity) than HE did, despite his being born human. That's just the sort of uncomfortable person Phililp K Dick was. I couldn't actually get through the whole book.
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  38. Sleepless in Seattle was a remake of an old black and white movie. Return of the King was from one of the most iconic brands humanity has to offer, that had been disastrously adapted in previous (and subsequent) years. The Firm was based on a contemporary bestseller. Pirates of the Caribbean was a remake of a theme park ride for heaven's sake, in a genre that produced some of the biggest, most expensive flops of past decades. I guess the lesson here is, remaking or adapting something works, if you do it RIGHT. That is to say, faithfully to what made the brand successful in the first place.
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  39. Sound of Freedom - $15 Million
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  40. Hey Drinker! Could you get together with a bunch of other online critics and do a series on the Most Expensive Flops in Cinema History? You've done half of them already seemingly, but it would be fun if you did some serious analysis on what lessons were learned, and what lessons should have been learned. You, Chato and the Midnight's Edge team, the EFAP guys, and maybe some historians, what do you think? It could be a rich content-mine for when Hollywood winds down due to the Writer's Strike.
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  41. I'll bet that originally David Thewlis' character was supposed to be Friedrich Alfried "Fritz" Krupp, sole proprietor of the Krupp Steelworks, known as "the Reich's Armorer". But, in today's Hollywood you can't have a homosexual as a villain, so he got Anglicized.
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  42.  @Mikito456  If Feminism were simply "equality between the sexes", grievance hustlers wouldn't have much to talk about. Another confounding factor is that the sexes aren't equivalent in very important ways, that no one wants to talk about (especially the grievance hustlers).
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  43.  @Mikito456  Don't care how big the words are. Just use less of them. I just don't have the time.
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  44.  @Mikito456  I agree with equality of opportunity (and that should settle the matter, but....) I suspect where we disagree is I think Nature will have the final say as to what the outcomes are going to be. One aspect of Nature is that there is a very pronounced bimodal distribution in humanity because the vast majority of us either have an XX or XY chromosome pair, and that has a meaningful effect that will always frustrate any efforts to make all outcomes equal, no matter how much unhappiness we cause by forcing Nature to fit ideology. To bring it back to the original point, these differences are reflected in our stories and archetypes, and will persist despite any efforts of ideology.
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  45. Wouldn't it be hilarious if that were actually Daisy Ridley voicing the comments in this video?
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  46. Can fans do those sorts of special effects on their desktops, now?
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  47.  @schaefsky  I'm not convinced you ever read them. At one point they have a planet that actually produces antibodies to kill the human settlers like they were some kind of disease. At another point they have a completely pacifist system that destroys all kinetics. The narrative editorializing in the books -- thankfully absent in the show -- is as Woke as anything you'll ever read. PC as all get-out. BUT, they toned it down massively for the TV show, and it's being hailed as the best-kept secret in SciFi. Well, that's because the books never really took off with the SciFi crowd, because of their blatant political bias. If they'd maintained that tone in the TV show, the show would have gone the way of Star Trek Discovery.
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  48.  @justsomeguywholovesberserk6375  Remember when people made bad movies for cheap? Fun times...
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  49. They're talking about bringing a "multiple worlds" trope into the GFFA, to fix this mess. Not the most original thing to do, but to be honest, I'm up for anything that can save this s**tshow at this point, both as a fan and as a Disney stockholder.
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  50.  @joshuabarrios9738  I hate to think what the beard would've become, if the alien had infected it. Something that could have taken down Godzilla, probably.
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  51. The beginning of the end was apparent when they closed down LucasArts. "I mean, why would a company whose fortune is built on its theme parks need a video game company attached to it?"
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  52. Probably because people who would like the show, read a couple of the books and said, "This is WAY too Woke for me". Seriously, the show is so much less Woke than the books -- it's why the show is praised so much, but it didn't have a reading fanbase that liked it enough to make it popular.
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  53. They're not insane. They're just content to destroy what they can't control. They're attempting to turn popular brands into "platforms" for their political agenda, because their political theory tells them that there is no genuine underlying universal human experiences or aspirations these brands explore. Entertainment is not a "platform", it's a stage. They are getting booed off it, by audiences who don't resonate with the propaganda they're pushing. Disney is starting to notice, because the market economics of blockbusters rely on this audience resonance to make them the kind of money they have to make to survive. The Wokies are going a little crazy now, because their zombie slaves are starting to shake off their spell.
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  54. You mean, forcing a whole country to play along with a delusion because you'd be sad if they didn't, is something a villain might do? If we believed that, that would set back trans rights by a decade! Well, by a couple of years at least, considering how quickly things seem to have "changed".
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  55.  @artfuldogger3910  Honest Trailers is fun too. Youtube >> movies, eh?
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  56. My favorite fan fiction is still a Flashman / Game of Thrones crossover. Westeros was made for old Flashy.
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  57. "Coasting off of former successes" No. Deliberately rejecting former successes -- classic, family-friendly storytelling -- is absolutely wrecking their brand. How to turn it around? - Pay homage to real mother-father-children family, not the rainbow parody they're trying to shove down our throats. - Elevate male heroes so they can carry your movie, instead of tearing them down to try to build up female heroes who can't. - Bring back heroines. Masculine and feminine stories are different. Go back to your Jung, and ignore "-theory" and "-studies". - If you must make movies for niche (Woke) audiences, give them niche budgets, and keep them hermetically sealed from the family-friendly brand.
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  58.  @eastlynburkholder3559  And her having much of any experience with a functional ship makes even less sense. At most, she'd have some intuition about whether a part would fetch her a good price.
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  59.  @jo-d2123  They tried that with Song of the South. There were some scenes of servility that were pretty cringey. I wonder if it would be possible to remake that one today, taking the cringe scenes out? A story about a family making its way with their newfound freedom in Reconstruction-era Dixie could thread the needle between glorifying antebellum nonsense and heavyhanded Woke commentary. "We have our freedom now. We'll have challenges for generations to come, but with cleverness, optimism, and faith, we can make a better life, even against more powerful antagonists." -- There are worse bases for a movie.
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  60. This video has more views than the most recent episode of this show.
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  61. "They really need this one to succeed" RIP Disney.
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  62. Amen, brother.
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  63. "Just throw so many bodies at the enemy that eventually you'll overwhelm them with the sheer weight of your numbers" And drive your empire to bankruptcy, in a few short years making inevitable the loss of what it took centuries to gain. And don't forget, wasting the talent of a generation of youth that would have been better spent almost any other way. But maybe the Drinker will cover those bases later in the video...
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  64. They might remember what you sacrificed them for. If you're lucky they'll forgive you.
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  65. Um, isn't this a remake of an 80's TV show of the same name?
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  66. You know, if Peter Jackson had cast Sam as a south Asian or African, that would've actually put something back into the story (the story arc of the social distinction between Sam and the other three hobbits) that Tolkien included, but Jackson downplayed.
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  67. It's really weird to hear him sign off with something polite, instead of "That's all I've got for today, go away now!"
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  68. Just don't read the books, they're Woke garbage.
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  69.  @Mikito456  Not saying women don't do a lot of other things, just saying it's the most miraculous, and it's certainly the most tied to femininity in something as primordial as archetypal storytelling. Labor is an unfortunate side-effect of this ability, not anything they do to "earn it".
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  70.  @Mikito456  Sorry man, TL:DR.
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  71. You've just explained why Manga is outselling US comics, and why Anime is so popular.
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  72. "First, I think of a man. Then I remove reason and accountability." - Jack Nicholson, "As Good as it Gets"
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  73. I have to say it, The Critical Drinker is cut from the same cloth as George MacDonald Frasier -- capable of both the hilarious ribaldry of self-conscious knavishness, and the profoundest heights of appreciation for the deepest virtues we must desperately reach for with all our futile agonies. May God give him the opportunities to earn every last drink.
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  74. Have you ever seen "Scene 37 reimagined"? It's the Obiwan / Vader lightsaber fight on the Death Star, done up to be more like one of the prequel lightsaber fights. (Well, as much as could be, because it quite reasonably portrays an angry villain in the prime of his life basically beating up an old man who is desperate to stay alive). Anyway, your review got me wondering -- what could a fan version of some of these scenes look like, with the sort of computer graphics we can do these days on a plain old desktop?
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  75.  @tommaguzzi1723  Did you actually read these books? They're Woke AF. This is what happens when you downplay the Woke angle until it's nearly undetectable.
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  76.  @kentjensen4504  I think I have Blender rolling around on my computer somewhere still from way back in the day, but lost interest when whatever I downloaded couldn't couldn't save in a format that was acceptable to whatever it is I was modding. Have they changed the "no save with free license" nerf?
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  77.  @kentjensen4504  I think the last time I looked at Blender was.... 2006 or so. Yikes. Time flies. I'll give it another go this weekend. =)
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  78.  @kentjensen4504  For horror? Doki Doki Literature Club is free on Steam, although that's a bit sui generis. It is not what it seems at first glance. And it doesn't do 3D graphics. 3D horror... Oh right, you'd probably enjoy "Subnautica". =) That's 3D, although it's a couple years old now as well. There's a new Resident Evil and Doom Eternal for large-budget / large-team AAA / released in 2020 horror, but those are action-horror, not really my genre. I have to confess I'm mostly into pixely stuff myself. No Man's Sky is about the most recent one I've played that taxed my graphics card, and that's five years old now. Skyrim's the last AAA I played. PC Gaming has a range of graphics styles these days, depending on the budget of the developer. For 2D: A single dev put together the pixely game "Stardew Valley". I play pixely games like Terraria (2D), Starbound (2D), and MineCraft (3D) with my kids, which were also built by small teams. There are beautiful games out there like Gorogoa. Journey is beautiful as well, and it's just recently for PC. Ori and the Will o Wisps is also nice looking. For modern 3D: Planet Zoo and Planet Coaster represent the stylized (cheesy) way to do 3D, while limiting poly count. The latest Animal Crossing is also simplified / stylized. There are a lot of "do it in 3D so it animates well, and zoom out so it hides what looks bad" kinds of games, like Endless Legend or Stellaris. Civilization does this now too, I believe, although I haven't played any of those since Civ IV. As for the gaming as a culture or gaming as an art form, the YouTube channel Extra Credits is good, if you don't mind sitting through game design and community management videos as well. The main writer for the show seems to share your taste in horror, so you should probably go with his recommendations more than mine.
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  79.  @evanhanley6437  Only if you rolled your eyes when she said it.
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  80.  @Slaktrax  Nah, the Aussies want in on the action now, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xUYbI64QHI Note the kangaroo and the emu in the crest at the end, are packing AK's or similar
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  81. Drinker, you perpetually pitch-perfect polemicist, how could you pair the words "totally unsatisfying" with a shot of Gal Godot smiling? How is such a thing ever appropriate?
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  82. Yeah, it was a little spotty and awkward in places last season -- the boat in the lava river probably sounded better in the writer's head (or maybe in a comic book), than it did on screen. This should be as bad as Star Wars gets. Instead, it's as good as Star Wars gets. But yeah, it's Star Wars again, which is nice to see.
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  83. You didn't hear about it because the books are Woke AF, so they didn't generate much of a fanbase. The showrunners must not have read them, or else they read them and said to themselves, "We'll go broke unless we de-Woke this trash."
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  84. I've never heard of this one either - the media just plain buried this one. I'm not surprised, considering how many of Hollywood's new rules it breaks. Please find more of these and let us know about them!
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  85. There is nothing wrong with telling very old stories using whatever kids are into these days.
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  86. Hey Critical Drinker, have you seen Reverend Paul VanderKlay's reviews of your reviews (with plenty of references to Jordan Peterson, Bret Weinstein, Heather Heying, and Like Stories of Old)? You're inspiring sympathetic sermons in Sacramento, California. Apparently you're involved in Spiritual Warfare. Doomcock would be thrilled to hear it. =)
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  87. The thing that shows exactly how broken the Setup / Payoff idea is at Disney, is JJ Abrams' "Mystery Boxes". All setup, no payoff. Is it any wonder why movies made in this man's shadow are unsatisfying?
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  88. That's all I've got for today. Go away now! (Sorry, this video just seemed incomplete without that, somehow.)
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  89. "Contradictory writing" They're on record comparing this to Rashomon -- expect someone else to come out with "their truth" about what happened in these scenes, in a way that reframes everything.
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  90. 1:50 is that the party from the old D&D cartoon?
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  91. "Everybody loses" This is the "demoralization" stage. Throwing out the Woke will save the world for democracy and freedom. Not kidding.
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  92. It makes me really sad to think about what happened to Jake Lloyd. It's a worse story that most child stars, in a lot of ways.
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  93. Funniest Christopher Lloyd role ever! =D
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  94. The people who insisted that Ellie had to die for them to succeed in their efforts, could have been wrong.
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  95. No, because there are very few showrunners out there who have the sense to say, "This source material is way too Woke, we have to make it more like SciFi used to be or we'll go broke."
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  96. Huh, it's been a day, and the view count is already almost as high on this video (578k) as it was on the thing it's critiquing.
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  97. Hm. This Drinker review of a Fast / Furious movie was missing something. I wonder if the movie was missing it too? If you want b**ts in the seats, F/F knew you had to put b**ts on the screen. B**t representation and all, I guess.
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  98. Hey, Drinker, you may want to ease up before the Mid- to High-Functioning Autistic community (which disproportionately affects both Nordic types and YouTube viewers) starts coming to the defense of one of loveliest members. Being totally unable to read a room or process the body language of other human beings beyond "I dimly sense something is wrong but I have no idea what it is or what to do about it" can be a Kafkaesque nightmare, and is not a fun way to go through life. Trying to make up for a lack of intuitive grasp of human expression (which has in many cases been tied to a lack of instinctive focus on human faces, from infancy onwards) by sheer conscious attention is exhausting, and in most cases not as effective. I wish people would stop pushing her into these situations. It clearly makes her uncomfortable and irritable, which is hardly a charming look for anyone.
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  99. It will be unmade. =)
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  100. Who was it that had the nightmare fuel picture of the live-action Peppa Pig?
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  101.  @p.chuckmoralesesquire3965  I've got some Disney stock from way back when, so I've got some money riding on this horse. I know, I know, I should sell and repurchase the stock when it falls another 50% or so (releasing all this Woke programming, the company has nowhere to go but down) but it's not really enough to make it worth the paperwork. It'll be nice to see Peltz come back for another bite at the apple, especially if someone like Elon Musk joins in the fun. =)
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  102. Have you seen the state of Science Fiction these days? Star Trek has nothing to draw on.
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  103. The fundamental question here should be, "What is Elizabeth Bennett doing in a Star Wars movie?"
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  104.  @Attmay  You could include "Institutions Destroyed" in the "cost" column. What else do you have in mind?
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  105. They're employing masses of activists with these budgets.
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  106. OK, who else was kind of disappointed when Drinker didn't have a relevant scene to cut to when he spoke the line, "Stranger things have happened, believe me."
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  107.  @furiousmat  "Humans are the real virus", monogamous heterosexuality is (unlike in reality) not the norm, all of the cases where tokenism is "done right" in the show is done wrong in the books... the fact that you don't even notice means either you should get your head out of your hindquarters if you don't want Wokeness to last any longer than it has to, or that you're part of the problem in the first place.
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  108.  @furiousmat  Pull out your Woke bingo card. You will check every box, in every book.
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  109.  @furiousmat  By the way, when "cultural norms" stray too far from reality (one generation follows after another according to the same mechanics they always have) that culture dies. It's just not credible to see today's fads, lasting more than a couple of generations. The more prevalent they get, the sooner they disappear.
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  110.  @furiousmat  Human reproduction is a static thing. At the core of each succeeding generation is a set of parents, and those parents become parents in the same way that their parents became parents, etc. Cultures change, yes -- but cultures that forget the realities of human reproduction, die off. The future belongs to those who show up. The most realistic thing about the books, is the fact that the Mormons are the ones surviving and thriving into the future. Is that the culture I'd prefer? Not really. But they recognize the generation-to-generation reality of the human condition, just like religions have for thousands of years. Honestly. Get yourself a Woke Bingo card -- positivity about sex work, minority representation checkboxes, Green madness -- and you'll fill it in each book. This being TCD I'd recommend a drinking game, but I'm afraid that would kill you.
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  111. The world needs a John Wick / Fast and Furious crossover.
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  112. Bob Iger and Kathleen Kennedy failed to understand two fundamentals: - Get Woke, Go Broke - Play stupid games, win stupid prizes
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  113. All you have to do to make Star Wars work, is not to screw it up too badly. And then... "One X-Wing. We're saved."
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  114. "Stop making huge bets on movies that have to appeal to everyone" Nah, just stop making movies with budgets that have to appeal to everyone, and then force in political messaging that will turn off 50-75% of your audience. Movies about vanishingly small minorities need vanishingly small budgets. Only movies designed to appeal to normal humanity should have huge budgets, because that's the only way to make that money back. The fact that we have to say this, means that most entertainment executives should either lose their jobs, or fire the people who have been forcing them to do what they know is wrong.
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  115. The whole POINT of a super-team is to show how the various facets and resources of a human consciousness can come together to solve a critical problem.
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  116. Is it just me, or does the woman in the thumbnail look like Ayn Rand?
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  117. What if it makes "Woke at all costs" fanatics realize that if they sacrifice everything (or rather, everyone else) to achieve their ideology, they probably wouldn't like the world that resulted?
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  118. Some of the visuals really are very pretty, if you don't mind the green-yellow saturation.
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  119. Who made this decision? What blackmail material could Bad Robot possibly have on them, and could someone please expose it to destroy the power Bad Robot has over Star Trek?
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  120. Between the Drinker and Pitch Meeting (and formerly, How It Should Have Ended) I hardly need to watch any movies anymore. =)
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  121. "A bill in Florida that led to mass staff walkouts" Dozens in California. ONE in Florida. What media do you watch? Because whoever they are, they're not telling you the truth. That bill has the support of most of America, and the Wokies blackmailed Disney into funding their political pressure campaigns in other states to oppose similar legislation. We're seeing how deep and wide the rot is, right here.
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  122. How many Millennials actually know how maps work? How many have ever used one?
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  123. Apparently what we need is a gender-swapped Lex Luthor, who has just come off of a (superficially) successful attempt to wreck Superman's reputation.
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  124.  @mikeymike9926  They probably got backtalk form the old animators about putting in their Woke agenda. It's good to see a different company picking up those types, and building something new to challenge Disney. I hope Disney learns its lesson before it goes bankrupt, but it's a toss-up at this point.
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  125. Is it just me, or does not-Gandalf look like a bewildered Eric Idle?
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  126. Make Drinker in charge of Star Wars movies, he has some great ideas about how to get guys interested in the series again!
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  127. "This sort of thing is morally and ethically fine when women do Gal Godot does it" I guess it's not that's it's morally and ethically fine, so much as just an exception.
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  128.  @Rivershield  YouTube's algorithm suppresses things like Bible verses and references to religion.
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  129.  @ShantanuSuchil  "A slow corruption of the people" takes about five seasons of TV, I guess.
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  130. "Trying to sell basic human decency and respect for the lives of others, as some kind of heroic sacrifice that should be applauded" This is how we encourage Hollywood megalomaniacs to become human. Baby steps. Lots of applause when they don't fall flat on their faces. That kind of thing.
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  131. To anyone in the Comments section here -- please drop a comment as soon as you notice this video's views surpass the viewership of Batwoman. =)
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  132. The average guy with the average job can't afford the average house, but $180M gets spent on this? Yeah, Wokeness breaks everything. It's time to end it.
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  133. Why do they always insist on doing so many shots of Elizabeth Olsen looking sad? She's got such a stunning smile!
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  134. What was happening in the 1960s? The Space Race / Apollo program The Cold War (including the Cuban Missile Crisis, and all sorts of espionage) Most of the population of America was paying more attention to these at the time, as well they should.
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  135. Is the music a character? Whether a music director is asking too much, (aside from the question of whether he can get the results some less costly way) depends entirely on the value the director and performers (and audience) put on the music. That said, it absolutely a good thing for art to explore questions of "how far is too far", in an imaginative setting where everyone can get up and walk away at the end of a take (or a movie).
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  136. Can you do a blood transfusion with a body whose heart is not beating?
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  137. So who's the woman's voice in this review? Would be awesome if it really were Daisy Ridley.
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  138. The triumphant return of manhood is what we are all waiting for. All "the Message" is doing, is making us feel the lack more keenly.
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  139. I dunno, Warwick Davis is at exactly the right height to catch you in the crotch. I'd be more respectful of him, or at least more wary.
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  140. Gandalf the White, Superman the Black. Um, ok.
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  141. I'm a little surprised he's on good terms with the BBC -- after he officially immigrated to America and adopted US citizenship, they were calling him "Lecter the Defector".
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  142. But, you get to look at Gal Godot for a while. There is that.
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  143. It really makes you wonder what kind of supernatural h**lspawn has sunk its claws into San Francisco and Los Angeles.
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  144. If you can use a Sling Ring to open a portal from anywhere on Earth, to anywhere on Earth, imagine opening a pencil-width hole next to you with its other end at the bottom of the Mariana Trench. The pressure there is greater than 16,000 pounds per square inch, compared to about 15 at sea level.
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  145. Huh. Will YouTube wipe out television by 2040? Plausible.
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  146. Honestly, if they want to appeal to a broader fanbase, what's wrong with introducing a romantic title for the girls? Gotham High is for girls, regular Batman is for boys (and the girls that like a good adventure story). Thirty years ago this would have been well understood. The confusion and distress happens when the two story types get mixed badly. (Although there is some data to add nuance to this argument. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rQPDb-PJyI )
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  147. If Iger survived a Media Activist onslaught, that could significantly curb the power of Media Activism generally. He may have to risk that, to save his company. Honestly, he'll probably survive.
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  148. House Harkonnen relies on the addictions of others, to maintain their power over them. Did this come across in the movie?
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  149. Drinker, you inebriated impresario, you need to do a pre-emptive "The Drinker Fixes" for this one! Harrison Ford (78) is not so far from the age (93) of "Old Indiana Jones" in the "Young Indiana Jones Chronicles". If they base whatever character he plays in 5 on a man on a path to be that character, they might be able to pull it off. "Batman: The Animated Series" did a pretty good job of portraying a crusty old Bruce Wayne, too. What I'm saying is, with a different production and story crew -- almost ANY production and story crew other than the one they've got -- they could still make a hit, even with Harrison Ford as old as he is. Such a story would address Ford's age head-on, exploring how you trade youthful strength for hard-bought wisdom. (Like Odin, the man even loses an eye at some point. H*ll, that could give you the supernatural lead-in of the story right there.) There's absolutely something here to work with. Go for it!
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  150. Have you ever considered THE DRINKER FIXES the retirement of James Bond? Ground Rules: Be respectful. - Have him promoted to M. Show him transitioning to a more suitable role for someone who is no longer young. - You could even check yet more diversity boxes, putting him in a wheelchair after having sacrificed the use of at least one leg to an injury in the line of duty - The new 007 could even be a protege', giving Bond some agency in his transition. Ground Rules: Make him a resource to be valued, rather than an obstacle to overcome - Have him communicate with the new 007, giving valuable advice, possibly even in action. - Have him lay down some ground rules he learned the hard way, and have the new 007 flirt with learning them the hard way too. If you must poke holes in or fun at his legend: - Make it about how he overcame setbacks, to encourage his protege. A story or two about how his initial plan to seduce his way through a problem gets shot down, forcing him to improvise, could be fun. - Show how the new 007 has different skills, which leads her to find problems he found difficult to be easy; but remember that similarly, some things he found easy, she should find difficult. (Like direct hand-to-hand confrontation against trained fighting men twice her size.) - Q designed his wheelchair. (But use some restraint, don't fall too far down into slapstick.) If one result of the story is to explore how to establish respect between the old and the new, with them accomplishing common goals by working together, that could actually serve an extremely useful purpose in this day and age.
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  151. Rey was created by women, whose most miraculous power in this life (the ability to create new human beings) is given to them without any effort on their part whatsoever. "What shall I do with this awesome power that I have?" is a legitimate question for women to ask. BUT it's at right angles to a Hero's Journey, which is at the foundation of Star Wars. So she doesn't belong, as the center of the story.
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  152.  @Mikito456  I think you should back away from fashionable ideology and look at this from the perspective of general human experience. In that general human experience (which, if our society ignores it, will lead to the society vanishing entirely) women have babies, and our human stories reflect the characteristics of that phenomenon. When something is specifically coded female, like the Mary Sue archetype is, it relates directly to that. When a woman is given miraculous powers she has done nothing to gain, it has absolutely nothing to do with the Hero's Journey. That's why Rey's (or any Mary Sue's) story does not resonate (does not belong) at the center of a saga devoted to the Hero's Journey. As a side character, sure, but not as the main.
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  153.  @Mikito456  I think that our common humanity (both with one another today and with past generations) means archetypes are unlikely to change. Reality is likely to drive ideologies towards existing archetypes, more than archetypes can be driven towards ideologies.
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  154.  @Mikito456  It's only unoriginal if you've seen the movie before. Star Wars is often called a "kid's movie" because to many adults it's a rehash. And no, I don't think that archetypes are likely to be affected by "gender and sexuality" at all. Gender is only meaningful insofar as it deals with reproduction (other stories, which affect men and women equally, are human stories, not gendered stories). Stories about atypical sexualities will never be more than niche subculture -- archetypes are generalizations after all, and generalizing from exceptions is a self-contradiction.
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  155.  @Mikito456  That's the thing, culture is built on the reality of the human condition. Cultures that ignore that don't last; the word "decadence" exists for a reason, and its association with a loss of classical virtue also exists for a reason.
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  156.  @Mikito456  Decadence has nothing to do with "the expense of others"; it's a matter of waste and weakness caused by a loss of virtue. Many societies collapse when women tend not to give birth. A collapsing birthrate was apparent during the fall of the Roman Republic, for example, then again during the fall of the Roman Empire. Were Shakespeare's Julius Caesar or Milton's Satan not complex relatable villains? How about Enkidu, for heaven's sake? I don't think there's too much new under the sun. It's narcissistic to think that today is so much different, story-wise. If you'd like to claim that some things go in and out of fashion, I'd buy that, although there are through lines even so... these are called Archetypes, and they don't really change.
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  157. So is this the knee in the curve, where TCD truly becomes the rancorous raconteur we know and love?
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  158. This is what happens if you take the source material and make it LESS Woke. =) Seriously, a LOT less Woke. The books are drivel.
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  159. I blame Shakespeare. The man couldn't write an original story to save his life.
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  160. The Right Stuff did a decent job of addressing both male and female sides of the story, with the wives of the pilots and astronauts.
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  161. Ed Harris is 70. Sometimes, the years just hit you hard.
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  162. George Martin is a nihilist. That is obvious from his writing. He is incapable of wrapping up a story.
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  163. I'm confused by the visuals here. Did they get Andrew Lloyd Weber for the soundtrack or something?
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  164. The takeaway is that the SFC's are the villains here. They're building an archetype that will be used for generations to come.
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  165. The healthy virtue of endless patience is probably in order here.
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  166. "A Mandalorian has to earn his armor piece by piece." Just like in EverQuest?
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  167. So Drinker, have you ever read the Flashman series?
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  168. (Stomp stomp clap, stomp stomp clap) BBC, BBC Say goodbye to your license fee!
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  169. Does the Ukraine thing mean that the Klingons are the bad guys again? I mean, proper conquering-warrior bad guys?
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  170. Gandhi II is my favorite, such a great character arc!
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  171. Horrible thought, for Disney strategists -- what if "Family-friendly" is a lane, rather than a freeway? Back in the day, Disney was just one channel, not a whole network. In a world of three or four media outlets, Disney can't be one of them.
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  172. Shockingly gentle. Huh.
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  173. Multiverses are basically the save-scumming of the cinematic world.
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  174.  @kevincarter2020  My friend, I hope you never go to bars alone. Bring guys with you that you trust, and if they say a girl is bad news, listen to them.
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  175. With all due empathy, men who cry at this are emotionally damaged. Women who are in favor of men crying, are either cowardly or cruel, possibly both.
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  176. The eclectic mix of medieval civilization and neon is part and parcel of Japan's unique experience, modernizing rapidly during the Meiji era.
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  177. So... watch with the sound off, then? Or wait for the internet to cut all the non-Gal Godot scenes first?
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  178. Want a pretentious deep-dive "analysis" of the Deeper Meaning(TM) of this movie? I have an idea! The avatar of Japan, nature, and nuclear destruction is fighting with the avatar of America who is the king but kinda tired and even isolationist these days, but then they team up at the end to beat up the avatar of transnational corporations based in China, which they finally defeat with nuclear-powered American weaponry. This is Japan giving the United States permission to nuke China! Oh, and India and Australia can come along for the ride, but only as comic relief.
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