Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Reynard]

Also: We know what your drum beat is, you don't need to try to include in every single one of your post.

For clarity, I was speaking more toward ourselves, when deciding whether we should keep up the argument. Not that I don't agree with you in principal, but I have been trying to force myself to walk away once I have made my point rather than get caught in an ever shrinking conversation with one poster, with whom I will never agree in the first place. it is both a bad look and makes me feel bad.

 

[CleverNickName]

Some of y'all have your "Leia in the gold bikini" moment, and hey--fair enough. Nothing but respect for General Leia.

But for some of us, there was:

 

[Cadence]

Our State Fair isn't until October, and ours usually isn't quite as adventuresome as the ones in the middle of the country.

The full list for the MN one is at

Star Tribune

Your source for Minnesota news today. Read articles, view photos or watch videos about news in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud, Rochester, and beyond.

m.startribune.com

 

[payn]

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Our State Fair isn't until October, and ours usually isn't quite as adventuresome as the ones in the middle of the country.

The full list for the MN one is at

Star Tribune

Your source for Minnesota news today. Read articles, view photos or watch videos about news in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Duluth, St. Cloud, Rochester, and beyond.

m.startribune.com

Running out of things to deep fry clearly.

 

[Squared]

I think it is fair to say that Empire and RotJ are both good, and Empire is often more beloved because it has a couple really strong emotional punches.

What it lacks is the amazing RotJ space battle. I am a sucker for scape battles and RotJ's still stands up.

I have yet to see a better space battle. Modern CGI just does not stand up to me. Mostly this is the lack of camera skill and an over abundance of flashy things everywhere on the screen, not the technology itself.

That gets into a broader conversation about how modern CGI tools make directors lazy. Also how the bloated budgets cause a similar problem.

Godzilla Minus One was a bit of a wake up call. It was a movie that relied on acting, drama, and a heartfelt human story to make the most of its under 15 million dollar budget. I mean it’s a freaking Godzilla movie that I had to do my best hide tears during. I can’t say the same for any of the Marvel movies, even though some of them are very good. The good parts are not because of cool CGI fight scenes.

^2

 

[Bedrockgames]

Some of y'all have your "Leia in the gold bikini" moment, and hey--fair enough. Nothing but respect for General Leia.

But for some of us, there was:
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For some people they were both important moments

 

[Reynard]

Some of y'all have your "Leia in the gold bikini" moment, and hey--fair enough. Nothing but respect for General Leia.

But for some of us, there was:
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Xena came out in 1995. While Lucy Lawless is awesome, Xena was well past the age of awakening sexuality that Hutt Slayer Leia hit for many of us.

 

[Bedrockgames]

That gets into a broader conversation about how modern CGI tools make directors lazy. Also how the bloated budgets cause a similar problem.

I have been thinking about this a lot because I frequently go to CGI as my chief complaint in movies, but then I plenty of newer movies that use it to a high degree (particularly Chinese films). I think my big gripe when I see it in something likely to show up at my local theater is it looks ugly (I can almost look past the glitchiness if they are still treating the CGI as an artistic medium). There was a movie that came out a few years ago called Legend of the Demon Cat. It uses a lot of CGI, it also uses a lot of practical set design that I think gives the movie an interesting sense of characters moving through structures, but even when the CGI breaks down (and it does in places) it still looks like effort went into designing things like the color palette. It isn't muddy or confusing, it just looks beautiful. I think when CGI is treated well, it can work. But like you say too often it is like the director just handed the scenes to someone who doesn't care about shot composition, telling a story in the space battle they are depicting and giving you a sense of awe (it is more often just overwhelming in a confusing way, rather than a majestic one)

 

[Cadence]

I sometimes kind of want a TV series where the set-up each week is that a number appears on everyone's forehead and no one knows what it means. Maybe it is a measure of how lucky they are, how bad of a person they are now, what the worst thing they ever did was, how hard they work, how trustworthy they are, how racist they are, how honest they are on social media, how funny their posts on ENWorld are, etc...

(Could star each episode with the same people in the same scenes like each episode is a parallel world to the others, or could have it be a different number each week in the same world).

 

[Ryujin]

True fact-

There were a lot of kids that, um, overvalued the cinematic excellence of Princess Leia in the gold bikini.

Given the number of CosPlayers who have followed suit, I don't think that anyone could overvalue the "cultural" impact of Princess Leia in a gold bikini.