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Post by chazraps on May 21, 2024 12:12:32 GMT -5
Critics screening was last night and, since the embargo has already been lifted (no spoilers) f*** this was amazing and absolutely everything that I wanted from this movie. I rewatched the franchise prior to going and this movie, despite being almost a decade removed from the last one and three decades from the one before that, just fits into the same vibe and style perfectly. Great performances, great writing, it's amazing that George Miller just keeps being able to do post-apocalyptic movies better than anyone on the planet ever has.
My full (spoiler free) review:
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Post by chazraps on May 20, 2024 22:24:39 GMT -5
The movie sucked then and sucks now. I hate when people defend it as "it's the Star Wars made for kids." Yeah? Do kids love movies about land trade disputes?
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Post by chazraps on May 19, 2024 17:21:29 GMT -5
Idk if this was as bad as we thought it was. What I mean is that he was still Keith Lee. It was just a nick name. It's not like he came out in a Cat suit and meow'd and his whole character changed. His whole attire and aesthetic changed, and his personality was made completely unnatural. Yes, it was that bad and seemingly broke Keith Lee's brain enough to become a Tom Macdonald fan.
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Post by chazraps on May 18, 2024 18:32:39 GMT -5
It's an unfair reach to call the shots fired "full QAnon." Come on now. Until things come out that have concrete proof it is pretty dangerous to slander someone as a pedophile and wife beating accusations. That goes beyond a beef and that's just petty. The wife-beating has nothing concrete. Drake's associate Baka that Kendrick mentions had on-the-record sex trafficking charges. Drake in 2010 on video at a concert passionately kisses a 17 year old after she tells him her age and then he says "I can’t go to jail yet, man! You seventeen? Why you look like that? You thick, look at all this. I don’t know if I should feel guilty or not, but I had fun. I like the way your breasts feel against my chest." Between that and 14-year-old Millie bobby Brown saying 32-year-old Drake would text her "Advice on boys" to him VERY likely dating Hailey Baldwin and Bella Harris when both of those women were underage (And didn't go public with dating him until they were 18), that's pretty significant and fair game for a rap diss record. That's not enough to lock him up BUT it's a lot more based in reality than QAnon saying Tom Hanks sex trafficks children with absolutely no evidence whatsoever.
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Post by chazraps on May 18, 2024 9:36:46 GMT -5
It's an unfair reach to call the shots fired "full QAnon." Come on now.
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Post by chazraps on May 14, 2024 11:34:47 GMT -5
I think what people forget about those first 2-3 years of the podcast is that in addition to Conrad and Bruce's research, they'd actually watch the shows and revisit the eras they viewed before talking about it, which lead to some great in-depth discussion, "how do you feel now vs then," memories being jogged, and they really got to go into the weeds about things in a fun way. It was in the weeks before Conrad's 2018 marriage when they banked a few weeks in a row (batch with the Carlito episode) that the show shifted into just Conrad reading old Observers and the two going solely off of their memories. That's how the show has been ever since and it's really killed the immersive revisiting revelation energy. Those earlier shows are just so much better, Conrad would push back more on obvious BS too. Not only that, but I think Bruce had less "BS" as it were to go on as he'd have *just* watched the shows and wasn't going off of WWE's re-written history or a Stockholm Syndrome'd memory. Honestly, I don't think Bruce is an intentional liar. I think we you just spend so much time in an institution who have such a specific view and recall of reality, it probably gets inextricably ingrained into one's mind. Which makes those first few years so special as it was Bruce being able to view the events/company with clear new eyes.
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Post by chazraps on May 13, 2024 10:06:48 GMT -5
I think what people forget about those first 2-3 years of the podcast is that in addition to Conrad and Bruce's research, they'd actually watch the shows and revisit the eras they viewed before talking about it, which lead to some great in-depth discussion, "how do you feel now vs then," memories being jogged, and they really got to go into the weeds about things in a fun way.
It was in the weeks before Conrad's 2018 marriage when they banked a few weeks in a row (batch with the Carlito episode) that the show shifted into just Conrad reading old Observers and the two going solely off of their memories. That's how the show has been ever since and it's really killed the immersive revisiting revelation energy.
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Post by chazraps on May 13, 2024 10:01:53 GMT -5
I think what makes Spider-Man 3 a fascinating watch in 2024 is that it's the last big Hollywod blockbuster pre-Smartphones. So many major plotpoints in the film would be immeadiately solved with smartphone access a mere four months later.
In that regard, with how close and modern it looks, it's interesting to see just how much Smartphones changed everything in such a short amount of time.
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Post by chazraps on May 12, 2024 19:56:43 GMT -5
Ziggler really seemed the night of Survivor Series 2014 that he was going to win the rumble and headline Mania against Brock. Then at the Rumble he got dumped by the local men and that was that. Really f***ing hate looking back at that era we could currently be nostalgic for and realize how it was largely horribly booked out of spite for the audience.
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Post by chazraps on May 11, 2024 22:10:40 GMT -5
f***! RIP!
This incredibly deeply saddens me. I went out to Las Vegas to see him at Joe Bob's Jamboree for an amazing interview and I'm so, so, soooooo glad I did.
We just had a special "98th birthday party" for him last April here in Minneapolis with a screening of 'Little Shop of Horrors' and trailers of his films from the 50s through the 2010s.
When you think of who he discovered - Scorsese, Coppola, Nichelson, and how he was the very first to let Ron Howard direct a movie - a case could be made that he was the single most influential person on 20th century American cinema.
If anyone wants the trailer reel I put together of his work that we screened last April, DM me.
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Post by chazraps on May 10, 2024 8:46:09 GMT -5
So, not wishing harm to anyone in ANY way, but just for conversation - with so many wrestling fans have their entire tastes/identity/personality tied to the opinions of specific podcasts hosts...
When that particular podcast host dies, do we think that fan moves on to another host, or was the antagonistic toxic contrarianism what they were dependent on and they just move on to something after wrestling entirely?
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Post by chazraps on May 9, 2024 20:55:33 GMT -5
Well this thread may have willed this into existence:
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Post by chazraps on May 8, 2024 10:58:29 GMT -5
THIS MIGHT BE NOTHING BUT - in at the end of the opening for episode 9 when Xavier and Magneto collide, there's no mastermold/sentinel looming over them like there's been the rest of the season. Maybe it's because Bastian now or something, I don't know. Also, there's no way that {Spoiler}that's Stryfe, right? I know he's a clone of baby Cable and doesn't ahve the techno-organic virus so he could go power for power with Jean - but then I went and read Stryfe's Wikipedia page and my head's still spinning as it's one of the most confusing character stories I've ever seen
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Post by chazraps on May 8, 2024 10:53:45 GMT -5
Over/under on us getting one last Flair vs Lawler match? (which would be maybe their 5th ever, right?)
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Post by chazraps on May 8, 2024 9:40:29 GMT -5
Wait, are we talking that April 1998 period leading up to Spring Stampede? Hogan saying Savage "Wasn't part of the plan" while Nash was wearing Savage's "Madness" shirts during his matches?
Or is this a later Savage-Hogan feud?
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Post by chazraps on May 6, 2024 11:25:00 GMT -5
No he's really not. You're forgetting how Drake winning the feud with Meek Mill cemented him among everyone from critics to the streets as someone who could really take it to someone in a battle if he had to. It's been a (albeit small, but still there) since the Common beef and diss records super early in his career. Drake's also the nonstop ubiquitous presence as a certified hitmaker in the genre. Drake may not have a Pultizer, but in terms of the music industry these are two hip-hop heavyweights. Do some people perhaps really want to see Kendrick destroy Drake? Of course. But people *really* wanted to see Meek Mill destroy Drake and "Back 2 Back" was universally acknowledged and celebrated as the knockout blow. Drake's almost in the Eminem radius of the wide spectrum of listeners where he's a commercial juggernaut regardless of personal preference, but absolutely everybody will stop what they're doing and listen to his diss records no matter what. It's a much fairer fight than most realize when just comparing the catalog consistency. Just because the public considers Drake a solid competitive MC doesn’t mean that Kendrick isn’t being boosted by the large numbers of pop music critics (hip hop focused and otherwise) who consider him as the socially aware alternative. Kendrick makes the kinds of albums that many music writers wish (and have wished for, throughout the many decades of rock) made up the majority of the Billboard charts. That’s not a slight against K Dot’s work, just an observation. But "pop music critics" are not the target audience for this feud so it's wholly irrelevant to the battle. There's no "boost" from that.
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Post by chazraps on May 6, 2024 11:23:22 GMT -5
I'll give Drake this, I don't like this new song but overall he's put up a good fight. Ultimately I think this will be remembered more like a Nas v Jay-Z (most agree one guy won but still acknowledge the other had good tracks too) rather than say Drake/Meek or Pusha/Drake with one side getting completely stomped. Alright, while we're on the subject, an interesting by-product of this latest conflict is how it's gotten people to revisit classic beefs in history and seeing (not you but) the much younger hip-hop generations who weren't alive when Jay vs Nas happened is kind of fun to see those debates come up in new fresh ways. I think the two big things people really forget about the JAY-Z vs Nas feud is that: 1) What benefitted Nas the most was the feeling that "Ether" was Nas being *back*. It can't be overstated what a terrible album 1999's 'NAStradamus' was. So many shitting attempts to crossover that went nowhere. It almost sounds like it was made in direct contempt for Nas' own fans. The 'I Am...' album earlier that year has similar issues but enough strong tracks AND the understandable pivoting as it was the very first album to really be hit with early MP3 bootlegging so the double album had to be turned to a single disk with multiple tracks rushed on the fly to meet the street date but I digress. Then Nas spent 2000 doing some embarassing guest appearances, shit like "Oochie Wally" wasn't even considered a bad record, just Nas was so out of place on it. Then the "Stillmatic" freestyle seemed promising, Jay dedicates a single verse on "Takeover" to taking him out and then NaS hits back harder than even the biggest Nas stans could have predicted at the time with "Ether." The sheer zeal for "Nas is back" allowed people to overlook the weaker parts of that record that listening with 2024 ears bring up, but timing is everything and it was the perfect response. 2) Then "Super Ugly" leaked waaaaaay too early (this was just after 9/11 just after Napster music industry) so it hit radio sounding unfinished like it came through a wet telephone and the let down of it made Nas the winner. I still think "Takeover" is more potent, and 'Stillmatic' has some of the worst rap songs ever released by a major label on it (the song "Braveheart Party" was so bad that, without announcement, the label quietly swapped it with a different song from the second pressing onward), but it's really the story of Nas' redemption. Also, I'm glad the pendulum has swung all the way back to show LL Cool J on every level beat Canibus. It wasn't just "he has the major label machine behind him." As great as "Second Round K.O." was, "The Ripper Returns" was a line-for-line bar-for-bar rebuttal that took out Canibus and still left strong jabs in for Wyclef and Tyson. Very underrated in the grand scheme of things. Then Canibus' "Rip the Jacker" came out, and as cool and inventive as it was to hear Canibus rhyming over Cool J's "I'm B.A.D.," the lyrics were just absolutely *NOT* there. He flopped hard right on his face.
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Post by chazraps on May 6, 2024 11:07:32 GMT -5
Come on, it’s obvious Kendrick is benefiting from an “oh, he’s a *real* hip hop artist, he’s so socially conscious, not like that shallow and overly commercialized Drake!” perception. He’s already got an in built bias towards him from the highbrow music critics. It’s not exactly a fair fight for the OVO side. No he's really not. You're forgetting how Drake winning the feud with Meek Mill cemented him among everyone from critics to the streets as someone who could really take it to someone in a battle if he had to. It's been a (albeit small, but still there) since the Common beef and diss records super early in his career. Drake's also the nonstop ubiquitous presence as a certified hitmaker in the genre. Drake may not have a Pultizer, but in terms of the music industry these are two hip-hop heavyweights. Do some people perhaps really want to see Kendrick destroy Drake? Of course. But people *really* wanted to see Meek Mill destroy Drake and "Back 2 Back" was universally acknowledged and celebrated as the knockout blow. Drake's almost in the Eminem radius of the wide spectrum of listeners where he's a commercial juggernaut regardless of personal preference, but absolutely everybody will stop what they're doing and listen to his diss records no matter what. It's a much fairer fight than most realize when just comparing the catalog consistency.
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Post by chazraps on May 6, 2024 0:33:06 GMT -5
Two things I've realized in the past hour -
1) The "John Stockton" line in Kendrick's "Not Like Us" is Kendrick insinuating Drake is fellow Utah Jazz basketball player Karl Malone, who had sex with a 13-year-old girl. Took me a day to figure that out because I was obsessing on the later verses, but dang that's replay value.
2) Drake had a whole 24 hours to get any Atlanta hip-hop artist or personality to do a verse or a drop to beat the colonizer allegations and instead he just wholly ignored that whole damning third "Not Like Us" verse. One of those "Silence is Deafening" moments if nobody in Atlanta will stand by him.
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Post by chazraps on May 5, 2024 22:14:02 GMT -5
After 27 hours since the last haymaker, Drake is back with "Heart part 6": youtu.be/HJeY-FXidDQ?si=CCA_nxnGYSoofWfdWarning: Language, content, etc. He sounds kinda bored and presenting like he's over it all and above the squabble. His slant this time: Wow, it's great *I* motivated you to rap again but what a fool you are for tossing wild, wild conspiracies out there (that my friends planted as a matter 'o fact!). And oh yeah, your wife is stepping out and all around. He hand waved away the BIG accusations, but ignored most everything else. At least this beat is much, much better than the song Kendrick rapped on for "Not Like This". Yesterday's drop has ZERO replay unless you try to dissect every response line. "Euphoria" is still the high water mark of creativity and impact in this feud. I completely disagree on the "Not Like Us" beat having no replay value. It's an absolute bop that's been in the clubs coast to coast all weekend. I think the most telling thing about this latest Drake track is his weird defense of "I'm too rich and famous to be a pedophile. If I was truly guilty, your honor, I'd already be in jail." Like, just absolutely tonedeaf in 2024. It's especially weird as him saying "I never molested children" comes right after him saying Kendrick was molested as a child and making fun of him for it, which is total child molester behavior. And him claiming the daughter story was planted is lame.
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