Sweet baby Jesus I can see this whole thing in my head every time I read it, these previews are so cookie cutter it’s insane
I absolutely hate this, but can’t deny that it’s accurate
And jack will cheer on the Gaza genocide in a press briefing.
AI will create this movie 20 years from now, I hope you’re happy.
I’m predicting 20 months
Psh there’s probably some Jabroni already working on it as we speak
The fact that they show a Dark Souls poster and proceed to describe an Elden ring movie is very funny. Like the producers don’t know the difference.
they’d be proud of the fact that they never played video games, let alone the source material.
look at interviews surrounding halo paramount, “we want to tell our own story in this setting” then proceeds to make garbage that actively disrespects the source.
“We didn’t look at the game. We didn’t talk about the game. We talked about the characters and the world. So I never felt limited by it being a game.”
The quote is amazing.
that’s an even better quote than the one I remembered
Final shot is Jack Black clumsily wading through a poison swamp, “not again!”
The swamp itself farts with every green bubble that boils and pops on the surface.
That was unfortunately a Jack Black of a different era. This one abandons his lifelong friend to be as hollywood safe as possible for saying meanie-bobeanie things about trump (as a comedian on a stage that is known for political jokes)
Pretty good soundtrack too.
Yup. Most that you can fault it for, is the mechanics later in the game, which try to teach you how to play multiplayer, getting too repetetive.
Because of course the game had PvP battling with music stages as bases.
I think the main issue people had was it had lot of RTS sections further in.
They weren’t actually that bad, but the demo gave no clue that the main chunk of gameplay was going to be running around issuing orders rather than the basic heavy metal themed hack-and-slash it pretended to be.
I hate that I can visualize this greentext so easily.
THIS SUMMER, ROB SCHNEIDER DOOP DE DERP DEE DOODLEY DERP
“What? Who cares? YOU’LL WATCH IT. Fuck you.”
This summer, unfortunately, Rob Schneider is
going, FULL MAGA.
zoom in on Schnieder doing a goofy face while wearing a red baseball cap as a slide whistle plays and he says “Who’s afraid of the big, bad gays?”
Now playing Elle King - The Let Go
(Rob Schneider’s daughter)
You can do it Rob Schneider’s daughter! Sing your fucking heart out!
“Praise the sun!” Start trashing the cinema and blasting take on me full volume
Based af
Movie is called Dark Souls, plot is Elden Ring. Hollywood on par for the course.
Reminds me of the director Jon Peters who wanted a giant spider in Superman and was shot down. So he got Wild West and put a giant spider in there.
Hollywood does whatever Hollywood wants.
“Ah sweet, a new Miyazaki film!”
They need to combine forces so Studio Ghibli makes a Dark Souls/Elden Ring movie, and Fromsoft makes a game about Princess Mononoke or something.
Would a dark souls movie actively keep anyone with a handicap from entering the theater?
“In order to enter the theatre, you need to be able to get past The Wall.”
Wrong Miyazaki! Go back!
*gets bogged down in poison swamp*
Well, I know people would watch it.
I did not watch the Minecraft movie myself, no desire to experience a full theater of people throwing popcorn around screaming chicken jockey.
Movie industry is fucked.
i enjoyed the Minecraft movie. i wouldn’t say it was great, but i was watching it with my nephews and had fun. it helped that mamoa and black were clearly having fun doing it and had good chemistry together. (i even play the song “lava chicken” for fun hehe)
I watched it this week, no popcorn was thrown. The movie was a solid 5/10, and was only carried by JB being JB.
I’m still sore about Jack Black being a coward and throwing Kyle Gass under the bus so IDK how much that would help with my enjoyment.
This one. I’m actually w/ Jack Black on this, because condoning violence is never okay, even for someone as distasteful as Trump.
That said, I think it was an overreaction. Maybe there’s more to it and this was the last straw. Idk.
That said, I’m sure Kyle is doing fine.
Not condoning violence against a fascist is rolling over and letting them get away with fascist shit. I take it you think Brian Thompson deserves sympathy as well?
Regardless of whether Kyle Gass is doing fine, it still reveals either a weak character on Jack Black’s part or significant ideological disagreement with my own beliefs. To an extent that I find him much less appealing as an actor or performer.
If violence against a corporate ghoul, fascist, or nazi saves more lives in the long run, it is 100% justified. If Crooks had not missed we’d be living in a much better world right now and far fewer people would be in serious danger.
I take it you think Brian Thompson deserves sympathy as well?
Yes. I think he was a pile of trash (esp. since my company uses his insurance company), but I will only consider violence as an absolute last resort. These types of problems can and should be solved without violence. Unfortunately, those types of solutions take a lot more time and effort, so I totally understand the desire for a quick fix, esp. for those who are suffering.
So while I think Brian Thompson deserves sympathy, I think Luigi Mangione and everyone who supports him does as well. Likewise for both Trump and those who support the attempted assassinations.
significant ideological disagreement with my own beliefs
I don’t see what this has to do with watching a film with him in it. I have deep ideological disagreements with a lot of popular content, but I watch it because that content has nothing to do with that ideological disagreement.
I’ll certainly boycott things that are directly related to my ideological disagreements (e.g. I avoid Nestle products due to their unethical sales tactics in Africa), but I’m not going to boycott something just because someone I disagree with is involved (e.g. I’m happy to use Brave despite completely disagreeing w/ Brendan Eich about same-sex marriage).
Watching a Jack Black film doesn’t impact Jack Black’s public views about Trump’s assassination attempts, the two are completely unrelated. Refusing to go to a Tenacious D concert if Jack Black decides to go on tour w/o Kyle Gass could have an impact though.
If violence against a corporate ghoul, fascist, or nazi saves more lives in the long run, it is 100% justified
I absolutely disagree. The ends do not justify the means.
If we condone violence as an effective means to achieve political results, we’re literally supporting terrorism, because that’s what that is:
terrorism - The use of violence or the threat of violence, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political goals.
If we condone violence as an effective means to achieve political results, we’re literally supporting terrorism, because that’s what that is:
I never said “political ends”. I was reasonably specific “fewer people dying in the long run”.
Do you take issue with terrorism because of the results (immediate deaths + chilling effects) or because it is unvirtuous? Because I don’t care about virtue at all.
I also don’t put powerful people on the same level as a regular “civilian”. When you take on a powerful position and then proceed to abuse the position so thoroughly that you cause mass deaths you might as well be a military general. In Trump’s case, he’s now literally the commander in chief of the US military.
I also want to point out that I don’t even believe in free will and my ethical frame work here isn’t that I simply want to “take out the trash” or seek vengeance. On a purely rational level I want the harm to stop, not to make Trump or Brian Thompson suffer or die. If there is a reasonable means to achieving that without killing them I would be in favor. But failing to find a pacifistic alternative I actually would say it is an ethical failure not to.
Do you take issue with terrorism because of the results (immediate deaths + chilling effects) or because it is unvirtuous? Because I don’t care about virtue at all.
Closer to virtue, but more on the practical end that it’s not a sustainable model. If you recognize terrorism an an effective political tool, where does it end? That’s a rabbit hole that should not be explored IMO, and the only form we should get anywhere close to supporting is a popular revolution, which isn’t terrorism because it’s popular, and even so it should be used incredibly rarely.
I also don’t put powerful people on the same level as a regular “civilian”.
The difference between a powerful person and a “regular” person is in the amount of responsibility they have, and responsibility should come with penalties if it’s not used properly. Execs that break the law should be jailed, not shot.
I don’t even believe in free will
As in predestination? Or as in, we’re all automatons/there’s nothing “special” about humanity?
I want the harm to stop
Assassination rarely inspires reflection, it usually inspires draconian measures to protect the targets. The healthcare industry isn’t reflecting on how they should treat their subscribers, they’re reflecting on how they can protect their CEOs. The US government isn’t reflecting on Trump’s policies, they’re reflecting on how they can protect the President.
Real change comes from getting the quiet majority on the same page and energized to do something about it. A lone gunman isn’t that.
