David Lynch's disastrous version at least used a lot of the actual book dialogue which did give the film a resonant literary quality (though there were a lot of clunkers, "I am the Shadout Mapes! The housekeeper!") which did help raise its quality. Denis De Villeneuve's version was visually splendid but rewrote the bookish dialogue, poorly, in a shallow, often vapid way. Jason Momoa now came across as a surfer brag in every scene while Z*enda!ya looked great but spoke like a Berkley social studies sophomore. Combined with Zimmer's lacklustre generic music, compared to the famous 1984 Toto/Eno score, mean that I personally like the earlier film - an acknowledged car crash of epic proportions - more than the new one.
Hi all! Cross-posted from HousingUk.
TL:DR - We're working professionals and after moving into flat in July 2020 we've declined to renew our yearly lease with our predominately student agency. Agency contacted us at 16:30 on Friday, insisting we allow them to film our flat for promo materials on Monday, but I work from home, am extremely high risk to COVID, and have an open stalking case with the police. Agency want to post the video on YouTube with full address and identifying items (including the fridge's contents) but we're still living here till end of June. We're in Wales. Please help.
Really need some help on this please. My fiancΓ©e and I are young professionals both working in television and we've lived in our 1 bed flat since July 2020 on a yearly lease. Last week we were asked if we wanted to renew our lease again for the next academic year (our flat is available to students and professionals), but have decided to move on - our lease is up on 30th June 2022.
We've had a pretty good relationship with our landlord and a good relationship with the agency, mutually helping each other when we've had repeated issues with aggressive neighbours where we've had to call the police, and we've gone out of our way to fix up the flat and our landlord has seemed pleased. Our agency though is a big city one that mainly caters to students and were investigated by Joe Lycett's show for violating some tenant rights and deposit issues - they also haven't seemed to be very good at communicating with our landlord in 2021 (a dresser which was broken when we moved in and broke further in May 2021, damaging clothes, has still not been fixed). As we're now leaving the flat this June, the agency has informed us this afternoon that they are coming on Monday to film a promo video. This is what we need urgent help with.
For context: in late 2020, our agency insisted on filming a video. We resisted this because I'm extremely high risk to COVID and have shielded and I work crazy hours from home in a TV job so I can't really reschedule meetings. Another major issue is that the agency kept addressing us as though we were students who could take our belongings home with us or hide them in our 'real homes'...but we kept telling them that we live there permanently and have a lot of identifying items that we can't reasonably hide in the one tiny store cupboard. This particularly is a major issue as we are unfortunately the victims of an open stalking and harassment case in the
... keep reading on reddit β‘I'm sure he'll come around, eventually.
And with a little production value, I think itl be rather watchable
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A TON of people I know never read a comic in their lives, will go on about superman never kills and that's not how superman is and blah blah blah and irs pretty frustrating. Thinking they know the character from cartoons they watched our what they've heard. The gist is, they say this isn't how superman is supposed to be so when I watch it I'm going to take the same mentality with me. I have expectations and if they aren't met therefor it's bad. Same with critics. They expected and insisted they understood what the movie SHOULD have been and therefor didn't like it.
As pretentious as this sounds, I honestly think general audiences and critics of these types of movies, simply didn't understand it. Went over their heads or they didn't want to immerse themsleves in what the film actually was instead of what they WANTED and expected. It took a different approach and people just didn't want to give it a chance. It wasmt just dumb fun and that's what they wanted from a superhero movie.
but my favorite complaint is "superman kills zod that's so bad! Superman doesnt do that! He could have just flown away!"
Number one, he couldn't just fly away. Zod was purposely trying to keep the fight in the city and murder as many people as possible. He already killed hundreds of people. Zod confirmed to clark that he was never ever going to stop, so he killed him. And hated doing it. It broke him to kill the last of his kind.
Now let's talk superman 2. Everyone's favorite. The best superman people say. And I grew up on that movie. Does NO ONE remember that he murdered zod and his buddies? He took their powers and threw them in a pit, killing them. And THEN HE LAUGHS about it. Basks in his victory with lois.
So don't tell me superman never kills lol. It's a live action movie. It doesn't make sense for heroes to never have to kill. This isn't a cartoon, it's supposed to be based on reality. even marvel understands that, everyoneeee there kills soooo many people even freaking spiderman kills who is a child has a kill mode on his awful suit that he does in fact use.
So at this point the "he doesn't kill" seems entirely invalid. He does, he has, and no one cared then.
Probably the most notorious examples of this were Zack Snyder's Man of Steel and Batman V Superman. The worst recent example in my memory was The Old Guard
So I saw two films in the collection today, namely Bruno Dumont's La Vie de JΓ©sus, and Jean Renoir's Toni, and alas, despite both having admirable traits, neither film particularly clicked with me.
In the case of Dumont, it was my first ever viewing, and I'll admit, I found the aesthetic so bland that I ultimately just passed on the movie, while with the Renoir, I genuinely loved Grand Illusion, but Toni felt ultimately too lazy for it's melodrama narrative.
So, for the sake of a (calm and intelligent) discussion, what are some Criterion titles that ultimately fell flat for you? There are no wrong answers, and we're here to be friendly and cordial, but I wanna see if anybody else has had similar experiences.
Would this finally silence all the doubters? Maybe this could at least slow the downward spiral of mankind caused by our own poisonous ideas...
Obviously I'm talking about Nicolo.
Scene 1 = During a flashback, Nicolo is shown as a captive and used as a sort of bait at the start of the episode as the squad is capturing yet another ship of Marleyans.
Scene 2 = After a short timeskip, we see Nicolo cooking seafood for the squad and Sasha absolutely loving it.
Scene 3 = After a timeskip back to the present, Nicolo is shown utterly devastated and mourning by Sasha's grave, and in the process has a touching moment with Sasha's friends and family.
Before this episode / chapter in the manga, we didn't know Nicolo. By the time he and Sasha's dad are shaking hands, we feel as though we've gone through all these same emotions as him having lost someone. In the anime, that's just several minutes worth of screentime all in all, and in the end we totally buy into his thing with Sasha and are affected by it!
How is it that Shingeki No Kyojin can introduce a completely new character to us and make us feel invested in and devastated by their emotions all in the span of several scenes / panels worth of exposure, while some films and tv shows spend hours developing similar relationships but end up flat?
What is it about how Nicolo was introduced that made it so easy to buy into his thing with Sasha? I'm just amazed by the writing able to pull off so much with so little.
Iβm sure heβll come around, eventually.
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