Classic Conversation Thread

[The Futurist]

1 hour ago, TMP said:

I don't know, maybe I'm a biased Leftovers shill but this show sounds incredibly fascinating and a much more interesting direction to take Watchmen than just "Dr. Manhattan fights Superman!". I'm sure it'll be very, very controversial and inspire hot takes from both sides though considering they made Rorschach a symbol of white supremacy.

So Brave.

[TMP]

4 minutes ago, CoolioD1 said:

yeah the movie downplays these aspects i think, but in the comic he's Travis Bickle the superhero for sure.

I thought Moore was just flat-out ripping off Taxi Driver with Rorschach the first time I read it.

i still kind of do.

[Ozymandias]

what in the fuck hong kong

[Ozymandias]

8 hours ago, TMP said:

RIP.

oh nice just what i needed after a really shitty day at work

[Porthos]

Also there's this:

 

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There’s also a white supremacist group that calls themselves “The Seventh Calvary” running around in Rorschach masks. Lindelof said that gets at the one of the main themes of his series: Appropriation.

“We understand that we’re appropriating the original ‘Watchmen.’ Characters in this show are appropriating iconic ideas like the Rorschach mask,” he continued. “The idea that the Seventh Cavalry, who seem to be presenting a white supremacist ideology in the pilot, have appropriated Rorschach based on his writings, as a white supremacist. Rorschach is dead, he’s not around to basically say, ‘You got it all wrong.'”

 

People running around in the name of other people and getting that person's message (perhaps) wrong?  Without them having the chance to at least say "No, that's not what I meant?"

 

More timely than ever.  

[TMP]

2 minutes ago, Porthos said:

Also there's this:

 

 

People running around in the name of other people and getting that person's message (perhaps) wrong?  Without them having the chance to at least say "No, that's not what I meant?"

 

More timely than ever.  

Them regurgitating his words while perverting the message in the trailer already gave me a sense that the show was doing this, but Lindelof saying it's one of the central themes of the show makes me really excited to see where they take this concept

[Mekanos]

8 minutes ago, TMP said:

I thought Moore was just flat-out ripping off Taxi Driver with Rorschach the first time I read it.

i still kind of do.

Think Moore just wanted to show how pathetic fascists were deep down. 

[DAR]

RIP to Rutger Hauer.  I always loved a late 80s movie he did called Blind Fury

 

Also of note both he and his most famous character Roy Batty both died in 2019

[Eric Duncan]

2 hours ago, TMP said:

 I'm sure it'll be very, very controversial and inspire hot takes from both sides though considering they made Rorschach a symbol of white supremacy.

Is @Rorschach cancelled?????

[DAR]

I’m very excited for the show.  But the actual graphic novel itself is one of those things I respect more than I actually like 

[dxmatrixdt]

ever made your way as far as Coruscant?

[cannastop]

 

[Plain Old Tele]

I nominate this as Article of the Year. Thank you, Jalopnik. 

 

https://jalopnik.com/i-took-a-dump-the-same-way-the-apollo-astronauts-did-an-1836637152

[filmlover]

 

@CoolEric258 The King will also be premiering there.

[CJohn]

13 hours ago, MCKillswitch123 said:

We went from a time where SIC could promote to exhaustion and it would flop to SIC can hardly promote and it's a hit. It's like TVI for years on end, but people are tuned in on Channel 3 instead. I hope SIC doesn't end on autopilot like TVI did all during all these years. Like, just this past Monday, they blew past 20% daily share IN JULY. Sundays are still rough, but they come close to TVI, who only wins because of Somos Portugal, really.

 

They literally just unveiled today Nazaré, their new soap opera (replacement to Alma e Coração). Will be set on Nazaré, will star a girl called Nazaré (played by Carolina Loureiro) and will be about survivors of Pedrógão Grande. Will also feature sexually non-binary people for the 1st time ever in Portuguese fiction, as well as anorexia in males. And it's written by the same lady that brought us Deixa Que Te Leve, Doce Tentação and Espírito Indomável, meaning that the comedy will be great, at the very least. This is another mega hit waiting to happen.

 

À Descoberta is basically an extension of that SOS Animal show they aired a few years ago. A famous zoologist travels abroad with a celeb to see beautiful landscapes and then meet animals in risk and protect them. It's a cute concept and it could've done some strong business on Saturday night, considering how Comedy On The Edge has performed so far and how much people love the wildlife docs on SIC.

 

And finally, for the record, Comercial is still the most listened to radio in the country..... by a few inches, because RFM is literally at its ankles. And the Renascença group now has a bigger market share than Prisa/Media Capital.

HOLY SHIT AT CAROLINA LOUREIRO BEING THE LEAD. THE YOUNG MALE VIEWERSHIP WILL SKYROCKET!!!!! She is the Instagram Queen. Maybe the hottest actress working right now? 

 

 

Also, biggest first week of all time. Do I dare to say Avatar is in danger?

https://www.ica-ip.pt/fotos/downloads/box_office_semanal_18_a_24_julho_2019_254785d3979da4a144.pdf

[Cap]

 

I need someone to publish the whole memoir Right. Now.  SOOO INTERESTING.

[MCKillswitch123]

6 hours ago, CJohn said:

HOLY SHIT AT CAROLINA LOUREIRO BEING THE LEAD. THE YOUNG MALE VIEWERSHIP WILL SKYROCKET!!!!! She is the Instagram Queen. Maybe the hottest actress working right now? 

  

 

Also, biggest first week of all time. Do I dare to say Avatar is in danger?

https://www.ica-ip.pt/fotos/downloads/box_office_semanal_18_a_24_julho_2019_254785d3979da4a144.pdf

Yup, it's either her or Daniela Melchior imo. I mean.... Goddamn, she looked good in the 1st teaser for the soap. And if she's that popular on social media, well, yeah, Nazaré is going to blow up.

 

May very well be. Jesus Christ, the gross powah of Disney.

[TMP]

7 hours ago, filmlover said:

 

@CoolEric258 The King will also be premiering there.

Wow, it's the actor who gave the best male performance of 2017 and Timothée Chalamet? great cast.

[MrGamer]

Netflix, Amazon, and Disney are all looking to strike a film/TV deal with them.

[JB33]

@terrestrial Out of curiosity, what was the toughest part of teaching yourself English?