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| Topic | PiOverlord's Best CEer Tournament Day 26 |
| Zithers 07/18/20 5:34:53 PM #48 | PiOverlord posted... If only every matchup could have such high turnout. yeah i am very popular this has to make me the favorite to win president of gamefaqs right?? --- |
| Topic | So..this is my built PC |
| Zithers 07/18/20 4:22:51 AM #4 | im going to bed good night and enjoy the pc --- |
| Topic | So..this is my built PC |
| Zithers 07/18/20 4:20:14 AM #2 | |
| Topic | PiOverlord's Best CEer Tournament Day 26 |
| Zithers 07/18/20 12:22:26 AM #22 | |
| Topic | PiOverlord's Best CEer Tournament Day 26 |
| Zithers 07/17/20 9:40:06 PM #4 | |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/17/20 1:20:22 AM #65 | codey posted... I haven't fully gone through HBO Max's library (since my parents have it not me) but when I was over me and my dad looked through it and they've got a decent library of old westerns if they're your jam. https://www.vulture.com/article/best-movies-hbo-max.html lots of crossover with the criterion channel... along with a few titles that were on filmstruck (rip to the goat) --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/16/20 8:12:26 PM #63 | Kastrada posted... FUCK YOU DEAF PEOPLE - Zithers its true im ableist --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/16/20 8:11:43 PM #62 | |
| Topic | Man that Zithers guy has really good taste in movies |
| Zithers 07/16/20 12:46:44 AM #26 | |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/16/20 12:05:22 AM #55 | coh posted... why lol. I like having subtitles on even if the voices are in English because it helps me focus on it more. ruining the visuals with words that are often not even matching the words that are spoken!!!!!! --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/16/20 12:03:19 AM #53 | WafflehouseJK posted... Closed Captioning, bro. having subtitles on is an abomination against god actually --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/14/20 9:55:42 PM #52 | Thunder_Armor posted... The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly is one of my all-time favorites and it came out way before I was born. It's not pre-1960 but that's close enough right? actually that was the old movie i saw that made me go 'whoa, old movies can be cool.' caught it on AMC one night and decided to watch it since the guide gave it 4 stars. was 4 hours long with commercials. i almost couldn't breathe because of how intense the final 30 minutes were. and then i was like 'damn i should watch the other 4 star old movies' which led to me finding out about TCM and i think the first movie i saw on there was 12 angry men. just snowballed from there really. --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/14/20 12:29:49 AM #37 | Kastrada posted... If I ever have kids, I will unironically raise them on Battleship Potemkin. If not for indoctrinating them politically then to at least make sure they have a healthy understanding of how dangerous stairs can be! also the importance of good editing... man our kids would hate us --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 11:40:23 PM #32 | Herodopus posted... cuz they're fuck ugly, dull, and everyone's voice is shit i mean, most current releases are fuck ugly... ? --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 11:39:33 PM #31 | ZeroX91 posted... 12 angry jurors and Mr. Smith goes to Washington were good....uhh does young frankenstein count? love 12 angry jurors young frankenstein doesn't count. made post-1967. sorry. it is pretty great though. --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 10:41:25 PM #29 | ThanksUglyGod posted... It's a combination of all those things and more. But sometimes I do really like old movies. what happened in 1992 --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 9:57:28 PM #22 | StarReaper13 posted... I watch them with my dad. I think it makes him happy. top 1 reason i'm considering having a child: i can indoctrinate them into liking old movies --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 3:05:24 PM #21 | Kastrada posted... Yeah but you value things like stylistic touches and inventive techniques across all aspects of filmmaking. going to have to rethink my value system --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 12:44:27 AM #12 | Kastrada posted... Other: There are no "old" movies. Just Pre-Code, Code, and Post-Code movies. i dunno i kinda like the new hollywood demarcation. plus stylistically speaking pre-code wasn't all that off from later 30s stuff outside of maybe a bit more camera movement as movies got used to dealing with new sound equipment. --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 12:35:02 AM #7 | El Mexicano Texano posted... I recently saw A Patch of Blue I hadn't seen it in 5 years or so. Watch it if you haven't. got that one dvr'd off TCM along with like 1,600 other movies fml --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 12:29:05 AM #3 | EffectAndCause posted... Theyre boring. what are some not boring movies... ? which old movies have you watched??? what is boring about them exactly? --- |
| Topic | How come you don't like watching old (pre-1970) movies??? |
| Zithers 07/13/20 12:27:56 AM #1 | pick one
Vote
why don't more people watch them wtf --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/06/20 2:02:02 AM #60 | |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 4:03:30 PM #58 | If you want to learn more about cinema, back when Hollywood was still giving large amounts of creative control to the best filmmakers in the world, I recommend watching the docuseries, A Personal Journey Through American Movies with Martin Scorsese. Part 1 is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCH-6LKQTPA Basically Scorsese talking about what inspired him, with tons of clips of old movies. Pretty good! --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 2:24:10 PM #56 | |
| Topic | PiOverlord's 2020 Coverage of the National CEer Nomination Race |
| Zithers 07/04/20 4:39:27 AM #169 | CalypsoDoom posted... Youll probably win. People here hate me to the point of death and rape threats so disturbing do you want to end our vicious rivalry and begin a joint campaign so that we have a better chance of taking down the evil parappa09 and eventually winning it all... ? --- |
| Topic | What's up with the text editing options (bold, italics, quote, etc.)? |
| Zithers 07/04/20 4:30:45 AM #7 | |
| Topic | PiOverlord's 2020 Coverage of the National CEer Nomination Race |
| Zithers 07/04/20 4:22:14 AM #166 | i'll fuck parappa09 up if i get the chance --- |
| Topic | PiOverlord's 2020 Coverage of the National CEer Nomination Race |
| Zithers 07/04/20 4:10:31 AM #161 | great i'm up against a girl i'm gonna get my ass kicked --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 4:03:48 AM #53 | v unfortunate that isn't a real list --- |
| Topic | PiOverlord's 2020 Coverage of the National CEer Nomination Race |
| Zithers 07/04/20 3:55:56 AM #158 | just remembered someone nominated me for this assuming ive already been eliminated or something fill me in on the deets --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 3:37:47 AM #51 | Guerrilla Soldier posted... literally every piece of cinema is made by a committee. each one of them has a massive credits list at the end of all of the people involved in creating it. Right, but a director is generally give more or less power to do what they want depending on who is financing it. If I give a bunch of money to Paul Thomas Anderson and let him do whatever, I'm not going to claim credit even though my name runs at the end of it as Executive Producer. When it comes to cinema, you're generally letting directors do their own thing. It's why you can watch a bunch of Alfred Hitchcock or Woody Allen or Chris Nolan movies and see the same themes, shots, musical choices, etc pop up. Do they have different writers, editors, production designers, costume people, actors, etc helping out? Sure. But they have a signature filmmaking style. You can watch a scene or two at random from their filmographies and correctly guess who made it. A lot of modern blockbusters don't do this though. You can't watch a bunch of Jon Favreau movies and point out anything besides their vanilla style. His movies and these big studio movies have too much riding on them to take risks or do something interesting so they play it safe and make sure people won't hate it too much if at all. And that isn't cinema. It's a movie or it's art or whatever but it isn't cinema as defined in the OP. --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 3:05:28 AM #47 | GameGodOfAll posted... They're cinema no matter how much it upsets people. This is some real weird low tier gatekeeping shit I don't get, but whatever. I'm not the one who has a problem with the basic facts. I don't see how it's gatekeeping. No one is saying you can only enjoy one or the other. Super weird how simply saying they aren't unique visions triggers people so badly. It's okay to admit you like them. A lot of people do. Also they aren't cinema. Detailed this in the OP. --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 1:22:39 AM #39 | SuperShake666 posted... Watching a few black and white foreign films does not mean you have a film degree. ? --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 12:44:55 AM #36 | BettyWhite posted... What's your favorite super hero movie Zithers? If any. I'm wagering... Hmm.. Batman(1989) The Incredibles obv. SmidgeIsntBack posted... And I never said anything about Madea's maturity or quality (the Mature Cinephiles comment is just what this topic smells like), I used it as an example because it is one of those "generic Hollywood blockbusters" pushed out on a conveyor belt, despite being written and produced by Tyler Perry like the rest of the series. I actually mentioned the Corona Christmas commercial earlier. For all I know Tyler Perry is an auteur as well, just not a good one. Haven't seen or read much about his movies tbh. --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/04/20 12:14:36 AM #30 | ImAMarvel posted... Yes but the MCU and capeshit will save theaters as a whole when everything opens up again. And then when people are willing to go see superhero movies on the big screen again, they're going to be far more willing to see literally everything else, including smaller-budget, arthouse movies. Just you watch. I mean, I kinda doubt it given the trauma people are experiencing over the pandemic. People will probably go to the movies less and make it even more focused on only seeing mega budget stuff. SmidgeIsntBack posted... this is a weird response to me saying Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalgia and Boo 2! A Madea Halloween occupy the same medium and that no amount of Venn diagrams will be able to clearly label just one as Mature Cinema For Mature Cinephiles Such As Myself I never said anything about maturity or quality. Cinema can be bad or juvenile. Michael Bay or Zack Snyder for example have unique visions that seem generally unimpeded. --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/03/20 11:40:24 PM #23 | ImAMarvel posted... I'm going to laugh like crazy when the MCU makes theaters profitable again Well yeah, cinema doesn't make a whole lot of money these days. --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/03/20 11:39:55 PM #22 | Balrog0 posted... Which commercials are cinema iyo @Zithers Don't have cable so can't really say. Although I do like the Corona beach Christmas commercial actually... --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/03/20 11:19:00 PM #14 | SmidgeIsntBack posted... Luv 2 gatekeep things I enjoy. I'm absolutely crazy about drawing lines in the sand between my favorite things and your favorite things. The gate to cinema is open for you to enjoy. Never been easier. Criterion Channel, Mubi, Turner Classic Movies, along with digital marketplace rentals on Google Play, iTunes, and Amazon have thousands of titles to enjoy outside of the lamestream Hollywood purview. --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/03/20 11:10:44 PM #7 | RevivedPacifist posted... we are all dying every day It's true. Soderbergh even touches on this in his speech. If the collective works of Shakespeare can't prevent genocide, then what's the point of art? Check it out brah!! --- |
| Topic | Reminder since you have may forgotten: the MCU isn't cinema |
| Zithers 07/03/20 11:07:07 PM #1 | Since theaters are closed and new movies trickle in via streaming services or virtual cinemas with little fanfare, I feel it is important to remind you all that the MCU is not cinema, nor are various other franchise films that Hollywood keeps making and giving $300m advertising budgets to. It is also important to remind you that "cinema" much like thousands of other words in the English language has various definitions. You may go to Google and see the following: a theater where movies are shown for public entertainment; a movie theater. or motion picture usually used attributively However, and this is certainly not common knowledge, those who consider themselves movie enthusiasts have a separate definition of "cinema." I guess it could be seen as a parallel to people who separate books into literature and not literature. Personally, I like to default to Steven Soderbergh's definition of the term, which he gave during a keynote speech at the San Francisco International Film Festival several years ago: Now we finally arrive at the subject of this rant, which is the state of cinema. First of all, is there a difference between cinema and movies? Yeah. If I were on Team America, Id say Fuck yeah! The simplest way that I can describe it is that a movie is something you see, and cinema is something thats made. It has nothing to do with the captured medium, it doesnt have anything to do with where the screen is, if its in your bedroom, your iPad, it doesnt even really have to be a movie. It could be a commercial, it could be something on YouTube. Cinema is a specificity of vision. Its an approach in which everything matters. Its the polar opposite of generic or arbitrary and the result is as unique as a signature or a fingerprint. It isnt made by a committee, and it isnt made by a company, and it isnt made by the audience. It means that if this filmmaker didnt do it, it either wouldnt exist at all, or it wouldnt exist in anything like this form. This expands cinema into realms outside of feature films of course: TikTok, Vine, YouTube, television, etc. Now, under this definition, we cannot say that Marvel, nor any other number of generic blockbusters Hollywood produces each year, is cinema. It is a term reserved for works that allow a filmmaker to work on their own terms, without the restraints of appealing to every quadrant, China, etc. It's also okay to like these movies. Just don't act like they're worthy of being in the same discussion as real cinema. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk. BTW you can watch the rest of Soderbergh's speech here. Or you can look up a transcript (the URL I copied it from is too long). It's pretty interesting. He's a smart guy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=ZQrFSUwFwUM --- |
| Topic | Creating a fictional sports league with the following nations. Help me name them |
| Zithers 06/14/20 12:19:35 AM #3 | Nigeria is really kicking ass, you guys. --- |
| Topic | Creating a fictional sports league with the following nations. Help me name them |
| Zithers 06/13/20 12:26:06 AM #2 | So I edited the nationality % of generated players from actual 2019 totals, which is 65% United States. So I bumped up every nation 1% in terms of how many players are generated besides the USA, Dominican Republic (was 17%) and Venezuela (was 8.5%). I took 2% from the latter two and put it into "random country" along with another 1% from America to make them an even 25%. No nation is above 5% except for these three. Keep in mind these nations won't have players of their nationality only on their team (I could do that manually but it'd be a pain in the ass). Plus some of these teams would be very obviously dog shit if I did that. Japan would win the East 99% of the time and the two American divisions would obliterate the two European divisions. This is just to start the league and I made the draft pool to be 100% random nationality so... I'm wondering if there's dynamic evolving where the talent from certain nations improves. Most of the non-American nations in the league are 1/5 stars. Might improve if they have a good baseball team and more people start playing baseball as a result. No idea! Haven't done this before so we'll find out! No wildcard teams, only division winners make the playoffs and they've got to win three series of seven games to become champs. --- |
| Topic | Creating a fictional sports league with the following nations. Help me name them |
| Zithers 06/12/20 11:30:24 PM #1 | genuine cool name suggestions based on the nation's history would probably get a boost... although i'm all for funny meme names as well. divisions are a bit wonky but whatever. West N America - USA, Canada, Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico S America - Venezuela, Brazil, Cuba, Chile, Argentina E Europe - France, Germany, Spain, UK, Switzerland W Europe - Sweden, Russia, Italy, Greece, Turkey East Africa - Nigeria, Kenya, South Africa, Egypt, Morocco Middle East - India, UAE, Israel, Palestine, Iran East Asia - Japan, China, South Korea, North Korea, Vietnam Oceania - Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand will update everyone on who wins this fictional baseball league's world series later. --- |
| Topic | PiOverlord's 2020 Social Boards Presidential Election (Best CEer Tournament) Nom |
| Zithers 06/06/20 2:14:48 AM #82 | |
| Topic | The 88 Precinct in New York has been overrun |
| Zithers 05/29/20 10:58:53 PM #49 | good evening everyone i live next door to the 84th precinct and sadly it is not being overrun https://twitter.com/zachmood/status/1266554343156789250 also from protesters on my tl it appears as if the 88th is sealed off in a 3 block radius and no one is actually seizing it --- |
| Topic | Was the MCU the worst thing to happen to cinema? |
| Zithers 05/24/20 12:27:02 AM #42 | Also the studio system Hollywood from 30s-50s is easily my fav era for movies so not sure I can agree on Hays Code being the worst. --- |
| Topic | Was the MCU the worst thing to happen to cinema? |
| Zithers 05/24/20 12:25:44 AM #41 | Amok did a good write-up. The 1937 Fox and 1965 MGM fires also destroyed various one-and-only prints of films that are, like, gone forever. The death of New Hollywood and creation of the high concept blockbuster in the late 70s/early 80s is pretty bad though. As good as Jaws and Star Wars are, they inspired a bunch of idiots and led to the dumbing down of movies for drooling audiences to the point where we have people protesting for a Zack Snyder special edition and people sob over Marvel crap. And movies are, on the whole, pretty bad now. Less are being made by top talent and studios throw their weight behind vision-less stooges who make movies that appeal to as many quadrants as possible. No thought put into any aspect of filmmaking and all the focus is on branding and marketing. Lol! RIP to our culture! --- |
| Topic | does anyone want to join another discord??? |
| Zithers 05/17/20 5:36:12 PM #18 | |
| Topic | does anyone want to join another discord??? |
| Zithers 05/17/20 12:18:59 AM #10 | Pus_N_Pecans posted... I still don't understand what Discord's all about. Is the QCW one popular? it's just like an aim chat room or irc server... if you remember those. or a more involved group text / slack. the QCW one is pretty dead. it gets random bursts of activity every now and then. feel free to come spice it up a bit. --- |
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