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Hip-Hop ERA |OT2| I Put the Fish in My Glove and I Freaked It.
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wild how the outro on 'emotionless' is the best part of scorpion.
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God, "Joker" is mediocre as fuck.
It's shallow as fuck and people out here pretending it's the next "Taxi Driver."
It's shallow as fuck and people out here pretending it's the next "Taxi Driver."
I don't get how every time there's positive impressions on social media people lose their minds, like chill the fuck out.
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That's because nobody panics when things go "according to the plan".
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Todd Phillips has no sense of nuance and this film is butchered because of it.
God, I'm annoyed at how bullshit this film's acclaim is. It'll probably win Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar and I will rage like the heavens have never known.
God, I'm annoyed at how bullshit this film's acclaim is. It'll probably win Phoenix the Best Actor Oscar and I will rage like the heavens have never known.
I think a fun exercise would be to see which rappers have the potential to climb spots (ex/ Kendrick will end his career top 10 DOA no question )
Not looking forward to getting worked up again over people ignoring his MAGA shot and blowing Kanye in the JIK
Joker is a generational talent let down by a script and director who don't understand nuance who think ," This is heavy and dark , so it's deep. Just trust us on this."
I dunno, even with his MAGA stint it's very hard to argue against Kanye being one of the most influential rapper producers in history.
Phoenix can join the pile of other best actor winners who deserved the award but got it for the wrong film
the master, her, inherent vice...whew
the master, her, inherent vice...whew
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The new Gesaffelstein EP bangs. Closer to Aleph than Hyperion, and a lot more fun/full of energy than the pop nonsense on Hyperion.
i'm really curious about your thoughts RE: the ehrlich review now that you've seen it
Took me a second listen of the new Danny Brown for me to realize yeah this record is fantastic. I guess I just expected the instant head-pummeling catharsis of Atrocity Exhibition to translate into this despite the change in direction, but jumping into this was more like jumping into a cold pool in the summer. Once you warm up to it, it's so damn good.
Gesaffelstein's new EP is pretty tight, though it doesn't seem as uniformly high-gain oriented as Aleph which might make some a bit reticent to thinking "he's back". As one of the five people who thought half of Hyperion was pretty good, this was a nice return to form.
Gesaffelstein's new EP is pretty tight, though it doesn't seem as uniformly high-gain oriented as Aleph which might make some a bit reticent to thinking "he's back". As one of the five people who thought half of Hyperion was pretty good, this was a nice return to form.
Officially an asset at this point, like Trump is for the Russians. Unforgivable.
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I think Ehrlich gives this film a lot more credit than it frankly deserves. It's not a grand reinvention of "dark superhero cinema". Rather, it's intellectual click-bait. It's the kind of movie that begs you to give it a watch because its "provocative" and "edgy" and "contemporary" only for you to discover its only superficially so with no attempt to be deep.
Ehrlich's thesis, the way I see it, is this:
But, I don't see that "provocative spirit". In other words, it doesn't provoke for a reason. All I see is the edgelord's fingerprints on a script that's provocative because it gets the people going. There's nothing justifying the need to provoke.
I think Ehrlich is trying too hard to justify why "Joker" should be talked about in intellectual circles, when it really shouldn't. He, and the rest of critics, fell for Joker's trick.
So I went on a date with zoolady today and it went great! We didn't go to the zoo since the weather is bad in The Netherlands, but we did feed carrots to deer. Second date sometime next week. Thanks for the prayers brehs.
i generally agree and think any speculation about what acts might be 'inspired' by this were, expectedly, completely unjustified, but i also don't understand how anyone could have taken that away from watching this. the movie is basically "Bernie Goetz inspires Occupy Wall Street" - two cultural events that were widely discussed amongst the public at large without inspiring anyone to start randomly murdering people - and it's cynical to the point of being nihilistic. the titular character all but looks (or maybe he actually does?) straight into the camera and says "I HAVE NO IDEOLOGY." what is there to even emulate?
i don't think i disliked it as much as you, though i like it less the more i think about it. i think there's some interesting themes - what happens when income disparity hits a boiling point, the exploitation of clearly aggrieved or mentally ill people for entertainment - but it doesn't really seem interested in exploring them beyond picking them up and being like "hey, look at this" and then putting them back on the shelf.
looks like Observe and Report will remain my favorite Taxi Driver remake for the time being
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Its because of this that I dislike it a lot. It takes the Benioff & Weiss approach to themes and symbolism and subtlety and nuance.
The script is the weakest part of this whole endeavor and is a large part of why this whole film turns me off so much.
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Let me clarify. The performance is not bad. The script, on the other hand, lets down Joaquin.
i won't lie, Phillips missed an opportunity to really flip the comic book genre on it's head. i was hoping that after he climbed into the fridge, it would just be that same shot for 45 minutes before the door opened again and you hear
"ICE TO MEET YOU"
and Shwarzenegger's Mr Freeze emerges before cutting to black
"ICE TO MEET YOU"
and Shwarzenegger's Mr Freeze emerges before cutting to black
What's that song y'all all thought would blow up but never did?
Thought this song had it all but might've just not been as catchy as I find it. Thought it was a prime Breezy hook. Just reading online now, seems like it dropped post- Rihanna situation and Juelz refused to replace Breezy with Trey Songz on the hook, interesting. Trey Songz is seemingly, eternally popular/successful but like I never encounter his music ANYWHERE, it's so odd.
Also basically every Ramriddlz x Jaegen song.
Thought this song had it all but might've just not been as catchy as I find it. Thought it was a prime Breezy hook. Just reading online now, seems like it dropped post- Rihanna situation and Juelz refused to replace Breezy with Trey Songz on the hook, interesting. Trey Songz is seemingly, eternally popular/successful but like I never encounter his music ANYWHERE, it's so odd.
Also basically every Ramriddlz x Jaegen song.
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