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i think that guilt-tripping the adults who are convinced they're the target audience for children's cartoons into listening to rap can only lead to funny outcomes

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NOT ANOTHER ONE

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happy birthday, the star war!

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i got a dropout subscription a few months back and i feel like i got in at exactly the right time. every single episode of the most recent season of game changer has been a winner somehow, and the current season of dimension 20 is appointment television despite being a dungeons and dragons show you can't even listen to while stuck in traffic

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they keep increasing the amount of robert downey jrs on the sympathizer. i think he's supposed to represent how going to dinner with four rich white guys is like having to sit through four robert downey jr performances

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the muse ⬇️

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just watched the first two episodes of "the sympathizer" on hbo. park chan-wook's doing the teleplay and directing the first three episodes, and if you've seen any of his movies you know why this material spoke to him. this show is probably not going to be seen by many americans because so much of it is in vietnamese, but please check it out. it's cynically funny and desperately sad. the moment that most stuck out to me in the first episode was the scene where the main character is told that he won't be allowed to live in a united vietnam because the north needs him to keep spying in the USA. you can viscerally feel the heartbreak of the character losing the hope that he'll get to build communism in his homeland. the moment that stuck out to me the most in the second episode was the epic masturbation fail

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using under the table methods to discover something happening above the table. like a spy torturing someone to get the white house's mailing address

i think it's funny that someone "discovered" that certain amazon prime cartoons were being animated in north korea by hacking random north korean servers, and the news is reporting it as if it hasn't been extremely public knowledge for decades that it's standard practice in the animation industry to oursource to SEK Studio to keep costs as low as possible

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i think it's funny that someone "discovered" that certain amazon prime cartoons were being animated in north korea by hacking random north korean servers, and the news is reporting it as if it hasn't been extremely public knowledge for decades that it's standard practice in the animation industry to oursource to SEK Studio to keep costs as low as possible

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did you hear about this? they're making an "oldboy" tv show for americans

have you ever thought about how different television is nowadays versus back in 2003 when park chan-wook's oldboy was released? especially when you're talking about high concept television pitches like "a man is forcibly confined to one room for many years and is just as mysteriously released". if you got oldboy'd in 2003 and came back today a lot of this would look completely alien. nowadays we're talking ten episode seasons that last for two to four years, all centering around one or two extremely serialized plotlines with nary a one-off episode in sight. back in 2003 this imaginary show might run for 24 episodes a season and include a bunch of episodes about our hero helping other people who have also gotten oldboy'd. perhaps it would be about a posse of oldboy'd people who are trying to slowly work out why they got oldboy'd in the first place, each with different dark pasts involving different people trying to get revenge on them. do you think they would do the incest twist on american television back then? maybe on HBO

what speaks to americans about oldboy so much that they've remade it a couple times with us in mind? is it the violence? the commentary on incarceration? why do we seek to make this an american story? you don't see us turning joint security area into a toothless buddy comedy about our border with canada, because we understand that a movie about the korean DMZ is probably about korea. so what's up with this one?

as an american, if i were to turn any park chan-wook movie into an episodic tv show it would be decision to leave. each week the police detective would move to a new city with his wife, and each week the femme fatale he can't get over would show up with her new husband in tow. this husband would inevitably wind up dead and the detective would have to figure out how the femme fatale did it so he can help cover it up. rinse and repeat. i mostly think this idea is funny, but there's something about low-continuity episodic television that seems to keep things preserved for longer. she'll never have to bury herself for him if they just keep playing out the cycle for however many seasons they get. after that, who knows what happens. maybe they just wake up and wonder who trapped them for so long

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just came home from the theaters after seeing "the people's joker". great little picture. it feels like it was destined for tubi in the best way possible. hopefully the lawyers at warner brothers will get hit on the head and forget all IP law more often

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#stepsisters posting????

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Fanart

#it is genuinely heartbreaking that the producer who said this resigned from toei this month #the toku fandom's most powerful linguistic update

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i think it would be funny to sell out an actual play live show at madison square garden and instead of showing up with d&d you play a one page rpg called truck apes, a game where gorillas and such drive vehicles