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usually horses are fast

 

prove it

 

wtf because im native you think I know how to ride a horse??

 

yes

 

Society of Snow is frickin wild man.

 

please be good please be good please be good

 

The Good Shepard just got released on Netflix. IMO the best movie ever made about the CIA. directed by Robert De Niro and starring Matt Damon. This came out in 2006 and was one of the last pieces of liberal mainstream media very critical of American intelligence, before they began to embrace it during the Obama era with Zero Dark Thirty/Homeland/ect.

That scene where Joe Pesci's mafia boss tells Matt Damon's WASP CIA agent "us Italians we got the catholic church, the Irish have their homeland, the Jews have their tradition, the blacks have their music, but what do your people have?" and the WASP spook tells him "we have the United States of America..the rest of you are just visiting " is quote that has stuck with me for years.

 

I remember watching that when it came out and it's probably because I was like 16 at the time but I thought it was so damn boring

 

I too saw it in theaters and found it incredibly boring. It stands as probably my least favorite moviegoing experience, but I was also 15.

 

Maybe I was just a weird teen, but I thought it ruled when I saw it when I was 16.

 

how I feel about the live-action ATLA (and really any live-action remake). I realize it's for money but just seems so pointless from an artistic standpoint

 

why is it insulting towards the medium? is adapting a book into a movie insulting to that medium?

 

they're both reductive, but at least book-to-film is an adaptation (textual -> visual/aural medium) not a remake into the exact same medium, and I think that distinction matters.

also book-to-film is also touchy with readers. books are almost always better!

 

Its more cash grab to me than anything with this ATLA adaption. Sure it looks way better than the M. Night movie but also seems fairly pointless to make when the original series exists and hold up extremely well 20 years later.

 

are live action and anime the same exact medium?

 

nevermind I don't care, I don't watch any live action remakes of anything

 

Yea both are tv

 

true but the Super Bowl and The Sopranos are both TV

 

Cmon man

 

anime and live action are not the exact same thing, you cmon man

 

I obviously know that and that’s not the point I was making. You’re intentionally misconstruing the word “medium”

 

An adaptation of a book into a film or series requires communicating the same feelings and actions completely differently because you’re moving from the written word into a visual medium. A lot of live action remakes of animated stories, whether anime or Disney, are bad or uninteresting because it’s already a visual medium so they’re just trying to make what was a large part of the appeal of the original, the animation itself, look “real” in the context of live action.

 

Is this the Medium ya'll are talking about?

 

I used to be a medium. Then I turned 30 and now I’m more of a large guy