The "What Are You Thinking About Right Now?" PIP
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6 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:I watched the first season, was satisfied and decided not to watch any more messed up seasons. It's one of the few times where I think Henry Cavill did a good job. Usually this man has the charm and ability to convey some kind of charisma similar to that of a dead tree. But maybe it worked so well because Gerald was grumpy and grunting more than anything lol
He left his role as the Witcher because the showrunners weren't following the books and Geralt wasn't the 'amateur philosopher' he envisioned him to be. The actual character in the books/games has a lot of insight to human/social/political nature, sarcasm and dry humor, and talks a lot. He also 'gets the ladies'- and not just yennefer.
In the games they chose to get David Cockle talk like Batman/Clint Eastwood and it worked- in the books I doubt that Sapkowski necessarily had that in mind. :
This is the redesigned Geralt from the W3 which is the most familar version worldwide. Henry Cavil was a big fan of the game but didn't read the books before he sought out the role. So it is evident to me that he was trying to talk like David Cockle and play fight as such and expected the character to be like the one from the game.
imho Henry Cavill was still miscast. Besides the personality mismatch (and the showrunners not following the books/games anyway)- Geralt isn't a bodybuilder either..!
@Jade Bahr The much maligned 'Obi Wan' show had an addition to the Obi-Wan & Anakin relationship- basically Obi Wan reveals that he is very sorry for raising Anakin wrong (implying that he did not educate him properly in morality and philosophy) and he blames himself for everything. It's pretty good scene imho.
ending spoilers:
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I finally have to watch the OBI WAN show. It's on my watchlist since doom @Cult Icon
Of course Obi Wan is blaming himself for everything. He's a true Jedi.
Poor soul.
He's probably even more tragic than Anakin. Love them both.
LAMO
5 hours ago, Jade Bahr said:LAMO
Looks like Diddy is about to get cancelled for life.
It's interesting how youtube secretively censors 'controversial' topics by intentionally making it hard to rank in the algorithm and making it very difficult for certain types of channels to grow over 1 million.
I looked at some of the old channels from big youtube self-help gurus with over 1 million subs and their channels are massively tanking. Huge channels that used to get 100k, 300k views a video are now getting just 10k and so on. It looks like youtube has punished a lot of them.
Islam is one of the world's most populous religions with adherents in the billions but the biggest muslim 'influencers' are all well under 1 million subs lol.
Iran's president got killed. WW3 can't come soon enough..
On 5/16/2024 at 5:19 AM, Jade Bahr said:I mean he's a 19 years old teenager filled with hormones and rage. I always wondered what the Jedis expected in the first place when it was so very clear from the start Anakin wasn't sublime above such feelings like a "usual" Jedi student? Also Yoda said from the very beginning he was already too old when Qui-Gon discovered him. Obi Wan whatever more felt responsible for Anakin because of his masters sudden dead and his loyalty to him. So many things went wrong from the very beginning for Anakin. But yeah his arrogance and superior behaviour was a huge character weakness no one could handle. Not Obi Wan, not Padme, not Yoda not anyone. So he was a pretty easy target for Palpatine and his false promises and manipulation especially when he had such thoughts in his head pretty early (after his mothers dead). He's guided by his emotions and never by his head what makes him pretty much everything but not so much a Jedi. I mean in the end he kinda was "the chosen one" to destroy everything lol
One of the things we find in ‘Revenge of the Sith’ is that the dark side is not tempting Anakin to anything... that Anakin is looking at the dark side and saying, ‘That’s what I want.’Matthew Stover (author), Revenge of the Sith novelization.
I agree with this- don't have much to add except that it was a bit of trick by Lucas to classify Anakin as the 'chosen' one to destroy the Sith. If I'm not mistaken when Vader destroys his master at the end of Return of the Jedi that may have been the last Sith?
Even thought people gave The Prequels criticism at the time, they had so many meme-worthy moments that they are still being used now lol.
7 hours ago, Cult Icon said:it was a bit of trick by Lucas to classify Anakin as the 'chosen' one to destroy the Sith.
I wonder if Lucas already had Vaders whole background story in mind since he kinda shooted those movies/told the story backwards.
7 hours ago, Cult Icon said:If I'm not mistaken when Vader destroys his master at the end of Return of the Jedi that may have been the last Sith?
I watched episode 4-6 probably once in my life. I barely remember anything of it.
Seems like we are back 
The prequel looks high energy and fun, but there is no Mad max in the film though lol. There are a lot of complaints that the new film is almost entirely CGI.
Fury Road was the last time I had a great time in the theaters- it seems like such a spectacle hasn't been made again in current conditions. After fury road there was a bunch of interesting (official) comic book spin offs that revealed a lot more about the world building.
On 5/20/2024 at 8:22 AM, Jade Bahr said:I wonder if Lucas already had Vaders whole background story in mind since he kinda shooted those movies/told the story backwards.
I watched episode 4-6 probably once in my life. I barely remember anything of it.
That may have been the case as the first star wars movie is episode IV.
This is the ending for VI:
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19 hours ago, Cult Icon said:The prequel looks high energy and fun, but there is no Mad max in the film though lol. There are a lot of complaints that the new film is almost entirely CGI.
Fury Road was the last time I had a great time in the theaters- it seems like such a spectacle hasn't been made again in current conditions. After fury road there was a bunch of interesting (official) comic book spin offs that revealed a lot more about the world building.
I will watch it friday.
new geralt