johnthebeboptist

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[–] johnthebeboptist 1 points 1 year ago

Moviebros/siblings/something! Yeah!

[–] johnthebeboptist 10 points 1 year ago

No that's it exactly, lol, we're getting lost in a jungle of double-negatives.

  • The Onion - satire
  • Not the Onion - things that happen that are so outlandish you'd think it is satire
  • This - Neither, cause it's someone making shit up, just some conservative asshole flogging the same dead horse with the same, tired old ~~stick~~ joke
[–] johnthebeboptist 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I thought "not the onion" wasn't supposed to be satire, except I don't know if this even counts as satire, this is just dumb. Literally the same joke, every time.

[–] johnthebeboptist 2 points 1 year ago

It is! Clint Mansell and Aronofsky are a match made in heaven, but The Fountain is one of favorite soundtracks of all time and the one I listen to the most. I don't tend to listen to soundtracks all that much, but I find myself listening to the Fountain all the time

[–] johnthebeboptist 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

I was honestly a little shocked to find The Fountain rated so low, Tomatometer (fuck the tomatometer anyway, audience score is where it's usually at) was 52% with scathing reviews, the audience score fortunately remedied the situation with 74% cause I was seriously starting to look for another site.

And for it's opposite: The Blair Witch Project is 86% vs 56%. I haven't seen it in ages, have been planning to, but it was one of my favorite movies for a while.

[–] johnthebeboptist 4 points 1 year ago

Well I mean, while Gen-Z humor and memes are mostly a lot more abstract and surreal and while there are elements of that in the beans meme it's not really just that. It's a concept piece. In a similar way Warhol's Campbell's Soup was and similar pieces of art.

The whole point was to make a point about something, namely, like the title of the post lays it out itself "I heard that lemmy will upvote anything. This is literally just a can of fucking beans". What it says about the lemmy community, maybe nothing, maybe it's just a fucking can of beans and there really is no intended or inherent deeper meaning and that is irrelevant really.

My point being, it's kind of all things you talked about, but even more, but also just beans. Schrödinger's beans.

[–] johnthebeboptist 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Greg does the best impression of Wiseau ever. You can find him read the whole book. It's hilarious

[–] johnthebeboptist 2 points 1 year ago

Ooooh I completely forgot Primer!

[–] johnthebeboptist 2 points 1 year ago

Lol, haha, I never thought about that. I used to watch a shit-ton of movies as a teen. Got into horror movies, David Lynch and weird stuff early on so I kind of dove into the deep end very early and with no social life there was a lot of time to watch a lot of stuff.

I seem to be having a phase where I don't really watch movies that much (series more than ever), but when I do it's usually kind of "comfort food" so I'm mostly watching all-time favorites over and over again.

[–] johnthebeboptist 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The Thing,

Naked Lunch,

Evil Dead 1 & 2,

The Big Lebowski,

Videodrome,

Alien,

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,

For a Few Dollars More,

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas,

Lost Highway & Mulholland Drive,

The Fountain, Pi, The Holy Mountain, El Topo, Princess Mononoke, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Big Trouble in Little China, The Wicker Man (the og)

And I probably watched Donnie Darko and Ichi the Killer enough times as a teen that they both reach the top

God I watch a lot of movies still.

e:typo, not Donnie Dario

[–] johnthebeboptist 1 points 1 year ago

Holy shit what. I fucking love Penderecki, how have I missed this.

[–] johnthebeboptist 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah I stumbled upon that after plunging into this newfound rabbit hole. How did I not know about this, I play like 99% old games. Thanks for the link anyway. This is so amazing.

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