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The Critical Drinker - a YouTube movie reviewer who is very very selective about what he calls a good movie, says: "RRR is the best movie you've never seen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKN6FAKjFPU
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Vox is just cookoo. Jacobin on the other hand is full on deranged.
What organizations do you consider to be sane, rational center/center-left (vox) and leftist (jacobin) media? Is it possible you consider every leftest media outlet between cookoo and deranged?
Yes. I also consider every right wing media outlet to be between nutty and rabid. Horseshoe theory and all that.
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> That Ram can map to Alluri, but the mapping to Lord Rama is absolutely loud and vociferous. Any elements that you might perceive as mapping to Rama is an homage to the 1974 classic movie: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alluri_Sitarama_Raju That representation is what is etched into the minds of Telugu audience. > I could be mistaken about the mapping of Bheem You are mistaken. > And that's just one point amongst the…
The mapping to divine Lord Rama is unmistakable, and the Godliness bestowed leaves no room for doubt. The iconography of lower caste Bheem showing fealty to lord rama is how the movie ends. The facts I mentioned are well cited and referenced facts that are well supported. Thanks for acknowledging that you offer no contradiction. It is also obvious from your play with words - "half minority" that you are upper caste.…
I'm sorry, who bestowed godliness on whom?
> The facts I mentioned are well cited
You claimed non-Hindus were excluded and went into a tangent about the Ramayana.
> It is also obvious from your play with words - "half minority" that you are upper caste. Eg, Hindu Jain marriages are common
I didn't realise OBC Veershaiva Lingayats were now considered upper caste. Apparently stating the truth was playing with words.
> Lower castes - SC/ST would be irritated by the supplication by Bheem in the end.
Bravo, you reduced Ram and Bheem to their caste. Maybe if you had watched the movie before pontificating, you would noticed something else about the characters and their relationship. And interesting how you lump SC and ST together. If you do want to look at it from a caste lens, what does a Gond have to do with SC's? Or do they all look the same to you?
> conversion of a secular independence movement to a hindu religious paen
How the hell is it a religious paen?! Is this one of your facts?
> exclusion of secular liberal leaders (the father of the nation and first PM) offensive.
Exclusion from a cheesy dance number? Really, this is what is offensive?
> If someone else gets offended by something else, there is something wrong with them.
Offence is always taken, not given.
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> Americans are paid a higher wage. For now. The rest of the world is rapidly catching up in pretty much every sphere. But take movies: America has but a paltry 330 M people. The appetite for "American" media will wane as India, China, and other vastly more populous Asian countries begin to produce Hollywood-caliber films. American box office increasingly relies on non-domestic consumption. Chinese films are doing bi…
thats a ridiculous extrapolation. china makes movies for China that nobody virtually cares about outside because they are so bad and so nationalistic. The same with Bollywood movies thats as much about dancing than the movie themselves. the exception is Korea but here too they make movies for themselves that also happen to resonate well with western audiences. nobody is going to take over the place of hollywood anyti…
This person also said that AI porn will destroy all the current porn companies in 10 years and that small groups of people will soon be able to make entire movies, so I wouldn't take their extrapolations too seriously.
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Who did they exclude from the list? I counted almost everyone I can think of and more.
They included Sardar Patel and Shivaji, but missed Gandhi and Nehru.
If omitting a subset of leaders is right-wing bias, then every other movie made in India should be considered congress propaganda.
I agree that there is a streak of revisionism in the air within both academic and pop history in India at the moment. However, it is not clear if this simply a long-overdue correction to 75 years of propaganda or if somehow, all history written by the prevailing powers of the last century were perfectly unbiased.
The Critical Drinker - a YouTube movie reviewer who is very very selective about what he calls a good movie, says: "RRR is the best movie you've never seen" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKN6FAKjFPU
This movie is apparently available to U.S. audiences only on Netflix with a Hindi dub. I'd really like to see it in its original language with English subtitles. As well, the total size of the UHD stream is about 14 GB which isn't going to be the best quality for a 3 hour runtime. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bluray/comments/v3fzni/rrr_bluray/ I'll watch it anyway. Looks like a fun time.
This movie is apparently available to U.S. audiences only on Netflix with a Hindi dub. I'd really like to see it in its original language with English subtitles. As well, the total size of the UHD stream is about 14 GB which isn't going to be the best quality for a 3 hour runtime. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bluray/comments/v3fzni/rrr_bluray/ I'll watch it anyway. Looks like a fun time.
Other than VFX, it's a terrible movie.
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thats a ridiculous extrapolation. china makes movies for China that nobody virtually cares about outside because they are so bad and so nationalistic. The same with Bollywood movies thats as much about dancing than the movie themselves. the exception is Korea but here too they make movies for themselves that also happen to resonate well with western audiences. nobody is going to take over the place of hollywood anyti…
> thats a ridiculous extrapolation This person also said that AI porn will destroy all the current porn companies in 10 years and that small groups of people will soon be able to make entire movies, so I wouldn't take their extrapolations too seriously.
Here's the thread in question [1] where I made that claim.
> so I wouldn't take their extrapolations too seriously.
Long bets 10 years $10,000. Let's go. I'm serious.
Not that this is my thing (it isn't), and not to yuck anyone's yum, but my field has a ton of adjacent, quickly growing developments in "generated porn" that I would be remiss to not know about. Each and every one of them could shape up to be a "Pornhub killer", which is what we were originally debating :
- Unstable Diffusion
- Lewdtubers (look on Twitter)
- AI waifu, waifu engine
- Whatever this is: https://m.twitch.tv/nenoko_official [2]
Just as these technologies and democratization threaten Hollywood, so too do they threaten the porn industry.
(My earlier comments in this thread were about the global playing field becoming equal in terms of production and consumption. This post concerns the technologies that will disrupt the existing products. Both trends are happening concurrently.)
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32711614
[2] One of my colleagues just recently pointed out this 100% autonomous, audience driven content. No humans are involved.
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I was referring to Parasite , which won six Oscars, including the coveted Best Picture and Best Director nods. That was two years ago, but it speaks to the new high water mark Korea is now hitting at.
>The age of the "American" film has already peaked. >edit for downvotes: Do not confuse this post for anti-American sentiment. It's an honest current and forward-looking assessment. I don't think it's "anti-American sentiment" as much as unsubstantiated claims. Parasite was an excellent film I thought deserves all its praise. But "Korea is starting to sweep the Oscars" is a very different statement than "Bong Joon-ho…
I kinda sorta agree with this sentiment. I am a huge film buff, and most of the movies I remember fondly are from the 90s (can't blame this on nostalgia since I wasn't even alive then)