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Musician, composer, teacher, learner, nerd, DM, DnD enjoyer, TTRPG lover. he/him
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A blessed time
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I'll talk about the things that happened on Choir Tour soon. The fantastic AND the couple bad things
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Oh and whilst on tour I found out a friend died and another friend (the woman who taught me piano and from whom I learned a lot about teaching and musicianship) is going into hospice care. So that on top of the rest... yeah
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Too damn soon
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Portnoy, Rogan and the "manosphere" just want to be able to say the N-word, sexually harass women, and call for the death of people they perceive as enemies, without any social or financial consequence.
Also, they've never actually suffered any consequence. But they sure feel like huge victims.
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Good god
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In this household we love and support agents of chaos
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Oh damn! I've seen them several places at home too, never taken one
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oh my god
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Not those, they were something someone brought and left. I got some of the spray paint rocks though. So cool to see the basically decades of layers of paint solidified into a rock
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What if they had eyebrows
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"let's dissect this"
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They are the source of MUCH of my allotment of jealousy frankly
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Nature is healing
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It trivializes the breakthrough and the scope of its effect on life as we know it
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With snacks
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Dare I say Nobel Peace Prize
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I need my father's take on this breakthrough
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OH it's the onion. Clearly my brain isn't prepared either
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So many of the reviews hating games like the new assassin's creed for instance are from accounts that have not played the game.
Just throwing that out there too
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Oh hell yeah this one's vital I think
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You don't have to agree with any of this. This is just my rationale, I guess. But I've thought about it a lot
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Going into a tall tale we know what to expect. A plot twist at some point. The hero almost definitely won't die. Knowing they'll live doesn't mean you know HOW. Yeah, the story doesn't NEED to be smarter than the audience and these movies REALLY aren't trying to be
Anyway I love them
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They've obviously developed their voice as the movies have continued. I'm gonna watch 1-4 soon so we'll see how those look and flow compared to 5-8.
OK SO subtlety. It is not required in order to tell a story, or say something important and say it well, or to put something surprising in the plot
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These movies know how to be what they are AND consistently tell human stories about humans doing impossible things. Ethan Hunt is a superhero. It's in the title. Impossible. He does impossible things. Unrealistic. Ridiculous. Silly. Damn fun to watch if you just take the ride.
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Anyway. The other thing is they're not trying to be subtle. There will be things that were hinted at before, and they do well at referencing back to offhand things that meant something. But it'll never be something vital that you'll be confused if you don't get them, just easter eggs mostly
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Do a good job the people and everything else feels real AND the stakes are built in, good or ill. You WANT a good bad guy to get their ass kicked, and you DON'T want the good guys to lose. That's just human. But if they're fully formed people, you ALSO will instinctively care about them in some way
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When you have good characters, moments can feel more organic because you have such a grasp of the characters you know how they'd say something or respond to something. What they'd wanna do and why, and why they might instead do what someone asked them to
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I wanna stay on course though. Why THESE movies are extra good is they lean in AND know when/how to pop their head out of the genre for a sweet or poignant moment. The OTHER thing feeds and enables this, because the other thing is they (seem to) focus on building compelling characters first
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That's a genre, I think. Ridiculous action, pure Hollywood blockbuster. Giant robots. Dinosaurs. They're tall tales that you go into EXPECTING fun exciting nonsense. I love them. Going in expecting subtlety or realism will lead to headaches and disappointment. More on subtlety later if I remember!
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Ok so I think things to get your arms around right away in judging these movies are
1) they aren't subtle, and aren't trying to be
2) they're sci-fi/superhero movies
3) they are purely for fun, with a simple moral theme throughout (loyalty to friends) and strong characters (all of them hot)