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[–] 58 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Isn’t this the guy who was in Tenacious D with Rage Kage?

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  • [–] 95 points 10 months ago (8 children)

    I liked him enough, right up until he freaked out over KG’s “Next time, don’t miss” comment. After that, he can go fuck himself.

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (5 children)

    Why was he angry at Kilograms?

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  • [–] 11 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Kyle Gass, his band member on Tenacious D. He made that comment after the assassination attempt on Trump.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Oh yeaaaahhh, I remember hearing about that.

    I just avoid Jack Black stuff usually, but there's a good reason to actually avoid him in case he does a new movie that's actually good.

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  • [–] 59 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    Unlike the barrage of hate below, I actually don’t dislike Black — but I’m still glad this didn’t work out because Jason Lee has a perfect voice/delivery for animation. Surprised he hasn’t done more of it.

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  • [–] 32 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I still liked him up until the point he suspended Tenacious D over Gass' birthday wish. They're a rock band, of course they're supposed to say and do controversial shit! Black backed out of it just to save his Hollywood prospects and I find that cold and calculating of him.

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  • [–] 14 points 10 months ago

    Brad Bird doesn’t need rewrites.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    Because he conflates being easy to cast with being talented and important.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    thank fuck he wasn't in it. he's only gotten more insufferable over time as it is, I'd have probably liked it less if it was his voice coming out. the character was great in high fidelity, too bad he can't turn that bullshit off and do ANYthing else.

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  • [–] 51 points 10 months ago (33 children)

    ‘Why Was I Being So Difficult?

    Because you're an arrogant fuck who thinks he's more important than he is, I'm sick of Jack Black and his single note acting style. He phoned it in in the Minecraft movie, he's pretty much just the same annoying fuck in everything he does, it was funny 20 years ago, not so much now.

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  • [–] 21 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (7 children)

    He is cast for that and his name. Like most big hollywood actors/actresses, they are all type cast.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I think you mean cost. Easy mistake.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    No, that is how much you pay for something. I think you ment crash.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    I almost always hate his films because he plays Jack Black. But I actually really, really liked his performance in Bernie. It's a great film based on actual events and absolutely worth going in blind. He plays a different role to his usual fare and made me wonder if he would go on to do more interesting stuff, but then nobody watched it and he went back to the same shit he always does.

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  • [–] 22 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Isn’t it a similar thing for Adam Sandler? He’ll do an uncut gems every decade, but his go to movies are just to make money and hang out with his friends.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    I remember going to see Punch Drunk Love, and the utter confusion on the faces of people coming out of the earlier showing. They had clearly gone to see an Adam Sandler movie, not a PT Anderson movie.

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (11 children)

    It blows my mind that you would waste time seeing that Minecraft movie. The ads were torture…

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    The time investment doesn't change just because you didn't pay for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    It kinda does.

    Watching something shit in your free time with no cost associated with it vs watching something shit in your free time that costs you 'productive' hours as well because it costs something.

    Equals more time lost because now its not just free time but free time + [productive hours x2]

    (its productive hours x2 because most people dont make enough money so that money spent still needs replacing to pay for better/more important things)

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (3 children)

    The unfinished VFX version made a great drinking game.. not sure what the game was but we enjoyed it thoroughly, 10/10 would drink to more jason mamoa

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (1 child)

    The CGI in that movie is just awful. It would have probably genuinely been better if they had just stuck to practical effects and just lend into the cheesiness.

    Does a scene where one of the characters picks up a sword for the first time and honestly I've seen better quality Minecraft props on Etsy.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Thoughts on the movie aside, the CGI was done really well. I'm curious what you think was so awful about it. It's more likely you just don't like the style, which is fine, but that doesn't speak to the quality of the work. There's some great breakdowns from Corridor Digital going over a lot of the behind the scenes/how it's made.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    He phoned it in in the Minecraft movie

    ... that's your metric?

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago* (2 children)
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    [–] 4 points 10 months ago

    Right, let's just put this guy in every movie ever, would that be enough?

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  • [–] 28 points 10 months ago

    I'm just glad for every movie he's not in

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I like black. he's a good actor.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 child)

    Jason Lee always does a great job. I haven’t liked Jack Black since his role in The Jackal.

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  • [–] -1 points 10 months ago (14 children)

    I feel like I don't "get" this movie. I saw it as a kid and I remember it being a pretty standard family friendly take on superheroes, but without any of the superheroes that I actually liked. Do people really think it's "one of the best movies ever made," or is that just Jack Black?

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  • [–] 34 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    IMO Its appeal is that its a solid 8 out of 10 across the board.

    The story is deep enough for adults but structured well enough for kids. It doesnt pander to boys or girls. No cheesy soundtrack or "scrappy do" bullshit. No terrible voice acting choices (Jack Black probably would have done a great job as Syndrome.) Dad kicks ass, Mom kicks ass. Its somehow almost a parody of a superhero movie while being better than most of them at being one. Somehow theres way less cinematic cringe bullshit than any Marvel movie. Its not just good as a kids movie or as an animated movie. Its a straight up GOOD MOVIE that you can put on for a room with 4 generations in it and its unlikely anyone will hate it.

    Its no best movie ever made but I have a 6yo and when I hear "Can we watch The Incredibles?" It's an automatic yes.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago*

    This right here. It wasn't groundbreaking but rather simply extremely high in quality.

    There's this one meme video that people always talk about where someone dubbed over one scene with Sonic as both voices, yet people still forget the joke and get sucked into the plot regardless because it's just that good.

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  • [–] 26 points 10 months ago

    Yes, I think it is actually a superb movie for when it came out and still a pretty great one to this day.

    Ifyou look at the character development throughout the movie for the main character and the story building, I think you’ll find it’s pretty robust for a family animated film. The animation style is relatively unique, noir inspired, great supporting characters, and the characters are mostly clever.

    As a superhero movie I still think they use their powers together than anything shown in the MCU or DC counter parts. There is a lot of interplay of their abilities near the end of the movie.

    But ya know it’s all up to preferences

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    It resonates really strongly with queer and neurodiverse white people because the Incredibles are a minority nuclear family. That's common in immigrant and black stories, but not in queer or ND stories. So people can see themselves in the characters and explore those issues, without the movie telling them they have to be isolated from their nuclear family.

    "What if Dad was like me"

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Your comment made me realize why I like that movie so much, I'm both gay and a tylenol american.

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  • [–] 7 points 10 months ago

    The monicker of “best movie ever made” is incredibly subjective and thrown around a lot. But it is a solid movie and certainly one of my favourites from Pixar. My absolute favourite? I dunno, but top 5 definitely. Maybe in my top 3.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Not a horrible take.

    It was well regarded being a mashup of being endearing, having cutting edge (at the time) CGI and pulling back the 4th wall on super heroes struggles and covering government suppression of the heroes.

    It's certainly not the best ever made, not even the best animated.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Pixar was on a roll when the movie was released. It was the follow up to finding Nemo and when Pixar was doing the Toy Story movies, pretty much anything Pixar got so much attention.

    I agree with you, I found it to be pretty standard animated family freindly stuff.

    As far as best move ever made.. It made 600 mill so I suspect Jack Black is regretting not getting that pay check.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (2 children)

    It was the first CGI that had believable human characters. If you go back and look at the first toy story, the humans looked like creepy puppets.

    So it was a big hit at the time because it was the fist time a movie had bridged the uncanny valley

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    That's not the uncanny valley. The uncanny valley is when you're approaching photo-realism but you're still not quite there, to the point you can tell something's wrong but may have a hard time pointing out exactly what. Maybe skin too smooth or light and shadows aren't playing quite correct, it's usually pretty subtle but just overall makes it feel wrong. Polar express sits right at the edge of it for me.

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