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That was great. We need the FUN song!
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Apparently, talks are in the works for a sequel to Greyhound. https://deadline.com/2025/04/tom-hanks-greyhound-sequel-start-2026-australia-plot-1236376695/
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This is a very odd thing to get hung up on, IMO. Typically, the only thing alien about the "alien" music in Star Wars is the performers. The Mos Eisley cantina band is playing swing. The band at Jabba's palace was playing a very 80's funk piece in the original '83 theatrical cut and was updated to a horn-heavy 90's pop-rock piece in the '97 special edition. It doesn't strike me as out of place at all that there would be techno/EDM popular music in a setting with so many sentient androids. It's a big galaxy, I'd assume there's room for a lot of different musical tastes and genres. They went with a club/rave mix of the song because, hey, they're playing it at a wedding reception for guests to dance to. (Two other mixes of the same song have showed up back in season one.) (The only reason Kirk's infatuation with the Beastie Boys in the Abrams Star Trek trilogy seems so odd and out of place is that Star Trek habitually stuck with self-composed and public-domain music for cost reasons, meaning most of the diegetic music in Trek is classical by default.) Her drinking and dancing is supposed to be conspicuous and off-putting. She's so distressed that she's doing something wildly out of character in a sort of silent cry for help. She can't confide in anyone there besides Luthen without making them Luthen's next target, and Luthen is not exactly a sympathetic ear. Either that or they felt it would come off as sexist if she ran off to cry inconsolably. I'd assume they're probably trying to set something up between her and her husband Perrin, since he clearly notices her out-of-character behavior towards the end of the episode... he might not have noticed if she'd just left the party since he is a party boy.
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The Unlicensed Third Party Transformers Thread
mikeszekely replied to slaginpit's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
Defensor is probably my least favorite combiner/team, and even I have to say that this set has been some of MMC's best work. Groove was especially a highlight for me. -
Marvel Studios Fantastic Four: First Steps
sh9000 replied to sh9000's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
sh9000 replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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The music was typical electronic dance music at a celebration. It didn't sound like Dubstep. The Dark Troopers scenes in The Mandalorian sounded like Dubstep.
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This is a great deal. You even get the Amazon return/replacement guarantee if you get one with a broken antenna.
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Post Your Collections - General Toy Collection Displays
sh9000 replied to promethuem5's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
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YF-21 at Amazon for 213.15 USD plus taxes https://www.amazon.com/-/es/gp/product/B0CRK23S71/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1
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Nice! I hope it comes with a figure and or pilot. I’ll find out today. 🤞
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Agree....it was very cringe...anytime you see an older person trying to fit in with "the youth"...it comes off as weird... It also doesn't help that all we knew of Mon was what we have seen in ROTJ, Rogue One, and Andor S1....based on that, it just seems like something she wouldn't do....she always seemed like a very reserved woman...with that said, the showrunners went for spectacle to portray her breakdown, as they probably figured having her dissappear into some bathroom and cry uncontrollably would have been too cliche.... Anyways....it was not enough to bother me all that much....the first episode of the 3 was the best and got a little worse with ep 2 and 3....but I think now the real action will start.....I hope....
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It’s that the traditional part is kind of a blend of things in a way that doesn’t feel off, but the modern part is way too on the nose with our modern that bugs me. I get that they might lighten things up a little, but to use 90’s music is where the problem is. If they had found a way to make it sound somewhat derived from our modern music while still being alien, it might’ve worked, but they just didn’t bother being creative in that way. Og Star Wars had a way of taking established music styles and giving it a twist that made things feel and sound unique. This was more jarring than Captain Kirk listening to Rage Against the Machine, since at least that was music that actually existed in that setting, just a few hundred years off. That’s why it throws things off and her dancing just comes off as cringy as well. They easily could’ve found a better way to convey their message both in sound and visually
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Ah nice! I had this one a while ago, with the minmay figurine. Was my first macross kit.
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So, I don't know how it is where you live... but in the Americas, Western Europe, etc. this would not even register as unusual to a lot of people. All it is, is a traditional wedding ceremony followed by a modern wedding reception. The pomp and solemn ceremony of centuries-old religious tradition immediately followed by an unrestrained party where the wedding guests get absolutely stinko at the open bar and dance badly to the set list of a DJ with questionable taste. A fair description of my own younger brother's wedding, TBH. The scene works just fine. It's an alien wedding on an alien planet with an alien culture... and even then, the wedding itself is noted to be abnormal because it's driven by the wants of a bridezilla who overcompensates in establishing her own cultural identity while living abroad by fetishizing her people's traditions.
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All Things Videogame Related: EXTREME VS!!
davidwhangchoi replied to Keith's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
this edition comes with a cat plushie -
Making it have more parts so a DX is more appealing later.
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Well, more as incentive for other projects. May they be successes! A very good buy @Papa Rat!
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The Unlicensed Third Party Transformers Thread
Chronocidal replied to slaginpit's topic in Anime or Science Fiction
I generally don't care for the giant combiner groups, but man if I'm not tempted to just grab that one. One of the best looking chopper transformers I've seen, and I'm a sucker for the type of plastic origami going on there. -
Just saw the new Slave I, might have to pick that one up since holy crap does it make the old UCS one look even more like garbage than it already did. Just wow. I hope the pieces exist in the proper colors to rebuild it in the OT scheme. Might grab that and the Tie Interceptor this year.. maybe two Interceptors actually, so I can rebuild one as the standard model.
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Well then, that's a weird choice.. were they just incapable of making those shoulder fins rotate like the Yamato? I'm not sure I'm actually "concerned" about not being able to remove them though. This just makes me think that these will be coming with extra shoulders that make customization that much easier.
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HMR VF-19P pics at HJWEB... https://hjweb.jp/article/2074829/ samples (web-translated):
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Space Baby!
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You know... a ALIEN(S) themed amusement park ride would be awesome. Disney Hollywood has part of ALIEN in their The Great Hollywood Ride but it was short for that part of the ride.
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Mon Mothma having a mon meltdown...
