What HOT TAKES are you taking?

I don't understand the mushmouth Eddie Vedder appeal either. When he popped up in Twin Peaks: The Return, I was annoyed.

I work with a PJ fan and can tip him over the edge with a brief Vedder impression.

stormseeker75 wrote: I have a hot take: I really dislike Eddie Vedder as a vocalist and it causes me actual discomfort that he's the last of the big Seattle singers left. Like seriously, did we lose some sort of deal with Satan where we lost Cornell AND Staley? I know we have Mudhoney, The Melvins, stuff like that. But I mean the big ones.

I lament this almost daily. All of my college-era singers are gone except for him. And he's the worst one.

Full disclosure, I saw Pearl Jam in a bar right before they blew up, and it was a great show. But small shows usually are.

I want to ignore the living fuck out of Sydney Sweeney playing Barbarella, but I think it will be unavoidable.

Just give me Riley Reid as Harley Quinn (!!) and let's stop pretending that the line between smut and empowerment is a big movie budget.

I am intensely angry with Michael Barnes. Why? I mean, who isn’t but why?

Because maybe 8 years ago the forum was all talking about music and he proclaimed
King Diamond an incredible band because of the theatrics, the story, the falsetto of the singer, etc.

Well, like an asshole I downloaded Abigail. And I don’t like it. I wanted to give it a try and I just can’t get along with the singer. Here’s why I am mad: My phone plays the first song on my phone, alphabetically, every time I get in the car. Abigail. Fucking Abigail. I named my oldest Abigail for Christ’s sake.

ABIGAIL KNOW YOURE IN CONTROL…ABIGAIL ewwww o ewwwwe

FOR ALL THIS TIME. I try deleting it from my library but it keeps coming back. My devices are all haunted by King Diamond and it’s all Barnes’ fault.

Hot take: Screw King Diamond, that singer sounds like a recent eunuch and his music sucks. The band should execute him and get a new singer, and MAKE BARNES PULL THE LEVER.

Here's my latest hot take:

Boss Fights in video games are the epitome of lazy design.

Virabhadra wrote: Just give me Riley Reid as Harley Quinn (!!) and let's stop pretending that the line between smut and empowerment is a big movie budget.

Goddamn, the hottest of hot takes right there!

I feel like deep fake technology will eventually make actors completely interchangeable so you can just order up the cast you desire and throw them into any film and dial up the sex, violence, or gore levels on the fly. I'm still miffed that blu-rays never delivered on real time splicing in deleted scenes and streaming doesn't seem interested either. I'd LOVE to be able to choose from a menu of all the variations of the Star Wars SE version I do and don't want (expanded view of Mos Eisley, yes. Han and Greedo, original please. Han and Hutt scene, no thanks) and tailor the film as I'd like.

But I have no idea who this Riley....Reid you say? person is so I'm just spitballing here

Legomancer wrote: Here's my latest hot take:

Boss Fights in video games are the epitome of lazy design.

I'd agree with you on boss fights that use TOTALLY DIFFERENT tactics or play styles from the rest of the game. Nothing is worse than run and gun action for 30 minutes and then there is a boss that requires utmost stealth.

But a boss that is the culmination of skills acquired through play, that's legit I think.

So long as there isn't a long unskippable cut scene you gotta endure after each death and retry, f that nonsense!

Those are THE WORST

Legomancer wrote: Here's my latest hot take:

Boss Fights in video games are the epitome of lazy design.

I can only pity the man who has never played Gunstar Heroes.

I'm sorry.

Frohike wrote: I don't understand the mushmouth Eddie Vedder appeal either. When he popped up in Twin Peaks: The Return, I was annoyed.

It’s simple: nostalgia.

When you’re in High School on the west coast in the early to mid 90’s, surrounded by gangs and rap and Boys 2 Men, and along comes this scene unlike any other scene you’ve ever heard…Cornell and Staley and Osbourne and Vedder and Wood and Lanegan all backed by a completely new thing that’s not metal but not NOT metal, almost like a folksy metal sound, it becomes an anthem of your life.

When I hear a song off of Ten, it reminds me of the days I would cut school to drive to San Francisco and play beach volleyball with my buddies against the gay guys with the smell of ocean mist and Hawaiian Tropic in the background…or playing midget basketball (basketball against the Latino guys in my neighborhood) for ten hours and then skating back home to an empty house, doing the dishes with Mad Season on the radio in the background, getting ready to sit at the PC and play Fallout 2 for the third time in a row.

It’s like hot soup when you’re sick.

Vedder’s mushiness has gotten more pronounced in later years; I’ve heard he likes to kill a bottle wine backstage before the show, then work on another one during the show.

In addition to what Pete said, the rock scene at the time was pretty awful. Hair metal and cock rock. Nirvana et al felt raw and honest.

For me the iconic album of that time period, but not of that scene is Green Day’s Dookie.

Speaking of video games (although I'm sure I've got a 90s punk break hot take in me somewhere), my hot take is that, alongside the advent of CGI, video games have destroyed movie action sequences. So many set pieces now seem like the directors/choreographers have been subconsciously, or even consciously, informed by platformers and FPS levels and it SUCCCCCCKS.

mc wrote: Speaking of video games (although I'm sure I've got a 90s punk break hot take in me somewhere), my hot take is that, alongside the advent of CGI, video games have destroyed movie action sequences. So many set pieces now seem like the directors/choreographers have been subconsciously, or even consciously, informed by platformers and FPS levels and it SUCCCCCCKS.

Thats because these days movie set pieces ARE video game sequences, its all CGI. It takes a conscious effort to use CGI just like you would a real practical effect and keep the camera grounded like it was a real camera. Cameron is a MASTER at this, which is why his recent film holds up so well even though it is 95% CGI. But go look at Black Panther and that final fight with T'Challa and Killmonger spinning around in space and a camera just floating around behind them somewhere. Totally fake looking because you could never film real humans that way.

Film-makers should strive to NEVER completely CGI a person, we are just too attuned to the movements. Look at how easily ANY wire-work is spotted on film. CGI should be used to remove safety equipment, add an actors face on top of a trained stuntperson, extend a set in the distance stuff like that, but never completely replace physical motion or actual objects people are interacting with.