Three friends embark on a bi-weekly journey to explore the deep and sometimes ridiculous themes of movies, all while having a blast! We post a podcast every other Saturday, with an occasional video essay from one of our members. We love all the feedback you can give us, and we are incredibly happy that you gave us a try! Stick around for more in-depth content that hits the right spot when it comes to positive film criticism.
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during covid the waters of venice cleared and fish came back to the city after 150 years of pollution it made me realize "going back as before" was not a good thing
I work at railway construction. For me the only different thing during pandemic was that for few months the shops were open (for non-elderly) at 9, not 7. Oh, and I got almost two months of sick leave, coz half of the men got covid, me included. After a weak I bought a new laptop that got delivered to our quarters. I got free Death Stranding with it.
4:33 You can run into NPC porters. They'll give likes if they use things you've setup or clear MULE camps in their way. You can even trade items with them!
i had waited for the pc version which was released well into the pandemic. and where i live the lockdowns and countermeasures where immense. my particular job had been completely shut down for the better half of a year. leaving me with nothing but time to play death stranding and contemplate it. Kojima himself was so effected by the similarities between his game and the events that happened soon after its release he's publicly apologized for his seeming ability to write the future. promising to re write the sequel even in hopes of a positive influence this time.
Wow that was a nice and insightful listen thank you guys. I'm also an American so I don't have any first-hand cultural knowledge from my childhood to impart. However, I recently learned that while the west tends to use the "three act structure" for its movies etc, Japan has their own "4 act" structure called "Kishōtenketsu" that this movie follows quite well. (In fact it is as ubiquitous Japanese cinema/anime as the "3 act" structure is to the West.) I highly suggest quickly looking it up. although it is too much to post in a comment, it will take minutes to learn and understand, then suddenly Ghibli (and a TON) of other movies will suddenly make a ton more sense. I just found your channel but have already commented on every video I have seen...you guys are great please keep doing what you're doing. I look forward to going through your catalog and hearing many more wonderful insights from all of you. Thank you
My perspective is that one of the main themes of this game was supposed about isolation and a narrative on how disconnected from we have become by spending way too much time online and being too reliant on the internet. Unintentionally, the post apocalyptic setting is a metaphor of how broken the outside world is and if the issues are not realized sooner only mailmen making physical deliveries would be outside. The pandemic catalyzed our world turning the one in Death Stranding a reality which made the game more profound than what Kojima ever had in mind.
We do live in an era where sports teams mascots hurt peoples feelings, and we have to change Disney characters, so yeah, I agree some of the concepts in this book might go down kinda hard😂
I think that at this point. It would be better to just make it into a tv show. Each chapter would be its own episode. Split it into two seasons with about 10-13 episodes each. Maybe the shorter chapters like Chapter 18 could be merged with 17 or 19 as one episode. And put that shit on HBO, I can trust them with keeping the brutality of the novel.
Blood Meridian was a tale of real atrocities cobbled from history with a dash of the supernatural to highlight, through symbolic means, how horrible it was with one of the most evil characters in fiction. Hollywood is all about misrepresenting human nature for profit, so of course it can't be filmed by them. It makes them and the government look horrible, since the colonization of the old west was essentially an entire society acting like Unit 731 by the systemic command of the government. It steps on EVERYONE's toes in power. It's what the government would actually do if we let them go unshackled.
Blood Meridian would work so well as a film it doesn’t need to be a mini series. You just have to have the right director and screenwriter. We havent seen any good attempts yet, you just have to have the passion for creating this story in the best way possible. It has to be a film version of the story however so different pacing condensed scenes but if done well is totally possible.
This was the first Anime movie I watched. Despite being 4, at the time, I remember it so well; and yet, I've only seen it once. I guess that's what makes it a core memory. (It was the English dub. The movie had been out in America for 5 months. There wasn't a Sub)
Saying Blood Meridian is "unfilmable" has become cliché. Anyone who thinks that hasn't seen Hateful 8, Django Unchained, or even Bone Tomahawk. Bone Tomahawk depicts a man being split in twain alive while being held upside down by hacking at his pelvis while two people pull him apart. Watch those movies and tell me BM is "Unfilmable".
Blood meridian has countless r*pes and child murders and child r*pes and murders. Dismembered infants and old people. Mass depictions of animal cruelty. It’s not simply gore it’s acts of atrocity that are hard for investors to simply green light.
Bravo very well done. Started playing death stranding a couple of weeeks ago after seeing the trailer for the second game. And I will say this game feels different playing it after a pandemic.
