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    16 hours ago

    He’s no where near as annoying as beast or many of the other pick-mes we have today. And he wore the shit out of those outfits and stepped up to help save the universe. Way More effort than most influencers we have today.

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    17 hours ago

    This movie impregnated me the first time I saw it. I gave birth to a multipass 5 days later.

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          19 hours ago

          I wonder how long before we get a mainstream anthro character that’s seen as a sex symbol. (Cartoons don’t count, I mean designed from the ground up to be mass-market appealing.)

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            Do the Star Wars aliens count?

            Otherwise, probably something from Marvel or DC, if we don’t have that already.

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              Do the Star Wars aliens count?

              I can’t think of any “anthro” characters in Star Wars other than Ewoks and Wookies, which I’m sure there is some niche forum or subreddit out there dedicated to fawning over Chewie’s long, shaggy hair, but not quite what I mean.

              Marvel had a few characters but none of them have been introduced in the MCU as “attractive” in any capacity. (They did my girl Wolfsbane wrong.)

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    IIRC he was a talk show host, and I’ve always thought he was so flamboyant as a parody of how talk show hosts prioritize the show rather than the talk.

    I think he is a brilliantly designed parody character, but some people have taken him too seriously.

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      He was actually just supposed to be Prince doing his thing, but after he refused Chris Tucker dialled it up to eleven. Which was exactly the right call.

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        So many fun facts about this movie.

        1. The props used - some are from Leon (the professional). The police riot gear etc.

        2. The director came up with the idea when he was 16. But he had to wait for technology to get better before he could attempt to make the movie.

        3. The most amazing thing is that the antagonist and protagonist not only never meet each other in this movie, they are not even aware of each other’s existence. Can you name another movie where this is true?

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          Concerning fact 3) They do have a connection, Zorg fires Corben at the beginning of the movie, but they never become aware of the fact. Corben is a nobody to Zorg and Zorg just a company to Corben.

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            Correct.

            But they don’t meet. And they are not aware of each other at all. Unless you count “one of a million taxi drivers”

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    ^^^^^ This, so much this.

    I cannot ever re-watch this goddamn movie for that performance. I hated it back then, and hate it even more now knowing it came true.


    … also F-U to Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, perhaps Luc Besson just exists to piss me off. What a shitty movie with horrible casting and overall stupidity.


    Edit: … and yet, here I am. Sigh.

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      What an absolute bullshit take on 5th Element.

      I’ve never seen Valerian so can’t comment but you’re just completely wrong to not watch this for Chris Tucker, who is brilliant.

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        Valerian had a lot of interesting stuff going on visually but they did the classic thing of trying to cram the extensive story of the book (from what I saw about it, i haven’t read it) into a movie run time, so it ended up being a bit of a shallow jumbled mess.