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  • Sergio@slrpnk.netOPtomovies@lemm.ee•Masters of the Universe (1987) - Mastodon watch party this Sunday evening!English
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    16 days ago

    I usually post this announcement on [email protected] but this week’s Monsterdon is so clearly a superior A-list movie that… well OK I wouldn’t go that far, but it’s not as bad as most B-movies.

    See what happened is: every week people on mastodon (the fediverse twitter replacement) get together for a B-movie watch party usually focused on monsters. But for the last two weeks, the movies have not just campy but a little more bad than expected. So this week they played it safe and picked a slightly better movie than usual.

    Anyway, it’s a lot of fun, it’s got nostalgia value, it’s meme-worthy, it’s got Dolph “Rocky IV / Creed II” Lundgren, Courtney “Friends” Cox, and Oscar-nominee Frank Lagella, and here’s your chance to watch it along with a bunch of wits and miscreants from across the fediverse. So only one question remains: Do you have the power?

  • Sergio@slrpnk.nettoScience Memes@mander.xyz•moms ruleEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yeah only 2 generations ago, LGBT people were considered mentally ill. 4 generations ago women were considered unfit to vote. 8 generations ago about half the US though it was OK to own slaves. It takes a while for ideas to die out. That’s why US elections turn out the way they do.

  • Sergio@slrpnk.nettoFuck Cars@lemmy.world•How a significant part of public opinion sees people on bikesEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Kelly’s artistic screeds are devoid of irony, but as the invention of Colorado-based cartoonist Ward Sutton, Kelly the character — much like Stephen Colbert’s former Comedy Central bloviator — is composed almost entirely of irony. And that joke-within-a-joke makes all the difference.

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    Sutton is a true student of old newspaper comic strips and cartoons, so what emerged was a character whose persona embodied this “man out of time” approach — a cartoonist who is himself a caricature of a blind-to-his-own-buffoonery pundit, producing old-timey cartoons that ripple with parody.

    A visual stroll through the Kelly collection is like a meta-history lesson in editorial cartooning before sardonic subtlety became fashionable. Kelly’s illustrations, reflecting wading-pool deep takes on the news, are larded with labels (“today’s no-good teens,” “today’s troop haters,” “benevolent America”) that skewer the worst practitioners of the art form. Kelly sees himself as a political “king of comedy,” but in truth, he is as deluded as Robert De Niro’s bad stand-up Rupert Pupkin in Martin Scorsese’s “The King of Comedy.” He would have been painfully mediocre at best in his own era; in our era, he is laughably hackneyed.

    https://archive.is/nDvkY

    Ben Garrison uses this style unironically, so at a glance it’s hard to tell. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/people/ben-garrison