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Helius said:

What a timely piece of entertainment -

Synopsis:
"In the story, Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace."

The Silent Service is a live-action adaptation of the manga of the same name created by Kawaguchi Kaji, best known for his military and politics themed works such as Zipang and Kuubo Ibuki -

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Zipang
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Bellum_Romanum said:

Is this only for Japan?

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Helius said:

What a timely piece of entertainment -

Synopsis:
"In the story, Shiro Kaieda is appointed the captain of Japan's first nuclear submarine, jointly built by Japan and the United States in top secret. However, he and his 76 crew members go rogue in this story that delves into themes of nuclear war, international politics, and world peace."

The Silent Service is a live-action adaptation of the manga of the same name created by Kawaguchi Kaji, best known for his military and politics themed works such as Zipang and Kuubo Ibuki -

The Silent Service
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Zipang
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Kuubo Ibuki
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Breadbox said:

"Oh no! Palpatine somehow returned with one million star destroyers on Planet Evil Dark, also Rey is Palp's granddaughter wuttt???"

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The Wondering Earth 3, due 2027

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Breadbox said:

On the topic of Star Wars,

I'm sure everyone's heard enough dunking on the Sequel trilogy at this but I'm going to dunk them right now because they deserve it for being

I personally don't understand why people like The Force Awakens at all, the most enjoyment I had is watch the title crawl at the beginning. There's zero world-building, the Empire is back and somehow more powerful because of course they are, and this 'republic' that existed for 3 minutes for the sole purpose of being blown up by Neo Deathstar, things are sounds important(like the Neo deathstar) are casually brought up and then destroyed with zero long term consequence whatsoever, remember how the destruction of the original death star is the end of the original trilogy while the destruction of the neo death star is a "yea, whatever" moment for both side involved?
The plot is devoid of any suspense or intrigue because you've watched/read it before(the biggest reason personally) and the visuals and actions are nothing special.
The characters are either mid or laughable, Rey is synthetic diamond of a character, she's super serious, good at everything from the get go and clearly requires no character development and there's Fin the former stormtrooper who got the big sad from his buddy being KIA and cured it by betraying and slaughtering the rest of his buddies immediately after. Who tf wrote this? The nostalgia baiting also does nothing to me, it's just feel so unoriginal and underdeveloped in everything, the plot, visuals, world-building and characters.

I'm one of the person who enjoyed the Last Jedi alot more than The Force Awakens, because a 'wait, wtf?' movie is alot more enjoyable than a bland predictable one. I applaud Rian Johnson as the man who would boldly interrupt a boring social gathering with a clown parade because at least something interesting is happening now. Sure, it might be full of red herring plot-lines and bizarre, frustrating character decisions but at least something entertaining(in a clownish manner) is happening on screen.

I did not watch the Rise of Skywalker, the moment I heard that Palps is returning I lost any interests in watching, JJ Abrams is literally tearing down everything that mattered in entire original trilogy and lighting it up as bonfire just so that he can shamelessly nostalgia bait a little more. Nothing I've heard about it sounds remotely interesting, boring mcguffin goose chase with boring characters, antagonists/threat out of a extremely bad fan-fiction, it's quite literally:
"Oh no! Palpatine somehow returned with one million star destroyers on Planet Evil Dark, also Rey is Palp's granddaughter wuttt???"
The best complement I can give is that at least JJ abrams resisted the urge to give Palps one hundred starkiller base as well(that all spontaneously explodes at the end). Oh and Rey calls herself Skywalker and that's apparently the rise of Skywalker I guess. Couldn't read more like a shitty fanfic if it tried, it isn't just bad as a standalone, it retroactively made all the previous movies worse by erasing their impact.

Come to think of it, the only good Star Movie that has came out since the prequels is Rogue One, a movie that is actually thoroughly interesting to watch without resorting to throwing BS at the wall. Maybe it's just an average movie and the extreme shittiness of the sequels made a movie that's merely decent a glowing star in comparison.

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Helius said:

Wow another one already?

Didn't the first one posit that it'd take Earth 2,500 years to reach Alpha Centrauri? I'd think in that time humanity would've advanced so much that even if FTL was an impossibility they would probably still have developed spaceships capable of near light speed that would get them to Promixa b and other planets in the system and colonise them in earnest even before Earth itself reaches its destination.

That's to say realistically I could imagine a potential premise being that in the millennia since, humanity could've already spread throughout the cosmos and no longer Earth-bound, so much so that a 'wandering Earth' wouldn't necessarily be an ark that represents 'humanity's last hope' anymore but rather a piece of historical relic that still trudges along slowly to an already established home for an already thriving and interstellar human civilisation.

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Helius said:

Wow another one already?

Didn't the first one posit that it'd take Earth 2,500 years to reach Alpha Centrauri? I'd think in that time humanity would've advanced so much that even if FTL was an impossibility they would probably still have developed spaceships capable of near light speed that would get them to Promixa b and other planets in the system and colonise them in earnest even before Earth itself reaches its destination.

That's to say realistically I could imagine a potential premise being that in the millennia since, humanity could've already spread throughout the cosmos and no longer Earth-bound, so much so that a 'wandering Earth' wouldn't necessarily be an ark that represents 'humanity's last hope' anymore but rather a piece of historical relic that still trudges along slowly to an already established home for an already thriving and interstellar human civilisation.

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