• oni ᓚᘏᗢ
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    246 months ago

    lmao, not an english native speaker here. What would be, in english language, the difference between poisonous and venomous? Lifting aside the “pois” and the “ven”.

  • @BroBot9000@lemmy.world
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    546 months ago

    That and it’s a sequel to a move made in 1988. It was always destined to be a soulless nostalgia cash grab.

    • @CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      Eh, it’s alright for what it is. It’s a sequel that’s mostly enjoyable and entertaining. And feels like classic Burton through and through. Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton are also obviously having a lot of fun.

    • @GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      86 months ago

      Meh it was enjoyable enough. It’s certainly not overtaking the original as the better, but it was a fine hour and a half our whatever.

    • @Thatuserguy@lemmy.world
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      166 months ago

      Like everyone else said, doesn’t beat the original, but it was fun for what it was. Certainly kept a lot of the same spirit, which is more than I can say for a lot of these soulless reboot/sequel cash grabs these days

    • @JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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      16 months ago

      I was pleasantly surprised. I went and saw it with my mother since the original was one of her favorites to watch with me growing up. She was actually more critical of it than I was, which doesn’t happen very often, but at the same time I think she had higher expectations than I did. (Mine were not very high)

  • @norimee@lemmy.world
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    106 months ago

    As a non native English speaker, where does toxic fit into the poisonous/venevenomous question?

  • @pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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    116 months ago

    I saw it last night: it’s the worst wet fart of a movie I’ve seen in a long time

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        26 months ago

        Nope, as I generally want to be entertained when I spend money and time for a movie.
        I’d lie if I said I expected this to be as good as the first one, but boy was that an understatement…

      • @pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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        106 months ago

        Story cohesion, justifiable plot, relatable characters, believable dialogues, good montage (there are more frame changes than a fast and furious chase sequence) and in general there is nothing that make this one look like a Tim Burton movie.
        But hey we now have *checks notes* Monica Bellucci, the worst actress the big screen has ever seen…

        • Captain Aggravated
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          16 months ago

          Story cohesion

          In one or two simlpe sentences, summarize the story of the original Beetlejuice film. In just a few words, what is Beetlejuice about?

          But hey we now have checks notes Monica Bellucci, the worst actress the big screen has ever seen…

          May I introduce you to Monique Gabrielle?

          • @pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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            36 months ago

            In one or two simlpe sentences, summarize the story of the original Beetlejuice film.

            Ghost couple tries to shoo away the family who bought their house after they died. The thing gets out of hand when they hire Beetlejuice.

            Why this question, tho?

            • Captain Aggravated
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              16 months ago

              Trying to put the thought in my head into words…Let’s try this: Beetlejuice has an excuse plot like a lot of video games do. The plot is a framework to attach fun and amusing scenes together. It’s an excuse to go to the ghost DMV and to have the dinner and seance and wedding scenes.

              At one point they do have a stated goal of scaring away the Deetzes, but they don’t achieve this goal. They scare off Otho, by making his…suit less trendy? Am I remembering that right? But the Maitlands and Deetzes end up living in harmony, Lydia gets the movie’s victory lap. Beetlejuice is the title character, but he’s really the closest thing the film has to an antagonist.

              Really, the characters and plot don’t matter as much as the series of fun and interesting scenes. That’s why I enjoyed the movie; it’s built more like a haunted house than a feature film. It’s a series of loosely related vignettes. And if those are fun, then mission achieved.

              • @pH3ra@lemmy.ml
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                16 months ago

                I think you got it backwards, I mean the new one doesn’t have cohesion: the parallel stories don’t really match with each other

        • @ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          26 months ago

          That sucks. The producers (or directors or someone idfk) have just been charged with making the first screen adaption of one of my favorite ongoing comic series. I’m nervous.

    • @Heavybell@lemmy.world
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      26 months ago

      I remember hearing on QI about a snake that eats a poisonous frog in order to become poisonous itself. Don’t think it was Australian but who knows.

  • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
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    76 months ago

    It’s a common mistake, so isn’t a character in a movie making it realistic? Wouldn’t it be out of character for many characters to have perfect English?

    • @BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee
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      26 months ago

      it only takes 1 flaw to turn a movie from a 10/10 to a 0/10. this is one such example

      sigh guess us real kinophiles must fend for ourselves

      • @dev_null@lemmy.ml
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        46 months ago

        May point is that it might be a mistake of the character, intended by the writers, not a mistake by the writers.

  • nek0d3r
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    56 months ago

    I literally thought the correction in my head while in the theater. It took some restraint to not mention anything to my partner lol

  • @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    Aside of the obvious meme joke. Well, language eveolves, maybe the distinction isn’t that important any more. Other languages don’t have it and usually you add more context to something. Also when was the last time you tried to eat an unknown animal? Or where in a situation, where you had to decide if the dangerous looking animal is only supposed to be uneatable instead of venomous?

    • @thedeadwalking4242@lemmy.world
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      96 months ago

      Tbh I feel like it’s a very important distinction . There are poisonous things that aren’t harmful unless ingested. However something that is venomous is probably ready to attack if approached

      • @SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
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        16 months ago

        It’s kind of funny, because in other languages it doesn’t use this distinction and people don’t eat poisonous mushrooms because someone called them venomous by accident, or the other way around with a venomous animal.

    • @shneancy@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      as much as i believe languages are living tools, cannot be constrained by rules, and will evolve no matter how much old timers complain

      if you tell me about a “venomous mushroom” I’ll freak out at the possibility of such a being existing faster than you can explain how you don’t really see a reason for the distinction between venomous and poisonous and that other languages don’t even have it

    • @Default_Defect@midwest.social
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      26 months ago

      I’m fine with language naturally changing over time as it does, but I’m not a big fan of people gleefully cheering on as words lose meaning because people can’t handle being corrected about the current meaning/intent of words.