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3 minutes ago, Annber03 said:
Lord, don't give them any ideas.
But that brings up another point - it's cute (and by "cute", I mean "utterly baffling") that people, to this day, STILL seem to think that magically removing books from schools and libraries will somehow protect their children from whatever it is they think they need to be protected from. I guess the internet or kids having friends with more liberal parents aren't a thing in their world?
Their freaking out about this will also further ensure that their children will never open up to them or want to talk to them about anything, no matter how innocent or risque it might be. Like, I'm sorry, people in that video, that you're apparently completely incapable of having a mature, honest conversation about sex with your kids, but that's frankly your problem to deal with, not mine or anyone else's.
Exactly, plus don't we all know that making something banned just makes people more interested in it? There is that whole saying about forbidden fruit. I think I have already seen some people posting that their bookshops have displays of "banned books", or even some Banned books week event or something.
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He's too young for me to find him attractive, but I think he was good in Call me by your name. And I like that girls now seem to go more for guys like he or Harry Styles who don't try so hard to be all macho. At least it destroys arguments of all those "What happened to manly men???" jerks.
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51 minutes ago, DoctorAtomic said:
It's not even vanilla porn. Like they all just randomly picked the books about butt sex and 'every kind of job you can imagine.'
Meh, I've read more explicit stuff in fanfiction. Bet they go after that next.
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I almost didn't watch it due to the name, I thought it would be about actual killing of animals which I can't bear.
Damn, those people are obsessed with written porn, aren't they? One might think they go to those meetings to listen to some new material, lol.
The fact that the same people who are for banning abortions claiming that they just want more kids are also against helping women get pregnant is infuriating, but not surprising. Because it's not about children, it's about controlling women, full stop. Forcing women who don't want or can't afford to have children to give birth ad also keeping other women who DO want to have children from having them. It looks like they are not consistent, but they actually are, because the goals are cruelty to women and control of women.
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I have only seen the last version with Lady Gaga and did not get why people were so obsessed with it.
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On 2/24/2024 at 9:14 PM, Spartan Girl said:
That being said, I did appreciate the shirtless scene, lol.
Eh, how old is he supposed to be? Wikipedia says 16. That makes me quite uncomfortable to see that they try to make him some sort of sex symbol.
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Well, good news then! (Especially for those of us who don't want to subscribe to Max just for this show.)
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I don't know any of those people, but that's so wrong and disgusting.
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Against my better judgement, I ended up seeing a couple of scenes from Troy as it was on TV. I am pretty sure that I did not care for any of the relationships back when I saw it in cinema in 2004 as a teenager and continued not to care as I've rewatched it over the years. But I don't think I realized before just how infuriating I find Achilles and how toxic it is that we were apparently supposed to like him and Briseis. Wow, yet another romance where a woman falls for a man because he saves her from rape and because he has so much decency that he doesn't rape her himself. Don't we all dream of such a man? 🤮 Nevermind that he is there to kill her family and everyone in her city. He treats her nice one time, so that is all it takes for her to get wet over him. She should have just slit his throat while he slept and run away, or if she can't bring herself to, then just run away and consider herself lucky.
I know Brad Pitt was considered hot and while I never saw him as such, I could see that he was objectively good looking in some movies, but I've always found him completely unattractive here.
I still don't care for any of the other couples either, but now I am kind of pissed over how everyone treated Helen, like it was her fault that her abusive husband started a war over her. Shut up everyone, please, she is free to leave that jerk if she wants, it is 100% his decision to kill people over that. Men have agency over their own actions, don't blame women for them, especially in times when they had it so much harder already.
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I've never seen the animated series either. I keep hearing how good it was, so it's on my list, but I haven't gotten around to it yet, so I figured I would try this new version in the meantime. (Plus, I don't even know where I would watch the animated series, I most certainly do not have it on Netflix in Europe.)
It seems a bit uneven so far, the world looks great, the powers are interesting and the actors are good, but I did not realize it was going to be aimed mostly at kids (completely my mistake, should have realized it), there was way too much exposition and repetition for me. Yet at the same time, the revelation that Aang was frozen for hundred years was sort of undersold. Was the animal (sky bison?) frozen as well? Or is normal for them to live that long, but why would it not try to get help all that time?
I am also really, really tired of chosen one stories and endless debates about taking responsibility you didn't ask for vs. wanting to live a normal life, so I hope that is going to be kept to a minimum. I will give it a few more episodes, because it looks very good visually and I want to support fantasy with more diverse casting.
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1 hour ago, bluegirl147 said:
Back in the day saying this kind of trash would have a negative effect on your career. But nowadays it can be a career booster. Schneider will probably parlay this into a concert tour of state fairs or something.
Help! I am being silenced and cancelled! Come to my concert tour to experience in person how much cancelled I am!
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13 hours ago, rmontro said:
Of course, sometimes a movie is better than the book (though rarely). But when the source material is highly beloved in itself, maybe the film maker should focus more on figuring out why that is than on putting his own particular stamp on it.
I see no indication so far that this should not be the case with Fantastic 4. I am not that knowledgeable about them, but I thought that the reason they were so popular is mainly the focus on the family and their dynamics being somewhat different than other, bigger teams. (And the lack of secret identities, but that is already what we are used to in the MCU, so it won't stand out.)
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31 minutes ago, Dandesun said:
I do think it's interesting that the show runner Beau DeMayo is referring to Rogue and Gambit as the OTP... I'm down. I love them. Just enough with the touching angst! Since they've got past that in the comics it's been an absolute blast to have them deal with other shit. Play with it show-runner!!
They are one of the very few ships that I am properly invested in, so this makes me happy. And I agree about the angst.
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I only watched for David Tennant and I wasn't disappointed.
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10 minutes ago, Affogato said:
In actual fairness Spike, when he didn’t have a soul, still did participate meaningfully in social interactions, appeared to love and have empathy, although somewhat twisted. He didn’t realize he wanted a soul when he went to fight for it, but he wanted to be a better person. Compare this to Angel, who was utterly horrible when he didn‘T have a soul, only wanting to hurt and control people. At the time I wanted Buffy and Angel together, but reasonably Spike was presented as the better individual. I really wanted Buffy with a human.
Their canon about souls was very inconsistent. Angel was a completely different person without a soul, but Spike didn't really change much.
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1 hour ago, Wiendish Fitch said:
Same. I think the biggest reason some people (myself included) struggle with saying "no" is that people never take their "no" for answer, or question it. If you're taught early on that your "no" doesn't matter, well...
My advice? Forget everything you've been told, ALWAYS take "no" for an answer*.
*Rare exceptions notwithstanding.
Yes. Plus the useful advice I've learned here: "No is a complete answer." I love it so much. Whenever I forget myself and start to explain my reasons for not wanting something, it gets worse and those pushers try to dispute with me. It's better to offer no reasons and when asked, keep them as simple as possible.
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I don't get people who don't look up info about movies they are going to see and then wonder if it is/isn't something.
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45 minutes ago, annzeepark914 said:
The last few posts sound like folks just don't want to be hectored to do certain things. So why do some people keep bugging them to try this, try that, you don't know what you're missing, etc , etc? Maybe they just don't know *when* to stop with their suggestions, or don't know how to "read the room", as the saying goes.
This is my permanent peeve - people who can't take no for an answer. We talk about it when it comes to sex, but there are so many other instances, like pushing people to try some food, to drink, to do all sorts of activities, invite people they don't want for weddings, etc. I hate it, it's a complete lack of respect for other people. And if you reply in a more aggressive way after several polite attempts, they have the nerve to get offended.
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2 hours ago, shrewd.buddha said:
It seems like a no-win situation. ...but it is said “A good compromise is when both parties are dissatisfied”
There is a portion of fans that is permanently dissatisfied with MCU no matter what they do, so that is not hard to achieve. But in this case, I don't think it's the way to go.
FF already had a shot at movies at Fox, so it seems only fair that Marvel can try their own thing.
28 minutes ago, Trini said:(As if MBJ was the problem in that movie -- LOL!)
I haven't seen that version, but I have heard many people saying that he was the only good thing about that movie.
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The one show I would have liked to bingewatch was Rings of Power, since that felt like one story randomly cut into shorter segments, same as with LOTR movies. But that's the one they released weekly. 🤷♀️
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Is it wrong that I think that The Catcher in the Rye, Love Story and Jonathan Livingston Seagull are waaay too overrated?
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14 hours ago, rmontro said:
When Marvel sold off the film rights of their biggest properties, they sold off the Fantastic Four, Spider-Man, and the X-Men.
The Avengers weren't race swapped, and their movies were spectacularly successful. Spider-Man wasn't race swapped. The X-Men weren't race swapped. Batman wasn't race swapped. Superman wasn't race swapped. Because those are all iconic characters. But Fiege looks at the Fantastic Four and all of a sudden he has a problem, "they're too white"? You wouldn't race swap Superman or Peter Parker or Wolverine because they're iconic, and people expect them to look a certain way. And the Fantastic Four belongs in that group of very special iconic characters. They were the first Marvel comic, and the foundation of the Marvel universe. Out of respect, they shouldn't be race swapped.
Now having said that, you could race swap Superman now, because there have been so many versions of him already done. You could now do a different take on him. But the Fantastic Four has never had a good movie done of them, so get them right first, then you can start experimenting with them. At least when they created Miles Morales, they had the good sense to make him a different character.
I can usually see points from both sides on this debate and I agree that with some characters, it makes more sense to keep their appearance closer to the source material than with others. As Trini said, Bruce Wayne would not make much sense not white. But I don't see such need with Fantastic Four. They are scientists and while it made sense that in the early 60's they would be all white because people from other backgrounds would have it a lot harder to get to such prominent positions in the field, it is different now.
Nick Fury was changed and it worked. And if we look at other factors not just skin tone, many iconic characters look different in the movies than in comics. Wolverine is much taller but people praise Hugh Jackman for the role (and for good reasons). I like him, but I still see him as a different character than the one from comics, but that's ok because it's a different story. We already had animated adaptations with the characters looking very similar to comics. People usually complain less when it something like height or hair color that is changed.
Sometimes it's possible to find a great actor who looks very faithful to the original look (Patrick Stewart for example), but it's rare and I would rather have a good actor who can fit the personality than an exact look with mediocre portrayal. The writing will be more important anyway, IMO. We already had FF movies where the main 4 looked more or less like in comics.
14 hours ago, Raja said:The problem being that while Nazis may have targeted those European minority ethnic groups it doesn't matter. For Americans looking to prove diverse casting the only "Whites" that count as adding diversity are those with Latin American roots.
Well, I can't speak for American audiences, since I'm European. I just wanted to point out since I'm from more-or-less the area where these fictional countries like Latveria or Sokovia are supposed to be, that here it's definitely a difference between being from the white majority and being Romani, there is still a lot of prejudice and racial tensions, even though some people can pass as white. And since most of the Romani characters I've seen in western movies and TV are played by white actors, it would be cool to break that pattern. I don't see why it shouldn't count as diversity like any other ethnicity if that is the character's origin. With Doom, I think it would be one of those cases when the ethnicity is important for the character's backstory, especially if they decide to show more of his past. Now that FF are in the MCU, there is a possibility to expand the story like with other characters, so they might for example make a TV show about Doom or Latveria and show more of the story that has already been developed in comics.
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"What Do They See In Each Other?!" Worst Movie Love Interests
in Everything Else Movies
Okay, another movie: The Remains of the Day. What on Earth did Emma Thompson's character see in Anthony Hopkins'? That man had no personality, apart from being dedicated to his job, and was unable to form a single opinion for himself. I am torn between thinking that she was better off with the guy she married and feeling sorry for her because she apparently never got over what she felt for Anthony Hopkins, though I can't fathom why. I mean, the movie was still interesting, mostly for the atmosphere and the political subplot with the much more interesting characters. But my God, was the romantic storyline dull.
(I hope I'm not offending anyone who loves the movie. I might be exaggerating a bit but this is the place for that, right?)