LaughingEvans
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I suppose Leslie Jones acting like a baby for the reboot and the feminist's reception to the Russo bros Ghostbusters with Tatum and Pratt were not toxic, eh?
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Of course a narrative will be pushed against anyone who feels that Brie is stupid, but the truth is that people caught on to that only because of her rising popularity due to MCU. I remember her retweeting a picture of a black family sitting in the tube reading books with the caption "why is this not going viral". You can't marginalize a group more than that. Some people are legit empathetic, some others simply have the "white saviour" complex.
On top of that, she's named after a french cheese
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That settles it @JamesCameronScholar, we're right.
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A champagne socialist celebrity is out of touch? Let me grab my surprised face
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2 hours ago, Captain Craig said:
Its been done across the Net. I don't have the keystrokes to waste on those who've made up their minds that it is the franchise killer film.
I've been on forums long enough to know when not to waste anymore time than necessary.
So is this the reason you decided to come to this forum and be an asshole to people who happen to have a different opinion?
Are you sure it's not because of some sort of insecurity you have about your intelligence or so?-
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1 minute ago, Captain Craig said:
TLJ hate is still strong with so many.
It is a solid movie on many fronts. I've never seen such tirades and cliches that make so many look like the parent living basement dwellers of the stereotype than over TLJ.
That's because you're projecting. If you weren't, you'd probably break down some points and prove them wrong.
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That birds of pray title
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1 hour ago, RobrtmanAStarWarsReference said:
Rogue One is hot garbage. Holdo is a better character than everyone from Rogue One. These are facts
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TLJ and Solo.
Rogue One was really good. TFA was simply passable.
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1 hour ago, terrestrial said:
Not sure how far she can be connected to failures
My 6th sense tells me she was involved in the creation of Vice Admiral
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Kiri Hart (head of the story group) is no longer showing up on the lucasfilm leadership page.
Looks like someone at Disney has started taking heads for the latest SW failures. This will be fun.
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@rukaio101 I'm talking about complexity and you're talking about gravity. Nobody argues the severity of fascism and genocide, but you cannot argue that these are basic themes that everyone with a brain understands.
Compare that to Strasser's Wave for a moment; Strasser not only shows that fascism is bad, he also shows how easy it is for dangerous ideas to spread, and how black and white morality can lead to terrible conflict and war.
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2 hours ago, rukaio101 said:
I mean, unless you're seriously arguing that this comic book somehow 'isn't meaningful'...
Of course it is, but as I argued, it's meaningful because it's character driven (the father - son relationship mainly, and the way they feel about the past)
It's views on fascism and racism are of course watered down. If you want a non watered down view on the subject, see Die Welle.
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1 hour ago, JamesCameronScholar said:
A point too dangerous/offensive to avoid being censored and/or libeled.
The truth is ugly, but I will take it over any beautiful lie. And I'm glad I'm not the only one.
Well then, if society prefers the lie from the truth, we're making our own beds, aren't we?-
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6 hours ago, LouisianaArkansasGeorgia said:
Meh.
I actually loved GB16, and I think that the original, though solid, was incredibly overrated.
My cousin thinks the exact same thing, but she's a feminist, so we don't take her seriously.
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Lads, they're comics.
The only meaningful way they can be written is to be character driven. And it ends there.
If you inject politics in comics, it's going to be watered down politics. If you inject social commentary, it's going to be watered down social commentary, and it goes on. Whether Moore is completely right or not, he makes a valid point: If you take your morals from comic books, they're gonna be watered down morals.
I'm telling you all this as a person who loves comics and still reads them at 29.
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7 hours ago, LouisianaArkansasGeorgia said:
The fact that now DCEU/WB has the two leggiest superhero films of the current post-Iron Man superhero explosion (Aquaman and Wonder Woman) tells us something about how iconic DC characters are in terms of pop culture penetration. I mean, a well-made, non clusterfuck-y JLA that featured heroic heroes and faithfully portrayed characters would have been an Avengers-style phenomenon, if not bigger. Too bad that Snyder had to fuck it up when he got the ball rolling with the one-two non-punch of MOS and BvS...
Now we are stuck in some sort of limbo with two characters that audiences love (Diana and Arthur) but against a shared universe backdrop that audiences hate. Will it be even feasible to have these characers join forces agains sans Batman and Superman when the suits probably still think that those two characters are the be all end all of the DCU?
I think you randomly correlated being iconic with box office legs. No taking away the iconic, or the box office success, but it's just a random statement with no basis.
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Wasn't the original success of Ghostbusters a product of the overwhelming charisma that Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis brought, plus Reitman's intelligent way of turning a disaster movie full of special effects into a comedy?
If they don't bring back something that good, how can they expect the reboot to take off?
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14 hours ago, Krissykins said:
so far it’s miles better than Defenders
That's not quite the achievement, I've written schoolplays in high school better than the Defenders
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But surely the awards don't mean much. It's more PR than actual merit that counts there, otherwise Sheldon wouldn't have a ton of them for example.
Now the first season of GoT had some great production, but the writing has been abysmal. It cannot be called "great", put next to powerhouses like The Sopranos, The Wire, The Shield etc.
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1 hour ago, The Futurist said:
Imagine if GOT had great actors, the possibilities ....
It does have a few, but they are cast aside in favour of some untalented and annoying characters.
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Anyway. nobody here is making racist remarks about Rose Tico. All that is argued about is the character.
If you wanna reply to the ones who are being racist go to twitter. Here you have to post arguments.
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15 minutes ago, lorddemaxus said:
Or you find it hard to read the subtleties of a script.
Look here, if you're gonna call TLJ's script subtle, I might as well put you in the same list as the person who called BvS a misunderstood indie film.
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1 minute ago, Ipickthiswhiterose said:
I think what it comes down to is if you think it's unrealistic that upper management of a large organisation will arbitrarily keep secrets and strategy from everyone else, even though it seems not to provide any advantage for them to do so and it just presents as a facade of arrogance, then you obviously haven't worked in a large organisation.
The problem is not that Holdo did not delegate information, it's that the movie makes a big deal about it. It's pointless. The movie established that Poe is reckless in the first 20 minutes, there is no reason to go through that again.
But as someone who has worked in large organisations and been part of the army, I assure you that any full scale operation demands back and forth feedback in order to work. A captain/admiral can dictate the strategy/vision, but you cannot expect them to have insight on the plan details that key operators can provide.
Now my main problem with Holdo is that it's a typical case of "tell, not show" authority played wrong. Her character doesn't hold up, because the script says she's awesome, but she fails to do her job miserably. On the opposite side, take a similarly introduced character in a less than serious setting: Harvey Kaitel in Pulp Fiction.
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Maybe it didn't accumulate to a shitstorm because the media did not push too many narratives there? In any case, criticism is not sexism.