JB33
-
Posts
7,396 -
Joined
-
Last visited
Content Type
Profiles
Forums
Events
Blogs
Gallery
Annual Subscriptions
Media Demo
Posts posted by JB33
-
-
Sigh.
You know what? All I ask is that something is in theatres when they open up. I'm happy to have appetizers for now and wait for Tenet and other big blockbusters.
-
1
-
-
12 minutes ago, Brainbug said:
Im normally pro-optimism, but in this case id say it will move again as will a ton of other films. I dont see a Covid vaccine beeing available for the majority of people until next summer and theres always the risk that theaters may be forced to close down again in the coming winter months. So id still be very cautious regarding release dates right now.
How about cautious optimism haha?
I'm guessing if it moves it would move a whole year to June 10, 2022.
-
Still dead silence on this. I would have thought this would be the kind of film that could make its date. Filming wrapped last summer. What gives here?
-
If all goes well, this is coming out a year from today. You guys think it makes the date?
-
On 6/11/2020 at 10:41 AM, Macleod said:
By "inclusive" they apparently mean... "We're still not firing JK, yet."
But they also stood hard behind Depp at the time, so this is typical Warner Bros.
And she shouldn't be fired. I'm hoping most of these corporations and institutions know where to draw the line in terms of appearing woke.
-
1 hour ago, CoolioD1 said:
in fairness he did look like a fully broken man during the making of the five armies doc. it seems like he had a completely shit experience making those.
That's sad.
What a fun, energetic filmmaker he is. I hope he gives it another go at some point. If not, he can still be content with some of the greatest films ever made in the LOTR trilogy.
-
5 hours ago, EarlyDeadlinePredictions said:
That new Dave Chappelle video about George Floyd is so good. Powerful stuff.
Then you see that cringey video with all the those white celebrities about racism. Smh. They somehow topped the Gal Gadot sing along video.
Cringey is putting it mildly. They're trying way too hard. This white obsession with self-flagellation is really becoming a thing now. You guys talk about Green Book but that video is GB on steroids.
-
9 hours ago, Lordmandeep said:
Based on what I can read the only real issue was the barricades with preventing police paramedics and firefighters from responding to situations quickly.
However that has been resolved.
However it really shows you how messed up the American news situation is because based on what you read it's either the paris commune or just some protestors sitting around.
The media is a problem. Legit.
One of the few things Trump spouts that I actually agree with. They're out of control and fake as it gets.
-
1 hour ago, lorddemaxus said:
The negative Polygon review for this game is just odd. They're comparing the post-apocalyptic world of The Last of Us to today's COVID-19 world and saying that it should have more parallels to that. They're saying that the game should have people joining together to fight for marginalized people (like the BLM protests irl) and that's just an incredibly dumb criticism.
-
This should move and Bond should move to November 20. It would be nice for Bond to have that one-weekend headstart before Thanksgiving.
-
-
5 hours ago, Lordmandeep said:
Whats going on in the Seattle Autonomous zone?
My right wing friends are foaming at their mouths?
My hard left friends think its the Paris commune 2020?
?
I was going to ask @cdsacken this...
-
2 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:
Since when is calling a liar a liar bullying?
I meant more for her views on the subject in general. I havent followed the situation since the other day when it first surfaced. So many other things going on that it gets overwhelming, to be honest.
-
2 hours ago, lorddemaxus said:
Lmao, Rowling's now also spreading dumb lies. She should do some research before saying shit like any man can get a certificate that says they are a woman (which isn't true).
Rowling will not be bullied. I respect her a ton.
-
1
-
-
25 minutes ago, Lordmandeep said:
Believe it or not JB, Canadian universities are not as idiotic as some American universities have become on free speech issues. In your case the teacher was not fired:
Mostly has to do with the 2017 Lindsay Shepard Scandal at Laurier University.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindsay_Shepherd
Canada universities are much more cautious to fire people over viewpoints.
Where a TA sort of got the Spanish Inquisition against her for playing a Jordan Peterson interview that was a debate on state sponsored broadcast television (TV Ontario) when the class was about pronouns and communication.
She recorded the meeting and one prof said "the professor compared the Peterson clip to "neutrally playing a speech by Hitler"
The whole scandal caused a huge push-back against Universities in Canada firing people or going after people for sharing different viewpoints and have since cooled off a bit.
I'm very familiar with the Lindsay Shepherd incident and have continued to follow her via True North. You're absolutely right that Canadian Universities don't have the reputation for intolerance that US Universities do. It was just frustrating to read about even a small example of it in the news today.
I was pretty impressed with the response to the Laurier thing. It feels like Conservative Canadians are more willing to speak up and fight back in comparison to the US.
-
28 minutes ago, CJohn said:
I will try to see two more on Friday: Onward and My Spy.
Onward was fantastic! It's the last movie I saw before theatres closed and I just picked up the blu ray.
-
6 minutes ago, aabattery said:
That's your view. Other peoples views are different.
Certainly.
Luckily, though, cooler heads sorta prevailed and she kept her job.
-
6 minutes ago, dudalb said:
You also have the basic fact that if you do something, job related or not, that makes the company or instituion you work for look bad and hurts their image, your career is going to suffer.
What the person in question has done should not make the institution look bad. At all. That's the problem here.
-
13 minutes ago, filmlover said:
If anything it's gonna be fun seeing this (and Mulan) sticking around in the top 10 for a while since the paucity of releases that's looking to last until Labor Day weekend (unless a whole bunch of movies either move up or get added to the schedule) means we won't have an official box office top 10 again for another couple of months.
Would you say March 13-15 was the last "official" weekend? Asking because I'm just trying to guage your definition of official
-
9 minutes ago, grim22 said:
This is a game of chicken with human lives on the line. Just delay it already.
Theatres are opening. It won't be delayed.
-
3
-
2
-
-
28 minutes ago, aabattery said:
Not sure where you're getting the outside student angle; it explicitly says in the article that the complaints were informal and anonymous. She can claim that everyone in her classes like them, but she's not a mind-reader. Regardless, she's not losing her teaching position so the people who don't have an issue with her views can still go to those classes. She's just not going to be in the front-facing student service role, which honestly just makes sense; if you hired a receptionist at some imaginary business who kept pissing people off and was driving customers away, would you be inclined to keep them on? Except in this case, she's not even getting fired; they're just pulling her back from an administrative position where she was not able to fulfill her duties without pushing people away from the faculty.
No, she's not a mind-reader, but I think one can tell if your students are clearly opposed to or uncomfortable with your views you shared. Maybe not, who knows?
I get what you're saying. It makes sense for her superiors to do this on some level. What I'm protesting is the fragility of the students. It would be one thing if the professor was out right discriminatory, but that wasn't the case at all. Saying how you view sex and gender, especially from a biological and scientific standpoint, should not justify complaining to the dean and result in action being taken, whether she lost her job or just moved positions.
In a nutshell, I'm saying that the intolerance is still there. It just switched sides. It's scary how fragile today's youth and young adults are, how easily they feel intimidated and unsafe. How much do you want to bet that whoever complained didn't have a dog in the fight at all?
-
36 minutes ago, aabattery said:
Reading up on it the situation there seems more nuanced than you're painting it here.
She didn't lose her job, she's still employed as an associate professor and I can't see anything to suggest that her ability to research or publish has been infringed. In general these types of roles don't actually garner you any extra pay; they just get you a release from some of your teaching responsibilities, so her bank account isn't going to be weeping. She has simply been removed from a service role as a Chair of Undergraduate programs. Obviously I'm not intimately familiar with how the University of Alberta's admin works, but to me that sounds like a role that would place her in direct contact with a lot of students, including trans-people (this is how it would work at my uni). If she was making students uncomfortable in that role, I don't see why it is outrageous to suggest that maybe she take a step back and focus on other areas of her job.
That's why I said "or kicked out of their positions". I read the article, she's not happy with it. It's also not as innocent as "hey maybe you should step back because students feel uncomfortable. That IS the situation, but it's not innocent. Other views often can make one uncomfortable, but they're just views. She made sure to tell the students that they dont have to see it her way at all. She's just clarifying her views. She also firmly believes the complaints didnt come from her students at all.
So she basically got shoved out of her role because some outside students "felt unsafe". This is a horrible precedent to set. What about if people feel uncomfortable with opposite views? That doesnt matter does it because only one way of thinking is allowed.
@Barnack you always have interesting things to say. What are your thoughts on this?
-
8 hours ago, aabattery said:
Honestly, it just seems like a more specific term for the specific issue they're talking about.
You could just say women, but that ignores the fact that not all women menstruate, either because they haven't hit puberty, they've hit menopause, they're on birth control or some other drug, or they have some other medical condition that prevents menstruation.
So you could say women who menstruate if you must insist upon disavowing the acknowledgement of transmen for whatever reason, but where does this leave intersex people who have a functioning uterus alongside a set of male genitals (or at least male appearing genitals)? Or what about people who have Persistent Müllerian duct syndrome (I'll fully admit I only just found out about this after a quick google) in which a, by all reasonable standards, biologically male fetus develops a womb and thus goes through the whole menstruation thing? Obviously these cases represent the minority, but they do exist and I don't really see why the extraordinarily tiny amount of effort it takes to change one word in a headline is worth "rightfully" taking issue with.
I personally don't take issue with the phrase so much as I do the backlash and hate Rowling has received.
Then you have things like this...
Unacceptable. This is going way too far. People should not be losing their jobs or kicked out of their positions for having their own beliefs.
-
3 minutes ago, antovolk said:
Yup. Enough of the world is opening in time, California and NY were only holdbacks remaining
I think WB is counting on this being a Titanic of sorts. No BIG numbers anywhere, just soft yet consistent numbers over a looooong period of time.
What a fun, energetic filmmaker he is. I hope he gives it another go at some point. If not, he can still be content with some of the greatest films ever made in the LOTR trilogy.
PAPA NOL∀N'S TENƎꓕ | August 26 internationally. September 2 "in select US cities" | 75% on RT after 228 reviews
in Box Office Discussion
Posted
Reaching here but maybe the other tweet was referring to Canadian Thanksgiving...?