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[Blankments]

don't you hate when you want to ask someone to a movie, but you legit don't see them unless they're surrounded by other people

[filmlover]

P.S. Coco still holds up and looks BEAUTIFUL on Blu-Ray.

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, Telehilation said:

I don’t agree with that at all. To me the whole movie feels like an accidental statement of white privilege without the slightest sense of self-awareness about it. And that’s putting aside what I think are some very poorly constructed story elements. 

 

(Don’t intend to take this into a political derailing, sorry)

I can get structural complaints (the last half hour or so work fine for me but it's easy to see how it doesn't for others), but I've yet to see a convincing argument on the racism front. Dixon is basically a southern stereotype throughout the film without much redemption. As the article says, he's never treated as someone that deserves the audience's respect and admiration 

[MrGamer]

How the hell do you change backgrounds? I want my Sherlock Gnomes background. 

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, Blank Panther said:

don't you hate when you want to ask someone to a movie, but you legit don't see them unless they're surrounded by other people

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Just now, MrGamer said:

How the hell do you change backgrounds? I want my Sherlock Gnomes background. 

It's the icon next to the PM box at the top.

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, MrGamer said:

How the hell do you change backgrounds? I want my Sherlock Gnomes background. 

Go to the bottom of the page and switch your theme to movie backgrounds. You'll see a paintbrush on the taskbar towards the top

[MrGamer]

Just now, filmlover said:

It's the icon next to the PM box at the top.

I've got the regular backgrounds. You gotta download them? 

[DAJK]

Really wanting to drop Stats because this new teacher is just awful. But it's well past the drop date without academic penalty, and our prof switch occurred right before the drop date, so we didn't even get this new prof until the drop date. 

 

So it's like... how was I supposed to know that this prof would be so bad so I could just not take the course. I seriously have no clue what's going on in that class anymore. Lecture notes from the course administrator used to be available online, but she has since taken them down and replaced them with her slideshows which are just awful because they are just examples from the textbook which she tells us the answers to in class. Literally, that's all the class is is her reading a word problem, then looking at her sheet and giving us a number that is the answer and moving on, without any explanation for what the question even means or how we get that answer. fuckkkkkkkkkkk

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1 minute ago, MrGamer said:

I've got the regular backgrounds. You gotta download them? 

Click "Theme" at the bottom.

[MrGamer]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

Go to the bottom of the page and switch your theme to movie backgrounds. You'll see a paintbrush on the taskbar towards the top

Thank you Han. I'll remember you when I take over this site. 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, DAJK said:

Really wanting to drop Stats because this new teacher is just awful. But it's well past the drop date without academic penalty, and our prof switch occurred right before the drop date, so we didn't even get this new prof until the drop date. 

 

So it's like... how was I supposed to know that this prof would be so bad so I could just not take the course. I seriously have no clue what's going on in that class anymore. Lecture notes from the course administrator used to be available online, but she has since taken them down and replaced them with her slideshows which are just awful because they are just examples from the textbook which she tells us the answers to in class. Literally, that's all the class is is her reading a word problem, then looking at her sheet and giving us a number that is the answer and moving on, without any explanation for what the question even means or how we get that answer. fuckkkkkkkkkkk

By academic penalty, do you mean getting a W or not being able to do anything? If it's the former, just withdraw and take it again next semester. 

[WrathOfHan]

1 minute ago, MrGamer said:

Thank you Han. I'll remember you when I take over this site. 

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1 minute ago, MrGamer said:

Thank you Han. I'll remember you when I take over this site. 

How could anyone forget Han after HAHAHA OH WOW!

[MrGamer]

2 minutes ago, WrathOfHan said:

 

[WrathOfHan]

Just now, MrGamer said:

 

[Dementeleus]

Just now, WrathOfHan said:

I can get structural complaints (the last half hour or so work fine for me but it's easy to see how it doesn't for others), but I've yet to see a convincing argument on the racism front. Dixon is basically a southern stereotype throughout the film without much redemption. As the article says, he's never treated as someone that deserves the audience's respect and admiration 

 

The racism front is the unacknowledgement of either Dixon nor McDormand’s characters facing the slightest issues with their actions. There’s also the problem that they both become the de facto hero/heroine co-protagonists in the last third. There’s been fifty years of revenge-fantasy movies and this one doesn’t distinguish itself in any meaningful way to comment on the subject. 

 

The script issues are conveniently introducing *another* rapist with the same MO (would be a stretch even in a large city, let alone a small town — even if he was just a visitor — but not just introducing him, making him so ridiculously stupid and one-dimensional that he brags — in a bar! In public! — about raping and killing a girl. That’s a hamfisted element to say the least, and having him show up basically just to have the plot twist that he *isn’t* the rapist in question is just idiotic on every level. 

 

There’s a ton of other issues — the scene between McDormand and her daughter is so forced it feels like it’s an after school special — the “edgy” cursing that feels more like they're Brits than anything else — the entire movie feels like it was made by aliens who’ve been studying America and think they’ve got it down only to make something that’s hideously Uncanny Valley. 

 

In short; the actors try hard. That’s the best I’ll say about it. 

[WrathOfHan]

DABBING ON EM LIKE THE USUAL

 

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What is @Telehilation's background for the month?

[Eric Prime]

1 minute ago, WrathOfHan said:

DABBING ON EM LIKE THE USUAL