I’ve always wondered why trans folk are then lumped into LGBT since it’s such a different thing. Not that I have a problem with it, I’m just curious.
Well it does make sense if you think about it. It’s all about sex/gender. The “norm” is cis male/female relationships. Whether you’re homosexual or transgender, you’re breaking gender “norms.”
It’s not hard to figure out. There are a lot of trans actors out there, but very limited roles for trans characters. When a cis gendered person takes a trans role, that only exacerbates the limited number of opportunities.
Add on to that the important perspective that someone who actually is that kind of person brings to such a role.
Like most things, in an ideal world where trans actors are given ample opportunities, it’s a non-issue. Same with actors of different orientations. But we don’t live in that world.
“My favorite meat is hot dog, by the way. That is my favorite meat,” he told a gathering of supporters as they joined him recently for a casual dinner organized by his campaign. “My second favorite meat is hamburger. And, everyone says, oh, don’t you prefer steak? It’s like, I know steaks are great, but I like hot dog best, and I like hamburger next best.”
Is that a real quote? I read that somewhere and I thought it was from the Onion, but I guess I don’t know anymore.
Ugh, searching “Arrested Development” led me to stories about
- The cast being upset at not getting additional money for the remix
Stupid and unfortunate, but doesn’t surprise me for Netflix.
- Jeffrey Tambor being in Season 5 and being involved in all the promotional efforts
The whole season was shot before the allegations. So I kinda get not messing with that after the fact. Promotional stuff is dumb though.
Good movie.
I’m in a similar boat with you. I saw and enjoyed all the PT films when I was a kid but at the time I didn’t think either TPM or AOTC quite measured up to the OT (AOTC in particular was something of a disappointment to me at the time).
Huh. I liked the prequels more than the OT for years as a child. It wasn’t until I was 12 that I came to find them inferior. For a while I really disliked them, but now I’ve come back around and enjoy them again (except TPM, what a slog).
Well I was blessed with the OT before I saw the PT so I knew what was good right beforehand and had that to measure the PT against.
Yeah but, so was I, sorta. Well, I started with TPM, which I thought was okay, then I went on to the OT which I enjoyed, and then watched AOTC and ROTS which blew me out of the water.
But, like, why though?
right, i just feel bad for you because you can’t be entertained nowadays by something that has once entertained you.
I can still watch them easily enough. You could even say I still find them “entertaining,” I just don’t think they’re very good. Either way I don’t really care. My palate was very limited back then. Now there’s more good stuff out there that I’m enjoying than I can count. I’ll survive.
I’m in a similar boat with you. I saw and enjoyed all the PT films when I was a kid but at the time I didn’t think either TPM or AOTC quite measured up to the OT (AOTC in particular was something of a disappointment to me at the time).
Huh. I liked the prequels more than the OT for years as a child. It wasn’t until I was 12 that I came to find them inferior. For a while I really disliked them, but now I’ve come back around and enjoy them again (except TPM, what a slog).
Well I was blessed with the OT before I saw the PT so I knew what was good right beforehand and had that to measure the PT against.
disagree with the blessed part, because that way you don’t enjoy as many things as i do, for example.
No, blessed is the right word. I enjoyed it well enough when I was a kid (as in I enjoyed them a lot). All I said was I never liked TPM and AOTC as much as the rest.
Anyway, I’m older now, and whether I watched the OT or the PT first wouldn’t change the fact that one is good and the other isn’t.
I’m in a similar boat with you. I saw and enjoyed all the PT films when I was a kid but at the time I didn’t think either TPM or AOTC quite measured up to the OT (AOTC in particular was something of a disappointment to me at the time).
Huh. I liked the prequels more than the OT for years as a child. It wasn’t until I was 12 that I came to find them inferior. For a while I really disliked them, but now I’ve come back around and enjoy them again (except TPM, what a slog).
Well I was blessed with the OT before I saw the PT so I knew what was good right beforehand and had that to measure the PT against.
I had a joke about peer pressure, but everyone said it wasn’t funny, so I stopped telling it.
That’s not funny.
It’s more of a comment, really.
I had a joke about peer pressure, but everyone said it wasn’t funny, so I stopped telling it.
Okay, that’s hilarious and I’m stealing it for the next time someone tries to get me to tell a joke.
You ruined it.
I had a joke about peer pressure, but everyone said it wasn’t funny, so I stopped telling it.
That’s not funny.
Yeah I can see that, most people are dishonest lying self centered sacks of shit. Now you’ve made me sound like mfm, you jerk.
It is a great show though.
Is this sarcasm? I’d say most people have those tendencies to some extent, not that everyone is completely like that.
Beyond that too not everything in Seinfeld was the characters being awful. There’s a a lot of relatable mundane stuff that you don’t often see in other shows of the era.
well, i think that the “so this is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause” moment in RotS is absolutely amazing, for example.
A scene carried basically 80% by John Williams. It’s good, except it feels to me very un-Star Wars.
I also love Seinfeld, although I’m a bit concerned for you if you actually relate to it.
I meant if it’s not your favorite 90s sitcom you’re fucking crazy.
Also, I think most people can probably relate to Seinfeld more than they might care to admit.
Have you guys never watched Seinfeld?
i don’t know. i guess some of the stuff most of you find weird don’t bother me at all - like the cgi - which makes me not dislike them, and be open to like them.
anyway, i don’t really get a star warsy feeling from tpm. i do get it from aotc though: because of how slow it is, it makes me comfortable. it’s a good feeling. i feel at home. i enjoy geonosis and the “something’s about to happen” feel. and i watched aotc a heck of a lot of times, so i associated this feeling with star wars. it’s the same feel esb gives me, but esb does everything 1000x better therefore i get an even better experience out of that one.
rots just feels like THE star wars to me. like, the open war scenes excite me. i don’t mind the cgi, so that’s fine. i enjoy palpatine taking over. it excites me. not sure how else to describe it - it just resonates well with me.
because i’m at it, i’ll go on for the rest.
rogue one gave me the same exciting feel, while adding something new to the mix. it was great, i loved the movie.
star wars gives me the best feeling overall. i feel excited and happy, i get nervous and anxious, i live all of luke’s emotions with him every single time. and the sense of mystery and discovery before we meet him - always great. never gets old.
rotj gives me the same feeling as star wars, but i don’t enjoy it as much - simple as that.
tfa feels like a very weird version of star wars. it’s still there but it’s weird.
unfortunately, tlj doesn’t feel like star wars at all. i will be getting the blu ray and rewatching it this week, and then we’ll see.
I think one of the things that make the PT feel like Star Wars is that all of Lucas’ entries are quirky. The PT suffers from terrible execution in many aspects, but TPM feels like ANH to me, but with less interesting characters and much lower stakes. The ST is overall much better executed, but it does all feel very derivative, and superficial, and lacks Lucas’ imagination, IMO.
This is a very interesting opinion to me because I don’t think TPM really feels that much like ANH at all. I mean obviously they’re both the same genre and the same universe. But to me the original film has this one very specific, unique “feeling” to it. And then ESB is similar but really has its own unique “feeling.” ROTJ kinda feels like a combination of the two (leaning more on ANH) with a slight original flavor to it.
TPM is, to me, as much a departure in “feeling” as ESB, in fact actually a lot moreso, though I think it still more or less fits. AOTC then feels slightly like TPM but then again it’s more like it’s whole own thing. ROTS is like half AOTC feeling, half it’s own thing. At this point we are now, in my opinion, unfortunately far too far away from the the spirit of the original film.
To me, TFA legitimately captures the spirit of the original film possibly better than any that came after (yes, maybe even Empire, and no, not just because it’s a “rehash”), but it’s still not the same, it’s more like a modern reinvention of that spirit. TLJ feels very much like it has that DNA in it but again is its own unique thing, but not too much so that it feels like a different franchise (which is the trap that AOTC, ROTS, and to a lesser extent TPM fell into, I think).
I don’t really like the age/birth year/generation argument. As one factor, sure. But as the defining factor, not really.
My birth year is closer to 1999 than to 1977, and yet while I kinda liked TPM in theaters as a kid, I greatly disliked RotS the first time I saw it (and that was when I still appreciated RotJ). If age/generation is a huge factor here, I should probably be more inclined to enjoy the PT, or at least to be more forgiving of it, since I should be more familiar and prone to liking modern, more impressive blockbusters than older people, and yet that hasn’t been the case (and I’m sure many other people around my age are like me, so it’s not like I’m a demigod or a superior being, LOL). I was already familiar with the OT when I watched RotS, though, but I didn’t love TPM as much as the OT, or I probably disliked it by 2005 (I don’t remember when it was the first time I watched the movie since the only time I saw it in theaters).
Additional factors may be parents, friends, exposure to other movies, etc.
Age isn’t really the causation here, it’s almost beside the point. What I basically mean is that if PT is part of your introduction to Star Wars, then you’re going to accept it as “Star Warsy.” This could be the case with an adult being introduced to the franchise as well, it’s just more common with younger people because usually people are introduced to Star Wars at a young age, and many adults now did not have the PT at a young age when they were being introduced to the series. If that makes sense.
I’m in a similar boat with you. I saw and enjoyed all the PT films when I was a kid but at the time I didn’t think either TPM or AOTC quite measured up to the OT (AOTC in particular was something of a disappointment to me at the time).
well, i never got to watch any of the prequels in the theaters, so it’s not as if i’m nostalgic for any of them - i just feel/see them the same way as i do the ot.
It’s not about nostalgia, not really. When you’re a kid you might be more accepting of certain things or things might blend together more easily. It took me awhile to separate the three OT films in my mind. Even now sometimes it can be hard to watch just one and not see it in the context of the others. When I was younger it was a lot easier to accept the PT as part of the universe. But now, having seen all the films way too many times (and, most importantly, having seen a lot of other films to compare), it’s very easy to see how different they are for me. In fact, it’s getting hard for me when I watch them to go back to that younger mindset where they were all just “Star Wars.”
I guess if you grew up with the PT I can see why that would “feel like Star Wars” because it was part of what initially defined Star Wars to you. I’m in a weird spot personally where I was already familiar with the OT when I saw TPM, though I was still young enough that it had that defining aspect. It’s not hard for me to look on those movies objectively now. Honestly I think while they each have elements that feel Star Warsy, they ultimately feel very much like a part of a different series than the OT. The ST too, to an extent, but far far far far less so. The spirit is a lot closer, which matters a lot.
Anyway, I get why people like TPM the most of the three, probably because ultimately it feels the most like an actual movie (albeit not a very good one).
Badlands 1973
I’m not sure how or why, but this movie really enchanted me and left me very impressed.
Watch his others!
I really want to! I can’t quite decide on which one to tackle next. I know I’m saving “Tree of Life” last since I’ve heard it’s pretty heavy.
Depends how you define heavy and honestly I’d probably say it isn’t any heavier than his other work.
You might as well go chronologically though and watch Days of Heaven next.
I don’t trust people’s ability to behave virtuously. And by the way, I explicitly stated that the hypothetical non-racist was no fighting racism, just that he wasn’t specifically racist.
The best way to end segregation is to hope that everyone becomes nice and not racist.
This is confusing to me though because I thought that the reason we knew racism was over is because there are laws that prove they are equal.
If people don’t become nice and not racist, which is unrealistic anyway, then I guess we just need more and more laws and anybody who objects is worse than a racist.
I thought you said you supported civil rights?
Only seen a few episodes so far, and while I’m really enjoying it, I think it suffers from the restructure at least as much as it benefits. While it’s great to see it in the classic AD style, this only invites further comparison with those better earlier seasons. Season 4 is almost best viewed as sort of its own thing, so the non-traditional structure was part of the fun.
I have to say, a person who is aware of their racial biases and tries to be better and support civil rights is much better than a person who always claims there’s no way they could be a racist yet doesn’t personally support civil rights. Which, well…
I don’t trust people’s ability to behave virtuously. And by the way, I explicitly stated that the hypothetical non-racist was no fighting racism, just that he wasn’t specifically racist.
The best way to end segregation is to hope that everyone becomes nice and not racist.
This is confusing to me though because I thought that the reason we knew racism was over is because there are laws that prove they are equal.
New study finds dip shits think they’re better people. Others have more measured opinions.
Therefore, climate change is a hoax.
Indeed, science is overrated.
True, if you believe in science you’re going to hell. Climate’s very warm there.
On the positive side I bet that warming is seen as human caused.
I thought global warming was caused by not believing in Jesus?
Global warming is a myth implanted in the minds of sinners by the Holy Spirit to drive them insane.
New study finds dip shits think they’re better people. Others have more measured opinions.
Therefore, climate change is a hoax.
Indeed, science is overrated.
True, if you believe in science you’re going to hell. Climate’s very warm there.