More shit that should be obvious.
It’s not attractiveness per se that’s the issue—indeed Harrison was and is far, far more attractive than Alder Ermintraut or whatever his name is—but blandness and vapidity.
And you’re basing this on what exactly?
Great or not, I’m just not interested in it. I feel about as apathetic about Star Wars as I did about the Carrie remake. Which is really sad but I guess it just proves to me that I was never a Star Wars fan, just a fan of three specific movies.
Right there with you. This has only increased as more movies have come out. TFA was great, but doesn’t do enough to warrant classic-status. Rogue One irritated me. Neither of them are bad enough to skip in a marathon, like the prequels are. I expect I’ll feel similarly about the others.
Han Solo movie? Lol no. Can’t stand contemporary pretty-boy actors. (Even reformed stormtrooper guy in TFA was a little hard to take.)
I generally feel the same way. Someone said hating everything contemporary is a miserable way to live life; they’re probably right. Being surrounded by contemporary-minded people in a contemporary world and hating contemporary things won’t work out for long. But, trends of contemporary movies don’t last forever, and pretty-boy actors get on my nerves too. Can’t wait until it becomes unfashionable again, like it did in the 70s to some extent.
Alden Ehrenreich is no more a pretty boy actor than Harrison Ford was in 77.
Haha so wrong.
Harrison always had the quintessential asymmetrical, gloriously flawed features of a deep-character tough guy.
You’re so out of your element you deserve naught but instant liquidation.
Harrison was always a hot mofo, especially in the 70s. The older he got, the tougher he looked.
Alden’s no pretty boy is my point though. He’s handsome, but so is Han Solo. If he doesn’t look as tough as mid-30s Ford, maybe that’s because he’s not that old.
Took up more shelf space though.
Great or not, I’m just not interested in it. I feel about as apathetic about Star Wars as I did about the Carrie remake. Which is really sad but I guess it just proves to me that I was never a Star Wars fan, just a fan of three specific movies.
Right there with you. This has only increased as more movies have come out. TFA was great, but doesn’t do enough to warrant classic-status. Rogue One irritated me. Neither of them are bad enough to skip in a marathon, like the prequels are. I expect I’ll feel similarly about the others.
Han Solo movie? Lol no. Can’t stand contemporary pretty-boy actors. (Even reformed stormtrooper guy in TFA was a little hard to take.)
I generally feel the same way. Someone said hating everything contemporary is a miserable way to live life; they’re probably right. Being surrounded by contemporary-minded people in a contemporary world and hating contemporary things won’t work out for long. But, trends of contemporary movies don’t last forever, and pretty-boy actors get on my nerves too. Can’t wait until it becomes unfashionable again, like it did in the 70s to some extent.
Alden Ehrenreich is no more a pretty boy actor than Harrison Ford was in 77.
Everybody’s going to be surprised when the Han Solo movie is great and I’m going to be here thinking I’ve been saying that all along.
Well I am not saying the film itself will be good or bad. I am just saying (from experience) that a new actor will not work for me.
That’s too bad
This place seriously makes me wonder how I’ve made it this far in life retaining my ability to enjoy things. The style of fandom a lot of you seem to practice sounds miserable.
Yes
Everybody’s going to be surprised when the Han Solo movie is great and I’m going to be here thinking I’ve been saying that all along.
Let’s see…Even if the guy playing Han doesn’t do well a really good script can compensate for that. For me at least.
I have no doubt he’ll do well, or he wouldn’t have been picked. The question is whether he’ll meet fans unreasonable and in many ways misguided expectations.
Coffee might as well be literal shit.
I’m drinking water. These days, that’s all I ever try to drink.
Unless that’s just a bad (good?) picture, she could easily pass for late forties.
Everybody’s going to be surprised when the Han Solo movie is great and I’m going to be here thinking I’ve been saying that all along.
Look closely at the missile picture: http://web.archive.org/web/20170202210342/http://www.drudgereport.com/
Pray for those lost in the Bowling Green Massacre back in… when was it again?
I wonder if Conway is an interdimensional traveler. That would certainly explain the “alternative” part of her facts.
I’m loving these so far.
How about this one
If I get a good set with a proper OOT I don’t care if they label it Disc 87-1/2.
even if the disc art is luke with a sombrero?
I’d prefer sombrero discs to the boring, blank discs so many Blu Rays are.
But how are you supposed to know they’re Blu-ray discs if the whole discs aren’t blue???
I didn’t like it because the pacing, acting, characterisation, action, script and overall story all sucked hard.
Yeah
Sweet deal!
That article shows only one channel used terms like “illegals” and “snowflakes” regularly so I don’t think there’s really an equal comparison.
The simple fact of the matter is there wasn’t much of importance in the leaked emails.
I’ll agree to disagree with you on that one, since important is subjective. I think there were some very important things that WikiLeaks revealed.
I think important is relative. Lots of things are important, but some more than others.
All lot of the stuff in the emails were frankly unsurprising, which is probably another reason they didn’t get a lot of coverage. There were also plenty of boring emails, and a lot of emails that were shady depending on interpretation.
To say nothing of the fact that there were certainly equally important emails in the Trump camp that we simply never saw.
(to say nothing of the fact that the whole email leak happened because one fascist leader wanted to help install another fascist leader).
There has been no evidence presented that Putin had anything to do with WikiLeaks or the election as a whole.
I think now that even Trump has admitted to the Russian hacking, we can stop pretending like it was ever a conspiracy theory perpetrated by the entire intelligence community (for what purpose exactly?). Putin had the means and the reasons to do it so all in all it’s hard to believe he didn’t.
They’re tricking people in to distrusting everything that doesn’t lean right. When Fox says “Fair and Balanced,” it’s because they want you to believe that any outlet that isn’t as far right as them isn’t fair or balanced.
I think you’re thinking about this too much on party lines. Plenty of liberals distrust the media, plenty of conservatives trust the media.
I understand that it’s not as simple as the left trusts the media and the right doesn’t. I’m mainly just say that right is seeding distrust even where there shouldn’t be (and it’s spilling all over).
I have a (very liberal) friend who told me he thought CNN was as crazy liberal as Fox News is crazy conservative, just because he’s seen that reddit and YouTube (two places with a lot of conservative voices) love to call it the Clinton News Network. Whether CNN is biased or not, this is plainly untrue. When I told him that CNN at the very least tries to be neutral, he was legitimately surprised.
The distrust and misinformation goes beyond the simple echo chamber. There are people who will believe something if the president or his press secretary says something (regardless of party affiliation). If Trump calls CNN fake news, they’ll believe it (and regardless of whether they’re biased or not, they’re certainly not deserving of the treatment they got at that presser).
Again, there’s reason for everyone to be skeptical of what people are telling them. But to cast aside whole news organizations (and I’m not just talking CNN) is dangerous, and I’d argue the push for that is coming from the right, whether it reaches just the right or not.
Three days prior to inauguration but relevant and disconcerting.
Many aspects of President-elect Donald Trump’s transition have been described as disorganized (at best), but his administration’s approach to foreign policy “appears” particularly rudderless, raising concerns among domestic experts and international allies alike.
The defining part of the article is the quoted word above … “appears”, and that is an opinion, not fact. LOL
ok, i can respect your point that you should work to make things better (from your previous post, not this one). but what i don’t respect is your constant brushing aside of every piece of information as being opinion, and not fact. the opinion of the matter is, that almost all information that is out there is not fact. if you can’t deal with finding the shadow of the facts by sifting through and weighing opinions, then I don’t know… ? i don’t know.
When the entire opinion is presented as fact, especially from someone that is supposed to be intelligent, I don’t know what to tell you. Opinions are like elbows, we all have them, it just doesn’t make them fact. I am totally okay with people not liking the guy, but we are supposed to be debating, not using our emotions to say that we are right and the rest of you are wrong. It’s wasted breath really.
You can’t just disregard anything that has a whiff of an opinion though. Read the sentence with “appears” again. It’s not the writer’s opinion that it appears that way, it’s the opinion of “domestic experts and international allies alike.” When people like that have an opinion on a matter that they know better than us, it is wise to listen and not simply disregard what they’re saying.
OOT better be disc 1.
Lovely.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/17/pro-life-women-banned-anti-trump-womens-march-wash/
Don’t be so qiuck to judge, the Women’s March was in fact a Feminist March and if you were Pro-Life you were banned from attendance by the group. Most Feminists are women but not all women are feminists so I’m sure there was a reason why it wasn’t named the “Feminist Only March” on Washington.
I don’t think the fact that the Women’s March was a feminist march is any secret. That was kind of the point and implicit in the organization. I don’t know how you could expect anything else. Not all women consider themselves feminists, but if you showed up to the march to support women’s rights, you’re either a feminist or a dumb shit for not realizing you should be feminist.
Protecting women’s right to choose was clearly one of the goals of the protesters, though not the only one. I don’t think if you were pro-life your were barred from protesting, but it wouldn’t really make any sense to protest abortion at the march. Not the time or place. I’m not surprised others would be upset with pro-lifers promoting pro-life at the march.
Perhaps the reasoning behind Trump’s authoritarian actions is not so much that he is authoritarian as much as he is merely incapable of being a politician. Politicians such as George W Bush, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton moved to more moderate, centrist positions during their campaigns (there wasn’t far to go with Hillary), and the reason for this was to appeal to a broad swath of the electorate. That is the purely expedient reason for moderate positions, but from the standpoint of a professional politician, it is their job to represent all of their constituents. Certainly this gives rise to the caricature of the two-faced lying politician, but the profession of politics requires politicians to be all things for all people, at least in appearance. Donald Trump apparently doesn’t recognize this imperative, and appears to represent nobody except for his fanciful imaginary self. He is the product of a hyper-partisan political environment where being a standard politician is not just passe, it’s a death sentence. Now not only the Republicans, but also some Democrats are beginning to see that they will quickly find themselves out of a job if they make deals with ‘the other side’, regardless of how reasonable these deals may be.
In the broader sense, it’s frightening to someone like myself who leans liberal (along with about half of the country) to see the liberal voices in our government so completely out of power. It wasn’t always this way. Even back in the ancient past of the Obama administration, there was still an attempt by the majority party to achieve bipartisan support for legislation, even if the opposition stonewalled them at every turn.
On a state level, I would often research all of the candidates for North Carolina office, regardless of whether they had a D or an R next to their names. I even voted for a few Republicans based on their individual merits. However, since the power grab by the Republicans after the election of a democratic governor, I cannot in good conscience vote for anyone with an ‘R’ next to their name in a state election, if this is the Game of Thrones style politics that they employ. It saddens me to do this, and this has been happening throughout the country of late.
There is cause for optimism, perhaps. I hope that this hyperpartisanship, driven by extremely biased voters being fed by information echo chambers of their own creation, is merely the effect of the breakdown of the monolithic US media that began in the 50’s. People now know that they can choose their news outlets, their view of the world. There will always be bastions of ignorance and false narratives in this nation, there always have been. Conspiracy theories are sometimes right, such as the massive surveillance by the NSA which vindicated the tin-foil hat folks some years ago. The prevailing narrative is sometimes wrong, such as predictions of Hillary’s victory last year. But perhaps more people will become united in their understanding that ALL news is worthy of skepticism, and work together for a nuanced and mature understanding of issues.
Or we could just squabble over every slight and be filled with righteous indignation at everything ‘the other’ is doing to this great nation, thus justifying our own position. That’s cool too.
Well said. It’s a dangerous way we’re headed.
Skepticism of the media is absolutely necessary, though I fear the increase of complete distrust. We can’t rely on the administration to tell us exactly what’s happening - this goes for every administration, but this one especially. Now more than ever we need good journalism. But it is worrisome when the president himself supports the delegitimization of relatively solid news outlets for simply reporting the facts. Skepticism is crucial, but what I’m seeing is going far past that.
Who is the best interviewer out there now? I can’t think of anyone like David Frost out there now.
Not many have the kind of opportunity Frost had.
This should end the debate over which guy, Alex Jones or random other guy I’ve never heard of, is more dangerous.
Stefan Molyneux has a worse ideology than Alex Jones and isn’t much less popular.
Well I’ve never heard of him, so I don’t know about the latter, but on the former, I just looked him up and apparently he blames women (mothers specifically) for all of societies problems, so I’d being willing to hear arguments as to how he’s worse.
That article shows only one channel used terms like “illegals” and “snowflakes” regularly so I don’t think there’s really an equal comparison.
The simple fact of the matter is there wasn’t much of importance in the leaked emails. All that article tells me is that Fox, as expected, blew them out of proportion, and now we’re stuck with fuckface von clown stick (to say nothing of the fact that the whole email leak happened because one fascist leader wanted to help install another fascist leader).
If CNN devoted an inordinate amount of time to Trump, it was because they’re ratings whores. If they criticize him more than Hillary, it’s because there’s so much to criticize.
Comparing CNN to Fox boggles the mind. MSNBC is really the closest comparison (though even that doesn’t match up to the sheer ignorance of reason and viciousness that Fox displays). Anyone who’s watched CNN for even an hour could tell you there’s nothing malicious there or worthy of distrust. They announce the top stories, then have a panel with people on both sides argue. Rinse repeat all day. It’s not great TV or great reporting, but to believe they’re evidence of a highly biased mainstream media is just ignorant. You’re being tricked.
At no point is the disconnect more obvious than when Kellyanne Conway is on. She goes on and says her side, and then proceeds to complain that places like CNN never show her side! It’s ridiculous, especially because it seems like she’s on pretty much every day. They’re tricking people in to distrusting everything that doesn’t lean right. When Fox says “Fair and Balanced,” it’s because they want you to believe that any outlet that isn’t as far right as them isn’t fair or balanced.
The fact that the American people elected Trump is proof that the mainstream media failed to properly educate the populace. In what way is up for debate, but I’d say the primary reason was that people became convinced that criticizing one candidate more than the other was a sign of subjectivity, when it was really objectivity.
This didn’t happen because both sides are biased. This happened because one side decided to discredit anything that criticized their side. And I’m not just talking about cable news. This election saw the right seed distrust in just about every news outlet that wasn’t heavy conservative leaning. When fact checks are considered “bias,” that’s how you know we’re fucked.
And it’s true, Poe’s attack is perfunctory, but it feels similar to Rey’s battle with Kylo. Han isn’t chained up somewhere while Kylo twirls his mustache and laughs maniacally, Han is dead. Rey really has no reason to fight Kylo other than he’s a threat that must be dealt with. All she has is vengeance and the will to survive, there is no way to win everything. Both Rey and Poe can only hope for a Pyrrhic victory at this point.
Kylo’s mission is to kidnap Rey and bring her to Snoke. Rey’s fighting to prevent that from happening, and to get Kylo out of the way so she can bring Finn to safety. Unlike Poe, they didn’t go on a mission to fight Kylo or anything, they’re just trying to escape. Han has nothing to do with any of that.
Lightsaber battles are often not much more than good guy is supposed to fight bad guy (especially in the prequels) but this one definitely has a purpose beyond that.
I would cut as much of Poe’s trench run as possible, to both cut down on ANH references and to downplay the perfunctory nature of the mission.
I would say, if there’s no indication that the weapon will fire again, then yes, there’s not much reason to see the trench run.
Filibustering is nothing new. If it wasn’t a key element of our democracy, it never would have been allowed in the first place.
Not holding a hearing for a SCOTUS nominee is underhand of and spits in the face of our democracy. Yet another example of how the GOP will stop at literally nothing to gain power.
There’s no doubt Dems opened a can of worms when they changed confirmations to a simple majority in 09. But that shouldn’t stop them from fighting about plainly obviously horrendous cabinet picks. The issue isn’t just that Trump is worse than Obama because he’s Republican, it’s that Trump is worse than everyone. The GOP had no reason to rally against Obama with the force they did. But Trump has proven in every waking moment since he announced his candidacy that he is simply (all politics aside) not suited for office, and his choices since being elected have only further proven that to be true. The worst cases of people playing politics in Congress right now aren’t on the Dems side, it’s the Republicans who are too afraid to stand up against Trump.
Interesting article indeed.
Yes because the one thing the election was missing was more talk about Clinton’s emails.
Yes, that’s what the data seems to indicate.
And yet the results seem to indicate people found out just fine.
