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Haarspalter said:

I dare you, try to watch Captain America 3: Civil War without knowing the precursor movies.

I did just that (more-or-less). Suffice to say, it alienated me something fierce.

They probably had 25 cent stores. 😛

EyeShotFirst said:

No, according to the liberal media, white people don’t work. They all hire minorities to do it for them.

Unless the fictional character in question is Asian. In that case, it’s perfectly acceptable to make them white.

Thus far, all the hubbub about this film’s production arouses my interest more than the film itself.

Also, while I’m here, I just want to say I’m glad Steve Ditko ended up having minimal creative control over Spider-Man. I love his art and his role in bringing the character to life, but I would’ve hated seeing Spidey become a mouthpiece for Objectivist rhetoric.

^I love it.

TV’s Frink said:

I don’t understand the problem with changing the race of a fictional character. The race was made up to begin with.

Well, it all depends. How married are you to the source material? Does the change bring a new dimension to the character, or is it just tokenism/whitewashing?

Personally, I don’t like race swapping 99% of the time because 99% of the time, it is just tokenism/whitewashing.

oojason said:

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oojason said:

Grenfell Tower will forever stand as a rebuke to the right

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jun/16/grenfell-tower-rebuke-right-rampant-inequality

^ this is well worth a read.

I thought it was unaffordable and pointless green energy initiatives and the “progressive” outfits that peddle them that were the cause of this.

“The Right”, left to itself, never would have placed immigrants in that situation.

No.

 

‘Grenfell Tower fire: Up to 600 high-rise blocks using similar cladding’…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/grenfell-tower-latest-600-high-rise-apartment-blocks-same-combustible-cladding-councils-estimate-a7802406.html

Austerity forced on the poor, disabled, voiceless, vulnerable, unemployed, ignored and the often forgot about - regardless of colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, or employment status - is finally being seen for what it actually is, 7 years and countless lives too late.

Let alone austerity on the emergency services, NHS, local councils, schools, libraries, parks, armed forces, intelligence services.

It’ll take years to recover from - even if it were started to be reversed today - but hopefully people will remember how austerity failed - and the true cost of it’s impact, both on people and services, for years to come…

 

In other news…

‘Tory Government’s benefit cap is unlawful and causes ‘real misery for no good purpose’, High Court rules’…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/benefit-cap-judicial-review-welfare-payments-government-loses-lawsuit-court-case-judge-misery-a7802286.html

Lefties really have a problem with the concept of U-N-A-F-F-O-R-D-A-B-L-E and W-O-R-S-E T-H-A-N U-S-E-L-E-S-S LEFTY initiatives.

There would be no need for austerity without that nonsense.

It was - and still is affordable - someone didn’t read the Labour manifesto with costings before spouting uninformed rubbish, and also neglects many of these ‘worse than useless lefty initiatives’ ideas were created just after WW2 where Britain had no money and has done fine - in the main - up till the last 7 years.

However, it is the Tories who chose austerity as a mask to get in their ideological agenda in 2010 - for which they are now paying the price - and others have paid with their lives (and I doubt you read their manifesto either).

Though I see you neglected to mention it being forced on the poor, disabled, voiceless, vulnerable, unemployed, ignored and the often forgot about - regardless of colour, ethnicity, religion, sex, or employment status - and also affecting the emergency services, NHS, local councils, schools, libraries, parks, armed forces, intelligence services etc - whilst the rich and corporates received tax breaks, and uncollected UK tax comes in at £34b annum (on 2012/13 figures - https://www.ft.com/content/48d5a518-552a-11e4-b616-00144feab7de?mhq5j=e3) - figures which will have likely escalated since due to cuts to the HMRC itself since.

Try harder my capitalising troll/wum.

Labor manifesto? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! XD

To highlight just one tiny but especially pertinent fraction of the crushing and worse-than-useless wastage… Humanity has been building atmosphere scrubbers for submarines for more than century. For pennies on the dollar much more “Greenhouse Gas” could be pulled out of the atmosphere than is contributed by everything except the big smoke-stack power plants and operations, if there was ever a reason to believe it was necessary, which certainly there is not. All of these non-smokestack energy initiatives are unaffordable scams of the progressives to gain political power and filthy lucre while generating maximum misanthropy for the collapse and Valentinian Great Culling.

Does your Labor manifesto cost-out the tens and hundreds of billions for gov’t services to undereducated and culturally hostile immigrant families that were necessary to nothing but expanded power for the insane and nihilistic totalitarian Left?

I could go ON AND ON AND ON AND ON BEFORE studying your gov’t budgets and practices in detail.

I thought it was a looooooong and DREARY slog for the UK, due to Labor havoc, from the end of WWII until the advent of a little Thatcherite sanity.

Do you know who invariably winds up paying, one way or another, for greater taxation and debt? The middle class and the poor and voiceless and vulnerable… The wealthy and corporations have teams of tax lawyers and accountants to keep from being crushed and to pass it on. And don’t talk to me about socialism, where the disparity between the elite and their victims is FAR FAR GREATER in terms of power and advantage.

This is what happens to the brain for spending any time listening to demented totalitarians.

Nice avoidance, deflection and selective answering there (yet you highlight your continued ignorance towards immigration). Your posts lack detail (capitalisation to cover over a lack of knowledge - showing your anger) and highlight dogma and ideology - with little understanding of what actually is and has gone on in the UK.

For example, your first post ‘I thought it was unaffordable and pointless green energy initiatives and the “progressive” outfits that peddle them that were the cause of this.’ (re the cause of the Grenfell fire). How wrong can you be?

Again, try harder my culturally hostile troll.

Stuff like his really makes one miss Jetrell Fo’s posts.

All I know is Yoda’ll never have that recipe again, oh no.

I’m sure the Penguin is just some Luciferian Jesuit pedophilic Gary Stu.

Handman said:

SilverWook said:

Schumacher can make a good film. I thought Phantom Of The Opera was great.

Phone Booth is a solid thriller.

I prefer The Lost Boys, myself.

Mark’s Down On Your Syntax said:

“Blair Witch” (2016)

I missed this one last year so I thought I’d give it a look last night.

This remakequel does what many movies today seem to think is required and takes a lot of things that made the original work and just copies and pastes them in - because that’s what we audiences want, right? The story beats are the same and there are many shots which are identical (even the very last one before the credits) but it just comes off as lazy rather than an homage. Gone is the subtle paranoia of the unseen force stalking the woods, instead we have multiple UNEXPECTED JUMP SCARES OF SOMEBODY WALKING ON SCREEN and brief (scary?) appearances of… a thing with long arms?! The use of realistic sounds in the original (distant human voices, twigs snapping and babies crying) has been amped up for extra effect with ground shaking bass and some definitely supernatural shrieking. There’s no mystery to that.

The cast are fine though, doing their best with this dross they’ve been given, probably happy to be working. The inclusion of modern era technology works well enough but could’ve been used so much more creatively. How much better would it have been for that drone to give the characters a clear view of the layout of the woods, where the house was, where their cars were, where the other people in their group were, only for them to continually lose their way, lose each other and have things happen with seemingly nobody around to cause it?

Overall, and despite the nifty little bow the film ties itself into with its own timeline, the movie seems ultimately pointless as --SPOILER WARNING-- everybody dies and nobody learns anything and nobody will ever know what happened to anyone.

As someone who is mildly claustrophobic I do have to give the movie some credit for the scene in the tunnel, it was extremely effective and I actually had to look away. Why couldn’t there have been more scenes with that much inventiveness? I think I actually preferred Book of Shadows.

I give it 2 children’s handprints on the wall out of 5 (with a couple of fingers missing).

With the mythos established in The Blair Witch Project and the Curse of the Blair Witch mockumentary, you’d think they’d be able to come up with a good sequel or two which actually builds on the original’s mythology. But nope, all we get is one sequel with atrocious characters and a nonsensical plot and a rehash geared towards Generation Stupid. Pathetic.

ray_afraid said:

I just don’t care about Batman.

Once I would’ve chastised you for saying this, but years of fanboys wanking the character off have left me happy whenever someone comes right out and says they don’t worship at the Church of Batman the Redeemer.

“Human Misery Vampires” would make for a fitting emo band name.

^Not sure if whore or just pimp.

I’ve decided that aside from my PT re-write and Superman trilogy, I’m going to abandon work on all script fics already in progress and start to work developing wholly original screenplays. I have many stories to tell; I can’t keep putting them off for stupid fan-fiction.

I’ve two things I feel like bitching about:

1. That I don’t have access to prostitutes
2. That I’m so lonely and sexually frustrated that I want access to prostitutes

TV’s Frink said:

If it wasn’t for The Simpsons I wouldn’t have even heard of Pogs.

You and 98% of all other non-Millennials.

STAR TREK: THE WOUNDED SKY – DIANE DUANE

PROS

• The theistic/philosophical themes are rather interesting.
• Ms. Duane’s original alien species continue to be wonderfully alien.

CONS

• The story gets hokey towards the end.
• Ms. Duane’s insistence on collectively referring to all the sapient species that inhabit the ST Universe as “humanities” is ever irksome.
• It makes the TNG episode “Where No One Has Gone Before” – which is loosely based on this novel – look like pablum in comparison.

8/10

ODD THOMAS – DEAN KOONTZ

PROS

• It’s just as fun and witty as the underrated film adaptation.

CONS

• Minus the inclusion of minor characters/scenes which were omitted in the film adaptation, the book’s story is identical to the film’s. There weren’t enough differences to provide a differing experience.

8/10

BURNT OFFERINGS – ROBERT MARASCO

To anyone who’s seen the film with Karen Black but never read the novel, do it. It’s worth the read.

9/10

GATHERING BLUE – LOIS LOWRY

8/10

STAR TREK: VULCAN’S GLORY – D. C. FONTANA

8/10

Id’s gone and Mark’s’s back. This is a good time to be an OT.com poster.

I miss Pogs.

“You probably think it’s just a hamburger. A patty’s just a piece of meat, but it can have character. See that doughnut hole? Gets 18 patties to the pound instead of 16. Saves me about $40,000 a year. That’s serious money, Ron. I plug the hole with lettuce, tomatoes, onions, spices. I cover it with a pickle. They’ll never miss a thing.”

Ken Benobi

I decided sometime ago to regard every film in the Alien franchise past the original as non-canon. Recent history has given me no reason to re-evaluate this stance.