Protests at JFK airport about the Travel Ban, where two Iraqi’s have already been detained (one now released), Live Feed here. I feel like I’ve been transported back to the 60s in more ways than one.
Is it ok for white person to say the n-word in the performance of play where their character is a racist and uses that word?
Obviously. It looks like the specific issue in that case is that it’s a high school production, which makes sense why some might not be okay with it.
Is it ok for white person to say the n-word in the performance of play where their character is a racist and uses that word?
Yes. Or go the way Star Trek did and use “negro/negress” instead.
Trump better than Nixon?
“Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”Trump is already 1000% worse than Nixon. People just assume he was the worst president ever because he resigned in shame. Paranoid? Yes. Criminal? Little bit. Bad president? Not really.
Indeed, lest we forget how his second-term election went:
Nixon was doing pretty well four-years in. Trump is fucking up six days in. Saying Nixon was the worst president is stupid and I’m always for defending that.
It’s really weird to see a blue map for Republicans.
Red States and Blue States are a relatively new concept that wasn’t cemented until the infamous 2000 election (up until the mid-90s, the three network news programs didn’t even agree on which party was what color). In the UK, it’s still the same thing, blue is for their conservative party and red is for their liberal party. It was changed here because Democrats didn’t like being compared to communists, to my understanding.
Trump better than Nixon?
“Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”Trump is already 1000% worse than Nixon. People just assume he was the worst president ever because he resigned in shame. Paranoid? Yes. Criminal? Little bit. Bad president? Not really.
Indeed, lest we forget how his second-term election went:
Nixon was doing pretty well four-years in. Trump is fucking up six days in. Saying Nixon was the worst president is stupid and I’m always for defending that.
Trump better than Nixon?
“Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.”
If you had the Pan and Scan version of the SE
No one should have any version of the SE, pan and scan or widescreen. Except for the Blu-rays, of course, in order to fully enjoy all the fan efforts offered on this wonderful site.
ITFY
Safety Last (1923)
Harold Lloyd’s comedy classic. I was in an authentic movie house from the turn of the century with live organ accompaniment. Harold Lloyd’s granddaughter was in attendance and showed us home movies shot in 35mm before the show. The audience was laughing a lot, there were a lot of people. One of the best movie experiences of my life.
I just saw him in Jackie a few weeks ago. This was unexpected for me. Very saddening news. Rest in peace.
Trump and UK Prime Minister Theresa May joint press conference:
https://youtu.be/24M8sknUj74
One of the reporters asked May where she disagreed with Trump, a pretty strange question. May answered it as diplomatically as possible, saying “Of course we’ll disagree, that’s why we’re having these talks, so we can listen and have a discussion”. That reporter probably won’t be asking any more questions, Trump joked about that.
May also wasn’t interested in Mexico at all. Trump was, predictably, in favor of Brexit.
May also drew comparisons between the two, saying they both want the best for the working class, front and center. The question was if they had anything in common when it came to personality, not policy, but she made another political move to make it sound good. Classic maneuvering.
George W. Bush said isolationism would be a disaster in an interview he had in 2012. Interesting how fast a party changes.
I agree, Trump is not a conservative in the traditional sense. I don’t think Republicans have followed what traditional conservatives want ever since the Moral Majority took control of the party in the 1980s. The Tea Party is an even further shift away from this, and now it’s the alt-right and Trump.
Here’s Pence’s full remarks at the Pro-Life rally:
https://youtu.be/fJB5W1-E6B0
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Nothing like Frank Capra to cheer me up.
I think 2.7 is the final Star Wars release before the 1080p 3.0 versions.
My daughter is nine and she’s not getting a computer any time soon.
What is your position on cell phones? I see infants with them now, I expect you feel similar disdain there. Sorry if this is a weird or random question to ask, but it’s interesting to hear a parent’s perspective.
Humanity died when Trump was elected president. There is absolutely nothing we can do to stop it, and I am so angry that my future was robbed from me like this.
God was cruel to make me live in the last decades of the human race. We will not survive this.
This is what I partially feel like on a particularly bad day. I never try to let that nihilism be so blatant, though. Humanity’s been through much worse. Though we’re certainly in a decline right now, we’ll survive.
Ugh, it’s some EU thing crossed with a PT thing.
Oof… Could there be anything worse?
Some fan-fiction thing crossed with a PT thing?
You’re implying the EU isn’t just fan-fiction at this point.
If it worked for Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith with their comparatively darker moods, I see no reason it wouldn’t work for The Last Jedi. I’ll go so far as to say having to change the music to fit a darker mood is a lazy way out in creating that mood.
Nope, in cinema you establish the mood through music.
Music is of course a part of it, but using it to beat me over the head with what I’m supposed to be feeling is lazy. Especially eight movies in, changing it just to set a different mood would be lazy, because it’s so easy to do. It wouldn’t take anything on the filmmaker’s part to set that mood, all they’d do is subvert audience expectations. Just look at the crawl of Empire (https://youtu.be/lGsAxG0r9wQ), it opens with the familiar score but then quite naturally transitions into something more sinister as the Star Destroyer sends its probes, all coming together to set the tone. They could have started with the music cues that go along with the Star Destroyer, but they were just as effectively able to transition into it.
The tone and music should go hand-in-hand. It’s not a lazy technique and has existed since sound was used on films. Having a music that is in opposition with the mood of the picture will feel out of place.
Dare I say setting the crawl to more sinister, “darker” music would conflict with the mood and be out of place?
It will become more like an opera and less like cerebral cinema, which I think ‘Star Wars’ also has the capacity to be.
Star Wars will never be some art-house, experimental film, so I’m not sure what this is saying. You seem to be insinuating opera cannot be cerebral, which is silly to me, all you have to do is watch Amadeus. And if you’re also saying that in order to be cerebral cinema, music must fit what’s happening on-screen, I point you to A Clockwork Orange.
Again I say, do not mean to disrespect anyone here. Just sharing my opinion as a cinema lover.
As am I, but nothing can be posted on this forum uncontested. All in fun.
It’s hard for me to have nostalgia for Windows XP, thanks for making me feel old.
It’s weird going onto WaybackMachine and checking out old OT.com posts from 2003. Everyone seems so nice, as opposed to the depressing, sarcastic and smart ass comments most people give today. I wish I was a member back then.
Evidently that niceness stopped fast.
Seeing as all the commercial Blu-ray discs I buy say “disc made in Mexico”, this will likely hurt an already struggling physical media business.
Guys! Musicals are great! Singin’ in the Rain, The Band Wagon, Easter Parade, Meet Me in St. Louis, An American in Paris, West Side Story, I could go on. They’re just pure movie magic.
I agree this would have somehow been a good idea…But after 7 movies with the same opening protocol, it would be weird to change it now.
Not change, just slightly adapt it to the current story’s mood, which I guess will be darker than the last one.
If it worked for Empire Strikes Back and Revenge of the Sith with their comparatively darker moods, I see no reason it wouldn’t work for The Last Jedi. I’ll go so far as to say having to change the music to fit a darker mood is a lazy way out in creating that mood.
Widespread fears about the future — including concerns about politics, the economy, the environment and all-out nuclear war — have led some people to prepare for ways to defend themselves. The “survivalists” include some Silicon Valley executives, who worry about the tech future they have helped to create.
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/25/511507434/why-some-silicon-valley-tech-executives-are-bunkering-down-for-doomsday
Not that bad of an idea.
Zuckerberg seems prepped to run for president. He dismisses it now, but so did Hillary for the longest time.
I don’t really like the road we’re taking, certainly privacy issues will not improve under a Zuckerberg administration (and they certainly aren’t in a Trump one), Zuckerberg’s actions with Facebook have helped exacerbate the problem. But I think I’d still take him over Hillary, and especially Trump, neither of which promised any improvement in my area of concern.
Speculation that Mr Zuckerberg might run for president was fuelled when he made political comments and announced a tour of US states. The 32-year-old would be old enough to stand for president in 2020.
In April 2016, Fortune reported that Facebook had agreed changes to its company structure that would allow Mr Zuckerberg to stand in an election. He has also softened his approach to religion, describing it as “very important”, in a Christmas post. Mr Zuckerberg had previously described himself as an atheist, which might have limited his appeal with some US citizens.
In January, he announced a “personal challenge” to visit and speak to people in every US state, including 30 he had not visited before. Presidential candidates typically tour US states to drum up support.
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38744292
Another example of things anti-Trump people have tolerance for …
[FAKE LINK]
Shit, that link is toxic and fake. Notice the .co at the end of abcnews.com, it’s not their real website.