generalfrevious

Darth Id said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

CatBus said:

TV’s Frink said:

I’ll take the 42nd Anniversary Thread for two reasons.

Someone start a thread to guess what those two reasons are.

I’m hoping if you take back this request, you can make the resulting thread unhappen.

These things only go in one direction.

Reason #42 you’ll never be a moderator.

Number 1 is that I’d never accept such an offer.

I should have said “Reason #42 you’ll never be offered the position of moderator.”

There ya go.

Well that’s tidy, isn’t it? Flunk admitted WHSHS without wxyx even having to say “WYSHS.” You guys are like Shinji at full bio-sync with Eva-One.

Nothing you just said makes any sense.

One film I definitely won’t be seeing is Birth Of A Nation (2016), because Nate Parker can go to hell for raping a woman and driving her to suicide.

What a shame; it seems like every movie you see now is an implicit endorsement of criminal behavior.

doubleofive said:

Someone should start a project to take the Blu-ray and, like, “unspecialize” the footage, using the GOUT and maybe even film scans. It would take a lot of work, first finding someone stupid enough to go through and screencapture every single visual change, then someone else to preserve all the different sound mixes, then find a crazy person who would actually attempt to edit and release them in HD both compressed and uncompressed, preferably multiple times in different stages so we all can contribute suggestions and recommendations.

Isn’t that Harmy’s despecialized edition you’re describing?

MathUser said:

generalfrevious said:

They should have left the originals alone in the first place! I haven’t seen the OT in six years because the originals are no longer accessible.

The OOT is available pretty cheap on amazon. They were out for a long time so they aren’t even that rare.

But that’s just VHS/laserdisc releases and the GOUT, which I already have.

What’s the real website guys? TheForce.net, from what I remember, is just a mouthpiece for LFL propaganda; if you said anything critical about the SE or the prequels you were banned for life.

They should have left the originals alone in the first place! I haven’t seen the OT in six years because the originals are no longer accessible.

Nobody paid attention when the 30th anniversary came out, and most people were expecting at least a boxset with the OUT in anamorphic widescreen.

That stupid decision by Lucas to release the GOUT made the person I am today.

Next year is the 40th anniversary of Star Wars, and I am wondering, are we going to see the OUT released or not? Think back to the SE in preparation for the 20th anniversary: we heard about Lucas remastering the films with newer SFX as far back as the Faces VHS release in 95, but presently Disney hasn’t said anything yet about the originals.

What could happen? I’m betting on nothing because it’s another four years before Disney claims distribution rights on five of the six movies.

What a coincidence. I have an abscess on my gums and have to get a root canal. That means four visits to two dentists and thousands of dollars without a dental plan.

Double

I hate the Olympics; Rio 2016 is shaping up to be the worst since Berlin or Moscow. What with the Zika pandemic the IOC is creating, Brazil descending into political chaos, that jaguar that was killed, and incomplete stadiums, it’s too late to cancel now.

Next year the 2024 games will be announced; maybe they will pick some unstable place like Zimbabwe or Syria to host the games.

Am I being banned here? Will I be notified, and would I be given the reason for the ban? I’m actually being honest here and not trolling. This is one of the few outlets I have right now and I seriously need help. As I have said before, I have ceased my rant when people told me to shut up a second time and have posted very little since.

I stopped by rant last night.

Off topic is not moderated. I have immunity unless you decide to moderate these forums. That’s my final word.

There is no reason for me to shut when the one percent of this country has gutted the paradigm “innocent until proven guilty.” I’m sure Dylan Farrow is happy that the justice system failed her when she was brutally violated by an amoral monster who could afford lawyers to get him out of jail. We have been under the mercy of the rich and powerful for too fucking long and I’m tired of it. Sorry to disappoint you, but I’m staying right here.

SilverWook said:

Give it a rest already. You’ve made your point ten times over.

Yes I made my point ten times over, but no one in power gets it. The essence of the Woody Allen scandal is the exploitation of the powerless by the wealthy elite. Allen was a good director, but that has been nullified by his indefensible and despicable behavior years ago. In light of the abuse, we can go back and see all the child molestation jokes in his older movies, we can see the predatory behavior of the man both on and offscreen, we see the same toxic cliches he spews out year after year, and the scandal always finds a way to be swept under the rug, yet again. Are people going to come to their senses a few years down the line when the next article written by Ronan or Dylan Farrow slams Allen for the child abuser he always was and continues to be?

Dek Rollins said:

I’m guessing this means I’m still molesting children right now?

You are still enabling a child molester who obstructed justice to continue making films without any legal consequences. You are condoning, with you dollars, that what he did to his daughter does not bother you, that victims deserve to be marginalized, if it gets in the way of our consumption of entertainment. You are giving approval to powerful institutions to continue on with their criminal activities, and making it harder for victims to come forward and have their day in court.

Our justice system is a farce; anyone who thinks “justice is blind” is naive. It is now a commodity that can be bought, and if you are rich enough, you can literally fuck over any person you want and face zero consequences. Remember, when you decide to support people like Woody Allen, you are twisting a knife into victims like Dylan Farrow over and over again. It not just one man who has damaged her, but the millions who have seen his movies since that are the accomplices to this horrendous crime. And he is not the only one: we have R. Kelly, Bill Cosby, Penn State, and Hollywood itself. This is a sickening world we live in, and I hate the fact that I am controlled by the richest asshole in the room if me or any of my family members end up on their bad side.

Don’t worry Casino Royale 67 fans: Allen was destroying Louise Lasser’s sanity at the time.

doubleKO said:

This is the most annoying you’ve ever been frevious. Take Silverwook’s advice and get some fresh air. Any legitimate points you may have are drowned out by your insistent… insistence. Do shut up.

I’m outside right now, breathing fresh air. Allen is still a child molester.

Dek Rollins said:

generalfrevious said:

Even re-watching an old Woody Allen film you already own IS A DELIBERATE ACT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST CHILDREN.

Oh shut up.

Ironically that’s what Allen attorneys said to Dylan Farrow in 1993.

You know what, I’m going to keep bringing this up, because nearly half of Woody Allen’s career exists because he not only abused children (at least five), he abused the legal system to pull the wool over the eyes of millions of people because he thought he was above the law. When you watch a film, you are making an extremely serious political choice; if you see garbage like Transformers or Batman v Superman, you are willing more of those films into existence. Even re-watching an old Woody Allen film you already own IS A DELIBERATE ACT OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AGAINST CHILDREN. Even today Allen is sexually abusing his current adopted daughters, because he did every despicable underhanded act to discredit a child abuse victim at ANY COST. He paid off the adoption agencies in the late 90s with his child-bride Soon-Yi (we will never hear her story until after he dies, and even then she could be so brainwashed she can’t even know anymore what is love and what is abuse). He has constantly glorified sexual predation of women for nearly forty years, and yet actresses line up worshipping him as a man who writes strong female characters. Bullshit. Woody Allen understands women about as well as the king of Saudi Arabia. Every actor who continues to work with him should be blacklisted for ten years and be put on the sex offender registry.

You may want to boycott Amazon; they’re developing a TV series with Woody Allen.

suspiciouscoffee said:

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Tyrphanax said:

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SilverWook said:

As you’re 100% convinced of his guilt, the best thing you can do as an individual is simply choose not to buy his movies or watch them. That’s a bit more productive than making ranting threats on the internet which could come back to bite you in the ass someday.

I have no reason to see any of his newer movies, but I might (barely) want to see some of his older movies, without being seen as endorsing child abuse or sexual predation. I never want to discredit or defer blame to any victim of molestation.

I’m recanting this statement.

Nothing this monster psychopath rapist who should have been fucking aborted 80 years ago deserves to be seen or remembered. This man is pure evil plain and simple; if you laugh at his jokes you are laughing at every single child molestation victim ever. We need to purge all society of art made by child molesters. We need to burn paintings, books, albums, and movies to rectify our past endorsement of the sexual assault of women and children. Destroying art is a sacrilege to some, but women are getting raped, and children are being molested in greater numbers than ever before in history, thanks to Woody Allen and men like him.

lol

Under no circumstances should we support anything connected to child molesters. We cannot be clean until every single print of Allen’s films is destroyed. We need to blacklist every single actor who has ever worked with that fucking monster for life. We need to collect copies of his movies from people’s homes, we must boycott all theaters that continue to screen his films, we must censure every single person who has ever supported him.

Now you might say all the accusations are groundless. WOODY ALLEN DID THIS ON PURPOSE. He has no soul; He has no feelings, boundaries, or regrets. He has damaged not just Dylan but countless women over seven decades ever since the beginning of his career. His is far from innocent, and if you think he is, I’m sorry, you have been fooled.

It is highly unlikely that those actors, or anyone else involved in any of his films knew about his horrible crimes (assuming he’s guilty).

Yes they did, they deliberately ignored his crimes because they felt the prestige was more important than the welfare of a child. Did you know that Dylan cut herself and attempted suicide because of her father’s actions? That she suffers nervous breakdowns every time he appears in interviews or on t-shirts (worn by possible MRAs)?I’m sure people like Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively, Jesse Eisenberg, and Steve Carell didn’t give a fucking thought to the damage done to her.

SilverWook said:

Dude! Go out and get some fresh air this weekend. Open a window at least, because I think there might be a gas leak of some kind.

Rape culture still exists, and victims are still being discredited while their rapists roam the streets unpunished.