moviefreakedmind

Mrebo said:

chyron8472 said:

Mrebo said:

chyron, I thought you were on the liberal side?

I liked Obama a lot and Obama is not a liberal.

I like that we rarely have liberal or conservative presidents 😉

You’re right about us not having “conservative” presidents in the sense that we haven’t had any fiscal conservatives or anything like that in a long time, but we absolutely have had two fringe leaders in recent memory that represent and pander to the hyper-Christian, nationalistic, and corporate right wing.

SilverWook said:

moviefreakedmind said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/05/atlantic-kevin-williamson-writer-abortion-504244

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said Thursday the magazine was “parting ways” with newly hired conservative writer Kevin Williamson after fresh evidence emerged that he had endorsed hanging women who get abortions.

Goldberg had initially defended hiring Williamson from National Review despite complaints about his previous writing, some of which critics said was racially insensitive or offensive to transgender people. Much of the criticism involved a 2014 tweet that suggested women who had abortions “should face capital punishment, namely hanging.”

On Wednesday, the liberal research group Media Matters unearthed a podcast in which Williamson expressed the same position.

“The language he used in this podcast — and in my conversations with [Williamson] in recent days — made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered view,” Goldberg told staff in a Thursday memo.

“The tweet was not merely an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it,” Goldberg continued. “Furthermore, the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. This runs contrary to The Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate, and to the values of our workplace.”

Goldberg described Williamson — who joined last month after a decade at National Review — as “a gifted writer.” But Goldberg said he came to the conclusion “that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talents, and so we are parting ways.”

Hahahaha, “not the best fit.” What a joke.

Hey, who hasn’t wished death on people that they disagree with? I have, and I do it on a much grander scale:

moviefreakedmind said:

I hate everybody at the women’s march and I hate everybody at the march for life and I hope the ground splits open and all of them fall into the Earth. Sounds fair and unbiased to me.

In all seriousness, though, Kevin Williamson needs to stick to screenwriting. How he could he go from writing Scream to writing this nonsense?

Just when I was wondering if it was that Kevin Williamson…

Don’t worry, it isn’t. I’m just glad someone got my reference.

I don’t like any cultures. I pick and choose aspects of cultures that are good and discard the shit aspects of cultures, which is what everyone should do. There’s a myth going around that cultures must be respected as a whole, when they shouldn’t.

CatBus said:

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/04/05/trump-conjures-yet-another-immigrant-rape-epidemic/?utm_term=.51f6da9a480e

1. Idiot must have watched Birth of a Nation (1915) and thought it was a documentary.
2. Knows it’s not true and says it anyway to pander to racists.

I used to be a lot more certain it was #2.

I did too, but I think he seems to believe his own lies at this point.

TV’s Frink said:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/04/05/atlantic-kevin-williamson-writer-abortion-504244

The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg said Thursday the magazine was “parting ways” with newly hired conservative writer Kevin Williamson after fresh evidence emerged that he had endorsed hanging women who get abortions.

Goldberg had initially defended hiring Williamson from National Review despite complaints about his previous writing, some of which critics said was racially insensitive or offensive to transgender people. Much of the criticism involved a 2014 tweet that suggested women who had abortions “should face capital punishment, namely hanging.”

On Wednesday, the liberal research group Media Matters unearthed a podcast in which Williamson expressed the same position.

“The language he used in this podcast — and in my conversations with [Williamson] in recent days — made it clear that the original tweet did, in fact, represent his carefully considered view,” Goldberg told staff in a Thursday memo.

“The tweet was not merely an impulsive, decontextualized, heat-of-the-moment post, as Kevin had explained it,” Goldberg continued. “Furthermore, the language used in the podcast was callous and violent. This runs contrary to The Atlantic’s tradition of respectful, well-reasoned debate, and to the values of our workplace.”

Goldberg described Williamson — who joined last month after a decade at National Review — as “a gifted writer.” But Goldberg said he came to the conclusion “that The Atlantic is not the best fit for his talents, and so we are parting ways.”

Hahahaha, “not the best fit.” What a joke.

Hey, who hasn’t wished death on people that they disagree with? I have, and I do it on a much grander scale:

moviefreakedmind said:

I hate everybody at the women’s march and I hate everybody at the march for life and I hope the ground splits open and all of them fall into the Earth. Sounds fair and unbiased to me.

In all seriousness, though, Kevin Williamson needs to stick to screenwriting. How he could he go from writing Scream to writing this nonsense?

chyron8472 said:

On the topic of illegal immigration, a couple of years ago someone came by my house and offered to repair warped slats in my fence. The price was super inexpensive compared to hiring Jenks Fence (who built it), so we agreed. Here’s the thing, though. I didn’t have cash on me, so I wrote a check to the company on his business card. The guy in charge then said he couldn’t take it but needed me to write the check out to “Cash” instead of to his company. I didn’t like doing that, but went ahead and did so.

…And later I went online to the BBB, FTC, and ICE websites and reported his company for employing undocumented workers (which it appeared that his employee probably was, especially given the behavior about the check). I don’t feel at all bad for doing so.

I have no soul and even I’d feel ashamed of myself for doing so.

chyron8472 said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Kids annoy the hell out of me, but they actually tend to be slightly less stupid than most adults.

Many adults think kids are stupid, but the reality is that kids are mainly just inexperienced or uninformed. Certainly they usually have a lack of foresight, but again that comes with time and experience. Now, granted the capabilities of children vary from child to child, but that’s actually more about people in general than about children.

Yeah, and I can forgive that. Adults have no excuse, and most of them still have no foresight by the way.

Many (most?) adults are just more experienced extensions of who they were as children. It’s why politicians are whiny, self-important, and arrogant; and why people are yet still gullible enough to vote for Trump. It’s not that children are foolish, it’s that people are and many don’t learn to stop.

You’re preaching to the choir here, except I’m a lot more harsh on mankind than you.

Kids annoy the hell out of me, but they actually tend to be slightly less stupid than most adults.

EDIT: I don’t know that they tend to be less stupid, but they definitely tend to be at least a little more empathetic and less proudly ignorant than most adults.

Dek Rollins said:

TV’s Frink said:

Wouldn’t I believe what?

Did you read my post? I was saying that perhaps Trump is moving military forces to the border in order to stop the caravan, because he obviously doesn’t like it.

Unless you’re saying that the President is delusional and gets his fake news from Fox and Friends, I have no idea what you’re trying to say.

Dek Rollins said:

TV’s Frink said:

I think Tron Legacy is underrated, as you’ve just done.

A “B-” is underrated? That’s like a “it was pretty good, but a bit lacking in important areas,” which he explained.

From what I can remember of high school, a B- was considered an unexceptional grade barely above mediocre.

Frank your Majesty said:

moviefreakedmind said:

EDIT: And I’m a big blu-ray collector and advocate of home-video rather than going to the cinema.

WITYWGTS

(What I thought you were going to say)

I’m definitely an advocate of that too. I want all theatres to go under.

Good.

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) is a 1979 German film that won the Oscar for best foreign film. On blu ray I believe that only the extended director’s cut is available.

EDIT: Sorry, I didn’t realize this was mainly a digital alterations thread.

Wow, the right-wing backlash online I’m seeing to this California law is startling. They literally find it objectionable that a cop be expected to only shoot people if their lives are in danger. People in America support the police like no other. Also, isn’t it conservatives that demand we all respect the flag and worship during sporting events? Yet they’re typically the ones that tout that blue-striped caricature of the American flag. Isn’t that disrespectful to the good old red, white, and blue?

Jeebus said:

It’s a good first step, but I’m not sure if it’ll have any real effect.

California lawmakers propose legislation restricting when police can shoot

California state lawmakers are proposing legislation that would impose new restrictions on when a law enforcement officer can open fire.

Under the legislation, officers would only be allowed to open fire if “there were no other reasonable alternatives to the use of deadly force." The Associated Press first reported the legislation, which is supported by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and other groups.

The proposal comes after the fatal police shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man in Sacramento.

Clark was shot by Sacramento police last month while unarmed in the backyard of his grandmother’s house.

The legislation would shift the current “reasonable force” rule to a “necessary force” standard, according to the AP.

It won’t do anything because there is no punishment for shooting people to death if you’re a cop. You might lose your job. Cops need to be punished severely for maiming, injuring, or killing any man, woman, child, or pet without cause. Even if a cop kills someone by an accident, he or she should be imprisoned just like any of us would be if we killed someone by mistake.

I just find it important to shut down any and everybody who tries to undermine the importance of gun control regardless of what other less important issue they bring up. I’ll use Elliot Rodgers as an example. He was a misogynist but there’s a 100% chance that no amount of lecturing him about toxic masculinity (whatever the fuck that is) would have prevented his rampage. The only things that would have prevented his killing spree would have been proper gun control to prevent him from getting access to the weapons he used to kill and injure half of his victims, followed by better mental health care in this country to notice that he was a deluded sack of shit beforehand and throw into an asylum. It’s not about video games, it’s not about art and entertainment, it’s not about gender, it’s about guns being accessible to violent and deluded people. And that’s all that America’s gun problem has ever been about.

And if we’re going to talk about toxic anything I think a more accurate term would be “toxic humanity” because human beings as a whole are pretty defective and toxic.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

Because then it’s just a movie set in space.

What’s a 007 movie without a Bond, a psychopathic villain, and a pretty girl? A spy movie.

That’s not a fair example and actually does Star Wars a disservice. Bond movies are about a specific character. Star Wars was just a space movie about good vs. evil. A better comparison would be a Star Trek show without the Enterprise or Kirk or Spock or conflict in the neutral zone with the Klingons.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

pittrek said:

I’d love to see a Star Wars story, which doesn’t include or even reference

• any Skywalker
• any Kenobi
• Darth Vader or any cheap imitation like Kylo Ren
• Emperor Palpatine or any cheap imitation like Snoke
• Death Star or Death Star II or any cheap imitation like the Starkiller base

So a Star Wars movie that isn’t a Star Wars movie. Okay.

This was my complaint about Rogue One. Star Wars is incapable of separating itself from these characters and plot-points. It can’t be a very expansive universe if it is incapable of producing a film that doesn’t include or reference those forty-year-old characters.

DominicCobb said:

moviefreakedmind said:

If you read my post then it was obvious that I was saying that obfuscating the gun control issue and shifting focus to some other political agenda is counter-productive and is a primary reason as to why nothing ever happens on gun control. If you think Elliot Rodgers wouldn’t have done what he did if he had just been lectured on toxic masculinity, then you’re delusional, just like how the conservatives that blamed Columbine on Marylyn Manson and video games were delusional. Gun control is the only solution, and then it must be followed by better mental health care. If you bothered read my post then you’d have known that this was my point. Instead, you just quoted it out of context presumably to make me look like some anti-woman asshole. I’d rather you just not say anything at all rather than libelous bullshit.

You assume too much.

I’m going to assume that you either agree with me (which would be giving you the benefit of the doubt) or are incapable of coherently voicing your opinion on this since you’re refusing to do it.

This is the first I’m hearing of them.

EDIT: And I’m a big blu-ray collector and advocate of home-video rather than streaming or buying films digitally. So they definitely should’ve worked on brand awareness.

Dek Rollins said:

^But I want to see a picture of him smiling.

Who? Jack Nicholson? No one who’s seen the Shining would tell him to smile more.

It would be, but I still prefer to be left alone rather than be told to smile more by someone who knows next to nothing about me.

People can say what they want, but generally I’d rather they just mind their own business.

Possessed said:

DominicCobb said:

“Made up gender problems.” Classic.

Oh come on. Unless I’m grossly misreading him all he is saying is that gender identity being tied to mass shootings is made up. I don’t think he is saying gender identity problems are made up in general.

Nope. I just hate gender and want to pretend like there are no gender problems.

“made up gender problems” - mfm, 2018. Didn’t you read it?

Oh sorry, you must’ve read my entire post and interpreted like a sane person.

If you read my post then it was obvious that I was saying that obfuscating the gun control issue and shifting focus to some other political agenda is counter-productive and is a primary reason as to why nothing ever happens on gun control. If you think Elliot Rodgers wouldn’t have done what he did if he had just been lectured on toxic masculinity, then you’re delusional, just like how the conservatives that blamed Columbine on Marylyn Manson and video games were delusional. Gun control is the only solution, and then it must be followed by better mental health care. If you bothered read my post then you’d have known that this was my point. Instead, you just quoted it out of context presumably to make me look like some anti-woman asshole. I’d rather you just not say anything at all rather than libelous bullshit.