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#1120558
Topic
All Things Star Trek
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Warbler said:

darth_ender said:

Warbler said:

Tobar said:

The established canon for the Kelvin “timeline” is that it is in fact actually an entirely different alternate reality:

That is not the way it appears in Star Trek 2009.

That is exactly how it appeared and was intended to appear.

That is not the meaning I got out of Star Trek 2009.

I don’t understand how you could possibly take that meaning from it.

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#1120510
Topic
Politics 2: Electric Boogaloo
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Warbler said:

moviefreakedmind said:

I think being depressed kind of reveals our ignorance on the subject, because these fuckers have always been around. They didn’t crawl out from the depths of the earth last week and then commit this crime. It’s just that we’re seeing them more active these days.

Yes, I know they have always been around, I just find it depressing that we are still dealing with this in 2017. They should have stopped being around a long time ago.

moviefreakedmind said:

Warbler said:

It is very depressing that we are still dealing with this shit so many years after MLK.

It’s depressing but not at all unexpected. Racism is, in my opinion, pretty much the height of stupidity, and stupidity will not ever die. Stupid people have existed forever and they will continue to exist in massive quantities as they always have.

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#1120507
Topic
4K restoration on Star Wars
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SilverWook said:

NeverarGreat said:

Possessed said:

I don’t quite get how high definition is an alteration but okay. What, do they think the original films were shot on vhs or something? That’s a common misconception that bugs the crap out of me with ignorant people, that hi def is a new thing. Sure it’s new for HOME MEDIA but films have always been made at a high resolution, or whatever the analog term for that would be.

I have never seen this misconception except in the case of Star Wars. It’s baffling that it keeps being repeated.

Not sure where it comes from.

I know where it comes from: stupidity.

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#1120180
Topic
All Things Star Trek
Time

chyron8472 said:

Because, at a certain age, watching a violent scene does not necessarily make a child have violent thoughts or violent tendencies. But kids will repeat things they hear people say. My sister had issues with my nephews doing that for a very long time indeed. She had to be very strict about it because they would laugh together and endlessly repeat it.

Similarly with sex… I watched the Tim Burton Batman film in the theatre when I was 11; but my parents would not let me watch Spaceballs. My mother said the reason why is because I was still developing my identity or my understanding of sexuality at the time, whereas she knew violence would not affect my developing mind the same way.

I don’t know, I was pretty desensitized to violence at a young age and that probably damaged me somehow. I didn’t ever do anything violent, but seeing some surprisingly gory violence in real life like in schoolyard fights and other kids’ bike crashes had no effect on me ever.

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#1120019
Topic
Ranking the Star Wars films
Time

Sure, but saying that one prequel was more disappointing than another seems a little strange to me. For some reason I’ve started to think of the PT a single entity rather than three individually released films. I don’t think of the OT that way.

ROTS at the very least has things happening during most of it. AOTC is one of the most boring films I’ve ever seen. All the PT is pretty boring to me, but AOTC more than any of them.