moviefreakedmind

I don’t know. I don’t get it.

Handman said:

I don’t know why or how movies/TV can get away with what they do now. Like, it looks like porn. That, and what they seem to show high schoolers and other minors. Binge drinking till they pass out, having sex (in incredibly explicit ways), so on and so on.

I don’t think television programs show nude minors engaging in sexual activity. I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but when actors pretend to have sex, all they’re doing is pretending. It isn’t actually happening and typically these actors and actress aren’t minors, they’re usually in their twenties. If the movie or TV show is good, then I don’t care what kind of nudity or sexual content or drinking on camera occurs. If the movie or TV show is bad, then I don’t watch it.

These are minors… why are we normalizing this?

Because it’s not 1958 anymore. We don’t consider, or at least we shouldn’t consider, what is going to offend people’s sensibilities when we try to tell a compelling story.

Handman said:

I’d like to make clear that my problem is not that teens have sex and drink alcohol, though I don’t particularly like the thought, it’s something so widespread that nothing you do is going to stop it. But the way media portrays it in increasingly explicit ways seems to glorify and perpetuate it, and I find that kind of disgusting. I feel like we need to better educate our children of consequences in a better way than we currently are.

Won’t someone please, just please, think of the children?! Give me a break. Parents can teach their own children what’s right and what’s wrong. If the kids are relying on television for their morals then they’re already fucked so don’t try to water down entertainment even more for the sake of poorly raised children.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

the other f-word that’s apparently unspeakable now

You’ll live.

Do you really think so?

Mrebo said:

The thread has had better days.

Maybe, but it’s definitely had worse.

I use it with everyone, too. A coworker once overheard my side of a cordial phone call in which every other word was fuck, or the other f-word that’s apparently unspeakable now, or shit, or motherfucker, or some other cuss word. Once I hung up the phone he asked who I was talking to and I told him that it was my mom. He couldn’t believe it.

It isn’t really that I struggle to cope with your absence or am hesitant to forgive you, I just don’t like responding to someone’s criticism of me to have it go totally unaddressed.

Probably. They dont really care who goes to jail so long as they’re filling up cells. There’s a lot of money to be made in that.

I was complaining about people caring in the sense that they consider the statements of members of some idiot mob on social media to have any value whatsoever.

I complain about them but I don’t value what they have to say. Big difference.

chyron8472 said:

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.

Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.

I feel like the older I get the faster time seems to pass.

Sounds like a good thing to me.

Possessed said:

Chewielewis said:

I feel like this is a stupid question, but did audiences know that padme was Amidala?

I know they were promoted as seperate characters but surely people knew that they were played by the same actor.

Edit: Thinking about it more. The film doesn’t tell or show that Padme is Amidala until the reveal, but plenty of scenes and dialogues play out as if the audience knows.

On that note, did people (who hadn’t read the books… The name “Palpatine” wasn’t in the OT movies but it was in the books) know that Palpatine was the emperor before episode 3? I didn’t at first. And I only figured it out by looking at the back of the boxes and noticing it was the same actor that was in Rotj.

Yes I know it’s extremely obvious but I was a wee lad.

The back of the TPM VHS sleeve said that Senator Palpatine was the Emperor.

Why do people find this to be good news? Disney monopolizing the industry isn’t good.

You guys would hate talking to me. Profanity makes up at least a third of the words I speak.

Why does anyone care about what stupid people on social media say?

Tatooine didn’t look too bad in Episode I, I didn’t think.

TV’s Frink said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.

Sorry, no, it goes by too fast.

Not fast enough for me.

I really hope Post Praetorian responds to this. One of my pet peeves is when I thoroughly respond to someone’s criticism of me and then they never acknowledge it or address it.

Time goes by too slowly! It pisses me off.

It isn’t a conscious decision.

“I won’t ask again” is a pretty clear threat of a ban.

Possessed said:

moviefreakedmind said:

Why ruin the soda by removing the caffeine and adding the gin?

Caffeine gives me anxiety, gin reduces my anxiety. Seems like a win win to me. Not everybody can just sleep 15 hours a day naturally.

I’d actually say “win lose” would be more accurate in that case.

I don’t even want to do that, I just want extremely strict regulation on who can own one and which households can have them. I think all gun purchases need to be done under the supervision of the federal government and there needs to be a concerted effort on the part of the government to round up and destroy all of the illegal weapons floating around on the black market. It’s very complicated but for now we’ll just continue to do nothing as Republicans go down the list of other things to blame like video games, pornography, atheism, evolution, parenting, rock music, too many exits, and other stupid shit.

Yep.

I actually agree with you. Most people like to ignore the larger problem. We don’t just have a mass-shooting problem in America, we have an enormous gun violence problem that includes murder, attempted murder, accidental death, legalized murder (stand your ground), suicide, etc. etc. But people don’t have the mental capacity to care about all that shit.

I don’t even know what that means.

Why ruin the soda by removing the caffeine and adding the gin?