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ok so im getting close to the end and theyre actually doing the hotel stuff and i can see how the filmmakers thought this was woke but holy poo poo you cant spend the first half hour talking about how the negroes are unreasonably destroying detroit and then say that the cops are the bad guys because they freaked out and thought there was a sniper in the hotel even though snipers are definitely real and the cops have good reason to be scared and also there are good cops who understand that the one crazy cop who they were totally going to bring up on murder charges before this public relations disaster is crazy the really ridiculous thing is that the cops are using the exact same moral reasoning in detroit that the spooks were using in zero dark thirty the only reason they come off as unsympathetic is because in detroit the characters being brutalized are exposited ahead of time as characters in their own right who dont actually know anything if at any point in zero dark thirty we were given reason to believe that the dudes being tortured were actual human beings or that they didnt know anything or hell that people even existed who recognized what was being done to them was monstrous i might actually be able to buy the take that zero dark thirty is nuanced instead of explicit fascist bullshit
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final comment i really love how a movie that is literally premised on police brutality still manages to make defense attorneys the bad guy in the form of union lawyer jim krasinksi of all the ridiculous people that could have been used for a walk on role just insanely impressive laser focus on racism in a vacuum as being the cause of all our problems and willful ignorance when it comes the idea that our legal system is designed to facilitate racism not the other way around
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finally, a sequel to crash! no, not the fun car sex one
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Some Guy TT posted:final comment i really love how a movie that is literally premised on police brutality still manages to make defense attorneys the bad guy in the form of union lawyer jim krasinksi of all the ridiculous people that could have been used for a walk on role hahaha the moment jim from the office appears you know it's gonna be a liberal crapfest
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is he even a liberal, i thought he was just a straight never-trump, ghw bush decorus spook and troop state style republican. i realize the distinction is splitting hairs i mean he did the loving benghazi movie as a passion project
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preemptively getting mad about the inevitable jon krasinski/chris pratt buddy cop movie
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gradenko_2000 posted:I watched "The Social Dilemma" tonight and while there's a half-way decent message at the heart of it, there's also a bunch of lovely liberal ideology smuggled into it, mostly in the skits/dramatizations that they do about how all this social media manipulation translates to Families In The Real World. Is, uh, part of that segment a rally in a park in the fall where someone ends up getting in a very tame looking fight? Because I might have just found out what the gently caress I was witnessing last November.
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Breakfast All Day posted:is he even a liberal, i thought he was just a straight never-trump, ghw bush decorus spook and troop state style republican. i realize the distinction is splitting hairs i gotta admit that i mentally labeled him a cia lib just because of his goofy face
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Sep 21, 2020 17:16
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thanks for sharing pod tommy!! https://twitter.com/tvietor08/status/1308101904933638145?s=21
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Sep 21, 2020 18:57
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lovecraft country continues its streak of being completely batshit this week
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Sep 21, 2020 19:54
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Serf posted:lovecraft country continues its streak of being completely batshit this week what kind of batshit? like, "supernatural before it got stupid" batshit?
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Marx Was A Lib posted:what kind of batshit? like, "supernatural before it got stupid" batshit? i remember how in stranger things season 2 towards the end there was an episode where it was all about the psychic girl going off on her own adventure and sidelined the main plot of the season. people got really mad because it interrupted the flow of the story and introduced a whole other set of characters and a plot that isn't touched on again. lovecraft country is like that but every episode. they should have made it a drat anthology series like the book the guy who plays atticus owns, tho. his style is so loving weird and vulnerable and its just a real joy to watch
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Serf posted:people got really mad because it interrupted the flow of the story and introduced a whole other set of characters and a plot that isn't touched on again. lovecraft country is like that but every episode. they should have made it a drat anthology series like the book yeah, this perfectly describes why i tapped out on this show. i think i’ll go ahead and finish it, but the pseudo-anthological nature of the show is maddening to me, which i guess is pretty on point for the subject matter
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i'm convinced that everything in star trek is actually quietly run behind the scenes by AI and that all the federation officers standing around consoles with colorful screens full of giant icons are just pressing buttons like the workers in idiocracy and that all their inane technobabble bullshit really is just bullshit and nobody knows what they're doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXzJR7K0wK0
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Wheeee posted:i'm convinced that everything in star trek is actually quietly run behind the scenes by AI and that all the federation officers standing around consoles with colorful screens full of giant icons are just pressing buttons like the workers in idiocracy and that all their inane technobabble bullshit really is just bullshit and nobody knows what they're doing So basically Banks's Culture novels?
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Wheeee posted:i'm convinced that everything in star trek is actually quietly run behind the scenes by AI and that all the federation officers standing around consoles with colorful screens full of giant icons are just pressing buttons like the workers in idiocracy and that all their inane technobabble bullshit really is just bullshit and nobody knows what they're doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuuSXNBzyVI
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Wraith of J.O.I. posted:thanks for sharing pod tommy!! God is there a single issue they dont have the worst take on Just lmao https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1308122598773907456?s=20 https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1308129162238988288?s=20 https://twitter.com/TVietor08/status/1308138950087729152?s=20
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Bootleg Trunks posted:God is there a single issue they dont have the worst take on Lmfao I was wondering what his angle was. I thought he might have some more undisclosed board of directory positions.
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Man the stuff with Vought reacting to Maeve getting outed in the Boys is some incredibly pitch black humor
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Sep 22, 2020 04:15
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it is soo spot on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tARhNyES5nU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h10T8xu9Y4
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this show was decent but i really feel it squandered its potential
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Bootleg Trunks posted:God is there a single issue they dont have the worst take on you forgot to include the part where tommy is completely bodied by jesse farrar https://twitter.com/BronzeHammer/status/1308162241079005184
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girlfriend and I watched "Pleasantville" last night and for a movie about the beauty of art cultivating nonconformity, it's ultimate message being that freedom will manifest itself in terms of slight changes to the existing world's aesthetics and nothing else was a lot more on the nose than the director probably intended
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StashAugustine posted:Man the stuff with Vought reacting to Maeve getting outed in the Boys is some incredibly pitch black humor It's infinitely more on point than the season 1 episode where the supes are having to speak at an Evangelical youth event, which felt like some extremely mid-2000s commentary.
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General Dog posted:It's infinitely more on point than the season 1 episode where the supes are having to speak at an Evangelical youth event, which felt like some extremely mid-2000s commentary. Yeah, this. The Boys, when it's on, it's really on. Most everything about the boys themselves is much weaker.
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General Dog posted:It's infinitely more on point than the season 1 episode where the supes are having to speak at an Evangelical youth event, which felt like some extremely mid-2000s commentary. Yeah that felt like a direct rip from the books being set in the Bush era. The Confederate Homelander mural was great though
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General Dog posted:It's infinitely more on point than the season 1 episode where the supes are having to speak at an Evangelical youth event, which felt like some extremely mid-2000s commentary. I'd forgotten about that episode, which is surprising because I felt that I recognised the exact set of evangelical movement they were parodying. A friend was involved in it and some of the details and colour felt just like what she described. The Boys is not great, but it has its moments.
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StashAugustine posted:Man the stuff with Vought reacting to Maeve getting outed in the Boys is some incredibly pitch black humor The marketing team completely ignoring Maeve's bisexuality and wanting her girlfriend to be more masculine/butch to not "confuse" the public was a sad chef's kiss.
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nonathlon posted:The Boys is not great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52ZaSh81eI8
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I started watching the Boyz only after listening to the entire TrueAnon Bush did 9/11 week The show is Epstein brain packaged and sold back to us good little consumer piggies. And I love it.
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... what the gently caress is this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REW1NwVj-9I
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Lokar posted:I started watching the Boyz only after listening to the entire TrueAnon Bush did 9/11 week Wasn't not-Professor X basically Epstein in the comics?
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Ghost Leviathan posted:Wasn't not-Professor X basically Epstein in the comics? he was bryan singer lol
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vyelkin posted:... what the gently caress is this? when has a country ever colonized another and then 100% adopted the colonized country's language, political structure, infrastructure, architecture, and apparently economic ideology instead of the other way around? do the showrunners know anything about africa except "uhh the affluent women stretch their necks with gold rings, right?"
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God Hole posted:when has a country ever colonized another and then 100% adopted the colonized country's language, political structure, infrastructure, architecture, and apparently economic ideology instead of the other way around? literally every time someone tried to colonize china
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vyelkin posted:... what the gently caress is this? "What if africans were the real racists?"
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the only fanbase that’s gonna get is neo nazis fantasizing about how horrible black society would be to them (and justifying all the real world stuff on black people)
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that's the kind of project where you just wish someone had taken them aside and let them know that even a genius could do a take on this idea and completely botch it, and you, my dude, are not a genius.
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