Tiberius Christ posted:

Everywhere
https://twitter.com/Krekkov/status/1351281094541262849?s=19

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's creepy?

hard counter posted:

i think people are reading way too much into the politics of harry potter, at least in so far as the existence of a secret wizarding society is definitely more of a conceit to transplant most of our world into that setting because in real life nobody has supernatural powers so the only way the two ideas could co-exist in a single piece of fiction, even in the mind of a child, is if people w/supernatural powers lived in secrecy with some kind of colossal ruse maintaining the illusion that they don't, it's a simple idea that works well with kids

that's absolutely a choice of setting, stuff like choosing to not to tear down the illusion at the end of the series in a revolutionary act is yet another conceit to let little kids make pretend that there's magic in the real world and that maybe one day they'll get their own letter from hogwarts, while other conceits like upper class wizards bullying low class wizards let little kids ground the fantastic with reflections of things not unlike their own experiences... and so on

i don't even like the books, i stopped at the second one and i don't regard the films as being especially good, but it's fair to say those types of literary conceits help create the immersion and sense of wonder that made the books so freakishly popular with kids in the first place

the problem is aging rear end harry potter fans, instead of eventually moving on to fiction targeted at adults where writers can deal more thoughtfully with all kinds of issues, just keep reading their one book through their now 30 year old eyes

Paper Lion posted:

the fact that they go out of their way to make sure we all know that the holocaust happened in harry potter world, and that the only wizard who was interested in preventing it was evil and wanted to do so as a whataboutism excuse to exterminate all humans and not for any moral reason is incredible

Milo and POTUS posted:

That's creepy?

Vim Fuego posted:

wow, rowling really really hates the jews, eh

hard counter posted:

i think people are reading way too much into the politics of harry potter,

Up Circle posted:

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Gripweed posted:

After the Harry potter books ended JK Rowling said that Dumbledore had been gay, he had been gay with one character who had been mentioned in passing, she had always intended for him to be gay, it just never came up. And then she does the Fantastic Beasts movies, which feature the character Dumbledore had been gay with, and then Dumbledore was cast for the second one so everybody was like "they're finally going to have Dumbledore be gay in the text instead of just by word of god" and the movie comes out and it explains that Dumbledore and that guy were more than just best friends, they were magical best friends.

Tiberius Christ posted:

Everywhere
https://twitter.com/Krekkov/status/1351281094541262849?s=19

Mordja posted:

Harry Potter is a children's book and those who care about it at all into adulthood, either because they still think it's the best book ever and don't have the mental capacity to read anything else, or because they're politics addicted freaks, are pure AIDS and not the wholesome, Rich Evans kind of AIDS

Galewolf posted:

I'm going to have a Full Metal Jacket and Jarhead combo watchathon and no one can stop me

luchajones posted:

i hope you arent watching the 2nd half of FMJ. You watch the first part and turn it off like the rest of us!

Galewolf posted:

I'm going to have a Full Metal Jacket and Jarhead combo watchathon and no one can stop me

Gripweed posted:

why would you watch Jarhead?

LanceHunter posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_Pk_Sx0WI

colonelwest posted:

I just watched Midnight Sky, the Clooney directed by and staring sci-fi/post-apocalypse Netflix movie. It's basically the most dumb, boring and bland way you could possible execute an interesting story concept. It's like an old TV movie of the week with better special effects. All of the characterization is by the numbers and perfunctory, and every plot point and twist can be seen coming from a mile away. Clooney doesn't seem to have any grasp of the mechanics of the story or basic sci-fi concepts.

So like you're in charge of future NASA and you know the Earth is dying (for what reason the movie never says) but you have a few weeks notice, and you discovered a new habitable moon orbiting Jupiter (almost impossible btw). A manned spaceship has already explored it and is on its way back to earth, but it has enough fuel to turn around and go back to the moon. You also have a first colony ship built and ready to launch.

Do you...

A. Blast out a warning on every available transmitter for the exploration ship to turn around, and then launch the colony ship immediately?

B. Cancel the colony ship launch and do nothing?

Well NASA in this movie choses option B.

Fortunately one terminally ill scientist decides to stay in a remote artic space observatory instead of evacuating with everyone else, and he's the only person on Earth who thinks to send a message to the returning exploration ship. But he doesn't even realize its out there until he sees it in a random Google search, even though he's one of the main people who planed the mission.

And this is just the beginning of the film's problems...

Galewolf posted:

So, was that her attempt on clinging to relevancy through the most "Hello there, fellow children" meme-esque way?

I still cannot wrap my head around how you can NOT mention Dumbledore being gay through thousands of pages if that was a thing since the beginning? You know, you don't have to "headcanon" your own books.

Well, that retcon brought us Jude Law in extremely () tight fitting 20s suit and possible Mads "goth eye makeup creepy videogame Mads" Mikkelsen sex.

steinrokkan posted:

As far as I know all of them are real.

steinrokkan posted:

Nah, her peak attempts at maintaining relevance were>
1] There actually were Jewish kids at Hogwarts, you just never saw one, and also they all were proud Zionists
2] Hogwarts is full of Aisan characters, such as this one called something like Ching Chang
3] Wizards openly piss and poo poo in their pants in public all the time because they hate toilets

Galewolf posted:

I seriously cannot tell if those are real or not, given how eye twitchy Rowling became.

LanceHunter posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hC_Pk_Sx0WI