The joker is a bad derivative film that seems arty and important by the type of people who have never seen a movie with a budget less than $100 million and not based on a comic book.
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Iâve heard that song gets played at sporting events in the US. Literally my only prior knowledge of the song (apart from Gary Glitter = big-time paedo obv) is Homerâs brain a-capella-ing it badly in an unforgettable Simpsons gag. NA NA NA-NA-NA, HEY! NA NA-NA-NA! So based on that I have nothing but positive, comedic associations with the song. Maybe thatâs why it didnât bother me. It really seemed quite unremarkable, though. Donât really grok a strong feeling either way. To each their own.
ty, I think your gripes are on the same wavelength as mine, even if I didnât finish watching the movie.
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Theyâve kind of phased it out in a lot of places since Glitter got arrested for banging 12 year olds in Asia or whatever it was, but yes, before that it was a big hockey arena song.
Couldnât have said it better myself.
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Complete derail, but knowing that Glitterâs real name is Paul Gadd made the opening credits of The Walking Dead quite funny to me.
TIL there is a three-part Atlas Shrugged movie out there. RT ratings: 12%, 4%, 0%. Also the actors are all different in every part because nobody wanted to come back.
Pretty sure I would need heavy doses of oxycodone or something to sit through that.
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I havenât seen them, but I followed the train-wreck of their production with full enjoyment. No chance at all that the movies themselves could provide more entertainment than that.
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The book is border line unreadable. Itâs like A Brief History of Time, owned by many, read by few. Every conservative claims it as their favorite book. Like 5% ever read it.
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Yeah, a friend of mine read it, said it was just awful. I have actually read A Brief History of Time.
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we read it in high school. Of course, this was long, long ago, before it turned into some weird cult bible and Rand became a god-like figure to idiots everywhere. I mean, maybe it was always a weird cult, but I read it long before the cult went mainstream.
I will never not post this quote:
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A friend asked me to compile my top 10 of the year so I figured Iâd post it here also,
- Parasite
- Little Women
- Hail Satan
- Knives Out
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Apollo 11
- Marianne and Leonard: Words of Love
- Long Shot
- Atlantics
- Booksmart
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I want to see Atlantics
Parasite is amazing and Iâm so happy it got a Best Picture nom instead of being left to the Foreign Language category.
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I tried to read Atlas Shrugged, quit because it was just very, very poorly written. I would legit back an average dimestore potboiler over it in terms of prose style and narrative technique. I do remember a funny exchange between Hank Rearden (an industrialist inventor) and some conniving, inadequate Statist strawman where the Statist was like âYouâre acting as though making money is your only goalâ and Reardenâs just like âThat is my only goalâ and like, whereâs the lie.
Never read Atlas Shrugged, but I heard at one point John Galt gets on the radio and starts talkingâŚand talkingâŚandâŚ
Good god at this drivel
I always liked this quote
âThere are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year oldâs life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."
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surprised you saw Joker. Didnât think that was the sort of film youâd check out. (havenât seen it myself).
Iâve read Atlas Shrugged. Iâve also read The Fountainhead. Thatâs like 1,700 pages of Ayn Rand Iâve plowed through, and I was never the sort of person who was drawn to that rubbish. I did it out of morbid curiosity.
fwiw, The Fountainhead is a better book if youâre so inclined. Thatâs not to say itâs good, because it isnât. But itâs markedly less terrible, and also less heavy handed on the painfully stupid philosophy.
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I read both in my 20s. I thought the core of her message, or what I thought was her message, of âthe world would be a better place if everyone lived for themselvesâ was provocative and interesting. Then I grew up and realized how stupid that was.
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I mean the end of that long ass fucking speech I posted was
âYou will win when you are ready to pronounce the oath I have taken at the start of my battleâand for those who wish to know the day of my return, I shall now repeat it to the hearing of the world:
âI swearâby my life and my love of itâthat I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine.â
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