Some people are saying Tenet will be the movie that announces the return of movie theaters.
a new challenger appears
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I’ve literally never made a single racist post or supported anything racist on this or any forum. Just because you are so obviously wrong on the topic we are discussing you don’t need to lie to deflect.
Olink sorry I wrapped you up in my response to RC. I apologize. He set me off calling me a racist, this of all weeks, when being an ally means so much. I didn’t mean to include you in my response.
I just think while I know your heart is in the right place with wanting to ban GWTW it is the very definition of a slippery slope. History has to remember the awful things we have done so we don’t repeat them.
My apologies again. Goofy is right. I need to watch my condescension.
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I get that, i just don’t think we need to keep like every embarrassingly racist thing we ever liked and fetishize it because history. That’s not history, that’s hoarding. We really will be fine without some of it.
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Frankly, my dear…
Haha, no, here.
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Ethan Hawks is consistently one of the most interesting actors. He rarely makes a bad film. He is also one of the most riveting interview subjects.
Anyone here watch F Is For Family (or are more generally Bill Burr fans)? Season 4 is out Friday, one of the few upcoming seasons I’ve been looking forward to that hasn’t been delayed or scuttled by COVID.
Clovis isn’t the guy being out of line in this particular scuffle.
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Sure, I think we agree on the principle but not in how this principle should be applied to this case. I don’t think keeping Gone with the Wind means we are anywhere close to trying to keep every embarrassing piece of history, nor do I think that allowing people to watch the film on HBO’s streaming platform with an introduction that discusses what makes the film problematic amounts to fetishizing the film.
I hated the clips of it you can’t avoid so much that I’ve never bothered to watch the whole thing.
But then I’ve never been much of a fan of Hollywood blockbusters.
This.
Clovis may be annoying from time to time but who isn’t? I definitely wouldn’t call him racist.
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John Brown and Bleeding Kansas is an amazing timer period too. Reconstruction too for that matter. A lot of material there
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It’s amazing how all-knowing Google is. Lately, I’ve had a few times where I’ve watched an interview with an actor on YouTube and the person said something I wanted to look up. After typing two characters into the YouTube search, the first auto-complete suggestion was exactly what I was going for.
He’s the embodiment of the “if you run into assholes all day” line.
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I’m a fan generally but his last Netflix special was a dud imo. We discussed it elsewhere here, but he spent far too much time (seriously like half of it) whining about cancel culture.
But F is for Family is decent. I saw most of the first season and lost track of it, can’t believe they’re already on four.
No don’t be ridiculous. Some computers don’t even have microphones. They’re using our speakers as microphones and listening in that way.
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I really liked it. I don’t really see Burr as “whining” about that stuff in his standup because he always digs deeper and finds unexpected jokes or angles to take on them. I don’t think anyone willing to discuss his own story of being groped like that is a whiner. For comparison I thought the latest Chappelle special was much worse when it came to “whining about cancel culture.”
I’m rewatching Daria.
Aside from some anime, it’s one of my all-time favorite cartoons. Nearly 20 years later, it holds up well. It’s just as witty and humorous now as it was then. As a teenager, I related perhaps a bit too much with Daria.
The soundtrack is one of the best soundtracks for an animated show ever. When it was released on DVD, the publisher couldn’t afford the rights to the music. So, it was replaced with bland, generic background music that took away from the show. This meant that there were no original copies of the show in circulation. The fan base was so zealous that they started the Daria Restoration Project where people added the music to the right parts of every episode and made in available via BitTorrent.
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