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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Bad Teacher' Review: ... · 0 replies · +12 points

*Sigh*

I really do love movies. I have to keep reminding myself of this on occasion.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pixar Releases Poster ... · 1 reply · +15 points

Indeed, Elastagirl embodies everything feminists hate about conservative women. Capable, intelligent, and willingly sacrificing for her children and husband, rather than herself and her own fulfillment. Call her kind of a feminist anti-hero. Had that movie been made by a feminist, Elastagirl would have left the repressive life to go find herself, leaving Mr. Incredible and kids to fend for themselves.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pixar Releases Poster ... · 1 reply · +12 points

Naaah, you're right, far far better to present a feminist hero in total fantasy, where they can truly embody the fantasy world most feminists live in :)

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pixar Releases Poster ... · 3 replies · +7 points

Not too many stories in the ancient period had happy endings for all involved, but that doesn't mean you can't make a good movie (Sparticus seems a good example of this). Any time you set a film in pre-modern times you are going to have to deal with things which would horrify and/or outrage a modern audience. You can sanitize this (Disney route), or you can pick the villians and heros, and focus on the bad of one and good of the other, simply by telling the truth in selevtive ways. Hollywood does this all the time.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Pixar Releases Poster ... · 9 replies · +9 points

Female warriors were one of the first signs of the gradual feminist takeovers of the fantasy genre. I hope this isn't the sign of a trend. An archer, yet. Not too many female archers in ancient Scotland, for obvious reasons.

Couldn't they have done a movie based on Queen Boudicca, instead?

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Color Purple' Author ... · 1 reply · +37 points

Can we have a takedown on how bad the color purple was?

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'Bad Teacher' Review: ... · 0 replies · +3 points

Taking the movie's quality out of it, let's examine the premise: Skanky s lut getting desparate to bag a husband who can take care of her, finds her opportunities fading as fast as her youth, realizes she must rely on her virtue to get the man instead, and of course fails miserably, having no practice in this.

Sounds like the perfect modern woman portrayal, in my experience. The only thing better is to show the beautiful yet reseved classmate she used to scorn show up with her ex-fiance, sporting classy clothes, a ring, and 2 beautiful kids in an SUV living in a mansion. Diaz realizes her mistakes have lead to this moment, smokes more pot, and weeps...

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'The Office': NBC Has ... · 0 replies · +3 points

An athiest would put it that way :)

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - 'The Office': NBC Has ... · 2 replies · +2 points

The libertarians who describe themselves as agnostic/atheistic are some of the few, which are excepted from the "most" I refer to above. Libertarians are usually anti-nationalist as well, but most are practical enogh to recognize that their views are not practical for society as a whole.

You are indeed correct about your second paragraph as far as removing under God would not lead directly to nationalism, but my larger point is when you remove belief in God from a critical mass of people you get a population which needs something else to believe in, which historically has been Nationalism. Removing "Under God" is not the end, but just a step in the process by atheists, the result of which will likely not be pleasent.

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Tracy Morgan's Humilia... · 1 reply · +1 points

HA! Wait until the subject is stale, then sneak a post in with no one looking, and claim vicotry!! Well done, Bobo. Well done.

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