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fred79
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posted February 20, 2019 01:54 AM |
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I agree. And wtf was up with the actresses who played the two main female characters? The white-haired badass looked 20, but sounded like a 70-year-old smoker, and the "little girl" was played by a woman who sounded like anything but. Just added to the movie's lack of immersion. 
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blob2
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posted February 20, 2019 09:35 AM |
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I remember the first Ralph being ok-ish at most. Must've been the fact characters weren't to my liking. It was trying to make a bridge between the old and new, I think it did a solid job taking references from both hardcore/classic games and modern casual ones but that's it. It's more of a movie for casual gamer parents and their kids then anything else, but I suppose this was its premise.
The movie was a bit like Ready Player One - all style no substance.
I've heard from some of my acquaintances who watched it that there is this "deathrace" like section in the sequel that is a pretty good watch, plus the whole "making fun of Disney tropes" is also pretty funny.
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Czarlson
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posted February 22, 2019 10:02 AM |
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I can recommended “Green Book” movie. Really good played by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. It's hard to say what kind of movie this is: comedy, drama or maybe even adventure 
GB takes audiences on a surprisingly smooth ride through potentially bumpy subject matter.
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fidanas
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posted February 22, 2019 11:58 AM |
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Glass...it was OK. Yes it's OK to watch it.
I'm getting older, and don't get excited as i used to be i guess.
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Blizzardboy
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Undefeatable Hero
Nerf Herder
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posted February 22, 2019 03:33 PM |
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Czarlson said:
I can recommended “Green Book” movie. Really good played by Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali. It's hard to say what kind of movie this is: comedy, drama or maybe even adventure
Audiences on a surprisingly smooth ride through potentially bumpy subject matter.
Because it plays safe.
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fred79
Disgraceful
Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 27, 2019 05:59 PM |
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watched "how to train your dragon 3". my niece and i laughed our asses off at the part where
SPOILER ALERT
toothless did the funky chicken as a mating dance.  
all in all, a good movie.
EXCEPT:
it did not escape me that, even in a kid's movie, the two love interests were interracial. and that's not the bad part, because i could care less about two differently-colored dragons falling in love and producing "interracial" offspring. the bad part being, the interracial set up was, as almost always is, male = black/female = white.
and in a kid's movie, no less. like, little kids. the whole theater was flooded with families; with toddlers and up.
before any sjw's come at me with "you're overreacting/racist/a scared whitey", i have to ask you all, have you even NOTICED the interracial demographic in so many goddamn movies/ads/commercials?
my question is, why is it nearly always, that the white person/character in the interracial relationship is a woman, and the black person/character in the interracial relationship is a male?
why do i KEEP seeing this? why is this OVERUSED tripe STILL predominant in so much popular media? and now, in a children's movie, of all places?
why did the female dragon have to be white? why couldn't it have been red? or even green? or literally ANY OTHER COLOR? black dragon(even male), i get that. nothing racist about it. but then, the female dragon HAS to be white? my question is, WHY? some might not think this question or point matters, but... why? if you look at the other dragons, they're all the same kind, they look exactly alike, being the same breed. but two night-furies are two opposite shades? WHY?
go ahead, argue with me. any one of you know i'm 100% correct in this. there's just no other explanation, than interracial-coupling being so OBVIOUSLY introduced into a KID'S movie. AND by using the same formula as so many other movies/ads/commercials(male=black/female=white).
now, this is just the latest movie i've noticed this in. i haven't seen a lot of kid's movies, so if anyone can help point me in the direction of other kid's movies with the same interracial formula tripe, be my guest.
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artu
Promising
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted February 27, 2019 06:49 PM |
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Okay, fred, since I dont specifically notice which gender is white or black in interracial couplings in movies, I’ll give you the benefit of doubt. But I’ll also doubt your perception. So, to validate your observation, give me a total statistic of movies in the last ten years with interracial couples, just really check it out, pure data must be googlable, then let’s see if there really is an extremly radical imbalance in male/female distribution.
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fred79
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posted February 27, 2019 07:19 PM |
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part of the problem, are search engines themselves(not just google, which i don't use). you want to see racism, type "white couple" in any search engine. then type "black couple". check the images, and tell me what you see. you should see a predominant theme.
but we've covered this before, in another thread, i believe. and was met with arguments based on internet algorithms.
i actually attempted to search for all the movie/commercial/ad statistics myself(or to compile my own), but i gave up because it became too time-consuming, with minimal pin-pointed results. maybe you can perservere? i know it's not on you to find proof, as i myself made the claim(which is undermining the reality btw, using that word); but i have 1,001 things to do, of more importance.
you have to admit, i'm not prone to convincing you of what i think, anyway. 
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Salamandre
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Wog refugee
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posted February 27, 2019 07:29 PM |
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Netflix shows are a multicultural/gender/ethnic/trumpophobe manifesto lately, with Superwoman on top - it has all ingredients, sister lesbian, friend black, second black is gay, transgender early on with a father voting Trump and homophobic, Superman is defeated in one on one fight vs Superwoman despite being of same alloy and 5 times more massive) then a lot of Marvel recent crap. Sex education is one of the most driven around ethnicity (majority of couples being mixed, white kids bully and punch the poor black drama queen).
Now, there were tons of black actors in past shows as well but I never felt the casting pick so awkward as now, the quality being so low that I suspect the only criteria being to reflect ratio above all. Same for sexuality, having gay or lesbian actors before, was more a quality pick because they were good so who cares. Now you know he/she are gay from the first appearance because a) they say it then b) it inevitably comes with the crap "society doesn't accept me". (Superwoman transgender scene
Anyway, is not like we are forced to watch such things. Currently going back to Prison Break and is gold, while also being diverse. It has great ideas and the balance vs good as only option is less ideologically articulated.
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blob2
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posted February 27, 2019 08:32 PM |
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While I'll agree on the general coupling issue fred, which I noticed even before SJW craze was at its finest like today (this went on for quite some time already, belive me, go watch porn even and see which is more popular: bm/wf or wm/bf). I think in this specific case you are overinterpreting things.
I think the answer for "why white" is quite easy: contrast. First of all, I don't belive they planned a trilogy to begin with, and they made Toothless black cus "Night Fury" (or Nick Fury ), black as a mysterious color etc. Even if they planned a trilogy I don't think they planned for his love interest in this much detail. And now we have this black-white contrast which is powerful in it's own right, more then black-red or black-green. Remember that films for kids need to stay simple.
Secondly white color is quite often affiliated with purity, elegance and further down the road with femine characteristics. It just simply fits a female dragon imo.
Even if there is some inter-racial agenda going on here (possibility of which I don't deny and that's courtesy of the times we live in) in this case I would look elswhere for the reason...
For now be greatful they didn't throw in some more undertones in this movie.
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fred79
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Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 27, 2019 08:57 PM |
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@ blob: see, that's just the thing. a night fury being white? remember in the first movie, when they introduced the dragon? "no one's ever seen one". being black makes sense, because it blends better with night time(why else call it a night fury?).
the female being white, is symbolic; and not of innocence or purity(if you remember, the white dragon was being used as a lure from the villain).
the symbolism comes from the white dragon being a female bound to be in a sexual relationship with a black male of the same species(remember how ALL the other dragons in all THREE movies look exactly alike, when they are of the same breed?), that i am calling this snow out for what it is. it's simple: they are pushing an interracial relationship at children with this move; and not JUST that. SPECIFICALLY targeting WHITE FEMALES and BLACK MALES; which has been the predominant racial mix among interracial themes in movies/commercials/ads.
and yes, in porn as well.
and don't forget all the "white people are evil" movies(with the predominant sex against blacks, being MALE).
the evidence is piling up, that there is an active drive towards attacking/dividing white males; specifically. if you were to look at this from a biological(dna) standpoint, it could be said that the white race itself is directly under attack. and evidence certainly points in that direction("if all white people had black lovers and produced mixed children, racism would die out!"... but notice the same thing is never said about asians, for example. who predominantly date/marry inside their own race, without negative judgement of any kind).
look at all the double-standard bullsnow being pulled on white males today(which has been thoroughly covered in other threads). there is a move to demasculize masculine men, but SPECIFICALLY, WHITE masculine men. and even more specifically, WHITE STRAIGHT MASCULINE MEN.
it doesn't stop with just simple entertainment or commercialism. it continues in other avenues of modern life: from the family/child aspect(both through law, and media), to the sexual aspect(straight men are mysogynistic and hate gays and transgenders!), to the racial aspect(all white men are evil!); all throughout mainstream media and the news.
i challenge ANYONE to prove me wrong. you CANNOT, because the evidence is all around you. just open your eyes, ffs.
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Kipshasz
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Elvin's Darkside
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posted February 27, 2019 09:02 PM |
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They'd rather be in their safe space bubbles with moral support crayons and whatnot.
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artu
Promising
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted February 27, 2019 09:12 PM |
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Okay guys, I’ll reply in detail in day or two, Sal’s Netflix criticism is not totally ungrounded, although, I dont think a word such as Trumphobia should exist. fred, you beat Ghost to my new signature man.
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blob2
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Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted February 27, 2019 09:12 PM |
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Damn, you might be right on this one 
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fred79
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posted February 28, 2019 03:12 AM |
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@ artu: lol, nice. Guess i set myself up; wasn't thinking about sigs atm.
That you have to compile an answer, tells me your view in this already.
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friendofgunnar
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able to speed up time
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posted February 28, 2019 04:35 AM |
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lolol
I consider myself a center-leftist but even I have to concede this 'sjw' trend has reached tidal wave proportions.
I was recently watching Terminator 2 and was really struck at how great it was. The scene where Sarah Connor escapes from the asylum in particular.
It has everything necessary to be a sjw hit job but instead it works perfectly because a) everything that happens is plausible in the real world, b) Sarah Connor has clear and perfectly understandable motivations, c) her badassery is a perfectly sensible character arc that stemmed from events in the first Terminator movie.
Even though it was made thirty years ago there's also this really cool scene later on that's kind of a nod to the whole thing going on nowadays when Sarah Connor starts talking about how it's men's nature to destroy because they've never known what it's like to create a life but then her son cuts her off because it sounds like her previous crazy ramblings. The scene has nuance that looks almost alien nowadays.
There's this other short vid that came out recently that you may have seen as well. It's like a re-imagining of the death star escape scene in Star Wars. I loled when I saw it because it's so wierd - I couldn't figure out why it was made. Then I realized it's just Disney trolling us. I suspect that when all is said and done this vid might just be the high-water mark of the tidal wave.
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artu
Promising
Undefeatable Hero
My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted February 28, 2019 10:17 AM |
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Edited by artu at 10:20, 28 Feb 2019.
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@fred
I’m not compiling an answer to you, you acid-wise feather-light ego! I was about to start drinking with friends and I knew I’d have a hangover the next day. See you when elephants arent dancing to the jailhouse rock in my skull.
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fred79
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Undefeatable Hero
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posted February 28, 2019 03:14 PM |
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(somewhat off-topic)
@ artu:
whatever you have to say in rebuttal won't be considered, as long as you're not giving any real consideration, and real thought, and your own observation, to what i'm saying. so you understand.
i'm right in this. there will be no convincing me otherwise; so don't bother making any attempt, because i will just disregard you for another unthinking dimwit(or what some are now calling, "npc's" ). the gradual movement that is becoming predominant(just like the other movements), that i'm addressing here is only part of a larger picture; one of many that seperates the "lower classes" enough that they will never unite against their TRUE enemies.
which are, of course, their rulers.
i could expand on the "why" our leaders would want us seperate, and in fact, increasingly hostile to one another(instead of towards our rulers, who are insulated through laws they set in place), but you would have to come to grips with the basics first.
hope you had fun, though. 
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blob2
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Blob-Ohmos the Second
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posted March 02, 2019 02:51 PM |
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fred79 said:
i could expand on the "why" our leaders would want us seperate, and in fact, increasingly hostile to one another(instead of towards our rulers, who are insulated through laws they set in place), but you would have to come to grips with the basics first.
Yeah, it's how my current government tries to sepearte my people into "us and them" to increase their political gain.
And now we have this in kids movies even ffs...
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Elvin
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Endless Revival
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posted March 02, 2019 06:23 PM |
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Edited by Elvin at 14:07, 03 Mar 2019.
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Zenofex said:
blizzardboy said:
Coraline is a really good movie.
Aye, it really is. The better Tim Burton without Tim Burton.
Watched Coraline myself and quite liked it. I read somewhere that Coraline lingers in an atmosphere that is creepy, wonderfully strange and full of feeling which seems to fit the film perfectly. If I hadn't checked I would have thought this to be from Tim Burton.
Interstellar was really good. Highly emotional and exciting, good visuals, good cast. I've seen a common criticism that the characters were not well developed but tbh I didn't mind since the story was good. But without spoiling anything, I have to say that I found the tesseract thing convenient. It is kind of a paradox.
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