Intelligent and insightful, your comments are always worth reading.

2024-07-05 20:35:08

one back

2024-04-04 10:27:29

@THEGOAT - I agree. Often I think, ''I don't fully agree with that, but it's got 25 downvotes without being rude or misleading. It's crummy to get that response just because one voices an opinion challenging the dominant vie...

2024-12-01 13:43:24

I'm sorry, but no matter what the quality of the film is, that poster is insane. Dietrich Bonhoeffer with a Luger and the word 'assassin' behind him is not quite as ridiculous as Lincoln was as an axe-wielding zombie hunter, but it�...

2024-11-25 07:47:41

nice. i had a copy from archive dot org already, but this looks like much better quality. ps: the movie itself is okay. I'm not so much interested in it as entertainment as for a historical artifact of 80s Cold War culture - like The Day Afte...

2024-11-25 04:40:18

@1652 - I'd assumed he was praising this for not being a sequel. Maybe he thinks it's a prequel to Juror 8, which was loosely inspired by a 2008 trial in Taegu, but mostly an adaptation of the classic 12 Angry Men... I still cannot find th...

2024-11-11 05:50:10

John Woo's on first? Woos on second. Third base!

2024-08-26 10:01:50

@3449 - You introduced the question of being white, not Brrzrrkrr. It's a fact that casting men as soldiers and killers makes for greater realism because a woman who consistently and easily defeats trained men in hand to hand combat is as reali...

2024-08-26 10:00:39

darn. i wanted better.. than ezra! :_:D

2024-07-21 18:39:37

1130, you realize you're the only troll in this thread.

2024-07-21 17:23:47

@knotgain - I'm not sure if that is supposed to be an insult, but it seems like a compliment - who doesn't like Statler and Waldorf?

2024-06-17 01:07:29

@4229 - sorry, but she's wrong and so are you. you're both complaining that the car is broken because half the wheels are missing but it's a motorcycle. this is not a scientific research paper. there's no reason to say it is exce...

2024-06-17 00:20:44

@LL Almost a lie? He's right. You're imposing inappropriate standards to empower yourself to determine what is/isn't acceptable. I'm skeptical you read the book despite its brevity. If you had you couldn't think it's a r...

2024-06-16 23:58:03

@9062 - You're using the pandemic to argue peer review is NOT discredited? Bold. How did the system perform when scientific questions became politically charged? The accredited 'peers' got a mob mentality and engaged in gatekeeping bas...

2024-06-16 21:51:35

@LL - You insist on evidence & peer-reviewed sourcing for claims as if all claims being argued are empirical (most disputes you engage in aren't) and despite the fact that for the subset of claims where peer review is potentially valuable, i...

2024-06-16 21:30:15

that is my feeling too. it eems like this would have worked better as a cartoon.

2024-06-13 14:04:32

i remember that there was a film that was supposed to compete with top gun maverick and potentially even stimulate plaaf recruitment (like the orig did for the navy back in the 80s), but early reports were that a head to head comparison would just en...

2024-06-13 13:50:00

@Markajv - re: "Irony at it's finest." - Is it? I don't see irony in rendering judgment when flouting copyright law. Disapproval of the law is a judgment. I think that 'irony' applies better to trying to ban language bec...

2024-06-08 22:29:17

@Markajv - re: "like the "N" word... offensive to use someone's sexual identity as a slur." - That's absurd. Forums can ban calling people actual slurs. The description was about a movie not a person and gay isn't a...

2024-06-08 22:19:34

interesting - i didn't make that connection. this poster reminds me of blair witch. i will say, however, that silence of the lambs has one of my favorite posters. it rewards you for looking closely with the dali hommage.

2024-06-08 12:16:42

also, the generalized advocacy of diversity is incoherent and a misread of roddenberry. his point was that more variety in our perspectives and in our ideas will improve society, but superficial forms of diversity have no inherent value and matter on...

2024-06-08 10:44:08

@ LiberalLesbo - So, are you saying the "nonsensical allegation" is Brrzrrkrr's characterization of DEI policies or the suggestion that some Star Trek has featured DEI policies 'in universe' (as opposed to real world promotio...

2024-06-08 10:28:39

true, and the consequence is either going to be more guest commenting and less comments from accounts, or people just giving up on comments as a big waste of time.

2024-05-22 17:33:11

Is this film showing up in the "Hot Picks" category just because people are arguing in the comments? My initial assumption was that being 'hot' would be determined by downloads, but the relatively small seeding number makes me do...

2024-05-22 17:28:17

@FurrowedBrow - Ironically, there are some genuine efforts to wipe out gay people, but the tendency is to prioritize cultures where there's tolerance and complain it's insufficient. Supposedly "acceptance" is needed, and what that...

2024-05-22 17:09:48

@LiberalLesbo - you dislike the idea, but it's not asinine, misinformed or incorrect. pretending to fight for people to be able to exist is absurd. the cultural conflict is actually about how people are perceived. there's a deserved backlas...

2024-05-22 16:42:06

do you know why this is being considered a reboot and not just a continuation with a new lead actor?

2024-05-22 12:45:22

@1361 - beginning to hint at something in the last fourth of a long running series is hardly the same as something that's been true "since like forever"

2024-05-22 12:39:41

@sparkley - is it crazy to think that social contagion can be at work in the increasing rates of self-indentification as gay? you can agree with the view or you can disagree with it, but merely rejecting it out of hand as something that's just c...

2024-05-22 12:19:12

@moxie - you're merely assuming "LGBTQ+" is a status that's 1 of 2 binary options: something you're 'born as' or 'not born as,' but it's too broad a category. there's no consensus on either "...

2024-05-22 12:09:51

Directed by Caitlyn - daughter of David and sister of Brandon. Looks a mite wacky but I will give it a watch.

2024-05-20 22:08:19

fwiw - there's an H in the word ''whinging.'' unless you're trying to talk about improvising? (winging it)

2024-05-20 21:53:09

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COMMENT: re: ''making this discourse up as you go along'' - seriously? ironic given that you routinely attempt to unilaterally impose standards on debate which are completely to the nature of the discourse, and use your standard as a basis to claim victory. I assume most people see through it, but I guess it works on 1976.

2024-06-13 15:06:49

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@Markajv - re: "like the "N" word... offensive to use someone's sexual identity as a slur." - That's absurd. Forums can ban calling people actual slurs. The description was about a movie not a person and gay isn't a slur. Having negative connotations isn't the same thing. Causing offense isn't either.

2024-06-08 23:02:17

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COMMENT: @Markajv - re: "like the "N" word... offensive to use someone's sexual identity as a slur." - That's absurd. Forums can ban calling people actual slurs. The description was about a movie not a person and gay isn't a slur. Having negative connotations isn't the same thing. Causing offense isn't either.

2024-06-08 22:32:20

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2024-05-20 21:26:48

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re: ''DEI... There wasn't a single gay character'' - DEI ≠ LGBT; presumably the comment was suggesting that the vfx were given an award because then the winners would be more ''diverse'' in terms of race. I've no idea if there's merit to the claim. I'm skeptical bc the tech awards aren't coming from general membership

2024-04-04 11:52:00

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2024-04-04 09:23:57

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