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I was fine with the runtime; wouldn’t have carted if it had gone on longer. It wasn’t about the plot, it was a portrait of a time and place. A mythological 70s Hollywood that was innocent and beautiful. With the ending and corruption of it all ever edging closer; a feeling of dread for what we know is coming.
Except that Hollywood was never innocent and beautiful. So it’s mythologizing a place that never existed (and treats the only POC in the film as an arrogant idiot who a aging white stuntman can go toe to toe with in a fight) and does away with any dread by reducing the threat to that mythology into a bunch of bumbling losers.
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A few hundred people is still a lot when you’re not supposed to be in groups larger than 5 though.
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I like the idea that Merkel is an immortal who has ruled Germany from the shadows for 200 years.
even from 1939 to 1945?
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At least he’ll have died doing what he loved.
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WE HAVE TO GET FUCKING EXCITED NOW, MAN!!!
QUICK! Grab a random female’s hair and smell it! There’s no time to lose!
or man’s. Biden doesn’t discriminate with that kind of thing.
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Just from logistics and likely restrictions in place in November, assuming the election isn’t postponed entirely, I can’t believe that voter turnout will be very high. I have to think that will hurt democrats more than republicans, but Trump’s victory had an unusually high voter turnout in the swing states so maybe it won’t be such a big deal.
the election can’t be posted. It’s literally written into the constitution when it must be held. It was held during three major wars and was deemed unconstitutional when Lincoln tried to postpone it during the civil war. Trump can’t continue his presidency past 1/20/21 if he isn’t re-elected.
He’s also said he was considering a Republican, so you know if he’s not stupid enough to pick Hilary Clinton he will be stupid enough to pick Sarah Palin.
That was him just trying to seem to be a peacemaker and really exemplifies how little some people know about the rules of American politics.
Biden can’t pick a Republican running mate. Period. It’s not allowed. Anyone who remembers the 2004 election knows this because Kerry floated picking McCain as his running mate was told definitively that cross party tickets weren’t allowed.
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Bernie Sanders is dropping out.
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Well I bring Civil War up because they’re very similar movies, in a lot of regards, and they came out months appart, so… I think it’s a good comparaison to show what I truly believe is a case of double standards in regards to some movies and creators.
Knowing full well that we won’t ever reach a concensus, I’ll still say that, while not presented perfectly, the plot of BvS does make sense. Everything IS justified within the story (except one could argue the Knightmare sequence, but that’s a particular case, since that was literally setup for a future movie that never happened and maaaaaaybe Lex’s decision to create Doomsday, that was a bit illogical, I’ll admit).
People say Batman and Superman act like idiots, and sure there’s some truth to it, but it’s actually justified by the plot. You might not agree with the decisions or the direction of the story or the characters or whatever else, but it’s coherent at least: Lex had a plan, he executed it masterfully and pitted them against each other, he played them both. It’s concise from A to B to C, etc…
I know you don’t like the comparaison, but I kinda need to use it just exemplify an actual case of non-sensical storytelling. I’ll just use one exemple: Tony Stark’s whole side of the argument relies on him regretting his past decisions and supposedly growing up and taking responsability… yet, he still goes to recruit and ARM a minor with ZERO experience to go and destroy some public property on another country while totally putting his life at risk. That’s completely contradictory and non-sensical in regards to what his character’s arc is supposed to be in the movie, it’s like an 180 degree out of absolutely nowhere… it was clearly done just to have Spider-man in the movie, so basically it was done just because “it’d look cool” which is what people accuse Snyder of.
And in regards to what Rory said, yes I do realise that Zemo took advantage of the “civil war” between the heroes, but the problem is: that doesn’t justify the rest of his “plan” (if we can even call it that) and how it was built around convenience. There was no logic or coherence behind it, things just happened to go his way because that’s what the plot needed to happen. That’s literal bad writing.
BvS is full of people making very dumb choices and mistakes that have nothing to do with Luther’s actions. As long as you’re willing to accept that none of the people in the movie are smart then it works fine. (Like why would anyone think that Superman shot a village full of people or how has Clark never seen a photograph of Bruce Wayne, the famous million in the neighboring city, before?)
Zemo’s plan is incredibly straightforward. The Civil War actually gets in the way of it more often than it helps him. He spent his time beforehand studying the avengers In detail. He frames Bucky so that he’ll be arrested (he knows Cap will make sure he’s brought in alive). He kills the interrogator so he can impersonate him and use Bucky’s programming to find the location of the Siberian base. He then reveals his subterfuge so that the avengers will follow him there so he can show Ironman what Bucky did (he knows how Tony and Cap will react). That’s the entire plan. The rest is complications caused by the civil war.
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This is a pretty good explanation of why comparisons to seasonal flu are incorrect:
I wonder how they know so confidently that it has an infection rate of 2-2.5? Considering that the rate of spread in each country is actually unknown: nobody is testing with any consistent methodology, there isn’t a single country (even South Korea) that has tested every single person, apparently there are huge numbers of asymptomatic carriers (they think, they’re not actually testing enough to know this), this disease is brand new so there is no historical data, and there are absolutely zero controlled tests for obvious reasons. They have a lot of wildly varying guesses as to the number of infections, and from that data they’ve fairly reliably calculated how infectious it is? Is this maths or wizardry?
Or it’s a conservative estimate based on the internationally collected data. The fact of the matter asymptomatic cases are only going to drive that number up, which lessens further the comparison to the flu (which is the point of the video).
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but problematic when you’re expecting a story that is supposed to make sense.
BvS makes perfect sense (except for maybe a couple of things at most). Now, Civil War’story on the other hand is very much a mess… yet you don’t hear people shitting as much on that movie…
BvS makes sense if you accept all the characters are idiots.
I keep seeing people say Civil War doesn’t make sense but I’ve seen it multiple times and it’s pretty straightforward once you realize Zemo’s plan and the civil war are two separate elements. They’re not connected though Zemo takes advantage of it at points.
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Christopher Meloni As ‘SVU’ Character Elliot Stabler To Headline New Dick Wolf Drama Series For NBC
A beloved TV character is coming back. NBC has given a 13-episode series order to a new Dick Wolf crime drama series starring Christopher Meloni reprising his Law & Order: SVU role as Elliot Stabler.
The SVU spinoff drama, which marks the actor’s return to Wolf World, revolves around the NYPD organized crime unit led by Stabler. It is the first show to come out of the massive new five-year, nine-figure, multi-platform deal Wolf signed with Universal Television last month, which includes multiple series commitments.
The new series, which could be branded as part of the Law & Order franchise, is executive produced by Wolf, Arthur W. Forney and Peter Jankowski for Wolf Entertainment and Universal TV, a division of NBCUniversal Content Studios. I hear former Chicago P.D. showrunner Matt Olmstead is being eyed as writer-showrunner.
Like Law & Order: SVU, headlined by Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson, the new drama is set in New York, allowing for potential seamless crossovers with SVU and for Benson-Stabler reunions.
With their undeniable onscreen chemistry and great rapport on and off the set, Hargitay and Meloni were one of television’s most popular duos for more than a decade.
Meloni was the male lead opposite Hargitay for SVU‘s first 12 seasons, with their characters both partners and best friends. Stabler is an Irish American who, during the time he was featured on SVU, was married (his wife Kathy was played by Isabel Gillies) with five children. The role earned Meloni a lead actor in a drama series Emmy nomination in 2006.
Following Meloni’s exit after Season 12, his character was written off, with Stabler abruptly retiring from the police force.
Since departing SVU in 2011, Meloni headlined the Syfy series Happy! and Fox comedy series Surviving Jack, starred on the praised WGN America series Underground and did memorable arcs on True Blood and The Handmaid’s Tale.
2020 NBC Pilots & Series Orders
During his almost nine years away from SVU, Meloni remained close with Hargitay and the Wolf family. In January, the former co-stars appeared together, alongside Wolf, in The Paley Center Salutes Law & Order: SVU special on NBC. It was around that time that I first heard chatter of a potential new Wolf series with Meloni. Formal conversations started soon thereafter.
Meloni is repped by Gersh and Industry Entertainment.
On NBC, the new series will join the four existing Dick Wolf series, SVU and the three Chicago dramas, all of which received massive three-year renewals last month as part of Wolf’s new pact. The network also has been developing a Law & Order: Hate Crimes offshoot series.
can you rejoin the police force after retiring?
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Weird that my autocorrect didn’t fix that one when it changes so many other correct words.
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The first two seasons were decent if clearly low budget syndicated sci-fi. Nothing spectacular but entertaining enough. Once Wolff was forced out and Sorbo started exerting more and more control it went epically off the rails.
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I mean Andromeda did start out as a pitch for a new Star Trek series that Berman turned down.
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I’m not going to argue, as I’m not sure I understand his idea myself; it has a lot to do with statistics, which I’m not good at, so I may have misstated his position because I don’t understand it, but I know there’s a way he’s suggesting applying it to America. That is, I’m not an epidemiologist or an expert in statistics, and even if there was one here, their statement would be meaningless unless they have Dr Ferguson’s work; we shouldn’t ask questions on people who are much better qualified than us. I’m just talking about his conclusion, but I’m not touching how that works; it’s not my place or yours.
No one is talking about how the model is built. We’re talking about how all you have to do is pay attention to understand that things are going to continue to get worse here before the get better. So no, Trump isn’t right, even in a broken clock way.
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Did anyone else see the ad for Discovery s3 right before this episode. I wouldn’t call it a promo because it was a song image but it had a very strong Andromeda vibe to it.
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Actually, Trump may be right. Not based on knowledge, but, you know, a broken watch is right twice a day. Dr Fauci was following a certain model of the virus’s spread, but his equivalent in the UK, Dr Ferguson, who was a major proponent of that model in the UK, has redone his analysis, and is now more optimistic about the UK, and says that it’s highly probabl that the analysis has to be redone in America, too.
You clearly haven’t been paying attention then. We now have the most cases in the world and an escalating death rate. We are currently far exceeding all of the models for us.
His new model basically means that we shouldn’t consider all American cases and deaths as a unit, but as multiple outbreaks of the same pandemic, that happen to take place in one nation. Thus, we should analyze each local outbreak as he’s analyzing the British outbreak.
that’s still meaningless. NY alone has more cases than England and most others don’t have high numbers because they haven’t ramped up testing yet.
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Actually, Trump may be right. Not based on knowledge, but, you know, a broken watch is right twice a day. Dr Fauci was following a certain model of the virus’s spread, but his equivalent in the UK, Dr Ferguson, who was a major proponent of that model in the UK, has redone his analysis, and is now more optimistic about the UK, and says that it’s highly probabl that the analysis has to be redone in America, too.
You clearly haven’t been paying attention then. We now have the most cases in the world and an escalating death rate. We are currently far exceeding all of the models for us.
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At this point I honestly think there’s a good chance the elections will be cancelled. How the hell can you do a campaign when people are supposed to be quarantined?
elections can’t be canceled. They can be delayed but if there hasn’t been one by 1/20 then the president and VP are out of office and the leader of the house takes over until the election takes place.
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What the hell is Justice League Mortal?
Jon, thanks I really needed to read another article about someone who hasn’t actually seen the cut but totally knows someone who has who swears it’s great. Totally convinced now.
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The GameStop in my neighborhood was forcibly closed by the police yesterday because management was requiring employees to continue working.
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It looks like a good movie.
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He was much more of a tinker.
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Again I feel like the show adequately rationalized this. They’re not interested in individual androids. Their concern is an Android race reaching a certain level. The Romulans infiltrated star fleet when Soon started building androids but it wasn’t until the federation started mass producing them that they acted.
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Oh, and by the way, speaking of the Borg – I wonder what it is those artificial intelligence are supposedly going to do that is so much worse than what the Borg are doing. I mean, annihilating and assimiliation whole civilisations and spreading that machine virus everywhere seems as bad as it can get. What can possibly be in that vision that’s so much worse? If it’s just androids killing a lot of people I’ll be disppointed.
the impression I got was that the threat isn’t the android but something else that shows up and annihilates all life in the universe when androids reach a certain level. It’s basically the reapers from mass effect.
The Romulans keep it secret because that’s what Romulans do. This series has stressed over and over that keeping secrets is an essential part of Romulan culture/identity.
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Woh man.
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Cam girls are apparently making bank because of all this.
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This was a very bad night for Sanders. He’s done. He’ll stay in and fight because of course he will but his chance at winning the nomination just became a long shot.
And for the record, no, I am not a moderate. Like Tim my choice of candidate was Warren. I’m not impressed by Sanders, particularly because he’s not talking about how he’s going to keep any of the promises he’s making. If he wants my support he needs to explain how he’s going to deliver and he’s not.
Bernie bro’s are very real and operate in a way that other politicians supporters don’t. Sanders campaign is actively courting them too by having Sanders reps appear on chapo.
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I doubt that plan would have worked honestly. Infinity War worked because we had seen those characters overcome impossible odds for over a decade and were deeply invested in them. No one would really care if it happened in the same movie that introduced those characters. The attachment to them would be entirely surface level.
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Biden doesn’t need help shoring up the black vote. He’s winning currently because of the black vote. (In S.C. he got close to 99% of it I believe) He needs help shoring up the youth and progressive vote.
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The horny part.
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So did I!
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No it wasn’t implied he was a clone. It was stated that Snoke was a clone. The clear implication was that this was the same Palpotine from RotJ (he had battle damage and was hooked up to life support systems).
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Checking to see if my theory is accurate.
Yes it is. Carry on.
what was your theory?
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I wasn’t as crazy about the CGI bees
To be fair, I think the bees weren’t all that great in the original, either?
what do you mean? The bees in the original were real. Tony Todd made an extra $20,000 because of being stung.
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That’s not how it works.
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