barneypiccolo
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- Comment on ‘Mythic Quest’ Canceled After Four Seasons, Apple TV+ to Air Updated Finale Episode With New Ending 20 hours ago:
I agree. It started strong, but slipped steadily after the first season. It was great while it lasted. Not every show can be 6 seasons and a movie.
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 21 hours ago:
I really think Tom Cruise is a weird and creepy guy, but i can’t help it, his movies are nearly always great. I’ll watch anything he does, and at least 9 times out of 10, I’m blown away.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 22 hours ago:
I watched it multiple times because in a democratic household, I occasionally lose the vote for what we watch, and in the interest of family unity, i accept my fate.
I don’t think you know what condescension is. I am not trying to show my superiority in undetstanding art, i would like people who are afraid of art because of the sense of being judged to ignore the snooty gatekeepers, and learn how wonderful it is - while not dumbing it down at the same time.
Over my lifetime, i have helped many people learn to see art without fear of humiliation. I didn’t do that by being condescending and pretentious, and insisting they see art my a specific way. I did it by being welcoming and encouraging them to embrace their own opinions as valid, and not tell them that they have “a strange view of films.” That’s gate-keeping behavior, and i always push back against it. That doesn’t make me condescending, just the opposite.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 22 hours ago:
Being dismissive of my contradictory opinion, and characterizing the way i view films in general as “strange,” just because i dont see them the same as you, is pretentious. I noticed you didnt question the word “condescension” though.
I was asked to defend my opinion of a specific film, and i did, and was called “strange” for it. I didn’t knock anyone else for having an alternative opinion, they are perfectly entitled to it.
Pretention/ condescension is a common occurence in films, and all other art forms. My son, a very knowledgable cinephile, is guilty of it all the time, and i call him out on it regularly (he LOVES Phantom Thread). I have a degree in music history, and have fought against pretention/ condescension in the classical music world as well, where it is rampant. I think non-classical music should be held to the same standards as classical music, and embraced by the classical community when it succeeds. Progress has been made in the last 50-60 years, with acceptance of jazz and Broadway composition, but still has a long way to go for rock and pop music.
I dont like snootiness in any form. One the reasons i appreciate artist Roy Lichtenstein so much is because he elevated the use of comic book art techniques to be “high art.”
I’m old now, but when i was young, i deliberately made the decision to not be dogmatic about art, and support democratizing it for everyone without compromising the quality. The main thing that keeps most people from exploring higher forms of art, is the chance that their perfectly valid opinion on something will be criticized by some pretentious gatekeeper, and make them feel humiliated.
Eh, maybe you’re right, maybe the way I view the entire art world is strange. If it is, I find it liberating. More people should try it.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 23 hours ago:
Its not how i “view films,” it’s how i view THAT film. I am under no obligation to view films in the same way you, or anyone else does. I am allowed to have my own opinion about them, without seeking anyone else’s approval.
Take your pretentious condescension some where else.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 23 hours ago:
And everybody knows that going for the safe bet is the sure-fire formula for a classic that will return profits to the studio for decades.
- Comment on Warner Bros. Confirms New 'Gremlins' Movie and 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' Sequel 23 hours ago:
For our next question: Why is nobody going to the movies any more?
- Comment on If the USA and China goes to war, how likely will Chinese-Americans end up in "internment camps" like what happened to Japanese-Americans during WW2? 23 hours ago:
Ive been warning my family and friends that at my age, I’ve got nothing to lose, and if the government were to do something to my son (who fits a few vulnerable groups), i would become a very dangerous man. And my danger wouldn’t be random, or aimed at innocent civilians, it would be tightly targeted.
- Comment on Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? 23 hours ago:
Because the people who own the company are buttholes.
- Comment on If the USA and China goes to war, how likely will Chinese-Americans end up in "internment camps" like what happened to Japanese-Americans during WW2? 1 day ago:
You want to talk about concentration camps? We’re already expanding our own Black Site.
America has the highest incarceration rate in the world. The average maximum security prison holds 800-1200 prisoners. The largest, Angola, LA, holds over 8000.
Our most famous black site, Guantanamo Bay, located in CUBA (WTF?), currently holds about 120. They are now building a facility there, that will hold 30,000 prisoners. That’s nearly 4 times our largest prison, which is already about 8 times larger than average.
The question is: Who do they intend to put in that new facility, which is far from any oversight by the media or the courts. It’s in fucking Cuba, which is controlled by…well, you get it.
I was a victim of the recent Reddit bloodbath, with a 12 year/ 900K+ karma account. Clearly, they reviewed my high-volume posting account, and they know how I feel about them, and the punishments they have earned. I expect that at some point, there is a pretty good chance I’ll be getting a free vacation to Cuba.
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 1 day ago:
My theory is that the Mission Impssible franchise is about to wrap, and Tom Cruise is going to calm down on the stunt work, now that hes getting older. I cant blame him for that.
So they can’t count on him to continue doing big stunts in the future, so they better give it to him now. So he’ll be nominated for the final MI movie, and it will win.
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 1 day ago:
Being on fire isn’t even a top tier stunt any more. I’ve seen amateur student films with people on fire.
- Comment on The Academy officially announces new Oscar category for stunts 1 day ago:
This has always been the argument against having an oscar forbstunts, butbuts hard ti imaginebthat stunts could get much dangerous that they already are.
Most stunt pros want to protect themselves from death even more than their defenders. They plan these stunts extensively and train hard for them. They do their best to leave nothing to chance. Yet they still take it to the edge, often, and they’ve been doing it since the beginning of film. Its highly doubtful they could even get more dangerous that those old Buster Keaton stunts, or the car chase scene in Death Proof, or many of Tom Cruise’s stunts in the Mission Impossible franchise.
Getting killed or maimed is not likely to get you the Oscar, so I dont think its a valid reason to not have a category for Stunts.
- Comment on The one good thing about all this 2 days ago:
My worst case scenario is that HitlerPig keaves NATO, and joins an alliance with Russia, China, North Korea, etc.
As a show of good faith to his new “friends,” he will give Alaska back to Russia, and Taiwan back to China. He will claim it’s a good deal, because they gave him Canada and Geeenland, even though those countries aren’t theirs to give.
He’ll act like the lonely rich kid, bribing the cool kids to let him hang with them, but they’ll just use him for what they can get from him, and hate him all the same.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 2 days ago:
Easily John Lithgow’s most unhinged performance: “Laugh while you can Monkey Boy!”
If I ever meet him, I’m going to remind him of that role.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 days ago:
C’mon, there are a million movies about every other element of the movie - the successful man falling in love with a beautiful young woman, the jealous confidant/ family member who gets in the way, trying to warm up a cold personality, May/ December romance, etc.
The REAL element that separates it from every other fish-out-of-water romance, is the Poison aspect. That’s what makes the movie unique, so focusing on it isn’t reductive at all. In fact, ignoring that as a prime element is disengenuous. Perhaps it is a twist that shouldn’t be revealed in advance, but it is a major part of the plot from fairly early in the film, so I would say the real twist comes at the end.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 2 days ago:
Multiple times. It has not grown on me.
- Comment on What’s your favorite “flop” of all time? 2 days ago:
There have been a lot over the years, like Buckaroo Banzai, but my latest one was Babylon. A complete stiff in theaters, but I think its brilliant.
Was Nic Cage’s Pig considered a flop? That was another truly great movie that few people saw. When he did his terrific AMA on Reddit (one of the best I’ve ever seen), he said Pig was one of his acting performances that he’s most proud of. It barely got any attention, and no Oscar noms, but he fully deserved the Oscar for that one.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 3 days ago:
Anyone who thinks gay is a choice is gay, because they felt gay, and made the choice to live straight, and they assume that all straight people made the same choice. They don’t understand that real straight people always felt straight, and never made a choice, it was just who they are.
- Comment on I had no idea y cunt was this powerful 3 days ago:
“I’m not gay, I’m an Alpha Male.”
- Comment on What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? 3 days ago:
I could have written your post word for word. That first season of Discovery with that crazy Klingon bullshit was so fucking ponderous. I never was a big fan of Klingons, and always felt they leaned a bit too heavy on them, but this was next level terrible. I forced myself through the first 2 seasons, and bailed a couple of episodes into the 3rd, and never looked back. Truly awful and boring.
I’m on the fence with Picard, but I have no desire to ever watch it again. It’s not among their best, coming in somewhere below Enterprise, and above Discovery.
Strange New Worlds is the real deal. Among the best of them all, like DS9 and NG great. I even love Voyager. SNW deserves to be in their company.
- Comment on What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? 3 days ago:
I don’t follow anime at all, but I loved the live action One Piece.
- Comment on What TV show were you highly excited for, but ended up quickly disappointing you? 3 days ago:
Under The Dome.
It was an epic Stephen King novel, with a great story line, and a huge cast of interesting characters, including Big Jim Rennie, one of his best villains. King’s output is notoriously inconsistent, but occasionally he is really great, and this was one of those times.
I was so excited that they were bringing it out as a series, since it could never be captured in a single movie, or even a trilogy. Then they announced that Big Jim would be played by Dean Norris (Hank Schrader from Breaking Bad), which was PERFECT casting.
The show started well, with the dropping of The Dome rendered perfectly. Then it went off the rails so quickly that by the third episode, I was enormously pissed off. They i troduced weird new supernatural elements. I assume they were supernatural, because I stopped watching. The story was good enough, they didn’t need some hack network writer “fixing” it.
A huge lost opportunity. I hope someone takes another swing at it someday.
- Comment on Is this picture idea immature? 3 days ago:
You only need to find one girl. Show this picture around, and most of them will skip out. Then you can focus on the ones that get your sense of humor.
Then you only have to filter for the ones that don’t mind that you have a tiny dick.
- Comment on Movie Theaters Post Warnings Against Crazy ‘Minecraft Movie’ Screenings: ‘Screaming’ and ‘Taking Part in TikTok Trends Will Not Be Tolerated’ 3 days ago:
Better yet, bootleg it, and keep their corporate profit in your own pocket.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 3 days ago:
Yeah, as if he thinks the rules apply to him, even the Constitution. Even if he were to somehow lose a heavily-rigged election, he would just pull a Maduro, and simply refuse to leave the White House. It’s doubtful that anyone would do anything like physically drag him out of the White House. He would just stay there as the Dems dragged it through the courts, and then he would ignore whatever unfavorable decisions the courts make, and the Republicans in Congress would go along with it.
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 4 days ago:
2.5 years assumes there will be an election at all, or a fair one. They rigged the last one, they will definitely rig the next one.
But I don’t think he’ll take the chance. He was heavily hated in 2020, and if anything, he is already hated even more. The mid-terms are shaping up to be a blood bath. He can’t afford to lose his congressional majorities in either house, and have Dems take over even one of them, or they’ll control investigative committees with subpoena and arrest power. And this time they will be much more heavily motivated to be aggressive. Americans wanted bold action from Biden, and they didn’t get it, which kept the 2024 race close enough to steal. I just saw Adam Schiff in an interview, and he indicated that the Dems recognize that they didn’t act “boldly” enough, and they suffered at the polls for it. It sounds like they may have learned their lesson.
So he will create a situation in which he can declare Martial Law and suspend elections, and he’ll do it before the mid-terms. My prediction is that it will happen next year, in late-summer/ early fall, after a Hellish summer of violent protests around the country, that he will instigate. He will time his announcement close enough to election day that there won’t be time to get it through the courts, and we will skip a mid-term election for the first time on history.
Dems will scream, but they never actually DO anything, so that will soften up the citizens to accept it when he skips the presidential election, too. Then he doesn’t have to justify why he deserves a third term, his second term will just never end.
He may even start a war (you know he’s itching to do that) to justify keeping Martial Law, and claim he’s only doing what FDR did, and not leaving while a war is going on. That’s not what happened, FDR was fairly elected 4 times, but that’s the excuse he’ll use, and the MAGA Nazis will accept it.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 days ago:
I find the basic premise to be too implausible to be entertaining.
- Comment on ooo.ooo 4 days ago:
Only the good die young.
- Comment on Which actor did not have a single bad film? 4 days ago:
A love story about poisoning?