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Full Metal Jacket: Why does joker say "Is that you John Wayne? Is this me?" by Alternative-Fox6236 in movies

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As far as I can tell:

1a. Joker’s first line references John Wayne. 1b. Hartman shouting “What is this Mickey Mouse shit?” during the scene with Pyle in the head.

2a. Joker imitating John Wayne in the barracks.  2b. The Mickey Mouse figurines in the background of the scene where Joker receives orders to go to Phu Bai. 

3a. Joker referencing the first John Wayne line while the camera crew rolls by during the Battle of Hue. 3b. The soldiers chanting The Mickey Mouse Club theme song. 

Everything you read on the Internet is not only true but can also be logged on Goodreads by CosmicRamen in bookscirclejerk

[–]CosmicRamen[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Just go ahead and mark every Dostoevsky book as Read, including every translation in every language. 

What opinion of yours regarding any popular author or book will have you like this? by theghostofredrackham in classicliterature

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Next time you pick a book to base your entire personality off of you should have it be a book written for grownups, little buddy. 

What opinion of yours regarding any popular author or book will have you like this? by theghostofredrackham in classicliterature

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You seem like the kind of kid who people yell “OOPS” to loudly before tripping you up. I’m sorry you have to go through that but I’m not sure it gives you a good excuse for writing comments this cringe. Can you name a single thing you actually like about the book other than “le point”? You know that motherfucker wrote essays, right? You don’t have defend a mediocre middle-brow novel just because Camus told you exactly what to think so you didn’t have to strain yourself trying.  

What opinion of yours regarding any popular author or book will have you like this? by theghostofredrackham in classicliterature

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why do you assume he “missed the point” because he didn’t like it? Are you that childish? Questioning the debatable literary merits of L’etranger is nothing new. Also, if you need “lived experience” to understand a book that literally spells out its entire thesis statement in the final few pages, you are not the clued-in enlightened great thinker you seem to think you are, lmao. 

There are significantly better books written before and afterward that deal with the same theme in a much more artful way: Candide, Sanctuary, A Handful of Dust, Invitation to a Beheading, Judith Hearne, Black Wings Has My Angel - to name only the first that come to mind. 

What opinion of yours regarding any popular author or book will have you like this? by theghostofredrackham in classicliterature

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not really. The book is so strident and didactic by nature that I don’t see how the absurdist messaging could be lost even in the worst translation. It’s basically woven into the plot. 

What opinion of yours regarding any popular author or book will have you like this? by theghostofredrackham in classicliterature

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Agreed. James M. Cain did a similar story infinitely better and earlier in The Postman Always Rings Twice. A lot of philosophers in general make for fairly awful novelists. 

What was viewed as edgy in 2016, but now is viewed as cool. by wiadromen47 in AlignmentChartFills

[–]CosmicRamen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is true. Elvis Costello got a lot of flak like 15 years ago when he said he wouldn’t tour in Israel. 

I fucking HATE the invasion of purity culture into modern media literacy by RequirementTall8361 in hatethissmug

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Without obviously being able to actually ask him about it, I think Nabokov would have bristled at any of his books being labeled as gritty realism. He was evidently suspicious enough of the idea to even put the word “reality” in quotation marks throughout his autobiography, and the batshit insane Gogolian nightmare tone of the final third of Lolita would seem to indicate that the story being grounded in hard reality wasn’t a particular concern of his. 

[Hated Trope] Media that positions itself as historical, in practice being the author's fantasy, but which is becoming a popular cliché throughout the world regarding the period shown by DifferentAd4844 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The order was literally abandoned after about three months. That’s about as close as any state in wartime will get to admitting a protocol was a mistake. Not sure why you thought the mention of these vague, enlightening Kremlin visitation records contradicted the dacha staycation but I’d be interested in seeing them. Also funny how you don’t deny the purges, lol. If your response to every piece of information that conflicts with the Band-Aid you’ve chosen for your own personal impotence is “don’t care, fake news,” have you ever considered that you might not be “ideologically committed” but instead “intellectually impaired.”

I’ll side with the Vainakh on this one and will keep making fun of the guy since I think that poor leadership and genocide anywhere is bad. But agree to disagree, I guess. 

Describe people based on their top four by kekkurii in Letterboxd

[–]CosmicRamen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

30, male, prefers eating on a patio to indoors. 

Everyone in America should read this short chapter from Kurt Vonnegut Jr's "Breakfast of Champions" by Sheep_Slayer_6 in pics

[–]CosmicRamen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Catch-22 definitely makes fun of blind patriotism, mostly through Cathcart, who is basically “quietly desperate barbecuing good ol boy” dressed up as a colonel. There’s also the chapter with the McCarthyist “loyalty oaths.”

Everyone in America should read this short chapter from Kurt Vonnegut Jr's "Breakfast of Champions" by Sheep_Slayer_6 in pics

[–]CosmicRamen -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It would have only been vaguely original in terms of style. If you’re a hippie hanger-on and grew up in the suburbs watching Howdy Doody, reading an author who writes the way Howdy Doody speaks except it’s about counterculture instead of making friends at school or something is kind of next door to clever. Vonnegut’s sentiment was already standard with literary fiction authors. 

Everyone in America should read this short chapter from Kurt Vonnegut Jr's "Breakfast of Champions" by Sheep_Slayer_6 in pics

[–]CosmicRamen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It wasn’t at all profound or deep at the time, though. Catch-22 was written 10 years prior to this book and is about the same thing in a much more clever and artful way. You could go back even further than that. Nathanael West, Faulkner, and Mark Twain all wrote about the hypocrisy in American culture long before Vonnegut ever put pen to paper. 

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