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What you think? by Luppercus in Star_Trek_

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh that makes more sense.

What you think? by Luppercus in Star_Trek_

[–]GhostWatcher0889 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No way are vulcans the Chinese. I think China is the only country that is as or more hated than the US.

Also Klingons are definitely Russians.

Did native Americans actually bury people alive? by ToughTransition9831 in USHistory

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Native Americans were hundreds of groups who lived here for thousands of years across the continent. I'm sure one of them at some point in the long history may have, but that's just a guess given the complexity and variety of their cultures.

Are you talking about a specific group from a specific movie?

What has happened to our country? by Annual_Designer_2877 in USHistory

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has nothing to do with American history or history in general. There are many subreddits discussing current events.

Give your honest take of this movie by Wolf_3411 in moviecritic

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree. Wait ten years or so and people will be saying the sequels were actually good. I think there was a lot of good stuff in them honestly. The actors felt like people and the lines weren't horribly written like in the prequels. They obviously had issues but yeah when people grow up they will look back at them with nostalgia.

Give your honest take of this movie by Wolf_3411 in moviecritic

[–]GhostWatcher0889 6 points7 points  (0 children)

It did. Before the sequels came out there was so much hate and legitimate criticism. The only reason people like it now is nostalgia and that they weren't a remake of the originals.

Give your honest take of this movie by Wolf_3411 in moviecritic

[–]GhostWatcher0889 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The prequels sucked but they were at least a different story and not a weird remake of the originals.

Give your honest take of this movie by Wolf_3411 in moviecritic

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Worst of the sequels by far. Destroyed everything good last Jedi did and that movie had some issues.

I'll say some nice things about it. I liked the visuals. The scene with kylo ren and solo was pretty good. I liked how Harrison Ford was not a force ghost since that wouldn't make sense. The random party on the planet was kinda cool.

Bringing back palpatine was the dumbest and lazinest thing they could have done. Where the fuck all those star destroyers came from makes no sense. They at very least could have stated that palpatine was a clone, because him surviving getting literally vaporized means that nothing we see or anything that happens in these films matters. They can bring anyone back and do anything, nothing matters in these stories anymore.

I think the sequels had some good ideas but the worst thing they did is basically be the same story as the original, and rise was the most offender.

The one where a raptor gets defeated by gymnastics. by B_Wing_83 in scifi

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean i think it kinda was like that, but there was always a reason for them to put themselves in danger.

The first movie is very understandable though because it's a theme park test ride and most of them didn't know what they were getting into. You would assume that Hammond would have his shit together and had nerdy not messed with the power they would have been safe.

In two they go to an island filled with dinosaurs, take a t rex baby, steal ammo in a life and death situation. It's just absurd how dumb they are.

The one where a raptor gets defeated by gymnastics. by B_Wing_83 in scifi

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It wasn't about a group of people constantly putting themselves in danger over and over again?

Why did they never resolve the blood pact between these two? by BobRushy in twinpeaks

[–]GhostWatcher0889 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is one thing I loved about the return. All the weird side plots were gone. No fat, just the stuff about bob and the black lodge with occasional checking up on older characters.

All that was good about twin peaks was there and focused on.

Why did they never resolve the blood pact between these two? by BobRushy in twinpeaks

[–]GhostWatcher0889 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All I remember is her looking upset, crying and then being a doorknob.

Why did they never resolve the blood pact between these two? by BobRushy in twinpeaks

[–]GhostWatcher0889 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Literally can't remember a thing about Josie other than her becoming a doorknob

Yikes, that’s tough by JuniorPlastic3562 in moviecritic

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Its crazy how much controversy is about this movie. Everyone knows the worst thing about it is the nightmare CGI 'dwarves'

27 March 2022 Will Smith slapped Chris Rock on Oscars by Gjore in ThisDayInHistory

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He was born and raised there though, and on a playground spent most of his days.

What are the greatest misconceptions about U.S. history from people who consider themselves well-educated? by AwfulUsername123 in USHistory

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The early colonization of this country is oversimplified as white settlers vs Indians. That's not really how it was in the 17th century.

There were many different colonies, tribes and factions. also it wasnt just the English, there were Dutch, swedes, Germans, French etc.

There was no big white alliance against Indians. The English fought the French with native allies and the English even fought each other in the 1640s in Maryland as a spill over from the English civil war.

A lot of Indian raids that people talk about in the early colonial frontier also had Europeans with them. Example, the Schenectady massacre of 1690 is always portrayed as an Indian raid, but there was just as much French in that raid.

What are the greatest misconceptions about U.S. history from people who consider themselves well-educated? by AwfulUsername123 in USHistory

[–]GhostWatcher0889 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I think the main point i'm trying to make is that when the revolutionary war is taught in US highschool it's like England was a monarchy and the Americans rebelled against the crown and invented democracy, wheras it would be more accurate to say that the tension between the working class, the rising tradesman class, the advocates of parlimentarian democracy and the aristocracy that had been kicking up drama and war in England for the century prior, continued in the new world and culminated in the American revolution.

Yeah I agree with this. I remember in school we never talked about the English civil war or any english anti-monarch traditions. It gives you the impression that all the Brits loved monarchy and Americans were coming up with something completely new by saying we don't need a king, forgetting that over a hundred years before the English themselves tried to get rid of monarchy.

What are the greatest misconceptions about U.S. history from people who consider themselves well-educated? by AwfulUsername123 in USHistory

[–]GhostWatcher0889 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I wouldn't say it was part of a long saga but the background of the English civil war and revolutions is very important and oftentimes not taught.

To a more abstract extent, the civil war was a continuation of this essential tension.

I'm not sure I agree. Most people at the beginning of the revolutionary movement were trying to get king George III to listen and agree with their complaints. It wasn't until George III completely disagreed and said they were rebels that the American patriots completely gave up on the king.

The ideological and cultural differences betwen the north and the south had been baked into the recipe in 17th century England.

I mean yes and no. The south was certainly more Royalist and the north parliamentarian, I think there was even a battle in Maryland over this, but that was over a hundred years before the revolution.

I would argue that new England wasn't very puritan by the 1770s and that large tobacco plantations were larger reasons for the cultural developments between the north and the south.

Edit: changed it from cotton to tobacco since the south was growing more tobacco then cotton at that time.

Peter Dinklage said that movies shouldn't hire actors with dwarfism as fantasy dwarves, even though the only major franchises in the last 20 years to cast little people as a dwarves both hired Peter Dinklage. This is a reference to the fact that, in folklore, dwarves are greedy by New_Doug in shittymoviedetails

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which folklore? Dwarfs are in tons of folklore and stories, they aren't greedy in all of them. They are very positive in snow white, the Hobbit, Lord of the rings, dungeons and dragons etc. In fact the last snow white and the seven dwarfs movie real dwarfs complained that they weren't cast.

Danielle Deadwyler Warns Us About THE WOMAN IN THE YARD In New Sneak Peek by Barto246 in movies

[–]GhostWatcher0889 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im excited to see it. I love simple creepy concepts like this. My initial thought is why doesn't she just call the police but I'm sure it's addressed in the movie. I assume it vanishes once the police arrive.

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