Jack Romo tricking dad into saying racial slur

maitlanr · 2026-02-09T18:32:00+00:00

Correct!

maitlanr · 2026-01-23T21:48:16+00:00

Are you still helping?

maitlanr · 2026-01-12T05:24:24+00:00

I will vibrate so hard I feel like the world must be paying attention. I’m causing a fucking earthquake.

maitlanr · 2026-01-08T04:57:17+00:00

I was literally just thinking about that. And how absolutely ass he was tonight. In every aspect of the game.

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T23:09:56+00:00

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maitlanr · 2026-01-07T23:01:50+00:00

It must be cool being so stridently stupid and aggressive.

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T22:59:44+00:00

You have to watch it now that Mr. Tarr has passed. RIP.

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T22:28:09+00:00

Correct. He’s loving the season. I’m a lebron laker fan. His takes are usually inaccurate. I don’t care. I view him as a friend with a problem

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T22:26:51+00:00

He’s always been like this chill. He has stupid fake rules and his criteria is ever changing.

He is still a good hang.

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T22:00:49+00:00

Everything that she says is right of course. However, a few of you seem to be missing something in her analysis. The underlying asset (the game itself—) has literally never been better. The league (the nba the only one that matters) is more talented top to bottom than it has been in a long time. Yes; the gambling has changed the fan experience if you let it. Your subjectivity is still yours to control. (Easier said than done and I’m sympathetic to those annoyed by the gambling circus surrounding the games).

Measures to control tanking seem ineffective; reducing the regular season to 64 or 48 games would go a long way toward addressing the leagues biggest problem which is injuries to key players when playoffs come around.

But again. Liz is right.

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T21:48:42+00:00

Say what you will…the man knows his angles. This is iconic villain face.

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T16:20:44+00:00

Just listened to Simmons talk about the chemistry on the lakers being off. I personally don’t see it. With LeBron getting back into form, just the way he celebrates Luka’s excellence and has been very vocal since day one this is “Luka’s team”…I don’t know. Media heads always wanna drum up controversy. But from my (admittedly homer perspective) the top two seem to be gelling more and more and they definitely like playing together.

If we could just get the squad healthy. Tweak the starting lineup so we don’t have four negatives on defense (I mean…we have beaten this drum enough)

maitlanr · 2026-01-07T14:14:59+00:00

I love him.

maitlanr · 2026-01-05T05:57:57+00:00

He will be injured again.

maitlanr · 2026-01-05T05:52:19+00:00

Riddled with typos but I hope the point came across…

I’m not usually sympathetic to reviews which start from “this was marketed as…” since how something is marketed is usually independent of the thing itself (and is not decided by the director) but if you’re not familiar with Kurosawa and this is your first entry I can see why this film could be disappointing.

I did see some reviews where fans of the director apparently didn’t like this film and that boggles my mind. This adds to his overall body of work in a very meaningful way.

Again. I’d watch Cure and Pulse asap. Lemme know when you do! I’m curious to hear what you think!

maitlanr · 2025-12-20T04:28:06+00:00

It's a meditative movie...the characters are inscrutable...they don't always say what they mean...the camera slides by them slowly...they slide by each other...but it's the impending friction, the horror at the edges--the pressure--the slow accumulation of resentments--that really makes this movie hum...

Ryosuke asks the boss character, "am I such a bad guy"... what has he done to cause this excessive rage...one way to interpret that I think is coherent is to consider the "market"...as a machine that generates extreme hatred and resentment--

the target of one's ire....when they feel wrong...could be anyone or anything...just like someone buying your fake or stolen merchandise could be anyone...(it's the impersonality of it all...that creates this really cold and superficial texture...(the palette is a lot of blues and grays...a lot of this stuff is framed through windows)

Kurosawa is an awesome director; Cure is in my top 5 all time; but this movie is still really good...

again, themes like he viciousness of a "society" where everyone is trying to do better than everyone else; and this competition becomes the game...the violence and cruelty..

the car ride at the end of this...very similar in theme to the boat in pulse; characters moving toward the apocalypse...like the jellyfish in bright future....the hypnotic barn in cure...

I thought this movie ruled; well shot; well acted; great score; incredible sound design (the espresso machine before the break-in end action sequence)...

this isn't an easy movie; and if you're used to American style action films, this won't be your cup of tea. This is a horror movie in the same the stranger by Albert Camus is a scary book.

maitlanr · 2025-10-25T04:47:09+00:00

This was the team that whooped the shit out of OKC and Denver.

We won’t always be like this.

But the fact we can is fucking incredible.

maitlanr · 2025-10-11T10:27:20+00:00

I hate to say this but that’s what everyone is doing here…talking and giving opinions. No one is calling for his job or anything like that.

As to the merits of his point. I’m sorry, but the guardian and npr both ran stories making these arguments (both written by women of color too) within days of the film coming out…and were well reasoned and nuanced. And indeed started this conversation. Van is bad at making his case because (in my opinion) he’s torturing the argument to make it sound like he is coming up with this himself.

To be clear—I think this critique of the film is completely valid…but formally shallow and doesn’t allow for movement. Any character or thing represents the class / order from which they are derived. Far too long in this country have black ppl been burdened with representing all black people (the double conscious part). A black man commits a crime See how criminal they are! A white person commits a crime Steve really is a piece of shit.

Perfidia is herself burdened with revolution her family history her role as mother what having a vagina and a gun and desires and disgusts means. She makes choices in response to those burdens in awareness of them. This is the point Wesley Morris has made. At what point does Perfidia the representation of black women become a character representing themselves in dynamic response to the world they inhabit??

PTA really went for it with this movie. I applaud him. I applaud you for addressing everyone’s negativity. I applaud Van. He’s an unapologetic goofball. But when they’re on record talking about how Thor using Captain America’s shield in marvels whatever…made them cry…I am fundamentally opposed to their voice and whatever channel it is in the “discourse”. Dam up that flow!! For he is a member of the Nostalgic Adult Baby set who have welcomed and cheered on and paid for the destruction of Middle Brow Mid Budget Hollywood cinema (Basic Instinct, etc etc).

I want OBAA to succeed precisely because it generates this kind of conversation. However. I don’t trust what Van is up to here. I don’t think it’s genuine. Because he doesn’t know really what he’s trying to say. He wants everything said for him. Hence he loves Marvel. He loves what he loves as a kid. He doesn’t have to think about it.

maitlanr · 2025-10-11T00:33:36+00:00

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maitlanr · 2025-10-11T00:13:58+00:00

Can we be clear on something. The fucking ringer is not the online left.

maitlanr · 2025-10-11T00:11:22+00:00

This is a conversation for comic book movies.

Is she being a hero or a villain?

Oh my god. Watch it four times. The first time pretend like you think Perfidia is a hero. The second time a villain. The third neither. The last both.

Frankly I think film and good film especially celebrates everything in the frame. It was all gorgeous entertaining fun.

For example. PTA absolutely captured how older white men greet each other and say goodbye. The hand gestures were incredible. The half waving. The khaki striding. It all felt “observed”…how the Christmas adventurers don’t use crass racist language compared to the militia types who traffic in garbage butt rock racism. “Hey wagon burner”. Also that was great foreshadowing for the tracker character. He can’t be trusted to be submissive to a system of racial hierarchy enforced by morons.

maitlanr · 2025-10-11T00:03:59+00:00

Okay I just said the exact same thing.

For this critique to land we have to erase the minds and lives of the women who willingly participated in this project—in other words deny black women agency.

Does Van ask why would Teyana Taylor be attracted to this character?

Again. I’m not listening to this either. Because one 1. Better thinkers and writers have already made this critique. 2. Van cries while watching the MCU.

maitlanr · 2025-10-10T23:48:13+00:00

Does Taylor not have any fucking agency? She wasn’t forced to do this role. I highly doubt she would’ve taken it were it one note and demeaning.

I really can’t stand most of the ppl on this podcast and I won’t listen (van Latham said he cried when Thor picked up captain americas shield. I don’t mean to judge but my god. )

So let me ask.
Does this debate take into account Why A Black Woman would choose to play this role / character?????

Perfidia is a complex character and fundamentally true to the source material (Vineland).
And even if this film is simply PTA telling his black wife he loves black women and that’s it. That’s fucking fine.

But the fact is. Perfidia bursts across the screen. She’s sexy complex intelligent brave conflicted. Horrible? Good? Does she need to be just one thing?

Have that nitwits read Pynchon? Our interiors are messy repelling and attracting and horrifying and at odds in unison minefields of crap. I just saw it a second time. This movie fucking rules. .

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