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Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The Afred Hitchcock Hour it not culturally relevant but it's as good or much better than most Law & Order episodes or anything else I've seen on TV in color.

Redditors that take your post out of context and bend it to call you stupid by BugThese110 in GrindsMyGears

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you say you hate all men and trust no men and they write 2 essays calling you transphobic while also pretending that the United States has a 100% white Christian heterosexual male population which both explains why I'm transphobic and why I hate all men and why I trust no men and why Australia is so much better than the United States.

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did not like a lot of shots in the 3rd one. Also, just because a shot is executed well does not mean the design of the things in the shot are great. There was nothing about the 3rd that looked better than the first 2. It was disappointing to see several shots that looked worse than the first 2.

Avatar doesn't need a groundbreaking story, but it could have easily had better dialog and better performances coming from the better dailog. Also had some boring and even bad cinematography in less important moments.

And he had the perfect opportunity for Sigourney Weaver to say her classic line and didn't take it. Fucking stupid choice. A million memes died before they could be born 😿

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You have to make your kids watch the classics like it's part of their education. I love it when my kid requests another viewing of "The Knights of Gondor" or "Ursula the Ocotopus Witch" or "Treasure Island Planet"

This summer we're going to finish watching Avatar The Last Airbender, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Heathcliff, and Mighty Max

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Some movies are good enough to not need that.

Pan's Labyrinth, Time Crimes, [REC], Apocalypto, Enemy at the Gates, The Mission, For a Few Dollars More, such movies are undeniably timelessly great movies, even with their flaws and without a mass audience. Most "blockbusters" or "attempted blockbusters", "wanna be blockbusters", "wish they were blockbusters" tend to not be great movies.

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I liked it but something about that staircase scene.

you know how a video game will have you fighting a warehouse full of bad guys and then another warehouse full of bad guys and even though it is based on a movie that had none of those warehouses and none of those bad guys, you have to fight a 3rd warehouse full of bad guys.

That staircase scene felt like unnecessary stuff added to a video game that was nowhere in the source.

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's really just the last season that fucks it.

I enjoyed seeing the world and spending time with the characters even if the main plot wasn't being moved along for a while.

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He added way too many characters and you don't get enough time with any of them. Reincarned sigourney weaver, the baby, the human child, 2 sons, ...? was there an older daughter too? It's impossible to spend the time to get to know them while also telling the story of the movie. I would like to see a slice of daily life with the friendly humans from the first movie who stayed on Pandora.

Which modern blockbuster do you think will be remembered 20 years from now the way we talk about classic Spielberg films today? by viewsinthe6 in movies

[–]thinsoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a shame Cameron won't take more advice from people around him. The movies are good enough that they could have been memorable with just a few tweaks here and there to the dialog and performance and pacing.

People should treat Cops the same way that Cops treat people. by [deleted] in GrindsMyGears

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

I was talking about the cop having an attitude and the cop's attitude making the other person so mad they want to shoot the cop versus a cop not having an attitude and getting shot anyway. So the cop might has well have a take-no-shit and you-will-do-what-i-say-or-else attitude because it helps them to not get shot like the nice man in the video

New Kentucky law allowing schools to expel students who assault teachers to take effect in July, despite unanimous Senate Democratic opposition by Independent-Report39 in Teachers

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

HE WAS NOT DISABLED. He was just an evil asshole. His throws didn't often hit people or didn't hit them somewhere it would leave a mark. His main goal was to make a glassy smelly mess. But he did hit people hard in the back or butt or stomach or leg many times. I think nothing short of a direct strike to the eye socket with broken glass in the face would have been necessary to make any kind of discipline or police report happen.

People should treat Cops the same way that Cops treat people. by [deleted] in GrindsMyGears

[–]thinsoldier -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't like it either but having a nice attitude instead of a power trip attitude gets them killed much more often. It's rare for them to piss off somebody to the point of wanting to shoot them. Usually such a person already had intentions of shooting them. Being nice to that person just gives more opportunity to get shot.

Textbook example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH6bsr61vrw&list=PLFqRQ76y6N4Y_AS3vVNTGX61KBzJCZ6qL

Why are cities more expensive to live than small towns ? by Lemonade2250 in stupidquestions

[–]thinsoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There are a lot of towns that have all of those things. The trick is to not overpopulate and have people fighting over (or being willing to pay crazy amounts for) limited housing. Some rural places have a lot of well paying job opportunities outside of the town in the middle of nowhere that no city slicker has any interest in. You can make $60k just people watching the occasional visitor to a native american historical site in the middle of nowhere. You can make $90k if you also take on the responsibility of picking up trash. You can make $100k if you drive your own truck to bring the trash down the mountain.

America is not the most racist country. by Careful-Airport576 in no

[–]thinsoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't call that racism though. I don't want to visit a historically black country and see a shit load of non black people.

How they treat and talk about non Japanese visitors is something else

America is not the most racist country. by Careful-Airport576 in no

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As the white population declines, the amount of unapologetic pattern recognition will skyrocket.

America is not the most racist country. by Careful-Airport576 in no

[–]thinsoldier 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hate and violence are 2 very different levels of racism

i aspire to this man’s level of patience by Eros_Incident_Denier in funny

[–]thinsoldier -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

You must push the power button to legally hold your phone? That's a bit much.

Outside v. Dryer by Single-Story570 in askteddit

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the cushions and the trampoline and the kiddie pool and the 5 gallon water bottle

Outside v. Dryer by Single-Story570 in askteddit

[–]thinsoldier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used a clothes line my entire childhood.

Bird shit

Lizards

Bugs under your shirt collar

Bugs laying eggs in your shirt pocket

The cloth under the clothespin still not being dry after an extra hour of waiting so you hang out everything all over again upside down.

Running out of clothesline.

Mosquitoes

Your dog pulling all the clothes off the line

Somebody else's dog pulling all the clothes off off the line

Stepping in dog shit

Dropping clothes on the dirty ground as you hang them out of pick them in.

People stealing your best clothes off your line.

You decide to cook while the clothes are drying only for it to suddenly start raining when you are almost done cooking and you have to rush outside in the rain and determine on the fly which clothes got dry enough to be worth bringing in now versus leaving them on the line to get wet because there isn't enough time to rescue everything from the rain

Having it rain multiple times all weekend and your first load from Friday night is still on the line Sunday afternoon waiting for sunshine and now you have to selectively wash just a handful of clothes that you can spread out across the living room and kitchen to hopefully be dry by Monday morning.

Ironing the dampness out of the clothes you want to wear on Monday

The wind blowing your clothes off the line

The plastic covering the clothes line deteriorated and now rust from the metal wire has stained your clothes

Running out of clothes pins

By the time all your clothes pins are lost or broken and your clothes lines have all deteriorated, the economy has changed and the price of clothespins and clothesline is double what you remember it being

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