UlyssesT [he/him]

I didnt say anything about trans people in my original comment and deliberately didnt quote the original post as its language disgusts me

So why did you repeat the “mental illness” part?

If you really mean what you’re saying just take the L this one time and move on.

was simply pointing out the silliness of that logic

There are many, many ways you could have done that without repeating the bigoted belief that being trans is supposedly a mental illness.

So do you also think it is a mental illness, or are you just being a middle school edgelord?

I’ve always found it hilarious how people in the west are always worried about Russian and Chinese propaganda while they’re swimming in US propaganda.

The average “nonpolitical” US citizen swims in US propaganda so much that they don’t notice it unless they see a politically skinned person in a treat.

“The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” he told GQ. “Because there are going to be generations now that think … that’s what movies are.”

and you’ll have Chris Nolan, you know what I mean?

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Martin is exactly the person this threatens, because what he puts out is ultimately a type of slop.

That was the appeal and the gimmick from the start of that hype wave: that he wrote something sort of like Lord of the Rings, but without a unifying thematic point to it outside of saying "what if Tolkien, but more mature" and that meant a lot more gore, torture, and sexual violence, with almost every character with lines and agency being an asshole. In some ways the lack of an intentional message to it all except “everyone with lasting agency and presence in this story is an asshole and the world sucks, and attempts to improve society somewhat are naive and doomed to fail, and also every time you bother the author he will kill another Stark, top kek” was also part of the appeal to its core audience because they didn’t want to feel “preached” to.

Damn right LLMs could print an infinite amount of that and it’d be hard to tell the difference.

It’s usually performative anti-wokeness from the kind of edgy computer touchers that are preoccupied with other people’s supposed performative wokeness.

Because Chrome is unfiltered corpo shit and Brave is owned and operated by right-wing assholes peddling cryptocurrency.

BUT GO WOKE GO BROKE

I’ve no idea how they convince themselves they’re going to get away with this sort of shit.

A lot of them do, and many of them never even get formally prosecuted.

instead of destroying someone.

That’s the part these monsters get off to.

Something seems to be happen to people sufficiently drunk with money and power where they get bored and many of them can only get off to greater and greater acts of cruelty.

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final series of Planet Earth

Sounds about right with the way things are going.

District 9.

The movie trailer I saw before another movie made it seem like a standard issue shitty action movie. It was not.

Reloaded had some great setpieces, and maybe “worst” didn’t really apply to the sequels as the thread requested, but I still feel the original could have stood on its own, maybe timelessly.

I think you’re right when I talked about the Matrix and there was worse sequels out there.

I didn’t even get to 5 in the Pirates franchise. I didn’t even make it to 4.

Hot take that might get some shit, but I’ll say it anyway:

The Matrix.

The first movie, if it was the only one, was such a sleek tight narrative with such a satisfying ending that left so much open to the imagination that arguably the movie would have more cultural impact today if it stopped there.

What if the Jedi returned… and then were wiped out off-camera? And the Republic returns, and is blown up by a single big boom boom blast? What if everything is reset because Abrams bashes other people’s toys together while making explosion sounds until they break?