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Watching Harris' rise and fall is the most fascinating thing about that.

Memes quoting bad lines =/= quoting lines with pleasure, which was in my post lol. "I love you," "I know," and "Let the past die. Kill it if you have to," are lines people love. "I don't like sand," is a line people love to hate.

I can quote the new movies with pleasure. There were some ROTS lines that I can quote ("I am the Senate" is damned good, the line itself and the delivery itself), but in the new movies, everything from, "That's not how the Force works!" to "You're nothing, but not to me," to "Every word of what you just said is wrong," has been gold.

No and I'm right

I'm buying it Day 1. Too much awesome shit to not let this glorious gen go out with a bang.

I'm still amazed that Trump is making fun of someone for being angry. She's angry that leaders for decades have failed to adequately address a global crisis. Trump gets angry when Rosie O'Donnell makes fun of his hair.

https://blog.us.playstation.com/2019/12/12/ghost-of-tsushima-launches-on-ps4-summer-2020/

The only thing that promo really says is that he's influenced Ben all along, not that he had anything to do with Snoke. Also, they've really been keeping the Emperor's looks hidden despite seeing him in every trilogy. I've been quite curious how a Sequel Trilogy Emperor is going to look since he's not 1:1 from Episode 3 to Episode 6. I keep thinking he's going to be in a jar a la Futurama.

Yup, and it's not someone doing a boring shtick and nitpicking. Who would have thought?! The whole point of the biggest accomplishment being throwing down his light saber in defiance of the Emperor is exactly what I've been talking about for ages!

This is a great example of everything wrong with RLM; they're clueless and serve only to get laughs and be edgy, with their, "Haha, get it? There's a woman tied in the basement," shtick but they genuinely don't know much. I just finished watching this video, which was made by someone who was lukewarm at best to TLJ but has seen how rich and fantastic it is the more they watch it. I timestamped the part where he takes on RLM (30:42 if it doesn't come up): RLM also had some funny jokes about Phantom Menace but completely misses the point of Lucas' reaction to the first rough cut of the film. Plinkett talks about how everyone is stunned with the bad work on the screen, shows Lucas pulling out his hair and admitting, "I may have gone too far in a few places." You can think Phantom Menace isn't that good a film, and it really isn't, but that scene is not revelatory. I work in news and have constructed stories that were 2 - 3 minutes long. In the span of that story, you can create a sequence that works very well, and another, and another, but then you watch the whole thing and the pacing is off, there are too many good sequences that work better alone than together, and you have to cut it down. Take that 2 - 3 minutes and extend it to 2 and a half fucking hours. Yes, there is some tonal inconsistency, but of course there could be even if the film was great. The guy doesn't understand what happens when you take a long movie and look at how it works together as a sum of its parts. But he does a funny voice and makes a joke that he kidnaps women, so he's edgy and hard to impress, which makes him good. BORING! I've no idea who this guy was as early as this morning, but a more measured take is far better than the, "It has no worth," takes that things like RLM and CinemaSins pretend some movies are. Not many things are 100% terrible, and TLJ ain't one of those things, sorry.

This is REALLY late, and I didn't want to make a new thread, but this is a great write-up of the voting surge in 2018 and what voter turnout looked like.

ESB did get pushback at the time, too, which is interesting! It was even brought up when the prequels released, but the difference there was that the prequels weren't great films. Also, after Episode 9 releases, can you list what parts of the "spoilers" you read were accurate and which weren't? I've read nothing, so I'm actually curious how many leaks line up with the finished product, and how many were guesses or flat-out wrong.

Yes, this exactly. Nothing personal to him or what he thinks or how he enjoys the movie. I'm smarter than they are, yes, but I literally gave you reasons in that post. I've nothing against you, dude. I'm glad that you went to therapy; some people think it's not for them or it can't help, but it's a courageous and appropriate thing to do.

I'm giving this a laugh react at first glance, but I hope this doesn't mean no motivation in life.

South Carolina GOP can cancel its 2020 primary, judge says It is true, though, that no one has a right to vote in a primary. Your right to vote is for the general elections, local elections, etc. but primaries are done by the party itself, which is why you're not required to have a Libertarian Party primary, for example.

Okay: Half this board, including me, are smarter and better than anybody you follow on Youtube and actually can speak about set-ups and payoffs and themes of a film. None of RLM's observations are really that good or insightful. Some of it is a basic misunderstanding of how a film or show or even news story are made (ex: Lucas' reactions watching a rough cut of The Phantom Menace). RLM didn't even know much about Rian Johnson, which is embarrassing considering how many smaller directors end up making big movies and embarrassing for anyone who sets up a primarily film-based website, and CinemaSins is not respected by any filmmaker that I know of (but has been shit on by some of them), all of whom make better films than, "Lemme harp on this small thing or get something fundamentally wrong about the film we're supposed to shit on," CinemaSins. Channels like them degrade criticism and discourse and feed into this entire culture of, "I can't talk about a movie without using hyperbole." And judging by your response to my light speed explanation which made you fly off the handle, your response is exactly the kind of thing CinemaSins has helped do to poison how we talk about shows or movies.

I don't know what's up in your life, but you are one angry motherfucker and none of this makes any sense. So I'll bow out and wish you well.

I love how not only was I a day late, but the titles are nearly identical.

I AM the FGC.

Most of the criticism is no better than Cinema Sins. You're the one who mentioned millions of views, so Sins was the first thing I thought of. Youtube criticism from 20-somethings is worse because they don't offer anything better than what I can get from Skillz or sblfilms or Kal. They consistently offer significantly worse "analysis." And many videos will pick out some camera shot here or some line there and extrapolate something that's not even there in the scene, which is where the 15-minute videos come in. Lengthening the "critiques" to two hours, like a really bad RedLetterMedia video (where everyone lost their shit because the guy knew what a shot/reverse shot was and thought he was a film scholar), doesn't make the video more worth watching. So yeah, my time is better spent watching a great film like TLJ than some random 20-something guy who doesn't know what he's talking about for an hour. There aren't really many people on Youtube worth watching, and I've watched enough of these mystical videos to know. What do you want to hear? For example, you asked about the light speed. I told you exactly why the scene is what it is and how it relates to the themes explored in the movie. Maybe you didn't like that answer, but that's your answer. People like to shit on movies in videos, but once their critique is critiqued, they lose their mind.

An incorrect assessment and a fundamental misunderstanding of what made all episodes with Anakin bad.

It's not the first time because it consistently happens. YouTube videos? Lols Most YouTube videos about movies are done by 20 year old film students who just learned something about cameras and need to make a 15 minute video of something they saw. They're blogs. CinemaSins gets millions of views, and they're the shittiest form of "criticism" I can think of.

Sf5 is fun as hell

I really can't. Too many games to limit it to 10, especially with how frequently my opinions will change. My list of games will just be a list of great games and therefore not that illuminating.