@esjesjesj I’ll accept modern political nonsense in my escapism the day you put a Death Star in a film about the Miners strike. It’s always one way isn’t it!
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Electric Discordian
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This is such a stupid thing for a writer to say it makes me retroactively like his work less. Does he not understand how art works.
Fandom Pulse@fandompulse
Project Hail Mary writer Andy Weir on social commentary in books: "I dislike social commentary. Like… I really hate it. When I’m reading a book, I just want to be entertained, not preached at by the author. Plus, it ruins the wonder of the story if I know the author has a political or social axe to grind. I no longer speculate about all possible outcomes of the story because I know for a fact that the universe of that book will conspire to ensure that the author’s political agenda is validated. I hate that." "I put no politics or social commentary into my stories at all. Anyone who thinks they see something like that is reading it in on their own. I have no point to make, and I’m not trying to affect the reader’s opinion on anything. My sole job is to entertain, and I stick to that." "To that end, I also don’t talk about my personal political opinions publicly. I don’t want readers to even know, honestly. I don’t want that in the back of their minds as they read my stuff." Is this why he has the #1 sci-fi movie in decades?
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Name one Jason Statham movie where he is not playing the same guy.
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@thebritishertwi The Greens policies are great. The “get millionaires to pay for everything” would work well as long as they give a quarter of the population a tax rebate. Of a million pounds each!
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The Sun has changed.
They used to have the tits on page 3... 😏
Zack Polanski@ZackPolanski
Every day I'm setting out my plan to end rip-off Britain and take back our power and wealth from those who have stolen it. Here's today's Sun front page. The Murdoch empire is terrified.
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@RealEmirHan What I find truly stupid is this was clearly a set up for the actual Cavill film that was the next one in the series. The one that won’t happen because people are too self serious to enjoy a campy romp!
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@thebritishertwi It’s a shame she was getting a bit sensible recently. I see she was brought in for re programming recently!
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Am I the only person who sees the irony of this appeal to morality while referencing abject hatred and even demons should coming from an account called Lucifer? 😏
𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗@LucifersTweetz
Preach girl. 🔥
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@RodneyMarshall1 What about the raft it’s small and it’s smelly and it comes from…..
Pwllheli just a bit up the coast from The Village! Great joke very clever
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Thirty-three years on from The Prisoner, The Simpsons' The Computer Wore Menace Shoes sees Patrick McGoohan 'reveal' the reason for Number 6's incarceration: his invention of the bottomless peanut bag. Reprising his iconic role, this was McGoohan's final television 'appearance'.
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@TheRealJamieKay So the establishment that is covering for Muslim grooming gangs are also covering up for regime Paedos. How is this a gotcha?
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@manflu69 @Imran_HussainMP One of the primary complaints is Muslims are not charged and in some cases not even investigated. So this chart is meaningless.
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Islamophobia pushed by national figures is helping create a dangerous climate for British Muslims simply trying to live their lives in peace.
If voices like Reform continue to push this poison further into our politics, this will only lead to the further rise of division and hatred.
We must unite to end the fanning of flames of hatred and division.
Britain is better than this.
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@Kipplewinker They picked Sheffield because they didn’t have to make it look like a bomb hit it!
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Just seen this programme on iPlayer called #Threads I'm hoping it will take my mind off current global affairs. I like a drama about 80's fashion
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@DawnButlerBrent Lower youth stabbings but raise snooker cue beatings. Great!
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Absolutely Great news!
For those saying it will not make a difference are totally clueless.
When I was Minister in the last Labour government investment in youth services was paramount and youth crime fell. The Tories and Lid Dems destroyed the hard work.
Sadiq Rebuilding.
Sadiq Khan@SadiqKhan
NEW: Today I’m announcing plans to deliver at least one new late-night youth club in every London borough - the biggest investment in youth clubs ever made by a Mayor. We’re bringing youth clubs back. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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@cineworld I liked it. I also liked how the part of the cinema I was sitting in felt like it dropped by about Ten degrees as the weird stuff hit! Just a draft but like being in 4DX!
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Tonight's #SecretScreaming was... 🥁
#Undertone! We're all ears ready to hear your thoughts on this one, drop those reviews below! 👂 ⬇️
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@SetheloniusBunk @ThatMoviePage They will kill you screams “Rich people bad, White people bad.” Throughout. It was like a propaganda piece walking round in Grindhouse cosplay Bugonia was very anti corporate. But yeah you have me on that. It was a stupid example!
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@leccydisco @ThatMoviePage Okay, that's on me for not asking for more than a title; in what way did They Will Kill You or Bugonia beat the viewer over their head?
The Rock had several monologues from several characters pointing out its messages, and the entire plot revolved around it.
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"No lectures" and it's about Ed Harris blackmailing the US government for not paying the families of combat vets and Sean Connery is held without trial for years because of a few people's overreach and illegal actions.
Byl Holte@SirBylHolte
1996’s “The Rock” is another fine example of what Feminist Hollywood won’t give us anymore. The plot: Ed Harris and a rogue Marine unit seize Alcatraz and threaten to wipe out San Francisco with deadly VX nerve gas. The government recruits FBI chemical weapons expert Nicholas Cage and the only man who ever escaped Alcatraz — Sean Connery — to sneak in and stop the attack. Directed by Michael Bay, with a MANLY stacked cast: Michael Biehn William Forsythe John Spencer David Patrick Kelly Xander Berkeley Tony Todd Doug Hutchison Robert Wisdom Paul Calderon Tom Sizemore No girlbosses, no lectures. Just elite soldiers, ex-cons, and hard men doing an impossible mission under extreme pressure. Production budget: $75,000,000. Worldwide gross: $335,062,621. 7th highest–grossing film domestically that year. Hollywood used to crank out 3-4 movies like this per year. Now they WON'T. Why do you suppose that is?
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@WildBillWellman Could it be people saying that era of action cinema was the last hurrah of Hollywood? Not that it’s better than previous films it was just the last gasp of well written films of that type?
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When we talk Hollywood not making movies like they used to, I’m taking DOG DAY AFTERNOON and CHINATOWN, you’re talking THE ROCK and ARMAGEDDON.
We are not the same.
Byl Holte@SirBylHolte
1996’s “The Rock” is another fine example of what Feminist Hollywood won’t give us anymore. The plot: Ed Harris and a rogue Marine unit seize Alcatraz and threaten to wipe out San Francisco with deadly VX nerve gas. The government recruits FBI chemical weapons expert Nicholas Cage and the only man who ever escaped Alcatraz — Sean Connery — to sneak in and stop the attack. Directed by Michael Bay, with a MANLY stacked cast: Michael Biehn William Forsythe John Spencer David Patrick Kelly Xander Berkeley Tony Todd Doug Hutchison Robert Wisdom Paul Calderon Tom Sizemore No girlbosses, no lectures. Just elite soldiers, ex-cons, and hard men doing an impossible mission under extreme pressure. Production budget: $75,000,000. Worldwide gross: $335,062,621. 7th highest–grossing film domestically that year. Hollywood used to crank out 3-4 movies like this per year. Now they WON'T. Why do you suppose that is?
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@SetheloniusBunk @ThatMoviePage One battle after another, They will kill you, Bugonia etc etc
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@leccydisco @ThatMoviePage Name one modern movie that beats you over the head with its message more than The Rock
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@Judgement_Dave @SandyofCthulhu Wigan Kebabs all the way!
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@SandyofCthulhu Whereas those around me have usually loved them, I’ve never been a fan.
I find it odder still that in Wigan (home of some great pies) they apparently like pie & pea wet (the juice from mushy peas).
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I took my Dad to Wales in the 90s. He was all excited to get real British fish & chips from a hole-in-the-wall shop, wrapped in real newsprint. The clerk asked if he wanted peas. He loves peas, so said yes. Turns out it was gross mushy peas ladled right on top of the fish & chips. Looked just like spew. Dad was appalled, but tried to pick loose the chips to eat them. We ate by the seaside (this was in Conwy) and Dad tried to toss some of the mushy peas to the seagulls, but they ran away from the peas. The seagulls knew.
Dad caught caught again in Bath, when we went to lunch at Sally Lunn's. The waitress asked him if he wanted peas, and he said "Yes please." forgetting about the horror of mushy peas and that's what he got. Again. He kind of picked at it but again, the appearance is far from inviting.
I've never tried mushy peas. Some British people have told me that "it's better than it looks" but man alive it would HAVE to be.
No Context Brits@NoContextBrits
British cuisine. Best in the world.
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@SandyofCthulhu Mushy peas are bloody awesome! A small dash of vinegar and your away. That picture by the way is Northern English fare and it’s amazing. All my local chippies are shut but everytime I have chance I have that for my tea!
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@RazorFist I hate not having fast travel
In games. Walking somewhere to unlock a ft point is exploring. It offers a hub from which to venture out. It doesn’t stop me exploring it does stop me loosing the will to live walking back and forth entire real
Time hour to visit a skill trainer
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Fast Travel was necessary in Daggerfall because Bethesda created a country the size of an actual, real-life country. A "day's ride" took a literal day.
Morrowind being a massive downgrade in size and depth, didn't need it.
You could jog from one town to the next in 3 minutes.
Mythic Mind Games@MythicMgames
Map-click fast travel was a terrible idea for open word games. Relying on in-game travel methods is way more befitting of the genre.
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@SandyofCthulhu I don’t get the hate for 2011 it’s a competently made prequel. It captures some of the paranoia the only stumbling block is the CGI
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When I meet someone who hasn't seen The Thing, I always show them the 1951 version first. THEN the 1982 version. Then I pretend the 2011 one doesn't exist.
Michael W. Freeman@Freelineorlando
As terrific as John Carpenter’s The Thing is, there’s a lot to admire in Howard Hawks’ The Thing From Another World (out today, 1951). The frigid North Pole setting is the ideal place to be stuck indoors with James Arness’ killer alien; the final showdown is a doozie. Good sci fi
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@Rutledal @ThatMoviePage But it’s not exactly a controversial subject. The rich kill our young in wars, politicians are wankers and as usual it takes a British guy and a hippy to sort out the problem!
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@leccydisco @ThatMoviePage «mention in passing», Ed Harris gets two monologues on the subject
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@SirBylHolte You missed an obvious one. Have them go back to the slave days and have the male side of the family all White Rebs!
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HOLLYWOOD THINKING:
What's a strong male IP we haven't rebooted yet?
Let's say "Back to The Future."
Make the male lead female.
Make the female diverse.
Make the female angry or unhappy.
Give the female all kinds of social baggage.
Give her female relatives only.
Give the female a less-successful husband.
Make him AND ALL THE MALES weak, stupid, evil, or useless - or all of the above.
Make everybody fight each other all the time.
Then slap the original label on it to trick men into watching.
Then act shocked when men don't show up.
Blame toxic masculinity for the flop.
Rinse, repeat.
See, destroying an industry is easy when you know how.
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