Frownland

Dallas Buyers Club

Damn. New member of the Frownland top 50.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

MicShazam

ooh, that one is very, very good!

My sister hated it, I loved it, so we had a small fight over that movie. Things were said, heads were shaken, eyes were rolled

Chula Vista

Outstanding movie.

SE7EN

Another outstanding movie. Fincher is so freaking brilliant.

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“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well,
on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away
and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”

Maajo

I saw Darkest Hour last night, and it was damn good I gotta say. Really liked Gary Oldman's performance, and while it wasn't a funny movie they did loosen up with a few good light-hearted moments. Highly recommend, especially for history nerds.

Frownland

Uh oh. Does she uh...feel passionate about certain religious freedoms?

I really like your avatar btw. Though I have to say that it's kind of jarring compared to your others. I keep thinking you're Chio.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

MicShazam

Luckily it's nothing more than she feels very opposed to any movie that doesn't follow all the most straight forward genre tropes in the book. She probably felt conned into seeing the movie, thinking it was something more "normal". Like a bog standard thriller or something. If I remember correctly, she hated the movie because the main character was (paraphrasing) "an ******* and also unattractive". We uh, don't talk about movies much...

And yeah allright, my new avatar is a bit unlike the previous few. I've been getting into reading about symbolist painting since I got a book about it in December. Trollheart called it right when he predicted that my next avvy would be a symbolist painting

EDIT: It's from a painting by František Kupka. I'm already thinking that I need to start looking for a book with his works.

Frownland

Lol @ people who can't appreciate the beauty of a flawed character. Like how the **** are you supposed to reach conflict to make the film interesting if everyone's just going to be unrealistically nice to each other? Tell your sister that Frownland from the internet hates her.

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Studies show that when a given norm is changed in the face of the unchanging, the remaining contradictions will parallel the truth.

MicShazam

I've found that to be typical of people who don't watch movies much, or only watch the most mainstream movies (so just nearly all regular people). The number of times I've heard people complain that a drama movie main character was unlikable...

To a lot of people, a movie is supposed to be about a relatable character overcoming difficulty. Hence why I never really talk about movies with most people I meet, beyond whether they've seen the latest X-men movie or whatever.

The Batlord

Tell your sister that this unattractive ******* says she can kick rocks.

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MicShazam

I better not pass on any of these messages, but she'd just tell you to go **** yourselves anyway