Frownland

Shakespeare would like a word with you.

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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.

Chula Vista

Eerily similar to how I feel about you, I don't pay much attention to the opinions of a man who's been dead for over 500 years. Great writer though.

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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.”

MicShazam

Frownland has been dead for over 500 years? You wish!

Perfect summary.

Frownland

*whoosh*

What an odd response.

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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.

Chula Vista

Fixed?

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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.”

Oriphiel

Chula may not have ever actually read Shakespeare, but he raised hell with the CliffsNotes.

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The Batlord

heehee

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Justthefacts

If I had a tequila shot for every hero that dies in "Infinity War", how many shots would I have? And would I die if I had that many shots?

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MicShazam

Watched no less than two Robin Hood movies that I've never seen before today.

Robin and Marian (1976)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075147/


Really strange take on Robin Hood. Sean Connery plays an aging Robin that comes home from the Crusades to England, many years after first doing all the things that made him a legend. Turns out to be more of a movie about Robin and Marian having husband and wife squabbles and acting a bit weird. I couldn't really believe in these characters. Their motivations make no sense to me.
EDIT: I should mention that the opening 20 minutes that take place in the Middle East somewhere a very much worth watching. It was down hill from there, sadly.



Robin Hood (1991)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_..._British_film)


This one was thankfully excellent! Best Robin Hood movie I've seen. Took a slightly unconventional approach to the story, where the major beats are familiar, but several things are different as well. Despite some occasional slapstick, it's a more mature movie than Robin Hood tales usually are. The motivations behind the actions that lead to Robin Hood and John being declared lawless are more complex than the usual good vs evil story you would expect from a Robin Hood movie, and the relationship between Robin and the main bad guy is interesting.

The guy who plays Robin is also very good and there's several charismatic characters. Uma Thurman as Marion being among them.

Very recommended.

The Batlord

Just watched Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer for the first time and it was about what I'd thought it would be. It was a combination of a true crime dramatization and horror movie, except it was really about what true crime dramatizations are about. Nobody watches true crime for information, they watch them to vicariously experience the worst of humanity to justify some unseemly desire to see the worst of our race. True crime dramatizations are exploitation for the masses with the appearance of being informational so that the viewers can pretend that's not what they wanted in the first place, but for the sake of respectability they refuse to look like anything other than a documentary so you never quite get that feeling that they honestly are going for. You're being masturbated without being allowed to ***.

Except this is a real movie with surreal depictions of murder and horribleness and it's upfront about it so you know you're being touched, but the confrontational nature of the exploitation doesn't jerk you off either. It just looks you in the eye while it molests you so you feel dirty and empty just like how a true crime documentary does while doing what they do to the logical conclusion so that you feel like you're watching something you shouldn't be watching, cause tbh you shouldn't be watching any of this. I respect that and feel exactly how I should feel and if I weren't already in a mood to read about serial killers I might try to rationalize it somehow, but why do that when I think I've gotten what I should have gotten and feel like the dregs of society?

So I'm gonna drink more and read more about bad people and feel hollow and think about how this whole experience reflects on me as a person. Good movie.

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