Don't you mean In the Name of the Father?

My bad, I actually meant There Will Be Blood. I'm just a mess.

In the Name of the Father is the movie with Daniel Day-Lewis where I finally understood why people call him the greatest actor of his generation.

I recently watched Dead Ringers where Jeremy Irons plays a couple of twin gynecologist. They have this working dynamic until a certain woman enters their lives and things turn crazy. It's a drama with some typical Cronenbergian themes / touches, though not quite as many as usual.

The movie was better than expected to be honest, actually very good, and I was pleasantly surprised with Jeremy Irons' acting chops which turned out impressive. I mostly associate him with stuff like the dreaded Dungeons & Dragons movie from the early 2000s. Well worth a watch.

I'd check it out. Jeremy Irons has a beautiful voice and you can't go wrong with anything remotely Cronenberg.

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My wife and I watched this on Amazon Prime - we went into it thinking it was a documentary on a real missing persons case - and it sold us on that and got us invested. By the end though, my poor wife was in a near panic attack because of how crazy it got and it was around that point when I realized "Oh, this is a found footage mockumentary type movie". She hates scary movies, so I'd have never managed to get her to watch it with me if I knew and told her it was a horror movie. Great movie though.

Come on guys! You obviously mean My Left Foot! I mean, a guy who stays in character AS A MAN WITH CP ALL DAY so that he doesn't lose the feeling of being him.... come on now.

Day-Lewis, known for his extreme method acting, insisted on staying in character during the production of the film, refusing to do anything that Brown couldn't do. This meant that members of the film crew had to move the actor around in a wheelchair, lift him over obstacles, and even feed him.

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Why'd it take me so long to see this f*cking masterpiece?

This is better than Snatch.

This is better than Goodfellas.

This is better Drive.

Ughhhhh, so good.

I watched this one over the weekend. Really good. I did see some parallel's with his Joker persona. Just a hint. He really bulked up though.

So insightful.

Dude. Come on. Lighten up.

This is not remotely surprising.

Sounds like he conned a bunch of wage slaves into being his servants tbh.

If you ever get better jokes I will.

Calling a movie about gay people gay isn't funny. It's dismissive.

I mean literally it's descriptive.

Literally it's not. It focuses only on the main subject's sexuality like it's the 90s or something. It's regressive and stupid. Like if I went around describing films with straight characters as "straight". It's a movie about two people falling in love. It's a romantic drama. But bros be bros.

Incidentally, I didn't like it much myself, like any of his other movies.

I actually thought it was a beautiful film but I forgot jokes about sexuality around you are forbidden regardless if they're funny or not.

Nah I just don't get bro humor.

Ja I gotta say that adidasss fingerwagging over jokes is always gonna be way funnier than the jokes themselves.

Ehhh I thought it'd be funny to post that instead of an actual thought provoking response to a beautiful film about LGBTQ love that I found not only endearing but also extremely well shot and acted.

But, you know, Adidasss just thinks I'm some lacrosse hooligan dumbass with no capacity for art and human experience.

They don't have humor in eastern Europe. Just beets.

Fixed your post.

We're passed that.

By Dre

Fixed your post.

Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Like a Middle English "that"?

You're such a dickhead.

I think you can joke about just about most things as long as they're good jokes. But if people take offense, that's the time to be considerate - and even more so if you're a mod. To not do so is unbecoming.

Agreed, calling someone a dickhead is neither funny nor considerate.

I've also had this idea of moderators being the most mature and considerate members of the forum so they can keep things in check and moderate internet behavior effectively like in the days of yore but it's long been clear this isn't the case with the current MB leadership (ironically, we actually have one supertroll as a mod). So yeah, somewhere along the way things went wrong and now we're just stuck with what we've got... :/

Let's see here...

• We got Adidasss offended because I used a gif from a TV sitcom to jokingly review an LGBTQ film.
• We got a former mod acting like my dad telling me I should apologize to teh incredibly sensitive hurt feelings of a member who's entire existence on this forum is to have their sensitive feelings hurt.
• I use the same gif in a context that has nothing to do with sexuality. In fact, I used it because somebody corrected my terrible grammar.
• Sensitive boy calls me a dickhead.
• Mod who thinks he's my dad calls me inconsiderate after sesnitive boy calls me a dickhead.

That everything? Both of you can f*ck off. Is that mod like?

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Lynn Ramsay can do no wrong. She might be one of my favorite working directors today. This was poetically beautiful. Tragic and real. Totally recommend this.

No it isn't. Would you and the trollmod ever consider quitting though and letting someone else, more adequate for the position take over? Not likely. Great news for MB and its death throes.

I dunno, maybe if I post another gif that makes you upset for no fucking reason other than you're a sensitive crybaby and big Dad Guybrush wags his finger at me again...I'll consider stepping down.

Okay, well someone has to be an adult here.

So why don't you guys go into your neutral corners and take a deep breath? Getting personal with each other isn't going to solve anything. It is what it is, as Adidass says, so maybe we just accept things as they are. At least we are allowed to voice our displeasure here without having to worry about getting banned. That isn't always true on other forums. Believe me, as an ex-mod on one of them, I know.


PS- Where in the world is Marie?

I'll admit I'm super dooper cranky today.

I'm sorry you're offended Adidasss but I'm really glad you're not a mod. I'd hate for members's sense of humor to be censored to the level I think you'd be most comfortable with. It's good to have mods that that aren't like that.

It was the dumbest attempt at a joke gif I could come up with and it sent Adidasss into a tailspin because they honestly have zero capacity for humor when it comes to LGBTQ subject matter.

The ironic part was that I was going to write a nice review of Call Me By Your Name because I thought it was a beautiful film but went with a sh*tty joke gif instead.

Doesn't matter. I'm insensitive I guess.

The current mod team is qualified but we're down to add more if they're right for the gig. Thanks for asking, and please stop calling Marie a trollmod, it's unbecoming :nono:

Depends on what kind of a forum you want, a general laissez-faire attitude tends to bring out the worst in people on the internet and I would personally prefer if people were more considerate, even on the internet. There should be lines you shouldn't cross. We tend to differ on what lines those are. I spent a considerable amount of words in the past 5 years pointing out how people (here and I guess in general) are more sensitive to the feelings of racial and ethnic minorities than those of the LGBTQ+ population, which shouldn't be the case (I won't get tired of using this analogy so I'll do it again because it's the simplest one, let's try to replace "gay" with "black/latino/etc" when describing a movie whose main protagonists are black/latino/etc. Does it make things a little more clear? Would anyone feel comfortable in doing that?).

Anyways, I'll continue putting my point of view out there in the hopes that someone will understand. But no, I wouldn't censor this kind of thing. Just point out how stupid and insensitive it is. ;)