Good point- if she was actually real, she'd likely be unable to go to Will's bedside since she pushed Alana out a second-story window.

Historical revisionism, disturbing torture, and large battle scenes were all regularly featured in films before Braveheart, and I'm sure they would be after. And at least the giant gruesome melees in Braveheart are done entirely with practical effects and still look good.

That reminds me of the time where one of the Penny Arcade guys went to his kid's school's PTA meeting and explained a lot of stuff about how video games worked, and a ton of parents seemed to be shocked when they heard about freemium games. They genuinely didn't seem to know that such things existed.

"And it’s almost like a nightmare where you’re never allowed to not think
about fucking, which, it’s fine to think about fucking, like a regular
human being does, but they’re trapped in a jail of their own making
where everything has to be about fucking all of the time."

I'm guessing you could find a willing group of test subjects among all those people who were identifying as Na'avi 2 months after Avatar came out.

Netflix movies are bombproof.

Not every comment that examines language is a concern troll (based on my entirely contextual understanding of what "concern troll" means). It's a genuinely interesting rhetorical turn of phrase; far more interesting to talk about than the imputed political stance of an observational comic from the 90s.

No, really, we want to hang out with you guys? What if we invaded and occupied a few more countries, without killing enough people to make the occupation effective, but also without leaving enough people alive to keep the moral high ground? THEN would we be part of the world?

"I don't get no respect! Why, when I was a teenager, the girl across the street used to have sex with me! Lots of women had sex with me when I was a teenager, and many more have since. But they don't respect me, nor does anyone else, which was really the main idea I wanted to communicate."

If you are weary of the continued existence of certain types of people, there are a few things you can do about that. Throwing them onto a pedestal and interpreting their observations as instructions (that you then complain about) does not seem to be one of the more productive things to be done.

I don't think anyone ever has any illusions about Wormtongue. I mean, his name is freakin' Wormtongue. The big surprise in that scene from the characters' point of view is that Theoden is capable of being more than a corrupt walking corpse of a king dandled about by his court of flatterers, and the movie preserves…

I'm a dude, and really focusing more on the way that comments like Seinfeld's are received than the manner in which he says them. To me, it seems like he's just sharing a point of view. But frequently, when someone who happens to be white and male does this, everyone seems to hear it as a command, or a forceful…

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It is interesting how any time white men "say" something, it turns out they were actually "telling me."

It is interesting how any time white men "say" something, it turns out they were actually "telling me."

I hope they had the one that played before the Clayton Bigsby sketch on Chappelle's Show.

"contributing to a culture that has a warped obsession with gender violence."

Good thing Goodfellas never created any sort of cultural reaction where its characters and their twisted ethics were celebrated and lovingly recreated!

For me it's "Jerry 'Racist' Seinfeld," but yeah, definitely getting a strong troll vibe off that. I'm going to assume it is a troll, as that's the more charitable of the two possible explanations.