Another issue is that CGI is just too easy. Too many action movies just have these extreme CGI scenes where too much is happening and you get the feeling that the script just says: [action scene here]. Then they splice the CGI stuff in that the director commissioned from a separate company. The helmet closes on Robert…

Yet it is very tiresome that no one gets the benefit of the doubt anymore. Everything has to be nitpicked to death, by people who feel the need to prove how superior they are.

It is this kind of jumping to conclusions without knowing the facts that makes SJWs to irritating.

A ten year old can knock someone out like portrayed, swinging something heavy down on a kneeled man. Then the killing is also quite possible of course (although probably not the damage portrayed).

You seem to be the one doubting the woman's story here, though. It's rather absurd that you seem to want a rape to have happened, the truth be damned.

It's not a tragedy because he could get financing for his movies, so it didn't impact his art. On the other hand, Orson Welles did win an Oscar, yet was treated awfully by Hollywood.

Not if she would also object if the cast of American Sniper wore pro/anti-choice T-shirts. There is no actual indication that she objects to the message, rather than using the premiere as a political platform.

But a ton of criticism over the Selma snub wasn't actually about the merits of the movie itself. Instead people connected it to a greater narrative about racism/under-representation.

But…but…we can only solve racism if we overreact to everything and accuse people of having opinions that they don't actually express.

'Vaguely X' is how you can condemn people with fake accusations. After all, if you just say 'racist,' then people can point out that nothing actually racist was said. But by using the word 'vaguely', you can just point out that you are way more sensitive than they are and can tell what people really mean, without them…

The quiet kids really get run over in a situation like this. People like to dismiss rules and bureaucracy, but they do prevent the bullies and loudmouths from running things.

Both lessons go hand in hand. You have to learn to listen to authority, so you keep a job and don't end up in jail. You also need to learn that a lot of people in charge are just full of shit, so you need to place limits on what they can ask of you.

I had a class where the teacher liked to start up discussions with the students about fairly random topics. It was one of the most liked teachers, but we didn't learn much.

In that case, is the real issue not the violence, rather than the word being shouted?

Unfortunately, the fact that many people love Ayn Rand shows that a book being 'Poorly written, weakly argued, and filled with ludicrous and easily disproven lies' is not a reason for people to dislike it. Arguably, a certain kind of person is actually drawn to stuff like that.

YA fiction is not taken seriously for the same reason that sci-fi wasn't taken seriously for a long time: a very large portion was formulaic shite. One of the main causes in sci-fi was a big market of rather low-brow customers and some businesses catering to this. Magazines that paid per word were a major driver to…

Can you expand on that a little? I have no idea what you are referring to.

As far as I remember, there isn't actually any racism in Triumph of the Will. What I found interesting about the movie it's main tools are jingoism and the concept of the nation as one. As such, it is a propaganda movie that with minor changes could promote pretty much any authoritarian movement.

Personally I am not that bothered by racism/sexism in old movies/books, because I know that these are the beliefs from a bygone era. The people who enjoy these artifacts today aren't the kind of ignorant people that these feelings would resonate with, but generally connoisseurs who are well-educated and progressive.…

Perhaps it's more that he is competent at solving immediate problems, but has a problem with looking at the bigger picture.