I have just seen too many brilliant subtle and muted performances that are able to add depth to a character and Affleck totally fell flat to me. HAVE I MENTIONED OSCAR ISAAC SHOULD HAVE WON FOR INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS??

Thank you! I thought Casey Affleck’s performance in Manchester was similar to his performance in every other movie he’s been in.

Oh please, it was yet another sad white dude role. There was nothing groundbreaking about the subject matter of the film. It was Oscar bait that will be forgotten.

Casey Affleck was brilliant in Manchester by the Sea and absolutely deserved his Oscar.

Fuck all of these people.

“How would it end differently?”

“The reporting on this (obviously not here) in other outlets has made me insane.”

a fucking CHILDREN’S birthday party.

The judge actually went beyond the sentences requested by the prosecution - they were requesting something like 7 years for the man and 3 for the woman. But that is within a judge’s discretion to do, and it’s the chance you take. The judge was especially harsh because they directly threatened children, which he said…

I mean they threatened to kill children with a loaded shot gun in the worst terms possible. They deserve what they get and more. I also enjoy the tears of infinite sadness that they are being prosecuted with enhancements under a law that was created to fight gangs- which I’m sure fuckers like this fought for.

Think it would end differently?

Imagine if this was reversed.

It was literally you.

Right? Who else did it then? Your doppelganger?

This is the silver lining in this awful story for me. I am completely amazed that Georgia pursued this case, used these laws to convict, and actually gave hefty sentences to these assholes.

six years on one count of violating Georgia’s street gang act

From another article on CNN:

Wait. That was their defense? That they weren’t the ones who threatened the partygoers? Man, fuck y’all. You rolled up six or seven cars deep into a mostly African-American neighborhood with Confederate flags flying from every single vehicle. You purposely went out looking for a fucking conflict, and when you noticed…

Also, maybe I’m reading the article incorrectly, but didn’t she actually do the stuff she is saying she would never do?

“I want y’all to know that that is not me,” Norton, referring to her previous behavior with the Respect the Flag group, tearfully told the courtroom. “That is not me. That is not [Torres].”