Olmaz

6/22/21

How come on! I mean the character is named Snow White because her skin is literaly “white as snow”... I’m all for diversity, but if POC are given roles for characters defined first and foremost by their white skin, isn’t it just a bit too far?

6/22/21

Damn, you’re right to shun your friend as much as you want for Indy 4, and also for Army of the Dead (shit, what a bad movie that was!)

6/21/21

It’s always good to remember how terrible a philosophy post-modernism is, and especially how awful its application are (even if applied post-modernism should have been an oxymoron from the start).

6/21/21

100% agree.

6/21/21

I’ve noticed a lot of people have the same opinion as yours. I find it always fantastically interesting to see how different people think about entertainment and art, and to try and understand how they came to their conclusions.

6/21/21

Often the beholder entirely makes up things that just don’t exist. For example, the subtext and nuance in the movie version of Watchmen are things that you’re almost entirely imagining,

6/21/21

You were reading nuance and subtext into the movie where there was none

6/21/21

Interesting that you say you like the movie when it’s easily the last nuanced of the 3 different formats.

6/21/21

I have never said I knew how the shows was going to end from the start (I have even clearly stated I never finished the show, and was open to learn about how it subverted the hamfisted expectations it created in the first 4 episodes).

6/21/21

I’m glad people have different opinions, that’s the point of art isn’t it? I admit having first contact with the franchise with the movie (I read the comics afterwards) which has certainly influenced my views about the movie, as I had no expectations.

6/21/21

Thank you. That’s exactly what I thought, but you said it a lot better than I could.

6/21/21

Some people just can’t disagree without relying on insult. That says, “in my opinion”, more about you (and Harold_Ballz while we’re at it) than about me ...

6/20/21

Well, to be fair, the premise of the show looked more to me like : good cops are so rare they even have to go against the rest of the cops because cops are racists, because racism is everywhere.

6/20/21

Well, no, that’s the thing. Watchmen (the original comics and, maybe with less proficiency, the movie) did take on social issues, but by hiding them under a thick layer of interesting narrative. hey also managed to bring nuance to said issues, without having to rely on a binary (one side = completely good / the other…

6/20/21

Damn how I dislike that Watchmen series... I started to watch it just after watching the movie again (after at least 10 years since my first and last watching it) and really it doesn’t even come close to it.

6/19/21

the idea that an argument is only right if you are deemed to be the right person to make it is disturbing

6/19/21

And there is also the moment when you agree with part of what someone is saying, but not everything, and you’re being accused of lying about your partial argument just to make your disagreement more sympathetic to them. You either have to agree to everything or have to be the devil incarnate.

6/18/21

for which it was then said I did not respond “in good faith” which is just something people say when they have no further substantive points to make

6/18/21

Well, at least congratulations for embracing the fact that the new anti-racist ideology (and more generally “wokeness”) is functioning the same way as a religion.

6/17/21

Of course we are allowed to criticize him. And we are even allowed to not buy his product if we think it provides him money to be spent towards organization/people we think as harmful.