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ALFbrot posted:Wasn't there a time when Greg Kinnear was kind of cool and had a promising movie career ahead of him Yes. When he hosted Talk Soup.
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confused posted:Yes. When he hosted Talk Soup. God he was one of my favorite hosts. The Many Faces of Greg Kinnear was always great.
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Aug 26, 2016 17:22
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ALFbrot posted:Wasn't there a time when Greg Kinnear was kind of cool and had a promising movie career ahead of him He was good in Auto Focus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l15ydlXoHt8
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Aug 26, 2016 17:28
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Like I remember him being acclaimed for As Good As It Gets, and Auto Focus is cool, and Little Miss Sunshine was a critical darling. What happened that made him do Magical Negro and Heaven Is For Real?
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Aug 26, 2016 22:11
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:Could be said of everyone in that trailer. Alas, they're shitlords now... Really? I know that Jon Voight is a poo poo of a man, but is it known for a fact that Kinnear is a conservative Christian? That's depressing, if so...I've mostly liked him in everything I've seen of his.
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Aug 26, 2016 23:44
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Afriscipio posted:
Oh man, that looks so good and like it should get all the oscars, but with that title I originally thought it might be a White-House-Down style movie. Shame.
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resurgam40 posted:Really? I know that Jon Voight is a poo poo of a man, but is it known for a fact that Kinnear is a conservative Christian? That's depressing, if so...I've mostly liked him in everything I've seen of his. Oh, no I mean I just decided they're all shitlords, using an advanced form of subjective voodoo.
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Aug 27, 2016 01:19
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resurgam40 posted:Really? I know that Jon Voight is a poo poo of a man, but is it known for a fact that Kinnear is a conservative Christian? That's depressing, if so...I've mostly liked him in everything I've seen of his. Love too dislike people simply because of their religion
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Aug 27, 2016 02:54
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effectual posted:Oh man, that looks so good and like it should get all the oscars, but with that title I originally thought it might be a White-House-Down style movie. Shame. huh, I was just reading about the subject of this film on the internet. I wonder if it will go into the fact their son is the President of Botswana.
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Aug 27, 2016 03:07
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ManifunkDestiny posted:Love too dislike people simply because of their religion Unless they happen to be Muslim, of course. That would be racist.
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ALFbrot posted:Wasn't there a time when Greg Kinnear was kind of cool and had a promising movie career ahead of him I enjoyed the this movie, but it's been almost 20 years since I've seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF6ACpmRYc8
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Aug 27, 2016 04:40
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Afriscipio posted:A United Kingdom
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Aug 27, 2016 07:55
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Never heard about the dude, and I doubt it's going to be the focus of the movie itself if really mentioned at all (beyond him saying he loves his people), but he seems like he was a remarkably talented and dutiful politician who absolutely deserves wider recognition. Spoilers if you didn't know this already, but he led the independence movement that turned the British protectorate into the democratic nation of Botswana and served as the country's first president. The country had one of the fastest growing economies in the world afterward (But eventually got hit hard by HIV).
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Bugblatter posted:Spoilers if you didn't know this already, but he led the independence movement that turned the British protectorate into the democratic nation of Botswana and served as the country's first president. The country had one of the fastest growing economies in the world afterward (But eventually got hit hard by HIV).  I mean, obviously he didn't do it entirely on his own, but he probably did a whole lot to prevent the country from falling into the same kind of traps that so many other African states did upon independence.
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resurgam40 posted:Really? I know that Jon Voight is a poo poo of a man, but is it known for a fact that Kinnear is a conservative Christian? That's depressing, if so...I've mostly liked him in everything I've seen of his. Disliking someone because of their religion kind of makes you a poo poo of a man, friend
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Aug 29, 2016 07:24
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I see GBS wandered in here. The key word there is "conservative," not "Christian;" in modern American English, "conservative" is a direct synonym for "idiot hellfucker."
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the_american_dream posted:Disliking someone because of their religion kind of makes you a poo poo of a man, friend not if their religion is bad.
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Groovelord Neato posted:not if their religion is bad. Yeah, the religion they flow ain't Christian, but conservatism.
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Aug 29, 2016 16:08
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:I see GBS wandered in here. The key word there is "conservative," not "Christian;" in modern American English, "conservative" is a direct synonym for "idiot hellfucker." This, pretty much. It's not the Christian part I'm looking askance at, even the Evangelical part- it's the part that advocates a simple, shoddy religious doctrine that promotes division between races, sexes, and religious doctrine; shits on the poor and fellates the rich; and pretty much ignores anything Christ actually taught in favor of apathy, hatred, and self serving greed. I mean, just look at the tone of the trailer in question- you have two white people deciding to help a poor black man not because he needs or asked for their help (and certainly not because of the socioeconomic forces that made him and others like him homeless, oh no, that would make people uncomfortable), but to make themselves feel like good Christians, and this surge of faith not only uplifts the black man in question, but he also uses his Magical Negro powers to Save Their Marriage(tm). Just the title is enough to make one's eyes roll so hard they exit the skull. And this isn't the only movie of this kind Greg Kinnear has done; most of the stuff he's done lately has had that sort of "don't ask questions or be kind to people, just believe" feeling to them, which prompted my question. It's not that I find it sad he's doing Christian movies or even is a Christian; I just find it sad that he might believe in that Supply Side Jesus mindset- because I don't respect those people, and never will.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:That's the reason I wrote what I did. Botswana is probably one of the best functioning African countries, and has been for decades. It helps when you have politicians more interested in running a country than getting rich/powerful.
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FYI y'all have permission from your devout Christian friend Jenny to say that these posts are dumb as gently caressManifunkDestiny posted:Love too dislike people simply because of their religion the_american_dream posted:Disliking someone because of their religion kind of makes you a poo poo of a man, friend
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Aug 29, 2016 20:28
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I feel like people have posted TV trailers here in the past? Westworld https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuS5huqOND4
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Aug 29, 2016 22:07
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Welp Sir Anthony Hopkins creeping me out once again like nobody else can. God he's good.
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Aug 30, 2016 01:44
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When they first made the announcement, I wasn't all that interested. But I have to say, this is looking like it could be really good. Almost like a techno-Servile War with Ed Harris in the part of Spartacus.
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Aug 30, 2016 12:18
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I feel I need to stop and take a moment on how Dev Patel nailed the Australian accent.
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Aug 30, 2016 13:18
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Rougey posted:I feel I need to stop and take a moment on how Dev Patel nailed the Australian accent. I was ready to be sceptical because nobody ever gets the Australian accent right, but that was pretty drat good.
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Jenny Angel posted:FYI y'all have permission from your devout Christian friend Jenny to say that these posts are dumb as gently caress Tolerance is optional. Good point. Seems to not exactly jibe with how you usually post though Edit: I'm not trying to have a last word here, yall got it. I just find the hypocrisy funny. Carry on with the trailers movie loving friends 😊 the_american_dream fucked around with this message at 18:11 on Aug 30, 2016 |
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Aug 30, 2016 18:08
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Lion looks like it could be real good
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Alehkhs posted:I feel like people have posted TV trailers here in the past?
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the_american_dream posted:Tolerance is optional. Good point. Man I don't even know how I'm meant to usually post but uh yeah, "tolerate this intolerance" is indeed dumb as gently caress To be a little less glib about it, "tolerance" is a dodgy goal in the first place, because it implies this sort of ahistorical lack of context that sorta melds the lived experiences of women, people of color, LGBT groups, marginalized faiths, etc. into this lazy milieu of "hey man I don't see color, we're all equal". It ignores the specific needs for justice that have piled up for these groups in question on account of the history they've suffered in favor of a contentless "let's be polite". You tolerate when the sound system at the grocery store starts playing Macklemore because you know you're getting out of the place in two minutes anyway. Hopefully you (the general you, I'm not interested in casting implied or direct aspersions on you specifically) extend a little more than that towards gay people, and so on Specifically, what you extend is radical love, the kind that Christ preached, the kind where you champion the dignity and indeed the practical safety and comfort of those who have been targets of institutional prejudice. The equivocation with those-poor-defenseless-evangelicals breaks down here because they're not the prostitutes and adulterers in the analogy, they're the Pharisees, they're exactly the people that Christ spoke out against with passion and contempt. They're the people that enjoy positions of great societal comfort and influence, and who use that influence to withhold justice from those that they've identified as undesirables. Christ never spoke about how we must tolerate the Pharisees, lest we become just as bad as them, or whatever horseshit. Instead... he dunked on them, over and over and over and over and If we go back to the original post that sparked this pearl-clutching, resurgam wasn't worried that Kinnear might be - gasp, a Christian, like 71% of Americans - but that his faith might be the kind that would inform his decision to star in a movie that appears to espouse some grossly paternalistic racism. That's been made abundantly clear in the various follow-up posts to resurgam's first, and it was honestly already clear in that first one too, but there's this weird insistence from your end that the content of those posts is entirely "Christianity bad", and that "tolerance" must be extended to all of Christendom, even when the issue at hand is that this specific brand of Christendom has a wholly inadequate understanding of what "tolerance" towards people of color entails And I mean like, this is why I contextualized my previous post by confirming that I'm a devout Christian myself. If there was any more need for confirmation that the argument at hand wasn't "Christianity bad" (there was no such need), I wanted to confirm that I, as a Christian (the most insidious kind of intolerant internet atheist of all?), agreed with the criticisms being levied of this specific form of Christendom. Which, y'know, is part of my job as a Christian: to criticize the failures of Christendom to adhere to the teachings of Christ, and to the pursuit of justice in this world and in the next one, whenever they are apparent. Paul told me to test everything and to hold fast to what is good. Christ told me to hate my own father and mother and wife and children and brother and sisters And so I do
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Aug 30, 2016 19:44
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Vegetable posted:I'm sure the show itself will be good, but I still have no idea what it's about. Clearly there're sci-fi and Western elements... Beyond that I'm not so sure. It's Pirates of the Caribbean but the pirates DO eat the tourists.
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Aug 30, 2016 20:48
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It looks like Jurrasic Park but with androids. But in reboot the it's from the androids point of view.
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Aug 30, 2016 21:01
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Automatic Slim posted:It looks like Jurrasic Park but with androids. But in reboot the it's from the androids point of view. Actually, Jurassic Park was Westworld, but with robots.
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Aug 30, 2016 21:31
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Just dont watch Futureworld. The movie with 3 sets.
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Vegetable posted:I'm sure the show itself will be good, but I still have no idea what it's about. Clearly there're sci-fi and Western elements... Beyond that I'm not so sure. it's based on a book that's been around for decades that already had a movie. this is like when people got pissed bridge to terabithia wasn't narnia despite it being assigned reading in grade schools across the country.
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Groovelord Neato posted:it's based on a book that's been around for decades that already had a movie. Westworld is by Michael Crichton but I don't think it was ever a book.
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Aug 30, 2016 23:20
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yeah you're right i'm a retard. i forgot he was a tv writer too.
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https://twitter.com/anyacrittenton/status/770759184035885057
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flosofl posted:When they first made the announcement, I wasn't all that interested. Spoilers for Westworld (2016): Ed Harris isn't playing a robot. This sentence is here so people won't see the length and think "Oh, he must just be saying Ed Harris isn't a robot".
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