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if anyone wants to read entirely too much harry potter critique destiny unfulfilled has always been a favorite of mine https://florida.theorangegrove.org/og/file/1c8115fc-50d1-7dd6-0a2a-6446e33c7437/1/destiny.pdf not political of course since it way predates 11/9 but it makes a strong case for harry being a ridiculously passive and borderline incompetent protagonist who almost never exhibits agency and frequently has to be bullied into moving the story forward by other characters the most egregious example of this being him founding wizard antifa in book five under heavy pressure from his friends only to disband it in book six because the oppressive headmaster who banned sportsball is gone and they can play sportsball again
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And in the end he becomes a wizard cop.
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the only good thing jk rowling has ever said edit: you know what, Eox has issued a correction as of 12:20 on Dec 22, 2019 |
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CATS is the ballsiest movie ever. it’s every bit the erotic nightmare you’ve heard. it rules. Its like at the end of Akira where Tetsuo becomes a new universe but a musical. It’s witnessing the creation of a new plane of being. It’s seeing an entirely alien form of cinema that seems fully formed and you cannot comprehend that form. It shouldn’t exist. This should not be possible to imagine, let alone produce with the backing of a major studio, but here it is.
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the musical out of space
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I thought reviewers and posters being driven mad by CATS was a bit but no. It’s some crack ping poo poo that pushes every button to weird out your brain on fundamental levels, never stops doing it, and completely rejects almost every idea you have about cinema to the point your don’t even know what you’re feeling. it’s awesome.
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idris elba juggling his perfectly smooth CGI cat's rear end as the room explodes around him and the entire world is telling me "this is horniness, become eroticized" but I cannot because I realize that this is the missing piece, the understanding I couldn't grasp after I ate all that peyote, my consciousness is the lock and his dumper is the key every twitch and twerk of his feline cheeks sets another tumbler into place, my third eye opens, my crown chakra unfurls and then, I realize the truth...
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imagine being a person who watches movies for a living and feeling uncomfortable that this one makes you feel different things than usual originally i thought the whole idea of cats sounded dumb as all hell but the negative reviews legit intrigued me because do you have any idea how hard it is to get these people to write something that sounds more interesting than a book report
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nothing has ever looked more nakedly naked than smooth, shimmering dickless Cat Idris Elba. it’s horrifying. I liked this review. https://letterboxd.com/steenton/film/cats-2019/
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Uncle Wemus posted:how is it that so many people love these books and yet completely miss things like this Because that whole subplot was boring and my teenage brain skipped it Also I was sixteen and I don't remember a lot of it beyond broad strokes
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BENGHAZI 2 posted:Because that whole subplot was boring and my teenage brain skipped it This is p much 90% of the fanbase yeah, nobody remembers poo poo except what was funny and who might be loving who
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i remember someone making a post how the Sorting Hat is a phrenologist and ive never been able to stop thinking about it
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:i remember someone making a post how the Sorting Hat is a phrenologist and ive never been able to stop thinking about it It got in your head.
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https://twitter.com/thetomzone/status/1208581222991040512?s=20 everyone who's already seen CATS did not even get the definitive CATS experience
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arent the second and third movies sequels by definition gotta admit that an american pie reference takes me back though its the movie series i never watched even though nobody could shut up about it back when i was younger id guess its influence on american culture has been pretty heavily underrated
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Some Guy TT posted:arent the second and third movies sequels by definition Its influential in the sense that the main character will never be remembered as anything other then the dude who hosed a pie once
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was extremely disappointed to learn that this post was not referring to cats look like thats not the only franchise that inspires people into lovecraftian levels of insanity
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this is the first conversation ive seen about american pie in like 10 years outside of the wtweets of australian cricket legend shane warne
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i meant influential more in the sense of how it became a blueprint for grossout comedies but on second thought uh grossout comedies are kind of dead now so never mind
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mandatory lesbian posted:Its influential in the sense that the main character will never be remembered as anything other then the dude who hosed a pie once the Stiffler clan carries more cultural clout than the protagonist of American Pie
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iirc that movie literally coined MILF
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this is what happens when people afforded the option to construct identities from their own agency
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gen xers grew up. grossout comedies about teens were consumed by grossout comedies abotu adults going to weddings and poo poo. and then after that they decided to mature by watching movies where 45 year olds do improv at eachother about smoking weed
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:the Stiffler clan carries more cultural clout than the protagonist of American Pie I sincerely remember nothing about the film's other then dude loving a pie. I don't even remember what stiffler looks like (or any of the other interchangeable bland white protags, like seriously if that dude didn't gently caress a pie I would not remember his face at all)
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:iirc that movie literally coined MILF Mother I'd Like to Feel mandatory lesbian posted:I sincerely remember nothing about the film's other then dude loving a pie. I don't even remember what stiffler looks like (or any of the other interchangeable bland white protags, like seriously if that dude didn't gently caress a pie I would not remember his face at all) That just means you carry the Platonic ideal of the Ur Stifler in your heart. An abstracted image of perfection from which all other inferior Stiflers are derived.
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A Big Fuckin Hornet posted:iirc that movie literally coined MILF Didn't one of the MILF guys end up being Sulu?
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mandatory lesbian posted:I sincerely remember nothing about the film's other then dude loving a pie. I don't even remember what stiffler looks like (or any of the other interchangeable bland white protags, like seriously if that dude didn't gently caress a pie I would not remember his face at all) Oh good, so you don't remember the scene where a guy grabbed a random solo cup and accidentally drank cum. How can I get that memory out of my head?
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duz posted:Oh good, so you don't remember the scene where a guy grabbed a random solo cup and accidentally drank cum. How can I get that memory out of my head? This post makes it seem like drinking cum is bad, and I cannot abide such a wrong opinion
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mandatory lesbian posted:I sincerely remember nothing about the film's other then dude loving a pie. I don't even remember what stiffler looks like (or any of the other interchangeable bland white protags, like seriously if that dude didn't gently caress a pie I would not remember his face at all) I vaguely remember a joke about band camp, but that's about it. The 90s were a strange time. Pancakes posted:Didn't one of the MILF guys end up being Sulu? Yeah, John Cho of Harold and Kumar fame.
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mandatory lesbian posted:This post makes it seem like drinking cum is bad, and I cannot abide such a wrong opinion mixed with beer and drank accidentally?
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Forceholy posted:I vaguely remember a joke about band camp, but that's about it. The 90s were a strange time. This was the common phrase to dismiss the nerdy band girl as fuckable by our adolescent protagonists, but once she reveals that once she pleasured herself with her flute while there, everyteen Jason Biggs realizes that, yes, nerdy girls can do a sex too. Thus, heterosexuality is reaffirmed, and the two eventually get married if I remember correctly. Ultimately, the American Pie series, rather than being transgressive, is solidly an adaptation of the Victorian desire to codify sexualities and ensure hierarchy. (Additionally, keep in mind this was the type of movie every incel grew up on, and when their nerdy girl never materialized, they went fash.)
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now I want to see a paper that draws a straight line from the american pie franchise to the rise of modern American fascism
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If you expanded that notion slightly to include the entire subgenre of teen sex comedies/dramas - Grease, Porky's, Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Richmond High, She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You, American Pie - as part of the formative cultural zeitgest from which a lot of incel tropes emerge. In his manifesto Eliot Rodgers actually talks specifically about how upsetting he found teen movies in which the protagonist gets a hot girl at the end and how this influenced his growing sense of resentment.
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Some Guy TT posted:the real weird part about harry potter when it comes to racism is that even though we all know voldemort is racist a huge part of his coalition is made up of intelligent magical creatures who are pretty much completely fed up with the bullshit espoused by the ruling wizard leaders to the point that voldemort represents a significant improvement just because hes honest about it and is offering them material benefits for their support instead of platitudes oh my god it's Russiagate it's wizard goddamn Russiagate
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i read the harry potter books for the first time this year and they sure sanitized a lot of stuff for the movies, wizards are really not good people and harry is a huge rear end in a top hat
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duz posted:mixed with beer and drank accidentally? Dont knock it til u try it
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Helsing posted:If you expanded that notion slightly to include the entire subgenre of teen sex comedies/dramas - Grease, Porky's, Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Richmond High, She's All That, 10 Things I Hate About You, American Pie - as part of the formative cultural zeitgest from which a lot of incel tropes emerge. In his manifesto Eliot Rodgers actually talks specifically about how upsetting he found teen movies in which the protagonist gets a hot girl at the end and how this influenced his growing sense of resentment. 10 Things is literally just taming of the shrew but Julia stiles cries at the end and it always breaks my heart
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Breakfast Club is also one of the big Chicago-filmed John Hughes movies that all have no Black main characters. I think the only major non-white character in any of those is a racist Asian stereotype. They were all filmed in some very rich suburbs too.
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