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quote:I have only been disabled for about three years, so I don’t know a whole protocol. Are there some CEUs I should be taking to achieve professional status? Or is there any benefit to maintaining my amateur status? The difference between being professionally disabled and amateur is if you get paid for it or not.
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I watched Wild Wild West a couple of years back and all the time I kept thinking "what is the audience of this film?“ It has plenty of PG-13 violence and sex so I wouldn't show it to actual children although they would propably enjoy most of the steampunk spider. And because the action and sex is PG-13, it doesn't draw in older action movie crowd. Add to this the bizarre jokes about Will Smith in a drag and the slur competiton with the disabled villain and it's really hard to understand why'd the think this would sell.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:09
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Fish of hemp posted:I watched Wild Wild West a couple of years back and all the time I kept thinking "what is the audience of this film?“ My Jr high school took everyone to see it as part of an end of year party thing. I think it literally only appealed to specifically 13 year olds.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:12
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Also his Guardian interview: quote:What is the worst job you've done?
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Dec 9, 2023 20:13
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Fish of hemp posted:I watched Wild Wild West a couple of years back and all the time I kept thinking "what is the audience of this film?“ The audience was 10 year old me.
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Dec 9, 2023 20:15
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When asked if he'd change anything if he lived his life over again, Peter Sellers' infamously replied "I'd do everything exactly the same, only I wouldn't see 'The Magus'".
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Dec 9, 2023 21:06
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I sometimes get payed to be disabled but usually not but I still need to renew my disability every few years because they think my leg might've grown back
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Dec 9, 2023 23:38
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FreudianSlippers posted:I sometimes get payed to be disabled but usually not but I still need to renew my disability every few years because they think my leg might've grown back The one time where anyone has successfully made their case because they don't have a leg to stand on. (I should add: the people who require recertification of a disability can get hosed with a splintered broomstick. They're all scum.) @mind the walrus - Morgan Freeman's breakout role was in Brubaker in 1980. He was 43. Alan Rickman was 42 before even appearing in a movie (Die Hard). It happens more than you think, mostly to actors who start out on stage, or as part of the TV cast pool like Bryan Cranston.
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Dec 10, 2023 00:09
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Most directors make their first film around 32. Ridley Scott was 40 when he made his first film. Though he had directed a bunch of ads and such for a few years before that.
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Dec 10, 2023 00:18
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Taeke posted:Same. It was on the level of It's Always Sunny and Thropic Thunder where the entire point is how wrong it is, and neither of those got pulled as far as I know. The It’s Always Sunny episodes with blackface were all pulled from tv and Hulu in 2020.
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Dec 10, 2023 00:55
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Ah, that makes sense.
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Dec 10, 2023 00:58
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Jedit posted:He wasn't that old - he was 45 or 46.
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Dec 10, 2023 01:10
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Anyone older than 35 is basically 50.
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Dec 10, 2023 01:16
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run on sentience posted:My Jr high school took everyone to see it as part of an end of year party thing. I think it literally only appealed to specifically 13 year olds. Yeah 13 year old me thought Wild Wild West was a fuckin great movie. Haha look at that fuckin spider hell yeah!!
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Dec 10, 2023 03:45
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Wild wild west and Super Mario Brothers are not great films, but they are mostly watchable. But even more we're talking about them in 2023, which is more than can be said about 99% of films, so maybe a win on that front.
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Dec 10, 2023 04:06
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Probably a big part is the legitimate backlash from how hyped and heavily advertised they were vs the actual product. It's like how everyone's gleefully turned on Starfield.
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Dec 10, 2023 04:18
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I think people remember Wild Wild West not from the movie but because Will Smith's song remains embedded in the depths of the subconscious of anyone who existed in the 90s.
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Dec 10, 2023 04:20
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Jim West, desperado Rough rider, no you don't want nada None of this, six-gunnin' this, brother runnin' this Buffalo soldier, look, it's like I told ya
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Dec 10, 2023 04:26
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Will Smith as the most popular movie star in the world, making songs to go with his movies. Fresh prince, men in black, wild Wild West. As I’ve said before, the 90s were simply unbeatable
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Jedit posted:The one time where anyone has successfully made their case because they don't have a leg to stand on. (I should add: the people who require recertification of a disability can get hosed with a splintered broomstick. They're all scum.) Rickman and Freeman were already successful stars of relatively mainstream stage and TV, which means they were better off than 999 out of 1000 working actors. I have no idea what propping up this myth actually does for anyone beyond masturbating. Is it really that dangerous to industry kayfabe? Are people that mentally and emotionally fragile to acknowledge that most industries are largely not fair and the success stories are almost always the exception to the general rule?
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Dec 10, 2023 04:44
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FreudianSlippers posted:Most directors make their first film around 32. Ridley Scott was 40 when he made his first film. I worked with the producer for the 1984 commercial. Absolute garbage human being who'd built her entire career on "I hired Ridley Scott once". She had her Emmy up at her desk. Not in her office, at her desk.
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mind the walrus posted:Rickman and Freeman were already successful stars of relatively mainstream stage and TV, which means they were better off than 999 out of 1000 working actors. I have no idea what propping up this myth actually does for anyone beyond masturbating. Is it really that dangerous to industry kayfabe? Are people that mentally and emotionally fragile to acknowledge that most industries are largely not fair and the success stories are almost always the exception to the general rule?
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Dec 10, 2023 05:59
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Fish of hemp posted:I watched Wild Wild West a couple of years back and all the time I kept thinking "what is the audience of this film?“ right down to me showing MiB to kids in like 2015 and forgetting that the very first scene had them going "poo poo"
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Dec 10, 2023 06:15
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Wondering how many people mostly remember the Cartman version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttK4e9fyuIM
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TGG posted:I've met the guy before and I can say that Ken was a damned kind person, at least to myself and my friends. He also seemed waaaaay more interested in talking about medical poo poo as compared to hollywood stuff. I know this was a couple pages back, but Jeong and McHale were doing a podcast in the early pandemic and it ended up mostly just being Ken talking about the science behind the virus and the vaccines and even getting into ivermectin and whatnot. Dude clearly still cares more about medicine than anything else, but he’s made a lot more money doing much easier work as an actor so who can really blame him? He’s like the anti-Chang IRL.
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Dec 10, 2023 08:56
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MokBa posted:I know this was a couple pages back, but Jeong and McHale were doing a podcast in the early pandemic and it ended up mostly just being Ken talking about the science behind the virus and the vaccines and even getting into ivermectin and whatnot. Dude clearly still cares more about medicine than anything else, but he’s made a lot more money doing much easier work as an actor so who can really blame him? He’s like the anti-Chang IRL. I think he had a short-lived series on YouTube or somewhere where people would ask him medical questions and he'd answer.
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Dec 10, 2023 09:36
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I think that's just from that channel that has celebrities/experts answer twitter questions and not his own thing.
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MokBa posted:I know this was a couple pages back, but Jeong and McHale were doing a podcast in the early pandemic and it ended up mostly just being Ken talking about the science behind the virus and the vaccines and even getting into ivermectin and whatnot. Dude clearly still cares more about medicine than anything else, but he’s made a lot more money doing much easier work as an actor so who can really blame him? He’s like the anti-Chang IRL. How much could he possibly care about medicine if he was partaking in the horse delouser madness?
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Andrew Verse posted:How much could he possibly care about medicine if he was partaking in the horse delouser madness? Gonna go on a limb here and say he was debunking it/mocking it in equal measure.
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Dec 10, 2023 13:32
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Ken is OK by me, he just has a stack of pretty unpleasant roles. He seems like a good person that is unfortunately really adept at playing aggro freaks.
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In a case of me not aging well, one of my kids wanted to watch Home Alone which I think I have seen once before. And I forgot that everyone in the movie is just deeply unlikable and the last 20 minutes is a cartoon. Kevin's family sucks, Kevin's can be an rear end in a top hat, and who forgets their kid. It almost felt painful to watch to me and I realized I am getting old. Like I said, it's me, I am the one not aging well.
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Some families suck rear end.
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Home Alone is a hair’s breadth away from being a right-wing fantasy about the castle doctrine and the importance of weapons training for children. There is a somewhat disturbing thread in the film of taking sadistic glee in torturing and killing someone because anything you do to an intruder is justifiable.
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Mooseontheloose posted:In a case of me not aging well, one of my kids wanted to watch Home Alone which I think I have seen once before. And I forgot that everyone in the movie is just deeply unlikable and the last 20 minutes is a cartoon. Kevin's family sucks, Kevin's can be an rear end in a top hat, and who forgets their kid. It almost felt painful to watch to me and I realized I am getting old. In my house if Home Alone is on while the kids are around, we put it in Spanish so that they don't know all the horrible things people are saying to each other.
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¡Mira lo que hiciste, pequeño idiota!
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Home alone is straw dogs for kids and let me tell you straw dogs has not aged well even a little bit. Home alone slaps though. My fanfic sequel has adult Macaulay caulkin down on his luck start breaking into houses and ultimately going up against a kid who was just like him, sort of like a family friendly the collector. Ambitious Spider has a new favorite as of 17:09 on Dec 10, 2023 |
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I AM GRANDO posted:There is a somewhat disturbing thread in the film of taking sadistic glee in torturing and killing someone because anything you do to an intruder is justifiable. Are you sure you watched Home Alone and not Don't Breathe?
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It’s funny to see people get bonked on the head. People take things too seriously to a point where it’s legitimately concerning lol
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Ambitious Spider posted:Home alone is straw dogs for kids and let me tell you straw dogs has not aged well even a little bit. Mine has adult Kevin finally severing from his lovely family and spending Christmas alone when the elderly crooks try to break into his house out of desperation and after having mutual war flashbacks and shenanigans Kevin decides they're still better than his family and makes peace with them and invites them to Christmas dinner.
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