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The Original Greaser Bob

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  1. 17 hours ago, NorthLoop said:

    Fugit is terrible throughout, as is Deschanel. The guy playing Ben Fong Torres is also really bad. 

    Interesting observation.  And I can't argue with the Fugit part (I kind of fell in love with the Deschanel character.  Like I did with most of the movie.)  But his weird acting actually helped you focus on the other characters.  He didn't insist upon himself.  He was just a weird, young kid.

    But I also like your observation because rock/pop music is like that.  Much of it is "bad" and unfinished and unclean, and it's the badness that makes you remember it.  I can think of two example that many people would find to be messy or unpolished, but are just fantastic and perfect.  So in a weird way, bad lovable acting is just like the music that we fall in love with.  Most times you forget it but sometimes you fall head over heels for it when you don't expect it. 

     

     

     

  2. On 10/12/2024 at 12:11 AM, NorthLoop said:

    Almost Famous, while an incredible movie, also has so much terrible acting in it that I find parts of it hard to watch. 

    I appreciate this, because I've never gotten past how great it is.

    Who are the guilty parties?  And are they also drunken buffoons?

  3. On 10/10/2024 at 9:54 AM, Texzilla58 said:

    The Sound of Music is the worst garbage ever.  Von Trapp was an Austrian Nazi.  Maria was a gold digging whore.

    Heard a great podcast about some women who grew up not having the second VHS (or Beta) of Sound of Music.  To her the movie ended with the Hitler Youth guy kissing the hot daughter (not the blond [pedobear]) and the hot older daughter going weeeee!

    When she learned that there was a second half where Julie Andrews came back and they all ran from the Nazis it blew her mind.

     

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    On 10/10/2024 at 10:13 AM, HouTex said:

    Shawshank Redemption is way overrated.  I’ve tried to get through it several times and I’m bored to death and stop watching.  

    That is unpopular because it totally fucking sucks.

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  4. 1 minute ago, Red Five said:

    His legal "issues" (80 something felony counts, 34 convictions?) have certainly not been a point of emphasis. Even Obama's "WTF are we doing?" speech last night didn't really hit on that. 

    I think the problem is that the convictions are a plus for MAGA.  My theory is that we need to be pushing how it would be "fun" to continue the trial.  And how we won't get to see Jack Smith smiling for the camera every week or so.

  5. 28 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

    We need to outlaw political commercials, we need to outlaw all fucking social media advertising. Campaigning should be rallies, town hall interviews, and fucking debates, and those should be posted unedited and aired on television live and in replays over and over, and that should fucking be it.

    Just heard an interview of Yuval Noah Harari (I liked his book, Sapiens).  He was making this point.  Arguing that having all the information you can possibly get will lead you to the truth is like arguing that eating all the food you can possibly eat is healthy.  The ethical curators of information have given in to the flood of AI curated information - true and false.

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