The Captain America thing where a bullied nerd would handle superpowers with more morality than alpha humans was silly.
The reality is what we see today. Petty little shits lording any scrap of power they get over whoever is different from them
I would say that Steve Rogers was not a bullied nerd. He had an alpha personality, just not the body to go along with it. He had a winner mindset, instead of the typical "chip on the shoulder" thing.
The Superpowers just allowed him to be physically a superhero.
Before he was given super strength he jumped on the grenade that he thought was live while everyone else fled. His mindset was the only thing that didn't change about him.
Correct. The guy you're replying to is retarded enough to miss something that was explicitly stated multiple times (because retards wouldn't get it otherwise)
He missed the mark a bit on the subject of Steve Rogers’ mindset/character, fair enough. But I don’t think the point he was trying to make is all that retarded.
There’s also a scene in the film where Stanly Tucci says something along the lines of, “a strong man would simply take this power for granted, but a weak man would understand the value of this power…”
I would agree that statements like the one above have proven to be complete bullshit in recent years. Half the world is collapsing right now because weak men got their hands on too much power.
Those two Batman Beyond episodes where the bullied dweeb got power and used them for petty revenge will always be relevant. Both times he wasted them, and by extension his life, by attempting to murder the asshole jock.
People forget how important bullying is. It’s how societal norms are enforced onto people as they grow up. I’m thankful as fuck I got the shit bullied out of me growing up so that I could actually not be a cringeworthy human being.
Unfortunately the only bullying going on nowadays is brown people beating up whites and troons bullying children into taking puberty blockers.
Yeah I don’t think bullying was ever a benefit in the traditional sense. The bullies were the apes of the school and were as small a group as the nerds. The reality with nerds, is the vast majority were passive on them at best, it’s just the few bullies that needed something weak to mess with. Modern nerd stuff being ruined is because nerd things were pushed into popular space and has nothing to do with a luck of bullies.
What we really need back is what I’ll call ostracizing. The people that the majority of the school sneered about. These were the slut girls, the fags, etc. When I was in school, no one liked these people. They weren’t necessarily bullied in the traditional sense, but they were the joke among almost all of their peers. Now, they are forced or brainwashed to accept those as normal.
I don't think "jewish hollywood" counts, but "Bullying has always been ... niggers determining what is socially acceptable" is asserting that blacks, as a race, engage in an inherent form of abuse. So that is where the line gets crossed. Unless that is not what he's using "niggers" to refer to.
And blocking too. Reddit’s user blocking mechanism lets you reply to someone, then block them, and they see your reply but can’t reply back. It is specifically designed to let petty people who can’t defend their ideas get the last word (i.e. let the dumb ideas persist unrebutted)
I’m not positive it it is still that way, but way back when there was TheDonald.win and nothing else it worked like that here. I was arguing with someone about the dangers of modern online “stealth” censorship versus old school print censorship from the Soviet type days. They tried to pull some sort of smack down argument on me and block me, and I wasn’t allowed a retort. I actually discussed with the admin but and he’d talked about changing, but I’ve never tested again. Most people on these forums aren’t such pussies to use it anyway.
The new alien movie was pretty solid, the throwback to the 80s style computers and having the original science director was great, plus the most woke looking character dies first
I watched it last night and couldn't disagree more.
Aesthetically, you're correct, it looked amazing. There were clear influences from Alien Isolation too. And there were some interesting ideas with the aliens. But the film explicitly relies on the characters being idiots, and I mean being idiots and not just lacking in information. The film relies on positive reception with "winks and nods to the other films"..... what are these "winks and nods"? Blatant line repetition or scene replication. Because you liked those scenes in the other films, yeah? So you'll like those scenes done all over again but worse, right?
And then there's the contrivances. I know a contrived plot is generally a given for just about any horror, but this was a little too much. Between a door conveniently being too strong for young adults to smash but weak enough for handful of facehuggers to smash with ease (but later glass doors being too strong), and an elevator on a space station designed with a counter-weight system, it was just too much for me. Just silly little contrivances over and over and over.
Oh, and the rhythm of the plot? Do you want the second half of Covenant again, which was the second half of the original Aliens but worse? Congrats, you can have that yet again.
Honest to god, I would rather watch Alien Resurrection again. Because for as bad as that movie is, it's at least entertaining. Hell, I'll take Prometheus and Covenant over this.
If I wanted to watch the old scenes, I'd watch the originals films they're from. Not this film that does them again but worse. Is it without bad scenes? No, there were some good scenes, but they were few and far between.
I have a love-hate relationship with this film. I love Michael Wincott, Ron Pearlman and Gary Dourdan in the film, they added a much needed sense of unapologetic masculinity to the movie. But I also hate how quickly they take out Wincott and in such an embarrassing way. There are some cool elements to this film and also some obscene violence. It's a weird, grunge-arthouse style film that feels like a grotesque train wreck you can't look away from.
Michael Wincott is the coolest and I have no idea why he isn't in more movies. If I could trade my voice with anyone's it would be to have Michael Wincotts voice.
Red Letter had a decent take. It probably started off as a good movie but Disney had to do what they always do and ruin it with mountains of fan service.
Unlike any other Alien movie, this movie doesn't find it's own way, it just rehashes old shit.
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You don't say. These people get a high off banning people.
The Captain America thing where a bullied nerd would handle superpowers with more morality than alpha humans was silly. The reality is what we see today. Petty little shits lording any scrap of power they get over whoever is different from them
I would say that Steve Rogers was not a bullied nerd. He had an alpha personality, just not the body to go along with it. He had a winner mindset, instead of the typical "chip on the shoulder" thing.
The Superpowers just allowed him to be physically a superhero.
Before he was given super strength he jumped on the grenade that he thought was live while everyone else fled. His mindset was the only thing that didn't change about him.
Correct. The guy you're replying to is retarded enough to miss something that was explicitly stated multiple times (because retards wouldn't get it otherwise)
He missed the mark a bit on the subject of Steve Rogers’ mindset/character, fair enough. But I don’t think the point he was trying to make is all that retarded.
There’s also a scene in the film where Stanly Tucci says something along the lines of, “a strong man would simply take this power for granted, but a weak man would understand the value of this power…”
I would agree that statements like the one above have proven to be complete bullshit in recent years. Half the world is collapsing right now because weak men got their hands on too much power.
Those two Batman Beyond episodes where the bullied dweeb got power and used them for petty revenge will always be relevant. Both times he wasted them, and by extension his life, by attempting to murder the asshole jock.
People forget how important bullying is. It’s how societal norms are enforced onto people as they grow up. I’m thankful as fuck I got the shit bullied out of me growing up so that I could actually not be a cringeworthy human being.
Unfortunately the only bullying going on nowadays is brown people beating up whites and troons bullying children into taking puberty blockers.
Yeah I don’t think bullying was ever a benefit in the traditional sense. The bullies were the apes of the school and were as small a group as the nerds. The reality with nerds, is the vast majority were passive on them at best, it’s just the few bullies that needed something weak to mess with. Modern nerd stuff being ruined is because nerd things were pushed into popular space and has nothing to do with a luck of bullies.
What we really need back is what I’ll call ostracizing. The people that the majority of the school sneered about. These were the slut girls, the fags, etc. When I was in school, no one liked these people. They weren’t necessarily bullied in the traditional sense, but they were the joke among almost all of their peers. Now, they are forced or brainwashed to accept those as normal.
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I don't think "jewish hollywood" counts, but "Bullying has always been ... niggers determining what is socially acceptable" is asserting that blacks, as a race, engage in an inherent form of abuse. So that is where the line gets crossed. Unless that is not what he's using "niggers" to refer to.
Is it?
Don't be a fucking retard.
The bullies have members of the groups of "criminals, jocks and niggers".
You're just looking for an excuse because I mentioned jews.
I explicitly said your comment didn't violate anything regarding jews
And blocking too. Reddit’s user blocking mechanism lets you reply to someone, then block them, and they see your reply but can’t reply back. It is specifically designed to let petty people who can’t defend their ideas get the last word (i.e. let the dumb ideas persist unrebutted)
I’m not positive it it is still that way, but way back when there was TheDonald.win and nothing else it worked like that here. I was arguing with someone about the dangers of modern online “stealth” censorship versus old school print censorship from the Soviet type days. They tried to pull some sort of smack down argument on me and block me, and I wasn’t allowed a retort. I actually discussed with the admin but and he’d talked about changing, but I’ve never tested again. Most people on these forums aren’t such pussies to use it anyway.
Interesting. I just now noticed there even is a block feature here
The new alien movie was pretty solid, the throwback to the 80s style computers and having the original science director was great, plus the most woke looking character dies first
I watched it last night and couldn't disagree more.
Aesthetically, you're correct, it looked amazing. There were clear influences from Alien Isolation too. And there were some interesting ideas with the aliens. But the film explicitly relies on the characters being idiots, and I mean being idiots and not just lacking in information. The film relies on positive reception with "winks and nods to the other films"..... what are these "winks and nods"? Blatant line repetition or scene replication. Because you liked those scenes in the other films, yeah? So you'll like those scenes done all over again but worse, right?
And then there's the contrivances. I know a contrived plot is generally a given for just about any horror, but this was a little too much. Between a door conveniently being too strong for young adults to smash but weak enough for handful of facehuggers to smash with ease (but later glass doors being too strong), and an elevator on a space station designed with a counter-weight system, it was just too much for me. Just silly little contrivances over and over and over.
Oh, and the rhythm of the plot? Do you want the second half of Covenant again, which was the second half of the original Aliens but worse? Congrats, you can have that yet again.
Honest to god, I would rather watch Alien Resurrection again. Because for as bad as that movie is, it's at least entertaining. Hell, I'll take Prometheus and Covenant over this.
If I wanted to watch the old scenes, I'd watch the originals films they're from. Not this film that does them again but worse. Is it without bad scenes? No, there were some good scenes, but they were few and far between.
I guess what those critical of the movie was right, this movie is just Alien but for the zoomer generation.
I have a love-hate relationship with this film. I love Michael Wincott, Ron Pearlman and Gary Dourdan in the film, they added a much needed sense of unapologetic masculinity to the movie. But I also hate how quickly they take out Wincott and in such an embarrassing way. There are some cool elements to this film and also some obscene violence. It's a weird, grunge-arthouse style film that feels like a grotesque train wreck you can't look away from.
Michael Wincott is the coolest and I have no idea why he isn't in more movies. If I could trade my voice with anyone's it would be to have Michael Wincotts voice.
Awesome in the Crow and 90s Robin Hood.
Reviews say it's trying too hard with member this scene from the previous alien movies
Red Letter had a decent take. It probably started off as a good movie but Disney had to do what they always do and ruin it with mountains of fan service.
Unlike any other Alien movie, this movie doesn't find it's own way, it just rehashes old shit.
oh my GOD, SPOILERS REEEE
I'd just assume that's a difficult determination to make with how goddamn woke every character in film tends to be these days.
Dora la Exploradora in space vs Xenos.
There's like, an entire involved process, just to get on the AMA sub as a celebrity.
"Noooo you have to follow standard reddit rules and regulations if you want to post as a celebrity!!!!"