i was impressed with the first one but that’s the only one i’ve seen, except for the cartoon ones- spiderverse. i was really impressed with those, and was surprised that the second one surpassed the first. excellent movies

so…is it good?

lol “maybe we should slow it down a little with the AI…”

i should have clarified: jack nicholson batman wasn’t steamy diarrhea. it was good, though dated by this point, but batman returns was much better imo

tim burton’s second batman was way better than the first, worth trying. danny devito nailed it as the penguin, christopher walken was an amazing corpo ceo slimeball, and michelle pfeiffer still the best catwoman

the rest of the pre-nolan movies were all steamy diarrhea. one of them actually wrecked chris o’donnell’s career

oh yea, and the last samurai dude

i wouldn’t say bale is a bad actor, but he was vastly overshadowed by the rest of the cast, at least in part 1–morgan freeman, michael caine, cillian murphy, gary oldman, and whoever else was in there

part 2 was ok but way over hyped and overrated

part 3 was the worst, felt like nolan phoned in the whole movie

and the sequel: flat-earthers on a literally round earth

it’s karma kicking them in the balls for that stupid follow the train mission in SA

my guess is the footage leaks will cost rockstar $0.00 in sales, and might actually make more people buy it than if there were no footage

it’s rockstar’s own shitty behavior that will cost them sales

https://www.history.com/articles/tulsa-race-massacre

https://eji.org/news/wilmington-massacre-of-1898/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51243325-wilmington-s-lie

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/racial_and_ethnic_disparities/

https://worldmetrics.org/racism-in-america-statistics/

but really, just recall BLM and the foaming-at-the-mouth outrage reaction to that movement. remember how racist fascist ultranationalist nazi racists were screaming for blood over Colin Kaepernick’s kneeling for the anthem? racism (among many other -isms) never remotely went away, and is in fact maximally enabled and empowered by con-man in chief and his muppet goons.

disclosure: i’m not black, but i am part of the not-white-enough caste

Caste by Isabel Wilkerson should be required reading for everyone in america

USA started as, and continues to be, a shithole country

fuck this place

i’m not a historian, but can tell you that slaves were treated as if they were helpless toddlers-- they were made to believe that their existence was entirely dependent on their “owners.” in other words “if it weren’t for your owner, you would suffer even worse than you already are, and you would die.” they were prohibited from learning how to read and write. they were born and raised with the mindset that if they did leave the plantation, the only thing that would happen would be they would be caught, whipped, and brought right back to where they were, to be whipped again, or very likely worse. when you’re born and raised in this kind of environment, the idea of “walk off the farm” doesn’t even occur to you

and where would they go? they were prevented from knowing that there was such a thing as abolitionists, or places where they could escape to and not be slaves. and even if they heard about this possibility, they were brainwashed to think they were offending god by defying “master” or some shit. it was self-preservation, not fear. the frederick douglasses who taught themselves how to read, beat up their owners, and escaped to the north were rare.

if you’re really interested, i recommend douglass’s own book , as well as Caste by isabel wilkerson. the burning hate and racism of whites is still here

tl;dr: mind control

edit: since we’re on the topic, i’m going to rant

the argument “you can’t judge people in the past according to today’s societal standards” is bullshit. yes i fucking can, and yes i fucking do. “slavery is wrong” is not a “welllll…” or “but…” statement. slavery is fucking wrong, and always has been. and there have always been people who know this simple fact, regardless of what century they lived in. this is evidenced by the fact that there would still be slavery if not for the people at the time who recognized its wrongness, and fought to end it.

if you want to dive deep, read up on Bartolomé de las Casas, a person from the 1400s who, through the course of his life, went from “slavery is normal,” to “only africans should be slaves,” to “NO ONE should be enslaved.” because of the horrific things he saw and experienced in the new world. yea, they don’t teach de las Casas in school, because of systemic racism, and so they can continue to push the bullshit “they were products of their time” narrative.

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ever since they stole the first of THREE seats (so far) on the supreme court, i’ve always said that was the absolute worst

wait, are we not supposed to eat the entire rotisserie chicken?

that or a pop up in the middle of me reading the article asking to give my email = instant close tab

i wouldn’t lie about exploding dicks

yea. imo paul verhoeven is one of the most underrated filmmakers. body horror + wtf does it even mean to be “human/awake/alive” philosophical problems = great cinema

edit: obligatory NSFW exploding dicks https://vimeo.com/86014703?fl=pl&fe=vl