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Dec 8, 2022 - 3:01 PM
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TheAvenger
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I’m curious what, in her later life, you find so repugnant. Her politics? Her religion? Her outspokenness on certain topics (which were in the main linked to her political and religious beliefs)?
Hmm. The fact she was a racist. Called anyone she didn't agree with the C word. Said gay people go to gay hell. Anti-vax.
She was pretty open, so you can easily find all this stuff from her own words.
Her "religion" helped killed her, as one of the many outrageous claims they make is if you join their cult you will be immune to cancer.
Oh no, imagine using naughty words to slate people she didn’t like. Sure she was outspoken, but I imagine 90% of the Hollywood fraternity use colourful descriptions of people they don’t like.
I’m aware of her anti-vax stance but can’t find anything about racism anywhere.
As for her “religion” (your choice of inverted commas, not mine) well, I don’t have any belief any supreme being, whether that is a God, several Gods or a bunch of aliens. But I respect people that do have belief. In fact the only religions I don’t respect are those which compel their followers to fly aircraft into buildings…. and forgive me, but I don’t seem to recall Scientology ever being responsible for that.
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Folks, I'd appreciate it if we don't have these particular fights on this thread I'm using for my blog posts. Or at all, honestly.
Lukas
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1) I still have never seen the end of Black Sunday because of this.
2) Get Plex. My knees are fine.
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Dec 15, 2022 - 10:30 AM
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Ado
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Actually, I think villains are most often completely irrelevant to Star Trek. Wrath of Khan was an exception, it was central to the plot, but, as often pointed out, the villain and the hero never even share a scene in the same room. The villain in TWOK was as much about nostalgia and the problem of the identities of our hero characters in time as anything else. Typically the best Trek stories have no villain at all, The Motion Picture, The Voyage Home, and almost all the best TOS episodes had no villain, or at least what was misunderstood to be a villain, was later revealed as no villain at all. This is why Trek is so different than Star Wars. Star Wars operates entirely on the engine of the villain, it cannot function without it.
And, for me, Star Trek Beyond was probably one of the better reboot pictures.
The fatigue is a product of too many films being made, for no reason at all, without any compelling story to be told, with continually declining production quality. Ironically though, the audience has broadly accepted the rehash and retread, with rare exceptions these substandard and non-creative sequels and reboots make money. The studios have clearly gotten the message. They really do not actually need to try harder, they can be very profitable making films that are substandard. If anything the modern audience is less discriminating in terms of story and production standards than ever. It actually makes perfect sense. Original films and television, ambitious and unique projects, fail, get bad ratings and do not make money. The message is that unique content is not what the audience wants.
Studio says "message received".
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Today, Grandpa is pissed that his favorite movies pop up on streaming services only to randomly disappear. Bad!
https://www.lukaskendall.com/post/streaming-vanishing-act
Streaming services are all very well, but my internet dropped out the other night and I couldn't access a single thing. So I watched a DVD off the shelf: THE NAME OF THE ROSE (which isn't on any UK streaming sites as far as I can tell).
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Thank you for posting the Gary McFarland documentary. My older brother exposed me to jazz back in the late 60s--he had a huge collection--and through him I heard McFarland for the first time. I have several of his things, but the documentary makes me want to hear more.
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