re: Chicken, WTF is going on with this board?

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There are a few people that like to decide what others are allowed to enjoy.

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Literally what you do.
fricking delusional commie.

Maybe if Hollywood didn’t go full pandering to retards in nearly every production, this wouldn’t be a constant topic. Ever consider that?

Ellen Page would have made a better Odysseus than Matt Damon.

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Ok thats fine. Noone is asking you to enjoy anything. We're asking you to leave us alone so we can talk about things we like.

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Someone started a topic on Emily Wilson being dissatisfied with the film instead of jumping into the big "Discussion" topic. You were the 3rd or 4th reply and it was just a melting meme.

Depends on the era, but there are the general 'mankind messes around with nature and it comes back to bite them in the arse' type themes. But nothing to the extent of what Hollywood is going through.

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What a shite show. Chicken, you and the mods need to be better and get rid of the obvious trolls on both ends of the spectrum.

Impossible to even try and engage on the nuances and choices of the media.

I'm sure you love the clicks, but frick this, will go somewhere else

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Ironically, this would be a topic better suited to Poli, the OT or even Help boards.

I've participated in my share of MTVB bitching about partisan hackery in entertainment but it's due to the continued prevalence of that hackery in the face of how horribly unsuccessful most of it is.

Part of the discourse here is on what defines quality in entertainment. Quality in this context can also be thought of as "beauty" because it is in the eye of the beholder.

For some, they want to be lectured on the social cause célèbres du jour (or, at least, comforted by being lectured on how bad the other side is for being on that opposite side). But even for that crowd, most will eventually tire of it, especially if it becomes omnipresent.

For others, they are okay with a little lecturing as long as it's fairly unobtrusive (obtrusiveness will generally be determined by their agreement or disagreement with the entertainment's stance).

For still others, they don't want any.

All of those stances delve into a subjective aspect of "quality".

For instance, does race-swapping or gender-swapping a known character from an IP add or detract quality? For most people (as evidenced by box office sales and ratings), it detracts because the fact that it was done becomes part of the message of the offering for no other discernible reason than some self-serving attempt at the director/producer/writers/whomever trying to cloak themselves in social justice glory.

In other words, it's done (at least in part) for them to believe they are showing the world how magnanimous they are. That's neither an interesting nor fun story, especially after the 4,000th time.

So, yes, it's going to come up because it's an aspect of the entertainment industry they themselves have created and have tried to tell us it's "quality".

Would this even be a thread if Chris Nolan didnt use a ridiculous cast? Probably not.


The Odyssey is the straw that broke the camels back.

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then it's going to continue. As long as it continues, threads and posts of pushback will crop up as will threads and posts pushing back against the pushback.

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Yep, up next is the Harry Potter series

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but frick this, will go somewhere else

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This board is an extension of Reddit and the Poli board

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money

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75% of the topics are each side slinging shite at each other

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And swearing that only the other is doing all of it