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Posted on 8/10/23 at 3:15 am to TulaneLSU
Did you write these reviews to be terrible as a goof? Like is this a parody of real reviews?
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:56 am to Froman
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Did you write these reviews to be terrible as a goof? Like is this a parody of real reviews?
Do you not know his schtick? He’s been doing it for years.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 6:15 am to TulaneLSU
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reserved
Thanks for this. I love early downvoting.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:10 am to CunningLinguist
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Do you not know his schtick? He’s been doing it for years.
He also hates his own kind yet the masses eat it up
Posted on 8/10/23 at 12:42 pm to TulaneLSU
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My science teacher in boarding school recommended I read Junck’s Brighter than a Thousand Suns, which details the history and personalities of those involved in splitting the atom.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 4:20 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Anybody who gets amusement from your shite is a 43 year old from Gonzales whose best years of life were in 2005
Every time TulaneLSU posts I'm amazed at the vitriol that emerges, and I've never quite understood why he's so divisive.
To each their own of course, but with each successive version I'm slowly realizing that I may be the only idiot left who still really enjoys these threads.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 4:51 pm to paperwasp
Shortcomings
It is only by looking outward from a great distance that we are able to find ourselves. One can read any book, watch every arthouse movie ever made, delve into spirit crystals, travel to the ends of the world, learn the techniques of pith and wit but none of those get to the heart of who we are – creations of God shaped in the way that makes us empty and searching until we find rest in God and find service to others.
Life is not about happy endings, dramatic romance, erotic sexcapades, photograph worthy food, sports, cleverness, or fixing a helplessly broken relationship. And for most of Shortcomings I assumed Randall Park, making his directorial debut, had made a movie about the state of relations in America, a state of utter desolation and perdition.
And throughout this 90 minute film, I chuckled at a few wiry one-liners, the 6’6” tai chi practicing, Japanese speaking Jewish Native American – a real life Steven Seagal, and the movie’s blatant mockery of Crazy Rich Asians. I enjoyed giving the beautiful and often forgotten city of Oakland the silver screen treatment it deserves. But throughout, I wondered, Why? Why are we being dragged through a series of broken and worthless relationships that corrode the spirit? To what end is this torture?
Park teases us three times in the closing minutes. A dash through Manhattan with a triumphant reunion? No. Letting go leading to love at the airport? Nope. Love’s beginning through tears on an airline? Not even. For three days, we are told by St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, did Saul lose his eyesight and he did not eat or drink anything.
Only at the very end, as we see Ben’s home, the most beautiful of cities, San Francisco, from across the bay is there any evidence of repentance from seeing himself as the universe center. Only then, when he sees for the first time the larger picture, the city, the other, do the scales of cynicism and sarcasm, two great weights tying him to the gravity of his self’s brokenness, fall from his eyelids. The end is Ben’s beginning. May he walk with the Lord and now serve the world rather than cower in fear and self-loathing. 6/10
It is only by looking outward from a great distance that we are able to find ourselves. One can read any book, watch every arthouse movie ever made, delve into spirit crystals, travel to the ends of the world, learn the techniques of pith and wit but none of those get to the heart of who we are – creations of God shaped in the way that makes us empty and searching until we find rest in God and find service to others.
Life is not about happy endings, dramatic romance, erotic sexcapades, photograph worthy food, sports, cleverness, or fixing a helplessly broken relationship. And for most of Shortcomings I assumed Randall Park, making his directorial debut, had made a movie about the state of relations in America, a state of utter desolation and perdition.
And throughout this 90 minute film, I chuckled at a few wiry one-liners, the 6’6” tai chi practicing, Japanese speaking Jewish Native American – a real life Steven Seagal, and the movie’s blatant mockery of Crazy Rich Asians. I enjoyed giving the beautiful and often forgotten city of Oakland the silver screen treatment it deserves. But throughout, I wondered, Why? Why are we being dragged through a series of broken and worthless relationships that corrode the spirit? To what end is this torture?
Park teases us three times in the closing minutes. A dash through Manhattan with a triumphant reunion? No. Letting go leading to love at the airport? Nope. Love’s beginning through tears on an airline? Not even. For three days, we are told by St. Luke in the Acts of the Apostles, did Saul lose his eyesight and he did not eat or drink anything.
Only at the very end, as we see Ben’s home, the most beautiful of cities, San Francisco, from across the bay is there any evidence of repentance from seeing himself as the universe center. Only then, when he sees for the first time the larger picture, the city, the other, do the scales of cynicism and sarcasm, two great weights tying him to the gravity of his self’s brokenness, fall from his eyelids. The end is Ben’s beginning. May he walk with the Lord and now serve the world rather than cower in fear and self-loathing. 6/10
Posted on 8/10/23 at 5:19 pm to paperwasp
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I'm slowly realizing that I may be the only idiot left who still really enjoys these threads.
Nah. Im an idiot too.
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:12 pm to WG_Dawg
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But what puts this movie over the top are the fans. That's right. By the end of the movie, 75% of the theater, consisting mostly of early and pre-teen girls were on the ground level with their hands up, screaming and touching the screen as if the movie were a concert. It was exhilarating to be in that number! I confess I too ran down to the floor and began dancing and screaming with the masses. What an awesome movie experience. Movie 6/10 Experience 10/10. My favorite
What review was this from?
Posted on 8/10/23 at 7:27 pm to Zap Rowsdower
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What review was this from?
That creepy Justin Bieber movie review...
Where you said...okay, the shtick might be up.
This post was edited on 8/10/23 at 7:30 pm
Posted on 8/11/23 at 10:40 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Your Schtick is gay
What if TulaneLSU is gay? I'm not saying he is, but he might be and if he is then wouldn't you calling his Schtick gay be on brand for him?
I think someone sharing movie opinions that have nothing to do with politics is refreshing and I enjoyed the read.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 11:01 am to TulaneLSU
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TulaneLSU
Did you reserve two spots on the first page and then not use them with this?
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Shortcomings
Posted on 8/11/23 at 11:28 am to Zap Rowsdower
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What review was this from?
Bieber: Never Say Never.
I gotta say, back when he was doing these in 2010-11, there wasn't a single person on tigerdroppings that frustrated me more. His trolling drove me nuts.
But there were hidden gems in there like that that were solid gold
Posted on 8/11/23 at 5:40 pm to paperwasp
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I've never quite understood why he's so divisive.
Not sure anyone likes any of his alters either.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 5:44 pm to TulaneLSU
I bet you and mother loved Barbie. I’m guessing she bought you some barbie dolls when you were little.
Posted on 8/11/23 at 6:04 pm to gizmothepug
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Chicken claws, or whatever you call chicken feet.
Talons baw
Posted on 8/11/23 at 6:36 pm to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Your Schtick is gay and lame and you need to keep it on the OT.if you feel the need to be cheeky Just troll like the rest of us. Anybody who gets amusement from your shite is a 43 year old from Gonzales whose best years of life were in 2005
We really are living amongst a confederacy of dunces.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 5:43 am to Hawgnsincebirth55
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Your Schtick is gay and lame
Yet here you are reading it.
Posted on 8/12/23 at 6:35 am to paperwasp
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I've never quite understood why he's so divisive.
He’s starting to become a parody of himself. I’m not sure if it’s running out of topics or just phoning it in on occasion, but some of his recent endeavors have left me scratching my head a little.
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