Post your funny pictures here!!! part Deux

[Hydra009]

[Hydra009]

What your color combination says about you:

White/blue = bureaucrat
White/green = hippie
White/red = Semper Fi
White/black = bodycam turned off
Blue/green = evolutionary biologist
Blue/red = naval officer and/or pirate
Blue/black = true crime podcaster
Green/red = anarchist
Green/black = sociopath
Red/black = team satan

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Team santa sounds like fun.

[Hydra009]

[aitm]

I must not be like many of you. I watch a movie for entertainment, never, ever..have I sat afterwards and tried to decipher the underlining message. I just watch the movie for entertainment. I have only played a few games on the computer, possibly a total of an incredible two hours in my life. I know there are people, directors trying to send a message...it's lost on me....entertain me bitch.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Tits.

[drunkenshoe]

[drunkenshoe]

[drunkenshoe]

This week's winner of the best protest banner...

[Hydra009]

I must not be like many of you. I watch a movie for entertainment, never, ever..have I sat afterwards and tried to decipher the underlining message. I just watch the movie for entertainment. I have only played a few games on the computer, possibly a total of an incredible two hours in my life. I know there are people, directors trying to send a message...it's lost on me....entertain me bitch.

Exact opposite.  I won't lie and say that I don't also enjoy spectacle, but most major films have some sort of message that should be understood and appreciated.  Even Godzilla has a message.  It expresses the civilization-destroying horror of atomic bombs in particular and militarism in general.

Even "dumb" superhero movies at least try to convey how superhuman power should and should not be used.

For every hour I spend on a show, I probably spend at least two hours analyzing its core themes, references to other works, parallels to other works, even its tropes down to the granular level.  (Does the hero save the cat?  Am I watching a hero, antihero, or villain protagonist?)  I especially like movies that work on multiple levels at once, like the Matrix.  On one hand, it's a man learning martial arts and punching through concrete.   On the other, a war of ideas.  Stuff like that fascinates me.  If the film was literally just two guys punching concrete, I would find that to be incredibly boring.  I'm not even sure if such a film would be worthwhile to make or be enjoyable or would be worth talking about years later.

And not as a dig on you, just generally, I think it'd be worthwhile for people to cultivate media literacy.  There'd probably be less nazis around today if more people would pick up on their depiction as the bad guys in a lot of films.  People should understand that a lot of fiction is what-if scenarios and the results of these scenarios can help guide us towards making better choices in our own lives.

[aitm]

"There'd probably be less nazis around today if more people would pick up on their depiction as the bad guys in a lot of films."

Er....most of us pretty much know who the bad guys are. If you don't, I don't think a movie suggesting who are the bad guys will resonate with said person. Probably a general lack of real life..maybe not enough interaction with humanity and too much with a tv.

[Hydra009]

"There'd probably be less nazis around today if more people would pick up on their depiction as the bad guys in a lot of films."

Er....most of us pretty much know who the bad guys are. If you don't, I don't think a movie suggesting who are the bad guys will resonate with said person. Probably a general lack of real life..maybe not enough interaction with humanity and too much with a tv.

You plant seeds and hope they grow - that's all a writer can do.  Every adult nazi was once a child rooting for the rebels to blow up the Death Star - but for some reason, they never connected the dots between fiction and real life.

As for interactions, I will say that they're definitely not burdened with an overabundance of imagination or too much exposure to stories about people from other walks of life.  If anything, there's a sad retreat into very niche communities - online and irl - where a sort of fake reality is propagated and that starts to take hold.  At a certain point, when family and friends and even basic facts about this world can't even make a dent, it's no surprise that writers can't either.  Not even the most talented surgeon can heal the dead.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Anna Taylor-Joy's ... costume ... was spot on.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And not as a dig on you, just generally, I think it'd be worthwhile for people to cultivate media literacy.  There'd probably be less nazis around today if more people would pick up on their depiction as the bad guys in a lot of films.  People should understand that a lot of fiction is what-if scenarios and the results of these scenarios can help guide us towards making better choices in our own lives.

My Master's thesis was on "Pearl Harbor electronic detection systems pre-Nagumo Kido Butai attack". I can spot a fascist. Most people these days seem to think they're "the other side" in the political spectrum.

[the_antithesis]

What's a mill deck?



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eh, never mind.