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  1. 8 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    I'd really like to hear your solution. Empathize and then.... what? Let's say for a second the problem isn't discrimination against white men. Let's just assume the problem is that a person of lesser ability is angry because their lot in life sucks, and it sucks because our society does a poor job of providing for those with lesser abilities. Do we have to cater to their fantasies that white people are being discriminated against? Or can we try and address the problem of society doing a sucky job of providing for everyone

    Until recently, people got the same information diet across the board. Now they don't, and until that is addressed, it doesn't matter whether progressives cater to their fantasies or try to address the root problem. Like I said earlier, they aren't going to see stuff that doesn't cater to their fantasies, at least online. And most of them get their news/info online, from hyper-curated sources. It's only going to get worst with the progression of AI-created content and deepfakes. I don't want to be terribly cynical, but I don't think we can put the toothpaste back into the tube. I'm hoping someone smarter than me can come up with some kind of solution that addresses this, because I don't see things getting better otherwise. 

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  2. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Good post, agree about all of this. But I am fascinated by the virality of it, because it has resonated with so many people. Some of that is because it’s been picked up and amplified by the right wing social media ecosystem, but initially it was apparently organic and I don’t think that happens unless people recognize their own lives in something. Even the whining, silly as it is, speaks to the despair some readers are feeling about their future. 
     

    Which, again, is fertile ground. The nexus of limited opportunity and despair is supposed to be the progressive wheelhouse. But instead, we look at this one group and recoil. 

    I do think it went viral because it resonated with people, but also because it's fairly well-written (not from an evidence-gathering standpoint; from a prose standpoint). It's like why JD Vance is effective. He makes shitty points sound polished. 

    As for what to do about it? We're really in a pickle because the biggest problem, IMO, is not poor messaging/lack of messaging (although that's definitely a problem). It's that the people who need to see it will not see it because of the media environment and algorithms. An example: after Trump posted about the Reiners' death, I was curious as to whether or not that news had gotten around right-wing media. So far, I haven't been able to find an article on Fox News (the main site, not affiliates) mentioning Trump's post. Here's the article and headline I did find: GOP leaders call Reiner family slayings a 'tragedy' as director's son detained in homicide probe

    Progressives have to be able to pierce the media bubble. Our current Boomer leadership isn't capable of this because they can't conceive of how to do it. I think it starts with podcasts and influencers, once we get people in charge who understand social media. Not to re-litigate this issue, but for example, Kamala should've gone on Joe Rogan - it probably wouldn't have won her the election, but it would've shown her trying to reach these guys where they're at. I will beat this drum till the day I die: it doesn't matter how great the messaging is if no one hears it.

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  3. 7 hours ago, Duane Moore said:

    Not that I can remember. Certainly not the storyline about a character being a scapegoat for child murders. The police chief who framed him is Clint Bowers, who is Henry Bower’s dad from the book. 

    Clint is Henry's grandpa. Henry's dad was Butch.

    Yes, the cycle is mentioned in the book. 

    Hank Grogan isn't in the book, but there's an offhand reference to Bev having a friend named Ronnie Grogan. I think TV show Ronnie is just an Easter egg for fans of the book.

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  4. 16 hours ago, ztejas said:

    I feel like a lot of you think that LOTR follows the books much more closely than it does.

    It's probably the greatest adaptation of all time but there are pretty major differences between the book and the movies. 

    LOTR is one of the few movies where I liked the movies better than the books (and I generally liked the books). Tolkien needed a stronger editor. A lot of the prose in that series could've been cut to make the flow better, without sacrificing story.

  5. 46 minutes ago, UT_OB1 said:

    I mean I guess if you like rape…

    I feel like it will become a plot point at some time since Seehorns character talks about opinions and freeing the infected - I don’t trust the aliens supposed good intentions towards the infected, because I assume that most of the enslaved would consider themselves being harmed if asked honestly, and the hot tub scene is the most poignant example in that if you asked any of those infected when they had free will, they would say they have been raped. 
     

    Also, that rat was clearly mind controlled and it bit the shit out of the lab tech. Do no harm my ass. 
     

    Ate they not allowed to mow the grass even?…

    On the infection itself, if it was truly just a radio blast in all directions from the source, they would have no way of knowing the exact biology of the planet it was received on. And it clearly infected the rat. So does that mean that every single animal is also hive mind?  Every plant even?  And do they have knowledge of previous infected civilizations?  We haven’t seen anything high tech yet.

    Sorry for the Loboian list of random thoughts. 

    What I've been wondering lately is, who's the queen? Every hive has one, so who (or what) is directing all of their actions? What greater end does their acquiescence serve?

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  6. 6 hours ago, Duane Moore said:

    I first read IT in an original hard copy when it came out in the 80’s, have read it cover to cover three times, loved the Tim Curry TV version, the 2017 movie, and even enjoyed the second chapter which wasn’t as good. I even read 1963 because I heard there was a Derry scene in it with a couple of the kids from the Loser’s Club. On vacation in Maine I made sure we hit Bangor and went to the Standpipe, Paul Bunyan, the Public Library, all the landmarks from the book. 
     

    I say all that to say that to establish my bona fides when I say that this show sucks.


     

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    The first episode broke canon with IT being a car full of people driving on the highway and it seems like this is taking place during the Kennedy Administration, which would be several years after the book’s cycle from the late 50’s took place. Then we have the revolting pickle man scene in the grocery store, and the girl with her eyes bugging out staggering all over the school like a scene from Evil Dead 2 that veers into comedy.  
     

    The Army looking to make IT a weapon is a tired trope and the “Aliens” ripoff episode where they send a squad into the house on Niebolt Street was ridiculous.  The Native American characters and storylines seem like they are stereotypes taken from a Billy Jack movie in the 1970’s.  I’m waiting for Chief Dan George or Iron Eyes Cody to show up.  The kids in this show are terrible actors with none of the likeability of the kids from previous screen representations. I keep telling myself I’m done with it, but I may keep watching just to see how bad it can get  

     

     

    Totally agree, with one note - I think they are using a timeline based on the later It movies, not the book. I was confused by this, too, and that's the only thing that makes sense. In the recent movies, they're kids are in the 1980s, not the 50s, so the series taking place in the 60s lines up.

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  7. I'll finish out the season because I'm a glutton for punishment, and I want to see how the fire at the nightclub goes down, but this show is so dumb. Spoilers below for this show and for the original novel.

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    OF FUCKING COURSE Matty was a projection of It, and of course Phil was dead.

    Looks like I was wrong about Madeleine Stowe being a figure of Lilly's imagination - I guess now they're making her a younger version of the Mrs. Kersh that Bev visits as an adult, who turns out to be a projection of It. So I guess It was basing her on an actual person.

    The whole military storyline and the Native backstory both don't make sense. If you could bury some items around a perimeter and create a "cage" of sorts to contain It, why would you make the boundary so huge? Maybe you don't want to risk getting close to It, but over the hundreds of years since the boundary was created, you couldn't creep them in closer and closer? Especially since It apparently can't get within a few feet of the shards? And anyway, how exactly does the military think they can use It as a weapon, even if it can get to all the shards?


    Y'all know I love horror and I can suspend a lot of disbelief, but this show isn't working for me. 

  8. On 11/7/2025 at 4:46 AM, UpperWestside said:

    For those wondering, yes Jennifer Lawrence is naked several times in the movie. This is a heavy movie emotionally and it deals with mental illness. I just went to see it tonight and it is complex in how it portrays Lawrence's character and her illness. Watching somebody you love slowly detach from reality is hard.

    Is it worth it to see it in theaters? I'd like to, but there are limited showtimes here so I may wait for streaming.

  9. Really darkly satirical, fun movie that shows off the two leads - I hope Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch do more things together. The screenplay is razor sharp. I'd like to see it get an Oscar nomination. It's the writer who did the screenplay for both The Favourite and Poor Things.

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  10. I hope they move the plot forward more this week, at least around the motivations of the hive and what their end goals and real power are. They say they won't kill anything, and she can kill 11 million in one pop just by getting mad? And they'll give her anything she wants at any time? If that's me and all my family and friends are gone, just move me to my own island, keep the fridge and pantry stocked, let me order all the books and movies I want and I'm set. They can do all the world domination they want and I wouldn't get in the way. I'm just confused as to what the end game could be.

  11. On 8/2/2022 at 8:34 AM, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    A tweet I think about regularly from I believe Drew Magary the day he died. “Is there a way to put flags at one and a half mast?”

     

    On 10/15/2025 at 1:28 PM, futureman said:

    should I know who Lee Pace is?

     

    On 10/15/2025 at 3:11 PM, utee94 said:

    Thranduil the Elven King in The Hobbit movies

    Ronan The Accuser in Marvel's Avengers movies

    Joe MacMillan, an OG 80s Tech Bro, on AMC's Halt and Catch Fire

    Brother Day of Empire, in Apple's adaptation of Isaac Asimov's Foundation

    The Hobbit: Let's talk about Lee Pace's Battle-Moose – Metro US

     

    On 10/16/2025 at 4:20 PM, Captain Ron said:

    Should you? yes.

    Do you? Probably not because he likes to fly under the radar

     

    Everything @utee94 said, plus I was thinking Pushing Daisies and The Fall.

     

    I knew him from Pushing Daisies, which was one of the most underrated tv shows ever, as well as Bodies Bodies Bodies, which was a great indie horror movie.

    Saw this today and it was fine; it's just hard for me to see Glenn Powell as "the angriest man ever". Plus,

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    the ending was nuts and a big deviation from the book, for better or worse.

    I will watch Colman Domingo in anything, though, and Edgar Wright makes a great action movie, even if the content isn't perfect. I'd recommend it for streaming if you're on the fence about seeing in it the theater.

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