“Deadpool” is mine.
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I haven't seen any of these, though my eldest sister apparently was a fan of Breaking Bad. I've also heard Fargo was good but still haven't seen it. I'm currently only paying for Amazon Prime- I think I forgot to cancel after a "1 month free" deal, but after the month is up, it should be done. I'd -like- to pay for it and other subscription services, but money's tight right now. Oh, my mother's also letting me use her Netflix account for now, though Netflix is making it harder to use it. I'm not currently seeing anything on either platform right now, mainly because I'm currently watching the second season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds that I found online.
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Agreed, I love it though
. I think it speaks volumes about the dark side of corporate culture. And I gotta say, what I consider the main premise of the second season had me hooked from the start.That is, rescuing the main character's wife
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Let me know if you do
. Here's the trailer to the first season in case you haven't seen it:I'll also put in a spoiler below, just because it's so apt to what's happening right now in the world for those who don't mind a little spoiler
It looks like the siloed existence may have started because the U.S. got into a war with Iran
Scott
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I usually don't see too many comedy films, but I really liked Deadpool too- so perhaps my favourite comedy film, doubling as an action film
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Why not? Isn't the goal of every Truth seeker to explore all possible avenues?
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Deadpool is GREAT comedy. I love all forms of comedy since it reveals common socioeconomic views of the time.I usually don't see too many comedy films, but I really liked Deadpool too- so perhaps my favourite comedy film, doubling as an action film
Scott
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Your question is a bit ambiguous- why not what? See Exorcist and The Thing? If so, are you suggesting that they are... the truth?
Scott
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I definitely liked Deadpool. As to comedy in general, I certainly like some of it, but my main concern with a lot of comedy is that it can distract from more important things. I think the only subject where I think this can be a good thing is things related to sexuality, because I think that frank conversations about that -without- comedy are frequently almost impossible.
Haven't watched any of the movies or TV series. I collected the comics for while as a kid. Then I discovered cars and building go karts and midget racers at about 9 and then girls a bit later and got over that stuff. I watched Gotham just to see what all the gushing was about.
I watched it all the way to the last season, Season 6. I'm pretty sure I stopped after Episode 3 of that season, because Diana's death always got me thinking. So after Episode 3, I decided to watch the documentary on Diane's death that was fianced by Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Dodi, who Diana had been having a romantic relationship with. It's called Unlawful Killing. Due to liability issues, I'm not sure if the film was ever released in any theater anywhere, but I managed to find it online. Anyway, it persuaded me that the official story on what happened to Diana is false. Wikipedia has a page on the documentary which can be seen here:
Unlawful Killing (film) - Wikipedia
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Because The Crown is pretty official in many respects, it's turned me off from watching the final episodes.
It's okay, I like looking at the old cars, and some of the actors are good; just not a lot going on that interests me. I like John Lithgow as an actor, but his Churchill isn't his best effort. I think the writing for his part falls down into the poor and predictable stereotyped category.
Scott
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Ah ok. I may have started comics a bit later than you (10 or 11), but I stuck with them until around 17. At that point, I decided the money I had was better spent elsewhere- for reading, I had bulletin boards, a pre cursor to the internet, which I preferred. Then a bunch of marvel movies came out that I liked quite a bit. I think the culmination was Avengers: Endgame in 2019. Seems Disney's influence made marvel movies go pretty much downhill from there. I still liked a few marvel tv series after that though, such as the 2 seasons of Loki and the 1 season of Wandavision, which was a prequel of sorts for the second Dr. Strange Movie which I -did- like.
Getting back to Marvel comics though, a few years back, I found out I could get an online subscription of basically all the comics I could ever read (that is, back issues), plus most new ones with a 3 month delay online for a price cheaper than Netflix, especially when done on a yearly basis. So here I am at 49, reading some comics every week
. I pretty much stopped reading back issues, there are enough recent issues to keep me busy.
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Why don't you watch movies like the Exorcist except in snippets.
It's okay if you don't want to answer, Scott.
Scott
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It's okay, I like looking at the old cars, and some of the actors are good; just not a lot going on that interests me. I like John Lithgow as an actor, but his Churchill isn't his best effort. I think the writing for his part falls down into the poor and predictable stereotyped category.I watched it all the way to the last season, Season 6. I'm pretty sure I stopped after Episode 3 of that season, because Diana's death always got me thinking. So after Episode 3, I decided to watch the documentary on Diane's death that was fianced by Mohamed Al-Fayed, the father of Dodi, who Diana had been having a romantic relationship with. It's called Unlawful Killing. Due to liability issues, I'm not sure if the film was ever released in any theater anywhere, but I managed to find it online. Anyway, it persuaded me that the official story on what happened to Diana is false. Wikipedia has a page on the documentary which can be seen here:
Unlawful Killing (film) - Wikipedia
Because The Crown is pretty official in many respects, it's turned me off from watching the final episodes.
Perhaps if I knew more about royal affairs, I might have been more critical of the acting of various actors. As things were, I felt I wasn't just getting a drama, I was also getting a history lesson. Up until the point when Diana was killed- at that point, I felt I was getting a white wash and that's why I stopped.
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I don't mind answering that- I simply don't think there's any good reason to see something that's scary but fictional. I have a different view when facing things that are scary but real, such as Trump apparently leaning towards going to war with Iran.
I should probably add a bit of a caveat- a -bit- scary is alright. It's a bit of a fine line. To give you an idea of where I draw the line, I -almost- stopped watching Game of Thrones on the very first episode because of what happened between some men and the white walkers. I decided to keep on going, perhaps because someone told me that that scene was perhaps the scariest in the entire series up to that point (and in my view, up until the end now that I've seen it all). I think the Dark series never got as scary as that first episode of Game of Thrones.
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Interesting. Are you under the age of 35? Your views are idealistic to the point of unrealistic, IMO.
Movies are entertainment. Scary movies are a thrill ride just like a roller coaster or a haunted house. Your choice to avoid them, but it's an abbie normal choice.
Scott
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No, I'm 49.
I'm curious as to why you came to this conclusion.
They can be, though from what I've heard of that word, I'm not overly fond of it. The one that I tend to associate with entertainment, from The American Heritage Dictionary, 5th Edition:
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noun Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.
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I tend to see tv shows and films that are good more like what I imagine a devout Christian may have seen Sunday at the church. I actually remember seeing an anime where the opening scene seemed to suggest this type of connection, with people settling down in a movie theater the way I imagine devout people might sit down before a sermon from a priest they believe in.
As you may know, I do consider myself to be in a religion, Pantheism, though no one converted me to it- I already essentially believed the basic tenets of the religion, found it one day while browsing on the internet and said, that's what I believe. I know there are different branches within Pantheism, but honestly, I haven't paid that much attention as of yet.
I think that any -good- religion concerns itself a lot with morality, but unlike what some people seem to think, I think that figuring out what the 'right thing' to do is at any given moment in time can frequently be quite hard. I think good tv shows and films can help us figure things like that out. That and talking to others about it- the old "two heads are better than one" can frequently apply here.
I think it's apt that you bring up roller coasters, as I never liked those either
. As for haunted house/theme park haunted somethings, that one may be alright. I've gone to a few- they weren't that scary, which is how I like it. So I can like thrillers, which Game of Thrones may be sometimes, as well as TV series like Dark, but that's about the limit of how scary I like it. As to whether it's abnormal in the sense that it's not common to like stuff that's pretty scary, I'm not sure, as I've never seen a poll on such things. I just know that there are certainly others like me on that count. But as I've said before, it's one thing to avoid fictional scary stuff, it's quite another to avoid -real life- scary stuff if the consequences of doing so could mean regretting it later on. As an example, I used to be one of the 2 tenant reps in a building I lived in and if it looked like someone I knew was about to get into a fight with someone else, I'd try to stop it. Dangerous, sure, a bit, but the thought of doing nothing and just watching a guy I like get into a fight that didn't have to happen felt worse in my view.
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Thanks. Old enough to be my son.No, I'm 49.
I'm curious as to why you came to this conclusion.
They can be, though from what I've heard of that word, I'm not overly fond of it. The one that I tend to associate with entertainment, from The American Heritage Dictionary, 5th Edition:
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noun Something that amuses, pleases, or diverts, especially a performance or show.
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I tend to see tv shows and films that are good more like what I imagine a devout Christian may have seen Sunday at the church. I actually remember seeing an anime where the opening scene seemed to suggest this type of connection, with people settling down in a movie theater the way I imagine devout people might sit down before a sermon from a priest they believe in.
As you may know, I do consider myself to be in a religion, Pantheism, though no one converted me to it- I already essentially believed the basic tenets of the religion, found it one day while browsing on the internet and said, that's what I believe. I know there are different branches within Pantheism, but honestly, I haven't paid that much attention as of yet.
I think that any -good- religion concerns itself a lot with morality, but unlike what some people seem to think, I think that figuring out what the 'right thing' to do is at any given moment in time can frequently be quite hard. I think good tv shows and films can help us figure things like that out. That and talking to others about it- the old "two heads are better than one" can frequently apply here.
I think its apt that you bring up roller coasters, as I never liked those either
I'm 69 and expect to be dead by 86. Your views on the world be it international relations or entertainment.
I lean toward Panentheism myself.
I never expect real history from TV and Hollywood. I do admire Elizabeth II for her wartime activities and her taking up auto mechanics as a hobby. A Royal actually doing something besides sitting around being Royal was an anomaly. I find most people from the upper classes to be pretty dull and stupid. Some of the founders of those big fortunes must be really disappointed in their successors. I've met a few of the big local oil billionaires; most were pretty down to earth and practical, and not at all snobs. their spawn are a different story with a few exceptions, like H.L. Hunt's kids. I live in a small town that used to have the most millionaires per capita than anywhere in the country back in the 1950's and 60's. I've had a billionaire's son ask me if I 'wanted fries with that ' a few times, lol. He wasn't being spoiled.