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Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-03-07
Replies: 111
Foreign films
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Foreign films

Bollywood is indeed huge in absolute numbers - but it's also a niche cinema marketed primarily in India and to the worldwide Indian diaspora.
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-03-07
Replies: 111
Foreign films
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Foreign films

There is, I think, some justification for the 'foreign' movie tag. Hollywood is, after all, the entertainment cinema of the world, not just the US, and the non-American films that achieve wide...
Replies: 1,357
Marijuana: Do you do it?
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Marijuana: Do you do it?

Not smoking pot is for broke people.
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

In any event, everything I've said is statistically documented. Go to the CDC page for HIV stats, you'll see that homos and junkies account for more than 70% of all US HIV/AIDS cases.

This is...
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

What rights are being denied homosexuals in the Western world?

Note the phrasing. I expect a listing of RIGHTS not PRIVILEGES.
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

What, all three of them? :laugh:

In much the same way that your condemnation of 'homophobia' is limited not just to the folks who actually harm homosexuals, but to everyone who is so 'bigoted'...
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

It is vastly more prevalent in the gay community, if nothing else.

But, in actual fact, the average gay man in the US has something like 10 times as many sexual partners in his lifetime...
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

Of course it did - I'm just pointing out that there are perfectly rational grounds for objecting to homosexual behavior.
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

In the West, gay men and IV drug users STILL account for the vast majority of AIDS cases. In Africa, where concurrency networks mimic gay behavior in Western societies, you also see elevated rates...
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

AIDS is a problem tied almost exclusively to behavior patterns. The concurrency networks of many African societies are mirrored in the West by behavior patterns within the gay community.

There's...
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

I'm an idiot for thinking that pandemic diseases might just be socially undesirable?
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

So AIDS isn't a threat to society? :laugh:

In any event, I don't think things are nearly so cut and dried as you obviously do. Reasonable people disagree about all sorts of subjects, in part...
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

And who gets to decide which intolerances are 'rational' and which are unacceptable? You?
Replies: 49
Homophobia vs. racism
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Homophobia vs. racism

Racism and homophobia are AWESOME. More principled thinking and less socially conformist 'tolerance,' please.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-29-07
Replies: 17
I'm Not There - Who Will Make the Best Bob Dylan.
Posted By Officer 663
Re: I'm Not There - Who Will Make the Best Bob Dylan.

I don't necessarily dislike Blanchett: she's extraordinarily talented. Nonetheless, like a lot of actors who have shuffled between stage and screen (especially those who've done a lot of work in...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-29-07
Replies: 17
I'm Not There - Who Will Make the Best Bob Dylan.
Posted By Officer 663
Re: I'm Not There - Who Will Make the Best Bob Dylan.

So did I just get negrepped for not liking Bob Dylan or for not liking Cate Blanchet? Don't be vague people!
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-29-07
Replies: 17
I'm Not There - Who Will Make the Best Bob Dylan.
Posted By Officer 663
Re: I'm Not There - Who Will Make the Best Bob Dylan.

Blanchet (who is very much like Bob 'Dylan' in that everything she does is undermined by excessive affect, and in that she has a vagina) wins hands down.
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-26-07
Replies: 107
Worst Directors Of All Time
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Worst Directors Of All Time

http://redwing.hutman.net/~mreed/Assets/profundusmaximus.jpg
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-25-07
Replies: 107
Worst Directors Of All Time
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Worst Directors Of All Time

I think it's a little misleading to pass of Waters as merely a 'love-him-or-hate-him' guy, without mentioning that the 'love-him-or-hate-him' dynamic tends to be defined by whether one agrees with...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-24-07
Replies: 107
Worst Directors Of All Time
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Worst Directors Of All Time

Count me in the crowd that would be utterly delighted if Quentin Tarantino never made another film. I think it's a bit of a stretch to call him one of the worst directors of all time, but he...
Replies: 91
Golden Compass (Anti God flick released at Christmas, bad taste?)
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Golden Compass (Anti God flick released at Christmas, bad taste?)

I think it's a grand idea. Of course, if I had my druthers, they'd re-release Triumph of the Will in theaters just in time for the "Day of Remembrance," so maybe I'm not the best person to ask...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-20-07
Replies: 107
Worst Directors Of All Time
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Worst Directors Of All Time

Paul Verhoeven

Supposedly, some of his Dutch language films are excellent, but who would bother trying them out, given the wretched quality of his Hollywood oeuvre? He obviously would like to see...
Forum: Actors, Awards, & Directors 10-08-07
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-07-07
Replies: 180
Great films you just can't re-make
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Great films you just can't re-make

I don't think it is so much 'greatness' that makes a film impossible to effectively re-make. Films whose strengths are conventional - great pacing, great but not necessarily iconic performances,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 10-07-07
Replies: 44
Best Actor- All Time (according to IMDB)
Posted By Officer 663
Re: Best Actor- All Time (according to IMDB)

Except that Mifune, for all that he is most closely associated with Kurosawa, did the majority of his films for other directors. Remember, Mifune stayed extraordinarily busy throughout the 50s, 60s...