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[Hap Shaughnessy]

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I think bigots should be publicly shamed.

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I also like to stir the pot for the lurking discord armies.

[Besticus Maximus]

I didn’t like that last Batman movie. Way way too long. It also made little internal sense. The broody detective stuff was cool I suppose.

[benji]

[Hap Shaughnessy]

Fanatical warriors bent on jihad aren't middle eastern enough.

[benji]

The Batman is easily one of the best super hero films released during the past 5 years or so.

Damning with faint praise.

[Uncle]

I was confused at first because I assumed marvels was islam-appropriating because kamala is a muslim 

[Greatness Gone]

"Islamic appropriation"

For Dune, the only mainstream sci-fi franchise that thoughtfully uses its real life cultural inspirations to meaningfully enhance its own atmosphere and mythology?

None of the characters are even supposed to be Middle-Eastern since it doesn't take place on Earth. Is this what the kids call a "smooth brain" take?

[benji]

Fanatical warriors bent on jihad aren't middle eastern enough.

Not if they aren't portrayed or directed by Middle Easterners apparently.

Especially when we're talking about the first comic book movie directed by a black woman with 3 female leads as the alternative.

[Nintex]

I didn’t like that last Batman movie. Way way too long. It also made little internal sense. The broody detective stuff was cool I suppose.

The big issue that puts it below TDK for me is that it tried too many things at once.
The depressed batman, mob bosses, femme fatale, corrupt police and officals, the joker-like riddler and finally 'we live in a society' 4chan shooters. 

Nolan did some of the same things but spread it out over 3 movies.

[Boredfrom]

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Fanatical warriors bent on jihad aren't middle eastern enough.

Isn’t even portrayed as a good thing. The Fremen are the most sympathetic faction, but not exactly “good” or “morally righteous”. And is a plot point that Paul and his mother are using Fremen traditions to manipulate them.

[Uncle]

Fanatical warriors bent on jihad aren't middle eastern enough.

Not if they aren't portrayed or directed by Middle Easterners apparently.

Especially when we're talking about the first comic book movie directed by a black woman with 3 female leads as the alternative.

I assume this just means there are other comic book movies directed by a black woman with 2 and 4 female leads

[Besticus Maximus]

Dune is the best thing containing Arab words written since the Black Death

[Uncle]

what about the original fire temple chant

[Tucker's Law]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/so-dust-has-been-settled-which-was-better-movie-the-dark-knight-or-the-batman-2022.748138/

One of the major complaints is that Batman is an idiot that misses obvious clues. I always thought that it was part of the whole point of the whole movie that he was reactionary and favoured plans where he could punch people over thoughtful investigation, and that is was part of his arc about learning how to become a hero and realizing not every problem can be solved with his fists.

Ree is the first place to complain about media literacy, but not understand that. Ending also works as class commentary given the billionaire did not know what a carpentry tool was. 

I do not fault people for liking TDK more; it is probably the better paced movie and objectively has the best acting performance in the entire genre. Personally liked The Batman more though.

I like both, but I still would like to see another Batman movie that feels truly authentic to his moniker of "worlds greatest detective".  So far the closest we got is Mask of the Phantasm.

[Nintex]

Few things more unsettling than the Zelda 64 sound font combined with Islamic prayers.

[Greatness Gone]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-every-narrowly-averted-a-crisis-minor-or-major.748399/#post-109781287

I survived being decapitated by a big shelf of ice on the highway because we just replaced our car's windshield that morning. Does that count?

 
Is it just me or does PlanetSmasher have a ton of these close call with death stories? 

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/have-you-every-narrowly-averted-a-crisis-minor-or-major.748399/#post-109781287

I survived being decapitated by a big shelf of ice on the highway because we just replaced our car's windshield that morning. Does that count?

 
Is it just me or does PlanetSmasher have a ton of these close call with death stories? 

I think he mentioned this story before, the exact same sentences too.

[benji]

Yeah, I remember that story, and I think the ice is increasing in size every time he tells it.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japanese-backlash-to-barbenheimer.748402/#post-109783018

Even from a non-Japanese standpoint, it is incredibly strange/fucked up to be creating memes (and responding to them) in a way that treats a movie about the creation of something that killed hundreds of thousands of people with such levity.

You also have to remember that Americans probably still see the bombings as something we had to do anyway because those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place, versus a deadly dick-waving move against the Axis powers, so this idea of the tact or lack thereof of the memes never would've crossed their minds.

[Boredfrom]

Is funny, because there is a lot of Japanese media were depict alternative outcomes for the WWII end is fascist hellhole. Oppenheimer film glossed over the fact that Imperial Japan were total scumbags and that they not giving up was a real possibility.

Yeah, we can debate whatever the atomic bomb was a net positive for the world, if people needed to have miserable deaths to avoid more miserable deaths and I agree that the Barbenhaimer memes are tacky… but shit the fuck up Nephente, you don’t know shit.

[Besticus Maximus]

Nepenthe: Punch fascists

Also nepenthe: Leave Saddam and Hirohito alone 

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japanese-backlash-to-barbenheimer.748402/#post-109783018

Even from a non-Japanese standpoint, it is incredibly strange/fucked up to be creating memes (and responding to them) in a way that treats a movie about the creation of something that killed hundreds of thousands of people with such levity.

You also have to remember that Americans probably still see the bombings as something we had to do anyway because those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place, versus a deadly dick-waving move against the Axis powers, so this idea of the tact or lack thereof of the memes never would've crossed their minds.

The dick-waving was towards the Soviets not the Japanese, the intent towards Japan was to avoid having to teach them their place by massacring them by the millions.

[benji]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japanese-backlash-to-barbenheimer.748402/#post-109783018

Even from a non-Japanese standpoint, it is incredibly strange/fucked up to be creating memes (and responding to them) in a way that treats a movie about the creation of something that killed hundreds of thousands of people with such levity.

You also have to remember that Americans probably still see the bombings as something we had to do anyway because those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place, versus a deadly dick-waving move against the Axis powers, so this idea of the tact or lack thereof of the memes never would've crossed their minds.

                      downplaying Japanese imperialism, war crimes, severe Sinophobia and history of history?

[Boredfrom]

You also have to remember that Americans probably still see the bombings as something we had to do anyway because those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

[Boredfrom]

"NepNep: Are you saying that they were not saints?"

[Venice]

You also have to remember that Americans probably still see the bombings as something we had to do anyway because those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_war_crimes

Just to add to this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_man_killing_contest

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comfort_women

Galaxy brain Nepenthe: "those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place"



That's right Nepenthe. The Japanese military dindunuffin.

[benji]

I guess if we had to get to the inevitable Nepenthe defends one of the Axis powers arc it would have had to be for Japan since they're only white-adjacent.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/paul-reubens-aka-pee-wee-herman-has-died.748270/#post-109765342

User Banned (3 Days): Inappropriate Commentary

I think about Paul Reubens every time i go to my local snuff theater,

RIP to a real legend

[HaughtyFrank]

It's fair to be critical of the use of the atom bombs and ask questions about what other outcomes there could have been, some of which the movie even addresses , like whether they should warn the targeted cities beforehand, but why does Nepenthe have to dress it up in some dumbass opinion that it was about "putting Japan in it's place". That just such a level of dumbfuckery removed from any argument in reality.

[Hap Shaughnessy]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japanese-backlash-to-barbenheimer.748402/#post-109783018

Even from a non-Japanese standpoint, it is incredibly strange/fucked up to be creating memes (and responding to them) in a way that treats a movie about the creation of something that killed hundreds of thousands of people with such levity.

You also have to remember that Americans probably still see the bombings as something we had to do anyway because those gosh-darned Japanese people had to learn their place, versus a deadly dick-waving move against the Axis powers, so this idea of the tact or lack thereof of the memes never would've crossed their minds.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/japanese-backlash-to-barbenheimer.748402/page-2#post-109785655

This post is so dismissive of any of the context of the war and the reasons for dropping the bomb that it’s almost offensive. Shameful to reduce the situation to a couple pithy remarks about dicks.