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We once roamed the vast forums of Corona Coming Attractions. Some of us had been around from The Before Times, in the Days of Excelsior, while others of us had only recently begun our trek. When our home became filled with much evil, including the villainous Cannot-Post-in-This-Browser and the dreaded Cannot-Log-In, we flounced away most huffily to this new home away from home. We follow the flag of Jubboiter and talk about movies, life, the universe, and everything, often in a most vulgar fashion. All are welcome here, so long as they do not take offense to our particular idiom.
Jubbers wrote:In that case, we will tell Goiter's mom to avoid it.
She simply wouldn't stop bitching about the ending of The Force Awakens.
She also bitches about the endings of almost every story I write. Always has. Goes back to when I was a preteen.
Some of the ambiguous endings she bitches about aren't even all that ambiguous. It should be obvious what happened. I just didn't bother to say what happened. Because it's obvious. Or, in some cases, because it's unnecessary.
But nooo, she has to see the thing. For all I know, she'd be angry that SPOILER: you don't actually see the bullet enter Fredo's brain if she were ever to watch The Godfather: Part II.
I'd be curious to hear your take on The Big Short a few months from now. I felt exactly the same way right after I saw it, but my love has sort of dissipated over the time since.
Margin Call, on the other hand, is one of the most criminally underrated movies of the last decade. I think I'll watch that soon as well!
The Big Short is really elegant in how it sets up its characters so you can follow them through a really complicated set of circumstances and tell the story from points of view that makes it relatable and covers the bases. The interludes to explain financial points are genius. Particularly "Fish Stew".
I am nearly at the end of Margin Call now. It remains probably the best Wall Street movie since Wall Street.
Also - Paul Bettany's monologue in the car back from Brooklyn in Margin Call about being necessary to let people live how they want to live, with the hands on the scales in their favour, is perhaps the best snapshot of financial reality that has been in one of these movies. Everyone should understand it when the pitchforks come out and the mob lights their flaming torches.
It's up there with "You want me on that wall, you need me on that wall!" From A Few Good Men.
Genuinely interested in the political climate around this movie. Were Vietnam vets really treated badly on return? Was there a climate of distrust against small town law enforcement making the character of Rambo an anti-hero? Or did it cause any outrage to see police portrayed that way in 1981?
Most definitely PTSD material. Shell shock was a term used in Canada for vets who came home "a little off" after ww2 and Korea. Even up to the Bosnia and Somalia mess. These guys were written off by govt and the general pop as lost causes. A good portion went homeless and became addicts of some sort.
Today I like to think it's looked upon differently by govt, I know it is by society in general. But week after week stories come out about homeless vets or those in need of some kind of assistance. There was a story recently on the CBC about how much marijuana vets were smoking. Something like 30% more than the rest of the country. Alarming stats I think.
Netflix just informed me that Season 3 of Agents of SHIELD is now streaming. I watched the first couple of episodes when they aired, and have the rest on my DVR but never got around to watching them. Now that it's more convenient, I started watching it again.