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This movie is stupider than I remember

posted 2 years ago by avortac4 (3575)
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I originally watched this when I was in another country and had nothing else to do. Back then, it seemed passable as entertainment, but what wouldn't, in a situation like that..?

Later, I remembered watching something with Michael Keaton and lots of 'himself', so I wanted to check it out again. Urgh, the movie was stupid and repulsive, and that surprised me a bit, I didn't remember it being so bad.

Now it had been a really long time, so I wanted to watch it again, remembering my repulsion and feeling of stupidity from the last time I saw it, but thinking, now that I know it's stupid, I might able to stomach it again, and who knows, perhaps it's not as stupid as I remember.

It isn't. It's much, much stupider.

[–] avortac4 (3575) 2 years ago

A few points:

- It's poignant that this idea, as interesting as it is, can never work due to the factors shown in this movie; EVERYONE wants a 'helper', even the 'helpers'. So soon the world would be full of clones of clones of clones that all want someone to help them do the 'day-to-day' stuff

- Everyone has probably toyed around with this kind of idea; most people have 'many different personalities', they have their 'workaholic side', they have their 'artistic side', they have their 'lazy side', then there's the deepest self that yearns TRUE FREEDOM from all the earthly crap (and as one Cosmic Messenger once said, they will have it). It's kinda cool to think you could be composing music while exploring some beautiful suburb while playing video games while constructing far-reaching future plans, while cooking dinner or eating, while having some sort of social interactions with your peers (if you can find some).

This movie shows exactly why this idea is doomed to fail.

My points and questions:

- Another movie, where 'a clone is you', and 'a clone has your memories, so it thinks its you'. SIGH!!

Why can't any 'clone'-movie get it right? A clone is never you. Your soul is unique, that makes you an individual. A clone is never a clone of YOU, only a body-clone of your body. The soul that SOMEHOW (how?) incarnates into these clones in these movies, is just as stranger to you as it would be if it incarnated the usual way.

When someone incarnates into a physical body, it takes a LONG TIME for them to even adjust to being in a physical body again. They can't just hop in and immediately be adjusted, like this movie shows!

[–] avortac4 (3575) 2 years ago

It looks like instead of expanding the writing space or removing the stupid word limitations, moviechat allows less and less text in one post. I have no choice but to use some kind of pastebin-type solution if I want to say ANYTHING, or I have to painstakingly cut my messages to multiple, little pieces to conform to this MADNESS that IMDb didn't have!

https://pastetext.net/finj99yllf

I kinda hate that the text is STILL shown in a tiny box that you have to either keep scrolling or copypaste to your own text editor, but at least it's not 'political woke censorchip' crap that pastebin is suddenly all about.

Yes, Pastebin has gone political! First, it has that banner up, that's hard to block. Second, it told me that my innocent movie review has some kind of 'hateful content' and can only be viewed if its set to 'private'. This other site simply does what I expect it to, lets me paste my review without hiccups or problems.

Damn, every corporation is going POLITICAL now, bread has to have specific politically-correct imagery, Uncle Ben's has to have its familiar face removed, ice cream makers have to hate a certain president, and so on. Could corporations just DO WHAT THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO DO, instead of being politically-correct WOKE virtue signalers?!

[–] bellington83 (3270) 2 years ago

I like pizza, Steve

[–] avortac4 (3575) 2 years ago

To prove that you understand my point and are capable and worthy of writing posts in discussion forums and also get the ethical problems this movie is full of, why don't you do something clever, like.. oh, I don't know.. ah, I got it!

Why don't you write some one-liner almost straight from the movie, that doesn't explain anything or convey any sort of information!

I know the 'stupid' Doug loved pizza and called the real Doug 'Steve', but what the F does that have to do with anything I wrote?

Why do people do this? Why do people write some lazy one-liners from a movie and think they're contributing to the conversation?

I know you think you are being clever and sarcastic and memetic and whatnot, but really, all you are doing is acting like a robot that has no clue what's going on, just randomly pasting the stupidest (in this case, literally) crap from the movie.

[–] Lord Rake (3885) 2 years ago

Sorry Steve.. That leg's gonna have to come off.