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I think it's a very good film, but like many I have no interest in rewatching it other than the parts involving Jack Nicholson (his acting is superb). It has a number of flaws: (1) Beatty is a terrible actor for this kind of supposedly serious film. His character portrayals always have a golly-gee dumb cluck component to them, which works for Shampoo and Heaven Can Wait, but fails here. He's also noticeably overshadowed in the company of Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, and Gene Hackman. (2) The present-day interviews were spliced in far too often and were distracting, constantly taking me out of the mental space of the movie. I like to immerse myself in the time period while watching, something impossible to do consistently when you're always confronted with octogenarians telling anecdotes. (3) It doesn't justify it's 3 hour+ running time. If you cut out all the interviews and repetitive protest scenes, it could've been a much improved film at 2 hours. Of these 3 items, Beatty's acting was the biggest problem. He's obviously an intelligent guy, so I wonder if he plays a cluck on purpose as a cheap appeal to women. Films like The Parallax View would also have been improved with a more credible actor who can communicate the seriousness of his situation more convincingly.
I concur for the most part. I'm not familiar with the book or the 1980 version, but I was very impressed by the first 4 episodes. Where Shogun has begun to err, in my opinion, is pretty much abandoning Blackthorne's difficulty with acclimating to Japanese culture. That was the most interesting aspect of the first few episodes. Now there's far too much focus on the internecine conflicts among various factions that I don't find all that compelling. I've only gotten through episode 7, but I can't remember the last time Blackthorne even asked about his crew.
Who knows. It's probably some hipsters who found the CHUD acronym amusing and based their entire movie on a new incredibly clever acronym.
<blockquote>However, an Islamic cult just started a middle East war today.</blockquote>
Are you referring to the supposed cult that had their embassy bombed by Israel a couple weeks ago, which itself was an act of war?
<blockquote>....except Trump fans are the ones who throw coups..</blockquote>
What coup was that? The weaponless riot of January 6 that Democrats and the federal police allowed to happen for their own political advantage?
Gotta be Oldman's mom.
Blackthorne has an unstated hatred of gardeners.
You're right. Episode 6 was an immense disappointment. I had the highest respect for Shogun's first five episodes. Here's hoping that #6 was a hiccup. Lady Ochiba is an uninteresting, cliched character, and it says a lot about this episode that she was about the only thing I remembered about it. Even the brothel scene concluded with a dull thud. This felt like pure filler material, what the more discriminating of today would dismiss as mere content creation.
Also, notice how Thunberg pretty much disappeared from media prominence after Biden was declared POTUS. Same for BLM, Antifa, and other useful tools for causing chaos and controversy. What a coincidence. The media wouldn't want to give the impression that climate change was still accelerating beyond control with a democrat in the White House. Thus, Thunberg at present may as well not exist.
Next up: Aliens vs. Freddy Krueger. Don't go to sleep, you unsuspecting aliens. Freddy, be careful that your claws don't melt!
Her career probably had a short shelf life to begin with. She's a very specific archetype, a sarcastic, cynical, boyish looking girl who works at a coffee shop in some bohemian neighborhood in a large metropolitan city, and is so average looking and apparently approachable that she's deemed a goddess to the nerds who hang out all day with their laptops wherever she works. Sort of a po' woman's Janeane Garofalo. She might've had an adult career playing supporting roles, like the frustrated angry friend of the main female lead in a lame romantic comedy. Her options would've been limited in any case.
Sydney's Weeny.
To him, a gay man, sure. Or The X-Men could be an allegory for any kid who was a disappointment to his parents and knew it. You could read lgbtq, race, gender, or whatever you want into anything, if you're so inclined. Since not one of the creative cabal of Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Len Wein, Dave Cockrum, Chris Claremont, or John Byrne were gay, it's far more likely The X-Men were stand-ins for anyone who felt marginalized for any reason.
I wonder if Evans offered Ali MacGraw the same advice when she was making The Getaway.
There's no justification for murdering non-combatant women and children in the name of rooting out terrorists. The supposed moral outrage about October 7th is that non-military civilians were killed, which is exactly what Israel is doing right now, and in much greater numbers. Israel tries to draw distinctions between purposeful killing of civilians and civilian collateral damage, but that's a flimsy, totally unbelievable excuse. Even worse, the US and Israel now spread the propaganda that all people in Gaza are legitimate targets because about 59% of the voting age residents there voted for Hamas. If that makes one a legitimate target, then nobody in the USA has any moral justification to be outraged by 9/11. If Israel wants to carry out their war this way, they ought to be doing it purely on their own dime. The USA is culpable for their actions.
<blockquote>yet the viewer who hold strong antipathy to pedophilia and necrophilia may still find it difficult</blockquote>
It's remarkable that you imply such viewers are in the minority. It sounds much like, "viewers who object to portrayal of rape as morally justifiable might take a dim view of this film."
<blockquote>So why the HECK would Skynet work SO HARD to research</blockquote>
For all you know, once Skynet conceived the idea it was inexpensive in every conceivable way to create and deploy these infiltration units, or at least comparable to the battle robots. And, for all you know, some of these infiltration bots indeed functioned like spies, with their main mission to gain intelligence about the human resistance. In Reese's flashback, you only saw one of these terminators in action. Who says that all they did was start blasting once they got past the dogs?
<blockquote>WTF is "treause in trash"?</blockquote>
It's how illiterate retards like UMAD spell "treasure." He trolls numerous boards with misspelt, angry criticisms. The best that can be said about him is that he savages all types of actors and films, irrespective of political inclinations, whilst temporarily pretending to be aligned with one cause or another.
Because of that scene from Cronenberg's version "The Fly."