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  • What is your cinema hot take?

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  • Star Wars holds a place in my heart mainly for nostalgia reasons. Seeing those original films for the first time was formative back in the day when I was a wee cunt. But yeah, they're pretty indefensible from a film criticism standpoint.

    My takes:

    1. Goodfellas is fine. It's a'ight. It's about 900% more beloved than it deserves. Casino was better, even though it was the same damn movie.
    2. On Goodfellas: Ray Liotta is fucking awful in it. He gives me second-hand embarrassment watching him. He's been great in other roles, but he just seemed so out of his depth trying to hold his own in amongst the De Niros and Pescis of the world. I also think the actor playing Big Paulie was fucking awful, but he doesn't have much screen time so it's easy to forget how shit he was.
    3. Also - and lastly, I swear - on Goodfellas: the editing is less "fractured and frenetic like the rapidly-imploding mind of the main character" and more like "fractured and frenetic like the coked up Parkinson's-suffering editor during a violent bowel movement". Unnecessarily janky and rough around every single edge, to put it mildly.
    4. Nic Cage should not be allowed to be in films, full stop. Not even a documentary about Nic Cage in which he agrees with me, personally, through the camera that he's terrible.
    5. The Godfather III was good. Yeah, not as good as I and II, and the downright offensively-bad acting from Andy Garcia (you thought I was about to complain about Sofia Coppola, didn't ya? Andy was an order of magnitude worse) definitely knocks a few stars off my IMDb rating, but the film was fine.
    6. I've posted about this in Unpopular Opinion before, but I think remakes and reboots are great, as long as the film-makers are trying to do their best and make an honest go of it. I especially love when a film is transported from one culture into another. For example, Unforgiven - the Clint Eastwood modern classic - was remade in Japan, except instead of the gunslinging Wild West it was the samurai-sword-swingin' Meiji period. How cool is that shit? I love it. Now I have two awesome movies where before there was only one.

  • What are some good stories about anti-heroes?

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  • Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle is an interesting one. He's pretty fucking despicable, but when I first watched the movie as a freshly-pubescent teen, I bought into his sick view of the world and took the film at face value. That is, I thought it was a story about a weird-but-well-meaning dude who decides to take on some baddies.

    It's from 1976, but if it were made today, Travis would 100% be a violent misogynist incel posting his manifesto to 4chan instead of writing it in his diary.

  • TIL people of South Asian descent are more likely to suffer from heart disease. Even if they have a healthy weight and don't smoke. Scientists are not sure why.

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  • it is bcoz they r locate in s. asian

    i hope this help

    professor 58008

  • What is a belief you’ve done a total 180 on?

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  • Homophobia was the norm where I grew up in the '80s and '90s. Took me until the late '90s to start questioning that, and probably a year or two more to become completely cleansed of it.

  • READ: Stunning FBI Doc Claims Trump Assaulted Teen Girl After She ‘Bit the Sh*t Out of’ His Penis

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  • As much as I'm sure that child (now woman) never wants to be known publicly, I nevertheless want to give her the keys to whatever city she chooses. And free therapy for life.

  • Kamala Harris might run for president again in 2028. Please, no | Arwa Mahdawi

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  • She actually has a much better chance of winning next time, because she'll have 4 years' worth of "I fucking told you so" to back her up.

    Still, it's not like there aren't better options...

  • Have you ever had intrusive thoughts about getting murdered by people you live with while you're asleep?

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  • When I was a kid, there was a period during which I was convinced my dad was planning to kill me (or have me killed). I'd have regular nightmares about it.

    I have one [non-dream] memory in particular where we were walking through Belfast on a sunny Sunday afternoon, it was pretty much empty except for us. We were walking along a path holding hands (I was like 6 or 7), and an alleyway opened to the right of me, and I thought "this is it..." and was expecting a masked gunman to come out, and for my dad to let go of my hand and step aside, his job now complete. Genuinely thought that was about to happen and almost had a panic attack. No idea why I thought that, or why I eventually stopped thinking it.

    I was later diagnosed with all sorts of neuro/psych shenanigans, so I guess it was probably that. I still have intrusive thoughts, but I've had therapy so I'm a bit better able to manage them. CBT might do you some good if you have access to a shrink. You can even do most of it on your own, or with a bit of guidance from someone else who's already done it.

  • US administration struggles to present coherent narrative on why it went to war with Iran

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  • What ever happened to 'crazy?'

    Chris Rock

  • ‘Game of Thrones’ Movie in the Works at Warner Bros. From ‘Andor’ Writer

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  • I don't know who this is for. The show was 8 seasons and even then it felt rushed at the end, and each episode of it was close to a standard movie runtime. Then we have the spin-off shows. What exactly can get done, storywise, in even a 2 & ½ hour fillum? You'd spend the entire runtime just explaining who the fuck everyone is. And even if watching the OG show is a prerequisite, it's still not long enough to get through more than 2 or 3 monologues.

  • Trust your dentist

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  • My dentist once told me to close my mouth a little because I was opening it too wide 😭 I thought I was being helpful by almost giving myself lockjaw.

  • Trump reacts to dead service members by boasting he got a 'great deal' for their lives

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  • How a PTSD-tormented vet hasn't plugged this cunt yet is beyond me. He's said at least a dozen things in the last 10 years that would justify it. I mean he let the fact that there were Russian bounties on US service members go completely unanswered. Nevermind the repugnant things he says about them, he lets them be the target of headhunting sociopaths because he's too much of a fucking pussy to say a single word against Putin.

    Signing up for military service under Trump is insane in the membrane.

  • A wooden record that actually plays.

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  • How are the grooves made? 🤔 Like, is the wood a solid piece or does it start out as a sort of pulpy slurry?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Under the most ideal circumstances, how 'clean' is drinkable tap water by the time it reaches our taps?

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the distinction between frogs and toads is informal and purely cosmetic

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frog

  • Who remembers when you needed a separate "Download Manager" to handle concurrent downloads?

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  • FlashGet was my jam back in the early 2000s. Then one day it downloaded malware a malicious third party had somehow managed to inject into its updater 😒

  • Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC

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  • Welp, looks like I'll need to get myself a PS5 then.

    Said no cunt ever

  • Unpopular Opinion @lemmy.world
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    Yes, providing spoiler warnings for very old films is still appropriate and necessary

  • Britain's ex-ambassador to U.S. arrested over ties to Jeffrey Epstein

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  • It's hilarious* that no amount of child rape will move the police to do anything, but the second an errant dime jumps to the other side of the ledger, it's mass arrests of princes and politicians.

    Horrifying

  • Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:

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  • Charlie Kirk's killer turns himself in. This cunt literally says "we got him".

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL Antidepressants used to be called 'psychic energizers'

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Antidepressant

  • Just getting into a little bit of Troubles

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  • There's some evidence/theories that the Northern Bank robbery was done to give ex-IRA members retirement funds 👀

  • ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront

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  • 'Steam Store Front' should be shortened to 'Stormfront'. At least then no one would be shocked when they discover it's teeming with illiterate bigots.

    All I can suggest is that you report and block as much as you can. If there's a game, like Relooted, that's a bug light for scumbags, go to its forums when you have 10 minutes free and just report the shitstains you come across. Steam does take action sometimes.

  • Is £70 becoming harder to justify? The rise of cheaper blockbuster games

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  • My parents paid about that much for a SNES copy of Earthworm Jim back in the mid-90s. It was disgusting then and it's disgusting now, despite the fact that, adjusted for inflation, that would be £140 today. I mean I don't feel like we're getting a 50% discount when a game costs 70 fuckin' quid nowadays.

    There's really no reason to spend that anyway, not on PC at least. IsThereAnyDeal.com and the slightly questionable loaded.com (formerly cdkeys.com) give decent discounts even on day one (and Steam itself will eventually have it on sale, of course). Loaded isn't like G2A, which is a credit card thief's wonderland. It's more like when your uncle Jim crosses the border with 40 cartons of cigarettes secreted in the wheel wells of his truck because they cost 400% less over there. I can live with that level of mischief when it comes to AAA games that take the absolute piss with their prices and their hostage DLCs. EA, Ubisoft and Rockstar have not caused me a millisecond of lost sleep when I get their games for £3 six months after release from a code that was originally bundled with a new GPU. With how extremely easy it is to pirate games (something I haven't done in nearly 20 years), I don't feel like those larger AAA companies are meeting us half way, to say the fucking least.

  • The Wall Street Journal Gets Community Noted For Saying Gen Zers And Millennials Are 'Splurging On Rotisserie Chickens'

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  • If saving 5 bucks on your grocery bill is the thing that keeps your head above water... you're probably already deep enough to meet the ghost of that OceanGate CEO.

  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the phrase "time is of the essence" comes from 18th century contract law

    www.myenglishpages.com /idiom/time-is-of-the-essence/
  • Windows 11 @lemmy.world
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    Is there a way to have a button on the taskbar that will perform the Win+M keyboard shortcut (i.e. 'minimise all windows') when clicked?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Fake Shemp - Body doubles used in movies to replace actors who die or are otherwise unavailable

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fake_Shemp
  • Movies @lemmy.world
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    (Spoilers) In 12 Angry Men (1957), was the behaviour of the jurists strictly legal?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    If a Space Elevator became a reality, wouldn't the cable act as a kind of wick for all of the unfiltered radiation from outside our atmosphere?

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world
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    Google support - the provider of the Gmail address I used to contact them about the Google One service I pay for - thinks my name is 'Playground'

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    The way my fuck-ass pharmacist makes up the remaining pills in my bastarding prescription

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Egg tooth (temporary structure on the bills and snouts of oviparous animals to help them break through their eggshells at hatching)

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Egg_tooth
  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What movies or TV shows do a good job of representing your particular identity or life experiences?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do some website logins have the username and password entry on different pages?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    "Flushable wipes"; "dishwasher-safe"; "odourless" - What are some other blatant lies that companies get away with?

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Does each country have a book/library of the laws of the land that a commoner can consult to check if they're about to do something illegal?

  • Creepy Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Mungyeong crucifixion case - In 2011, a South Korean pastor crucified himself with the aid of power tools and lumber, after months of extensive planning

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mungyeong_crucifixion_case
  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL that the very distinctive vocal style employed by the lead singers of bands like Pearl Jam and Creed (among many others) is called "yarling"

  • No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world
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    Why do seemingly all politicians (and no one else) do that hand gesture when they talk, the one where it looks like they're holding an invisible fishing rod?