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People here are idiots

That’s the secret to understanding ilx

clearly
this whole situation is pretty messed up!

I'm such an idiot I can't even figure who is arguing with who

sharing mutual interests so you can have something to talk about is not always relevant imo, mutual love and respect is. my wife and i share vv different interests but that's what makes things so interesting. we love each other a lot, we're each other's best friend, it goes beyond music and so on. idk.

what interests we don't share aren't ones that we put up with or tolerate in the other person, it's just part of the rich tapestry.

I only tell ppl how cool I am to my wife to impress the ladies tbh

High Fidelity is a shitty movie

not controversial

some old politicians aren't inherently malicious, they just have absolutely no idea how normal people live or what life is like outside politics

High Fidelity is a shitty movie

― brimstead, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 2:44 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this would not be controverisal on topix.com tbf

Omar otm. My last ex and I were like fire with shared music interests brh we didn't share the same values at all. Didn't work obvs

I mean even if the 95% stat is true, who on ILX is going to admit they did

Star Wars is a blight upon our culture

xp there were a couple really bad incidents a very long time ago when I was out drinking and then went with a group of friends or new acquaintances to a dance club and did some ill-advised attempted making out that was either cringeworthy or quickly declined

tbh I deserved a shove

i am definitely not proud of me from ages 18-25, though more for my manipulative needy behavior

Star Wars is a blight upon our culture

― Οὖτις, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 2:54 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Controversial only inasmuch as you trained your focus on such a specific source of cultural blight.

It's a fairly large blight

bit strong picking on a bunch of kids' movies

Not a fan, but even I’ll admit “a bunch of kids movies” is a little reductive to describe Star Wars.

More like manbaby movies

(xp) A bunch of shit movies then?

without Star Warses men would be forced to fixate on Shakespeare or something

Chewbacca was a hero to most but he never meant shit to me...

Star Wars is a blight upon our culture

Exactly

yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jaws
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 5 December 2017 21:24 (thirty seconds ago)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Read that as, 'yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jews'

O_O

Adults who are super into Harry Potter are weird

Also extremely otm

Οὖτις, you were still a top poster in the star wars 7 thread that time I counted

Whiney is a top poster in the pitchfork thread.

well, it is the pitchfork is dumb thread

you were still a top poster in the star wars 7 thread that time I counted

it's a never-ending battle

yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jaws
― flappy bird, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4

This is the producer's faults, not Spielberg's. But I assume you don't buy Biskind bullshit.

i really liked that new star wars one that ends with the princess giving the robot the secret message. so now i can just watch that and star wars and empire and its the perfect trilogy and i can ignore the rest! i don't care about extracurricular star wars junk. i'm really good at avoiding stuff i don't care about though in my old age.

Wasn't King Kong '33 a bit of a formulaic blockbuster type movie as well?

Speilberg refined the art of Blockbuster filmmaking. A movie like Jaws is streamlined and immersive like a ride. The perfect commodity.

idk did King Kong have a merchandising tie-in deal with Professor Dinglemart's Revivifying Hair Tonic?

xp

what is going on here?!

― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, December 5, 2017 6:50 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

big movies in the 60s could be even more of a drag. with their insane cast lists that were like proto-love boat in length. ever try to sit through The Sand Pebbles? it's like 4 hours long. actually, Ship Of Fools would be the proto-love boat. 400 stars and it feels like its about 8 hours long. it almost feels as long as The Longest Day which was 24 hours long and had 800 stars in it.

It's a Long, Long, Long, Long, Long, Long Movie

substitute Harry Potter above with literally anything

40 year-old dudes don't constantly reference The Sand Pebbles as the pinnacle of human culture tho tbf

substitute Harry Potter above with literally anything

― ur-oik (rip van wanko),

Now we’re talking

yes, if only for creating blockbuster culture along with Jaws
― flappy bird, Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4

This is the producer's faults, not Spielberg's. But I assume you don't buy Biskind bullshit.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, December 5, 2017 4:39 PM (thirty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I love Jaws, it's imo an undeniably fantastic movie, & I wasn't blaming Spielberg necessarily- like you said, the moneymen saw an opportunity and a market for tentpoles with, as shakey said, endless product tie-ins and toys aimed at children and some very sad men. even if it was inadvertent, they remain a blight on the culture for what they created

Gasoline Power Washer and the Chamber Of Secrets

Late Character Actor Harry Dean Stanton and the Goblet Of Fire

Fentanyl is Killing Our Children and the Deathly Hallows

fuckin dogs and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Wow guys yr shocking the retirement home with these savage controps

Prince Harry and the... nevermind