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Just to let you two know, Detroit has made a big comeback in recent years and it has changed in some areas. (I'm from Detroit and I've personally seen it happens over the last decade, so I should know.) Tired of people acting like the city hasn't changed since the '67 riots (depicted in this past summer's release DETROIT) especially people who have never ever been there. The downtown area is brand spanking new with new places to live, fun places to go and thing to do (the music festivals are still held downtown in Hart Plaza, and some new ones take place on the Riverfront area) there's a new light rail train called the Q-Line (which mainly serves the downtown and midtown areas) there are more buses back on the streets, it's cleaner in some areas with cleaning crews to make sure things are clean. And for the past decade, people have actually been moving from the suburbs to live in the D (go figure--for years, it was the opposite,lol.)
I won't lie, the city still has some major problems, even after having recovered from the bankrupcty which was also caused in part by the economic crash of 2008, which caused the foreclosure problem to completely devastate the city's neighborhoods. There's also been a lot of gentrification, which has pushed out a number of low income retired residents who couldn't afford the jacked-up rents caused by it. There's still crime, some messed-up neighborhoods, and other issues, but name me a city that dosen't have those same problems. There are some beautiful but expensive neighborhoods like Indian Village (on the east side) plus Virginia Park and Palmer Park (both on the west side.) There's also the city of Ferndale (just across 8 Mile, right outside the city limits) the metro area's unofficial gay capital, which just recently voted in its second openly gay mayor, and the Pridefest was moved to downtown Detroit since it was getting too big for little 'ol Ferndale I would say things are much better than they were even a decade ago. So enough of these outdated stereotypes about the city already--thank you very much.
Oh, come on---nobody in their right mind would let a 13 year old see this film---it's not even for kids---the OP has got to be trolling,for real.
tijmenraasveld;
First of all, GOAT is an indie flick---it didn't get a wide release like your average Hollywood film, and the reality is, is that the number of false rape accusations are far less that actual rape victims. So stop trying to make like it's a bigger issue than it really is,because it's nowhere as prevalent as you claim it it---with no proof, or course. The reality is, even when women come forward about having been sexually assaulted, they're still disbelieved and told that it's their fault, even if the guy they accused start the situation, and even if he has a history of assaulting women. That's what so messed up about women reporting rape, and why a good number of them don't report, because of society's outdated sexist ideas about rape victims and how they have to damn near be from a squeaky clean background in order to be believed at all. That's always been the messed-up attitude around it.
Degree7:
"Jewey"? What kind of stupid statement is that? The term is Jewish,btw. And being Jewish is simply part of being in a certain religion----it's not like being an alien from another planet, or from another species. I mean, come the hell on. Jews are just plain old people, too, like everyone else on earth. Geesh.
Just saw him on the Charlie Rose show about a week and a half ago, and he was on there to discuss the new series he's starring in---HBO's THE DEUCE----along with co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal, one of the creators, David Chase, and I forgot who else. He honestly looked like he'd been out all night getting his drink on and hadn't shaved in a couple of days. I mean, he looked tore up from the floor up, but he acted like he didn't even care and just talked about the show (in which he plays two roles) anyway, lol. Go figure. Just Franco being Franco as usual, apparently.
Riding46:
It's beautiful,ugly,sad and strange----all in that order, lol. That's typical of most surrealistic, experimental European films of that era---this is just one of the better and more underrated ones.
thai-mac;
Nothing you said is true. troll. Stop making up fake BS--you sound dumb as hell saying all the s*** you just said.
sponejeg:
Shut up,troll. You're the only idiot here saying that nonsense.
A gay audience, obviously,lol. They watch films too, you know.
It was barely promoted---the only reason I even heard of it was because an LBGT magazine did an interview with the lead actor about it. That's the only thing I saw on it. It's on Netflix.
It struck me how conservative the movie's underlying message is---how if you drink too much, take drugs and have sex with anonymous people, you're get in trouble----meanwhile the only person who dosen't participate in any of that is theonly one left unscathed--interesting when you think about it.
ryan:
Uh, did you even watch the same movie everyone else did? As soon as the girl was accidently killed ( to be honest, I thought that scene was ridiculous and stupid as hell----there's no way that would have killed anybody---this is where the movie got stupid as hell to me) the big dude threatened to put the sex tape online if the girls said anything about what happened, and he and his friends were basically holding them hostage. So,no, the girls didn't start anything, it was the guys' fault---the girls (young women,actually) were understandably scared as hell after realizing they were basically trapped on board this ship with a bunch of strange guys they barely knew, and who might do God knows what else to them, since they were on a boat practically out in the middle of nowhere. You make it sound like the women just went crazy on everybody---that's not even what happened. In real life, trust me, any woman would have been scared as hell in that situation---being a woman, I know that for a fact.
Answ:
Oh,yeah, right---you call the woman a "whore" for sleeping with one of the guys, but yet you don't call any of the guys in the film "whores" for sleeping with some women they barely knew? Why aren't they equally called "whores",too? Typical sexist double standard as usual .
Honestly, the whole "donkey punch" thing was stupid as hell. Hitting somebody on the back of the neck during sex wasn't going to kill anybody----up 'til then, the movie was actually pretty good---but after that scene, I was like, "Oh, come the hell on! That was so stupid!" And the two girls just happening to be high enough to kiss each other---yeah, that was definitely put in there for a male audience to jerk off to---I mean that really didn't need to be in slow motion,anyway. Now if that scene would have been done with two guys,that would have really been an eye-opener,lol.
Yeah, and that original theme (which I prefer, and have always loved because of its genuinely eerie, creepy-sounding spookiness, as well as creeping me out as a kid---it made me think of a snake slithering around in a room somewhere, hiding, and just waiting to jump out and bite you,lol) was also one of the first TV show themes to be played entirely on a synthesizer---composed by Gil Melle, who also did the equally memorably and creepy "Night Stalker" theme. The season 3 one with all the loud, shrieking, blaring horns/violins was unnecessary,frankly.
Hmmmm----sounds like most of the things I watch,lol.
Seriously, the mere suggestion of trumpf being naked makes me seriously gag, so who cares who or what he was with back then? Gross,lol.
Jennie:
Timeless is pretty good for what it is, and very entertaining----it also got renewed for a second season, thankfully.
I'm from Michigan-----I remember first catching Night Gallery on late-night Saturdays around 12:30 just before the 1:00 Saturday night scary movie showing on WKBD Channel 50 in the Detroit metro area around 1980 (now the CW Channel 50) and then on WXON Channel 20 (which became the WB in the '90s, now it's WMYD Channel MyNetwork20) on weekends---Saturdays afternoons, specifically---around the mid-'80s. It was one of the many horror-oriented things I'd get to watch on Fridays and Saturdays---along with Channel 50's Creature Feature at 3 p.m. Saturdays, the Chiller Movie feature (not sure if that's what it was called, but something close to it) at 12:00 noon on Channel 20 (also on Saturdays) and Scream Theater on Friday nights, which came on about 1:00 or 1:30 on ABC Channel 7. Didn't know that the show was actually an hour long, because I only saw it in the half-hour format it was presented in. I was too young to have seen it in its original format--enjoyed it just the same though, lol.
ExplorerDS:
Saw "The Academy" a couple of years back when Night Gallery was being shown on the now-defunct Retro digital channel, and thought that, yeah, it was good, but it should have had a better ending---like you said, it would have been more interesting from the boy's perspective---it really didn't pack the punch he should have. I grew up seeing the show in the '80s in reruns, along with other creepy shows such as Tales From The Darkside and Monsters, so I always liked it----my whole family liked horror movies and TV shows, so we were always watching them, especially on weekends while hard at work cleaning up our entire home, lol. So I've always like the show, regardless of its flaws, because it's always been nice and creepy and scary to me.