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"First off the anti-aging CGI was HORRIBLE....Marvel does it so convincingly you can hardly tell but DC can't do it better than Marvel did in Ant-Man 3 years earlier? Several times I could tell Aquaman's dad was off because his eye positions were crooked on his head!"
You think Ant-Man did a better job? I thought young Douglas looked terrible.
"The submarine attack scene was a joke, I kept waiting for the sub to implode from the hull breach and it never happened."
I don't know submarine mechanics that well, but fair enough.
Fair enough on the next few points.
"Miles Dyson survived Terminator 2, comes back with his son and blows himself up again."
Not the same actor man. Also, not a problem with the movie.
"Aquaman isn't Superman so he wouldn't be pushing submarines up out of the water...."
Google is your friend. Aquaman has super strength.
I didn't mind the damage in MOS because it reminded me of the old JL animated series.
"Plus, I love how a pair of poorly uneducated hicks were the ones with the smarts to outwit snooty, Ivy League educated, uppity, 'oh-so-smart' Amazing Amy. That had to hurt her oversized upper-class princess ego. LMAO."
Spot on, loved that too. "Your glasses are fake... you don't respond to your name half the time."
"Listen, I am a huge fan of Star Trek and IDIC and diversity, but..."
Reminds me of I'm not racist but...
There was destruction in the old Superman movies too. People just didn't complain as much (and visuals back then didn't allow filmmakers to show as much).
How do people expect Superman and another superpowered person to fight in a city with zero collateral damage?
"I think sometimes people who make silly comments like this need to take a long hard look at themselves as ask themselves 'you know what...maybe the problem is me'."
Thank you. Seems like the guy just doesn't deal with anyone with an accent on a regular basis (friends, coworkers, passerby etc.) So he feels his WASPY existence threatened with a Mexican accent that is not hard to understand.
Hail to the saviours... crows and wild dogs.
Fair point, unless they have a 24-7 assembly line.
To be fair about the bullets, I thought Eugene got a bullet press working and showed others how to use it?
You just sound like a sheltered dude who isn't used to hearing anything but 'Murican or Brit English. Luna does not need to be dubbed for people who aren't as sheltered as you are.
I loved how even the font in the trailer copied the MOS font.
I think a private company should have the right to end a business dealing if they wish, in order to avoid bad publicity.
However, I get where you're coming from.
Dropping her from Hallmark isn't about being triggered (people overuse that word). It's another form of punishment for breaking the law.
" he got accepted in as a foreign exchange student..."
A birther? Yeah, I can't take you seriously anymore.
To the OP. Do you realize Hollywood has long held the mentality that black actors (as a whole) aren't as marketable as white ones? Movies like Straight Outta Compton and Black Panther are definitely helping to dismantle that idea, and of course we have figures like Will Smith. However, Denzel, Will, The Rock, Michael B. Jordan etc. are still exceptions to the rule in Hollywood, hence nowhere near as many A-list black actors (even if we factor in the black pop. relative to the white pop.) That is an example of how white privilege affects who becomes a rich actor in the first place. White privilege doesn't just mean no black people can succeed.
What cracks me up is that the "That's YOUR assumption" part was copied and pasted from your message. I like doing that to give context for what I'm saying and you didn't even realize you were responding to your own words.
I'll just end the argument man. We're going in circles. Your reading comprehension is terrible.
Peace.
"But even if people criticise Affirmative Action, that doesn't mean they label every black A student with an "undeserving AA brush". That's YOUR assumption.
I didn't say "every." You said I was making an assumption about AA judgment and argued it doesn't happen, the Fisher comments are an example of people SOMETIMES assuming black people don't belong.
"I did, honey, and your white privilige statement came AFTER you made your Denzel comment (with another unrelated argument about "old money")"
What difference does it make that I made the privilege statement after the Denzel one? Read the whole message, it's not that long. Old money is not unrelated. I said old money people are the ones who benefit from white privilege, with families that made their money many generations ago. Do you understand?
"One, you assume that's what people assume"
Not an assumption, you can look up people's thoughts on AA and assumptions for yourself e.g. the comment section for any article on Abigail Fisher.
"Two, that has nothing to do with the reason these kids got into college. Black parents with money could've done the same thing."
Read my whole comment before you start typing. Here is my response to that point...again.
"Fair point on Denzel but the white privilege comments apply more to the older legacy money e.g. 5th generation children of rich, white Americans. This older money typically just donates to get their kids in."
"If whites are so privileged, why did they have to cheat the system?"
Flawless logic. We could also ask why rich businessmen feel the need to embezzle money, cheat taxes etc. if they are so rich. They must actually be poor then right?
Fair point on Denzel but the white privilege comments apply more to the older legacy money e.g. 5th generation children of rich, white Americans. This older money typically just donates to get their kids in.
Also, white privilege applies since people would assume these people's kids got in due to intelligence or skill. Meanwhile a black A student gets labelled with the undeserving AA brush.