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• Post #3206053

  @KatMA ROGUE ONE is probably my fav #StarWars movie also, which might be why ANDOR resonates with me so well (Tony Gilroy was creative force behind both of those). "Westerns capture harsh truth about America and the stories it tells itself"...well said. I think that's very true. Though strangely, one of my favorite Westerns isn't American at all: THE PROPOSITION (2005) is Australian. It's grimy & gritty and definitely captures some harsh truths...

• Post #3206052

  @KatMA Yeah, Emily Watson is amazing. I hope you like that film. It's been years since I've seen it but it sticks in my memory as The Best Western. There is some brutal violence, tho, iirc, so be warned. The "Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" also comes to mind as high in the ranking of The Best Westerns I Have Ever Seen. It is truly excellent. When Westerns are done right, they are pretty powerful pieces of cinema

• Post #3206047

  @KatMA Haven't seen "Unforgiven" since I was a teenager, I think? But loved it back then. It was such a stark contrast between the way violence was presented in that film and the cheesy, unrealistic way I was used to seeing Western-movie violence presented, where men get shot once in the gut and die instantly without pain, and women aren't sliced up with a knife on a whim. "Unforgiven" is like the "Saving Private Ryan" of West...

• Post #3206037

  #StarWars Can you abuse the Force if you're Force Sensitive? As if it were a drug? Can you wield your widdle Midichlorians so that they grant you blissful, carefree euphoria and you just forget about all your Jedi duties and quit practicing hygiene and other problematic consequences typical of addiction in our Galaxy? As an addict & SW fan, I find myself wondering this kinda often. Just seems like #TheForce could be "abused" for physical pleasure but I&#3...

• Post #3206030

  @KatMA The reporter! Yes! I remember him: that was the first time I remember seeing (the actor) Saul Rubinek onscreen. He really sold that weaselly reporter who facilitated gunslinger violence by glorifying it in his pulp novels. You're right, his character spent the first portion of the film basically denouncing his old shoot 'em up days and expressing remorse for his old acts of violence, only to end the film with more of that violence, tho this time it wasn't without...

• Post #3206028

  @KatMA Ah, snow! Yes, it's beautiful but dangerous for driving, as I recall from very distant memories of staying in more northerly latitudes. Winter looks great dressed in white but she better not do so after Labor Day or the Fashion Police will nab her Hope you have a great day up there too!

• Post #3206027

  @tragedy Yeah, I feel like the Prequel Trilogy squandered a lot of opportunities for exploring interesting ideas like that. It kinda hurts to watch them for this reason. I mean the core idea for the storyline(s) is solid, imo, but the execution is just...well, abysmal. Maybe Disney will do a FULL series reboot in 2045 and hire some visionary young director to follow through with the Darth Jar-Jar storyline and recast Young Ani as a mostly mute, mysterious wunderkind attracted to power

• Post #3206026

  @Amazing_Facts Is this a joke? I haven't heard anything about this and when I search for it, I see that there was some kind of campaign to that end but it has been cancelled. Was it all a joke or were the fundraisers in earnest?

• Post #3206025

  @Amazing_Facts LOL! Not entirely unpredictable that someone would do that, I guess. Truly incredible the demeaning lengths to which boot-licking billionaire-toadies will go in order to prove how much they love the men who exploit them "Please take my money, sir!" [emptying pockets of last crusty nickel into Elon's Smaug-Lair of lucre]

• Post #3206022

  My boy B. always assists me with deliveries. Whenever there is a delivery, he rushes to the door and alerts me with a ceaseless string of borkborkborkborks, then he very generously offers to aid me in opening and sampling the goods which are stored inside the newly arrived boxes, all because he is simply a Very Halpful Boi and not because he is an Extremely Hongry Boi Who Must Have All The Treets #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #animals

• Post #3206021

  @Bommo Aww, I think that's totally fair and she should get a treat every time you come home! haha I also have been cajoled into giving my dogs a treat whenever I come home from shopping, since they explained to me that they felt excluded when all the shopping bags only contained Human Treats, and I said, "Okay, that's reasonable. You pleaded your case well. Here, have a salmon nugget treat, you silver-tongued devils"

• Post #3206019

  @lmacb Now that's some gorgeous moss photography. 💚 👍 I've never seen this particular kind of moss: it almost looks like shag-carpeting or some kind of textile! It's really cool.

• Post #3206018

  @KatMA I think I'd be unsettled by that as well. I shudder at the thought of being observed all the time, especially by strangers. But with those Ring devices on every doorbell and other kinds of DIY-surveillance gizmos along with constantly running smartphone cameras etc., we're probably ALL being recorded at all times, forever. *shudder* I don't think you're being paranoid. That's a bit creepy!

• Post #3206017

  @KatMA Ohh that's a good quote. Ol' Billy Burroughs was so often on point about things like these. Yeah, we have WAY too many *actual* police, but we have even MORE civilian LEO-auxiliaries who surveil themselves and their neighbors without even needing to be asked. What a world we've created.

• Post #3206016

  Billy Bragg's eloquent response to a certain astroturfed, pseudopopulist tune that was making the rounds recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGNFR7pgxDY