Posts by Kenneth Perez15

Richard Wilson4 said:How do you guys lose all your professionalism the second you deal with the "other side"...

Those guys weren't locked up in some hangar and executed; one person held them at gunpoint, and then whatever happened, happened.

Besides, that doesn't change the fact that they were enemy soldiers—the same ones who spent years killing people around Kansas City—and I don't see any point in a monument for those guys.

Look, from what I can see—and I’ve already made this point—those people surrendered. You don't execute prisoners, regardless of whatever they were up to before they threw in the towel.

Daniel Bailey39 said:dragmo is right, because it's people like you (who are basically driving a wedge through our society) that ramp up the pressure.😍
Do people light candles at the Holocaust memorial for fallen German soldiers?
No, they don't, right?
Then why on earth should we allow candles to be lit for the very people who launched an invasion against us?😕

Richard Wilson4 said:How do you guys lose all your professionalism the second you deal with the "other side"...

Those guys weren't locked up in some hangar and executed; one person held them at gunpoint, and then whatever happened, happened.

Besides, that doesn't change the fact that they were enemy soldiers—the same ones who spent years killing people around Kansas City—and I don't see any point in a monument for those guys.

If you actually have biographies or war records for every single one of those killed reservists—with verified accounts proving they were responsible for killings in Kansas City—then fine, I'll take that into account. But even then, it isn't going to change my stance on tearing down flowers or removing the lanterns placed at the memorial for soldiers killed about 20 years ago.

Wow, what a stunning piece of writing. All that effort just for 13 killed enemy soldiers! Talk about the government mocking its own veterans!
It’s nothing more than pure, unadulterated mockery—a pathetic attempt at rewriting history.
Let's be clear: we're talking about memorial lights set up for 13 US Army reservists who surrendered unconditionally and were then executed.
The stunt these people pulled isn't just an affront to everything decent—though they probably claim to be "principled" once they peel off their fatigues and throw on their Department of Health and Human Services t-shirts—it’s also anti-civilized, purely vandalistic, and frankly inhuman. Because regardless of who those men were, someone actually remembered them and lit those lanterns, only for these thugs to swoop in and show just how "great" they can be.

laser said:science fiction for Americans

Look, people need to realize there are actually some decent politicians out there—we just need to clear out the absolute garbage currently clogging up our political system.

The current Government has actually taken a few steps in that direction—take Linić's attempt to cap overdrafts and that whole "war" with the big banks, for instance.
The difference is that Italians are significantly sharper; their opposition doesn't spend all day terrorizing the public with endless referendums over whether or not you can define a breakfast sandwich in the Constitution.

David Vaughn75 said:Look, that’s just not happening as long as the Republican Party is still pulling the strings.
The truth is, people only bother voting for the Democratic Party because they're desperate to kick the Republican Party out of office.

Honestly, you’d have to ban this whole criminal enterprise known as the Republican Party—they're basically the root of every single problem we deal with here in the States.☕

Yeah, right. If only we actually lived in an America like that.

Michael Bay is basically shorthand for Hollywood trash. We’re talking cliché-ridden movies filled with incredibly seizure-inducing camera movements and all the artistic depth you’d expect from Thompson's soundtracks. And the most tragic part? They actually make a ton of money.

I’m not going to waste my breath on highbrow "art" films, nor am I interested in mindless junk like Quentin Tarantino and his crowd.
The 2000s were basically defined by the massive explosion of CGI—it was everywhere. Movies started getting bigger, aiming for that epic scale where you just can't have the story without heavy visual effects. You look at stuff like The Lord of the Rings, the newer Star Wars entries, or Narnia, plus The Matrix and Avatar, which really pushed the tech to its limits. But then you get the bad side of it too—movies where the effects feel totally hollow and exist just for the sake of showing off, like Harry Potter.
Another huge hallmark of that decade—specifically the 2000 to 2009 stretch—was the sudden dominance of comic book adaptations. We went from the first X-Men back in 2000, through Spider-Man and the Batman reboots, all the way to Superman and eventually the whole Marvel Cinematic Universe.
We also saw a major wave of franchise revivals, whether they actually worked or not—think Die Hard, Indiana Jones, or Star Trek, specifically referring to their 2009 outing.

briskhound2 said:We are definitely NOT too old for this kind of chaos!
😁

Honestly, I’d love to see one more installment myself.

rowdyowl said:So, can a Sci-Fi film actually snag an Academy Award, win over the critics, and still be taken seriously by the highbrow intellectual circles?

Why not?
At their core, movies should be about things that matter here on Earth—basically, human questions. Sci-Fi just wraps those same themes in a surreal, futuristic, or alien package. Even the biggest Sci-Fi franchises, like Star Trek and Star Wars, are really just allegories for the human condition wrapped in Sci-Fi cellophane. Just because a movie doesn't win an Oscar isn't some definitive proof of its quality, nor does it mean it's only being watched by slacker teenagers hiding out in their basements.
What I'm getting at is that with Sci-Fi, you have to look past the surface level and hunt for the actual message. Assuming there is one, of course.

Honestly, this might be the best one in the franchise so far.

William Lee34 said:Brutally good.

😍

copperstag95 said:Has anyone else caught this yet???

I saw it. This past Friday.
My take? I'm disappointed.
The plot is pretty standard—which is fine, I guess—but some scenes just drag on forever (that fight with the Chinese person on the pier), others are just plain stupid (the hit on the old assassin—you know, Gillian Anderson’s mom), and some are straight-up ridiculous (like when English falls off a wire). Honestly, they turned the character into such a parody that he isn't even funny anymore. Sure, there are a few surprises, but at the end of the day, it feels like watered-down, Americanized humor that loses whatever charm the original had.
It’s watchable. But only once.

The preview looks incredible, and honestly, knowing George Lucas is the one behind this just makes me even more impatient to see it. 🙂

I’ve got the Star Wars special editions—specifically the first extended version they put out back in 2004—and even the supplemental material has been translated.

Gwyneth Paltrow is alright—though if you’ve actually sat through *Love Is Blind*... you know what I mean when they show her in those tiny thongs... 🙄

Amanda Sullivan3 said:Does anyone happen to know where I might track down a high-quality DVDrip? Or perhaps it just hasn't hit the digital shelves yet...?

I grabbed a 480p Blu-ray rip, but it was some German encode—so instead of "SIX MONTHS LATER," you get the German version. Picture and audio are solid, though. Found it on a torrent.