we watched this last weekend finally. I thought it was a good movie with a great ending. But I also thought it was totally unnecessary. Total fan service. Which is fine.

there are absolutely NO movies that are necessary. They are all superfluous to their source material.

you know what I mean.

how many screenplays have you read lately? :D


i think this movie was "necessary" to update this 40-year-old "saga" from the knee-jerk narrative of princesses needing rescue, repeatedly, as eternal recipients of male heroism and/or oppression-- from obi wan my only hope to jabba the hut's sex slave chains, enuff with the save-mes.

of course this one still perpetuates the aristocratic ideology of the series-- great individuals begetting great individuals and everyone else an anonymous blur. a bullshit obsession with parentage and ancestry. in real life "great people" tend to come from nowhere and their issue returns to the great nowhere. cue up fanfare for the common "man".

and yeah, a lot of art these days has to be about gender, and no, it's not arbitrary. the world is changing, and trumpism is the last gasp of the old dying order.

What about movies that are originals, and have no source material aside from the screenplay for the movie itself?

Eh?

Also, I disagree. If that's true then no work of art is necessary, and art itself is unnecessary. So, we need to better operationalize the word "necessary" before we can get into a thing about what the word does and doesn't apply to.

no work of art is necessary. EXACTLY

ART-ifice.....

boricua please!

i dare you to live one month with no art

I make art. I AM art....

per your premise then, you're totally unnecessary

But can we live a month without him?

this board would be then deader than jesus

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A friend recommended it to me as great documentary, so it took me a few minutes to get whats actually going on.
I think Minervini (director) worked on this sometime early 2016. His approach of working with real life characters playing themeleves in an anthropologically informed, fictional screenplay bears quite fascinating results. Are you all still busy discussing hollywood/europeansuperhero/japanesefeminist rape movies?
All you doomed to death 'mericans well and safe?

shouldn't that be in the Trump thread?

AWWWW SNAP OR WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY!!!

Lol. Look what I made it say instead of what it really says. :)

Should I say "Fixed" now? Y'know, to really put the internet cherry on top of my stupid bullshit?

Y'know, for a robot made out of a box and a plunger, the Daleks have done really well for themselves in pop culture. Gotta admire that.

hey, i didn't mean it in a fighting way. only argumentative, which it's not the same.


they're definitely the inspiration for r2d2. for sure lucas watched that. i didn't realize this till the other day.

Believe it or not, I didn't mean "AW SNAP OR WHATEVER PEOPLE SAY" in a fighting or pro-fighting way either. I kinda thought that would be obvious from the ridiculousness of the comment. I just saw that YOU were referencing DOCTOR WHO and I was like, "Aww, hell yeah!"

So, sorry if I sounded trolly. I was just being nerdy. I honestly forgot there was any kind of argument going on as soon as I saw the Daleks, and then.. well, what can I say. Instinct took over.

"D "D "D

so, a few one's I've watched recently.

Paris was a Woman- 1910's thru 1940's. 2, count em, 2 wars! Great history, well put together, fascinating

new Emily Dickinson bio pic A Quiet Passion, very very good.

The Wolf Pack, interesting family dynamic there....

Maudie, I disagree with the reviewers that didn't like this, I thought it was absolutely great. Some complaints about Ethan Hawke in it, I thought he was just about perfect in the role, and Sally Hawkins is spectacular.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ_guQTGNw