betabox - 2020-07-07
Well, what'cha gonna do?
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SolRo  - 2020-07-08
5 for racistcracker
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Crackersmack - 2020-07-09 lol I didn't think you were on of those "reverse racism" people but w/e
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Gmork - 2020-07-09 Haha what? What the fuck is reverse racism? It goes in every direction.
Systemic racism doesn't, however.
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Crackersmack - 2020-07-10 yeah that's my point, and here is SolRo (presumably white) calling me (Afro-Latino) racist.
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Crackersmack - 2020-07-10 it's like you all stopped reading after "Cracker" and ignored the "smack" part
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Gmork - 2020-07-10 I think he's calling you racist because you're racist.
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Crackersmack - 2020-07-10 When did you stop beating your wife Gmork?
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Marlon Brawndo - 2020-07-09
Did you know Star Trek doesn't have real spaceships?
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SolRo - 2020-07-09 I don’t remember Star Trek making sure The Federation always looks like flawless good guys while glorifying violence as something good guys need to use.
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Marlon Brawndo - 2020-07-11 I just think it's ridiculous to go after cop dramas. People need heroes. It's all kinds of stupid to go after police dramas or any other form of entertainment. It's entertainment. It's fucking escapism. They're a LOT more realistic than cop shoot em ups from the 70s and 80s.
Hollywood doesn't often make realistic things for any genre. I'm just mystified as to why anyone wants to complain about this shit. If you don't like it, then don't watch it. It's not insidious.
They have TV series that glorify Lucifer/Satan but cops get all the hate. So that's great.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2020-07-11
Things happen in TV and movies because things have to happen in TV and movies.
In horror movies, women are murdered not necessarily because of misogyny but because of the need for action. The Final Girl heroically overcomes the killer in the end, not necessarily because of feminism, but because of the need for a story arc. Misogyny may be tied up in there. Feminism may be tied up in there somewhere... in the mind of the filmmakers, and in the mind of the audience. But mostly, things just have to happen.
Bad boy cops who don't play by the rules give writers something to write about. In Guarding Tess, when Nicolas Cage, as a by-the-book secret service agent, becomes desperate enough to extract information from a suspect by shooting him in the foot, it's not necessarily because the writers have a pro-torture agenda. It's mostly so Nic Cage can Nic Cage it up, so we can see the depth of his feelings for the Shirley McLaine character. He actually has tears in his eyes. And this is the climax of the movie, and it's not a mystery, it's a relationship comedy, so this is no time for a talky interrogation scene, or a long chain of evidence.
Now maybe the writers have a political agenda... or maybe they grew up watching this kind of easy resolution, like we all did. Like the cops did. Like Donald Trump did. William Barr, the fucking Attorney General, explained law enforcement during a speech, and used Dirty Harry to make his point, as if Dirty Harry was a historical figure.
torture led to confirmation that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. He didn't, and we're still cleaning up that mess. But in the movies, Nicolas Cage got Shirley McLaine home in about ten minutes of screen time.
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John Holmes Motherfucker - 2020-07-11 Let me fix that last paragraph
In real life, torture led to confirmation that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. He didn't, and we're still cleaning up that mess. But in the movies, Nicolas Cage used torture to get Shirley McLaine home in about ten minutes of screen time.
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SolRo - 2020-07-11 TL:DR A lot of grown Americans are so dumb they think the stuff in movies is real.
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Marlon Brawndo - 2020-07-12 Well then we should laugh at those people, not pander to them.
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SolRo - 2020-07-12 Not sure how laughing at dumb people that support or actively perpetuate police violence ‘because the TV said it’s okay and effective’ actually fixes anything.
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