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| marantzo |
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| ParaNorman got very good reviews all around. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2012 12:39 am |
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marantzo wrote: ParaNorman got very good reviews all around.
It's got a really good story with a lot of gross-out humor and a lot of entertaining details. Norman's home town is under a curse by a witch, which means the town is a tourist trap devoted to witchcraft memorabilia, complete with a statue of the witch in the town square--which looks absolutely nothing like the real witch. On the anniversary of the witch's death, the dead will rise, unless the proper book is read from before sundown. Guess what book isn't read from before sundown?
Norman realizes that this is a stopgap solution anyway, and aims for a permanent solution at the risk of his own life.
Iron Man, Katniss, Batman have nothing on him. Norman is my hero of the year. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:26 am |
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According to Stanley the Fish, this is what the anti-Obama film is:
Quote: Obama, D’Souza and Anti-colonialism
By STANLEY FISH
I’ve never before had the experience of seeing a movie based on the ideas of a friend who is also the film’s producer, writer, co-director and on-camera star. The friend is Dinesh D’Souza and the movie is “2016: Obama’s America.” It’s a bit less than 90 minutes long and for the most part it follows the path of D’Souza’s 2010 book “The Roots of Obama’s Rage.”
That path is at once psychological and historical. D’Souza tells us that he wants to understand Obama’s actions, which do not, he contends, follow either from the American dream of the founding fathers or from the civil rights story of Selma, Birmingham, Brown v. Board of Education and Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream” speech. Instead, according to D’Souza, the dream Obama is intent on realizing is the dream of his anti-colonialist father, Barack Obama Sr. |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 8:26 am |
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Well, glad to hear O. is anti-colonialist. The last thing we need right now is to take on another colony.
Seriously, any movie derived from something called The Roots of Obama's Rage sounds like a guy with a partisan hatchet. |
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| gromit |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 9:07 am |
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Oh come on -- doesn't a puppet regime in Iran sound appealing?
Obama and Rage?
Sure fits right into my theory about projecting.
D'Souza's weird piece got a good deal of publicity last year.
The anti-Obama, Conspiracy Right ate it up.
At least one major GOP player bought into it -- I'm pretty sure it was Newton (but I should check to make sure).
Of course it's more Obama as The Other -- so be very afraid. ... |
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| knox |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 10:42 am |
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| "Get that n---- out of the White House!" The redneck segment can spit-polish and buff up the dynamic all they want, but that old-school brand of ugly is still in there. Had our POTUS been a white guy from Peoria named Steve Hawthorne, the "Other" spectre would have been largely absent from the discourse. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:23 pm |
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knox wrote: "Get that n---- out of the White House!"
Sorry, but that's what most of it is about. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:44 pm |
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| That's a huge crock of shit. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:52 pm |
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Joe Vitus wrote: That's a huge crock of shit.
At most it's an exaggeration. Racism has a lot to do with the virulent Obama-hating going on on the right. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 1:56 pm |
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More shit. Tons of it. Point to a racist comment. Name some racist people who are opposing Obama.
Lots of people hated Clinton. It wasn't because he was white. They hated what that thought he represented. They hate Obama for what they think he represents.
Look at the huge support for Colin Powell. Not a lot a racism ever directed towards him. Why? Because he espoused a message conservatives could support.
There's also Rice, and Justice Thomas. Republicans and other conservatives don't have a racial agenda. They have a political one. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:01 pm |
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The worst of it is, you are commenting on a people you know nothing about. You don't know many Republicans. You don't know people in small southern or midwestern towns, to my knowledge. You don't read the conservative press, to my knowledge. You literally have no clue what these people are like beyond their being the opposition and thus the bad guys. You are simply in no position to assess the motivating factor behind their positions.
In other words, the only person I read expressing bigotry is you. |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:10 pm |
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| I tend to agree with Billy. I grew up in South Carolina and my relatives are still there. Things have changed A LOT since the fifties, but there's still a racist edge to society, which I think is true throughout the South (and some of the North as well). One seldom hears the N-word these days, but that doesn't mean it isn't spoken among family groups. (It was always verboten in our house.) A black president makes southerners uncomfortable, and they look for any reason to criticize him. Of course, most southerners are Republican these days--thanks to SC's own Strom Thurmond, a prime example of old-time racism--and many don't bother to make a choice, just vote from habit. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:12 pm |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:00 pm |
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| Atlanta is hardly a racist city, but once you leave the city there is a lot of racism in the countryside. The Augusta National Golf Club has been a good example of that over the years. I think they have three black members now with one of them, one of the two women they just allowed in. When they have the Masters on TV it is absolutely vomit worthy with the syrupy music in the background as they describe all the parts of the hallowed golf course. When i was watching the Masters a few years ago with my friend in Nassau he broke into their hallowed descriptions by saying, "And there is the historic Sycamore where we hanged so many n***ers." |
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| carrobin |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:19 pm |
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| There are more black celebrities and politicians (and of course sports stars), who are in a different class than the average black person. In the South you hear people talk about the lazy black guy who doesn't want a job, the black welfare mother of half a dozen kids with different fathers, the black kids going to jail. Stereotypes abound--but since nobody's getting lynched and crosses are no longer burned on lawns, people generally consider themselves non-racist. |
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