Comments by "beingsshepherd" (@beingsshepherd) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. 'Cast not your pearls before swine.' ~ Matthew 7 : 6
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  2.  @kingoffriesthekingwillrise1701  I strongly agree. Seth McFarlane is clearly no philanthropic visionary; plus I find The Orville completely devoid of serious left-wing angst.
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  3. That man is bereft of passion... and imagination!
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  4. AND fulfilled their propaganda objectives for the military industrial complex. Not bad.
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  5. I'm irritated by those historical revisionist film websites, stating that the sisters directed the brothers' '90s films.
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  6. Both creatively-purposeless failures.
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  7. Imo a worthwhile modern Trek series would tackle issues contemporary thought's wrestling with: The threat of AI to mankind's premiership, the mainstream media's manipulation of society, probity vs nihilism, censorship vs free expression, social climbing vs opting out and self-development, balancing the public's safety with their right to bear arms, should a policeman kill a person to save a person? And even the unresolved old chestnut of free will vs determinism. This could potentially imbue the project with serious purpose, attracting learned and sensitive artists to invest their best efforts.
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  8.  @grantorino2325  Interesting comment. I read a column in The Sunday Times (2009ish) claiming that during The Cold War the West had to show its moral superiority to the mighty Soviet Union and that since its collapse, we've all descended into nihilism (paraphrased).
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  9. oO(Sounds like my ex gf.)
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  10. It can all be traced back to the elephant in the room: our failure to have put even a dent in Washington's Iraq war machine. The collective will of we people of conscience around the world counted for nothing against the unstoppable rise of the waterboarding NeoCons, and to this very day no answer even in hindsight has emerged. The cataclysmic collapse of Leftist confidence has engendered a vacuum for the avaricious and envious to thrive by window dressing establishment propaganda.
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  11. * looks over at Sir Patrick Stewart *
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  12. The original Ghostbusters followed an exciting vanguard of Spielberg, Lucas, Landis even Michael Jackson. There's no similar such drive nor youthful optimism this side of ... 1996.
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  13. Transformers, Pokemon, BeyBlade.
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  14. Our? You mean the government's.
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  15. And Sarah Connor's son John.
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  16. But who today would appreciate a good script? The collective Western imagination was driven out around 2008; that's the insurmountable elephant in the room. It's not Hollywood but us.
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  17. So have many a villain.
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  18. Why did no one say that about Afterlife ? Neither looked nor sounded anything like a fun, enthusiastic Ghostbusters film.
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  19. They keep telling us that the government's obedient troops are the heroes. Whereas the Jedis of this world are now conspiracy theorists and terrorists.
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  20. And racism frankly.
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  21. Feels like we've been crying foul forever and no one's actually doing anything about anything. Necessity is the mother of invention, actions speak louder than words. Evidently it's all within our tolerance. 😕
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  22. Please name him Kibblesmith. Suits him so much better.
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  23. "I'm gonna spoil the sh * t out of this movie, because i've got absolutely no respect for it." 😁
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  24. To make a friend you must close one eye. And to keep a friend, you must close both eyes.
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  25.  @jonathanathor117  I was speaking of Jackson's cultural influence rather than cinematic.
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  26. 😄
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  27. ​ @Impulset0  I suppose he's being anti-Semitic, which is quite weird given how Jewish Star Trek is. Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Ira Steven Behr, Jerry Goldsmith, Brent Spiner, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Walter Koenig, Armin Shimerman, Aaron Eisenberg ...
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  28. oO(Never noticed a woman commenting here before.)
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  29. Hmm, I recall Nixon's pal being a poster boy for Viet-Nam.
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  30. Not me. Imo The Orville is to Star Trek what Stephen Fry is to Oscar Wilde.
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  31. Not when it revolves around contemporary war criminals.
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  32. Same goes for the government. When did even Obama express the slightest regret over civilian casualties?
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  33.  @superglue46  Rebellion is square now? Is saluting flags cool in your book?
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  34. Just looked it up, Bazil indeed 🦊"Boom boom!"
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  35. No offence to The Drinker, but from many past experiences I've learnt to never trust an enthusiastically gushing review nor endorsement of anything. Truly great things do not imbue violent excitement in the beholder.
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  36. Sound like Einstein wrestling with quantum mechanics.
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  37. I ask exactly the same thing of football fans. Almost every aspect of their favourite clubs change. Owners, players, managers, sponsors, ground locations, kit colours ...
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  38. Imo you all nailed optimism to the cross by supporting Washington's War on Terror. An unforgivable betrayal of conscience that derailed everything of greatness that was to be born.
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  39. "We're gonna impeach the motherf*cker" ~ Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib
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  40.  @Chris-es3wf  Just finishing off this spit-shine on Uncle Sam's jackboot.
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  41.  @jonathanathor117  And probably the biggest of the 1980s. Come to think of it, his Thriller may well have had a significant bearing on the iconic Ghostbusters theme.
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  42. Imo fans should want to be challenged and inspired rather than pandered to. The insignificant Sonic film has made zero cultural impact.
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  43. 0:35 Who knew The Drinker's a bigoted Trump fan? Smh.
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  44. And video games.
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  45. ... to provoke a cathartic cultural revolution ... that in no way affects the Occidental power structure.
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  46. You want films written by avaricious hacks?
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  47. But only nerds take notice. Everyone knows who Darth Vader is.
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  48. No one genuinely expected it to be great. Overhyped, over-budgeted and a redundant premise.
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  49. Saved the best laugh 'til the end 😄
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  50.  @leedobson  Reservoir Dogs, Goodfellas, Hans Gruber, Darth Vader, The Joker, Biff, Roy Batty, Castor Troy, ... Bad guys don't have to be as unreasonably verminous as xenomorphs in Aliens.
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