Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith7396) on "The Critical Drinker" channel.

  1. Or Silicon Valley Bank.
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  2. Or the last people in the ISS release volcanos to destroy the planet. Or maybe crash the moon into it.
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  3. They all became Republicans. Scooby turned into a vicious Rotweiler. They attacked the capital on Jan. 6.
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  4. Politicians and news figures don't act like actual adults, why should movie actors?
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  5. Stay out of grad school. Its nothing but cheap trivial politics. Big Bang Theory displayed it well.
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  6.  @Nexol13  Money, money, money. Its the root of all eviils.
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  7. Its a race to the bottom for money now.
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  8. And Kirk was going to charge in to save him but had to be restrained to keep from dying too.
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  9. The old WWII films showed lawyers, plumbers, laborers, idiots, and violent criminals all in the same platoon and having to depend on each other under strict discipline. Thats what the draft produced. Now its all about skating out from under responsibilities and isolating yourself only with others with the same viewpoints.
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  10. Re iteration.
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  11. The guy behind me puked. I remember that.
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  12.  @harbl99  The film pulled him out of a drunken stupor.
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  13. I worked in nursing homes for 25 years. Many deaths. One 20 something chick came in when here grandfather was dying and was outraged at us for not saving him. It was obvious it had never occured to her that people died when old. She expected us to life flight him to Menningers for the brain body transplant that all people got when they were dying. It was very much like Logans Run.
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  14. The Chris Pine character is an uncontrollable idiot who gained command by a fluke of cheating. The Shattner character was obviously a company man who served the interests of Star Fleet to the extent that he was rapidly promoted to command at a young age (mid 30s). Thats reality not kiddie fantasy.
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  15. They should do the Forbes top 100 running amoke in the cities. The military really would be powerless.
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  16. I read this in Junior High school. I have never heard it commented on. Roddenbury talked to NASA about how to design the ship. As I recal there was a section on padded bras too. So theres that. They have to glue costumes on well endowed women to prevent wardrobe malfunction. Dr. McCoys Fabrini girlfriend was a knock out. Also Lurches female robot companion. Wow.
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  17. It goes back to the early psychology of cinema as an art form as espoused by Eisenstein. The magic of cinema is it gets you to think and play the movie in your head. It should not be a literal retelling of any story. It has to provoke a mental or emotional response in the viewer. The early Star Treks had shit backdrops and special effects, often just colored lights played on a wall. The special effects were not the point, the story was. If anything hyper realism detracts from the viewer response and encourages morony which is what we now have.
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  18. Probably has problems at home.
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  19.  @brandonnorris2559  My feeling and Roddenburys is that money is a silly obsolete delusion which is an enabler of criminal activity. I don't know when it will be recognized as such, certainly not in my lifetime.
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  20. Picard?
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  21. It provoked an emotional response in you which is what cinematic art is supposed to do. I remember nothing of the later Star Wars or Star Treks. I finally said enough.
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  22.  @compmanio36  You don't operate the toilet in the military until you are trained and certified and closely monitored and inspected. Thats why they get things done.
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  23. These people get dump trucks full of money to do a part. They really have no reason to get bent out of shape.
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  24. The boss class has never wanted adults for employees. They want pack animals. Do as your told and shut up.
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  25. She did'nt have a TV license. 6 months in the Tower.
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  26.  @theyfearme1379  Thats what Drinker is Einstein.
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  27.  @alonespirit9923  I tend to think each generation is a creation of its grandparents idealism. It takes time for these things to work through society. In the 1960s we wanted the biggest possible cars burning the maximum amount of cheap gas. How did that turn out? People still do and climate be dammed. Unfortunately large amounts of people are just chips off the old block, incapable of independent thinking, not even knowing what it is. And I am describing those who constantly proclaim their independent thinking. Never go with the herd. We could hope our future could be clean abundant inexpensive energy and justice for all. The issue is currently in doubt.
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  28. This film had to be made. Disney has a stock price to support.
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  29. Its what investors want. A sure 30& ROI. Especially Chinese investors now that Americans are broke.
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  30. They are miners for cash. 12 year olds are their ore.
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  31. Right, heres a billion dollars. Be sure and have the dolls in the stores for Christmas. But what about the movie? What movie?
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  32. KHANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!
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  33. They can always give out coupons for free beer for more views.
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  34. They say its all being made for the China market. They must be real idiots.
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  35. They just liked the popcorn and milk duds.
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  36. Hugo was appearing in a play somewhere.
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  37. Sounds like Orwells 1984. We love Big Brother, Inc.
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  38. All the geeks in my HS had their own club. Everyone was in some kind of clique. Doper clique here.
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  39. Bingo. Ain't Potterville grand?
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  40.  @GareWorks  They are what happens when you get a Doctorate and can't get a job. Teaching is a fall back.
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  41.  @Thor-Orion  Useful Idiots pointed out that no one complained when people were insulting Trump in every way imaginable. They state the proper response should be to laugh.
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  42. Never heard it said but it must be true.
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  43. Did someone say Godzilla?
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  44. Did they all have I Phones?
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  45.  @MrMittens1974  They could hide him behind others like Brando in Apocalypse Now. Maybe just have his head sticking out of a roof or wall.
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  46. Maybe just a talking head in a glass jar.
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  47. Its Space Camp.
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  48. Builds character. And ricketts.
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  49. Its an old double standard. Its not going away in the forseeable future.
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  50. You are talking about capitalism. Houses cars, medical, education all to expensive to continue. End stage capitalism. Too much greed at the top.
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  51. Why do they re elect Senators and Congressmen?
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  52. The only acceptable balance would be to shoot JJ into space and let him stay there.
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  53. Is that brake fluid DOT 3 or 4?
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  54. Hey we can design a bra to deal with that. Lots of wire fighting and its just fine.
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  55. Maybe the batteries were low.
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  56. Like all capitalist concerns they are run by Wall Street. Wall Street dose'nt watch movies. They don't know the difference between a movie and a cell phone. Their trades are done by computer.
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  57. They should have one climb the Empire State building with a Kardashian in hand and being blown away by an F 35.
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  58. I would think they are playing on the bitterness of a down trodden class in an effort to be relevant.
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  59. They are doing a remake of The Exorcist. Again.
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  60. Then she blimped out. Robin Curtis was an awful replacement. The cougar from Sex and the City was good.
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  61. It is the Metaverse. I am going to drag and drop hot naked women everywhere. Stay tuned.
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  62.  @zdane5524  They get their money up front. They just have to put in the time.
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  63. And then fell into a black hole.
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  64. She did'nt want to move into a higher tax bracket.
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  65. Probably the British tax man cleaned her out. She should have moved to Luxemberg.
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  66. Empire Strikes Back was the high point. All downhill since then.
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  67. Its all finance driven. Someone was willing to put up the money for this movie so Hollywood says great. Good one boss.
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  68. This stuff is for pre teens. Why do you bother? Afraid to grow up?
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  69. Making kids do something always makes them love it.
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  70. Well, at least Wanda has a decent chest.
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  71. I need more than "meh" to go to a movie.
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  72. I used to watch Bugs Bunny blowing people up with gigantic dynamite explosions. Ah the good old days.
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  73. I think I will buy a fifth of JD instead.
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  74.  @feck2594  Its basically a tired WWII format set in space. But I was very upset when Spock died.
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  75. Seems to have antivaxer sentiment to me.
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  76.  @orange_sauce5951  The theater here has first runs for $4.00 and throws in popcorn. Currently showing Dune, Eastwood, Bond, but I think I will pass. Got more important things to do.
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  77. Yeah I hear the Supreme Court is going to ban it.
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  78. Its like Raiders of the Lost Ark but not good.
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  79. Thats nothing. I got trapped on a 7 hour long flight from England with "The Bridges of Madison County". I was going nuts waiting for Clint to break and begin shooting everyone left and right. I just knew he would freak out in this shit.
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  80.  @thisisnotachannel  He died of cancer.
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  81.  @ydid687  Or an actor.
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  82.  @PunditKING  Kinda of an old formula with a high body count. Just what America needs now.
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  83. You should teach English. In Scottish of course.
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  84. You mean when you make a movie from a video game its not very good? The hell you say!
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  85. Things are born, they live, they die. Let them. Especially corporations.
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  86. Is'nt he that idiotic cartoonish Captain Kirk? OMG.
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  87. How much does he weigh now?
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  88. Come on Drinker, tell us what you really think.
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  89. I always get a warm glow from the annual burning at the stake. What channel is it on this year? Or is it halftime at the football game?
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  90. I have a French sailing yacht, a Beneteau. It is considerably lighter than American and English designs of the same size. This has always been a French design parameter for increased speed in light wind. In Master they comment upon this re Acheron. During the Napoleonic waes The French ships were lighter and shallower draft than the heavy English ships. France is surrounded by shallow water and a French ship could go close in to shore where a deep draft British ship could'nt follow. They also said Acheron was "Yankee built". At that time Consitution and her sisters were being built and they were state of the art with high speed but strong hulls. Russels ship was rather old and out dated.
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  91. Hollywoodis famous for breast enlargement. Its a no brainer.
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  92.  @garrettzkool63  Its just money like every other crap thing in this life. Don't know why people are so dumb. Low order evolutionary scale. A little above dandelions.
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  93. I checked out on this and Star Trek about 15 years ago.
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  94. She has sharp fingernails.
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  95. Well at least that little guy gets some more work. Hope he did'nt invest in BTF.
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  96. It was that disgusting milk he drank.
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  97. Or maybe you are just stoned.
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  98. The batteries were Ever Readys. Buy the stock. Now.
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  99. Will Avatar II have blue titties? Looking for a reason to go. Its cold and rainy.
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  100. I think my poor broken down theater has free popcorn.
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  101. Naw, I'tll be fine.
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  102.  @billolsen4360  My expectation in either case would not be high.
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  103.  @bigtime9597  The makers are looking for a sure thing and feel a reboot is the best way to get it. No one ever said they were geniuses. They grab for the Chinese buck.
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  104. Can you say lesbian? I knew you could.
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  105. Give me an RPG 7 any day.
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  106. Push the button idiot. And eat your green beans.
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  107.  @fastd63  Yeah the Chris Pine Treks are cartoonish idiocy.
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  108. Call him Stampy.
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  109. I would do Daphnie, for sure. Those Archies girls too. Just sayin.
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  110. I don't have a problem with strong female breasts.
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  111. Is MTG the Republican "Strong Female Character"? Do you have to be mentally retarded for this role?
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  112. Is it too much to ask to just have a dinosauer with a fricking laser on its head? Is it just me?
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  113. You need to look no farther than current elites to see people contaminated by everything you list.
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  114. The high paid writers may or may not be infantile. But they are paid to write for children. Money is producing this drivel and the investors, producers, and directors do what they are paid to do. I see the same thing on Youtube. It is a place for children not adults. I would normally criticize this but I realized adults are not wanted here. Its Tik Tok for the masses until the children out grow it.
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  115. All it takes to stop them is to not buy tickets or DVDs. End of story.
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  116. Does Disney have a monopoly on the direct to DVD market?
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  117. Hey wait a minute. We're getting some titty action? Lets not be too harsh in our judgements here. Lets hear it out.
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  118. Won't the Chinese watch any sort of crap as long as it has hyperkinetic action?
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  119. I wrote off Star Trek the first time I saw Chris Pine. The modern Spock could be excellent.
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  120. She forgot to get her lips aired up.
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  121. It causes much anxiety in drivers.
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  122. Its coming back.
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  123.  @CinemaSeven  Well J Michael is on board and he is the guy who could pull it off. My reservations are based on all the great old characters having died off. Katsulas is irreplaceable.
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  124. But Drinker, how are Trinities leather pants? I've been waiting for this one as the local theater is begging for my $6.00 Christmas funds. All the other reviews are worse than this one. Guess I will sleep in.
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  125. Its another Republican conspiracy.
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  126. Unfortunately business does it all the time. It tends to give the same results.
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  127. Batman joining the criminals sounds like commentary on how far society has declined.
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  128. A Phaser is more interesting. It apparently puts out enough energy to instantly vaporize a body. You could calculate btus required by weight/mass of the body and btus required for average tissue. They make a light saber look like a kids squirt gun.
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  129. Its been so long I have forgotten when it was good. Keep watching TOS.
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  130. She keeps her bloomers on like a lady.
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  131. I like the SNL adaptation where Dana Carvey as George leads an angry mob to kill Potter. "lets kill him".
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  132. The pathetic truth is that right wingers really do believe in Santa, the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny. These are the same people who would hold us at gunpoint to enforce their so called beliefs. They are insane 4 year olds with automatic weapons. Oh another school shooting? At least the second amendment is alive and well.
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  133.  @Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist  You know she talked to MLK.
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  134.  @timbuktu8069  The films you cite happened a long time ago. A completely different audience and era.
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  135.  @bobleglob162  The general idea is that if Earth were in trade with 100 or more Earth like planets, some maybe colonies of Earth things would be so plentiful as to become valueless. People would be free from the drudgery of earning a living and could engage in pursuits of interest. Yes it would destroy todays whole heirarchy of wealth.
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  136.  @timbuktu8069  Society has been destroyed in the intervening years by the pursuit of wealth. Younger people refer to it as the boomer generation. OK Boomer. It has destroyed the movies too. Its all about profit and return on investment. The box office receipts from these films would argue against your faith in audiences and why meaningful films are a rarity.
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  137.  @YSLRD  Sorry don't know what comment you are responding to. Roddenbury believed in the perfectability of humans and their society not this cesspool we live in. He believed our reality was transitory and would be replaced by something far better. People who like todays reality would not be happy in the future.
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  138.  @mark-nm4tc  Elon will change that.
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  139. So Drinker, what do you really think?
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  140. Yeah but Sarah Silvermans nudies are entertaining. She really has black hair if you get my drift. And lots of it! She could use a trim.
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  141. If only Kathlene Kennedy made this film.
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  142. Its where the money is. Parents dumping their kids into the theater to get a little peace and quiet.
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  143. Ah yes reminds me of ET and Dune.
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  144. So what did you really think of it?
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  145. Intense body odor.
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  146. Will you do Clockwork Orange?
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  147.  @maxthexpfarmer3957  Lots of political commentators are doing that now. I think its for the money. Why just troll right wingers when you can troll the left too. Then sit in the middle and pat yourself on the back about your god like "objectivity". Smile when the cash rolls in. Its a great con.
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  148. Its awful being surrounded by poor people.
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  149.  @metalhead8659  I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better.
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  150. So they should have used a C5A?
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  151.  @dollmaker6599  Or the NRA in a duck blind with a gigantic shotgun firing battleship shells. They could knock it down, declare they were taking over the government and get stinking drunk on Budweiser all at the same time. Right wingers would flock to see it.
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  152. I always thought Scooby Doo was stupid. My brother loved it. Give me Jonny Quest any day.
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  153. I remember the animation was really poor.
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  154. Maybe that little guy could be in the next Steven Segal movie.
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  155. Too late to stop another generation of shitty people. I don't blame movies.
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  156. They were trying to cast Rodney Dangerfield and Sam Kinison but well, you know.
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  157. It sounds like it plays into the NRA narrative of more guns= more safety. So not controversial at all in the US. Just more dead kids like a typical slasher movie.
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  158. I am an RN who worked in a bariatric unit for a while(obesity). I've never felt you get to this size by over eating. I usually say you can get to 350 pounds that way but not 750 as a teenage boy I treated did. These people have a metabolic problem, not a moral problem.
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  159. Cell phone syndromn.
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  160. Sort of like Clint Eastwood?
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  161.  @justyouraverageeditor7483  Maybe save Tokyo from Mothra. We should get a Giant Robot.
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  162. Can you say drivel? I knew you could. How many brain cells do you lose watching this tripe?
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  163. I always thought the point of these was to show Millas T & A. But then again I'm not a gamer. And they could do better than her.
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  164. As long as its Disney any thing is possible. And apparently Chinese audiences are none too discriminating. Space dinosauers threaten the earth and the CCP rescues us so we all abandon personal freedoms and sing the CCP anthem while doing calesthenics in unison. Then back to the Apple slave factory.
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  165. Its why films are made for 12 year olds. The parents dump them at the theater then go do something important. The films are baby sitters.
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  166.  @dr_sudo  Avatar just broke new records. Somebody is going to the movies. I go once or twice a year. All these comic book movies are for kids.
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  167. Is Ginger Plank of Wood seeing anyone? I'm old. Not at all picky.
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  168. Electric eels can generate lethal shocks.
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  169. The Disney Star Wars Hotel at $6000 a night has already failed. Is closing per Adam the Woo.
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  170. Did'nt this dude get his head cut off in one of the movies? Thank God I'm too poor to get pay per view. My IQ remains intact.
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  171. We currently live in Potterville. Thanks capitalists.
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  172. I can't comment on Scotland but here in the US we are wasting about 20 kids a week on people who have grown up on this sludge. The mythos of the cave man protector empowered to do anything for the supposed sake of his family is widely prevalent and highly toxic. Quite often they are wife beaters and child molesters. Here in MO. we have a former govenor Eric Greitins who claims to be a Navy Seal who was thrown out of office for campaign violations and has an upcoming trial for spouse and child abuse. The real Navy Seals laugh at his posturing as one of them. He has now decided he is entitled to higher office and is running for the US Senate. He has put out ads with himself and others as armed and threatening to kill his opponents to ostensibly preserve his "family values". He may win. People who love this type of made up crap are no doubt big supporters. I have probably seen every violent movie made and like a good action pic. However this does not seem to be the time for this and this celebration of gun carnage and cro magnon man instincts has got to stop. Come to the US for a while Drinker. Bring your body armor.
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  173. Depends on if you want to watch cartoons or cinematic art.
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  174. I really don't know why you review "fantasy or cartoon movies"..They are geared for 10 year olds. Your reviews of adult movies make a lot more sense.
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  175. Its not her face that was hired but her rack.
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  176. Bout time for Panty Raiders.
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  177. Ditto Star Trek TOS.
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  178. He should have thrown some gasoline on him and cooked some marshmellows.
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  179. Is Santa married to Hillary Clinton? Does Bill know or care?
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  180. I say grubby.
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