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True, this is something blaxploitation films got right. For all the talk of the negative stereotypes they enforced around black people, they were at least willing to portray them as villains in some capacity. No one seems to want to remember this, but the folks who sold African slaves to white people back in the day were actually black people themselves. There's not a single race out there that hasn't committed their fair share of atrocities in the world.
Yeah, perhaps I'm going a bit too far by straight up labelling him a sociopath or a narcissist from that one time I hung out with him. I do get the sense that he at least wants to be that kind of person, though. From the way he was trying to smooth talk every living thing that crossed his path that night, I get the sense that he likes to fancy himself as that type of guy, regardless of whether he actually has the intelligence and social skill to pull that personality off. Even if he's not actually a sociopath deep down, I still think he's probably not the best of people to hang out with if that's the kind of person he seems to aspire to be.
Well, I got at least one of those guesses right about you (not into reading, I guess?). : )
Oh yeah, lame and cringey as fuck that one is. In its defense though, I have met one or two teachers in my life who I would say inspires me to become a better person to this very day. So I guess that one isn't entirely outside the realm of reality, unlike some of the ones I listed.
You don't do a lot of reading in your spare time, do you? 'Cause you don't seem to be very good at comprehending text that runs longer than a three sentence Twitter post.
And no, checking up someone's Facebook profile isn't stalking. Especially when he was the one who sent me a friend request a while back in the first place, and it most certainly wasn't a date as I'm not gay. No offense, but how old are you?
Perhaps, but I'll never know for certain as I ain't planning to see him again. However, I did forget to mention the fact that as we were heading home from the pub, we got into a conversation about women and which types of girls are ones worth devoting significant time and energy to. As we're talking about this, I mentioned how I think women who offer their guys sex if they get a nice, big job promotion, are probably cheap ass hoes that ain't worth your time. But for whatever reason, he disagrees. To me, that's another sign that he's likely very narcissistic deep down, as he probably thinks he doesn't have to worry about that as he can get any woman he wants to sleep with him based on wealth and social status alone. Also, as you probably pictured while reading this, he was dressing very flash and bling that night.
Because he's Trump. RHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
- every liberal in a nutshell
Yeah, Gene Siskel may as well have been retarded. For all the flack that he gets, Richard Roeper was honestly a tad sharper than Siskel.
Agreed, Mark Kermode is a hack. The guy always comes off like he's trying to form some bullshit, pseudo-intellectual college thesis on a movie he just saw rather than just give some good, honest to God, off the cuff opinions. The RedLetterMedia guys manage to sound way more intelligent without coming off as though they're trying to pass their content off as academically approved media studies.
That's mostly the work of the writers hired before him. To Scott's credit, he at least understands that audiences require sincere, heartfelt drama on some level to become engrossed in the big action set pieces. His way of capturing any of that said drama however, was extremely artificial. To show characters contemplating their place in the world, he'll just have them stand over big, gorgeous sunsets. To show people falling in love, he'll just have them kiss in slow-mo over silhouetted lighting. Even when his characters are in a state of distress, his way of showing it is just by making his shots look a bit more murky and saturated in post with a bunch of needless flash-bulb effects added for good measure. In short, he basically saw all the emotional and dramatic beats of a screenplay as just excuses for him to dabble in different types of stylistic excess. Like I said, he was primarily an MTV director above all else.
<b>idiot fuckboy thinks hot girl is perfect, only to discover cute girl even tighter</b>
Don Jon, Clerks II, Frozen (gender swapped), Stardust, Enchanted (gender swapped)
<b>man has cancer and cries, then cute girl cums in and helps discharge other fluids</b>
The Fault in Our Stars (gender swapped), Me Before You, The Sessions (polio, not cancer), Restless, Then Came You (gender and personalities swapped)
<b>abuse = victim, victim = villain/or asshole (remember, he's a victim)</b>
Joker, Good Will Hunting, One Hour Photo, Red Dragon, Chronicle
<b>cool, confident, good-looking loner gets bullied in school because no one likes cool, confident, good-looking people</b>
Rebel Without a Cause, The Amazing Spider-Man, Man of Steel, Carrie (2013 version), Ender's Game
<b>TV telling you how to think = bad, so bad that we have to tell you it's bad</b>
Nightcrawler, Diary of the Dead, The Hunger Games, Incredibles 2, Breaking News
<b>genius man so genius he can't figure out emotion because too genius</b>
The Imitation Game, Watchmen, The Social Network, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Ender's Game
Granted, some of these are a bit of a stretch and not all of these were bad movies, necessarily. But I do think this list shows how overused these cliches all are. Any up-and-coming aspiring screenwriter should do their damndest to avoid these tropes.
Ha, I get it.
Bette Davis was such an underrated hottie when she was young.
To call Xenia a henchwoman for hire brute is a bit harsh, I think. Though not as intelligent as Tramell, she's shown to hold her own as an effective, if somewhat unstable assassin throughout the majority of GoldenEye. This lesbian sex fight really comes down to prior circumstance. I think the version I described is the most likely outcome, but if Xenia somehow knew of Catherine's murderous tendencies prior to getting into bed with her, she'll probably start squeezing Tramell with those killer thighs of hers from the moment she finds herself getting tied up.
As for Bond, I think it depends on which version you're talking about. Connery and Moore would probably never let her get on top of him long enough to pull anything, while Brosnan and Craig would probably be too enamored with the sex to stay on guard with her. Even if the later two were somehow able to escape the grasp of her white handkerchief, they'd probably find it hard to pull the trigger on a woman like that.
I'm more personally jealous of Sam Mendes, who got the chance to cum inside Kate Winslet a couple years after winning an Oscar.
He just looks like an asshole, to be honest. I don't know what he's like in real life, perhaps he could be a really nice guy, but his face alone just screams prick. Nothing against the guy personally.
He was a great visual stylist but not much else, unfortunately. His movies tend to always feel really shallow and disposable with their sleek yet superficial use of color and needlessly hyper-kinetic editing. Unlike other filmmakers who started out in the realm of commercials (David Fincher, Alan Parker, his brother etc.), Scott never rose above the sensibilities of a MTV director. Granted, they aren't as low-brow as Michael Bay's and his editing is nowhere near as incomprehensible as Olivier Megaton's, but he pretty much set the stage for Hollywood's reliance on big, dumb, loud action pictures. He's nowhere near as smart an action director as James Cameron or Walter Hill.