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Wtf
See from my perspective it's not really woke, it's just reality that the west is extremely diverse now. The NY metro is probably as close to trantor as you can get and it's not white majority and hasn't been for years. If you made a show about a farm planet or something in the Empire then sure I guess it would make sense for it to be all white people on Solaria or whatever, but that's just not going to be the case on Trantor or the followers sent from there to Terminus. I think it's unfair to say it's all white people as villains, though, Hari Seldon is white and is definitely a hero and spoke truth to power right to Cleon Day's face -- ballsy af. Salvor's boyfriend Hugo is also heroic and protected innocents during the terminus fight and risked his life to save salvor when she went into her fugue state. IRL I've personally had brilliant mentors in workplace that were black and a doctor that saved me from sepsis that was from bangladesh. I've had great mentors and teachers and doctors that were white too. Being talented or brilliant or good/evil isn't reserved for any race, brah.
I like Pursuit of Happyness, but yeah generally I agree he's in a lot of pretty terrible roles!
Did you ever see Spy Game? Similar kind of movie to Enemy of the State, one of my favorite spy thrillers.
From my POV, I feel like movies rarely convey the plot of the source material. I do think BM was thematically on target with the short story, though, and the characters were very, very good. I really enjoyed Robin Williams and Sam Neill's roles, especailly the conflict between them when he wanted to move out after the wedding and how they kind of patched things up on Neill's death bed. The feels!
What’s so bad about bicentennial man? I robot was much worse
Ironic comment considering you’re the OP
Can you trust harry RE stated intent, tho? he lies a lot and tells people compartmentalized information. The label of The Raven may have deeper meaning I wonder if Asimov might have intended a sinister aspect like that Seldon drove the galaxy to madness like the Edgar Allen Poe raven!
I’ve been in exec chamber meetings where commissioners are reamed out into tears over such demands for magical answers, it’s been a thing even in “golden age” eras of political bureaucracies. It would never be the scientist guy speaking directly to day, though, he would have a known flunky in the household staff do all that for him and then he would scream at the flunky.
I hope they don’t do that whole Gaia nonsense, it seems like they’re hinting that Gaal is mutated or something like the Mule and the Gaia people with that scene where she’s able to be awake in hyperspace or whatever.
The SFX were definitely good — I remember stargate was prominently featured when DVD players were “new” it was the display movie at sams club, Walmart, compusa, and so on
I think the first big hike happened when W Bush moved corn supply towards ethanol production to hook up farmers, it caused food prices and feed prices for cattle to climb
That makes sense but I feel like there could have been action oriented Cold War ops or stuff related to nuclear proliferation in the 90s foiling a fictional invasion of west Germany and stuff like that. Like in real life wasn’t West Berlin, Beirut, brimming with espionage and intrigue?
Most of the people who dislike it are actually millennials I think… moviegoers and fans in the 70s/80s did NOT go weirdly deep into the canon and stuff the way millennials did in the 90s where you first had the thrawn trilogy basically serving as the sequels and then media projects like shadows of the empire and expanded universe stories in the video games and whatever all happening along with the prequel movies.
You’re being a dope. You identify young Anakin’s “weakness” missing his mother and being disliked by an elder council? That’s like “my weakness is I work too hard and care too much”. The mental gymnastics here are incredible.
Rey’s score was Palpatine’s right from the opening scene of TFA. Anakin’s reasons were paper-thin. He never finished a pod race. He had no training in the force but mastered technique of trusting in it, something that Obi-Wan had to drill and remind Luke to do with the drone practice and intervening in the trench run.
K-Pax — he was a total stud ready to slip in on his therapists wife
LOL no this is a horrible movie
You crazy— Ben Hurr was probably better but Spartacus was pretty damn good. The insanely massive consular Roman army joined by Pompeys army at the finale was mind blowing in scope, you’ll never see that in movies now.
It’s honestly not so crazy when you think about the huge “flight” of wealthy landed families and property from Rome to Constantinople during that city’s decline/fall.