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The whole situation was unfortunate from the get-go and opens up a moral quandary. Is it right to shoot someone in self defense as he did with Rosenbaum? In my opinion, yes it is.
Now with the others it's a bit of a moral gray area, because I can't read any of their minds. But let's be charitable and assume that they actually believed that the shooting (which they most likely didn't see) was unjustified and that he was some mass-murdering lunatic. Does it make it their duty to try to violently subdue him, even if they don't know why he fired in the first place?
He did go on to kill / gravely wound two people who attacked him later, which is justified, but think of the implications of that.
Say there's a mass-shooter and a "good guy with a gun" steps in to stop him. Does that "good guy" need to know why the mass shooter is shooting in the first place before taking action? A lot of these situations are confusing and rely on split second knee-jerk decisions which can result in tragedy. It makes it hard to really legislate around it because the decision of a person to pull a trigger can be a very subjective matter of opinion which can almost always be justified somehow. Ignorance is no legal defense in our system, but at the same time morally justifies an awful lot because how can you truly blame someone for believing what they are told if that's the only thing they know (ie that the guy shooting and running away is a murderer)?
I'm trying to be as charitable as I can to both sides, but as it was, Kyle was in the right to defend himself and the media characterization of him as a racist psycho etc was completely insane and made me all the more glad he got off. As to why he cried, and likely continues to be haunted by the episode, I am sure because he does feel a certain amount of guilt because the people he killed also believed that they were doing the right thing, even if they turned out to be gravely mistaken.
We all knew Leno was a big Leftist privately (his wife is a top Dem donor) but he always refrained from taking obvious sides in his comedy. That's really the way it ought to be for these late night people. Kimmel doesn't even entertain the opposition's perspective as though everyone and everything on his side is sacrosanct and above criticism. This is anti-comedy.
Trump's playing chess while Leftists are playing checkers and chuckling to themselves in their little bubbles. They're busy thinking they're making a difference with random posts on Facebook and Reddit while having no desire to understand people in the rest of the country.
Notice how when anyone is brave enough to go against the establishment, they suddenly get hit with a bunch of accusations.
I heard the movie DIDN'T EVEN get a release on ANY streaming platforms when it came out! What a disaster! What were they even thinking??
Exactly. Right now there is zero accountability among the drug companies for putting out bad products. They are able to bribe the government and the media into just going along with whatever products they create, and endlessly increasing the amount of chemicals people are unquestioningly pumping themselves and their kids full of into eternity.
RFK Jr., though I disagree with him on many issues, is actually very pro-vax in general but also wants accountability and transparency in the medical industry, including with vaccines. He wants things safer for everyone, which may mean taking a few medications off the market.
While I am a Libertarian and heavy regulation is kinda anti-Libertarian, it does appear to me to be largely in the public's best interests, as long as you remove corruption from the regulatory bodies (to the extent that such a thing is actually possible).
I have yet to see that one as well, plus I hear there's a bunch of White Fang movies beyond the two Franco Nero and the one Maurizio Merli one. There's at least two that Alfonso Brescia did for instance, though it might be an instance of one actual movie being filmed and being split into two via stock footage.
All of the above are sadly rare and missing out on anything better than VHS-transfer level budget DVD releases.
An older friend of mine told me that he saw GATES OF HELL in 1983 when it played at the Egyptian Theater in LA. He said that some Italian filmmaker from the movie (he didnt remember if it was Fulci himself or some producer) came onstage after it was over to take questions and he was literally boo'd off the stage. I wish I had more information about the event but 4 decades later all we have is apocryphal evidence.
What's even cheesier, to me, is that in this age of CGI and Disney's billions of dollars it could use to recreate a shot or two of Greedo talking, that they had to resort to using existing footage of him saying "Yakoska" earlier in the conversation and re-dubbing it with "Maclunky". I mean, come on! Not only do they make changes to make the movie worse, but do so utilizing the absolute minimal possible effort.
There's a lot of snowy Spaghetti Westerns if you count all the "White Fang" movies they made around the same time. I also think they did a few Westerns set in Canada with mounties (such as one Aristide Massaccessi did called "The Red Coat") but unfortunately most of them are very obscure.
The bizarre thing is that so many democrats are actually against this.... like who would ever be FOR wasteful government spending? The only charitable interpretation I can come up with is that they think that the right's definition of "waste" would mean cutting all the programs they like such as Pakistani Gender Studies.
I have my hopes up as it's absolutely critical for the future of the US economy to get spending under control and to start to chip away at the deficit (and at least stop the debt from growing so much). However I am not too hopeful as cutting all the government waste will still not be enough to balance the budget. They also would have to cut entitlement spending like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security which would be extremely unpopular, like election-losing unpopular, even if it is necessary. The choice is pretty much between cutting benefits and reducing inflation, or keeping the benefits while adding to inflationary pressure. Either way, young people will pay for it with reduced living standards one way or another.
Yeah plus the social messaging was WAAAY behind the times. The horse was the best actor in the movie. The shot composition and edit length sucked too. What were they? A bunch of idiots who made it? LOL.
I had Terminator 2029 for my 486 computer back in the early 90's and it was the most irritating game in the world. You had to boot your computer a certain way to basically free up ALL the base memory (meaning the computer had to be completely devoted to the game to run) and even then it was a crap-shoot. It seemed like it only worked about 30% of the time anyway.
Well, on the plus side he was publicly humiliated, did some jail time, and his career is ruined. We gotta take whatever victories we can, I suppose.
I'm surprised there are still fans of Phantom Menace out there... unless you were like 5 when it first came out.
I don't know if you can call that "racism" not wanting robots in your bar. There might be some kind of insurance liability considering robots don't do well with drinks in the first place. It may have been for their own good that he had them thrown out.
If I walked into a bar today with a Roomba following me, should I just expect everyone to be cool with it?
Of all the Disney dirge made around Star Wars, ROGUE ONE was probably the "best" in that it kinda seemed to have a respect for the original movies and some of the action was actually original and exciting. I loved the two star destroyers crashing into each other and the fact that everyone gets nuked in the end. The low-power death star lasers were actually kinda cool. The characters were terrible though and the narrative lost my interest in the first 10 minutes when it kept jumping from planet to planet. I have no interest in seeing that again either, but like millions of other people I was suckered into seeing it in the theater.
The most cringe-worthy line in the whole movie was the end one though sputtered out by the uncanny Leia. Like, not only must we endure the movie's title change, but now it's meant to be some big groundbreaking thing worthy of calling back to? And we're supposed to celebrate it now like it's a mighty title drop?
It was a fun genre film but essentially a remake of THE FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE fused with BARABBAS. I thought Ridley Scott's direction was good (and he could have won an oscar for that) but I didn't find the script to be really all that great or thought-provoking. TRAFFIC could have walked away with it, if only that film had an actual conclusion or something. Instead it was just a bunch of buildup for nothing. GLADIATOR pretty much won because all the competition was nothing special either that year.
I was 16 at the time and remember when this movie came out and was definitely more aware of it than the previous movies which had completely escaped my attention as a child/teenager in Alaska. It enjoyed a lot of ads on TV and trailers in cinemas beyond what 4 and 5 had. I would expect that it had a far superior marketing budget and was a big attempt at reviving the series.
My friends and I went to go see it for my 16th birthday party and we were all kicked out of the theater for not having an adult with us. That was the only incident I remember of being kicked out of the theater for being too young (and I watched A LOT of R-rated movies as a teen), though we may have been making a few too many obnoxious comments at the time.
The only purpose it serves is to get butts in seats in 1997 for the theatrical re-issue of the movie. At the time, it was a cute "ah-ha!" moment for audiences familiar with Star Wars. Beyond that, the scene makes zero sense to include as canon in any of the physical media releases. It's kinda insane that the current version is what'll be remembered as the actual movie now.
Revisionism is 99% the wrong move with old movies. The only case I can think of where it's warranted is WAR OF THE WORLDS where they painted out the obvious wires holding up the spaceships because you could never see them on film and video prints but DVD and Blu-ray made it stunningly obvious to the point where they took you out of the movie.