wakefresh
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I don't have too much trust in the government. In my previous statement, I said I feel that there are better safeguards in place to regulate their actions than an individual's, theoretically. But in practicality, this privacy issue won't be a big deal until people that the mainstream consider "important" or see as human beings, start getting the bad end of the stick. The mainstream will sit back and endorse privacy policies used to punish minorities, gays, and other groups it has deemed "undesirable" though. Such is life.
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I'm of two minds about this. On one hand, it is pretty disturbing that people so freely share private details about themselves online to total strangers. And the editor is correct; there are children who were born in the last five or so years, who will have had their whole lives documented on the internet in some sort of way (photos, videos, etc). I have no idea what life is going to be mean for them when they become adults. The facial recognition software is crazy scary and when coupled with consumer projects like Google Glass, it means that you can catch someone's attention and start a photo search on them and from that search get links to all of the social networking information. A person would know about your 10th birthday party without even saying "hello" to you. That's scary. The stuff about the government for some reason doesn't scare me so much. There are built in mechanisms where people can petition to get policies changed. People can be held accountable by voters, in theory. If stuff gets too out of hand, people can let the government know. But I say this full well knowing that "out of hand" means that the privacy intrusions are used as a bludgeon against "important" people. I fully expect that there will be abuses targeted toward minorities, gays, immigrants, and other groups that the mainstream deems "undesirable." Basically, its easier to regulate public policy than social norms. I don't expect rando creeps to be swayed by protests or petitions.
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Actors who are underrepresented on the show
wakefresh replied to Lando's topic in How Did This Get Made?
That would have made Employee of the Month even better if at 15 minutes in, Dax had just beat Dane Cook to death and then it was a buddy detective movie with Jessica Simpson and Andy Dick. -
Now that I know he has the blues guitar magic in his fingers, Seagal should have broke out his Epiphone and fucking rocked the bad guys to death.
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The boy band has definitely lowered the bar. You don't really have to sing in performances nowadays, so if you're not dancing, you are just dressed up and on stage moving around without saying anything.
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Just wanted to say that I like Kumail, Emily, and their podcast, The Indoor Kids. In fact, it was the podcast that first introduced me to his comedy, and I am so glad that I decided to listen to a new podcast that day because it paid off big time.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
wakefresh replied to Darian's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
It wasn't one of the Power Rangers, it was someone who was on the show for a couple of episodes, if that. -
Actors who are underrepresented on the show
wakefresh replied to Lando's topic in How Did This Get Made?
I go with Dane Cook. He made that one movie with Jessica Simpson, who is sort of nice to look at, and Andy Dick, who is sort of funny. But if you include Cook's standup specials, then I begin to plead to you for mercy. -
Do you think Seagal's passion project is a Stevie Ray Vaughn biopic?
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Yes, to all of this! Shawn is just lucky he was born into a family with talented siblings. Out of all of the Wayans, he is the least talented. I think that Shawn is a pretty good dramatic actor, but he can not do comedy. But because the family business is in comedy, he's sort of stuck doing that.
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Actors who are underrepresented on the show
wakefresh replied to Lando's topic in How Did This Get Made?
That's a solid calculation of their audience. -
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
wakefresh replied to Darian's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
Hey, man, she's attractive. And you probably thought that she was 17 or 18 at the time. Little did you know, she was in her late 30s. -
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
wakefresh replied to Darian's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
At the most, she looks 35 in that picture. She has real good genes. -
I keep hearing that they have a new version of In Living Color that is ready to come out, but haven't seen anything about it.
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I sort of am liking the peeks behind the curtain when they do certain movies because you get to see how someone with bad judgement can fuck up not only their career but other people's career's as well. Like, do you think Benjamin Bratt has posters of Hallie Berry on his walls full of knife marks? And those kind of peeks can come from either a newer movie or an older one, so I really don't mind at all.
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Oh, I haven't seen that one at all! He gives an environmental speech?! That already sounds funny.
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I'm locked into whatever package the building owners get since the cable comes included with the rent. I'll lobby and see if I can at least get the preview.
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Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
wakefresh replied to Darian's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
The Pink Ranger, Amy Jo Johnson, is a white version of Stacy Dash. Those two will forever be able to play teenagers or people in their 20s. When Johnson was in Felicity as a college freshman, she was like 44 years old. -
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
wakefresh replied to Darian's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
Cat and Beard was correct though. The first couple of seasons on the show was exactly as he described -- the Red Ranger was an outlier in not fitting with an obvious pattern. And I thought that the original Red Ranger was a Spanish dude. -
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie (1995)
wakefresh replied to Darian's topic in Bad Movie Recommendations
My brother loved this show as well, and I think as a result, got really into anime when he was a teenager. This came on during the heyday of Fox programming. In one afternoon, you had Tiny Toons, Animanics, Batman and Mighty Morphing Power Rangers. That's two hours of solid programming after school before the news comes on. Genius. -
And you see a single tear flow down each of the Yin Yang Twins' faces.
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She specifically said she wanted something that sounded "black" for her next album. That's why people are upset because this is what she thinks Black culture is. And you are correct that some of the backlash is tinged with these sexist ideas about what is "proper" and "improper" for women to do with their bodies, those people conveniently neglect to speak on the appropriation and racial issues in the performance. Because at the end of the day, we are just looking at a rich country white girl use black women -- and black women's perceived sexuality as lustful sluts who slut around -- to transform opinions of other white people about her. Jezebel is a pretty shitty site but there is a good article that one of the commenters there wrote that sums up things.
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You are right. It is Leif Garrett, the one who got in a car crash and ended up paralyzing someone who was riding with him. I see something similar in the future for Biebs on VH1's "Behind The Music". Maybe in Bieb's episode he's talking to some girl who has brain damage because her and Justin stayed up all night doing molly and dancing and living a YOLO lifestyle.
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Actors who are underrepresented on the show
wakefresh replied to Lando's topic in How Did This Get Made?
Sandler has only made one good comedy -- Happy Gilmore -- in my opinion. The first movie, Billy Madison, was not funny at all save for the scene at the end when he gives a long winded answer and the host tells him that the answer was complete garbage. Because of his aggressive unfunny nature, even when he is playing more dramatic characters, I have no respect for what he is doing; I feel like the whisper-voiced characters he did on SNL are only a second away at all times. Also, he has this thing where he likes to cast himself in sort of the straight man role, and then surround himself with crazy ass people that he reacts off of. The only exception to this are The Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, and Billy Madison. All of his other movies -- the one with the kid, the one where he's animated, Grown Ups, Spanglish, etc all have him playing an everyday, easy going derp. If I'm going to see a Sandler movie, I want to see him act like a fucking fool, not Jimmy Rational. I feel like Chris Rock does the same thing, but then no one is giving Chris Rock oodles of money to make shitty ass movies. -
Man, I remember there was a short time when Keenan Ivory Wayans was angling to be an action star. Like, I think he was trying to be a 1990s version of Eddie Murphy but with more stunts, shooting, and explosions in his movies. A couple of years before this, he wrote, directed and starred in Low Down Dirty Shame. I would disagree with the people who don't like this choice. This is the most forgettable of Seagal's movies. I would argue that his earlier films are solid action movies, even crazy ass Marked For Death. This is HDTGM's sweet spot -- someone who can feel their time in the spotlight is waning and is making a desperate grab to become relevant again. Under that kind of pressure and hubris (Seagal thinks he's God's gift to the world), very bad decisions will be made.
