Hurt Locker, straight up racist movie
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nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
I know, I think it's just a daft old stereotype perpetuated mainly by the Simpsons writers. Though maybe 'we' do have bad teeth compared to Americans, given the preponderance of kids in the US who have braces (retainers) at some point - that, and our collective national love affair with refined sugar.
People over here are ridiculous about their teeth. Some of my cousins get their teeth lazer whitened a couple of times a year. Just about everybody I know had orthodonture (braces) in their teens, even if their teeth were fine. I knew a girl who went through several sets of porcelain veneers by the time she was 20. I remember when I used to smoke my mother bought me this really expensive bleaching treatment that she couldn't afford, so my teeth wouldn't get stained.
Of course, I'm getting cosmetic dentistry myself, I can't really look down on anyone...
nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
It's funny to me how Marxists who supposedly don't believe in individual agency suddenly *do* believe in it when it can be used to try to make every living American look responsible for the state of the world.
Mind, they haven't actually revolted or anything, so their own share of responsibility is...non-existent? I don't get these people.
Mr. Tea
Let's Talk About Ceps
I had three sets of braces - two removable, the last set fixed ("train tracks") - over the course of several years when I was a kid/teenager. But my teeth were pretty shockingly protrusive and it (eventually) fixed them. Good old NHS!
Edit: sorry, pretty badly off-topic - I've not seen the film and can't say I'm particularly keen to. So.
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nomadthethird
more issues than Time mag
Yeah, I couldn't care less about this movie. Some people are excited about a woman winning for best director, tho.
baboon2004
Darned cockwombles.
Yep, funny how 87 (?) years without a woman winning Best Director can be twisted to be OK as soon as you give one out! Did Campion not win for the Piano (obv she didn't, that just surprised me). Apparently the last film Kurt Kobain watched before he died...
mixed_biscuits
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Zizek knows why I have days off in Clacton.
hardly straight up racist. Certainly defending the american presence in Iraq , and not a very good movie. But it's the "terrorists" who are depicted as inhuman, not the Iraqis per se, take for example the scene when he goes looking for the kid and ends up at the academics house.
matmustard
theta
ha! together with the rest, long may your wit pravail.
good ol art malik. he was in the wolfman recently. glad hes still around. though my earliest memory of him was playing a husband who took his kids back to pakistan from their white mother. he must be used to getting the same old shit in scripts even though hes been doing this for decades.
never wanted to see that as it looks as fucking obnoxious as the attitudes they are supposedly parodying. someone confirmed my suspicions by reporting that it does end up glorifying that which it allegedly criticizes... a dynamic we have seen time and again in hollywood movies.