What movies are you watching?
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Re: What movies are you watching?
After several lifetimes, he gets really good at everything and can manipulate anyone into believing anything he wants, but it doesn't free him from suffering.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
How do you know?
Maybe he hadn't gotten good enough at it until the very end
Maybe he hadn't gotten good enough at it until the very end
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I mean it's hard to gauge the sincerity of it, but that's exactly why I'm thinking about it
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That's possible I suppose but I don't think that's what it was trying to get across.
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It's only after he loves her (and everything else) in a completely selfless way that he attains nirvana. It's no longer about what he gets out of it.
That's what I got it of it anyway.
That's what I got it of it anyway.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
I think that's very definitely the intended meaning
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Re: What movies are you watching?
If have to watch it again but I could see how it would be hard to believe Bill Murray really learned anything or was acting honestly.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Quantum Of Solace
The most by the numbers Craig-Bond film I think. It’s a decent action film.
The most by the numbers Craig-Bond film I think. It’s a decent action film.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
As Good As It Gets
Still good.
Still good.
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as it gets
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Re: What movies are you watching?
I wouldn’t go that far. Three out of five stars. But we laughed.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Skyfall now. Only second time ever.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
That's SO many movies, though and also the revelation of Ted Lasso.tragabigzanda wrote:I hate this movie so much. If Nicholson tells Hunt “I have OCD,” there’s no movie.Anders wrote:As Good As It Gets
Still good.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
He's mentally ill and she can tell. It's more about them trying to navigate that
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
And they say that a hero could save us
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
I'm not gonna stand here and wait
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Re: What movies are you watching?
Think it would have been a better movie without most of the romance. Still plenty there.
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Re: What movies are you watching?
People who talk in metaphors oughta shampoo my crotch.