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"And they became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three hundred ells:[68] Who consumed all the acquisitions of men. And when men could no longer sustain them, the giants turned against them and devoured mankind. And they began to sin against birds, and beasts, and reptiles, and fish, and to devour one another's flesh, and drink the blood."
Actually, watching the Transcendence trailer again, I think it's possible the AI may be the good guy and the trailer is just intentionally misleading.
Because at the beginning it's established that there's like an anti-tech terrorist organization.
If you figure that the writer would most likely be writing about post-humanism because he is a post-humanist (it's not really a mainstream concept and like all the stuff that shows up in the trailer are things post-humanists are all about), then Luddites are probably the actual enemy, and he's going for a reversal on the usual scifi tropes. This would be pretty consistent with, like, Kurzweil, where he sees himself as being persecuted by people who are afraid of technology.
The movie looks awesome.
Kurzweil is a bit loopy, if only because of one of the graphs for which he is famous that equates technological development with evolution.
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friends did a great job in not making me hate every single one of them by the end
*glares at himym*
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Well, the biggest issue I had on this front was how the transgender character was always referred to as "he" by everyone. That's just not really a thing. Transwomen are women, and the identification as women isn't a new thing. It was a major point of ignorance in the film, and the director himself admitted that he was completely ignorant of trans people and the community. There was literally no effort to represent that aspect with anything close to reality, though the film frequenlty dipped into hoary cliches about trans people that frequently were mixed up with hoary cliches about gay people or drag queens. Rayon was used as little more than a metric by which to measure Woodroof's growth, and we got very little insight into her life or story despite her being the second main character. I found it kinda insulting, honestly.
I didn't think Leto's character was trans in the way I think of trans people on the forum here... Like, Reyon dressed like a woman but didn't identify as one, and was in what appeared to be a monogamous gay relationship with that dude. Hormones never came up, nor any discussion of dysphoria (aside from maybe that one scene about wanting to be pretty towards the end). Reyon was a tortured soul who had no support from his family as he struggled with his identity, and this struggle unfortunately happened at a time when the gay community was hit first and hardest with a terrible illness, which really made things worse. You never find out if it was sex or the needle that caused Reyon's infection, but you cannot blame the character for use of drugs after getting a death sentence like that.
I agree that Macconaughey's performance wasn't amazing (his work in True Detective was much better), but it was pretty good. Jennifer Garner, however, was awful. Jered Leto? I dunno. I'm not happy with the character at all, so it's hard for me to judge how well he played it.
Garner was the weakest part of the main cast, yes. But Leto's performance was amazing, IMO, and totally deserving of the Oscar. Much morso than Macconaughey, who delivered a great performance in a year with many others equal if not moreso.
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Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Actually, watching the Transcendence trailer again, I think it's possible the AI may be the good guy and the trailer is just intentionally misleading.
Because at the beginning it's established that there's like an anti-tech terrorist organization.
If you figure that the writer would most likely be writing about post-humanism because he is a post-humanist (it's not really a mainstream concept and like all the stuff that shows up in the trailer are things post-humanists are all about), then Luddites are probably the actual enemy, and he's going for a reversal on the usual scifi tropes. This would be pretty consistent with, like, Kurzweil, where he sees himself as being persecuted by people who are afraid of technology.
The movie looks awesome.
Kurzweil is a bit loopy, if only because of one of the graphs for which he is famous that equates technological development with evolution.
Kurzweil is definitely loopy.
Though, I would also equate technological development with evolution, but my views on this are less scientific than they are...I guess philosophical?
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Well, the biggest issue I had on this front was how the transgender character was always referred to as "he" by everyone. That's just not really a thing. Transwomen are women, and the identification as women isn't a new thing. It was a major point of ignorance in the film, and the director himself admitted that he was completely ignorant of trans people and the community. There was literally no effort to represent that aspect with anything close to reality, though the film frequenlty dipped into hoary cliches about trans people that frequently were mixed up with hoary cliches about gay people or drag queens. Rayon was used as little more than a metric by which to measure Woodroof's growth, and we got very little insight into her life or story despite her being the second main character. I found it kinda insulting, honestly.
I didn't think Leto's character was trans in the way I think of trans people on the forum here... Like, Reyon dressed like a woman but didn't identify as one, and was in what appeared to be a monogamous gay relationship with that dude. Hormones never came up, nor any discussion of dysphoria (aside from maybe that one scene about wanting to be pretty towards the end). Reyon was a tortured soul who had no support from his family as he struggled with his identity, and this struggle unfortunately happened at a time when the gay community was hit first and hardest with a terrible illness, which really made things worse. You never find out if it was sex or the needle that caused Reyon's infection, but you cannot blame the character for use of drugs after getting a death sentence like that.
I agree that Macconaughey's performance wasn't amazing (his work in True Detective was much better), but it was pretty good. Jennifer Garner, however, was awful. Jered Leto? I dunno. I'm not happy with the character at all, so it's hard for me to judge how well he played it.
Garner was the weakest part of the main cast, yes. But Leto's performance was amazing, IMO, and totally deserving of the Oscar. Much morso than Macconaughey, who delivered a great performance in a year with many others equal if not moreso.
I don't even know how much it's garner's performance vs a sort of weak character who is forced to ignore direct evidence over and over while clearly not wanting to.
Which probably is realistic but it's hard to enjoy a character put in that position, and I imagine hard to play one.
agree with synd on pretty much every other point. not surprised to see atomika not liking something that received critical acclaim
Leto made me sad to the point of feeling physically ill in his last few scenes. Just unbelievable.
So tonight was strange. Last minute evening drinks with a good friend who then gets us thrown out of a restaurant then pub for avoidable reasons who then reveals suicidal tendencies.
I've never been thrown out of anywhere so it was an experience.
He seems like he has moved past the bad places but I really don't l know, nor how to deal with that
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I couldn't get a finger on what I didn't love about American Hustle. it's not bad by any means but I really thought it was gonna blow me away. I think if I saw it a few years back it would have been my favorite movie... it's got a lot of pieces I like but eh
Rayon was a hodgepodge of a bunch of different people with vastly different life experiences. She was not very well done because of that.
The thing is, nobody calls Reyon she in the film, not even Reyon. In the movie, he is a character who wears women's clothing and is gay.
That with some alteration to pronouns and a few extra scenes, he could have been a transgendered character is obvious; but that they didn't go that way for the composite character is not a mark against the film.
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Actually, watching the Transcendence trailer again, I think it's possible the AI may be the good guy and the trailer is just intentionally misleading.
Because at the beginning it's established that there's like an anti-tech terrorist organization.
If you figure that the writer would most likely be writing about post-humanism because he is a post-humanist (it's not really a mainstream concept and like all the stuff that shows up in the trailer are things post-humanists are all about), then Luddites are probably the actual enemy, and he's going for a reversal on the usual scifi tropes. This would be pretty consistent with, like, Kurzweil, where he sees himself as being persecuted by people who are afraid of technology.
The movie looks awesome.
Kurzweil is a bit loopy, if only because of one of the graphs for which he is famous that equates technological development with evolution.
Kurzweil is definitely loopy.
Though, I would also equate technological development with evolution, but my views on this are less scientific than they are...I guess philosophical?
p much since while I get the gist of what you're saying it's not what evolution means at all
Well, the biggest issue I had on this front was how the transgender character was always referred to as "he" by everyone. That's just not really a thing. Transwomen are women, and the identification as women isn't a new thing. It was a major point of ignorance in the film, and the director himself admitted that he was completely ignorant of trans people and the community. There was literally no effort to represent that aspect with anything close to reality, though the film frequenlty dipped into hoary cliches about trans people that frequently were mixed up with hoary cliches about gay people or drag queens. Rayon was used as little more than a metric by which to measure Woodroof's growth, and we got very little insight into her life or story despite her being the second main character. I found it kinda insulting, honestly.
I didn't think Leto's character was trans in the way I think of trans people on the forum here... Like, Reyon dressed like a woman but didn't identify as one, and was in what appeared to be a monogamous gay relationship with that dude. Hormones never came up, nor any discussion of dysphoria (aside from maybe that one scene about wanting to be pretty towards the end). Reyon was a tortured soul who had no support from his family as he struggled with his identity, and this struggle unfortunately happened at a time when the gay community was hit first and hardest with a terrible illness, which really made things worse. You never find out if it was sex or the needle that caused Reyon's infection, but you cannot blame the character for use of drugs after getting a death sentence like that.
I agree that Macconaughey's performance wasn't amazing (his work in True Detective was much better), but it was pretty good. Jennifer Garner, however, was awful. Jered Leto? I dunno. I'm not happy with the character at all, so it's hard for me to judge how well he played it.
Garner was the weakest part of the main cast, yes. But Leto's performance was amazing, IMO, and totally deserving of the Oscar. Much morso than Macconaughey, who delivered a great performance in a year with many others equal if not moreso.
I don't even know how much it's garner's performance vs a sort of weak character who is forced to ignore direct evidence over and over while clearly not wanting to.
Which probably is realistic but it's hard to enjoy a character put in that position, and I imagine hard to play one.
agree with synd on pretty much every other point. not surprised to see atomika not liking something that received critical acclaim
Leto made me sad to the point of feeling physically ill in his last few scenes. Just unbelievable.
I'd be careful categorizing atomika's opinion here as "doesn't like popular things"
By everything I've read about it the character treatment in the movie could be legitimately viewed as problematic
So tonight was strange. Last minute evening drinks with a good friend who then gets us thrown out of a restaurant then pub for avoidable reasons who then reveals suicidal tendencies.
I've never been thrown out of anywhere so it was an experience.
He seems like he has moved past the bad places but I really don't l know, nor how to deal with that
Pretty much all you can do is suggest he get help and let him know you support him.
Well, the biggest issue I had on this front was how the transgender character was always referred to as "he" by everyone. That's just not really a thing. Transwomen are women, and the identification as women isn't a new thing. It was a major point of ignorance in the film, and the director himself admitted that he was completely ignorant of trans people and the community. There was literally no effort to represent that aspect with anything close to reality, though the film frequenlty dipped into hoary cliches about trans people that frequently were mixed up with hoary cliches about gay people or drag queens. Rayon was used as little more than a metric by which to measure Woodroof's growth, and we got very little insight into her life or story despite her being the second main character. I found it kinda insulting, honestly.
I didn't think Leto's character was trans in the way I think of trans people on the forum here... Like, Reyon dressed like a woman but didn't identify as one, and was in what appeared to be a monogamous gay relationship with that dude. Hormones never came up, nor any discussion of dysphoria (aside from maybe that one scene about wanting to be pretty towards the end). Reyon was a tortured soul who had no support from his family as he struggled with his identity, and this struggle unfortunately happened at a time when the gay community was hit first and hardest with a terrible illness, which really made things worse. You never find out if it was sex or the needle that caused Reyon's infection, but you cannot blame the character for use of drugs after getting a death sentence like that.
I agree that Macconaughey's performance wasn't amazing (his work in True Detective was much better), but it was pretty good. Jennifer Garner, however, was awful. Jered Leto? I dunno. I'm not happy with the character at all, so it's hard for me to judge how well he played it.
Garner was the weakest part of the main cast, yes. But Leto's performance was amazing, IMO, and totally deserving of the Oscar. Much morso than Macconaughey, who delivered a great performance in a year with many others equal if not moreso.
The skinny guy from True Detective (who looks like William Fitchner when super skinny) offers/threatens to provide Rayon with the SRS she always wanted in one scene... Using a gun.
Whether that's a bigoted assumption or an actual reflection of Rayons desires is an exercise left up to the reader.
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Well, the biggest issue I had on this front was how the transgender character was always referred to as "he" by everyone. That's just not really a thing. Transwomen are women, and the identification as women isn't a new thing. It was a major point of ignorance in the film, and the director himself admitted that he was completely ignorant of trans people and the community. There was literally no effort to represent that aspect with anything close to reality, though the film frequenlty dipped into hoary cliches about trans people that frequently were mixed up with hoary cliches about gay people or drag queens. Rayon was used as little more than a metric by which to measure Woodroof's growth, and we got very little insight into her life or story despite her being the second main character. I found it kinda insulting, honestly.
I didn't think Leto's character was trans in the way I think of trans people on the forum here... Like, Reyon dressed like a woman but didn't identify as one, and was in what appeared to be a monogamous gay relationship with that dude. Hormones never came up, nor any discussion of dysphoria (aside from maybe that one scene about wanting to be pretty towards the end). Reyon was a tortured soul who had no support from his family as he struggled with his identity, and this struggle unfortunately happened at a time when the gay community was hit first and hardest with a terrible illness, which really made things worse. You never find out if it was sex or the needle that caused Reyon's infection, but you cannot blame the character for use of drugs after getting a death sentence like that.
I agree that Macconaughey's performance wasn't amazing (his work in True Detective was much better), but it was pretty good. Jennifer Garner, however, was awful. Jered Leto? I dunno. I'm not happy with the character at all, so it's hard for me to judge how well he played it.
Garner was the weakest part of the main cast, yes. But Leto's performance was amazing, IMO, and totally deserving of the Oscar. Much morso than Macconaughey, who delivered a great performance in a year with many others equal if not moreso.
I don't even know how much it's garner's performance vs a sort of weak character who is forced to ignore direct evidence over and over while clearly not wanting to.
Which probably is realistic but it's hard to enjoy a character put in that position, and I imagine hard to play one.
agree with synd on pretty much every other point. not surprised to see atomika not liking something that received critical acclaim
Leto made me sad to the point of feeling physically ill in his last few scenes. Just unbelievable.
I'd be careful categorizing atomika's opinion here as "doesn't like popular things"
By everything I've read about it the character treatment in the movie could be legitimately viewed as problematic
that she makes a good point here doesn't change that that's an apparent trend! also I'd narrow it to 'doesn't like things'
but at least there's always a discussion to have. I don't mean to sound dismissive, believe me.
I really don't want to fuck up here and say something rude or inconsiderate but I feel like a character that hits close to home for some people may be viewed as 'wrong', where as to someone who can relate to it far less specifically it's successful in a number of ways.
fully willing to admit I'm just wrong and the emotion of the part put blinders on me regarding those types of issues but right this second I'm not sure.
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The book of Enoch is basically a D&D campaign.
At least frogs are safe.
gym before work
lets see how this goes
there was a time when i did that and it was pretty nice
you're such a chandler
On a another shark driving a motorcycle with lasers that turn people in to t-rexes that then explode.
this sounds like the best show ever
Kurzweil is a bit loopy, if only because of one of the graphs for which he is famous that equates technological development with evolution.
*glares at himym*
I didn't think Leto's character was trans in the way I think of trans people on the forum here... Like, Reyon dressed like a woman but didn't identify as one, and was in what appeared to be a monogamous gay relationship with that dude. Hormones never came up, nor any discussion of dysphoria (aside from maybe that one scene about wanting to be pretty towards the end). Reyon was a tortured soul who had no support from his family as he struggled with his identity, and this struggle unfortunately happened at a time when the gay community was hit first and hardest with a terrible illness, which really made things worse. You never find out if it was sex or the needle that caused Reyon's infection, but you cannot blame the character for use of drugs after getting a death sentence like that.
Garner was the weakest part of the main cast, yes. But Leto's performance was amazing, IMO, and totally deserving of the Oscar. Much morso than Macconaughey, who delivered a great performance in a year with many others equal if not moreso.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
Leverage was a ridiculous show that began to embrace its ridiculousness the longer it ran.
i dont know if i liked it
it had a lot of good performances and some funny parts but i don't know if i liked the movie itself
Kurzweil is definitely loopy.
Though, I would also equate technological development with evolution, but my views on this are less scientific than they are...I guess philosophical?
I don't even know how much it's garner's performance vs a sort of weak character who is forced to ignore direct evidence over and over while clearly not wanting to.
Which probably is realistic but it's hard to enjoy a character put in that position, and I imagine hard to play one.
agree with synd on pretty much every other point. not surprised to see atomika not liking something that received critical acclaim
Leto made me sad to the point of feeling physically ill in his last few scenes. Just unbelievable.
I couldn't watch it after
It was so stupid.
yeah exactly
the characters were great but i felt like i wasn't watching a complete cohesive movie
just shit myself while throwing up
I've never been thrown out of anywhere so it was an experience.
He seems like he has moved past the bad places but I really don't l know, nor how to deal with that
The thing is, nobody calls Reyon she in the film, not even Reyon. In the movie, he is a character who wears women's clothing and is gay.
That with some alteration to pronouns and a few extra scenes, he could have been a transgendered character is obvious; but that they didn't go that way for the composite character is not a mark against the film.
Let's play Mario Kart or something...
p much since while I get the gist of what you're saying it's not what evolution means at all
I'd be careful categorizing atomika's opinion here as "doesn't like popular things"
By everything I've read about it the character treatment in the movie could be legitimately viewed as problematic
on this note
anyone trying to fuck i am down to fuck
Pretty much all you can do is suggest he get help and let him know you support him.
it's a movie about a point in time and a reflection of the world in which the movie exists and the interactions between the characters, not a tumblr
stupid weak human body
It was a glorious, beautiful rip off of Equilibrium.
I hate this phrase so much
It's like fingernails on a pretentious chalkboard
I mean it totally applies to Leverage
But that phrase, just, man, eugh
The skinny guy from True Detective (who looks like William Fitchner when super skinny) offers/threatens to provide Rayon with the SRS she always wanted in one scene... Using a gun.
Whether that's a bigoted assumption or an actual reflection of Rayons desires is an exercise left up to the reader.
that she makes a good point here doesn't change that that's an apparent trend! also I'd narrow it to 'doesn't like things'
but at least there's always a discussion to have. I don't mean to sound dismissive, believe me.
I really don't want to fuck up here and say something rude or inconsiderate but I feel like a character that hits close to home for some people may be viewed as 'wrong', where as to someone who can relate to it far less specifically it's successful in a number of ways.
fully willing to admit I'm just wrong and the emotion of the part put blinders on me regarding those types of issues but right this second I'm not sure.
and i got more upvotes than downvotes
*weeps blood*