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Been a student. Been a clerk. Been a salesperson. Been a manager. Been a teacher. Been an expatriate. Am a husband, father, and chronicle.

  • Is Tom Hanks one of the true great actors?

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  • IMO: Brand Tom Hanks was established with Big (1988!) and solidified with A League of Their Own (1993). From then on, he's basically a hit factory.

    The biggest departure for him, that I saw, was the Road to Perdition (2002). Not exactly off-brand, but a risk. It was excellent.

  • Is Tom Hanks one of the true great actors?

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  • Sure. But, in more of a plug-n-play sorta way.

    Thought process: If it's a Tom Hanks movie, then it'll be enjoyable in a vanilla ice cream sort of way. Few people would reject, out of hand, vanilla ice cream. Unless they're Tom Hanks intolerant... but now im strangling this metaphor.

    True great actor? Stage & screen, sings & dances, transforms the medium where every they show up.

    I think I understand male actors better, so that list is longer.

    • Daniel Day Lewis

    • Christopher Walken

    • Gary Oldman

    • Denzel Washington

    • Philip Seymour Hoffman

    • David Strathairn

    • Mark Rylance

    • Jim Carrey

    • Ian McKellen

    • Viola Davis

    • Lupita Nyong'o

    • Jennifer Lawrence

    • Frances McDormand

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • Yeah, true.

    But it's VERY pretty. Like, extraordinarily pretty. Zack Snyder pretty.

    Vapid, sure. But, so nice to look at.

    Sometimes, you go for eye candy.

    Hiro Murai, Tom Ford, Denis Villeneuve, and Jordan Peele do smart and pretty. At least, their directors of photography support the smart with pretty.

  • What's your favorite movie?

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  • Try out Brick (2005). Mystery and set in a high school with fun, noir-specific language. Same guy wrote and directed the Brothers Bloom (2013) and Knives Out (2019 and 2020), which is some fun mystery.

    Nope (2022) and Get Out (2017), Parasite (2018), the Prestige (2004), and Primal Fear (1994) are all great thrillers.

    You might also like Shane Black's movies. Funny, some action, The Last Boyscout (1991) and the Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) are guilty pleasures he wrote. Links are fun samples.

    Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005) and The Nice Guys (2018) are quite solid later work that he wrote and directed.

    Romcom/ light sci-fi? Her (2015)

  • What's your favorite movie?

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  • Give us a few to go on, OP.

    i.e. Sci-Fi

    • Arrival

    • 2001

    • Dune (2021)

    i.e. Crime

    • Heat

    • Sicario

    • Brick

    i.e. Non-Blockbuster Comic Book

    • Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys

    • Comic Book Villains

    • Dredd (2012)

    i.e. Beautiful/Painful international

    • Dancer in the Dark

    • Incendies

    • La Vita e Bella

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • This thread deserves Dancer in the Dark. Another film that I love but cannot recommend.

    Set up your depression-treatment space beforehand. You're going to be there a while. Beauty and tragedy so tightly bound that it feels monumental.

  • What's a NON-HORROR NON-DOCUMENTARY movie that disturbed you or made you very uncomfortable?

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  • This is the thread that deserves Todd Solondz's films.

    Start with Happiness (1998).

  • Is it just me or is there an itch that you get every now and then that can ONLY be scratched by watching Blade Runner?

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  • For me BladeRunner (Final Cut) is joined with Sicario, Heat (1995), Léon (Version Intégrale), and No Country for Old Men

    Indomitable people facing nightmares with guns.

    All are part of my "men with guns" film festival.

  • Why do you post here or other social media?

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  • This is most my contact with others who read what I read and write what I write or think about what I think about. And, I vent here. Sure. I'll admit it.

    The North American town I now live in is decidedly not like me. I work with youth. I parent young children. 21st century parents, and those who marry into my partners social orbit, need to book engagements five months to a year in advance.

    So, this is just easier.

    Also: Fuck Reddit. Fuck Xitter. Fuck Meta. That's the venting. I quit, gave up, or got hacked on all of them. Admittedly, I use WhatsApp to appease my extended family, workplace, and some friends. I'd dip back to T9 SMS if I could.

    And I use Bluesky to microblog — keeping a timeline of the tragicomic decline and fall of the Western empire. And books.

  • Do you think information on how to build weapons should be legal to disseminate? Or should they be censored? Explain your reasoning?

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  • We teach people to do all kinds of things. We also teach people why not-to do all kinds of things. They do them anyway.

    Furthermore, if all that is needed is the information in order to be able to do the thing, theres no absolute way to prevent every person from accessing that information and, thereby having the means to do what they've be taught not-to do. So, in your scenario, someone, sometime, will use the weapon despite know not-to.

    That said, wishing a nuclear weapon into existence — the highly-enriched uranium, the implosion core, the triggering mechanism, and the delivery system needed — seems like a helluva waste when literally everything else is also within reach. I'd hope that intelligence would be needed to understand the process; and that same intelligence would be sufficient to understand the possibility of a thing is not reason to do a thing. There's a very crude example coming up.

    Personally, I think the command of matter-energy interconversion, higher-dimensions of reality, and cosmic-levels of power might inspire one to travel widely, live fearlessly, and create new possibilities. Petty grievances — those solvable with nuclear weapons — would seem like non-problems when literally everything else is not a problem either. No hunger, no cold, no lack of shelter, no distance too far, no need for authorities... just wish-fulfillment.

    Summoning a nuke would be base, awkward to the point of being detrimental to all relations. It would be like a Supreme Court justice shitting in his own hands and deliberately smearing it on the faces of elders, kindergarteners, military service members, civil-rights activists, and puppies.

    Like, ew. Who would do that?

  • The cover of Uncanny Xmen 275 by Jim Lee

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  • For me: it's Jim Lee, Jae Lee, Whilce Portacio, and two others I haven't decided on yet. When they got together to make Image Comics, I was all-in.

  • What are the unwritten rules of airplane windows?

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  • That's an old teacher trick. A better one is using a dry erase marker to remove permanent marker. Not perfect, but works in a pinch.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

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  • First and foremost, she gains cleaning. Everything except bathrooms.

    Half the cooking. She has dietary restrictions, I don't. We don't eat outside of home often. Except phở bò.

    Every form of maintenance. Cars, computers, all machines and objects with moving parts.

    Weekends away with friends. I never question and I never say no.

    Few hard feelings when she's temperamental.

    What do I gain?

    I'll probably live longer because she makes me go to the doctor, the dentist, physiotherapy, and reduces my cheese and bacon intake. But not salt. She loves salt.

    I gain perspective. I don't occupy i high tower where I know everything and remain academically distant and untouched by the world. I gain knowledge of all the books I don't (and wouldn't) read. I gain access to emotional and psychological non-fiction content.

    Finally, I gain the companionship of someone who lets me do my wierd. Nothing kinky or malicious or wasteful or destructive — just unreasonably high standards and unreasonably low output. No blame for it as long as bills are paid and food is in the fridge.

    She'd like to see me try to shoot the moon, and I love her for it. We'll see. I can't even put together a string of Lemmy posts worthy of acclaim.

  • What are the unwritten rules of airplane windows?

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  • Do not lick the window.

    Do not hit the window.

    Do not draw on the window with permanent markers.

    Dry erase are fine.

    Do not moon, flash, or full monty the ground crew. Baggage gets lost that way. Fueling hoses are misconnected that way.

  • Honduran ex-president caught on tape discussing plans to destabilize Claudia Sheinbaum, Lula, and Gustavo Petro

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  • Just... politicians used to be better at this. Secret plans leaked from aides, maids, and trash bins.

    Now the perps are leaking themselves to stay relevant. It's gross.

  • What does marriage mean to you?

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  • I had intended to not.

    Then, after a turn at living together with my partner in an Islamic country — where we were not allowed to officially cohabit — we realized that our rights to watch each other's backs were made way simpler by being married.

    So we got married.

    Had we always lived in a country that recognized cohabitation or common-law relationships, we might have not. Had our next sojourn not been in a predominantly Catholic country, we might have not. Had we more role models who didn't, we might have not. Had we moved home earlier, we might have not.

    But we did. It was 12 years ago.

    Bottom line, we don't find it burdensome; or that we are locked in a prison together. We care for one another. We drive one another crazy. We have the same fights over and over. We support each other and keep track of each other's families, friends, medical conditions, and car keys. It's nice. It's mundane. It's comfortable. It's practical.

    Getting out would be a giant pain in the everything. And expensive.

    We don't wield our rings against one another. We don't demand "rights" from one another because we're married. We don't have extraordinary unspoken expectations of one another. We accept, value, and console one another. We're a unit in this fucked up place.

    People are crazy. I'm crazy. She's the crazy I'm used to and can interact with.

    I'm too old for new crazy.

    Granted, she's certainly gaining more by being married to me than I am being married to her. But, we don't keep score either.

    TL;DR — comments in bold.

  • How Karl Urban Quietly Conquered Geekdom

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  • I'm still hoping he'll reprise his role as Dredd.

    In his first outing, the worldbuild was good, his portrayal was spot-on. The story, sure, had its ups and downs. But, in the end, it's a pretty solid comic-book action flick. Better than a lot of the dreck we've seen.

    If he's playing Johnny Cage at 53, he could still be Dredd at 60.

  • Suggest me some history books.

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  • Another excellent book. Much more the history of America than the offerings of high school history courses. Especially under the aegis of Project 2025.

  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Rule: Fuck you Pete Hegseth

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    "Somewhere through this web of satellite trails is Comet C/2025 R3 (PanSTARRS)"

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Which of Gossip Goblin's "The 13 Cycles of Humanity" do you think we are trending toward? TW: body horror, AI generated video (think, Terry Gilliam).

    youtube.com /playlist
  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: 1930s Germany used Jim Crow America as a model, which was a resurgence of Antebellum American racist policies — segregation, imprisonment, enslavement, and homicide.

  • You Should Know @lemmy.world
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    YSK: Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And the Administration is lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Unfortunately, at this point, ICE has legally "Erik Princed" a US city; over a traffic violation. And they're lying, gaslighting, and giving it cover.

  • Books @lemmy.world
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    Why doesn't my year-in-review look like others' do? It's certainly little fun.

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    What X-mas themed things do people who hate X‐mas like?

  • Ask Lemmy @lemmy.world
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    Request: An image or animated zoetrope that shows the corpo-media-police industrial complex.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    Adobe sells these as 4 different designs.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    1st Family Hurricane.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    So, this, now, needed saying.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
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    Request: Mini truck or van racing toward a concrete pole, but never arrives.

  • LiminalSpace @lemmy.world
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    Enclosure aesthetic.

  • A Boring Dystopia @lemmy.world
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    "Unless you invade them."

    vm.tiktok.com /ZMMLYH7vS/
  • Calvin and Hobbes @lemmy.world
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    20 February 1994.

    www.gocomics.com /calvinandhobbes/1994/02/20
  • Documentaries (Moved to Lemmy.cafe) @lemmy.world
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    The Corporation (2004)