El_Gordo
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17 hours ago @ Big Hollywood - Hollywood Courage: Tom... · 0 replies · +1 points
17 hours ago @ Big Hollywood - James Cameron Declares... · 0 replies · +1 points
Good thing I replaced my old vinyl records. They´d all get warped in the heat.
17 hours ago @ Big Hollywood - James Cameron Declares... · 0 replies · +1 points
Yes, these action sequences often require SFX, but it´s still good filmmaking. You would think there are more good action flicks out there but no... Of course, now that Cameron has become an "important director" with something to say, he might as well be retired as far as I´m concerned.
18 hours ago @ Big Hollywood - Top 5: The Worst Envir... · 0 replies · +1 points
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18 hours ago @ Big Hollywood - Tom Hanks: America Wan... · 0 replies · +1 points
I think the reason why comments are so exasperated is because it is all so damn predictable.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Tom Hanks: America Wan... · 2 replies · +1 points
All I can say is that I wonder if Hanks thinks it goes without saying because it is an amazing and salient fact. For a few years, the US could have annihilated every nation or regime it wanted (and the people of China or Eastern Europe might have greatly benefited from that). But there was no popular movement for revenge. We sent food and money (the people did, too, not just the government). The internment was a black mark, but one must keep things in perspective - it was an injustice and meant hardship, not annihilation. By all historical standards, no other nation would have behaved like we did. Of course you know this. But if Hanks takes it for granted it shows a certain historical unawareness.
Let me put it this way: Just 12 years after the end of WW2, Jerry Lewis would make a movie like Geisha Boy. Perhaps Americans are not built to hate.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Tom Hanks: America Wan... · 1 reply · +1 points
Yes, and maybe he still does. But many people are herd animals and opportunists - even those with "f**** you money" - and he wouldn´t be the first opportunist in the entertainment industry to make a politically correct adjustment.
"Does one have to jump on every little comment that's "out of line"?"
Only if one wants to :-)
Look, if he misspoke, is it not revealing that he erred in the usual modern-liberal direction? These people always do. The opposite never happens. Hanks would not for a second sound unabashedly jingoistic by mistake because that is not even remotely how these people think (and who would defend him if he did?) And that´s why these small remarks are significant.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Tom Hanks: America Wan... · 2 replies · +1 points
It is undeniable and not surprising that there were elements of racism. Compared with the Germans, it was much easier to see the Japanese as completely alien and less than human (although the behavior shown by the Japanese didn´t help and the racism went both ways).
Still, I think Hanks went overboard. I cannot speculate as to what he meant; I have to take him at his word.
1 day ago @ Big Hollywood - Sell Out: Jay-Z Loses ... · 0 replies · +2 points
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