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by theficionado
Wed Dec 20, 2017 6:32 am
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Replies: 35
Views: 26486

Re: Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Laura Dern is just a "strong woman" prototype with no discernible personality traits.
[spoiler]Why the hell couldn't fan fave Admiral Ackbar be the one to do the hyperspace kamikaze?![/spoiler]


What are Admiral Ackbar's discernible personality traits?
by theficionado
Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Where do I find my tiers?
Replies: 5
Views: 4046

Re: Where do I find my tiers?

You impose whatever ranking system you want. I use a four-star system. Others use a 100-point system. Some use a 0-10 scale. Whatever scale you use, the Criticker algorithm will adjust your scale so that tiers are allocated in a reasonable way.
by theficionado
Sun May 22, 2016 3:43 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What do you consider to be the top ~10 best books ever written?
Replies: 19
Views: 12486

Re: What do you consider to be the top ~10 best books ever written?

Non-fiction. -"Das Kapital," "The Marx-Engels Reader" -- Marx, Engels. -"Right-Wing Women," "Intercourse" -- Andrea Dworkin. -"History of the Peloponnesian War" -- Thucydides. -"The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revo...
by theficionado
Sun May 22, 2016 3:36 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What do you consider to be the top ~10 best books ever written?
Replies: 19
Views: 12486

Re: What do you consider to be the top ~10 best books ever written?

My list of favorite novels (one per author) probably looks something like this: Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Catch-22 Joseph Heller If on a winter's night a traveler... Italo Calvino The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez The Counterli...
by theficionado
Wed May 11, 2016 3:59 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: What do you consider to be the top ~10 best books ever written?
Replies: 19
Views: 12486

Re: What do you consider to be the top ~10 best books ever written?

My list of favorite novels (one per author) probably looks something like this: Blood Meridian Cormac McCarthy Catch-22 Joseph Heller If on a winter's night a traveler... Italo Calvino The Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel García Márquez The Counterlif...
by theficionado
Wed Mar 09, 2016 7:01 pm
Forum: Filmmakers
Topic: 21st century directors: any great ones?
Replies: 34
Views: 59940

Re: 21st century directors: any great ones?

Filmmakers with multiple notable films that have started since 2000 that are very good: Alfredson, Tomas (Let the Right One In, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy)* Bong Joon-Ho (Memories of Murder, The Host, Mother) Castaing-Taylor, Lucien (Leviathan, Sweetgrass) Dominik, Andrew (The Assassination of Jesse ...
by theficionado
Sun Feb 21, 2016 8:03 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: "Race"
Replies: 2
Views: 2461

Re: "Race"

**Owens, like a majority of blacks, including MLK and his father, were members of the Party of Lincoln until Nixon's faux pas in 1960. FDR couldn't be seen commiserating in any way with blacks, what with the KKK and Jim Crow states being a large contingent of his Democrat constituency. FDR was re-e...
by theficionado
Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:13 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: 2 Upcoming Political Offerings
Replies: 30
Views: 14106

Re: 2 Upcoming Political Offerings

[b] It's embarrassing how easily and crushingly they have conquered territory after territory, utterly expelled conservatives from entire areas (like colleges), and enacting laws undreamed of by even the most radical leftist a few generations ago. One more thing: I remember having a conversation wi...
by theficionado
Mon Dec 07, 2015 4:56 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: 2 Upcoming Political Offerings
Replies: 30
Views: 14106

Re: 2 Upcoming Political Offerings

Of course. Leftists always eat their own eventually. It's the same way in American universities; the 70's liberals and modern-day professors and administrators are presently being attacked and purged by the modern-day leftists. You know there is a pejorative that Republicans use to characterize oth...
by theficionado
Sun Dec 06, 2015 10:30 pm
Forum: Movie-Specific
Topic: 2 Upcoming Political Offerings
Replies: 30
Views: 14106

Re: 2 Upcoming Political Offerings

Allying with the SJWs didn't save Joss Whedon from them turning on him and harassing him on twitter. Of course. Leftists always eat their own eventually. It's the same way in American universities; the 70's liberals and modern-day professors and administrators are presently being attacked and purge...