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It makes people uncomfortable when rape is brought up for no apparent reason. I'd stick to different types of crimes when making examples, or metaphors.
Replying to your point, it's true that art appreciation is subjective, but there are core principles in art (both visual and sound) that make for more pleasing creations. Ratios and symmetry that people prefer over other designs.
It's true that you don't necessarily have to follow these 'rules'. Pablo Picasso and David Lynch certainly didn't, and were both still very successful, but it's more risky. You're more likely to please more people if you stick with what's worked well in the past.
Of course, this can lead to terribly unoriginal work. Here's the Axis of Awesome, with a song about the music industry's obsession with four specific chords: [url]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOlDewpCfZQ[/url]
It's true. Most big budget movies, even with larger ticket prices, usually wouldn't make their money back without the international box office. Americans just don't go to the movies as much.
I'm old enough to remember the heyday of VHS, and what really brought people to theaters were the huge special effect filled movies, where you couldn't replicate the same effect at home. VHS did not have very good picture quality, and THX sound entered the mix in theaters. This caused theater viewing to spike up again, but now with streaming, blu-ray, HD television, and better sound systems at home, there just isn't as much a reason to go.
It's sort of difficult to prove someone knew their 'pretenses for starting a war' were false to begin with. And as others mentioned, Congress put their seal of approval on it.
As others have mentioned: it's basically impossible to be convicted of a crime if you are, or were, president. It just doesn't happen in this country.
The only president to ever receive any sort of legal charge or punishment for actions committed in office was Ulysses S. Grant, for speeding (yes in a stage-coach). They wanted to tear up the ticket when they realized who he was, but he thought it was funny, so he demanded they follow through with it.
Elevator-related death.
When I was a young child, in the early 80's in Texas, my mother was specifically told by her boss that she couldn't get a promotion within the company because she was 1. Female, and 2. Catholic. Only male protestants (also white, but my mom met that requirement) could be promoted within the company. They didn't even try to hide it, and admitted it openly.
This was not a small company either, it was a major one, and big enough that suing them over it wasn't a reasonable option for my parents, at the time. Around the same time, she found out that said company was one of the more open minded, because most in the area wouldn't even hire Catholics for any position.
'Simple values' as recently as 25-30 years ago, only applied to white people that followed the same religion. Everyone else was discriminated against constantly, but unless the national news covered it, everyone pretended it didn't exist. The internet made this discrimination far more visible to everyone, and far harder to deny.
So it's not that the past was more honest or hard working, they just lied, cheated, and oppressed people in secret, and back then it was a lot easier to keep it hidden.
Yeah, pretty much. Back in the day (90's and earlier) there simply wasn't any other place for R rated humor, and even in those movies, you usually couldn't find clever or smart raunchy humor. That's why Kevin Smith movies were so successful. He literally had no competition.
It wasn't just the internet's treasure trove of porn that killed raunchy, low budget comedies. It was that now there was an unlimited source of dick jokes, and geek related humor. It's difficult to sell something that's being given away for free.
For me, nothing tops being in the movie theater with my niece, and realizing the creators of "Angry Birds" had accidentally created a pro-terrorism kids movie. "Those evil pigs took our eggs? Let's hurl ourselves through the air, to blow up all their buildings!" I mean, I know that's the game, but once they changed them from simple animals to more human-like characters...something went wrong.
It's mentioned a lot, but Birdemic (and all other movies by James Nguyen) are the most unintentionally hilarious every made.
The difference is she's never objectified. She's beautiful, and plenty of people say so (and by those time's standards, also nearly nude on the battlefield), but if it were a Joss Whedon Marvel movie, we'd be having multiple close-ups of her rear end, long shots of her bare feet, and she'd be almost completely defined by her male relationships.
The ultimate answer as to whether she's an empowered female character is to ask women, and women overwhelmingly say yes. No amount of men saying "well actually..." is going to change that.
How would you define 'realistic'? (I'm afraid I've never seen The Swimmer)
If you mean ones that are almost normal, except for small magical elements that pop up? Fantasies closer to magical realism? In that case, I really like 'Exterminating Angel' (1962). It's a Spanish movie, and the title makes it sound more violent than it actually is. It actually takes place at a dinner party in a mansion, and the rest is best seen for yourself. You can probably find a subtitled version free online somewhere.
We didn't need to take his wife's word for it. Just look up the script he pitched for a Wonder Woman movie about eight years ago. It's one of the most misogynistic things I've ever read.
Joss Whedon used to develop his female characters by having a lot of terrible things happen to them, but it was okay, because they always came out stronger.
At some point around Dollhouse, the female characters stopped getting stronger, and became completely defined by their appearance, and the male characters in their lives. Just compare Black Widow in Avengers 1 to Avengers 2.
Either the man became far more of a pig, or he was always a pig (as his wife would suggest), and he's just having a more difficult time hiding it.
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