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They made this into a movie?
I love Dune One, but this is all the worst parts of One with nothing good. Also the leads are fucking awful together.
Why didn't the victim's families try to murder OJ Simpson?
The elephant in the room w.r.t. the scammers
An excellent time capsule for boomers
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Obligatory recap
Seth Kenney
Duke Leto Atreides murdered his people and the Harkonnen deserved to reclaim Arrakis
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The modern version would have invented history for the sake of diversity. Much like "Hidden Figures" has done (to a great degree), or the intentional alt-history "For All Mankind," which has such egregious misrepresentations of the culture of NASA at the time that it's disgusting, and should be disgusting to anyone who has an actual interest in the real history of the US space program.
How do leftists deal with the observation that these trials all occurred right when he needed to go out to campaign? Or are they cool with abuse of the judicial system and lawfare?
Human behavior is very complicated. Sex is not
Gained nothing? The entire point was to redistribute wealth from present and future US citizens and put it into the pockets of the military industrial complex. They accomplished everything.
And which of his actions predate intervention from the CIA et al?
I thought he's taking the blame for Obama. Under Obama the intelligence apparatus staged a coup in Ukraine in 2014 that ousted their democratically elected leader who wanted good relations with Russia, and installed a leader who would: 1. install Democrat-connected cronies into political positions of influence, like on oil company boards; 2. arrange more US interference; and 3. pursue friendly relations with NATO and hostile relations with Russia.
The extended B-plot with two FBI agents was 100% unnecessary and probably included because Jason Statham was too white and male. They could've (and should've) cut that subplot out entirely, or down to just two scenes.
Statham's character was already motivated to pursue vengeance by his connection to his scamming/suicide victim friend, he was already operating outside the confines of the law, and he didn't need any assistance from the FBI. In fact, when I first watched it I figured those daughter would recognize the importance of extralegal interference, go rogue, and start feeding him intel behind her partner's back. That may have been her and/or her partner's arc, but instead he already had the means to get all that intel himself.
It feels like an older action movie screenplay with diversity glued on to satisfy the current requirements for getting a movie produced.
What is it you propose he could've done better? We see two alternatives in the movie, which I outlined above, and they're much, much worse.
*A* good guy? No. *THE* good guy? Sure. But in those circumstances there isn't exactly room for a paragon of virtue.
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