If I am wrong and SARS-CoV-2 does continue to evolve to be more transmissible and more deadly, eventually all the anti-vaxxers will be dead or so debilitated they might as well be.
Sometimes, the universe serves up some bleak justice. It just might this time, too.
In Rogue One, Rebel spirit and corporate control collided to make Disney’s best Star Wars.
I haven’t seen every Star Wars film, but I did like Rogue One quite a lot. It had spirit and the stakes seemed real. I also enjoyed how it leaned into the 1970s aesthetic, giving it the air of something that was a 1970s retelling (with better sfx) of something that had happened somewhere once upon a time.
Rather than spending time with the prospective Jedi knights of the Skywalker clan, Rogue One would tell a war story about the expendable soldiers who died to make Luke’s triumph possible in the first place. That fucking rules. That’s hard to mess up.
It was not a perfect movie, but it’s just so alive and breathing, unlike most of the Star Wars franchise. Felicity Jones, who is truly excellent in the film, creates a person who seems real and damaged and righteous in Jyn Erso, which is of course also unusual for the series. Another contrast: situations and environments feel dirty and grubby and dangerous in this movie in a way they do not in other franchise entries. That’s because the movie was shot on location, mostly, and not on soundstages and many of the effects are practical rather than CGI.
When AT-AT walkers stomp into the frame during the climactic battle of Rogue One, they finally make sense as weapons. They are theatrical monsters, forces of intimidation, things that should not be.
Yeah, that’s it exactly. And that was a great scene, and one of the few in any relatively-recent movie that made me say “whoa.” It’s the same reason countries roll main battle tanks through cities. The AT-ATs make perfect sense used that way, as terror weapons. (By the by, main battle tanks are poor as actual weapons when used in urban areas. They are quite easy to trap and destroy there.)
And, of course (huge spoiler alert!) how often is it that in a big Hollywood movie every single main character dies at the end?
Recommended. I will probably watch it again, which is rare for me.
NEW: Texas has seen nearly 9,000 COVID-19 deaths since February.
All but 43 were unvaccinated people.
That means 99.5% of people who died due to COVID-19 in Texas from Feb. 8 to July 14 were unvaccinated. https://t.co/Vg31z7n7K0
— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) July 21, 2021
The vaccines work, which the conservatives have always denied and now the libs are moving that way, too.
“Space exploration never did anything for anyone!” a million liberals scream, as a hundred times a day they use technology and products directly or indirectly funded, researched and/or improved by Space Race-related innovation and spin-offs thereof.
truest tweet of the year https://t.co/3SRgIhuYTX
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) July 26, 2021
My partner and I were just talking about this the other day, regarding those books like 500 Different Sex Positions to Try and such!
I said there’s maybe 10 different actual positions and the rest are just tiny variations. However, at least three of those positions require some extreme athleticism and/or strength — for instance, holding your partner off the ground completely.
There definitely aren’t 500 different sex positions unless you are actually an octopus or a trans-dimensional being or something.
Great cover, and Caroline has also seen the inside of a gym. Look at those arms and shoulders! That level of muscular development for a woman in particular takes a whole lot of work. Good for her.
I watched it twice. Zolotic is a Floridian! Great reaction she has after she wins.
Only those who are obsessed with sex see sex everywhere. True of about anything, really.
You project your mania into and onto the world.
Supposedly, these Olympics outfits are “fighting against the sexualization of women” but they are skintight and seem in some ways more revealing than just seeing someone’s bare flesh.
I know it’s liberals driving this, but it’s such an odd idea to me that skin always equals sex or sexualization. Athletes have amazing bodies. What’s wrong with seeing them?
I just don’t understand modern prudishness at all really I guess.
don’t worry there won’t be another lockdown we’ll just normalize dying from covid like we’ve normalized dying from poverty, gun violence, police shootings, lack of housing, suicide, opioids, lack of access to medical care etc etc
— karl hess (@karlhess) July 17, 2021
Interesting how with all these dipshits is this false choice: lockdowns or nothing. I do truly believe they are obsessed with lockdown for reasons that have nothing at all do with the pandemic. It’s some form of mental health issue, I guess, perhaps brought about by exposure to predatory capitalism.
Or maybe just brain worms.
Lockdowns are so inhuman and so ruinous to most people that it’s no surprise that modern pleasure-spurning prudish liberals have obsessed over them with a laser focus.
Every time I hear her hit those high notes I just have to stop everything I’m doing and admire.
Also, I adored MTV unplugged. *sighs in Gen X* https://t.co/vN0hDJLIRe
— Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) July 24, 2021
Even though I don’t really like any of Mariah Carey’s songs, I watched this when it aired and was amazed by her vocal range and stage presence.
I miss Unplugged, too.
