Cultural Blind Spots
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Marvel movies. Just don’t get what’s so amazing. Seems like the plot to each is the same, right down to the final battle which inevitably destroys some poor city as the Avengers and their enemies play out the script to a pro wrestling match.
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Cosign. Then again, I've only seen 2 Spiderman movies and half of Thor. Oh, and Black Panther, if that counts as part of the same series or whatever it is. I Actually liked Black Panther, though.
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Watched the first two Avengers movies in the last couple months and watching Infinity War right now. I’m prepared and willing to be awed
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I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, but I may have to break that streak and see 'Uncut Gems'.
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"Zohan" is his masterpiece.DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:25 pm I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, but I may have to break that streak and see 'Uncut Gems'.
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Punch-Drunk Love is the other "see this even if you don't like him" of Sandler's movies.
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This seems nearly impossible!DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:25 pm I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, but I may have to break that streak and see 'Uncut Gems'.
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Look it ain’t Citizen Kane but if you can’t find some humor in Happy Gilmore I don’t know why you deny yourself joy.A_B wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:47 pmThis seems nearly impossible!DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:25 pm I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, but I may have to break that streak and see 'Uncut Gems'.
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This. Also Wedding Singer, 50 First Dates and some others. They don’t all stink.BSF21 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 7:39 pmLook it ain’t Citizen Kane but if you can’t find some humor in Happy Gilmore I don’t know why you deny yourself joy.A_B wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:47 pmThis seems nearly impossible!DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:25 pm I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, but I may have to break that streak and see 'Uncut Gems'.
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I award you no points and may god have mercy on your soul.
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I've seen clips (which were so so), but never the entire thing. I just have never found Sandler to be very funny.BSF21 wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 7:39 pmLook it ain’t Citizen Kane but if you can’t find some humor in Happy Gilmore I don’t know why you deny yourself joy.A_B wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:47 pmThis seems nearly impossible!DaveInSeattle wrote: ↑Wed Dec 25, 2019 6:25 pm I have never seen an Adam Sandler movie, but I may have to break that streak and see 'Uncut Gems'.
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I think you’ve got a decade on me so this is fair. I wouldn’t like a modern day 28 year old Sandler at all, I’m sure.
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Billy Madison literally just started on Encore if you get that channel.
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Glad you asked!
1. All of the featured actresses are stunningly beautiful.
2. No one would ever actually remake it, but if they did they would definitely deliver explicit comeuppance to Potter, and I’d be ok with that.
3. When Harry walked in at the end and was instantly handed a drink and gave a toast to “my brother George Bailey, the richest man in Bedford Falls” my oldest said “but how is *he* the richest man?” We worry about her sometimes.
4. When the movie ended, i texted cerrano’s wife (a librarian) to ask what she thought about Mary’s worst case scenario being a single librarian in her late 20s.
1. All of the featured actresses are stunningly beautiful.
2. No one would ever actually remake it, but if they did they would definitely deliver explicit comeuppance to Potter, and I’d be ok with that.
3. When Harry walked in at the end and was instantly handed a drink and gave a toast to “my brother George Bailey, the richest man in Bedford Falls” my oldest said “but how is *he* the richest man?” We worry about her sometimes.
4. When the movie ended, i texted cerrano’s wife (a librarian) to ask what she thought about Mary’s worst case scenario being a single librarian in her late 20s.
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Here's the original ending:
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Watched it for the first time myself, a few days before Christmas. Really enjoyed it. Donna Reed is stunning.
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It’s classic. Love it. Watched it Christmas Eve. Like always.
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"beautiful, with an exotic-yet-familiar facial structure and an arresting gaze."
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Never have seen it all the way through, probably 15 minutes total. Same with Miracle on 34th Street.
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I've never seen it all the way through, but I did have a crush on Donna Reed in the 80s thanks to Nick at Nite.
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I see references on Twitter to “stans”. What does that mean?
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Someone who is a huge fan of something, often to the point of it being a blind spot. I don't know the exact genesis of the word, but I think it's a portmanteau of "super" and "fan"
ETA: Maybe not "super". But something and fan anyway.
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I thought it was "Stalker" and "fan" like into someone to the level of creepiness.
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Seriously? It's definitely from Eminem. Perhaps he came up with the Stalker Fan portmanteau, but it's current popular use is definitely all from that song.
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I had a student who did a short doc on "Stans." Totally obsessive fandom to the point where this one young Gay man had constructed his life around the fantasy that Celine Dion was his birth mother.
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I didn't know what a "stan" was until a few years ago either. (See my first post in this thread about being ignorant of most popular music since the mid-90s.)
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I thought that was a 'new' term. Had to have some youngs explain it to me just last week.
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What does it mean when someone writes something with SeEMinglY RandOM CApitaliZatIOn?
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It means Johnnie's caps lock is acting up.
If that's what you were referring to, I'd say sarcastically making the argument of a moron.
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That they're mocking the statement if it were made written normally. It's almost a way to show the statement is bring written sarcastically.
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It's a written representation of Eminem's cadence from "My Name Is". Duh.
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