Just now, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

It's just that I don't see the huge problem then? The women aren't muscular because it wouldn't sell to have them look that way. Not because Hollywood wants to spare them the extra exercise.

 

Not everything has to have a secret meaning or goal. I'm just stating a fact. It's harder for men to get in shape for their roles.

 

Read my posts, I've already said many things. If I write everything again (for it not to be read), I'm not sure to see the point

21 minutes ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

Well I don't get your POV either TBF. You mention that some male actors have to work hard to get in super-shape, which is true. But then you also would not want the women to do the same. So what is the problem? The women aren't working out as much as the men because it would make them look too muscular for the audience liking. Not because of any "wokeness" on the part of Hollywood.

 

Who said there's a problem? I'm stating facts.

 

The demands put on men are harder nowadays, it's a fact. Wokeness is the zeitgeist and Hollywood is its conveyor, it's a fact.  My opinion or views on it don't matter.

 

I know Marxism always wants to find secret meanings or villains... but it's not the subject. The subject is that society has changed. The deal is not the same as 30 years ago. The "Survival of the fittest" game is way harsher on men (not just in Hollywood).

 

The demands on actresses were harder than men's 40 years ago. Now, it's the opposite.

 

I understand why it's very difficult to be a real sociologist today.

 

Sociology has been perverted. Sociologists used to a) observe facts b) look for tendencies, c) try to summarize them and d) then maybe try to find a cause.

 

Now, sociologists a) already know the cause to everything before even working (it's called ideology), b) then deploy their ideology by inventing unobserved sociological tendencies and c) maybe sometimes look at facts, only if they confirm their ideologies.

 

If they don't do that, hordes of people will attack them on the internet.

 

You can call this phenomenon however you want (wokeness, cultural marxism, etc.), but it's there.

That's why this type of things can happen

 

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What an Audacious Hoax Reveals About Academia

Three scholars wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/new-sokal-hoax/572212/

https://quillette.com/2018/10/01/the-grievance-studies-scandal-five-academics-respond/

 

 

Folks can deny it. They can believe in the (long gone) value of modern social sciences and their supposed quests for justice.

 

Everybody has the right to be fooled. We're just mere humans.

Or people can listen to real valuable social scientists. But of course it requires effort.

 

 

 

It's like discussions on the internet.

 

People don't discuss no more. They try to figure out in which "box" you belong (ideologically speaking) and then confirm or deny what you're trying to say based on your perceived ideological camp.

 

Civil discourse is shrinking. It's sad, but maybe, one day, tiny flames of hope could bring back the fire.

@Cult Icon What are your philosophical views on this ending?

 

^ "Tiny flames will dance across the darkness".

8 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

The demands on actresses were harder than men's 40 years ago. Now, it's the opposite.

 

 

No one wants the actresses to work out as much as the men! Not because they feel sorry for the actresses but because there is no desire to see that body type in movies/TV from women. It's not some ideological shift.

Anyway, more details have emerged from the DC Studios decisions.

For Wonder Woman 3, apparently James Gunn and several other people in charge at that studio hated Patty Jenkins' treatment for WW3.

She was given the opportunity to rework it. She opted against that and walked away instead.

Gunn & DC still really like Gal Gadot in the role but it's not clear if Gadot wants to continue without Jenkins (the two of them have become very close over the course of working on the first two films).

More details: Apparently Jenkins walked away out of loyalty to her screenwriter Geoff Johns.

Part of the decision for DC Studios (outside of the treatment they did not like) is the fact that if a potential third WW3 goes ahead with this current team, the existing contracts mean they owe Gadot 20 million and Jenkins 12 million.

17 hours ago, Enrico_sw said:

 

 

 

She could pass for a tranny to be honest.  it's because her nose/jaw and overall face profile is more masculine than feminine.  Kind of an interesting looking woman though.

I am almost done with Feast for Crows.  I give it a 4 out of 5 compared to 5-6 out of 5 for the first two books and 4.7 out of 5 for the third.  Despite its flaws it is still entertaining.

 

The main value of the book is the extensive lore and internal monologues that expand knowledge of many of the characters.  However the plot, which was already slow in Storm of Swords ..slows down to glacial pace.  In a way it comes across as 'chronicles' of Westeros and has a different tone than the previous books.

 

But it is not as good as the previous 3 books.  I can sense that GRRM exhausted most of his best ideas and characters.   He becomes very repetitive with the same themes/tropes and doubles down on feminism.   This new generation of characters is not as good as the previous one.  About 1/4th of the book is soap-opera like content that could have been deleted.  The Ironborn and Dorne content in particular is not as good/boring and Cersei's expanded evil eventually gets monotonous.  Sam-gilly and Brienne are  annoying at this point.

 

Arya and Jaime's storylines continue to be among the best.

On 12/9/2022 at 2:40 AM, SympathysSilhouette said:

More details: Apparently Jenkins walked away out of loyalty to her screenwriter Geoff Johns.

Part of the decision for DC Studios (outside of the treatment they did not like) is the fact that if a potential third WW3 goes ahead with this current team, the existing contracts mean they owe Gadot 20 million and Jenkins 12 million.

 

I heard none of the Wonder woman films were very good anyway.  I have a copy of WW1 and haven't been interested enough to watch it yet.

 

On 12/8/2022 at 6:41 PM, Enrico_sw said:

@Cult Icon What are your philosophical views on this ending?

 

I'm not that hardcore with the ending lore but I think the whole Dark Souls series has some influence by Dante's Divine comedy.  The Divine Comedy has Dante's spirit awaken in purgatory.  He then travels to Hell, and then paradise while encountering many tortured or lost human creatures.  Once he reaches Paradise, the story ends with a 'breaking of the cycle' and enlightenment.

 

Dark Souls 3 even starts in a similar atmosphere.  I think this ending is the breaking of the cycle, and 'the embers' mean the likelihood of an eventual rebirth.

 

What do you think of the ending?

5 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

I heard none of the Wonder woman films were very good anyway.  I have a copy of WW1 and haven't been interested enough to watch it yet.

 

 

I really love the first one a lot. The second one is bad. Almost as bad as Suicide Squad (the Ayer one, not the Gunn one).

4 hours ago, SympathysSilhouette said:

 

I really love the first one a lot. The second one is bad. Almost as bad as Suicide Squad (the Ayer one, not the Gunn one).

 

do you think she fits the role?

 

In comics she is typically drawn not as a Greek or Israeli person but more like a northern european one.  But later/more modern comics have her looking more like her origin.

2 hours ago, Cult Icon said:

 

do you think she fits the role?

 

In comics she is typically drawn not as a Greek or Israeli person but more like a northern european one.  But later/more modern comics have her looking more like her origin.

 

I didn't think much of her at the time of the casting but she did a good job with the role I think. I still don't think she is a great actress but she made the role her own.