It was a lovely moment of self-awareness and a moment when you know you’re watching fiction - I can accept technology that’s indistinguishable from magic and a shield that defies the laws of physics but a white guy recognising his own implicit bias? Total fiction!
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Still wonderful to see for once.
Besides, the stories we tell ourselves matter; our fictions can shape future reality.
Remember, cell phones appeared in sci-fi stories a good 40 years before they were invented…
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Sure. I am a firm believer in art being the lie that enables us to realise the truth, stories do absolutely matter. I don’t think I could adequately function in life without fiction to contextualise stuff, I guess.
By the way, with regard to them never letting a black man hold the shield i feel dumb for missing the obvious symbolism that Sam is both his nephew’s Uncle Sam. Their Uncle Sam. It’s right there in the montage!
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More relatedly… it gives plot points from Them, so…
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Took the fam on our first movie outing since the beginning of the pandemic to watch Godzilla vs. Kong at the (mercifully near-empty) theater. It was big and loud and didn’t make any sense and was basically everything one could hope for in a movie about two giant monsters punching each other in the face, so that was fun.
Also the kids went in Kaiju costumes because why not.
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He can be anything.
Take a look! It’s in a book.
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This is my favourite part of your comment 
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That is so awesome!!
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He’s a great choice, but really, I’d take anybody over Wishbone.
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yeah, can hardly wait for Mr. Burton to be the quiz master!
I mean, I suffered, silently, through two weeks of that dubious doctor fella because I love the game! I’m not giving up on Jeopardy!
wish they’d just bring Jennings back for good. and I didn’t think I would like him he did a great job!
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Black trauma porn
Funny takes on that in this movie. I had fun with it.
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I’ve been watching “Episodes.”
Total fluff, but funny. And makes me very grateful I don’t work in the tv or film industries!
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My daughter doesn’t trust me to pick movies for family movie night anymore because the last couple times I got to pick there was a sad part at the end when the animal died. So this time I decided to go for something safe and picked Lady and the Tramp. I mean, I hadn’t seen it in over 30 years but I was pretty sure I’d remember if a dog died, right?
Then right near the end there’s this…
MY BRAIN: ohshitohshitohshit…
MY BRAIN: Oh thank FUCK.
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This is dumb.
Unless it’s meant to be parody of that misogynistic review of Promising Young Woman,
In which case, well done…
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That’s was my take, too. It read similarly to that insipid review of Carey Mulligan Promising Young Woman in Variety.
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If The Last Jedi was your favorite Star Wars movie, you might like
Loving Everything’s gonna be okay.
I’ve been watching the Kate Winslet vehicle Mare of Easttown. She’s great, and the ending of the second episode was like, Wuuhh?! 
Don’t like how HBO doles out weekly episodes, though.
I mean c’mon, it’s not the 1970s anymore!
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