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The physical form of blasphemy
i don't bring up porn much anymore, but this woman in girl'sdoporn ep 296 is the most beautiful creature i've ever seen in my life
i don't bring up porn much anymore, but this woman in girl'sdoporn ep 296 is the most beautiful creature i've ever seen in my life
On that same subject there is a cute Black guy named Trae who i say in a porn. daym.
"His truth is marching on" are the words Ava Duvernay's Selma leaves you with, which perfectly bottle any righteous hope left after witnessing the ignorant and hateful responses to civil liberty set in the 60s, but exactly as relevant today. Progress is ongoing, you want to believe - perhaps it is slow but it is moving. But the somber, sometimes choking aura Selma wields bites at that optimism with piercing coldness. The hand of entrenched power is far reaching, and wrongs that have been considered right for so long are not easily abated. Not without suffering.
Selma settles around King and his contest with President Lyndon B. Johnson over the politics surrounding black disenfranchisement, particularly in the southern states where Jim Crow was the law of the land. Perhaps their quarrel lasted a few scenes too many (they mostly cover the same ground), but both did well to represent their respective sides: that being the urgent demand for justice by King, clashing against the tepid politics of the establishment of the White House. It's enough to be the film's skeleton, but the movie's real heart centers around King's quieter moments. It's all the emotional toil that comes upon a man who is the tip of a historic movement. David Oyelowo brings a man that is literally larger than life back to earth with the right cadence and timing. It's an achievement that King's charisma is due most to Oyelowo's acting and not King's reputation.
In a movie underlined with the easily understood sentiment of justice, it is easy to be overindulgent. Ava Duvernay mostly avoids these errors while delivering terrifyingly terrific scenes of pain and abuse. Every swing of a baton hits the viewer with a similar percussion to what the sfx would imply. This madness is given a few villainous faces, but it runs past just their inhumanity: it's a culture that is cancerous. And really that's what this is all is, isn't it? In 50 years, how much has changed? A few of these scenes feel out of time, though not out of context. It's all presented plain as if accompanied by a look of solemn terseness, imploring the observer to make the connections.
Selma is an effective film. It's an examination of an influential man and an acknowledgement that his work was not his own to bear, and more importantly, still is not done.
Selma settles around King and his contest with President Lyndon B. Johnson over the politics surrounding black disenfranchisement, particularly in the southern states where Jim Crow was the law of the land. Perhaps their quarrel lasted a few scenes too many (they mostly cover the same ground), but both did well to represent their respective sides: that being the urgent demand for justice by King, clashing against the tepid politics of the establishment of the White House. It's enough to be the film's skeleton, but the movie's real heart centers around King's quieter moments. It's all the emotional toil that comes upon a man who is the tip of a historic movement. David Oyelowo brings a man that is literally larger than life back to earth with the right cadence and timing. It's an achievement that King's charisma is due most to Oyelowo's acting and not King's reputation.
In a movie underlined with the easily understood sentiment of justice, it is easy to be overindulgent. Ava Duvernay mostly avoids these errors while delivering terrifyingly terrific scenes of pain and abuse. Every swing of a baton hits the viewer with a similar percussion to what the sfx would imply. This madness is given a few villainous faces, but it runs past just their inhumanity: it's a culture that is cancerous. And really that's what this is all is, isn't it? In 50 years, how much has changed? A few of these scenes feel out of time, though not out of context. It's all presented plain as if accompanied by a look of solemn terseness, imploring the observer to make the connections.
Selma is an effective film. It's an examination of an influential man and an acknowledgement that his work was not his own to bear, and more importantly, still is not done.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
New black MK character not named Jax??
Slices his own face off.....
yooo wut ?
this in the comic ? let me find out.
Young Magus
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Wrestle Kingdom 9 had me like:
Vince, what recent NJPW events/PPVs I need to catch up on? I know about the G1, anything else?
Looks like I know what I'm catching soon-ish
Vince, what recent NJPW events/PPVs I need to catch up on? I know about the G1, anything else?
Looks like I know what I'm catching soon-ish
Wrestle Kingdom 9 had me like:
Vince, what recent NJPW events/PPVs I need to catch up on? I know about the G1, anything else?
Looks like I know what I'm catching soon-ish
You need to watch the G1 Climax from last year. Pretty much all of the matches with Okada, Naito, Tanahashi, Shibata, Nakamura, and AJ. I would also suggest WK8, as it was a similarly great show as this year's. Really, just about any NJPW show from 2014 is worth watching besides the Super Juniors stuff. Quality wise, it is hard to touch 2014 NJ from intermission on as far as good as wrasslin that doesn't make you embarrassed that you watch it.
Black Republican
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Man this on crunchyroll right, might watch? Just one season so far right?
Angelus Errare
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Earlier today my neighbor complained that her eye exam + 6month supply of contacts is $429 (no glasses).
Shit has been bothering me all day, like...you don't think that's normal do you?! Your optometrist must be serving Cristal and giving massages while you wait.
Shit I only pay $79 for an eye exam, and $90 for a year supply of contacts.
Shit has been bothering me all day, like...you don't think that's normal do you?! Your optometrist must be serving Cristal and giving massages while you wait.
Shit I only pay $79 for an eye exam, and $90 for a year supply of contacts.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
Gordon Shumway
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Good morning, BCT. Damn, that train was running late last night. Had me a little heated lol..unbelievable.
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
Good stuff. Will Selma make me heated like 12 years a slave or Mississippi Burning? I want to support it. I'm not sure if I want to stir up that visceral anger and disgust.
andthebeatgoeson
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Hmm, it won't take awhile before people give you shit about the igloo.
Discotheque
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there's one scene that will stir it up but nothing as harsh as mississippi burning or 12 years a slave. 12 years especially is the apex of white on black abuse on film imo.
later days bro
later
Gordon Shumway
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Be safe, Cody!
The fact that people are more upset about me mocking her than her being a shitty person is telling.
TheBlackMarvel
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But not surprising.
Lol who is upset?
Angelus Errare
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She is getting robbed though, I pay $90 for a box AND I have astigmatism. For $479 she should be getting frames with her shit. $479 for just an exam and 6 months of contacts is some fuckery.
maybe she was hitting on you.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
She wants that Angelus rate..
She wants Angelus to put on his cape and save her from these high high prices.
I was "angrier" coming out of Selma than I was 12 Years A Slave. It's mostly due to the fact that a lot of what goes on in the movie is extremely applicable today.
good health and good fortune to you.
Instead of running into a different thread to complain, why not engage with me instead? I admit I mixed up being a hateful prejudiced asshole with racism. But being snarky then running in here helps no one. Congrats.
Gordon Shumway
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Well, you're clearly following me around the forums, so why bother? And I made my point more than once, and you replied with nuh uh. Not sure what more you were expecting.
User 73706
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Be safe man.
I'm dreamy, not dreams.
Someone said, Banks is the real racist, I replied racism doesn't work that way, MoeProblems was all "dur, what you mean" I said, racism doesn't work that way and dropped a link to why, and MoeForBrains say simultaneously that he agrees with me but that I'm still wrong. So I decided, "fuck it this is too stupid for me" and bounced. Then MoeFucker follows me here to say he was wrong and ask why I won't give him the attention he so desperately needs, which is the forum equivalent of instagramming an apology text for winning a Grammy. And in case you were wondering, no he hasn't edited his posts now that he's been enlightened.
Gordon Shumway
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Take them, I dun want them.
Gordon Shumway
Banned
The riggs vs saga was amusing. I bet hes still dodging satch in the streets
Satch took her limiter off for that soul snatching.
What is wrong with you?
Seems like for the best
ViewtifulJC
Banned
think I'm done with this thread for a minute
Gordon Shumway
Banned
kamorra..man.
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