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Is somewhat jarring watching old tv and movies where people use being straight to refer to being law-abiding, because unless you know the slang has changed if tends to alter the meaning of the dialogue just a bit.
Going Postal - I tend not to like much of Terry Pratchett's later work, but the Von Lipwig novels are an exception. It's hard to not like conman going straight stories.
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A24 doing a solid.


Only got a glimmer of a memory seeing it when quite young, oblivious as hell to everything yet still entranced. Had no idea what it was called for decades, which didn't help trying to find it.
 

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Chris Pine's New Movie Is Intentionally Designed To Emasculate Men (msn.com)

Well isn't that special. Thanks for doing your part to exacerbate the negative effects this has led to. Amazing, that after how many thousands of years, we're still rather pathetic as a functional society. Social media is a big part of the blame lately.

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Social media is a big part of the blame lately.
It ain't social media; it's fucking dickwads and bitches who can't get over themselves, and push beliefs on everyone. Believing acting like an asshole, an alpha/sigma "male/female", and hurting anyone not fitting their pathetic mold is the only way to live. I am not even touching any of those articles. I won't give them the time, attention, or clicks. They don't get shit from me.
 
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It ain't social media; it's fucking dickwads and bitches who can't get over themselves, and push beliefs on everyone. Believing acting like an asshole, an alpha/sigma "male/female", and hurting anyone not fitting their pathetic mold is the only way to live. I am not even touching any of those articles. I won't give them the time, attention, or clicks. They don't get shit from me.
The point there was social media gives them a platform(s) to spread their bs, and too many people - unlike you or I - end up listening to them.
 

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Chris Pine's New Movie Is Intentionally Designed To Emasculate Men (msn.com)

Well isn't that special. Thanks for doing your part to exacerbate the negative effects this has led to. Amazing, that after how many thousands of years, we're still rather pathetic as a functional society. Social media is a big part of the blame lately.

Why Being With A Passive Man Is A Recipe For Disaster | Evie Magazine

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Silly MSN, Bards don’t lead parties :p
 

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Was just about to post it. I don't mind the Spider-verse inspiration at all. Hell, it suits TMNT more than it did Spider-man.

I can kinda appreciate the teenage behavior of the turtles, but they sound like 13 year old teenagers, which is... a little grating. Hopefully they put as much effort into the action as they did into writing quips.

And in this version, April is black (unless this is the same version as the first black April, which would be confusing). Sorry, couldn't resist pointing it out. What does Hollywood have against redheads? I'm mostly joking, but it sure does feel like a disproportionate number of race swapped characters were redheads.
 
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Hell, it suits TMNT more than it did Spider-man.
Speak for yourself. Spider-Verse is still gorgeous to look at. EVERYBODY'S TAKING FROM SPIDER-VERSE NOW! I still have to see the new Puss & Boots later. I'm still sad that live action movie for the 2010 TMNT that happened.

And in this version, April is black (unless this is the same version as the first black April, which would be confusing). Sorry, couldn't resist pointing it out. What does Hollywood have against redheads? I'm mostly joking, but it sure does feel like a disproportionate number of race swapped characters were redheads.
April was already black in the original comic books. She is mulatto in the comics and based off of Eastman's then girlfriend at the time. April has brown hair in the 1987 version. Crimson red hair in the 2003 version. Orange red hair in the 2012 version. Black in the Rise of TMNT series and movie. But yeah, I did seem to notice that as well when it comes to race swaps recently. More so among the females. At least April was already a person of color to begin with. So if anything, she's been "whitewashed" (using it as a joke here) the most.
 

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Chris Pine's New Movie Is Intentionally Designed To Emasculate Men (msn.com)

Well isn't that special. Thanks for doing your part to exacerbate the negative effects this has led to. Amazing, that after how many thousands of years, we're still rather pathetic as a functional society. Social media is a big part of the blame lately.

Why Being With A Passive Man Is A Recipe For Disaster | Evie Magazine

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I think the MSN article has some good points but the headline is clearly designed to be sensational and court controversy.
 
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Surprised to see Donnie with glasses again.
That's a trend I've been noticing since the 2014 turtles. Give Donnie glasses or high tech cool goggles later on. In Rise, I think he wears glasses too. Though apparently, that was an idea done in concept before, but never fully implemented until later on. One of the later live action Turtles movies in the '90s that never happened, was supposed to give Donnie some glasses or type of goggles in the concept design. Of course that was very implement it in the next set of live action movies and one of the animated shows.
 

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Speak for yourself. Spider-Verse is still gorgeous to look at. EVERYBODY'S TAKING FROM SPIDER-VERSE NOW! I still have to see the new Puss & Boots later. I'm still sad that live action movie for the 2010 TMNT that happened.


April was already black in the original comic books. She is mulatto in the comics and based off of Eastman's then girlfriend at the time. April has brown hair in the 1987 version. Crimson red hair in the 2003 version. Orange red hair in the 2012 version. Black in the Rise of TMNT series and movie. But yeah, I did seem to notice that as well when it comes to race swaps recently. More so among the females. At least April was already a person of color to begin with. So if anything, she's been "whitewashed" (using it as a joke here) the most.
Fascinating, never knew that about April.
 
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