kia75

kia75 t1_ja5jp58 wrote

When you realize that Donkey Kong was originally Popeye everything all of a sudden makes sense! Bluto\Donkey Kong stealing Popeye's\Mario's girlfriend, Popeye\Mario all of a sudden becoming invincible when gets the spinach\hammer. All in all its a great translation of a popeye cartoon with the limited technology they had at the time.

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kia75 t1_j6haawf wrote

Huh, I didn't like it because IMO, it "redeemed" Rick too much in the episode. The Rick and Morty episode was about how even though Rick was powerful, he was still a jerk, and in his jerkiness he did destroy something flawed, but good (the Vindicators). Here we see that the Vindicators actually were phonies, genocidal monsters, and horrible people. Rick destroying them is actually a good thing. Which is just justification for Rick being such an asshole in the Vindicators episode.

These episodes didn't add to the story, they took something away from the story.

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kia75 t1_j1ponxk wrote

I loved it and agree! The musical was amazing and more than the sum of its parts. I have a lot of little niggles, the music isn't really memorable, The Librarian detracts from Mrs. Honey, and the story does sort of pause every time they start the escapist story, but those are Hitchock's infamous "fridge" moments, where you don't think about them while watching the movie, you only think about them while you're opening the fridge after getting a midnight snack, the movie as a whole work and while watching every moment is breath-taking.

I didn't even know this move was released, I was flipping through Netflix to catch the latest Knives out movie and found Matilda instead!

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kia75 t1_iwqwwpg wrote

Have you seen it? Tim Allen complains about not being able to say "Merry Christmas", the Elves don't want any kids to be labeled "naughty," even if they do naughty things. The replacement (non Tim Allen) Santa Clause is the CEO of a corporation, and even though he over-promised and under-delivered, it's not his fault for over-promising and under-delivering, but the media's fault for not having confidence that this CEO would do what's best for the world, setting up delivery centers 100 miles from every kid! Yes, the hero of the new series is basically an analog for Amazon's CEO.

And his kids are weird, but it's not Tim Allen's fault, he's a great dad, everybody says so! It's just that his boy is a Zoomer that only cares about technology for some reason, and his girl is a zoomer who wants to rescue deers that are mistreated at tourist traps. They only act like zoomers because they have no idea how the real world works.

The show is basically Conservative propaganda, and this propaganda is buried deep into its soul. Which is weird because the previous three movies weren't political at all. Most of Disney Plus's stuff avoids politics, even the show about the girl who grows up to be president went out of its way to avoid any sort of partisan politics.

I'm not certain where you get this about making stuff up when anyone with a Disney Plus subscription can watch the first two episodes.

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kia75 t1_iugne09 wrote

You're taking your father at his word. The truth is, your father doesn't care about what he says he cares about, they're just words to justify his stances.

As you've just pointed out, your father really doesn't care about government spending. If he really cared about government spending then he would want to spend as little as possible to execute someone. Instead, he's fine with spending exorbitant money to execute someone, and he'd prefer to use the money currently going to "these programs" to be spent on execution. Your father's stances and arguments aren't congruent, and no budgetary argument (i.e. Every dollar spent on welfare have a multiplier effect on society, spending money on a starving kid so that he becomes a productive member of society results in that kid growing up and paying taxes, much higher taxes then were spent on him, while if that same kid instead receives no help and thus becomes a crook and winds up in prison, would become a drain on society and much much more of his money would be spent on that kid)

I don't know how to change your father's mind, but I do know fighting the wrong arguments will never work since it's just justification for his actual beliefs.

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kia75 t1_irjk3fz wrote

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