Zathras

Welp, Iran attacked, and it fizzled.  Still, the Israelis want to counter attack Iran for responding to their attack.  And, this will inevitably lead to the US getting dragged further into this conflict.

Indeed, it's very hard to argue for continuing to supply weapons and money to the Israelis on the basis of "saving" lives, after Gaza has literally been flattened and 32,000+ Palestinians are dead, especially when about 13,000 were children.  By contrast, Israel lost 1200 people on OCT 7, so their response is beyond disproportionate.  Also, how many of the 250 hostages has Israel rescued?  Something like 112 were released, I believe, which is less than half, but only 3 were rescued by the IDF.  Gaza, Hamas or no, has no way of defending itself, let alone invading anyone.  What Netan-Yahoo is doing is nothing less than genocide.  It is one thing if Israel had took out only Hamas command centers and other Hamas sites and equipment, but bombing civilians and aide workers is inexcusable.   Not to mention the nonsense  going on in the West bank, and let's not forget the Damascus bombings that threaten to wided the war with Iran possibly jumping in, too.   I WAS in Israel's corner at first when the OCT 7 attacks occured, but since then, Israel has long since crossed a red line for me.  I can't support them getting more arms and funds from the US, if this is how they want to fight a war.  

Good.

8 minutes ago, R.CAllen said:

Given that you’ve repeated yourself I suspect you may already know my answer to your question.

“Biden should CUT OFF any more weapon shipments to Israel. Period.” and “I think we should stop funding and arming Israel.” are wanting more violence to happen.

No one can predict the future but cutting off weapon shipments to Israel would result in a full-scale invasion by Hezbollah in the short-term. And in the long-term the consequences of every American ally knowing that the USA will switch off the spigot when things get bloody would probably be worse in terms of body count.

Wrong.  And that is quite a leap of logic.  Cutting off Israel doesn't mean they are weaponless. They can produce weapons themselves.   The thing is, if Israel is going to wage war in a manner inconsistant with US policy and human rights, they don't deserve US backing.  

Who said I wanted more violence to happen?  I think we should stop funding and arming Israel.

I agree with you on that.  It is genocide.  You would think the one nation that would be sensitive to genocide, Israel, would be the first to not do it.  But, I think Netan-Yahoo and the majority of Israelis are bloodlusted right now.  Hitting food and medical convoys are warcrimes and the world should stand together against Israel.   But like you say, the universe is indifferent to Gaza's suffering, which is terrible.  I doubt there will be a 2 state solution.  

Something I never asked for, but it might be interesting.  I liked the Tales of the Jedi shorts well enough.  

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3.  Does anyone know why so many Indian males go to the gym in business casual clothes?

I have never heard of, let alone seen, that.

I know what you mean, Odine.  What pisses me off is Israel is running amok killing everything is site, including health care aid workers, and Netan-yahoo is thunmbing his nose at Biden when asked to cut back on killing innocent civilians.  Biden should CUT OFF any more weapon shipments to Israel.  Period.

Some other good scores I thought of:

1.  The Good, The bad, and the Ugly

2.  Copola's Dracula

3.  The Dark Knight

4. There will be Blood

5.   Batman 1989

6.  Gangs of New York

Not a bad opening weekend!

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/release/rl3351937793/?ref_=bo_hm_rd

This is utter bullshit....

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/01/politics/biden-administration-f15-fighter-jets-israel

Still processing but just saw GXK!  What a wild, bonkers ride that was!  I won't spoil it further but the trailers I saw spoiled a lot.  Most of the reviews that say it is thin on human story, are right.  That is a good thing for me, because I went to see the monster fights.  So it was pretty predictable, but still fun!   I wish I saw it in IMAX.   IF you have kids, or if you liked Godzilla VS Kong, you will like it and should go see it. 

15 minutes ago, Hobbes said:

Am I the only person that enjoyed Prometheus?

 

No!  I really enjoyed it. I mean I get why some don't like it because it demystifies the Space Jockey and inserts the Engineers into the mythology, but I actually enjoyed it.  It doesn't have to embrace them, but hope this film doesn't contradict/retcon Prometheus and Covanent.

6 hours ago, Tank said:

I know the new one apparently takes place between Alien and Aliens, and while they haven't confirmed it, rumors say the female lead (seen with the pulse rifle in the trailer) is Ripley's daughter.

I hadn't heard the Ripley's daughter rumor.   The movie primarily takes place on an abandoned Weyland-Yutani space station called Romulus, where W-Y found the original Alien from the first movie, and reverse engineered it, and guess what, something goes wrong.  The cast comes across the space station by way of escaping a colony.

1 hour ago, Tank said:

I'm amped that it it looks and feels like a horror movie, like the original... in a way that Prometheus and Covenant did not. Those movies had decent stories, but they weren't horror movies. They were sci-fi action movies with a couple horror scenes put in. 

I actually love Alvarez's Evil Dead remake, so I am pretty amped for this one.

Yeah I love that it's a horror movie, too.  Something that has been lacking since Alien 3, really.  

44 minutes ago, Darth Krawlie said:

I never even got around to Covenant. Is it worth it? I hated Prometheus

Covenant is more of a horror story than Prometheus.  It centers around colonists who go to the planet David happens to be on, and had been on for 11 years, where he "bred" xenomorphs.   Said colonists land on planet and hijinx ensues.  Almost everyone gets eaten.  That is the long and short of it

Dude, I am a big Kaiju nut, especially with Godzilla.  I really love the Monsterverse and this looks way awesome!  I got chills seeing Godzilla and Kong running into battle! 

Looks good, if not original.  I'd like to know if they will connect it to Prometheus and Covenant.  I know it isn't a popular sentiment, but I enjoyed those films, and hope they do connect the films to Romulus.  The only thing is the title reminds me more of Star Trek than Alien.  

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The tv shows have been hit or miss for me. Andor was tremendous. Obi Wan was very entertaining. Mando has had it's moments and overall been good. Ahsoka and Fett not so much. 

Agreed, although I think I enjoyed Mando more than you did.  The thing about Acolyte's preview it just seems like more of the same from Ahsoka.  That is why I wasn't overly impressed.  I hope it is good, though, and I would love to see them explore Sith lore and history.  I think that is something, at least on screen, that hasn't been explored too much.  One thing I will say is that I think they should have gone further in the past, like outside Yoda's lifetime, that way they are forced to not have legacy characters.  I just have a bad feeling they will include Yoda in there somehow, and quite frankly I have had enough of Yoda.   

4 hours ago, Metropolis said:

I think or at least i hope that the next trailers will be more interesting. This trailer was okay, but didn't get me too excited. This is the chance you take when you stray from the Skywalker story tree.

You know they will shoe-horn Yoda in there somewhere, if this takes off.  

I never go into a Star War hoping it sucks.  I hope this is good.  

Looks OK but Star Wars has burned me to the point where I will reserve judgement until after I see it.  

Some other good scores, no particular order:

1. Gladiator

2. Blade Runner

3. The Godfather

4. Last of the Mohicans

5.  Superman

Some good soundtracks:

1. Goodfellas

2. Casino

3.  Trainspotting

4.  Dazed and Confused

5.  Sopranos (OK, not a movie, but they chose good songs)