http://www.cracked.com/blog/6-reasons-t ... od-racism/
A comment I was too late to make, 'McKinney you're so full of shit, your skin is browner than mine!'
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
archaeologydalek wrote:I don't like Luke's non-science articles, but...I kinda liked this one. I caught that same trailer last night and started asking the same question ("was that movie solely about foreigners chasing white people?") so it's nice to know that the hivemind is still working. As always, some parts of the article were stronger than others, but the thesis - that this is a really dumbfucking trailer - was strong and not-reaching.
archaeologydalek wrote:Cobra-D wrote:archaeologydalek wrote:I don't like Luke's non-science articles, but...I kinda liked this one. I caught that same trailer last night and started asking the same question ("was that movie solely about foreigners chasing white people?") so it's nice to know that the hivemind is still working. As always, some parts of the article were stronger than others, but the thesis - that this is a really dumbfucking trailer - was strong and not-reaching.
Really? I just thought it was a trailer about a family on a little vacation getting caught up in some revolution or what have you and a father doing whatever he can to get his family to safety. But yeah sure i guess racism.
In your haste to make a witty zinger, you seem to have confused 'plot' with 'theme'. You're correct in that this is the plot, but the way that they portray that plot - through a trailer that doesn't hint at any reason other than 'crazy foreigners' for why they're being chased - is dumb and gives the wrong impression of the movie.
You're attempting to reduce a subjective discussion about race down to an objective "HOHOHO YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PLOT IS", which is intellectually disingenuous at best. The most racist films in the world have a plot, but that doesn't negate any discussion of their themes.
archaeologydalek wrote:The most racist films in the world have a plot, but that doesn't negate any discussion of their themes.
Zevran wrote:Magic can kill. Knives can kill. Even small children launched at great speeds can kill.
Carrie wrote:But I suspect Dan will figure it out, because Dan’s apparently magic.
Cobra-D wrote:
I don't know about you but it seems pretty wrong to judge something on limited information about the thing you're trying to criticize......
archaeologydalek wrote:Cobra-D wrote:archaeologydalek wrote:Cobra-D wrote:archaeologydalek wrote:I don't like Luke's non-science articles, but...I kinda liked this one. I caught that same trailer last night and started asking the same question ("was that movie solely about foreigners chasing white people?") so it's nice to know that the hivemind is still working. As always, some parts of the article were stronger than others, but the thesis - that this is a really dumbfucking trailer - was strong and not-reaching.
Really? I just thought it was a trailer about a family on a little vacation getting caught up in some revolution or what have you and a father doing whatever he can to get his family to safety. But yeah sure i guess racism.
In your haste to make a witty zinger, you seem to have confused 'plot' with 'theme'. You're correct in that this is the plot, but the way that they portray that plot - through a trailer that doesn't hint at any reason other than 'crazy foreigners' for why they're being chased - is dumb and gives the wrong impression of the movie.
You're attempting to reduce a subjective discussion about race down to an objective "HOHOHO YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PLOT IS", which is intellectually disingenuous at best. The most racist films in the world have a plot, but that doesn't negate any discussion of their themes.
You really thought my zinger was witty? Awww that's so sweet.
Anyways, the problem is we don't know what the theme is, all we got is a trailer, and from past experience trailers aren't the most accurate depiction of what a movie is about(lookin at you Bridge of Terabithia and Sweeney Todd).
I don't know about you but it seems pretty wrong to judge something on limited information about the thing you're trying to criticize......
I should end with a zinger......Cracked writers mirite?!
I also take it back, you don't know what a zinger is. TCS'ers, am I right?
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