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What is your unpopular flim opinion

I’ll go first. Mine is that I can’t stand the Deadpool movies. They are self aware and self referential to an obnoxious degree. It’s like being continually reminded that I am in a movie. I swear the success of that movie has directly lead to every blockbuster having to have a joke every 30 seconds

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Sure, but the critics couldn’t have known that when they wrote the reviews.

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91% of film critics didn’t want to be on the wrong side of a rabid fanbase. ;)

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Not controversial. You like what you like.

Now, if you had said something like “The Last Jedi is a good movie.” Well, that’s demonstrably untrue.

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Stanley Kubrick never made an original film, they are all adaptations of other creators original works.

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It LOOKS good, I’ll give you that. The salt planet with the red soil was inspired.

It’s too bad Rian Johnson didn’t get an average 5th grader to proof read the script.

For example:

Leia and Rey have this touching scene where Leia gives her this tracking gem that will let her come back to the fleet no matter where they go.

Then, in the VERY SAME SCENE, the New Order pops out of hyperspace and another character says, out loud, “they tracked us through hyperspace???!? THAT’S IMPOSSIBLE!!!”

First - you literally just explained how yes, it was possible 2 sentences ago.

Second - Tracking devices have been a thing since the first Star Wars.

“TARKIN You’re sure the homing beacon is secure aboard their ship? I’m taking an awful risk, Vader. This had better work.”

What is Something Scientific that you just don't believe in at all?

EDIT: Let’s cool it with the downvotes, dudes. We’re not out to cut funding to your black hole detection chamber or revoke the degrees of chiropractors just because a couple of us don’t believe in it, okay? Chill out, participate with the prompt and continue with having a nice day. I’m sure almost everybody has something...

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That’s the thing though, according to the explanation, it’s never 50/50.

If there are 3 doors, and 1 is opened, you have a 2/3rds chance in winning by picking the other door.

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I can explain it, it doesn’t mean I believe it. ;)

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You would think, right? Try it out yourself:

mathwarehouse.com/monty-hall-simulation-online/

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The Monty Hall problem.

You are given a choice of three doors, let’s call them 1, 2, and 3.

Behind one of the doors is a fabulous prize. Behind the other two are joke prizes worth nothing.

You are asked to pick a door. It doesn’t matter which one you choose, because it’s not opened inmediately.

Instead, the host opens one of the doors you did not pick to reveal the gag gift.

He then asks you if you want to change your choice.

What are the chances of winning? Should you choose a different door, or keep your existing choice?

The math says, your chance of winning if you stay with your choice is 1/3. Revealing the contents of one door does not change that, it’s still 1/3.

Switching to the other door gives you a 2/3 chance of winning. Not 1/2 or 1/3.

behavioralscientist.org/steven-pinker-rationality…

“If the car is behind Door 1, you lose. If the car is behind Door 2, Monty would have opened Door 3, so you would switch to Door 2 and win. If the car is behind Door 3, he would have opened Door 2, so you would switch to Door 3 and win. The odds of winning with the “Switch” strategy are two in three, double the odds of staying.”

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Temple of Apshai

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Apshai

You’ve never heard of it, and modern RPGs wouldn’t exist without it.

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Becherovka, it’s an herbal alcohol, kind of a cousin to Jägermeister.

Best described as “Christmas in a bottle.”

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becherovka

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“Defeated” implies being stopped by an external force, I don’t see that happening.

It will collapse under it’s own weight in less than a century.

rivoluzioneurbanamobilita, to fuck_cars Italian
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"Big Clearance! 12 in place of 1!"

"Grande offerta! 12 per 1!"

ENFB cyclists' union, Woerden, 1993; poster by Theo van den Boogaard

@fuck_cars

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Oregonian here… biking with groceries in the rain…

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I think the only person offended was that one NBC executive who was buddies with noted double murderer OJ Simpson.

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And maybe some day it will have a stable release… today, is not that day. Tomorrow aint looking good either. :)

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And still not bootable or stable 34 years later.

Gnu wouldn’t exist without Linux, not the other way around.

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I generally respond with “Yeah, wake me up when Gnu has it’s own bootable kernel… it’s only been 34 years…”

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As you get older, it speeds up too!

I recognize it’s not quite New Years, but soon it will feel like I turned around and, crap! How is it 4th of July already?

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Useless. It separates the content from OP so they never see replies. Worse than spam, spam at least has a point to it.

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OR - now bear with me here… OR one or more fingers were curled under when the tracing was made for reasons we can’t comprehend.

Maybe it was some ancient numbering system, or an attempt at a calendar. There’s really no way to know.

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It’s one of those movies that will come on at 2 AM and make me go “Oh, goddamn it, I WAS going to go to sleep…”

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Not his BEST, but he has a blink and you miss it cameo in Runaway Train, I think that was his first movie. Playing an inmate in an Alaskan prison.

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