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    Quote Originally Posted by Hawkeye10 View Post
    27% "Critic" rating

    81% Audience rating

    Rotten Tomatoes.




    Looks promising....the official rating at RT now tends to be a woke conformity rating, the Audience rating is the one to go by.


    RT is Putin’s news station you fucking idiot

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    RT is Putin’s news station you fucking idiot
    Your comprehension is hilariously horrible.
    This illegal illegitimate regime that runs America is at fault...not me.... they do not represent me and I have long objected to their crimes against humanity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    No, I'm stating a position.

    All the ladies know I'm good at romance. Ask Stretch and Top.
    Ask us what? (Guess they should ask your rubber stamper, not us...

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    Quote Originally Posted by TOP View Post
    Ask us what? (Guess they should ask your rubber stamper, not us...
    Everyone knows romance isn't your thing!
    Outside of your gerbil
    Tie Your 'roo down Mate

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    https://www.theonion.com/defensive-r...bou-1845777290

    Defensive Ron Howard: ‘You Try Making A Good Movie About Fucking Hillbillies’

    LOS ANGELES—In response to widespread negative reviews of his recently released film, Hillbilly Elegy, defensive director Ron Howard told his critics Monday, “You try making a good movie about fucking hillbillies.” “I’d invite anyone who didn’t like my film to try creating something with actual emotional depth about a bunch of backwards, dumbass hill people—can’t be done,” said Howard, adding that it was impossible to write, direct, edit, or even act in a movie about “some hopeless, completely unlikable Appalachian inbreds who just keep fucking up their own lives over and over again.” “Oh, you thought my movie was trite, huh? Well, what did you people expect? Their real-life struggle is the same ridiculous thing over and over again. All those holler dimwits are so drunk off their asses and strung out on heroin it’s impossible to make a coherent story about them. Ask [actors] Amy [Adams] and Glenn [Close], they’ll tell you how difficult it is to act like people who are already parodies of themselves. ‘But Ron,’ you’ll say, ‘what about J.D. Vance’s book? What about his input?’ Vance hates them just as much as I do.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    I watched the movie this morning and rated it a 7 on IMDB. In many ways this story could have taken place in any poor section of the United States regardless of geography, culture or skin tone. It's a story of a lack of both opportunities and education, resulting ignorance and poverty plus untreated mental illnesses. Drug use, IMO, is a result of these things. It's also a story about family and family helping family.

    One reason why the movie is rated less than stellar is due to it's dark nature. It's gritty and frustrating to see human lives needlessly wasted. The brightest part of the entire movie is, literally, the last two minutes before the credits roll.

    Another reason is that turning any great book, which often takes 5-8 hours to read, into a two hour movie is going to piss off anyone who read the book. I first experienced this after reading Paul Gallico's excellent adventure novel "The Poseidon Adventure" then seeing the movie a couple years later. Although the movie is rated 7.1 on IMDB, I was disappointed for the simple reason movies can never live up to a book. Yes, including the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

    Critics whining about the movie have similar complaints, that the movie doesn't live up to the book or harping that extra time should have been spent on one thing over another. An example is Bev (J.D. Vance's mother) obvious mental illness (my guess is bipolarism), her inability to receive adequate treatment and her continual relapses into ever worsening drug addictions as a probable cause from untreated mental illness.

    Overall, I enjoyed the movie and will recommend it to my wife whom I expect to like it also. Thanks for the thread and reference.
    I can’t watch depressing movies right now.

    I do recommend “A Bad Mom’s Christmas” and “Holidate”

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phantasmal View Post
    I can’t watch depressing movies right now.

    I do recommend “A Bad Mom’s Christmas” and “Holidate”
    Keep it for after the holidays. It's grim and gritty but has a good ending.

    I rewatched one of my favorites "Scrooged" a few days ago. Funny stuff. Carol Kane is a hoot!

    God bless America and those who defend our Constitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dutch Uncle View Post
    I rewatched one of my favorites "Scrooged" a few days ago. Funny stuff. Carol Kane is a hoot!

    I love that movie, too. She is a great actress.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Damocles View Post
    https://www.theonion.com/defensive-r...bou-1845777290

    Defensive Ron Howard: ‘You Try Making A Good Movie About Fucking Hillbillies’

    LOS ANGELES—In response to widespread negative reviews of his recently released film, Hillbilly Elegy, defensive director Ron Howard told his critics Monday, “You try making a good movie about fucking hillbillies.” “I’d invite anyone who didn’t like my film to try creating something with actual emotional depth about a bunch of backwards, dumbass hill people—can’t be done,” said Howard, adding that it was impossible to write, direct, edit, or even act in a movie about “some hopeless, completely unlikable Appalachian inbreds who just keep fucking up their own lives over and over again.” “Oh, you thought my movie was trite, huh? Well, what did you people expect? Their real-life struggle is the same ridiculous thing over and over again. All those holler dimwits are so drunk off their asses and strung out on heroin it’s impossible to make a coherent story about them. Ask [actors] Amy [Adams] and Glenn [Close], they’ll tell you how difficult it is to act like people who are already parodies of themselves. ‘But Ron,’ you’ll say, ‘what about J.D. Vance’s book? What about his input?’ Vance hates them just as much as I do.

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    LOL. I almost took that serious until I saw the Onion as the source. Funny stuff.
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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
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    Your comprehension is hilariously horrible.
    Russian times nutsack hair
    You two should get together, head out to the barnyard and watch the goats fuck. It'd be more fun for you.
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    “The gods must be crazy” all time greatest movie.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    I read the book over four yrs. ago. It was sort of an explanation why Trump was so popular. At least that was my interpretation.

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    Quote Originally Posted by guno View Post
    Saw a good movie on Netflix: Hillbilly Elegy
    I read the book but haven't seen the movie. I think suggesting these make up Trump's core is based on the mistaken assumption that these people actually vote.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    I read the book but haven't seen the movie. I think suggesting these make up Trump's core is based on the mistaken assumption that these people actually vote.
    Agreed. As noted earlier, this story could have taken place anywhere there was poverty, little education and little opportunity to break the cycle. I doubt many of them vote.
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