they are just... overdone, over the top, something about them just doesnt do it for me
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:57 pm
by Terpit
reservoir dogs?
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 7:58 pm
by SUBFLEX
the ear cutting off and pouring motor oil down someones throat just doesnt sit well with me
a bit squeamish i guess
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 8:01 pm
by Terpit
fuck i just wrote a cool story about how i dont like his 'signature shot' where the camera follows someone at shoulder height whilst the actor does something.
(mr pink walking to the car in reservoir dogs is the main example i can think of, but i swear its in each of his films)
but chrome crashed and it didnt post.
looks like i wrote it again, and some.
safe.
i like his films.
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 1:09 am
by BonerJams04
Terpit wrote:Politics! Boring! Lets talk about Sonika's sweet innocence or something
Hes so sweet and innocent
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:29 pm
by vishes
SUBFLEX wrote:the ear cutting off and pouring motor oil down someones throat just doesnt sit well with me
a bit squeamish i guess
Brilliant scene imo. I can't listen to 'Stuck In The Middle With You' without thinking of Michael Madsen doing his little dance and cutting that cop's ear off.
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 2:31 pm
by Terpit
vishes wrote:
SUBFLEX wrote:the ear cutting off and pouring motor oil down someones throat just doesnt sit well with me
a bit squeamish i guess
Brilliant scene imo. I can't listen to 'Stuck In The Middle With You' without thinking of Michael Madsen doing his little dance and cutting that cop's ear off.
Yeah im the same
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:32 pm
by Forum
Reservoir dogs is the only one of his films i rate highly
Re: Post your unpopular opinions.. NSFW
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 5:53 pm
by Genevieve
kidshuffle wrote:
Genevieve wrote:
SCope13 wrote:
Genevieve wrote:
kidshuffle wrote:classical conservatism (if thats what you mean by "at its core") is the fucking worst, i'm sorry to say.
Any ideology that supports the rights for gays to get married and is anti-imperialism/imperialism, or who's founder says that George Bush needs to be strung to the whitehouse lawn for war crimes, is fine in my book.
I'm ignorant here, care to expound on this or post a link about this guy?
Mixed it up (cuz I don't explicitely recall him making a statement about gay marriage, but old right conservatism opposes government involvement in marriage). But Russell Kirk, the founder of American conservatism (and writer of 'The Conservative Mind') wrote that about George HW Bush.
"American" Conservatism =/= Classical Conservatism even though they share similar values.
Either way, here are Kirks main points; how can you even support them for the most part? He was a nutter.
1)A belief in a transcendent order, which Kirk described variously as based in tradition, divine revelation, or natural law;
2)An affection for the "variety and mystery" of human existence;
3)A conviction that society requires orders and classes that emphasize "natural" distinctions;
4)A belief that property and freedom are closely linked;
5)A faith in custom, convention, and prescription, and
6)A recognition that innovation must be tied to existing traditions and customs, which entails a respect for the political value of prudence.
I mentioned before that I probably wouldn't get along with Kirk much and that his religious/tradition based reasoning rubs me the wrong way. I'm a voluntaryist not, a paleoconservative. But I agree with much of the Old Right. I like Barry Goldwater a lot more than Kirk, but I'm not 100% in agreement with any of the old right. They're all statists anyway.
Though property and freedom are instinctively linked. It's a natural right.
kidshuffle wrote:Old conservatism also would be all about the government deciding who can marry and who can't, since, for the most part, religious values are very important to them.
I think you're getting mixed up with classical liberals
There's a lot of old rightists who were against the "christian right" though and against federal meddling in marriage. It's not a completely religious thing. Thoguh I think that Russel Kirk's religiosity setback the liberty movement by several decades, because he "legitemized" anti-logic as a way to construct a philosophy.
I wasn't even saying that Kirk was great or anything, in the post you quoted I said that he's influenced more solid thinkers than saying that he himself was. And compared to neoconservatism or modern corporate big governmentism, I'd take the old right.