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I immediately mute obvious trolls/bad faith. Since I usually find other people's bios annoying, I decided not to write one... Oops... Starting NOW.

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@ItsAJoshParty Other than Andor, it was the best example of Star Wars going in a fresh and surprising direction in a long time.

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@saulocferreira Oak Street has a better, more surprising story, while The Lost World has some clever Malcolm lines and peak Spielberg suspense. The two are definitely in competition for the third best Jurassic/Jurassic-adjacent movie after JP1 and Peter Jackson's King Kong.

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@ad_mastro Great point. And I believe "we mistake the ideal aspects of life for aspects of immaturity and feel we must outgrow them" applies to many things.

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@AshleyRindsberg They didn't write it to have writing careers; they wrote it so they could star in it and have big acting careers.

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@AshleyRindsberg The movie did for them what they intended (made them huge stars who could get the roles they wanted)—why would they NEED to write something as successful again?

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@Tyler_A_Harper Additionally: He implies that the majority of the pressure is for men to HAVE emotionally open friendships, when in reality, the vast, vast majority of pressure on men and boys (often even from women) is still to SUPPRESS emotionality and uphold traditional masculinity.

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@Tyler_A_Harper There are entire realms of masculinity scholarship and more popular commentary (often by men) making some form of this argument.

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@Tyler_A_Harper Not sure this is ignored; the critique is that the cause of these differences is, in large part, the way boys are socialized into masculinity.

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@mzppvhofho16214 @martyrdison Or is he going to assume (consciously or subconsciously) that both halves of traditional gender roles apply and that his wife will do more of the housework and childcare while he does more protecting/providing? Baffling to think one won't lead to the other.

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@mzppvhofho16214 @martyrdison This! Is a man trained to treat his date/eventual girlfriend/wife as a fragile object he's supposed to protect and transport (and pay for) also going to view her as an equal partner in every other aspect of their relationship and potential parenting?

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@martyrdison Or adult men & women are equals, and neither should be expected to drive the other to a date, especially in a public transit-oriented city. How is a relationship supposed to be balanced in later stages (say housework and childcare) if it begins in weird 1950s-style chivalry?

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@auteurhouse It's always baffling to me there are people who love one and not the other (given that, in terms of their style and the types of movies they make, they seem to have rather similar values).

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@thezachloeffler This sounds like the Tolkien line about how the impulse to "escape" is often derided but (paraphrase) "what if it's escape from a prison?"

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@tylerblack32 Isn't this kind of advice (that you're rightly critiquing and he's aptly satirizing) exactly what is meant by the term "cruel optimism"?

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@NTFabiano What person w/ persistent depression hasn't tried exercise? It's at the top of every list of things to do to feel better. "Have you considered trying [totally obvious thing anyone with sense would already have tried]?" is also the most annoying advice to receive when depressed.

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@tylerblack32 Also: Are there really that many long-term depressed people who have somehow not tried exercise? This is like the people who suggest putting away screens and setting a sleep schedule for insomnia (as if anyone with trouble sleeping hasn't already tried those).

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@DiscussingFilm Sounds like Werner Herzog.

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@theBW7 @JoseMLuna Agree. Think multiple other former Nolan stars would have felt more fitting (Damon is too contemporary American) and added subtlety and dimension, especially Jackman, Bale, or Hardy—as Ralph Fiennes did in The Return.

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@tomxairey @JoseMLuna This exactly. Hard to see what more she could have done with what she was given, and she seems ideally cast for what a richer version of the character could have been.