if movies about men got reviewed the same way movies about women did
āLook. Donāt get me wrong: no one is happier than me to see a man finally starring in a lead role in an action movie (especially when they look as tantalizing in a tank top as Mr. Willis.) but at the end of the day, the hard truth about Die Hard is this: itās mediocre. The script is bland, the pacing is excruciating, and although it has a few decent lines, itās trying way, way too hard to be funny and only succeeding half the time. The focus on āmale empowermentā is way too overt and comes across as ham-fisted, like the movie is trying to beat the audience over the head with āSEE? MEN CAN LEAD ACTION MOVIES, TOO!ā without seeming to have anything more nuanced to say about the matter. Ultimately, Bruce Willis climbing around a building and beating up terrorists for two hours isnāt quite interesting enough to hold this reviewerās attention. If you can shut off your brain and pretend not to notice the glaringly obvious plot holes riddled through this corporate-engineered script, then Die Hard may be the film for you. If not, however, youāll probably be better off rewatching Oceanās 8 instead.ā
ppl who dont even like shakespeare: WOW how DARE you alter the original text these are CLASSICS have you no RESPECT, going around DESECRATING these sacred texts in the name of POLITICAL CORRECTNESS!!!!!!!!!
people who love shakespeare: im going to stage a production of hamlet where all the actors are dogs
itās what he would have wantedĀ
Okay so the universal law of Shakespeare, as Iāve heard it, is that you can take things out, you can rearrange them, you just cannot add anything in that conflicts with the original texts. So while you cannot have a production of romeo and juliet where the houses get along and they get married, itās perfectly acceptable to replace all the actors with dogs in hamlet because the characters are never outright stated to not be dogs.
āThe characters are never outright stated not to be dogsā
āIt was never a part of their journeyā but better.
Things I have seen:
Hamlet set in a psychiatric institution where it was heavily implied the whole thing was his imagination
Romeo and Juliet where the Montagues were aliens
Steampunk Hungarian Romeo and Juliet musical with a fleet of rapping white boys
Russian King Lear which was the bleakest thing I have ever seen
Richard III set in the 1930s including fascist iconography
The Tempest in Space
Meiji Era Twelfth Night set in a Kabuki theatre in a fascinating meta examination of the role of women and men who play women (being performed entirely by a company of women)
Romeo & Juliet, Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Hamlet each with a single very drunk performer.
I love seeing what different productions bring to the table, because itās so much fun! Itās also fun to watch Shakespeare purists pitch a fit about it being wrong. Bitch, stfu. I know for a fact that when Shakespeareās globe burned down, one of the drunken audience members put out his burning trousers with his pint. This was not high-brow sober art. This was for the people and they loved it.
fun fact, i played the prince in a high school production of The Tempest and looking back it so easily could have been set in space
Will Smith went to London and dressed up as a Boots sales assistant to promote Jadenās new water brand ā¦.. what dimension are we living in
āBrand of waterā look at our society, we need a good old fashioned culling.
The kid is just doing what he wants to better the world. He started a brand of bottled water thatās better for the environment and is responsibly sourcing everything from the bottle to the water. Theyāve gone as far to work with a specific city and only bottle excess water and pay the city more than its actually worth so their water infrastructure can be improved. Heās also donating water to Flint until the lead levels are actually at safe levels because the government decided they donāt want to anymore.
If youāre gonna try to complain about a celebrity doing something at least be educated on what theyāre actually doing first
Hereās some facts I found on Facebook:
(Sorry if thereās some repetition)
This boy created a brand of water that is reusable, created from natural renewable resources to significantly reduce carbon emissions, and is all over designed for being 75% better than his competition for the environment.
– The entire company is community based. They bought an abandoned church in a financially struggling city in NY, w the intent of paying property taxes (so the ppl donāt have to face large tax increases) so the cityās schools and social services would get more money from taxes. So far 92% of the money invested into their first facility has stayed in this city.
-they pay 6x the water rate, so that their company pays more and the individual pays less, opposite of all other water corporations.
– this cityās pipes are leaky, and insufficient, resulting in 500 million gallons being lost thru the cracks each yr.
SO they created a new water based revenue stream which created a pool of capital thats put toward fixing the leaks and can ultimately lead to actually raising the cityās watershed level as the net loss of water dwindles.
-THIS IS NOT AN EASY WAY TO RUN A BUSINESS. BUT ITS THE RIGHT WAY. AND THEY DOIN IT.
– they have vowed to donate water each month to flint until their water is drinkable again. Theyāve already donated like 10,000 bottles.
-(btw he founded this company when he was still a child)
– YES. Having a brand of water is a form of capitalism. Thatās the fucking world we live in. You can bitch about it or you can help. Bitching about it w no solutions is a waste of time. If you have wealth, itās your responsibility to help your community. So this gender non conforming, feminist, black boy decided to take matters into his own hands and run a company under capitalism comzpletely based off a socialist model. This is amazing. Itās huge. Itās healthy, environmentally friendly and community based black excellence. Buy Just Water, bruh.
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