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@SaintLeonidas said:

He gave '12 Years A Slave' a 10/10 and its lower then both 'Frozen' and 'Furious 6'...how the hell is this their actual list?

Where are you getting these ratings? From what I've read Corliss only reviews movies in a "thumbs up, thumbs down" kind of system.

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@JML897 said:

@SaintLeonidas said:

'Furious 6' huh? Yeah...that definitely would have been on there a week ago...especially since he gave it a high 7 out of 10! Hmmm, he also gave Frozen...which he puts after 'Furious 6', an 8 out of 10. What a list. What. A. List.

That's interesting, anyone know if these lists are made by just the author or do a lot of Time editors vote on it first?

Each list is made by a specific critic working for Time Magazine. Corliss made the movie list and Poniewozik made both the TV show and Episodes list.

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@JML897 said:

That Enlightened pick reeks of "we just wanted to pick something different"

"At a time when ambitious TV focused mostly on ruthless men breaking bad, this was an unsparing but hopeful look at how much work it is to be good."

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The Arts and Entertainment part at least

I decided to highlight a few lists that OT would probably be interested in

Top Ten Movies

1. Gravity

2. The Great Beauty

3. American Hustle

4. her

5. The Grandmaster

6. Furious 6

7. Frozen

8. The Act of Killing

9. 12 Years a Slave

10. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Top Ten TV Shows

1. Enlightened

2. Breaking Bad

3. Orange Is the New Black

4. Game of Thrones

5. The Good Wife

6. Bob’s Burgers

7. Rectify

8. The Americans

9. Mad Men

10. Orphan Black

Top Ten TV Episodes

1. Breaking Bad, “Ozymandias”

2. Girls, “One Man’s Trash”

3. Justified, “Decoy”

4. The Good Wife, “Hitting the Fan”

5. 30 Rock, “Hogcock / Last Lunch” (series finale)

6. Mad Men, “For Immediate Release”

7. Switched At Birth, “Uprising”

8. Game of Thrones, “The Rains of Castamere”

9. Scandal, “Nobody Likes Babies”

10. Parks and Recreation, “Two Parties”

Top Ten Albums

1. Yeezus- Kanye West

2. Modern Vampires of the City- Vampire Weekend

3. mbv- My Bloody Valentine

4. Who is William Onyeabor?- William Onyeabor

5. The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You- Neko Case

6. Electricity by Candlelight- Alex Chilton

7. Cut 4 Me- Kelela

8. The Electric Lady- Janelle Monae

9. Mole City- Quasi

10. Matangi- M.I.A.

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Talk about hitting you right in the gut :(

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Re-watched The Maltese Falcon and I've gotta say the blu ray copy makes a helluva difference. A true classic that only gets better with repeated viewings.

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@LZ71 said:

I think there's a totally different experience between watching a film in a theater or by yourself in your home and when you it in class where the professor stops the film fairly often and points everything out to you.

I'm so glad my professor doesn't do that I would seriously hate that.

Anyway....

Watched my first Howard Hawks movie AND my first Katharine Hepburn movie!

Soooooo good.

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@cain006 said:

I don't get why she complains about Mass Effect trailers. The game is the perfect example of what she complains about done perfectly. So what if the trailers were almost all male shepard? Mostly guys play the game who.... guess what, are going to generally chose maleshep.

And she was just outright wrong about people using femshep say just shepard for male shepard. People who do that generally say maleshep.

I've never played Mass Effect and I never knew there was a female option for the character. Her complaints do hold some validity.

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I love how when Roger Ebert said video games weren't an art people reacted with "WHAT THE **** IS HE SAYING OF COURSE THEY'RE AN ART!" Yet when someone takes the time to do a critique of them (like you would any other art form) people react so strongly against her.

Nothing she says has any truth behind it.

A critique is giving your opinion and opinions aren't supposed to have any truth behind them.

Yes they do. If I say I think pokemon is racist because Ash beats up a black person while repeatedly shouting the n-word. Is that a valid critique?

I was going more along the lines of everyone having an opinion and no one opinion being the correct one. But instead of complaining about how her information is wrong why don't you take the time to actually explain?

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@GazaAli said:

Wow I don't even know where to begin. These were some seriously mind-numbing 25 minutes. Its amazing how absurd feminists are becoming by the day. What do feminists want I don't understand. What purpose does this specific video serve? What is the point she's making? what, according to her, needs to change in the real world? I mean I've listened to her talking for 25 minutes and I still don't know what she wants. All I get for the most part is that female characters are made to look feminine. So? What is so bad about this? What is so unfair, unjust and backwards about recognizing the timeless reality that there are males and females, two sexes not one, with each sex having different physiology and maybe even different roles. Should characters and actors start cross-dressing so that some feminists may shut the hell up.

BUT, regardless of everything, what I find particularly epitomizing of her hypocrisy and nonsense is the amount of makeup she's wearing in the video and just how much apparent time and effort have been invested in preparing her for the video. It also appears that she's still keeping her boobs, why? Boobs are major female signifiers, she should just amputate them. Who says just because she's a female she has to have boobs? If the default and the norm is not to have boobs, as the case with men, why should all females suffer the stereotype of being the exception of the rule and having boobs? Why should they bear the burden of being labeled as belonging to a sex (that they belong to) according to a pair of fat lumps? Oh the tragedy.

Her point was that these female characters in video games aren't treated as individuals with their own personalities and that the only thing that differentiates them from their male counterparts is the typical female signifiers.

Can all of you shut up about the whole make up argument? Aside from the fact that she has the freedom to wear whatever she wants you have to understand that when you're filming a video which consists of a medium close up shot of yourself the make up helps make your face stand out in the video (this is something males occasionally do as well)