People losing their minds over Mighty Ducks

7/8/2020 4:23:27 PM

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"Miranda definitely took some historical liberties, but I wonder if teachers won't be frustrated by some of the inaccuracies in a few years as more kids/teens see this movie and mistake the play for being 100% factual?"

Do teachers really teach about Hamilton the man outside of a very in-depth discussion about the country's early history? I think the number of school kids/teens that can name statesmen that were not president pre-Andrew Jackson is pretty low. "There's Ben Franklin, that Hamilton guy, Sam Adams has a beer named after him, uhhh...John Hancock - the Donald Trump of the era".

To your point, not exactly new, Selma sought to downplay LBJ's role a lot didn't it?

[Edited on July 9, 2020 at 1:00 PM. Reason : /]

7/9/2020 12:55:04 PM

Fess Parker's Davey Crockett is also on Disney+

Probably much less factual than Hamilton.

7/9/2020 2:02:04 PM

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"To your point, not exactly new, Selma sought to downplay LBJ's role a lot didn't it?"

Oh absolutely not, this has been a problem for a long time with basically any historical movie where liabilities are taken.

But to go with your example of Selma. So let's jump 5 years down the road and you poll the kids that are in the 8th-12th grade at that point, what % do you think will have seen Hamilton(and/or listened to the soundtrack) and what % do you think will have seen Selma? My guess is 60-70% will have seen or heard Hamilton and maybe 20-25% will have seen Selma.

It reminds me back when ig movies like Titanic or Saving Private Ryan came out and everyone saw those movies several times and felt like historical buffs.

7/9/2020 2:20:20 PM

I actually never watched Saving Private Ryan from beginning to the end. Usually stopped at the opening scene of Normandy landings and couldn’t continue. Watched Forest Gump many times tho.

7/9/2020 2:39:39 PM

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"Do teachers really teach about Hamilton the man outside of a very in-depth discussion about the country's early history?"

I knew about Hamilton's efforts with the national reserve, and I knew that Burr killed him in a duel. That was it.

I also knew far more about John Jay than the musical mentioned, but other than him and Franklin yeah I don't think I can name another significant non-president until Henry Clay.

7/9/2020 6:58:19 PM

Hamilton is much more true to life than Rudy, which is almost completely fictional.

7/9/2020 9:21:54 PM

i knew about hamilton and burr from a milk commercial

7/9/2020 9:33:45 PM

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"i knew about hamilton and burr from a milk commercial"

Still can't believe that dude lost the radio contest.

7/9/2020 10:08:05 PM

Lol I literally re-enacted this to my boss whom had never seen it.

7/9/2020 10:15:01 PM

That was the very first got milk commercial, and it was directed by Michael Bay. That's insane.

7/10/2020 6:48:40 PM

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"I also knew far more about John Jay than the musical mentioned, but other than him and Franklin yeah I don't think I can name another significant non-president until Henry Clay."

Hamilton might be the only Federalist I can name other than John Adams. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall was a Federalist, but he didn't serve in Congress or was a statesman of course.

Thinking of random others that did not become president without using the benefit of the internet (not counting Burr of course, history's most famous vice president that never became president):

Daniel Webster
Elbridge Gerry (from whom we get the term gerrymander when he had a district drawn in his state of Massachusetts to ensure the election of a person from his party, the district was drawn in a political cartoon to resemble a salamander, Gerry died in office as vice president, I think for during Madison's term)
another VP that died in office, George Clinton
I think there was a Charles Pinckney although I can't tell you anything about what he did.

I have a book at home of the Constitution and writings of the era including the Federalist Papers that I want to read through at some point.

[Edited on July 13, 2020 at 12:50 PM. Reason : /]

7/13/2020 12:46:34 PM

Pinkney was the Federalist candidate for president twice (lost once to Jefferson, once to Madison).

7/13/2020 2:46:34 PM

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"Well it can brainwash global citizens, not Americans. Just like Maoism in the 20th century. First born in China, then exported to the world. Many foreigners became believers. this is the dumbest timeline."

Check this out----

7/23/2020 11:20:23 AM

I agree it is dumb b/c it’s like a fake of Taoism....

7/23/2020 1:59:40 PM

incredible

3/18/2021 4:22:28 PM

Not sure where to post but this looks Dope

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"Enter the multiverse of unlimited possibilities. Marvel Studios' first animated series, What If...?, starts streaming August 11 with new episodes Wednesdays on @DisneyPlus. @WhatIfOfficial https://t.co/MksL2Wa8B9"

Also Loki plot is good but I don't know if Hiddleston kinda sucks or if he's mailing it in a little, especially action scenes.

7/8/2021 5:31:30 PM

There’s a part of me that agrees with you, but another part telling me that he’s the same as he’s always been and that character lends itself well to small doses in movies but not so well to this much focus

7/8/2021 6:45:08 PM

Yea, I feel like I liked him more in other roles, but maybe those are roles that weren't necessarily supposed to be charismatic

7/8/2021 7:44:54 PM

SEMI SPOILERS FOR LOKI






It's kinda funny that the finale is essentially just 30 min of spoken exposition






SPOILER OVER

7/14/2021 9:43:01 PM

The indiewire review also took umbrage at all the exposition. In the last episode as well as all the others. I'm looking forward to more of the person they revealed at the end.

7/14/2021 11:24:49 PM

^^i think it was pretty impressive. It was exactly what you described, but I still found it quite engaging, compelling, and entertaining.

^not sure if you are just being vague with your wording to avoid typing spoilers, or if you don’t actually know who that is

7/15/2021 9:32:40 PM

Purposefully vague.

7/15/2021 10:52:18 PM

^^I'm not mad at it just a pretty big departure for a Marvel climax

7/15/2021 11:56:55 PM

It was more like a Game of thrones, where the main event is really the 2nd to last ep. and they setup next season with a few WTFs in the last ep.

7/16/2021 9:00:55 AM

Nothing about Hawkeye? Geesh.

9/14/2021 1:38:59 PM

What’s there to say? Was a mediocre trailer for a lower tier character. I’ll also definitely be watching it.

9/14/2021 6:21:10 PM

If they actually made a Marvel Christmas comedy, I'm here for it.

9/15/2021 7:30:26 PM

Caught Shang-Chi tonight and I have to say, it was a very good Marvel movie. It is up there as one of my favorites. I also loved the end credit scenes.

11/29/2021 9:32:02 PM

Anyone watching Get Back? Watched 2 episodes so far and I'm enjoying it.

Paul's wife Linda is so damn hot.

11/29/2021 11:30:19 PM

looking forward to The Book of Boba Fett

11/30/2021 2:25:59 PM

+1

11/30/2021 3:54:24 PM

is Welcome to Earth any good?

12/10/2021 9:02:43 PM

Book of Boba is good, even though the original voice was much cooler

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9N4tE8gqIQ

1/19/2022 3:26:19 PM

The past two episodes of Boba Fett Mandalorian have been absolutely astounding.

2/3/2022 1:38:18 PM

The change between how good the last two episodes have been and how awful the rest were is crazy. There must have been some direction or production changes of some kind.

2/4/2022 9:13:37 AM

not sure which Lone Wolf & Cub choice Grogu will make, but even if he decides to continue training, we have to see him in that armor at some point.

2/4/2022 12:10:12 PM

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" The change between how good the last two episodes have been and how awful the rest were is crazy. There must have been some direction or production changes of some kind."

Hahah are you serious? Yeah there was a change, they stopped making the book of Boba Fett and just made 2 new episodes of the Mandalorian.

With that said I thought the first 4 were fine. Definitely a story that’s been done before (dances with wolves, avatar, etc). But for an extremely casual Star Wars fan (I have no sacred feelings towards the originals the or series, they mean nothing to me), they entertained me through a day.

2/5/2022 10:09:35 PM

Yeah I've enjoyed the BoB episodes. ^Interesting to hear that you have liked them a lot as a casual fan. I thought fan boys would all love them.

I have seen criticism about all the flashbacks, but I haven't had any issues with that. Yeah they could've done it all chronologically starting with the Sarlaac but I think it's worked so far.

2/5/2022 10:48:33 PM

I’m aware it’s essentially two different shows, but I assumed the people in charge of them were mostly the same and they should be of similar quality, which is not what I’ve been experiencing.

I guess really my surprise is at how bad I think Boba Fett has been. His acting is not fantastic to start but that’s not it. That “car chase” scene through the city was downright awful, it looked like they were going 6 mph

2/6/2022 9:55:46 AM

I know what the difference is.

Grogu has total mind control over me.

2/8/2022 5:17:54 PM

who is the person holding the torch thing in the post-mid credits scene?

2/9/2022 10:42:49 AM

The Mod Artist, the guy who did the cybernetic mods for the bikers and saved Fennec Shand's life by replacing her guts with cyborg parts.

2/10/2022 7:53:36 AM

IT'S THUNDERCAT!

2/10/2022 2:20:34 PM

OBI WAN!

3/9/2022 4:24:08 PM

looks like the main villian will be the Grand Inquisitor(s) that appeared some in Rebels

3/9/2022 7:44:44 PM

i like his little tricorner hat... very French Revolution Terror

3/14/2022 1:52:50 PM

I don't like the marvel show leaving a critical plot point for post credits, especially when they say it's only 1 season.

5/9/2022 12:36:43 PM

I don’t know how critical it was. Also was hinted at many times during the series, just wasn’t outright shown until the credits

5/9/2022 2:57:00 PM

Post credit scenes are so played out. Just stop it already.

5/9/2022 8:05:16 PM