[Terez]

mwahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Mentalist]

this thread lost its meaning following the avatar change

[frookenhauer]

It had a meaning?!?

WAT?!?

[Mentalist]

pshaw
action movies don't have subtexts. it's all about the big explosions of fire.

[stone monkey]

And lots of bullets spraying wildly from those big, phallic looking guns...

[HoosierDaddy]

You can't blame the actors for weapons being phallic looking.

And, I'll just say this: We see what we are looking for and it is all psychological.

[Stalker]

Nah, it is VERY manly to carry ridiclously large weapons.

Firepower FTW.

[stone monkey]

It's certainly not overcompensating for something... Oh no sirree!

This post has been edited by stone monkey: 30 January 2009 - 08:00 PM

[Mentalist]

Stalker, on Jan 30 2009, 02:51 PM, said:

Nah, it is VERY manly to carry ridiclously large weapons.

Firepower FTW.

only reason to watch the Eraser is because that movie has railguns.
railguns make everyhting awesome

@ HD: I said that to Terez a while ago...

[Terez]

HoosierDaddy, on Jan 30 2009, 01:51 PM, said:

And, I'll just say this: We see what we are looking for and it is all psychological.

There's a certain amount of truth to that, but it extends to not seeing the obvious because you are actively in denial that it might possibly be there.

@ SM: Cheers to a man who is comfortable enough with his own sexuality to recognize subtext as it relates to Gayness.

This post has been edited by Terez: 30 January 2009 - 08:15 PM

[Terez]

Frookenhauer, on Jan 30 2009, 01:31 PM, said:

It had a meaning?!?

That's a common delusion, that things that are meaningless have meaning, but it's usually the religious that are most prone to it.

[HoosierDaddy]

I'm comfortable enough with my heterosexuality to go with gay male friends to a gay bar so that I can pick up women there. I don't think I really have any comfortableness issues to deal with.

Next thing you'll tell me is that Bert and Ernie were gay.

If I weren't like Colbert and colorblind, my world would be black and white. Shades of gray only make things complicated.

This post has been edited by HoosierDaddy: 30 January 2009 - 08:30 PM

[stone monkey]

Like I said, it's the kind of thing that get me accused of seeing subtext everywhere. Admittedly, subtext is everywhere; whether you can, or want to, see it or not. Serves me right for having read far too much film theory, and in particular feminist deconstructions of film, at an impressionable age, I guess.

[Terez]

HoosierDaddy, on Jan 30 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

Next thing you'll tell me is that Bert and Ernie were gay.

My, you're a sheltered one, aren't you?

[stone monkey]

Those two? Flaming...

[Mentalist]

stone monkey, on Jan 30 2009, 03:28 PM, said:

Like I said, it's the kind of thing that get me accused of seeing subtext everywhere. Admittedly, subtext is everywhere; whether you can, or want to, see it or not. Serves me right for having read far too much film theory, and in particular feminist deconstructions of film, at an impressionable age, I guess.

lol
I don't watch movies to make myself think
movies are a pasttime of relaxation, whaen you take things in as they are, without looking for hidden message--that's what ife is for.

and who are htis new pair we're now talking about?

[HoosierDaddy]

Terez, on Jan 30 2009, 04:20 PM, said:

HoosierDaddy, on Jan 30 2009, 02:28 PM, said:

Next thing you'll tell me is that Bert and Ernie were gay.

My, you're a sheltered one, aren't you?

stone monkey, on Jan 30 2009, 04:23 PM, said:

Those two? Flaming...

No, they were into bestiality with Cookie Monster and necrophilia with the Count.

[stone monkey]

Mentalist, on Jan 30 2009, 09:41 PM, said:

I don't watch movies to make myself think movies are a pasttime of relaxation, whaen you take things in as they are, without looking for hidden message--that's what ife is for.

Unfortunately, I don't have to think for a living, so all my thinking is done for purely recreational purposes...

I like movies that make me think and ones that don't. If you know where and how to look you can always get more from a movie than simply what's up there on the screen. As with any form of entertainment, really.

So, occasionally, I enjoy completely overthinking things that shouldn't require any thought at all and really don't deserve it...

[Terez]

stone monkey, on Jan 30 2009, 04:04 PM, said:

I enjoy completely overthinking things that shouldn't require any thought at all and really don't deserve it...

Like fantasy book discussion, eh? *AHEM, Mentalist*

I admit I haven't gotten into Malazan discussion much, but I have obsessed over WoT discussion for 4 years now. And I have argued heatedly over some of the most subtle subtext imaginable.

EDIT: And no, I don't think there is any gayness subtext in WoT. It's just not there - RJ didn't put it there. But it is most undeniably there in DBZ.

This post has been edited by Terez: 30 January 2009 - 10:13 PM

[frookenhauer]

And Terez begins her favourite game once more...Ah me!