I just saw the movie, Twelve Years a Slave ....

[Serb]

Phantom menace anyone?

[Uncle Sparky]

Phantom menace anyone?

That one has been deleted from my memory.

[Ben Kenobi]

There was a movie by that name?

[regexcellent]

What planet are you on?

I'm not a big movie watcher but the racism angle isn't that pervasive.

Okay it's not every movie, but I feel like lately books and movies about wars and such act compelled to at least throw a bone to the discrimination stuff.

HC is probably right, it's more a TV thing probably because they have time to waste on it.

I'm also not bothered by movies that are specifically about racism. Just when it's a sidetrack.

Phantom menace anyone?

GET OUT

[Serb]

What's wrong with the Phantom Menace?

[dannubis]

What's wrong with the Phantom Menace?

Russia relates to "The Phantom Menace" in the same way as the West relates to "The Empire Strikes Back"

[Serb]

I thought we supposed to be the Empire.

[Patroklos]

Too bad reg is so insipid, shallow, and ignorant that he depreciates in-depth stories of the human spirit by dismissing them as PC nonsense.

Regs intention aside, there is a point that any topic or message in a movie should be introduced and handled internal to the story. If this is not the case it takes you out of the experience regardless of how important or otherwise relevant the message might be. A lot of it has to do with accepting that some stories are simply limited in their scope and should stay that way.

And by the way, apparently some people today, still need to learn that slavery in America was bad.

Didn't Texas recently revise all school textbooks to depict American slavery as a benign or even a positive institution?

No, this is not post imaginative speculation you hope proves your point and assume nobody will be arsed to google for you time. If you have something specific you wish to reference do so. How the hell did you finish a degree, you were a history major right?

[Sava]

I thought we supposed to be the Empire.

Russia is the Gungans, if anything. And Putin is Jar Jar.

[regexcellent]

That's harsh.

[Sava]

Agree. I mean the Gungans are annoying as balls. I'm not sure if they deserve being called Russian.

[Guynemer]

Wow, didn't realise he was it Excalibur - excellent movie - been ages since I saw it...

He was Gawain, if memory serves.

[Serb]

Agree. I mean the Gungans are annoying as balls. I'm not sure if they deserve being called Russian.

True picture of Sava revealed:

[Ben Kenobi]

Didn't Texas recently revise all school textbooks to depict American slavery as a benign or even a positive institution?

No. Our curriculum has quite an extensive section on slavery, including how the Democrat party cultivated, protected and preserved it.

[Ben Kenobi]

How the hell did you finish a degree, you were a history major right?

It's a curious thing, isn't it? I would like to know which institution granted him his degrees, and whether any of them are real, since as he stated, he was unable to find work in his field.