this post was submitted on 07 Apr 2025
39 points (97.6% liked)
Movies & TV
23175 readers
125 users here now
Rules for Movies & TV Discussion
-
Any discussion of Disney properties should contain a (cw: imperialism) tag. If your post isn't tagged appropriately it will be removed.
-
Anti-Bong Joon-ho trolling will result in an immediate ban from c/movies and submitted to the site administrators for review.
-
On Star Trek Sunday only posts discussing how we might achieve space communism are permitted. Non-Star Trek related content will be removed and you will be temporarily banned until the following Sunday.
Here's a list of tons of leftist movies.
founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Say what you will about our old friend UlyssesT, but he was mostly right about modern "Prestige TV"
TV that is desperate to prove that it's mature and for adults, but can't actually write about anything intelligent because execs think viewers are too dumb for that. So now all they have left is trauma bombarding. It's the 'Highbrow' equivalent of those YouTube thumbnails that try to get your attention by showing something gross or violent.
It's wild that people complain that TV is too inoffensive these days when even only 20 years ago none of this would have passed the censors.
Seriously it's like regulations vanished into thin air when streaming showed up. HBO and Cinemax always had adult content (it's called 'Skinemax' for a reason). Now, though, every streaming service has NC-17 films or stuff that's not even rated but would be NC-17 if it was.
You had to know some shady ass rental shop to get stuff like that back in the day. Most major chains (like Blockbuster) didn't carry NC-17 films, nevermind actual porn.
the regulations were (are? i guess radio still exists) for over-the-air broadcasting because of some EM spectrum is public property idea which is how they justified regulating speech. never applied to any other kind of distribution, old regular cable tv was only reigned in by advertisers.
for real its so fucking over the top. Cringey and gross as fuck.
Eeh? What is this? Never seen that one before. Is that old English?
Idk, UlyssesT posted it sometimes. Something about pictograms and emojis
Lmao oooh I get it, it's a medieval Ulysses rant lmao
Yeah it's a rebus, kind of a word picture puzzle. IIRC Someone, maybe UlyssesT themselves found it and made it to make fun of his emote ridden rants lmao
Also I think it's German not old English if you wanna know
Ja!
Oof rather not open that can of worms again.
I remember that person
What happened to them and why are all their comments deleted ?
Yeah let's not haha. He's gone now anyway.
Please do , I remember them being a cool person
Did something happen ??
Honestly I'd prefer if we just remember BMF, he was far more entertaining
I miss BMF