This says a lot about the mentality of the age: Barbie set to clobber Oppenheimer at the box office.
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Francis is an ass.
Barbie is just a lot of fun, a chance to forget about the shit in the real world for a couple of hours.
Francis is an ass
That’s correct.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbSRqvo010Y
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Corradini’s work is magnificent and will certainly outlast their Popes concept of ‘art’.
It’s cleverly done … but none of you are looking at the silk.
Fantastic, like Michelangelo’s marble statuary.
LOL Tel.
I think he does a superb ‘job’ on the human form.
C.L. I don’t think we’re at the level of the Cadaver Synod yet. But it seems to me that the cause célèbre of Pope Francis pontificate is to foment a Holy War against the theologies of his predecessor Popes Benedict XVI and St. John Paul the Great.
Antichrist’s Apocalyptic Fury Against the Priesthood
Piss Pope.
Roger, barbie is not “just a bit of fun”. My wife’s friend took her to it last night thinking that and my wife came home quite distressed for the young generation watching it. She said it was a dark nihilistic message the advocates mediocre lives devoid of children and family. Thankfully quite a few of the mothers who took with girls with them walked out half way through.
The sad unfulfilled people who make these movies want to condemn young people with their miserable lives to justify their poor life choices.
The remarkable thing is that a three hour movie about an atomic scientist who would be unknown to most audiences became an ‘event’ movie. Nolan is an oddity: a technically meticulous director who manages to combine an air of gravitas with some of the silliest scripts to ever make it on to the screen. As long as he was making movies about Batman or dream detectives or space travel with A-list actors, he succeeded commercially. If Oppenheimer bombs (geddit?) it should be no surprise.
Your review matches what I’ve read elsewhere, mc. Another anti-masculinity woke-opus, apparently. I’m also reading (by people whose opinion I tend to rate) that Oppenheimer is a total snore-fest. The trailers I’ve seen featuring, of all people, Matt Damon, are, frankly, awful.
Nevertheless, I still say the obsession with a doll movie points to an infantilised trash culture that’s now beyond intellectual redemption.
Tel says:
21 July, 2023 at 10:48 pm
It’s cleverly done … but none of you are looking at the silk.
Whoa Tel – I looked at the silk….on about my third look.
Obviously I would not watch Barbie, unless minding a granddaughter. But even then I wouldn’t take her because Barbie is a Hollywood creation.
Hollywood is a swamp of sick creatures who should be sent to the salt mines.
Slightly OT: I have never felt comfortable with calling that Anything-But-The-Western-Bequest strand of progressive, regressive. Well. The internet has just coughed up the word I have been looking for but could not find for stumbling on; retrocession, which means “to return conquered territory to the power from which it was taken.” The source is full of etymological tidbits, but if you can’t stomach Christian apologetics, I’d suggest you look away now.
Oppenheimer was a CPUSA member in the 1930s who publicly quit when he joined the Manhattan Project.
There was conjecture right up to his death as to whether he was a Soviet spy himself, but he protected Klaus Fuchs and the other Soviet spies on the Project.
See:
Greg Herken, Brotherhood of the Bomb – The Tangled Lives and Loyalties of Robert Oppenheimer, Ernest Lawrence, and Edward Teller (NY, 2002)
This really hits home when you think about how crass, degraded and unserious discussion of public affairs is nowadays.
Re Corradini’s work. It’s breathtaking. Not only are the women and the poses magnificent, the skill of the effect is magical. In awe of the mastery involved.
Erratum:
I just checked (as I should have initially); the statue “Modesty” was sculpted not in memory of Corradini’s mama but of a patron’s (Raimondo di Sangro’s). It stands in the Cappella Sansevero – which, I hope, has very strict security.
Anybody been there?
Rosie, Calli?
It’s beyond unserious and into the diabolical. But, when you think about it, those two are made for each other.
In the news today is the author of a book that instructs children how to sodomise and be sodomised (to the obvious and great delight of molesters). Police have laid charges against a man for making the inevitable “death threat” against Yumi Stynes online. Her publishers and the bosses of Big W are the ones who should be arrested – and would have been in 99 per cent of this nation’s history. These are the same police, by the way, who now escort children into drag performances – at libraries.
I’ve pointed out before that whatever faults Kevin Rudd had, he was sincere when he went after Henson – and it was a very counter-ideological stance for a Labor leader to take.
And their PM Turnbull was proud to boast of his Henderson ‘portrait’.
Indeed. Well remembered, NFA.
Apologies… Henson, not Henderson!
Perhaps the most chilling thing is that Stynes and her supporters (like the execrable Senator Larissa Watters) defend, and are quite openly happy about, children being exposed to this explicit porn and how-to-do filth.
Stynes and Larissa Waters say whatever they’re told to.
Same as Tucker Carlson, Andrew Bolt, Aussie Cossack, all the rest.
Do they believe any of it?
Probably not.
No, I have not, C.L.
But if ever I’m in Naples again I will have a look. There is just so much beauty to see in Italy, it beggars belief. Yet the leaders of these countries, even within the Church, seem bent on subjecting it to savagery.
Those of us who believe know the source. It isn’t that difficult.
As so painstakingly essayed in the documentary, “Idiocracy”.
The Based and Hilarious Reason Gen Z Bros Are Flocking to the New Barbie Flick