RE-EDIT: I was so rude on this post. I just got home from work and read what I wrote and I'm ashamed. My apologies to you LochnarITB and to you too Deebye. I was needlessly cruel in my reply, and for that I am sorry. I will remove the mean-spited things I said have said.
EDIT: To fight over this seems so petty. I really shouldn't respond at all. I don't want to fight.
You are correct, however the movie is inherently about what the Occupy movement stands for, the 99%. While I have not seen the movie myself, I have read several reviews on the movie and they [the reviews] indicate (to me) the basis of the In Time movie is about struggling to get back what is ours by right, and uses the concept of "time" instead of "currency", but the similarities between this and the "99%" are, to what I understand, undeniable. Which begs the question, with such a hot-button topic and a correlating, fictitious analogy of a movie, doesn't it seem likely that the subject of politics would inevitably creep up in this movie thread?
Deebye, I'm sorry for calling your point of view moronic. I respect you as a fellow Lurker and regret having said that. It really was uncalled for. I might not agree with everyone on these boards, but I should show some respect and civility when I'm here. To that end, mightn't it be better for you guys to use threaded view instead of linear view for topics like this that you feel have gone somewhere you don't care for? I'm not saying I don't agree/disagree with what was said about politics derailing threads recently, I'm only offering an alternative so you might still be able to enjoy threads that have been sufficiently derailed with political jargon by singling out what you want to read.
I wasn't directly involved in this thread. Sorry if I said something in that last post to offend you. If you are asking myself in particular not post political remarks in a thread which would clearly go that route in the end, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm not sure what you want, or what your trying to say. Or perhaps you are just sick of threads getting derailed with all these petty squabbles - understandable. Would you mind clarifying this statement?
EDIT: To fight over this seems so petty. I really shouldn't respond at all. I don't want to fight.
(11-19-2011, 11:49 AM)LochnarITB Wrote: The poster in the original post asked if anyone had seen the movie. [That person] stated their opinion that it was a very good movie and that others should see it. There was no mention about the political/socio-economic implications of the movie IN THE ORIGINAL POST.
You are correct, however the movie is inherently about what the Occupy movement stands for, the 99%. While I have not seen the movie myself, I have read several reviews on the movie and they [the reviews] indicate (to me) the basis of the In Time movie is about struggling to get back what is ours by right, and uses the concept of "time" instead of "currency", but the similarities between this and the "99%" are, to what I understand, undeniable. Which begs the question, with such a hot-button topic and a correlating, fictitious analogy of a movie, doesn't it seem likely that the subject of politics would inevitably creep up in this movie thread?
(11-19-2011, 11:49 AM)LochnarITB Wrote: There was nothing moronic about DeeBye posting that it was another thread devolved into the all too familiar of late debate.
Deebye, I'm sorry for calling your point of view moronic. I respect you as a fellow Lurker and regret having said that. It really was uncalled for. I might not agree with everyone on these boards, but I should show some respect and civility when I'm here. To that end, mightn't it be better for you guys to use threaded view instead of linear view for topics like this that you feel have gone somewhere you don't care for? I'm not saying I don't agree/disagree with what was said about politics derailing threads recently, I'm only offering an alternative so you might still be able to enjoy threads that have been sufficiently derailed with political jargon by singling out what you want to read.
(11-19-2011, 11:49 AM)LochnarITB Wrote: To see everything as an opportunity to drag discussions down into your sandbox for just another cat fight strikes me as moronic.
I wasn't directly involved in this thread. Sorry if I said something in that last post to offend you. If you are asking myself in particular not post political remarks in a thread which would clearly go that route in the end, then I don't know what to tell you. I'm not sure what you want, or what your trying to say. Or perhaps you are just sick of threads getting derailed with all these petty squabbles - understandable. Would you mind clarifying this statement?
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin