Harvey Weinstein: Another Good Liberal...

[Mountain Man]

Regarding why all these allegations are suddenly surfacing now, John Nolte at Breitbart has an interesting theory:

Source: Breitbart

The answer is quite simple: Harvey Weinstein’s time has passed. The 65 year-old is reportedly in serious financial trouble, has not had a hit in nearly five years, and has not won anyone an Oscar in that same amount of time.

Harvey Weinstein is no longer useful to anyone, so scores are being settled. If he was still useful, his predations would be allowed to continue unchallenged.

Moreover, outlets like Deadline, Variety and The Hollywood Reporter will not make any advertising money from Weinstein. Oscar season is Black Friday to these outlets. Weinstein no longer fills these coffers.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywo...n-ben-affleck/

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This is in response to why the media is covering the Weinstein scandal but is ignoring around a dozen allegations of groping that have been recently leveled at Ben Affleck who has been dubbed "Buttman" by some. Nolte's take-away: Ben Affleck is still useful. "The same mentality that allowed Harvey Weinstein to get away with what he did for three decades, is still alive, kicking and protecting Buttman."

[Cerebrum123]

Sorry, man, but I think you just out-nerded me.

Sometimes I think Adrift is running for "nerdiest TWebber". He certainly has me beat when it comes to things like comics.

[seer]

Sometimes I think Adrift is running for "nerdiest TWebber". He certainly has me beat when it comes to things like comics.

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[Mountain Man]

Sometimes I think Adrift is running for "nerdiest TWebber". He certainly has me beat when it comes to things like comics.

Adrift describing a film: "The esoteric nature of the imagery was both compelling and unsettling in the way it layered the undesirable aspects of human nature with the raw and idealized beauty of self-actualization."

Me describing the same film: "I thought the 'splosions were cool."

[Zymologist]

Sometimes I think Adrift is running for "nerdiest TWebber". He certainly has me beat when it comes to things like comics.

Well, I've become a fan of sumo wrestling, so wouldn't that make me the biggest Tweb nerd?

[One Bad Pig]

Well, I've become a fan of sumo wrestling, so wouldn't that make me the biggest Tweb nerd?

Only if you're beginning to resemble the objects of your attention.

[Zymologist]

Only if you're beginning to resemble the objects of your attention.

Put that way it just sounds weird and freakish.

Wait a minute....

[Adrift]

Sometimes I think Adrift is running for "nerdiest TWebber". He certainly has me beat when it comes to things like comics.

I haven't really touched a mainstream comic in nearly 20 years. They were getting bad in my day, and they've only gotten worse since. It's just a bunch of PC garbage anymore. The indies are still putting out some super entertaining stuff though, but I just don't have time to read them as often as I like. I'm trying to get my nieces into comics. We'll see if it takes.

[Adrift]

Adrift describing a film: "The esoteric nature of the imagery was both compelling and unsettling in the way it layered the undesirable aspects of human nature with the raw and idealized beauty of self-actualization."

Me describing the same film: "I thought the 'splosions were cool."

This would actually make for a hilarious movie review blog. Maybe call it Two Men and a Movie? I do my own film reviews, but I only post them to my facebook account. I ain't got nothin on the boys over at places like /r/Truefilm though. Every other word is leitmotif this, Mise-en-scène that. I can barely keep up.

[Cerebrum123]

I haven't really touched a mainstream comic in nearly 20 years. They were getting bad in my day, and they've only gotten worse since. It's just a bunch of PC garbage anymore. The indies are still putting out some super entertaining stuff though, but I just don't have time to read them as often as I like. I'm trying to get my nieces into comics. We'll see if it takes.

I went through a lot of new and old stuff when I had a Marvel Unlimited subscription. Some of the best stuff was through the late 70's to the 90's. Although I enjoyed some of the new stuff too, like The Uncanny Avengers, and The Superior Spider-Man. I know you expressed your distaste for the latter, but I found it an interesting read. Reading through some of Astonishing Tales, and other really old comics definitely showed that there have always been some really bad, and some really good ones. Seeing Captain America disguised as a grandma, and Bucky in a "Lil' Lord Fauntleroy" type outfit in the original series was definitely unusual to see.

I'll agree that there is a lot of garbage out there right now, but fortunately not all of it has succumb to trying to appease the current trendy group, or at least not in any blatant way that I noticed.

You probably have a lot of the best stuff, but if you ever get more time you might check it out. Only problems I ran into was series I was reading not having enough material, or jumps in issues/across series. I don't want to have to read Fantastic 4 #5,000 to find out what happened in Spider-Man #4,999*.

I understood when they did stuff for big crossover events like Avenger's vs Defenders, but not some of the two bit villains in Spider-Man.

*Not the actual numbers, but after reading through so many jumps and crossovers it started to feel that way.

[Darth Ovious]

Andrew Breitbart figured it out years ago.

[demi-conservative]

Indeed! Not to excuse it, AT ALL, the "casting couch" is a part of Hollywood history; Louis B Mayer at MGM was notorious. Marilyn Monroe described Hollywood as “an overcrowded brothel.”

Tassman is correct, Hollywood itself has a long long history of this sort of thing, and worse.

Always good to remember big shaper of culture is so perverted!!!

[Sparko]

LOL:

Harvey Weinstein, in his first public response since multiple women accused him of sexual misconduct, said “we all make mistakes."

“Guys, I’m not doing OK, but I’m trying,” Weinstein told reporters on Wednesday as he entered an SUV parked outside his daughter’s Los Angeles home.

“I got to get help,” the former film executive said.

“A second chance, I hope,” Weinstein, 65, added.
http://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know...-make-mistakes

How the heck do you mistakenly rape and harass women for decades? Oops!

This is typical liberal nonsense, trying to turn a situation around and make himself the victim and ask for sympathy.

He needs to go on trial.

[Mountain Man]

"Oops... I raped you. My bad."

[rogue06]

LOL:



How the heck do you mistakenly rape and harass women for decades? Oops!

This is typical liberal nonsense, trying to turn a situation around and make himself the victim and ask for sympathy.

He needs to go on trial.

And I don't care if he thinks he needs to get help. If he has been sexually assaulting women for decades he needs to be prosecuted.