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[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social -5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The 1993 movie was kinda popular back in the day. I think y'all need to stop overthinking what they said and just take their actual words for face value because it is confusing if you actually knew about the 1993 film and saw this post's title thinking that's what they were showing.

[-] self@awful.systems 6 points 2 days ago

I think you should reconsider posting in this thread unless you’re going to watch the documentary instead of continuing the same tedious shit that got the other guy banned

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 6 points 3 days ago

How is it confusing??? Do you only know about two movies?

[-] flowerysong@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

I only know about one movie, the 2016 biopic of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and I'm really looking forward to seeing it on IMAX this Friday. (Weird that it's suddenly in theaters again, I kind of thought it flopped, but see no need to investigate further.)

[-] Kolanaki@pawb.social -5 points 3 days ago

Most movies don't share the same fucking name. 🤦‍♂️

[-] anise@awful.systems 2 points 1 day ago

what? there are tons of movies that share the same name, that's why you usually include a date

[-] blakestacey@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago

Most participants in this forum don't repeat the same drivel non-argument that someone else already got banned for insisting upon after all possible humor value was extracted at their expense.

[-] Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago
[-] swlabr@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago

Seeing as we never explicitly litigated what happened and mostly just trolled the guy: I mean it would be one thing if the guy came in and made a joke about it sharing the name with another, unrelated movie. Like, ok, sure, whatever. But guy came in specifically criticising the title of a documentary. And acting like the movie was the sole owner of the title, which as was pointed out, was almost definitely taken from the name of a thought experiment. Things get named after other things all the time! It’s fine!

Like imagine this was an instance discussing sports and doping. And Gerard posted about the documentary “Icarus” being released on youtube. Then guy comes along getting pissed and confused that the documentary shares the name with "Icarus", the seventh episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Guy should just get banned for being off topic. Instead we trolled him for entertainment.

Anyway no further responses from me, don’t really know why you’re going to bat for this guy, people have been banned for less

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