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>'He used my body for his own sexual gratification': The Fast and the Furious director's transgender daughter, 32, accuses her father of molesting her when she was just two years old and claims he would tell her stories of raping women
>Valkyrie Weather made the accusations against her father Rob Cohen, 69, in a public Facebook post
>Weather said she was made aware of the 'sexual assault' by her mother Diana Mitzner, Cohen's first wife
>Weather also accused her father of raping another woman
>Cohen has denied all allegations against him calling them 'categorically untrue'
>MAXIMUM BUMP TOLERANCE EXCEEDED, CAPTAIN!
STD Season One Recap:
Michael Burnham is the greatest starfleet officer in history. She knows literally everything and can solve any problem presented to her with consummate ease and no small amount of condescension. She was adopted as a child by Spock's parents because there were no other foster parents available out of trillions of Federation citizens but those of Star Trek's most iconic character (who never mentioned an adopted sister in 50 years of canon). The greatest starfleet officer in history commits a mutiny which ends up killing her captain and single-handedly plunges the Federation into war with Klingons (who are now bald xenophobes obsessed with racial purity). Instead of serving her lifetime prison term, Michael is recruited as a science specialist on the secretive USS Discovery, the most advanced ship in the fleet which boasts holographic systems that shouldn't exist for decades, and an experimental "spore drive" that can teleport the ship instantly to any point in the galaxy over a "mycelial network" of space mushrooms. They briefly use a giant tardigrade as their navigator until someone found out that the whole concept of tardigrades teleporting via space mushrooms was plagiarized from an indie video adventure game called motherfucking "Tardigrades." Good job CBS.
Among the crew members of the Discovery are Captain Lorca: a no-nonsense hard-ass with a shady past who plays fast and loose with regulations and might be a little too trigger-happy for a starfleet captain. The alien first officer is Saru, who can sense danger and death approaching, and is from a species comprised entirely of betas. Chief Engineer Stamets is in charge of the spore drive and becomes its navigator after the tardigrade is sued out of a job. The medical officer is Dr. Culber who is gay with Stamets and is currently deceased and/or a spore ghost inside the mycelial network. And then there's Tilly: a hyperactive, overweight, autistic ensign completely unsuited for service on starfleet's most advanced, experimental starship, but is nonetheless inexplicably part of the command track program. God save the poor vessel that sees Tilly as her captain. There's a bunch of other characters that make up the bridge crew, but they're so poorly developed that most viewers don't even know their names. There's also Tyler who is a Klingon double agent / love interest for Michael Burnham, but nobody cares.
Anyway, a bunch of stupid nonsense happens and eventually we find out that Captain Lorca is actually from the Mirror Universe (which absolutely nobody saw coming because the writing in this show is just so fucking clever) and needed the Discovery's spore drive to get back home. Mirror Universe antics ensue, but eventually Lorca is killed and Burnham "saves" the Mirror Universe version of Georgiou (her dead, mutinied-upon captain) who in this reality is the Emperor of the Terran Empire, a Hitler analogue, and an actual cannibal. When the ship makes it back to its own reality there is a convenient time jump wherein the Klingons are about to win the war, but Michael Burnham the greatest starfleet officer in history with aid from Space Hitler avert disaster at the last second. For her "heroics," not only is Burnham's punishment for MUTINY, MURDER, and WAR commuted, but she's reinstated at her full rank and joins the Discovery crew full time. As the ship flies off to pick up its new captain, they are intercepted by the USS Enterprise, Christopher Pike commanding, just in time to bilk CBS All Access subscribers into re-upping their subs based on nostalgia lenses alone.
STD Season Two status:
Captain Pike takes over the Discovery and we find out starfleet gave him an urgent mission to discover the source of seven mysterious red energy bursts that appeared all across the galaxy. For reasons that will most likely make no logical sense, these seven bursts along with a cosmic entity called the "red angel" have driven Spock to commit himself to the loony bin. The only person who can save him and unravel the mystery of the red angel is his estranged adopted sister that we've never heard of in 50 years of canon, the merry mutineer Michael Goddamn-Fucking Burnham. It's whispered that Michael did something to Spock in their childhood that traumatized him so irreparably that they haven't spoken to each other since, but the show won't just come the fuck out and say what it was, because the hacks that write this shit either don't know, or are second-guessing the likely faux-incest storyline that literally everyone could see coming.
In conclusion, fuck this show and anyone who says "Oh, it's not THAT bad" because, yes, it fucking is.
Does anyone find it weirdly contradictory that the Federation had a death sentence for going to the Talosian's planet because they were afraid people would obtain their technology and become addicted to it. Then a few decades later the Federation develops their own eerily similar technology and puts it on all of their shiny starships?
As discussed in these posts: >>1845045 >>1845045 >>1845059
I have decided to set up a weekly film discussion thread.
I've had a couple emails to Gahoole and he's on board with the idea, so we're going to give it a test and see if it works.
Outline
I'll start a thread close to 0000 EST Sunday, which will contain the discussion for the week, as well as next film and voting.
Every week a new film is discussed and a new one is picked.
Nothing too imaginative, but hopefully people enjoy it.
Two options at the moment: 1 film or 2. Voting would stay the same, just take the 2nd pick, and would allow for more discussions, maybe comparisons and would mean there's a better chance a film you enjoy will make the cut.
As a side note, no one wants to flood the board with stickies and interlinked threads, so this thread will be stickied for a bit, as will the actual threads, but they're not going to be 24/7 eternal /pol/ stickies. Once you guys get into the groove, I'm hoping we'll only need the sticky for a couple days to get enough people to bump it fairly regularly through the week.
Voting
Voting will take place in posts. Type the film, post it, most results win.
Voting will be restricted to a certain category each week. Whether that's a list of pre-approved films or a broad outline anyone can vote for is up to anons.
An alternative is to set up a simple raffle, with each entry being 1 vote.
Examples of categories are:
Science Fiction films, Italian films, Films Roger Ebert gave a 0 to, etc
Categories can be picked by anyone, and I'll either take one that sounds good or randomly pick that as well.
Why make the thread?
Just need feedback.
I could make this today and see if it works, but asking you guys what you want is better for everyone.
Looking for:
>a rough number of people interested
>opinions on 1 or 2 films
>opinions on voting (whether it's popular vote or 1 vote 1 chance in a randomiser)
>initial film (I'll default to a random film in my collection if no one has a better idea)
Additionally, if someone wants to set up a stream for the film, that'd be cool, but not something I will be offering to do myself.
Before anyone asks, no, the 3rd post at the top is not implying all waifufags will be banned on sight, but hopefully it doesn't get to the point where it truly bothers anyone.
If you have any ideas you don't want to post, I also set up an email at FilmFag@protonmail.com (click Anonymous at the top for it) which I'll check every so often. I won't be using a trip.
This is my kino list for Idolposter and Raven.
I'm not allowed to post here. I don't know who is behind this but fuck you, I will find a better place.
Here my kino list
A scene at the sea
Kids return
Hitcher
Le feu follet
Le samourai
City hunter with jackie chan
Patriotism Aaron Embry
Witness
A Prayer for the Dying
Animatrix beyond
Sayonara
What planet do these people come from where it's somehow "not cool" for a man to cold-approach a woman on the street? This absurd sex-negative society fantasy must be a wet dream for /pol/ and /leftypol/ alike.
This is a pathetic attempt at social engineering if I've ever seen one. If anything, it's only motivating me to cold-approach women more.
Derek Cho is having a really bad day. After being unjustly fired from his job, he discovers that the law firm's building is under quarantine for a mysterious and dangerous virus. Chaos erupts throughout the office as the victims of the disease begin acting out their wildest impulses.
SOUND DROPS TWO TIMES FOR 30 SEC EACH FOR SOME REASONS
>“Penny Dreadful,” the Showtime series which ended after three seasons in 2016, is back from the dead. The cable channel revealed plans for a spinoff show — “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” — in a Monday news release. Showtime said the upcoming program will be a “spiritual descendant” of the earlier series, which was set in Victorian London and featured characters like Dr. Frankenstein and Dracula.
>The spinoff “opens in 1938 Los Angeles, a time and place deeply infused with Mexican-American folklore and social tension,” the network revealed. The show is also focused on “the conflict between characters connected to the deity Santa Muerte and others allied with the Devil.”
>Fans hoping for the return of “Penny Dreadful” stars Eva Green, Timothy Dalton and Josh Hartnett are out of luck, though: Showtime says “Penny Dreadful: City of Angels” will feature an entirely new cast and plots.
>The new show is the brainchild of John Logan, who created and executive produced the earlier show. In a statement, Logan said the program “will have a social consciousness and historical awareness that we chose not to explore in the ‘Penny Dreadful’ London storylines." He added, “We will now be grappling with specific historical and real world political, religious, social and racial issues. In 1938, Los Angeles was facing some hard questions about its future and its soul. Our characters must do the same. There are no easy answers. There are only powerful questions and arresting moral challenges.”
Could be good, I like Natalie Dormer and Penny Dreadful was alright, at least the episodes I saw. South American mythology is ripe for exploration in the same way as gothic horror icons are. The "social consciousness" line has me a little worried though, it could just mean entwining more history with the fantastical elements but equally it could mean "this show is now my personal twitter blog". I suppose we'll have to wait and see. Fingers crossed for some latinas in Day of the Dead face paint
I realized that while very tiny com-links are everywhere in Star Wars, there aren't any mentions of cell-phones or the like (the difference being you can't dial anyone with a comlink or make a 1 on 1 call, your communication is audible to anyone on that frequency). Only video games that show up are space fighter simulators (which can be repurposed for porn viewing) and playing board games against a droid that is holoprojecting the pieces.
Are there any other real world technology that doesn't seem to exist in the EU? I find the idea fascinating.
http://fractalsponge.net/?p=4224
Fractalsponge is a well known 3D designer who's made a lot of excellent recreations of SW ships from all media. However the fuckers at Disney have actually gone and traced his works for one of their fucking handbooks straight from google images. The absolute state of Yidsney.
Couldn't the entirety of Looper have been avoided if Joe had just adopted Cid instead of running away in a golf cart like a little pussy? Unless he pulled some Darth Vader-type shit I see little reason as to why his adopted son would ever betray him. And when older Joe cleans house, there'd be no danger for Joe to live a public life once more. Literally nobody could tell anyone that Joe let his loop run, since they're all fucking dead. And good luck trying to send even an army of Gat-Men towards the trio; Cid would murder them with his TK before they could so much as prepare to attack.
"The first thing you need to know, all I have on under that costume is a thong. They brought them in on my first day, like, 'Here are your thongs,'" he said. "I had serious misgivings – would my arsehole ever be the same again? But I had to get used to it. Even though I was thinking no way, no way!"
YELLOW VEST LIVE
Today Macron gonna kill everybody
Live
Multi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Ykp4UWCWI
>Ruptly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFT7CmBRhxg
>Update
Here we go! Submit your favorite /film/s for the 8chan Top 250. We'll use this thread to discuss films that should and should not be included. Generally we want the list to reflect the nature of this board, so let's try to avoid mainstream titles. If you liked a recommendation from an old thread, or if you have a new suggestion to add to the list, now is the time to speak up.
https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/list/8chan-top-250-films/
https://letterboxd.com/8chanfilm/list/8chan-favorite-shorts/
Chantal Akerman has passed away. I've only seen News from Home and Hotel Monterey but I appreciated her unique style, even if it required patience.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/arts/chantal-akerman-belgian-filmmaker-dies-65.html
What's interesting about her personality is how she rejected the title of feminist film maker even though everyone wanted to put her in that box. Most obits you'll read today are quick to include that label in their descriptions of her. I remember hearing that she did not like doing "women's film festivals" and preferred regular festivals instead.
> I won't say I'm a feminist film-maker ... I'm not making women's films, I'm making Chantal Akerman's films. (London, 1979)
Can /tv/ recommend any kinos about making things right?
>Democratic Sens. Kamala Harris (Calif.) and Elizabeth Warren (Mass.), who are both running for president, have reportedly said they support reparations for black Americans affected by slavery.