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They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They’re no more people than ChatGPT is people.
They are constructs, imitations of life, animated by the evil will of Morgoth and his foul apprentice Sauron. They’re no more people than ChatGPT is people.
Orcs aren’t people and I’m not afraid to say it.
This is precious.
Po-tay-toes. Boil em mash em stick em in a stew.
It’s especially annoying, because this particular reindeer didn’t even actually exist at all until this song.
It’s literally saying “this thing I am making up right now is going to be super popular.” It’s quite the called shot.
Can’t argue with this at all, but the books aren’t for everyone.
Maple Films’ edit is pretty good. Chops out the majority of the dwarf backstory, all of the wizard side quests, and significantly cuts down the superfluous action sequences, resulting in a strong narrative which follows Bilbo’s story exclusively, as it should.
Why else would he be writing about a movie that came out twenty years ago?
Might as well write an article about how shitty you think Lawrence of Arabia is.
Well yes, but don’t feed assholes and bigots either.
That is a crime against humanity.
That’s a week of food for some people.
Personally it would work the same as when you move through space by conventional means.
Britney Spears? More like Britney Knives, amirite?
It’s probably exactly what you thought it was: https://pagesix.com/2023/10/17/britney-spears-dances-with-knives-again-after-justin-timberlake-abortion-news/
Funny, but pretty rude for such an obnoxiously large vehicle. Like hell I’m not going to pass that bloody mumak.
Maybe not what you’re looking for, but fanedits are that thing to me. No body will ever see them on any streaming service or in a DVD bin at the store. They’re like treasures I can share only with other people who truly love movies as much as I do.
Also, I have the original special edition slip-case DVD of Dogma, which currently goes for as high as $19.95 on eBay!
Let me introduce you to this concept of a shitpost.
You think they had to throw out some early potential titles for Breaking Bad because they couldn’t make the logo work?
Maybe we need to rethink the slogan altogether. Unfortunately, “fertilize crops with the rich” doesn’t have the same ring to it.
You’re imposing an enlightened modern viewpoint onto a universe with explicitly different rules. In Middle-earth, there actually IS such a thing as absolute evil, unredeemable and not possessing what we would call a soul, and the orcs are plwced firmly in this class of being. Their sapience is not relevant to the morality of killing them when they are evil.
I understand that this doesn’t map onto the real world very well, but the real world also doesn’t contain immortal beings who are within a few degrees of separation from the creator Eru Ilúvatar himself, who have literally spoken with either him or his greatest servants the Valar. It’s hard to deny the rules of good and evil when you have them firsthand from the creator of the universe.
My point is simply that you have to define the frame you’re arguing within. If your frame is the real world, then you are correct and orcs should be treated the same as any other living being. But if your frame is the subcreation of J.R.R. Tolkien, you must acknowledge the stated realities of that world.