"She Wants a Man, Not a Boy"

You asked her if she wanted to grab coffee. Then you asked if the time worked. Then you asked if the place was okay. Then you asked if she'd prefer tea.

Four questions. Four chances for her to say no. Four signals that you're terrified of making a decision.

Plan it. Pick the place. Pick the time. Tell her where to meet you. She'll either show up or she won't.

Either way, you look like a man instead of a scared little boy.

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The odyssey another case of white washing or epic with seeing !

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I loved inception and other films by the director was hoping read what you guys thought ?
 

"Stop Asking Your Friends What to Text Her"

Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."

You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.

She's been waiting forty minutes.

Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.

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I loved inception and other films by the director was hoping read what you guys thought ?
Inception didn't work for me; I couldn't get past the brain-wave ESP part of it. That said, it did a good try of showing the whackiness of dreams.
 

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It's watchable, though hardly one of CN's strongest films. I maintain he's at his best when directing smaller scale, personal flicks like Following, Memento and The Prestige. The finacial windfall he received via that garrishly overrated Dark Knight trilogy encouraged his more portentous urges
 

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It's watchable, though hardly one of CN's strongest films. I maintain he's at his best when directing smaller scale, personal flicks like Following, Memento and The Prestige. The finacial windfall he received via that garrishly overrated Dark Knight trilogy encouraged his more portentous urges
loved the dark knight most of my friends did as well .I believe his best work is yet to come !
 

"I just moved here from Florida."

That sentence contains at least five follow-up questions she WANTS you to ask. Where in Florida? What brought you here? How long have you been in the area? What do you miss? How does it compare to here?

She handed them to you on a silver platter. And you said, "Oh cool. I come here every week. I love this band. Ummm... pretty crowded tonight."

She smiled politely. Nodded. And never texted you back.

I was that guy for years. Talking too much. Listening too little. Panicking about my next sentence while she was literally feeding me the answers.

Then I found 22 rules that fixed the whole thing. Rule number one: shut up and listen. She'll tell you exactly what to say.

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It's watchable, though hardly one of CN's strongest films. I maintain he's at his best when directing smaller scale, personal flicks like Following, Memento and The Prestige. The finacial windfall he received via that garrishly overrated Dark Knight trilogy encouraged his more portentous urges
The last movie of his that I watched was Dunkirk, which I liked. I haven’t watched Tenet, Oppenheimer, or The Odyssey, which is his latest one.

Either way, I like his movies, especially the way he incorporates the variable of time into them, like Interstellar, even though they can feel somewhat soulless as a whole.
 

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Eh, ignore the main criticisms that have been circulating, ie as the thread title implies - not so much "whitewashing" as "blackwashing".

Keep in mind that some people literally profit from stirring sh!t, esp on X.

Yes, the film features a Greece that has a few Negros. An Asian or two. Maybe a trans even, idk.

It doesn't detract from the story.

The original epic is mythology, so one would have to believe in magic and monsters, and accept that gods walk amongst mortals before getting upset about cosmetic discrepancies.

Actually the main deviation from the plot is the Hollywood ending (literally sailing off into the sunset).
In the book, Ulysses rounds up the surviving betrayers and has them tortured and executed.
This is the bit that's been "whitewashed".
Homer understood human nature all too well.

It's a long-ass movie and packed with details, even though I was familiar with the tale, there's much that I'd forgotten about.
My woman knew nothing of Homer's epic, but it's spurred her to research it.
She thinks Matt Damon turned out hot in his old age.

We'll be seeing it a second time around, maybe in Imax, though seats are booked for at least the next month
 

"She's Out of Your League"

You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.

Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.

She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.

Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.

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