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Did anyone find the movie The Grey slightly offensive?

by Chemical Emotions in

its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate.

it will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger.

i believe i read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.. its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence.

Did anyone find the movie The Grey slightly offensive?

by Chemical Emotions in

its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate.

it will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger.

i believe i read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.. its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence.

It's not that I disagree that movies have a right to do this, but I dunno...this film just...bugged me. But then again, I'm not even a movie fan. And after recently viewing the '60s Lord of the Flies, EVERYTHING is disappointing by comparison. :)

"I think a critical differance between "congo" (a terrible movie) and the grey is that we dont have apes here in the usa roaming free or as a native population. Anyone in the us who sees congo isnt to be a position to take action on a view point based on the movie. Wolves are native to the us though and important to the eco system. Just sayin, these movies exagerate the natural fear some have of preditory animals in an irrational way, prompting slaughter and pointless killing. Jaws was notable instance. Just my .02"

^ this.

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Did anyone find the movie The Grey slightly offensive?

by Chemical Emotions in

its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate.

it will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger.

i believe i read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.. its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence.

Chemical Emotions

Deist: I know. Zombies are WAY smarter than those idiots from night of the living dead. Very unfair.

I agree with elderlite. The thing is, even though it's just fiction and COULD be harmless, the prevelance of these movies and people's general ignorance about animals is just a bad combination. We all have a responsibility to not feed ignorance.

Nomad Soul: the self diologue at the begining was the WORST! The end was, imho, only slightly better. For me, a movie's gotta be consistently good or occasionally great. Not occasionally tolerable. :)

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Are JW's really not allowed to view apostate material?

by Joey Jo-Jo in

on youtube there is this man who recorded is judicial commitee, the point i am making is that the elders viewed his material on youtube as stated on the recording.. my question his are elders allowed to view apostate material but not non-elders?

when did this happen?

!.

Chemical Emotions

If you read apostate material, you are in BIG trouble whether you promote it or not. If you keep reading it, you could be disfellowshipped.

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My demon experience

by SweetBabyCheezits in

jw
friends

one recent afternoon, me and a buddy were taking a trek around a nearby neighborhood and made our way past a delapidated house that had all the familiar symptoms of being haunted.

he suggested we check it out so, of course, we did.

it looked like it had been abandoned probably 30-40 years earlier but the previous owners had left behind a small coffee table.

Chemical Emotions

I never knew that was what sleep paralysis was like. That sounds so scary!

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Did anyone find the movie The Grey slightly offensive?

by Chemical Emotions in

its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate.

it will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger.

i believe i read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.. its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence.

Chemical Emotions

Lol, apparently not!

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Did anyone find the movie The Grey slightly offensive?

by Chemical Emotions in

its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate.

it will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger.

i believe i read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.. its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence.

Chemical Emotions

Oh, thanks for the link! Interesting!

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Did anyone find the movie The Grey slightly offensive?

by Chemical Emotions in

its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate.

it will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger.

i believe i read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.. its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence.

Chemical Emotions

Its portrayal of grey wolves was horribly inaccurate. It will probably lead to an even more negative attitude toward wolves, which puts them in more danger. I believe I read that the creators bought dead wolves while producing the movie.

Its main characters' philosophizing was pretentious, cliched, and insulting to my intelligence. Like an Ayn Rand novel, it lazily, and not very skillfully, regurgitated an unintersting slew of pop philosophy and oft-repeated ideas that no longer have as much intellectual or emotional impact, especially when repeated by actors who sounded as bored as I was.

Am I just being to critical? I just kept thinking: How can movies still be so bad when we have so much knowledge? How can society take so much pleasure in being condescended to and treated as if they were totally incompetent? Do we need to steriotype even generally harmless animals as vicious, cruel beasts simply to justify our desire to slaughter other living creatures- while those very animals our being viciously killed by US in real life?

Idk. Just thinking. Maybe it's an over-reaction. What did all of you think?

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