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What year is it in Florida right now?

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Never thought of slavery as being a good way to go to trade school for free. Seems awful woke of those enslavers.

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Is it preposterous? Based on what movies mean to me and what movies have done for me, I tend to agree with Ethan Hawke as he explains here why human creativity matters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRS9Gek4V5Q

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I mean, Tom Cruise is 60 and riding motorcycles off cliffs. Margot Robbie is Barbie. There's an element of preposterousness to it, yeah.

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To be fair, the Barbie movie is a lot of fun. Preposterous or not. Saw it last night. On the surface, it looks like a superficial movie for little kids. But it was actually really DEEP, man! (Seriously!)

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I wasn't commenting on the quality of the movie, only on the deep silliness of grown-ups playing Barbie dolls or superheroes or whatever.

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Sorry, I was just going off on a separate tangent. I tend to do that.

(It is stunning - in a good way - of how daring of a movie Barbie is, especially coming from a major studio.)

But yes, I agree with your point. Adults playing roles like these, is probably the epitome of silliness.

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Diet beer.

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