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An occasional source of mild Thanksgiving tension in my family is that my mother is a die-hard fan of The Core (2003), and various family members sometimes have differing levels of enthusiasm for her annual tradition of watching it.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

My go to method is, if someone brings up a political topic, I will very obviously try to change the topic. Otherwise I don’t engage.

[–] paddirn 6 points 1 year ago

What arguments would people even have about Rise of Skywalker? How bad it actually is? Do those that think it’s utter shit get frothy at the mouth if somebody says they thought it was just “kinda bad”?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should see my family talk... everyone thinks we're arguing, we're just discussing 😂.

[–] BoxerDevil 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Cops have been called when me and my dad were debating in the shed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol 😂, hasn't happened yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did 😂.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I mean, true. Bug that isn't because we all agree politically. I just avoid those discussions like the plague most of the time.

[–] randomaccount43543 4 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Rise of Skywalker is an above average movie. Fight me!

[–] DHMO_Head 5 points 1 year ago

Because the average movie is bad?

[–] sanguinepar 4 points 1 year ago

I really enjoyed it. Much more than Last Jedi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I would like to meet Aunt Katie.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Oh come on, The Core is a classic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Rise Of Skywalker is not a good movie over all but it does have one of the truly great stupid space opera moments, in a cavalry charge across the outer hull of a space ship - it's up there with that bit in Thor Ragnarok where he jumps out of one spaceship onto another in order to punch it!