Watched Deadpool, some amusing wisecracks but was completely underwhelmed.
Lack of an interesting plot, a coherent plot, character development, interesting characters, etc.
The comic book superhero, so-called, genre a.k.a. Men in Tights, does not work for me.
The only exception so far has been Guardians of the Galaxy as a comedy.
that particular model was famous in australia before mad max as it was the last of the GT HO overpowered street cars that the government told ford to stop making, for being way too dangerous.
by modern standards they had lots of motor and hardly any breaks or suspension - all go, no slow
that particular model was famous in australia before mad max as it was the last of the GT HO overpowered street cars that the government told ford to stop making, for being way too dangerous.
by modern standards they had lots of motor and hardly any breaks or suspension - all go, no slow
The good ole days of the Muscle Car era! I don't recall the Mad Max model ever being sold in the US. the closest model would have been a Gran Torino. My oldest brother still has a 69 Mach 1 Mustang he bought in 1972.
always interesting to try to see how filmmakers attempt to repackage cult movies that are more than a generation past to the young'uns.
the new Mad Max was an interesting mix of proselytizing on environment, humanity (or lack thereof), religion, mob behavior, fear of outsiders, etc.
me thinketh these attempts are revealing of how marketeers view their target herds.
Interesting low budget flick about watching some intellectuals try to come to grips with data that does not confirm their chosen bias/area of expertise. good movie.
Interesting low budget flick about watching some intellectuals try to come to grips with data that does not confirm their chosen bias/area of expertise. good movie.
reviews look interesting, ill have to see if i can find it.
Interesting low budget flick about watching some intellectuals try to come to grips with data that does not confirm their chosen bias/area of expertise. good movie.
reviews look interesting, ill have to see if i can find it.
Just watched it again last night. Maybe the fourth time in 8 or 10 years. Excellent presentation of people struggling to deal with data that lies outside their chosen comfort zone. Since the "experts" have the most to lose, they need to try the hardest. Cause it would suck not being an expert anymore....
i would suggest trying the evil free market. That is where "they" keep all the good shite!
noddy wrote:the even free-er and evil-er bittorrent market has provided will watch on the weekend.
Be careful out there is cyberspace. Nothing makes people more discontented and bitter than having instantaneous access to whatever whim enters what used to be their minds.
Just saw "The Admiral " on Netflix. Good costume drama about 17C Netherland naval conflict w/England.
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Twin Peaks-- I am not much of a David Lynch fan but,
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Twin Peaks ended up being some sort of retelling/deconstruction/commentary upon Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious. 50 hours (or however long the series as a whole is) of incorporating the source material, its cultural significance and its artistic significance to Hitchcock's career as an analogy to Lynch's own. And in Season 3, Lynch really hits you over the head with the connections...which makes it kind of funny that the general internet milieu is so caught up in interpreting it through the Mulholland Drive lens-- which inadvertently has ended up more important as its timing coincided more with the rise of the social media internet (and obsessively revising the pop culture they grew up with) than Twin Peaks. That same audience is primed to use Buzzfeed as a cypher and not film history.
It's obvious that this was not the original intention of the show and I bet you can point to the exact moment of the shift in the material. I take Mr.Lynch at his word when he says the original intention was to use the death of teenage prom queen as more of a table-setter and that went out the window as it became the primary draw for an ever impatient (wide) audience not to keen on any of the other threads. So he gives you what you want--if that's what you want-- and wraps it all together in a clever way. If you like Lynch you'll like it, if you don't you won't....
Twin Peaks premiered when I was living in the Midwest, so I didn't have to wait what always seems like forever to see it.
It has my interest until Laura Palmer's murder was solved. After that, for me, the thread was lost.
I vaguely recall reading that the business types pressured Lynch to do so, but can't confirm.
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