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You do know how to whistle don't ya Steve?
8bit
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
Groucho Marx
^ soon all h. bogart films are going to be outlawed i guess ![]()
^^ a wildwest town with an open sewer running through it, never seen that in a movie...
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^^ a wildwest town with an open sewer running through it, never seen that in a movie...
Peckinpah didn't sugar coat anything.
You must unlearn what you have learned.
-- yoda
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^ soon all h. bogart films are going to be outlawed i guess
Everything and anything can be overdone, I guess.
Political Correctness, #MeToo, Free Range Kids... Current 'pet peeve' is warning labels/lawyer speak. Unmitigated risk aversion is the new Puritanism; complete with witch hunts, funny outfits, and humorless preachers thundering doom. The name of the Deity is changed to Safety; the name of Satan is changed to Lawyer; but the object is the same: to suck the life out of life and tell you how to live it.
Sorry for getting so far off topic.
8bit
No system can ever prove itself to be free of contradiction.
- Bertrand Russell - Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
So the story with Tombstone (1993, starring Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Sam Elliot, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn and Dana Delaney) is that the director, George P. Cosmatos, was fired, and Kurt Russell stepped in and directed the film. As a result, he shifted the main focus of the film away from Wyatt Earp, though his character and relationships get considerable screen time, and onto Doc Holliday and his relationships, especially re: his mistress and Wyatt.
As a result, the new directing and editing gave Kilmer the vehicle to display what I think is the finest acting of his career.
And Ringo. his decimation of Ringo throughout the film is flipping epic.
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Political Correctness, #MeToo, Free Range Kids...
can you explain why the last one is on that list?
"How to raise safe, self-reliant kids without going nuts with worry" and "Children deserve unsupervised time" sounds pretty good to me.
Unmitigated risk aversion is the new Puritanism; complete with witch hunts, funny outfits, and humorless preachers thundering doom. The name of the Deity is changed to Safety
one for the bunsenlabs quotes package I think. would you mind?
PS: how did you implement your dynamic quotes signature?
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eight.bit.al wrote:can you explain why the last one is on that list?
Sure. Society's 'control' of how people raise their kids is the excessive part. I'm a free range kid from 50's America, before that style of parenting needed a name.
Which led into the risk aversion thoughts.
Unmitigated risk aversion is the new Puritanism; complete with witch hunts, funny outfits, and humorless preachers thundering doom. The name of the Deity is changed to Safety
one for the bunsenlabs quotes package I think. would you mind?
Not at all; truth be told I stole it from somewhere I can't remember now.
PS: how did you implement your dynamic quotes signature?
You give me too much credit. Copy/paste. Often choosing something that relates to the posting.
8bit
Move along, nothing to see here.
- The Men in Black
Sure. Society's 'control' of how people raise their kids is the excessive part. I'm a free range kid from 50's America, before that style of parenting needed a name.
i see.
looked it up on wikipedia.
i didn't know it's a "Thing".
making that your bible probably isn't so good either.
all in moderation, i'd say.
Not at all; truth be told I stole it from somewhere I can't remember now.
oh.
i think at some point i'd vowed to use only original content, but this definitely wouldn't be the first time something "slipped past".
You give me too much credit. Copy/paste. Often choosing something that relates to the posting.
oh again.
oh out.
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^ oh well. :-)
8bit
"Silence is argument carried out by other means."
- Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
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Oh no... not again.
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Oh no... not again.
Oh, what?
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Too geeky to be a nerd. Too nerdy to be a geek.
- 8bit
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looked it up on wikipedia.
i didn't know it's a "Thing".
making that your bible probably isn't so good either.
I tried reading/parsing this several times, no grok. Call me a socially stunted nerd/geek.
Can't figure out what "that" refers too:
-->"making that your bible"
And
Which you is meant by "your":
-->"making that your bible"
"your" as in me, the original poster or
"your" as in one:
e.g: making that one's bible
Care to elaborate?
all in moderation, i'd say.
On that we have unanimous agreement.
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^ i guess my weak grasp on english shows there.
what i wanted to say:
making any one Thing (with a capital T) one's blueprint for - life, raising kids, whatever - isn't really so healthy. not for you (the one), not for the kids.
in the end "it depends" is the only credo i have.
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Kirsty: I didn't open the box!
Female Cenobite, slowly rotating: Didn't open the box. And what was it last time?... Didn't know what the box was. And yet we do keep finding each other, don't we?
Pinhead, also rotating: Oh, Kirsty! So eager to play. So reluctant to admit it!
Female Cenobite: Perhaps you're teasing us. Are you teasing us?
Kirsty, screaming: I've come for my father!
Cenobites laugh
We... have eternity... to know. your. flesh.
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I'll make a bold statement... Given that Blade Runner is in a league of its own in this category, the best movie audio is Rollerball (1975, Andre Previn conducting the London Symphony Orchestra).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR8HWfzVPLE
Rollerball also wins the prize by a mile for best use of fonts in a movie.
Jaws (1975), John Williams and the LSO with music by John Williams, is objectively a better music pick, by more than a mile.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtDleusg9ew
I take it back, it's not even close. Rollerball>Jaws.
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Blade Runner, any version. You can smell the dystopia and Vangelis.
-edit- So, theory... this next shot I'm posting, at the beginning of the film, is setting up and foreshadowing a lot. Flying cars, Corporate Power... but those translucent diamonds on the left of the shot, those are Zora's snake scales in the bathtub, which results in Deckard's detective work, and finally the assassination.
And here is my evidence, may the court admit it.
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Excalibur (1981, John Boorman director, producer, co-writer). The whole damn movie is a screenshot. A few from the first four minutes of the film...
https://scrot.moe/image/aKo92
https://scrot.moe/image/aKiUZ
https://scrot.moe/image/aKpI8
https://scrot.moe/image/aKHAq
https://scrot.moe/image/aKlfy
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