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Josephus

#1170
July 10, 2011, 08:06:04 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 10, 2011, 07:28:16 AM
I watched the first half of True Grit. It seemed quite alright but I don't get how everyone was saying it was awesome. I feel asleep half way through though, will have to watch the second half tonight. Maybe it gets amazing.

I didn't fall asleep, but I wanted to.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

mongers

#1171
July 10, 2011, 08:20:37 AM
Quote from: Josephus on July 10, 2011, 08:06:04 AM
Quote from: Tyr on July 10, 2011, 07:28:16 AM
I watched the first half of True Grit. It seemed quite alright but I don't get how everyone was saying it was awesome. I feel asleep half way through though, will have to watch the second half tonight. Maybe it gets amazing.

I didn't fall asleep, but I wanted to.

Yes, I didn't get why some people enthused over it; I thought the original was better.
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Eddie Teach

#1172
July 10, 2011, 08:26:04 AM
I liked it better than the original, but then I never cared overmuch for John Wayne.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

CountDeMoney

#1173
July 10, 2011, 08:50:14 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 10, 2011, 08:26:04 AM
I liked it better than the original, but then I never cared overmuch for John Wayne.

Ditto.  People would be disappointed looking for No Country For Old Men, but it was a decent movie.

grumbler

#1174
July 10, 2011, 10:51:20 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on July 10, 2011, 08:50:14 AM
Ditto.  People would be disappointed looking for No Country For Old Men, but it was a decent movie.
Decent, but I didn't think it was paced well, and the ending seemed tacked on.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Josephus

#1175
July 11, 2011, 10:02:33 AM
Treme -- anyone?
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Viking

#1176
July 11, 2011, 10:38:25 AM
The turkey Falling Skies got renewed.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/falling-skies-renewed-season-2-208866

This just confirms for me that Lenin was right and people are stupid. I can't fathom how a tv show with that kind of budget, talent and holllywood power behind it can only manage to create drama by having characters shout "NO!!!" calling attention to themselves and then run right to the spot where the alien mecha just shot the last person who stood on the same spot, and when they get there they stand still cry and wait.

The answer to every moral dilemma asked in that show is "we should be ruthless because we have just been invaded by an alien super race which is slaughtering or enslaving humanity". What amazes me is that nobody in the show seems to realize this.

What a waste of talent and money.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Habbaku

#1177
July 11, 2011, 12:05:07 PM
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Razgovory

#1178
July 11, 2011, 12:07:09 PM
A realistic portrayal of partisans or resistance fighters would probably be unpleasant.  A major part of the job seems to involve murdering people who are suspected of collaborations and inspiring terror to prevent collaboration.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Eddie Teach

#1179
July 11, 2011, 12:16:55 PM
Quote from: Viking on July 11, 2011, 10:38:25 AM
The answer to every moral dilemma asked in that show is "we should be ruthless because we have just been invaded by an alien super race which is slaughtering or enslaving humanity". What amazes me is that nobody in the show seems to realize this.

The problem with promoting such an ethos is that people aren't always able to discriminate between real end-of-humanity scenarios and more realistic dilemmas they might actually face.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Zoupa

#1180
July 11, 2011, 12:19:19 PM
Quote from: Josephus on July 11, 2011, 10:02:33 AM
Treme -- anyone?

I tried, couldnt finish the pilot.

Berkut

#1181
July 11, 2011, 12:41:20 PM
TRON. Made it through maybe half or a little more before I fell asleep. Wow, that was really, really boring.
"If you think this has a happy ending, then you haven't been paying attention."

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Grey Fox

#1182
July 11, 2011, 12:45:56 PM
Green Zone & Battle Los Angeles

Shit ain't going good, eh?
Colonel Caliga is Awesome.

Viking

#1183
July 11, 2011, 12:48:34 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on July 11, 2011, 12:16:55 PM
Quote from: Viking on July 11, 2011, 10:38:25 AM
The answer to every moral dilemma asked in that show is "we should be ruthless because we have just been invaded by an alien super race which is slaughtering or enslaving humanity". What amazes me is that nobody in the show seems to realize this.

The problem with promoting such an ethos is that people aren't always able to discriminate between real end-of-humanity scenarios and more realistic dilemmas they might actually face.

I'm not suggesting that all moral dilemmas fall into that category in case of alien invasion, I'm just saying that on this particular show every moral dilemma that is posed can be resolved by that answer.

shall I abandon my friends or die trying to save them? - show makes character take suicidal choices only to be saved in some fantastical manner (Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship or Rescue by the Cavalry). The only character to make the choice of not choosing to join other doomed people in death is villified early one (the steve weber character).

P.S. - sometimes I do wonder why I watch it.. but then again, it has aliens and I am the eternal optimist.
First Maxim - "There are only two amounts, too few and enough."
First Corollary - "You cannot have too many soldiers, only too few supplies."
Second Maxim - "Be willing to exchange a bad idea for a good one."
Second Corollary - "You can only be wrong or agree with me."

A terrorist which starts a slaughter quoting Locke, Burke and Mill has completely missed the point.
The fact remains that the only person or group to applaud the Norway massacre are random Islamists.

Razgovory

#1184
July 11, 2011, 12:49:12 PM
Quote from: Berkut on July 11, 2011, 12:41:20 PM
TRON. Made it through maybe half or a little more before I fell asleep. Wow, that was really, really boring.

Old or new?
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017
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