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Savonarola

#37845
October 09, 2017, 12:09:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 09, 2017, 12:03:44 PM
Yes it's the predicament of the arts that comes to mind when we think about the negatives of the North Korean system.

Keep in mind that this is relative to Stalinism.

QuoteWere any North Koreans imprisoned/worse for letting them get away with filming and smuggling out unauthorized footage?

No one outside North Korea knows for sure.  Vitaliy Manskiy thought that some of his handlers were going to be in danger.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock

The Brain

#37846
October 09, 2017, 02:47:32 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 09, 2017, 12:09:46 PM
Quote from: The Brain on October 09, 2017, 12:03:44 PM
Were any North Koreans imprisoned/worse for letting them get away with filming and smuggling out unauthorized footage?

No one outside North Korea knows for sure.  Vitaliy Manskiy thought that some of his handlers were going to be in danger.

He sounds like a great guy.
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garbon

#37847
October 09, 2017, 03:41:06 PM
Starting to watch Trek now. One thing I realized is that virtually every Federation scene has had Burnham in it. I wonder if we'll ever diverge from focus on the one character like we typically do.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

HVC

#37848
October 09, 2017, 03:50:39 PM
I was thinking they could tell stories about some of the other crew, but when your driving force is space fungus that might be hard to do. They might do some cool section 31 stuff though
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

garbon

#37849
October 09, 2017, 04:03:02 PM
Btw, I love that the main gay guy is very annoying...<_<

Hopefully the gay doc will be less so.
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Eddie Teach

#37850
October 09, 2017, 04:11:46 PM
Quote from: garbon on October 09, 2017, 04:03:02 PM
Btw, I love that the main gay guy is very annoying...<_<


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garbon

#37851
October 09, 2017, 04:37:52 PM
Also, I think AV Club's take on the episode was pretty accurate. [spoiler]Onward and upward?[/spoiler]
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

celedhring

#37852
October 09, 2017, 04:50:19 PM
I'm liking Star Trek quite a bit, particularly what they did with the klingon storyline in this episode. I'm really having trouble with the whole teleporting fungi bit though, sounds a bit too silly  :lol:

HVC

#37853
October 09, 2017, 07:01:11 PM
Animal torture* and rainn Wilson, they might be going off the tracks?

* did they nipple clamp the tardigrade? :unsure:
Being lazy is bad; unless you still get what you want, then it's called "patience".
Hubris must be punished. Severely.

KRonn

#37854
October 09, 2017, 08:36:52 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on October 09, 2017, 12:00:50 PM
Under the Sun (2015)

The director, Vitaliy Manskiy, wanted to make the film to help him understand Stalinism.  He thought the North Korean system was actually worse because the only arts are enormous spectacle while the Soviet Union retained, at least some of, its artistic life.


I guess this film won't be getting released in N. Korea. ;)

FunkMonk

#37855
October 09, 2017, 09:19:14 PM
So the new Star Wars Last Jedi trailer just came out and it was cool and all, but honestly anything with TIE Fighters zooming by and lightsabers clashing is cool to me so my opinion shouldn't really carry much weight.

I have to say, I feel like they might be giving away a lot in the trailer, though. If you don't want spoilers I advise you don't see it.
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Habbaku

#37856
October 09, 2017, 09:29:01 PM
Yeah, I deliberately skipped the trailer today for worry over potential spoilers. I'm going to go in pretty blind to the movie, if possible.
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.
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CountDeMoney

#37857
October 09, 2017, 09:58:38 PM
It's just going to be a repeat of Empire Strikes Back, but without the better writing and directing.

Habbaku

#37858
October 09, 2017, 10:35:01 PM
Rian Johnson's the director. Unless Disney had him locked up somewhere with no ability to guide the storyline, we're not getting a rehash.
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

Eddie Teach

#37859
October 09, 2017, 10:41:48 PM
Who?
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