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It started sometimes after 2ww and was gradual process but only now it has reached to freefall point.<br /><br />When so many people rate Expendables 2 ten stars and listen somebody named Gaga, you know that end of the world is near and i'm not even being sarcastic. <br /><br />"Beauty saves the world"<br /><br />Fyodor Dostoyevsky<br /><br />How so true.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-47331334233890108332012-07-02T16:39:02.197-07:002012-07-02T16:39:02.197-07:00Nice review. I did like this movie better than the...Nice review. I did like this movie better than the first one. I thought Jared Harris made an excellent Morarity.<br /><br />Check out my <b> <a href="http://buddy2blogger.blogspot.com/2012/07/review-sherlock-holmes-game-of-shadows.html" rel="nofollow">review </a> </b>.<br /><br />Cheers!Arunhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16498276962097853996noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-29853980746876160462012-06-20T04:22:43.015-07:002012-06-20T04:22:43.015-07:00Having bought the first one on DVD (bargain bin), ...Having bought the first one on DVD (bargain bin), I might pick this one up just for completion. Although I think that Irene Adler deserves a bit less cavalier treatment. <br /><br /> The BBC "Sherlock" series looks like it might be more interesting, in comparison.<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />eoneonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08580152241525427599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-24038888756317642472012-06-19T12:13:47.620-07:002012-06-19T12:13:47.620-07:00"A fish coming out of the guy's eye"..."A fish coming out of the guy's eye"<br /><br /> Well, under those circumstances any reasonably smart Babel Fish is going to vacate the premises.<br /><br /> The basic "point" of <i>Prometheus</i> (warning; spoiler)is supposedly this;<br /><br /> The Engineers (copied from Niven's Pak Protectors, from all indications) seeded life on numerous worlds, including ours, about at the end of the Oligocene. <br /><br /> Untold eons (OK, about 100 million years) later, us grotty humans vane down on one of the other planets they seeded, encounter their "goo" (which is enough like the "black oil" in <i>The X-Files</i> that Chris Carter ought to have a long talk with Ridley Scott- with his lawyers handy), and the result is, not more pacific and self-sacrificing Engineers, but rapacious and aggressive Xenomorphs.<br /><br /> Or, as Pogo used to say, "we have met the enemy and he is us". <br /><br />Translation; The whole <i>Alien</i> business is All Our Fault for not being the passive, self-sacrificing beings the Engineers wanted us to be. So the fact that the Xenomorphs find us both useful and tasty is merely poetic justice.<br /><br /> Ahem.<br /><br /> Dear Engineers,<br /><br /> Point 1;<br /><br /> If you seed a species on a planet that develops a highly competitive environment, and said species survives by becoming the most efficient competitor <i>in</i> said environment, you are in no position to complain about its lack of passivity. You just did a lousy job of choosing biospheres to start with, boyos.<br /><br /> Point 2. Exalting a willingness to die rather than to defend oneself or one's species is a moral position that might make you feel good about yourself, but is of little utility in ensuring the survival of your species. If you try to seed the entire Galaxy with species with this mindset in the belief that you are creating a set of "perfect, enlightened" cultures, you're just fooling yourselves; they probably won't survive long enough to even <i>create</i> cultures. Your entire philosophy is, therefore, an Epic Fail, and everything you've done to further your project was a waste of time, energy, and resources.<br /><br /> Next time, try squaring the circle. You probably will be no more successful, but the infrastructure needed (paper, pencil, and a straightedge) is a lot cheaper. And I suspect will keep you occupied at least as long.<br /><br /> Sincerely,<br /><br /> Temporal Observer 2783096<br /><br /><br />cheers<br /><br />eoneonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08580152241525427599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-57069687867059132832012-06-17T02:08:27.745-07:002012-06-17T02:08:27.745-07:00PS David, in the review you mentioned hoping that ...PS David, in the review you mentioned hoping that the Doctor would show up and sort things out, well the main character is called Elizabeth Shaw . . .Fruitbat44https://www.blogger.com/profile/07936337681244266258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-66555752208269693362012-06-12T11:48:28.441-07:002012-06-12T11:48:28.441-07:00Fruitbat44,
I think you are on to something. T...Fruitbat44,<br /> I think you are on to something. This movie had none of the usual Disney marketing and that seems to have been deliberate. The history of studio politics does not preclude one studio top banana sinking a project (that was too far gone to cancel, the usual way to rid oneself of a predecessor's pet project) in an effort to show why dumping the last top banana was a really good idea. It's a costly move to be sure, but if you can blame the mess on someone else and it's not your money anyway, it makes a certain kind of egotistical sense. I certainly don't believe the reports that they spent $100,000,000 on marketing, as no team of ad guys could spend that much money on hookers and blow and live to tell the tale.Chris Lopeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603182786879935663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-70103533479972758312012-06-12T09:40:22.070-07:002012-06-12T09:40:22.070-07:00Interesting. I saw 'John Carter' at the c...Interesting. I saw 'John Carter' at the cinema and came away feeling that, while it was far from being one of the best movies ever, it was an awful lot of fun. In an example of YMMV a friend of mine compared watching 'John Carter' to the first time he saw 'Raiders of the Lost Ark.'<br /><br />*If* 'John Carter' was slain by Disney, why? My limited knowledge of the inside workings of Hollywood (i.e. reading a few books by Hollywood insiders) suggests that it might be that there was a change of management, and 'John Carter' was the baby of the out going manager, or given the convulted nature of film finance it *might* be that it was more cost effective for Disney if 'John Carter' made a loss rather than a profit.<br /><br />OTOH there is a lot to be said for the old saw of "Never attribute to malice, what you can put down to stupidity." -sigh-Fruitbat44https://www.blogger.com/profile/07936337681244266258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-6297993736561800342012-06-11T11:10:12.758-07:002012-06-11T11:10:12.758-07:00A review which pretty much sums up my feelings abo...A review which pretty much sums up my feelings about 'Prometheus.' :-(<br /><br />I posted on Ephermal Isle about hearing a comment, "It's the Mountians of Madness in space!" But I hadn't heard the Guillermo del Toro rumour. -sigh-Fruitbat44https://www.blogger.com/profile/07936337681244266258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-26785822988265721072012-06-04T05:55:00.975-07:002012-06-04T05:55:00.975-07:00I remember a pirate got in in one episode.
He look...I remember a pirate got in in one episode.<br />He looked down from a catwalk to the reactor.<br /><br />I think he didn't like being there.jayessellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657220445010991417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-16904739787231900142012-06-04T05:16:20.829-07:002012-06-04T05:16:20.829-07:00Today (but not back then) I know enough about geol...Today (but not back then) I know enough about geology to know that based on depth, length, etc., Operation TicToc had to be built inside a limestone karst. There are plenty of them available in the American southwest, which was where it was supposed to be.<br /><br /> The amazing thing is that, in the whole series, not even one bad guy who managed to get inside the complex met his end by taking a high dive from the Tunnel control platform right to the bottom level. Which would definitely leave a mark.<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />eoneonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08580152241525427599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-55670787605208943692012-06-03T13:18:51.027-07:002012-06-03T13:18:51.027-07:00ALSO...
The phoney looking computers outside the ...ALSO...<br /><br />The phoney looking computers outside the time tunnel are actually retired SAGE systems that were used to track and identify (and if nessessary destroy) aircraft.<br />State of the art in the 1950s, scrap by the mid 1960s.<br />There's a YouTube of it, and a video at archive dot com.jayessellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657220445010991417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-60264902471630672232012-06-03T13:12:09.053-07:002012-06-03T13:12:09.053-07:00The set design REALLY has a 'Forbidden Planet&...The set design REALLY has a 'Forbidden Planet' feel.<br /><br />When I saw the ABC ads for their shows in general and this show in particular, they showed quick edits of the time reactor and what I can only call 'Surfer Music'.<br /><br />You wouldn't have THAT would you?jayessellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657220445010991417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-39505734097787004352012-04-30T15:45:03.351-07:002012-04-30T15:45:03.351-07:00I have the 33 1/3 LP of the score to this film. If...I have the 33 1/3 LP of the score to this film. If you skip over the g-dawful song by Joan Baez, it's one of the best orchestral film scores of the early Seventies.<br /><br /> It's also the only good thing about the movie, other than Douglas Trumbull's SFX.<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />eoneonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08580152241525427599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-19396300821710191242012-04-15T04:46:06.023-07:002012-04-15T04:46:06.023-07:00Time to register a slight difference of opinion he...Time to register a slight difference of opinion here; I thought that The Hunger Games was very well done. <br /><br />Okay ultimately this is just a difference of opinion e.g. I thought that Jennifer Lawernce was brilliant as Katniss; and yes, she is an Action Girl and I do agree that “The Action Girl” is turning into a cliché, but in Katniss’ case it’s a status with a plausible background; Katniss is someone who for several years has defied the rules and relied on her woodcraft, and her marksmanship to, literally, keep her family from starving.<br /><br />I do agree with you though that the film looked great and Stanley Tucci was brilliant; the perfect talk show host to children about to be used as gladiators. –shudder-<br /><br />And I also agree that idea of using children as gladiators was pretty sick. However there is a difference between making a movie about something sick, and making a sick movie. And IMNSHO THG stays on the right side of this line.<br /><br />Agreeing, and disagreeing, with you here, I did feel the film could have been shorter without losing anything, yet I felt that the novel manage to introduce Katniss and her world in just few pages.<br /><br />Your review mentioned the fight scenes being “confused.” I think this was deliberate to keep the level of depiction of the violence, involving kids, to non-graphic levels while still giving the impression it was pretty nasty.<br /><br />Btw, and going OT here, kids, children, teens and young adults; what’s the difference? These days the distinctions seem a little vague.<br /><br />And another btw, apparently the idea of having children sent as tributes to a victor goes back to legend of Theseus. And I agree that THG does remind me a lot of stuff like “Battle Royale”, “The Running Man” and even a Strontium Dog story in 2000AD, but I still felt that THG had its own take on this scenario.<br /><br />Okay so far this all JIMHO and stuff like that, this is where I going to argue an objective point; there is rebellion.<br /><br />We see riots breakout in Rue’s home district, triggered by Katniss’ kindness to Rue. And her kindness, in the book, was specifically raising two-fingers to the Capitol. (An appropriate metaphor for an archer I think.) However if her motivations are unclear in the film, then this is a weakness in the film. <br /><br />Yes, Katniss, and everyone else, does seem to accept the status quo. I wondered if this was subtlety on the part of the movie (Hollywood and subtle????!!!!) that this had been going on for so long that it had become accepted because “It’s the way it is and the way it’s always been.” Or possibly it was implying that rebellion had been tried and punished to such an incredibly severe level, that giving up a youth and a maiden each year was seen as the lesser evil. And a cruel twist, which I can’t remember was mentioned in the movie, was that the victor won concessions for their district.<br /><br />However I do feel that the final actions by Katniss in the arena were a rebellion. She was refusing to play by the Capitol’s rules, even if it cost her life, and if her actions could be interpreted in different ways, well this is an example of the film being true to the book, even Katniss was uncertain of her own motives. <br /> <br />Well this has been a rather long, “I beg to differ,” but I hope it’s been entertaining, and, meanwhile keep on blogging. :-)Fruitbat44https://www.blogger.com/profile/07936337681244266258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-48273338635950821472012-04-07T13:06:12.896-07:002012-04-07T13:06:12.896-07:00If Brando had that kind of ego back in 1962, he mu...If Brando had that kind of ego back in 1962, he must have been a monster to work with in his later years.Chris Lopeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15603182786879935663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-52829628945067010152012-02-28T23:55:47.832-08:002012-02-28T23:55:47.832-08:00Geeze mister poster artist!
Is that the face where...Geeze mister poster artist!<br />Is that the face where his arm is chopped off?jayessellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657220445010991417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-66472646000147279112012-01-12T13:10:44.447-08:002012-01-12T13:10:44.447-08:00I didn't see this one, and probably won't,...I didn't see this one, and probably won't, but a question comes to mind about the "found footage" aspect.<br />Did the LEM make it back to the Service and Command Modules with at least one astronaut?<br />If not it seems the footage would remain unfound as it would still be on the moon.<br />Like I said, didn't see, probably won'tNeil A Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02190094795400035347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-4135802245319447902011-12-29T08:37:17.524-08:002011-12-29T08:37:17.524-08:00I am so looking forward to this film :-)I am so looking forward to this film :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-11486802560091984222011-12-24T05:43:27.065-08:002011-12-24T05:43:27.065-08:00Urectum.Urectum.jayessellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12657220445010991417noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3537174575426850870.post-27559544844660870652011-12-06T15:10:47.096-08:002011-12-06T15:10:47.096-08:00Not to be confused with
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