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Dark Knight: Load of Tripe (Cinema Talk Post)
It takes a filmmaker with final cut and independence to really create something that is unique and intellectually engaging, Kubrick did this with 2001. That movie was like nothing before or since, no dialog for the start and end, no standardized narrative structure, the entire film was essentially carried by images and sound.
The problem lies with the cost of production, no one wants to spend millions of dollars on something that is smart but doesn't guarantee box office sales, that's why they hit a intellectual mid mark, an example of this I would say is the Matrix. It could have been far more abstract or far more action packed. But it tried to stick to a middle.
I have yet to see a comic book film that really satisfies besides Tim Burtons take on Batman, the story lines always seem so contrived, trying to make everything realistic instead of being really just a superhero movie. I remember watching Spiderman and noting just how shit the whole plot was, how hard they tried to beat down on Peter Parker, how little of that enormous power he gains when he is Spiderman is displayed. How shit the CGI was.
The transformation was missing there for me, Peter Parker is a ordinary person yes, but he ain't a bitch. And they made him a bitch in the films, from the scenes were he is being pushed around campus, to his bubbling ways, to that horrible emo transformation. It was just wrong. It wasn't the spider man I remember reading about. I kept remember how much better the characters and plot line were better in the mid 90s Spiderman cartoon series, I watched them again worried that maybe my memories were rose tainted over time. But no. They weren't the cartoon series understood the character better then the film, they ran with it, they transported the comic book to its own universe and played with it. And it was awesome.
Anyone Watching Mad Men? (1sttube Talk Post)
You should check out Generation Kill from the creator of the Wire as well. It just started. Episode 2 is airing tonight on Bit... I mean HBO.
Mezcal: Myths of the worm! (Obscure Talk Post)
14 year old suicide bomber prevented from detonating bomb
Counter-Strike - You Got Owned By A Five Year Old
"I control what servers he plays at. Only the Christian ones."
2,867 miles? That's nothin. (Blog Entry by MarineGunrock)
Oh. Remember its never going to be as hot as Iraq
A hypothetical (Blog Entry by jwray)
I think culturally the Japanese people were different because of the acts of the Emperor of Japan to lull the nation into accepting occupational forces. I don't think the same would have happened with a preempted attack.
The whole attack on Pearl Harbor was not a success entirely, while alot of ships were destroyed the aircraft carriers were not, Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto the mastermind of Pearl Harbor, is believed to have said "I'm afraid we have awakened a sleeping giant and filled it with terrible resolve".
Spore Trailer - E3 2008
The Bystander Effect: Genovese Syndrome
Imprinting Little Boys in the 1960s
Barack Obama Interview w/ Gwen Ifill
Governments don't use weapons to keep populations under control, they use systems of coercion, propaganda and most of all the feeling of comfort and stability that no population will willingly fight against.
I think the whole lets keep weapons to make us safer from enemy x is a straw man argument, almost every other nation has decent restrictive gun control laws and are far more democratic and accountable then the US government.
The Plague Dogs - The most depressing animated movie ever
I believe animation is the more liberating of motion arts. But its shackled in the kindergarten.
Nellie Mckay - David