MAD only worked because both sides of the conflict were rational and relatively sane. Iran has no such encumbrance... Know how I know that you cannot respond with facts but instead respond with angry little hysteria? This is how... [slate.com] and then there's this... [memri.org]
Both of those are articles to the same thing, which sounds a bit scary until you actually read it through. What is the proper way to eliminate Israel's regime? (note that he's talking about the government) It is for all Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the area to hold a public referendum. Oh my God, that FUCKING CRAZY! Absolutely insane. The details don't sound very fair (the referendum is for all 'original people of Palestine' to take part, however they're supposed to be able to figure that out), but this is hardly madness of the Islamic State or other terrorist organizations.
The tactics he explicitly rules out: murder of the Jews, warfare on the part of Muslim countries, involvement of the UN (probably due to the Security Council).
"If they're really that determined, they're going to get nukes anyway. At least this way they can use some of that money to fund Isis." (for various values of militant Islamic nutjobs)
FTFY.
No, that's not fixed. Iran is spending a ton of resources right now fighting Isis. Iran is Shia, Isis is Sunni. They're going to be violently opposed to each other until this 1400+ year Islamic civil war ends (good luck with that). Iran and Isis aren't friends, and over there, unlike the US, they believe that "The enemy of my enemy... is still my enemy."
Because the elderly vote, while young people blather on about how the system is stupid, or they don't like who is running, or whatever other excuse is used that day to not vote.
If a 9th Circuit case goes up for review, it has more of a chance of getting overturned. However, it has a higher rate of cases that are left to stand (not affirmed, not struck down) than the other circuit court. I suppose you could oversimplify by saying that the 9th circuit doesn't blow it that often, but when they do, they REALLY blow it.
Some of the pirate subtitles I've found are quite superior to the on-disc subtitles on a few of my anime movies. I end up ripping the movie off dvd/blu-ray, but adding in the 3rd-party subtitles to the resulting file.
Interesting. It reminded me of the "Garfield Minus Garfield" comic, where Garfield is removed from all panels, turning the comic into "the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle." Without Garfield's snark, it does become a story of a man fighting loneliness in suburbia.
I think you can objectively say that Ledger's performance was brilliant, whether or not the subject matter of the movie (or comic movies in general) appeal to you. I can't say that for most comic book movies, even for those starring actors who have put in very good work in other genres.
I would say he's been in several good movies. Magnolia, a couple of the Mission Impossibles, Minority Report, Rain Man, the Last Samurai, War of the Worlds (flawed, but excellent in some parts, and Cruise was convincing), Valkyrie, Oblivion...
Yeah these April Fool's headlines on Slashdot aren't fooling anyone: "V'Ger Source Code released," "Coup in Arakkis," "Pastor Mocked for Biblical Money Code.." Nonsense.
Yeah, I was not happy with the scenes that tried to "lighten up" the movie. You'd follow a dark scene with a badly-done space shoot-out with a floating robot doing a 360-degree twirl in the air while a VICTORY THEME plays. Ugh.
That movie needed to be edited down. It was trying to be Star Wars, but all the laser battles compared very poorly to Star Wars's.
Disney can't make a movie without pasting on a happy ending
I thought the part of the ending where Reinhardt is fused to Maximillian, trapped and unable to move while surrounded by the fires of Hell was a pretty dark part of the ending. The wormhole sequence makes sense, but I could have done without the robed figure. While your point about Disney endings is well taken, The Black Hole is one of their few movies that I'd think ended the way it should have.
Viggo Mortinsen has naturally been offered the world, but he's extremely pick-and-choosy for the types of movie roles he goes for. Obviously he's not hurting for cash, that gives the actor freedom to do whatever they want. And what he's wanted is a close partnership with David Cronenberg. Cronenberg's movies don't make much money, but they tend to be interesting, and Viggo landed a Best Actor Oscar nom for Eastern Promises.
With his Star Trek reboot, he destroyed worlds, wrecked characters and snubbed years of canon material
Good. Star Trek needed it. As a franchise it had completely run out of gas.
"Staying true to canon" absolutely strangles creativity, and no one who wants to do anything interesting with Star Trek would want to work in a universe with everything so set in stone.
In terms of style, however, Abram's Star Trek was more of a Star Wars movie.
or completely ignore/bypass/clobber any of the existing post SW:ROJ material
That would probably also be a good thing. I could never find anything in the extended canon that I'd consider keeping. Too much of it was also bound up with Lucas.
Lucas didn't direct "Return of the Jedi" either - that was Richard Marquand.
It was fairly well-directed too. The writing doesn't hold up well (Luke/Leia, Ewoks), but the space battle scenes are easily the best of the series (includes the prequels), and the scenes were Luke/Vader/Emperor were fantastic. Overall, the movie's use of light and dark are also excellent.
Ford wasn't necessarily Spielberg's 1st choice for Raiders.
Oh man, Tom Selleck is Indiana Jones! Look at this 1980 photo of him. Harrison Ford was probably the best choice, but I think Selleck could have been believable in the role.
He should have drifted to the dark side over the three movies not went from squeaky clean good guy to super villain in the last 30 minutes of the 3rd film
Did you forget, like everyone in the movie, that in Episode II he slaughtered an entire village (offscreen) because one of their guys kidnapped and tortured and killed his mother? I wouldn't blame you, Padme seems to forget this horrible act of genocide in less than five minutes.
Not the case for the new three. It was an all-Lucas team. He was in charge, surrounded by yes men and did whatever the fuck he wanted. The result was really bad.
I suspect that the same happened for the Hobbit Trilogy, and that Peter Jackson is turning into Lucas 2.0. Jackson still has more raw talent than Lucas ever did, and the Hobbit Trilogy is better than the Star Wars Prequels, but it seems like Jackson is a guy who needs to be paired with strong editors and studio limits.
New Line was on the verge of bankruptcy when the Lord of the Rings was made, and they had a strong financial interest to ensure that things went well.
5 was great because it had different writers (Brackett/Kasdan) and a different director (Kershner).
5 was the only one that I felt had decent characterization, and I have to believe that George's smart decision to hire a soap opera director (Kershner) to direct a space opera was a big part of this.
You're both right. Shatner certainly had a number of varied roles before Star Trek, but he had successful roles in TV afterwards, like T.J. "He's a good cop!" Hooker. Later on, people wanted to hire Shatner so he would be Bill Shatner (Invasion USA, Shit my Dad Says, Priceline commercials, etc). Nimoy had a number of decent roles, Takei managed to make a bit of a name for himself. Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan were much less successful. DeForest Kelley had a great career, especially in westerns, pre-Star Trek, but as one of the elder actors on the show, he semi-retired after it to avoid suffering from typecasting, only really coming out for Star Trek properties.
Or downgraded depending on how you look at it. He was the one wearing the bag that said "I'm not famous anymore"
While Transformers upgraded his career, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull killed his chances of getting similar roles. Some people aren't meant to play that type of a character. I'd feel the same if Michael Cera took the role, much as I thought that he really fit Scott Pilgrim.
what actor launched their career from Harry Potter?
Harry Potter is a different subject, because there were two entirely different classes of actors in that series. You had the child actors and the adults. The child actors weren't well cast for the most part. I thought their acting and the direction of the movies sucked all the joy, humor, and spontaneity out of the books.
On the other hand, you had the adults who were all well-established mostly-British character actors. They excelled magnificently, and were the prime reason to watch the series in the first place. Most of them never were the "leading" type though. But we shouldn't pidgeonhole every actor into leading man/woman status and say their careers weren't good if they don't fit into that box. Maggie Smith, for instance. Or Alan Rickman.
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MAD only worked because both sides of the conflict were rational and relatively sane. Iran has no such encumbrance ...
Know how I know that you cannot respond with facts but instead respond with angry little hysteria? This is how... [slate.com] and then there's this... [memri.org]
Both of those are articles to the same thing, which sounds a bit scary until you actually read it through. What is the proper way to eliminate Israel's regime? (note that he's talking about the government) It is for all Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the area to hold a public referendum. Oh my God, that FUCKING CRAZY! Absolutely insane. The details don't sound very fair (the referendum is for all 'original people of Palestine' to take part, however they're supposed to be able to figure that out), but this is hardly madness of the Islamic State or other terrorist organizations.
The tactics he explicitly rules out: murder of the Jews, warfare on the part of Muslim countries, involvement of the UN (probably due to the Security Council).
"If they're really that determined, they're going to get nukes anyway. At least this way they can use some of that money to fund Isis." (for various values of militant Islamic nutjobs)
FTFY.
No, that's not fixed. Iran is spending a ton of resources right now fighting Isis. Iran is Shia, Isis is Sunni. They're going to be violently opposed to each other until this 1400+ year Islamic civil war ends (good luck with that). Iran and Isis aren't friends, and over there, unlike the US, they believe that "The enemy of my enemy... is still my enemy."
Because the elderly vote, while young people blather on about how the system is stupid, or they don't like who is running, or whatever other excuse is used that day to not vote.
Yify torrents have subtitles and don't cost a dime, piracy FTW once again.
Thanks, but I'm not interested in torrenting furry porn.
If a 9th Circuit case goes up for review, it has more of a chance of getting overturned. However, it has a higher rate of cases that are left to stand (not affirmed, not struck down) than the other circuit court. I suppose you could oversimplify by saying that the 9th circuit doesn't blow it that often, but when they do, they REALLY blow it.
Some of the pirate subtitles I've found are quite superior to the on-disc subtitles on a few of my anime movies. I end up ripping the movie off dvd/blu-ray, but adding in the 3rd-party subtitles to the resulting file.
The fools certainly come out on April 1st!
Oh, I wish it only happened one day a year.
Interesting. It reminded me of the "Garfield Minus Garfield" comic, where Garfield is removed from all panels, turning the comic into "the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle." Without Garfield's snark, it does become a story of a man fighting loneliness in suburbia.
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/page/857 is a good example.
I think you can objectively say that Ledger's performance was brilliant, whether or not the subject matter of the movie (or comic movies in general) appeal to you. I can't say that for most comic book movies, even for those starring actors who have put in very good work in other genres.
I thought we all agreed that nobody was ever supposed to mention that movie again?
Cautionary tales are supposed to hurt.
I would say he's been in several good movies. Magnolia, a couple of the Mission Impossibles, Minority Report, Rain Man, the Last Samurai, War of the Worlds (flawed, but excellent in some parts, and Cruise was convincing), Valkyrie, Oblivion...
Yeah these April Fool's headlines on Slashdot aren't fooling anyone: "V'Ger Source Code released," "Coup in Arakkis," "Pastor Mocked for Biblical Money Code.." Nonsense.
Yeah, I was not happy with the scenes that tried to "lighten up" the movie. You'd follow a dark scene with a badly-done space shoot-out with a floating robot doing a 360-degree twirl in the air while a VICTORY THEME plays. Ugh.
That movie needed to be edited down. It was trying to be Star Wars, but all the laser battles compared very poorly to Star Wars's.
Disney can't make a movie without pasting on a happy ending
I thought the part of the ending where Reinhardt is fused to Maximillian, trapped and unable to move while surrounded by the fires of Hell was a pretty dark part of the ending. The wormhole sequence makes sense, but I could have done without the robed figure. While your point about Disney endings is well taken, The Black Hole is one of their few movies that I'd think ended the way it should have.
Viggo Mortinsen has naturally been offered the world, but he's extremely pick-and-choosy for the types of movie roles he goes for. Obviously he's not hurting for cash, that gives the actor freedom to do whatever they want. And what he's wanted is a close partnership with David Cronenberg. Cronenberg's movies don't make much money, but they tend to be interesting, and Viggo landed a Best Actor Oscar nom for Eastern Promises.
With his Star Trek reboot, he destroyed worlds, wrecked characters and snubbed years of canon material
Good. Star Trek needed it. As a franchise it had completely run out of gas.
"Staying true to canon" absolutely strangles creativity, and no one who wants to do anything interesting with Star Trek would want to work in a universe with everything so set in stone.
In terms of style, however, Abram's Star Trek was more of a Star Wars movie.
or completely ignore/bypass/clobber any of the existing post SW:ROJ material
That would probably also be a good thing. I could never find anything in the extended canon that I'd consider keeping. Too much of it was also bound up with Lucas.
Lucas didn't direct "Return of the Jedi" either - that was Richard Marquand.
It was fairly well-directed too. The writing doesn't hold up well (Luke/Leia, Ewoks), but the space battle scenes are easily the best of the series (includes the prequels), and the scenes were Luke/Vader/Emperor were fantastic. Overall, the movie's use of light and dark are also excellent.
Ford wasn't necessarily Spielberg's 1st choice for Raiders.
Oh man, Tom Selleck is Indiana Jones!
Look at this 1980 photo of him. Harrison Ford was probably the best choice, but I think Selleck could have been believable in the role.
He should have drifted to the dark side over the three movies not went from squeaky clean good guy to super villain in the last 30 minutes of the 3rd film
Did you forget, like everyone in the movie, that in Episode II he slaughtered an entire village (offscreen) because one of their guys kidnapped and tortured and killed his mother? I wouldn't blame you, Padme seems to forget this horrible act of genocide in less than five minutes.
Not the case for the new three. It was an all-Lucas team. He was in charge, surrounded by yes men and did whatever the fuck he wanted. The result was really bad.
I suspect that the same happened for the Hobbit Trilogy, and that Peter Jackson is turning into Lucas 2.0.
Jackson still has more raw talent than Lucas ever did, and the Hobbit Trilogy is better than the Star Wars Prequels, but it seems like Jackson is a guy who needs to be paired with strong editors and studio limits.
New Line was on the verge of bankruptcy when the Lord of the Rings was made, and they had a strong financial interest to ensure that things went well.
The line was Harrison Ford's, and I've never seen it attributed to Alec Guinness. Guinness did think the dialogue was absolutely terrible as well.
5 was great because it had different writers (Brackett/Kasdan) and a different director (Kershner).
5 was the only one that I felt had decent characterization, and I have to believe that George's smart decision to hire a soap opera director (Kershner) to direct a space opera was a big part of this.
You're both right. Shatner certainly had a number of varied roles before Star Trek, but he had successful roles in TV afterwards, like T.J. "He's a good cop!" Hooker. Later on, people wanted to hire Shatner so he would be Bill Shatner (Invasion USA, Shit my Dad Says, Priceline commercials, etc). Nimoy had a number of decent roles, Takei managed to make a bit of a name for himself. Nichelle Nichols and James Doohan were much less successful. DeForest Kelley had a great career, especially in westerns, pre-Star Trek, but as one of the elder actors on the show, he semi-retired after it to avoid suffering from typecasting, only really coming out for Star Trek properties.
Or downgraded depending on how you look at it. He was the one wearing the bag that said "I'm not famous anymore"
While Transformers upgraded his career, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull killed his chances of getting similar roles.
Some people aren't meant to play that type of a character. I'd feel the same if Michael Cera took the role, much as I thought that he really fit Scott Pilgrim.
what actor launched their career from Harry Potter?
Harry Potter is a different subject, because there were two entirely different classes of actors in that series. You had the child actors and the adults. The child actors weren't well cast for the most part. I thought their acting and the direction of the movies sucked all the joy, humor, and spontaneity out of the books.
On the other hand, you had the adults who were all well-established mostly-British character actors. They excelled magnificently, and were the prime reason to watch the series in the first place. Most of them never were the "leading" type though. But we shouldn't pidgeonhole every actor into leading man/woman status and say their careers weren't good if they don't fit into that box. Maggie Smith, for instance. Or Alan Rickman.