I guess you haven't noticed that the climate and environment are in fucking shambles. We've killed 50% of the fish in the ocean since the 1970s. We fucked up the ozone layer. We've filled the ocean with plastic and oil. We've raised the global temperature. We've caused the extinction of countless species of animals. We've decimated rainforests. And all these things continue even now. If guess your idea of "doom and gloom" is vastly different from mine.
Because the effects of climate change are not quick and obvious like a flooding river that needs diking. The climate will reach a point-of-no-return where no amount of mitigation will ever fix it. Ever. But by the time the effects of that are obvious enough to turn the heads of deniers, it's too late.
You have a really low standard for "great" apparently. I would define "great" as leading the world in peaceful conflict resolution, technological advancement, social advancement, education, art and overall happiness and equality of a nation's citizenry. Trump is working towards, well, none of those.
So anything previous presidents did is automatically good? Abraham Lincoln's predecessors didn't ban slavery, so I guess that's back on the table too...
That's not a review of the film, that's a review of the overall Star Wars story. The film itself, as a standalone, is good. Good acting, good effects, decent story, decent writing. I dock points for some cliches and weak storytelling moments, but overall it's well-made and entertaining. What you're reviewing is Disney's decisions about how Star Wars should be proceeding, not the film itself. If you did a literal copy and paste of "The Godfather" and called it "The Godfather" it would still be a good movie. I hate JJ Abrams as much as the next guy, and I hate that they copied elements from previous films too, but that's a critique of the "meta-film" and corporate decisions, not the actual film.
I agree. I would give it a 7, not an 8, but overall it's a decent film. It's a problem of relativity. Everyone who hates that film only hates it because they're comparing it to its predecessors. That is not the correct way to review films. Films should be reviewed on their own, and that's something that Roger Ebert was really good at and one of the reasons I liked him as a film reviewer. Part of the blame is on Hollywood for making sequences of films that are more like serials than films, but regardless, you should still review them on their own merits. If you want to rate the entire series separately with each film contributing to an overall score, that's fine, but to say The Force Awakens is a "terrible" movie really isn't going to be congruent with how most people feel. I think what most people mean when they say it's terrible is that the overall arc of the entire series is terrible.
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Considering your blind hatred of Apple and your nerdy appeal to formal logic, I think my question has been answered.
So you only but products that are unpopular? How's that working out for you?
Useless compared to what? I'm sure I could find a few things in your house that are less useful than a smartwatch.
And Trump believes in torture, which is scary as hell when you combine the two.
Except those private companies used the government to grant them local monopolies on the service that you think is so simple to change.
You cannot hurt a robot
Prove it.
So the only reason to do anything is if it causes the world to end? How about if it just fucks up the world beyond repair?
Horseless carriages were not practical either.
I guess you haven't noticed that the climate and environment are in fucking shambles. We've killed 50% of the fish in the ocean since the 1970s. We fucked up the ozone layer. We've filled the ocean with plastic and oil. We've raised the global temperature. We've caused the extinction of countless species of animals. We've decimated rainforests. And all these things continue even now. If guess your idea of "doom and gloom" is vastly different from mine.
Steal a loaf of bread to feed starving kids, THE SLAMMER!
So you claim the know the political affiliation of the specific people in the engineering board who fined him?
Because the effects of climate change are not quick and obvious like a flooding river that needs diking. The climate will reach a point-of-no-return where no amount of mitigation will ever fix it. Ever. But by the time the effects of that are obvious enough to turn the heads of deniers, it's too late.
I'd rather have 1 new MacBook than 10 old Thinkpads.
Gravity is not a force.
You have a really low standard for "great" apparently. I would define "great" as leading the world in peaceful conflict resolution, technological advancement, social advancement, education, art and overall happiness and equality of a nation's citizenry. Trump is working towards, well, none of those.
Yeah, Mar A Lago is an un-spyable, incorruptible, super-secure stronghold... Perfect for national security issues.
So anything previous presidents did is automatically good? Abraham Lincoln's predecessors didn't ban slavery, so I guess that's back on the table too...
That's not a review of the film, that's a review of the overall Star Wars story. The film itself, as a standalone, is good. Good acting, good effects, decent story, decent writing. I dock points for some cliches and weak storytelling moments, but overall it's well-made and entertaining. What you're reviewing is Disney's decisions about how Star Wars should be proceeding, not the film itself. If you did a literal copy and paste of "The Godfather" and called it "The Godfather" it would still be a good movie. I hate JJ Abrams as much as the next guy, and I hate that they copied elements from previous films too, but that's a critique of the "meta-film" and corporate decisions, not the actual film.
I agree. I would give it a 7, not an 8, but overall it's a decent film. It's a problem of relativity. Everyone who hates that film only hates it because they're comparing it to its predecessors. That is not the correct way to review films. Films should be reviewed on their own, and that's something that Roger Ebert was really good at and one of the reasons I liked him as a film reviewer. Part of the blame is on Hollywood for making sequences of films that are more like serials than films, but regardless, you should still review them on their own merits. If you want to rate the entire series separately with each film contributing to an overall score, that's fine, but to say The Force Awakens is a "terrible" movie really isn't going to be congruent with how most people feel. I think what most people mean when they say it's terrible is that the overall arc of the entire series is terrible.
Ask Comcast.
Yeah! Fuck this paradise we live in!
I didn't realize that "environment" was a synonym for "atmosphere".
And that makes it ok?
Anarchy means exactly the opposite of what you said.
Nice try, Putin.