The Pitters' Place

Eva Yojimbo

I've never heard of they make movies dot com. It's Theyshootpictures (it's a parody on the film title "They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"). It's a "meta-list," which basically means it's been compiled of thousands of "best films" lists made by critics, academics, and film...

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It's not so much about Jackson always being serious, and I do agree there are more moments of levity in the Hobbit films; it's more about his making it into another LOTR epic in terms of length and scope. He tried to turn it into a LOTR-esque epic and it just... isn't. Brevity is the soul of wit, an...

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But I like cool, detached cynicism! Idk. Requiem for a Dream felt like a melodramatic drug PSA from the 80s. All the time I was watching it I was like, "Um... am I supposed to be taking any of this seriously?" It felt very silly. The Fountain was just ridiculous from top to bottom, althou...

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^ I'm with aels on LotR, though I did make it through the books. I do prefer The Hobbit book to the films, though. I liked the Hobbit book. As far as the movies go...I feel like I enjoyed them more when they weren't trying to ape the darker tone of the LotR trilogy. When they were just being a sill...

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Cassius Clay wrote:@eva Peele had a comedy show, but I don't know if he's directed a movie before. That he decided to suddenly make a horror comedy was surprising, yet somehow not.

I know about Key & Peele and have watched several eps., but I didn't recall if Peele had any hand in directing it or anything else.

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There are core values that aren't based on reasoning: on that we'd agree. However, more specific values may be based on beliefs about how reality is, and those beliefs will be based (partly) on reasoning. EG, you might have a core value that harming others is wrong. Terrorists harm others, so you th...

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^ I'm with aels on LotR, though I did make it through the books. I do prefer The Hobbit book to the films, though.

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I don't think we're really disagreeing here. I agree that many people who've already reached adulthood and formed their values that they value more than truth are, essentially, lost causes. You can't completely re-educate them in the truth/rationality paradigm from the ground up. What I was really a...

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Ah, yeah, I know there's lots of Joan of Arc adaptations out there. Have you seen Bresson's called The Trial of Joan of Arc? Bresson treats it as objectively/neutral/realistically is possible, which is an interesting contrast to Dreyer's overt subjective emotionalism.

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For those mentioning 2001, I'll use this opportunity to shamelessly promote a long-ass essay I wrote on it here: http://www.the-fanboy-perspective.com/a ... yssey.html

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The two I always get into trouble for not liking are The Passion of Joan of Arc and Lawrence of Arabia. I'm not fond of the Lord of the Rings trilogy either though it's been such a long time that a rewatch might change my opinion. I can understand someone not loving LoA: it's long, it's dramaticall...

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Could be very interesting. Is this the first thing he's directed?

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I'm not denying that values distort reality; of course they do. THAT they do is a problem of reasoning, not of the values themselves. The only "value" in saying they shouldn't is the value of believing the truth. If people disagree with that value, then there's no way to fix the problem. I...

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yeah I forgive narratives a lot if the imagery grabs me. You might be interested in various animated films if that's the case. Ever seen: -Cat Soup -The Secret of Kells -Song of the Sea -Tale of Princess Kaguya -Millennium Actress -Waltz with Bashir -Persepolis -The Triplets of Belleville -The Pain...

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Really too many to name, though I tend to find such stuff vastly overrated rather than "not enjoying" them. I'd say that describes both Avatar and Forrest Gump, eg. Both good-to-very-good films, but hardly deserving of their overinflated reputations. Another I'd throw into that list is Cas...

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18. Million Dollar Baby Another I thought was in the good/solid range, but I agree it wasn't great and not deserving of Best Picture... but, then again, it's precisely the kind of reasonably well-made, conservative, serious, sentimental stuff the Academy goes for. A more common comparison I've seen...

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I thought Noah was extremely dumb, but that's how I think of every Aronofsky film I've seen, even Black Swan, which I liked. Dumb in what way, precisely? I would agree that Aronofsky isn't the subtlest and most nuanced of filmmakers, but in a sense I think his heart-on-the-sleeve, romantic approach...

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Capitalism = Everyone has as much stuff as they can steal. The biggest thieves end up with all the stuff and gloat about it. Socialism = Everyone shares the stuff they steal equally. The biggest thieves keep huge secret stashes of stuff and don't share it. Communism = The government steals everyone...

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Well it'd be interesting to see Critical Reasoning/Thinking classes, but they would be massively open to abuse and for the teacher to promote their personal political/theological positions (whether deliberately or not). So teaching them logic and how to achieve that logic (and at the same time in a...

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Certainly thanks for the recs. I'll add them to my Netflix queue. Haven't seen The Fall but I did see Mirrormask, mostly because of my love for Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean; the former authored my favorite comic ever, Sandman, and McKean did the covers. Mirrormask a visually fascinating but narrative...

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I've heard of both but seen neither. Tideland I'm more interested in because I generally think Terry Gilliam is a fascinating guy and director. He made one of my favorite sci-fi films ever in Brazil, but he's been more inconsistent after that. From Tornatore I saw and disliked Cinema Paradiso, thoug...

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No denying there are tons of practical applications for math (I would certainly know; I use it in my profession everyday), but in terms of what Anakin is talking about--who/what to believe, eg--it's very difficult to boil such subjects down mathematically. Sure, you can express perfect reasoning mat...

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Math is certainly part of it. You can boil correct reasoning down to a mathematical formula (Bayes' Theorem), but humans aren't walking computers, so there'd still be the need to learn the practical applications of such things.

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Thanks for the mini reviews on the new stuff. The Welles/Trial comparison with The Silence certainly piqued my interest. I got a pretty retro, semi-neo-noir vibe from the original SitE. I just remember liking it (gave it a 7.5 IIRC), but don't remember much beyond that. 17. Le Petit Soldat - I'm a l...

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How can we function in a world where science is considered fake news? How can anything get done? How can we prove for instance that climate change is a real issue that needs urgent attention if people dismiss the scientific proof of such as 'fake'? not rhetorical, I am very concerned about this. It...

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'Twould be awesome to see the Queen go all Yoda in ep. 2 on Trump.

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15. Noah - I didn't expect to like it, but I did. Aronofsky's style actually works for the epic genre. I was shocked by how much I loved that one too. I think it was the perfect combination of Aronofsky's "epic" and "dramatic" sensibilities. Though The Fountain remains my favori...

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Islandmur wrote:I really didn't see what made the Blair Witch so popular (i'm thinking it was the new filming technique of the time)

Yep, you hit it. It was a pretty novel idea to shoot a horror film like a student documentary. I know a few people who even thought it was real.

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6. Silence (2016) 9. Secret in Their Eyes 13. Lion (2016) 14. Manchester by the Sea 15. La La Land 16. Fences (2016) Thoughts on these? They'll all be going on my Netflix queue soon. I'm assuming the SitE was the remake: did you ever see the original? I remember really liking the original, though I...

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Ever since the whole "fake news" became a known thing, I get this feeling that far too many are making false equivalencies like "if CNN is flawed, then there's no reason to prefer them to anything else, including Alex Jones." It's like people don't understand the difference betwe...

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Hi Mur! :)

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All of this just confirms what Colbert had been saying about bears for ages:http://www.cc.com/video-clips/f0uh68/th ... ar-edition

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I probably should given how much I loved Sandman. Gaiman indulging in mythology in such a long novel format sounds delicious.

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It's Hey Jude

And I'm not Jude.

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That I can sympathize with. Still, I can't blame Ghibli for the ignorance and biases of cinephiles. At least SOME anime is appreciated, and that can always act as a door-opener that might widen the more Ghibli becomes entrenched in the canon and the more young cinephiles use it as a gateway into oth...

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Raxivace wrote:Lol I'm never going to live that down, am I?

It's like one of Geekdom's 10 Commandments: Thou Shalt Worship Ghibli. You're lucky I let you off without a public stoning.

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Something similar happened to a classmate of mine in gradeschool. He'd been complaining of an earache one day and when he finally went to a doctor they found a roach lodged in his ear. Granted, not as bad as the bugger getting inside your skull behind your eyes, but still... *shudders*

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Join... what?

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Hey Raxi.

FYI for everyone, Raxi is the first refugee I've invited from the Evangelion board. He's good peeps, despite his lacking a soul, which I discovered when he admitted his apathy towards Studio Ghibli.

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What does she think of it so far? Of course, all that could change after EoTV and EoE. ;)

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Yay. Though I prefer scalping them, and you owe me 100 Nazi scalps.

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