My Grade 12 English teacher, who was otherwise one of the best teachers I ever had, told me “You need to read Great Expectations before you die.” Doing the first part of that sentence while avoiding the latter was tough.
Me too.
Andrew Lloyd Webber:music:: John Williams: music
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“Handedness” is not as extreme as we seem to think, particularly when it comes to musical instruments.
When I play piano, I forget I’m right handed, because my left hand performs just as well as my right.
Guitar? My left hand forms chord shapes that are complicated, and it does them fast and accurately.
I play Wii golf left-handed and real golf right-handed.
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Yes!
My favorite Robin Williams movie is The Bird Cage because he wasn’t being Robin Williams.
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I don’t feel that way about tattoos in general. However, if you have them on your hands, face, and/or neck, that’s another story, especially when it’s accompanied by facial piercings that are not easy to undo, like earlobe gauges.
p.s. I don’t care what it’s about - I thought “The Handmaid’s Tale” was a terrible book.
I thought the ending to the Sopranos was just right.
The second I hear someone mention Harry Potter my brain rolls its eyes.
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So, holocaust survivors? Dirty sluts and blackguards?
You can’t let things like this get to you. It’s just common sense.
The thread title is “controversial views”, ain’t it?
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The music on the soundtrack album A Hard Day’s Night, all 37 minutes of it, is better than anything the Beatles did after 1967 (for context, I think AHDN is better than most bands’ entire output).
The comedy actor David Mitchell is significantly over-rated. He was good in Peep Show, nothing else.
The Who circa 1969-1974 were the greatest ROCK band in the world that has never been equaled nor do I ever expect them to be.
Miller’s Crossing is the best thing the Cohen Brothers ever did.
Howard Stern lost it as soon as Artie left.
Smart women are sexier than any other kind.
Duane Allman was the most influential blues/rock guy to have ever played the instrument.
Brad Pitt has done some brilliant work. Underrated actor.
Inside Out and Coco aren’t all that great.
Tommy through Quadrophenia. You’ll get no argument from me.
If we could just mashup Coco and Book of Life and have the story and actual Mexican voice actors of Coco and the wooden-puppet design and overall aesthetic plus the Muerte/Xibalba framing device of BoL, it would have been an awesome film.
Have to pretty much agree. For years it seemed they where trying to out hop each other. I’ve had some nasty ones, and it has turned me of completely.
I good beer is a good beer. They can keep their ‘Pumpkin spice’ or whatever crap they want to put in it.
The all black wheels, all the time fad on cars, especially performance oriented cars, is way way past its sell date.
Science fiction films:
The best Star Wars movie is Star Wars. There is no such movie as “Episode IV: A New Hope.” it is called Star Wars and it is the best one. Period.
It has a simple and comprehensible plot (based on archetypal stories as outlined by Joseph Campbell), likeable characters, decent (if not stellar) acting, a certain gravitas lent by Alec Baldwin, humor, good action, and a satisfying ending. It invented the concept of the “used future,” helped bring SF back to mainstream movies (something of a mixed blessing, as it turned out), and pushed the boundaries of movie SFX in the pre-CGI era. It was rollicking good fun.
*The Empire Strikes Back * is not the best SW movie because it doesn’t stand on its own: it’s clearly only a bridge between two other movies. And Return of the Jedi is not the best because having teddy bears defeat storm troopers is stupid.
The prequels are perhaps the worst films ever made in the history of the universe. They make Plan Nine From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane. And all the rest are tired rehashings of the first three, and/or heartless corporate attempts to extract ever more cash from the little kids who gaped in wonder at the first film and desperately want to somehow relive the magic that was [the one and only] Star Wars.
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Decker was NOT a replicant. The concept robs the story of its whole point for a stupid and meaningless “gotcha” plot twist. But let’s face it: the whole notion of replicants – androids that are virtually indistinguishable from humans without some complicated and highly unreliable test – is idiotic on its face.
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Arthur C. Clarke’s novel of 2001: A Space Odyssey is not canon, and does not explain what happens in the movie. (We’re not even going to talk about 2010.) Anything you think you know about aliens, the monolith, why HAL did what he did, what the slit-scan sequence means, what happens to Dave at the end of the movie, or the Star Child is wrong unless you heard or saw it in the movie, or came up with the idea on your own (which is what Kubrick actually wanted).
Kubrick used Clarke’s original story as a jumping-off point, and used Clarke as a sounding board for some of the film’s concepts, but the movie is 90% Kubrick, and he explicitly did not want the audience to have all the answers when they left the theater. The book is Clarke’s retconning of the movie for all the people who couldn’t stand not having the “explanation” spoon fed to them. But it absolutely is NOT the explanation of the film that Kubrick made.
Love the first two. I was indifferent to The Princess Bride. I was indifferent, indifferent, indiferent to The Princess Bride. Indifferent to it.