I felt the exact same way, even down to those specific episodes. It had a lot of promise and started asking some profound questions, but it never really felt like it addressed anything. It’s not bad, but I certainly couldn’t have made it through a second watch.
Thank you. I was a bit skeptical, but communism is such a boogeyman here and the RIAA (and MPAA) are so hilariously evil and out of touch that I was ready to fully believe it.
This is the face I make when my boss asks if I feel energized after taking a three day weekend.
I wasn’t trying to correct you, I’m just an idiot who managed to spell it two different ways in the same post. It sounds like both spellings are valid, but I still shouldn’t mix-n-match.
I would argue it’s not only engrained in society, or even ingrained in the human psyche, it’s engrained in nature itself. Violence in nature is often rewarded with subordinance, and our evolutionary lineage has certainly continued it.
Overcoming that instinct globally is going to require a huge cultural shift, but we will be much better off if we do.
“Documenting the code base will be your first task for the next month to help show us how well you understand the codebase.”
I was about to say the opposite. They somehow made it uglier.
It’s really a good showcase of how CGI should augment practical effects, not replace them. Fury Road is another good example.
I’ve never heard of anyone else who’s seen Ladyhawke. Everyone I’ve shown it to hated it, but there’s something I love about it. The sets, locations, costumes, dialogue, all great. The transformations they tried to do on-screen are my least favorite part, though.
Don’t forget they lost Best Costume to Planet Of The Apes because the mimes they hired to play the monkeys were so convincing they were assumed by many to be real.
I watched the Netflix series and then the Making Of show about it. Apparently they tried CGI gelflings to cut costs and just couldn’t live up to the puppetry, so eventually Netflix relented and gave them enough budget to match Henson’s original quality.
I take cold showers, so I am doing everything in my power to get in and out in 2 minutes or less. I would absolutely not add teeth brushing to my routine in there.
I’ve never been so insulted. Even if it is accurate.
“How are you doing this Vincent? How have you done any of this?”
“You wanna know how I did it? This is how I did it Anton. I never saved anything for the swim back.”
-Gattaca
Sad to see this sort of behavior in other countries. Here in the US boomers will pass out from rage if they see a cashier sitting on a stool.
One of my favorite TV endings. Very satisfying, in my opinion. But yeah, it’s rough to pick back up after a break.
Make sure you get the original version of Ghost in the Shell. I recently decided to rewatch and could only find my 2008 remaster DVD, where they replaced some scenes with CGI. It was absolute trash, and my DVD didn’t seem to have the unaltered version available.
Gattaca and Children of Men are still my top two. Absolute masterpieces that should be seen by everyone.
Something I realized while reading this is that I can’t think of any quotes from it. Besides “Bazinga”, but that was designed to be intentionally annoying and then was used to mock the show.
I can think of references to basically every other sitcom I’ve seen, and I can vaguely remember some scenes from BBT, but nothing quotable. My spouse liked it, so I’ve seen every episode at least once, but it was honestly pretty forgettable.
My verdict was originally “not bad”. But maybe being forgettable was it’s best quality.
Unrelated to your question, but do you get cost estimates while setting up the VM? I tried setting one up a while back but, despite picking all the free settings, it still estimated a cost of $2 per month. It never asked for CC info, but it still felt off.