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Is Gilgamesh too weird to make into a movie(s)?
For context, in the last-ish part of the Epic of Gilgamesh, he meets a character that's all like "Oh hello, I gained my immortality by having the entire story of Noah's Ark happen to me verbatim. Anyway humans are terrible."
Babylonians ripped it from the Sumerians.
I think my interpretation of what you said and then your interpretation of what I said were both inaccurate.
[rocket] / the animation
Didn't look like they were using dynamic fur sims for most of Rocket's shots. Which doesn't help.
And making a photoreal Musteloid mouth keyframe to human mouth shapes is superhard bordering impossible.
So when those waves crash against the animation school shore of Tippetts-logic-of-motion-as-god...
yeah I get it.
EDIT: It's the sort of tradeoff that grants the only reasonable concession for why the new Ninja Turtles mouths look how they do.
Yeah, was a real bummer that like, any time was spent talking about that.
Yeah, the movie was great.
Huge points to this new cover of Backstory.
I have not been able to be a part of this, but I'm very happy it is happening.
Did you try to get in down the infinity stairs?
Murphy Ranch, the old nazi compound is great to wander around. The land around it used to be a park but was decommissioned when Schwarzenegger left office. If there's a fence at the lower entrance, I know the other way.
Wanna go check it out?
Day of the Locust.
Such a weird mess with a terrifying ending that almost completely redeems it.
fine whatever they're smallpox kill them all i still don't like star wars very much what am i doing in this thread
You might as well have dropped an 1840s op-ed about the Comanche in there and it would read exactly the same.
http://www.economist.com/node/16374526
Or an interview with one of the people with beer and popcorn on that ridge watching bombs hit Gaza.
If you're trying to be funny, I'm... sorry you think that's funny?
You all know it's possible to just, like, ignore awful bullshit, right? There is greatness in this field, in these arts, on this planet. This reads as arguing about exacting semantics and edu-splaining why dumb thing is dumb. Like sorting your garbage alphabetically. To what end? Some people just don't get it, and that's okay, but you don't have to suffer it. Get out of the Facebook slums where this stuff gets tossed around by some rando that added you because they liked your lightsabers video.
Move on. Elevate the fucking discussion.
Here's a bridge to what I consider a more interesting angle on the whole thing. An article written by Armond White a couple years ago framing Pauline Kael against the last 50 years of film criticism.
http://www.cjr.org/essay/why_kael_is_go … p?page=all
Kael elevated reviewing from the low function of “consumer advice,” a designation that inherently limited the form’s literary potential, and one that automatically implied film was nothing more than commercial product. Today, the profession’s stature has changed. Box-office stats are foregrounded in the media. Filmgoers increasingly gauge a movie’s worth based on its aggregate rating, as individual critics grow less and less important. Indeed, many newspapers no longer employ their own critics, instead running syndicated material or capsule synopses. Reviews have shrunk, and so has Kael’s reputation. Her 13 books (published collections and compilations) have been out of print until recently. The biography and new compendium suggest a recovery, yet negative press reactions seem to take it all back.
PS: I love me some Crit Hulk and even being in the same jokey breath as him is a super compliment. Just read the first part of his James Bond book last night. It's great.
When Shoeshine opened in 1947, I went to see it alone after one of those terrible lovers’ quarrels that leave one in a state of incomprehensible despair. I came out of the theater, tears streaming, and overheard the petulant voice of a college girl complaining to her boyfriend, ‘Well I don’t see what was so special about that movie.’ I walked up the street, crying blindly, no longer certain whether my tears were for the tragedy on the screen, the hopelessness I felt for myself, or the alienation I felt from those who could not experience the radiance of Shoeshine. For if people cannot feel Shoeshine, what can they feel? […] Later I learned that the man with whom I had quarreled had gone the same night and had also emerged in tears. Yet our tears for each other and for Shoeshine did not bring us together. Life, as Shoeshine demonstrates, is too complex for facile endings.
Bench I found in Central Park.
My heart will stop beating before I concede that there's anything pseudo about it.
Sans Soleil a million times.
Just found a bunch of this at the beer store in the town where I grew up in New York. It's impossible to find in Los Angeles. It's brewed in San Francisco.
Fucking late capitalism.
I heard no hype going into it and I thought the finale was very good. The Brienne/Hound fight was brutal and intense. I was on the edge of my seat. I just wish I knew what Arya's deal was when the Hound was laying there, dying. I didn't understand why she didn't kill him, or even speak. Can anyone shed more light on that (in a non-spoilery way)?
Running around with The Hound has taught her a bunch about self-preservation in the face of the futility of existence, but to what end? She is driven by her sense of justice and retribution. She has seen the amount of suffering he has inflicted on the world, and finds it fitting that The Hound will die in agony.
Look at the Waiting for Godot scene. McGovern is the Hound's foil. He spent his life upholding the social contract, "You give me. I give you. Fair. A balance." He gets mercy. "Time to go."
Extremely valuable talk from last week, not just for people in technology, but film too.
Shit, any field, really. Esepcially valuable for men.
Worth discussing.
Looks like 50+ exposures on location blended together for the background, then maybe another exposure length for the foreground. The clouds wouldn't be steppy like that if it was all done together, and would need to have been at like ND8 or something to expose for a half hour like that.
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