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#91
The Diner / Re: Pictures I like
Last post by Todd - May 16, 2024, 06:18:45 AMGot over to see Ole Bolle, one of ~120 large troll statues by Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo. Statues are currently displayed on five continents. The Emerald City has five, so next time I mosey on up that way, I might stop to see one or two.
#92
The Diner / Re: Reaction Videos
Last post by Karl Henning - May 16, 2024, 06:14:36 AMQuote from: LKB on May 16, 2024, 06:09:19 AMI hear you and wouldn't disagree. Otoh, Burt Reynolds in his prime just might make her forget about that Cruise guy, and progress is progress.And, good for Sally Field for the opportunity to shed her Flying Nun type-casting. She's also in one of my favorite Night Gallery episodes, "Whisper," which has a subtle Poe vibe.
#93
The Diner / Re: Reaction Videos
Last post by LKB - May 16, 2024, 06:09:19 AMQuote from: Karl Henning on May 16, 2024, 05:34:55 AMCassie watched Smokey and the Bandit. Yes, I saw it in the movie house back when, but don't need to see it ever again.
I hear you and wouldn't disagree. Otoh, Burt Reynolds in his prime just might make her forget about that Cruise guy, and progress is progress.
#94
General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by Todd - May 16, 2024, 06:08:15 AM
#95
The Polling Station / Re: Your Top 20 Favorite 20th ...
Last post by foxandpeng - May 16, 2024, 05:53:28 AMQuote from: San Antone on May 15, 2024, 06:27:56 PMMy favorite symphonists of the 20th century are:
Shostakovich
Weinberg
Rautavaara
Frankel
Wellesz
Pick any 4 from each and it would produce a list I could live with.
Nice.
#96
The Diner / Re: What TV series are you cur...
Last post by Karl Henning - May 16, 2024, 05:42:17 AMQuote from: Pohjolas Daughter on May 15, 2024, 08:20:59 PMJust started watching this one -- and yes, it's a hard one to watch.My sister read it with her Library Book Club, and found it a rough go. If I understand/recall aright from our @Cato, the book is a fictionalization, and I cannot help feeling that the facts of the extermination camps are sufficiently dramatic of themselves.
#97
The Diner / Re: Reaction Videos
Last post by Karl Henning - May 16, 2024, 05:34:55 AMCassie watched Smokey and the Bandit. Yes, I saw it in the movie house back when, but don't need to see it ever again.
#98
The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched
Last post by relm1 - May 16, 2024, 05:27:05 AMYesterday, I saw Annihilation (2018). Very good Lovecraftian sci-fi horror.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
This film was very good retro style sci-fi horror, dark, tense, and cerebral. It made me think of what a proper update of HG Wells' War of the Worlds would be like. Doing much of what Spielberg's 2005 remake of that film did but here much smarter. An alien invasion is taking place but rather than the alien having superior technology, here all earth life is just inconsequential. In War of the Worlds, the technologically superior invaders are ultimately destroyed by a very silly method of a virus. Something anyone who travels understands if you go to a new country, you'll likely get sick being exposed to germs you have no immunity to but somehow superior intellect aliens don't already know that. Of course, when HG Wells wrote the original, virology wasn't understood, so it made sense at that time. Spielberg updated much of the story but left the viral doom intact making the film feel very anticlimactic as if it was a giant set up with an ex-machina ending. Here, the scenario is modernized and flipped. The invaders are indifferent to earth life as they begin a planetwide annihilation of all life by merging/stretching all DNA. I think that is an interesting flip from virus to genetics. The mutations grow in horror and strangeness and the film ends very inconclusively as its clear some of the genetic mutation in the leads remains in place. This would be a very good invasion method for an advanced alien life that wants to continue surviving regardless of what life exists on the doomed world they are conquering. Some might have trouble with the films slow pace but I don't have issues with sprawling stories that linger on mystery and the unknown as well as this one did.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
This film was very good retro style sci-fi horror, dark, tense, and cerebral. It made me think of what a proper update of HG Wells' War of the Worlds would be like. Doing much of what Spielberg's 2005 remake of that film did but here much smarter. An alien invasion is taking place but rather than the alien having superior technology, here all earth life is just inconsequential. In War of the Worlds, the technologically superior invaders are ultimately destroyed by a very silly method of a virus. Something anyone who travels understands if you go to a new country, you'll likely get sick being exposed to germs you have no immunity to but somehow superior intellect aliens don't already know that. Of course, when HG Wells wrote the original, virology wasn't understood, so it made sense at that time. Spielberg updated much of the story but left the viral doom intact making the film feel very anticlimactic as if it was a giant set up with an ex-machina ending. Here, the scenario is modernized and flipped. The invaders are indifferent to earth life as they begin a planetwide annihilation of all life by merging/stretching all DNA. I think that is an interesting flip from virus to genetics. The mutations grow in horror and strangeness and the film ends very inconclusively as its clear some of the genetic mutation in the leads remains in place. This would be a very good invasion method for an advanced alien life that wants to continue surviving regardless of what life exists on the doomed world they are conquering. Some might have trouble with the films slow pace but I don't have issues with sprawling stories that linger on mystery and the unknown as well as this one did.
#99
The Diner / Re: Last Movie You Watched
Last post by Karl Henning - May 16, 2024, 05:23:25 AMQuote from: Karl Henning on May 15, 2024, 07:03:14 PMJust the second time: Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks.
Even when he's "riffing," it's solid work. I'm kicking myself for not recognizing Elaine May! And I had no idea that George Grizzard was in the cast, but then, I'm not sure I'd seen him in anything after his two Twilight Zone episodes, when he was still a young man.
#100
General Classical Music Discussion / Re: What are you listening 2 n...
Last post by vandermolen - May 16, 2024, 04:41:23 AMRachmaninov: Symphony No.1/The Isle of the Dead
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