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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: November 28, 2014, 11:45:48 AM »
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Suggestions & Concerns / Re: On the notion of FES reunification
« on: November 23, 2014, 04:38:14 PM »
I like this logo a lot better, but I am willing to part with it for reunification. I vote for a vote.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: November 10, 2014, 02:00:39 AM »Vauxhall: Nope, people just have opinions.
Anyway, more rambling time now that I'm feeling slightly more coherent:
Interstellar. Wow. I think that may be the greatest film I've ever seen, for me. It was gorgeous on every single level...visually, aurally, even in the story... The realistic renderings of wormholes, black holes, the "fourth dimension" and tesseracts...God damn, just...as someone who loves science, particularly physics and space, to death...this film is the crowning moment of sci-fi, I think. It's a science fiction film that really, *genuinely* LOVES science and it shows. No half-assed special effects just to have big explosions and crap, no, this film is gorgeous because of its realism. I don't think people really *grasp* how *gorgeous* and amazing space is. We're fed this halfhearted crap by sci-fi films that we just take for granted now, but this film goes the whole damn mile to show you exactly what space is, how grand and expansive and unimaginably beyond imagination it is. When they're going through that wormhole...something we've seen in dozens of films, but when they're doing it here and it's modeled by a real physicist, rendered for hundreds of hours with complex algorithms to make sure it's accurate...it's beyond anything I've ever seen before.
And the music...and the absolute lack of it at times... I could go on for hours. It's absolutely beautiful. Minimal when it needs to be, and extremely loud and shrill when the film would benefit most...then dead silent in the vast expanse of space. It's chilling.
Then, finally, the story. I don't want to spoil anything, but god. I'll be the first to admit that the film forgoes realism at various points for the sake of film, and that it even veers into hypothetical—or sheerly tangential—territory at times, it's all worth it. This movie, man...this movie. I haven't cried at a movie in a good while, but this one made me cry two and a half times. Once sort of early on I cried from Matthew McConaughey's amazing performance, then I teared up later on. Then afterwards, as I left the theater, I just started crying again...partly because it was just so amazing to me, but also because it got me thinking about the world so much.
Everyone should have to see this. THIS is the amazing, *real* stuff we're missing out on when we cut NASA funding because it's "not important". Not important? Do you forget who we are? Like they say in the film, humans are explorers, it's in us, our fate is not to die on this planet, it's to go beyond and yet we're letting ourselves be held back because people are so obsessed with the goddamn materialism and petty squabbles and attachments here. We're so short-sighted that we think it's better to pollute the hell out of this planet and then dismiss any solutions as "not worth it", or "too costly" or "unnecessary". Honestly, after this film...that line of thinking really disgusts me. It's actually really, really saddening...I want to see space, other planets, new discoveries and exploration. I don't want humanity to doom itself to a pathetic life of bitching between vaguely-different political parties or stupid fights about how people shouldn't be equal because everyone's so damn scared of change. I don't want humanity to have this amazing start where we colonized an entire planet, scraped the edge of space by sending men to the Goddamn *moon*, only to flicker out and die because we were too short-sighted, selfish and obsessed with immediate gain to continue our legacy. It's legitimately hard not to cry about, just looking up into the sky and knowing that we should be up there, we should be doing everything in our power to be among the fucking stars and just doing things we'd have never imagined possible before. I want that more than anything. I think this film, more than anything, has solidified my desire to get into science, to be a physicist. Hopefully I have the drive to do it. But, above all, I really hope more people see this movie and open their eyes to what we should be doing.
Our destiny is not on this planet. Earth should really just be our stepping stone to greater things. Our destiny is out there.
omg I agree with all of this so much! It definitely my favorite of Nolan's films at this point.
I am going to see it again now
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: November 09, 2014, 09:02:04 PM »
Interstellar (Christopher Nolan)
This was an incredible film experience, and I loved it. I will try to write a lot more about it soon when I have time.
This was an incredible film experience, and I loved it. I will try to write a lot more about it soon when I have time.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: Lena Dunham Molestation
« on: November 06, 2014, 08:50:44 PM »Goddamn. For once I actually agree with Thork on something like this. Couldn't have put it a whole lot better myself.
I agree as well.
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Flat Earth Theory / Re: What is the basic essence of "Zetetic Philosophy"?
« on: October 28, 2014, 04:55:24 PM »The earth sounds flat to me.
I think it tastes flat too.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: FES Book Club
« on: October 25, 2014, 09:07:58 PM »Almost done with Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room. Really, really freaking good book so far.
I still need to get that.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: FES Book Club
« on: October 24, 2014, 09:11:55 PM »Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
Are you gonna finish it in time to watch the movie when it comes out? Paul Thomas Anderson is directing it. It's like a dream come true.
Of course! And yes he is my favorites <3
I had originally tried to wait and watch the film first before I read it, but I can't wait any longer.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: FES Book Club
« on: October 24, 2014, 07:28:15 PM »
Thomas Pynchon - Inherent Vice
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: October 07, 2014, 07:51:28 AM »Enter the Void (Gaspar Noé)
All the camera tricks in the world can't save this ponderous bloated nothing of a film from its own putrescence. Aside from the actually quite good opening section, this is how the film goes: the camera swirls around a room for a bit, someone says something, the camera zooms into a light source or something else, there's a trippy light show, then we're in another scene in which the exact same thing happens. After a while the formula gets boring, and Noé realises this, so he throws a bunch of sex scenes in there as if to say "look, I know, and I'm sorry, here's something else" and then that goes on for way too long instead.
Occasionally, the picture goes to black, no sound or anything. Every time that happened I was thinking surely I have been sat here for 160 minutes already, there can't be more? and the numbness of my buttocks seemed to confirm this. No sooner has the thought occurred than the camera starts swirling about again, showing me more people I don't care about doing things that aren't interesting. Maybe if it had been better acted I could have tolerated the rest, but this is ostensibly a bunch of "street" characters played by people who have apparently never even been near a street. It's dreadful, the dialogue frequently lapses into "hey man, you got the stuff, yeah? Hardcore!"
It's a shame, the basic premise of seeing through the eyes of the dead as possibly imagined in Bardo Thodol is interesting enough, and the camera style, while it stops being impressive after about the second or third time it does its little swirl and zoom routine, and stops being interesting around the same time, would have been fine if the content lived up to the idea. Unfortunately it was impossible for me to care about 90% of what was presented to me on the screen, and the 10% I was interested in was swept away in the tidal wave of fancy camera tricks and CGI and neon lights and naked people. This is an exhausting film not because it is intense but because it cannot stop throwing stuff at you: here's some stuff, look at that stuff, do you want more stuff? here's some more stuff LOOK AT ALL THIS FUCKING STUFF!!! Apart from all that it's a really straightforward film that probably could have been told more effectively without the ghost camera swirly zoomy stuff-throwing sex-having nonsense that is this two and a half hours of my life I'll never get back.
Early on in the film, one character tells another that his drug dealer is a pervert who smears his own excrement on the back of his sex partners' heads. I would rather have seen a film about that guy than this.
I agree with everything here. Major dissapoint
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: October 06, 2014, 10:20:47 PM »I really don't know how I feel about new episodes of Twin Peaks... I'm conflicted.As far as I'm concerned: it's new shit from David Lynch — I am happy.
Same. I am excited!!
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: October 06, 2014, 06:53:38 PM »
Gone Girl (David Fincher)
This film was way better than I had expected and I think it is one of Fincher's best works.
This film was way better than I had expected and I think it is one of Fincher's best works.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Cazazza Dan
« on: October 03, 2014, 07:28:56 PM »
By the way people, Oat is fucking great.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: September 21, 2014, 01:22:19 PM »What about the 2004 series?
That's up next.
I started that one but never finished, even though I meant to. I should watch it soon as well.
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Supes' Must-Listen-To List (Recommend me albums!)
« on: August 29, 2014, 10:42:30 PM »
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space is a fantastic album. I am happy that you liked it, Snupes. And like usual, out favorites are pretty much the same! :D
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Arts & Entertainment / Re: Just Watched
« on: August 18, 2014, 05:41:39 PM »
Nymphomaniac (Lars von Trier)
This was an excellent fucking film overall, and I loved it. Charlotte Gainsbourg was of course great, but I was also very impressed by Christian Slater's performance. Uma Thurman was also a standout. The cinematography was gorgeous, and the editing overall. Some of the editing felt weird, and I'm not sure if it's due to the length being cut down. I still need to see the full uncut version if it becomes available. Like many von Trier films, this was a very intensely emotional film for me. While most people would be put off by its length and content, I was fully hooked and it really didn't feel that long. I look forward to whatever Lars von Trier brings us next.
The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
It was kind of good overall, but I wasn't really too into the film. Though, I really loved the performances of Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, and Amanda Plummer.
This was an excellent fucking film overall, and I loved it. Charlotte Gainsbourg was of course great, but I was also very impressed by Christian Slater's performance. Uma Thurman was also a standout. The cinematography was gorgeous, and the editing overall. Some of the editing felt weird, and I'm not sure if it's due to the length being cut down. I still need to see the full uncut version if it becomes available. Like many von Trier films, this was a very intensely emotional film for me. While most people would be put off by its length and content, I was fully hooked and it really didn't feel that long. I look forward to whatever Lars von Trier brings us next.
The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
It was kind of good overall, but I wasn't really too into the film. Though, I really loved the performances of Jeff Bridges, Robin Williams, and Amanda Plummer.
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Philosophy, Religion & Society / Re: You're a 16-year-old paedophile. What do you do?
« on: August 14, 2014, 03:33:14 AM »Damn, that was a very tough read...but yeah, I've felt the same about pedophilia for many years now. They have no control over their attraction and viewing them as horrible, monstrous people even when they themselves think the same and are doing everything not to act on their urges is just stupid. People like Adam need all the help they can get, not to be portrayed as criminals.
This is how I feel as well. It was tough, but a very good read. I am really glad to see that there are people listening to them and trying to understand it more in order to help them. I feel that it is very important that more therapists can be able to understand the issue better so people can actually seek help. I also think the way people like Adam are treated makes it much harder for them to not only live a normal life, but to also control their urges. It really is heartbreaking.