Went and saw Allied tonight. I really was not interested in seeing it, but the person who invited me wanted to see it.
it was whatever. exactly what you think it will be.
I liked the clothes though, like a lot.
Lorne: My little prince. Oh…what did they do to you? Angel: Nina…tried to…eat me. Lorne: Oh, you're--medic! You're gonna make it Angel. Just don't stop fighting. Doctor! Is there a Gepetto in the house?
'Smile Time'
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msbelle - Dec 02, 2016 7:00:32 pm PST #400 of 3455
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
Calli - Dec 03, 2016 2:18:10 pm PST #401 of 3455
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw Moana today. It was gorgeous, and the plot was very satisfying. And now I want to go sailing.
Matt the Bruins fan - Dec 03, 2016 5:56:06 pm PST #402 of 3455
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I saw Moonlight this afternoon. Very moving, excellent film.
Fiona - Dec 04, 2016 3:04:39 am PST #403 of 3455
Saw Arrival last night and loved it. It really lives up to its "intelligent science-fiction" billing.
David Bordwell has written a good piece about the depiction of time in the film. It also includes some information on the differences between the story and the movie, and why those choices were made. Of course, it's spoilerific.
I'm working on some stuff about film adaptations as the moment, and one of the ideas I've found most helpful is actually not to think of it as adpatation from one medium to another. Instead, if you think of them as different artistic languages, adaptation becomes translation, which works much better, and is also rather appropriate for Arrival .
Jesse - Dec 05, 2016 4:53:09 am PST #404 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Not sure why this just popped into my head, but in Arrival, why didn't the aliens learn English? Or at least a human writing system?
Fiona - Dec 05, 2016 4:56:04 am PST #405 of 3455
Because the point was to get humans to understand Heptopod and so be able to access the new way of thinking it involved, not the other way around. Actually, their learning a human language would probably even have slowed things down .
Edited for spelling....
Tom Scola - Dec 05, 2016 4:59:29 am PST #406 of 3455
Mr. Scola’s wardrobe by Botany 500
The whole point of coming here was to teach us their language, Heptapod B. Maybe if they had bothered to learn our language the whole thing could have gone down easier, but who knows? hand wave.
Jesse - Dec 05, 2016 5:22:46 am PST #407 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
It feels to me like having a common language would have made things easier, but maybe she wouldn't have gotten the magic brain effects that way? hand wave.
Jessica - Dec 05, 2016 5:27:57 am PST #408 of 3455
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
In the book Louise spends a lot of time thinking (and explaining to the reader) about why simultaneous awareness doesn't mean you just get to skip ahead to the end. So the fact that the Heptopods are aware of the future in which they know the human languages acquired in the film already doesn't give them a shortcut to going through the process of learning.
Jesse - Dec 05, 2016 5:38:27 am PST #409 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I guess that would have helped. Not that I'm actually that pressed about this!