Man, all it took was browsing through Ebert's thumbs up/thumbs down designations for movies that are currently out to remind me that we have pretty different tastes in movies.
Occasionally they intersect, but for the most part I can determine how much I'm going to enjoy a movie (particularly action movies) by how much he dislikes it.
Our local movie reviewer guy for the paper has horrible taste in movies and is pretentious as fuck. The same thing applies, really. If he has all these high-minded-sounding bullshit reasons why a movie was terrible, it will probably be the best movie I've seen all year.
ebert is rarely like this though. he enjoys action movies all the time.
Oh, I don't feel that way about Ebert... I just have a similar relationship with this guy as VH does with Ebert.
Actually, it probably means VH and I have fairly disparate tastes.
Your whole idea seems to be that you trust his review because you think he has passing knowledge of the show. I'm saying he doesn't, I've been saying this from the beginning. Knowing what it looks like is not passing knowledge, and is yet another indication that he doesn't know about the original series. It's like saying I know Mike just because I saw a video of him eating a bacon sandwich.
I trust his review because he has professionally reviewed movies for longer then I've been alive. I believe he might have a passing knowledge of the series from a paragraph in his review, while you have no evidence to your viewpoint you still maintain it.
I'm at a lack as to why you think I based my opinion his potential knowledge. He ripped the movie for being a bad movie (shitty special effects, bad acting, and a lame 3d tie in amongst other things). I'm really at a loss to what you are saying other then a made up point of view not supported by anything other then your opinion.
A half star from ebert is pretty nasty, he tries to view a movie for the audience, that doesn't bode well for the movie. Especially since he seems to have more then a passing knowledge of the show.
This right here. This is why I thought you based your opinion on his potential knowledge, since that's all you've mentioned up 'til now.
As I said before I don't think that you have to have watched the series a movie is based on to critique the movie. I'm just not going to trust a review solely because the reviewer might have watched the opening credits. Past experience of the reviewer's going to have more influence, as well as whether or not I agree with their reviews on other films.
There is a lot of super interesting stuff in that area. Frank Moore Cross in particular wrote a lot about it (EG: Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic). And Robert Oden (who was his student way back when) has written about it and included some of the discoveries from Ugarit in his excellent series of lecutres on the Old Testament.
Hmm. Add to Wishlist, click!
I am fresh off a Roman history bender. This sounds interesting.
Cross' work is quite difficult as a starting point. But once you have the background is very interesting.
I would recomend searching for the series of audio lectures by Robert Oden (wherever fine mp3's are to be found).
Another very interesting tie in is the book The End of the Bronze Age. It's not the main point of the book but the raw data there strongly supports some of the ideas Oden mentions.
edit: The End of the Bronze Age is also nice because it is approachable without a lot of background knowledge. Very, very well sourced too (half the volume of the book is footnotes and references).
Life in the Ancient Near East is great to get an overall picture of the "story" of the bronze age and where all the names belong and when.
man if I ever end up in a remote location cut off from the world and there's a murderer hunting me and if I somehow end up last man standing after seemingly killing the murderer I am going to slice that guy up into pieces too small to kill me in any imaginable way
I have watched enough movies to know this that I don't have to learn it the hard way
So in a two sentence post you read the second sentence but figured the first just didn't have any impact. Ok good good.
If that were the case then I would have cut the first sentence out completely. Considering that the second sentence modifies the first, no, I wouldn't say I'm ignoring the first sentence since the second one makes no sense without it. How else was I supposed to read it?
A half star from ebert is pretty nasty, he tries to view a movie for the audience, that doesn't bode well for the movie. Especially since he seems to have more then a passing knowledge of the show.
Means - Ebert gave this a half star after trying to see it from an audience perspective, this seems even more bad/credible because he seems to also know the series.
I ask again, how else am I supposed to have read this?
edit: The End of the Bronze Age is also nice because it is approachable without a lot of background knowledge. Very, very well sourced too (half the volume of the book is footnotes and references).
Life in the Ancient Near East is great to get an overall picture of the "story" of the bronze age and where all the names belong and when.
So in a two sentence post you read the second sentence but figured the first just didn't have any impact. Ok good good.
If that were the case then I would have cut the first sentence out completely. Considering that the second sentence modifies the first, no, I wouldn't say I'm ignoring the first sentence since the second one makes no sense without it. How else was I supposed to read it?
You know I'm just not going to bother, because the world you live in, is not the world I do.
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I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
So in a two sentence post you read the second sentence but figured the first just didn't have any impact. Ok good good.
If that were the case then I would have cut the first sentence out completely. Considering that the second sentence modifies the first, no, I wouldn't say I'm ignoring the first sentence since the second one makes no sense without it. How else was I supposed to read it?
You know I'm just not going to bother, because the world you live in, is not the world I do.
So is that what prompted all the talk about it lately (ie: the beta)? I thought I read it wasn't coming out for nearly a year so I was wondering why people are already chatting about it so much.
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Exactly what I was thinking.
oh my bad, misunderstood
Oh... well sweet then.
I guess throwing in Pi for extra geekery works.
Later homos and homettes and Thanatos!
One who doesn't inspire perspires.
This right here. This is why I thought you based your opinion on his potential knowledge, since that's all you've mentioned up 'til now.
As I said before I don't think that you have to have watched the series a movie is based on to critique the movie. I'm just not going to trust a review solely because the reviewer might have watched the opening credits. Past experience of the reviewer's going to have more influence, as well as whether or not I agree with their reviews on other films.
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Cross' work is quite difficult as a starting point. But once you have the background is very interesting.
I would recomend searching for the series of audio lectures by Robert Oden (wherever fine mp3's are to be found).
Another very interesting tie in is the book The End of the Bronze Age. It's not the main point of the book but the raw data there strongly supports some of the ideas Oden mentions.
edit: The End of the Bronze Age is also nice because it is approachable without a lot of background knowledge. Very, very well sourced too (half the volume of the book is footnotes and references).
Life in the Ancient Near East is great to get an overall picture of the "story" of the bronze age and where all the names belong and when.
"I've killed him before"
ch-chk boom
man if I ever end up in a remote location cut off from the world and there's a murderer hunting me and if I somehow end up last man standing after seemingly killing the murderer I am going to slice that guy up into pieces too small to kill me in any imaginable way
I have watched enough movies to know this that I don't have to learn it the hard way
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If that were the case then I would have cut the first sentence out completely. Considering that the second sentence modifies the first, no, I wouldn't say I'm ignoring the first sentence since the second one makes no sense without it. How else was I supposed to read it?
Edit:
Means - Ebert gave this a half star after trying to see it from an audience perspective, this seems even more bad/credible because he seems to also know the series.
I ask again, how else am I supposed to have read this?
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Sweeet. Also bookmarked these two.
but i hate the new voice mail notification just a bit more
yo
Hello lady.
How goes?
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You know I'm just not going to bother, because the world you live in, is not the world I do.
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Do you have [1] new message?
Ok, if that's what you wan to do. *shrug*
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Just fine. You?
Not too shabby. Enjoying my day off.
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what
why
If I have never played a Persona game before, should I get the PSP version of Persona 3 coming out in a few days?
You don't just have the dvd? Man I thought I knew you.
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I can't own every DVD ever.
who cares if it's processed
meh
oh, you homps i guess
The upcoming WoW expansion is in Beta now.
I hope I get in.
Despite how much I keep telling myself that I will not buy Cataclysm
I will probably buy Cataclysm
It's terminator 2 man, thats like not having die hard, or Lord of The Rings.
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Your pathetic.
PSN: Corbius
yeah I don't get it either
a section like that would be awesome for expats
you don't really know how attached you are to the subtle things like that before you're elsewhere
So is that what prompted all the talk about it lately (ie: the beta)? I thought I read it wasn't coming out for nearly a year so I was wondering why people are already chatting about it so much.
You are a weak chopper, always have been!
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Some robot you are. :P
Neither Dyr nor I own any of the Terminators, Die Hards, or Lord of the Rings movies on DVD.
I do have a copy of The Hobbit and the Silmarillion, though. In book form, that is.
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Yeah. It has most of the gameplay improvements from Persona 4, and has some new story stuff sooo~
processed food tends to have the nutritional value of a slab of cardboard